Chapter 346: Retreat (Part 1)
Su Jing did not make any decisions about this matter. He summoned his officers and staff to discuss it for a while. [This article comes from] It’s not that the people below make the decision. He needs to know how his subordinates view this issue. If everyone opposes it, then forget it. If about half of them support it, this thing will have to be sold.
Jade is controlled by the big family and the twelve palaces, and the Jiang royal family controls the most jade ore veins.
The Su family also has good jade ore veins, but Su Jing's identity and Su Mu's identity are limited every year. Especially Su Mu, who is not a real elder, has to wait until she reaches the fourth level of the golden elixir before she can get enough share.
But even at that time, the jade that Su Mu received was not enough for her own fleet.
Su Jing’s aide group is all young people, and Su Jing has carefully screened it. Now that he has Shenlin as his deputy, he doesn’t have to invest too much people. All his energy can be focused on cultivating talents.
He was the son-in-law. After the founding of the government, these aides actually had official positions. As for the level of loyalty, the loyalty of the aides was often above the blood relatives.
Because all the interests of the aides are reflected in loyalty. A betrayal of an aide will not accept it.
Su Jing's aides were all searched for from the Su family, and they knew the roots and the eight generations of ancestors had basically found out. These people all have a common characteristic, that is, they have never owed anyone a favor within the six generations.
The young man in the lead is named Su Kron. He is slightly older, 28 years old, and has a low background. He is also a so-called role in the Su family, but he was discovered by Su Jing and has the talent to command wars. Unfortunately, he has not yet built the foundation. If he built the foundation, the Su family would not give up Su Kron.
Without foundation building, the life span is over one hundred years. If you spend effort to cultivate it, it will disappear after a hundred years. It is not cost-effective.
Su Jing didn't think so. He could use other methods to increase the lifespan of Su Kron to build the foundation to about 300 years old. In this way, Su Kron could serve him throughout the war.
Su Jing's question was raised, and Su Kron pondered and did not express his opinion immediately. Su Jing's subordinates did not care about the officers. However, most of the staff still did not want to sell the Five Elements Cannons to the Li family.
In the end, the two sides were in a stalemate, and the staff were very persistent, but the officers laughed at the staff for being too cautious. After all, it was a battle of the country. Could it be that the Li family could still use the Five Elements Cannon to attack Su Jing's fleet?
The staff's opinion was that with these Five Elements Cannons, the Li family's expedition would inevitably be much easier. Although this thing consumes too much, it can replace several powerful Jindan masters at critical moments. Even if they are counterattacked and destroyed the cannons, it is better than losing the powerful Jindan masters.
The Li family had a deep foundation. This time, a huge fleet was dispatched on the expedition, with more than 200 ships. If they obtained this weapon, they would be much safer to obtain military achievements.
Su Jing sold the Five Elements Cannons to the Li family, which must have increased the price several times. In this way, the Li family used the Five Elements Cannons to defeat the enemy and gain military merits. Su Jing had almost no benefits, and almost no luck could be allocated to him.
Su Jing also agreed with the staff's idea, but he still asked Su Kron what he thought.
Su Kron has always spoken very slowly, and this time he said slowly: "The Five Elements Cannon can be sold, but it is a little more expensive."
"oh?"
"Lord, you have successfully refined the Five Elements Cannon once, but the loss was quite large when refining the materials, right?"
Su Jing nodded. Indeed, after the materials were prepared, he successfully refined them in one go, but when purifying the materials and repeatedly testing the properties of the materials, his losses were huge. Those materials were enough for him to arm an army of more than 40,000 people. And they were the most elite army in the empire.
"Master, you said that selling weapons is to recycle costs. Since the Li family has come together, we will refine them for him first and make the price public. In the future, someone asks for a cannon. If the lord lowers the price, it will be a favor. The fortune loss of the Li family will come back."
He said it too slowly, and everyone was anxious. As soon as the last sentence came out, Su Jing laughed.
No matter how smart I am, I can't compare to the result of a group of wise men discussing with each other. I did not expect this. It is not the main purpose of cheating the Li family. It is to raise the price, so that everyone can understand that this thing is very expensive. It is not impossible to bargain, but you have to beg yourself with shamelessness and owe a lot of favors.
In this world, human feelings are the most precious, and it is impossible for the other party to think about it.
Su Jing smiled, patted Su Kron and said, "Good idea, then I'll sell them three Five Elements Cannons." While speaking, Su Jing directly notified Shenlin and began to prepare and set new standards.
The Li family’s requirements happened to be within the scope that Su Jing cannon allowed. Under this standard, even if the Five Elements Cannon spreads, it will have no effect on Su Jing.
Although this thing is powerful, it cannot target the powerful Jindan. It covers the attacks, which are devastating to cities or fleets, and killing mosquitoes is boring.
