The Second Coming of the Myth: I have obtained the blood of the Candle Dragon

Chapter 153 Long live His Majesty the King
Su Lin has completed his fully automatic nightmare fuel factory, but it still needs to be observed in the early stages.

After all, he has not yet figured out the nature of the weirdness in this world, so he cannot be sure that powerful weirdness will not appear in Nim Country.

If a powerful and highly intelligent monster appears, of course it will not rush into the embrace of the true fire of the sun like a moth to a flame, but will cause troublesome commotion.

However, after Su Lin observed it for a few days, in addition to feeling that the number of strange things attracted had decreased, he also didn't see any powerful strange things, so he felt relieved for the time being.

As for why he wanted to extract nightmare fuel, of course it was to develop cutting-edge weapons.

The thermal energy storage capacity of geothermal ore is very high, and the actual energy conversion ratio is also very good, but for some military weapons he hopes to make, geothermal ore still has some limitations.

Su Lin has been very busy these past few months. In addition to giving daily lectures at the institute and inspecting the land, he is also exploring for mineral resources.

To his disappointment, there were no minerals such as sulfur and saltpeter in Nim, or rather, there were, but the quantity was too scarce for him to develop thermal weapons.

There is no doubt that the various minerals and even elements in this world must be quite different from the real world. If there are similar things, the power exerted will be fatal to mortals and even ordinary extraordinary beings.

It's still the previous discussion about the relationship between weight and mass. This world is proportionally magnified compared to the real world. If he can invent something similar to gunpowder, the power will be the same as the real world.

Even in the real world, thermal weapons are still highly lethal to aliens. Aliens below level 40 never dare to say that they are not afraid of thermal weapons at all.

Of course, high-level aliens are definitely not afraid of gunpowder thermal weapons.

Su Lin wanted to find some high-explosive materials in this world, but failed. Lu Zhixue also brought him information. The Church of Evernight does not develop industrial technology at all. Their 'core technology' is to use nightmare fuel to create extraordinary strong men. .

The Church of Eternal Night allows qualified people to absorb the power of nightmare fuel, and they will awaken a variety of strange abilities, some suitable for combat, some useless, or so strange that no one can imagine their use.

Those who are suitable for fighting are selected and cultivated, and eventually become the judges of the Church's Eternal Night Holy Army and the Inquisition Bureau.

However, in Su Lin's view, although this method of energy utilization is longer-lasting, it is too inefficient.

It is impossible for him to cultivate his own extraordinary legion under the nose of the Eternal Night Church. The population base of Nim Country is too small. I am afraid that not even a hundred people can be selected who are qualified to absorb nightmare fuel. How many can actually fight? One would be pretty good.

And it will take ten or even decades to cultivate before it can form a certain combat effectiveness.

He only has three years to stay in this world. If he wants to play like this, he won't even be able to leave the Novice Village.

So he changed his mind and prepared to use nightmare fuel as a one-time consumable and shoot it out as a 'cannonball'.

He can directly ignite the Heat Dream Fuel, which will erupt into highly compressed nightmare energy in a confined space wrapped in high-density materials, and then be released at once through guidance, turning it into an extraordinary energy cannon.

He has not yet conducted a test firing, but he has estimated its power. One unit of nightmare fuel, a one-time consumption burst of power, is enough to cause a fatal blow to an alien below level 30.

The unit of nightmare fuel he defined based on the amount required to load a single shot of the energy cannon he first designed. His nightmare fuel factory can produce approximately 50 units of nightmare fuel every day.

Well, a little less.

Because since it is regarded as a thermal weapon, the blow must be aimed at the head. If it misses, the damage will be zero.

The energy cannon has a certain range effect when it strikes, but it is only a few dozen meters. If you want to really cause fatal damage to the extraordinary, an energy cannon is definitely not enough. What is needed in war is a high-density coverage strike.

In other words, if the Eternal Night Church came to conquer him and they wanted to fight, he would at least have to prepare a large number of energy cannons to launch a volley to create a horizontal push effect on the battlefield.

Once the quantity increases, the amount of nightmare fuel consumed by each salvo is painful. Producing 50 units of nightmare fuel every day is far from enough.

Therefore, Su Lin needs to put the route of religious and cultural victory on the agenda. Only by turning people's thinking around and making them believe that light is beautiful and that evil is only the weird things hidden in the darkness.

