Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 78: Heavenly Horse Flag with Maple Leaf

"Wealth luck?" Lin Yuanxi shook her head. "How much luck can mere money provide? My Lin family practically monopolizes agriculture, forestry, fishing, animal husbandry, and salt industry in South Forest. The fortune we gain is not even one percent of the national fortune!"

"If that's the case, I'm even more confident!" Yang Ning laughed. "Even in such underdeveloped productivity, if wealth luck can account for one percent, once the technological era arrives, that fortune will expand at a hundredfold or even a thousandfold speed!"

"Is it really that much?" Lin Yuanxi blinked her eyes. "Don't deceive me!"

Yang Ning chuckled. "In 1820, the Qing Dynasty's fiscal revenue was 40 million taels of silver. In 2020, China's fiscal revenue was 18.3 trillion yuan! Converted by purchasing power, one tael of silver in the Qing Dynasty was equivalent to about 800 RMB. 40 million taels is 32 billion yuan. In 200 years, fiscal revenue has inflated by 600 times!"

Don't forget that the tax rates of the two dynasties are also vastly different. In 2020, there is no longer agricultural tax, and the commercial tax is also lower than what the Qing Dynasty collected. As for the Qing Dynasty's levies, they were exceptionally extensive, encompassing everything from the necessities of life from birth to death for both the rich and the poor.

If we were to follow the Qing Dynasty's taxation method and multiply it by ten, it shouldn't be a problem. Then the gap would be six thousand times!

Multiplying one percent of wealth luck by six thousand would be sixty times!

In other words, if industrialization takes place, the fortune that Yang Ning's South Forest can obtain will be sixty times the current national fortune of South Forest!

Of course, Yang Ning doesn't know the specific algorithm, but starting from wealth luck to gain luck is absolutely no problem!

"What is technology?" Lin Yuanxi asked.

"Technology is refining!" Yang Ning said. "But not the current small workshop-style refining, but assembly lines, scale, and mass production refining! By then, the daily production of artifacts will surpass what is currently produced in a year, the daily production of pills will surpass what is currently produced in a hundred years, and the daily production of talismans will surpass what is currently produced in a thousand years!"

"How is that possible?" Lin Yuanxi didn't understand the refining and pill production of Extreme Eternal, but a hundred years, a thousand years, how many times is that? It's completely unimaginable!

However, if it's Yang Ning...

He has already brought a weak country to become the strongest in North Plains and even launched a counterattack against neighboring countries. He has already created many miracles, hasn't he?

"In that case, what can I do?" Lin Yuanxi said, hurriedly taking out a ring. "I have collected a lot of refining materials. Take a look and see if they are useful."

If this girl were to encounter a modern-day sea king, she would definitely be deceived to the point of losing everything, even her underwear!

Fortunately, she has encountered me.

"I have established a Heavenly Horse Company. This will be the starting point for me to earn wealth luck and develop technology!" Yang Ning took the ring and said, "I have allocated 15% of the company as stock options for the refiners. With your refining materials and all your support, I will give you an 18% stake!"

"Mhmm!" Lin Yuanxi didn't understand what a stake was, but she knew that she had a share in Yang Ning's career, and that was enough for her!

"By the way, do you have any symbols or something?" Yang Ning asked. "Since this is our joint venture, I want to incorporate your standards into the flag of the Heavenly Horse Group!"

"Well, it seems like I don't." Lin Yuanxi blinked her eyes. "I don't usually go out, so I don't need it."

"Then let's design one temporarily!" Yang Ning suggested. "Do you like maple leaves and bamboo? I can use elements of maple leaves and bamboo to design a pattern for you. What do you think of this?"

He spread out a piece of white paper and quickly drew a flag.

The entire flag had a green bamboo leaf as the background, with a vertically placed maple leaf in the middle, somewhat resembling the national flag of Maple Leaf Country with an added pattern.

"You can also draw?" Lin Yuanxi's eyes lit up. Being able to write poetry, paint, compose songs, and invent things, he was countless times stronger than her brother, who only knew how to cultivate and seduce women!

"Well, a little!" Yang Ning smiled shyly. "I can't really draw. These are all from Deep Blue's drawings. I just copied them."

"Let's use this then!" Lin Yuanxi was a well-rounded lady, proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, but she couldn't find any flaws in AI painting.

