As he spoke, the shadowless old man took Patriarch Su's hand and said calmly: "In the past, when we were fighting, we always had to import all kinds of pills from the Outer Sect, not to mention that these pills were expensive, and it was easy to be deceived by the Outer Sect and sell us fake pills, causing our former front-line soldiers to be killed alive by these fake pills!"

When the old man without shadow spoke, he kept holding the hand of the Su patriarch, which was a very respectful etiquette that belonged to their time.

The shadowless old man took the failure of the white-eyed old man as a borrower, and never engaged in dictatorship, whenever he had any thoughts and plans in his heart, he would sincerely say these thoughts, and would never hide them.

The shadowless old man continued to hold Patriarch Su's hand, sighed, and said: "Patriarch Su knows that once I fought against the enemy, my soldiers could have survived, and in order to expand their combat effectiveness, I made them take these imported pills, and in the end, almost one-third of my brothers died! ”

His tone was calm and indignant, which was very capable of arousing the common contradictions belonging to the people of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, and the Lu Patriarch on the side was already full of indignation, because one of his nephews had also died in such an unfortunate death.

"What the Sect Master said is extremely true!" Patriarch Su replied so politely.

The old man without a shadow remembered these past events, his words were still unfinished, and his eyebrows were moved, "In the past, the Blue Dragon Envoy was not able to fully control the Pill Guild of my Ten Thousand Sword Sect, and many of the presidents of the Pill Guild were people from other sects, but now the Blue Dragon Envoy relies on his extraordinary talent and talent, although he completely controls the Pill Guild, and there will be no fake medicine and fake pill, but when importing raw materials, the extremely unfair trade balance has put the people of the Divine Sword Sect in dire straits. ”

"That's true!" replied the Sioux Chief.

"In order to develop the military industry, the old guy has to collect high taxes, but the people don't know that these taxes are actually not embezzled by the old man in the early days, but used a large part of them for the military industry, but these things the old man doesn't want to say, because he is a dictatorial ruler, and the people are regarded as parts of the state machine, and the lower class people hate the old man because of this, but in fact, the old man is also thinking about the long-term interests of my Wanjian Sect, but he is too stubborn and self-serving, which led to his failure, I will take over his position now, I will not change this, I will only reduce the tax slightly to relieve the pressure of the people, but I don't drop too much. ”

The old man without a shadow was so relieved, which made the Su patriarch feel emotional, and his courage finally increased, "It is true that as the sect master said, although the old man with white eyebrows failed, he did do a lot of things for the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, if it weren't for this, I think we would have overthrown him at the beginning, but what he did later really made us sad, he used this property for the military industry, filled his own pockets, and chose to cooperate with the old man of the Nine Poisons to develop the forbidden technique alone, which made me and the Qinglong Envoy learn from the pain and had to overthrow him." ”

These words were a bit taboo, and after Patriarch Su finished speaking, he was a little remorseful.

The shadowless old man heard what the other party said, smiled slightly, and said: "Don't worry, I am definitely not the next white-eyed old man, I will discuss with you in whatever I do, after all, I only know how to fight, and I still have some deficiencies in "governing the country!"

Patriarch Su's face turned red, "My subordinates made a mistake in their words just now, and I hope the sect master won't blame him!"

The shadowless old man waved his hand and signaled that it was okay, "Every year, our Ten Thousand Swords Sect has to spend extremely high prices to import all kinds of rare herbs, which accounts for almost twenty percent of my Divine Sword Sect's total annual income! You must know that the Divine Sword Sect's import of mineral vein raw materials only accounts for ten percent of his total annual income, and in the long run, in less than five years, my Ten Thousand Swords Sect will definitely lag behind the Divine Sword Sect in terms of military strength, and it will plunge my Ten Thousand Swords Sect's economy into a crisis!"

Not to mention that the Shadowless Old Man hated this matter, Patriarch Lu, who was born and raised in the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, also clenched his fists.

In fact, this is also the main reason why the people of their Ten Thousand Swords Sect have to deliberately go west from time to time.

This reason is very simple, if they can replace Ning Yiwu, even if they assassinate Ning Yiwu's family and support a puppet sect master, they can get the abundant spiritual grass resources of the Divine Sword Sect.

That way, they don't have to import herbs, they don't have to get caught up in an extremely complicated trade war, they don't have to look at the big ones.

In the past, when those who traded with the Ten Thousand Swords Sect for "pill raw materials", they not only sold amethyst coins that were several times higher than their own value, but even mixed fake medicines.

And because the Ten Thousand Swords Sect did not dare to offend these imported sects, they were worried that once they told the truth, they would be cut off by the import of pills, and they dared not speak out.

Although the old man without shadow and the old man with white eyebrows have different political views, one advocates centralized and absolute rule, the establishment of an efficient dictatorship with the integration of government decrees, and the dream kingdom of absolute equality of all people (a dictatorship in which everyone is a part of the state apparatus), and the other advocates the "suzerainty of the clan", which relies on the strength of the united clan to establish a regime that conforms to the basic interests of the clan and does not excessively harm the interests of the grassroots.

But they have a common ideal, that is, they must not allow the Ten Thousand Swords Sect to fall into such a vicious circle again, and they must be strong and find a natural herbal base.

The Divine Sword Sect happens to be the best choice for the Ten Thousand Sword Sect to go west.

These words, the old man has to say, because he knows that cooperation comes from common interests and common contradictions, and he said these words in order to arouse the great help of the Su patriarch, so that the other party and himself can form a "community of conflicting interests", so that if the other party wants to jump ship and go ashore, it is impossible.

Although the old man without a shadow is a military person, his heart is more of a fearless comrade-in-arms, but he is an extremely intelligent character, he knows that soldiers often only need one heart-to-heart to take care of each other, but for these characters, it is definitely not that simple.

It takes a certain amount of wisdom and cunning to be able to control these characters.

"In the past, the Qinglong Sect and the Purple Jade Sect were like this, seeing that our power was weak, they mixed fake medicine with the real medicine, and they also sold us at a high price! ”

The Sioux patriarch was silent.

The shadowless old man said: "Actually, what they do is to let us destroy ourselves, because everyone knows that if there are no good herbs as raw materials, it will be difficult to refine the best elixir, and once the best elixir cannot be refined, the army of one side will lose one-third of its combat ability! Since the army has no combat effectiveness, then what is the need for this regime to exist? This is why even the decency of the Purple Jade Sect is playing tricks! For this reason, as a native of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, I am deeply saddened!"

Patriarch Su felt the trust of the new sect master, and also accompanied the other party while walking, and said, "No matter what order the sect master gives, I will definitely follow it." ”

The old man of Wuying snorted, "It is precisely for this reason that the sect masters of all dynasties, including my political opponent Old Man Baimei, have attached great importance to how to build a raw material base for refining medicine, and although Luohaitan in the east of us is also a good herbal medicine base, the strength of Luohai Sect is almost the same as ours, if we really fight with Luohaizong, we will definitely hurt each other's vitality, and in the end, I may not be able to win, what I am most afraid of is that Ning Yiwu will take our eastward crusade and advance eastward in order to open up living space, and at that time, we will suffer from the enemy!" ”

Patriarch Su felt that his words were a little self-contradictory, so he had to strengthen his burden, and bowed with both hands: "Since the crusade against the Luohai Sect, the sect master is worried about the enemy on the belly and back, and the crusade against the Divine Sword Sect, isn't the sect master worried about the enemy on the belly and back?"