Chapter 258: Crazy Wealth Accumulation, Dangerous Idea, Coincidence

The discussion on the details of the Fire-Condensing Oil trade did not last long.

It ended in less than an hour.

"Got rich, got rich. Now, all problems are solved..."

When Xia Chuan came to find Xia Hong in the Medicine Refining Workshop, his expression was incomparably excited, and the smile on his face never stopped, which showed how shocking this negotiation had brought him.

Seeming to think of something, his expression stiffened, and a trace of regret appeared in his eyes. He muttered to himself: "No, no, I'm stupid. The quote should have been higher. They were all waiting for Fire-Condensing Oil to save lives. I could have raised it a bit more and they would have agreed. Too stupid, too stupid..."

"How did you make money? Tell me about it!"

Xia Hong glanced at the jade bones in the iron pot, estimating that it would take another five or six hours to be cooked, so he took Xia Chuan back to the hall and asked with a smile about the results of the negotiation.

Xia Chuan rubbed his hands and said excitedly: "I told them that Does Does Da Xia's current inventory of Fire-Condensing Oil is only 5000 blocks. We have to keep some for ourselves, and we can only sell 2000 blocks at most. They probably didn't believe it, but they had no choice but to let me quote the price."

Only 5000 blocks in total, he really dared to say it...

Xia Hong's expression was incomparably strange. According to what he learned from Qiu Peng, Does Does Da Xia's inventory of Fire-Condensing Oil was over ninety thousand blocks. This time, a total of fifty thousand blocks were pulled to Longyou, twenty thousand were left in Beehive, and there were thirty thousand in Wu Shuang.

Saving the sixteen thousand plus people last night, each person used about one jin, and each block of Fire-Condensing Oil weighed five jin. Calculating it, it used at most 2200 blocks, which meant that the Fire-Condensing Oil left in Wu Shuang was at least 27800 blocks.

"Coal stones, iron ore, silver, gold, jade bones, cold beast meat, and the eleven types of medicinal materials for boiling jade bones that the leader mentioned, as well as the special resources of the Longshan and Zhaoyang families that the two of them showed me, I set prices for them all in categories. They had no objections at all throughout the process. I regret it now when I think back. They were all anxious to go back to save people, so they were afraid we wouldn't sell. How could they dare to bargain with us? I should have set it higher!"

"How exactly did you quote the price? Tell me."

Seeing Xia Chuan full of regret, Xia Hong thought he had really set the price too low, so he asked curiously.

But as Xia Chuan stated the pricing item by item, his thoughts instantly changed, and the more he heard, the more shocked his expression became.

"Each family took 1000 blocks of Fire-Condensing Oil, and I quoted a lump sum directly: 100 jin of jade bones, 20 million jin of iron ore, 50 million jin of coal stones, 100,000 jin of silver, 10,000 jin of gold, 3 million jin of beast meat, 30 drops of Cold Apple Jade Dew, 90 plants of White Frost Grass, 90 plants of Zhu Zhu Yin Hua, 30 Red Sun Fruits, Cold Beard Grass..."

"You really dared to open your mouth. They couldn't have agreed, right?"

Xia Hong didn't finish listening before he couldn't help but interrupt Xia Chuan.

This price was too outrageous!

Fire-Condensing Oil is indeed a divine object, but it is not the only way to deal with strange monsters.

Silver can also be used to deal with strange monsters, and he could basically conclude that the dew plague could also be treated with silver, because when Li Xuandu and Hou Quan came just now, he used his Eye of Truth to see that there were no fire-red substances on them after dew infection.

The people who appeared in Gourd Valley were basically infected, and Li Xuandu was one of them. After he returned to Longshan, it was gone, which proved that Longshan used silver to remove the dew from him.

Similarly, Hou Quan was the same. After Hou Tong and those people returned to Zhaoyang, they must have also brought the dew plague back. Hou Quan didn't have it, which proved that Zhaoyang also used silver.

He had been in Longyou for so many days and had long since found out that both Longshan and Zhaoyang had silver mines.

Not to mention the terrifying price Xia Chuan set, just the fact that the material categories included silver and gold was very outrageous.

"Of course they didn't agree!"

Xia Chuan immediately answered and smiled: "I was just deliberately testing their attitude toward silver and gold. Their expressions were quite normal when they heard about other things, but they reacted the most to silver and gold."

Hearing this, Xia Hong was stunned for a moment, then looked at Xia Chuan, his face instantly full of approval.

He only thought about using Fire-Condensing Oil to exploit the resources of the two families this time, but he really missed this point. It was indeed possible to take the opportunity of the Fire-Condensing Oil trade to find out about the silver and gold mines of the two families.

Fortunately, Xia Chuan thought of it.

"They should have seen my intention, and immediately stated that neither family had gold mines and couldn't produce gold. 100,000 jin of silver was also impossible. The two told me directly that raw silver ore will dissolve into liquid in an extremely low-temperature environment, and this liquid can also be used to treat the dew plague. The dew on their bodies was treated this way. If their two families could produce 100,000 jin of silver, they wouldn't need to come to us to trade for Fire-Condensing Oil. They could just use silver to save everyone."

