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Chapter 352 Disappearing
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, in the various experiments of the early astrologists, mercury appeared frequently 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 stipulated by Cheng Jinzhou are calculated in tons.This is to adapt to the price of other cheaper metal minerals, but it would be activated by mercury.

And his first reaction when he heard the news 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 cashier's check. It needs to deposit a sufficient amount in advance to issue a ticket. It is also very scary to use gold and silver as cash. For several tons of mercury, at least three to five hundred kilograms of gold are required to pay, which is equivalent to thousands of gold ingots and hundreds of small yellow croakers. ——As for payment methods such as gems and diamonds, it is even more 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 urgently, which frightened the second shopkeeper.

A small businessman who had never had a face-to-face communication with an astrologer, first knelt down trembling, and then said in a trembling voice: "The small one didn't handle it, it seems that the bill was paid in 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: "Could it be that he has prepared the silver and is waiting for the transaction? Then why should he stay near the Star Warlock Tower?"

The second shopkeeper thought he was asking himself, and thought for a long time before saying, "Are you talking about an astro-manager?"

Cheng Jinzhou was amused by him, waved his hand and said: "You go down first, but don't go too far, you will live here today, and leave tomorrow."

As he spoke, he called out "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.The silver in the four ox carts does not mean that the Zhao family has to pull a cart from thousands of miles. As a high-ranking star warlock, it is only a matter of minutes for the man in black to move thousands of kilograms of silver from outside the city into the city.

He turned back to find a place to buy supplies and do research along the way, so he naturally spared no effort on his physical strength, but in the thinking of normal people, how could astrologists do such physical work, so he was still thinking about where the money came from.

The government in a feudal society has strong control over the responsible people, but limited control over the environment.The outfielders who led Zhao Yeyu didn't think much at all, so they lived in the Zhao family's other house. They hid it a little, and the Cheng family still had no way of knowing.

With the power of the regular army of the imperial court, it is still impossible to wipe out the thieves in the green forest, but with the inaction of ordinary astrologers, how dare they expect to hunt down high-ranking astrologers all day long? I don't expect the myth that a low-level star warlock can kill a high-level star warlock.

That kind of thing is often just heard in the legends once or twice-if low-level astromancers are not afraid of death, and high-level astromancers are not afraid of death, then it may be possible to fight the strong with the weak.However, the real world is that unless the battlefield advantage is obvious, otherwise the star warlock will not enter the battle at all, let alone the battle of moths 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 guards came out in full force, looking for mercury and red letter stones that had been pulled away by bullock carts near the pier.But where can they find it?Not every astrologer is as lazy as Cheng Jinzhou.The outsiders worked tirelessly, carrying dozens of tons of ore, and flew to their shelters. This kind of dedication can really be learned by astrologists who love leisure and work hard, and they are the natural enemy of dudes like Cheng Jinzhou.

In his way of thinking, he obviously has the skills to drive a cart, and if you fly around carrying ore, doesn't that make people unemployed?

In the next few days, mercury and other related materials rose slightly, and the guards and white bodies were sweating a little. De'an Wharf was still doing re-export business, as quiet as oil dripping in water.

Both Star Warlock Jiang Huang and Star Warlock Li Xianfeng disappeared without a trace, Cheng Jinzhou felt a little nervous, and rode around on Lu Xuyou all day long.The main scope of activities, apart from reviewing mathematics with the koalas in the tower of the star warlock, is to organize government servants to search secretly 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 have said before and after, he is [-]% sure that the mysterious outfielder is related to Shengya.

Otherwise, given their status, why should they shy away from it, let alone say "you solve it yourself".

However, none of these people appeared again, and he had no chance to ask even if he wanted to.

At the same time, the war in the Northern Han Dynasty intensified. Liu Kuangxing’s plan to send troops was successfully implemented. The imperial army of nearly 8 people set off early, completely cutting off the traffic on the Tianshui Grassland and cutting off the last way for Hanjing to increase its troops.

Cheng Jinzhou's eyes could not help being attracted to him.

For the soldiers of Great Xia, occupying Hanjing can already be put on the agenda. The only obstacle is to form a strategic advantage over Zhuo Huanji and Mokan Star Warlock. And Li Xianfeng Star Warlock disappeared.

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

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(End of this chapter)