In October, the Wolf Mountain Mine and the North Twilight Saltworks turned in 17000 gold coins of profit. Ouyang Shuo kept 5,000 gold coins and transferred the rest to the finance bureau.
The Sanhua Winery in the western suburbs had been built and could start production next month. According to Du Chun's estimation, the winery could achieve about half of the target production capacity in November and turn in a profit of 3,000 to 4,000 gold coins.
The mulberry garden expansion had also been completed, but the seedling and planting of the mulberry trees required a relatively long growth period. To realize the mulberry garden operation, it would have to wait at least next year.
With the promotion of the Setting Moon Society and the establishment of the Shanhai County King's City Office, new players and NPC skilled talents poured into Shanhai County every day.
The influx of talents was distributed to the various affiliated territories by Ouyang Shuo to promote the balanced development of the territory.
With a large number of professional players and NPC skilled talents recruited by the Cui Chamber of Commerce into the three major military workshops in the eastern district, the production of weapons and equipment doubled.
The sequela was the shortage of leather, tendons, and other materials. Leather was slightly better, and some could be purchased from the nomadic tribes through the Friendship County market.
Tendons were more difficult to obtain. This kind of material was a controlled item, and the Cui Chamber of Commerce could not do anything about it.
In the end, it was his aunt who helped him solve this problem.
In fact, adventurer players had to go to the wilderness every day to kill monsters and earn experience. In the wilderness, there were mostly wild wolves, bison, and other monsters. These monsters did not drop equipment, and players could only collect some materials.
Therefore, every adventurer player had more or less some leather, tendons, and other materials.
After being reminded by his aunt, Ouyang Shuo made a prompt decision and sent her 10000 gold coins, asking Snow Rose to help buy all kinds of materials from players for a long time.
Of course, Lin Jing was willing. In fact, Snow Rose's guild warehouse stored a large number of leather, tendons, and other materials. In their opinion, these materials not only took up space, but also could not be cashed in. If they were sold to the shops in the king's city, it would be too cheap, and they would not be willing to accept it.
Now that Ouyang Shuo, the great lord, was willing to buy without limit, it was naturally the best of both worlds. The purchase price agreed by the two sides was double the base price of the shops in the king's city.
Even so, such a price for the huge profits of weapons and equipment was still cheap.
Ouyang Shuo knew that the materials in the hands of adventurer players had not attracted the attention of the Lord players because they did not have the corresponding technical manuals and could not enter the military industry for the time being.
Even Ouyang Shuo himself had only noticed this point after being reminded by his aunt.
However, this situation would eventually be broken. Lords would eventually find other ways to obtain weapons and equipment crafting manuals. When that time came, the prices of various materials would skyrocket.
Naturally, Ouyang Shuo did not purchase these materials for speculation. As Shanhai County was determined to become the largest arms dealer in China, the demand for materials in the future would be terrifying. He had to prepare for a rainy day.
Just like that, when no one was paying attention, the materials that the adventurer players had accumulated started to flow into the hands of the merchants sent by [Snow Death Rose], and then into the warehouse of Shanhai County.
First, it was Jianye, and then it expanded to all of the System Royal Cities.
The players were very willing to buy from the merchants, and they were very enthusiastic. Some players had originally thrown these materials into the guild warehouse to prevent them from taking up space in their inventory. When they received the news, they all took out their stockpiled materials from the guild and sold them to the merchants who came to purchase them.
Because of this, the materials stored by the various guilds were disappearing at a visible rate.
Such an anomaly naturally attracted the attention of the guild's higher-ups. After understanding the situation, they simply packed up the materials in the warehouse and sold them to the merchants. Naturally, everyone was happy.
When the players put the materials in the guild warehouse, the guild tacitly allowed them to dispose of them. Of course, after the processing, the guild would calculate the contribution points for the members according to the value of the items.
Abruptly, a wave of material acquisition swept across the entire China region quietly unfolded.
As the acquisition intensified, it could no longer be hidden. Whether it was the top 10 guilds or the influential lords, they all knew that [Snow Death Rose] had been purchasing all kinds of materials in a frenzy.
The players' appetite for gossip was endless, and their ability to inquire about information was also amazing.
Gradually, the relationship between [Snow Death Rose] and Shanhai County was uncovered by the players, and the mysterious veil was slowly torn open. The close cooperation between the two attracted the attention of many people.
At this time, the family relationship between Ouyang Shuo and Lin Jing was exposed. The informant was a core member of [Snow Death Rose], who had followed Lin Jing to Shanhai County.
Such a betrayal undoubtedly made Xie Siyun and Lin Jing extremely angry, and they immediately expelled the member from the guild. Not only that, but they also sent a law enforcement team to hunt her down, making it impossible for her to establish a foothold in Jianye.
