Zhou Yubin's identity is somewhat complicated, he was born in Haizhou, but his father is the heir of the Zhou family, one of the eighteen wealthy families of the Great Liang State. It is said that in his capacity, there is no need to apply for the position of the crown prince shogunate of the Sea Kingdom, and the current Daliang State has an official position for him to choose. However, because Zhou Yubin's mother was born in a small merchant family, she has not been accepted by the Zhou family, which has not fallen. And Zhou Yubin is also an ambitious and strong seed, since the Zhou family does not accept his mother, he is not willing to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors.

To say that he is not valued by the Zhou family, in fact, it is not true, as soon as Zhou Yubin was born, Zhou's father invited many master-level scholars to teach him, and the learning content arranged was formulated according to the standards of the heirs of the family.

Although Zhou Yubin is more rebellious to the Zhou family, he does not retreat from the learning conditions provided by the Zhou family, and he is not sloppy in learning, which is probably a portrayal of the otherworldly version of changing fate. Otherwise, with Xin Yu's more critical eyes, he would not let this person who is only in his early twenties sit on the top of the secretarial group.

After more than a year of studying by Xin Yu's side, Zhou Yubin's horizons have become broader, and coupled with his own long-sleeved dancing skills, he has established a prestige second only to Xin Yu in the secretary group more than half a year ago. Moreover, he is also an expert in doing things, not only can he perfectly execute the plans and tasks set by Xin Yu, but in many cases, he can also draw inferences and make reasonable suggestions, and he is a talent who can take charge on his own.

If it weren't for the Cui family in the astral realm who was dealing with this time, even if the scale of this trade was unprecedented, and it was related to the future development of the Ocean Country, Xin Yu could have let Zhou Yubin take the lead alone.

Now that Xin Yu has connected with Cui Yujian, his task is to establish a good relationship with this big customer, and as for the unloading of the cargo, it will be completely handed over to Zhou Yubin.

"Your ship is so big, can I go up and have a look?" Cui Yujian asked with interest as he looked at the flagship that had just stopped at the temporary proposed dock. As for whether he wanted to go up and dig up something else, such as that kind of powerful weapon, Xin Yu didn't know.

Because of the sheer size, there was no idea of daring to hit the fleet along the way, so the artillery equipped with the fleet has never been useful, and it will still be hidden in the cabin, and the portholes on both sides are closed. Therefore, in addition to the magnificence, Cui Yujian did not find anything special about the fleet at the first time, and it was necessary to get on the ship to find the answer.

"Absolutely. Although he lacks the humility of the world for the strong, as a customer, Xin Yu still maintains a minimum of politeness to Cui Yujian, and it can be said that he will not hesitate to agree.

In Xin Yu's polite tone, there was also infinite pride. Although his ship is a wooden sail battleship, its large size still brings a strong sense of oppression.

Loaded with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, not to mention that in this world, even in the previous life, if there were no steel ships to participate in the comparison, it would be unique. Not to mention the labor cost required to build this ship, or how high the technical content of building it is, just this size intuitively makes everyone who has seen it unconsciously have the urge to worship.

Compared with this flagship, the other forty-nine sea ships are not so conspicuous. Although those sea ships with a full load displacement of three or four thousand tons are also huge, and they can give a shocking impression to the natives of this world when they go out alone, but in front of this floating object that is like a city on the sea, it can't attract Cui Yujian's attention.

Cui Yujian showed a guest's minimum respect for the host, and did not fly directly onto the deck, but walked up the gangway with Xin Yu. This move made Xin Yu's impression of him a lot better, and it seemed that this high-level star magician was not a barbaric bastard who didn't know etiquette. As for shouting and shouting and asking for a discussion as soon as they met, he was treated as if he was in love with the scene...... It's a martial idiot with itchy hands.

It's a pity that Xin Yu still got it wrong. Cui Yujian followed etiquette in terms of details, but because in his perception, he couldn't distinguish the function of each part and cabin of this huge sea ship in detail, and he couldn't wait to search for it, and he might not be able to find what he needed, and in the end, he still needed to rely on Xin Yu to lead the way. If he has a little idea of what he is interested in, he is too lazy to be polite.

