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"Elder Dashang" waited for two days before replying to Cheng Jinzhou. Looking at the message "8 million stars will be received within three days, please confirm within one hour.", it made people smile bitterly.

The expenditure of nearly 3 million taels of silver is not something you can just have.

Cheng Jinzhou rubbed the ring and stood there in a daze. He actually has some money on hand. He has not used all the accumulation in the past two months, at least three to five million taels of silver. If he conducts another sales raid and gets some cheap grains, sugar, etc., to exchange with the maritime merchants, One million taels of silver is fine. But in any case, 3 million taels of silver was difficult for Cheng Jinzhou to raise in the short term. Although he had already considered the risks in this regard, he did not expect that the other party would have time constraints, especially a very short time limit.

For merchants, grain, salt, cloth and sugar can basically be regarded as general equivalents, and have the same or similar functions as gold, brass, etc. On the contrary, higher-priced luxuries, such as medicinal materials, are difficult to exchange in large quantities because they are difficult to sell. In modern financial language, liquidity is too poor. Businessmen will probably not buy materials with poor liquidity, lest they affect their cash flow. The business summary of the feudal period is not rich enough, but the business experience is sufficient.

Cheng Jinzhou counted the money he could get with his fingers and said to Yi Su, "Can I ask the other party for a delay?"

"No." The former customer service man said very directly: "Reputation is very important in transactions between Star Alliances. If the transaction cannot be completed on time, it may cause huge losses. As far as you are concerned, if the other party cannot deliver to you on time If you are dissatisfied with the United Star Formation or the Star Formation, what will be the result?"

"What if I confirm it's not done?"

"Your evaluation information will be recorded, and a certain amount of Star Alliance points will be deducted from you. At present, it seems that 1,000 points are possible." Ys said and added: "Recording evaluation information is a very serious matter. It will affect your development in the Star Alliance."

"Then it's all over. Let's talk about how I can develop in the Star Alliance. Compared to others, I would rather go home." Cheng Jinzhou snorted.

"There may be no development within a hundred or two hundred years, but you will regret it later." Ys said lightly, and then said: "Use your contribution points as collateral."

"500 contribution points, mortgaging 500,000 taels of silver is the limit. The rest... uh, you mean Star Alliance points are mortgaging?" Cheng Jinzhou immediately thought: "I have 1,300 contribution points, maybe I can receive several million Xingyuan?"

The current customer service classmates' occasional exploitative activities resulted in Cheng Jinzhou's Star Alliance points being forced to increase.

Yisu laughed and said, "Of course you can borrow money, but do you think Buddha will lend it to you?"

Cheng Jinzhou suddenly became frustrated. It was impossible for the court to give him any more money, and the church was almost at its limit. The remaining maritime merchants and trading houses cannot expect too much...

Unable to think of the result for the time being, Cheng Jinzhou thought of a new question and said, "Could the person who gave me the star array be a certain star warlock from the Xingzhou Star Warlock Association?"

The star array is a very professional thing, or a very mysterious thing, and it is difficult for Cheng Jinzhou to predict that some alien scientist will focus on researching it.

Yisu suddenly burst into laughter and said, "Do you think the 'Elder Merchant' will use people to help you with your research?"

"Wouldn't it be possible?"

"The scientists of the Star Alliance are such a noble group, how can they do such a thing for you. For a simple transaction, they will have something like a supercomputer to complete the simulation for you. As long as it can be used, I won't worry about it. Or how come they are divided into normal business and difficult business?”

"Is difficult business the responsibility of real people?"

Ys said in an interesting voice: "If it is a difficult business, based on your Star Alliance level, they will not do it. In addition, you are the only one in this world who can contact the Star Alliance, and the uniqueness of the agent is a very important right. .Of course, there is no guarantee that customer service will not block people without permission."

He said the last sentence very calmly, obviously he had done something illegal.

Cheng Jinzhou thought of some "border crosser" and suddenly lost interest. The former customer service classmate remained silent, leaving him to think for himself.

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As the in-depth discussions progressed, team members became more and more familiar with this method, and the results became better and better. The day after Father Li Zhong asked the church to join, Liao Kai published his new article - "The Graduality of Matter."

Compared with later generations of scientists, the earlier gentlemen were able to give themselves larger article names. If it were placed two hundred years later, Liao Kai would have to change the name of his article to "A brief analysis of the evolution process of ferrous iron to trivalent iron under the influence of different temperatures and humidity." If the data were accurate, as a university undergraduate A thesis should be sufficient.

