"It's not unreasonable to put this woodcut of a figure on sale in the armor shop, but this woodcut is priced at one thousand points of sect merit. I wonder how many people will be willing to take it?" Chen Hai said with a smile.
Although Shen Kun only got 10% of the bonus at Bingjiapu, even this was better than what he got from working at Tieliu Camp.
Those high-end mysterious weapons and armors, as well as the rare magic weapons and spiritual swords that only disciples in the spiritual realm can truly exert their power, are exchanging for ridiculously high prices, but ordinary weapons and armors are very cheap.
Shen Kun had never thought before that the Yaoshiyuan Bingjia Shop would have a net profit of nearly 300 sect merit points in just one and a half months, after deducting the bonuses to the craftsmen, material fees and contributions to all parties.
Chen Hai and the others launched the first batch of twenty carefully crafted armors, but they were all sold out by the passing business travelers, and some of them were not available in the future. There are still a few samples of soldier armor left. Although the price has not been increased, they are only displayed in the shop and will no longer be sold to the outside world until new sources of goods are supplied.
Chen Hai asked Zhou Jingyuan to cooperate and spread the Yaoshiyuan armor to Mengyi City. If he just hired three or five craftsmen to make high-quality armor and sell it, it would not be profitable in the short term.
At this time, Chen Hai was holding a bottle of wood carvings that had not yet been fully formed. He laughed and said:
Chen Hai and the others listened calmly and then found out what the quarrel was about in the front yard.
The shopkeeper didn't know how to deal with this group of arrogant men and women. When he saw Chen Hai and Zhou Jingyuan showing up, he blamed them and said to the bossy young man in brocade: "The rules are set by our boss, little boss. I can’t make the decision. Now that the two owners of my store are here, please discuss it with our owners..."
One of the young men in brocade clothes wanted to buy two swords on the counter. He probably didn't expect to be rejected and was furious with the shopkeeper behind the counter.
Chen Hai wanted to use the sect's merits to exchange these excellent soldiers and armors from the Taoist Academy and take them to the Yaoshiyuan Soldiers and Armor Shop for transformation and upgrade. In addition to infiltrating trace amounts of cold pattern iron, red marrow copper and other genius treasures into these armors to greatly improve the quality of these armors, dragon blood wood, red sandalwood, high-grade animal skins, gold and silver gems were also used to make these armors. The nails are groomed to perfection.
This three- to four-inch tall wooden sculpture of a human figure has been roughly formed under Chen Hai's carving knife. When Shen Kun looked at it, he felt that it had the charm of a retrograde turbulence and a bowing and leaping fish, which almost seemed to rise above the wooden sculpture. Overflowing with emotion, Shen Kun was startled and said in shock: "Junior brother Yao can already integrate the true meaning of martial arts into this wood carving?"
Chen Hai has learned carving since he was a child. After entering the literary and entertainment circles, he worked hard on jade carving. After sitting in seclusion for two months, his body was too damaged and he needed time to recuperate. He could not practice with high intensity, nor could he personally carve the jade carvings. He personally practiced and taught the secrets of fish transforming into dragons to Ge Tong, and he wondered if he could carve the four secret martial arts techniques involved in transforming fish into dragons into four wooden sculptures of human figures.
If this bottle of wood carving is really complete, it is equivalent to a basic secret art. It is sold in the armor shop for one thousand points of sect merit. It is not a loss at all, but it also requires meeting someone who really knows the goods. Only people can give generously.
Ge Tong was an honest man and knew the mystery behind it, so he said with some concern: "If the other party sees through the mystery, there will be trouble for them."
There were both men and women in this group of guests. The voice sounded familiar to Chen Hai. He walked to the front yard with Zhou Jingyuan and looked around. He saw Chen Qing, who had kicked him to Tieluliing Taoist Temple, and a group of well-dressed people. Young men and women stood in the shop.
It only takes twelve points of sect merit from the Taoist Academy to exchange for such a fine iron sword. However, after some processing, Yaoyuan Shibing Jiapu exchanged it for a large amount equivalent to 60 points of sect merit. Yan coins were sold to the outside world, and the first batch of ten fine iron swords were released, and they were all snatched up by a wealthy escort agency.
Although Chen Hai had taught Ge Tong how to turn fish into dragons, he was obsessed with carving and even regarded it as a practice. Even after the Bingjia Shop was officially opened, he, Ge Tong, Zhou Jingyuan, and Shen Kun all went to Mengyi City. He also never leaves his hand with the carving knife.
Three days after the Yaoshiyuan Bingjia Shop was officially opened, Chen Hai, Ge Tong, Zhou Jingyuan and Shen Kun all rushed over to take charge.
"It's not even hot yet." Chen Hai said with a smile.
Although Shen Kun is not a profit-grubbing person, he is happy to think that the future dividends from Yaoshiyuan Bingjiapu will be enough to support his and his only son Shen Xiu's cultivation in the Taoist Academy.
Upon hearing Chen Hai's words, Shen Kun was suddenly startled. He straightened his posture and took the woodcarving from Chen Hai's hand, looking at it carefully...
Mengyi City serves as the support center of Tieliuling's defense line. The Protector General's Mansion of Tieliu Camp is located in Mengyi City. Most of the civil servants and generals of Tieliu Camp have their families settled in Mengyi City; in addition, Mengyi City As an important town on the main channel between Jin and Yan states, Mengyi City has a constant flow of business and travel. There are also many sect disciples and casual cultivators who have gone to the vast desert to explore and practice in Mengyi. Multiple factors have created the prosperous age of Mengyi City. bustling.
