The war is over, completely over.

Not only did the rebels all choose to surrender, but the whole country returned to Nissa's rule, and even the White Eagle Army, which had been getting in the way, withdrew from Starmoon Island and fled with their tails between their legs.

Starmoon Island has returned to its former peace. The trauma of war has made people more aware of the preciousness of peace.

Peace is important to the local population, and it is also important for Anrui.

Only when there is peace can he get Ore Town!

More precisely, it should be to obtain the minerals of Ore Town, the power of this town is impossible to hand over to him, and he himself has little interest in becoming a town mayor.

After the embers of the war had been blown out, the Lord of Nissa finally made good on his promise, invited Anrui to his side, treated him to a meal, and pushed the lease of ownership of several mines under his nose.

An Rui was not polite, and directly put away all the contracts, which he deserved. If it weren't for his help, Xingyue Island would still be enduring the devastation of the war, and I don't know how long it would last.

"An Rui, I am very interested in your identity as a dream teller, if you have any dreams related to Xingyue Island in the future, please tell me, I will not treat you badly." Nissa's eyes were sparkling and flashing with fire as she spoke.

"No problem, I think I'll definitely live out my dreams about you, the owner of the island, and I'll definitely visit you again then." Anrui smiled and agreed, with a hint of mystery in his smile.

What he said is true, many years from now. He's sure he'll find Nissa again, and the two sides will have a deeper intersection.

Nissa is not just an island owner, she has an even heavier mission on her shoulders.

……

The mountains are endless. Like an undulating dragon's back, entrenched on the earth.

These mountains have "scars", and those artificially mined caves are the scars of the mountains.

This group of mountains, known as the "Blue Star Mountains", is located near Ore Town, and the two go hand in hand.

An Rui led his men here, standing halfway up the mountain, looking down at the slope below. Sophie, Sam, and the others stood behind him. In addition, there are several dwarven miners, as well as other ordinary miners of all kinds.

"There." Anrui stretched out his hand to a sloping area, "Circle this place." Excavation will begin tomorrow. ”

Immediately, a dwarven miner wrote down the location, drew a circle on a plan, and wrote down a series of numbers of unknown meaning. The dwarves are a people of the mountains, and they have been masters of mountain mining since ancient times. A set of schemes for marking coordinates was summarized. But this kind of thing can only be understood by them, and it is a book from heaven to the uninitiated.

At the same time that many mines and mountains were leased to Anrui for free, the original mine owners, miners and workers here were also assigned to him.

There are already a lot of mines in this mountainous area, but An Rui is not satisfied with this, he wants to use his "golden finger" that can turn stones into gold to point out a few more mines.

And his real goal is not ordinary mines, even if those mines are profitable, they are just small profits, not huge profits. His real goal is to have veins rich in "blue crystal".

Aquamarine is a beautiful blue crystal, and the Blue Star Mountains are famous for their abundance of aquamarine.

Now. The true value of this crystal has not yet been discovered, except that it is a beautiful ornament. Due to the fragile nature of aquamarine, the price of this ornament is so low that even ordinary people can afford it.

But Anrui knows that the true value of Aquamarine is more than just an ornament, and after a special treatment, this crystal can be used to forge gold-level and even diamond-level weapons!

The method of forging weapons with aquamarine was discovered by the elven forger, and it was a secret that even An Rui did not know.

In about two months, this method will be invented. From then on, the price of azurite will rise and become more and more expensive!

Now is a good time to stock up on azurite, and when the price of azurite rises, you can resell it for amazing profits. Relying on this business alone, Anrui can transform into a rich man.

Anrui intends to hoard aquamarine through two channels, the first channel is of course mining and hoarding, and the second channel is to acquire at a high price. As the local production area of azurite, there are many azurites, some in the hands of merchants, and some in the hands of commoners. As long as you buy at a price higher than the market price, you will definitely receive a lot.

This kind of acquisition is very expensive, and a few hundred gold coins in An Rui's pocket are definitely not enough, but fortunately, he has taken over a large number of mines, and the funds from these mines should be enough to make this transaction.

He had foreseen that he would soon make a fortune, and when the time came, he would definitely experience a "gold coin bath" and take a good bath by jumping into the piles of gold coins.

Next, he found a few more hidden veins and asked his men to write them down.

