Walking behind the teenagers and watching the teenagers in front of him staggering and gnashing their teeth while carrying wire sacks on their backs, Zhang Tie secretly guessed at the weirdness of Qianlong Hall.
Before coming to Qianlong Hall, Zhang Tie had also imagined the scene he saw when he first entered Qianlong Hall. In Zhang Tie's imagination, in this Qianlong Hall, there were immortals with gray hair and beards.
There was the scene of the old man giving a class with a bunch of secret books, the scene of the perverted one-eyed instructor training a bunch of teenagers hard under the scorching sun, and there were piles of various magical weapons and combat skills placed in front of him.
Zhang Tie had fantasized about all kinds of scenarios to dazzle him. The only thing that Zhang Tie didn't expect was that after entering the Qianlong Hall, the first thing he saw was a few teenagers who looked like tortured slave workers.
Some gloatingly told myself - welcome to Qianlong Hall.
Among the four teenagers in front, the thinnest one walked at the end, and the one with the wire sack on his back was also the smallest. He had just walked out of the castle and was going up the steps on the mountain road. Suddenly, this boy's feet went weak, and his whole body collapsed.
He suddenly fell forward. Fortunately, Zhang Tieteng, who was walking behind him, had quick eyes and quick hands. He grabbed the wire sack on his back and supported his shoulders, so that the young man did not fall forward in embarrassment.
"Let me help you carry it for a while!" Zhang Tie smiled and took the sack from the boy's back without any explanation. The weight of the bag was nothing to Zhang Tie, probably less than 150 kilograms. After taking the sack,
Zhang Tiecai saw that the skin on the young man's shoulder had been worn away, revealing a hot new skin with a little bloodshot streaks.
"Ah, no need, I'll be fine soon..." Tears almost welled up in the boy's eyes, but he forced himself to hold them back.
"Yunfei, are you okay?" The relatively stronger young man at the front stopped and turned around and asked.
"It's okay. I just lost strength in my feet and suddenly felt weak and almost fell down!"
"Keep on holding on, we'll be at the Artifact Courtyard in no time!"
"Okay!" The young man named Yunfei responded and looked at Zhang Tie, "Thank you, but I have to carry this bag myself. If you help me, they won't give me money. This is a hidden thing.
The rules of Longtang are that you can’t rely on other people’s efforts to make money by doing physical work!”
Seeing that the boy named Yun Fei was very insistent and that this was also the rule here, Zhang Tie returned the bag to the boy again, but he became more and more curious about the rules of Qianlong Hall.
The group of people continued walking up. Fortunately, they didn't go far on the stone steps, less than 100 meters. Zhang Tie'er heard a tinkling sound.
Bamboo groves, creeks, several smoking chimneys and blast furnaces could be seen faintly outside the high walls, and a house with the words "Utensils Courtyard" hanging on it appeared in front of Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie and a few teenagers entered the yard. There was a warehouse just to the left of the first door into the yard. Zhang Tie followed a few teenagers to the warehouse. He shook out the contents of the bag and put them on the scale in the warehouse.
By the way, those bags contained some ores with a light blue metallic sheen.
The one who was guarding the warehouse was also a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. He weighed and reported the numbers, and then took out money from a drawer beside him while recording the accounts. Every boy who got the money was beaming with joy.
"241 kilograms of aquamarine iron ore, the full price is 24 silver coins..."
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"203 kilograms of aquamarine iron ore, the full price is 20 silver coins..."
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"195 kilograms of aquamarine iron ore, priced at 19 silver coins..."
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"148 kilograms of aquamarine iron ore, priced at 14 silver coins..."
"Ah, what a pity. With two more kilograms, Yunfei will only get 15 silver coins this time!" Several people nearby sighed. After hearing these words, Zhang Tie found that the young man named Yunfei secretly clenched his fists.
.At the same time, Zhang Tie also roughly understood the pricing rules. Ten kilograms of aquamarine iron ore cost one silver coin. Only round numbers were taken, and items less than ten kilograms were not included.
"Come and take a look today, and you will come here often in the future!" The stronger boy said to Zhang Tie while putting the money away.
"Does everyone who enters Qianlong Hall have to do these things?" Zhang Tie asked.
"Yes, everyone who enters Qianlong Hall must complete at least the first step of handing over 30,000 kilograms of aquamarine iron ore. Through this work, they can earn their first personal property of 30 gold coins on Qianlong Island!
This is a mandatory task and cannot be refused." The young man returned and then remembered something, "By the way, my name is Zhang Keliang, I haven't asked you your name yet?"
