Chapter 223: Treasure List
The Deep Sea Monster Fish.
Fei She was walking through a metal passage.
The passage was lined with bright lights.
“Were all of the treasures piled up here?” Fei She was inwardly amazed.
He could barely squeeze through the once spacious passage.
Because there were all kinds of valuables piled up on either side!
It was devoid of people.
Besides Fei She’s footsteps, there was only the sound of his breathing in the passage.
When the survivors escaped Mystifying Monster Island, they lived in this ship, giving it character and even making it noisy.
Now, most of the survivors were on the ocean surface, this vessel only had Zi Di and Fei She who just clandestinely entered.
“Pres, president. I’m he, here.” Fei She saluted to Zi Di as he opened the cabin door.
An alchemy formation was glowing, and in the middle of it was the Magic Medicine Bathtub boiling a cauldron of palm black medicine.
The black medicine plopped as it boiled, emitting a strange odor.
Seeing Zi Di was in the process of refining magic medicine, Fei She hurriedly lowered his voice and didn’t dare disturb her.
Zi Di drew her attention from the Medicine Bathtub and turned to Fei She, “Elder, don’t be nervous.”
This alchemy formation is mainly managed by the tower spirit.”
“I am just observing.”
“45%”
“Alas, we only have one yellow crab alchemy puppet, if the other one wasn’t damaged, our medicine refinement speed would have been at least 45% faster!”
Zi Di was refining medicine for Cang Xu.
The latter was joining the undead gathering.
Cang Xu needed all kinds of medicine to use and trade with at the gathering.
Quite the regret that Cang Xu was a living dead person.
Many medicines had a lower effect on him and even harmed him.
Zi Di then said to Fei She, “I’m too short on time. If Cang Xu was here, it would be fine, but he is doing more important things right now.”
“Therefore, I summoned you here to make inventory of our spoils of war.”
“We took many treasures from the seafloor.”
“While transporting them into the cabins, I roughly partitioned them up into categories.”
“But that is far from enough.”
“We now need you to attentively divide them up and calculate their value.”
“Among them are some antiques, calligraphies, and other art pieces, we’ll need you to give them a market estimation,”
“This is a rough list of items, take a look.”
Zi Di handed Fei She a list.
The list was very thin, only three pages thick.
Fei She looked at it, and when he saw the initial valuation, he couldn’t help but stare, “63,000 gold?”
Fei She knew that an imperial viscount’s yearly income was roughly 15,000 gold. An imperial silver level cultivator (without lands) had an average yearly salary of 100 gold, and gold levels got 300 gold.
Therefore, the 50,000 gold coins the survivors at the auction was imposing and suppressed everyone there.
It seemed that Hun Tong earned a big profit from one of Two Eyes Island’s auctions, but that wasn’t actually true.
This last auction was unprecedented.
Hun Tong had lots of production costs.
Zi Di replied, “Upon cursory glance, I noticed that many antiques seem valuable.”
“Although Two Eyes Island has only belonged to Hun Tong for ten years, he really was a talented businessman and made its people very prosperous.”
Almost everyone there was a Wealth believer.”
“Simultaneously, pirates disposed of stolen goods and often brought high value commodities.”
“I suspect that in Hun Tong’s city government treasury there are many kinds of good things that aren’t convenient to sell in normal times.”
“Count them up, perhaps the total can break through 70,000 gold.”
“7, 70,000 gold…” Fei She wisped out a breath, his face rueful, “I have seen this amount of coin on paper before, but this is the first time I have seen so many treasures arrayed before me.”
“If that is the case, then in the near, near future, we won’t have to worry about the Anti-investigation and Prophecy formation’s con, consumption.”
Currently, every time the survivors collectively used the Anti-investigation and Prophecy formation, it would cost over 100 gold, a steep price.
This kind of magical power would be depleted over time and needed to be replenished every so often.
As time went on and the survivors got stronger, this price would grow bigger.
The team’s finances were for a time consequently strapped for cash and at the edge of bankruptcy.
With these seafloor valuables, the survivors not just quenched themselves, they had been bestowed a lake of fresh water.
