The main goods on the list were crude refined iron, black steel, arcane copper, and some mid-grade alchemy materials.
The price of the goods wasn't high, but the total amount wasn't small. Three hundred tons of refined iron wasn't worth much, but there were nearly a hundred tons of black steel, ten tons of arcane copper, and dozens of mid-grade alchemy materials. The total price of all these things added up to more than thirty million crowns.
According to the rules, Burton could take two million crowns as commission from the total price, of which about two hundred thousand crowns belonged to him.
Even for Burton, this kind of business was rare. He immediately smiled and said to Feng Chou, "This is indeed a good business deal. You should know our rules. You need to pay me thirty percent of the deposit first. When all the goods are in the warehouse you specify, you can pay the rest."
"Of course, no problem," Feng Chou said. Then, he took out ten million-crowned bank drafts and placed them on the table.
Burton reached out to take them, but realized that the other party wouldn't let go.
Seeing Burton's confused expression, Feng Chou reminded him, "Mr. Burton, did you forget something?"
Burton froze for two seconds before remembering something. He took out a document, filled in the blank space, and handed it to Feng Chou.
Feng Chou took the document and glanced at it. It was an official receipt. At the end of the receipt was Marquis McAdam's name and his personal seal.
After Feng Chou put the receipt away, he pushed the draft back to Burton.
If the other party really wanted to take the payment, the receipt wouldn't be of much use. A foreigner wanting to sue the Minister of the Interior in the Sutton Empire would be a joke if word got out.
In fact, the real balance between the buyer and the seller was that these brokers didn't have any family background. They weren't strong either, so their defense was quite weak. In this world full of strong people, there were too many ways to take their lives.
Although the foreign tycoons didn't have much power in the government, this also meant that once they were angered, they wouldn't care too much about the Sutton Empire's reputation. After killing someone and leaving, the Sutton Empire couldn't do anything to them.
The trustworthiness that had been nurtured in the bloody light was still trustworthy.
In the next few days, the goods on Feng Chou's list were delivered to the warehouse that Feng Chou had rented in advance.
It only took Burton a week to collect all the goods on the list.
Feng Chou also paid the rest of the money without any hesitation.
After the one-month lease was up, the owner of the warehouse saw that no one came to renew the lease. He went to the warehouse to check, only to find that the warehouse was already empty. No one knew when the foreign merchant had moved the goods away.
At this moment, Feng Chou had already returned to Green Dragon Island.
On this trip back to Green Dragon Island, Feng Chou only left ten mages on the Pioneer Knight to pilot the ship. He took the other apprentices with him.
Feng Chou opened the other end of the portal on the platform outside the green dragon's den. When the twenty or so apprentices followed Feng Chou into the dragon's den under the respectful salutes of the green dragon descendants, they all felt like they were dreaming when they saw the terrifying green dragon. After seeing Feng Chou, it stuck its head out like a puppy and rubbed against Feng Chou.
Feng Chou introduced the two sides. When the apprentices heard that this green dragon named Elsera was their ally, their morale immediately rose.
After comforting the apprentices, Feng Chou rode Elsera out of the cave.
Elsera circled above the green dragon village with Feng Chou and landed on the top of the altar. A melodious dragon's roar resounded, and the green dragon descendants in the village hurriedly ran up the altar and kowtowed to their master.
Elsera announced to the green dragon descendants that Feng Chou was her loyal ally. From now on, Feng Chou's orders were equivalent to her orders.
Feng Chou also released his Dragon's Aura, which was not much weaker than Elsera's.
Next, Feng Chou began to transform Green Dragon Island.
Green Dragon Island was over 120 kilometers long, with an average width of nearly 40 kilometers. The total area was close to 5,000 square kilometers. The mountainous area in the northwest of the island occupied a third of the island's area. The remaining two-thirds, apart from a few low mountain ranges and a few hills, were mostly plains.
If this island was completely developed, it could almost be developed into a large Earl's territory.
However, if the entire island was developed, it would destroy the island's ecology, causing soil erosion and other harmful consequences. On the other hand, the fresh water on the island would not be enough to support such a large territory.
Qiankun Pagoda gave a plan after some calculations.
In the plan, Qiankun Pagoda suggested that less than a third of the area in the southwest of the island should be developed.
