As a lord, I was forced to farm

Chapter 894 Selling Ships
Qiu Baishui frowned deeply.

He was opposed to the opening of Nangang Town in the first place.

Although Jiang Ran's persistence allowed him to see how many spirit crystals Da Su had earned and how many talents it had attracted during this period, his concerns about Nan Gang Town remained unresolved.

Of course, even so, Jiang Ran will not close down Nangang Town. On the contrary, she wants to further open up Mingxiao City to the public, but that will probably have to wait until the Thousand Eyes Silver Lamp System is completed.

Qiu Baishui wasn't stupid. He knew that opening up Nangang Town would definitely be more beneficial than harmful to Dasu. So, after Jiang Ran waved her hand gently, he didn't say anything more and quietly withdrew.

Chen Mao stepped forward: "The main roads connecting the five counties have been fully completed. The city walls of the five counties that were destroyed in the war have been repaired and reinforced. Now the Ministry of Works is focusing on the construction of the palace on the Lingze Islands. It is expected that His Highness will be able to move his residence to Chenji Palace early next year..."

Of course, it's not that the Cangwu Palace will be completed next year. It's a huge project that's expected to take ten, several decades, or even a hundred years. But it's not difficult to prioritize building one or two places to rest and cultivate.

"Over in the Xiangling Secret Realm, the first Tree Planting Festival in Dasu is in full swing. So far, tens of thousands of saplings have been planted in the desert..."

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"Your Highness, recently there have been many requests from unruly cultivators to enter the Great City, and the population of the Great City is growing rapidly. The population of the Great City has now reached 420,000..."

After Wu Yun finished talking about the population of Da Su, he turned to the matter of the Creation Elixir Bath Pack, "Recently, many people from Da Su have been reselling Creation Elixir Bath Packs to people from other cities. Some people are even buying Creation Elixir Bath Packs in large quantities. People from Da Su who really need them can't get them. Should we restrict this situation?"

Wu Yun was referring to either limiting purchases or increasing the price of the Creation Tempering Spirit Bath Pack.

"No need for now, just keep an eye on the taxes," Jiang Ran said calmly.

This scene was entirely her doing.

If we don't leave a loophole to let the Creation Refining Elixir Bath flow out, it might really turn into another city trying every means to attack Da Su for the Creation Refining Elixir Bath.

Don't underestimate a cultivator's desire to become stronger.

Jiang Ran wanted to use the Creation Spirit Tempering Bath Pack to stimulate the cohesion of the Da Su people and make them stronger as soon as possible, but she didn't want all forces to target Da Su together.

The cost of a single Creation Spirit Tempering Bath Pack is actually not expensive; the materials cost only about five thousand spirit crystals. Selling it for fifty thousand spirit crystals would already make her a good profit.

Moreover, the biggest secondhand dealers in the market right now are Jiang Ran's men, though few people know it.

Anyway, Jiang Ran firmly controls the formula for the Creation Spirit Tempering Bath Pack. As for those resellers, they are all ordinary people from Dasu. What's wrong with letting our own people have some meat soup?

“However, you’re right, the problem is that ordinary people can’t buy the Creation Spirit Tempering Bath Pack.” Jiang Ran lowered her head and pondered for a moment.

At this moment, Wu Yun suddenly said, "Your Highness, how about doing it like the previous medicinal bath? The town government can collect the people for medicinal baths once a month, and then give the people a discount each time."

"Alright." Jiang Ran thought for a moment and agreed to Wu Yun's suggestion.

These days, Da Su has been really busy, including Jiang Ran.

Placing the memorial on the desk, and thinking about the fluctuations on the system panel, Jiang Ran suddenly said, "I heard that my Great Master Su was punished in the Heavenly Dragon Palace?"

Wu Yun was taken aback, wondering why His Highness the Prince would bring this up. "It's said that he was punished because he fought with the Chaolian people of Tianlong Palace. But the Chaolian people were punished even more severely."

Wu Yun couldn't help but reveal a gloating smile, clearly pleased to see the Chaolian people in such a bad mood.

Jiang Ran remained silent for a moment before bringing up the system panel. After the medicinal bath, the loyalty value on the system panel steadily increased over the next few days, even reaching an astonishing 97 points at one point.

Although it later declined somewhat, it eventually stabilized at 95 points.

Over the years, Jiang Ran has figured out the fluctuations in the loyalty of the people of Dasu.

Loyalty is an indicator of the stability within a Great Constellation. Every member of a Great Constellation affects the loyalty value, but the weighting is different for core members and ordinary members.

The backbone refers to the most powerful and influential members of a group, such as the main army, key ministers, pillars of the scholars, as well as monks and youth groups who represent strength.

If an ordinary person is one, then a cultivator is ten.

That's why Da Su's loyalty skyrockets after the medicinal bath.

Jiang Ran smiled and said, "I think the elder from Tianlong Palace who made the punishment was too old and confused. What wrong have we Dasu people done? Now that I know, I can't just leave our innocent Dasu people alone."

The lovely Da Su people have all given their hearts to Jiang Ran, so naturally she can't bear to ignore them.

Wu Yun was taken aback and said, "But that's an internal matter of the Heavenly Dragon Palace. We shouldn't interfere."

Jiang Ran smiled and said, "Hasn't Tianlong Palace wanted my Da Su's Heng Hai ships for a long time? With the power competition approaching and Tianlong Palace about to go to Mingxiao City, they must also want to seize this opportunity. They even raised the price last month. Now that my Da Su already has Heng Hai No. 3, Heng Hai No. 4 and Heng Hai No. 5, let's sell Heng Hai No. 3 to them."

Jiang Ran originally intended to sell the ships to Tianlong Palace after the power competition.

However, the Creation Tempering Medicine Bath formula deciphered from the ancient stone wall was truly amazing. In just one month, it brought in 30 million spirit crystals, and this was only the benefit brought by Da Su and a few surrounding sects.

Moreover, manpower at sea is limited, and since the advent of Heng Hai No. 3 and No. 5, they have basically remained in the warehouse gathering dust.

Therefore, it would be better to gather funds and, incidentally, do Tianlong Palace a favor.

Wu Yun naturally listened to whatever Jiang Ran said.

……

The following day, Da Su contacted Tianlong Palace and announced the sale of Heng Hai No. 3.

Tianlong Palace immediately dispatched its eldest disciple, Wen Muyun, to Dasu.

After a heated debate, a series of agreements were reached, including a commercial contract for Tianlong Palace to purchase Heng Hai No. 3 for 85 million spirit crystals, as well as agreements on rights such as prohibiting fishing in the Da Su waters, prohibiting vessels from arbitrarily entering the Da Su waters, and requiring payment of tolls and anchorage fees for passing through and anchoring in the Da Su ferry area...

Of course, there were some minor matters outside the contract, such as a minister of Dasu repeating a few words of the Prince of Dasu to Wen Muyun.

The literal meaning of the words is to apologize for the trouble caused by the Great Monk at the Heavenly Dragon Palace and to hope that the Heavenly Dragon Palace will severely discipline them.

But Wen Muyun wasn't stupid; she didn't really take the Prince of Dasu's words, which were just for show, seriously.

If we're talking about strict discipline, the Grand Elder has already punished the Da Su people, and he doesn't believe the Da Su Prince is unaware of that. But to bring it up again is clearly sarcasm.

Leaving the border of Dasu, Wen Muyun glanced back at the deep, tranquil Twilight Swamp and the magnificent Lingze Islands, appearing and disappearing in the mist in mid-air. "This Dasu, this Prince of Dasu..."

It was just as elusive as the white fog in the air.