Raw silver ore will dissolve into liquid in an extremely low-temperature environment?

Xia Hong immediately felt great interest in the silver resources he had never come into contact with.

But now was not the time for him to be interested.

"Two possibilities: one is that silver is too precious, and both families actually have it but are unwilling to take it out, so they made up such a lie to deceive us; the other is that neither of them lied, and the silver in the hands of the Longshan and Zhaoyang families is really not much, and they really can't produce 100,000 jin."

Hearing Xia Hong's words, Xia Chuan nodded immediately. He certainly wouldn't believe the two so foolishly. He had also considered these two possibilities.

"Regardless of which possibility it is, it is true that they want Fire-Condensing Oil. I dragged them for a while, and finally the two families were worn down by me and agreed to take out 200 jin."

Xia Chuan smiled as he spoke. This was the benefit of being in the dominant position in the negotiation. Both families were waiting for Fire-Condensing Oil to save lives. He grasped this point, and no matter how they talked, it was a sure win.

"I can see that 200 jin is basically their limit. The method of melting silver in water to save people should be very painful for them. They would rather take out 200 jin to give to us than trade for Fire-Condensing Oil, which proves that silver is really important and also very scarce."

Xia Hong nodded and continued to ask: "You quoted so many materials, how exactly are you going to trade?"

Jade bones and other eleven types of medicinal materials are easy to say. Anyone can bring them over. But the other items won't work. 20 million jin of iron ore, 50 million jin of coal stones, 3 million jin of beast meat—just these three items alone would consume a lot of manpower and material resources to transport. Of course, it's impossible to pay them off all at once.

Xia Chuan replied: "I gave them 100 blocks of Fire-Condensing Oil each to take back in advance. After they go back, they will immediately bring jade bones and medicinal materials. The three types of materials with the largest quantity—beast meat, coal stones, and iron ore—will be sent to Wu Shuang in five batches, with a deadline of one month."

The inventory of coal stones and iron ore of the two families must be quite large, but it's not so easy to take out so much at once;

As for beast meat, it's even harder. It's not that he doubts the hunting ability of the two families. Xia Hong stayed in Pinggu, and the hunting ability of the Zhaoyang camp was definitely above Does Does Da Xia's. 3 million jin of beast meat is not too difficult for the two families.

The difficulty here refers to taking out so much at once.

Zhaoyang has a population of over sixty thousand, and Longshan has over seventy thousand. More population means greater resource consumption. Even if calculated at 1 jin per person per day, their monthly beast meat consumption is over 2 million jin. No matter how strong their hunting ability is, it's impossible for their inventory of beast meat to be too much.

3 million jin of beast meat, one month's time, should be more than enough.

"100 blocks of Fire-Condensing Oil, calculated based on the situation last night, they can only save five hundred plus people at most. After these two go back, they should quickly bring the jade bones and other eleven types of medicinal materials, including silver. The remaining 900 blocks will be given directly, and they will likely still not have enough. As long as they give the subsequent beast meat, iron ore, and coal mines readily, we can continue to release some Fire-Condensing Oil. Anyway, our inventory is enough. As long as they are willing to take out resources, we can continuously sell Fire-Condensing Oil..."

Xia Chuan became more excited as he spoke, and even couldn't help but sigh: "I now feel that strange monsters are not bad things at all. This Bai Lu Strange came at the right time. Does Does Da Xia's population just happened to explode, and the resource gap is large. I now hope that this dew plague can last for a period of time!"

Hearing Xia Chuan's words, Xia Hong's expression became slightly solemn, and he reprimanded:

"There must be a limit to extracting resources. Don't have such thoughts. Those who play with fire will burn themselves. Although that Bai Lu Strange has been killed by me, if this dew plague lasts for a long time, I don't know what changes will happen later. Does Does Da Xia is already a member of Longyou now. Look further. The thirteen thousand plus people of the Longshan and Zhaoyang families will sooner or later be Does Does Da Xia's people. If they are all killed, wouldn't it be Does Does Da Xia's loss!"

Hearing Xia Hong's words, Xia Chuan's expression froze for a moment. After lowering his head and thinking for a while, his expression gradually cleared up, and he said with a trace of lingering fear: "It was my wrong thought. Thank you for the reminder, big brother."

Seeing that Xia Chuan had really sobered up, Xia Hong nodded slightly, and his expression relaxed a bit.

Not to mention, Xia Chuan's idea, for Does Does Da Xia, which possesses such a divine object as Fire-Condensing Oil, is highly operational. As long as the strange monsters are left alone, and then resources are extracted from other camps through trading, it will be almost invincible.

But this idea is also very dangerous!

Using this method to extract resources, once Does Does Da Xia truly adapts to it, it will inevitably encourage the laziness of everyone in the camp. After all, everything can be exchanged through trading, so who will hunt, who will chop wood, and who will mine?

This is not the most dangerous thing. The key is that leaving strange monsters alone is itself an extremely dangerous and terrifying thing. Once the degree is not grasped well, the final result will be harming others and oneself, and Does Does Da Xia will not be able to avoid suffering a great disaster.

