Infinite Brilliant Scroll

Chapter 395 Sima's Appraisal

The East China Sea is vast, rich in products, and numerous chambers of commerce.

The most powerful at the moment is the Jinghai Chamber of Commerce, which dominates the three continents of Jinghai. It was founded by the Sima family and has always been controlled by this family. It is said that there are four earth immortals in the association, and there are many descendants in the past. Far broadcast.

Others, such as Qibao Chamber of Commerce, Yacha Chamber of Commerce, Kamikaze Chamber of Commerce, etc., also have their own strengths, and there are more or less Earth Immortals sitting in their towns. However, these chambers of commerce are either controlled by aristocratic families or run by sects.

Only Wanchuan Haiji was originally jointly established by three Earth Immortals who were born in casual cultivators. In the past 30 years, there has been a lot of momentum, and those small-scale merchants in Middle-earth and Eastern Desolation Continent also love to trade in such places.

The three casual cultivators of the Earth Immortal Realm are Lin, Kong, and Xiao, who are bound together with Jinlan and call each other brothers.

Lin Zhiyuan, who was the leader, mastered Nanming Lihuo, and his attainments in refining weapons can be called a master craftsman, and his level of alchemy is also quite extraordinary.

The second-ranked Kong leans on the fence and is able to make good decisions. As long as he comes forward to resolve disputes caused by transactions in Wanchuan Haiji, the mediation will definitely be fair and convincing to the public.

Xiao Fangshu, ranked third, has a sword with a fragrance of fragrance in one hand, extraordinary handsomeness, affectionate and affectionate, and is also good at cultivating exotic flowers and herbs.

However, after the riot half a year ago, when it was heard that Lin Zhiyuan had died, Xiao Fangshu exposed his demonic cultivation, was seriously injured, and was suppressed by the Sima family.

Now Kong Pinglan is the only one who presides over affairs in Xuanran Garden.

When Yu Xiangdou, Guan Luoyang, and Yuan Taixi arrived at Xuanran Garden, they were led to a vast courtyard.

In the center of the courtyard, there is a high platform, surrounded by many flower trees, and among the flower trees, there are jade stones as the ground. Tables, refreshments, and couches are arranged.

Looking around, there are more than a thousand flowers and trees around the high platform, and more than a thousand tables, more than half of which are already filled.

Yu Xiangdou didn't go forward either, after entering the courtyard, he found a seat on the outermost edge, and called Guan Luoyang and Yuan Taixi to sit nearby.

He looked from a distance and found that most of the people around Kong Pinglan had become familiar faces, and the only one who was a little familiar was Wan Chuan Haiji.

"Sure enough, the Sima family has reached out to Wanchuan Haiji."

Yu Xiangdou whispered to himself, his eyes were fixed on a silver-robed old man on the left hand side of Kong Pinglan.

The old man has silver hair and a silver robe, black eyebrows and black beard, high nose and protruding eyes. Those eyes that look a little swollen, but between looking around, they are full of light. .

After waiting for a while, although the seats were not full, everyone seemed to have arrived.

Kong leaned on the railing, dressed in a coarse gray robe, with a fierce face, and his beard and beard were like black curly wires. Once he opened his mouth, he suppressed the faint discussion in Xuanran Garden.

He said a few words on the scene, and then cut to the point.

"... Today's Wanchuan Haiji is no longer the Wanchuan of yesterday. Things have changed, people have changed, and the rules will naturally have to be changed."

Kong Pinglan said, "In the past years, Wanchuan Haiji only collected taxes and didn't know how to change it. It is really irresponsible to the colleagues who come and go here. From this year, we will carefully identify and re-price the goods brought here by the colleagues. , all Wanchuanhai concentrated transactions must be carried out according to the price we set."

As soon as these words came out, the many merchants who were invited couldn't bear it immediately, and there were many discussions.

Kong turned a deaf ear to the railing, and invited the silver-robed old man to come on stage, and said: "This is Master Sima Huiming from the Whale Sea Chamber of Commerce. I believe many fellow Taoists have heard of it, or have met a few times."

"Master Huiming's cultivation has reached the peak of Sanxian. Although he has not yet reached the level of Earth Immortal, he is erudite about the past and the present, and his divine eye skills are superb. He can identify the world's products, identify the good and the bad, and his knowledge is so profound that Kong is willing to bow down."

"In the Jinghai Chamber of Commerce, Master Huiming is responsible for evaluating goods. It has been a hundred years without any mistakes. His group of proud disciples is to let them stay in Wanchuan Haiji permanently, to benefit the majority of comrades who come to Wanchuan Haiji."