He wants to prove to people that the radiance of the sun is warm and beautiful, and under his supreme power, the weirdos can only become the fuel for their progress like moths to the fire.

Only by making this public could he further expand the scale of his nightmare factory instead of just doing it in the basement.

However, this is a plan that can only be carried out when preparations for war are made. Otherwise, the brilliance of the true sun fire will be too obvious. If it can be seen from across the city, the clergy of Lafayam diocese will not be blind. They will definitely Will find out.

In the next stage, Su Lin wants to renovate the manor behind the palace and build a super giant boiler with a diameter of over 300 meters.

He would use a kind of malleable metal paper that he redeemed to spread on the ground and surrounding walls to prevent the real sun fire from burning through, and then design the air inlets and outlets to allow the real sun fire to burn in large amounts inside. .

Such a huge light source, even if it adopts a semi-enclosed structure, will inevitably shine in Nim Country. For example, the light from the air inlet and outlet cannot be concealed, so he needs the people to understand.

Once this giant is built, their country of Nim will have almost eternal energy.

The reason why he planned to call this thing a boiler was because the bottom was burning real sun fire, and the top was a giant steam engine. The power brought by the steam engine would be able to drive a large number of industrial facilities.

The steam will be transported to all parts of the country through pipelines, radiating from the giant boiler. There can be several nearby factories that can use the kinetic energy converted by the steam. Farther away, the steam can also provide warmth to people across the country. By then, it will be connected to geothermal ore in winter. It’s no longer needed.

At the same time, the true fire of the sun burning below will refine the nightmare fuel at a speed that his current little efforts cannot match.

He completed the transformation of his weapon refining cauldron and preset a 'program' in it, which will absorb the refined nightmare fuel within the range and store it inside to ensure that it will not be burned and wasted by the true fire of the sun.

If it weren't for the limitations of strength and materials, Su Lindu would have wanted to refine a growth-producing weapon-refining cauldron, so that the weapon-refining cauldron could complete the work assigned by him in a humane manner. Now he can only make do with a semi-intelligent one.

Limited by the storage space of the refining cauldron, Su Lin expected that after building the super-giant boiler, he would need to collect the nightmare fuel in person every three days. This kind of work could not be done by others, because the true sun fire inside the boiler was always Burning.

Every time the flame area under the boiler is switched on and off, there is a risk of the real sun fire leaking out, so he must do it himself.

He has already produced the architectural drawings, but such a huge project is obviously not something that engineers from Nimes can handle. Even if he mobilizes more manpower, it would normally take several years to complete it.

Fortunately, Su Lin was not an ordinary person. Before the launch of the Divine City project in the real world, he was afraid that the Divine City would not achieve the results he expected, so he still had a preliminary plan.

His preparation plan is a kind of divine cutting-edge builder. Its body is not big, and it should be the supporting technology for the divine city. It only takes up one cubic meter of space when stored. After being released, it can increase in value to dozens of meters in height.

This is a high-tech robot that integrates material conversion, processing, and construction. It is very intelligent.

Su Lin had tested before that it only took the mechanical builder three days to build a skyscraper.

It is also a divine thing. Compared to the Divine City, the Builder seems to be weaker. However, the Divine City is a preset mass-produced product, while the Builder can build new things at any time according to the user's wishes. The application scenarios of the two are different. .

Su Lin exchanged this because he was afraid that some of the supporting facilities in the divine city would have problems in practical application and needed to be renovated, or that some of the divine city's areas were not enough and would require temporary expansion by builders.

But in fact, he laid ten divine cities in a row without any problems, but this mechanical builder ate dust in his storage space.

One thing to note is that the Mechanical Builder cannot transform matter. In other words, if it uses local materials, it uses stone, and what comes out can only be stone bricks, not gold bricks. Therefore, the buildings built by the Mechanical Builder Quality has a lot to do with the materials it uses.

This is also the reason why Su Lin did not use this robot to build in the real world, because there are not so many extraordinary materials in the real world, and there is no point in building some ordinary buildings. The efficiency is too low, and it cannot defend against the attacks of alien beasts.

But this mechanical builder is very useful in the current copy world. After he gave the architectural design drawings, the mechanical builder also made some optimizations. The output results told him that it only takes ten days to build a giant boiler. Construction is complete.

As a result, the citizens of Nimes often see something huge moving behind the palace in the dark night. Even if they can't see clearly, they can still feel the size of the thing.

