Chapter 499 - 388 High-end Products

The existence of Giants is a vague memory that’s spoken about with few details across the world. Only a very few people know that there once existed a race called Giants. These Giants were extraordinarily powerful and helped humans create a flourishing civilization. As to why the Giants disappeared and why human civilization declined, nobody knows.

However, Kaniel knew. Clearly, it was because Dasaide had obtained the so-called Giant weaponry that he had become so powerful!

After Kaniel passed away, Yake discovered traces of the Giant weaponry among his father’s manuscripts, and he began a secret worldwide search for it.

And he did find it!

The pair of Giant War Boots were found in the Tranquil Forest. When the successful excavation was reported, Yake was so thrilled he could hardly sleep at night. However, the Giant weaponry could neither be stored in personal space nor strangely enough, flown beyond a certain height. Furthermore, its speed was also limited! The inconveniences only made Yake believe even more thoroughly that these boots were indeed Giant weaponry.

Yake believed that Long Yi, who showed no signs of extraordinary capabilities before entering the Dragon Knight Academy, suddenly became powerful, likely due to obtaining the Giant weaponry. Once tasting the sweetness of obtaining Giant weaponry, anyone might be unable to refrain from seeking out more. Therefore, to avoid alerting Long Yi, Yake suppressed his urge to personally make a journey and commanded that the boots be hidden within a disguised merchant caravan to be transported back home by safest means possible.

Yake was never worried about the transportation process. In his view, the Emperor of the White Dragon Empire had nearly foolish acts. His indulgence in commerce had interfered with the war. Even at this crucial juncture, the White Dragon Empire continued to allow free access of merchants into the White Dragon Imperial City. This provided great convenience for the Black Dragon Empire and also guaranteed the safety of the caravan on the way.

The disguised caravan proceeded exceedingly slow, escorted by rounds of replacement soldiers expecting nothing but foolish bandits. However, at the very last moment, right under the eyes of the Imperial City, the caravan was raided! The Giant War Boots disappeared!

"Long Yi! It must have been Long Yi! No one else but Long Yi!" Yake roared, Dragon Breath spewing from his mouth, making his half-dragon face all the more terrifying.

"Indeed, we detected a unique psychic force at the scene. One of the slain Dragon Knights exhibited attributes consistent with those of Long Yi." Tilian said.

"Damnation!" Yake roared out loud.

"Obviously, Long Yi had been watching the caravan from the beginning, his choice to strike here might have merely been to humiliate us." Tilian noted.

"Shut your damned mouth!"

Boom!

Tilian was flung aside once again, and this time, half his head was blown clean off!

Still, Tilian managed to struggle back to his feet. He surveyed the ground without commenting, standing mute.

At this moment, Yake was in no mood to hear any analysis. He just wanted to tear Long Yi apart and consume him alive!

"Get out! Get out of my sight!"

Yake roared.

Tilian promptly turned to leave.

"Get back here!"

Yake bellowed again.

Tilian returned once more.

"If Long Yi has already appeared here, he would assuredly take the opportunity to infiltrate the Imperial City. Find a way to catch him." Yake instructed.

"Yes," Tilian agreed.

Tilian turned to leave, while behind him, the furious howls of Yake and the sounds of shattering objects continued to echo.

Returning to his study, Tilian immediately opened his case, removed a fresh brain from it and re-inserted it into his skull, which promptly regenerated.

In the mirror, Tilian’s mouth twitched before he turned to leave once again.

Meanwhile, at Long Yi’s supermarket, with high spirits, a new round of promotional activities had begun. The brainless reproduction of modern commercial practices was eye-opening for these people still living in the primitive world. Abbas, the direct beneficiary, was too happy for words.

The more Abbas saw of Long Yi, the more he liked him. Besides the necessary expenses, the entire profit of the supermarket went to Abbas. Such lack of greed was right up Abbas’s alley. He knew all greedy people well, being a miser himself.

In Abbas’s view, everyone can be greedy. If Long Yi didn’t greed over the money, it could only mean one thing - to him, this was pocket change!

In the span of just over a month, Long Yi had already demonstrated an unparalleled commercial intuition. Such a talent, how could he be content with just managing a small supermarket? So, would he continue to surprise Abbas by playing in the big league, or would he mess everything up?

Why not give it a try!

In that case, why not give you a larger stage to try it on?

