Chapter 102 Lord Yang's Intentions
The purchase price of curtain cloth is 2.4 yuan, and the cost of 100 meters of cloth is 240 yuan. If it is sold to Rex at a 20% discount, it will be 800 copper coins and 0.8 gold coins.
The gold coins in this world are not pure. The gold content is around 60% to 70%, depending on the country or individual conscience that minted the coins. 0.8 gold coins, calculated based on the minimum gold content of 60%, contain more than 4 grams of pure gold.
240 yuan for 4 grams of pure gold, what do you want a bicycle...
The wholesale price of a plastic cup and bowl is one yuan (basic style without any printing, the wholesale price of printed plastic cups and bowls is one to two cents more expensive), five copper coins for two, which means that 1,000 RMB plastic cups and bowls can be exchanged for 2,500 copper coins, which is equivalent to 2.5 gold coins. If you purify it yourself, it will be at least 15 grams of gold weighing the earth standard...
The cost and profit of button boxes and sewing boxes are similar to those of plastic cups and bowls.
The towels are not bad, a cheap towel purchased for 2,000 RMB can be exchanged for about 30 grams of gold of earth standard...
Coupled with the new products supplied by the prison enterprise this time, it is no exaggeration to say that if Yang Qiu does nothing but make money, and is given more time, he can take away all the gold reserves of the Rhine Kingdom...
Of course, Yang Qiu would not delay his work for the sake of making money, as that would be putting the cart before the horse. However, if he wanted to expand the branding matrix and increase the spiritual anchor points of Earth players, he would not be able to do without money.
He himself doesn't have the time to do such idle things as making money, so he lets the tools do it...
Seeing Rex looking at him with a confused face, Yang Qiu smiled and said, "What are you confused about, Rex?"
Rex suddenly came back to his senses, and looked down at the goods and unit prices listed on the contract in panic, his voice trembling a little: "This... I don't quite understand, Yang, do you mean... to let me be a businessman?"
"Of course not. I'm just giving you a way to earn funds so that you can run Westham more calmly to your ideal form." Yang Qiu said with a smile, "Without money, nothing can be done, especially after the announcement of the cancellation of the population tax and your share of the agricultural tax has been issued."
Rex blushed and turned away quietly...
Rex did have selfish motives in posting the tax exemption notice without consulting Yang - he also knew how naive this "policy" was, and he was afraid that if Yang opposed it, he would not have the courage to stick to his own opinion.
It would be fine if Yang blamed him, but Yang acted like he knew he was willful and could tolerate his willfulness...which made Rex very embarrassed.
"I like idealists." Yang Qiu restrained his smile and said seriously, "Conspirators and ambitious people may have their own unique charms and are more likely to be winners... But in my opinion, no matter whether they are conspirators or ambitious people, the victory they achieve is just a victory of a city or a pond, which is fundamentally different from the real victory."
"And this is the main reason why I chose you." Yang Qiu showed Rex an approving smile of an elder looking at an outstanding junior. "An idealist is the one who is farthest from victory, but also the one who is closest to real victory. What kind of changes will a young and energetic idealist like you bring to Westram? I am looking forward to it."
Rex subconsciously straightened his back and looked serious. He thought carefully before answering, "I... dare not promise anything. I can only say that I will do my best."
The young man put down the contract, stood up, walked out from behind the table, lowered his head, and bowed deeply: "Thank you... for giving me this opportunity to prove myself."
It was nothing that Yang arranged for him to be the nominal lord of Westram.
Yang can get him to the top, but he can also get him out.
To put it bluntly...he, the so-called Lord of Westram, is no different from an ordinary company employee, but Yang needs such a person to appear here.
Giving him the sales rights of these magical products of unknown origin is the true delegation of power and trust - whoever sells these products is bound to make a lot of money, and the combination of wealth and power can make people more ambitious.
Yang Qiu smiled and nodded, then shook his head, looked at Rex deeply, and said meaningfully: "You have proved yourself, Rex. What you need is to find a path that meets your ideals and is feasible."
Rex stood up, looked into Yang Qiu's deep eyes that seemed to see through him, and nodded firmly: "I will, Yang."
Rex's ideal is to surpass his father, the Viscount.
When he had no chance and no clue to achieve his ideal, he could only pursue power blindly and risk accepting advanced baptism without enough experience and spiritual training.
Yang Qiu brought this opportunity to him, and he finally got the capital to compete with his father. It was normal for him to burst out with such great enthusiasm.
Yang Qiu smiled and nodded at Rex, motioning with his hand for him to leave his name on the contract.
He didn't give such a lucrative opportunity to Rex on a whim... As he said, he had already examined Rex, and Rex had indeed proved himself, so this contract appeared in front of Rex.
