Chapter 23: All I Want Is Gold

It's not just Delia who hasn't slept all night, but also Kishu from the Kadiren Empire.

As a representative of the Bauhinia Chamber of Commerce, it is impossible to do without two brushes.

His natural keen sense of smell for gold coins told him that the two palm-sized wooden boxes on his table were worth as much to the Chamber of Commerce as an inexhaustible gold mine.

Extremely excited, he wrote more than a dozen letters overnight and sent them to the headquarters of the Redbudinia Chamber of Commerce of the Kadiren Empire, and he did not stop the quill in his hand until it was almost dawn.

After reading the last letter carefully from beginning to end, and making sure that there were no omissions, he folded the letter neatly, stuffed it into the envelope, and stamped it with red beeswax.

"Master Kishu, you ...... Haven't slept all night? ”

Standing at the door of the room, the sixteen or seventeen-year-old apprentice merchant rubbed his sleepy eyes, looked at his mentor in surprise, and subconsciously took the stack of letters that were shoved into his hand.

"Send these letters out and go to the port to inform the captain that we are going to sea today." Without talking nonsense with his apprentice, Kishhu gave a halt and said quickly, "I'll sleep for an hour, remember to wake me up in an hour." ”

"Shall we leave today?"

"Yes, things have changed."

Although during negotiations with the Governor, Kishu said that he would leave Port Sevit at dawn, but these were merely a means of putting pressure on the Governor. But now things have changed, and he has discovered a more lucrative business for the Chamber of Commerce than the timber business!

Putting his things in his bag, Kishu took one last look at the notebook in his hand, closed it, and stuffed it into his arms.

On the last page of the closed notebook, two lines were scrawled in the language of the Kadiren Empire.

[Coffee, a refreshing drink, should be enjoyed by someone.] 】

【Sugar cubes, white gold!】 】

……

Originally, according to Jiang Feng's plan, the first sequence in the building queue of these Samuns should be the wall, and the second sequence was the port. However, the situation has changed slightly, and the colonists at the northern end of the islands have found themselves in the area.

In order to make the communication between the two sides more convenient, Jiang Feng decided to solve the problem of docking the ship first.

So, on the beach at the southern end of Crocodile Island, more than a dozen Samon were dragging the processed logs to the beach under the command of the steel hammer.

According to Jiang Feng's best construction plan designed by using Zhi Brain, a group of two Samons, taking advantage of the low tide period, one group is responsible for digging the pit, and the other group is responsible for driving the prepared wooden stakes into the pit, exposing only the upper half, and then pouring gravel and mud to the bottom of the wooden stakes to fix them to prevent the wooden stakes from being washed away by the sea at high tide.

In this way, the stakes are laid straight until the water depth is sufficient, and then the two rows of stakes are connected separately with logs, and finally a plank is laid between the two rows of stakes and fixed with a triangular support...... A simple dock can be built.

Of course, often a low tide is only enough time for the Samuns to push the stakes two or three meters into the deep water. When the pier is fully completed, it is estimated that it will have to wait until next month.

However, Jiang Feng is not in a hurry, now the plantations of sugarcane and coffee are still in the breeding stage, and the trade of coffee beans and sugar cubes can start at the end of the year at the earliest. Taking advantage of this time, he took the prospector and scanned the area in the vicinity step by step, and finally found an amazing bird poop mine at the bottom of the U-shaped valley!

The so-called bird droppings mine, in fact, is phosphate ore, which is mainly formed from bird droppings that fall on the beach. Some of them have been buried in the rocks after tens of thousands of years of sedimentation, forming rich mineral deposits, and some are directly scattered on beaches and reefs.

Obviously, the section where the phosphate mine was submerged into the sea was significantly more abundant than other aquatic plants such as seaweed. After all, one of the main functions of phosphate rock is to produce fertilizers.

As for the other role, it is also interesting for indigenous civilizations.

That's making explosives.

In addition to the guano mine, there are several iron ore and titanium ore that are not very high reserves and are scattered in distribution. In addition to the fact that those titanium ores still have a bit of mining value, as for those iron ores...... If it weren't for the fact that Samon's tribe was really short of iron tools, Jiang Feng wouldn't even bother to mention the idea of directing Shorttail to mine.

After teaching the blast furnace ironmaking method to Shorttail, Jiang Feng handed over the location and identification method of those iron ores to the Samon who was in charge of mining. Probably all of this iron ore was mined, just enough for the twenty-five Samuns in the tribe to fully enter the Iron Age.

According to the signal transmitted by the seismic waves, the mineral reserves of the nearby hills should be quite high.

However, Jiang Feng estimated that most of the aborigines in those forests would not easily agree to walk through their forests. Since he didn't want to conflict with the aborigines at this stage, he had to give up.

Three days later, Captain Calf returned as promised, bringing back good news.

A dinghy was lowered from the galley.

Perhaps because he felt that the sword was meaningless to a powerful wizard, or perhaps to show his sincerity, Captain Calf did not bring a single guard with him this time, except for the two rowing sailors, and even the short knife was left on the galley.

Rowing the wooden boat to the beach and running aground, Calf jumped off the boat and looked in amazement at the Samuns who were busy on the beach.

"They're ...... Build a port? ”

"That's right, you can't just land on the beach in a dinghy every time." Still holding the long wooden staff, Jiang Feng smiled incomprehensibly and walked to Calf's side, "How is it?" The Governor's answer? ”

Exorcise monsters to build a harbor......

The wizard's interests are truly unique.

However, thinking that he could even do such a thing as business, Calf was no longer surprised, and attributed this behavior to the special hobby of the wizard lord, and got down to business at Jiang Feng's request.

"Port Sevit is willing to buy those sugar cubes and coffee beans from you at a reasonable price...... Of course, you can also choose to sell to local merchants. But then you'll have to negotiate with the cunning merchants yourself. ”

The implication is that a lot of time will be wasted.

"What do you think is a reasonable price?" Jiang Feng asked.

"For a kilogram of sugar cubes, we are willing to pay 1,000 UBS." Calf asked tentatively.

The units of weights and measures in this world cannot, of course, be the same as the units of the Earth Federation, and the "one kilogram" in Jiang Feng's ears was only converted and translated into the Federation language by Zhi Brain according to the actual quality of language expression.

"How much is a thousand UBS?" Jiang Feng frowned slightly.

"That's the kind of silver coin...... A currency issued by the Kingdom of Rick. Calf took out a silver coin from his waist bag and handed it to Jiang Feng.

Weighing the silver coin in the palm of his hand, Jiang Feng used his brain to calculate its silver content and weight.

A thousand of these silver coins, when melted, can be refined into about ten kilograms of pure silver.

For such a price, Jiang Feng was barely acceptable.

However, what he needed was not silver with low stardust content and conversion efficiency, but gold that could quickly convert into a large amount of stardust......