In a few days, Long Yi and Ai Lin were suddenly summoned back to Abbas’s mansion. A few minutes later, a surprised Long Yi arrived at a certain courtyard with Abbas’s order of appointment.

This was Abbas’s core business, the salt industry.

As the most profitable industry, the salt business is state-controlled even in the White Dragon Empire. The Black Dragon Empire was no exception. Within the borders of the Black Dragon Empire, including Abbas, a total of five families had the right to operate the salt business. However, in terms of sales volume, Abbas could only rank fourth among the five families. Abbas tried many strategies, but they all had little effect. Due to his bad reputation, the other families all ganged up against him. This made Abbas gnash his teeth, but there was nothing he could do. As a royal family member, he can’t do much to others. Watching his market share being constantly eroded, Abbas angrily replaced two managers, but it was still of no avail.

Eventually, Abbas could only let things be.

But now, Long Yi had arrived.

This was the core area for salt operations, the original general manager, seeing Long Yi’s order of appointment, immediately left with great joy, feeling immensely relieved to have saved his head.

After carefully studying the financial reports, Long Yi basically understood. The salt is the same, the only difference is people. If the other four families gang up against you, there’s no way you can grow.

In fact, having been in the Black Dragon Empire for over a month, Long Yi was planning to leave after making a big move here. But Abbas promoted him at this time! This was an opportunity that was hard to come by! Among Abbas’s businesses were direct dealings with the military of the Black Dragon Empire, if he could do a little investigation, it could potentially have a subtle impact on the war.

Long Yi believed that even an unqualified rivet on a dragon saddle could determine the outcome of a battle.

This time, Abbas did not accompany Long Yi but gave him substantial authority instead. As an old gambler, he decided to take a bet, he wanted to see what Long Yi could do with such extensive authority.

Faced with this situation, Long Yi also scratched his head, he didn’t seem to have a good solution for this, did he?

For this reason, Long Yi and Ai Lin even went out on the street and bought salt from all five families, put it in front of them. Five bags of salt were all wrapped in coarse paper, the large granules were all the same.

Wait, wait!

Speaking of differences, this thing was completely different from the salt he had eaten before!

In his previous life, sales of coarse salt were strictly restricted in most cities, the most common salt purchased by people was refined salt, which had been processed to add trace elements!

That texture! That look! It was worlds apart from the gray stuff in front of him!

This could be a breakthrough!

You’re the one!

With Long Yi’s limited knowledge, from his previous world, there was a series of processes for refined salt. After all, ordinary salt has not only visible solid impurities, but also many complex chemicals. Although Long Yi had almost forgotten his chemistry knowledge, and this world did not have a large amount of chemical reagents available for use. But this was enough!

Dissolve a large amount of coarse salt, filter it many times to remove impurities, dry it to get crystalline salt, then grind it, and through step-by-step screening, you get fine salt almost similar to the previous one!

The process was extremely simple, but on one side was gray coarse salt, while on the other side was snow-white refined salt.

"The difference is clear!"

But, what to use for packaging?

Previously, coarse salt was always packed in a yellowish-gray coarse straw paper, after all, salt was not expensive, and no one would use anything better to package it. But Long Yi directly ordered a thousand bags made of pure white wood pulp paper from the paper mill. Put the refined salt in the bag, making the refined salt look even whiter.

At the same time, Long Yi secretly carved a bunch of stamps with complex and beautiful patterns, added a few words to it.

"Special Supply Salt."

Doing these preparatory tasks, Long Yi spent a week.

During this week, Abbas didn’t come in person, but there were people reporting to him constantly about Long Yi’s progress. When he heard what Long Yi was doing, he was not surprised, but shook his head. Sure enough, Long Yi has ideas, but he doesn’t think things through. Salt is originally a low-price and high-quantity profit product, and you’ve added so many processes, can it work?

Abbas told Long Yi his worries through the housekeeper, intending to stop him from wasting money. But Long Yi ignored him completely. In the end, Abbas came here himself, he held a bag of refined salt and asked Long Yi.

"How much do you plan to sell this refined salt for?" Abbas asked aggressively.

"How much does the previous salt sell for per bag?" Long Yi retorted.

"One copper coin." Abbas remembered the price very clearly because it affects the profit.

"Okay, let’s sell for one Black Dragon Coin." Long Yi said.

"A hundred times! Are you insane!" Abbas’s eyes widened. (To be continued. If you like this novel, please come to qidian.com to vote and support it, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)