Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 429 Legal Rights of the Chamber of Commerce

Peng Wanli said: "If we add too much, Mozong may abandon this chamber of commerce and seek cooperation from other chambers of commerce. In this way, we will be the ones who suffer, and the Xueyu chamber of commerce will be the one that gets the best deal. The Demon Sect fights against each other and raises the price too high, harming our own interests. There is no need to do things that harm others and ourselves."

Shi Xuan nodded and said: "What Fellow Daoist Peng said is very true. The purpose of our trip is for our own benefit, not to fight against the Demon Sect. There is no need to kill one thousand enemies and hurt eight hundred. If Xueyu Chamber of Commerce is willing to switch Of course it is best to cooperate with us, and if they don’t want to, we don’t have to force them.”

Peng Wanli said: "In my opinion, we can give them another [-]% of the profits. This is our bottom line. If the Xueyu Chamber of Commerce is not satisfied, let's transfer to the next house! We can't squeeze our profits for the sake of squeezing the Mozong. Leave it all to them."

Shi Xuan and Zhou Xuanyong nodded their heads and said hello.

The next day, Tang Ning and the others were sitting cross-legged in the room practicing qi refining when Pan Chengyuan pushed the door in and said, "Master Peng told me to wait and go to see the Xueyu Chamber of Commerce's cultivation site."

Several people left the room, only to see the three of Peng Wanli outside the room talking and laughing with a fair-looking man, talking happily.

Everyone followed them and left the inn, beyond the light curtain, Shi Xuan waved his hand, and the aurora boat rose in the wind, and everyone jumped onto the Dharma boat one after another, heading southwest.

After walking for about half a day, I saw a mountain range stretching for hundreds of miles in the distance.

The bottom is bare, without any flowers, plants and trees, only the rocks stand upright, and hot magma spews out from the top of each peak from time to time.

In the middle of the mountain range, there is a huge light curtain standing.

As the Fazhou got closer and closer, everyone felt a hot breath blowing towards their faces, and the heat visible to the naked eye rose up in the air.

Arriving in front of the light curtain, two escaping rays of light shot out, revealing the figures of two men dressed in the costumes of the Snow Jade Chamber of Commerce.

The two bowed to the white-faced man who was traveling together: "Master Jia, what are your orders?"

The white-faced man said: "These are guests from Xingang who came from afar. Master Zhang Julai ordered me to show them around the spirit beast cultivation place of our chamber of commerce. Later, you will lead the disciples of these sects to walk around at will."

"Yes."

Several people entered the light curtain, and everything in the room was crimson. Countless huge "pools" were lined up one by one, and the end could not be seen at a glance.

Each of them is thirty or forty feet wide, seven or eight feet wide, and what is carried in the "pool" is not ordinary pool water, but gushing molten lava.

In the pool, densely packed red fire rats were churning, splashing countless lava.

The big ones are one or two feet long, and the small ones are only three or four inches long.

And in the center of every five pools, there is a huge crimson volcano. There is no doubt that the lava gushing out of the pools is extracted from the volcanoes.

It was steaming outside just now, but it was much cooler inside.

In the distance, several streaks of light came and landed in front of the three of Peng Wanli. The leader was a bearded man in his thirties, who was at the early stage of Jindan, and behind him were seven or eight people, all of whom were built. Basic repair.

The bearded man bowed to the white man facing him and saluted: "Master Zhang."

There is a strict hierarchical system within the chamber of commerce. Even if they are of the same level of cultivation, their positions vary from high to low, and their status and status are different.

The monks with low positions must obey the monks with high positions completely, and they also need to show respect when they meet each other.

The white-faced man said: "Chongguang! These are fellow Taoists who came all the way from Xingang to seek cooperation with our chamber of commerce. Let the brothers lead them to look around!"

"Okay." The bearded man replied.

Zhou Xuanyong waved his hand: "Go with fellow Taoists from the Snow Jade Chamber of Commerce! Ask for advice."

"Yes." The crowd responded.

All the disciples of the Snow Jade Merchant Guild stepped forward and said to everyone: "Friends, please."

Thirty Xingang disciples were divided into ten groups, and each group was led by a disciple from the Snow Jade Chamber of Commerce, and each of them disappeared.

Tang Ning, Pan Chengyuan, and Qi Mingyu followed behind a tall and thin man from the Snow Jade Merchant Guild. After less than a mile or two, they stopped in front of a volcano.

The tall and thin man said: "Fellow Taoists, please feel free to watch."

Tangning said, "Don't know the name of your friend?"

The man replied: "I am Chengfeng."

Pan Chengyuan asked: "Fellow Daoist Yu, I don't know how much land your Chamber of Commerce produces for cultivating fire rats here."

Yu Chengfeng said: "This mountain range is called Huoyun Mountain, and it stretches for five or six hundred miles. We set up a formation in the center of it as a breeding ground for fire rats. The entire formation covers an area of ​​about one or two hundred miles."

Qi Mingyu said: "I don't know what formation your Chamber of Commerce is using?"

"This is called Xuanyang Turning Yin Formation. It can digest the rising heat and make the temperature suitable. Otherwise, the temperature near this molten pool will be too high, and you need to use your own spiritual power to resist it, which will hinder your practice."

