Tianma Flag Plus Maple Leaf

"Financial Luck?" Lin Yuanxi shook his head. "How much fortune can mere money provide? My Lin Family practically monopolizes agriculture, forestry, fishing, animal husbandry, salt production, and ironware trade in Southern Forest, yet the Financial Luck we gain is less than one percent of the National Luck's fortune!"

"Your words give me even more confidence!" Yang Ning laughed. "Even with such underdeveloped productivity, Financial Luck can account for one percent of wealth. Once the technological age arrives, Financial Luck will expand a hundredfold, a thousandfold!"

"That many?" Lin Yuanxi blinked, "Don't lie to me!"

Yang Ning chuckled. In 1820, the Qing Dynasty's fiscal revenue was 0.4 billion taels of silver, while in 2020, Huaxia's fiscal revenue reached 18.3 trillion yuan!

In terms of purchasing power, one tael of silver in the Qing Dynasty was equivalent to about 800 RMB. 400 million taels would amount to 32 billion RMB. In 200 years, fiscal revenue expanded 600 times!

Don't forget that the tax rates of the two dynasties were quite different. In 2020, there was no agricultural tax, and the commercial tax was also less than that of the Great Qing. In contrast, the Great Qing levied a tax on all goods, regardless of their size. The tax was extremely broad, covering everything that people of all ages, from birth to death, needed for daily life.

If the Great Qing's tax system were used, increasing it tenfold wouldn't be a problem, and the difference would be six thousand times!

One percent of Financial Luck multiplied by six thousand, that's sixty times!

In other words, if industrialization were to take place, the wealth that Yang Ningnanlin could gain would be sixty times greater than the current national fortune of Nanlin!

Of course, Yang Ning didn't know the specific algorithm, but gaining good fortune by starting with Financial Luck was definitely not a problem!

"What is technology?" Lin Yuanxi asked.

"Technology is all about crafting artifacts!" Yang Ning said, "But not the small-scale workshop-style crafting we have now. It's about assembly lines, large-scale, mass-production crafting! In the future, the artifacts produced in one day will be equivalent to those produced in a year now, the pills produced in one day will be equivalent to those produced in a hundred years now, and the talismans produced in one day will be equivalent to those produced in a thousand years now!"

"This, how is this possible!" Lin Yuanxi was not familiar with Taiheng's output in weapon crafting and pill refining, but a hundred years, a thousand years, that's so many times, it's completely unimaginable!

However, if it were Yang Ning...

He has already created many miracles by leading a poor and weak country to become the strongest in the Northern Plains, and even launching a counterattack against neighboring countries!

"Then, what can I do?" Lin Yuanxi said, then hurriedly took out a ring. "I've collected a lot of refining materials, see if they're of any use to you?"

If this girl were to encounter a modern-day playboy, she would definitely be swindled out of everything, leaving her with nothing but her underwear!

Luckily, you ran into me!

"I've created Tianma Company, and this will be the starting point for me to make Financial Luck and develop technology!" Yang Ning accepted the ring and said, "I've given 15% of this company to the Artifact Forging Master as stock options. Your weapon refining materials and all your support are considered 18% of the shares!"

"Mmm!" Lin Yuanxi didn't understand what shares were. She only knew that she had a share in Yang Ning's business, and that was enough!

"By the way, do you have any logos or anything like that?" Yang Ning asked. "Since it's a shared cause, I want to incorporate your standards into the Tianma Group's logo!"

"Um, I don't think so." Lin Yuanxi blinked. "I don't usually go out, so I don't need this!"

"Then let's design one on the spot!" Yang Ning asked, "You like maple leaves and bamboo? Then I'll design a blanket for you using maple leaf and bamboo elements, what do you think of this?"

He unfolded a sheet of white paper and drew a flag in the blink of an eye.

The entire flag has a background of green bamboo leaves, with a vertical maple leaf in the center, somewhat like the flag of the Maple Leaf Country with an added background pattern.

"You can also paint?" Lin Yuanxi's eyes lit up. She could write poetry, paint, write songs, and even invent things.

He's infinitely better than that brother who only knows how to cultivate and chase women!

"Uh, I know a little bit!" Yang Ning smiled shyly. "What do I know? It's all from Deep Blue, I just traced it."

