From Bead-Turning Machine to Television
The price of Purple Heart Stone is rising again.
After all, the jewelry store initially quoted 50,000 taels per stone, proving that the stone was indeed worth that much money.
The sudden drop from 60,000 to 10,000 indicates market panic.
However, after experiencing the recent ups and downs, many people no longer dare to participate in such matters. After all, Zhang Yun has the backing of the Zhang Family and is in charge of warehouse management, so he always has a chance to get his Artifact Dao on a magical artifact.
But many people don't have his background; they work hard their whole lives, and all the money they earn vanishes in the blink of an eye.
Some people simply went up to the rooftop.
After this incident made the news, many onlookers became curious: what kind of business could generate or lose billions of dollars in a single day?
Then, Deep Blue's newly developed software, called [Tai Heng Futures], came into everyone's view.
This is a large market connected to the whole world, selling commodities such as steel and grain. However, since it has just been launched, there are very few products available, currently only Purple Heart Stone, but some merchants have already started opening accounts on it.
Nobody thought there was anything wrong with the software, since it was all accidentally created by those people who speculated on Purple Heart Stone.
No one could imagine the risks involved, since the world has never had a financial problem before.
Or rather, it has happened before, but it has never been considered a financial problem.
Zhang Yun quietly left his post and went to visit his cousin Zhang Liu.
Zhang Liu was about the same age as him, but he was only at the Qi Refining First Level, and he had reached that level through the Yang God Method.
Zhang Liu, however, had already reached the Qi Refining Fifth Level, the Supernatural Power Realm.
Therefore, the two received vastly different levels of attention; he was in charge of guarding the garbage warehouse, while Zhang Liu was in charge of guarding the sect's treasure warehouse!
When Zhang Yun arrived, he found that Zhang Liu was also playing on his phone.
This is actually quite normal. Cultivation is a tedious thing. The idea that it feels good to feel your strength increase is just a vulgar thought of ordinary people who have not embarked on the path of cultivation.
In reality, being born into the Aristocratic Clan cultivators, where cultivation has become a daily activity, makes this feeling anything but pleasant, especially when you have to guard the warehouse and can't go out to train, fight, or show off like ordinary disciples.
Even if you stream, nobody will watch. Who wants to watch someone guarding the warehouse?
"Why are you coming to me instead of keeping an eye on your warehouse?" Zhang Liu asked irritably.
They are relatives, but their relationship is so-so; they used to fight a lot when they were kids.
"I was just bored watching the warehouse, so I wanted to chat with my senior brother!" Zhang Yun said with a smile as he sat down next to Zhang Liu, then glanced at Zhang Liu's screen. "Senior brother, what are you watching?"
"I didn't know that jewelry in the mortal world was made like this," Zhang Liu casually remarked. "It looks quite interesting!"
"Is that so!" Zhang Yun glanced at it twice and put it down. A string of beads is nothing compared to beautiful legs.
He glanced at the warehouse behind him with its doors tightly shut, and then thought about his 210 billion yuan debt, and his IQ suddenly spiked to 250.
Zhang Yun asked, "Since you like it, why don't we buy one and drive it ourselves?"
"Huh?" Zhang Liu was taken aback. "It seems like it could work!"
Although he was at the fifth level of Divine Ability, his status in the entire Cultivation World was still not high.
As for those magical Artifact Dao and artifacts, with his monthly salary, he absolutely couldn't afford them; he could only look at them.
Therefore, when I saw the equipment for making beads, I subconsciously thought that I couldn't afford it.
It was only after Zhang Yun reminded him that he realized, "Right, I can't afford a magic weapon, but surely I can afford a common one?"
"Is this for sale?" Zhang Liu asked.
"It's definitely there, let me help you look!" Zhang Yun took out his phone and opened the Deep Blue Mall.
He had been desperately trying to find ways to raise money these past two days, and while browsing the internet, he discovered many unexpected things.
For example, in Deep Blue Merchant Ship, there is an Industry page that contains various industrial equipment.
As for the fact that the production site is in the Great Ming Kingdom, and there might be conflicts between the Great Ming Kingdom and Taiheng Sect, who cares!
The conflict is your business, what does it have to do with me, a lowly cultivator?
Besides, the sects haven't explicitly stated that the two are enemies. At least for now, the Great Ming Kingdom is still part of the Taiheng Sect.
