Chapter 88 Money and Silk(1/2)
This is not Li Fan's hallucination. The female crocodile's palace attire is definitely top-grade, because it is not cut from a single piece of cloth. Not only is the texture excellent, but the colorful patterns are even changing. It is obvious that a lot of high-quality materials are used to make it.
of satin and brocade.
Li Fan remembered that when he was in the shop outside the Tao Tower, coveting those golden elixir stage purple ribbon fairy clothes, he also glanced at the prices of cloth and silk.
In one word, expensive.
How expensive is it? There is no magic weapon for storage in the human world, and the Shen Gang money has always weighed more than ten kilograms. It is too heavy and inconvenient to carry. Therefore, in this era without paper money, silk also serves as a large-scale fund.
The monetary role of equivalents.
According to the official price of Liguo, a piece of silk is worth ten zhang, that is, a hundred feet. In places like Louguandao Xianyi Pavilion, one foot of the lowest-grade silk is worth a hanging of Shen Gang coins. This is the most common
A bolt of silk is a guarantee of ten guan of money.
If someone happens to like the color, texture and texture, the price may double. And the higher the quality of silk, the more precious it is.
, everyone has his or her own opinion, and there is no upper limit to the number of details.
After all, this is not something for ordinary people to consume. Everyone knows how exaggerated the premium of luxury goods is.
However, Mozhu Mountain does not often use silk as a substitute. After all, the Shen Gang coins of Sanyuan Casting in Immortal Palace are rampant, and silk is an imported product of Mozhu Mountain. The premium is too high. It can be used for clothing or making calligraphy and magic tools.
, it would be too uneconomical to exchange money directly. It is even less possible to use it directly to pay salaries to disciples.
Therefore, the financial strength of the sect can sometimes be seen by looking at the uniforms distributed to disciples...
Li Fan thought of this, looked down at the brown fur clothes worn by Mo Zhu's disciples, and sighed again.
But if we speculate this way, this monster lives deep in the mountains and his clothes are in such good condition, so he should be quite rich, right?
So he took the Sinan Guide and turned around to check in the pool. On the bottom of the pool near the left foot of the crocodile corpse, he touched a string of broken red ropes with nine jade auspicious animals strung on the red ropes.
They were probably the nine sons of the dragon. Li Fan didn't know which one was which. Anyway, they all looked like reptiles. They were probably the ancestors recognized by the female crocodile.
Li Fan tried to check it with his spiritual sense, and sure enough, they were all magic weapons for storage, and they were also divided into categories.
Needless to say, storage jade pendants themselves are also very expensive magic weapons. Li Fan only has three issued by his sect. He looked at the cheapest jade pendants in Mozhushan for over a thousand guan, so he is not willing to buy them for the time being.
Naturally, other people's storage jade can only be opened by using corresponding magic formulas and activating a specific proportion of the Five Elements True Qi. Some of the best ones require special True Qi cultivated by special techniques, such as the Two Qi of the Universe and the True Fire of Samadhi.
Kind of. On the upper level, there is also the function of recognizing the master, which must be unlocked by matching the spiritual consciousness.
Therefore, touching corpses in this world is also a craft, which requires the use of hexagrams, divination and calculation to calculate the Taoist formula and Qi combination to unlock the storage jade.
The first bell probably contains important things such as martial arts treasures, which can only be activated with special Dao Qi and seals. It is similar to a combination lock that requires divination and has several layers of seals added. Li Fan doesn't have the money to buy it yet.
The serious hexagrams of the compass cannot be solved for a while, so we can only give them up temporarily.
The pendants at the back were relatively simple. They only had one layer of Taoist formulas to match specific Zhenqi. Li Fan compared them with the Four-Yuan Sutra and tried the formulas, and he quickly solved them one by one.
The second pendant contained rouge, gouache, a lot of silk jewelry, and some used clothes. But when I took it out, it was obvious that the quality of the silk was worse. It was incomparable to those gorgeous palace dresses on the river beach. And there were three of them.
Four replacement human skins.
It's real human skin, but it doesn't look freshly peeled off. It should be some kind of magic weapon that has been soaked in potion, or it could be a magical prop like painted skin. Probably this person was used when the crocodile monster realm was not reached.
Skin helps practice and transform into a human being.
What should I say, you monster? Do you still expect it to repay you for your kindness? Probably this female crocodile has also learned some evil methods of collecting tonic. She is the kind of person who first drains the essence and blood of Yuanyang to cultivate the body before eating.
The thrifty monster who never wastes anything.
Li Fan curled his lips, blew a breath of sword flowers at the crocodile corpse next to him, chopped it into pieces, and then relieved his hatred a little, and then continued to unblock and touch equipment.
The third pendant contained many colorful mountain stones and jade, unpolished ore materials, and a mess of bones, skin, and horns. They were probably all materials obtained from the Hundred Thousand Mountain Monster.
The fourth pendant contained meat. There were raw meat, rotten meat, and meat from various animals. There should be people there, right? But the flesh and blood were basically blurred and the original appearance could not be seen clearly. It should be the food stored by the female crocodile herself.
Don't tell me, this guy has quite a few rules for organizing his storage props...
Then I counted the five auspicious animal jade pendants strung on the back, and found that they all contained the same thing.
It's money. There are about 100,000 Shengang coins in total.
kindness……
One hundred thousand coins...
a female crocodile,
In the jade pendant for storage,
There is actually a special code of 100,000 yuan!
Ten! Thousand! Thousand!
"I have a mother..." Li Fan was stunned and couldn't believe it for a moment. He shook the jade pendant and made a clang sound until a full brocade wood money box fell in front of him and smashed on the ground.
It turned into a deep pit before I took a deep breath and came back to my senses.
