Chapter 56: The First Transaction
Shenlong Island finally ushered in the first batch of guests, and they were Wen Jianqing and his party from the Fengzhou Yunhua League.
Wen Jianqing has been ordered to come to Yun and Yongerzhou to purchase materials in recent years to support the consumption of the sect in the war.
But the Zhou family in Yunzhou and the three clans in Yongzhou are not helpful people, they control the trading market and raise prices to a high level, which makes Yunhuameng suffer enough.
However, the state has been closed for many years, and the internal friction is serious, and no matter how high the price of many necessary things is, they can only grit their teeth and hold on.
Zhu Youdao took Feng Jingtang to receive Wen Jianqing and his party. Feng Jingtang is the stand-in he has chosen, and after this transaction, he will retreat into the background and hand over Shenlong Island to Feng Jingtang to be responsible!
Zhu Youdao has never forgotten his immortal journey, how could he waste a lot of time doing business?
Feng Jingtang has rich experience, is sophisticated, and is quite good at management. When he was in Shenxiu Sect, it was Zhu Youwei's left arm and right arm who managed the sect.
After being sent to the Vermilion Bird Realm, Zhu Youdao fell in love with him at a glance.
Zhu Youdao's pseudonym on Shenlong Island is Bai Yutang, and he named the largest building on the island Bai Yulou, which will be the center of the island's trade in the future.
Zhu Youdao received Wen Jianqing here.
After the guests and hosts were seated, a male monk transferred from the Yushou realm came over to offer spiritual tea.
Looking at the people serving tea, Zhu Youdao thought secretly, he must recruit a few beautiful monks to entertain when he turns around, otherwise the whole island will be full of hideous and terrifying monsters and rough men, it will be difficult to relax the guests, and it will affect the mood of talking about business.
Hearing that Qing Cong had gone to Shenlong Island, he had seen five third-order big monsters one after another, and two of them had inadvertently leaked out of their breath, and even he, a monk in the late stage of Jindan, faintly felt threatened.
Therefore, even if Zhu Youdao is just a foundation building monk, Wen Jianqing's posture is also very low, and he is commensurate with a Taoist friend.
The two exchanged politeness, and he got straight to the point: "Bai Daoyou, I didn't have time to discuss in detail last time, and I asked Xiaoyou to quote the price of the transaction directly to see if we can accept it!"
On his own turf, Zhu Youdao also has confidence. He smiled and said: "To do business, we must pay attention to a fair trade, so that we can do business for a long time!
As he spoke, he handed over a list, the same as the last one, except that the prices were marked behind the various supplies!
After Wen Jianqing took it, he took a closer look.
He only looked at half of it, and then he couldn't help but nod his head again and again.
The prices on this list are not cheap, and are generally close to twice the normal market price!
But now the Yunzhou market is controlled by Vientiane Zhou's, and Zhou's price is more than half more expensive than Shenlong Island!
In such a comparison, Zhu Youdao's offer is really kind!
After reading it, Wen Jianqing nodded and said: "Bai Daoyou, everyone knows the situation of our closure of the state, the outside world is sure that we are in urgent need of materials, and there is no bargaining confidence, so like the Zhou family in Vientiane, they are holding us in terms of price! You can quote this price, which shows sincerity! If I bargain again, I don't know what to do! Let's trade at this price, but I don't know what you need us to settle with?"
"Spirit stones, spiritual materials, elixirs, magic weapons, cultivation of the inheritance of the hundred arts, exercises and secret techniques, ......!" Zhu Youdao said unhurriedly, "As long as it is a circulating thing in the cultivation realm, it can be used for settlement, and we will give you a reasonable appraisal price, and the more high-level the thing, the higher the price of our appraisal, and even higher than the market price!"
It was even more surprising to hear that the war in Fengzhou had been going on for many years, and the biggest consumption on both sides was the spirit stone, if Zhu Youdao only decided to use the spirit stone to trade, he might not be able to take out so much at once.
Wen Jianqing asked again: "These other things have prices, but the cultivation skills, exercises and secret techniques, but there is no regular price, how to set the price?"
Zhu Youdao said: "To be honest, we have no shortage of inheritance of exercises and skills! But the so-called sea is tolerant of all rivers, and tolerance is great! Every inheritance is the lifelong effort of the senior monks, and there may be something that can be used for reference! If you come up with this kind of thing, we can slowly negotiate a price that is acceptable to both parties!"
Wen Jianqing nodded! He himself was inclined to trade these things without cost.
Although every force attaches great importance to the inheritance, once an outsider seeks to steal their own cultivation inheritance, it must be a situation of endless death.
After all, if the exercises are traded, you will still keep the bottom, and if you get them, you have no losses, and it is quite cost-effective to exchange materials with non-core inheritance exercises.
