Chapter 68: The Real Business of a Middleman

Without fine wine, the citizens had their fill and went back to sleep one by one.

It was the first time these hundreds of villagers were out and about this late at night, yet they felt no discomfort at all. Instead, they slept more soundly and peacefully after returning home.

In Daming Village, there was a group of soldiers and generals they could trust, and a Lord they could rely on.

Unnoticed, the Territory attributes quietly changed. Security and Populace Sentiment each went up by 2 points.

Early the next morning, the early-rising Territory Citizens walked out of their houses. They were still talking about the battle of yesterday.

Many of them had been protected inside the village by Mo Xiaobai, but they could not resist telling their relatives and friends who were Rattan Armor Soldiers or Village Soldiers, describing yesterday’s battle in vivid detail.

Mo Xiaobai had also woken up. After breakfast, he led the villagers to continue their work.

The battlefield had only been roughly cleaned last night, so the cleanup work had to continue today.

Li Ji, who had rested all night, looked full of energy again early in the morning. “My Lord, nearly forty Refugees arrived just now. Among them is a Blacksmith with Grade B qualifications. I have arranged for him to help Zheng Lun.”

“Okay, finish cleaning the battlefield completely this morning. In the afternoon, Maogong, you are responsible for upgrading the Territory Buildings. Here is a Territory Building Upgrade Talisman. Build a Village Level 3 Blacksmith Workshop first, then use this item to upgrade it to a Small Town Level 1.”

Mo Xiaobai handed an upgrade talisman to Li Ji. He had already thought about how to use the item in his hand. The Blacksmith Workshop was undoubtedly the top priority. After all, a Village-level Blacksmith Workshop could not produce qualified iron tools. At least a Small Town Level was needed.

Li Ji understood the importance of iron. He took the upgrade talisman and nodded silently.

The Market, Militia Training Ground, Blacksmith Workshop, and Stockade Wall all needed to be upgraded. At the same time, a new Winery was built. With over three hundred villagers working together, it was late afternoon, around four or five o’clock, before they finally finished.

When Li Ji upgraded the Blacksmith Workshop as Mo Xiaobai had instructed, the entire Blacksmith Workshop was completely transformed from top to bottom in the blink of an eye. Even the building name changed from “Blacksmith Workshop” (Village Level) to “Blacksmith Workshop” (Small Town Level).

Mo Xiaobai also took another building upgrade talisman and came to the front of the Market. He confirmed the upgrade command.

Similar to the fancy upgrade of the Blacksmith Workshop, the Market changed from a common rammed earth house into a brick and tile building. But this was not the most important change. The reason Mo Xiaobai chose to upgrade the Market was that once it reached Small Town Level, the trading range would expand to cover the entire Great Han Dynasty.

“Territory Basic Building: Market!”

“Level: Small Town Level 1!”

“Range: Great Han Dynasty!”

“Function: Open market trading, allowing free trading with all Player Lords within the range.”

“Tax: 8%.”

After upgrading to a Market, the trading system for Plane Players was undoubtedly much more convenient. It allowed hundreds of millions of Lord Players within the Dynasty to trade together.

“The entire Great Han Dynasty has six provinces. Each province has its own specialties. Currently, other Players can still only trade with other Players in their own province. Hehe~ Now I can do the job I was best at in my past life again.”

The most successful time in Mo Xiaobai’s previous life was undoubtedly the period when he ran around as a middleman.

He bought urgent supplies in areas with trading restrictions, then took them to places where they were most needed, or even sold them to certain powerful forces. During that time, there was often tens of gold coins in his pocket.

However, Mo Xiaobai was very tired back then. Besides, the world after leaving the Plane was full of dangers, and all the money earned was hard-earned sweat.

It was completely different from this moment. When he opened the Qing Province trading Market and saw the price of one unit of Iron Ore hanging high at 75 copper coins, Mo Xiaobai’s excitement inside his heart just would not stop.

Money came fast from being a middleman, and especially since he happened to have a sum of funds on hand right now.

Mo Xiaobai opened the local province Market section and bought all the Iron Ore priced under 35 copper coins per unit. Then he listed them on the Qing Province Market at prices between 68 and 70 copper coins.

“Ding~ Successfully sold ‘Iron Ore x20’, received 12 Silver Coins and 88 Copper Coins.”