One thousand guan is a long golden strip, with twenty guans placed horizontally and ten guans vertically. A full cash box is two hundred guan.
When Li Fan killed that Chen Jinnu before, the sect gave him a reward of 20,000 guan. A hundred boxes were filled with boxes of this size and stuffed into Yu Pei's head. That's why Li Fan knew very well that he had made a profit.
Of course the first pot of gold has been counted.
Although such a box may not look big, the Shengang coins, which are always of good quality, already weigh more than twelve kilograms. Two hundred coins are more than two thousand kilograms! Ordinary people can't lift it at all, even in the foundation building stage.
The monks are reluctant. So it is impossible to load more in one batch, otherwise it will be inconvenient to move.
About a hundred money boxes, or a weight of one hundred tons, is the upper limit for general storage jade pendants. There are also five of these auspicious beast jade pendants, which is close to one hundred thousand jade pendants.
At this time, Li Fan was not happy at all because he had made a huge fortune. Instead, he realized that he was really blessed by a broom star, and he was involved in a big thing again!
Because these 100,000 yuan are not scattered, they are neatly arranged and filled with cash!
What is the concept of 100,000 guan in cash? When a small cultivator force in Tiantai Mountain was annihilated, most of the assets worth 1 million guan were valued at silk and silk, and the current money was only a few hundred thousand guan.
And when you encounter a crocodile in the deep mountains and old forests, you can actually bring it with you 100,000 yuan? Is this going to celebrate Cai Jing’s birthday?
Considering the collections of the previous Jade Perrys, Li Fan estimated that the money was most likely not the crocodile's own.
Monsters and casual cultivators are alike. There is no tomorrow, so it is obviously impossible to keep so much cash in the cave instead of using a jade pendant to carry it around without spending it.
Even the palace attire should not belong to this crocodile, otherwise why would they be carefully stacked together instead of directly stored in the jade pendant?
Therefore, these money are probably the funds of a certain force. The crocodile brought it here, maybe to give it to someone...
Whose money? Guess who else is there? Isn’t the nearby monster force the Yuchan Po Group in Yaoguang Cave?
If it's a monster from Yushan in the east or Leize in the south, then you have to go all the way through the Zhonggu Dojo guarded by Huang Zhenren, the heavily guarded Jishan Mine in Mozhu Mountain, and the medicinal garden where a large number of spiritual plants are cultivated by Tian Zhenren.
These places are in the hinterland of Mozhu Mountain, with barren mountains and rivers, no vegetation, and no way to escape. Almost even the birds and beasts have been driven away by the mountain god guards. The possibility is really low.
To whom? It was definitely not brought to Li Fan on his own initiative and pocketed.
So let’s make a bold assumption that a certain eunuch Jin Dan died as a eunuch?
That Chen Jinnu has indeed been to Yangjiashan before, right?
If you just come here to destroy the seals on the two previous hills and confirm that the fish and birds that symbolize severe drought have been born, you can slip away. There is no need to wander a thousand miles west and risk attracting people's attention, right?
And in retrospect, when Li Fan killed Chen Jinu, Mo Zhushan was really generous with the reward.
Mo Zhushan said that the sect bought Yu Perry’s things for investigation, but it was 20,000 guan. This is really a sect that even the monthly salary of the Jindan disciples is only 10 guan. It was so happy to take it out and reward it to the foundation builder at that time.
, is it a disciple who has not even passed the killing calamity? With the style of Lou Guan Taoist temple master who only counts himself as one of his own after passing the killing calamity?
Or is it that the 20,000 yuan was originally something that Chen Jinu had stored in Jade Perry, and he was just returning Li Fan's reward for killing monsters intact?
If this is really the case, where did Chen Jinu get the 20,000 yuan? There was no need for him to bring so much cash with him when he came out to destroy the sect's strength, right?
Could it be that, indeed, he did not bring it with him at the beginning, but after arriving at Yangjia Mountain and meeting the crocodile, what about the funds provided by the monsters? So what did Chen Jinu provide to those monsters?
There is too little information about Chen Jinu so I won’t go into it for now, but judging from the known information, at least his Suanni and Jianwan should be quite expensive for an ordinary golden elixir monk, right?
At least practicing on the human world is indeed more short of money than in a place like Shiwandashan, right?
Therefore, there is a certain possibility that Chen Jinu provided something, or some assistance, to obtain the monster's funds.
So where does the monster's money come from?
If it is still hypothetical, Li Fan's guess is that it is the Nangong family.
The main reason is that these palace costumes and so much real money from the gods, from the source, all come from the Immortal Palace faction.
It doesn't necessarily mean that the monsters have colluded with the Nangong family, because the Nangong family originally retreated from Shiwandashan, right?
They must have thrown away more than just those mountains, right? There were also a lot of divine money and clothes that couldn't be taken away at the moment and were not worth taking away.
Even Mozhu Mountain is using many of the gold and stone mines and fortress facilities retained by the Nangong family, isn't it?
It is indeed very possible for those monsters to seize the money left by the Nangong family. Moreover, Shengang money is mainly circulated in the twelve countries. Although it is useless to monsters, it is useful to humans. In addition, there is a common enemy, Mo Zhushan.
Existence, isn't there a basis for the cooperation between monsters and Chen Jinu's forces?
Therefore, if Li Fan reasoned and guessed from the worst situation, I am afraid that the enemies on the north and south sides of Mozhushan might have been secretly connected before Mozhushan himself made up his mind to confirm the route to be developed!
Moreover, these hostile forces may already exist, suspected of secret transactions of huge amounts, ongoing plots against Mozhu Mountain, or even alliance actions!
How likely are these assumptions?
Is there more and more accurate evidence?
To be continued...