"Let's use this one!" Lin Yuanxi was a well-bred young lady, skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, but she couldn't find any fault with the AI's drawing.

Besides, this was painted by Yang Ning. Even if he painted it poorly, she would still praise it to the skies.

"Then let's go with this!" Yang Ning said. "You can have Xiao Huan find a vendor to make some flags to hang on the mountain! Also, for the Tianma Company's flag, I'm thinking of a design like this: a pegasus with maple leaf wings, running above a bamboo forest. What do you think?"

Logo, flag, text, standard font, standard color, symbolic pattern—the entire brand VI appeared in Yang Ning's work.

Although they were both paintings, Lin Yuanxi felt a strange sense of solemnity in Yang Ning's hands.

That feeling is called professionalism!

"As for the brand slogan, it will be: Pegasus, the leader of the times!"

"The times, the navigator." These were not familiar words to Lin Yuanxi, but from these two simple words, she felt the surging torrent of time, like an unstoppable, overwhelming force!

"How about it? If it's not good, I'll change it again!" Yang Ning asked.

"I feel that it's already perfect!" At 21 years old, in her previous life, she would have just graduated from university, and what Lin Yuanxi learned in this world would be more like that of an art student on Earth.

Art students should theoretically be able to understand brand design, but modern painting art and ancient painting are not the same system at all.

Lin Yuanxi couldn't understand it at all, but she felt that this thing seemed very powerful!

"Then it's settled!" Yang Ning stretched out his hand, and Lin Yuanxi also stretched out her hand in a daze, only to have it grabbed by Yang Ning.

Her little hands were cold, soft, and trembling slightly.

"From today onwards, we are not only lovers, but also business partners!" Yang Ning said with a smile, "And also companions supporting each other on the path to immortality!"

"Mmm!" Lin Yuanxi nodded gently. It was another incomprehensible courtesy, like shaking hands.

She felt this moment was even more solemn than the wedding, as if from this moment on, she was no longer Lin Yuanxi.

Instead, it was Yang Linshi.

The moment she let go, she felt a pang of reluctance. When she sat down again, she unconsciously leaned to the side, now placing herself on Yang Ning's side.

"You said you have a force at your disposal?" Yang Ning asked. "Who are they, and what do they do?"

"I belong to the main branch of the Lin family. Only one person from each branch can inherit the Lineage. The other members will become branch families, build their own businesses, and find their own way. Of course, the Lineage will provide some support!" Lin Yuanxi said. "Since my birth, the Lineage has been cultivating a team for me, including three stewards, four stewards for the inner quarters, eight guards, a military commander, and five thousand elite soldiers. In addition, because I am a woman, there are also three Palace Lady-in-Waiting Official."

"A steward is responsible for each and every matter; in business, he can handle affairs and manage accounts; in establishing a nation, he can be appointed Prime Minister to handle state affairs!"

"The head steward of the inner palace handles the affairs of the harem and can also be taken as a concubine. The guards are not only powerful, but also all proficient in education, and can help train an imperial guard."

"The military commanders all have the Qi Refining Fourth Level, the five thousand elite soldiers all have the Eighth Level of Body Refinement cultivation or above, Palace Lady-in-Waiting Official are teachers of etiquette, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and also shoulder the responsibility of protection. They all have the Qi Refining Second Level."

"In addition, I will also receive some assets, such as farmland and shops."

It gives you the feeling that Wang Chuanjun said he had no money in his account, only one million left.

So this is what a member of Lineage looks like? How come she has more resources for training than Xun Hu, a proper prince?

"May I ask, what is your status in the Lin Family?" Yang Ning asked.

"I have no status!" Lin Yuanxi replied earnestly, "My father is the current head of the Lin Family. I have seven older brothers, four younger brothers, five older sisters, and three younger sisters. I am the thirteenth child."

"Do they also cultivate immortality?" Yang Ning asked.

"Everyone cultivates, but only Fourth Brother is in the Taiheng Sect!" Lin Yuanxi said.

"It's Lin Tianheng?"

"Um!"

"Why? Doesn't Taiheng offer any spots?" Yang Ning asked.

"No, we don't need any quotas! Just come in if you want!" Lin Yuanxi said. "However, Taiheng has all the Lineage it has, so it's the same wherever you cultivate!"

Okay, so having a sect leader in your family makes you arrogant? Does being a master in Southern Forest mean you're all that?