Chapter 546 Leni Jingteng
The nine cargo ships departing from the City of Black Sails successfully entered the port, which is great news for Phoenix.
The cargo of this ship can solve many of Phoenix's current extremely thorny problems, and it is also a signal to connect to the outside world and accelerate development.
Hence, not only Gothe was excited about this, but even Sunaifa's eyebrows showed a hint of real joy.
Claude immediately took the manpower to check the supplies ship by ship. After ensuring that the cargo list was correct, he immediately sent the detailed cargo list to Gaode and Sunaifa through a spiritual letter.
After Sunaifa reviewed the cargo list, he directly approached Gaode.
“Drilling machines can be used for the construction of the Varar Tunnel.” Sunaifah walked into Gaode’s office and got straight to the point.
Gaode is lowering his head and studying the information carefully.
He copied the documents sent by Claude so that he could mark them up and take notes.
When Sunaifa came in, he was drawing circles on a piece of parchment.
Hearing Sunaifa's words, he raised his head and smiled, "Yes, I thought of that too."
As a large alchemical engineering machine, drilling rigs, in addition to playing a major role in resource exploration and mining, are also extremely applicable in many other fields.
For example, the construction of the Valar Tunnel.
“This drilling rig was an old drilling rig from thirty years ago. It was sold after it was replaced and replaced, and Sarah got it.”
"This old guy is old, but it is definitely enough for the Northern Territory. With the purchase of [Quick Digging] this time, the construction progress of the Valar Tunnel will inevitably be greatly improved, and it may be expected to be completed by March next year."
Gaode had already made preliminary calculations before Sunaifa arrived.
"This is the first navigation with the City of Black Sails, and there is such a big harvest, as long as the subsequent cooperation goes smoothly...
Sunaifa couldn't help but sigh.
"That's not all," Gothe interrupted her. He lowered his head, made another circle on the parchment in his hand, and handed it to Sunaifa together with the thick pile of parchment at the bottom. "This is the biggest gain of this voyage."
This is a roster.
This is the roster of the first batch of foreign talents that Sarah introduced to the North.
There are exactly one hundred names listed on the roster, and the thick stack of parchment at the bottom is the basic information of the people on the roster.
Including age, gender, craftsmanship, mage level, and origin, specifically where they came from, why they fled to Black Sails City, and even their life trajectories in Black Sails City, it can be said to be extremely detailed.
Most of this information was obtained by Sarah through the Crowzun Secret Gang. She had the information sorted out and handed it over to the people in the north when transporting talents.
It is equivalent to providing an "instruction manual" to AutoNavi, which facilitates AutoNavi to arrange work according to each person's expertise.
What Claude did was actually just some simple registration and compilation work, checking everyone's identity, confirming that the information was correct, and then putting it on the roster.
Sunaifa’s eyes quickly scanned the roster:
"There are a hundred people in total, and there are twelve potion masters, including one third-level potion master, ten second-level potion masters, and one first-level potion master;
There are ten alchemists, including nine second-level alchemists and one first-level alchemist;
There are four magic planters, including one third-level magic planter and three second-level magic planters;
Four beast tamers... Two second-level prospectors, two second-level appraisers, one second-level puppet master, two second-level soul cultivators, and one second-level rune master. "
One hundred introduced technical talents, including more than twenty professions, including the extremely unpopular soul cultivator who specializes in providing high-quality souls for necromancers and puppet masters.
Such a rich career composition can only be found in the City of Black Sails.
The profession with the largest number of people is potion master.
This is to be expected.
The magician, the alchemist, and the rune master are the three sub-professional professions.
Hence, the magician has the lowest threshold among Yu San.
It is easy to get started and at the same time, you can get profits quickly, whether it is selling potions or for personal use. Therefore, the number of potion masters on the mainland far exceeds other sub-professions.
The second most populous profession is alchemist, and this is also true.
But there is only one rune master in the same Yusan family - there is no way, the threshold for rune masters is too high, and there are very few people who can enter this field.
Things are rare and valuable. Once you become a rune master, you will be the target of recruitment by various forces. Very few people will be forced to the point of desperation and flee to the city of black sails.
With such a double buff, it is reasonable that there is only one rune master among a hundred people.