After saying this, an old man in blue robe stood up near the high platform.

"Pindao is naturally deeply grateful for the kindness of Senior Kong, but the rules of Wanchuan Haiji, both big and small, have been slowly corrected in my transactions and suggestions for many years, and now they have been changed hastily. It’s inevitable that I can’t get used to waiting.”

The old saying is humble and polite, "I don't know if you can explain the specific changes first, and then wait for a while to consider the details?"

"Hehehehe."

Sima Huiming laughed, "However the rules change, it's simple. Just do a demonstration. Fellow Daoist, I don't know what kind of goods you're selling, so bring it up and ask the old man to have a look."

The old Taoist in blue robe looked around and saw that everyone was looking at him, so he flipped his hands and took out a Taoist statue from the Qiankun kit on his waist.

"Pimpedao is to transport the statues of the gods and ancestors for the fellow Taoists in the East China Sea. Please go home and add blessings."

The old Taoist came to the stage holding the statue in both hands.

Sima Huiming's face also moved slightly, and he took it with both hands.

It would be fine if it was any other statue, but this statue is in the shape of a turtle-backed crane, with a thick beard and hair, and is dressed in black. It sits on a lying down black cow, resting its cheeks on its hands, seemingly sleeping.

"It turned out to be a statue of Patriarch Qingtian from Beihai."

Sima Huiming's tone was slightly respectful, and he bowed his head to pay tribute, "Patriarch Qingtian is a living celestial being, with supreme merits and virtues, which should not be mentioned lightly."

"but……"

He changed the subject, "Patriarch Qingtian doesn't follow the way of incense. As far as your statue itself is concerned, the material is only 500-year-old peach wood. Some spirituality is transformed by the sculptor and the consecration spell. Please go home." Among them, daily enshrining can only rely on this bit of spirituality to slightly herald misfortune and fortune, and prevent low-ranking alchemists from cursing tricks."

"According to the old man, considering the statue itself, including the shipping cost, it is worth about six Lingyu coins. How much are you going to ask for?"

The blue-robed old man said: "Eight Lingyu."

"Okay!" Sima Huiming said, "Then you can offer twenty Lingyu at the Wanchuan Haiji this year."

The old man in blue robe was taken aback.

Sima Huiming returned the statue to him, and said with a smile, "After you sell it, Wanchuan Haiji will take [-]% of the profit, that is, if you take seven spirit jades from you, you can still make a net profit of seven spirit jades."

"This this……"

The blue-robed old Taoist thought that the new rules of Wanchuan Haiji might be to lower the price, but he didn't expect to raise him so much at once. He felt a little happy instinctively, but felt that something was wrong.

Sima Huiming said again: "Why, aren't you satisfied? Originally, you only planned to earn two spirit jades, but now you can earn seven. As long as you sell one, it is worth as much as you sold three before."

The blue-robed old man recalled: "But the asking price is so high, how can it be sold?"

Sima Huiming laughed loudly: "I can dispel all your worries in this regard."

"I, the Whale Sea Chamber of Commerce, will soon form an alliance with Qibao, Yasha, Kamikaze and other chambers of commerce. From now on, all aspects of pricing will be planned by us."

"The prices of the products on the East China Sea and the goods going to and from the East China Sea are almost the same. They are absolutely impartial. I don't have to worry about which place will not be able to sell them."

The voice fell, and there was silence.

Of all the merchants around, some of them couldn't turn the corner, and they felt a little happy, but they were skeptical, but none of them who were able to come to the East China Sea to do business was not a shrewd person.

When the vast majority of people hear this "great news", their expressions are not very good-looking.

Yu Xiangdou's expression was even more numb.

The price increase sounds like a good thing, and the goods in the three pavilions can also increase significantly.

But those people who are doing business in the East China Sea have never just sold but not bought. Everyone wants to sell as well as buy.

According to Sima Huiming's method, when selling things, everyone may feel that they have made a profit, but when it comes to buying goods, they will find that the things they want to buy have also increased in price.

In the end, the merchant fleets who came to Wanchuan Haiji will not only not earn more, but will earn less than in previous years, and may even lose money.

The casual cultivators who came to buy things were all about to bleed, and the small and medium-sized caravans who came to sell things didn't make any money.

In the end, all I got was...

Guan Luoyang looked at the people on the stage, took a sip from his teacup silently, and wanted to laugh a little.

The existence of profiteers is really ubiquitous. Even in this kind of world where Taoism is prosperous, there is still room for these big profiteers to cause trouble.

Even because of the existence of Taoism, forces like the Sima family appear more straightforward and rude.