"This is the captain's room......" Xin Yu took Cui Yujian and Cui Ming to almost all over the battleship, as long as he could let them visit, he didn't hide his secrets. He was not worried at all that the Cui family would be able to learn shipbuilding technology, and with the poor coastal conditions of the snow desert, even if it could be built, it would not be possible to apply it on a large scale. What's more, it is still very questionable whether they can build it, just the keel of those "small boats" that are one or two hundred meters long, it is not possible to understand how to assemble them by looking at them.

"How is the defense of this ship?" After turning around for a long time, Cui Yujian did not find anything he was interested in, and finally met the dagger.

Xin Yu's eyes narrowed, and the bad premonition from before came up again, but what was wrong? Although it didn't feel good, he still replied sincerely: "It's just some small means, it's really not worth mentioning for the second master." Cui Ming Gongzi has already seen it, if the second master is interested, the kid will not hide his secrets. ”

"Lead the way in front of the head. Cui Yujian's patience seems to have been worn out.

After the two frigates fired a salvo at the ice in the distance, Cui Yujian closed his eyes and pondered for a while before he spoke, "Can this weapon be provided to us?"

Xin Yu kept muttering in his heart: Is it the situation of Shenma? Astrologists are also interested in external objects? Cui Ming didn't seem to have this idea at the beginning? Moreover, the cannon on the ship was fired with black gunpowder, and it was not a flowering bullet, although the power can be called good in the world, but it can only be used as a toy for the sorcerer, right? Could this thing also be used for visualization?

"What's the problem?" Cui Yujian asked with some displeasure when he saw that Xin Yu didn't speak.

"There is no problem, it's just that this kind of weapon costs a lot of money......" Xin Yu has no interest in being an arms dealer, although he is not worried about the impact of weapon proliferation on the maritime country, but it is one thing to leak the hole card to show off the muscles, but how to say that the sale of exclusive weapons is also a sensitive matter that needs to be carefully considered, and he doesn't know how to refuse for a while.

"I'm afraid that my Cui family won't be able to pay?" Cui Yujian's eyes widened, and his powerful aura immediately emanated.

No matter what kind of considerations the Cui family has for buying weapons, it seems that Xin Yu can't refuse, this kind of person has to bow his head under the low eaves It feels really unpleasant, he angrily quoted a sky-high price, and traded with the same weight of silver to see if your Cui family is really wealthy.

Cui Yujian shook his head: "It's just a weapon made of ordinary steel, and the asking price is too high." ”

Since Cui Yujian used business negotiation instead of forced buying and selling, Xin Yu was not polite: "The second master's words are bad, and the account is not calculated like that." The material is good steel, but it is not ordinary steel, ordinary steel can not withstand the huge pressure impact, and it takes time, energy and a lot of money to research the right steel. Moreover, to cast such a large object, it is necessary to ensure that there are no hidden cracks, and there can be no trachoma in the inner chamber, which also requires time, energy and money to study, but it is not something that ordinary craftsmen can make with a hammer and knock it casually. ”

Although he is an astral magician, Cui Yujian has been presiding over the Hall of Things for twenty or thirty years, so he is not particularly reluctant to bargain with mortals, especially Xin Yu can almost be excluded from mortals, and still shook his head: "Since this is the case...... Our Cui family can also make it ourselves. ”

Xin Yu shrugged, he wouldn't care about this threat, you can build it vigorously, if you really treat it as a tube, it will be a cannon?

Seeing Xin Yu's disapproving look, Cui Yujian suddenly thought that it was not clear what the thing that fired the cannonball was, and added: "How can you sell the thing that exploded alone?"

