The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

This is probably the only negotiation in which both parties want the other party to earn more.

It's not that their minds are abnormal, but that both parties are too eager for a long-term, fair transaction.

Just like Emilia said, the price over there in the tower is the price of the finished product being sold.

Xu Lailai has no mature production technology. If he wants to sell it, he can only sell it according to the price of raw materials like Naga and others.

What's better about Qingfeng City than Naga is that Xu Lai and the others can sell them slowly in the store, so they won't be hoarded in large quantities and drive down the price.

Therefore, you will definitely make money, but the payback period may be a little longer.

But maybe, after all, it hasn’t been put on sale yet, maybe the market sales are good and it will be very popular.

After all, merchants from the Southern Empire have to travel thousands of miles to buy goods. The Western Empire and the Northern Empire, which are close to the grasslands, are not countries near the sea.

After several discussions, Xu Lai finally chose the price plan on the tower side because it was a guaranteed profit.

However, the Deep Sea Tribe also gave Xu Lai enough compensation for the gold mines they brought.

There are many minerals in the deep sea, and some of them are directly exposed on the seabed without any need to be mined.

Moreover, the Nagas have vassals, that is, fishmen. These things are particularly capable of producing animals in large quantities, which is just right for seabed mining.

But seabed mining is easy, but refining raw ore cannot be done on the seabed.

Xu Lai himself also lacks enough blacksmiths. The existing blacksmith shops are not enough to build city defense and siege equipment, even if they include those from Mingyue City.

Now he has also taken over the equipment customization requirements from the Nagas, so he must allocate a part of the blacksmiths for forging.

Fortunately, Xu had plundered a lot of blacksmiths before he came, and his current castle has been completed, leaving many farmers free.

Put these farmers into the blacksmith shop. Based on the current labor intensity, most of them can be transferred to another job in half a month.

These farmers-turned-blacksmiths may not be as spiritual as normal blacksmiths and can develop, create, and customize armor and weapons for others.

But this kind of blacksmith can perfectly complete the work you give them, and they are meticulous and will never make any mistakes.

In fact, refining metal is not difficult. The most important thing is the intensity of firepower.

At this point, on earth, a blast furnace may need to be built to make steel. In this magical world, as long as a fire-based magic circle can be arranged, the intensity of the flame is completely determined by the energy supply.

Setting up such a spell array is not difficult for Qingfeng City now.

After all, there is a level 4 magic guild and two magisters sitting in charge. How difficult can it be to set up a fire source array?

As for the energy control and hosting of this magic circle, Xu Laike also recruited a whole group of mages.

More than two hundred mages took turns releasing mana and presiding over the magic circle. Xu Lai didn't even need to use the ready-made mana crystals.

After all, the energy in the mana crystal can be replenished after it is consumed, but the replenishment ratio is 2:1.

Mage No. 200 Xu Laina only needs to rest peacefully for 8 hours a day to replenish all his mana.

With these innate conditions, Xu Lai didn't even need to build a blacksmith shop.

You only need to find a large enough place outside the city, arrange a fire source array, and set up a suitable furnace to separate the different substances in the metal mine one by one.

The principle is also very simple. Different substances in metal ores melt at different temperatures.

Use a split-flow furnace to collect solutions produced at different temperatures, and when solidified, different metals can be obtained.

Xu Lai didn't know much about metal smelting, but he didn't need to do the specific work himself. He only needed to provide general ideas.

And Xu Lai didn't want to make steel, he just extracted minerals.

The two most precious materials in this world, fine gold and mithril, are extracted from gold mines and silver mines respectively, and are considered companions of gold and silver.

It's just that the value of this companion creature has completely overwhelmed the main product.

The gold ore rough stone provided by Naga should have a high gold content.

Although Xu Lai doesn't understand minerals, he knows density, and the physical properties of such objects have not changed much in this world.

The weight of a piece of gold ore is much heavier than that of fine iron of the same volume, which shows that the content of heavy metals in it is definitely not low.

In order to make the transaction fair, Xu Lai asked the people from the Naga Mission to take the boxes of gold and follow Xu Lai to the magic guild.

When he went to the magic guild, Xu Lai asked Nofa to call over all the current mages who knew fire spells.

In this transaction, Emilia brought many types of items, but the quantity was not large.

The ore has the most, but counting all the inventory in Emilia's space ring, there are only 5 large boxes.

Xu Lai took out all the five large boxes of ore, put them into the alchemy cauldron used by the alchemist, and then turned on the fire.

They say that real gold is not afraid of fire, and this is indeed true.

The carbon, stone and other impurities in the gold mine were completely lost when burned by the fire. In the end, only various metals were left in the crucible.