Even having a second-level rune master is beyond Gaode's expectations.
This second-level rune master previously worked for a mage force. Because he refused to add a secret door to the city's defense rune array for the evil leader, he was framed as a collaborator and had to flee.
In addition, because these professionals were ostracized and persecuted on the mainland, they came to the City of Black Sails after being forced into desperation.
This background has led to the lack of some professionals who are relatively large in number but are relatively "life-oriented" and will not cause too much conflict of interest.
For example, the magic planter...:::
As the supplier of the potion master, he is mainly responsible for cultivating magic plants. The entry threshold is lower than that of the potion master. There is no requirement for talent. As long as a mage is willing to learn, he can be competent, so the number of people is actually far greater than that of the potion master.
But the profession of magic planter itself will hardly touch the core conflict of interest.
Even if you are squeezed out by a certain force, you can just rent a piece of land in another city to continue "farming", and few people will be hunted down and killed.
Such a "low persecution" means that magic planters are rarely forced to flee the city of black sails.
So among these 100 people, there are only four magic planters.
There is also the Magic Chef, which focuses on combining "delicious food with extraordinary effects" and is almost an extraordinary profession that only serves nobles and mages. Although it is not mainstream on the mainland, it still has a stable group of practitioners.
The nature of the work of magic chefs determines that they will rarely offend forces that can put people to death.
Even if the cooking skills are not to the taste of a certain noble, he will at most be fired, but will never be expelled.
It is natural that there is not even one magic chef among a hundred people.
In fact, the extraordinary craftsmen in the City of Black Sails mainly have three characteristics:
The first is high persecution, that is, they engage in some relatively "taboo" and "dangerous" occupations, and have the highest proportion of exiles.
For example, the Soul Cultivator, the Puppet Master, and the Bone Flayer.
The second is high demand. Black Sails City is a lawless place with rigid demands for combat, treatment, concealment, intelligence, weapon production, etc.
Hence, these types of craftsmen can make a living and survive in the City of Black Sail, so the number will naturally be large.
The typical representative is alchemy soil, especially the robe craftsmen and staff casters in the alchemist branch.
The third is low stability. Those craftsman fields on the mainland that are easily monopolized or suppressed by large organizations are also prone to exiles, such as potion masters.
In addition, the equal-order distribution of talents also has obvious rules.
This is because going to the City of Black Sails involves going through a sea journey full of risks.
Low-level apprentices or first-level professionals who have just entered the industry often lack the ability to protect themselves and have enough funds to pay the ship fare, so it is difficult for them to successfully arrive.
As for the high-level professionals of level three and above, they are either firmly controlled by the forces, or they are strong enough and do not need to flee, so their number is also small.
Only second-level professionals have a certain ability to protect themselves, but are easily squeezed out due to their "neither high nor low" value, and become the main force escaping from the Black Sail City.
After a rough scan of the roster, Sunaifa was slightly excited, "There are many professionals that Phoenix is in urgent need of right now."
"And, there are four "high-end" talents, which is incredible. "
The "high-end" in Sunaifa's words refers to the four third-level professional Phoenix in the roster. Except for Flora, whose professional level is difficult to identify, the most powerful professional is Quentin, who is a veritable fourth-level beast tamer.
Then further down, it almost breaks down.
In Phoenix, let alone high-level craftsmen, there are only a few craftsmen in total.
Third-level craftsmen, for Phoenix today, are almost the top extraordinary craftsmen.
With their joining, they can not only engage in some difficult jobs, but also train apprentices, and cooperate with the extraordinary professional knowledge in [Heart of the North] to lay the foundation for Phoenix's extraordinary professional system. But just when Sunaifa was delighted with these four third-level professionals, she suddenly remembered something and took another look at the roster.
Yes, on the list of 100 people, there was a person whose name was heavily circled by Gothe as a key mark.
"Leni Jingteng, a first-level potion master...:" Sunaifa frowned as he read out her name.
Obviously, she couldn't figure out why Gothe focused on marking such an inconspicuous "first-level potion master".
"Among the hundred people sent by Sarah, the most incredible one is not the four third-level craftsmen, but this first-level potion master." Gothe laughed, looked at Sunaifa's raised brows, and said seriously.
