Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 73 Market Preparation (Thanks to Brother Jian V for the 60000 points reward, the first leader of this book)
Pei Yi made a lotus seal with his hands and whispered an awkward syllable.

The gilded lid on the brass alchemy furnace in front of him opened with a gentle "pop" sound, revealing a gap, and a fragrant elixir fragrance instantly filled Pei Yi's alchemy room.

Pei Yi tapped his knees lightly three times with his slender fingers, and dozens of round and plump pills flew out of the furnace and fell one after another into the jade plate on the low table in front of him.

"Three portions of fasting pill materials, fourteen of which were completed pills, less than 50%, a little low, but fortunately there are no defective ones." Pei Yi held the completed pills in his hands and examined them carefully one by one before nodding.

He was quite satisfied with the result of this pill making. Thanks to his hard work in recent days, Pei Yi has now become a genuine first-class lower-grade alchemist.

Therefore, refining low-grade elixirs such as the Bigu Pill can be done with ease.

However, the success rate of pill making still requires a lot of practical experience to improve, which is not something that can be rushed.

"The Chongming Market will open next month, so I need to refine more. As the head brother said, even if we can't sell all of it at once and store it there, it is still better than having customers come to buy but not being able to take it out." Pei Yi thought to himself.

The Chongming Market he mentioned was the business that the head of Kangda had always dreamed of opening.

For this purpose, Master Kang Da spent a lot of time and effort, because at the beginning, the three nearby families actually did not support Kang Dabao's idea.

They felt that this place was too close to Linghe Market, and there were not many unique spiritual materials available for sale.

Even if several families spent a lot of money to open the market, it is difficult to compete with the mature market there. It is difficult to make a profit, let alone make money.

However, Master Kang was still very obsessed with the issue, so he went to find the three heads of the family and talked to them several times.

Ye Pinglin didn't have too many thoughts, just drive it. He was now following Kangda BMW's lead.

The Ye family is very weak now, and will inevitably have to rely on the "relatively strong neighbor" of the Chongming Sect in the future. Since Master Kang attaches so much importance to this matter, he certainly will not go against Master Kang.

Besides, his family doesn't have any way to earn spirit stones, so it would be good to give it a try.

The only difficulty was that his family really couldn't afford the spiritual stones, so the first installment of capital had to be borrowed from Chongming Sect.
After returning several times during his business trips and listening to Kang Dabao's advice, the head of the Lu family became somewhat tempted.

Like Master Kang, he was also a person who knew how to be thrifty and frugal. After thinking it over, he felt that going to Linghe Market all the time to be exploited was not a good idea.

Thinking about how hard it was to save up those few spiritual stones without any shame, if he went to Linghe Market a few more times, they would all be taken away by profiteers like the big-butt widow Ma. It was really not worth it.

After the head of the Lu family was persuaded by Master Kang, three of the four families agreed.

Seeing this situation, the Xue family, coupled with Kang Dabao's condition, allowed Yuan Jin to help the three families repair their magic weapons at a reasonable price during this period of time.

The Xue family was reluctant to miss out on taking advantage of this benefit, so they really didn't dare to disagree.

Kang Dabao has not yet settled accounts with Xue Hu for the last time he wanted to abandon the other three families and make peace with the Shi family in private.

He really didn't dare to offend Emperor Chongming again at this time.

In order to build momentum for the opening of the market, the head of Kangda took great pains. He even stopped his own cultivation and spent several months going out to do business.

Whether or not this business trip makes money is secondary. The important thing is to promote the Chongming Market which has not yet opened.

Over the years, Master Kangda has met quite a few people through his business experiences.

Although there are indeed not many things that can be used among them, it doesn't cost any spirit stones to mention it to acquaintances when doing business. Kang Dabao enjoys doing it, thinking that it is good to attract one more customer.

Unexpectedly, after He Dezong learned the news, he was very respectful and took the initiative to let the He family's caravans help spread the news.

His family is much bigger, and his caravans spread out all over the place to spread the word can be much more effective than Master Kang relying on his big mouth.

After only half a year, cultivators in Yunjiao Prefecture and even the neighboring Jingnan Prefecture knew that a market would be opened on the outskirts of Jackdaw Mountain soon.

No matter how high the mountains are or how far the roads are, or whether people will come or not, at least your reputation has been spread, and there will be no harm in that.

After the hype is built, it is time to arrange the shops in the market.

Kang Dabao designed the Chongming Market to be very small, with only two short streets, one horizontal and one vertical, with a total of about twenty shops.

The reason why it was built so small is that if it were any bigger, the formation that Kang Dabao built for the market would not be able to cover it completely.

