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Shen Cong was waiting outside the open-air warehouse, watching the mines that emerged from behind the low walls disappear, feeling excited and envious in his heart. He was excited because of the 30% of the money he was about to receive, and envious because of the profoundness of astrology, which he would never be able to access.

Perhaps in a few years, when he gets old and writes a will to leave the money he has saved to his descendants, Cheng Jinzhou will become a third-level star warlock and have a longer life - 17-year-old Shen Cong, occasionally Get sentimental.

Guifang took off the shelf of the main book and waited on him while serving tea and water. Seeing the mountains of ore gradually disappearing, Shen Cong's face changed slightly and he smiled and said: When I went to the capital a few years ago, I mentioned the name of this star warlock. I didn't expect him to be so powerful. I didn't know he was in the imperial court. How is the energy.

Shen Cong put away his wild fantasies and sneered: What? You have the guts to start a gambling game in the house, and you dare to run your own warehouse, but now you are scared?

There's no need to be afraid. Guifang said with a smile: I see how powerful this star warlock is, so I'm worried about waiting too long. Tell me, what level of star warlock must I have to be able to use this kind of world-shifting trick? ah?

Like most low-level officials, no matter how smart and capable Guifang is, the information he can obtain is limited. As for the classification of the star warlocks, their strength, etc., they can only have some outline impressions. No matter how much, there is no way to know. Got it.

Shen Cong relied on the fact that he was a kid from Kyoto, laughed twice and said: Don't worry about your level, just be careful. The former Gao Mu Enxing Warlock was good at space star magic. It is said that he needs to store the energy imprint first, and then How to organize it is very complicated. In the entire Daxia, since him, no one has been heard of who can copy this trick.

Then this Cheng Jinzhou star warlock...

Don't ask about star warlocks! No matter how small the star magic is, it's a secret. Shen Cong immediately interrupted Guifang's words. He himself didn't know how to answer.

What's more, the star warlocks really don't like other people to know about their star formations. The number of star arrays that each person can carve is limited. If carefully studied and based on the opponent's talent - if we believe that every normal star warlock is an intellectual strongman, then everyone will inevitably learn something. Omissions, so-called blind spots and vitality gates are bound to exist.

It's a matter of life and fortune, no matter how careful you are.

Guifang agreed with a smile, picked up the previous topic and said with a smile: When I was serving the old masters and young masters, my hands were itchy and I opened a gambling game at home. At that time, I was ignorant and stupid. If it happened again, I would be a fool. I don’t dare to do anything in the house anymore.”

You're lucky you didn't get killed.

Young ones are lucky. Although the chief clerk was young, he had entered the civil service system seriously. However, Gui Fang still used the old name of Shen Zhai in front of Shen Cong.

Shen Cong glanced at him and smiled: You have been the bookkeeper in Tong County for two years, right? How does it feel?

One year and eight months. You know that if you are young, you will not learn the good things, but you will understand the bad things as soon as you learn them. Magistrate Xu of Tong County was born with the same Jinshi, and he looks down upon us. In the officialdom of Tong County, the small Just because he is a slave of the Shen family and can talk to Dianshi County Lieutenant, he can live a decent life.

Shen Cong, a son of an official, immediately sensed the smell, slapped him on the shoulder and said with a smile: You're good, doesn't that make the county magistrate empty?

The county lieutenant is equivalent to China's senior political and legal official plus the public security director. He is combined with the chief clerk. He can indeed fight in separate courts against the less powerful county magistrate. In fact, since county magistrates and prefects are always airborne from the central government, and local areas are always the territory of aristocratic families, competition for power and profit is inevitable. In traditional areas such as Shaonan, the central government has almost given up its power to select officials. Of course, Tongxian County is very close to the capital, and the central government officials are relatively strong. It is not easy for Guifang to succeed with a big tree that does not help.

The little one is relying on the old master's shadow. Guifang grinned with her big walnut mouth and said: Congratulations to the second young master. With this star warlock friend, you will definitely be able to enter the pavilion and the political affairs hall. .”

You don't have to think about entering the pavilion. Shen Cong thought with some pride. After completing this vote, you can get at least 30,000 to 50,000 taels of silver. With such a large sum of money, it is not a problem to buy the title of Juren. Of the five sons of the Shen family who were born as concubines, none of them has been awarded a Jinshi title so far. With the help of a successful candidate, they can finally stand upright at home.

What's more, Shen Cong is really optimistic about Cheng Jinzhou. It's not that most of the nobles are unwilling to make friends with star warlocks from childhood, but because of limited conditions, they don't have the opportunity. For ordinary star warlocks, it takes as fast as 30 years to reach level two or two stars, and as slow as fifty or sixty years. There are countless times when they finally get what they want when they are seventy or eighty years old. No matter how well ordinary people take care of themselves, by the age of 60, it is almost time to take care of themselves.

As for the first-level star warlock, although it is important to the nobles of the capital, it is not uncommon. It is even more unnecessary to invest in it from the beginning. If you don't invest much in the Wannian Star Warlock Apprentice, you can lose a whole family.

And when they reach the status of third-level or three-star warlocks, they are even more difficult for ordinary nobles to reach. Their life spans are more than two hundred years, and they are always registered as star warlocks. To a large extent, their life goals are no longer limited. In the political arena of a country and a place, the main reason why they still interact with ordinary people is that the star warlocks also need various precious materials and people to support them.

