Chapter 18: Meeting with the Cabinet Master
Jiang Ming and his entourage came to the Gu family, and the Gu father led the Gu family to receive them at the door. Gu Father was a tall middle-aged man with a serious expression on his face and looked very majestic.
"Welcome to the Gu family." Father Gu said, "I am the head of the Gu family, Gu Debai. Fellow Daoists of the Divine Sword Sect, please come in and sit down. ”
Jiang Ming smiled in his heart, Gu Debai, goodbye, hahaha, the name seems to be unwelcome to us.
Jiang Ming and the others followed Gu Debai into the hall of the Gu family. There are some antiques and furniture in the hall, which looks very magnificent,
After entering the hall, Gu Tianfang and Gu Debai began to introduce Jiang Ming and the others after a few words, although they were not allowed to identify themselves, Gu Tianfang still deliberately introduced Jiang Ming first.
"Father, this is Senior Brother Jiang Ming, Senior Brother Jiang of Alchemy Hall Master Wu, and Senior Brother Jiang is also in charge of our mission down the mountain on this trip."
Gu Debai also responded politely: "Brother Jiang Dao, just treat it as your own home here!" ”
When Gu Tianfang introduced Xie Ren, his attitude immediately changed, and he said earnestly: "I have heard that Xie Ren, the first disciple of the Divine Sword Sect, has a dignified appearance, and his cultivation is outstanding in the Divine Sword Sect. ”
After speaking, he pulled a young woman to Xie Ren and said, "Brother Xie, this is the little girl Gu Tianlin, who is just eighteen years old this year. Don't be polite if you have any needs in the house in the future, Lin'er, you have seen Brother Xie soon. "Tianlin has seen Senior Brother Xie!" Gu Tianlin said, with a hint of shyness in her words, her face was full of delicate redness, and she secretly glanced at Xie Ren from time to time.
Jiang Ming looked at Gu Tianlin's appearance in detail, with a pair of Danfeng eyes, thin eyebrows, a tall nose, red lips and slender jade fingers.
It's just that I don't know whether Xie Ren intentionally or unintentionally, in the face of such a stunning beauty, he just replied lightly: "Miss Gu is polite, solve a certain rough person, or try to make as little trouble as possible." ”
"Father, our group has been tired of traveling for many days, so let's prepare the meal first, and then let us rest for one night, and we have important things to do tomorrow." Gu Tianfang saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly came forward to relieve the embarrassment.
"Look at my brain, I'm old, and I still haven't thought it through, so let's eat first, the room has already been arranged, and the housekeeper will arrange for you to move in." Gu Debai hurriedly said.
On the wine table, Gu Debai still deliberately arranged Gu Tianlin next to Xie Ren, and hinted to Gu Tianlin many times that he would take care of Xie Ren. When he learned that Chen Yang and Mu Qing were also Xiao Daoxuan's disciples, he hurriedly got up to toast.
"Brother Chen and Brother Mu were admitted to the sect at a young age, and the future of the first disciple is limitless." Gu Debai showed his true colors as a businessman, watching the two of them gobble up the food on the dinner table, and hurriedly instructed his subordinates: "Tell the kitchen to prepare a few more delicious meals." ”
And Jiang Ming has always been left out in the cold, and he also secretly thought in his heart: no matter in that era, people were still realistic, but he could also understand, after all, when he went out to socialize before, his identity at the dinner table was also the easiest to be ignored.
Gu Tianfang was nervous in his heart, after all, everyone with a clear eye seemed to be ignoring Jiang Mingde, and hurriedly took advantage of everyone's greetings to secretly whisper to Jiang Ming: "Door master, don't blame, my father is like this, I am here to compensate you." ”
Jiang Ming smiled, in fact, he didn't take it to heart at first, and replied: "I said that I called Senior Brother Jiang, Senior Brother Gu should not be too careful, I will not take such things to heart, the most important thing is to complete the task." ”
Gu Tianfang turned his mind and thought, what kind of identity is the master of the door, how can he care about these mundane things, and he is relieved when he thinks about it.
After resting at the Gu family for one night, on the second day, Jiang Ming took everyone to the agreed place to prepare to meet the master of Tianxiang Pavilion.