Because Su Lin now has a good reputation in the Nim Kingdom and is the spiritual leader of the people, no one would think that there is something evil hidden behind the palace. They just think that it is a new divine beast brought by the divine envoy.

It has been more than three months since Su Lin came to this world. The hot weather when he first came has turned into a slightly cold late autumn, and winter will begin in half a month.

He hopes that in the first winter after he comes to Nimes, people can enjoy heating services, so that the price of domestic geothermal ore can be reduced further, so that every citizen can afford to use geothermal ore for cooking.

"What!? Your Majesty, you want to lay these pipelines across the country?"

In the institute, Vice President Jones was shocked when he looked at the design plan given by Su Lin.

"Oh, my God, Your Majesty, I must have heard wrong, right? It still needs to be completed before winter? Our factory can't even process it."

Jones looked collapsed. If he didn't respect the man in front of him extremely and believed that he could always create miracles, he would have thrown the drawings to the ground.

It has to be said that talented people have a bit of quirks. For example, Su Lin felt that Jones was not very polite and his words were neither big nor small.

You see, other members in the institute are looking at him and themselves in fear, feeling that Jones is too bold and dares to question His Majesty the King's decision.

But Su Linting admired people like Jones. It would be better to say that the leaders of the institute he needed were just such people, who should focus on scientific research and not always think about flattery.

"You just need to do the processing, I will figure out how to lay the pipeline."

Su Lin ordered, knowing that this was a difficult task for the factory.

Nim has now built more than a dozen large-scale factories, but even if the power is fully activated and workers work overtime every day, they can only make half of the pipelines before winter.

He will ask the mechanical builder to make the remaining half for the inner ring of the radiation zone, because the steam pressure there is relatively high, and Nim's current industrial technology is not up to standard, and big problems will occur if it leaks.

The temperature and pressure of the peripheral steam have dropped. If it is only used for heating, the factory-made pipes will not be a big problem.

"This……"

Jones is a little embarrassed. He is a man with a craftsman spirit. If he promises to do it, he must do it.

And he is also a farmer and knows how difficult it is for workers. Recently, everyone has been enjoying generous treatment. Wouldn't it be bad if he suddenly asked everyone to work overtime to death?
Seemingly sensing Jones' worries, Su Lin said: "Just try your best. Workers will be paid overtime if they are willing to work overtime. If they don't want to, they can go home from get off work as usual. You just need to tell everyone that this is so that everyone can use it in winter." Get free heating.”

"Heating?"

Jones was stunned for a moment, then picked up the design drawing and looked at it again. Thinking of the huge building being built behind the palace in recent days, he suddenly understood.

"Your Majesty, do you want to build a giant boiler and then send steam across the country!?"

Jones had a look of shock on his face, "But we don't have that much geothermal ore, so this is impossible!"

He had seen the scale of that building. If it were a boiler, it would not be enough to fill it with a year's worth of geothermal ore from Nim.

"Don't worry, I have other solutions. God guides me."

Su Lin smiled and said, "You just need to tell everyone that this winter will be very warm."

Jones did not dare to doubt Su Lin's words, so he could only nod in agreement, and then mobilized the scientific research team and major factories.

Su Lin walked in Nimes and inspected the mining area. The miners were working very hard now because he had given everyone a raise again.

The new super rice has been planted in the farmland, and the first batch of rice will be harvested when winter comes. The output will be more than ten times that of the previous beans and rice. There will never be a food crisis in Nim.

With the development of industry and agriculture, the domestic economy is also developing rapidly, and he can naturally pay more wages to people in various professions.

In fact, Nim seemed to be a deformed country before, but Nim has an inherent advantage that many countries in the past did not have.

That is, the centralized authority has absolute power to allocate resources across the country.

Although the previous power was a castle in the air and was only given by the church, its operating mode is here, making it very convenient for Su Lin to operate.

Although there was a distinction between 'upper class' and 'lower class' people in this country, and people envied state civil servants, in essence, everyone is a state civil servant.

Because whether they are miners or farmers, their occupations are prescribed by the state and their wages are paid by the state. In this country, there are no privatized enterprises at all.

Even the aristocrats are just enjoying the shadow of their ancestors in the old era, relying on their network of connections to suck a little bit of the country's blood. Compared with the aristocrats in the history of various countries in the real world, they really can't make a difference in a small way.

