Chapter 199: What I Saw and Heard on Shenmu Island
Although Kongzhu had heard of the flying sailboat for a long time, he was still shocked when he saw it with his own eyes. The ship was huge and exquisite, so beautiful that it surpassed any mechanical device that the Hollow Bamboo had ever seen, whether it was an airplane, a warship, or whatever. It's not just a sailboat that can fly, it's a work of art, it's a dream.
When Kongzhu was so shocked by the flying sailboat that he couldn't speak, Murong Er patted him on the shoulder again and said loudly: "How about it? Isn't it beautiful? If you become a divine craftsman of Shenmu Island in the future, then you may also have such a boat!"
At this time, Kong Zhu did not hesitate to forget about the cultivation of the first layer of the Qi Refining Realm. "Owning a merchant ship is my empty dream! What is my pitifully low cultivation compared to this?"
How many goods can such a huge sailing ship carry? How profitable it is to run a trip between the Dongzhou Continent and the Xizhou Continent in this way. When I think of driving such a fantastic sailing ship, soaring over the vast sea, earning gold and silver, and living like a king in the future, Kongzhu is simply excited!
After entering the Shenmu Sect, the old man of Shenji sent someone to spend a month to prick the acupuncture points on the body of the silver needle empty bamboo, and also used a potion to repeatedly wash his acupuncture points, the empty bamboo was very cooperative, and he felt little by little that the true yuan qi in his body was withdrawn, and he gradually became an ordinary person without any cultivation.
"Transcendent, Kong Zhao, I am completely different from you now. You have traveled a long way on the road of cultivating immortals, but I have started again as an ordinary person, but I have taken a different path. On that day, Kongzhu stood on the slope of Shenjiang Peak, looking at the eastern sky, and felt a little lonely.
Murong Er saw that the empty bamboo had been abolished and cultivated, and he had officially become a disciple of the Divine Craftsman Sect, so he returned to the Xiaoyao Palace with confidence. Before leaving, he said to Kong Zhu with a smile: "Work hard to cultivate here, get rich as soon as possible, if you really have a flying sailboat in the future, don't forget my peach blossom swordsman, if at that time, I still stayed in the Dongzhou Continent and did not enter the Divine Domain, we will do business together and make some money to spend!"
In terms of making money, Kong Zhu and Murong Er have similar interests. Kongzhu happily agreed.
For the disciples who have just entered the Divine Craftsman Sect, the most basic course they learn is carpentry. It took a year to be familiar with the characteristics of wood, learn various methods of processing wood, splitting, chopping, cutting, planing, drilling, etc., and now the empty bamboo has been counted in the woodworking technology, and the entry has begun. The next course is to make all kinds of simple utensils, learn the structure of various instruments, and in addition, learn how to collect the true yuan qi of heaven and earth.
It's just that the collection of True Yuan Qi now is not for himself, but for the puppet giants in the future. The Puppet Giant is a type of battle puppet that requires True Yuan Qi to drive. In fact, after these puppet giants were infused with the true essence qi, they began to establish a master-servant relationship with the master and servant of the craftsman who made it, and it can even be said that the two are one. Therefore, although the god craftsman is an ordinary person, due to the presence of puppet giants, his combat effectiveness is actually not bad. The only drawback of the god craftsman is that the lifespan is about the same as that of ordinary people.
During his days of studying on Shenmu Island, Kongzhu was happy, and handicraft and technology were all things he was interested in. He no longer needs to learn to fight, he no longer needs to meditate, those are not suitable for him, so his more than 20 years in the Xiaoyao Palace have been quite tormented.
There are several large ports on the east and west sides of Shenmu Island, and huge sailing ships come and go every day. During the cultivation period of the Shenjiang Sect, as long as there is a holiday, Kongzhu travels to various places on Shenmu Island. He watched from the harbor as the schooners were loaded and unloaded, dreaming that one day he would become the owner of one of them.
All the sailing ships that went west were loaded with grain. As for all the sailing ships going to the Eastern District, most of the goods loaded were immortal cultivation materials such as stone refining and mercury. This kind of trade has been going on between the East Continent and the West Continent for many years. Shenmu Island relied on this trade and earned a considerable fortune. Therefore, Shenmu Island is very rich, and many rich countries in the Dongzhou Continent cannot compare with Shenmu Island.
In a tavern near the port, Kuzhu and his crew drank wine and inquired about their life in trade.
"Going to the Xizhou Continent is a trade with the Blood Demon Clan, aren't you afraid?" asked a crew member.
The crew member had nothing to say about a few glasses of spirits, he laughed and said, "Those blood demons are very friendly to the merchants of our Shenmu Island, what are we afraid of? We send them so much grain every year, without us, where can they raise so many blood slaves? The land on the Xizhou Continent is barren, and there is not much food produced at all. ”
Kong Zhu asked again: "Then, can our merchants from Shenmu Island also go to the Xizhou Continent to play without danger?" Kong Zhu really wants to go to the territory of the Blood Demon to play, and it is exciting to think about it.
The crew's tongue was already a little big, and he smiled: "This will definitely not work, to be honest, we are not directly trading with the blood demon, our ship arrived at the port of the Xizhou Continent, and we couldn't get off the ship, unload the goods, and then wait for the loading, and after loading, we have to come back." There are several fixed trading houses that trade with the Blood Demons, and the bosses are all from our Shenmu Island. They are trusted by the Blood Demons and have the privilege of living in the ports of the Western Continent. But we can't. So, in fact, even I haven't seen the Blood Demon a few times, because the people who trade with us are all people from Shenmu Island. I only know something about the Blood Demon from their mouths. ”
Kongzhu sighed: "It's really mysterious, I don't know if I will have the opportunity to open a trading house in the port of the Xizhou Continent in the future?"
The crew member said, "Don't think about it, the chances are slim." Those firms are all family-run, how many years have they monopolized this business? Generation after generation, these families have been. It's hard for them to allow newcomers to come in and compete with them. Unless you have the skills to deal with the upper echelons of the Blood Demon Clan. ”
Kongzhu smiled, and this extravagant hope had to be shattered. Obviously, it is more profitable to open a trading house directly in the port of the Blood Demon, but there is no such way, and it will not make less money if you directly build a fleet and run at both ends, but it is harder.
After drinking too much wine and talking a lot, the crew member knew that Kongzhu was once an immortal cultivator and was now a disciple of the Divine Craftsman Sect. The crew laughed and said, "Cultivate well, your cultivation is definitely promising, even better than cultivating immortals!"
"Oh, why is that?" said Kongzhu's tongue was a little bigger.