Sunaifa heard this and confirmed it slightly.
She thought for a moment, then rummaged through the parchment at the bottom of the roster, and soon found the page marked "Leni Jingteng".
The edges of the paper are slightly curled, obviously it has been read by Gaode repeatedly before.
She spread the parchment flat on the table and carefully read the detailed origin and identity background of Leni recorded on it word by word.
It is not a particularly twisty and bizarre story.
Wound potion is sold to civilians.
Each bottle of weak healing potion is sold at an extremely low price, and although the potion is weak, it is enough to treat common injuries such as cuts, wounds, and minor burns.
This move caused the income of healing potions from the three major potion stores to drop by 50%, triggering a joint crackdown....
When Leni Jingteng opened the door of the temporary residence, a warm feeling hit her face.
Of course, there is no heating inside, it's just that it's too cold outside and it seems warm inside.
This is a simple house made of stones. Although the walls are not exquisite, they are built tightly and can firmly block the wind and snow in the north.
It is also wider than Leni imagined. There is a wooden bed covered with animal skins in the corner. There are two thick wool blankets stacked at the end of the bed. They are soft to the touch and are obviously carefully made.
She gently closed the door and sat down slowly at the stone table. Her fingertips unconsciously rubbed the tabletop. She thought about her experience after landing ashore and felt a little incredible.
In addition to the overly tidy and orderly environment, even the few meals she had after arriving here were far beyond her expectations.
Leni raised her hand and touched her lower abdomen, where there was still a warm feeling of fullness.
In a bitter cold place like the North, she actually ate barley, and it was blood-red barley that she had never seen before.
The barley grains are full, and after entering the mouth, a warm current slides down the throat and spreads to all the limbs in an instant.
His body, which was originally tired from the sea voyage and shivering from the extreme cold in the north, suddenly became warm.
It even boosted her spirits and restored her physical strength a lot.
Not to mention in the north, even in prosperous cities outside, barley of this quality is rare, and only nobles can eat it.
I heard from people here that this kind of barley seems to be called the No. 2 Northwestern Barley variety.
species number two?
There should be a No. 1 species, and then maybe a No. 3 or 4 species?
After thinking about it for a while, Leni finally came to her senses and patted her cheek, remembering that she had not done anything serious yet.
She took out a package from under the bed.
The package is sewn with burlap, the edges have been frayed, and the handles have been reinforced with hemp rope. It has obviously been used repeatedly for a long time.
It contains all the belongings she brought from the City of Black Sails.
Leni placed the package on the stone table and unwrapped it.
The things in the package were so pitiful, firstly because she wanted to travel lightly, and secondly because she was really poor.
She is good at making weak potions.
What is a weak potion? To put it simply, it is a pirated potion, or the Huaqiangbei version of the potion.
It is the same magic potion with a much weaker effect.
For example, the weak potion that forced her to go to the City of Shao Sails was only one-third as effective as the genuine potion for healing, but its selling price was only one-tenth of that of the genuine potion.
Such an amazing cost-effectiveness has led to the fact that after Leni started selling weak healing potions, basically all civilians stopped buying genuine healing potions from Sanjing Magician and turned to her to purchase them.
But this kind of weak potion is a good thing for civilians, but in the eyes of mages, it is absolutely inferior.
And the city of Shaofan is basically filled with mages.
This also meant that after arriving in the City of Shaofan, she could hardly sell her potions, and it became difficult to even make money to survive.
In addition, I am only a first-level mage with low strength, and I am also a female mage. It can be said that I am walking on thin ice in the city of Shaofan, and I am always on tenterhooks.
Hence, after receiving Sarah's invitation, she nodded and boarded the ship bound for the North without any hesitation.
Leni took out the items one by one.
Her luggage is really very packed.
In addition to two changes of clothes and several volumes of manuals made of parchment, there was only a set of very old potion tools:
A small cauldron with a small palm tip, and a slightly worn white spiral stirring spoon with one corner missing.
Keleni still arranged them very seriously and cherished them.
Because these are the guys she eats, and they are her qualifications for living in this extremely cold snowfield in the future.
Thinking of this, Leni couldn't help but feel a little worried.