There were seven or eight rivers of various sizes on Green Dragon Island. The three rivers in the northeast were all short rivers that respectively flowed into the sea. The rivers began to converge from a third of the island's northeast.
This was because there was a small mountain range in the southeast of the central area of the island that was only a third of the island's length. This small mountain range and the surrounding terraces of the mountain range blocked a few small rivers that originated from the mountainous area in the northwest of the island. These rivers had no choice but to flow southwest along the island.
As this river flowed southwest, it converged with the streams that flowed from the mountainous area in the northwest. When this river flowed to the central area of the plains in the southwest of the island, it was blocked by a protruding hill and the surrounding terraces. It had no choice but to turn west. Finally, it flowed along the foot of the mountain range in the northwest of the island and entered the bay.
In Qiankun Pagoda's plan, a dam would be built at the foot of the hills in the southwest of the island. This dam would intercept the river and eventually accumulate a reservoir of several tens of square kilometers. Then, a circular water conservancy hub would be built around the hills. Water channels would flow down from the hills and eventually open up a million mu of fertile farmland in the southwest of the island.
Of course, Feng Chou would not do this immediately. If he hurriedly opened up millions of mu of fertile farmland on Green Dragon Island, he was afraid that within a few months, there would be people coming to pick this big, red, and unattended peach.
He planned to first build a small dam and make it look natural. Then, he would use the dam to open up tens of thousands of mu of farmland in the northwest of the hills. He would build two villages and supply the island with food.
Even if someone discovered that there were people farming on the island, they would not go as far as to provoke a green dragon for tens of thousands of mu of farmland.
In Qiankun Pagoda's plan, the triangular bay formed between the mountain range and the island's coast at the southwest of the island would be built into a port. Next to the port, a small town would be built against the mountain.
This bay was shaped like a trumpet. In fact, it was not suitable for building a port. This was because the bay in such a terrain would not only not reduce the impact of the wind and waves, but would also increase the intensity of the waves that surged into the bay due to the limitations of the terrain.
To build a port in such a terrain, a wave breakwater would have to be built at the trumpet mouth of the bay.
The depth of this triangular bay was about five kilometers, and the width of the trumpet mouth was about two kilometers. Building a wave breakwater here was by no means a small project.
This was why Feng Chou had spent the money to buy ten master-grade engineering constructs.
According to Qiankun Pagoda's plan, after the territory was finally completed, it would include two small towns, the port and the hills, several castle-like villages, control of millions of mu of farmland, and a population of more than a hundred thousand.
However, Feng Chou knew that in order to build such an isolated and helpless count territory, he would have to be at least a legendary wizard to be able to control it. And this was under the condition that the island was in a remote location and had no other production apart from agriculture.
At this stage, Feng Chou only planned to build a port on the island, a territory that could support his subordinates.
After taking over the command of the green dragons from the green dragon Elsera, Feng Chou ordered the green dragons to use the spell 'Animate Ent' to drive seven or eight large trees to the foot of the mountain at the end of the bay to re-root. He also had the dragonborn use nature spells to weave large treehouses on these trees for the apprentices to live in temporarily.
After settling the apprentices, Feng Chou took out the four engineering constructs that he had stored in his space ring in advance in front of the apprentices.
Feng Chou wasn't proficient in the level-7 spell 'Mordenkainen's Mansion', so the only thing he could use to transport the automatons was spatial equipment. The 5m x 5m x 5m spatial ring in his hand could only hold up to four large automatons at a time.
Feng Chou did not intend to expose the existence of Qiankun Pagoda in front of anyone. This was his core secret, and he did not intend to share it with anyone.
Perhaps when he became a legendary arcanist, he would display part of Qiankun Pagoda's functions as a demiplane. But for now, he could not let anyone know. A demiplane in the hands of a high-ranked wizard would definitely attract the covetous eyes of legendary wizards.
Feng Chou planned to use a teleportation spell to leave for a period of time after taking out four constructs from the space ring. When he came back, he would take out another four. This way, the apprentices would think that he had bought the constructs from the outside many times. Feng Chou even intentionally or unintentionally told the apprentices that the funds to buy the constructs came from the green dragon Elsera's collection.
Early the next morning, Feng Chou let Hugo and Gauss lead the apprentices to command the four large-scale constructs to clean up the reefs and sand at the bottom of the bay.