After all… everyone can have ideals. To make a great wish is just a matter of moving one’s heart and lips.
The only problem is that most people confuse the line between ideals and daydreams.
For a top student who would feel ashamed if he studied hard every day and played with his phone for too long, it is his dream to go to Tsinghua University or Peking University.
For a poor student who plays Pesticide on his mobile phone every day, chats on QQ, and flirts with a girl on the other end of the network cable whose real name is unknown, and whose grades can't even make it into the top three in the class, it is just a daydream to want to go to Tsinghua University or Peking University.
In short...only those who can continue to work hard for it and to some extent abandon vulgar tastes are qualified to talk about ideals.
Rex has never demonstrated any talent for leadership, and his intelligence and means do not seem to be better than Tuttle or Pansy.
But after being pushed into the position of lord, he did not feel proud of his superiority or rush to show off his authority; although he had hundreds of young men and women, each with their own charm, who allowed him to do whatever he wanted, he did not rashly regard these people who were only beautiful but unable to resist him as his private property.
This is the fundamental reason why Rex won Yang Qiu's trust.
To put it bluntly, people who commit the first kind of mistakes are fools who cannot see their true position and know their own weight. Such fools who mistake other people's charity for their own strength and reveal their tails because of it will never accomplish anything.
Not to mention those who make the latter kind of mistakes - those who easily succumb to primitive instincts, succumb to their lower bodies, and are willing to lower their evolutionary level to become a JJ host. They are better at shifting the blame and shirking responsibility than getting things done. Yang Qiu does not need such trash.
Being able to avoid these two problems that are most likely to cause trouble, even if Rex does not meet his expectations, he will not be too far off.
Here, Yang Qiu still had to spend some time to motivate Rex and encourage this young man to pursue his ideals firmly and persistently; over there, Yang Qiu didn't need to go through so much trouble to deal with Ji Tang and his national team members... He could just send a "system announcement" and be done with it.
Zhao Zhenzhen, who had been helping Ji Tang for half a day, heard a "ding" sound in her ear again. She lowered her head to glance at the panel and fell silent again.
"Sister Zhao?" Ji Tang looked back.
The two of them were currently in charge of the renovation work of the buildings along the street on the south side of the town's main avenue near the town gate. After the notice for hiring temporary workers with daily wages was issued in the morning (in the other world time), the townspeople showed great enthusiasm and hundreds of people came in a short while. Ji Tang did not waste time and immediately asked the clerks to act as translators and brought all those who were willing to be temporary workers over. In just half a day, they had demolished the messy partitions and walls inside two bars, and now they had already demolished the third one.
Zhao Zhenzhen looked around and found that the clerks who could understand their conversation were not around, so she pulled Ji Tang aside and repeated the content of the announcement she had just received.
After hearing this, Ji Tang wanted to make an embarrassing expression on his face...
"This guy... How lazy is he!" Ji Tang couldn't help but complain, "Does he expect us to do everything for him?!"
The previous system prompts only hinted that the national team would have to solve the problem of . This time, the announcement was very explicit:
Lord Yang directly sent a list of supplies to Zhao Zhenzhen, the head of the Undead Chamber of Commerce branch. Frozen foods, instant noodles, pickled products, pastries, soft candies, hard candies and other ready-to-eat products that were hit by food delivery apps, as well as spices such as salt, chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, garlic, cardamom, and even the thirteen spices that were defeated by Lao Gan Ma were all on the list!
Zhao Zhenzhen, the head of the branch, can take the goods first and pay later. Lord Yang only accepts gold coins for settlement!
Others may not know where these goods that Lord Yang took out came from, but how could Ji Tang and Zhao Zhenzhen not know?
Calculate the retail prices of these foods on Earth, and then convert them into the currency exchange rate of this alien plane... Ji Tang really wanted to stick the word "scoundrel" on Lord Yang's forehead!
The mastermind behind this "game" must be very short of money, which can be seen from the obsolete and delisted goods that Lord Yang is trading in the "game".
If you have the ability to be a trader, that's fine, it's your ability; but as a trader, you only do the work of a porter and leave everything else to others? !
Zhao Zhenzhen didn't rush to express her opinion. After thinking for a while, she said, "This Lord Yang...his intentions are very suspicious."
"Isn't it just forcing us to be his money-making tools even if we have to hold our noses?" Ji Tang said angrily.
"No." Zhao Zhenzhen shook her head, and something seemed to flash in her dark eyes. "What I mean is that he knew who we were, but he still let us get the position of mayor, let us contact the locals, and gave us the opportunity to obtain a large amount of local currency through trade."
"This completely defenseless attitude of letting go, combined with the slippery hands of the 'target' in reality...it's hard not to think too much." Zhao Zhenzhen paused here and said with a strange look, "More importantly, he asked you to work with Rex."
