Chapter 367
367 Policy against demons
This mine vein had not been officially mined yet, so it was still unknown how much profit they could get. However, based on Lu Qing’s current estimates, it would not be a problem for him to pay 300000 spirit stones a year.
Moreover, he also noticed that there were quite a number of medium spiritual stones in the mine vein. It was estimated that it would not be a problem to mine ten a year.
With such a regular income, he estimated that it would be around four hundred thousand spirit stones.
However, once a top-tier spirit stone was mined, it would be destroyed.
Gui Gui, the exchange rate of a high grade spirit stone to a mid grade spirit stone was not as high as the exchange rate of a low grade spirit stone to a mid grade spirit stone, which was 10000 to one. However, one high grade spirit stone could still be exchanged for 100 mid grade spirit stones.
That would be a million!
However, Lu Qing also noticed something else. It was not easy to mine the ore vein.
Lu Qing wandered around the area and could still clearly see the traces of many demonic beasts and demons.
The North barren forest was indeed defeated in the last war. The entire organization was completely scattered. Even the Demon King had fled to the country of Liang with his elite confidants. The remaining troops were completely scattered or even wiped out and slaughtered on a large scale by Jin.
After all, this had once been a country of the demon race. There were many demons here. Even if they were defeated, not all of them would have died.
But all in all, the situation they were facing now was also very bad. Jin country was located to the West of the North barren forest. They were really aggressive and their policies towards the demon race were really deadly.
Lu Qing was not in Great Jin. However, he had heard about the political situation there.
Jin had gathered a large number of people and filled the northern wilderness forest, building various strongholds and towns to settle down in order to control this area. This way, they would naturally have conflicts with the demons who originally lived here.
Whether it was a small demon clan settlement or a demon beast, they could not contend against humans. The Army that the North barren forest could gather was already done for. The more knowledgeable demons and even the more intelligent ones had already fled into the depths of the North barren forest.
But even so, there were still some demons who were perhaps reluctant to leave their homeland, or had difficulties not being able to leave, or were simply demon beasts who had not developed their spiritual intelligence.
The border states of Jin had already set up a wasteland reclamation policy and recruited a large number of ordinary cultivators to hunt and kill demons and demon beasts. They would exchange their heads for money and resources. At the same time, the materials extracted from the demon race and demon beasts had their own value.
As a result, many demons inevitably migrated from the West to the East and to the North, which was the direction of the Yan Kingdom.
Lu Qing could tell that there were at least three demon tribes that had gathered near the spirit stone mine.
Of course, there were no tier 4 demonic beasts among them.
But even so, it was inevitable that there would be some alarm when cultivators were mobilized to attack this place. They had to be extremely careful. Otherwise, once the news was leaked, it would be very troublesome.
However, Lu Qing suddenly had another idea.
Sending cultivators and migrating people to this place would indeed cause a huge commotion, whether it was to attack and clean up the surrounding demon tribes or to mine the spirit stone mine in the long run.
Of course, this was something that could be solved by being careful and moving stealthily.
However, he felt that he should have another way of thinking.
Why couldn’t he make the demon tribes that had settled down for several years or even nearly a decade his own?
To the Lu clan, this matter was not without precedent.
After the divine Deer Forest had been upgraded into a secret realm, the thousands of demons living there had been integrated into the Lu family’s business. The divine Deer forest’s environment had a pretty good bonus when it came to nurturing some spirit herbs and medicine. These demons planted herbs for the Lu family. Some of the demons with outstanding talent even learned some alchemy. It was enough to feed themselves well.
As for those who wanted to come out for a stroll, that was no problem.
In the Yan Kingdom, there was no tradition of humans and demons living together. There were only a few demons who did not commit any evil and lived in seclusion among human society. If they hid well, they might not be disturbed, but there were few cases where demons lived in a large area.
However, this was not something that could not be changed. At the very least, many cultivators in the Feiyun state were used to seeing the demons of the divine Deer Forest wandering around the Feiyun state with the waist token that the Lu clan had specially issued.
With the Lu family’s endorsement, they would be able to move freely in the Feiyun state.
In reality, there was indeed a small number of restless demon tribes in the divine Deer Forest who chose to live in the outside world.
Furthermore, when the White ghouls from the ice plains of the extreme north had come South, two 100-man groups from the demon clan of the divine Deer Forest had been hired to fight in the North. They had exchanged their merits for spirit stones or other resources.
All in all, the demons in the divine Deer Forest were quite satisfied with their lives. It wasn’t that the hatred from the invasion was completely gone, but after such a long time, a large part of it had been dispelled.
Since there was such a precedent, Lu Qing also felt that it was not impossible to communicate with the demon race.
If he could recruit the three demon clans living in this area for his own use and let them mine the spiritual stone mine here, he would be able to monitor it carefully. After a certain period of time, he would transport these spiritual stones out.
This seemed to be a feasible idea.
Of course, there would be a lot of problems when it was actually implemented. For example, the demons who had migrated from the West generally had very low trust in humans. They were driven out of their homes by Jin people. Although it wasn’t Yan people who did it, they were all human beings, so the hatred and estrangement between them were difficult to eliminate.
In addition, the wild nature of the demon race was difficult to train, and their nature was undisciplined. This was also a problem.
But it wasn’t like he couldn’t work hard.
The demon race of the divine Deer Forest could be a very good bridge of communication.
In fact, through this matter, Lu Qing would be able to further expand his train of thought.
In the past, the Feiyun state and the Qingfeng sect had probably thought of warding off and banishing the demons who had escaped from the North barren forest to the East. After all, it was still mainstream to think that those who were not of the same race would have different hearts.
However, if one thought about it more carefully, the North barren forest no longer had a unified leader, and the relationship between the various tribes was very low. In a situation where they were scattered and had no affiliation, they might be a problem, but they might also be a different kind of human resource.
In the future, the Lu family might be able to adjust their policy and attitude toward these demons.
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I released it in advance after I finished writing, I still need 5k.