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Chapter 78 Year-end accounts and ‘the art of enlightenment’ (please subscribe)
  Wanfeng 2 years.

During the off-season after the Spring Festival, thousands of people come and go in the front hall of Qianmu Temple every day. In half a month, the pilgrims donated a huge amount of thirty thousand taels. This money is enough for the daily expenses of the disciples in the temple for a year, but they need to practice If so, it would have to rely on the industry operated by the sect to maintain it.

Qianmuguan's current industry is mainly medicine fields and elixirs, and its stable output is hundreds of hectares of fertile farmland developed around the foot of the mountain and on both sides of the Wushen River.

Also, during the first month of the year, some wealthy households in Shang'an Prefecture who had been cared for by Qianmu Guan would send special people to deliver some gifts.

Liu Shuang received the most gifts among all the disciples. On the one hand, she was Wang Ping's disciple, and on the other hand, she had indeed helped many people during her more than ten years of experience. Some of them even gave her a gift. She received the Immortality Card, and her original family would also send generous gifts because of her benefit.

If these gifts were converted into silver taels, they would amount to about five thousand taels.

After the lively first month, Wang Ping and his disciples and disciples simply celebrated their fiftieth birthday, and everything returned to a peaceful state.

Early March.

Zhao Qing took the ledger to the top of the mountain and asked Wang Ping to check the sales of power pills in the past year.

"Brother, you have refined a total of 73 power pills in a year. The average price in the first three months was 7 taels, and later it was reduced to 5 taels, 4 taels, and 3 taels. Overall, the average price is 4 taels. Half, the total is 328.5 million taels, the cost and labor are 62 taels, and the profit is 266.5 million taels."

"60 taels will be withdrawn from Guan Nei's account, and the rest will be converted into gold ingots as soon as possible and sent to senior brother." While Wang Ping was looking through the account book, Zhao Qing roughly reported on the sales status of 'Power Pills' in the past year, and then Then he said: "I received news that the upper echelons of Daozang Palace have noticed our business, and the higher ups... seem to... intend to unified manage this business."

"What do you mean?" Wang Ping was stunned when he checked the account book.

"The general meaning is... in the future, when we sell power pills, we have to go through the hands of Daozangdian. In fact, it is similar to now. Except for the part sold to the imperial court, most of our previous business relied on Daozangdian's sales."

Zhao Qing quickly explained: "I personally don't think there is anything wrong with this. With the Dao Zang Palace paving the way, our power pills may be sold to other continents. We are not afraid of market saturation, just the output..."

"When I refine the puppet, the output will naturally increase. So, is there any news about the heavenly materials and earthly treasures that you are asking for?" Wang Ping interrupted Zhao Qing and glanced at him while flipping through the account books.

"I guess it's difficult to buy in Xia Kingdom. Last month I sent people to other areas to look. There are so many natural and earthly treasures in the wood spirit of Hushan Kingdom." Zhao Qing replied seriously: "It will take up to three months. News will come back."

Wang Ping nodded with satisfaction and said while flipping through the account books: "As for the Jiuji Formation I told you last time, have you asked someone to survey the terrain around Qianmu Mountain? Have you made a budget?"

Zhao Qing frowned slightly, and carefully looked at Wang Ping, who was looking through the account books. He was silent for a few seconds, and then composed his words before replying: "The large formation that Senior Brother You mentioned would have to enclose at least dozens of kilometers, which is equivalent to all the land in the north of Qianmu Mountain." Qun Shan, the county will naturally not say anything, but the construction of various infrastructures will be a big expense, conservatively estimated to be more than 300 million taels..."

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and continued: "Coupled with the heavenly materials and earthly treasures in the auxiliary formation, as well as the matching spiritual veins and corresponding qi training techniques, even if he goes to buy them as the fourth seat of the Daozang Hall, the master will at least buy them. More than 800 million taels are needed, which is almost two years’ worth of taxes for the governor’s offices in the south of the imperial court.”

"If you don't count the sales of power pills, this money will only be saved by relying on our existing industry. It will take thirty years of not eating or drinking to save." Zhao Qing sounded very confused. On the one hand, he was worried about what Wang Ping described. The future is full of longing, but on the one hand, it has to bow its head due to reality.

He looked at Wang Ping, who had put down his account book, and spoke faster unknowingly: "We only wiped out the 120 million taels for the original construction of Yige the year before last. If we really want to start the construction now... I guess it will be very difficult, unless Discuss with the county about using corvees during the off-season." Wang Ping looked at Zhao Qing, thought for a moment and said, "You may have misunderstood me, I don't want to build it in one go..."

He also carefully organized his words and said: "Infrastructure can be built slowly, and the materials can be arranged locally. There are so many trees behind Qianmu Mountain. When there is nothing, I will arrange for my disciples to cut down trees and burn bricks and forge tiles."

"Then we will slowly build bridges and roads, build houses and dojos. During this period, we can slowly save money. If we can't use the treasures of heaven and earth, we can use spiritual objects instead. And we already have a water spirit spirit vein. .”

Zhao Qing was startled when he heard this. He thought Wang Ping wanted to build the formation quickly, just like the previous Yi Pavilion. He didn't expect that he could do it slowly. This made him immediately energetic and asked: "Dare you ask me, senior brother?" , is there a specific time?”

Since Wang Ping entered the country, many people would subconsciously be in awe when dealing with him, such as Zhao Qing. Now when he faces Wang Ping, his tone of voice is the same as when he talks to Taoist Yucheng.

Wang Ping thought for a while and replied: "Within thirty to fifty years, my disciples will also need to enter the country at about this time."

For ordinary people, this time may be half a lifetime, or even a lifetime, but for qi practitioners, it is just a time to build the foundation and gather qi.

"You can give this a try, I'll arrange someone right away!"

Zhao Qing was instantly full of energy and seemed to see hope of entering the country himself.

Wang Ping ignored Zhao Qing and lowered his head to read the account books carefully. With his current mental calculation, these accounts would be sorted out after just one pass.

Two quarters of an hour later, Wang Ping returned the account book to Zhao Qing, who couldn't wait to leave the mountaintop dojo.

Wang Ping took Taoist Yu Lian and Taoist Tongyu to the southern island to practice sword formation for two hours, and then returned to the temple to have lunch. In the afternoon, he did not rush to make elixirs, but took out the wood that Taoist Yucheng gave him. Study of spiritual magic books.

Of course, the first thing he practiced was the ‘Initiation Technique’:
  [The art of enlightenment: Through the unique properties of the wood spirit aura, the puppet is given a certain survival instinct and basic consciousness. Be sure to control the memory and wood spirit aura given during enlightenment, otherwise it will easily collapse. 】

[1: Nourish your puppet like you nourished the locust tree before. Remember to gather your soul first. It won’t take long for you to resonate with your puppet. 】

[2: After resonating with the puppet, immediately give it survival instinct and basic consciousness through the wood spirit aura. Then you can slowly teach it to do things. Please be careful with this step because it is easy to fail. After failure, you have to start over. Come again, or the puppet you have been working on for years or decades will collapse. 】

[Note 1: Remember, it is a puppet. In the basic consciousness given to it, it is best to let it know this, otherwise you will find that you want to smash it! 】

Wang Ping definitely cannot directly refine Taoist Tongyu's puppet now. The object of his current experiment is a simple puppet made by himself, but it also consumes a lot of spiritual materials. For this reason, he also specially asked Taoist Tongyu to learn how to refine it. and carpentry machinery.

(End of this chapter)