Smiling, Xin Yu said with a smile on his face: "Equal weight of gold." ”

How else can it be matched with the saying that "when a cannon goes off, gold is ten thousand taels"? That is, there are enough sulfur and natural saltpeter mines near the islands of the maritime country, which are also non-renewable strategic resources. I have to sell it to you, which is already very face-saving for big customers, so how can I sell it cheaply casually?

"The kid is really black?" Cui Yujian did not bully the weak and forced the price to buy, but gave the store a bad review.

"There's no way, my Ocean Country is just starting up and needs money. Even if you give you old face, you can't do a loss-making business. Xin Yu said with a heavy responsibility on his shoulders and a very bitter look.

Cui Yujian shook his head, indicating that he didn't think much of Xin Yu's acting skills: "If you insist on refusing to reduce the price, the old man can't be arbitrary in such a big deal, how about you and I go to the Cui family's main hall and wait for news?"

"Then what should I do here?" Xin Yu asked with a scratch of his head as he looked at his subordinates who had already begun to install simple lifting equipment and were about to unload the goods.

"Don't worry, since the old man said to help solve it, he naturally won't care. You let them unload the cargo first, and I'll arrange for someone to help with the transportation when the time comes. Cui Yujian packed the ticket.

Xin Yu nodded inexorably, it is enough for Zhou Yubin to organize these miscellaneous matters of unloading, and he really doesn't need his great god pestle to be a supervisor here.

Being taken to fly was a very novel experience for Xin Yu, and he was prepared for Cui Yujian's speed, and propped up the True Qi shield in time, otherwise even if he was not injured by the air flow of the rapid flight, he would be stripped naked by the air current.

As for Cui Ming, who had piloted Xingbao's flight before, this would be carried by Cui Yujian because he was in a hurry. However, he is not as chic and free as Xin Yu, and at first he can still use his milk strength to resist the air current, and when he is about to break through the sound barrier, he completely loses control.

Cui Yujian felt a little embarrassed when he saw that his cousin was so embarrassed compared to Xin Yu's comfort, and hurriedly used a secret language to spread his voice. I don't know what he pointed out, a moment later, Cui Ming summoned his spherical star treasure, and after some cāo work that Xin Yu couldn't understand, the solid sphere gradually became larger, and a long handle extended from the surface, which happened to be held by Cui Yujian. And Cui Ming was like squeezing into liquid, completely entering the big ball.

Seeing that Cui Ming had done a good job of protection, Cui Yujian sacrificed his disc star treasure again, and blocked the front after it became larger. The next moment, the speed of the flight jumped sharply.

As the speed got faster and faster, Xin Yu also felt that the pressure was too great to speak. The original round true qi mask has been pressed into an egg shape, and it is still the egg laid by the absent-minded hen, which is ugly enough and perverted. Is this the second time this is a dismount?

Just like running in the heavy rain on a rainy day, the faster the speed, the more rain will come, Xin Yu also feels that the consumption of Innate Qi is getting faster and faster, fortunately, he has enough energy reserves, and he will not be too consumed for a while. Of course, being fast can also end the journey of suffering sooner. That is, after being uncomfortable for more than ten minutes, Xin Yu and the others arrived at their destination, so that Xin Yu had just adapted to the feeling of high-speed oppression, and he had not had time to taste the excitement of speeding.

After landing in the courtyard of the Hall of Things, Cui Yujian looked at Xin Yu a little strangely. He didn't use the star treasure to block this kid before, he thought that this kid would ask for help, but he didn't expect to be able to survive. Although it looks very difficult, it is not unusual to have no external objects to resist the wind pressure. You must know that even he, a fifty-eight-star star sorcerer, would not dare to physically resist the head-on wind at the speed of the first universe.

It was the strength shown by Xin Yu that made Cui Yujian slightly improve his status in his heart. Therefore, he specially arranged for the deacon of the Hall of Things to negotiate a grain deal with Xin Yu, and then he himself flew to the main hall in the center of the city.

"Prince Xin, just now the elder said that the grain you brought this time is about one million quintals, are all of them sold? What is the price that Prince Xin intends to make?" This deacon named Cui Youcai is an authentic ordinary person, so he also has a unique smile on his face.

