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"King Wenceslaus IV, that drunkard, shouldn't refuse Radji's offer."
"After all, no one but me dares to invest in him now."
The profits from farming are tenfold.
The prize money is a hundredfold.
How many times more will the ruler of the country win?
countless!
More than two thousand years ago, Lü Buwei had already explained what a merchant's greatest investment should be.
Wenceslaus IV's weakness and incompetence are not important; what matters is his identity as King of Bohemia.
The luxury goods provided by Mojiang were the gold paint that Wenceslaus IV desperately needed for his crumbling throne.
He provided not only goods, but also a life-saving elixir for the king to maintain his dignity, win over the nobility, and temporarily forget his financial woes.
Once he takes over the position of governor of the royal domain from Wenceslaus IV, Mojang will be able to legitimately recruit soldiers and horses to punish the disobedient.
As for that drunkard king, just send him some wholesale goods every month to appease him.
When our power is strong enough, we can follow the example of Chancellors Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao.
If it is necessary.
"Speaking of which, wouldn't you say I brought Rome back like lightning?"
"Would Jingluo be overjoyed?"
"Is the Holy Roman Empire considered part of Rome?"
"He was furious on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; he wept on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; and he hanged the Doge of Venice on Sunday."
Perhaps due to fatigue, Mo Jiang's thoughts wandered uncontrollably, and as his eyelids grew heavier, he eventually drifted off to sleep.
The next day, Mo Jiang didn't open his eyes until noon.
After getting up, I made myself a meal that I couldn't tell was breakfast or lunch, while simultaneously focusing my attention on maintaining the circulation of my internal energy.
The Great Circulation is too complex, and with Mo Jiang's current level of proficiency, he cannot guarantee that it can run without errors. If an error occurs, then half a day's work will be wasted.
Therefore, Mo Jiang followed Zhang Sanfeng's advice and started with the Small Heavenly Circuit.
He will only consider practicing the Great Circulation when he can maintain the Small Circulation in his daily life.
Moreover, performing the microcosmic orbit also expands the meridians, making it a unique form of exercise.
After finishing his meal, Mo Jiang took out his notebook and started writing and drawing, recording the things he needed to do.
Although his current mental strength of 2.0 has greatly enhanced his memory, he still chooses to record things with pen and paper out of habit.
After receiving payment in a few days, I'll need to find a way to exchange the gold for cash.
After this, we need to find a more reliable route. Exchanging money solely on the black market is not only unprofitable but also risky.
After the Cumans retreat, Skaritz should have some time to develop. The village's defenses need to be strengthened. I'll take aerial photos of the village's terrain later to send to the construction company for blueprints.
[If we want to gather the refugees, we need to find cheap suppliers for food; broken rice should be cheap enough...]
Currently, the wholesale price of crushed indica rice in the south is about 2400 yuan/ton, but Mo Jiang frowned and considered it for a while before deciding on a solution.
After searching on his phone, he silently stared at the screen, and after a fierce internal struggle, he finally wrote it down in his notebook.
The exchange of gold in the Middle Ages and money in modern times was inconvenient. I needed to feed the largest number of people at the lowest possible price, and even broken rice needed to be paired with meat and oil, which wasn't cost-effective.
Compound pig feed, two yuan per pound, contains all the nutrients the human body needs: starch, protein, minerals, salt, fiber, vitamins, and oils.
To enrich the flavor, the base ingredients in the feed can be rotated between rice, corn, and wheat. On single days, use soybean meal, sunflower meal, and coconut meal; on double days, use peanut meal, cottonseed meal, and rapeseed meal. Sufficient amounts of flavoring and monosodium glutamate (MSG) should be added.
[For labor-intensive tasks, add more feed oils, fish meal, and bone meal; for those with a strong palate, add more feed salt; for those with poor appetite, add more extruded feed; in hot weather, add more silage; and during disease outbreaks, add more oral veterinary antibiotics.]
