Looking at the middle-aged golden elixir monk who was slightly fatter and smiling, Zhao Ran stretched out his hand and asked: "Please sit down."
After sitting down, Zhao Ranyuan pointed to the stone table. The teapot on the table was filled with two cups of tea.
"please."
Wang Chengyu took a sip and praised: "Good tea, maybe it is brewed with five-flowered rue leaves? The abbot is generous."
Zhao Ran said: "I plant a lot of yam in my family's yam garden, so I use it to make tea, which is of great benefit to my practice. If you don't mind it, fellow Taoist Wang, take a pound with you when you leave."
Wang Chengyu quickly handed over his hand: "Thank you, abbot, for the gift. Wang has good tea. I also brought some this time. It is Biluowei, a specialty from overseas. Please taste it, abbot."
Zhao Ran looked at the tea leaves in the box, smelled the tea, nodded and said, "It seems to be a type of pea leaves?"
Wang Chengyu nodded: "There is an island in the sea called Biluo. There is a spiritual flower on the island called Biluowei. It can be used as medicine to help spiritual practice, but Wang prefers making tea."
Wei is a pea, and the old saying goes, "Pick Wei and eat it", which means picking wild peas for cooking. Biluowei must be a spiritual wild pea, and this is the first time Zhao Ran has seen it.
"Are there any fresh leaves? Or bean seeds?" He wanted to collect them and plant them in the Junshan Medicine Garden.
"It's not difficult. Fairy Caiwei, the owner of Biluo Island, is not a stingy person. She doesn't have too many restrictions on picking tea on the island. There is only one tea, and no random picking is allowed. But after Biluowei left the island, it was difficult to survive.
Wang tried several times but failed."
"Who is Fairy Caiwei?"
"But she's not a human being. She's a famous shape-shifting demon in the East China Sea. Some people call her the Pea Fairy. Although it's a bit too vulgar, she doesn't mind. She feels friendly to her."
"What is it transformed into?"
"I don't know this."
After chatting for a while, Zhao Ran raised the issue of Sulfur Que Island. After asking, he found out that Wang Chengyu had not only been there, but he had also personally trafficked a lot of sulfur and malachite from the island five years ago.
This time, he finally found the right person, and Zhao Ran quickly asked for detailed advice.
Indeed, as Qianxun Taotong said, Sulfque Island is an unowned island. Gein Island is full of minerals such as sulfur and malachite. The smell is very strong, and you may even be poisoned if you stay there for a long time.
Compared with other spiritual minerals and materials produced in the East China Sea, the unit prices of spiritual sulfur and malachite are not high. Often a shipload of minerals is brought to the Central Plains, which is equivalent to 1,800 taels of silver, so the merchants who sell them are not
many.
Only those passing ships that happen to have free cargo space will land on the island and dig some for ballast.
Hearing this, Zhao Ran remained calm and did not explain too much. Spirit sulfur and malachite were indeed not expensive in the past, but starting from this year, the prices may rise.
In fact, it is not just a matter of price increase. In the future and forever, these two kinds of spiritual minerals will become important strategic materials, and no amount of them will be enough for the Talisman Copying Technique.
When attacking a city, a hundred fire-breathing dragons and other battle array weapons are placed below the city, and a single salvo fires thousands of talismans. What kind of light shield can withstand this?
Such a spectacular scene, just thinking about it makes me a little excited!
After Wang Chengyu's introduction, Zhao Ran understood clearly that the massive amount of spiritual minerals from the Sparrow Island could not be transported to the Central Plains, and the reason for the obstacle was the inability to make money.
This problem cannot be solved simply by raising the price. How far can the price of two kinds of spiritual ore be raised rashly? At the current price, a shipload of spiritual ore brought to the Central Plains is only worth one thousand eight hundred taels of silver.
If you make other seafood, you can sell it for ten times as much as 500 yuan per ship.
Zhao Ran's purpose is to achieve large-scale refining at a cost of one silver per talisman, and to widely use it in all aspects. If the price of these two kinds of spiritual minerals is to increase tenfold, the only way to mass-produce talismans is
It's an empty talk.
The most feasible way is to build your own fleet, specifically used to transport the two minerals sulfur and malachite from Sutonque Island. At the same time, the ships must have three characteristics: one is low cost, and the other is large loading capacity.
The third one is quick and fast.
In other words, if someone else makes one trip, your own boat can make two trips; if someone else pulls two cargoes, you can handle it with just one boat; if others lose one boat, you will be heartbroken, but if you lose two boats, you will just laugh it off.
In this way, the current income of 1,000 taels for hauling a ship of spiritual minerals can be expanded to more than 8,000 taels. This is the real solution.
However, this method is destined not to be realized in the short term. The top priority is to bring back the two spiritual mines as soon as possible to temporarily meet the needs of Ming Dynasty, which has already half-stepped into the era of talismans.
"The Cock Cing Guanhui published an announcement in "Junshan Notes" and "Inside and Outside the Imperial City" that in order to build the bridge, the Cock Cing Guan needed a lot of spiritual sulfur and malachite. During this period, any maritime merchant who introduced two kinds of spiritual minerals not only
The Cock-Crowing Society will purchase vessels based on the market price, and will also award titles to ship owners who have shown positive performance."
Wang Chengyu suddenly became interested and asked: "What kind of title?"
Zhao Ran said: "I am going to suggest to the imperial court that Lieutenant Fengguo, Lieutenant Fuguo, and even Lieutenant Zhenguo be given to those monks among the maritime merchants who aspire to the Ming Dynasty, obey the Taoist ancestors, and have made important contributions to the Taoist sect. Of course, because the imperial court
We are reforming the clan titles. These titles do not include titles and salaries, but there will be no shortage of other appropriate statuses."
Wang Chengyu doesn't care whether he has a title or a salary. For maritime merchants like them who have made enough money, a net worth of tens of thousands of silver is just the right amount. Fifty, sixty, seventy or eighty thousand is normal, and even those with more than one hundred thousand are not included.
For a few, Shi Juelu over the past hundred years is really not worth mentioning. What they care more about is their reputation.
In the future, when other people see you, they will call you Wang Fengguo, Prince, etc. How flattering it is!
Wang Chengyu was immediately tempted, and silently made some calculations to see if he should spend some more money to get a few ships out.
"How much spirit sulfur and malachite do I need to transport to be conferred a title? How should I confer this third-class title?"
"Currently, only Lieutenant Feng Guo will be awarded, and the last two ranks will be decided in the future. The knighthood is not calculated based on the amount of transportation. The Cockcrow Guanhui will find a way to get three to five places from the imperial court. It will be evaluated at the end of the year to determine whose contribution
Whoever is bigger will get the title."
Li Dayin laughed at the side and said: "Is Lao Wang tempted? Abbot Zhao gave you the banknote detector. This is an exclusive business. Now Abbot Zhao needs spiritual sulfur and malachite. If Lao Wang can make a difference in this
When you measure your strength and merit, can you still win the title?"
Seeing that Wang Chengyu was still thinking, Li Dayin added fuel to the fire: "If Lao Wang is interested, our Yuanfu Palace will also form a fleet to join your Lao Wang's fleet. The sea is dangerous and dangerous, and more ships can be used."
It's safer if we help each other. But I, Yuanfu Palace, can't do it alone, so I have to rely on you, Old Wang. Your subordinates all know the sea routes, but we are blind."
As soon as Li Dayin expressed his intention to send a ship to join, Wang Chengyu immediately made up his mind: "Okay, let's go there again!"