Professional alchemists came forward to further process the remaining metals and separate various metals.

After processing all 5 large boxes of gold ore rough stones, we finally got an average value that both parties can agree on.

According to a large number of sample data analysis, the gold ore provided by the Naga tribe is almost one kilogram of gold ore;

More than 160 grams of gold and 30 grams of fine gold can be extracted. In addition, there are a large amount of brass, copper, fine iron and other metals, and the other part is impurities.

In other words, most of this damn gold ore is actually metal, and there will be an obvious metallic crunching sound when colliding with each other.

Xu Lai didn't know what grade this grade of metal ore was on the earth.

But according to the two alchemists who helped Xu Lai make gold, the gold ore provided by the Nagas was not considered rich ore.

The definition of rich ore in this world is to specify that the composition must be greater than 50%.

Xu Lai didn't know how it was defined on Earth, but if you could extract a few grams from a ton of gold ore, you could probably make a fortune.

And this kind of gold content has exceeded 15%, and it is said that it can only be defined as a barren gold mine.

Moreover, the Nagas who accompanied the whole process actually agreed with the alchemist's words.

In the words of these Nagas, the ores they collected were all rough stones collected from the surface of seabed deposits.

Because they could never sell it for a high price, they didn't mine it well.

If Xu Lai needs it, the Nagas can go deeper and provide Xu Lai with higher-quality gold mines based on the purchase price of mana crystals.

"Then at what price did those businessmen buy your gold mines?"

Emilia frowned and said: "Those damn businessmen only want to give us 1,000 gold coins for a ton of gold mine."

Xu Lai calculated silently. The weight of one gold coin is about 10 grams, and 1,000 gold coins is 10 kilograms.

If a gold mine is extracted with a gold content of 15%, it will be about 150 kilograms, which is fifteen thousand gold.

How is this a huge profit? This is simply an open robbery.

In such a comparison, Naga felt like he had become a fish-man and a slave of these merchants digging for gold.

It's no wonder that these Nagas are eager to find new channels. The trade routes are controlled by those southern merchants, and most of the profits are given to others. It's only strange that they are willing.

Xu Lai thought for a while and said: "1,000 gold coins, that's too low. Even if it takes a huge amount of manpower and material resources to refine gold, it can almost be offset by the companions of gold."

The alchemist said that although Naga's gold mine can only be regarded as a barren gold mine, it is accompanied by fine gold.

Although only 30 grams can be extracted from a portion of the ore, with the density of fine gold, 30 grams is just an inconspicuous small point.

“We also know there will be losses, and as for the companion animals, we don’t care too much.

However, it is difficult to dig gold mines under the sea. Even if we have the right tools, hundreds of murlocs can only dig out such a small piece after digging for a whole day.

1,000 gold coins per ton, even if you include transportation costs, we cannot accept this price under any circumstances. "

"Hundreds of fishmen dig for a day to dig out one piece of rough stone? How much does this piece weigh? It must be 4 or 5 kilograms at most."

"Lord, the largest piece of raw ore here is 3.5 kilograms, and the smallest is less than 2 kilograms. On average, it is probably less than 3 kilograms."

The alchemist on the side interrupted.

Hearing this, Xu Lai smiled bitterly and said, "Is it because we don't have the right tools?"

Emilia said: "Yes, although there are many minerals in the ocean, we cannot use them directly.

They built a town together with humans, but the output is still limited. Even the warriors in the tribe don't have enough weapons and equipment, and it is impossible for the murlocs to have metal tools.

Even though we still have murlocs to recruit, those low-level murlocs only have short metal spears at most.

Xu Lai, on the ground, you probably can't understand how scarce supplies are for us living under the sea.

To you and the masters, these gold mines are barren, but to us we despise them for being too high in metal.

Even if we are ruthless and use metal tools to mine, the wear rate of the tools is astonishing.

Ten fishmen take turns using a tool. When all ten fishmen are exhausted, they can probably collect a small piece of rough stone.

But at this time, the tools are probably no longer usable, and the wear rate when mining hard ore is really shocking.

A meal of rough stones worth 1,000 gold coins is only enough for us and those merchants to buy tools at most, which is equivalent to us mining for them for free.

So now, we use more murlocs and let them grind with their claws and bite with their teeth. We can mine as much as we can without investing any more. "

Indeed, gold mines are also mixed with fine gold.

The reason why this thing is precious and rare is that adding it to various metals can greatly increase the strength of armor.

Therefore, unless you use tools that are also doped with fine gold, the wear rate with ordinary metal tools for collection will be too alarming.

This is really too luxurious for Naga, who does not even have the weapons and equipment for her family members.