Similarly, more bloody!
If it is in a world where the overall situation is relatively stable, and everyone is an ordinary person, the influence caused by a big profiteer of this level may still seem to be a little subtle, and it will slowly eat away. It will take more than ten decades to kill people invisible with pressure among.

But in this kind of world, judging from the news that Guan Luoyang got from communicating with those boat passengers on the boat, many of those boat passengers came to the East China Sea to go to Wanchuan Haiji to buy some protective items, go to some Explore dangerously.

Or buy some elixirs and spiritual herbs to help you pass the small hurdles in your cultivation, heal your relatives and friends, and prepare medicinal incense for your hometown to suppress miasma and expel monsters.

Now that the price of Wanchuan Haiji has risen so much, there must be many people who are casually repairing by boatmen, and they are reluctant to buy supplies according to their original expectations.

In this way, after they go back, what was originally considered a predicament and a dangerous situation may turn into a desperate situation.

Moreover, the wishful thinking of the Sima family will not only affect Donghai.

The caravans traveling to and from the East China Sea did not make any money here. When they returned to Middle-earth and the Eastern Wasteland, they would only increase the prices of East China Sea's specialties so that they could make up for their profits.

It is best not to test the heart of a businessman.

For a person like Yu Xiangdou who has changed his past, when the environment is relaxed, he can take care of his conscience a little bit, but when it comes to serious times in the future, it is naive to rely on his own moral awareness.

"Create a sect..."

Thoughts surged in Guan Luoyang's mind, and he made a decision based on all the news he had inquired during this period, "Let's tentatively set up a sect in the East China Sea."

He looked at the two people on the high platform, "This kind of world, this kind of chamber of commerce, it's not surprising that there are so many damn places to dig deep, but it's a pity that digging is too troublesome and a waste of my time."

"I'm thin-skinned, and it's not good for me to meet just now. Just because of his remarks, I suppressed them and robbed them of their territory... Well, should I sell them the Xuanmen of Heaven and Earth, or sell them two fairy beans..."

Kong on the high platform was leaning on the railing, feeling a little uncomfortable suddenly in his heart, frowning and sensing all sides, but he didn't find anything unusual, and his eyes scanned the surroundings.

"Hey, Yuan Taixi on the list of Sanxian was the peak of Sanxian many years ago. Now it seems that he has a faint sense of being a fairy. It seems that he will go to the third Yinmo catastrophe soon. , this is a good customer, and it is estimated that he will purchase a lot of pills that can help resist Yin demons."

Kong Pinglan's eyes turned, and he glanced at the two people beside Yuantaixi, "Yu Xiangdou in the Santai Hall, and there is a Second Tribulation Sanxian, who is such an immature Second Tribulation Sanxian, a disciple of which famous family?"

He didn't pay too much attention to it, no matter which faction it is, if you don't become an immortal, you don't have anything to care about.

Seeing him withdrawing his gaze, Yuan Taixi felt a little relieved. He had just stepped into the realm of the earth fairy, and he didn't dare to pretend to be a loose fairy forcibly. passed.

However, when Yuan Taixi noticed Guan Luoyang not far away, he felt a little weird.

This fellow Daoist Guan, whom he couldn't see through at all, suddenly became easy to see through at a glance, as if he was really just an ordinary Sanxian who had just entered the second calamity.

Yuan Taixi thought to himself: "What is he doing?" '

Of course, Guan Luoyang was planning to wait for everyone to leave, and as a Second Tribulation Loose Immortal, he would privately ask Master Sima Huiming to appraise the treasure he accidentally obtained.

However, Sima Huiming didn't intend to let the merchants go back and think about it.

Instead, he took out a bright mirror and said: "Everyone, as the saying goes, if you don't take it, you will be blamed instead. Such a great thing is ahead. If you don't know how to seize the opportunity, you still have to hesitate and miss the opening of Wanchuanhai. I am afraid that in the future, you will no longer be welcomed by Donghai merchants."

While speaking, the bright mirror had already projected images of more than a dozen large flags, floating in the air, making loud noises.

These flags are different, Whale Sea, Seven Treasures, Yaksha, Kamikaze, etc., each of the flags exudes the aura that belongs to the earth fairy, and they are different.

This is obviously the imprint left by the earth immortals of the major chambers of commerce.

It is said that they will form an alliance soon, but now it seems that they are clearly in collusion.

At this time, Kong leaned on the fence and flicked his fingers, and the banner representing Wanchuan Haiji was also mixed into it.

Everyone no longer dared to disagree, and only secretly planned how to make up for the shortfall.

Just as Sima Huiming's disciples came up to take away their catalogs and samples and re-price them, a person came outside Xuanran Garden.