The depth of the bay was not bad. Except for some reefs, there was not much sand at the bottom. The only drawback was that the bay was in the shape of a trumpet, which would strengthen the waves that poured into the bay.
To build a harbor here, a breakwater would have to be built on the trumpet mouth of the bay. This was undoubtedly a big project.
This was also the reason why Feng Chou wanted to buy master-level constructs. To clean up the seabed and build a large breakwater, this kind of powerful construct would greatly reduce the time and cost.
In addition to the constructs, Feng Chou also left a large number of Stone to Mud scrolls for the apprentices.
After arranging the apprentices' recent tasks, Feng Chou and Elsera teleported together and left Green Dragon Island.
Their destination was the depths of the Amazon Rainforest.
The southern continent was the same as the northern continent. It was an irregular strip of land that stretched from north to south. Its terrain was high in the middle and low at both ends.
The central part of the southern continent was a huge plateau. This plateau took up almost a third of the entire southern continent. On the plateau, there were endless hot and barren grasslands and the Gobi Desert.
In the northern part of the plateau, the terrain gradually decreased. The climate became more humid and hot. Finally, it became a humid and hot tropical rainforest. This was the Amazon Rainforest.
The Amazon Rainforest occupied most of the northern part of the central plateau of the southern continent. Its area was even bigger than the largest forest in the northern continent, the "Dark Forest" and the "Emerald Forest" combined.
The Amazon Kingdom was located at the western edge of this huge rainforest.
The eastern coastal area of the Amazon Rainforest was the territory of the Goblin Kingdom.
But even if the territories of the Amazon Kingdom and the Goblin Kingdom were added together, it was not even a tenth of the total area of the Amazon Rainforest.
In the incomparably dense depths of the Amazon Rainforest, there lived a variety of terrifying creatures. Giant water demons, large crocodiles, four-armed gorillas, dragon snakes, multi-headed snake lizards, forest giants, giant berserk baboons, groups of giant spiders, groups of rainforest murlocs, groups of velociraptors, and even Troll were at the bottom of the food chain.
Among these terrifying creatures, the one at the top was undoubtedly the giant dragon.
The green and black dragons of the Pentashade Dragons were frequent visitors to the rainforest.
The Arcane Empire was destroyed before it could wreak havoc in the southern continent. This caused the number of giant dragons in the southern continent to be much higher than the northern continent.
Some people estimated that there were thousands of black and green dragons living in the depths of the Amazon Rainforest.
If there were dragons, there would naturally be dragon descendants. The Amazon Rainforest and the central plateau of the southern continent were the places with the most dragon descendants in the world. It was said that there were many large dragon tribes with tens of thousands of people in the depths of the Amazon Rainforest. There were even dragon kingdoms in the central plateau.
The more powerful the giant dragon, the more dragon descendants it ruled. A giant dragon that could rule tens of thousands of dragon descendants was a powerful legendary giant dragon with a challenge rating of level 21 and above.
Behind the dragon kingdom, there must be a terrifying giant dragon with a challenge rating of level 25 and above.
In the past, such a terrifying giant dragon was almost invincible in the main material world. This situation only changed when the floating city of the Arcane Empire appeared.
Before the Arcane Empire, a professional level of 25 was already the ceiling of intelligent creatures in the main material world. Higher levels only existed in the outer planes of hell, abyss, heaven, and so on, or were demigods.
The great arcanists of the Arcane Empire not only broke through the professional level of 25, but also created war machines, "floating towers" and "floating cities," which were a hundred times more terrifying than legendary professionals.
In front of such war machines, even the ancient golden dragon with a challenge rating of level 27 was like a chicken or a pottery dog.
Back to the topic, in the Amazon Rainforest, other than the dragon tribes ruled by the giant dragons, there were also dragon tribes that lost their owners for various reasons.
For the dragon descendants, losing their owners was equivalent to a stray dog. They could only migrate to the harshest places to struggle for survival.
For such a dragon descendant tribe, it was their lifelong dream to be recruited by another dragon.
Not every giant dragon was willing to create its own dragon descendants, and not every giant dragon could create its own dragon descendants. For example, a female dragon could not quickly create a large number of dragon descendants.
Therefore, waiting for a new giant dragon to be recruited was not an unattainable dream for the dragon descendants who lost their owners.
In the mountains of the southern part of the Amazon Rainforest, a giant dragon came in a few days.