Blue Silver Grass Guide.

Chapter 552: Capital Theory
"Uncle Ling Yi, can you not leave?"

Xue Qianxun held Ling Yi's hand, raised her head, and her delicate little face was full of reluctance.

Ling Yi lowered his head and looked at the little girl who had tears in her eyes but tried hard to hold them back. He sighed softly in his heart, raised his empty left hand, gently rubbed the girl's soft golden hair, and said softly, "Xue'er, dear, your birthday will be in more than three months. Uncle promises you that I will come over to celebrate your birthday and prepare a big birthday present for you, okay?"

Instead of refusing directly, he mentioned the little girl's birthday and drew her attention to a few months later, which also gave the little girl a memory.

Xue Qianxun easily understood the meaning of Ling Yi's words. She pursed her lips and sniffed softly. She controlled the expression on her face and showed a slightly innocent smile: "Well, it's a deal. Uncle Ling Yi, you must come when the time comes. I don't need a gift, as long as you come~~~"

"Don't worry~" Ling Yi bent his index finger and gently scratched Xue Qianxun's small nose, smiling and saying: "Uncle promised you, I will definitely do it. By then, even if there are thousands of mountains and rivers, and there are mountains of swords and seas of fire blocking me, I will definitely rush back--"

"what?"

Hearing Ling Yi's promise, Xue Qianxun was startled at first, her pink lips slightly parted, her big eyes blinked, and when she came to her senses, she quickly waved her hands and said, "If it's really too far, or dangerous, then forget it. Uncle Ling Yi, don't work too hard, and don't get into danger—"

When saying these words, although there was still some reluctance between the little girl's brows, her little face was full of seriousness.

Looking at this little girl, Ling Yi smiled, then raised his head to look at Di Xia who was silently watching their interaction.

Dixia's gaze was very gentle. In her crystal-like eyes, the figures of Ling Yi and Xue Qianxun were reflected, and nothing else.

She was 28 years old, which was the best time in a woman's life. She had both youthful beauty and mature charm. With her eyes full of doting love, her whole body was filled with the radiance of motherhood. Compared with the angel statue in Wuhun City, she looked more like a holy light angel.

Noticing Ling Yi's gaze, Di Xia did not avoid it. The two looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

"Don't worry~" Ling Yi lowered his head again, looked directly into the little girl's big eyes, and said with a smile: "Uncle's strength is very strong, there should be no danger in this world that can hurt me~"

"Practice well. I'll check on you in a few months."

"Yeah!" Xue Qianxun nodded vigorously.

……

After bidding farewell to Xue Qianxun, who had already become a thirty-second-level, three-ringed combat soul master before she was even ten years old, and Di Xia, who had unknowingly broken through to the level of a five-ringed soul king, Ling Yi left the palace and returned to the Qingmu Chamber of Commerce's base in Tiandou City.

"Has the Duke of Storm been notified?"

Ling Yi sat in his own office, looking down at the financial statements of the first quarter of the 2628th year of the Douluo calendar in the Tiandou Empire, and asked casually.

"I've notified you~" Mangli sat in the chair in front of the desk, his back straight. When he heard Ling Yi's question, he replied respectfully, "I've informed Princess Daenerys of your wishes three days ago. On the same day, a palace eunuch went out and rushed to the location of the [Storm Wolf Targaryen Family]."

"I guess the Duke of Storm should be preparing to set off and rush towards Tiandou City."

"Based on the speed he traveled in the past, he will arrive in about five days at the latest. If he is fast, it will be about two days... To be specific, I have already sent hidden bats to explore the Targaryen family's territory. There is a wireless intercom to transmit the message. When the Duke of Stormwind sets out, we will know in the shortest possible time."

"Two to five days?" Ling Yi nodded slightly without commenting, skipping this topic and then asked: "Have the people who will be sent to those advanced soul master academies as teachers been selected?"

"It's selected~" Mang Li answered without hesitation: "After a year of training and selection, 72 of the first 128 candidates finally met the requirements and obtained the senior teacher qualification certificate. They can serve as teachers in any senior soul master academy."

"As for the remaining fifty-six, although they failed to pass the assessment due to their own shortcomings, they all obtained intermediate teacher qualifications. Now, thirty-seven of them have chosen to join an advanced soul master academy and have successfully started working there."

"If everything goes well, the quality of candidates for this year's third 'Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Unified Examination' should be much better than the previous two sessions!"

Three years ago, on October 1st of the 2626th year of the Douluo calendar, the first 'Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Unified Examination' was held in 'Lingyun City'. To be honest, the outstanding students who finally stood out were somewhat disappointing.

Anyway, Ling Yi was not very satisfied.

In order to solve this problem, Ling Yi formulated a new plan: the gardener pre-job training program.

If Douluo Continent is a nursery, then the students in the Soul Master Academy are the excellent seeds that have undergone preliminary screening and cultivation.

