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Since ancient times, mercury has been regarded as a wonderful thing.

In a normal person's impression, gas is the lightest, followed by liquid, and solid is the heaviest. Mercury attacks this theory with his flowing body. Not only does it exist in liquid form at room temperature, it can easily maintain a spherical appearance. Even if it is spilled on the ground, it will quickly coalesce into balls. In fact, the star magicians who worshiped the "circle" once used mercury as an example and called it "the servant who follows the star god".

Because of so many peculiarities, mercury appeared very frequently in various experiments by early astrologers and was very expensive. Today's astrology has developed. Gentlemen use mercury less frequently, but the quantity has not decreased, and the price is still expensive.

The large quantities specified by Cheng Jinzhou are calculated in tons. This is to adapt to the prices of other cheaper metal minerals. Who would have thought that it would be activated by mercury.

When he heard the news, his first reaction was: Where did this guy get so much cash?

This world does not have such developed financial conditions. The use of flying tickets is very limited, and it is in the nature of a bank cashier's check. A sufficient amount of money needs to be deposited in advance before the note can be issued. The exchange method is cumbersome and is extremely unpopular with businessmen. The use of gold and silver cash is also terrible. Several tons of mercury require at least three to five hundred kilograms of gold to pay for it, which is equivalent to thousands of gold ingots and hundreds of small yellow croakers. ——As for means of payment such as gems and diamonds, it is even more of a dream.

The main reason why later generations can use diamonds as a means of circulation is the Western standardized model. The detailed grading of diamonds according to five types, so that detailed prices can be found on the table, is the first prerequisite for their inclusion in the financial world. In the world of Daxia, the complexity of bartering cannot be determined in minutes or even hours.

Cheng Jinzhou felt incredible when he thought about it. He grabbed the second shopkeeper who came to report the news and asked, "What did you charge? What did he pay for?"

He asked so urgently that he frightened the second shopkeeper.

A small businessman who had never communicated face-to-face with a star warlock. He knelt down tremblingly before saying in a trembling voice: "Young man is inexperienced. He seems to pay the bill with silver taels."

"How much silver will it cost?"

"Four big carts. Even the oxen can't pull them." The second shopkeeper stretched out four fingers and licked his lower lip inadvertently. Even though De'an Port attracts the most maritime merchants, ordinary merchants can only trade a few thousand taels of silver at a time. Large merchants will not play the trick of "paying one hand and delivering the goods" with the merchants—— He had only heard of, but never seen, a single transaction worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Cheng Jinzhou was puzzled and said to himself: "Did he prepare the money and wait for the transaction? Then why bother to stay near the Star Warlock Tower?"

The second shopkeeper thought he was asking himself, so he thought for a long time and said, "Are you talking about a star warlock?"

Cheng Jinzhou was amused by him and waved: "You go down first, but don't go too far. Stay here today and leave tomorrow."

As he spoke, he called "Shi Mo" and ignored him.

In fact, just like the outsider who didn't understand why Cheng Jinzhou could judge the absorption frequency of sound waves, the latter's understanding also took a detour. Four oxen carts of silver did not mean that the Zhao family had to travel thousands of miles to come here. As a high-level star warlock, the man in black robes could move thousands of kilograms of silver from outside the city into the city in just a matter of minutes.

He turned back just to find a place to buy supplies and do research on the way. Naturally, he did not hesitate to use physical strength. In the minds of normal people, how could an astrologer do such physical work, so he was still thinking about where the silver came from.

The government in feudal society had strong control over its own people but limited control over the environment. The outsiders who led Zhao Yeyu lived in the Zhao family's villa without thinking too much. Even if they hid themselves a little, the Cheng family still had no way of knowing.

The regular army of the imperial court cannot eliminate the thieves in the green forest, and with the inaction of ordinary star warlocks, how can they expect to hunt down high-level star warlocks all day long? Not only Cheng Jinzhou does not have such thoughts, but Jiang Huangxing warlock and others have also never Don’t look forward to the myth of being able to hunt down high-level Star Warlocks with low-level Star Warlocks.

That kind of thing is often just heard in legends - if the low-level astromancer is not afraid of death, and the high-level astromancer does not run away, then it may be possible to fight against the weak and the strong. However, the real world is that unless the battlefield advantage is obvious, the Star Warlocks will not enter the battle at all, let alone a battle where moths fly to the flame. For these human elites who live a carefree life and have little national concept, preserving themselves, studying the world, and thinking about life may be the value.

De'an's officers went out in full force to search for the mercury and red letter stones that were taken away by bullock carts near the dock. But where can they find it? Not every star warlock is as lazy as Cheng Jinzhou. The scattered people in the field worked tirelessly, carrying more than ten tons of ore, to fly to the shelter. This kind of dedication is really something that the star warlocks who like to rest and hate work can learn from, and they are the natural enemies of dandies like Cheng Jinzhou.

According to his thinking mode, there is clearly a way to drive a cart, but if you are flying around carrying ore, doesn't that make people unemployed?

In the next few days, the mercury and other related supplies increased slightly, and the guards and white men were sweating a little from exhaustion. De'an Wharf was still doing transshipment business, as quiet as oil dripping in the water.

Warlock Jiang Huangxing and Warlock Li Xianfengxing both disappeared without a trace. Cheng Jinzhou felt a little frightened as he rode Lu Xuyou around all day long. The main scope of activities, apart from reviewing mathematics with the koalas in the Star Warlock Tower, is to organize the government officials to conduct secret searches in various places.

As a mathematician, Cheng Jinzhou is humble, as a doctor of theoretical physics, Cheng Jinzhou is ordinary, but as an ordinary person, Cheng Jinzhou is smart. Based on what Jiang Huang and others had said, he was 80% sure that the mysterious outsider was related to the Holy Cliff.

Otherwise, given their status, there is no need to avoid taboos and even say "you can solve it yourself".

However, these people no longer appeared, and he had no chance even if he wanted to ask.

At the same time, the war in the Northern Han Dynasty also intensified. The troop dispatch plan promised by warlock Liu Kuangxing was successfully implemented. Nearly 80,000 imperial troops set off in advance, completely cutting off the traffic in Tianshui Grassland and cutting off the last way for Han Dynasty to increase troops.

Cheng Jinzhou's eyes couldn't help but be attracted.

For the soldiers of Daxia, occupying Hanjing can already be put on the agenda. The only obstacle is to form a strategic advantage over Zhuohuan Priest and Mokan Star Warlock. But at the moment of anxiety, Jiang Huangxing Warlock But the warlock Li Xianfengxing disappeared.

One of the five star warlocks who had appeared in De'an returned to Xingzhou, two local star warlocks disappeared, and the ones left on the battlefield turned out to be two star warlocks from Xingzhou. The development of the situation was really ridiculous.

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