Chapter XLVIII, Province of Joleni
Lin Yuan went out after receiving Zheng Xiyuan's order, and before leaving, he didn't forget to extort a sum of money from Zheng Xiyuan, Zheng Xiyuan is now rich, and he is also very "generous", and he laughed and gave him ten gold coins. Lin Yuan held ten gold coins in his hand, burst into tears, and left quickly.
Seeing him go out, Xue Ruolan, who had been waiting at the door for a while, came in, although the problem of food had been settled, but Zheng Xiyuan really had something else to do with her-that is, the production materials of missiles, and gave Xue Ruolan 200 million gold coins to order a batch of Xuantie. At the same time, he also urged Xue Ruolan to speed up the expansion of the Xue family's transportation fleet.
Since artificial heptanium cannot be refined with mortal fire, the raw ore can only be transported to Penglai Island and forged by the Vermilion Bird True Fire. Therefore, the artificial heptanium he has in hand has been in a state of insufficiency. In contrast, Xuantie does not have this kind of trouble, and can directly transport raw materials to the island for processing into ammunition.
Although the price of 380 gold coins is not much cheaper than the artificial heptane gold cost of 600 gold coins per ton. However, when it comes to transport, it must be much faster. Zheng Xiyuan is not short of this money now.
Anyway, the principle of those missiles is very simple, that is, the detonation circle is carved on the inside of the metal missile, a spiritual power pusher is added to the tail, and the spiritual liquid is used as the detonation energy source. Surface-to-air missiles, on the other hand, have only added a guidance system, and they have stronger thrust and more power.
Of course, you also know that this is just a simple statement. But the complicated ones are all in the formation, and as for what metal is used, it's the same. At most, after the explosion, the lethality of shrapnel is not as good as that of artificial heptan.
With the 200 million gold coins magic crystal card given by Zheng Xiyuan, Xue Ruolan knew what it meant to be wealthy. As soon as the more than 600 million gold coins sold by the perfume arrived, Zheng Xiyuan's purse suddenly fattened, and even his Xue family had a new business.
However, Xue Ruolan has not been happy recently, although Zheng Xiyuan gave her 200 million gold coins last time, which made the Xue family's business improve a little bit, but the Nalan family sniped again, so that the Xue family's liquidity was left again.
Zheng Xiyuan looked at her not very good face, and asked helplessly, "The Xue family's business has not been good recently?"
Xue Ruolan was stunned for a moment and asked, "How do you know?"
"Miss Xue, you don't have a boyfriend, and that fly from the Nalan family won't go to Obsidian City to annoy you, it's not an emotional problem, it's business. The Heavenly Evil Chamber of Commerce has made a lot of money here, and you are still so sad, then it is naturally the Xue family's business. Zheng Xi said from the source.
"You're really a little ghost. Xue Ruolan sighed: "Yes, the batch of military leather products that were negotiated before, but the other party suddenly regretted it." Probably Nalan Traceless is behind the scenes. Our Xue family attaches great importance to this business and has purchased a large amount of leather, and the loss is very large. ”
Zheng Xiyuan frowned: "Except for ore, I advise you to give up." Their Nalan family is in the arms business, and so is our Zheng family. Our Zheng family has close contacts with many high-level officials of the Buffy Empire, and the relationship between the Nalan family and the high-level leaders of the Holy Light Empire will not be bad. Since ancient times, merchants have not fought with officials. You can't please in the Holy Light Empire. Let's go and cash out those properties and buy more veins. After that I have a big business to do with you. ”
Xue Ruolan listened to Zheng Xiyuan's words, and was also a little moved, in just half a month, Zheng Xiyuan's assets increased several times under her own witness. The ore he bought for him, what he used it for is unknown, but with so much cost invested, it is obvious that the action is not small. In the future, you can imagine how rich he is.
It was not a bad idea for the Xue family to hug his thigh tightly.
"Well, I'll make a decision in the near future, at most half a month, maybe those properties will be sold by me. Xue Ruolan gritted her teeth and said, although it is very difficult to make a decision, in the current situation, the Xue family is losing money almost every second. That's all money.
Zheng Xiyuan nodded, didn't say anything, unlike himself, who made money by relying on the general skills of his previous life, Xue Ruolan was able to accept the half-crippled Xue family that had been played with in her teens, and she had been dealing with behemoths like the Nalan family for many years. She's a real business genius. I believe it is not difficult to make the right decision.
But even if she didn't sell those assets in the end, as long as she was a little more tenacious to survive this year, she insisted on ignoring and ignoring the harassment from Nalan Traceless. By the time the Divine Hidden Empire and the Holy Light Empire fight next year, the Nalan family will definitely receive a surprise from themselves.
At that time, Nalan Wuxian will play small tricks, and the wonderful life of leisurely pickling girls will almost come to an end. Xue Ruolan's troubles naturally ended without a problem.
Of course, Zheng Xiyuan would not say this to Xue Ruolan, after all, he also hoped that Xue Ruolan would abandon those miscellaneous businesses and cooperate with him wholeheartedly. In this way, it will be of great benefit to himself and the Xue family.
After eating a lunch carefully prepared by Lin Yuxun at noon, Zheng Xiyuan was ready to go out. Go to the factories you're about to take over.