"My name is Zhang Tie!"
"My name is Wei Wu!" The young man who said "Welcome to Qianlong Hall" to Zhang Tie also introduced himself.
"My name is Zhang Hongsheng!"
"My name is Zhang Yunfei!"
Several people introduced themselves here. After the introduction, everyone felt more familiar with each other.
"Let's go back and have a good rest. We have been outside for almost two days to get these things back. Let's recover today and we will go back tomorrow!" Zhang Keliang waved his hand and said, and several others nodded.
nodded.
Afterwards, Zhang Tie and a few people left the artifact courtyard.
Zhixingyuan is not far from the Utensils Courtyard. After exiting the gate of the Utensils Courtyard, follow the stone steps among the bamboo groves and walk 200 meters to the east of the hillside. On this road, you will pass by Zhang Keliang, Wei Wu and others.
Through the introduction of a young man, Zhang Tie gradually understood many things.
What is the most important first hurdle that we have to face in life? Qianlongtang has given the answer - money!
You can despise money, you can treat it like dirt, but you need it everywhere and have to face it head-on.
The first thing that all young people who enter Qianlong Hall need to learn is not some advanced martial arts, some secret secrets of miraculous skills, or some great principles of poetry, economics, and governing the country, but to learn to support themselves and make money.
Learn to support yourself on Qianlong Island.
Everyone who is new to Qianlongtang lives in Zhixingyuan and has a three-day adaptation period. During these three-day adaptation period, you can eat and live for free. After three days, you must start to think of your own solutions.
Earn money to support yourself on the island. Zhixingyuan will no longer let you live and eat for free.
The rent at Zhixingyuan is five silver coins a day, and the food is two silver coins a day. The minimum daily cost at Zhixingyuan is seven silver coins. You can borrow money from Zhixingyuan. When you borrow money, Zhixingyuan will calculate the interest with you. The interest is five cents per day.
Calculation, compound interest, when your credit limit reaches one gold coin, if you are unable to pay off the debt, then I'm sorry, please pack up your clothes and get out of Qianlongtang, and stay somewhere cool.
"Then can we leave Qianlong Island?" Zhang Tie asked.
"Leave Qianlong Island?" Wei Wu bared his teeth and laughed dryly, "Stop dreaming, those who were expelled from Qianlong Hall cannot leave Qianlong Island. They can only find ways to work hard on the island to make money. Pay the debts
Pay it off. You have to come back after paying it off. When he was expelled from Qianlong Hall, that person owed Qianlong Hall a gold coin. This gold coin was calculated at an interest rate of five points per day. With compound interest, it only takes two weeks.
He paid two gold coins. In one month, the debt became four gold coins. The longer the delay, the more debts he owed. Those who were kicked out of Qianlong Hall because of arrears would not be able to pay their debts within half a year.
If the debt is paid off, those people will probably not be able to pay it off in their lifetime, and they will have to stay on the island for the rest of their lives..."
"Stay on the island all your life?" Zhang Tie felt a chill in his heart, "Is there such a person?"
"Yes, there is more than one!" Zhang Keliang said, "Those who can be crushed by a single gold coin, those who have trouble feeding themselves on Qianlong Island, no matter what kind of ancestral bloodline they have awakened, such people
People, to the family, can only be regarded as waste. Instead of letting such people be killed or cause any trouble after they go out, it is better to let them die of old age on Qianlong Island, at least they can have a good death!"
"There are rules for Qianlong Hall in Zhixingyuan. You will know if you go and take a look. There are many places to use money later..." Zhang Yunfei added.
As the group said this, they arrived at Zhixingyuan.
The entire Zhixing Yuan is like a huge three-story courtyard, with pavilions, pavilions, fish ponds, water pavilions, and a martial arts field as big as two or three acres of land. There are all kinds of training equipment on the martial arts field. Zhang Tie and the others came to
At that time, except for an old man in Tsing Yi sitting under the persimmon tree at the entrance of Zhixingyuan, looking at a stone table under the tree in a daze, there was almost no one in Zhixingyuan.
Quite peaceful.
"Well, have you seen that old man? He entered the Qianlong Hall when he was young and stayed on the island because he couldn't make any money. It has been more than fifty years. Because he was old and a member of the family, he was buried in Qianlong Hall.
After Longtang picked him up, he went to Zhixingyuan to look after the gate!" Zhang Hongsheng said to Zhang Tie in a low voice.
"Ah!" Zhang Tie was really shocked.
