After the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism 600 years ago, the Daomen occupied the Central Plains, and under the strong promotion of the Lushan Jian Lonely Temple, with the power of great victory, the Taoist schools in various places were integrated, and the practice pattern of one province and one pavilion, one government and one museum was roughly realized, and the scope of acquisition of cultivation resources was delineated for each school.

At the same time, Jian Shanguan also established a three-level secular system of temple, palace and courtyard to strengthen the monitoring of the government and ensure the effective acquisition of the credibility of the believers.

As the loser's side, Buddhism is different. After being driven out of the Central Plains, Buddhism came to the West and established large and small Buddhist countries. In this process, the top level of Buddhism belonged to the defeated side, and did not have the high prestige of the Taoist view of simplicity, and each Buddhist temple inadvertently established the mountain gate according to the rules of strength and order, and divided the territory by itself - during which various battles could not be avoided, and finally confirmed by the top level of Buddhism.

Including the Tianlong Academy, in fact, it was established later to fight against the Daomen.

Therefore, some temples occupy good territory, while others go to relatively barren places, and the gap between the temples is quite large.

For example, Tianmatai Temple, according to Aslan, this Buddhist lineage arrived in the West relatively late, which caused today's tragedy.

No faithful, no donations......

The land is barren and there is no land......

The spiritual eye is thin, and the medicine garden is low-yielding......

Well, even Zhao Ran couldn't listen to it anymore, and asked, "Didn't the senior monks of your temple go to Tianlong Academy for help? ”

For this question, Aslan said: "If there is a situation like our temple, there are a lot of places, especially at the southern foot of Helan Mountain, thirteen temples, but there are seven similar to our temple, and it is not much better, where can Tianlong Temple be managed." ”

This is the biggest problem of Buddhism now, there are too many temples and there is no limit.

In such a barren area on Helan Mountain South Road, thirteen temples have been built, where can I be reasonable? Just like the Bayan Kala Mountain that Zhao Ran went to a few years ago, one peak and one temple, nineteen peaks and nineteen temples, Zhao Ran felt extremely unreasonable back then. If this is placed in the Daomen of the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that it will only accommodate one Dao Hall.

It really responds to the saying that monks have more meat and less meat.

If you think about it carefully, it's actually no different from those casual cultivation under the Ming Dynasty, no, it's worse than casual cultivation!

Next, Zhao Ran also needs to figure out the cultivation strength of Tianmatai Temple, and Aslan has nothing to hide from this, he really knows everything and says everything.

There are more than 200 monks in Tianmatai Temple, the abbot is Master Longji of the Arhat Realm, and the capital of the abbot and the four major classes is the Bhikshu Realm, among which the abbot Master Longyang cultivates to a higher level. This is the high monk of the dragon character generation of Tianmatai Temple.

Next, there are more than ten disciples of the second generation of Xuanzi generation, all of whom are in the Shami realm, and more than 20 second-generation disciples of the Xuanzi generation and more than 40 disciples of the Zhuzi generation are in the monk realm, including Aslan himself, whose legal name is Xuanheng.

Zhao Ran was stunned when he heard this, this cultivation strength is quite good, in terms of top-level strength, Tianmatai Temple may be slightly worse, but compared to the cultivation foundation, Tianmatai Temple can really be regarded as strong.

Take this question to ask Aslan, Aslan himself can't say clearly, Zhao Ran can only attribute it to the unbreakable common sense that the children of poor families are in charge early.

Zhao Ran pinched the teacup and pondered for a long time, and began to get to the point, asking: "I heard that your temple made three black ginseng pills a while ago, I don't know how effective it is?"

In the cultivation world, there are several elixirs that are most widely used, such as the Daomen's Heart-Nourishing Pill, such as the Buddha's Wushen Pill, these two elixirs cannot be said to be the most effective—there are many elixirs stronger than them, but they can be said to be quite versatile.

But don't look at the names are all the same, but in fact, each faction has its own refining recipe, and the same refining recipe is refined by different people, and the effect is very different.

Aslan was immediately full of confidence, patted his chest and said: "Cheng Dongjia, when it comes to refining elixir, our temple is definitely not a problem. Especially the black ginseng pill refined by the abbot of my family, the effect is not to be said to be a unique in the Xia Kingdom, but at least it is undoubtedly superior. ”

"Can you take a black cucumber pill and let me take a look?"

"This ...... Cheng Dongjia forgive me, I can't refine it in my temple now. ”

"Why is that?"

"Don't hide it from the owner, the silver purchased from Snow Lotus this time is the three black ginseng pills refined by the abbot of my family, in order to refine these three black ginseng pills, the Chinese medicine garden in my temple has been looted......"

