Chapter 110 The Legendary Ministry of Industry
A light flashed in Li Yanmo's eyes.
Of course, Li Yanmo had no interest in illegal channels. What Li Yanmo was interested in was the high cost mentioned by Mei Chai Shao.
"How do you say this is expensive?"
Mei Chai Shao thought for a moment and said, "Even the lowest-level magic weapon requires a blueprint. If you don't have the blueprint, you have to entrust the weapon refiner to design it yourself. As you know, the design fee is directly linked to the reputation of the weapon refiner."
"Then there are all kinds of natural treasures. The higher the grade of the magic weapon, the more natural treasures it needs. All of these must be prepared by the cultivators themselves, and generally two or three sets of materials are needed. The higher the grade of the magic weapon, the more difficult it is to refine. Even those heavenly grade refiners are not sure that they can refine a heavenly grade magic weapon in one go. Even a top-grade earth-grade magic weapon may go wrong."
"The last thing is the refiner's fee. Just like the design fee, it all depends on the refiner's reputation."
The light in Li Yanmo's eyes grew brighter and brighter, and a brilliant bankruptcy plan came to his mind, "Then can't we...train a direct weapon refiner?"
Mei Chai Shao touched his head, "Those super sects and first-rate sects do do that, but they are the only ones with so many resources. A weapon refiner basically spends money by the second. Those weapon refiners are also smart. They have formed a group called the Weapon Refiner Association. They will issue various certificates to improve the reputation of weapon refiners. The Taoist sect acquiesces to such behavior, so sects like those in Zhongzhou basically choose to rent weapon refiners from the Weapon Refiner Association."
As he said this, Mei Chai Shao also complained.
"When I was the most ignorant, I wanted to rent a weapon refiner to Qingshan Sect to keep the place in check. But even the cheapest weapon refiner in the weapon refiner association had to pay two years' total income for one month. And that's when he didn't make any weapons. The price is another price when he does."
"After I inquired about the price, I knew the sky was high and the earth was thick."
The more Li Yanmo listened, the brighter the light in his eyes became. By the end, the light in Li Yanmo's eyes was almost materializing.
This is a perfect money-burning black hole!
"Brother Li, are you going to... rent a weapon refiner from the Evil Weapon Refiner Association?"
Mei Chai Shao was indeed a smart man. He saw through Li Yanmo's thoughts at the first time, but Li Yanmo denied it at the first time, "No, I'm just a little curious."
The Dayu Dynasty and Taoism were two big dog families.
If he made the Dayu Dynasty and Taoism realize that he wanted to develop the weapon refiner business, Taoism might not take any action immediately, but the Dayu Dynasty would definitely send weapon refiners to him at a very low cost price!
You know, what the Dayu Dynasty has the most is aliases. Given the nature of the Dayu Dynasty, I'm afraid that many weapon refiners in the Weapon Refiner Association are aliases of the Dayu Dynasty's monks.
In order to avoid the plan from failing, Li Yanmo decided to endure it for the time being.
However, in order to make the plan to bankrupt the weapon refiner go smoothly, he needs to obtain more information about the weapon refiner, and he cannot obtain it from the same person, so as to avoid the other party from guessing his purpose.
The second [NPC] that Li Yanmo was looking for who could provide information was the constable and playboy Leng Ningshuang.
He needs to use the condensing frost to eliminate the fake numbers among the weapon refiners.
I don’t know if it’s because he used the Playboy alias too many times, which resulted in the constable’s attendance being too low, so Leng Ningshuang has been using the constable number during this period.
When Li Yanmo found Leng Ningshuang, Leng Ningshuang was pointing at a young man in luxurious clothes, and the young man was helplessly perfunctory in responding to Leng Ningshuang's preaching.
Li Yanmo always felt that the young man's voice was very familiar. When he was about to get closer to take a look, the young man looked over first, waved at Li Yanmo with a smile, and dozens of jade pendants on his waist jingled.
"Hey - Brother Li, long time no see."
Li Yanmo was startled and called out the other person's name.
"It's you! Himehachi!"
Ji Fa's eyes jumped, "Brother Li, it may be a little late to introduce myself now. My name is Ji Fa, the eighth son of the current Emperor Yu, that is, the eighth prince. Brother Li, you don't have to be too restrained because of my identity, just call me Ji Fa. Of course, if there are outsiders, you'd better call me Master Fa to avoid causing a disturbance."
"I understand, Prince Himehachi."
Leng Ningshuang couldn't help but burst out laughing, then pretended to cup her hands and said, "Greetings to Prince Jiba."
