When Sermena was "busy", Mr. Offett was really busy.

He was unwilling to directly return the 15 tons of grain, and racked his brains to think about whether there was any turnaround. There must be no turning point in the sea transportation, even if he can fool people, he will not dare. Wukong and they have been attacking the fish-men, and Koria must have hated Sanzang Zhen to the core, and Mr. Orfitt would not dare to joke with his life no matter what.

Land transportation is also impossible, grain and blankets, at least eight carts, in places where evil races breed and there are dragons to rob from time to time and there is no road, let alone walking 400 kilometers, 40 kilometers is enough to choke.

The only way is by air, Phantom Maga Shrinkage plus Space Bag. 400 gold for shrinkage spells cast by 100 mid-level mages, and 50 gold for 1 phantom horse created by a high-level caster.

The price was a pain in the ass. He was just an ordinary small businessman, who worked hard and risked being robbed by pirates to do trade, and he might not be able to earn so much money in a year. Does it have to cost so much money just to transport some food?! Mike is capable of making more than 80 kilograms of bread a day, and if he doesn't use stone shaping, he can make half more, so why would he rather be in a daze than make bread!! Doesn't he know how hard it is to make money!!

Mr. Offett is suddenly a little discouraged, realizing that he and Mike are completely two worlds. If Mike stays at home and doesn't go anywhere, he can make magic bread with all his three or four spell slots every day, it only takes less than two hours to make 126 kilograms, and he can also have a lot of time to do other things with one or two spell slots, how can he earn three thousand gold coins a year. For this kind of person, how can you let him know how hard it is to earn money?

Although his former son-in-law, Adrian, is also a mage who can use fourth-order spells, he and Mike do not belong to the same world. He obviously has a lot less spell slots than Mike, and in order to obtain the necessary points and levels for further study, he must constantly do the tasks of the magic academy, and it is impossible to earn money with peace of mind.

But why does Mike have so many spell slots, why does he never do quests, why does he ......

Why can't Kenar even learn second-level spells......

Mr. Orfitt was so thoughtful that he could not make up his mind, so he had to wait for the evening when Sermena returned from shopping to consult with her again.

"I thought about a lot of things and found that it could only be transported by air. After calculating the fact that rice is relatively cheap, the total cost per ton is about 90 gold coins, do you still need to transport it?"

"It's a bit expensive. Sermena thought about it, they were responsible for sending the rice from Damshore to the Dragon Palace, and the price was only 40 gold coins a ton, which was not as good as airlifting it from the Dragon Palace, anyway, those guys didn't have anything serious. "Let's ship it first this time, and we'll see if there's any other way later. ”

Mr. Offett thought about it but couldn't hold back: "You're not going to persuade Mike to let him use that bread-making technique more, he can save a lot of money, and I don't think he seems to be of much importance." ”

"It's a lot of money, Brother Mike works hard every day to meditate to improve his strength, it's a waste of time to make bread. "It's certainly one aspect, but there's a more important reason that Sermena is envisioning one thing, and if it happens, Mike's bread won't be free.

"Just that daze?" Mr. Offitt was a little puzzled, Kena never needed any "meditation" to learn magic.

"It does look a little bit like that. He is both a mage and a warlock, and can use fourth-order spells, but mages can only use second-order spells. In this case, if you want to master the third-order spell with the method of a mage, the best way is to meditate and sense the power of your bloodline, and learn the third-order magic that the warlock has mastered, and the effect is much better than directly using a magic book. Sermena said what she understood, and Mike did exactly what he did when he wanted to learn the spells of a higher-order mage.

"I see, then I'll ask someone to prepare the transportation tomorrow, it is estimated that it will be ready in four or five days, and then you can go back by yourself, and I will stay here to deal with things." "Mr. Alfitt is now balanced, and the son-in-law is at least doing his business, but then he thinks of a lot of questions: 'Why hasn't Kenael conceived a child yet?' Will Mike also be a warlock?Will Mike be honest about his background?Can Cana'er control him??...... Do you want Kenaer's sister to have a baby with Mike too?'

Although the probability of warlocks and ordinary people's children having arcane blood is not high, it is enough for many young girls to take risks, and many famous swordsmen are from this kind of background.

A swordsman, that's right, is not a warlock, or a swordsman.

There are many warlocks who like to show mercy everywhere, but the warlocks who know both their bloodline type and the appropriate detection and training methods are basically family warlocks, and they don't mind sowing seeds everywhere, but they often don't reveal their own backgrounds, let alone reveal the family's secret detection and training methods.

