Chapter 422

It was only a month and a half that Shen Lang's 2,000 people landed on the Tide Forces Islands, and everything could be described as surprisingly smooth.

After landing on the island, there was no resistance, because there was no one here at all.

Many years ago, this used to be a mine of the Russo family, specializing in iron smelting. Now there are many mines and abandoned smelting workshops.

But a few years ago, Duke Debors abandoned the mine.

Why? Because the iron ore here is too high in sulfur, the smelted iron is too brittle.

Of course, even so, it is a mine after all, and even smelting iron for domestic use can have huge benefits, but later the Russo family discovered a higher-quality iron ore, so they abandoned the mine.

So Shen Lang's 2,000 people easily occupied this place and began to forge the city.

That's right, it's the city!

Generally speaking, how long does it take to build a city, even a castle?

It took more than ten years for Qiu Tianwei's Great Castle of Raging Tide City, the Duke's Castle of the Russo Family to be built for more than 20 years, and the Royal Palace of Queen City to be built for 27 years.

How long will Shen Lang's city take to build?

Shen Lang's goal was to build a city of 100,000 people in half a year.

When he said this goal, everyone below was stunned, thinking that he was talking in his sleep.

How big is a city of 100,000 people? No matter how crowded it is, it will take about ten square kilometers. A city six miles in length and breadth is built with 2,000 people. If only wood is used, it will take about two or three years to build, and if stone is used, it will take about five years.

For half a year, it really seemed like a fool's dream.

But just like a magician, the same new things broke out, which is simply dizzying.

First, he abandoned the two building materials of wood and stone.

These two things are good, but it's a waste of time.

The first thing he took out was cement.

Maybe some people will say, isn't cement this thing slower? It has to be calcined and crushed again, which is a completely labor-intensive industry.

This is half right, but who let Shen Lang find a feng shui treasure.

Not far away is Fire Island with an active volcano that erupts every few years. So what's the most on a volcanic island?

Volcanic ash.

When it is added with lime, it becomes pozzolanic cement. It sounds very primitive, but this cement is already very strong.

Just send a boat to keep bringing back the volcanic ash. As for the lime? There are several lime mines in the Bichao Peninsula where Shen Lang is located.

So the production of cement has been very high almost from the beginning, completely dependent on the capacity of his fleet.

As for the second thing, it is even less rare, that is, bricks.

He used thousands of people to burn bricks and erected brick kilns one after another.

These bricks have just been fired, and the house will be built immediately.

The buildings are all two-story buildings. Because there are no steel bars yet, they can build up to two stories with bricks and cement.

Even in the back, Shen Lang felt that the speed of building a house was still too slow, so he simply made large cement bricks on a large scale, so that building a house would be faster.

Therefore, the development of Bichao Peninsula is changing with each passing day.

One after another, the houses have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

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It has just passed a month and a half, and a medium and large town has taken shape.

Shen Lang's subordinates have not only grown to 2,000, but have skyrocketed to 5,000. The remaining 3,000 people are all slaves. He bought it with money. Of course, after buying it, he gave them the status of free people.

But it seems that these slaves didn't feel particularly happy, they were still dumb, but when they moved into the new house, the ecstasy could no longer be suppressed.

Almost all the slaves lived like pigsties. Even the slaves of the nobles had dozens of people in a room. When they came to Shen Lang, they were all two people in a room. Twelve people lived in a house, and they were so happy that they could cry.

And these brick flat-roofed houses were like palaces for these slaves.

However, the work efficiency of these slaves is really much slower than that of the army. It's not that they don't work hard enough, but they are too stupid. Most slaves can only do the most simple and repetitive work, such as burning bricks, such as burning lime, and then For example, cement is made according to a fixed proportion.

But after buying this batch of slaves, they finally freed the 2,000 troops under Shen Lang from their boring jobs, and they could go to more advanced jobs.

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Shen Lang had already opened the box Jiang Li had left behind.

It was opened early, because when the moonlight shone on it, a series of Roman numerals and Latin letters appeared on the surface of the case.

This is still a password box. Shen Lang was indeed a little surprised at that time. There is no doubt that this is a product of an ancient civilization, and there must be a nightmare stone as a source of energy.

So what is the password for this box? There are nineteen in total.

It would be impossible for someone else to open the box, but Shen Lang could see its password at a glance.

It is too obvious that the surface of the case has a circle, so it will undoubtedly be pi.

So Shen Lang pressed 3.141592653589793 in the Roman alphabet, and the box opened directly.