However, because the Li family fleet is less than 8,000 miles away from him, Su Jing slowed down the fleet and didn't want to get in. The Li family is a group of lunatics. Now it is normal to trade with him. The next moment, he may turn against him.
Anyway, if the Li family's fleet was dispersed, he could kill it one by one. If he gathered together, it would be fine to avoid it by himself. Thinking about this clearly, Su Jing would not care about the sale of the Five Elements Cannon to the Li family.
There are also fleets of twelve Dao Palaces, but they are a huge fleet formed by the twelve Dao Palaces. The remaining nine major families are one fleet for each family.
Su Jing naturally had to make five elements cannons for other families. For this reason, it might cause the Expeditionary Force's fleet to collectively slow down. With these five elements cannons, at least the speed of destroying the enemy's city walls was much faster. The empire didn't care about close contact warfare, and the most annoying thing was attacking.
The long-range weapons of the empire are also very expensive. With the Five Elements Cannon, everyone can die tens of thousands of soldiers before destroying the city wall. Everyone knows that soldiers are cheaper than jade, but more important than jade.
The Nine Great Family, Twelve Palaces, are thirteen forces on the sea. Each force is assigned three Five Elements Cannons, which is thirty-nine. Su Xiaotou is in trouble. His prototype weapon is refining quickly because the materials are good enough. The speed is slow according to the weakened version.
Even if you use his Dragon and Snake Eight Realm Pot, it would be considered fast to build one in a month.
The empire can't wait for a few years. But in Su Jing's opinion, this thing was prepared for the Fishman Empire and must be built.
If you shorten the refining time, there is no way, it will increase the consumption of materials. For example, the base of the Five Elements Cannon was repeatedly refined with ordinary jade, with nearly 400,000 parts. If you slow down the refining speed, Su Jing can only have about two million jade pieces to successfully refine it.
It can increase the speed, and it is luck to succeed in tens of millions of jade pieces.
The Dragon and Snake Eight Realm Pot is fused with the Hunyuan Furnace, which can indeed ensure the probability of successful refining of items, but that is also conditional. It is strange that things can only be refined in one month. If you have to refine them in one day, there is no loss.
Su Jing quietly left the flagship, the fleet stopped, broke down and rested. Su Jing simply sneaked into the seabed and transformed sea loaches with Su Mu.
The Five Elements Cannon can be used underwater. Su Jing’s prototype weapon must be broken down and installed on this sea loach. If he had this Five Elements Cannon last time, Su Jing would not be unable to escape and would be stuck.
It is luck that he can create the Five Elements Cannon, but in this era, luck will not favor him alone. The moment Su Jing obtained the drawings of immortal arts, he understood that it is probably an extremely difficult war to attack the kingdom of the evil gods.
The evil gods in the kingdom of the evil gods will definitely come and fight humans in person.
Qi Refiners believe in luck and balance. The reason why Su Jing was willing to sell any weapons was to understand that balance had been broken by the empire, and the evil god was absolutely unwilling to give up, and his believer kingdom was destroyed like this.
His own ally is Mu Yinmou of the Mu family. The calculations of the ancestor of the Mu family also made Su Jing feel heartbroken.
In contrast, I have no advantage as a time traveler. So what if I can make weapons? A strong man at the ninth level of Jindan can kill you at will, no matter if you are in front of you or hundreds of thousands of miles away.
It’s all because of the damn Regent who attacked the Kingdom of the Evil God seven years in advance. If he had prepared for ten years, he would have hope of advancing to the Golden Pill. At that time, at least he would not be so fragile.
"Su Mu, give me all the materials on me. I have to refine sea loaches." Su Jing asked Su Mu for something.
"ah?"
"We will not lack any materials for the empire's army to refine the Five Elements Cannon, but before that, we have to ensure our safety. This is the drawing, you see."
In the temporary secret room under the sea, Su Jing took out the latest diving warship drawings he designed.
With the experience of refining the Five Elements Cannon, Su Jing has a deeper understanding of the fairy art runes. Although he cannot refine immortal weapons, he can only make enough solid materials.
Such materials need to be refined repeatedly, and consumption is a problem. Su Jing himself has more than 80% of the materials in the fleet, but it is still not enough to refine small sea loaches.
Su Mu looked at the drawings. She had never seen the ideas of the drawings before. The only thing she could judge was that even if she and Su Jing were injured and unconscious, the sea loach could take the initiative to open the teleportation formation, take the two of them onto the boat, and escape.
Su Mu wanted to ridicule Su Jing for fear of death, then remembered the fact that he was chased by the fish demon, nodded slightly, and said, "It's all for you, but for the fleet's repair, we both have no materials on hand.
Chapter completed!