Chapter 14: Excalibur and Suppression of Commerce

Three years have passed in a hurry, and Huashan has changed greatly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the foot of the mountain, it is becoming more and more prosperous, shops, houses, car dealers, post houses, warehouses, green buildings, inns, taverns and other functional places are lined up one after another, and they have been lined up to Huayin County.

Merchants from the south to the north, adventurers, black and white heroes are full of them, these rich and unrich, high martial arts, low martial arts, can find a suitable platform for their own play in this big dye vat at the foot of Huashan.

In the past three years, every six months, the Huashan faction has to open the mountain gate and recruit disciples.

Now, there are no less than five hundred disciples of all levels of the Huashan Sect, no matter what the martial arts of these disciples are, at least the shelf of the Five Peaks Alliance Master is plump again.

The mist is churning, the clouds are like satin, and the morning sun is like a sword, shooting directly at the bullfight.

As the sun rose, Situ Xuan breathed his true qi and recycled his thoughts.

He has been practicing swords with Chaoyang for more than two years, although his internal strength is extraordinary, and he has comprehended a style of 'Chaoyang Drawing Swordsmanship', but in the end, it is difficult to achieve the sword intent 'Dawn', which makes Situ Xuan always have a little regret in his heart.

The sound of footsteps came, and Liang Buli pinched the time to come to Chaoyang Peak.

Looking at Liang Buli, who had blue bags under his eyes and a tired face, Situ Xuan was a little unbearable and a little funny.

If the Huashan faction is regarded as a group company, Ning Qingcheng is the old chairman and has the most prestige. Yue Buqun is the current chairman of the board of directors and has the most shares. Situ Xuan is the acting chairman and president, and has the most power. And Liang Buli is the executive president, in charge of the company's major and minor affairs, and has a high position and a high-level figure.

In the past few years, Liang has been in charge of the construction of the upper sect and the procurement and exchange of the lower tube, and he has indeed been very busy.

And after he avoided Chaoyang Peak to cultivate, whenever there was something he couldn't decide, he had to rush to Chaoyang Peak from Jade Girl Peak to ask for instructions.

The wind on the top of the mountain was urgent, blowing up Situ Xuan's long silver-white hair, Situ Xuan put his hands behind his back and smiled at Liang Buli: "Seeing Uncle Liang's tired face, I'm afraid I didn't sleep last night." ”

Liang Buli wiped the corners of his eyes, and said a little angrily: "Senior nephew, you should be the shopkeeper, but your uncle is bitter." In order to meet you before sunrise, I came from the Jade Maiden Peak before dawn. ”

Without Situ Xuan's instructions, Yu Changcheng and Wu Di, who were waiting beside him, brought hot towels and warm water and handed them to Liang Buli.

Liang Buli wiped it with a towel and complained: "Senior nephew, you should be considerate of your uncle, even if you go to think about the cliff retreat, you can save me half an hour of travel time." ”

Situ Xuan smiled bitterly when he heard this, and said: "Uncle Shi, you still don't know what the situation of the Jade Girl Peak is, how dare I go back to the Jade Girl Peak? As long as I go up the mountain with my front foot, I am afraid that I will be caught by my master and forced to ask about the whereabouts of the master." ”

Liang Buli shook his head and smiled, he was also habitually complaining.

In the past three years, Yue Buqun's whereabouts are unknown, there is no news, and even his life and death are uncertain.

I'm afraid that only this kid knows the whereabouts of the head of the whole Huashan Mountain, so it's no wonder that Ning Zhong turned into a volcano and exploded to Situ Xuan anytime and anywhere.

But it's strange to say that the Huashan faction can operate normally without its head, and the outside world only treats Yue Buqun as a long-term retreat and rarely shows up.

Situ Xuan teased again: "Besides, now that the sect is on the right track, how many major events can there be every month to bother Uncle Shi to come over? Your old man has such thick eye circles, I'm afraid the credit will be attributed to the two concubines who are newly begged." ”

Liang Buli's face darkened, and his heart jumped, and he glanced at Yu Changcheng and Wu Di who were standing beside him.

I secretly said in my heart: Don't look at the master and nephew who live in seclusion in Chaoyang Peak all the year round to practice swords, but the news is first-class and well-informed, and among them, I am afraid that these young swordsmen are the ones who have made great efforts.

Situ Xuan led Liang Buli to the renovated courtyard on the top of Chaoyang Peak, and after entering the house and taking a seat, Situ Xuan asked, "Let's talk about it, uncle, what big things can't be decided?"

