From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 171 The Sea Soul Master's Yearning for Soul-Guided Vehicles! [Please Subscribe! Please Vote!]

"Two hundred and forty thousand!" Xue Luo frowned and continued to raise the price.

"Two hundred and fifty thousand!" someone else continued to bid!

"Is all their money just going down the drain?" Chen Hong asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Well, in Soto City, the Technology Chamber of Commerce is actually the poorest," Ning Quan said somewhat awkwardly.

"Infrastructure is a huge expense. The majority of the money the Technology Chamber of Commerce earns each quarter is invested in infrastructure, which is why we were able to complete the road construction throughout the Kingdom of Barak within two years, and also build many main roads in the surrounding areas such as Notting City, Sword City, and Spirit City."

"Due to the construction of roads and the sale of some soul tools produced by the Technology Chamber of Commerce, the nobles of the surrounding provinces have made a lot of money following the Technology Chamber of Commerce. And because they do not have to pay taxes or invest in infrastructure at any cost, the Technology Chamber of Commerce's net profit is very low in terms of pure profit."

The Technology Chamber of Commerce spends almost all of its money, rather than keeping it in its own hands. It either becomes welfare for its employees, and then the employees, with money, like to buy all kinds of high-quality lifestyle soul tools produced by their own chamber of commerce, such as soul power cars, soul power lights, soul power washing machines, and high-rise buildings built by the Technology Chamber of Commerce's infrastructure department in Soto City.

The technology chamber of commerce has a constant cash flow that is being reinvested, and it also has to shoulder the burden of infrastructure projects, which are notoriously expensive. Therefore, it doesn't have much money to spend casually.

However, if the technology business association is willing to slow down its development for a while, it can gather tens of millions of dollars in a very short time.

Because soul tools are so profitable, especially since they are particularly good at extracting gold coins from the noble soul masters, the Technology Merchants Association is in a strange situation: it doesn't lack money, but it doesn't have much money either.

However, if measured by economic size, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is the wealthiest non-state power. Its resources accumulated over a thousand years are estimated to be worth over 5 billion gold soul coins, making it truly richer than a nation. The Technology Chamber of Commerce, on the other hand, has only been developing for three years, but its economic size, including infrastructure, has likely already surpassed the 100 million mark. Hundreds of thousands of people in Suocheng, and millions in surrounding cities, have almost all directly or indirectly benefited from the Technology Chamber of Commerce.

The Technology Chamber of Commerce created a large number of new jobs, continuously generating value for the increasingly closed society of Douluo Continent. In fact, due to the abundance of material goods, the gold soul coins near Soto City began to appreciate in value, but this was constantly suppressed by the Technology Chamber of Commerce. At the same time, the Chamber of Commerce was exchanging gold soul coins from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School for reserves, and was even preparing to ask the Spirit Hall for the right to issue currency.

The Technology Chamber of Commerce has its own concerns about suppressing the appreciation of Gold Soul Coins. If it doesn't suppress it a little, then the excess production capacity will be harvested by other noble forces, and the common people and low-level Soul Masters with the strongest consumption power will not benefit much at all.

The Technology Chamber of Commerce is currently frantically extracting gold coins from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and then "distributing money" to the people of Soto City. At the same time, they are contacting the Spirit Hall to demand monetary control, so that the total amount of currency can keep up with the production capacity.

This led to a very strange situation: the wealthiest technology guild had extremely low cash flow, but the common people in Soto City were very rich, and the noble soul masters who followed the technology guild were all eating their fill.

And so we have this scene today, where Soul Master nobles who don't value money are bidding against each other because money comes too easily.

"Three hundred thousand! Barry, are you sure you want to compete with me?!" Xue Luo's face darkened as he stood in the front row of the open space cleared by Elder Yang, the Soul Saint's guard, and looked unhappily at a fat man among a group of noble youths standing on the other side.

"Shelo! This is a normal bidding process! Whoever has the most money gets it!" Barry, the little prince of the Barak Kingdom, was not willing to indulge Shelo at all.

Barry should have been the new city lord of Soto City if nothing unexpected had happened. However, the Xue Sen father and son pulled strings ahead of time and obtained an imperial edict from Emperor Xue Ye of the Heavenly Dou Dynasty. In the end, the Barak royal family, as subjects, had no choice but to accept it. But this made Barry very unhappy with the Xue Luo father and son.

Barry had initially bid out of mere curiosity about mermaids. But now that he'd discovered it was that bastard Sherlock, he was determined to fight him to the death.

So the little prince exclaimed, "Three hundred and fifty thousand!"

"Looks like we've been robbing other people of their gold coins everywhere, but in the end, these guys still managed to rob us," Chen Hong muttered to himself as he watched the two wealthy guys bidding against each other.

I don't think my original Soul Engine design blueprints sold for this much? Indeed, lust is humanity's eternal pursuit.

"However, we must obtain the right to issue currency from the Heaven Dou Empire and the Spirit Hall. Only in this way can we issue the Chamber of Commerce's paper money. Otherwise, the Chamber of Commerce will just be sucked dry by these burly nobles." Chen Hong previously only had a clear understanding that most of the Soul Masters in Soto City were relatively wealthy. Now he did, however, that they could sell sea Soul Beasts for two or three hundred thousand without batting an eye.

However, Chen Hong looked up at the center of the pool, where the Sea Soul Saint stood on the water with a constant smile. Although there was no evidence, Chen Hong could roughly deduce from the other party's micro-expressions that the Sea Soul Mercenary Group had transported their most prized treasures to Soto City from afar, and their purpose was not simply to sell them for more money.

If my deduction is correct, this group of Sea Soul Masters who traveled thousands of miles to Soto City may only have one purpose: the Technology Chamber of Commerce.

"It seems the world isn't lacking in bright minds," Chen Hong thought to himself, looking at the Hague Soul Saint on the water's surface.

The Sea Soul Mercenary Group wanted to establish a connection with the Technology Chamber of Commerce, and their purpose was naturally singular: to obtain the Technology Chamber of Commerce's soul-guided machinery.

Compared to land-based Soul Masters, sea-based Soul Masters seem to be more sensitive to 'vehicles'?

"Four hundred thousand! Barry! Are you sure you still want to go for it?!" Sherlock looked at Barry, who was surrounded by his noble soul master companions, with a cold gaze.

"Heh, so what if you let me have it?" Barry chuckled. He roughly estimated the other party's financial strength and figured this was about right; it wouldn't be worthwhile to bid any higher.

Mermaids? He wasn't particularly interested in those things; he was only here today to accompany a friend and broaden their horizons.

His father told him that the Technology Chamber of Commerce was a very good organization and that he should not pick up bad habits, which he did.

"You're smart to know what's good for you!" Xue Luo looked pained, but a hint of joy still appeared in her eyes.

Just when he thought victory was assured, an untimely voice appeared:

"400,001 gold soul coins".

(End of this chapter)