"Naturally, we want to sell them all, and the price is a total of three million taels? In addition, we have brought about 500,000 quintals of refined salt and two million standard arrow shafts, can you buy them?"

"Refined salt and arrow shafts can be considered, but the price of three taels of silver and a load of grain seems to be ...... "It's not high, it's not high, it's not high, even in the places where grain is abundant in the south, it costs eight yuan to one tael to buy a load of grain, and it costs us to transport it." Besides, the second master probably didn't make it clear to you just now, the grain we provide is not only cereals, most of which are processed sea fish, and this price is a conscience price. For the sake of our first transaction, I deliberately lowered the price. Xin Yu said with a smile.

"I see, but the sea fish can't last long......" Cui Youcai hesitated.

Xin Yu hurriedly interrupted and reiterated and explained: "It is a processed sea fish, which is smoked and pickled, and there is also a unique canned packaging in my ocean country, which can be stored for a long time. ”

Cui Youcai nodded, expressing his approval of Xin Yu's statement, thinking that the small ocean country would not dare to brag nonsense in front of the Cui family, so he moved on to the next topic: "So how do you count refined salt and arrow shafts?"

Although the snow desert has a long coastline, there is still a big shortage of people who can supply the entire snow desert by boiling the sea as salt. Although there are also cold forests stretching in the snowy desert, handmade arrow shafts cannot keep up with the demand for hunting.

"Refined salt is the uniform price of the market, ten taels per load, a bundle of 100 arrow shafts, and five bundles for one tael. Xin Yu quoted the price that had been set a long time ago, "But there are not many arrow shafts, only 10,000 bundles, so I will give them away for free this time." ”

To be honest, at that time, I only thought that the arrow shaft, which was barely industrialized, could be mass-produced and sold, which should be very promising. But when the goods were ready and ready to set the price, his secretary general Zhou Yubin told him that the arrow shafts on the market could not be sold at a high price.

Xin Yu was dumbfounded at that time, how could it be? It takes at least half a day for people to cut an arrow shaft by hand, and we have a hydraulic cutting machine and a round wood machine to produce it quickly and well, so how can we not have a competitive advantage? However, after Zhou Yubin's explanation, he finally understood that if it is not for the advanced machine and high production efficiency, it must be invincible. The labor force in this world is too cheap, and the vast continent is crowded with ordinary people looking for jobs, even if the unit output is not as good as machine production, it can't stand the tactics of using people in people.

However, now that it has been produced, Xin Yu can't waste it, and the domestic demand is not high, so he has to bring it all over. When the price is calculated, it is only two or three thousand taels of silver. Although three thousand taels is not a small amount, it is a fraction of the profit in a large transaction - the point is that the profit of refined salt is too high. So he simply sent the arrow shaft out as an additive, maybe he could win the favor of the customer.

Cui Youcai calculated in his heart, and then said helplessly: "The price is indeed very favorable, but we only have 10 million taels of living money now, all of which are reserved for the purchase of grain." ”

Xin Yu smiled: "I have an agreement with Cui Minggongzi, and I can use other things to offset the price." If you can provide snow grits and snow lotus, we can eat them all. ”

"Snow grits and snow lotus can't work, what about other things?" Cui Youcai denied Xin Yu's proposal.

"Yes, but it's not all animal skins, horses, and so on. Medicinal materials such as ordinary ginseng and atractylodes can be traded in large quantities, as well as iron ore or crude iron......" Xin Yu listed the types of goods needed one by one.

"Oh, that's fine. So, how about we pay half with silver money and half with in-kind to offset the price?But medicinal materials account for the majority, I don't know if you can accept it?" Cui Youcai calculated the amount of medicinal materials and crude iron that could be raised, and suggested.

As soon as Xin Yu heard that the medicinal herbs accounted for the majority, his saliva was about to flow down as if he was reflexive. Hurriedly nodded and said, "No problem, when we ship the goods to us, we will trade immediately." ”