In order to ensure that these high-quality seeds can have a better growth environment, bloom their most brilliant flowers and bear the sweetest fruits, we need excellent and professional gardeners to carefully and meticulously care for these high-quality seeds.

……

At about the same time, at the Canghui Academy located in the Fasno Province of the Tiandou Empire.

On the sixth floor of the teaching building, in the corridor outside a classroom, Zhao Wuji crossed his arms and looked down at the large playground about a hundred meters away from the teaching building.

"It's a pity for Xiao Ye~" Lu Qibin said with regret as he stood beside Zhao Wuji.

Zhao Wuji raised his eyelids slightly, his eyes locked on the young man who was talking to a group of teenagers in the playground. He shook his head and said, "Soul power level 43, the peak of martial arts dark power, I can only say that it's fate and time~"

"In this senior teacher qualification test, the lowest rank in terms of martial spirit is a 45th-level soul master. In terms of martial arts, they are all martial artists who have reached the state of transformation and have begun to temper their internal organs. Even though Xiao Yezi has achieved seventh place in theory, her score is too low in front of the examiners from other senior soul master academies!"

"Fortunately, not all high-level spirit master academies only focus on strength. For example, this [Canghui Academy] was able to make an exception and let Xiao Ye directly take charge of a class of students because of his theoretical performance. This is a much better start than Lao Li and Yinshu..."

Lao Li, also known as Li Yusong, is one of the fifty-six people who finally obtained the intermediate teacher qualification certificate in this "Gardener Pre-job Training Program".

"You should feel lucky. Compared to those soul masters who are still studying in low- and intermediate soul master academies, or even those who have just started wandering around the continent, you have a much better start!"

On the playground, a handsome young man with meticulously combed hair said to the dozen or so teenagers in front of him with his hands behind his back: "In the Advanced Soul Master Academy, there are more efficient meditation methods, simulated training grounds that can speed up your training, and experienced teachers who can guide you to take fewer detours and avoid mistakes on the road of training, so that you can reach a higher level of strength in a shorter time!"

"Let me introduce myself~" The young man's eyes were extremely bright, and his expression was calm and confident: "My name is Ye Zhiqiu, my martial soul is "Black Turtle", and I am a level 43 defense-type fighting soul sect!"

As the words fell, a circle of black ripples released from Ye Zhiqiu's body. His originally slender limbs shrank slightly at the same time, and his back bulged quietly. A huge piece of carapace appeared on his back at some point.

As his whole body was flashing with black soul power, four soul rings, one white, one yellow and two purple, rose from under Ye Zhiqiu's feet, circling around him and moving rhythmically up and down.

"Besides that~" Ye Zhiqiu glanced at the students in front of him, and noticed that two of them had a look of disapproval on their faces. He spoke again calmly: "I am also a dark force warrior. I have perfected the twelve forms of the Basic Body Building Technique, and I am proficient in seventeen soul beast mimicry boxing stances. I have mastered the six conventional weapon combat techniques of knife, sword, gun, stick, axe, and hammer."

Ye Zhiqiu's words made all the students' eyes widen, including the two students who were the leaders in the crowd. Seeing all this, Ye Zhiqiu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He did not choose to mention that [Canghui Academy] valued his martial soul theoretical knowledge, but instead focused on introducing his achievements in martial arts.

During the previous training, the lesson plan compiled by the city lord mentioned that in the eyes of teenagers, theoretical knowledge is boring. Only by attracting them with the splendor of power, making them interested and actively willing to learn, can teaching be carried out in a two-way manner.

On the other hand, noticing that Ye Zhiqiu had initially gained recognition from the students and successfully secured his position as a teacher, Zhao Wuji followed Lu Qibin back to the Academic Affairs Office and bid farewell to the dean, vice-dean and others of Canghui College.

As for Lu Qibin, he stayed in Canghui College. He was one of the 72 holders of senior teacher qualification certificates and was also the newly appointed Dean of Studies at Canghui College.

……

[Silvis Kingdom], outside the town of Rogge, on a scenic hill.

Yu Xiaogang stood expressionlessly in front of a wooden house that had turned into ruins. Three meters in front of him, stood a huge blood-red sphere about ten feet high.

The sphere is similar to a super-enlarged version of an ostrich egg, but the outer "eggshell" is made of flesh and blood, expanding and contracting like a fetus moving.

At a certain moment, the frequency of the fetal movement sound accelerated, like a dull drumbeat, which made Flanders and Shinian, who were guarding a hundred meters away, so upset that they almost vomited blood.

"Hiss-!"

The sound of cloth tearing was heard, and a lizard head covered with light red mucus and with two forked sharp horns emerged from the blood egg.

Immediately afterwards, one head after another emerged from the blood egg. Two were in the shape of mice, one looked like a bird, and together with the previous one that belonged to a horned lizard, there were four heads in total.