Looking at Zheng Xiyuan in front of the door, Lin Yuxun smiled bitterly: "It's rare to see you lately." ”
Zheng Xiyuan was stunned for a moment, and he was also a little sad in his heart, and asked, "Or, you go with me." "Those factories are not in Obsidian, or even in the Duchy of Donglin, but in the province of Joleni, in the far east of the Buffy Empire. There was a fief of the Zheng family.
"Come on, I'm going to leave to go back to Shenyin later, you should go early and come back early. Lin Yuxun hesitated, leaned against the door and waved his hand to Zheng Xiyuan with a smile, and finally turned around and left. Lin Yuan has a lot of influence in the Shenyin Empire, but he hasn't been back for so many years, and few people recognize his old face. If there is another Lin family's assistance, some things will definitely go much smoother.
As soon as he said that, Lin Yuan also came back, still holding the formalities of using the teleportation array to go to the Shenyin Empire. After all, it is a hostile country, and if you want to go there, the procedures are complicated, and it is still Zheng Xiyuan who can get it so quickly.
"Take care of her for me. Zheng Xiyuan commanded at Lin Yuan.
It was the first time Lin Yuan had seen such a solemn expression on his little master. He nodded earnestly.
Zheng Xiyuan smiled at his trust and got into the carriage with An Xi.
The two of them sat in the teleportation array, and in a blink of an eye, they had arrived at Huayue City, the capital of Ruoleni Province.
One hundred and eighty years ago, when people mentioned Joleni, they must have made a spitting expression, there were no fertile fields here, and there were no mineral deposits to give strength. Theoretically, it's supposed to be a poor place.
However, the previous emperor of the Buffy Empire was also a smart man who lived up to his reputation. With light taxes and many preferential policies, he persuaded the Kitano family, one of the eight major alchemy families, and a large number of other merchants to move their roots here. Within a few years, he was crowned a hereditary earl of the Zheng family. The fiefdom is still here. So, the Zheng family also opened a factory here.
If Lenny doesn't want to be lively now, he can't do it. The factories of the two great families absorbed a large number of laborers here. Workers are well paid. It has also boosted consumer demand. It attracts many businessmen to come here to operate their businesses. Joleni has gone from a poor country with few bird feathers to an industrial province that everyone yearns for. It is far away from the Klos Province in the southwest of the Buffy Empire, and is on the same continent.
As soon as I entered Joleni, the atmosphere of busyness seemed to be blowing in my face. The streets of all kinds of vendors and the workers hurrying by. A carriage waited early, got into the car, and Zheng Xiyuan walked towards his factory.
Leading the way for Jung Seok-won was an old man named Johnny. If Zheng Xiyuan wants to describe Johnny, then he will definitely give one word - "thin". Johnny's thinness has reached a level, if you have to describe it in words, it is like a dried corpse just unearthed from a thousand-year-old tomb.
Before Zheng Xiyuan came, he heard Zheng Tianhua talk about Johnny and said that he could be trusted.
It is said that he was an alchemy apprentice in his early years, but his talent was not very high, and he did not make any names. So he went to the Zheng family's factory and became a low-level alchemist who specialized in portraying alchemy arrays and teaching workers operation skills. He is honest and diligent, and he has never won anything, and he finally saved up a sum of money, but he was also deceived by his grandson, who was a mecha knight, to buy a high-level mecha beyond his rank. I lived most of my life like this.
Later, Zheng Tianhua saw that he was honest and handed over Joleni's factory to him to take care of. The Zheng family mainly produces industrial mecha in Joleni. The person who manages this doesn't have to be too motivated, and he doesn't have to be able to make decisions. As long as you are honest and report what happened to you.
Along the way, listen to Johnny's introduction all the way. The Zheng family's factory, which has more than 500 factories, is located in the foothills of the mountains south of the province of Jolaini. There were 160,000 workers. With such a large scale, it is no wonder that the profit of the industrial mecha is not high, but there is still a harvest of 260 million gold coins every year.
Along the way, the manufacture of industrial mecha is quite simple, and the continent is rich in a liquid metal called Mithril. As long as you inject mana into it, you can control its contraction, and when the mana stops injecting, it will return to its original state. The kinetic principle of the mecha is to use Mithril to simulate human muscles.
In the case of military mechas, the internal design is much more sophisticated, while industrial mechas are much simpler. It's almost the same design as when the mecha first appeared. The magic array is also quite simple, only used to stimulate the effect of the magic crystal to release magic power, and there are few people in the mainland who don't know this kind of magic array.
"How much do these of our work mecha usually cost each?" Zheng Xiyuan asked.
"Young master, we are divided into two types: light and heavy, light twelve meters, made of fine iron, each more than thirty tons, and the price is 1,200 gold coins. Heavy 28 meters, made of black iron, around 200 tons, each priced at 10,000 gold coins. Johnny said respectfully.
"Isn't this unprofitable?" Zheng Xiyuan asked stunned, Mithril and Xuantie are not cheap.
"Excluding the cost of manpower and materials, we can probably still earn about 20%. Johnny Dao.
Zheng Xiyuan was speechless, and when he was half-loud, he said angrily: "Stop, let them stop, we won't do this business from today on." Let the best alchemist in the factory come to me. ”
He knows 150,000 people, and the result of a year's hard work, why hasn't he bought more perfume for a day. This industry is really interpreting small profits and quick turnovers to the extreme.
I promised my father that he would earn 2 billion gold coins a year. Do the math, even if all the heavy industrial machines are sold, you have to buy one million units a year?
One million units, do you let Lao Tzu sell mecha or cabbage. Big farmers can't buy a million cabbages a year.