Strictly speaking, Yongyi Duke is not the one leading the army; he has already left the martial circle.
The Imperial Court has spies in the Rong army, and they know the Rong have retreated, and Mount Zhige almost wiped them out.
At this ti, the Imperial Court should seize the opportunity to recover lost territory, but a problem arises: how will the Immortals of Mount Zhige view the Imperial Court’s army? When approaching the mines, will we suffer the sa fate as the Rong’s army?
Of course, the Imperial Court has no intention of reclaiming the mines, as engaging an Immortal cos with a cost.
However, there are so with ulterior motives who believe the Imperial Court should take over the mines—after all, they’re just useless iron mines, the Immortals probably wouldn’t mind, right?
The Imperial Court’s response to these people is: Fine, go ahead and inform them.
These are trivial side issues, the real question is: How do we communicate with the Immortal occupying the mines?
Thus, Yongyi Duke, who has already left the military, was entrusted with the critical task of communicating with the Immortal.
Feng Jun was busy mining and did not et him. Instead, he entrusted Zhang Caixin to handle it.
Xiao Caixin handled the matter smoothly, handing over all the mining slaves and remaining guards to him, and pointed out that the fifty-mile distance is just right; the army should not get any closer, otherwise, if there’s any accidental harm, it’s not our fault.
Yongyi Duke found this condition very reasonable and stated that outside of fifty miles, the army will set up a blockade line, and if anyone enters the fifty-mile area, you have full permission to deal with them.
What delighted him the most was that the Innate Expert captured alive turned out to be the criminal wanted by the Imperial Court for a long ti—the criminal was being sheltered, and everyone knew who was protecting him.
Previously, the Imperial Court wanted to capture this person and find a breakthrough through him, but had no way to do so. Unexpectedly, this ti, they caught such a big fish.
Yongyi Duke was very pleased and imdiately ordered this person’s hands and feet tendons to be severed, abolishing his cultivation level, and entrusted Zhang Caixin to inform Feng Jun that there is a clue about another type of mineral, which is currently being verified—this is not a re excuse, as who would dare present it to the Immortal of Mount Zhige without verification?
As for the mining slaves, the Imperial Court stated that arrangents would be made, but that’s not Zhang Caixin’s focus.
Feng Jun and his team mined for twenty days at Mount Zhige, excavating over a hundred million tons of ore.
This amount of ore is enough for Feng Jun’s needs for a year, so he paused temporarily and asked who was interested in continuing to mine here. He offered five thousand Spirit Stones for one billion tons as a labor fee.
How to describe this reward? Essentially, two tons per Spirit Stone. With Nie Chifeng’s capability, mining one million tons of iron ore per day is no problem, aning fifty Spirit Stones could be earned.
Such a reward, for soone at the ninth level of the Mortal Realm, is sowhat shaful, but it’s important to understand that iron ore is a mundane material, and Feng Jun truly does not have ti to organize manpower; hiring mortals would be more cost-effective.
However, employing mortals for quick mining requires a massive workforce and involves managent, logistics, and other concerns, which are too complicated.
Huang Fu Wuxia didn’t hesitate to say that she’d handle it, but unexpectedly, a mber of the Sun Clan, an upper-level cultivator, stated, "My Sun Family will take this job, guaranteeing one billion tons in two months."
However, he didn’t want Spirit Stones; instead, he hopes to get a token for "saving one by killing one"—this ti he used such a token, and was quite satisfied with it because there’s no harm without comparison.
Feng Jun felt that tokens should not be paid this way, and he was curious about whether five thousand Spirit Stones for such a token would be reasonable.
In response, the upper-level cultivator from the Sun Clan told him that these tokens are increasingly scarce, and ordinary people find it hard to obtain them; the token he used this ti is a public asset from the clan, hence he hopes to take back another such token.
Indeed, he plans to pay for the iron ore mining himself, even if it costs more; he’s not short of Spirit Stones. The key is that he wants to replenish the used public asset to avoid others gossiping afterwards.
It would be even better if he could use this to forge a good relationship with Mountain Master Feng.
If you have Spirit Stones, you can indeed do as you please; that’s the reality.
Seeing his firm attitude, Feng Jun nodded and agreed—Huang Fu Family intended to help, which was great, but to reduce risk, he wouldn’t give all the work to the Huang Fu Family.
"My Wu Family will also handle two billion tons," said another early-stage cultivator of the Mortal Realm, "just two tokens will do."
This early-stage cultivator dares to promise this, indicating he’s another person who’s not short of money.
Huang Fu Wuxia didn’t mind; her agreent was just to show support and strengthen her relationship with Feng Jun. If others stepped in, she’d withdraw—she clearly understands that Feng Jun doesn’t want the Huang Fu Family to get too involved.
Others considered whether to sign up, but Feng Jun spoke up, "Alright, this will be enough. After mining, rember to leave soone to keep watch; I don’t want my mined ore stolen."