However, these Nagas have many arms. The average person is equipped with 4 weapon slots, which is enough in most situations.

Nagas, especially high-level Nagas, have 8 arms alone, and no matter how many weapon slots they are equipped with, they are not enough.

After thinking for a while, Xu Lai said, "What is your expected price?"

Emilia looked at Xu Lai, gritted her teeth and said, "Originally we wanted to offer 5,000 gold coins per ton, but we have already made a lot of money on other materials.

If I give it to you, 3,000 gold coins per ton, what do you think? "

Xu Lai smiled and shook his head.

Emilia, who had already experienced it once, did not change her face this time. She still had a smile on her face and asked calmly:

"How much do you think is appropriate?"

Xu Lai did not answer directly, but asked: "So, based on the price of 5,000 gold coins per ton, how much can you provide us in a month?"

Output is another key point that Xu Lai needs to be concerned about. If he can provide one ton a month, even according to Emilia's 3,000 gold coins per ton, Xu Lai will only earn more than 10,000 gold.

This may be enough satisfaction for those businessmen, but for a big lord like Xu Lai, does a business of ten thousand gold require him to come forward in person?

Seeing that Xu Lai ignored the 3,000 gold coins she just mentioned, Emilia smiled bitterly and said:

“I think it’s a ton a month, and you definitely don’t like it.

The price of 5,000 gold per ton is also worth more investment from our Naga. We are not too short of manpower, but there are not many tools, especially metal tools, that we can buy.

What do you think of the output of 5 tons per month? "

The density of adamantine is extremely high, so there are very few armors made of pure adamantine on the market. Otherwise, a set of armor can bear a hundred points of weight, and even Hercules cannot support it.

According to the most common 10% content addition on the market, a piece of fine gold armor would require about 5 kilograms of fine gold.

1 kilogram of rough stone can produce 30 grams, so one ton of rough stone can produce 30 kilograms.

A piece of fine gold armor costs tens of thousands of gold coins, and the fine gold must account for the majority of the value. Even if it only accounts for half, one kilogram is still worth 1,000 gold coins.

So one ton of raw stone, pure gold alone is worth 30,000 gold, and counting the 15,000 gold of gold, even if other metals are worthless, one ton of rough stone can still extract the value of nearly 50,000 gold.

Taking into account the costs of transportation, warehousing, manpower and extraction and smelting, Xu Lai will make a profit even if he gets it at half price.

After all, he doesn't have to transport it all the way back to the Southern Empire like the people in the Southern Empire.

His Qingfeng City is only two days away from Naga Town.

Of course, if it is a transport team, two days may not be enough, it will take at least three or four days.

Xu Lai counted on his fingers and said:

"If I double the price and purchase one ton of rough stone at 10,000 gold coins, can you provide me with 10 tons of rough stone a month?"

"Double, double?" Not only Emilia, but also several guards around Emilia and the managers of Naga Town were all shocked.

Emilia quickly glanced around, and several people understood immediately. After looking at each other, a fishman elder stood up and said:

"Miss Qi Zhen and Your Excellency Lord, it's not that we are unwilling to provide more, but even if we buy out all the tools around us, we can only provide about 6 tons of rough stones in a month at most."

Xu Lai thought for a while and said, "Do you count my Qingfeng City's tools?"

The fishman elder smiled bitterly and said: "When it comes to 5 tons, it has already been included. For these 6 tons, I still include the tools of those hateful southern merchants.

Although we don't know how high the tool output of Qingfeng City is, I calculated it based on ten times the amount of our town.

Our town is not good at making weapons and armor, so almost all blacksmith shops can only forge tools.

No matter how many blacksmith shops there are in Qingfeng City, they can't all forge tools, right? "

Xu Lai also smiled bitterly. Indeed, even for Naga's weapons and armor orders, Xu Lai had to withdraw existing orders. Besides, Qingfeng City itself also needs many tools.

The farm produces every two or three days, which consumes a lot of tools such as sickles, hoes, shovels, and plows.

Xu Lai dared to say this because there was an occupied quarry in Qingfeng City, which could provide a certain number of mining picks.

The maximum output is 6 tons. Xu Lai has no good solution for the time being, but he still encouraged:

“Then let’s do this, I will give you a settlement price based on the total amount of ore you deliver to me every month.

For every additional ton I provide, I will give you an additional 1,000 gold coins per ton. That is, if you can only provide 6 tons, I will purchase it at a price of 6,000 gold coins per ton.

But if you can provide 10 tons, I will purchase it at a price of 10,000 gold coins per ton.

Please believe me, I am not deliberately trying to squeeze your price.

But the greater the quantity, the less labor and refining I consume, and the thinner the cost can be shared. "