This was a bit unexpected by Ou Jianying: "You have already mastered the forging method of 100 steels?" How many hundred steels do you have now? ”

"Fifty bucks or less. As long as the luck is not too bad, it will not be too difficult to produce two pieces of Ziwu. ”

Zhang Songjing had some understanding of the baron's task, and when he heard this, he said, "Then why don't you hurry up and get started?" Lao Ou was so in a hurry that he couldn't even drink the wine! ”

This time, Ou Jianying was not in a hurry: "It's okay." This kind of thing can't be rushed. The blacksmith must be able to adjust his mentality and luck. Blindly forging can only consume luck in vain, and a lot of materials will be wasted. Back then, my master watched me forge, and once he forged a handful of Ziwu, he would give me a vacation, and I was not allowed to continue forging high-grade materials. Six purple martial arts, you can forge them in seven days, even if your luck is strong and your blessings are profound! ”

This can be regarded as a thorough explanation for Boss Su.

Now that the request to go to Vilana Island again has been met, Boss Su began to contact Sister Rose: "Rose, how many gold coins do we have left?" ”

"What? There's not a lot of gold right now. Unless this month's salary is all paid in cash, I won't be able to spare much gold! You wait, the specific amount has to ask the ingot! Ingot treasure, enter the group! ”

Seven Swords Finance Group Meeting, with only four participants: Twilight. Orange Language, Sister Rose, Angel in White, Ingot Girl. This meeting can be regarded as the smallest meeting of the Seven Swords.

Ingot: "Last month's gold income was five thousand eight hundred and fifty-six gold coins. There are four sources: two thousand two hundred and three at the Copper Orange Bar; The income of the iron works fell sharply, only more than 1,300; The bulk of the income of the pharmaceutical factory is the five spirit fat bandage, which reaches three thousand and fifty-one; The veterinary drug factory has just begun to make entries, but the momentum is very good, 1,504; The proceeds from the farm are counted in the pharmaceutical factory; Iron ore revenues are tied to iron mills; The carpentry factory lost thirty-five gold coins, and the income of the Yue Wang Goujian sword wooden box was rushed into it, which was basically balanced. The surplus is five thousand eight hundred fifty-six. The biggest loss item is ten Yue Wang Goujian swords, a total of ten, which were handed over to Chairman Fox to be sold to Frost City, and there has been no response. ”

"Why did the income of the iron factory decline so much?"

"In the past, the main source of income from the ironworks came from skinning knives and bloodletting guns. Tell me about how many fights you made last month? Other blacksmiths can also fight, but the number of purple and gold qualities is less. They don't have a double orange logo forged and sell for a low price. In addition, the income of the pharmaceutical factory actually reached more than 8,700 gold coins, but it cost more than 5,000 gold coins to develop the black mamba snake venom antidote, produce a small batch of intermediate corpse poison antidote, and study the formula of Gunna's medicinal liquor and Torodo's physique elixir. ”

"I'll go! So much? ”

"The R&D funds of the two Master Zhangs, who dares not to give them? Fortunately, the above things have been studied thoroughly, so I sent you, the boss, to buy raw materials. I believe that I can earn it back more than ten times. ”

Regardless of whether you are real or a game, technology is the primary productive force! Take the Torodo physique potion as an example, without a hundredfold profit, the Seven Swords will never be sold! What is left in the mining, forest fruit and even medicine garden, there is a lot of investment, and the income is average, in addition to stability, the benefits and external influence can't catch up with the medicine factory and the Seven Swords Army!

Twilight. Orange Yu made a frowning expression: "Then this month's salary is okay, right?" ”

"The studio currently has five hundred and twenty people under contract. The peripheral players are the four hundred and three people who have only signed up online. One hundred and seventeen people signed written contracts, including fifty-six who lived at the studio's headquarters and twenty-one who lived in Little Rock. Fifty gold coins per person per month for peripheral players, which is 20,000 gold coins. Some of them are not given enough attendance. The main group players will add 80 gold coins and 2,000 Han Yuan per month. The core group has 100 gold coins and 2,000 Han won per month. This month's shortfall is as high as 25,000 gold coins. There's still a week to go - our current state is about 3,000 to 5,000. Hanyuan spending can last for two months! ”