"Mountain Master Feng, you can rest assured," Sun Shangren said with a smile, "it’s just the Mortal Realm, leaving two High Tier of Qi Refinent is more than enough."
Since it was settled, Feng Jun transported more than twenty loads that night, delivering all the ores to White Pebble Beach—he didn’t frequent Mount Zhige often, and it was too small anyway, not as convenient as White Pebble Beach.
After finishing up here, he took everyone to Mount Zhige, and they stayed busy for over half a month.
Feng Jun had dealt with mundane production equipnt in the Cultivation World before, but there was very little that could be promoted there—at least there was no need for things like trains, as the Cultivation World not only had Flying Artifacts but also Storage Bags.
However, when people in the Cultivation World saw the wide variety of production equipnt, their eyes widened a bit. So felt that what Mountain Master Feng was doing seed utterly inexplicable and couldn’t comprehend why he paid so much attention to mortals.
But Huang Fu Wuxia seed to understand sothing, "This seems like...what you would call a complete system?"
No wonder she was the person who understood Feng Jun best in business, she actually guessed it right.
Feng Jun had little hope that the Cultivation World would accept even a basic industrial system, so he casually explained, "Of course it’s a complete system, with so advanced aspects that are not suitable at present, but new changes will occur in the Mortal Realm in the future."
"New changes?" Huang Fu Wuxia’s eyes twinkled, "Will it significantly affect Cultivators?"
Feng Jun answered without hesitation, "I rember you once bought the Contribution Point Managent System... Is it useful?"
"Of course, it’s useful," Huang Fu Wuxia replied without hesitation, giving high praise to the system, "In fact, if not for the appearance of mundane communication, I might have sold hundreds of units by now...instead of having to hold onto it."
In her view, the Contribution Point Managent System was far superior to mundane communication because it could optimize managent for the entire clan or sect, being transparent, just, and tily, without even needing anyone to oversee it.
However, when she started training on mundane communication, she decided to temporarily suspend the sale of the Contribution Point Managent System—since both required using computers, she didn’t want more people to undergo computer training prematurely.
Feng Jun didn’t mind her self-interest because, for him, the Contribution Point Managent System didn’t have a standardized version; each one was different, making configuration quite botherso. Even more troubleso was that many clans or sects didn’t want Feng Jun to know about their databases.
Selling this kind of system was not as worthwhile as selling Communication Systems; the service process was too troubleso.
Seeing Huang Fu Wuxia acknowledge his words, Feng Jun chuckled, "Actually, the Contribution Point Managent System doesn’t have a high technical content... You can’t imagine five people forming six groups."
"Five people forming... six groups?" Huang Fu Wuxia frowned, "What is that?"
"That’s sothing relatively advanced," Feng Jun casually responded, "Of course, it’s not the most advanced."
Huang Fu Wuxia pondered for a long ti before hesitantly asking, "But are these...useful for cultivation?"
She acknowledged Feng Jun’s mundane business dealings, but ultimately, she raised a fundantal question concerning Cultivators—it was wonderful that it could provide convenience for life, but if it didn’t aid cultivation, the developnt potential would be too limited.
"Of course," Feng Jun replied without hesitation, but without further explanation.
Two days later, Brother Bao, the Su Family, and the Gao Family reached an agreent regarding their cooperation in oil fractionation. Although the Gao Family was relatively well off in the capital, they were still far behind the other two families. Fortunately, they had oil fields nearby and beca a minor shareholder.
Technically, the Gao Family could just sell crude oil instead of becoming a minor shareholder, and when more buyers ca, they could sell to the highest bidder.
However, the Gao Family didn’t choose that route but opted for cooperative developnt. It must be said, to make a na in the capital, they were indeed wise.
In fact, after seeing this set of fractionation equipnt, Huang Fu Wuxia was also quite tempted. Even though it was a mundane object, it was indispensable for generators. The key point was... it was a consumable.
Never underestimate the value of major consumables; she knew this very well. So she asked Feng Jun, "Can you get two sets of this equipnt?"
Feng Jun gave her a look and, with puzzlent, said, "It’s not difficult, you could casually set up a Formation to make it."
"A Formation, but doesn’t that still require Spirit Stones?" Huang Fu Wuxia asked rightfully, "Just find so random materials to burn, and you can save Spirit Stones... You really don’t realize how costly daily provision can be if you’re not managing a household!"
I was actually looking out for you, and yet you act all haughty with ? Feng Jun chuckled and nodded, "Alright, you want to buy it, how could I not sell it to you?"
After selling the fractionation equipnt, the affairs at Mount Zhige were temporarily concluded, but Feng Jun wasn’t in a rush to leave, as he was still waiting for news from Yongyi Duke about platinum group tals.
However, one day, Qu Jianlei hurriedly approached, "Mountain Master Feng, Yan Yuxi is here, saying she has sothing urgent to discuss with you."
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