Am I the old man who's always by my apprentices' side?

Chapter 34 Needs to Recruit People

"That makes sense."

Zhang Chengdao first affirmed Xu Ying's suggestion.

Because he was going to put the other party's suggestion aside.

The main problem is that it's truly impossible to quantify the disciple's progress in cultivation.

With only one apprentice, there's no comparison to make, so how can you quantify things? You can't exactly go up and beat up your apprentice to test the waters, can you?
This cheap apprentice has the protagonist template. What if he loses and gets killed by someone of a higher level? Wouldn't that be incredibly embarrassing?
As for the rules and regulations, those are also quite troublesome.

If we follow the conventions of various sects in this martial arts cultivation world, the sect rules are too abstract. For example, they say things like "Don't bully the weak" or "Don't harm your fellow disciples." But Xie Yan did all of them and nothing happened. The sect rules are just a piece of waste paper.

what is the reason?
It's very simple, because these regulations are too abstract and too general.

In other words, the "judgments" and "sentencing" of these rules are all based on the subjective preferences of those in power, which is "rule by man".

The only lesson humanity learns from history is that humanity cannot learn anything from history. Even if Zhang Chengdao was incompetent, he knew the superiority of the rule of law. However, the problem is that objective conditions make it difficult to establish a complete and sound legal environment and ensure its relatively virtuous cycle. Social systems must conform to social development…

In short, it's definitely not because he's lazy!

"However, there are too few disciples in the sect right now, so let's put this matter on hold for the time being!"

After dealing with the proactive professional manager... no, I mean the professional leader Xu Ying, Zhang Chengdao threw himself into the construction business.

The workshop and the stone archway have already been built, and there's simply not enough space in the courtyard to house them all, so they have to be placed outside the courtyard.

The brine well is the most troublesome. It can be built, but only one can be built, and it can only be built in places with salt resources.

Zhang Chengdao had searched many small hills around the area over the past few days before finding two places that showed he could build: the valley where he had previously taken advantage of his apprentice and a small cave.

Logically, such places shouldn't have shallow well salt resources; the two locations where brine wells could be built are probably salt mine resources.

This is quite abstract: building brine wells on salt mines and actually producing brine normally...

As expected, you can't reason with a cheat code.

After building the brine well and salt field, place the city wall, city gate, and arrow tower and upgrade them to upgrade the cheat code to level 7.

Presumably because the original game included tower defense gameplay, the three buildings [City Wall], [City Gate], and [Arrow Tower] were extremely crucial, serving as the main structures for defending against monster invasions and other gameplay activities. Therefore, their upgrades were almost a constant throughout the entire game.

Starting from account level 5, all the way to the maximum level of 20 in the late game, these three buildings need to be upgraded from level 1 to level 15.

Of course, their appearance also becomes more and more beautiful with the upgrades, from the initial thatched roof to the final appearance of blue stone glazed tiles painted with gold paint, it's a world of difference.

However, before that, he had to tolerate its ugly thatched appearance. Zhang Chengdao could only put them in his backpack and secretly take them out for a short while when he was leveling up, just like a thief... Being the sect leader is really not easy!
The new buildings for upgrading from level 7 to level 8 are the [Stove Room], [Clay Deposit], and [Chicken Coop].

With the [Stove Room] in place, the [Stone Stove] could be retired. Zhang Chengdao put the [Stone Stove] back into his backpack and then placed the [Stove Room] next to the [Thatched Hut] where the three of them lived. The [Clay Deposit] was also a bit troublesome; like the [Stone Mine], it had to be built at a resource point.

The difference is that clay ore is a widely distributed resource, and it can even be built right next to the [Stone Mine Cave] that was built after killing the bear last time, unlike the [Brine Well] which caused him trouble for several days.

Of the three buildings, the one that requires the fewest materials is the [Chicken Coop], which requires 80 planks, 20 limestone, and 10 weeds. However, it is also the most expensive because chicks sell for 100 peach blossom stones each in the shop. You need to buy at least two chicks to hatch new ones, which costs 200 peach blossom stones.

He has only managed to collect less than 1000 peach blossom stones in the past few days!
and……

Who will raise the chickens?

In the game, you only need to feed the chickens to collect eggs every day and hatch chicks every few days, but raising chickens in real life is definitely not that easy!
Even if the chicks produced in the store are "spirit beast" chicks, they won't get sick or die, and there won't be any outbreaks of bird flu...

Who shovels the chicken droppings? Who kills the chicken?

He can't do that at all!

After much thought, Zhang Chengdao couldn't come up with a solution, so he had no choice but to leave the [Chicken Coop] empty and focus on leveling up his cheat system.

After reaching level 8, only two buildings were unlocked: the Wooden House and the Kiln.

Compared to the simple materials of a thatched house, building a wooden tile house requires not only the basic 200 planks and 60 limestone, but also two new materials: 100 units of rammed earth and 200 units of coarse tiles.

Three-in-one soil is actually clay produced from clay mines, which is synthesized by making panels from materials.

To produce coarse tiles, you need to build a tile kiln first.

Moreover, unlike farmland that can produce its own products, these buildings require people to participate in the labor!
However, there are only three people in the entire White Stone Immortal Sect. He is overwhelmed with other tasks and needs to improve his cultivation level as much as possible before that martial arts master arrives. He also needs to urge his disciple to cultivate diligently. He can't remain a weakling at the first level of Qi Refining forever, can he?

As for Xu Ying... it was agreed that he would be hired as a professional manager (head of the sect), not a laborer, so how could we let him go digging stones and mining again!
It seems that hiring is the only option.

Zhang Chengdao somewhat embarrassedly provided these requests to Xu Ying, and also slipped him two gold bricks as sect funds.

Unexpectedly, Xu Ying became very excited upon hearing this.

"Ying has long wanted to say that if the sect wants to last, it should manage more businesses, not just for external sales, but also for its own use!"
"But mining and digging are hard jobs, so we'll probably have to buy slaves."

Zhang Chengdao counted them privately: at least one was digging stones, one was digging clay, and one was raising chickens. The farmland also needed to be managed; he couldn't collect the harvest himself every time, as that would cost over a hundred yuan!

There are also resources such as peach trees, bamboo, kudzu vines, ramie, and licorice, all of which require people to be responsible for. All in all, a dozen or so "employees" are still needed.

After listening to Zhang Chengdao's request, Xu Ying pondered for a moment and replied, "Hmm... If the sect leader only wants to find people to do chores, they are often called servants or menial laborers in other sects. However, some sects allow these people to learn the secret manuals of various sects and cultivate, so they are given the title of 'disciple' and called 'menial labor disciples.' I wonder what the sect leader's plan is?"

I typed this in the airport waiting area and didn't check for typos, so please forgive me, dear readers. The remaining two chapters will probably be finished tonight. Sorry (*)
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