As a result, those children have no idea if they have an arcane bloodline, and it is difficult to figure out what type of arcane bloodline they may have inherited, let alone how it should be strengthened and awakened. It is basically impossible for the family to have the financial ability to hire a famous teacher, so he can only practice martial arts diligently and go out on adventures, and after earning enough money with his blood and weapons in his hands in the future, he will study the relevant to determine whether he has an arcane bloodline, and if so, he will use several general methods to try bloodline awakening.

With the power of magic, they have the ability to go further, become high-level warriors or magic swordsmen, and save a rich family business. Sentia's long-established thunder swordsman Rex came from this background.

In the midst of all his thoughts, Mr. Offitt fell asleep. One moment I dreamed that the Chamber of Commerce was flourishing, another I dreamed that Kena gave birth to a lot of Rex, and another time I dreamed that Sanzang Town developed into a city and became a lord by itself...... When he dreamed that Mike suddenly said goodbye and Kena had no children, Mr. Offett woke up, drenched in a cold sweat.

The next day, Mr. Offitt took his savings with dark circles and went to pay the deposit for the air freight. He thought about it and felt that he should not act rashly, lest it be self-defeating.

'My sister is still studying, and she still wants to become a priest like Pandia, and she must become a priest, and if she loses money like her sister, one of the Offites' family is enough. No, Kena is already from Mike's family, but don't become from the Ofitt family again...... Mike is not a down-to-earth person at all, and he doesn't know if he can do it for a long time in the business of making things. No, good son-in-law, you must do business for a long time in a down-to-earth manner, and you must have a few more children......

This time the sale was in a hurry, the needle and the fish hook sold all 40,000 pieces to others for 1,200 gold coins for 1,200 gold coins, and the blade and fire sickle sold 1,200 pieces together for 1,200 gold coins for 100 pieces of 35 gold coins. But in fact, all the income has to be invested in reproduction to expand the scale, and there is no money to divide in a short time, so I hope that this expensive air-freight rice will be of great help to the construction of the camp......

If you think about it, the production capacity is not small. Although it is not fast to build now, after another month or two of proficiency, a hundred goblins should be able to produce a total of 200,000 needles and hooks every month. All the people around the Moon Sea should be less than two million, and it is estimated that most of them will not be sold out. The key is to increase the variety of products, I don't know when the knife and the V-mouth fork will be ready, and there is anything else that can be made, by the way, I am here to try to produce or order flint for sale with the fire sickle......

Even if you only wholesale needles and fish hooks, you can divide thousands of gold coins in a year, although it is not as good as Mike making bread, but it is much better than the hard work of shipping before, and the safety income is also high. This business is not small, and Centia should indeed keep someone, but Mike himself can be interested in Sanzang Town. Actually, Kenael is here, she can take care of the accounts, and she can let the guy do everything else. And she can't help in Sanzang Town, and she knows that she's messing around with Mike all day long. No, she and her husband are the biggest thing, so that Mike has to stay by himself if he wants to run around for three days.

How many dudes do you want? It looks like one or two guys are enough. But in addition, it is necessary to make a match for the knife and fire sickle fork, and to help Sanzang Town purchase materials, so recruit three or four first.

In the past, when those blind guys begged to come back, should they agree? Although those waste firewood have no ability and are disloyal, they can also do chores, but don't think about the more important roles, the current Chamber of Commerce doesn't need them, and the three loyal ones who stayed in Sanzang Town to help should be promoted......

While Mr. Offett was busy, there were a few others who were busy.

Old Preg was a mage, a crappy little mage. He believed that his wisest decision was to give up the unpromising profession of an adventurer, sell his equipment, and start a preg carpentry shop. Under his leadership, in just twenty years, the Preg Wood Shop has grown from a dozen people and seven or eight saws to a large chamber of commerce with six or seven hundred guards. The biggest advantage of the old Preg is his keen judgment, and his biggest characteristic is that he dares to fight.

As early as a few years ago, the elder Preg sensed that the development of the chamber of commerce had encountered a bottleneck. At present, the main business of the Chamber of Commerce is the processing and transportation of wood products, but the two industries have their own problems. The lucrative high-end wood processing industry is dominated by elves, and it is difficult for human craftsmen to compare their craftsmanship and taste with those who can live for hundreds of years; The main problem in the transport industry is that it is risky, and there are not many experts in the Preg Chamber of Commerce, so there is no advantage.