“Ding~ Successfully sold ‘Iron Ore x50′, received 32 Silver Coins.”

“Ding~ Successfully sold…”

What was being called grabbing money?

This was literally grabbing money!

The cost was only 35 copper coins. Mo Xiaobai turned around and sold it at double the price. Even with the 8% tax taken by the Intellect Brain during the transaction, the final profit was shockingly high.

Mo Xiaobai spent 30 gold coins to sweep the Yan Province Iron Ore market, and in less than half an hour, the “suckers” in Qing Province bought it all up.

After deducting the principal and 2 gold coins and 40 silver coins in taxes, Mo Xiaobai finally earned 25 gold coins and 60 silver coins.

25 Gold Coins!

In just under half an hour, this was even faster than grabbing money in the Plane!

“It is a pity that not many Lords in Qing Province have the ability to spend on Iron Ore. Dumping nearly ten thousand units of Iron Ore at once has already made the iron trade there saturated. If there were twice as many Lords, I could just sit here and tap my fingers, earning a gold coin every minute.”

Having earned a huge windfall, Mo Xiaobai was fully satisfied. He checked the trade panels of a few other provinces again. Except for Qing Province, where it was almost impossible to find Iron Ore due to the terrain, the other provinces had some price fluctuations but no huge profits to be made.

Mo Xiaobai’s taste had been spoiled by the huge profits in Qing Province, so he naturally did not look down on those copper coins of hard-earned money.

“By the way, let’s buy some seafood from the coast. The seafood in this Plane tastes very good.” Mo Xiaobai suddenly remembered that both Qing Province and Xu Province were near the coast, so he opened the trade sections of these two provinces again.

After taking a quick glance, Mo Xiaobai was somewhat disappointed.

Compared to the vast ocean resources, there were not many seafood delicacies on these trade panels that could truly be considered gourmet. There were only some sea crabs, large lobsters, and big yellow croakers.

As for the prices, they had dropped to a ridiculous level.

A big yellow croaker weighing one jin was sold for only 70 copper coins per fish, not even a single Silver Coin.

The big lobster was even cheaper. Those weighing less than a jin were sold for thirty to forty copper coins each.

“If these seafood items were sold in Yan Province, selling one for a little over one Silver Coin would be absolutely no problem. It is a pity that the quantity is too low, so the total profit cannot go up. Besides, everyone is currently developing their territories. If I used these delicacies to tempt you to be wasteful, I would be too wicked.”

“I will enjoy these good things myself. After all, you are probably unable to afford them right now anyway.”

Mo Xiaobai thought for a while, then directly bought five big lobsters and three big yellow croakers. He chose the large ones weighing over one jin. He would not even look at the small ones.

After buying them, Mo Xiaobai did not linger at the market. He hurried to the warehouse, taking out the live and lively lobster and yellow croaker.

“Today, let Cheng Liya try his hand at it first. Once Little Dot is done with his parents and they can reunite as a family, I can buy more to show respect to the two elders.”

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“Territory: Daming Village!”

“Grade: Village Level 3!”

“Lord: Daydreaming!”

“Fame: 245; Security: 102; Populace Sentiment: 110; Defense: 20”

“Area: 11,000 mu; Population: 537/5000”

“Buildings: Baron’s Manor, Farmland (140), Medicine Field (35), Spirit Field (5), Houses (140), Restaurant (10), Latrine (10), Bathhouse (10), Granary (1), General Store Warehouse (1), Mine (1), Logging Camp (1), Market (Small Town Level 1), Militia Training Ground (Village Level 3), Blacksmith Workshop (Small Town Level 1), Stone Wall (two rows, Village Level 3), Mantou Kiln (Small Town Level 3), Hot Spring Pool (Small Town Level 1), Mulberry Garden (Village Level 3), Winery (Village Level 3).”

“Special Building: Rattan Armor Barracks, Lingyan Pavilion!”

“Incense Building: Martial Chengwang Temple!”

“Resources: 10 Gold Coins and 100 Copper Coins; 1,477 Wood; 254 Stone; 354 Rough Iron; 5,877 Rice.”

“Technologies: None!”

“Affiliations: None!”

“Features: Strengthened Body (Territory Citizens’ vitality consumption rate reduced by 60%, Physical Strength value increased by 5 points).”

“Armaments: None!”