The next day, the excavation work officially began, and a sea of workers rushed to several ore veins to be mined, using various means such as blasting and excavation, and competing with the mountain.

The mining business is a sure thing, and when you dig out the ore, you will start to make a profit, but there is still a small problem that needs to be solved.

An Rui himself has to go to the sea to improve his personal strength in order to eliminate the pirate group led by Bai Ge, so it is impossible to stay and take care of these mining businesses, but to leave it to a reliable person to take care of.

Shafi, Sam, and Berego are all reliable and capable of taking on big responsibilities, but these people are all combat professionals, and they have to go to sea with Anrui. Letting them stay and take care of their business is equivalent to using a scimitar to get a manicure, and it is not used at all.

If you can't choose these people, you can only find another candidate.

This person's strength doesn't have to be too strong, even if it's an ordinary person, but he must be shrewd and capable, and loyal, and won't become an oil stealing rat.

Only in this way can Anrui rest assured that such a large amount of business will be entrusted.

He quickly thought of someone. This person just meets all the above criteria, and this person is a native of Xingyue Island, which is easy to find.

……

Clive is off work. Walking on the night road, I blended in with the crowd and became a part of all living beings. On both sides of the street are the lights of thousands of homes, exuding a heart-warming warmth.

He's not having a good time, but thankfully, there's a warm home that will take him in when night falls.

For an ordinary person, this is already very good.

In fact, he is not completely ordinary either. He still has a little bit of a special talent.

He is good at calculations, especially mental arithmetic. He is the type of person who is destined to work with numbers, and has been particularly sensitive to numbers since he was a child. I was even able to figure out some simple formulas for calculating it myself. With mental arithmetic, he can calculate some very large numbers directly without pen and paper.

It's a great skill, but it's not comparable to wizards, warriors, archers, and the like, so Clive grew up to be an accountant. Dedicated to settling accounts for people.

With his specialty. That's all I can do.

When he was in his thirties, there was a period of time when he started a timber business in partnership with a businessman, and at first he made some money, but unfortunately the good times did not last long, and then he lost all his money for various reasons, and owed a lot of foreign debts.

His partner couldn't bear the blow and chose to end his life with a rope. Ran away from debts and all kinds of practical problems, and threw all the mess to him.

He did not follow in the footsteps of his partners. Carrying all the suffering on his shoulders, whether he broke his teeth or bit his lips, he swallowed them all into his stomach.

Now forty years old, he works as an accountant for a cloth merchant, earning a modest income to support a large family and pay off debts.

The burden of life bent his backbone and crushed his exuberant ambitions.

That's it for the rest of my life.

In recent years, he has always come up with this idea.

A little girl in a new colorful dress ran past Clive's eyes, adding a pop of color to his vision.

"Ugh." Clive sighed, thinking of his twelve-year-old daughter, whom he hadn't bought new clothes for in a long time. If possible, he also wanted his little daughter to dress like the girl just now.

When a father is like this, it is nothing to suffer a little by himself, but he is unwilling to let his family suffer with him.

Clive felt guilty in his heart, and wanted to say sorry to his little daughter, but he would only think about it in his heart, and he would not really say it.

"Mr. Clive." A voice suddenly sounded from the front.

Clive was stunned for a moment, paused, followed the prestige, and found that it was a handsome young man who was speaking, and from the appearance of it, he was at most twenty years old. The young man was very energetic, wearing a brown leather jacket and two long swords at his waist, and he looked like a warrior who had learned the art of war.

His first instinct was that the young man had recognized the wrong person, but the young man's eyes kept staring at him, rejecting the speculation.

"You're ......," Clive muttered.

"Hello, Mr. Clive. To introduce myself, my name is Anrui. Stark, a maritime merchant, is a bit of a distant relative to your former partner, Bert. The young man was none other than An Rui, he smiled slightly.

"You're a distant relative of Bert?" Clive was slightly taken aback, and then began to suspect that Anrui was here to collect debts. This is not unprecedented, when he lost money in the timber business, his partner Bert borrowed a lot of money from relatives. After Bert's suicide, these debts fell on his head inexplicably, leaving him very depressed.

"Yes, but this pro is really far, far away, I'm afraid I can't beat it."

"Then why did you find me?"