The decisive key is that the nobles can work, but they can only receive the normal salary of national civil servants. The nobles do not have private industries, let alone their own armed forces.

The country of Nîmes has a title system, including duke, marquis, earl, viscount, and baron. This is a legacy from the old era. Because the church requires the country of Nîmes to ensure its authenticity, the inheritance of the nobility has not been cut off over the years. , unless their family really can’t give birth to a child.

Those nobles who had castles or big houses in the old era, according to the traditional system, the Kingdom of Nimes also gave them the quota of servants. The nobles can choose the working class and peasants as their servants to ensure the cultural tradition of the old era.

To put it bluntly, the nobles have some small power, but they are more of just cultural heritage mascots. Only the farmers and workers will fear them, thinking that they are superior lords.

But even if there are only some small privileges, it is enough for the nobles to live a more prosperous life, and some people will even bully the people at the bottom.

This phenomenon is because the legal system of Nim Country is not perfect, or it may be said that there are laws, but they are restricted by the Eternal Night Church.

Because the Eternal Night Church requires the Kingdom of Nim to maintain the overall national system, the nobles are like the cattle and sheep raised in their back garden, and the royal family is like a shepherd dog. The Eternal Night Church will be angry if the cattle and sheep are missing.

Therefore, even if a noble commits a crime, if it is not too egregious, the royal family can only turn a blind eye. Otherwise, if a noble is executed, it will be very troublesome for the Evernight Church to ask for an explanation.

There was even a time in history when a king executed a grand duke. After the Eternal Night Church found out, they also executed the royal family and replaced a group of people in power.

Because the grand duke's ancestor was very famous in history and was regarded as an iconic historical and cultural heritage of the Kingdom of Nimes, the Eternal Night Church was very dissatisfied with the royal family's 'overstep of authority' behavior.

Su Lin felt that Nim Kingdom was like exhibits displayed in a museum. Good and bad ones would be collected by the Church of Evernight. Just like the urinal of Empress Dowager Cixi could be sold for a sky-high price. Yan Song's copybooks were priceless. Same as the city.

Even if it is the bad habits of the nobles, the Eternal Night Church considers them as historical and cultural heritage worthy of observation, so it requires the royal family to indulge them to a certain extent.

But in fact, this country has changed a long time ago. Su Lin doesn't think that in the old Nim Kingdom, all career arrangements were made by the state.

He is not ready to change this system now, because in the initial stage of a small country, absolute centralization and resource scheduling and allocation capabilities are very important.

To put it bluntly, the entire Nim Kingdom now belongs to him. The farmers only receive wages, but most of the food in the fields belongs to him and must be distributed according to his will before it can be circulated to the market.

The same goes for the geothermal ore dug out in the mining area. Workers get paid for their work, but all the ore belongs to the state. If they need geothermal ore, they have to go to the market to buy it.

The market is also controlled by the state. The hawkers there are also a profession, defined by the state and passed on from parents to children. They do not get the money for selling the goods themselves, but only receive wages from the state.

Commission?There was no such thing in the original Nim Country. They were all dead wages, and the wages of the people at the bottom were pitifully low.

After Su Lin came to power, he carried out reforms in all professions, and the market was no exception. He lifted the profession lock and only allowed capable traders to stay, while all others were allowed to work in the factory.

In the future, merchants who sell things in the market will receive a commission of 5% of the value of the additional goods they sell after completing the basic indicators.

After this decree was conveyed, the merchants in the market were all happy, and they were all so sweet to the customers who came to buy things.

Su Lin did this to increase the enthusiasm of merchants to sell goods and ensure their service attitude.

In the past, although traders in the market also had lower-class jobs, they were also very good because they did not have to do heavy physical labor and their wages were not bad. They were considered to be the upper class among the lower class.

And they are only responsible for which station they go to work every day. Whether the customers want to buy or not, they still get their salary anyway.

Anyway, everyone was living in a depressed mood, no one could see each other, and the deal was completed in silence, and their negative emotions continued to accumulate.

Su Lin wants to put an end to this phenomenon. Although he has guessed the reason for the birth of Nightmare Fuel, he still needs to have a positive fundamentals. The country cannot be lifeless, but must be alive.

Nowadays, if businessmen and salespeople fail to achieve fixed quotas every month, their wages will be deducted. If they sell more things after completing the quota, they will have considerable additional income.