Sister Rose interjected, "You also need to settle the bill at Wilena's Baron's Mansion, right?" The wages and material costs have not been calculated, how much do you estimate it will need? ”

Boss Su had a headache: "This piece is endorsed by Sandra, the queen of the Duchy of Velena, and it is owed for the time being, and it is estimated that it will be at least a few thousand." Yiyi, how much stock of the five spirit fat bandages are there? How much of the mamba antidote was produced? ”

Bai Yiyi: "Because of the price increase, the Wuling Fat Bandage has accumulated nearly 10,000 inventory. The mamba snake antidote is limited by the raw materials, and there are only two hundred and thirty pieces. With two high-grade potions in hand, two medicinal wines, and five spirit fat bandages, we have great potential, but the short-term funds are pitiful. I'm not in a hurry. As long as Xiao Chengzi is willing, just post a post to seek cooperation, and funding is not a problem. ”

Li Yuanbao can be regarded as a 'financial specialist', and he can see it clearly than Bai Yiyi in this regard: "Our development is a bit ahead of our time." There is a limit to the recharge of "Holy Path", and if you want to solve the problem of lack of gold coins in a short time, you can only find large guilds. However, this would dilute the shares of Seven Swords Studio. Our size is too small, and if we cooperate with others like this, we will suffer a loss no matter what, and we will suffer a big loss! ”

Twilight. Orange: "For a long time, the object of our cooperation has been NPCs, why can't we cooperate with NPCs financially?" ”

"You can try. Brother Orange, don't you have a good relationship with Li Dingjun? Find him! ”

Li Dingjun was very generous and very firm: "I can lend you 10,000 gold coins." But I'm not going to get involved in your business. Use your ironworks and fiefdoms as collateral. ”

"Can you tell me why?"

"If you are unable to repay the loan, your ironworks will be auctioned off by me. The value won't be too high. The fiefdom cannot be transferred, but it can run at a low profit for a long time, and it will never make me lose money. ”

Boss Su was still a little confused: "No." I wonder why you don't want to work with me! As you can see, I have several patented products, and as long as I can hold on for a month or two, I will never be short of gold coins. ”

"I've seen your patents - selling any one of them will solve your current financial problems. I am willing to lend you gold coins, just to be optimistic about your development. The problem is that I can't participate in the development of the resident economy! It's mil-spec. Have you heard the story of Yue Fei, the Chinese national hero? ”

Who doesn't know Yue Wumu? You are talking about this, do you still have a relationship with Yue Wumu?

Li Dingjun drank a glass of wine: "Wu Mu is a generation of military gods. You may not imagine that he is still a big landowner and a big businessman, right? ”

Yue Fei, whose name is Pengju, was a native of Tangyin County, Xiangzhou (now Tangyin County, Henan), and a famous general of the Anti-Jin Dynasty. A famous military strategist, strategist, calligrapher, poet, and national hero in Chinese history, he was the first of the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Yue Fei joined the army at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, met Zong Ze in the second year of Jianyan, received the support of the military high-level, and led the Yuejia army to fight hundreds of battles with the Jin army in the eleventh year of Shaoxing. In the first year of Jingkang, Yue Fei was recruited to participate in the army of Huizong Zhao as the generalissimo in Xiangzhou. The Jin army went south to the south of the Yangtze River, and Yue Fei was unique, insisting on resisting Jin and recovering Jiankang. In the third year of Shaoxing, he was appointed as an envoy along the Yangtze River, and he never forgot to recover the Central Plains. In the spring of the fourth year of Shaoxing, Yue Fei recovered the six counties of Xiangyang. Shaoxing led the Northern Expedition in six years, and successfully captured Yi, Luo, Shang, Yu and other prefectures.

In the tenth year of Shaoxing, after Yan Wushu destroyed the alliance to attack the Song Dynasty, Yue Fei waved his army to the Northern Expedition, successively recovered Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other places, and defeated the Jin army in Yuncheng and Yingchang, and marched to Zhuxian Town. Zhao Gou and Qin Hui were bent on peace, and ordered Yue Fei's class with twelve "golden plates". Yue Fei was falsely accused and imprisoned by Qin Hui, Zhang Jun and others, and was killed on trumped-up charges with his eldest son Yue Yun and his subordinate Zhang Xiantong. When Song Xiaozong, Yue Fei was rehabilitated and reburied in Qixialing on the bank of the West Lake. pursued Wu Mu, and then pursued Zhong Wu and crowned the king of Hubei.

