Douluo: A Century-old Legend I Am the Second Uncle Chenxin

Chapter 1335 A grand money-burning game (3K)

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Here, I almost missed out on something crucial.

Centenarian elders such as Shen Tianjun, Lu Xueying, and Leng Qingqiu all ushered in a golden period of explosive combat power after breaking through their titles.

This sudden burst of accumulated strength, like a volcanic eruption, is the generous gift from their decades of sword-cultivation.

In the combat power composition of Titled Douluo, in addition to combat skills, inner cultivation mainly depends on the depth of soul power and the mysterious realm of artistic conception.

The sword skills of these elders are like thousand-year-old trees buried deep underground, deeply rooted and with a long history.

After the sword intent takes shape, it enters a stage of rapid growth. This is their most solid inner foundation, providing a continuous source of power for the surge in sword intent.

At the same time, the reserves of soul power they have accumulated over decades are huge and pure.

After the mirror was broken, these soul powers were released like a flood. In just a few days, their soul powers approached the peak of level 91 and were only one step away from level 92.

This rapid increase in soul power level is exactly the same as Gui Changhao's return home, both showing an unstoppable upward trend.

Take Shen Tianjun as an example. Before he broke through, his attack power had already reached an astonishing level of 92-93.

The ultimate move he unleashed, "One Finger of Heaven and Earth", was close to level 95 in power, and the "True One Finger of Heaven and Earth", which was a fusion of the Seven Injury Seals and "One Finger of Heaven and Earth", could even compete with a level 96 warrior.

Now that he has broken through, his regular combat power has reached level 95, the power of "One Finger of Heaven and Earth" has been increased to the initial level of level 96, and "One Finger of True Heaven and Earth" has even reached the advanced level of level 96 or even the peak level.

According to the main vein assessment, "One Finger of Heaven and Earth" is a second-level secret technique, originally created by the Shen family, while "One Finger of True Heaven and Earth" has reached the third-level mystery.

Leng Qingqiu and Lu Xueying's situations are similar to Shen Tianjun's. Their combat power limits can reach level 94-95.

This also explains why the three of them were able to decide the outcome of these two operations in one fell swoop.

After their soul power breaks through to level 92, their combat power is expected to increase further.

In addition, the situation of the four great elders is the same. After three years, the soul power levels of the three elders Zhu, Cheng and Ding have all reached level 92.

Zhu Hongzhen even reached level 93, rising two levels in seven years, which was really fast.

He is at the peak of level 93 and will soon be at level 94 because he had absorbed a 9-year soul bone before.

It is worth mentioning that Gui Changhao was able to quickly reach level 94 within one or two years, which was somewhat related to Gui Jia's secret method.

The secret method of returning home can quickly release the profound foundation he has accumulated due to the stagnation of his realm for many years, and transform it into a powerful improvement in strength, allowing him to achieve a leap in level in a short period of time.

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Chen Cong's eyes were filled with emotions, and he couldn't help but raise his voice and asked, "Is this the reason why you are pushing forward the two plans of Chen's crystal card and cigarettes to market in advance?"

Chen Xiaojun looked calm, and just pursed his lips slightly: "Yes, Second Uncle, you guessed right."

Indeed, establishing a large-scale professional warrior academy was the most fundamental consideration behind his launching these two plans.

Speaking of the crystal card project, let’s first calculate the gains from this battle in the mountains.

The estimated value of the materials obtained in this battle is over 12 billion.

There are a total of 49 people in this luxurious lineup.

There are ten Titled Douluo, five of whom are shown above, Chen Hong, Zhu Jiazhen, Yang Jingxue, Ximen Rongcheng, and Zhuo Qianren.

There were five people in ambush: Lu Xueqi, Zhang Xiaofan, Shen Tianjun, Leng Qingqiu, and Lu Xueying.

In addition, there are 37 Soul Douluo, as well as Ning Jiang and Cheng Yun.

Among this group of people, there are Chen family sword cultivators and their followers, including people from the three families of Shen, Ji, and Liu, a total of 19 Soul Douluos and Cheng Yun, who are all our own people.

For them, they can use a combination of internal contribution points and crystal cards for payment.

In fact, crystal cards have already begun to circulate on a small scale among various families and departments under the Chen family.

However, most of the crystal cards in circulation are small-value cards, and large-value crystal cards have not yet been used.

After all, even for the Ji family and the Liu family, who frequently trade with the main family, the transaction volume is unlikely to reach a level that requires an extremely large amount.

Therefore, this time, the black gold and purple gold crystal cards were basically the first time they saw them.

Of course, they basically choose the internal contribution value and crystal card combination mode, and no one chooses pure crystal card.

Contribution value is the foundation of Chen’s internal system.

Also, they didn’t select the materials, and the finished products in-house were available at a discounted price.

There were only 18 external Contras participating in this operation, including Ning Jiang.

In addition to exchanging 500 million Chen family products (there are no ninth-grade products), they are also quite active in exchanging materials.

However, the upper limit of material exchange is no more than 500 million.

Even so, many people like Gao Ying, Ning Jiang, Gu Qianli and others redeemed their deposits in full, and the value of the redeemed materials was as high as tens of millions.

The reason why the Chen family did not give all the materials to Soul Douluo, but chose to keep them in their hands, was precisely out of profit considerations.

