Evening. Qin Xiaobai finished dealing with the matter of arable land in the tribal camp and returned to Zhoushui Walled City.

He was thinking about how to spend the more than 35,000 copper coins in his hand. He was no longer interested in buying land to build shops, reselling hunting bows, horses and other goods. These can be short-term hype and make some quick money - to put it bluntly, he is one step ahead of others and successfully earns these quick money. If you don't get ahead of the curve, it's at least ten times more difficult to make money. To earn this kind of quick money, it is best to make a sum of money and stop it as soon as possible, so as not to get out of the risk too deeply, this is not a long-term road to exhibition.

Now there are more and more players entering the game's strategic map, and a large number of "professional" reselling gangs have also appeared in the trade market, buying low and selling high, and the competition between the gangs is very fierce, and it takes ten times more effort to earn the money originally earned.

In fact, when he sold the hunting bow at noon, he had already intentionally stopped investing in land shops.

Now there is no need to mix it in.

Qin Xiaobai kept wandering around the southeast, northwest and northwest of the walled city, planning for his future investment. Since it has been vetoed to continue to do short-term business, there is only a long-term business to look for, and there is not much long-term business in Zhoushui Walled City.

He went to the workshop area in the west of the city and visited the owners of several important workshops in the area: bronze, bow and arrow, leather, armor, ceramics, halberd, herbs, wine, agricultural tools, etc.

Qin Xiaobai did not come to buy handmade products, but asked if he could sell production technology. The specific technology to buy has not yet been determined, in short, pick a technology that can gain a long-term foothold to buy.

When he first walked into the workshop. Almost every workshop owner has a smile on his face. But as soon as he made a request to buy technology. Immediately, it was rejected very harshly by the NPC owners, and they were highly vigilant.

The NPC Workshop owner of the Bow and Arrow Workshop was furious, "What, selling you the technology to make war bows? This is my family's ancestral stunt, how can it be sold, I sold it to you, what is my family's old snack, drink the northwest wind! Someone, get him out! You boys keep an eye on me, if he comes again. Get rid of it right away. He was not allowed to set foot in the workshop again. ”

Before the owner of the NPC Workshop of the Armor Workshop could finish listening to him, he jumped up violently, one word. "Get out!" Almost didn't pick up a broom to chase people.

Qin Xiaobai ran out of the workshop with a disgraced face, and continued to ask about the bronze workshop with the mentality of just in case. As a result, the NPC old man of the bronze workshop directly pulled out the copper sword hanging on the wall, and shouted excitedly, "Don't look at you as a nobleman. Dare to steal the old man's copper refining method, and the old man will fight with you even if he goes out! ”

"Don't, I'm not here to steal learning, I'm here to buy it!"

Before Qin Xiaobai finished speaking, he was shocked to see that the NPC old man really wanted to cut people, and hurriedly escaped from the bronze workshop. On the streets of the workshop area, many players are buying goods and are surprised to see this scene. Qin Xiaobai ran to the street and patted the animal skin coat. Reluctantly, I continued to look for workshops willing to sell my technology. This NPC old man's temper is not small, he dares to cut me, he doesn't believe it, and he can't spend more than 35,000 copper coins in his arms.

The workshop owner is reluctant to sell the technology, so he goes to the NPC to craft it. Each workshop in the city has 1 workshop owner, 10 NPCs handicraft, the specific number of people depends on the size of the workshop.

Workshop owners are understandably reluctant to sell their technology for fear that someone else will take away their business. He didn't believe that these craftsmen who worked for the workshop owners would be so firm.

He didn't look for anyone else, he looked for the handiwork of that bronze workshop. No way. Who said that now is the Bronze Age, and if you don't start with the first bronze tools, you won't be disappointed by the whole era.

In the evening, the NPC craftsmen, after a day of labor, dispersed and returned to their home in Zhoushui City for dinner.

Qin Xiaobai followed one of the NPC coppersmiths in the bronze workshop. Come to the civilian housing area in the southwest corner of the city. The handicraft lived in a low-slung mud house. Shabby, but quite neat. View from the window. It was very simple, with a bed, a table, a dim oil lamp lit on the table, an NPC woman, a child, and some clay pots in the corner, which looked like they were about to eat.

Qin Xiaobai knocked on the door of his house, the door opened, and the coppersmith opened the door, and the coppersmith was very surprised when he saw Qin Xiaobai.

Qin Xiaobai immediately walked in, indicating his intention and wanting to buy copper smelting technology.