Shen Cong had never heard of a star warlock who was rapidly upgrading like Cheng Jinzhou, not to mention having seen him before. Although many outsiders will say: Star Warlock's level rises too fast, which is not the right path and is not a good thing. But how can he believe that there are children who are Jinshi at the age of 13, why can't someone become a Star Warlock at the age of 13?

To enter the pavilion, one needs to be a scholar with excellent writing skills, but to enter the political hall, it depends entirely on skill and strength. Shen Cong feels that if he can wait until Cheng Jinzhou is promoted to a three-star warlock in his lifetime, he will be able to earn the support of his family and work hard when the time comes. After all, a rank of 6th-level civil servant must be impossible to escape.

Thinking of this, Shen Cong became more and more enthusiastic. He brought Cheng Jinzhou to Tong County with the intention of wooing Guifang. At this moment, while the latter was praising the star technique, he dragged her and said, You have seen a lot and done a lot outside. Do you have any ideas to help? Shall I do something?

What does the second young master want to do?

You're still pretending to be stupid. Shen Cong snorted, but instead of using his power to overwhelm others, he pointed to the open-air warehouse where the tip of the tin mine could no longer be seen, and explained seriously: To be honest, I, Cheng Brother, I am short of money recently. Although I don’t know what he is asking for money for, when a two-star warlock spends money desperately, it is probably a good thing, so I will definitely help him. Speaking of which, you also know, Hubu The newly appointed head of Kurabe is his father, and he himself is a star warlock. If something happens, he will be there to take care of it, and the two of us just need to help.

Guifang laughed twice, thinking that her master was really a young man, and he was very reckless in his words and actions. How could he, a clerk from the Shen family, be able to handle such a big thing.

But looking at the open-air warehouse not far away, Guifang felt itchy again, and said with a little hesitation: I'm afraid I can't be of much help.

You are already familiar with several counties around the capital, right? In the future, we will not directly intervene in such matters. Shen Cong also slapped his little ninety-nine. It is always inconvenient for two young people to do things. Especially in the officialdom where Bubu traps people, Guifang has been in Shen's mansion since she was a child and is psychologically close to him.

Just choose local warehouses? Guifang's words meant something.

There are three types of warehouses in Daxia. One is a warehouse established by the local government, which is used to store grain, cloth, money and other materials belonging to the government during the autumn harvest. The warehouse in Tong County is an example; the other is a warehouse established by the army, which is mainly stored in In prefectures and counties close to the border, the granary near Hongrizhuang in Shaonan was an example; the third was the national warehouse under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs, which included both strategic materials and people's livelihood supplies, such as the grain in the Changping warehouse. Iron ingots and copper ingots used to make utensils, gold, silver, and money representing government property, and even large wood and utensils used for sacrifices and funerals, etc...

Among these three types of warehouses, local warehouses have the largest number, the least management, and the lowest value. Having the courage to make a few moves at once was nothing given the status of Shen Cong and others. If it were other warehouses, the risk would be much greater.

Shen Cong snorted and said: Don't worry about which warehouse it is, just bring your people and clear out all the dirty tricks for me. I will give you a share of the money from myself. Every time I count the warehouse How about 10% of the total price?

Since ancient times, money has strengthened the courage of heroes, and money has been used to replenish the blood of prostitutes. Under Shen Cong's stern eyes, Guifang gritted her teeth and said: Do it.

After agreeing, he felt relaxed. The second young master of the Shen family came to find him. As long as he said these words, the outcome was already determined. Thinking like this, the muscles on his face twisted and he said: Second Young Master, I have a group of people to support. I don't need a little money, but I don't need 10% of the money. I only need half a percent.

Shen Cong waved his hand and said, One success is one success.

He really didn't take half the money seriously.

But soon, he realized he regretted it.

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Cheng Jinzhou wanders in the ocean of tin mines.

There are more than ten thousand acres of land, at least two or three kilometers in length. Every few dozen meters, there is a pile of low yellow ore mountains, like steamed buns with too much alkaline noodles, which were flattened by someone's slap.

The closer the ore is to the intersection, the fresher it smells. The closer to the center, the more it is exposed to wind and rain. Daxia didn't use much tin, except for a small amount of it being used as utensils, which didn't have a good market. The court didn't allow local processing, so the tin mines in Tong County were operating half-heartedly.

When the trading houses went on a buying spree, due to land transportation restrictions, no matter how much the price was, at most two or three hundred oxen carts were used to haul away two or three piles of ore every day. On the contrary, Tong County officials thought that the hard work would be rewarded and kept pushing them away. They followed the miners to mine, and although they sold a lot of ore, they accumulated even more.

Cheng Jinzhou was almost half running and half walking around the ore pile. Customer Service 010 was also floating above the ring. Every time he reached a place, he counted it and reported the number.

Usually the price of a small pile is around 2,000 star yuan, while a large pile can exceed 5,000 star yuan. And even if their prices increase, the price of a bunch of them is less than 500 taels of silver.

Tin ore often contains elements such as sulfur, lead, tin, antimony, silver, boron, magnesium, etc. In the era that Cheng Jinzhou was familiar with, due to technical limitations, people usually only extracted one or two separate types, and the rest had to be treated as waste. Material discarded.

As for the Star Alliance, Cheng Jinzhou thought with his chin and knew that they must be of great use.

Therefore, when customer service 010 asked for transportation and handling fees because the ore was a metal material, Cheng Jinzhou firmly objected.

As expected, Mr. Ke weakly gave in again.

The transaction proceeds smoothly.

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