Which of the three strange monsters encountered so far is simple?

Just say the recent Bai Lu Strange. On the night of Han Qiong, after Xia Hong was besieged and fled, it realized that there was no threat, and immediately launched a massive slaughter in Gourd Valley, even scaring away the eleven Cold-Resisting level experts including Li Ying Xuan Ling.

If Xia Hong hadn't learned the details from Xia Chuan and the others in time and rushed back to Xia City to take the Cold Ruins Cauldron to suppress and kill it in Gourd Valley, the final result of Longyou would probably be completely different from what it is now.

Therefore, Xia Chuan's idea must be strangled in the cradle.

"You continue to be responsible for the trade. When the two bring the things, you come and hand them to me."

Xia Hong waved his hand to dismiss Xia Chuan and returned to the back room himself, waiting quietly for the news from the Medicine Refining Workshop.

Li Xuandu and Hou Quan moved very quickly. In less than two hours, the two rushed back to Wu Shuang from their respective camps. After the two left, Xia Chuan hurriedly took 200 jin of jade bones, plus various medicinal materials sufficient to match 180 jin of jade bone medicine, and sent them all to Xia Hong.

"60 drops of Cold Apple Jade Dew, 180 plants of White Frost Grass, 180 plants of Zhu Zhu Yin Hua, 60 Red Sun Fruits, 120 plants of Cold Beard Grass, 60 Red Sun Fruits, 120 Double-Colored Liquid Spirit Fruits, 60 Pan Fragrant Leaves, 180 plants of Jade Spirit Grass, 60 drops of Ice Soul Liquid, 180 plants of Yin-Yang Flower, 60 Exquisite Fruits. All these medicinal materials are enough to match 180 portions of jade bone medicine. Longshan and Zhaoyang are still rich, tsk tsk..."

Looking at the dazzling array of medicinal materials on the ground and hearing Xia Chuan's sigh, Xia Hong couldn't help but feel a bit of emotion in his heart. When he went to Pinggu those two days, Hou Hu didn't pretend to be poor less, and his words were all about how precious jade bones and Cold Apple Jade Dew were, and how difficult it was to obtain these materials for jade bone medicine.

But now, they could take out so much in one breath.

"The number of late-stage Cold-Resisting level experts in both families is not small. How did they come about? They must have a fixed output of Cold Apple Jade Dew, and I suspect they also have fixed channels for obtaining the other eleven types of medicinal materials, but they are all hidden very deeply, and we don't know."

After Xia Hong finished speaking, his eyes turned to the back of the medicinal materials.

Behind the medicinal materials were two silver stones the size of a baby's fist.

The stones were irregular in shape as a whole, emitting a holy silver light, shining brightly under the firelight in the hall, making people unable to help but look sideways.

"200 jin of silver is actually only such a small piece, not even one-tenth the size of a palm. These two pieces of 400 jin are not enough to make a dagger."

Seeing the silver at that moment, Xia Hong immediately realized why the two families didn't use silver to save those infected with the dew plague.

Just looking at this volume, if silver was melted into water at low temperature, I'm afraid it would only be a tiny bit. How many people could it save?

Xia Hong stepped forward and pinched the silver, and after applying slight force, his mind moved slightly.

"The hardness, density, and weight are all far beyond iron ore, and the difficulty of melting and forging must also be much higher than iron. With this volume, the weight of a piece of silverware must be far beyond imagination. No wonder..."

Recalling Gourd Valley, only Li Ying Xuan Ling held a silver long sword, and the other ten Cold-Resisting level experts only had a silver dagger. A trace of understanding instantly rose in Xia Hong's eyes.

At first, he didn't understand. Since there was a silver mine, why only forge such a small dagger? It turned out that the density of silver was so exaggerated.

Judging from the volume and weight of these two pieces of silver, the daggers in the hands of those ten Cold-Resisting level experts were at least over a thousand jin.

"The remaining 900 blocks of Fire-Condensing Oil have all been handed to them. It depends on whether the materials of the two families can be delivered as promised."

Xia Chuan said with a spring breeze on his face. In fact, the moment this batch of materials arrived, Does Does Da Xia had already not lost in this trade.

Of course, the subsequent 3 million jin of beast meat, 20 million jin of iron ore, and 50 million jin of coal stones were also very important. He didn't want the two families to break their promise.

"It's highly unlikely. As long as they are not stupid, they can guess that we still have Fire-Condensing Oil in our hands. If they want more in the future, this batch of materials must be delivered as promised. Seeing the exaggerated volume of silver, I estimate they will soon come to ask for the second batch of Fire-Condensing Oil. Wait, the materials will soon..."

"Leader, Yu Wentao and Yuan Cheng are here!"

Just as Xia Hong was speaking, Luo Yuan's voice suddenly sounded outside the door.

Hearing that Yu Wentao and the other two, who were recovering from injuries in Beehive, had come, a smile instantly appeared on Xia Hong's face, and he said: "Bring them in!"

The jade bone medicine is about to be cooked, and these two actually arrived at a coincidence.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 259 =====