[Daily drinking water can be mixed with sodium hypochlorite, and feed distillers' grains mixed with water should be provided every five days.]
The standard feed allowance for each person is three jin (1.5 kg) of feed per day, which means the total daily meal allowance for each person should not exceed ten yuan.
Looking at the notes in his notebook, Mo Jiang remained silent for a long time before finally putting it away.
This thing must not be shown to others, otherwise someone will surely try to drag it down to hang a street lamp.
In fact, even Mo Jiang himself felt that feeding people pig feed was a bit excessive.
If he hadn't written the plan himself, he might very well have been one of those eager to hang people from streetlights.
But there's no way around it; if we take in refugees, the food standards certainly can't be the same as Henry's.
Furthermore, due to the Cuman invasion, much of the farmland has been destroyed, so Skaritz's harvest this year is basically out of the question.
In other words, besides the refugees, Mojiang also has to take care of the villagers' food problem in Skaritz.
Without more funds, Mojiang can only cut costs to ensure that more people can be fed.
Just then, Mo Jiang's phone rang; it was Ah Long calling.
"President, the audit is over. Just like you said, it was conducted by a few teachers from the school. They were very perfunctory; once they confirmed the money was still in the account, they didn't investigate much more."
The outcome was not unexpected for Mo Jiang. He nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."
"Now that the audit is over, let's tell the club members to invite those who are affiliated with the COS club."
"Brother, it's barbecue tonight, my treat."
The author says:
Author's Note: Thank you to [Secondary Silverwing], [Kandegir Bound Hard], [Seaside], and [Darkness] for their generous donations.
57. It's common practice for martial arts masters to win money at casinos! Except for Ke Zhen'e!
After hanging up the phone, Mo Jiang tidied up the table, changed his clothes, and went out.
Before Radji left, he gave him twenty Gulden gold coins. Adding the twenty he had left, Mo Jiang now had a total of forty gold coins with a gold content of over 97%.
This time was similar to the last time. We took a boat to Macau, passed through customs, and then found a secluded place to cross over to the wooden house in Skaritz to change clothes.
But this time there was one more step.
Mo Jiang's bones made slight cracking sounds, and he quickly shrank from 1.9 meters tall to about 1.7 meters tall.
Bone-shrinking technique, a unique skill recorded in the Nine Yang Manual, uses internal force to squeeze all the bones in the body together, reducing the gaps between the bones and thus compressing the body to the extreme.
In the original novel, when Zhang Wuji was close to mastering the Nine Yang Divine Skill, his twenty-year-old adult body shrunk to the point where he could pass through a narrow passage.
With Mo Jiang's current level of internal energy cultivation, shrinking himself to 1.7 meters is already the limit.
"Luckily, I didn't throw away my clothes from junior high school."
The scholar couple, who have been raising their son with complete freedom since junior high school, are either conducting fieldwork around the world or attending academic conferences. You can't expect them to have time to clean up the clothes that Mojiang can no longer wear.
As for Mo Jiang himself, unless his clothes are so tattered that he can't wear them anymore, he just stuffs them into the closet and decides what to do with them when he remembers them.
Clearly, he hadn't thought about disposing of his old clothes for the past six or seven years.
He changed into the clothes and shoes he had prepared beforehand, put on a mask and a baseball cap, and with forty gold coins slung across his waist, he walked out of the deserted restroom.
This time, Mo Jiang didn't go to the same store as before. Firstly, not much time had passed, and going back to that store might result in them lowering the price.
Secondly, he planned to test his ability to interfere with modern surveillance. The existence of his Bone Shrinking Technique and the Salvation Wine meant he didn't need to worry too much about modern surveillance.
However, to what extent it can be achieved still requires experimentation.
Then Mojiang looked for several relatively large stores, and only these stores had sufficient cash.
However, after visiting several stores, none of them met the overdue payment criteria. They either only agreed to buy gold at the gold price or required Mojiang to provide relevant certificates.