There are five bottles of medicinal herbs, five scrolls of classical books, and various materials recorded by Jiang Li, with more than hundreds of thousands of words.

After Shen Lang read it, he was truly amazed, this is simply a huge treasure.

In particular, many of the materials recorded by Jiang Li are the key secrets of the entire Western world.

But embarrassingly, this box was not reserved for Shen Lang, but for Princess Helen.

Shen Lang loves his daughter, and Jiang Li is no exception, but when Princess Helen was born, he left the New World and returned to the Dayan Dynasty, so he left the most precious things for his daughter,

During this month and a half, Shen Lang spent most of the time studying these treasures left by His Majesty Jiang Li.

It is simply too important, it is completely the guiding light for Shen Lang to open the situation.

To give a few examples.

Jiang Li told Helen in the information where there are huge kerosene mines. The so-called kerosene, of course, is oil.

Where there are large gold mines, there are iron ore of the highest grade.

These are not counted, the key is that he also marked two ancient ruins, as well as the history and taboos of the Amazon female warrior tribe, as well as many of their secrets.

In short, the box left by His Majesty Jiang Li is simply a huge treasure for Shen Lang, and he studies it every day without sleep or food.

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And this month and a half, Zhang Chunhua was really tired and vomiting blood.

As the lord, Shen Lang really didn't do anything, just ordered to do this and that, and all the arrangements were handed over to Zhang Chunhua and the Tianya Haige students she brought.

The internal affairs of 5,000 people has already made her devastated, and she sleeps no more than three hours a day.

Because everything starts from scratch, God knows how hard it is.

Fortunately, the shelf has been set up at this time, and she finally doesn't have to do everything herself.

"Shen Lang, we've run out of money."

Zhang Chunhua walked in, sat down directly in front of her, and drank a cup of tea.

"No money?" Shen Lang said in astonishment: "Didn't we bring 300,000 gold coins with us when we left Queen City?"

"The flowers are over." Zhang Chunhua said.

Shen Lang was astonished, it took so quickly?

"We have bought food for more than 100,000 people, bought a lot of cotton cloth, bought a lot of pig iron, bought a lot of blacksmiths, bought a lot of seeds, bought 3,000 slaves, and 20,000 slaves at sea on the way."

"Half a month ago, with a stroke of your pen, you wanted to buy thirteen sea boats. Even if you asked me to sell them, I wouldn't be able to make so much money."

"In addition, Your Excellency Shen Lang, can I ask, why did you buy these things?"

Shen Lang said: "What is it?"

"You bought one hundred and fifty silks for thirty gold coins, and they come in various colors. Why?"

"And this gold and white jade belt, you bought ten at one time? Why is that?"

"The most expensive sturgeon caviar, and 150 live deer, 300 dairy cows, 270 yellow cattle, 15-year-old red wine, white wine, sweet, semi-sweet, Five hundred and thirty barrels of dry red and dry white."

"Various flower essences, three hundred and fifty-six bottles in total."

"There are also more than 100 combs, horn combs, ivory combs, and jade combs."

"There are also various gems. You bought more than 300 catties. This is the first time I have seen people who buy gems."

"My Majesty, what are you buying these things for?"

Shen Lang said: "Use it, eat it, drink it."

Zhang Chunhua was about to cry, so he could not wait to directly lift the stool under his butt and smash the future emperor to death.

This, when is this? As a monarch, you lie down and read books every day, and live a life like a prince.

We are in a difficult business. The things you use to buy luxury and enjoyment are more than tens of thousands of gold coins.

Are you really going to fight back to the Great Yan Empire? Why do I feel that it is unreliable to follow your monarch.

Immediately, Zhang Chunhua said solemnly: "Shen Lang, you are my lord, so I have to advise you that starting a business is hard, how can you be so extravagant and wasteful, we are an overseas regime in exile, we have nowhere to go, what qualifications do we have to waste? You are so extravagant and invincible, Worthy of the ancestors, worthy of allegiance to your people..."

Zhang Chunhua stopped before he could finish speaking.

Because Shen Lang brought a glass of semi-sweet wine to her mouth and directly fed her to drink it.

Then, cut a five-mature steak and fed it to her mouth.

Finally, she put on a gemstone necklace, and brought over a gorgeous skirt.

"It's really fragrant..." Zhang Chunhua said: "This dress is so beautiful, and there is still a brooch missing. The jewelry in Mengluo City is the most exquisite. Next time, we can go to buy those brooches and head flowers."

Just like that, Zhang Chunhua went back in a daze with a bunch of gifts.

