Chapter 320

One Elhaysen was not enough, Nasida actually wanted to form a ‘Sumi Rescue Team’.

Did she really think of herself as the boss behind the scenes?

"You are actively making things more difficult for me!"

"No, I just want to ask Mr. Hanxiao that you can give them more pressure."

Nasida did not deny that she did have this intention, but she also had her own ideas in choosing to increase the difficulty.

"So you asked me to play the villain for once, but why?"

Han Xiao didn't quite understand why the other party made such a decision, and even blocked her most important plan of becoming a hero.

"This is also for the sake of Xumi in the future."

Faced with Han Xiao's confusion, Nasida was silent for a moment, and finally gave her reason.

According to the contract and Han Xiao's ability, she believed that the other party could indeed help her solve Xumi's troubles quickly.

But what happens next?

After the trouble is resolved, the current sages will definitely be punished. When Han Xiao leaves with the Heart of God, all that will be left is the leaderless Order Academy.

So Nacida decided to use this opportunity to put Elhaysen, Xeno and Tinari, the three future sage seeds she valued, through a severe test.

The abilities of the three Elhaysens are not weak, and the sages from the Order Academy simply cannot provide enough pressure.

The only candidate was naturally Han Xiao.

"It's not impossible to use me as a whetstone."

After understanding Nasida's thoughts, Han Xiao reached out and rubbed her chin.

He had no problem with being a whetstone. Anyway, it was Romani Solomon who finally put pressure on the Elhaysen trio. Hanxiao had nothing to do with him.

But this whetstone cannot be used in vain.

Thinking of this, Han Xiao slowly said:

"but..."

Chapter 516 Han Xiao’s Conditions

It is not unacceptable to Han Xiao to serve as a whetstone for Elhaysen and others to force them to grow.

And to be honest, he has never played a role like a villain before, so it will definitely be an extremely fresh experience.

It's just that Nacida wants to appear as a villain to put pressure on Elhaysen and others, which is fine, but the benefits are indispensable.

After all, you can't work for nothing, wouldn't that be such a loss?

So while agreeing to Nasida's request, Han Xiao also made his own request.

"Miss Nasida, what can you pay me?"

"What do you want?"

After hearing Han Xiao's reply, Nasida paused for a moment, then handed the choice back to the other party.

Now that she was not out of trouble, she really didn't know what benefits she could give Han Xiao, so she simply let the other party put forward the conditions and agreed if they were suitable.

"Emmm, let me think about it."

Seeing Nasida kicking the ball back to her, Han Xiao thought carefully before giving her conditions.

"First of all, I need to buy large quantities of rubber from Xumi at a low price."

"Rubber? Okay!"

Regarding the first condition proposed by Han Xiao, Naxida was not surprised and agreed with a nod of her head.

As a country where scholars gather, Xumi naturally knows something about rubber, a very good industrial raw material.

In previous years, the largest export volume of rubber was in the trade with Fontaine.

Fortunately, there are a lot of rubber trees in the Xumi rainforest, and the economic life of a tree is as high as thirty to forty years, so there is no need to worry about resource storage.

Selling a batch to Liyue at a low price is not a problem.

"I said we need a batch every year, right?"

Seeing that Nasida agreed to her request so readily, Han Xiao couldn't help but remind her.

The low-price purchase of rubber he mentioned was not a one-time transaction, but a long-term one.

With the industrial development of Liyue, the traditional transportation industry has ushered in a series of new transportation tools such as electric vehicles and steam ships.

In the future, transportation vehicles such as trains and large tankers may also appear.

Therefore, rubber, an important industrial raw material that can be widely used in the tire industry, shoe industry, cloth industry, conveyor belt and other industries, has become an urgently needed item in Liyue.

Although Han Xiao has long known that relying solely on imported raw materials can easily lead to bottlenecks, the key point is that he doesn't have a good solution.

After all, Liyue's topography and climate are there, and it is impossible to plant rubber trees on a large scale, a tree species that can survive in a tropical rainforest climate.

Considering that the demand for rubber in Liyue may be high in the future, since there is such an excellent opportunity now, he will naturally not miss it.

"If you make one batch every year, I can sell you the first batch at the cost price."

“I can only give you a price that is about 20% lower than Fontaine’s import price in the future.”

Knowing that Han Xiao wanted to enjoy the long-term discount on purchasing rubber, Nasida thought for a while and then gave a price she could accept.

"Is it less than 20% of Fontaine? It's okay!"

Less than 20% of the purchase price of Fontaine was already a considerable discount. Han Xiao did not continue to counter-offer but continued to talk about his conditions:

"In addition, economic crops such as oil palm, cocoa, and pepper in Liyue also need to enjoy preferential policies."

"No problem, but it won't be as discounted as rubber. At most, it can only be slightly lower than the market price."

"that's enough."

Regarding the price given by Nasida, Han Xiao readily agreed.

At present, Liyue is restoring the production area of ​​rice and other staple foods in an orderly manner. These relatively minor economic crops can be completely solved by imports.