The top level of the Preg Chamber of Commerce has discussed many times that the relevant industries should be developed.

The first is to process gemstone accessories, which can not only be used in their own wood products, but also cultivate a group of jewelry craftsmen to enter the jewelry industry. Unfortunately, the jewelry industry has similar problems with woodwork, and the high-end is dominated by elves and dwarves, making it difficult to compete with it. The low-end is not easy to do, the Chamber of Commerce has been trained for five or six years, and those "jewelers" are still only assigned to wood products to make accessories, and as a result, they have not even entered the door at all.

The second is to process metal fittings, which can not only be used in their own wood products, but also can train a group of blacksmiths to enter industries such as table knives, forks, sewing needles, iron nails, etc., which use steel and have a lot of manpower. The reason why we want to enter the small metal products industry is entirely because of the poor conditions of Sentia. Although it was an industrial city with easy transportation, it did not have enough metal raw materials because it had no minerals and was cut off from ore by Melwater to the west.

This is not very demanding of craftsmen, and it went in smoothly, but it just can't develop. The reason is very simple, like the low-end wood products industry, the threshold is too low, the competition is very fierce, and we must fight for quality. The Preg Chamber of Commerce has not invented any unique secret techniques, and it is not much different from many other chambers of commerce blacksmith shops, so naturally there will not be much profit margin.

The Preg Chamber of Commerce is now big but not strong, and like many chambers of commerce that are stuck on this hurdle, it is very difficult to go further.

The more conventional method is to cultivate talents, if you can produce a high-end master and herd, many things can be easily solved, but unfortunately no one in the family has this sign so far. The two daughters are not angry, they spent so much money in the magic academy, and they didn't catch a son-in-law with enough potential.

The less conventional approach is to innovate the process, reduce costs and improve quality. But since it's not very conventional, the difficulty can be imagined.

"Dad, look at this. Little Preg ran in, unable to hide his excitement.

Old Preg took the six small pieces of iron handed over by his son and looked at them carefully. Three are knife blades, and three are fire sickles, which are very new and seem to be very ordinary. If there is anything special about it, it is that a hole was made in the fire sickle, presumably to make it easier for people to be tied to the rope. But the cost of this hole will be higher, right, just grind a groove? There is also a hole in the blade, which is normal, and the hole is easier to match the handle than the groove. However, these two things are really similar, the size and the position of the holes are almost identical, so I guess they are actually the same thing.

Old Preg picked up two blades and struck them, and then picked up two fire sickles and struck them, and the sound was crisp and steely, and there was no difference between them, and it felt like the same thing. I cut my hair again and tried the sharpness, and it was pretty good.

"How much?"

"A hundred 35 gold coins, two hundred blades, and a thousand fire sickles. It seems that it can produce more. ”

"Oh? The cost of our production of this semi-finished product is almost 33 gold coins for a hundred handfuls. ”

"Well, it was sold by a man named Offit, who originally wanted us to make a knife with a handle on the blade, but I persuaded him to sell the blade to us. Originally, he was going to sell the fire sickle to others, but he seemed to be in a hurry, so I sold it to us as soon as I persuaded him. There are also 10,000 needles and 10,000 fish hooks for two kinds of hooks, and 30 gold coins for 1,000 pieces, you can take a look. ”

"30 gold?"

Old Preg took two of each and looked at it carefully, and it didn't seem to be anything special. I knocked it again, and I felt that the quenching and carburizing were very good. But the hook is a little strange, and there is something like a needle nose on the tail.

"Needles and hooks, shouldn't they be the same length?"

"It's just the same length, I measured it with a rope. I think it's basically the same thing. ”

"It's quite possible, although we produce separately, but there are many chambers of commerce that produce together, and both methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. It's just that in terms of price, according to our cost, it should be no profit or loss, is he so anxious? Or is it that kind of way? But it's unlikely, that kind of way shouldn't have such a large amount. In fact, this amount is the strangest, hundreds or thousands of them are likely to be sold in a hurry, but 40,000 pieces, it takes us four months to build, so it's too strange to be in a hurry to sell them for so long. ”

"I've asked people to inquire about that Orfit. ”

"Well done, let them be careful not to be discovered. Let's find someone to see if they can see why. Also, let's make a few batches of these things and transform them into nails. ”