Yue Fei attached great importance to the people's anti-Jin forces, and created a strategy of "connecting Heshuo", advocating that the civil anti-Jin rebel army north of the Yellow River and the Song army cooperate with each other to flank the Jin army in order to recover the lost territory. Yue Fei governs the army, rewards and punishments are clear, discipline is strict, and he can be sympathetic to his subordinates, leading by example.

Yue Fei's representative work "Man Jianghong" is a patriotic masterpiece that has been recited through the ages.

"You should know that there was a Song Dynasty, and the status of civil officials was far above that of military generals. The emperor often sent eunuchs and civil officials to monitor the military generals. Because of the developed economy of the Song Dynasty, it was also quite generous in terms of military salaries and military materials, but because the civil officials were in power and the eunuchs were in power, corruption was rampant. It seems that the military budget is abundant, but the average soldier is actually very poor. Yue Wumu used soldiers, and he was able to freeze and kill without demolishing houses, and starving without taking prisoners, in addition to strict military discipline, another important reason was that he himself was very good at accumulating wealth. Yue's army owned a large amount of land to collect tenant rent to obtain military rations, and used the army to obtain funds through business, so it would not be constrained by ordinary civilian officials in wartime with baggage supplies. These actions certainly made the morale of his subordinates full and the order was forbidden, but once Yue Fei was imprisoned, almost none of his subordinates cried out for him. Why? With its dedication, the soldiers are worry-free! ”

This remark is quite heart-wrenching. Twilight. Orange will not say it all after understanding it: "What do you mean, raising soldiers should be like wolves, both to ensure their supply and to limit their desires." ”

Li Dingjun smiled bitterly: "It's good if you understand." It is a good thing that the hearts and deeds of the soldiers are consistent. Such an army can be invincible and invincible. But it can also be a bad thing. What would you think if the Seven Swords Mercenary Regiment that you worked so hard to pull out was easily accepted by me and kicked you out of the team, and as a result, no one in the mercenary group was unfair to you, and no one stood up against my actions? It's not that I'm bullying people, within the scope of Frost City, except for me Li Dingjun, who can give full play to the combat power of the Flying Leopard Legion? Who would dare to say that the combat effectiveness of such an army will always remain at its peak for ten years? What's more, this army, which has grown from the original 100-person team to more than 3,000 people today, has poured the painstaking efforts of an entire generation of my Li family! Therefore, any behavior that has the potential to weaken the combat effectiveness and centripetal force of this army, I will directly refuse. This is non-negotiable. "The upper officials accumulate wealth, and the lower ones will follow suit. This kind of behavior will not necessarily directly affect the combat effectiveness of the army, but it will definitely weaken the loyalty of subordinates. Su Cheng understood this. But should the soldiers you bring always and completely obey you? This is not quite the same as the concept and method of Boss Su leading the Seven Swords Mercenary Group. However, Boss Su understands when he thinks about it: a real wealthy family must have a firm foothold in the military and politics in order to obtain a century-old inheritance.

What he couldn't understand was that Li Dingjun seemed to have an understanding and insight beyond ordinary people about Yue Wumu's life.

With the 10,000 gold coins lent to him by Li Dingjun, Boss Su returned to the Tongcheng Bar and summoned Duan Wei, Nan Feiyan and Miss Yuanbao. Li Yuanbao is here to deliver gold coins. At this moment, the mailing cost of a few thousand gold coins can also be saved. In addition to helping with transportation, Duan Wei and Nan Feiyan also had other tasks. The trio stuffed their backpacks with the Five Spirit Fat Bandages and the Black Mamba Snake Poison Antidote and headed to Velana together: he only needed to take on the name of Baron Velana, while Duan Wei and Nan Feiyan needed to use a one-time teleportation scroll sponsored by Sandra.

The Baron of Wildfire teleported into Velana, and his foothold was naturally in his Wildfire Castle. The castle is not large, the house covers an area of about five acres, the main building has two floors, the first floor covers two acres, the second floor is about an acre of slightly larger area, and there is a huge rooftop. Boss Su landed on a flagstand in the center of this rooftop, and behind him was a flagpole more than ten meters high. Looking down, the castle resembles a traditional courtyard house, with three sides of the main building, solid houses made of stone, and fortifications such as battlements. Rambo really built this place as a military camp! The gate is open, and although there are no houses above, there are also battlements. In the doorway, more than a dozen people were lying in the shade enjoying the cool breeze passing through the door. One of them seemed to see the baron of wildfire above the castle, and was rubbing his eyes at the baron.