Once these remaining 11 billion materials are processed and transformed into products and finished products, their value will skyrocket several times.

I believe everyone is aware of the difference in value between materials and finished products.

Taking the 20 people including Zhuo Qianren as an example, each of them should get 2500 million.

Well, Zhuo Qianren got the skull of the Fearful Griffin because he was the one who killed the Fearful Griffin, and others helped him out. That's it, the amount was equal to that of the Soul Douluo, without the extra portion for the Titled Douluo.

After deducting the exchange amount of about 20 million for the 1.5 people, the Chen family actually only needs to pay 3.5 million.

With the strength of the Chen family, they only need to give it a few months to release the first wave of products to easily pay the amount. There is no need to rush to promote the Chen family crystal card.

So, there must be other important reasons behind Chen Xiaojun going to so much trouble to promote the crystal card plan and launch the cigarette project at the same time.

That is to reserve official currency and make adequate financial preparations for the large-scale construction of vocational and technical colleges.

Of course, in addition to the previously mentioned purposes such as recruiting Jinyiwei, the construction of the college is the bulk of the capital investment.

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Next, let’s do a simple calculation of how much money is needed to operate these professional warrior academies on a large scale.

Based on the basic fee standard of 500 gold coins per person per year, the total tuition fee for two semesters is 100 gold coins.

With this tuition income, plus the half-and-half expenses shared with Fasno and Barak, the Chen family actually needs to pay 200 gold coins for each student.

As the saying goes, "the poor are good at literature and the rich are good at martial arts." For ordinary people, 100 gold coins is already a huge expense, and it is indeed difficult for ordinary families to afford the tuition.

The basic expenses mentioned here cover all expenses for daily operation and maintenance of the college, as well as teachers' salaries, students' three meals a day and other purely basic living and teaching expenses.

In other words, the resources needed to improve cultivation and combat power are not included in this basic fee.

If this part of the cost is taken into account, the Chen family not only has to bear the basic expenses, but also needs to provide students with spiritual medicines and other cultivation resources, as well as meet the professional expenses required for each profession.

By this calculation, the amount of money that the Chen family has to pay for each student is estimated to soar to 500 gold coins.

Moreover, this estimate is based on a relatively simple situation of professional expenditure.

In fact, more sophisticated and high-end professions will cost more.

In addition, in order for those industries to contribute their inherited training methods, the Chen family and their two families would have to pay a corresponding price.

Because of this, the practice of forcibly allocating graduating student quotas between the Chen family, the Chang'an Military Region, and the Barak royal family seems reasonable.

As several vocational colleges have invested such huge amounts of money, which are of an inclusive nature in the early stages, it is natural that students must obey their arrangements after graduation.

Unless the student is self-funded.

Speaking of this, Chen Xiaojun no longer understands.

In later generations, could it be that the work-study student quota that Tang San had was really provided by someone for free compulsory education?

No need for students to pay any price in the future?

Can you just leave without any ties?

This is the medieval Douluo Continent, which is obviously not in line with common sense.

Of course, if the Chen family and the other two families are willing to pay a little more, they can indeed provide students with completely free education, but finances are more critical.

Well, there still have to be a small number of genius places with reduced college fees.

Well, those who come from noble families and have undergone physical training and medicinal baths since childhood all have good talents as warriors.

Think about the six-year-old Wuneng, who hadn’t yet awakened his martial spirit, but he was already using the Nine-toothed Rake he had built to fight the Wolf Bandits.

But even with the convenience of the Warrior Academy, each family still needs to invest training resources in order to train their members who choose to become warriors, and two or three thousand gold coins may not be enough.

Otherwise, the warriors can only practice "naked", and it is unknown when they will be able to reach the advanced professional combat power levels such as Soul Master and Soul Sect.

You can't retain your soul power in the first place. How can you grow up if you don't eat well and increase your resource investment?

The problem is that the annual cost for a talented soul master like Gao Cuilan, who is a direct descendant of a sixth-grade aristocratic family, is only about 50,000.

There are only two to three thousand soul masters with low soul power from the side branches.

Therefore, the poor cost-effectiveness is a big problem.

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Now, getting back to the topic, let's calculate the funding needs of this professional warrior academy.

Based on the training cost of 500 gold coins per person per year, there are 5000 students trained in the five southern counties, so the annual cost is million gold coins.

On average, each county would have to spend 1000 million gold coins each year.

Looking at Barak, its area and population are larger than those of Fasno.

Barak covers an area of ​​more than 200 million square kilometers and has 1 counties under its jurisdiction. According to official statistics, its population is over 1 million.

However, in the early stages of planning, it is naturally not possible to fully implement the construction of the college.

Previously, Chen Zixiu and Xia Qingyun had agreed that the key construction areas would be concentrated in the three counties of Danya, Fenghuang and Jiuhua, which are located in the southwest and close to the mountains.

As for the two regions of Tosk and East Sea Coast, they are relatively small in scale, so for the time being, each region will be calculated as one county.

As a result, there are a total of ten counties that are the focus of construction in the early stage.

The annual cost for these ten counties is as high as 1 million gold coins, and this is the cost after it is apportioned.

Well, if Tosk and East China Sea Coast were both paid for by the Chen family themselves, they would need even more.

However, this is only the annual training cost for students, and the huge investment in the initial construction of the college has not yet been taken into account.

(End of this chapter)