Chapter 178: Making money and ruining the country are not the ultimate goals

The transport ship floated above the Dragon Palace. Wen Rui, He Lingyun and Su Yingluo looked at the lighting construction site below through the transparent panoramic bridge portholes.

Hundreds of specialized underwater Ultron engineering robots are drilling holes in the crystals and laying waterproof circuits inside the walls.

At the same time, the infrastructure construction of the closed palladium power station next to Ryugu is also breaking ground.

This is just one of the construction sites. The four major sea cities surrounding the Dragon Palace are also carrying out lighting construction, but the construction quality requirements are not as high as those of the Dragon Palace, so there is no need to keep an eye on them all the time.

To the southeast, northwest, and northeast of the East China Sea Dragon Palace are the Coral Sea City, the Abyss Sea City, the Whale Falls Sea City, and the Ancient Reef Sea City respectively. These are the places where the intelligent creatures among the East China Sea clans live.

Just like the big cities around the metropolitan area.

There are many sea tribes scattered in the East China Sea, but Hai City is the main population gathering place, with more than half of the spiritually intelligent aquatic creatures in the entire East China Sea concentrated in it.

The situation is similar in the West Sea, South Sea and North Sea.

"Yingluo, the way of doing business is to have connections first. If I didn't know the identity of the son of Wen Tianzun, I wouldn't even be able to see the Dragon King."

Wen Rui patiently taught the little fox business skills, and He Lingyun listened and learned attentively.

"But how can a wild fairy like me with no background imitate the sect master?" Su Yingluo asked with a frown.

"Good question!" Wen Rui said with a smile, "Have you heard of the 'rule of six'? Two strangers can establish a connection through six people. You know me, and I know the Dragon King, so can't you make friends with the Dragon King through me?"

"It's the same with other unfamiliar clients. We, Jiejiao disciples, actually have a wide network of contacts, and our former disciples are all over the Heaven, Lingshan, and the Underworld. If you meet a big unfamiliar client, do a background check to find out his social circle, then check the list of my Jiejiao disciples, and then take gifts to look for relatives and friends, wouldn't you find someone to help make the connection?"

The little fox understood immediately and nodded repeatedly: "I understand!"

"Secondly, if we want to make profits from customers, we must first figure out what their needs are."

Wen Rui continued to teach: "Take the previous cases as an example. The demons need blood for food; the disciples of the immortal sects are pampered and self-righteous and need someone to handle mundane matters for them and to support their appearance; the princes need chariots and horses. These are rigid needs. No matter how much we provide, they have to accept it all."

The little fox recalled the business that Wen Rui had handled and nodded in agreement.

"The Dragon King is rich in all the seas. The food in the seas is plentiful, and the treasures are piled up like mountains. It seems that he lacks nothing."

Wen Rui continued, "But in fact, what he lacks is the thing that we land races are most accustomed to - sunlight."

"You all learned in the compulsory education textbooks that even if the seawater is transparent, sunlight will be constantly absorbed and reflected. A few dozen meters below the surface, the sunlight is weakened to the point where it is barely visible. Eight hundred meters underwater, it is already pitch black. One thousand meters underwater, there is no sunlight at all, only darkness."

Wen Rui spoke eloquently, like a well-informed teacher: "There are indeed many luminous algae and gems under the sea, but for a huge Dragon Palace, or even a city, it is really a drop in the bucket. The seabed of the primitive wasteland is not Bikini Bottom, the sun cannot rise underwater. Living on the dim light of fireflies is not as comfortable as living under bright lights."

"The brightest night-shining pearl in the Dragon King's Sea Treasure House is not as bright as a 100-watt incandescent lamp, but we can provide unlimited lighting equipment. This business has great potential." The little fox's eyebrows danced when he heard it, and he exclaimed: "I never thought that if we sell all of them, we can also sell spirit stones."

"Not only that!" Wen Rui said with a smile: "We can also sell "heat" to the residents of Haishi. There is not enough oxygen on the seabed. Even if we use the water-repellent beads to open up a waterless space, we can't make a fire."

"Oh?" The little fox quickly pricked up his ears and listened attentively.

"A civilization that cannot make fire cannot even meet the most basic survival needs such as food and hygiene, let alone metallurgy and smelting metals."

Wen Rui continued his lecture: "Therefore, the weapons and armor used by the aquatic tribe are either smelted in the rare craters of the seabed, or can only be made by polishing crystals or shells and corals. You have studied the textbooks for the nine-year compulsory education, and you should know that in addition to making fire, there are many ways to generate heat energy."

He Lingyun quickly replied: "Let me think, yes, electromagnetic and microwave!"

Wen Rui nodded and said, "That's right. We can sell underwater induction cookers and microwave ovens so that ordinary residents of Haishi can also eat cheap hot meals. We can also sell electromagnetic smelting equipment so that aquatic creatures outside the submarine craters can also smelt metals."

"Wow, I can just imagine how popular these products will be!"

The little fox said excitedly: "The aquatic tribe has a lot of rare gems, pearls and minerals, but because they are isolated from the land, they can only use them for decoration. We use lamps, induction cookers and microwave ovens and other ordinary iron-processed goods to exchange them. If we transport them to the land, the profit can be increased by a hundred or a thousand times!"

Wen Rui's expression became serious, and he said earnestly: "Yingluo, you have to remember that making money is never the goal, it is just a means. The real goal of our establishment of trade routes is to incorporate the ocean into the community of shared destiny of all living beings constructed by the Jinling Sect, and closely link the common interests of the sea tribe and the land tribe."

The little fox blinked, looking confused.

"Only when interests are the same can all beings unite closely." Wen Rui said meaningfully: "We can make the lives of the aquatic people better, and they will naturally believe in our teachings, study our teaching materials, yearn for our way of life, and become loyal believers of our Jiejiao."

"Today's oceans are far from being civilized. They may seem rich, but they are just a pile of uncirculated treasures in the Dragon Palace. The development of the aquatic race is restricted by light and smelting. If the spiritual energy is exhausted and there is no leader like the dragon race to rule, they will sooner or later degenerate to the most primitive state of survival."

"Are we here to do business and make money? We are here to impart knowledge and solve problems, to spread the seeds of civilization. You must remember that the most profitable business in the world is to put your ideas into other people's minds, not to put other people's money into your own pocket."

“So I often say that I am not interested in money. When money accumulates to a certain amount, it is just a number. The economic base determines the superstructure. Our real purpose of creating wealth and circulating materials is to change the world!”

"Take Daji from the Xuanyuan Fen Fox Clan for example. How could she be a vulgar woman who covets fame and wealth? King Zhou is not even as handsome as me. What does she want? Is she trying to make King Zhou old or not take a bath?"

"Isn't it to show her value in front of Nuwa, to win the favor of the saint for the demon race? She wants to change the fate of the demon race, and she also has the ambition to change the world and make the demon race rise."

"The result was counterproductive... Who would have thought that a saint would break his word and abandon his master? I'm sure she must have been very unwilling when she died."

The little fox widened his peach blossom eyes and looked at Wen Rui steadily, with tears seeming in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)

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