Ore

Lu Mingzhe smiled and nodded. "That works too. Let the hero get some proper rest; we'll meet again later. I heard she also brought back two sacks of silver ore. Where are they? I invited Lord Ding and some craftsmen over. They know silver mines extremely well..."

The two sacks of silver ore were on the ship. Of course, they could not possibly have brought back only two sacks.

That was merely what was out in the open.

In truth, Pan Yun, Miao Zhen, Miao He, and Tao Yanbai each had a pile stored in their spatial artifacts.

Back in Omori village, Pan Yun had also given Xue Shao a spatial jade, and his space contained a pile as well.

If they wanted to draw more people to Japan to fight over this silver mine, they had to let them know just how rich it was. They had to let them truly lay their hands on the goods...

Pan Yun had barely concerned herself with the two sacks of ore on the ship, letting them fight over it by whatever means they could.

Yet Qu Le, who had been put in charge of those two sacks, had somehow traded the ore for more than two thousand taels of silver.

Pan Yun said, "...As expected of you!"

Qu Le had two chests of silver carried in, then pulled a stack of silver notes from his robes. "Depending on size, each stone went for fifty to one hundred taels. The Chen family bought ten stones. They're rich, so I charged them one hundred taels apiece regardless of size. That alone earned us a thousand taels.

"Prefect Lu is an official, and he has standing. He took two large pieces, so I gave him a discount—one hundred and fifty taels.

"General Gong pinched