There was no doubt that this player's betrayal was orchestrated by someone behind the scenes. Even if the traitor was reincarnated, he would still receive a huge amount of compensation that could make up for his loss.
As for who the mastermind behind the scenes was, Ouyang Shuo did not need to rack his brain to figure it out. After all, he could not control people like Di Chen.
Lin Jing and the others were angry not because of the exposure, but because of the betrayer. One had to know that the traitor was a core member of the guild, an old minister who had fought with the studio for many years. Unexpectedly, he could not resist the temptation of outside interests and brazenly threw his years of friendship to the back of his mind.
Obviously, as the game became more and more involved with the interests of the real world, the interpersonal and organizational relationships in the game would become more and more complicated and unpredictable.
Ouyang Shuo was not worried about this. As the cooperation between Shanhai County and [Snow Death Rose] increased, it was only a matter of time before it was exposed. He had long been mentally prepared.
There was no doubt that after the exposure, Shanhai County would become even more feared. Many people were shocked to find that the influence of Shanhai County had expanded to the adventure-type group. This was after it was exposed. Were there other forces in Shanhai County hiding under the iceberg? Everything was unknown.
Shanhai County, which had already been shrouded in mystery, became mysterious once again. How could anyone not be shocked by such a Shanhai County?
Since it was already out in the open, Ouyang Shuo decided not to hide it anymore. He sent 20000 gold coins to his aunt, Lin Jing. He was determined to sweep away all the materials in the hands of the players in the China server.
For this, Ouyang Shuo specially ordered the Construction Department to choose a cave and transform it into a warehouse suitable for storing such materials. There were too many materials, and leather and such took up a lot of space in the storage bag. If players used teleportation to smuggle the materials, the teleportation fee was even higher than the 10% transaction tax.
Therefore, Ouyang Shuo decided to trade through the Super Auction Platform. He had no choice but to grit his teeth and pay the transaction tax of up to 3000 gold coins. Gaia had supervision over the transactions on the Super Auction Platform. Players could not even think of lowering the price of goods to avoid paying the transaction tax.
As the purchase went on, piles of leather, bundles of cow tendons, cow horns, and other materials were sent to Shanhai County through the Super Auction Platform every day. They were then transported to the cave and stored.
Soon, half of the huge cavern was filled.
With such a large amount of materials, according to the calculations of Wu Peng and Wang Zhuan, Division Chief of the Bow and Crossbow Department, Division Chief of the Armor Workshop, they could make at least a million bowstrings, 400,000 sets of Radiant Armor, and various kinds of leather armor.
The two of them were naturally very excited about the Marquis' purchase. They did not expect that the problem of materials that they were worried about would be solved so quickly, and it far exceeded their expectations.
Most of the lords chose to stand by and watch Ouyang Shuo's actions. Firstly, they had just experienced a food crisis, and their funds were basically drained. Secondly, even if they bought the materials, they would not be able to use them for a while. It would be a waste of the territory's liquidity.
More importantly, in the eyes of the Lord players, there were endless monsters in the wild. If they really needed these materials in the future, they could just buy them from the players. There was no need to waste so much effort and compete with Shanhai County.
Ouyang Shuo obviously knew what the lords were thinking. He only smiled coldly. When it came to understanding the game, no one could compare to him.
In theory, there were indeed endless monsters in the wild.
The crux of the problem was that the distribution of monsters was relatively even. Even though Gaia had more monsters around the capital to take care of adventurous players, the number was still limited.
Most of the monsters were in the mountains and forests, making it difficult for adventurous players to come into contact with them.
As players passed the novice stage, they no longer needed to rely on killing monsters to gain experience. In other words, the experience gained from killing monsters was very limited. They had to venture deep into the wilderness to compete with bandits and bandits.
Therefore, the first year of the game was the period when players killed the most monsters. It was also the best period to purchase all kinds of materials. After that, the supply of various materials would gradually decrease. On the other hand, as players' levels increased, their personal savings would also increase steadily. The money they earned from selling materials was no longer important to the players. Naturally, they would not have the motivation to kill monsters or gather leather and other materials.
There was another point. Compared to bows, bowstrings were more easily damaged and needed to be replaced. In the Tang Dynasty army, a bow needed three bowstrings. Therefore, the consumption of things like beef tendons was huge.
Ouyang Shuo's sweeping came at the right time. He swept clean the materials that the players had accumulated for almost a year, eating the biggest and most delicious piece of the cake.
For this operation, Ouyang Shuo paid a one-time sum of 33000 gold coins. Other than the 100,000 gold coins that could not be used, he only had a pitiful 3000 gold coins left in his storage bag.
This stroke of genius also helped Shanhai County develop its military industry. It established a very solid material foundation. There was no need to worry about materials for a long time in the future. (To be continued.)
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