Although Master Kang felt regretful, there was nothing he could do. Although the Chongming Sect had been busy with large-scale construction in recent years, it had almost used up all the spirit stones.

There were indeed fewer spirit stones for constructing the formation. The formation master who had previously constructed the formation for the Chongming Sect originally thought that this was also a good business and wanted to do this business as well.

After doing the math, he realized that the little spirit stones given by Master Kang had already been spent, and there was no profit at all. After building the formation in the Chongming Sect, he left without a second thought.

Sect Leader Kang Dabao had no choice but to go to Linghe Market and hire a formation master with mediocre skills to build it. Of course, there was a reason for the cheapness, and the market became like this.

The four shops facing the street at the intersection are the only four two-story buildings in the market, and their location is the best.

According to Yuan Jin's proposal, the plan is to bring in the three most powerful families in Pingrong County, namely Hemu Dao, Tongxiu Hui, and Caowu Sect, plus Chongming Sect, so that each of the four families will occupy one room.

But Kang Dabao disagreed. He believed that "if someone gives you a peach, you should give him a jade in return." No matter what, he had to reserve a room for the He family in Hong County first.

He Dezong really treated this time his family affairs as his own and made great efforts.

The He family readily agreed. From what Kang Dabao saw in He Dezong's letter, he thought that he wanted to send He Degong to ease the current tense relationship between him and Chongmingzong.

Among the three largest forces in Pingrong County, Kang Dabao only invited the Tongxiu Association.

After hearing the news, Qin Sufu only said that he was short of manpower now and he still had to prepare for the foundation building, so he would see when he got the chance.

Of the other two families, the Grass Witch Cult has been keeping a low profile since the last destruction of the Shi family. Apart from bullying their nominal vassals, they rarely get involved in outside affairs.

Not only that, Chen Ye also sent people to politely return the spirit stones that had been sent last year to each family.

He bluntly stated that the previous agreement with the four families was now invalid, and that the four families in Jackdaw Mountain would no longer need to send spirit stones to the Grass Witch Cult every year, and that both sides should live in peace from now on.

Kang Dabao knew who was standing up for him and felt complicated.

In this case, most people would look down upon such a small shop in the market, and Kang Dabao was too lazy to try his luck.

As for Hemu Road.
The four shops reserved are: one for the Tongxiu Association, one for the Chongming Sect, and one for the He family, so there is still one shop left.

So Kang Dabao went to visit the Ming family in Tanggu County. This was his master's in-laws' family. There were forty or fifty cultivators in the family, and their strength was not inferior to that of the He family.

The old man who managed the Ming family a few years ago was the biological father of Kang Dabao's wife. Because of this relationship, when Kang Dabao and his two fellow apprentices were struggling to make ends meet in the early years, the old man took good care of the three brothers.

This favor is very important, and Kang Dabao has always been grateful.

It’s just that Master’s wife’s biological father had passed away a few years ago, and now the head of the Ming family is Master’s wife’s uncle Kang Dabao, and the relationship between the two families has gradually become distant.

This time, Kang Dabao sat on the bench and waited for a long time, but still failed to see the head of the family, Master Ming.

In the end, he waited for an elder who was in charge of the Ming family branch to come out and greet him, and chatted with him for a while.

Perhaps because he was afraid that Kang Dabao, this poor relative, was here to extort money, the Ming family elder didn't even bother to ask Kang Dabao's purpose of coming. After just half a cigarette's time, he politely served him tea and sent him away.

Head of the Kang family was used to being looked down upon by others, but he couldn't help feeling uncomfortable when being treated like this by the Ming family. In his heart, he always regarded the Ming family as his own family.

Combined with the fact that the Ming family also watched from the sidelines during the last incident with the Shi family, it was natural for Headmaster Kang to see that the Ming family was thinking of breaking off the relationship.

"It seems like the things passed down by the old man have been lost by the Taoist today." Sect Leader Kang stood outside the Ming family's door in a daze. He also ignored the contemptuous looks of the Ming family servants in front of the door.

When the sun was at its highest point in the sky, a chill suddenly arose in his heart.

"In that case, let the shop facing the street be vacant. As long as the market is well run, I don't believe that no one will want the shop even if it is given to you."

When they returned to the Chongming Market which was still under construction in full swing, Xue Hu heard from somewhere that Kang Dabao had been turned down by the Ming family, and he shamelessly wanted to take back the shop. Master Kang just laughed it off and ignored him.

What a joke! What level is your Xue family?

Qin Ye Lin and Xue's family planned to open a shop in the market place to sell Jackdaw Mountain's special wild delicacies. Their family's cultivators were closest to the outskirts of Jackdaw Mountain and had always had the habit of relying on the mountain for their livelihood. This was also the main source of income for the family.