Tang Ning said, "So that's the case. No wonder you feel cool after entering this room. Is this large formation related to breeding fire squirrels? If there is no such large formation, will the fire squirrels be affected?"

Yu Chengfeng shook his head and said: "The big formation is mainly for the convenience of us monks. The fire rat is not affected, its nature is heat-resistant, it is not afraid of high temperature, and it feeds on lava or volcanic rocks."

Pan Chengyuan asked: "How many fire rats does your Chamber of Commerce breed here?"

Yu Chengfeng said: "In each melting pool, there are about hundreds of fire rats, and the entire volcano breeds [-] fire rats."

Tang Ning said, "Your Chamber of Commerce's breeding fires belong to the production area. There are several of them."

Yu Chengfeng said: "There are thirty in total, and they are all about the same size."

The three of them looked at each other, and they couldn't help being a little surprised. Thirty breeding places, that's three million fire rats!

Qi Mingyu asked: "Can such a large body be sold?"

Yu Chengfeng said: "We mainly sell to the inland of Qingzhou. Of course, some large islands in Qinghai also sell them. The channel is not a problem. All the chambers of commerce in Qinghai are the only ones that breed fire rats."

Tangning asked, "Why? Is it that other chambers of commerce cannot breed fire rats, or are they unwilling to breed fire rats?"

Yu Chengfeng said: "All chambers of commerce have regulations. At the beginning, our chamber of commerce won the right to breed fire rats and paid corresponding taxes to Baoxing chamber of commerce, and now we pay every year."

"So in Qinghai, we are the only ones who can breed fire rats, and those chambers of commerce in the interior have also signed contracts with us, and can only buy our fire rats. Otherwise, they will violate the contract and be punished by the chamber of commerce. "

"Any other force in Qinghai that wants to breed or sell fire rats must pass through our channels and pay taxes to us, otherwise it is illegal, and the chamber of commerce can crack down on them according to law."

Obviously, this is a monopoly. Tangning asked, "Why do you have to pay taxes to the Baoxing Chamber of Commerce for breeding fire mice?"

Yu Chengfeng said: "Because we are not yet a member of the Chamber of Commerce, all chambers of commerce must obtain the approval of the Chamber of Commerce to conduct transactions, just like if you want to establish a sect in Taoism, you must have the approval of Emperor Taixuan, otherwise it will be It’s an illegal organization, and so is the chamber of commerce.”

"If the Chamber of Commerce's business is not approved by the Chamber of Commerce, it is an illegal organization. The Baoxing Chamber of Commerce is the only Chamber of Commerce in Qinghai that has joined the Chamber of Commerce. It is equivalent to the spokesperson of the Chamber of Commerce in Qinghai."

"All chambers of commerce in Qinghai have to pay taxes to it, including its right to allocate the resources of all chambers of commerce. Of course, Baoxing chamber of commerce also has to pay a large amount of taxes to the chamber of commerce."

"Therefore, the Baoxing Chamber of Commerce appointed us to breed fire rats, and other chambers of commerce can no longer intervene unless they pay us tribute and obtain our approval."

Pan Chengyuan said: "Just now you said that all the forces in Qinghai have to pay taxes to you for breeding and selling fire rats. But Xuanmen, Mozong and the Chamber of Commerce are not in the same system. What if they insist on breeding? Your Chamber of Commerce has the right to punish them. hit?"

Yu Chengfeng said: "We have signed a contract with the chamber of commerce in the interior of Qingzhou. They will not buy fire rats from any force in Qinghai. If they want to sell fire rats bred by Xuanmen and Mozong in Qinghai, they must go through our channels and sign up for them. Only the brand of our chamber of commerce will do.”

Tangning asked, "How much profit does one make of this Fire Rat Spirit Beast?"

Yu Chengfeng said: "The Fire Rat belongs to the first-order low-grade spirit beast, which is equivalent to a first-level monk who refines Qi. It sells for ten spirit stones. It takes eight years for it to grow from a cub to an adult. After it has formed a large scale, its cost can almost can be ignored."

Pan Chengyuan asked: "If our sect cooperates with your Chamber of Commerce to purchase your fire rat cubs, how much will it cost?"

Yu Chengfeng said: "One hundred spirit stones."

"What?" The three of them were taken aback, thinking they had heard wrongly, they looked at each other, and couldn't help but look at each other.

Tangning asked in disbelief, "A hundred spirit stones?"

Yu Chengfeng nodded.

Qi Mingyu frowned and asked, "You only sell ten spirit stones for an adult fire mouse. Why do you want a hundred spirit stones for the cubs? Could it be that the fire mouse cubs are more rare than the adult fire mice?"

Yu Chengfeng said: "This is our rule, not only your sect, but also other practice families and chambers of commerce. If you want to buy spirit beasts from us for cultivation, one hundred spirit stones, and at least not less than ten thousand Only."

Tangning said, "What's the mystery behind this? Please enlighten me, Fellow Daoist."

Yu Chengfeng said: "There is no mystery, I just want to make money from you first."

The three of them were taken aback by his blunt words, and for a moment they didn't know how to speak.

Yu Chengfeng continued: "Only our chamber of commerce in Qinghai can breed and sell fire rats. If you buy fire rat cubs from us, it is equivalent to buying the right to legally breed fire rats. This million spirit stones is your legal right to buy them. cost of."

(End of this chapter)