After a short chat, Jacques found that Hei Ye was very good at forging, machinery and formations, and had many good insights.

For the sake of the atmosphere of the conversation, Jacques simply described Graves' airship and escalator to the Black Lord, who was very interested in Greyfus's work of using strong acid to generate a gas lighter than air, but he was a little disdainful of his use of the magic circle that consumed the source stone as a power source. In Hei Ye's opinion, the source stone is too precious, and it is a great waste to consume it in such a place that cannot generate income.

Jacques took advantage of the good feeling of the black master and asked about the situation of the source stone, "Lord Hei, is it true that the kingdom of God can't take out any source stones? In fact, if the high priest is willing, we prefer to exchange grain for source stones, and the exchange ratio is negotiable." ”

Hei Ye's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he stared at Jacques and said: "I know that you must be tasked with testing the reality of the Kingdom of God when you come here, and I can tell you clearly that the source stone mines of the Kingdom of God have been exhausted, and there will be no new veins to be discovered in the short term." ”

Jacques didn't care, and replied with a smile: "Master Hei, you know that I am a businessman, and Shang Rao actually prefers to collect newspapers, and we are good at finding profitable opportunities in information. For example, what you said just now, I read from it that there is a business opportunity to make money......" The cunning Jacques stopped at the critical moment.

Hei Ye picked his chin and signaled Jacques to hurry up, Jacques was just trying to make a show, and he didn't dare to sell more, so he said: "It's also very simple, the source stone has a lot of applications in the empire, and different sizes of source stones will be used in different fields."

The source stones produced in the Kingdom of God have always been the largest in size and the best in condition, and are generally used in navigation formations, military weapons, defensive formations in important locations, and production facilities of large factories

I think you must know that there are almost no source stones in the territory of the empire, and even if there are, they are in inaccessible places such as the grasslands of the Northern Regions, the deep forests of the mist, the foggy mountains, and the deserts of death, which are not only not easy to mine, but also in much worse condition than those produced in the kingdom of God.

Therefore, the source stone obtained in exchange for grain trade is the most important source of source stones for the empire.

However, in addition to the mainland, the empire also has a resource of the entire New World that can be obtained, and the source stones produced in the New World, although the quality is still not good, but the number is large, and the annual output is three to four times that of the royal family through the grain trade.

In Hei Ye's opinion, the current interruption of trade, is the kingdom of God more injured, or is the empire more at a loss?"

The night replied, "The people depend on food, and the kingdom of God lacks arable land, but the population is large, and once there is a shortage of food, the foundation will be unstable." The source stone is not a necessity for people's livelihood, and the empire can make up for it with the production of the New World. ”

Jacques said: "Lord Hei is right, but it's not all right, if it was a few decades ago, the Kingdom of God stopped supplying source stones, in fact, it would have little impact on the empire, it was nothing more than the place where the big source stone was originally used, and it was replaced with the source stone." However, today, due to the increase in various types of factories in recent years, the use of source stones has become more and more extensive, and the demand for source stones in the empire has also increased.

I believe that Hei Ye should have the means to find out the price of the source stone in recent years, in the past 20 years, there has been little change under one penny, the source stone of one coin to five yuan has risen by more than three percent, the price of five coin to one tael has almost doubled, and the price of large source stones above one or two has increased by three to five times.

And most of the source stones produced by the gods are crystals of more than five coins, so Hei Ye should be able to think that long before the kingdom of God stopped trade, the empire's supply of high-quality source stones had reached a level where the supply exceeded the demand. ”

Hei Ye put down the teacup and applauded lightly, "The analysis is very exciting, in fact, we have also noticed this situation, and in recent years, the price of source stones has been increased in the trade of source stones for grain, and we have taken the opportunity to hoard some grain to double the needs from time to time, but I didn't expect the depletion of ore veins to come so quickly." It's a pity that we really don't have the source stone, otherwise we would definitely slaughter the royal family of Cesara this year. But with all that, how do you take advantage of the opportunity to make money? Food smuggling is not counted, what I want to know is the business opportunity you find in my words. ”

Jacques said, "You probably won't be able to find new veins in the short term, right?"

Hei Ye nodded.

Jacques continued: "This is the message, which means that for a period of time, in addition to the inventory of the royal family and the inventory of the big merchants, there will be no more high-quality source stones entering the market, then I will do two things.

The first thing is to release the news that the Kingdom of God has discovered new ore veins, or pretended to have discovered high-quality source stone veins in the New World, in short, the market believes that it will not be long before a large number of new high-quality source stones will flow into the market.

And then I took the opportunity to eat some, and the reason was easy to find, we had a machinery factory, or a shipyard or something, as long as it was convincing that we really needed to go to school

There will be fewer and fewer high-quality source stones on the market, and my inventory can be thrown out as long as I wait for the right time, even if I save more, it will be profitable.

But this is just a joke to follow the trend, after all, the biggest players in the high-quality source stone market are the royal family, and they won't sit idly by and watch me hoard too many source stones.

My second thing is the point.

We talked about Robert's invention of the telegraph, which my friend has studied, and he is already working on improving the telegraph's energy supply system in order to obtain a larger energy supply.

The energy system of the telegraph only needs to burn the steam engine of the coal mine to provide energy, as long as my friend can solve a few problems, the energy it provides can be amplified several times, when the research is successful, the energy of the steam engine can be used instead of the source stone, and it is used in many fields, such as in the factory Zheng

Will your business be profitable? ”

Hei Ye thought about it for a while, and had to admit that Jacques did have some truth.

In fact, Jacques just recounted Marianne's plan, once Jacques can confirm that the source stone mine of the Kingdom of Light is indeed depleted and cannot be restored in the short term, she will implement this plan, and she also has a plan, Jacques does not, that is, to improve the efficiency of the source stone formation, and replace one high-quality source stone with multiple source stones. This is only a transitional solution, and the jury is still out on whether it will succeed, unlike the use of a steam engine to generate electricity, which has already been successful.

Hei Ye sighed: "It seems that you can't plan, grain smuggling is just the first step." That guy Lee also often calls himself a businessman, and it seems that you Musai people like to make money, and that guy also claims that as long as the profit is high enough, he will do it at the risk of being beheaded.

Then what do you want in exchange for risking your head to come to the kingdom of God this time?"

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