"Brother Orange, where are you? How did we get to the palace of Vilena? Duan Wei looked confused.

"You used the teleportation scroll that the queen gave us, isn't it normal to send it to the palace? By the way, hurry up and show the name of your Seven Swords Mercenary Group! Don't get misunderstood! Tell the guards and wait for me at the gate of the palace - just wait for the Baron of Wildfire to come and meet the Queen! ”

As he spoke, Su Cheng went down to the first floor and entered the courtyard, and a group of construction workers had already surrounded him, and when they saw the baron of wildfire showing his title, they all bowed down at the same time. The foreman was the first to look up: "My lord, you're back!" We've worked day and night to finally build your castle! There are still some details, Lord Lan Bo said that you will wait for you to come back and take a look! ”

The project was not finished, and Boss Su didn't want to check out in a hurry, so he handed the foreman a handful of gold coins: "Everyone has worked hard." The gold coins were divided. I'm going to see the queen first, and I'll talk about the castle later. Just rest and get paid! ”

The Black Brothers let out a cheer!

It originally took more than two days to return to the palace from the wildfire. Sandra persuaded the two tribes along the way to set up a caravanserais, reducing the time to a few minutes, and it was already very easy to travel to and from each other.

Rundegol is already forty-two. He received two of Gunner's legacy: karate and alchemy. He has been staying in Veranna for more than ten days, although he can't level up normally, he can smoothly use the various herbs on Velana Island to hone his alchemy, which is quite a bit of a pleasure, not to mention that Gunna also gave him a task: to receive the baron of wildfire and assist in the transfer of materials after the baron of wildfire. There is a commission for this work! But Twilight. When Orange will come, no one can say. Her Majesty has already made up thousands of gold coins for the construction of the Baron's Palace, and she must be looking forward to the Baron's return as soon as possible. Hearing that two adventurers had teleported to the palace, he immediately went there, and the other party was indeed a man from the Baron of Wildfire.

The three of them waited together for Boss Su, Long Degor stayed at the palace gate, and the three of Seven Swords went to see Sandra together.

Rambo also accompanies Sandra in the palace, which is no better than the wilderness, and he also needs to show others a legend on the shelf. After the baron of Wildfire finished saluting the two, he presented the male and female swords, and then pulled the corners of Lan Bole's mouth: "Not bad, not bad." The quality of this sword is not something that a grandmaster can't forge. Ou Jianying? It's your Grand Master of Twilight, right? ”

"It's not. He is a descendant of the swordsmith, and he is on the same level as the Thunder Destroyer! ”

"Oh, I see. You're the inheritor chosen by this swordsmith, aren't you? Darling, we can help him with this. ”

Sandra laughed and said, "Are you worried about the few pieces of heavenly iron hidden in the palace?" ”

Lan Bo hehe: "If you don't forge it into a weapon, Tiantie is a waste." Besides, we can ask this little guy to forge for us after he gets the inheritance. Your class is better than ranged support, and your guard must be constantly strengthened. Otherwise, I won't be able to rest assured that I will go on missions in the future! ”

After a wave of dog food was spilled, everyone began to discuss business.

The Baron of Wildfire first settled the cost of the castle materials that Sandra had paid in advance: three thousand three hundred gold coins. Then ask about the cost of the teleportation array from Wilana City to Wildfire Keep. As for the cost of construction workers, it is almost negligible due to the addition of a discount on the mamba antidote.

The level of the space mage of the Principality of Verana is not high, and they can only build a short-distance teleportation array. To build a teleportation array that can travel through a long space to reach Frost City, you need at least a great magician of space magic. Sandra introduced: "I've been waiting for you to come, just to directly build the teleportation array of Wildfire Castle into a high-level teleportation array. Can teleport to both Velana and your Twilight Continent. The cost would skyrocket, but it would be much cheaper than building a short-distance teleportation array and a long-range teleportation array. ”

Lan Bo felt that the baron of wildfire was a little confused, knowing that he still didn't understand the level planning of the teleportation array: "The lowest level of the teleportation array is a short-range, one-way teleportation array, which is only a little more advanced than the one-way teleportation scroll in your hand. The Principality of Velana can build short-range two-way teleportation arrays. As for intercontinental teleportation, it is necessary to submit an application to the Intercontinental Parliamentary Union with the title of Grand Duke or above, and after obtaining approval, you need to hire the Grand Magister of the Space Law System to assist in the construction. ”

"Can you tell me about the specific level of the teleportation array?"

