Chapter 54: Tracking
“...... , big brother, do you know what the seven elements of a businessman's success are?"
"One is a good business reputation. Chengtiankeng is abducted and deceived, shoddy, love to take advantage, and baht must be compared, so who wants to do business with you?"
"The second is a wide range of network resources. What is a network resource? It is a person who can help your friends at critical moments, or even if they can't help you, they will say a fair word and will not cheer you up. What about you? You are born with a black physique, and you will cause trouble and make enemies blindly all day long, and you don't have a few friends, but there are many enemies!"
"The third is the control of exclusive sources. If you look at the Demon Realm and the Human Race, the largest and most successful chambers of commerce either have strong support from the government behind them, or control the most scarce cultivation resources.
The Terrans call this a "monopoly"! What others sell, you buy, and the scale is not as big as others, how can you compete with others?
If you don't have master-level refiners and alchemist friends, you can't get fist products, you can only do the most basic reselling and reselling, can you make a lot of money?
Our principle is to only make high-quality products, never reduce prices! To achieve "no one I have, no one has me, no one is new, and I am new!" is the king!
"Fourth, clear goals and ideas. Is the number one merchant in the demon realm calculated by the number of shipments per year, or the net number one spirit stones earned every year? Have you collected relevant detailed data?
There is no clear goal, let alone a business idea around the goal. ”
"Fifth, the chamber of commerce and caravan with mature operation. The first in the demon world, not just shouting slogans! Can you be a caravan and a chamber of commerce by yourself?
What's more, there is such a behemoth as the business alliance above the Chamber of Commerce! Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people are doing the same thing, and you are alone, how can you surpass them?
First of all, strive to build their own management and sales team, let professional people be responsible for professional things, don't do everything yourself, good managers must learn not to cause trouble to their subordinates.
There is a set of effective management mode, not complicated, simple and easy to understand, clear rewards and punishments, as long as you remember that 'mercy is not in charge of the army', you are not afraid of your subordinates disobedient. ”
"Sixth, the cultivation of core customers. With good products and good caravans, who sells things is a technology, but also an art. Distribution is king! It's easy to control costs without worrying too much about the final sales result.
Find those big business alliances that can't directly get the monopoly of goods in your hands, but have strong own strength, don't be greedy, you only earn the money you should earn in the controllable link.
In this way, everyone has money to make, and as long as you have a few big distributors, you can create more than ninety percent of your wealth!"
"Seventh, develop the habit of talking in business. As the saying goes, 'righteousness does not accumulate wealth', there is no bottom line and principles in business, like a good person or a politician, more like a businessman, no strict risk management, no principled sympathy and appeasement of upstream and downstream partners, will only make your business empire collapse, you must learn to think like a businessman. ”
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The above is a partial excerpt from the conversation between Tianhuo and Tanuki Daisen on the night of the tanuki Daxian and Jin Lan's marriage.
At first, Tanuki Daxian just wanted to hear Tianhuo's understanding of the way of business, but when he heard the second one, he began to break out in a cold sweat, and when he heard the third Tanuki Daxian, he couldn't help but take out a pen and paper and began to record it quickly.
After listening to them all, the tanuki immortal only felt that Tianhuo's words were like a slap in the face and an empowerment, so he hurriedly got up and bowed deeply to Tianhuo and said:
"Third brother, listening to your words, I finally understood what it means to 'hear the Tao has a sequence, and there is a specialization in the art industry', I used to be my brother Meng Lang, and I never thought that there is so much knowledge in the way of business, no wonder I have struggled for so long, and I still have nothing to do!
Since the third brother can see the problem of being a brother, please don't hesitate to teach you how to improve. ”
Seeing that the Tanuki Daxian had such a correct attitude, Tianhuo naturally wanted to help this righteous brother, nodded and continued:
"Big brother, you are too polite. In fact, around these seven points, it is not difficult to solve the problem.
Let's talk about connections first, the eldest brother is not useless, you have at least me and Ah Li, two sworn brothers and sisters! I can persuade my master to authorize you his exclusive right to sell the demon refining weapons and pills, and even let my master contact a few more famous refiners and alchemists to form an alliance as your exclusive supplier, so that you don't have exclusive control over a monopoly source of goods?
And isn't Fox Immortal Lin pushing for a comprehensive revitalization plan? They have a lot of raw materials, and they also need a lot of pills and refining tools, isn't this your first big customer?"
