Wang Youcai sent someone to send a message back and had already set up four stores in Nanyue. In order to avoid outsiders' suspicion, there was no connection between the four stores and a simple intelligence station was established with one of the stores. [26nbsp;] It was just that the store had just been established, and it took some time to make money steadily. Now, he and Chen Dafu have rushed to Dongyue.
Xu Sancai immediately wrote a letter and asked the sender to bring Wang Youcai and his two men, and asked Wang Youcai to go to North Vietnam and Xiaojin to buy pig iron at any cost. According to Wang's father's information, North Vietnam is now ready to move and intends to send troops to Qingtieng City. Of course, in the last war, the army suffered heavy losses than An Jiguo, and the main reason was that they attacked the capital of Yueshan Kingdom.
Beiwu Kingdom has no minerals. Bronze ore is imported from Yueshan Kingdom, while pig iron is purchased from North Yue Kingdom and Xiaojin Kingdom. Pig iron ore and bronze ore are precious materials that no country cannot do without. Whether it is the manufacturing of weapons and equipment, various agricultural tools and daily living tools, including circulating copper coins, these materials are indispensable.
If the Beiwu Kingdom wants to attack the territory of Daqin, it not only needs soldiers, but also requires a large amount of equipment. Xu Sancai asked Chen Dafu and his men to purchase pig iron at any cost. On the one hand, it was for the purpose of the Daqin Kingdom to manufacture weapons and agricultural tools, and on the other hand, it was also to remove firewood from the bottom of the pot, so that the Beiwu Kingdom could not obtain the materials for manufacturing weapons and equipment, including the self-produced bronze mines, and temporarily stopped exporting them.
This will inevitably make the already tight finances of Daqin even worse. The ancients had hundreds of magic cards for stored value, each of which was 100 million gold coins. They were the stored value cards of the top ten commercial banks three hundred years ago, and there are still nine commercial banks so far. The commercial banks will not refuse to recognize their stored value cards. Even with the annual value increase, the number of gold coins in the stored value card has long been astronomical.
However, Xu Sancai was worried that once these stored value cards originally belonging to the Elemental Dharma Hall were used, it would likely alarm the nine major commercial banks, so that the eight major temples would investigate again. If there was no need, he did not want to take risks easily. What he could do now is to find a way to prepare some valuable best-selling products for Chen Dafu, so that the store could develop as soon as possible, and use business to supplement the country.
Xu Sancai can now refine magic pattern weapons or make magic scrolls. These are valuable best-sellers, but now the Great Qin Kingdom also needs magic pattern weapons, and he cannot be a full-time weapon refiner. The magic pattern equipment he occasionally refines is also reserved as an army to arm himself.
Magic scrolls can be sold, and the process of making magic scrolls is also a practice of magic, so Xu Sancai often draws them. However, the magic scrolls he made now sell all the 3-level basic magic scrolls, while the sales of 4-level scrolls have been controlled by him to avoid being used by hostile countries to arm their own troops.
Xu Sancai did not dare to sell large quantities of magic scrolls to avoid attracting the attention of the Eight Great Temples. The sales of magic scrolls have always been controlled by the Eight Great Temples. Although there were also commercial banks involved, all of them were large-scale commercial banks that cooperated with the Temple. Now Chen Dafu opened stores basically rely on their own purchases and sales, and even if there is a profit, it is relatively limited.
Xu Sancai decided to start trying to learn how to refine pills. In the Chaos Continent, pills are the most popular products and are profitable. Therefore, many businesses have found ways to dabble in the business of pills, but most of the pills obtained by ordinary stores have been transferred two or three times, which further pushed up the price of pills.
Xu Sancai learned to refine alchemy to make money, and on the other hand, he could also improve his subordinates' strength. Moreover, refining alchemy is also a training for magic fire control ability and mental power. He had seen his teacher Guiguzi refine alchemy. Guiguzi used Taoist real fire to refine alchemy, and on the Chaos Continent, he used magic flame to refine alchemy.
The classics of the Elemental Dharma Hall also include a large number of alchemy books and elixir recipes. Of course, in Yueshan area, there are only low-level herbs, so you can only refine low-level elixirs. But even low-level elixirs are dozens of times the price of herbs, and the profit is quite rich. Of course, this is because there are few alchemists and the demand for elixirs is very high. On the other hand, it is also difficult to refine alchemy and the success rate is not high.
The first thing to do is to refine alchemy requires the correct alchemy recipe. Because the elixir is worth a thousand gold, all alchemists cherish the alchemy recipes themselves. Xu Sancai naturally doesn’t have to worry about the alchemy recipes, but what he needs is to explore the methods of alchemy. Taoist alchemy is more refined, and the skills are also above magic alchemy. Compared with Guiguzi’s alchemy and the classics of the Dharma Hall, he quickly found some tricks.
To refine alchemy, you need to first extract the herbs, and then combine various raw materials in proportion according to the elixir recipe to refine and condense them into elixirs. The herbs contain a large amount of impurities. If the impurities cannot be removed, not only will the elixir be ineffective, but there may even be elixirs, and it is useless and harmful to take it. The purification of the herbs is to remove the impurities in it by heating and melting, controlling the flame.
The impurities of herbs are so subtle and numerous. Using flames to eliminate impurities requires mental power to detect and control, lock in impurities, and use mental power to wrap a wisp of heat generated by a flame to incinerate impurities. Not only does mental power require accurate control of heat energy. The temperature and intensity of the flame must also be constantly changed according to needs.
When refining herbs, mental power needs to accurately capture the effective ingredients and impurities of the herbs in order to control the thermal energy refining. That is, it is necessary to accurately incinerate the impurities without damaging the effective ingredients of the herbs. Moreover, the refining process requires a fast speed. Otherwise, if the heating time is too long, the effective ingredients of the herbs will also lose their effectiveness due to the influence of heating.
Because of this, the control of flames also requires very precise accuracy. If the temperature is low, the impurities cannot be refined, and if the temperature is high, it will damage the effective ingredients of the herbs. Moreover, the types of impurities are different, and the fire resistance is naturally different. Therefore, the mastery of the temperature of the flames is also very high. Magic flames are not all the same temperature. What determines the temperature of the flames is the accuracy and density of the arrangement of magic elements.
Xu Sancai's mental power is already strong and he practices the heavenly level martial arts. Under the guidance of the ancients, his mental control and control of magic elements are far from comparable to other magicians. With a good foundation, he not only learns magic quickly, but also learns to refine alchemy quickly.
Xu Sancai sat cross-legged in front of an ancient golden cauldron. Flames were pounding below the cauldron. Inside the cauldron, a herb quickly melted into a pool of juice. The juice was shrinking. If there were spiritual eyes, you could see hundreds of invisible heat flows in the cauldron. But after a moment, the pool of juice turned into ashes due to the high temperature.