Chapter 35
Chapter 35 Large Scale Purchase, Large Scale Trade
Steam-powered lamps were 50 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 1000 .
Compasses were 20 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 500 .
Round watches wrapping around your wrists were 100 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 1000 Foldable collapsable backpacks were 10 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 1000 .
Automatic collapsible umbrellas were 5 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 500 . Steam-powered fans were 60 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 500 .
Underground breathing equipment were 400 jin of rice each (came with 2 canisters of air), purchasing quantity 5000 .
Thousand li telescopes were 10000 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 100 .
Horseless chariots (enlarged) were 1 million jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 10 .
Grounded birds (enlarged) were 500000 each, purchasing quantity 5000 .
Multi-purpose foldable knives were 200 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 500 .
Dwarven Made: Carbon Steel, 1000 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 10000 .
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Dwarven Embedded: Real Leather, 2000 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 10000 .
Dwarven ground: Rock Tower Shields, 10000 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 1000 .
City Attackers: Swirling Cannon, 400000 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 200 .
The Light of Progress: Guardian, 50000 jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 5000 .
The Burden to Carry: Dwarven Mortar, 5 million jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 500 . Watchmen of the Battlefield: Cover of the Night (small investigative machinery), 1 million jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 10 .
Carrying Hope: Freed from Chains (small transportation airship), 4 million jin of rice each, purchasing quantity 5 .
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Looking down at the long purchasing list in his hand, McQueen did some rough math: total spendings tallied up to 4 billion jin of rice, which meant 800000 in gold coins . Toss City’s tax income of a single year was supposedly no more than 50000 gold coins, which meant 5000000 RMB* . This single trade was going to cost 80000000 RMB . If McQueen weren’t so sure of himself, he wouldn’t dare do any of this .
Of course, this still wasn’t the final list . Up to this point they still hadn’t figured out the pricing of the two biggest items . One was the underground pioneers, the other was the totem cannon . To McQueen these were necessities, embedded with the true meaning of strategy and battlefield tactics . He wanted them and the dwarves wanted to sell them . A deal that should’ve come together like a clap had dragged on for a whole day without resolution .
In addition to the trade deals from before, McQueen and the others had spent five days in the Wrench Tribe . The tunnels were now underneath Rafael, and they were preparing to dig upwards for an exit .
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Inside of the totem pole, the servant girls had served and replaced the teas and waters countless times, but the humans and dwarves kept tearing into each other . From yesterday afternoon to afternoon today, McQueen didn’t know how many cups of tea he had, nor how many times he’d been to the bathroom .
“Craftsman Lance, your pricing is really too high for us . Even if we sold Toss City, we still couldn’t afford it . ” Mcqueen felt his abdomen swelling again with the need to go to the bathroom .
Lance put down his tea and sighed . “Castellan McQueen, I can’t lower the price further . You know, a titanium layer alone costs this price just for its technology and labor . It’s only because we’re friends that I was able to give you this great price . ”
“Can you really call a single underground pioneer for 5000000000 jin of rice cheap? Then everything else we’ve bought is basically free . Craftsman, I can’t pay any more than 500000000 jin of rice . Any more than that and Toss City won’t be able to handle it . ” Bruce was shaking McQueen’s list in front of them, his old face filled with pain . It was an Oscar-worthy performance .
Honestly Bruce didn’t really care about the money . McQueen could take out a spiritual wind stone without blinking that was far more than that . But those were too rare to sell out more than one at once . If they really produced too much at once and were noticed, then it would really be trouble for them .
So as a matter of fact, McQueen and Toss City couldn’t produce that kind of money all at once . Whether it’s reselling dwarven products or selling spiritual wind stones required time, and McQueen didn’t have enough of that . Toss City was a lamb at the slaughter right now .
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“With thousands of years of the Wrench Tribe’s inheritances, we only accumulated 300 of them . If we hadn’t been forced to abandon 150 during our great migration, I would be willing to sell them for cheaper . But right now that’s not possible . The Wrench Tribe doesn’t live in the Damolo mountains anymore, which means we no longer have titanium at hand to maintain more than 50 underground pioneers . Thankfully titanium can be reworked, or else we wouldn’t be able to buy even a single one . ” Franco’s frowning face was enough to pinch a fly in its folds, like selling ten underground pioneers would cost him his life .
Will sat on the edge of his seat . He hadn’t been to the bathroom even once . Super warriors were a different breed, indeed . “Master technician, according to my knowledge, you need to reach the level of master technician . Including you, there are only thirty seven . So the rest of the
underground pioneers can’t be used in battle . Letting them stay there is just taking up storage space, you might as well sell them to us and make more space . ”
“This is inaccurate . Although we only have thirty seven master technicians, our children are growing now . Among them, there are many with the potential to become master technicians . ” Master Technician Truman retorted proudly .
McQueen couldn’t help but feel disdainful . With only a handful of technicians, that was definitely nothing like having 170 or 180 . Especially Truman, who was reportedly over 190 years old . Dwarves only lived around 200 years . Even if your potential recruits could become master technicians, half of the current living master technicians will have died off by then .
But he could only slander away in his heart . McQueen wasn’t stupid enough to say these things out loud .
“How about this, let’s each take a step back . 2000000000 jin of rice per underground pioneer, and let us pay in installments . What do you think, Master Lance?” McQueen compromised . He didn’t have enough time for this . Seems like dwarves knew what they were doing: by taking advantage of the fact that Toss City needed more firepower, they wouldn’t let up . He couldn’t do anything about it .
“No, that’s too expensive . ” Bruce, Will, and Bank hollered at the same time .
“No, that’s too expensive . ” Franco and the other master technicians exclaimed .
Craftsman Lance raised his head toward McQueen . McQueen shook his head, demonstrating that he was at the end of his line . Clenching his jaw, Lance stood up and said loudly . “All right, for our friendship, let’s do it . But the installment payments can’t go on for longer than a year . ”
Of course McQueen had come up with the idea of installment payments . Everyone exclaimed in awe at this, praising him as an intellectual .
“All right, for our friendship . ” McQueen stood up too, saying this loudly .
Now that the bosses had made their decision, everyone else in the party started to discuss the details among laughter . For example, repair parts, training, reconstructing the cockpit . McQueen and Lance sat down separately, closing their eyes to start storing up energy again .
After that, it was going to be a bitter battle with the totem cannon . After taking the totem cannon, it was time to head home .
Toss City, wait for me to come back!
*Chinese currency .