The tanuki fairy snorted, patting his thigh vigorously and applauding: "Brother Xian, your words woke up the dreamer, you are simply a business wizard, I have finally opened my mind for my brother, and I have not bowed to you in vain!"
Tianhuo cut and said: "You can't speak This problem needs to be changed, we are so pure and deep Jinlan affection, how can we desecrate with copper-smelling things!"
It's networking, and you learn to focus on your business partners, not on your competitors. ”
The tanuki fairy nodded frequently, and hurriedly recorded it on the paper, completely looking like a student asking for advice.
Tianhuo continued: "With a monopoly on the supply of goods, you can establish your own chamber of commerce, you have served in Qingzhoufang for so long, most of the people you offend are upper-class people, but there are not a few people who are taken care of by you, right? ”
"Then through the professional team to promote the monopoly supply to more ethnic groups, or directly contact several large chambers of commerce to give secondary agent qualifications for distribution, as long as there is a stable, high-quality supply, goodwill, contacts and core customers will continue to accumulate, as long as you have a clear sales target, do a good job of management, control risks, sooner or later you will become the first big businessman in the demon world!"
Tanuki Daisen fell into deep thought, lying on the table, not using the charcoal in his hand to sketch something on the paper, it seemed that he had completely fallen into his dream of a business empire.
Ah Li did not participate in the business of Tanuki Daxian and Tianhuo, she had no interest in business at all, and she was only full of curiosity about her unknown background and the spirit of the silver soul in her body.
Only one of the four seals between her eyebrows has been unsealed, and she has already become a small master of the demon pill stage who has achieved a little success in the demon cultivation, if the other three seals can be removed, then she will not become a master of the god transformation stage.
Ah Li was very happy in her fantasy, but thinking of Grandpa Yu's words, she knew that this was all conjecture, even if the four seals were broken, it would be impossible for such a miracle to go directly to the Transformation Stage.
The other three seals are more to help her refine her purer demonic power, seal her innate ability, and help her control the realm not to grow too quickly, so as not to cause harm to her due to the premature awakening of the 'Silver Soul Spirit', so sealing the 'Silver Soul Spirit' is only good and no harm to the current Ah Li.
Ordinary fox cultivators cultivate to the Yuan Infant Stage, and after reaching the six tails, they will no longer grow tails, unless there is a great opportunity to awaken the original bloodline, it is possible to grow new tails.
After the six tails, every time a new tail grows, the strength of the fox cultivator will increase greatly, but it can only grow to eight tails at most, and only the fox cultivator with the 'soul of the silver soul' can cultivate to the nine-tailed Mahayana realm.
Every nine-tailed spirit fox in history is amazing, and it has written a strong stroke in the history of the Xiuzhen world, the nine-tails with high achievements can become a generation of demon kings in the entire demon world, and the nine-tails with low achievements are at least at the level of the Qingqiu Country Lord or the Xuanyuan Holy Lord.
However, the probability of the appearance of 'Silver Soul Spirit' is very low, and the probability of death is very high before it grows into a nine-tailed fox, so the number of nine-tailed foxes in history is scarce.
In the past 50,000 years, there has been no fox cultivator with this kind of physique in the fox clan, even the current Qingqiu Country Lord and Xuanyuan Holy Fox King only have the eight-tailed Mahayana realm.
Ah Li must have been discovered to be carrying such a peerless bloodline when she was born, so Danone sealed the "Silver Soul Spirit" in advance, and waited until she cultivated to the bone quenching stage, and the power of the bloodline gradually began to appear.
Therefore, Grandpa Yu did not find out that Ah Li had the bloodline of the "Silver Soul" before, let alone do a good job of secrecy, so the secret of Ah Li's bloodline was discovered by the Qingqiu Fox Clan.
The reason why Grandpa Yu urged Ah Li to go to Xuanyuan's tomb as soon as possible was because the fox clan in the world had been looking forward to the appearance of the Nine-Tailed Holy King for tens of thousands of years, and Ah Li was discovered by the Qingqiu Fox this time, and he would definitely find a way to snatch Ah Li away.
Before Yan Su Rong was defeated, Qingqiu Kingdom will definitely send more powerful masters to snatch Ah Li, and it is likely that the one sent at that time will be the master of the Transformation Period, so that neither Grandpa Yu nor the Tanuki Daxian will be able to protect Ah Li.
Ah Li lived to be more than three hundred years old ignorantly, and only then did he know that he was shouldering such a large ethnic mission, of course, he was a little panicked.