"I just wanted to talk to you."

"Your purpose is not so simple. Youngster. ”

"Hehe, it's really not that simple, my real purpose is to talk to you about a business, the relationship between Bert's distant relatives is just an introduction."

"Talk about a deal? What business? Clive was bewildered by the young man who suddenly appeared.

"A profitable business." An Rui stretched out his hand and pointed to the other side of the street, "It's not convenient to talk on the street, I want to go to your house and sit down, can I appreciate my face?" ”

"Oh, this ......," Clive wanted to say, not very convenient. But what he said was, "Of course it's fine!" ”

It was already very close to Clive's home, and the two of them walked for a short time to get there.

The meal was already ready. was placed on the table, looking at the humble meals on the table, Clive was a little embarrassed.

Clive claimed that Anrui was his friend and introduced him to his wife and two daughters.

After eating, Clive invited Anrui to a study, where he continued to talk about business.

But An Rui didn't rush to talk about that business, but led the topic to some inconsequential little things. I asked about Clive's experiences over the years.

Clive vaguely felt that Anrui had a purpose in asking these things, but there was nothing to hide about them. As long as it's not the kind of unspeakable thing, he said it all.

The two chatted for a long time. I drank three cups of tea alone, and unconsciously chatted until late at night.

Clive hadn't had such a long conversation in years, and when he opened the conversation, he felt quite happy. The stuffiness that has been stuck in my chest for years. Vent out a lot. Talking dispels sleepiness, and even though it's late at night, he's still in good spirits.

The topic finally got to the final highlight.

"Mr. Clive, after talking so much, I already have a general understanding of who you are, and it's time to talk to you about that so-called business." An Rui said suddenly.

"Oh, you say." Clive had almost forgotten about the stubble.

"I'm in the business of ore. I don't have someone to look after it, and I'd love to ask you to help me. Hire you to take care of those businesses for me. With your experience and personality, you should be able to do the job with ease. ”

"The ore business? Are you a cave owner? "Clive's spirit is lifted, if you can be a manager, you can always make more money than an accountant.

"Yes, I'm the mine owner."

"What kind of mine do you have?"

"There are thirteen copper caves, two silver caves, twenty-one azurite caves, and eight more are being mined." An Rui answered the other party's question in a very calm tone, and then said sincerely, "I want to hire you to be the manager of these mines and help me take care of them." ”

"Are you kidding me?" Clive frowned, unable to believe what Anrui said, these words were a little too outrageous!

So many mines are an amazing amount of money, and the owner must be a rich man!

There are a lot of rich people in this world, so there is no need to make a fuss, but the problem is that this rich man wants to find him, a little-known little person, to be the manager! This is unacceptable, how can there be such a good thing in the world? There is no such way that pie in the sky will fall.

"Mr. Clive, I'm not joking with you, but I'm serious about hiring you. You should have heard a little about it, after the civil strife on Starmoon Island subsided, the owner of the island lent him all the caves in the area around Ore Town in order to reward him for his merits. An Rui is colorful.

"Could it be ......" Clive stood up in shock, and knocked the cup off the table.

"That's right, I'm the one who took over so many of the mines." As he spoke, Anrui grabbed the falling cup with lightning speed and placed it back on the table.

Clive's whole being is petrified, oscillating back and forth between believing and not believing, like a metal pendulum.

"If you don't believe me, you can set out with me tomorrow and visit my mine. After looking at the mines, you'll believe me. Anrui suggested.

This proposal was implemented the next day.

Clive got into Anrui's carriage and after a long journey to Ore Town, where he saw the mines with his own eyes.

As soon as the workers in the mine saw An Rui, they saluted one after another, calling him the boss, and their tone was extremely respectful.

At this time, Clive was completely convinced, and all doubts were dispelled. He never thought that he would have a relationship with such a big man as An Rui, let alone that he would be hired as the manager of so many mines!

"Boss Anrui, from now on, I am willing to be a cow and a horse for you and help you take care of these mines. I swear I will never miscalculate an account, let alone embezzle half a penny! Thank you for taking me so seriously and giving me this opportunity. Clive bowed his head at Anrui and bowed deeply.

The chime sounded in Anrui's head, and he had a good new recruit who had little combat ability, but who could help him a lot. (To be continued......)