It was only a month and a half since Shen Lang's 2,000 people landed on the tidewater 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 The luso family mine that specialized in smelting iron. Now there are many caves and abandoned smelting workshops.
But a few years ago, Dibosigongjue abandoned the mine.
Why? Because the iron ore here contains too much sulfur, the iron produced is too brittle.
Of course, even so, after all, it was a mine, and even the smelting of domestic iron could have huge benefits, but later The luso family found a tastier iron ore, so they gave up the mine.
So Shen Lang's 2,000 people easily occupied the city and began to build the city.
Yes, it's a city!
How long does it take to build a city, even a castle?
Chou Tianwei's Raging tide city castle took more than ten years, the duke's castle of the The luso family took more than twenty years, and the palace of Queen's city took twenty-seven years to complete.
How long will Shen Lang's city last?
Shen Lang's goal was to build a city of 100,000 people in half a year.
When he said this goal, the people below were shocked, thinking that he was talking in his sleep.
How big is a city of 100,000 people? Even if it was crowded, it would take about ten square kilometers. A city six miles in length and width was built by two thousand people. If only wood was used, it would take about two or three years to build. If stone was used, it would take about five years.
Half a year, it really seemed like a dream.
But just like a magician, something new popped out. It was too much for people to take notice of.
First, he abandoned the building materials of wood and stone.
These two things are good, but they waste too much time.
The first thing he took out was cement.
Maybe someone would say, isn't cement slower? It was a labor-intensive industry that required both calcination and pulverization.
That was half right, but Shen Lang found a piece of land that was a treasure trove.
Not far away, there was a fiery island with an active volcano that erupted every few years. So what's the most on the volcano island?
Volcanic ash.
When it was added with lime, it would turn into Volcanic ash cement. It sounds very primitive, but the cement is already very strong.
Just send a boat back to the Volcanic ash, and the lime? Shen Lang's Bichao peninsula had several limestone mines.
So the production of cement was already 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.
As soon as these bricks were fired, they were immediately built into houses.
It was a two-story building, with no steel bars and two floors of brick and cement at most.
Even in the back, Shen Lang thought it was too slow to build a house like this, so he simply made a large scale of cement bricks, so that the building would be faster.
So the development of Bichao peninsula is changing with each passing day.
House after house rose like mushrooms.
...
A month and a half later, a large and medium-sized town had already taken shape.
Shen Lang had more than two thousand men under his command, but it had soared to five thousand, and the remaining three thousand were all slaves. He had spent money to buy them, and after buying them, of course, he had given them all the status of a free man.
But it seemed that the slaves were not particularly happy, and they were still numb, but when they moved into the new house, the ecstasy could no longer be suppressed.
Almost all the slaves lived in pigsty. Even the slaves of the nobles lived in dozens of rooms. When they came to Shen Lang, they lived in two rooms and a house for twelve people. They were so happy that they almost cried.
And the flat brick houses were like palaces to the slaves.
However, the efficiency of these slaves was much slower than that of the army. It was not that they did not work hard enough, but that they were too stupid. Most of the slaves could only do the simplest and repetitive tasks, such as burning bricks, such as burning lime, or making cement in a fixed proportion.
But after buying these slaves, they finally freed Shen Lang's army of 2,000 from their boring jobs, and they could do more advanced work.
...
Shen Lang had already opened the box that Jiang Li left behind.
It was opened very early because when the moonlight shone on it, a series of roman numbers and latin letters would appear on the surface of the box.
It was still a password box, and Shen Lang was indeed a little surprised at that time. There was no doubt that it was the product of an ancient civilization, and there must be a Nightmare stone inside as a source of energy.
So what's the password for this box? There were as many as nineteen.
It was impossible for anyone else to open the box, but Shen Lang could see its password almost immediately.
It was too obvious that there was a circle on the surface of the box, so there was no doubt that it would be pi.
So Shen Lang pressed the roman alphabet of 3.141592653589793 and opened the box.
It was full of five bottles of elixirs, five volumes of ancient books, and all kinds of information recorded by Jiang Li, over a few hundred thousand words.
After reading it, Shen Lang was amazed. It was a huge treasure.
In particular, much of the information recorded by Jiang Li was the key secret of the entire western world.