Looking at the "Three-Headed Blood Dragon King" that had grown a head again, a look of joy appeared on Yu Xiaogang's indifferent face. He waved his hand and took the evil dragon martial soul that had broken open the blood egg, revealing its entire hideous body, into his body. A huge amount of soul power emerged, driving his total soul power to increase rapidly.

He had already reached level 79 for some time, but after just half an hour, the soul power in his body could no longer be increased and stopped at level 80!
Controlling the martial soul that had advanced to the "Four-Headed Blood Dragon King" and sealing up most of the remaining soul power, Yu Xiaogang opened his eyes, flashing blood light, causing the void in front of him to distort.

"I'm already level 80. When I kill the 'Ink-Scaled Poisonous Dragon' in the 'Sunset Forest', the youngest Soul Douluo in Douluo Continent will definitely engrave my name, Yu Xiaogang—!" Yu Xiaogang muttered to himself, a sickly flush appearing on his face.

Thirty-four years old, eighty levels, this record is two years earlier than Ling Yi and Tang Hao who broke through to the eight-ring Soul Douluo at the age of thirty-six!!!

……

"Tiandou City", Aoki Chamber of Commerce.

"Next quarter, the price of food supplies in the northern part of the [Tiandou Empire] will be reduced by another 10%." Ling Yi put down the financial statements in his hand and said to Mang Li and Qingqiu Xin in front of him.

"Lower the price?!" Qingqiu Xin did not agree immediately. Instead, he frowned and advised, "City Lord, the price we originally sold at was already low enough. If we lower it further, we won't make any profit!"

"Low grain prices hurt farmers. This is what you taught us before."

Ling Yi tapped the financial statements in front of him and said, "I looked at the current purchase price of Blue Silver Rice in the [Barak Kingdom] and the [Xingluo Empire]. Even if our selling price in Tiandou Northland drops by 10%, we will still make a profit."

"There is some profit," Qingqiu Xin curled his lips and said with a little dissatisfaction, "but after deducting the transportation costs and labor costs in various places, as well as some miscellaneous expenses, the best we can do is to break even. How can we make any profit——"

"This is all in vain—"

This was not how Ling Yi taught them before.

Qingqiu Xin still remembers that when Qingmu Chamber of Commerce was first founded, Ling Yi told them about a concept called "Das Kapital".

The social status of Douluo Continent can actually be classified as a slavery system.

In addition to the semi-open slave trade, because of the existence of martial spirits, personal strength has become the standard for measuring the strength of a force.

Forced buying and selling, or even outright plundering, is the true situation beneath the glamorous appearance of Douluo Continent.

The exploitation of slavery is direct. When people are relaxed, the slaves are whipped on the body, causing them to fear physical pain.

However, in the "Capital" that Ling Yi taught Qingqiu Xin and others, exploitation is indirect. They will not force or hurt anyone, and it is everyone's right to buy or not buy things from the Qingmu Chamber of Commerce.

However, although this seems to give people the freedom to choose, in fact, under the overall layout of the Aoki Chamber of Commerce, no one has any choice at all.

Take food for example. Nearly 70% of the food on the entire continent was bought by the Aoki Chamber of Commerce at a price slightly higher than the previous market purchase price, and then sold at a price slightly lower than the market price at that time.

Except for the part that was stored in the granaries of various countries, all the food in Douluo Continent at that time was in the hands of the Qingmu Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, when the high-end combat power of [Aoki Chamber of Commerce] had not yet developed, Ling Yi would definitely not let [Aoki Chamber of Commerce] manipulate the grain prices. He would not do that now either.

However, this is just like the mushroom eggs. Ling Yi feels that he can do without them, but he cannot live without them, and certainly not let them be in the hands of others.

In addition to food, there are weapons, weapons produced by the [Blacksmith Guild].

When everyone can hold a sharp weapon, everyone will put pressure on those who are unwilling to change. Fear will destroy his will, and he will eventually have no choice but to buy weapons produced by the [Blacksmith Association] and [Aoki Chamber of Commerce].

Even if they don’t buy it from the [Blacksmith Association] and [Aoki Chamber of Commerce], it doesn’t matter. The other party will buy it from other places, such as from the [Haotian Sect], [Tiandou Empire], [Xingluo Empire], [Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect]... All of them are accomplices in raising the status of magical weapons.

And no one could blame Ling Yi, the Blacksmith Association, or the Aoki Chamber of Commerce, because they had never forced anyone to buy their products.

The capitalists in the community of interests, in a consensus without the need for discussion, will bring all ordinary people together to oppress ordinary people like them and carry them under their wing.

Until the hard-earned assets in his pocket were handed over to the class represented by the Aoki Chamber of Commerce.

But now, Ling Yi's actions made Qingqiu Xin a little confused.

(End of this chapter)