Of course they have to please their customers. Vendors who make customers feel comfortable shopping will make more money, while vendors who put on a bad face will slowly be eliminated.

In fact, after Su Lin issued this decree, the market's sales tripled.

This is not only because the service attitude of the vendors has improved, but also because the national income has increased. Even farmers and miners have more money to spend, and they are not willing to spend money.

In addition, Su Lin has relaxed working hours, and the people at the bottom also have time to relax and rest every day, and there are also days off. Of course, they will enjoy life more, that is, consumption.

Nowadays, excluding children who cannot work, Nimes has about 40 people who can work. The distribution situation is like this.

There are 15 miners, 3 farmers, 20 factory workers, several thousand traders, several thousand state officials, and the rest are some nobles and their family servants.

Another 1 people were selected by Su Lin to serve as an engineering team to rebuild and expand roads in large and small cities in the country of Nim.

There hasn't been much progress in this work yet, because it took two months just to clean up the streets of Nimes so that they were no longer a 'smell paradise' filled with urine and feces.

However, after receiving training from the institute, the members of the engineering team gradually learned how to construct during the daily cleaning process, and now have begun to use various machinery to rebuild the roads near the palace in an orderly manner.

Today, the largest number of people in Nim are workers. Factories are rising one after another, emitting steam into the sky every day.

However, Su Lin feels that they are quite environmentally friendly because they do not burn coal and geothermal ore is a clean energy source.

Some of these factories were responsible for making steel, some for processing, and some for producing new steam machinery.

After getting to know these steam machines, the citizens of Nimes have accepted this magical creation. While sighing at the greatness of His Majesty the King, the workers are working hard in the factory to produce.

I have to say that the people of Nim are easy to coax, or there are more honest people.

They have become accustomed to living and working in harsh environments. Many workers who were transferred from mining areas still have to work 12 hours a day before they are willing to get off work.

Because they feel that compared to their previous life, now is a paradise, and they are paid overtime for overtime work. They have plenty of energy, and they just want to work more to support their families.

The foremen often give spontaneous speeches, thanking His Majesty the King for his generosity and kindness, saying that this is an important period for the development of the Kingdom of Nim, and that His Majesty the King has placed high hopes on them. They enjoy such good treatment, so they must work hard. .

The people of Nim are a little numb, but they are not fools. The foremen who gave speeches did not understand what they said, but everyone understood.

That is, the Kingdom of Nim is still controlled by the Church of Evernight. Such a good King may be replaced at any time. Currently, the country is booming and they are enjoying a good life, but if His Majesty the King falls, everything will return. before liberation.

So for His Majesty the King, they have to work hard so that they can continue to enjoy their current life.

In fact, many workers did not understand that their hard work had anything to do with His Majesty the King not being on stage. However, under the impassioned speeches of the foremen, everyone shouted "Long live His Majesty the King", and they followed suit.

Su Lin had just finished listening to a 'spontaneous' speech by the foreman. The workers at the scene were so excited that they almost shouted "Fuck the Evernight Church."

Of course, these speeches are not spontaneous. How can there be so many natural speakers among workers?Are you still so literate in quoting scriptures?
These are all people he arranged to join, and with the promise of huge profits, there will naturally be people who can complete passionate speeches.

After the initial upsurge started, many 'brainwashed' workers did spontaneously give speeches. This is also a normal phenomenon. After all, they are indeed enjoying a better life than ever before.

Ordinary workers don't understand that much, but one thing they understand is that once His Majesty the King is executed or driven away by the Eternal Night Church, they will still be their former slaves, not individuals.

In such an atmosphere, this trend of thought quickly swept across the country. At some point, a saying was born.

That is, the Eternal Night Church is the original sin of oppressing them. Three generations of kings of the Silvis family have worked hard but failed to make the people live a good life. This generation of Silvis IV finally couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to rise up to resist.

The theory promoted by those 'reactionaries' is that the people of the Eternal Night Church are living an unimaginably good life outside, just because they squeeze their blood and sweat, and use mysterious and weird teachings to intimidate them, forcing them to surrender.

And their King has been chosen by a truly loving god to become God's spokesperson in the world to save the suffering of Nim.

At first, these statements made the people of Nimes fear and worry because they were afraid of the Church of Eternal Night.

Yes, the citizens of Nim Kingdom understand and have some faith in the teachings of the Eternal Night Church, but they are more afraid.