"Huh? I heard that Master Huiming is evaluating treasures here. Why are there so many banners on the stage, but no one presenting treasures?"

Wan Mizhai went straight to the high platform, and said with a smile, "I'm old and not talented, I have a few bottles of pills, I would like to invite Master Huiming to evaluate and price them."

Sima Huiming was upset because someone disturbed the atmosphere, but when Wanmizhai took out the bluestone medicine bottle, he was immediately moved, handed the mirror to the disciples around him, and walked forward to greet him quickly.

"Could it be the Great Zhou Doctor, Brother Wan Mizhai Wan Dao?"

Sima Huiming beamed with joy, and said, "Brother Wan Dao has traveled all over China, and has been to overseas and southern borders, and now he has finally arrived in the East China Sea. Why don't you pass on the news first, so that my Sima family can sweep the couch to welcome you."

Many businessmen stood up one after another, and many people saluted Wanmizhai, calling them genius doctors and benefactors.

Even Kong leaned on the railing and took a step forward, saying that he was a fellow Taoist.

Looking at the world, Wan Mi Zhai is probably the only one who has this kind of face in the body of a loose immortal.

He has superb medical skills, although he is only a loose immortal, he can not only treat the injuries of the earth immortals, but he is especially good at treating children.

It is very common for practitioners to fight openly and covertly, and they can't kill their enemies. It is also very common to assassinate the descendants of the opponent's family.

Children are immature, their souls are pure and weak, once they are seriously injured by vicious means, even if there is an earth immortal, it will be difficult to guarantee that it will not affect their future and wisdom, and heal them.

But Wanmizhai can.

Back then, Patriarch Dong Ao of the Xuanjun Divine Sect in the Middle Kingdom personally cast a curse to kill the prince, prince, and princess of the Great Zhou.

It was Da Zhou Grand Master Huangjue Zhenren who went to Nanjiang to invite back to Wanmi Zhai to keep those children, and the prince back then is the current Emperor of Da Zhou.

Moreover, Wan Mi Zhai saves people, the poor don't get a penny, and the rich get ten thousand dollars. People from all walks of life and wealth may all have received his favor.

Sima Huiming said that if he went to Sima's house, Sima's house would sweep the couch to welcome him, it was definitely not empty talk.

"You are welcome."

After Wan Mizhai returned the gift, he sent out a bottle of medicine, "Master, please take a look at this bottle of pills."

Sima Huiming took it carefully, inspected it for a moment, and said, "Konggu Weiyu Pill, I have heard about it for a long time. It can weaken the Yin Demon when the Sanxian is crossing the catastrophe. It is worth five hundred Lingyu."

Wan Mizhai smiled and said, "How about the price?"

Sima Huiming pondered and said: "It will make it easier for Sanxian to survive the second Yin Demon catastrophe, and it will be enough to make some small families go bankrupt. Ask for this thing, two thousand spirit jade."

Wan Mizhai was noncommittal, and took out another medicine bottle: "Please take a look at this medicine."

Sima Huiming said decisively: "Peach City Divine Incense, lighting this incense can clear the minds of ghosts who practice Sanxian Dao, can make monsters who have just entered the Sanxian Realm transform into human beings in advance, and can help peak Sanxians heal their soul injuries. This bottle of The weight is worth one thousand Lingyu, and the price is three thousand five hundred."

Wan Mi Zhai took out the third bottle, the fourth bottle, and the fifth bottle of elixir, and asked them one by one.

Although Sima Huiming answered all of them, the atmosphere has become a little delicate.

Kong leaned on the railing and said, "Fellow Daoist Wan takes the medicines one by one, what exactly do you intend to do?"

Wan Mizhai chuckled and said, "I want to ask, with the value of these elixir, can I exchange it for Wanchuan Haiji's Likan Shuanggong Longbai Stove, and open it for me for two months?"

Sima Huiming's eyes moved slightly, and he said, "Dragon Bait Divine Stove, that is the place where Lin Zhiyuan made weapons and alchemy back then, but this person has fallen into the devil's way secretly, even though he was killed, there is no guarantee that the Divine Stove has not been touched by him." What kind of hands and feet, what does Brother Wan Dao want to use the sacred furnace for?"

Wan Mizhai said: "The old man wants to use the sacred furnace to refine... Huangliang Zhou's magic elixir."

Huang Liang has a dream, Zhou Guang has tried a hundred times, and the illusion has come true.

That is the legendary pill that, with just one pill, can transform a Sanxian and immediately step into the realm of an Earth Immortal.

(End of this chapter)