Also because the Xue family often went to Jackdaw Mountain to hunt monsters, his family's cultivators were the best at fighting among the three small clans, and their strength was significantly higher than a level.

To do this business well, it takes a lot of capital to harvest and stockpile goods. The Xue family does have more financial resources than the other two families.

The Lu family in Fangshi Mountain produces not many spiritual objects. Only the spiritual honey produced by the box of spiritual bees can barely be considered a specialty.

Drinking his spiritual honey directly can slightly increase the speed of cultivation. One liter of spiritual honey is roughly equivalent to three Qi Condensing Pills.

Because it has no side effects such as erysipelas, the price of one liter of spiritual honey may be slightly higher than that of three Qi Ning Pills.

Therefore, most of the people who came to Chongming Market were poor independent cultivators, and most of them had to sell their items in small quantities so that people could afford them. Even if there were only a few independent cultivators who could afford to buy them, they would have to sell some secondary spiritual items such as spiritual candied dates.

That thing is even less valuable. Otherwise, how could the stingy master of the Lu family be willing to give Kang Dabao 30 kilograms at one time.

In preparation for this, the Lu family reclaimed a few acres of spiritual fields and planted various spiritual flowers, intending to multiply and expand the spiritual bee colony so that the shops in the market would have more supplies.

At the same time, this shop can also sell some unclassified spiritual insects. In the early years of the Lu family, an elder worshipped the Grass Witch Cult and left some minor inheritance in the family.

The current head of the Lu family has a younger cousin who has dabbled in this area. The black-armored beast with flowery limbs that Han Yundao had seen before, being controlled by the Lu family's spiritual slave, was cultivated by that Kun Xiu.

It is said that she has had some good fortune recently and will be able to raise the quality of the Lu family's spirit bees to a higher level soon.

In that case, his business will naturally do better.

However, Yokoyama Noya Kang Dabao didn't know what the Noya had to sell now.

The deceased predecessor, the head of the Ye family, had a fairly good skill in the art of formations, and could barely be considered a first-class formation master, and was also somewhat famous in the neighborhood.

Because the Yokoyama No family has the smallest foundation and has been established for less than a hundred years.

The Ye family has never had any industry, and in the past, the entire family's practice was almost entirely dependent on the head of the Ye family helping others to refine formations to maintain their existence.

His family was able to rely on their not-so-outstanding formation to resist the siege of bandits for so long, and most of the credit was due to the head of the Ye family.

If you can't think of anything, just give up. The head of Kangda Sect told Ye Pinglin to worry about it. If you really can't think of anything, just open a grocery store. At least you can gather some people and gain popularity.

As for what Chongming Sect was going to do, Sect Leader Kang had already thought about it. Chongming Sect's shop was named Chongming Tower.

Kang Dabao knew that Master Qi had beautiful calligraphy, so he specially asked Yuan Jin to go to Xuanwei City and ask him to write the plaque.

Standing under the plaque and looking at the three large characters "Zhongming Tower" written in graceful strokes, Master Kang was very satisfied.

He decided to use the first floor for business, and Pei Yi and Yuan Jin would sell the refined elixirs and magic tools on consignment. After they received the materials from the sect, they only needed to hand in the finished products that met a fixed ratio.

The excess can be kept by the owner, or consigned to Chongminglou for sale and the profits can be divided into 20:80.

Chongming Tower gets two, and he gets eight if he gets two.

This ratio is hard to find even if you search all over Yunjiaozhou. Sect Leader Kang still has a conscience. No matter how much he wants spiritual stones, he will not treat his junior brother harshly.

Without affecting the practice of Pei Yi and Yuan Jin, the first floor of Chongming Tower can also take on some business of refining designated elixirs and magical instruments.

Of course, their current attainments are still shallow, and they will not accept orders above the lower grade of the first level, as Master Kang is afraid of losing money.

By the way, after a few years, when Kang Rongquan can take good care of the spiritual fields of Chongming Sect, Chongming Tower might also start the spiritual rice business.

The second floor can do some catering and accommodation business, but this requires finding a talented chef. Kang Dabao is still looking for a suitable candidate, so it cannot be done for the time being.

In addition to these four local families, they also called on pro-old forces such as the Tang Gu and Kuai families to open shops.

At the edge of the market, Master Kang did not forget to leave a place for individual practitioners to set up their stalls.

He was still thinking about collecting stall fees from these broken spirits.

In the end, Master Kang put all these arrangements together and counted them carefully. He felt that he could barely fill up most of the market, and he felt relieved. He wanted to turn his attention to cultivation first.

After he breaks through the sixth level of Qi training during this retreat, he has another place to go.

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