In fact, according to the cultivation tricks of demon cultivators, Ah Li's age is only a half-old child among the demon world cultivators, and he can only be called a demon in five hundred years and an old demon in a thousand years.
Ah Li has been trying to explore the bloodline power of the 'Silver Soul' these days, but he has not been able to grasp the essentials, and even only with the help of the power of the stone platform, can he faintly feel the existence of the bloodline power, let alone rely on the power of the bloodline to promote his own evolution, and many answers can only be left until after Xuanyuan's tomb to unravel them one by one.
On the night of Jinlan, the relationship between Tianhuo and the other three people has changed a lot, the tanuki Daxian has a feeling that Tianhuo is the first to look at it, but Ah Li is silent, more often she chooses to cultivate on the stone platform, and Tianhuo comes forward to deal with everything in the outside world.
However, Tianhuo's attitude has become more positive, and he is finally about to arrive at the Heavenly Demon Forest, and the master will come to pick him up soon, and he cherishes the time he spent with Ah Li and the Tanuki Daxian even more.
When Xuanjizi got the whereabouts of her precious apprentice, it was already the next day.
Tianhuo and they were passing through the rope bridge, and the irresponsible tanuki Daxian just told Xuanjizi to come to Xuanyuan Tomb to pick up his apprentice, and didn't say anything else.
Xuanjizi was so anxious that her flexible brain began to run at high speed.
Could it be that my good son offended the people of Xuanyuan Tomb, and was kidnapped and kidnapped to extort the Spirit Stone Spirit Pill?
Or was the soul taken away by someone once, in order to force himself to refine weapons and alchemy?
Of course, it is also possible that the apprentice went down the mountain for the first time, and was confused by the Xuanyuan Fox Demon and refused to go home without going through the world?
Xuanjizi couldn't wait to strangle the messenger to death, but the message came with no beginning or end, which was very troublesome!
Xuanyuan Tomb is a behemoth, not easy to offend, Xuanjizi had to make some preparations, Xuanjizi immediately invited the sect's Zhenfang Divine Sword out, and then immediately flew to a few Taoist friends in the nearby Lingshan, and borrowed a few innate spiritual weapons in case of emergency, which was delayed for a long time.
Xuan Jizi opened the treasury and carried countless disposable spirit weapons, high-grade talismans and high-grade pills, and then rushed to the nearest Fang City, paid 10,000 medium-grade spirit stones, and directly teleported to Ping'an Fang.
The price of sending people away from the teleportation array is a hundred times the price of transmitting information, and Xuan Jizi secretly scolded the profiteer in his heart, and had to speed up in order to hurry up, he was really afraid that if he went a little late, the apprentice would suffer more crimes.
As a result, when Xuanjizi arrived at Ping'an Fang, it was already Shen Shi, and then flew to the front of the moat, which was already impassable.
Xuanjizi observed the moat slightly, and decisively gave up the attempt to force it through.
After Xuanjizi returned to Ping'anfang, he contacted a few friends in Ping'anfang for the first time, and soon found out that it was the tanuki Daxian who sent him a message.
Xuanjizi has some impressions of the name Tanuki Daxian, but she has never seen him in person, and several friends' evaluations of Tanuki Daxian are also mixed, and Xuanjizi can't help but be a little more worried.
Xuanyuan Tomb, Qingzhou Fang, Tanuki Daxian, what happened here? Tanuki Daxian didn't dare to expand his imagination, otherwise his head would have exploded.
In the evening, several friends promised to personally send him across the rope bridge the next day, and set up a banquet to entertain Xuanjizi that night.
Xuanjizi did not make it to pass through the moat that day, but another monk who was also following the traces of the tanuki Daxian caught up with the last passing moment of the day and passed through the moat.
This is a handsome male monk, who hurriedly crossed the rope bridge, he stood for a while where the tanuki Daxian and Ah Li had stayed, closed his eyes and searched for the trace with his mind, and after a while he opened his eyes, and said with a strange glint in his eyes:
"Finally caught up, and when I got here, I can clearly feel the wisp of divine thought left by Su Rong's little sister on that little fox, it's not in vain that I have suffered so much, paid such a big price, and teleported a million miles!
If the 'Spirit of the Silver Soul' can finally be owned by Qingqiu, the teleportation fee of that superb spirit stone is worth it!
Little Sister Su Rong, let me arrest the two of them back and help you wash away the humiliation!"
The happiest person is the one who doesn't know that danger is coming, Ah Li is very happy, personally driving a shuttle, slowly and swaying in the air, the tanuki Daxian acts as a protector, and his heart is full of helplessness.