Zi Di’s tone was clear and cold, “Although there are many treasures, they are dead things.”
“We still lack a steady income; this financial situation is not healthy.”
“Good opportunities similar to Two Eyes Island are very hard to duplicate.”
“We still need to create steady profits.”
“At the same time, some of these valuables are very hard to price.”
“The blackmail letter didn’t get a response, and it could expose us. Using Wisteria Merchant Alliance channels have huge implicit risks, and I hesitate to use them.”
Fei She nodded, his eyes flashing with gratification.
If Zi Di didn’t raise the issue, he would have tactfully reminded her.
Now, it seemed that the former girl had really grown up and became quite reliable.
“Given enough time, she’ll surpass her father as president!” Fei She looked forward to this.
“Among the valuables, there are many gems, enough to invest and open some businesses.”
“However, it seem the Lord Com, Commander is dispirited.”
“If it is because of this in, incident that a rif, rift forms between him and you, it would be terrible.”
Fei She reminded her of another matter.
Zi Di’s hand stopped moving, then she faintly sighed, “I already forecasted it.”
“I know why his mood is foul.”
“For one, he takes pity on the weak freemen that were robbed and the poor.”
“Second, he is very disappointed in Hun Tong. During the battle, Hun Tong behaved quite treacherously and despicable, never revealing the Golden Flash until the pirates were just about to leave the island. He wanted to take everyone’s things and schemed against his own people’s riches.”
“Because according to imperial law, when he retakes them back from pirate hands, they are all his spoils of war.”
During the battle, everyone was focused on what was before them.
Now that things had calmed down, everyone smart enough would analyze it a bit to find out the motives and strengths of the various sides.
Zi Di continued, “Us salvaging the seafloor treasures was undoubtably the correct move.”
“If we didn’t, then it would let that contemptible Feudal Lord Hun Tong off easily.”
“Of course this was a contest between many parties.”
“We participated from beginning to end, and with a bit of luck, were able to fish up the biggest benefits and become the biggest unseen winner, this is inherently understood.”
“According to imperial law, these spoils of war are absolutely not ill gotten gains.”
“If it was possible, I would have suggested to the commander to privately gift some valuables to the plundered masses.”
“If that happened, his mood would be better.”
“But that couldn’t happen!”
“By doing that, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ characterization would be inconsistent and provoke suspicion. If those valuables were recognized, then it would make things worse.”
“In fact, Hun Tong would expose it. He must help his people, no matter his business talent, he must know that those people are his wealth!”
Fei She nodded, “To the best of my knowledge, the Justice Church’s creed advocates for only justice, not benevolence.”
“He is an outstanding lead, leader!”
“He fulfills his leadership du, duties, and obtaining these treasures will be very helpful to our fu, future.”
“But he was trapped in his own guilty conscience, self-blame, and duty, bearing it alone.”
Zi Di exposed a tender smile, “Sometimes, I think he is a little foolish.”
“But it is precisely because he pursues righteousness, is good and honest from the bottom of his heart and often introspects himself that we all trust him.”
“You know? Sometimes I think back and feel that I am very lucky.”
“Our composition is too complex, too many races, too many different beliefs.”
“He is the only one everyone can believe in.”
“You would even believe that this includes a half beastman, a half giant, a goblin, and even necromancers!”
“Even if Zong Ge promotes to the gold level, he wouldn’t be able to accomplish this to this degree.”
“He is special!”
As she said that, Zi Di’s eyes filled with love.
Seeing Zi Di like this, Fei She’ face blossomed with a silent smile.
He was an elder of the Wisteria Merchant Alliance, and watched Zi Di grow up.
He personally witnessed the falling out between Zi Di and the old president over the unwilling marriage connection, and Zi Di leaving home.
He also saw that after Zi Di assumed the presidency, her eyes were filled with unswerving determination when she announced the Bai Zhen clan marriage relationship, she was prepared to sacrifice and utterly devoid of love.
Seeing Zi Di’s expression now, no matter who it was, everyone knew the girl loved the young man wholeheartedly.