Gu Tianfang and Tianxiang Pavilion agreed to meet today in Songhe Tower, the most luxurious restaurant in Wushuang City, and everyone came to Songhe Tower to find that Tianxiang Pavilion had chartered the entire restaurant for this meeting.
After reporting their identities, everyone was allowed to enter the restaurant, Jiang Ming looked around and found that the entire restaurant was full of guards, even the staircase on the second floor was guarded, there were forty or fifty people in front of and behind, and all of them were masters of the Qi refining level.
As soon as he entered, a fat man got up and came over to greet: "Everyone, in the big shopkeeper of the Lower Tianxiang Pavilion, Yuan Xing, my master will be waiting in the Tianzi room on the second floor, and I will receive you below." ”
As soon as everyone wanted to get up and go to the second floor, the fat man hurriedly stopped and explained with an aggrieved face: "My master has always liked to be clean, why don't you send a representative to meet my master, and the rest of you will wait on the first floor." “
Although Jiang Ming was a little unhappy when he heard this, after all, he was in other people's territory, so he still held back his anger and said, "Then you will wait on the first floor, and I will go to the second floor to meet this big man for a while." ”
After speaking, he walked straight to the second floor, and there were four people standing at the door of the Tianzi room on the second floor. Those four Jiang Ming couldn't find out the cultivation, you must know that Jiang Ming has now entered the late stage of qi refining, which means that these four people should all be cultivators above the foundation building.
Seeing Jiang Ming coming, the first of the four hurriedly got up and opened the door, signaling Jiang Ming to go in.
Jiang Ming also entered generously, the room was not big, but the layout was extremely elegant, there was a faint aroma in the room, Jiang Ming sneezed again and again as soon as he entered.
This is a person who walked out of the room and said with a smile: "This is Yuntan incense, the first time you smell this incense, you will feel choked, and you will get used to it after a while." ”
Jiang Ming looked at the man carefully, he was dressed in a dark robe, with some thin delicate patterns on the neckline, and there were not too many embellishments in the rest of the place, but he didn't look simple at all, but there was a kind of low-key luxury that was quiet.
Although the man has a mask on his face, which makes people see his appearance, there is an indescribable momentum in his gestures.
Seeing Jiang Ming, the man motioned to sit down together and said, "I ordered the kitchen to prepare some food and wine, but it will take some time, let's drink tea first." ”
After speaking, he handed the freshly brewed tea to Jiang Ming. Jiang Ming took the teacup, took a closer sniff, and couldn't help but admire: "It's very fragrant!" ", the mouth sipped: "Good tea." ”
"Oh, Brother Tai is also a person who understands tea." The man asked.
"No, I just know that this tea is expensive." Jiang Ming replied sincerely.
"Since you don't understand, how do you know that this tea is very expensive." The man asked again.
"I don't know about tea, but I know that Yuntan incense is only produced in Yuntan Mountain, exclusively for the Wuyang royal family, and the black market value far exceeds gold." Jiang Ming pinched the teacup with his fingers, and continued: "And the material of this cup is white Xuanyu, with such a good sandalwood and such a good cup, how can the tea be bad." ”
The man opened the folding fan and said with a smile: "You are very smart and honest. Dare to ask the surname Gao? “
"There is no high surname, low surname Jiang, a single word Ming, an idle person in the Kyushu mainland." Jiang Ming also took out the heart protection fan he took from the Armory Pavilion from his arms and fanned it gently.
"How can a person who can have such a Danfang be called an idle person." The man saw that the teacup in Jiang Ming's hand was empty, and poured tea for him intimately.
Jiang Ming saw that he was polite and polite, but he was a little restrained, and he couldn't find an entry point for a while, so he could only pick up the tea and drink it all.
At this time, the man also asked: "Don't you wonder who I am, or why I invited you to meet you at Songhe Tower." ”
"I'm not curious, it doesn't matter to me who you are, and it doesn't matter to me where you arrange, I'm just curious that the pavilion master has gone to great lengths to buy my pills at a higher price than the market price, and to send precious medicinal materials, won't it just let me drink tea with you?"
"Hahaha, Brother Jiang is still fast-talking, there is nothing to arrange for you to meet here, just to be greedy for the squirrel Guiyu of the Songhelou family, as for why you want to come here, I just want to discuss with Brother Jiang the purchase of the Weather Pill and the Tianxuan Dan Pill."