This shuttle is the one that Ah Li took down from the dead mandrill, and he has never had the opportunity to learn to use it before, but after entering the Heavenly Demon Forest, he has the opportunity to learn.
The Heavenly Demon Forest has relatively complete laws and regulations, and most of the demon cultivators in the Heavenly Demon Forest will also follow the rules set by the Demon Ancestor Niangniang back then, and there are four demon kings guarding all sides, so it is relatively safe.
After the tanuki fairy came to the Heavenly Demon Forest, he also relaxed a lot, and there were really not many demon cultivators who dared to act wantonly in the Heavenly Demon Forest, so he taught Ah Li to use the shuttle.
In fact, the tanuki fairy thinks more, Ah Li went to Xuanyuan Tomb this time, and most of them will be left by Xuanyuan Tomb to become an inner disciple, but compared to Xuanyuan Tomb's original family, Ah Li is an outsider, more like a country girl, who is excluded by everyone.
What's more, Ah Li is still carrying the "soul of the silver soul", and he will definitely be jealous of other fox cultivators, and the tanuki Daxian doesn't want his righteous sister to be bullied casually, so within his ability, the tanuki Daxian tries his best to help Ah Li improve his strength, and he can use magic weapons to fly, which is a skill that Ah Li must master.
As for things other than strength, the tanuki fairy feels that Tianhuo is more talented than himself, so let's let Tianhuo teach Ah Li to learn to treat people and things.
The straight-line distance from the moat to the Xuanyuan Tomb, according to the flight speed of the tanuki Daxian, used to only take more than a dozen hours of continuous flight to reach.
But he hadn't been back to the Heavenly Demon Forest for hundreds of years, and since the four demon kings jointly ordered ten years ago to require the demon race to learn from the human race and evolve, many aspects have been quietly changing.
The forbidden sky is one of the signs of the inner awakening of the demon cultivator, the importance of family and personal privacy, the development of the importance of private territory, and then from the ground to the air, large and small forces and families have set up more forbidden air areas, mainly to prevent people with ulterior motives from watching their own situation from the air.
This trend has caused great inconvenience to many flying monks, and there have been great protests in the early stage.
Later, after the negotiation of the four demon kings, all forces and families could only demarcate one-tenth of the forbidden space area in their respective territories, and the rest of the airspace must be open to the public, and the public airspace information will be updated in the identity jade plates of all Heavenly Demon Forest demon cultivators.
From the date of the promulgation of the decree, the establishment of a new forbidden area must be approved by the Heavenly Demon Forest Elders before it can be established.
At the beginning of each month, the Council of Elders will update the forbidden area map, and all the Demon Forest Demon Cultivators can go to the nearby government office to pay to update the airspace map in the identity jade card, and the service center will classify and charge according to the size of the area where the map is updated, ranging from a low-grade spirit stone in the smallest area to a high-grade spirit stone in the panoramic airspace map of the Heavenly Demon Forest.
Although this service was criticized by most of the Flying Demon Cultivators, the policy was eventually promoted, and the Heavenly Demon Forest Elders also increased their revenue.
These details of life that have been implemented for a long time, naturally no one will specifically remind the tanuki Daxian to pay attention, so trouble comes.
The tanuki immortal had just flown a few hundred miles, and was warned and tracked by the four forces, although there was no substantive conflict, but because of the unfamiliarity with the forces of the Heavenly Demon Forest, the tanuki immortal had to give up the flight and simply walked to the Xuanyuan Tomb.
Such a flight of more than ten hours turned into a walk of at least five days, which made the tanuki Daxian depressed.
It was also boring along the way, so the tanuki Daxian taught Tianhuo and Ah Li some combat skills, magic weapon skills, and some very old allusions.
And Tianhuo taught Ah Li some things about human feelings, especially the skills of how to please the elders.
The tanuki Daxian took advantage of Ah Li's practice of flying shuttle to discuss the details of his business empire with Tianhuo Chuanyin, so that everyone had something to do, and the trip would not be so boring.
Everyone has a harvest, so the time of the day flies quickly, and at night the tanuki Daxian did not find a suitable inn, the map hundreds of years ago in the original identity jade plate has long been outdated, and the place where there should have been an inn is barren at this time, and there is not even a trace left.
The tanuki Daxian realized that he had made a mistake, and it seemed that he would have to find a military office to update the map information in the identity jade plate in time the next day.