Awkwardly, the box was not for Shen Lang, but for Princess Helen.
Shen Lang loved his daughter, and Jiang Li was no exception, but when Princess Helen was just born, he left the new world and returned to the Dayan dynasty, leaving the most precious things for his daughter.
In this one and a half months, Shen Lang spent most of his time studying the treasures that his majesty Jiang Li had left behind.
It was simply too important. It was all Shen Lang's guiding light to turn on the situation.
Give a few examples.
Jiang Li told Helen in the information where there was a huge oil mine. The so-called kerosene, of course, is oil.
Where there is a big Gold mine, where there is the most tasteful iron ore.
Not only that, but he also marked out two ancient ruins, as well as the history and taboos of the amazon female warrior tribe, and many of their secrets.
In short, the box that his majesty Jiang Li left behind was a huge treasure for Shen Lang. He spent every day studying it.
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And for a month and a half, Zhang Chunhua was so tired that he was vomiting blood.
As the sovereign, Shen Lang really didn't do anything, just ordered this and that, and all the deployment was handed over to Zhang Chunhua and the Tianya haige students she brought with her.
The internal affairs of five thousand people had already left her in a state of great anxiety. She slept less than three hours a day.
Because everything started from scratch, god knows how hard it was.
Fortunately, the shelf had been set up at this time, and she finally did not have to do everything personally.
"Shen Lang, we have no money left."
Zhang Chunhua walked in, sat down directly in front of her, and the cow drank a cup of tea.
"No money?" Shen Lang said in shock, "Didn't we bring more than three hundred thousand gold coins when we left Queen's city?"
"It's over," Zhang Chunhua said.
Shen Lang was surprised. Did it take so long?
We bought more than 100,000 people's food and a lot of cotton. He bought a lot of pig iron, a lot of blacksmiths, and a lot of seeds. Three thousand slaves have been purchased, and twenty thousand are still on the sea."
"Half a month ago, with a stroke of your pen, you wanted to buy thirteen sea ships. Even if you let me sell them, I wouldn't be able to make that much money."
"In addition, sir Shen Lang, may I ask why you bought these things?"
Shen lang said, "What is it?"
"Thirty gold pieces of silk. You bought one hundred and fifty of them. They come in all colors. Why?"
"And this belt of gold and white jade, you bought ten at once? Why is that?"
"The most expensive sturgeon caviar, 150 live deer, 300 dairy cows, 270 yellow cattle, 15-year-old red wine, white wine, sweet, semi-sweet, dry red, dry white 530 barrels."
"All kinds of flower perfumes, a total of 356 bottles."
"There are also combs, horn combs, ivory combs and jade combs. There are more than 100 combs in total."
"And all kinds of gemstones. You bought more than three hundred pounds. It's the first time I've seen a gemstone buy by the pound."
"My imperial majesty, may I ask what you are doing with these things?"
Shen lang said, "Use it, eat it, drink it."
Zhang Chunhua was about to cry. He could not wait to throw up the stool under his butt and smash the future emperor to death.
This, when is this? As a monarch, you lay back and read every day, not to mention living a life like a prince.
We're having a hard time starting a business. The things you use to buy luxury are worth more than tens of thousands of gold coins.
Are you really going to call back to the The great yan empire? Why do I feel that following your majesty is not reliable?
Suddenly, Zhang Chunhua said solemnly, "Shen Lang, you are my lord, so I must advise you that it is hard to start a business. How can you be so extravagant and wasteful? We are an overseas exiled regime, and we have gone through hardships. What right do we have to waste it? You are so extravagant and invincible, worthy of the ancestors, worthy of your people..."
Zhang Chunhua stopped before he could finish his sentence.
Because Shen Lang put a glass of semi-sweet wine in front of her mouth and fed it directly to her.
Then, he cut up a piece of steak and fed it to her mouth.
Finally, she put on a jewel necklace and brought her a gorgeous dress.
"It smells so good..." Zhang Chunhua said, "This dress is so beautiful. There is still a brooch missing. The jewelry in mengluo city is the most exquisite. Next time, we can buy those brooches and flowers."
Just like that, Zhang Chunhua carried a large pile of gifts and went home in a daze.