Moreover, for many years of the Fengzhou War, whether it was the Extreme Heaven Alliance or the Yunhua Alliance, they had destroyed many of the other party's affiliated forces, and they had also harvested the inheritance of the exercises of these forces.
For a large sect like the Taihua Sect, the inheritance of these subsidiary forces only increases the collection of the sect's scripture pavilion, and cannot bring improvement to the sect.
The most important thing is that if you lose the war, keeping these legacies is just a cheap winner, and it is the most cost-effective thing to use to increase even half of your own victory rate!
Although he thought so, Wen Jianqing didn't come up with any inheritance things to trade. If it involves the inheritance of the exercises, without the approval of the high-level of the sect, it is a felony for anyone to leak it. Wen Jianqing, although his status in the sect is not low, he can't be the master yet.
What he used to trade this time was partly a spirit stone and partly a variety of spiritual materials.
In particular, a refining material called "red blood steel" accounted for half of the deal.
The Taihua Sect plundered a red blood steel vein in the Extreme Heaven Sect a few years ago, and now there are a lot of these things accumulated.
If he hadn't backed the Yushou Realm and the White Dragon King, Zhu Youdao wouldn't have the ability to eat this batch of red blood steel worth millions of spirit stones.
If it weren't for Zhu Youdao, the White Dragon King wouldn't be willing to eat this batch of red blood steel that was useless to her.
But Zhu Youdao used the abundant funds of the White Dragon King to eat this batch of red blood steel and exchange it for the war materials that Wen Jianqing needed. He will take the red blood steel to the Yushou Realm and sell it, and share the profits with the White Dragon King, so that he can complete this three-way transaction.
Yushou Realm is rich in wood-based spiritual objects, but there is a lack of metal spiritual materials, and this batch of red blood steel is transported over, and the profits are very considerable.
Zhu Youdao still had some regrets, if there were enough and clever enough refiners under the Zhu family, and spend more time refining this batch of red blood steel into magic weapons, and then take them out and sell them, the benefits would be even greater.
But in a short period of time, only one refiner in the Zhu family's camp, Zhu Youdao, could use the Red Blood Steel Refiner, and in order to quickly return the funds, he could only put down this part of the benefits first.
Because a large part of the transaction was bartering, the quality and quantity of each item needed to be checked, the price should be evaluated, and the pricing of some materials had to be repeatedly discussed by both parties, so the transaction proceeded very slowly.
It took ten days to complete the first transaction since the completion of Shenlong Island.
This transaction involved an amount of as much as two million spirit stones, one-third of which were smuggled goods brought by Zhu Youdao from the Yushou Realm.
After completing the transaction, Wen Jianqing asked again: "Bai Daoyou, this sect still needs a large amount of spiritual food, I wonder if you can get it?"
Don't think that monks don't need food, especially low-level monks, eating mortal food for a long time will increase the turbidity in the body and affect the cultivation. Therefore, spiritual food is an indispensable material.
In peacetime, everyone can cultivate spiritual fields and plant spiritual rice in Linggu, and they can be self-sufficient. However, in the sixty years of the Fengzhou War, the spiritual fields of both sides were seriously damaged, and the spiritual food slowly produced was not enough.
Wars between large forces all start with the slow consumption of low-level monks, and in the consumption stage, if one side runs out of spiritual food, it will greatly affect morale.
Zhu Youdao frowned: "Wen Daoyou should be able to guess, the backer behind me, in addition to the White Dragon King, is also from other states! We do have spiritual food, but the profit of this thing is not high, and it consumes a lot of transportation capacity, so it is not cost-effective to bring it over!"
"What if we increase the price!"
Zhu Youdao still shook his head: "Spiritual food is a bulk commodity, and the price increase is too big, and you can't afford it; With the same capacity, we brought over several times the profit of spiritual food......
Hearing this, Qing was a little disappointed, and he also knew that Zhu Youdao was telling the truth. People come so far to do business just to make money, and of course they have to pick things with high profits to sell.
Zhu Youdao said: "Maybe we can cooperate in another way......"
Hearing this, Qing showed an inquiring look.
"If you can sell the materials for building a few of our teleportation arrays, I can guarantee that the spiritual food you need can be transported in a steady stream!"
Hearing this, Qing immediately shook his head: "Bai Daoyou should know the role of the teleportation array in the war! A teleportation array may affect the outcome of a battle, and even affect the victory or loss of the war, we can't let the teleportation array flow out at this time!"
"Then I won't be able to convince the forces behind me!" Zhu Youdao thought for a while and said, "There is another way, if you can provide some large-capacity storage magic weapons, I can help you bring a batch of spiritual food by private means!"