"Shocking! The Lord selling spirit spring water has finally revealed his true colors, and his territory is named [Heavenly Court]."
"What the heck, look at this, why is this [Heavenly Court] Lord collecting so many broken equipment? Could he have really switched professions to become a blacksmith!"
"This Lord is probably a merchant."
"Don't say anything else. I was going to throw this equipment away, but I didn't expect to be able to exchange it for money."
"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! Little brother can only use 'holy crap' to express his current feelings."
"Why is little brother refusing to make friends? Can't we roll around in bed together?"
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Everyone in the chatroom wanted to add him as a friend, but Zhou Yan completely ignored them.
Territory prompt: "[National Trading Hall] has recycled one Black Iron equipment, Spirit Coins -50."
Territory prompt: "[National Trading Hall] has recycled three Bronze equipment, Spirit Coins -1500."
Territory prompt: "[National Trading Hall] has recycled one Silver equipment, Spirit Coins -5000."
He soon heard a large number of equipment recycling prompts, and his mood was excellent.
Other lords regarded Qin Chuan as a merchant, and moreover, a merchant who had become a blacksmith. The reason for recycling equipment was simply to make money.
Otherwise, they couldn't figure out why Zhou Yan would recycle this equipment; it was the most plausible explanation.
However, many were puzzled. Even if he recycled this equipment, with so many people in the country, how many could he repair by himself?
Many people were mocking Zhou Yan for being foolish for recycling so much junk, especially since it was unlimited recycling.
At this stage, many people's weapons had already broken. This broken equipment was useless if kept. Since someone was willing to buy it, they were naturally happy to exchange it for Spirit Coins.
Some even said that Zhou Yan would stop recycling soon. With so many lords in the country, there would be no shortage of broken equipment, and he couldn't possibly recycle too much.
But they found that this guy never seemed to stop recycling.
Although they didn't know how much equipment he had recycled, they could imagine it was quite a lot.
Zhou Yan naturally wouldn't step forward to explain.
He was very happy now. With so much equipment, he naturally couldn't repair too much by himself.
Unfortunately, he had a group of dwarves who were skilled in crafting equipment.
He quickly went to the [Artifact Refining Workshop] and found Jerry, then placed all the recovered damaged equipment on the ground.
The dwarves looked at the mountain-high pile of equipment, their eyes wide with astonishment.
Zhou Yan looked at them and said, "Jerry, all of you start repairing this equipment now. Don't worry about anything else. I'll prepare good wine and meat for you tonight."
When the dwarves heard this, they immediately burst into laughter and said, "Lord, don't worry, leave this equipment to us. We will definitely repair it as quickly as possible."
Repairing equipment was much faster than crafting it.
Moreover, dwarves were easily satisfied; a good meal of wine and meat could ignite their enthusiasm.
With dozens of dwarves working together, they could repair at least several thousand pieces a day, and the repaired equipment only required a small amount of materials.
They were professional blacksmiths and were very fast at forging equipment. Coupled with the [Artifact Refining Workshop] and territory bonuses, their speed was naturally not slow.
Repairing equipment could greatly reduce manufacturing costs.
He could then sell the repaired equipment at a high price.
This business was definitely profitable.
He wondered what the other lords would feel when they saw this repaired equipment and had to buy it back at a high price.
He imagined it would be quite frustrating.
And there was nothing they could do about it.
They knew very well that Zhou Yan recycled equipment to repair it and sell it back to them, yet they were still willing to do so.
There was no other way; he was the only one who could repair equipment now, which meant a monopoly. Their broken equipment was useless if left lying around.
It was better to sell it and recover some of the capital.
Then buy a new piece of equipment.
Then it would break again and be recycled back to Zhou Yan, and then they would buy the repaired equipment...
This would be a continuous cycle.
Holy crap!
They were all working for him.
For just one Black Iron equipment, he only spent 50 Spirit Coins to recycle it. Excluding the repair costs, he would need at most 80 Spirit Coins, or even 70 Spirit Coins, to repair a piece of Black Iron equipment.
The current price of Black Iron equipment is around 800 to 1000 Spirit Coins per piece. Even if a piece of Black Iron equipment could only be sold at the lowest price of 800 Spirit Coins, it would still be a tenfold profit.
A full tenfold profit! He could earn millions of Spirit Coins for free in a single day.
Equipment above Bronze earned even more, but there was too little equipment above Bronze; 90% of lords used Black Iron equipment.
"This is capitalism."
Zhou Yan finally realized that he used to dislike capitalists.
But after becoming a capitalist, he started to like it.
Equipment was still being recycled continuously. Hearing the sounds of equipment recycling made Zhou Yan feel like coins were rustling into his pocket.
He began to list equipment for sale, listing all the Black Iron equipment in his warehouse, with prices ranging from 800 to 1000 Spirit Coins per piece.
The equipment forged by the dwarves had good attributes, and many lords liked to buy it. At the same price, they naturally preferred to buy his equipment.
In just half an hour, his equipment was sold out.
Friend requests had been flashing for a long time.
They were all saying envious and flattering things, but he ignored them. Apart from when they wanted to buy equipment, he didn't say much to these people.
After that, Qin Yao also privately messaged him: "I didn't expect that the spirit spring water was also sold by you. You deceived my feelings!"
Zhou Yan immediately felt wronged and said, "You never asked if the spirit spring water was sold by me."
Qin Yao quickly said, "Oh, I was just joking with you. It's your ability to sell spirit spring water. I'm just envious. Come on, ten liters for this young lady wouldn't be too much, right?"
"Of course, it's not too much."
Zhou Yan immediately traded ten liters of spirit spring water to Qin Yao, selling it at the previous price. It was the same as selling it to anyone else.
"In the future, I can drink spirit spring water as daily water and I won't be afraid of not being able to grab it anymore. It feels great," Qin Yao replied.
"You're using public funds for personal use. I have to report you," Zhou Yan also joked.
"Really! That's great, then I'll know your identity. Oh no, I've revealed my purpose! ￣w￣="
After they became familiar, they started to tease each other.
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Although Qin Yao was from the military, she wasn't originally. She was only discovered to have a relatively advanced lord's space during her awakening, which led to her choosing to join the army.
There were many lords like them.
They developed their territories using national resources and, when necessary, had to contribute to the nation. It was a win-win situation, and the country had never forced her to join the army.
Most people would not refuse an invitation from the country.
There were both advantages and disadvantages to this, depending on one's own choices.
Later, [Bing Dong San Chi] also bought a lot of spirit spring water from him, and Zhou Yan naturally did not refuse.
This was the treatment for being his friend; if he had good things, he could sell them to them first.