Moreover, Yang Ning drew it, so even if it wasn't drawn well, she could still praise it.

"Then let's go with this!" Yang Ning said. "You can have Xiaohuan find some merchants to make flags and hang them on the mountains! As for the flag of the Heavenly Horse Company, I'm thinking of designing it like this: a flying horse with maple leaf wings, galloping above a bamboo sea. What do you think?"

Logo, flag, text, standard font, standard color, symbolic pattern—Yang Ning's pen brought forth the entire brand VI.

Although they were both painting, Lin Yuanxi felt an inexplicable solemnity in Yang Ning's hands.

This feeling is called professionalism!

"As for the brand slogan, let's make it: Tianma, the Pioneer of the Era!"

"Era, Pioneer." These are not familiar words to Lin Yuanxi, but from these two simple words, she felt the surging flow of time, as if it were an unstoppable force!

"How is it? If it's not good, I'll change it!" Yang Ning asked.

"I feel like it's already perfect!" At the age of 21, in her previous life, Lin Yuanxi had just graduated from college. Moreover, what Lin Yuanxi learned in this world was more like that of an art student on Earth.

An art student should be able to understand brand design, but modern painting and ancient painting are not the same system at all.

Lin Yuanxi couldn't understand it at all, but she just felt that this thing seemed very powerful!

"Then it's settled!" Yang Ning reached out his hand, and Lin Yuanxi also hesitantly reached out her hand, which was then grabbed by Yang Ning.

Her small hand was cold, soft, and trembling slightly.

"From today onwards, we are not only lovers, but also partners in our careers!" Yang Ning smiled and said, "We are also companions supporting each other on the path to becoming immortals!"

"Mhmm!" Lin Yuanxi nodded gently, another etiquette she couldn't understand, like shaking hands.

But she felt that this moment was even more solemn than a wedding, as if from this moment on, she was no longer Lin Yuanxi.

Instead, she was Yang Linshi.

At the moment their hands separated, she even felt a bit reluctant. When she sat back down, her body involuntarily leaned to the side, already leaning towards Yang Ning.

"You said you have a power in your hands?" Yang Ning asked, "What kind of people are they and what do they do?"

"I am the main lineage of the Lin family. Each lineage can only have one person who inherits the family. The other siblings become branch lineages, establishing their own industries and seeking their own paths. Of course, the family will provide certain support!" Lin Yuanxi said, "Since I was born, the family has been cultivating a team for me. There are three stewards, four housekeepers, eight guards, a military commander who leads my name, and five thousand elite soldiers. Additionally, because I am a woman, there are also three palace maids."

"The stewards are responsible for handling various affairs. They can handle business, manage accounts, and even become prime ministers when establishing a country and dealing with court affairs!"

"The housekeepers handle affairs in the harem and can also be taken as concubines. The guards not only have strong abilities, but they are also knowledgeable in education and can help train an imperial guard."

"The military commander all have Qi Refining Fourth Layer cultivation, and the five thousand elite soldiers all have physical strength at the Eighth Layer or above. The palace maids teach etiquette, music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. They also have the responsibility of protection and all have Qi Refining Second Layer cultivation."

"In addition, I can also receive some properties, such as fields and shops."

It felt like the feeling Wang Chuanjun described when he said he had no money left in his bank account, only one million yuan.

So this is what it's like to be a member of a family. Why does she have more resources for cultivation than Xun Hu, a legitimate prince?

"May I ask, what is your position in the Lin family?" Yang Ning asked.

"I don't have any position!" Lin Yuanxi answered seriously, "My father is the current head of the Lin family. I have seven older brothers, four younger brothers, five older sisters, and three younger sisters. I am the thirteenth in line."

"Do they also cultivate?" Yang Ning asked.

"They all cultivate, but only my fourth brother is in Extreme Eternal Sect!" Lin Yuanxi said.

"You mean Lin Tianheng?"

"Yes."

"Why? Doesn't Extreme Eternal Sect provide spots?" Yang Ning asked.

"No, it's not that. We don't need spots! We can just enter directly!" Lin Yuanxi said, "But all the families that have a presence in Extreme Eternal Sect have the same situation. It doesn't matter where you cultivate!"

Well, it seems that having a sect leader in the family means being domineering. Is the lord of South Forest really the lord?

(End of this chapter)