After visiting several stores in a row, Mo Jiang frowned. There might be some rumors circulating in the market recently, causing legitimate stores to become much more cautious about dealing with the gray areas.
Although the people in the shop didn't say it explicitly, Mo Jiang could tell that to do this shady business with them legitimately, you needed someone you knew to introduce you.
A stranger suddenly showed up at your door?
Then we can only offer a price lower than the international gold price.
After asking a few places, Mo Jiang stopped. He knew that unless he went to some less reputable shops, the prices he would get wouldn't differ too much.
As for finding unregulated shops...
Those shops, though seemingly illegitimate, were actually involved in organized crime and underground banks. Mo Jiang didn't want to deal with them; it was troublesome, not to mention the risk of being double-crossed.
Of course, it was Mojiang who was the one who ate people.
"It's troublesome; I didn't originally want to use this plan."
Mo Jiang sighed, found a secluded and deserted place, pushed open the portal, and arrived at Skalitz's wooden house to change back into his original clothes.
When he reappeared in the modern world, all his disguises were removed, and he walked with his true appearance.
After opening the navigation app, Mo Jiang quickly arrived at Macau's largest casino. He first wandered around a few times, and tourists entering a casino for the first time would look around curiously.
No one seemed to care about Mo Jiang's appearance; he looked like a tourist from mainland China who had probably never seen a real casino before.
After all, gambling is illegal in mainland China.
Operating a casino can lead to criminal charges.
After looking around and getting a general idea of how to play, Mo Jiang went to exchange his chips.
He didn't exchange much; he only exchanged two chips worth a thousand.
They went straight to the Sic Bo table, also known as Big or Small. The dealer first puts three dice in a covered container and shakes them. Then the players place their bets before the lid is lifted.
This gambling method is the simplest and the most frequent.
Having taken the Archer's Potion beforehand, and then using his internal energy to stimulate and enhance his five senses, Mo Jiang instantly heard a subtle difference in the sound of the dice colliding.
That subtle difference, almost imperceptible to the human ear, was captured by Mo Jiang's keen senses.
When the dealer stops shaking the dish, it indicates that betting is ready.
Mo Jiang took out a chip and placed it on the "Big" card. He stopped betting shortly afterward, uncovered the card to reveal the number.
Three o'clock, five o'clock, six o'clock.
Fourteen o'clock, big!
Very good, it seems that cheating with internal energy is feasible. Mo Jiang took the chips he won and bet all of them in the second round.
Three, four, five, twelve o'clock, big!
In the third game, he went all in again and won.
The fourth game.
Fifth game.
Every time, it was a full bet, and every time it hit the target.
In a short time, Mo Jiang's chips reached 500,000, and at that moment, he stopped betting.
It wasn't that he didn't want to continue, but that continuing to win would lead to considerable trouble.
He approached the staff with his chips, saying, "Hello, could you please exchange these chips for me? Here is my bank card number."
A few hours later, Mo Jiang received a text message saying that after paying taxes, bank fees, and exchange rate losses, the 500,000 Australian dollars had turned into 350,000 RMB.
The loss is close to 30%.
After obtaining a casino winnings receipt and a tax payment slip from the casino, Mo Jiang left Macau directly.
These two items must be kept safe, otherwise they will trigger the bank's anti-money laundering investigation, and without them, the money will be frozen.
Mo Jiang wasn't too worried about winning 500,000 at the casino without even putting on an act.
It's common practice for martial arts masters to win money at casinos!
Except for Ke Zhen'e!
Casinos make money by taking a cut of the winnings; as long as gamblers don't cheat, winning big actually serves as a form of advertising.
Mo Jiang is an adult and did not use any cheating methods. You can't say that having excellent hearing is cheating, can you?
In this way, all the money he won was clean; he just couldn't let his family find out that he had been gambling.
As long as his family doesn't discover he's been to a casino, Mo Jiang isn't afraid of any investigation, because the money has already been taxed and is completely legal.
As for what if the casino owner and manager really wanted to target him over this small amount of money...