Ji Fa raised his finger, as if he wanted to correct her, but after holding it in for a long time, he finally lowered his head weakly, "You should just call me Ji Ba, my father can't remember my name anyway."
After mumbling a few words in resentment, Ji Fa regained his spirits and said, "Brother Li, you are here to see Constable Leng, right? Can I sit in on the conversation?"
"this……"
Li Yanmo looked at Leng Ningshuang, who waved her hand and said, "He's just being polite. Even if you say no, he will still eavesdrop."
"Okay then, let's go to Tianxu Tower first."
The three of them soon arrived at the private room of Tianxu Tower. In order to avoid misunderstanding, Leng Ningshuang changed into the nickname of Playboy and ordered some snacks.
After chatting for a few words, Li Yanmo stated the purpose of this trip.
"In fact, I recently heard that there is an Equipment Refiner Association in the Taoist sect. They seem to strictly control the equipment refiner resources. I am a little curious... Could it be that the Dayu Dynasty has planted a lot of sock puppets in it?"
Leng Ningshuang blinked and swallowed the snack, "That's not the case."
"Is this true?" Li Yanmo's face was full of disbelief.
Ji Fa held the teacup in his hand, shook it, and said leisurely, "Of course it's true, because the Equipment Refiner Association was originally created by those old guys in the Ministry of Industry to satisfy their own selfish desires. However, the current scale and effect can be regarded as an accidental achievement, which makes up for the loss."
"cough--"
Li Yanmo almost choked on his tea.
He still underestimated the ability of the Dayu Dynasty to organize things.
"What do you mean?"
Ji Fa moistened his throat and leisurely introduced the glorious development history of the Equipment Refiners Association.
"The Ministry of Industry is responsible for refining equipment and manufacturing various magic weapons. The Dayu Dynasty believes that no matter what it is, it must keep pace with the times and seek breakthroughs, so the Ministry of Industry has always advocated free refining of equipment. No matter whether it is outrageous or not, just refine it first."
"At first, they were relatively conservative, refining magic weapons honestly, competing with Taoist sects to imitate those immortal weapons. It was not until Emperor Yu of that generation approved a proposal to refine a magic weapon that could be refined by himself out of curiosity that the Ministry of Industry began to lose control."
"Although they have not created a magic weapon that can refine itself, they have refined a magic weapon that can produce design drawings according to the user's requirements."
"Since then, the Ministry of Industry has been unstoppable in terms of innovation. They slack off during the day and produce all kinds of strange magic weapons at night, under the pretext of exploring the limits of the concept of magic weapons. The magic weapon that can design its own blueprints also gained intelligence in the process, and those psychopaths are increasingly testing the limits of the magic weapon's functionality."
"The Emperor Yu of that generation did not realize that something was wrong at the time. He just thought that the Great Yu Dynasty had defeated the sect in the magic weapon competition. It was not until a major war that the Emperor Yu of that generation realized how big a mistake he had made."
"That year, the Demon Abyss was in turmoil, and the ancient sects and monsters joined forces to attack the Ten Thousand Monsters Mountain. In that war, the Dayu Dynasty had to win, and it had to win beautifully, in order to suppress those ancient sects. Unfortunately, the mid-grade heavenly magic weapon held by the general was destroyed at that time, and Emperor Yu ordered the Ministry of Works to repair the magic weapon as quickly as possible."
Ji Fa paused and spoke slowly.
"Then they transformed the great general's magic weapon into a top-grade toilet plunger and sent it over. The toilet plunger is extremely sturdy and is a very powerful close combat weapon. After hitting the enemy, it can absorb the opponent's spiritual energy and convert it into a powerful long-range attack. It can be used for single-target sniping and range bombing. The person hit will suffer a fatal blow both mentally and physically, which is terrifying."
"The general held the toilet plunger and went in and out of the demon abyss seven times. No one could defeat him and no one dared to stop him. However, afterwards, the general had some mental problems. He held the toilet plunger every day and told everyone that it was his good friend."
"After learning about this, Emperor Yu was furious and opened the warehouse of the Ministry of Industry, where he found a bunch of heavenly-grade farm tools with extremely terrifying lethality."
"The Ministry of Industry even used the ancient Zhuxian Sword Formation as a prototype and created an even more terrifying formation using a heavenly-grade toilet plunger."
"It can continuously absorb the spiritual energy of the unlucky people trapped in the formation, and convert it into long-range attacks to carry out continuous bombing."
(End of this chapter)
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