But this customer couldn't wait for two months. He would rather increase the price and take away the two samples he liked today.
Mengyi City is also full of shops, and there are many military armor shops scattered throughout Mengyi City. Pharmacist Garden Soldier Armor Shop wants to gain a foothold in Mengyi City. Ge Tong and Shen Kun just have a try mentality. However, after one and a half months of careful preparation, the Yaoshiyuan Armor Shop launched the first batch of 20 pieces of high-quality armor that had been renovated and upgraded, but they were all sold out by passing business travelers in less than three days.
After all, the craftsmen, mainly Xuanyi disciples, are only capable of making ordinary weapons and armor, and do not have the ability to refine magic weapons...
At this time, special treatment techniques are used to age these armors, making them look old-fashioned and extraordinary in appearance. They are stamped with the "Yakushiyuan Armor Shop" and then sold to the public in shops facing the street.
Sitting in the backyard of Bingjiapu, Shen Kun picked up a cold iron sword and praised it, saying: "If I didn't know your tricks, my heart would be very excited when I saw this sword..."
Over the years, the Taoist Academy's Weapon Making Institute has accumulated a large amount of high-quality weapons and armor, but there is no way to get rid of them.
At first, Chen Hai thought that he had replaced Yao Xing's body and his hands were just raw, but when he started carving other wood carvings, the feeling in his hands came back.
It was also in the past few days that Chen Hai found some sense under the knife. He carved the small human figure into a three-quarters of charm, but the shape was still not completely consistent with the secret map of martial arts printed on the puppet's clone consciousness sea.
Not only the weapon-making academy in the Taoist academy, but also dozens of craftsmen and a large number of junior Taoist disciples serving as handyman apprentices, under the leadership of several spiritual-spiritual realm deacons, can create a batch of excellent armor every year. The Taoist Academy even transferred a large number of soldiers and armor from the inner sect of Qifeng for the disciples to exchange for their sect's achievements.
As long as he came up with ideas in Pharmacist Garden and Bingjiapu, he didn't have to worry about anything specific, and the regular practice stopped. Before his body recovered, Chen Hai had nothing to do and just played with the carving knife in his hand all day long.
Although through the snake bracelet, Chen Hai's soul consciousness could successfully call up the secret diagram of martial arts from the sea of consciousness of the ancestral aperture of the puppet clone, but at the beginning, he cut the secret diagram of martial arts one by one and carved it on the old poplar wood that had grown for a hundred years. It was extremely awkward to do it, and there seemed to be a barrier in his heart that prevented him from feeling as comfortable as he used to with the sword.
This is mainly due to the Taoist disciples that the Taoist Academy recruits every year, mainly from clans. Even the retainers who belong to the clans will not lack ordinary soldiers and armors; Those that can be built in batches are mainly ordinary soldiers and armors.
At this time, Chen Hai confirmed that it was not an easy task for him to integrate the true meaning of the secrets of martial arts into the wood carvings. However, if he could cross this threshold, his understanding of the secrets of martial arts would surely Can go to the next level.
"Which of the high-grade profound weapons in the Taoist Academy has less than 200 points of sect merit? If outsiders want to exchange them through Taoist disciples, they have to add a transfer fee. Although the cold iron sword we sell is It is not as good as the top-grade mysterious weapons, but it has been carefully crafted by many senior craftsmen. The appearance is excellent, and the real quality is not bad. Besides, the products sold by our Pharmacy Garden Bingjia Shop are not false or exaggerated. , every sword and every piece of armor placed in the shop is clearly marked with a price, and those who are willing will fish for it, so why do they have the nerve to come looking for trouble?"
Except for Su Ziling standing next to Chen Qing, two generals, Zhao Shan and Qian Wenyi, were standing outside the shop door. They were not even qualified to enter the shop with this group of men and women.
Chen Hai and the others opened Yaoyuan Shibingjia Shop, and they didn't just do one-time business. The shopkeeper who was responsible for dealing with customers was trying to find a way to politely refuse the customers' unreasonable requests.
And they invested two thousand points of sect merit at once, which is equivalent to 20 million Dayan coins. It is nothing in the Taiwei sect, but in the secular society of Mengyi City, it is still a big number; Naturally, Chen Hai and the others would not be content with making small fuss in Mengyi City. What they valued more was how to make good use of Taoist resources.
Seeing Chen Hai coming to Mengyi City in the past few days, always holding a carving knife in his hand to carve small wooden sculptures of three to four inches in height, Shen Kun changed the subject and asked: "I see that Junior Brother Yao has been fiddling with it all day long. A carving knife, should this wood carving be sold in a military armor shop..."
This cold iron sword is actually an iron sword made of high-quality refined iron. The cold patterned iron penetrated into it is extremely rare. However, after the cold patterned iron was infiltrated in the early stage, Chen Hai and Zhou Jingyuan inserted these swords into the wisteria-filled sword. The grass ash, Wuyu tea residue, the paste after calcining the green granite, and the wooden box mixed with black iron sand were soaked in the spiritual spring water for a full month, and then taken out and forged in the furnace, with a small amount of red marrow copper infiltrated.
Chen Hai and the others were chatting in the backyard, excited about Bingjiapu's successful start in the past three days, when suddenly there was a noise in the front yard.
This was an improved treatment method after discussions between Chen Hai and Zhou Jingyuan, which made this cold iron sword look comparable to a high-grade mysterious weapon that could only be seen in a century.