Because the royal family has been changed one after another, fools all know who is ruling this country. Anyone who disobeys the Eternal Night Church will die, and those who do not follow the teachings will be visited by weird people. This is everyone's consensus.

Now those 'reactionaries' dare to speak ill of the Eternal Night Church. In their eyes, this may not be considered treason, but it is definitely a recipe for death.

But as time goes by, it seems that there are more and more reactionary elements. People often hear these statements and gradually adapt to them.

On the one hand, they have never seen the Yongye Church come looking for trouble, and on the other hand, they are indeed living a comfortable life now.

Yes, theology is too advanced for them, and they don't understand those complicated things.

But they still understand how to live a comfortable life. Is it better to have them work overtime for only eight hours a day and get overtime pay, have a rest day every week, and have a salary increase and benefits? Is it better to work all year round until death? The days are good, can you still not tell the difference?

The former represents the kindness of His Majesty the King, and the latter naturally represents the cruelty of the Eternal Night Church.

Then the God represented by His Majesty the King is loving, and the God of Eternal Night is cruel. This is just a simple logical connection.

Su Lin was sitting on the Iron Throne in the palace, on the wide armrest. Lu Zhixue was sitting there, twisting a grape in his hand and putting it into Su Lin's mouth.

"What is this for?"

Su Lin exited the thinking mode and looked at Lu Zhixue.

"Don't you want to feel how corrupt ancient kings were?"

Lu Zhixue smiled seductively.

Su Lin opened his mouth and swallowed the grapes in one gulp. "The grapes are very delicious. Where do they come from?"

There is no such fruit in Nim Country. They only grow basic agricultural crops. Fruit is a luxury product.

"Didn't I go to the Shafulin Diocese in the south? I had a pleasant chat with Bishop Nila there, so she gave it to me."

Lu Zhixue said that she was responsible for the diplomacy of Nim Country, and the Lafaam Diocese had no control over her.

Her identity in the Eternal Night Church is that of a nun, a registered extraordinary person, but she has not joined the Heretic Bureau. Based on her resume, she should have been promoted to a white bishop long ago, but Bishop Neo has not helped her apply. Accomplishments were erased.

And she originally held a 'customs clearance document' in the Lafayam diocese. She was the kind of nun who didn't have to go to the church to clock in and work every day. She was responsible for handling some diplomatic matters. She had always been in charge of Nim Country.

This time I went south to find out the attitudes of other dioceses and expand business for Nim.

Lu Zhixue's identity is not simple. Just like Su Lin can choose a prince at the beginning, she is not just a simple nun.

Judging from the system of the Eternal Night Church, Lu Zhixue was born in a theocratic family, similar to the aristocratic family in a mortal country. She was of noble birth.

Looking up her family tree, there was even a red archbishop, but it is now in decline.

After telling her life story, Lu Zhixue was warmly received by the local Bishop Nila. The two had a pleasant conversation and even talked about some family business matters.

Yes, it is certainly impossible for a territory as large as the Church of Evernight to allocate resources from the top like the Kingdom of Nimes. Each theocratic family controls economic resources, and wealthy families will more easily compete for the right to speak.

Su Lin asked Lu Zhixue to find out whether Bishop Nila in the south was willing to cooperate with Lu Zhixue's 'family' and exchange resources.

Lu Zhixue is actually the only one left in her family, but Bishop Nila's authority cannot be clear across regions. As long as Lu Zhixue can pay the money, she is willing to trade.

In addition to internal development of a country, external trade is also indispensable, because the country of Nim is too small, about the same size as a second- and third-tier small city, and its resources are limited.

Su Lin hopes to obtain some materials used in military, industry, construction, etc. through trade. Their country of Nim is now very productive in geothermal ore, but it does not have other scarce materials. It is too monotonous. This needs to be solved through trade.

And Lu Zhixue's identity will be a good bridge. It seems that this business deal is going well.

"How much does she want?"

Su Lin asked.

"With one thousand tons of geothermal ore, you can buy one hundred tons of Shia gold from her."

Lu Zhixue said, "She thinks she has made a lot of money."

“A good deal always makes both parties feel they have made a lot of money.”

Su Lin smiled.

Shia gold is a special metal in this world. It is difficult to refine, but it has excellent impact toughness and fracture toughness. Su Lin has tested it. If it can be integrated into the steel of this world, Shia alloy can be made. , itself is a heaven-level quality material.