But after a while, did she come back? This time, instead of reprimanding Shen Lang for being a waste of money, she said bitterly: "Shen Lang, we really have no money. Last time we gave pirates thirteen ships. We have already brought the ship, and it will be docked soon, and the payment will be handed over to the ship. If there is no ship, we will not be able to transport enough volcanic ash, and the output of cement will be greatly limited.”

Shen Lang said: "How much does it cost this time?"

"150,000 gold coins." Zhang Chunhua said.

Shen Lang said in astonishment: "Why don't they go grab it? A sea boat costs more than ten thousand gold coins?"

Zhang Chunhua said: "They really snatched this ship. They snatched it from thousands of miles away. The price was very expensive, but it was also bought with human life. Profits at sea cannot be compared with business on land. Life should make more money. And every boat comes with sailors, which is not expensive at all.”

Some people say that black pearls are pirates, so why don't you rob them yourself?

Absolutely not!

Rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests, and Shen Lang must rely on normal trade if he wants to vigorously develop his city.

As long as other people can make money from you, pirates and sea merchants will continue to ship things to you to sell.

This is the most efficient way to get resources, and once your reputation is ruined, no one will do business with you.

"How many gold coins do we have?" Shen Lang asked.

Zhang Chunhua said, "Twenty thousand."

Shen Lang was a little embarrassed, he was a bit ruthless, and once he had money, he couldn't help but keep spending, keep spending.

These thirteen sea ships are really important. Not only do they need to use these ships to transport volcanic ash, but they also need a lot of ships to transport saltpeter.

It can be said that sea boats are the lifeblood of Shen Lang. More than 10,000 gold coins each look expensive, but how much time can be saved for Shen Lang.

"How long will it take for these ships to dock?" Shen Lang asked.

"It's been less than ten days." Zhang Chunhua said.

Shen Lang said: "That's okay, I'll go out."

Zhang Chunhua said, "Where are you going?"

"Go to Bijin City." Shen Lang said: "Go to make money."

Zhang Chunhua said, "You, are you really going to sell your body?"

Shen Lang bared his nose and said: "Look at what you said, how is it possible? No matter how I say it, I am the future emperor, how could I betray my body? Your thoughts are very dangerous. If you are short of money, you will go to that direction. I think, but I should answer that sentence, if a woman becomes bad, she will have money."

"I reiterate that I am the future Human Sovereign. I am the most honorable person in the world. I must be flawless as a person. Saying that I sold my body? It's an insult to the Human Sovereign."

Zhang Chunhua bowed and saluted: "I was wrong, Your Majesty the Emperor."

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Two and a half days later!

The disguised Shen Lang appeared in Bijin City.

This is an ordinary house, but after entering, it is magnificent.

It can be seen that the owner of this house is very rich, but because the bloodline is not high, the appearance of the house cannot be too high-profile.

This is the sadness of the Vida people, no matter how rich you are, you can only be in the middle and lower classes of the Xilun Dynasty, and you can only live at the foot of the mountain in Bijin City, while those poor white people can live on the mountainside, even if you have no money. Step on top of your head.

"Darling, you... you really came to see me? I miss you so much."

A beautiful woman rushed up and immediately kissed Shen Lang.

After a while, the two of them rolled together, and all the clothes on their bodies disappeared.

After Meng Luolan, who was protecting Shen Lang outside, heard this, his scalp tingled.

Is this... is this the monarch to whom we should allegiance?

She could hear it clearly. Before, Shen Lang kept saying that he was a noble emperor and must be flawless.

In the end, in order to ask for money, he really slept with a beautiful female sea merchant.

This, isn't this betrayal of his body?

There is no bottom line, not like a human being. Queen Medusa, who she used to be loyal to, how noble and lofty.

Why is there such a big gap between people?

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After half an hour.

"My love, weren't you in Queen City a few months ago? Aren't you Queen Medusa's husband? Why did you come back to see the poor and despicable Hill?" Black Widow Hill said tenderly.

Has she missed Shen Lang these past few months? I think about it so much that every time I think about it, it feels like I'm drunk.

But lovesick? Wouldn't it work without him?

no!

Hill is a very independent woman, and when she is with the man she loves, she unreservedly unleashes her passion.

But after separation, she will go back to her own life, and she can live well without a man.

Shen Lang said: "Dear, I want to do a business with you."

Hill Mei's eyes trembled. She didn't want to hear this word. She said before that she would marry Shen Lang and share all the wealth with him. family property.

But it is obviously impossible for Shen Lang to marry her right now. She can give Shen Lang a lot of gifts, even the most precious ones, to express her love.