"What are you teenagers doing here making such a fuss? The wonderful move I just thought of was ruined by you. Also, you are all disheveled and unkempt, which is simply degrading to gentlemen. Where are your elders?
I must let them discipline you!" It seemed that the conversation of several people had disturbed the old man. The old man raised his head and scolded Zhang Tie and the others. After scolding, he took out a black chess piece from the side of the table.
He lowered his head, frowned and looked at the chess game on the table, thinking about it.
Zhang Tie and others looked at each other, stuck out their tongues together, and walked in quickly.
"Room No. 73 is over there. The rules of Qianlong Hall and the instructions for entering the hall are on the tablet in the pavilion next to the pond!" Zhang Keliang pointed to two places in Zhixing Courtyard, "Dinner at six o'clock,
It’s the restaurant over there, we need to go back to the house to tidy up and take a rest!”
"Okay!" Zhang Tie nodded and separated from the teenagers.
Zhang Tie first took the key to his room No. 73. After unlocking the door of the room, Zhang Tie looked at the empty room and was stunned for a long time without reacting.
Except for a bare wooden bed, there is not even a hair in the room. Damn it!
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Ten minutes later, Zhang Tie, who had recognized the reality, went to the pavilion with the Qianlong Hall rules and entrance instructions engraved on it and looked carefully, slowly gaining a more detailed understanding of the situation in the Qianlong Hall.
Those who come to Zhixingyuan are all newcomers to Qianlong Hall. To leave Zhixingyuan, all newcomers must meet two minimum conditions. The first is to reach level six, become a warrior, and gather fighting spirit. The second is to complete 30,000
The task of handing over kilograms of aquamarine iron ore.
After leaving Zhixingyuan and entering the higher level Lingtianyuan, it is the beginning of your career in Qianlongtang. After entering Lingtianyuan, because you can enjoy more resources of Qianlongtang, accordingly,
Everyone who enters Lingtianyuan has to pay more. When they were in Zhixingyuan, the minimum room and board expenses were only seven silver coins per day. After arriving at Lingtianyuan, this number has become a minimum of 30 per month.
Gold coins, one gold coin per day on average.
The 30 gold coins obtained from the task of handing in the guaranteed 30,000 kilograms of aquamarine iron ore were only the cost of entering Lingtian Academy for the first month.
When he saw this, Zhang Tie almost wanted to yell, one gold coin a day, living in the presidential suite?
But a passage on the stone tablet suddenly made Zhang Tie calm down.
——Money is a huge power. Being free from money is the basis of a person’s freedom. Without freedom here, all other freedoms are just a luxury.
Zhang Tie gradually understood the meaning of the rules in Qianlong Hall. One of the purposes of those rules is to force everyone who comes here to run hard in the direction of "money and freedom".
The best attitude is to conquer it and then trample it hard, rather than spitting at it and being trampled by it at the same time. The former is the attitude of the strong, and the latter is the groan of the weak...
You can make money in a place like Qianlong Island where strong men are everywhere and the environment is dangerous. On land, it is even easier to make money. What Qianlong Hall wants to cultivate is not those who can't catch grains.
You can't even support yourself, and in the end you have to be controlled by other people's stubborn "masters".
After understanding the purpose of these rules in Qianlong Hall, Zhang Tie's resistance to all the rules involving money in Qianlong Hall suddenly disappeared and he began to agree with them from the bottom of his heart.
Isn't it just about making money? Zhang Tie doesn't believe that he will lose to others in this aspect. What others can do, he can also do. No matter how stupid he is, he will always follow the others' example.
After seeing the return and instructions of Qianlong Hall, Zhang Tie finally discovered a benefit of entering Qianlong Hall.
All those who have awakened their ancestral bloodline and entered Qianlong Hall will automatically receive 100 family contribution points. The most practical use of these 100 family contribution points for those who do not have much foundation to enter Zhixingyuan is that they can use them in Qianlong Hall.
In exchange for some simple, basic secrets or combat skills, you can gather your fighting spirit to break through to level six and complete the guaranteed task of turning over 30,000 kilograms of aquamarine iron ore in Zhixingyuan.
Those aquamarine iron ores are not on land, but in the sea. If you want to fish out those aquamarine iron ores from water depths of more than ten meters to tens of meters, the most basic thing is to master a skill.
The secret behind how people can last longer underwater and move freely.
Elementary submersible fish extinguishing technique——
When he saw this piece of information, Zhang Tie suddenly had an idea in his mind, wondering what kind of fruits he would get if he released the fish... (To be continued...)