And this small amount of money is really just a drop in the bucket for Liyue, who is now making a lot of money selling cars and electrical appliances.

"Do you have any other requirements besides these?"

"Yes, I need someone."

"ah?"

Hearing Han Xiao's request again, Nasida was a little confused this time.

It's okay to say that Liyue needs low-priced cash crops, but why do they even need people?

If I remember correctly, Liyue's population ranks among the top among the seven countries in Teyvat Continent.

Seeing Nasida looking at him with a puzzled look, Han Xiao didn't hide anything and directly stated the reason why she wanted someone.

"I need a group of students who graduated from the Teaching Academy to come to Guili City to study as teachers."

I see!

When Han Xiao said this, Nasida understood.

Co-author is such an important person.

She had heard Han Xiao talk about the school in Guilicheng, so she also knew that he was focusing on educating the next generation in Liyue.

However, due to the lack of teachers, masters such as Abedo have always been responsible for enlightenment in schools in Guilicheng.

This is really overkill.

Which country among the seven countries in Teyvat has more scholars?

That is of course Sumeru.

Han Xiao made this request, probably because he wanted to increase the number of teachers in the school, and then free Abedo and the others from enlightenment education and only be responsible for high-level teaching and research and development.

but...

"I can't give you an accurate answer to this request."

Nasida glanced at Han Xiao with some embarrassment. This was not like a cash crop. She could just make a decision.

Even as the grass god of Xumi, she didn't think she could sell Xumi's people to other countries like goods.

After learning about Nasida's dilemma, Han Xiao thought for a moment and then made a concession:

"In that case, I will provide high-paying jobs to recruit talents in Xumi. What do you think?"

"Only fresh graduates?"

"Yes, just graduated."

Although Han Xiao also wanted to dig into top scholars like Tinari and Elhaysen, he also knew that this was impossible.

Fortunately, schools in Guilicheng currently lack a large number of grassroots teachers, and it would be good to recruit a group of freshly graduated students.

"That's no problem."

Hearing that Han Xiao agreed to recruit only fresh graduates, Nasida felt a little relieved.

Some people may wonder, because Little Lucky Grass King is so generous, isn't he afraid that Liyue will shake Sumeru's position in the academic center of Teyvat Continent in the future?

Nasida has her own opinion on this point.

First of all, Liyue has been vigorously reviving its grain industry, and will definitely reduce the amount of grain imported from Xumi in the future.

This is not good news for Xumi. After all, Xumi is also a big food country. Without a big customer like Liyue, the fiscal revenue will definitely be reduced a lot.

Now Han Xiao has proposed to buy rubber and other products, which can be regarded as supplementing some export income.

Secondly, although Xumi is still the academic center of the Seven Kingdoms, its status is actually already shaky.

If no changes are made, Xumi may not be able to continue in this position.

Chapter 517 New Void System

The reason why Nasida believed that Xumi's position as the academic center among the Seven Kingdoms has been shaken was actually not nonsense. Her reasons were quite sufficient.

First of all, Xumi has actually been resting on its laurels for the past five hundred years, with basically no substantial academic breakthroughs.

Although Xumi still maintains its academic leadership in most industries, it has been caught up or even surpassed by the other six countries in some areas.

For example, Abedo alone brought Mond's alchemy level to the same level as Sumeru.

On the one hand, this is due to his extremely strong ability, but on the other hand, it is also related to the lack of significant progress in Xumi Alchemy for a long time.

Even now that Abedo has absorbed the knowledge of alien alchemy he learned from Han Xiao, his alchemy level may have surpassed that of Xumi.

Another example is Fontaine's mechanics, which has also made a huge leap with the development of the country, leaving Sumeru behind.

In addition, the successive changes in Zhidong and Liyue have also driven the development of various domestic industries.

Based on what was said above, Nasida believed that if Xumi continued like this, he might not be able to maintain the status of Teyvat Academic Center.

This is one of the reasons why Nasida made such a generous decision to give the Void System to Han Xiao as a trading item.

After all, since the creation of the void system, Xumi scholars have become more and more dependent on the void, reducing their ability to think for themselves.

Nasida agreed to choose a group of freshly graduated students to go to Liyue, which was actually a decision she made based on this.

As the saying goes, only with competition can there be motivation for development.

Liyue is in a period of rapid development under the planning of Qixing, especially Hanxiao, and countless breakthrough knowledge has been born.

It can be said that Liyue has become an academic 'rival' of Xumi.

If these students who were sent there returned home with brand-new knowledge after completing their teaching tasks, some scholars in Xumi might be awakened from their blind arrogance.

When they find that the aspects they are proud of have been caught up or even surpassed by other countries, it will naturally stimulate the research motivation of these people.

As a result, the deviant research atmosphere of the Academy of Education slowly changed back.

So for Nasida, it was the best thing for Han Xiao to ask a group of students who had just graduated from the Teaching Academy to work as teachers in Guilicheng School.

If you want to poach students, you have to do it yourself.

"Are there no other requirements besides this?"