But direct money? That doesn't work! Going against her code as a maritime merchant.

Hill pulled away from Shen Lang's arms, put on silk pajamas, and said sternly: "Darling, I love you so much, I am fascinated by you. But love is love, and business is business. If you want to do business with me If so, then I can only follow the rules of the sea merchants."

Shen Lang said: "Of course."

Hill said: "Then what business are you going to do with me? My beloved man, do you want to sell your body to me? That's okay, ten gold coins once, which is already the highest price."

Black Widow Hill felt that what she said just now was too serious, so she added another provocatively and affectionately.

Shen Lang said softly: "But Hill is priceless here. Every time I'm with you, I feel like I'm sinking in heaven. I'm willing to give everything in exchange for a night of joy with you."

As he spoke, he carefully opened the box and took out a bowl and a wine glass.

Hill's eyes suddenly lit up and trembled, "Porcelain?"

Doing business in the West and the East is completely different. Some things are worthless in the Eastern world, but are very valuable in the Western world.

Before the East and the West were not completely cut off from each other, silk, tea, and porcelain from the eastern world once entered the western world, causing a huge popularity just like the ancient times of the earth.

Later, after the communication between the East and the West was completely cut off, some people from the East entered the Xi Lun Dynasty, found wild silkworms in the wild, and began to raise them in large-scale captivity, reluctantly cultivated the silk industry of the Xi Lun Dynasty.

But even so, the silk price of the Xi Lun Dynasty was still more than five times that of the Dayan Empire because their production was much lower.

Tea is quite simple. Once tea plants are discovered, they are transplanted on a large scale. Now the Xilun Dynasty already has tea gardens, and the price of tea is only 1.5 times that of the Dayan Dynasty.

But porcelain is difficult. Those who fled from the eastern world to the Xilun Dynasty are either soldiers or nobles. Who can burn porcelain?

The history on earth is also the same. Although the Western world purchased Chinese porcelain very early, it did not begin to produce its own porcelain until modern times. Silver and pottery have been used extensively in Europe and Central Asia for thousands of years.

The same is true of the Xilun Dynasty. The wealthy and nobles use gold, the rich use silver, and ordinary people use pottery.

porcelain? With the interruption of trade, it has already become a masterpiece. Only a few noble families have porcelain, and every noble banquet, if your family does not have porcelain, it will definitely be ridiculed.

In the whole Xiron Dynasty, porcelain was the most high-end vessel, and below it were gold and silver vessels. It is always true that rare is precious.

Hill lit the china against the light.

It is simply amazing, smooth as jade, thin as paper, and there are gorgeous patterns on it, not painted, but fired.

These three pieces of porcelain are even more precious than those of Duke Debos.

Of course, Shen Lang once lived in Duke Debos's mansion for a long time, knowing that she has dozens of sets of porcelain in her family, which is a top-level wealthy family, and these porcelains are considered treasures even in the Great Yan Empire.

However, it is not comparable to the three samples that Shen Lang took out.

These three pieces of porcelain by Shen Lang are simply the culmination of thousands of years of porcelain craftsmanship on the earth, and this is how they were fired.

In fifty days, thousands of pieces were fired, but only a few dozen were finished, and the rest failed.

How can such a treasure not be amazed?

How not to be shocked?

Shen Lang pointed at the small bowl and said, "How much is this bowl worth?"

Hill took a close look at the light, and then her tender body trembled, and tears welled up.

Because this bowl of white jade is flawless, thin and transparent, it looks like it has no pattern, but under the illumination of strong light, it can see an incomparably delicate pattern, even a bit like a watermark on a banknote.

And this pattern is Hill's portrait. So amazing, so ingenious.

"It's priceless to me," Hill said. "I want to pass it on from generation to generation."

Shen Lang said: "How much can a bowl like this sell for in the market outside?"

Hill said: "Is it a large-scale sale, or is it a small-scale sale like a luxury item?"

Shen Lang said: "Large scale."

Hill thought for a while and said, "Because the East-West trade has been cut off for a long time, there is only one piece of broken porcelain in the Xi Lun Dynasty, and the price is already abnormally high. A good porcelain bowl is probably more than a few dozen gold coins. .And this porcelain bowl far exceeds the level of the existing porcelain bowls in the Xiron Dynasty, so it should be able to sell for a very high price. But considering that once the large-scale supply, the scarcity will decrease. But it will definitely be popular The entire Xiron Dynasty, even if there is no such porcelain at that time, will be a shame for the nobility."

"So, I think fifteen gold coins for such a bowl is a very reasonable price."