However, on the academic platform of Daxia, Liao Kai's article turned out to have quite good results. Mei Wending placed it before the middle page, at the tenth place in the entire article - in the "Journal of Xia Jing", this article But it is a very particular position. It seems to be at the back, but it is easy to be remembered by people, so it often places less controversial innovative articles...

In fact, "Journal of Xia Jing" has dozens of articles every month, so being able to publish it is a great honor in itself. If there are statistics on influential factors, the value can basically be above 2 - judging from the level of Chinese professors, an impact factor of 2 points is enough to eat and drink for 10 years.

Liao Kai was obviously very happy as well. He was a one-star warlock. Before this, he had only published articles in "Acta Alchemy", which was actually very difficult. If Daxia's journals are distinguished by world-level, national-level and provincial-level journals, "Acta Alchemy" can also be regarded as a very professional national-level journal. Liao Kaixing's title of Warlock was not a coincidence.

But publishing an article in Xia Jing Academic Journal has a completely different meaning. Because the articles of "Journal of Xia Jing" will be spread through the communication star array to all areas with Star Warlock Associations. Although the speed is very slow, it is spreading after all. This not only means that the contribution points may increase even more, but also It also means that the selection criteria of "Journal of Xia Jing Academic Journal" are more stringent.

Of course, Cheng Jinzhou's articles can basically be published in "Xia Jing Academic Journal". To be fair, if you plagiarize the articles of Gauss and Leibniz, the results will only be exposed in ordinary journals, and the two plagiarists will crawl out of their graves if they find out.

Liao Kai's success has greatly affected the Star Warlocks' views on the team, especially the new team organized by Cheng Jinzhou. Just like the seminars that Xiao Cheng had participated in before, the Star Warlock Association also held regular seminars. However, due to the strict hierarchy, it was more like a "show off meeting" for later generations than a seminar. Everyone will publicize their recent achievements on the stage, and other star warlocks who are interested will ask a few questions. If they don't have any deep hatred, they will probably not say a word. Later, the so-called international conference evolved into a class conference, just like the current Star Warlock Association. Only senior authoritative figures would express their opinions and speak, and the others would just show up, wasting time in vain.

However, the average Star Warlock is actually quite debatable. Just like when children were in school, children who focus on studying and do not communicate with other people usually can only hang in the middle of the class. Those who know how to ask questions and solve them are often at the forefront of the class. Even when they reached the status of Newton and Fermat, the most common thing they did was to send letters to friends describing their recent work, discoveries and questions...

In the absence of a suitable discussion mechanism, the Star Warlocks' approach was to form mutually supportive groups, such as Cao Feng Star Warlocks and Jin Xi Xing Warlocks. But not every star warlock can find compatible friends, or star warlocks who have the same research direction as themselves.

When Father Li Zhong publicized the news of joining Cheng Jinzhou's team to the Star Warlocks in the church, the popularity was beyond his expectation.

For Star Warlocks who prioritize personal will, improving their abilities must take precedence over other considerations.

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Cheng Jinzhou didn't have much time to think about it and decisively confirmed the request of "Elder Dashang". No matter what, the United Stars can only be accomplished by the other side, and there is always a way to raise the money.

When peaceful and fair methods could not guarantee funds, Cheng Jinzhou was ready to resort to robbery again. Speaking of which, he is not a good, law-abiding citizen.

If the country looks down upon compliance with the law, there will naturally be people who will comply with the country's opinions.

At least as far as Cheng Jinzhou knew, the grain and other materials stored in Shaonan City, as the granary of the southwest, could basically meet the requirements. The only problem now is that the court has money and cannot give it to him, so he needs to find a star warlock who can help him, so as not to fight alone.

Lu Xu immediately became classmate Xiao Cheng's first choice.

While he notified his father by letter, asking him to pay attention to the reserve status of all warehouses around the capital, he rushed to the outer peninsula.

The royal family's cleaning work of the household warehouse was convenient for him at this time. In the past, because officials were all in deficit, the 100% of the vassal's treasury on the books was probably only 30 to 50%. Now, although the supplies have not increased much, at least the figures on the books seem real and reliable.

All Cheng Jinzhou had to do was connect the valuable warehouses together to determine where to rob them.

This time, he did not consider at all that he might really anger the fourth-level star warlock Yang Zhanquan.

Or in his subconscious mind, Yang Zhanquan has been listed on the list of people who need to fight.

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