But a moment later, did she come back? This time, instead of reprimanding Shen Lang for being a wasteful loser, she said bitterly: "Shen Lang, we really don't have any money. The last time we placed an order for 13 ships for pirates, they have brought the ship here and will be docking soon. They will hand over the ship one hand at a time. If we don't have a ship, we won't be able to transport enough Volcanic ash. The production 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 rob it? A sea ship costs more than ten thousand gold coins?"
Zhang Chunhua said, "They did steal this ship. They stole it from thousands of miles away. The price is very expensive, but it was also exchanged for human life. The profit at sea can't be compared with the business on land. The life of licking blood with a knife should be more profitable. And every ship has its own sailors. The price is not expensive at all."
Some people say that the black pearl is a pirate, so why not rob it?
Absolutely not!
Shen lang wanted to develop his own city and rely on normal trade.
As long as other people can earn money from you, pirates and seamerchants will keep bringing things to you to sell.
This is the most effective way to obtain resources. Once your reputation is destroyed, no one will do business with you.
"How much gold do we have?" Shen Lang asked.
Zhang Chunhua said, "Twenty thousand."
Shen Lang was a little embarrassed. He was a bit of a loser, and once he had money, he couldn't help spending it all the time.
These 13 ships were so important that they not only needed to transport Volcanic ash but also needed a large number of ships to transport saltpeter.
It could be said that the sea boat was Shen Lang's lifeblood. More than ten thousand gold coins each looked expensive, but how much time could Shen Lang save?
"How long will it take for these ships to dock?" Shen Lang asked.
"About ten days." Zhang Chunhua said.
Shen lang said, "Okay, I'll go out."
Zhang Chunhua said, "Where are you going?"
"To Bijin city." Shen lang said, "To make money."
Zhang Chunhua said, "You, you're not really going to sell your body, are you?"
Shen Lang snorted, "Look at what you said. How is that possible? No matter what I say, I am also a future emperor. How can I sell my body? This idea of yours is very dangerous. When you lack money, think in that direction. If a woman becomes bad, she will have money."
"Let me make it clear again that I am the future emperor of man. I am the most honorable person in the world. I must be flawless and say that I sold my body? It is an insult to the emperor of man."
Zhang Chunhua bowed and said, "I was wrong, your majesty."
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Two and a half days later!
Disguised Shen Lang appeared in Bijin.
It was an ordinary house, but after entering, it was magnificent.
It could be seen that the owner of the house was very rich, but because the blood was not high, the appearance of the house could not be too high-profile.
This is the tragedy of the Vida tribe. No matter how rich you are, you can only live at the bottom of the The xilun dynasty and at the foot of the mountains in Bijin city. Those poor white people can live on the mountainside, even if they have no money, they can step on top of their heads.
"Honey, you... You really came to see me? I missed you so much."
A beautiful woman pounced on her and immediately kissed Shen Lang.
A moment later, the two of them rolled together and their clothes disappeared.
When Meng Luolan, who was protecting Shen Lang from the outside, heard this, her scalp went numb.
Is this... Is this the monarch we have to serve?
She could hear it clearly. Shen Lang had said before that he was a noble emperor and that he must be flawless.
But in order to get the money, she really slept with a beautiful seaman.
This, isn't this selling his body?
There was no bottom line, not like a ruler. Queen Meidusha, whom she had been loyal to before, was so noble and superior.
Why is the gap between people so big?
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More than half an hour later.
"Sweetheart, weren't you in Queen's city a few months ago? Weren't you queen Meidusha's husband? Why did you come back to see poor and lowly Hill?" Said Hill, the black widow.
Did she miss Shen Lang these months? I miss it so much that every time I think of it, I feel like I'm drunk.
But lovesickness? Can't you do it without him?
No!
Hill was a very independent woman. When she was with the man she loved, she would release her passion without reservation.
But after she was separated, she would return to her own life, and she could live well without a man.
Shen lang said, "Darling, I want to do a business with you."
Hill's beautiful eyes trembled. She didn't want to hear the word. She had said before that she wanted to marry Shen Lang and share all her wealth with him. It was completely true. Once she got married and had children, she was a family. Everything was family property.