"You want to buy my Danfang?"
"Yes, I am willing to pay 150,000 spars to buy two kinds of pills, and I guarantee that in the future, all the pills refined by Brother Jiang will be purchased by my Yunxiang Pavilion at a price thirty percent higher than the market price."
Jiang Ming lowered his head and thought for a while, smiled and said three times in a row, "It's a pity."
The pavilion master looked puzzled and asked rhetorically, "Could it be that Brother Jiang thinks the price is low?" But I think the price is reasonable. And I'm really sincere in buying it too. “
"I came to see the pavilion master, because I felt that a person didn't even see each other, so he gave such a heavy gift, this person must be a majestic person, today I saw the pavilion master is indeed magnificent, extraordinary temperament, but I didn't expect to be a short-sighted person." Jiang Ming deliberately turned against the army, he was looking to see if this pavilion master was worthy of cooperation.
The pavilion master was not angry, but asked sincerely, "Brother Jiang, how do you say this?" ”
Jiang Mingxin put it down, he was testing the strength of this pavilion master, a person without qi was destined to be unable to achieve great things.
Seeing that the pavilion master was not angry but asked politely, he continued: "150,000 spars are indeed a good price, but what I want is more than these, and the pavilion master gets more than just two Danfangs. What we are talking about between us should be the future, the pill in my hand, and I am confident that the pill refined according to my pill recipe is the only one in Kyushu. And the resources at the disposal of the Pavilion Master are enough to make my Danfang gain greater value. ”
"That's right, Brother Jiang's pill is different from other people's pills, I have found someone to study it, just take the weather pill as an example, the effect of the pill to improve cultivation is half that of the normal weather pill."
"Then if I say that in addition to the Weather Pill and the Tianxuan Pill, I also have more advanced Tianyuan Pill, Life Spirit Pill, Forging Body Pill, and even the Nine Transformation Pill that is only used during the Jindan period."
What Jiang Ming didn't expect was that the pavilion master was not surprised, but asked very calmly: "Is Brother Jiang so relieved of me?" You must know that if I spread this information, within tomorrow, Brother Jiang will become the target of public criticism. ”
Jiang Ming looked confident and said: "No, first of all, it is still unknown whether anyone believes in this matter, I, Jiang Ming, am just a nobody in this huge Kyushu Continent, and secondly, I firmly believe that there are no eternal friends, only long-term interests, only we cooperate with each other, and the pavilion master will not betray me, after all, it is two hundred and five if you have money and don't earn." ”
"What is two hundred and five?"
Jiang Ming was stunned for a moment, a little embarrassed, and said, "Don't care about the local dialect of your hometown. ”
Jiang Ming talked carefully with this Tianxiang Pavilion master for half an hour, in fact, Jiang Ming's idea is very simple from the current point of view, that is, Jiang Ming will make a pill, Tianxiang Pavilion and Jiang Mingfang will refine the pill together, and Tianxiang Pavilion will use the resources to sell it to the outside world, and the profits earned will be divided into five or a half.
At the beginning, Tianxiang Pavilion would focus on selling Weather Pill and Tianxuan Pill, taking advantage of the low refining cost of Jiang Ming Dan Fang and the fact that the effect of the pill was much higher than that of the normal pill, and the low-price treatment would occupy the market and start the reputation of Tianxiang Pavilion, and then after having a brand effect, sell other high-grade pills at a high price.
This plan was actually improvised by Jiang Ming who couldn't sleep at night at the Gu family last night, but in fact, he didn't know the feasibility, but he just felt that the basic business knowledge in such a place in ancient times was also a dimensionality reduction blow to them.
And the Pavilion Master of Tianxiang Pavilion was not a hesitant person, he just thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I agree with Brother Jiang's plan. I also believe that our cooperation can maximize the benefits for both parties, but what does that knowledge shareholding, franchise fee, and fundraising mean? Please also explain to Brother Jiang. By the way, there is also advertising and brand effect, what Brother Jiang said is too profound. ”
Jiang Ming was overjoyed in his heart, he was afraid that he was a person who was not decisive, seeing that this pavilion master was so refreshing, he knew that he had found the right person, just when Jiang Ming wanted to explain, he remembered that it was a woman's soft voice.
"Childe, the drinks and meals you ordered are ready, I'll bring them in for you?"