"Short distances, up to 300 km; Unidirectional. This is level one. The cost of materials for construction is 100 gold. The cost of hiring a construction mage is 900 gold. Maintenance costs are not included. Level 2 in both directions. The total price is 2,000 gold coins. A one-way teleportation array within 1,000 kilometers that does not cross the intercontinental boundary is a third-level array, and the construction cost is 4,000 gold coins; Four levels in both directions, five thousand gold coins. There is no one-way intercontinental teleportation array, and the total cost is not less than 10,000 gold coins. ”

The cost of the teleportation array is actually not very high, and the biggest expense is the magician's hired Filipino maid, followed by the maintenance cost.

After settling the material cost of the castle, Boss Su only had more than 12,500 gold coins in his hand, and it was impossible to use all of them for the construction of the teleportation array. But the matter has come to this point, and I am unwilling not to fight: "I have no money!" If we cooperate and build the Intercontinental Teleportation Array in Velana City, how much money is Her Majesty willing to pay? ”

Just waiting for your words! Rambo and Sandra looked at each other: "We think so too!" This will be of great benefit to the economic development of Wilena. But Wilana is in ruins, and she needs money everywhere. We can't squeeze out too much gold either. The advantage of intercontinental teleportation is that we can only build a teleportation array, and spend gold coins to light up the corresponding teleportation array channel icon to achieve teleportation to each other. ”

Self-built intercontinental teleportation array is equivalent to establishing an airline, right? At least it's also a highway! Is it as simple as you say? Boss Su didn't believe it.

"Herein lies the difficulty. Channel icons can be crafted with the help of the mage who built the teleportation array. But this thing itself is a miniature space magic array, and if it is transported through the teleportation array, it is easy to interfere with each other and cause disorder, which will disable the channel icon at least and cause damage to the teleportation array. So this thing can only be escorted by personnel on foot! ”

"So what?"

Sandra smiled: "I paid for the construction of the teleportation array, and the task of lighting up the channel icon is entrusted to you!" ”

I'll go! From Africa to the Western Regions, this is farther than Tang monks learning scriptures from the West! "Your Majesty, are you joking? Wouldn't it be enough to leave this kind of thing to Lan Bo? Leave it to me, I'd like to, but I can't squeeze out that much time! Tell me, not counting the remoteness of Twilight Continent, just to ...... How many days does it take to get to Kenny? ”

Sandra didn't speak, and Rambo said, "It's inconvenient for me to participate in this kind of thing." You don't know, most teleportation arrays are filled with channel icons. The more advanced the teleportation array, the more likely it is to be filled with channel icons. If we put ours up, we will probably need to take someone else's off. This creates competition. If I come forward, out of the principle of reciprocity, the other party will have a reason to send a legend to prevent it. Battles at my level will inevitably cause spatial fluctuations within a certain range, and will also adversely affect the channel coordinates. Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, the legend will not come forward to participate in this kind of action. ”

Sandra threw out a decoy: "You take this task, I can ask the mage who built the teleportation array to leave the first channel icon to you!" This is irrevocable. ”

Boss Su had to take on this task, just to be able to bargain. Now that the price offered by the other party can be said to be full of sincerity, you can discuss the next action. "I have a question, what if I light up the channel icon today and someone dismantles it tomorrow?"

"Cold salad!" Lan Bo will also tell a Chinese joke: "Once the channel icon is lit, no one dares to remove it immediately." You have to wait for it to run steadily for a while. As long as you can prove that the channel you have built is more valuable than someone else's during this period of time, the owners of the other icons will unanimously maintain your icons. While this is difficult to guarantee, it can also make it difficult for the other party to reconstruct the channel icon. To put it simply, we need to increase the flow of people and logistics in this corridor during this period. The more the merrier! Haven't you walked through a similar passage? ”