NPC coppersmith shook his head: "My lord, this is the craft of eating for a small one, how can a small one easily teach others?" Not long ago, when I was in the workshop, my old boss drove you away, because I was afraid that if you learned the craft, his workshop would not be able to continue. Please come back, sir. ”

Qin Xiaobai would leave so easily, and immediately asked, "How much do you earn every day in the bronze workshop?" I hire you and pay double. ”

NPC Coppersmith was stunned: "Uh, double? This, the old club is a villain's master, how can a villain turn his back on his teacher, this will be spurned by the whole bank. This doesn't work, it doesn't work. ”

Qin Xiaobai saw that he was unwilling to leave the bronze workshop, so he could only change his method and said, "Then sell the craftsmanship, you make a price." Three thousand copper coins, five thousand copper coins? Is it going to be 10,000? ”

The wife of the NPC coppersmith couldn't sit still when she heard the offer of 5,000 copper coins, and when she heard the offer of 10,000, she immediately hurried over from the dining table and said excitedly, "10,000, okay, just 10,000 copper coins!" Father, that old ghost only gave you 3,000 copper coins a year, which is enough for you to work hard for him for three years. With these 10,000 pieces, we can do some trading work right away, it's worth it! "Nonsense, can 10,000 copper coins sell the ancestral craft?"

nbsp; Qin Xiaobai's heart was cold, this NPC coppersmith was so strong, he was not tempted by 10,000 copper coins. His price has reached a sky-high price, accounting for one-third of all copper coins. He originally wanted to rely on the money in his hand to sell at least 3 or 4 "high technologies" of the Bronze Age for long-term exhibitions, but he didn't expect to be able to buy even one technology.

The NPC coppersmith turned his head to Qin Xiaobai and said, "Ten thousand copper coins is definitely not enough, at least twenty thousand copper coins." Recently, the small one wanted to open his own copper coin workshop, but he couldn't cope with the expenses of the new workshop without 20,000 copper coins. If the adult is willing to give 20,000 copper coins, the villain is willing to sell the ancestral set of copper smelting techniques to the adult. ”

Qin Xiaobai went from hell to heaven, and almost laughed in his heart, the coppersmith didn't refuse to sell, but he thought the price was too low. It's easy to do, as long as you're willing to sell. "No, I'll give you thirteen thousand copper coins at most, that's my limit, if you don't sell it, then okay, I can only go to a few of your peers, I think they must be willing to sell."

The NPC coppersmith was not too good at bargaining, so he was stunned for a while, then pulled out his bottom and said: "My lord, 13,000 copper coins is really too little, plus the savings of more than 5,000 copper coins in these years, it is not enough to make up 20,000 copper coins to open a new workshop." Selling land, building workshops, buying raw materials, and hiring apprentices all cost money. ”

"Okay, fifteen thousand copper coins, one more copper coin won't do!"

"Okay, then fifteen thousand copper coins, and the villain will sell that set of copper smelting skills to adults immediately."

The coppersmith said happily, he immediately returned to the house, got under the bed, took out a dusty wooden broken box from under the floor, and came to Qin Xiaobai with it. "That's it, when the villain learned the craft, the master passed a set of copies of the copper smelting craft to each person, painted on a pair of animal skins, and the adults only need to do it according to it."

Qin Xiaobai said: "Open it and show me." ”

The coppersmith hurriedly found the key, opened the broken box, took out a well-preserved animal skin from it, and showed it to Qin Xiaobai.

On this animal skin, there are several big characters of "Fire Copper Smelting Law", and below it are dense small characters, the raw material formula of copper smelting, and the copper smelting process. The skin also shows a drawing of the construction of a copper furnace. With this good thing, it is a simple matter to smelt copper ore into pure copper.

Qin Xiaobai was overjoyed when he saw it, "Okay, I bought this copper smelting technique." He immediately paid 15,000 copper coins and traded them to the coppersmith. The NPC coppersmith happily handed over the animal skin to Qin Xiaobai and collected the money.

Qin Xiaobai threw away the broken box, put away the animal skin, and said with a smile, "That's right, let's take what we need, what's wrong?" By the way, you said that your master passed on a set to everyone? How many people are there in total? ”

The coppersmith said: "The old owner has accepted a total of four apprentices and passed on four copies of the drawings. In addition to the small ones, there are also three small brothers who have this. ”

"Oh."

Qin Xiaobai nodded, that NPC might sell the copper smelting blueprints in their hands. We have to find an opportunity to buy all these copper smelting drawings, so that no one else will compete for them.

However, the money on hand is not enough.

Forget it, let's talk about that later.

Qin Xiaobai got this complete copy of the copper smelting technology animal skin blueprint, and immediately ran to the dumb shop, so as not to hang it up and blow it up.