I save spiritual roots for the next life

Chapter 173 Successful opening

The development of the business alliance is no longer a small matter.

They have long looked down upon the simple model of setting up their own shops among the major sects in Qi.

What they are doing now is the business integration of the entire Yan Kingdom.

It mainly monopolizes the resource side, controls the sales side, and dominates finance.

In the entire Fairy City, there are only a few shops of the Merchant Alliance, which only deal with high-end business and finance. The rest of the shops are rented out, with guaranteed rent and turnover commission as the main income.

This model allows shops to be responsible for their own profits and losses, while the business alliance is guaranteed to make a profit without losing any money. Moreover, the healthy competition among major shops greatly enhances the business atmosphere and popularity of the entire fairy city, further strengthening the monopoly position of the business alliance.

The merchant alliance's requirement for monks to rent for a long time is also a disguised form of providing sufficient employees for the merchants in the fairy city.

Li Jizhou asked about the conditions for joining the Merchant Alliance. They must have a combat power of mid-level pill formation or above, or a third-level skill or above. Other than that, they are all small minions, and they have to be at the mercy of their superiors at all times.

Li Jizhou would naturally not be willing to do this.

As for finding the sect and family, Li Jizhou gave up without even thinking about it.

Just based on the incident with Jinyang Sect, Li Jizhou had almost understood some of the tactics of the Merchant Alliance.

Maybe at some point they will be set up by the Merchant Alliance and involved in some conspiracy to purchase a certain high-priced treasure that the Merchant Alliance needs to promote.

Think for a moment,

Li Jizhou finally decided to open his own shop. Opening his own shop was at least more profitable than supplying goods to him at Miaodan Building, and the business environment in Yan State was indeed more suitable.

During this period of time, I walked around the fairy city. The prices of third-level and above resources were appalling. Without enough financial resources, the road after forming a pill was not easy to follow.

In Qi State before, it was basically impossible to buy materials above the third level. Occasionally, it was necessary to exchange for some equivalent materials, so Li Jizhou was not too obsessed with earning spiritual stones at that time.

In Yan State, fourth-level materials can be purchased with spirit stones.

In the end, Li Jizhou made a slight change to his main goal of coming to Yan State. In addition to condensing golden elixirs and improving his skills, he also added the option of opening a shop to earn spiritual stones.

After completing the relevant procedures, Li Jizhou's identity was checked by the Xiancheng town guard holding the exotic treasure.

A one-time payment of 30,000 spirit stones was made as a deposit, and a good faith cooperation contract was signed, stipulating that 10% of the annual revenue will be taxed. If the annual tax is less than 3,000 spirit stones, the deposit will be deducted.

Failure to meet the standards for three consecutive years will result in cancellation of business qualifications.

When the shops were first established, there was no endorsement, and the sales were mainly low-end products. Therefore, the location of the rental shops could not be in the central area, and could only be in the inner city at most. Its spiritual veins were equivalent to the third-level low-grade products.

Li Jizhou could also accept this. Anyway, when forming pills, he only had to go to the Central District to rent a pill-forming dojo for a short period of time.

And if you don’t have business alliance status, you are not eligible to rent the Danjie Dojo.

Five days later, Li Jizhou finally obtained the Jade Talisman of the Merchant Alliance and successfully took over a house located in the inner city of Liuyunxian City.

The house is close to the market, and in front is a three-story attic facing the street, with three rooms on each floor, which is used for shops.

The backyard is a three-entry courtyard with small bridges, flowing water, and pavilions, which makes it look quiet and elegant.

There are three big characters hanging on the shop sign: Taobao Pavilion, personally written by Li Jizhou.

The Jade Talisman of the Merchant Alliance marks Taobao Pavilion as a fifth-class shop, which can recruit up to five clerks.

After sending off the business union steward, Li Jizhou hung a sign at the door saying he was unemployed and would open in a month, and then closed the shop door.

Arrange the magic circle, activate the talisman, and after some arrangements, Guagua and Bai Yi are released.

"You two, you must work harder in the future!" Li Jizhou hugged Guagua and Bai Yi sincerely.

Without Bai Yi's current four-point true fire, he would not have opened the shop.

Especially at the beginning of starting a business, it is inevitable that you need to do it yourself, which will delay your practice too much.

