Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 620 - 555: Closing In from All Sides, Great Prospects Ahead

Chapter 620: Chapter 555: Closing In from All Sides, Great Prospects Ahead

Tanhuan, Qunshan Port.

"Here it comes, the Great Yan Treasure Ship has returned!"

Amid the cheers of officials, merchants, and laborers on the shore, three Great Yan Treasure Ships emerged from the sea mist and slowly approached the shore.

After the exchange, crates of exquisite goods from assembly lines: silk, cotton, farm tools, ironware, sewing needles, mirrors, glass beads...

Even muskets, cannons... and so on were carried ashore by the eagerly waiting people of Tanhuan, like ants moving house.

"Be careful, damage one item and I’ll flay your skins!"

"Hurry, load these treasures onto carts and take them straight to the palace!"

"..."

In the past, whether traveling by water or land, the journey was long and travel was not easy.

The core products of trade between the two sides were high-value-added goods like silk, ceramics, ginseng, and gemstones, and both the scale of trade and the total value of goods were not too large.

But ever since the 48 Gateways of Ghost Market were established, trade scale grew larger and larger, even though the roads were unsafe, making it as simple as taking a stroll.

Eventually, many goods that could only be moved in bulk gradually joined the list of traded items.

Thus.

Not only did the nobility crave various treasures from Dushuo Mountain.

Merchants belonging to various factions across the entire nation of Tanhuan came flocking to join in the purchasing frenzy.

Boosting the total sales manifold within mere months.

However, it swiftly created an unprecedented trade deficit.

It almost completely siphoned the domestically circulating gold, silver, and copper coins from Tanhuan Country’s economy in a very short span of time.

In the midst of booming activities,

The middle-aged manager in charge of the handovers, holding a crate, walked into one of the Treasure Ships’ cabins and complained to a young man leisurely drinking tea:

"Young master, look, the king and nobles of Tanhuan are quite unscrupulous.

The quality of the silver coins they pay us with is getting worse."

It started with equivalent gold and jewels, then gradually they gave us high-quality copper coins from previous dynasties of the Central Plains, and last time even the copper coins from Tanhuan were reducing in number.

Lately, I heard they have started rushing their own minting, making small change with less copper content than Great Yan’s standard of seven parts copper to three parts lead.

Some have equal parts copper and lead; others even have more lead than copper.

The copper coins we collected this time around, some of them have inscriptions so blurred they’re barely recognizable, they’re shoddily made and it’s truly despicable!"

He presented the crate to the young man as proof to support his words.

"Young master, our goods are of excellent quality and much cheaper than the similar goods they produce themselves, there’s absolutely no worry about sales.

But the more we sell, the more we lose.

I fear that by the time of our next visit, the coins we receive will be tin-laden iron coins.

If this continues, the Ghost Market’s accounts will start showing losses, how are we to explain this to Manager Tao, Manager Xing?"

The young man, who remained unfazed, was dressed in a silver satin Chimaexia gown, adorned with a Dharma Crown embedded with bright pearls, and bore an aura of nobility.

However, the shadow behind him was that of a Giant Vulture with jet-black wings spread almost filling the entire room.

In each of the black feathers on the Giant Vulture, there appeared a terrified human face, and one could faintly hear the sounds of wailing from within.

Clearly, this young man was none other than one of Zhu Bo’an’s Giant Vulture avatars.

Su Guyun had sent him on a purging mission within Chuyun Country, which was as good as letting a rat loose in a rice store.

Countless No-Life Dao Demons had become sacrifices for the "Three Vultures Power Technique."

Feasting non-stop in the lair of demons, he also conveniently increased his Taoist Ability to the Yellow Seal Dharma Body Realm, achieving the state where he could manifest dozens of "Three Vultures Dharma Bodies."

Now, with the ability to clone himself, more work could be done.

This selfless dedication indeed lived up to the title of the foremost disciple of Yin Mountain Taoism!

Zhu Bo’an picked up one of the poorly made copper coins from the crate and with a flash of Dharma Light on his fingertip, smoothly split the coin in half.

Seeing the inferior quality of the cross-section, which was pitch black, he did not become annoyed like the manager, but instead, his face sincerely broke into a smile of having wisdom within his grasp.

He waved his hand at the manager:

"Keep collecting, we need them to continue over-issuing these coins. When their reserves of gold, silver, and copper are depleted, and their domestic industries have been completely destroyed by us,

keep waiting until they cannot hold on anymore and even the inferior coins are gone, starting to issue worthless Treasure Banknotes, it will be our time to close the net.

The task assigned by the great Taoist Master, we just need to complete it without compromise to a hundred percent."

He instructed to pass the word along, "Outside of the Great Yan, apply the same standard to all the other Deceit Countries, only slightly restrain within the Great Yan Realm to avoid too much chaos."

"Yes, young master!"

As of today, under Wang Yuan’s orders, the massive dumping operation aimed at various neighboring countries has been ongoing for over three months.

Facing such an unprecedented low-dimension strike by industrial products, those countries around Great Yan, which already regarded their citizens as nothing more than cattle and sheep, lacked any consciousness to protect their national industries.

Instead, each felt that they had massively benefited from the deals.

As the amount of regular currency in circulation within their countries decreased, these deceitful lands, where humans and demons lived together, unhesitatingly began minting "inferior coins."

Just to squeeze even greater profits from transactions that were already highly lucrative.

And it wasn’t just the official mints; uncontrollable local powers were also producing these coins, each batch worse than the last.

Their greed was not pleasing to the eye.

Although they could not produce sophisticated machinery, they were all experts in molding and privately minting their own currency; even today, the situation with inferior coins is somewhat rampant.