"This is simple, if you can trust my Jinbo Club, you will send a black ginseng pill prescription over, and the Jinbo Club will provide the medicinal materials, and your temple will be responsible for refining the pill. ”

Aslan hesitated: "I still need to contact the temple for this matter, and the temple will decide." I just don't know what the proprietor means? Do you want to buy the pills of our temple?"

Zhao Ran said: "Didn't the master ask me for an idea from the Jinbo Club to save your temple from the famine? ”

Aslan was a little pleased, and asked: "Cheng Dongjia, do you really want to buy the elixir of our temple? As long as Cheng Dongjia helps our temple solve the problem of medicinal materials, our temple will definitely be able to refine good medicine." It's just that this herb is more difficult to find......"

Refining elixirs requires all kinds of elixirs, and elixirs are generally grown and treasured in temples, and they are willing to sell them casually, which is also the main reason why elixirs are rarely seen on the market.

Zhao Ran waved his hand: "It's okay, you ask clearly first, let's discuss, is your temple willing to come up with a recipe? That's all there is to it. ”

Aslan left the Jinbo Club in a daze, Liang Xingxia listened to the whole process, and couldn't help but ask Zhao Ran at this moment: "Chengdong, it is difficult to find the elixir for refining the elixir, is it feasible to do this?"

Zhao Ran said: "It depends on his prescription, isn't it much easier to get rid of the most difficult to find medicinal materials?"

Liang Xingxia was puzzled: "But is this still a spirit pill?"

"Third Brother Liang, I have always told you before that you must focus on the target group when doing business. Who is the target group for us to do business? Is it a great monk who cultivates? Obviously not, the elixir we produce, of course, is sold to ordinary people, and ordinary people do not practice, and many of the uses in the elixir are meaningless to them, not only are they not beneficial, but they are also toxic. What we have to do is to refine the 'ordinary elixir' that is beneficial to ordinary people, so that we can do it for a long time. ”

Liang Xingxia suddenly patted his head: "Cheng Dongjia, high, really high." As he spoke, he found a small book out of nowhere, and the wolf dipped his tongue in the pen and began to record in the small book: "Let's provide medicinal materials, Tianmatai Temple is responsible for medicine, let's sell it again, what kind of trick is this?"

As soon as he heard the previous sentence, Zhao Ran felt very bad suddenly, but he still patiently answered Liang Xingxia's later question: "This is called processing with supplied materials." ”

Recently, Liang Xingxia photographed Zhao Ran's fart to the subtleties, and often followed behind with a small notebook to record, Zhao Ran felt a bit of a "great man".

A few days later, Aslan came to see Zhao Ran again, and Zhao Ran still met with the monk and businessman of Tianmatai Temple in the study.

Aslan used the precious flying talisman to report the situation to Tianmatai Temple, but the reply he received was different from what he had expected.

Tianmatai Temple not only agreed to take out the prescription of the black ginseng pill, but was even willing to show the formula, but instead of cooperating in refining the elixir, it planned to sell the formula to the Jinbo Club for a one-time price of 1,500 taels.

As for why he didn't want to cooperate in refining the elixir, according to Aslan's guess, I am afraid it was related to his previous hype of Snow Lotus, to put it bluntly, this is a miserable loss, and the sequelae have been lost. Tianmatai Temple didn't dare to play this kind of business anymore, they just wanted to return to their original capital as soon as possible, do a hammer deal, and buy back the grain and seeds used to survive the famine.

is willing to exchange the precious recipes handed down from the ancestors in his temple for silver, which is really a bit unexpected by Zhao Ran.

You must know that the formula is different from the prescription, which not only contains the ingredients and proportions of various medicinal materials, but also the method of refining: such as the order of putting the medicinal materials, the heat in the refining, etc., which is a very valuable experience.

If Tianmatai Temple took out a prescription, Zhao Ran might have agreed, and this thing was sent back to Daming, which could be regarded as a credit.

But now that Tianmatai Temple has come up with a more precious formula, Zhao Ran is unwilling. Just kidding, you showed your hole cards and expected values at the negotiating table in advance, and you still expect me to stop there, where is such a good thing?

No matter how you look at it, this is an opportunity, and you must chase it hard!

Zhao Ran pinched his nose and announced to Aslan that since Tianmatai Temple had no intention of in-depth cooperation with the Jinbo Club, this business would be stopped. The Jinbo Club is not interested in the recipe for the black ginseng pills. He himself expressed deep regret and regret for this. I wish Jinmatai Temple can get out of the predicament as soon as possible and survive the famine.

Aslan was about to cry.