But now it was clear that Shen Lang could not marry her. She could give Shen Lang many gifts, even the most precious ones, to express her love.
But pay directly? No way! Against her standards as a merchant.
Hill pulled out of Shen Lang's arms, put on her silk pajamas and said seriously, "Darling, I love you so much, I'm so fascinated by you. But love is love, business is business. If you want to do business with me, then I can only follow the rules of the seafarers."
Shen lang said, "Of course."
Hill said, "Then what business are you going to do with me? My beloved man, are you going to sell your body to me? That's fine. Ten gold coins at a time. This is the highest price."
Hill, the black widow, thought her words were too serious, so she added in a flirtatious tone.
Shen Lang said softly, "But Hill is priceless here. Every time I'm with you, I feel like I'm falling into heaven. I'm willing to give everything I have 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 lit up and he trembled, "China?"
Doing business in the west is completely different from doing business in the east. Some things are worthless in the east, but very valuable in the west.
Before the east and the west had not completely cut off contact, the silk, tea, porcelain of the eastern world had entered the western world, and just like the ancient times of earth, caused a huge popularity.
After the exchange between the east and the west was completely cut off, some people from the east entered the The xilun dynasty, found wild silkworms in the wild, and began to breed them on a large scale, barely cultivating the silk industry of the The xilun dynasty.
But even so, The xilun dynasty's silk prices were still five times higher than those of the The great yan empire because their production was much lower.
Tea is simple. Once the tea plant is found, it will be transplanted on a large scale. Now The xilun dynasty has tea gardens in pieces, and the price of tea is only one and five times that of the Dayan dynasty.
But porcelain was difficult. Those who fled from the eastern world to the The xilun dynasty were either soldiers or nobles. Who could burn porcelain?
The history on earth is the same. Although the western world bought chinese porcelain very early, it was not until modern times that it began to produce its own porcelain. For thousands of years, silver and pottery were widely used in europe and central asia.
Now the same is true of the The xilun dynasty, where the rich use gold, the rich use silver, and ordinary people use pottery.
Porcelain? With the interruption of trade, it had already become a rarity. Only a few noble families have porcelain. Every noble banquet, if you don't have porcelain, you will be laughed at.
In the entire The xilun dynasty, porcelain is the highest end of the utensils, and below it are gold and silver. It is always right to value things when they are scarce.
Hill shone on the porcelain set against the light.
It was simply too amazing, smooth as jade, as thin as paper, and there were gorgeous patterns on it, not painted, but burned.
These three pieces of porcelain were even more precious than the porcelain of the duke's house.
Of course, Shen Lang had lived in Dibosigongjue house for a long time. She knew that she had dozens of sets of porcelain in her house, which was a top class family, and these porcelain were considered treasures even in the The great yan empire.
However, it was not as good as the three samples that Shen Lang took out.
Shen Lang's three pieces of porcelain were simply a collection of thousands of years of porcelain craftsmanship on earth, before they were fired.
Over fifty days, thousands of pieces were fired, but only a few dozen were finished, and the rest failed.
Such a treasure, how can it not be amazing?
How is it not shocking?
Shen Lang pointed at the small bowl and said, "How much is this bowl worth?"
Hill looked at the light and her delicate body trembled, tears gushing out.
Because the bowl was flawless and transparent, it looked as if there were no patterns, but under the strong light, it could see an exquisite pattern, even like a watermark on a banknote.
And this pattern was a portrait of Hill. It's amazing, it's amazing.
"It's priceless to me." Hill said, "I want it to be passed down from generation to generation."
Shen lang said, "How much can such a bowl be sold in the market outside?"
Hill said, "Is it a large-scale sale, or is it a small-scale luxury?"
Shen lang said, "On a large scale."
Hill thought for a while and said, "Because the trade between east and west has been cut off for a long time, one piece of The xilun dynasty porcelain is missing. The price is abnormally high. A good porcelain bowl is probably more than a few dozen gold coins. And this porcelain bowl far surpassed The xilun dynasty's existing porcelain bowl standard, so it should be able to sell at a very high price. But given the large scale of supply, scarcity would decline. But it would definitely be popular in the entire The xilun dynasty, and even without such porcelain would be a disgrace to the nobility."