Liang Buli took a sip of hot tea, and then said: "There are two things in total, the first is the contribution point. I took a look at the accounts yesterday and found that the contribution points we sent out and did not recover were more than ten tens of thousands, equivalent to two or three million taels of silver. And all of our family backgrounds, in addition to martial arts cheats, the reserves of other pills, weapons, and consumables are only about 20,000 points, and there is a difference of nearly 100,000 points here. If these contribution points are exchanged for pills and the like together, I'm afraid our Huashan faction will close down immediately. ”

Situ Xuan took a sip of tea unhurriedly and asked, "Does Uncle Shi have any suggestions?"

Although he has not been exposed to modern economics, several years of practical management experience still allow Liang to summarize one economic law after another.

Liang Buli obviously came prepared, and said eloquently: "I think we have to start from several aspects, first of all, for the people in the rivers and lakes who have contribution points, increase the price of the pill, appropriately reduce the price of the martial arts method, and guide the exchange direction, so that these guys don't always stare at the pill." ”

"Secondly, for large merchants, in order to save silver taels, we negotiated with several major merchants and agreed to pay for the goods with contribution points. In the past, in order to win the trust of merchants, we actually lowered the conversion price of contribution points, and now these merchants have thousands of contribution points in their hands, although they can attract heroes in the rivers and lakes, but they will also impact our exchange order. So in my opinion, we have to change appropriately, settle with contribution points and silver, and appropriately return contribution points, anyway, we have a lot of silver in our hands. ”

Seeing Situ Xuan nodding frequently, Liang Buli became more confident, and then said: "Finally, in terms of procurement, the bulk of our procurement is medicinal materials and ores. Pills and martial arts are the two legs of our contribution point system, and it is worth spending more to contribute more in order to purchase pills. But the ore cost a little too much, although the blade is important, unless it is the level of a grandmaster or a great grandmaster, others want to use a sword for the rest of their lives, I am afraid it is a fantasy. ”

"In this way, weapons are actually consumables, but everyone is willing to chase the treasures in them. Now the monthly salaries and purchases of the Ouye family and the Gongsun family are too much, and they are almost half of the Medicine King Valley. But the total value of the weapons they created was less than one-tenth of the value of the elixir. In the words of my nephew, yes, 'burn money'. The weapon workshop at the foot of Luoyan Peak is burning money, so I suggest that the investment in the weapon workshop be appropriately reduced. ”

Situ Xuan smiled bitterly in his heart when he heard this, he touched the sword in his hand and was silent for a while. How did he not know that a large amount of silver and resources were being spent on forging swords, in fact, he was burning money.

The development idea of forging should be large-scale industrial production, but he does not plan to raise the flag to rebel, and he does not need to equip tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of subordinates, so there is no need for this, and the scientific and technological talent of industrial manufacturing will be lit up in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

But he strongly supported the foundry research of Ouye and Gongsun, and he also had his own reasons.

That is his current sword, one of the ancient divine swords, 'Seven Star Dragon Yuan', also known as 'Dragon Yuan Sword'.

According to the secret record of Ouye's descendants, Ou Yezi, the ancestor of Ouye's family, dug a 30-mile-long ditch in order to cast this sword, led the mountain stream to the sword-casting furnace, and poured it into the seven quenching pools arranged by the seven stars, which was named 'Seven Stars'.

After the sword is formed, the sword body is blue and faintly sparkling. Overlooking the sword body, it is like climbing a high mountain and looking down at the abyss, ethereal and deep as if there is a giant dragon lying down, it is called "Dragon Yuan". The combination of the two becomes the "Seven Star Dragon Abyss".

Of course, the 'Longyuan Sword' was changed to 'Longquan Sword' in order to avoid the name of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, so no additional explanation will be made here.

This sword was 'dedicated' to Situ Xuan by the Ouye clan (skillfully taken), and after Situ Xuan obtained the sword, he used it slightly, and he understood that this sword was worthy of being an ancient sword.

Although he didn't know whether there was internal strength during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, this sword was real and could increase internal strength to a certain extent.

After a long period of research, he was inspired by this sword and developed the trick of sealing and drawing swords.

The casting process of this sword is clearly recorded, but the forging process of the craftsman Ou Yezi has been lost in the long history, and it is no matter how the descendants of Ou Ye imitate it, so that now the Longquan sword is famous all over the world, but it cannot reproduce the 'Seven Star Dragon Yuan' after all.

Situ Xuan's idea is that since he does not take the path of large-scale manufacturing, it seems to be a good choice to change to high-precision and pure handmade craftsmanship, and spend (compensation) some resources to the Ouye clan and the Gongsun clan to let them reproduce the style of the ancient divine sword.