If he could only rely on him to make puppets, draw talismans, refine alchemy, and form formations, and work tirelessly for a year, excluding taxes and material costs, he would probably only make a few thousand profits, which would be more than worth the loss.

After these years of training, Bai Yi has become very proficient in the first-level intermediate elixirs, and the advanced elixirs are a bit reluctant. However, this is enough, and the main one is large.

Four real fires are started at the same time, each with a puppet, and they operate continuously for 12 hours. The monthly production capacity is over 5,000 yuan, and the profit can be around 700 to 800 yuan, which can meet taxes and support the store.

Guagua is now a third-level demon with powerful spiritual consciousness and the gift of illusory magical powers. Li Jizhou decided to cultivate it vigorously and try his best to let it learn the formations thoroughly. By then, he can use his illusory talent to create an illusory chessboard array. It should be Will get twice the result with half the effort.

These are the guarantees at the beginning of starting a business.

As for how to make it bigger and stronger in the future, Li Jizhou will consider it after forming a pill.

Now let’s take it step by step and establish a foothold in Yan State first.

Before I have a true understanding of the situation in the Yan Kingdom and have not fully integrated into it, just thinking about reaching the sky in one step is still a bit too ambitious.

A few days later, Li Jizhou arranged the backyard properly.

The first courtyard is used as a landscape area, with some flowers and plants planted there. Li Jizhou mainly lives in the second courtyard, and the third courtyard serves as the work area for Bai Yi and Gua Gua.

In the following days, apart from practicing, Li Jizhou devoted almost all his time to the training of Bai Yi and Gua Gua.

Bai Yi was okay. Although his IQ was not very high, after so many years of habitual alchemy refining, he quickly became proficient in several new first-level intermediate elixir recipes given to him by Li Jizhou. He refined one of each of the four true fires.

Although Guagua has some IQ, he knows nothing about formations and it is difficult to teach him. If Li Jizhou hadn't been peaceful, he would have exploded long ago.

By the day before the end of the month, Bai Yi had already refined four types of mid-level first-order elixirs with one hundred bottles each. Among them, there were very few exquisite ones and a large number of top-grade and mid-grade pills, which was considered a perfect completion of the task.

Li Jizhou was very satisfied with this.

And Gua Gua has not finished reading 10% of the content of the first-order formation inheritance in a month.

Also on this day, the recruitment notice posted a week ago attracted the fourth interviewee.

The first three interviewees were all rejected by Li Jizhou.

He mainly recruits a shopkeeper who is nominally a shopkeeper but is actually just a salesperson. He is required to be steady, down-to-earth and capable.

As for being able to speak eloquently, that is secondary, the main thing is sincerity.

When the first three opened their mouths, they smelled like old-fashioned people. They were too obsessed with cleverness, full of routines, and their monthly rates were even higher.

"Senior, I saw your recruitment notice, so I came to take a look."

This time the visitor is a female cultivator in her twenties, with a sixth level of Qi training.

She is quiet and delicate. Although she speaks softly, her eyes are firm.

I asked a few questions casually,

The identity of the other party is relatively innocent. He is a child born and raised in Immortal City. His father used to work in a mining area directly under the Merchant Alliance and died in the mine a few years ago.

She and her mother had both worked as receptionists at the same alchemy shop before, but her mother died unexpectedly while attacking the foundation some time ago.

She didn't want to see things and miss people, so she wanted to change her working environment.

Li Jizhou is quite satisfied with this woman. She has no worries and has work experience.

In the end, Li Jizhou signed a contract with him at the price of forty spiritual stones per month, and gave him a Taobao Pavilion identity jade charm issued to him by the merchant alliance.

It is agreed that the door will be opened at Chen time every day, and the office will be dismissed at You time.

Responsible for entertaining guests, selling goods, and maintaining order in the store. No one is allowed to enter the inner courtyard unless there is anything wrong, and no inquiring is allowed.

Everything is ready,

On the second day, Taobao Pavilion officially opened for business.

The goods in the store cover a wide range of products.

There are elixirs ranging from the first-level intermediate to the second-level high-level elixirs, and the number is the largest. The second-level exquisite level-breaking elixirs and the exquisite beauty-preserving elixirs are more eye-catching.

The puppets are all second-level, and two of them are quasi-third-level puppets that are fused with demon elixirs.

There are both first- and second-level talismans, and there are many exquisite ones.

In addition, there are several chessboard arrays, magic weapons, and magic weapons.