This Shen Lang estimated about the same, because the sale is not a living utensil at all, but a status symbol, which is completely a luxury.

Fifteen gold coins is already an absolute profiteering.

Shen Lang said: "I will provide you with 4,000 sets of porcelain every month in the future, how about you sell it exclusively?"

Hill Mei's eyes widened and trembling said: "Then I can abandon all business and multiply my assets several times in a few years. Even I can't imagine how my family can undertake such a huge business."

Shen Lang said: "I don't care how much you sell, each set of five pieces of porcelain, and a set of five gold coins will be sold to you, how about it?"

"Then I'll be one of the richest women in the entire South," Hill said.

Shen Lang said: "But I need to advance 250,000 gold coins in advance, do you have it?"

Hill said: "I have a lot of money, because my family has accumulated wealth for hundreds of years, but the 250,000 gold coins you want is more than half of my existing gold."

Shen Lang said: "This requires you to give me huge trust. If I am a liar, then you will lose half of the family's gold. Of course I hope you can believe in my personal charm, but as a business partner of the city, I can invite you Visit my base."

"No, I promise you first and give you the money before visiting your base." Hill said: "My gold is hidden in a very secret place, you give me the address, and I will transport the gold there. "

Shen Lang said: "It's a promise, happy cooperation."

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Seven days later!

Hill's seaboat appeared on the pier of the Bichao Peninsula and brought in 250,000 gold coins.

She did not board Shen Lang's base, as if that was the only way to trust him.

However, Shen Lang boarded her ship, and it took more than an hour to get down.

When he came down, his legs were a little soft.

Those who disembarked with him also had 250,000 gold coins and more than 100 boxes.

Zhang Chunhua was stunned.

Is the future emperor so valuable?

Selling your body once, can you earn so much gold?

It's no wonder that you, Shen Lang, spend so much money, it's so easy to get your money.

But who was the one who paid for Shen Lang's spring breeze? Could it be an old and ugly woman?

After a while, she saw this woman who spent a lot of money.

He is from the Vida tribe, but he is very beautiful and has an explosive body, which makes most oriental women jealous.

The key point is that she looked at Shen Lang with affectionate and passionate eyes.

A handsome man, once shameless, can simply do whatever he wants.

Hill's fleet left, leaving behind 250,000 gold coins.

Shen Lang and Zhang Chunhua looked at the pile of gold coins.

"Shen Lang, you emperor is so shameless, you actually sold your body."

Shen Lang couldn't help but grit his teeth and said, "I didn't sell my body."

Zhang Chunhua said: "I don't blame you. If you can sell 250,000 gold coins at a time, then everything is worth it. Why don't you sell it again?"

me, my day!

Fairy, if I hadn't really run out of strength, I'd let you feel what 250,000 gold coins are once.

I'll make you bleed once.

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at the same time!

In the waters of the Devil's Triangle, a powerful fleet appeared.

This is the combined fleet of Tianyahai Pavilion, Zhutian Pavilion, and Buddha Mountain, after half a year of preparation. This adventure fleet was finally formed, and it was completely modeled after the big ship of the Jin family.

In particular, the lightning protection measures are completely copied.

Because the ship designed by Shen Lang is difficult to keep secret, although it was designed by Shen Lang, it was built by Tiandaohui.

Now Tianya Haige has obtained the complete blueprint, and even learned the principle of lightning protection.

The most terrifying thing about entering the Devil's Triangle is the lightning strike, because the countless lightning strikes have no regularity at all and cannot be avoided at all.

Any ship that enters is quickly shattered by lightning.

After getting the blueprints of Shen Lang's mine-protected ships, they transformed five large ships and conducted many experiments, which fully proved that this new type of ship can protect against mines.

The original six detached forces have all interrupted the plan to explore the Devil's Triangle.

But it's different now. The Jin family may have entered the Devil's Triangle, and Shen Lang flew into the Devil's Triangle aboard the huge ball.

That's right, until now the entire Great Yan Empire thought that Shen Lang had also entered the Devil's Triangle.

In the end, the scene where the tornado swept him away was too far away, and it was the dark night and the occlusion of the tornado, so I didn't see the process of Shen Lang's hot air balloon being swept away at all.

"Your Majesty has a decree. Jiang Li's son Shen Lang and his family want to see people in life, and corpses in death."

"Enter the Devil's Triangle!"

With Princess Ning Han's order, the combined fleet of the three major forces slammed into the forbidden area of ​​​​human beings, the Devil's Triangle!

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Note: Today's two are closer to 16,000! To defend the third place in the monthly pass, all the benefactors will help!