"Yes, this is it! A household car bead machine, only 400,000 taels!" Zhang Yun said.
Zhang Liu took the phone and saw that it was indeed a bead-making machine, and it was much newer than the one the person in the video was using.
400,000 taels isn't too expensive, is it?
"Junior brother, buy me one!" Zhang Liu pulled out four Spirit Stones from his pocket. "Here's the money!"
"Senior brother, four pieces aren't enough!!" Zhang Yun said.
"Huh?" Zhang Liu asked blankly, "Isn't a Spirit Stone worth 100,000 taels of silver?"
"No, the ratio has increased now!" Zhang Yun took back his phone, opened an app, and handed it to Zhang Liu.
This clearly shows the exchange rates between various currencies.
For example, the Great Ming Kingdom issued three types of currency: copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins.
50 gold coins = one tael of gold.
50 silver dollars = one tael of silver.
50 copper coins = 50 copper plates.
The price ratio of copper coins to silver coins was 1:10, and the exchange ratio of silver coins to gold coins was 1:1000.
This is because Taiheng had more silver than gold, so Taiheng simply didn't have the habit of using gold for transactions.
The vast majority of the gold was mined by Yang Ning from the sea, and it is still being popularized.
In addition, there is a currency called Deep Blue Coin, which is pegged to Spirit Stones. One standard-sized Spirit Stone can be exchanged for 1 Deep Blue Coin.
1 Deep Blue Coin = 50 Gold Coins = 50,000 Silver Coins = 10,000 Taels of Silver!
"See? So you should give me 40 Spirit Stone!" Zhang Yun said.
"I see!" Zhang Liu nodded.
Logically, at this time, the Great Ming Kingdom was at war, and the people should have been displaced and their lives in chaos. How could they have developed such a sound monetary system?
But Zhang Liu couldn't have imagined that far ahead. He had spent his whole life dealing with cultivation or warehouses, and he didn't feel that anything was wrong.
Industrial products can be quickly transported via industrial channels, and in no time Zhang Liu obtained his own bead-carving machine.
He found an empty room, put it down, and then couldn't wait to start trying it out.
I first bought a cheap piece of glass-type green rice jadeite online, which is the same material as Tsingtao beer, for 20 Spirit Stone.
Then
"Why isn't it spinning?" Zhang Liu asked, looking at the blank machine in front of him. "In the video, when that person pressed this button, it should have started spinning!"
"Let me ask the boss!" Zhang Yun was also confused and quickly contacted customer service.
After a long pause, Zhang Yun looked up. "You didn't plug it in!"
"What does 'plugged in' mean?" Zhang Liu blinked, looking completely bewildered.
"That means this thing is like Spirit Artifact; it needs an energy supply. However, Spirit Artifact use Spirit Stone, while this thing uses electricity!"
"Then where am I supposed to get electricity? Buy calcium carbide?" Zhang Liu asked.
"The boss said that if there's no electrical wiring in the house, then the only options are to install a generator or solar panels!"
"What is a generator? What are solar panels?" Zhang Liu felt that having Zhang Yun act as the middleman was too troublesome, so he simply took out his phone and asked.
He soon realized that the generator was a very large machine that needed to be filled with alcohol every day to generate electricity.
This thing is very expensive, 80 Spirit Stone per unit.
Moreover, the alcohol used for power generation is not cheap either, costing 1 Spirit Stone per ton!
This is a continuous consumption item; it needs to be used every day!
But solar panels are much cheaper; a large piece costs 20 Spirit Stone, and two are enough for the bead-making machine.
However, there is a problem: solar panels generate electricity from solar energy, so they can only be used during the day and not at night!
"Then let's buy two solar panels for daytime use and a generator for nighttime use!" Zhang Liu has Spirit Stone; 120 Spirit Stone is nothing, he'll just use them!
Soon, the generator and solar panels arrived.
The seller also included a free light bulb cable.
The two of them worked for a while and finished packing the things, then they found an extra board that they didn't know what it was for.
"Boss, what's this thing used for? (picture)"
"Oh, I'm so sorry, this was a mistake by our staff. We accidentally put a TV remote in there. Please return the remote to me."
Zhang Liu immediately grasped the key point and asked, "What is a television set?"
Soon, a television set appeared in his room.