"...Sister Zhao, please put it in simple terms." Ji Tang said expressionlessly.
"Don't you understand enough? You've only been the player mayor for a few days. How much influence has Rex been under?" Zhao Zhenzhen patiently persuaded.
Ji Tang scratched the bald skull head in confusion, and suddenly thought of something, and his mouth opened wide.
"It's impossible for him not to know that you are influencing Rex, a local native, in your own way, and it's impossible for him not to anticipate what kind of chemical reaction will occur after Rex comes into high-density contact with us..." Zhao Zhenzhen said calmly, "Lord Yang knew this, but he still did it. I have reason to believe that this person seems to want to use us to summon the red ghost in this alien world."
Ji Tang's mouth was so wide open that he couldn't close it...
"Lord Yang is definitely a Chinese." Zhao Zhenzhen said in a deep voice, "It is more likely that Lord Yang is the 'target'. They were the same person from the beginning to the end."
In reality, the one who is skilled in contacting supermarkets and manufacturers is the "target".
In the "game", Lord Yang intentionally or unintentionally facilitated the collaboration between Ji Tang and Rex, and later opened the door for Zhao Zhenzhen, who had the same background as Ji Tang.
Leaving aside the eye-catching factors such as traveling to another world and Chinese compatriots playing a game and then going to another world to become skeletons, and only looking at Lord Yang's behavior, it is indeed very similar to the Chinese way of thinking - the Chinese do not talk about using tolerance and forgiveness to influence the world, and they are even more disdainful of weak resistance such as non-violent non-cooperation. The Chinese are brave enough to rebel with arms!
This alien world has a morbid phenomenon where kings and nobles coexist and religious sects are everywhere. It is very necessary to summon the red ghost and make a drastic revolution!
"He is so careless and gives up power in the 'game' because he needs us to actively help him. He is so slippery in reality because his followers are Chinese and he doesn't want us to discover his true identity." Zhao Zhenzhen made the final conclusion, paused, laughed and shook his head, "This guy is very smart in his calculations."
Ji Tang was confused.
Ji Tang felt no sense of disobedience when the other world summoned red ghosts... The more he understood Westram and the deformed social structure of Innadelli, the more he wished he could set up a party branch in the other world tomorrow.
What confused Ji Tang was that when he thought that the magician from another world who could use magic to transform the terrain and forcibly create a loess road in front of the Exile Town was actually a fellow Chinese and could actually wander around on Earth, he felt his head swell...
"Sister Zhao, this is not just a problem in the other world. This... is a big problem!" Ji Tang broke out in a cold sweat.
"It's indeed a big problem." Zhao Zhenzhen sighed, "This person's existence is too special, and the local police station is not convenient to register and report it."
Ji Tang: “…”
"Relax, I'm just kidding." Zhao Zhenzhen smiled and said, "So far, our mysterious compatriot has been very law-abiding in reality. Since he wants us to bring our own food and help him, the more important our role in this 'game' is, the more law-abiding he will be in reality. There is no need to rush to treat him as a security risk."
Ji Tang hesitated for a while, then nodded with a complicated look...
"Now, the first step to start the work is to make us, the dry food party, more important." Zhao Zhenzhen waved his bone claws proudly, "This is the first time we have done something like exporting ideology, so we have to do it well."
Ji Tang almost slipped...
How to put it... He always felt that it was unfair for him to be regarded as a troublemaker in the past... Compared with Sister Zhao, he felt that he was very honest.
Yang Qiu, who walked out of the town hall with the contract, suddenly stopped.
After a moment, a mysterious smile appeared on Yang Qiu's face...but he quickly stopped smiling and walked back to his residence with even lighter steps.
The smartness of his Chinese compatriots did not disappoint him. With the right attitude, people guessed his intentions.
The innocent players had no idea how many major events that affected the entire game's "main storyline" had happened in just half a night on a simple Saturday...
Saturday, November 2, 9 p.m. Earth time.
As the sky in the game turned into dusk, the teleportation point in the courtyard of Westham Town Hall began to flash white light from time to time. Many leisure parties who were staying in Exile Town hurried over, ready to stay here until dawn.
Teacher Yuchi was a very lazy player, often logging in to complete tasks at the exact time and logging off as soon as he was done. This was his first time being transferred to Westram. After leaving the transfer point, he looked around in amazement: "Oh my, oh my - the scene here is really amazing."
"I told you a long time ago that this map is very peaceful." Liu Meng smiled, "Wait until the daytime in the game and come over to take a screenshot. Post it on WeChat Moments and say that I took it while traveling in a small town in Europe. There will be absolutely no flaws."