Anyway, now the Huashan faction is rich, and Situ Xuan has capricious capital.

Situ Xuan waved his hand and said to Liang Buli: "Don't mention the matter of forging the sword, Uncle Liang don't mention it again, since I promised the Ouye clan before, I can't go back on my word and reduce their resource supply." I agree with Uncle Liang's previous two suggestions, and Uncle Liang can deal with them. ”

"Now that there is a lot of deficit in contribution points, we can limit the scale and quantity of exchanges, so as to prevent a run. Moreover, there are more and more disciples of our Huashan faction, and the force is getting stronger and stronger, and if it really doesn't work, it can be hard, and they can't turn it out of our palms. The Songshan faction and the Hengshan faction mentioned to the ancestor several times that they wanted to follow our example in Huashan and reform the sect system, and now that the time is ripe, we can incorporate the other four mountains into the system. ”

Situ Xuan already had a draft in his heart, so he talked about it one by one, one plan after another, and then he said: "As for the silver, I have other ideas. I don't know if Uncle Shi understands the ticket number, I am going to transform the other four Yue, and use the Wuyue Sword Sect as the silver deposit headquarters, and open the 'Yuelai Ticket Number' to facilitate the account exchange of the merchants we cooperate with, so that part of the deficit crisis of the contribution point can be transferred to the ticket, and the ticket is based on real money, this thing will make more and more money in the future, Uncle Shi can rest assured. After speaking, he explained the thoughts in his heart and his bank operation ideas to Liang Buli one by one.

After listening to this, Liang Buli showed admiration on his face, and said with a wry smile: "It's still the nephew's brain that is good and courageous, and the uncle admires it." ”

Situ Xuan didn't want to take credit, shook his head and changed the conversation.

Liang Buli wrote down the main points on the paper, and then said: "There is one more thing, it is not good to say that Ma is not troublesome, in short, I have to solve it with my nephew." ”

Situ Xuan was a little puzzled, and asked with a smile: "What can I do to deal with it personally?" There is Uncle Li in foreign affairs, there is Uncle Liang in the interior, and there is a master ancestor on the Jade Girl Peak, although the master only cares about her own female disciples, but after all, she is a first-class master, and the most unfortunate thing can be released to Uncle Zhao on the cliff. ”

Liang Buli smiled when he heard this: "Haha, I'll just say, Senior Brother Zhao must have offended his nephew somewhere, otherwise how could you be forced to sit on the cliff and squat for three or four years." The word 'put' is a bit of a shut-off to let the dog go. ”

Situ Xuan also laughed, waving his hand again and again to deny.

After laughing, Liang Buli said: "This matter is not a joke, it is a tricky matter, but we just took the lead by mistake." ”

After speaking, Liang Buli did not sell Guanzi and introduced: "This matter is the governor of Shanxi, the governor is the first important minister in the northwest to sit in Guanzhong, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the 'soil emperor' and 'king of Guanzhong'. The day before yesterday, this adult issued a 'business suppression order', saying that merchants in Guanzhong are rampant, people are panicked, and farmers do not want to farm, which is suspected of shaking the country's foundation. He ordered the Shanxi and Shanxi provinces to set up checkpoints and determine commercial taxes. ”

Situ Xuan had a vague thought in his mind, but he couldn't grasp it.

Liang Buli continued: "If someone else gives this order, it will be fine, most of it is an excuse to share the profits of business, but this governor is different. This adult feels that 'businessmen hurt farmers' in his heart, and he wants to kill all the businessmen in the world. ”

Situ Xuan was still trying to capture the thoughts in his mind, but he couldn't say which idea he wanted, so he subconsciously said: "Then give him a great one first, if the first-class master can't do it, wait for Uncle Li to come back, and trouble him to go to Xi'an City." ”

The three words 'Xi'an City' crossed his mind, Situ Xuan's eyes lit up, he turned his head to look at Liang Buli, and sure enough, he saw Liang Buli with a wry smile.

Situ Xuan's face twitched, and he asked as if he had a toothache: "Uncle Shi, don't tell me that this governor is the former political envoy of Shaanxi. ”

Liang Buli nodded and said, "That's right, this governor's surname is Wei, his name is Yu Xin, and he is the father of Wei Lai's nephew. Then he smiled maliciously, as if to say, 'Go and give your future husband a great look.'

On both sides of the attendants, Yu Changcheng and Wu Di, who had always been transparent people, also pursed their lips and smiled, as if they were also waiting to see Situ Xuan's liveliness. (To be continued.) )