"So, I think it's a very reasonable price to set such a bowl at fifteen gold coins."
Shen Lang's prediction was similar, because it was not selling household utensils at all, but status symbols, which were all luxuries.
Fifteen gold coins, and it was already an absolute windfall.
Shen lang said, "In the future, I will provide you with 4,000 sets of porcelain every month. How about you sell it exclusively?"
Hill's beautiful eyes widened and trembled, "Then I can abandon all my businesses and multiply my assets several times in a few years. I can't even imagine how my family can take on such a huge business."
Shen lang said, "I don't care how much you sell. I'll sell you five pieces of porcelain and five gold coins per set. How about that?"
Hill said, "Then I will become one of the richest women in the south."
Shen lang said, "But I need an advance of 250,000 gold coins. Do you have it?"
Hill said, "I have a lot of money, because my family has accumulated hundreds of years of wealth, but the 250,000 gold coins you want have already exceeded half of the gold I have."
Shen lang said, "This requires a lot of trust from you. If I were a liar, you would lose half of the family's gold. Of course, I hope you can trust my personal charm, but as a business partner in the city, I can invite you to visit my base."
"No, I promise you, and I'll give you the money before I visit your base." Hill said, "My gold is hidden in a very secret place. Give me the address. I'll send the gold over."
Shen lang said, "It's a deal. Have a good cooperation."
...
Seven days later!
Hill's ship appeared at the dock in Bichao peninsula, carrying 250,000 gold coins.
She didn't go to Shen Lang's base, as if that was her trust in him.
But Shen Lang boarded her ship and only got down for more than an hour.
When he came down, his legs were a little weak.
The one who got off the boat with him also had 250,000 gold coins, a whole hundred boxes.
Zhang Chunhua was stunned.
Is the future emperor so valuable?
Selling your body once, you can earn so much gold?
No wonder you, Shen Lang, spend money like dirt. Your money is too easy to come by.
But who was the one who spent money on Shen Lang? Could it be an old and ugly woman?
A moment later, she saw the woman who had spent a lot of money.
She was a member of the Vader, but she was very beautiful and had an amazing figure, which made most of the eastern women jealous.
The point was that she looked at Shen Lang affectionately and passionately.
When a handsome man is shameless, he simply does whatever he wants.
Hill's fleet left with 250,000 gold coins.
Shen Lang and Zhang Chunhua looked at the mountain of gold coins.
"Shen Lang, you are so shameless that you actually sold your body."
Shen Lang gritted 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 god!
Goblin, if I hadn't run out of strength, I would have let you know what a quarter of a million gold coins are.
I'll make you bleed once.
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At the same time!
In the waters of The great triangle of demons, a powerful fleet appeared.
This was the combined fleet of Tianya haige, Zhutian pavilion and Mount futu, after six months of preparation. The venture fleet was finally built successfully and was completely modeled after the big ship of the Jin family family.
In particular, the lightning protection measures were copied exactly the same.
Because the ship Shen Lang designed was hard to keep secret, and although it was designed by Shen Lang, it was built by the Heavenly dao association.
Now Tianya haige has a complete blueprint and even learned the principle of lightning protection.
The most terrifying thing about entering The great triangle of demons was the lightning strike, because countless bolts of lightning had no rules at all and could not be avoided at all.
Any ship that enters will soon be shattered by lightning.
After getting the blueprints of Shen Lang's lightning-proof vessel, they modified five large vessels and conducted many experiments, which completely proved that this new type of vessel could be lightning-proof.
The six transcendent powers had already cut off their plans to explore The great triangle of demons.
But things are different now. The Jin family family may have entered The great triangle of demons, and Shen Lang flew into The great triangle of demons with that huge ball.
Yes, until now, the entire The great yan empire thought that Shen Lang had also entered The great triangle of demons.
In the end, the scene where the tornado swept him away was too far apart, and it was dark night with the tornado blocking it, and there was no way to see Shen Lang's hot air balloon being swept away.
"Your majesty has decreed that Shen Lang, the son of Jiang Li, and his family, must see people alive and dead."
"Enter The great triangle of demons!"
With princess Ning Han's order, the combined fleet of the three great powers suddenly entered the forbidden zone of humanity, The great triangle of demons!
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