Although there is no strict curfew system in the Heavenly Demon Forest at night, it is not a good idea to rush in the dark without a map, so the tanuki Daisen decided to sleep out for the night.
Sleeping in the wild is a common thing for demon cultivators, find a forest, find a big tree, find a suitable tree hole, drive away the squirrels or small birds inside, and you can sleep peacefully.
The autumn night is cold and dewy, the moonlight is like water, the night of the Heavenly Demon Forest is much more lively than the outside world, a large number of nocturnal animals are busy in the moonlight, the busyness is not lower than that of the animals during the day, but the animals that act at night are used to tiptoeing softly, so there are more changes in light and shadow, and there is not too much sound.
The tanuki nests in a tree hole on a large branch, only showing a nose outside the tree hole, although it is asleep, but the nose will automatically sniff a few times every once in a while, as if observing the surrounding situation at any time.
Suddenly, the tanuki fairy in the tree hole opened his eyes, and his eyes were particularly shining in the dark tree hole.
The tanuki jumped out of the hollow of the tree, and he stood on the branch of the tree, looking around, his nose twitching vigorously, and his ears were pulled up and down by muscles.
Although he was not sure what was approaching, the experience gained over the years in exchange for his life had let Tanuki Daisen know that danger was approaching.
Although he didn't know what the danger was, his neck hair stood up to tell him that this danger was more than all the dangers he had faced before, even when facing a group of people in the deer ring and facing Yan Surong, he didn't feel this way.
The tanuki fairy reached out and knocked on the trunk of the tree, and Ah Li immediately poked his head out of a hole in the tree at a higher level, with a sleepy-eyed expression.
Learning to control the shuttle during the day was too focused, and Ah Li consumed a lot of demonic power and energy, so she slept very deeply at night, and she didn't even notice that the tanuki fairy woke up.
Although he was still a little tired, Ah Li saw the serious expression of the tanuki Daxian and immediately sobered up, which could make the cynical tanuki Daxian so nervous, something must have happened.
The tanuki fairy made a silent gesture to Ah Li, and then beckoned, Ah Li immediately jumped onto the branch where the tanuki fairy was, she tried to lighten her body, and the branch barely shook a little.
The tanuki Daxian slipped down the tree and tiptoed out of the woods, and Ah Li quietly followed.
After the two left the woods, the tanuki fairy immediately threw out the dust, and the two of them got on the dust, and the tanuki daxian immediately urged the dust to fly close to the ground, and the speed was not daring to be fast, for fear that the sound of breaking the wind would attract the attention of others.
Ah Li Chuanyin whispered, "Big brother, what's wrong, is anyone following us?"
The tanuki Daxian controlled the dust and flew along the avenue, nodded and said: "Since the afternoon, I have had the feeling of being followed, I thought it was one of the forces that collided before, and sent someone to confirm our traces.
As a result, it felt even more intense at night, and just now, I was sure that the person who was following us was not far away, so I told you to get up and take shelter. ”
Ah Li said, "Big brother, is it very powerful? Didn't you say that you don't need to fly spiritual weapons?"
The tanuki fairy said with a solemn expression: "I haven't met the person who is tracking us yet, but my intuition tells me that he is very powerful, even better than Brother Hu Yu and Yan Surong! ”
Tianhuo and Ah Li were both a little surprised: "Could it be that he is more powerful than Grandpa Yu, is it the Transformation God Realm?"
It had only been a short time since the battle between the owner of the Qingzhou Workshop and Master Ye had just passed, and Tianhuo and Ah Li still remembered it vividly, and they couldn't imagine what it was like to be tracked by a master of the Transformation Stage.
Less than a quarter of an hour after they left, the handsome monk came to the tree where the tanuki had been resting.
The handsome man reached out and touched the tree hole, and there was still residual heat in the tree hole, and it seemed that he had just left.
The handsome man picked up a hair left by the tanuki Daxian from the hole in the tree and put it in front of him, and the demonic power was activated, and the hair actually made a "swish" sound, burned, and quickly turned into ashes.
The handsome man smiled and said to himself, "There is also a tanuki with a perfect infancy as a bodyguard? ”
In the distance, the tanuki Daxian, who was controlling the dust to fly close to the ground, felt as if the hair on his neck had been pulled out by someone, and it hurt.
He immediately stood up from the dust and looked at the woods where he had rested, his expression solemn and his brow furrowed.
The person who is tracking is coming, the strength is super strong, and the intentions are not good, what should I do?