The steel in this world is enough for industry and construction, but it is almost meaningless if used in the military, and it is far from able to compete with those powerful clergy.

He needs to use Shia gold to build his army, and there is no Shia gold mine in Nimes. However, there are some ornaments within the royal family that are made by refining Shia gold.

Bishop Nila thinks she made a profit because Shia gold is not a precious metal. It is difficult to refine Shia gold manually because fire cannot be used in this world. Instead, geothermal ore is used to gather heat to refine Shia gold, and then it is refined with the help of craftsmen. Only by tapping it can you extract a little Shia gold.

This kind of ore is expensive to refine, but its actual application value is not high. It is usually only used to make jewelry. However, due to the craftsmanship, the accuracy and color of the jewelry are not good, and it is not very popular with the rich. Therefore, Bishop Nila’s The family has been guarding such a mine and has not made much money over the years.

As for alloys, there is no fire in this world, so the development of the metal industry is very backward. No one has tried to make Shia alloy at all.

Lu Zhixue's asking price this time was obviously much higher than the market price. In previous transactions on the market, if the unit was based on the universal energy currency of geothermal ore, about eight tons of geothermal ore could buy one ton of Shia gold.

In fact, to refine this ton of Shia gold, about eight tons of geothermal ore must be used. The final Shia gold needs to be reprocessed. Only if it is exquisite can you earn 30%-40% of the profit. If the craftsman's skills are not good, he may lose money if he cannot sell it.

Lu Zhixue offered a price of ten to one. Bishop Nila was overjoyed and immediately concluded the deal without even asking how Lu Zhixue planned to use the Xia gold.

"By the way, her family's Shia mine gold can't be sold at all, can it? I heard that Nila's mine has been out of production for many years because it always loses money. Even if we buy a large amount at the market price, they are still willing to sell it. Why pay a high price?”

Lu Zhixue asked in confusion. Since jewelry made of a certain metal called aquamarine gold has become popular in the land under the jurisdiction of the Yongye Church in recent years, there has been no market for Shia gold jewelry. Many mines in various places have No longer developed.

Because theocratic families may own many minerals or other businesses, their limited energy and manpower will be invested in more profitable industries.

As far as the jewelry industry is concerned, Shia Gold Mining is obviously a low-grade business and not violent at all.

陆知雪感觉别说用8:1的价格去买，就算是7:1乃至6:1的价格去买，近些年尼菈那不景气的家族也会愿意售卖，因为挖矿本身的成本还不算太高。

If she sells the Xia mine gold directly, Nila can earn more than 300% profit even based on the previous market price.

The problem is that no discerning businessman in this world will buy Shia gold for jewelry business.

"Two reasons."

Su Lin held out two fingers, "First, for this first transaction, I hope Nila will ask less and feel the sincerity of our cooperation. What is important is the line, not the profit of this transaction."

The corner of his mouth curled up, "Secondly, Nila and her family have been in trouble in business these years. It will cost a lot of money to resume work in the long-stopped mining area. Once work starts again, the labor cost and management effort will be huge." , will not let them stop easily."

Su Lin smiled and said, "The Nila family has external debts. The batch of geothermal ore we gave them is not enough to repay them. After paying off a batch of debts, they still have little money on hand and they still have to maintain the operation of the mining area. If this If we don’t continue to buy them, what will they do?”

Lu Zhixue looked at Su Lin with a strange expression, "Linlin, you are so sinister."

"It's called wisdom."

Su Lin tapped Lu Zhixue's cheek with his finger and pushed her away, "She was riding a tiger at that time. She would sell it if we offered a lower price. Even if it was four to one, she would still make a profit. She would Keep trading."

However, at that time, the mining area owned by Bishop Nila essentially became theirs. Nila was just a highly paid manager responsible for delivering goods to them on a regular basis.

After the Nila family pays off their debts, Su Lin might even drive out with his legion.

"Winter is coming soon. Is the heating ready as you mentioned before?"

Lu Zhixue asked. When she came back, she found that the huge boiler had been built, but it had not been ignited.

Su Lin stood up and stretched, "We are preparing to light the fire today. As for the pipelines that can be laid gradually in the future, the main purpose of this super giant boiler is not to provide warmth. What I want is nightmare fuel."

(End of this chapter)