"There is still a difference. Look at this wall, it's not even plastered with lime. It doesn't look like a tourist attraction at all." Teacher Yuchi looked at the scene and then looked at the townspeople who were returning home curiously. "There are too many NPCs here, much more than in Exile Town. Why don't all these NPCs issue quests?"
"No." Liu Meng sighed loudly, "I don't know if the NPC quest mechanism here hasn't been implemented yet, or if there is some pre-plot. I've come here many times and haven't triggered any quests. The quests I can get here are still from the same old faces."
"Then it's probably not implemented yet." Teacher Yuchi said, "Forget it, there are no quests in the town. Didn't Ouyang say that there are a lot of grasshoppers here and they are easy to catch? I can catch some and exchange them for reputation tomorrow. This is really weird. I thought I could directly hire NPCs when my reputation with the Undead Chamber of Commerce reached Friendly, but I have to pay extra reputation to buy items."
The two chatted as they walked out of the town and headed towards the wheat fields.
Not long after they left, Beluga, who had waited for a while before teleporting, also appeared at the Westram teleportation point.
This guy seemed to be moving slowly but in fact he was very nervous as he moved out of the town hall compound. He looked around and confirmed that Teacher Yuchi and Sister Liu Meng were not there, then he breathed a sigh of relief.
Teacher Yuchi is a nice person. When I asked him how to quickly gain enough reputation to hire NPCs, he felt too embarrassed to lie.
"We can't go to that place tonight." Ou Yan had a blank expression on his face and sighed inwardly. He hesitated for a while at the door of the town hall and walked silently towards the main street in the town.
When passing through an alley, Ou Yan saw something moving in the dark alley out of the corner of his eye and stopped subconsciously.
Turning around, Ou Yan saw a man clinging to the wall of a house deep in the alley.
In the darkness which does not cause any visual impairment to the undead... the man seemed to hope that the sturgeon did not notice him. His two arms were still clinging to the top of the wall, his feet were hanging in the air, he remained motionless in the posture of climbing over the wall, and stared at the sturgeon nervously.
When Beluga saw this scene, he had only one thought in his mind: mission!
Trigger the hidden task!
The next second, the European beluga jumped into the alley, and rushed towards the thief who tried to break into the house in the dark with his eyes shining...
"ah--!!"
This clever thief, who thought it was safer to commit crimes at dusk (for fear of encountering people during the day and ghosts at night), was pinned to the ground before he had run ten meters.
Just when Ouyang mistakenly thought that catching the thief was a hidden mission... before the night fell, a large group of players gathered on the Second Street of Exile Town and the Walker Guild Square.
The future Blood Alliance party members La Hongge, Qin Guan and others, as well as the steadfast individual party members such as Entropy But Not Increase and Only Hard Work Can Win, all made their appearances.
Seeing that most people had arrived, En Bu Zeng, who had no hatred towards anyone present and could communicate peacefully, took the initiative to step forward and said, "The weekly activity book is only open for three in-game nights. Everyone knows the situation on the first night. Even the simplest Hal Heart Demon book is difficult to win."
“I don’t think anyone would like this kind of game experience if the whole night was wiped out. My suggestion is that everyone should work together to get the first kill and get a reliable strategy, which will benefit all of us players.”
After finishing her opening remarks, En Bu Zeng calmly withdrew... She was just an advocate, but she didn't think she had the ability to mediate the conflict between Brother La Hong and Boss Vanilla. It would be better to let the two sides negotiate on their own.
"I have no objection." Brother Lahong said generously, "If everyone agrees, all the masters on our side can fight."
"I have no objection." Qin Guan also said, "Having a strategy and not having one are two different things. Getting the first kill of the first Heart Demon dungeon can at least give everyone the confidence to continue exploring the new land."
Entropy does not increase and nods with satisfaction.
These two player bosses expressed their opinions so readily and without any grudges, of course, not because they were sincere in their desire to cooperate in the strategy, but because they themselves could not bear the low morale caused by frequent team wipes - they were all members of the same pioneering team, and it was not easy to pass the blame or start a fight when problems occurred. If they couldn't win no matter what, they would just disband.
The one who led a team of independent players, Aipinsheng, didn't say anything and just stepped forward... He was the only one who could fight in his small team, so he just came out to participate and that was it.
There was no opposition, so Entropy But Zeng stood up again and divided the players into professional teams according to the expert players proposed by all parties.
Logically speaking, with Miaobishenghua and Mingfengchunpu present, it would not be Enbuseng's turn to do this, but the two of them were avoiding suspicion, so she had to get involved.
Soon, two pioneering teams composed of expert players whose potential values ranked in the first tier among the players as a whole (excluding tools) were formed.
The elite equipment of these twenty-two people can be seen just by looking at their weapons - none of them has a common white steel knife on their waist, and at the very least they have top-notch white-letter equipment with high attack and high critical strike.
