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Chapter 131: Comprehensive Summary, Lifang Grinding Teeth
October th.

morning.

Although the convoy's medicinal materials had been processed, the matter was not completely over.

There are also mountains of drug residues that need to be dealt with.

Specifically speaking, the medicinal properties of each herb have been reduced by 70% to 80%.

It is difficult to stimulate the remaining medicinal power using ordinary methods.

However, if it is combined with wine brewing and with the help of the fermentation of the wine, it can be almost completely stimulated and dissolved in the wine.

The large area outside the Wei family compound is still a scene of bustling work.

However, compared with the previous scene of nearly 400 people working together, the scene of 70 or 80 people seemed just so-so.

The work that Geng Xuan has to do is much simpler than brewing various pills.

He only needs to analyze and judge the medicinal properties of the residue when the brewing process enters the stage of mixing ingredients.

Instruct them on which medicinal residues to add and how much to add to complete the work.

He doesn't need to do anything himself, he just needs to talk and provide technical guidance.

After these days of training, the Giant Bear Gang is no stranger to brewing medicinal wine.

In addition, many steps involved simple physical labor, and everyone in the Giant Bear Gang joined in, so the progress was extremely fast.

Wandering among more than a dozen brewing groups, Geng Xuan still had time to think about his own cultivation progress.

Starting from October 17, Geng Xuan upgraded the marrow refining technique "Wanjun Jin" from the small success level to the great success level, injecting new impetus into the efficient improvement of the marrow refining level.

Nine days passed, and the rapid improvement momentum brought by the "Wanjun Power" of the Great Accomplishment Realm gradually faded.

The level of marrow refining also increased from "30%" nine days ago to "48%".

As his marrow refining skills became deeper and deeper, Geng Xuan could clearly feel that not only the basic qualities of all aspects of his body had improved to varying degrees.

The body’s integration becomes more complete and deeper.

After Geng Xuan advanced from entry level to minor success in the "Wanjun Power", he was able to produce the effect of four stacks of one power.

After advancing from minor success to major success, Geng Xuan could immediately produce the effect of six stacks of power.

At that time, Geng Xuan could clearly feel that this was not the limit of the "Wanjun Jin" of the Great Accomplishment Realm, but the limit of what his body could endure at that time.

It was also at that time that Geng Xuan clearly experienced that the use of "Wanjun Jin" also had a huge burden on the body.

Once it exceeds the limit that the body can bear, even if the "Wanjun Jin" is mastered to a higher level, it will not be able to be fully exerted.

However, after the marrow refining level was raised to "40%", this feeling of being unable to bear the body suddenly disappeared.

He could finally unleash the "Wanjun Jin" of the Great Accomplishment Realm with all his strength, creating a terrifying effect of eight stacks of power.

Whether the marrow refining level has exceeded "40%" is the key to measuring whether a person's cultivation has broken through from the early stage of marrow refining to the middle stage.

——The standard for breaking through from the early stage to the middle stage of the Marrow Refining Realm is that the two achievements other than Marrow Refining are more than 80%, and the Marrow Refining achievement is more than 40%.

It was also this experience that made Geng Xuan realize that the standard division between the early and middle stages of marrow refining was not groundless.

Looking at Geng Xuan's current achievements in body tempering, he is only one step away from reaching the middle stage of marrow refining.

Compared to nine days ago, the achievement of skin refining increased by 0.1%, the achievement of flesh refining increased by 0.2%, the achievement of blood refining increased by 0.6%, and the achievement of bone refining increased by 0.3%.

[Refining skin to 82%, refining flesh to 79%, refining blood to 70%, refining bones to 60%, refining marrow to 48%]

Among them, the "Tidal Breathing" of the Grandmaster Realm and the "Wanjun Power" of the Great Accomplishment Realm that brought about the rapid growth of flesh and marrow refining have both gradually lost their momentum.

Just now, Geng Xuan had consumed ninety-six and thirty-two points of luck respectively, raising his Grandmaster Realm's "Tidal Breathing" to the perfect state, and his Great Accomplishment Realm's "Wanjun Jin" to the master level.

What Geng Xuan is considering now is whether the focus of his cultivation in the next period of time should be on refining the marrow or refining the flesh.

It doesn't mean that if you focus on one direction, the other direction will completely stop growing.

However, based on previous experience, a slowdown in growth is inevitable.

As for taking both into consideration without distinguishing between the important and the unimportant, that is naturally also an option.

The result is that the growth progress of both is compromised, slightly worse than when the focus is on one direction, but better than completely "letting it go".

After pondering for a while, Geng Xuan made a decision.

"Let's focus on refining the body. Extract the full value of the Perfection Tidal Breathing Technique. The changes in strength will be more obvious."

That afternoon, Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng, Chai Ye and others came to the Wei family compound again.

This time, the combined number of people in the eight villages is even greater than before.

Except for occasionally going out to give timely instructions on the mixing of ingredients, Geng Xuan stayed in the main hall that afternoon.

Not only Geng Xuan, Luo Qing led most of the Giant Bear Gang members, Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng, Chai Ye and more than 40 other figures from the eight families, all gathered here.

The main hall, which was originally quite spacious, became small and cramped due to the presence of sixty or seventy people.

The reason why both sides are so serious is that they are conducting comprehensive consultations on the second phase of cooperation.

Although the two parties had cooperated many times before, the categories of their cooperation were very limited, with only single products such as blood-replenishing pills.

After four transactions, Geng Xuan sold a total of 80,000 blood-replenishing pills, and the transaction of blood-replenishing pills ended.

Now, the two sides have started comprehensive negotiations on all future cooperation matters other than blood-replenishing pills.

The most important of these is naturally the unit price of various goods.

From the experience of blood-replenishing pills, we can see that even if the difference is only a few hundred coins, when the transaction volume reaches tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of pills, it will be a difference of thousands or even tens of thousands of taels.

This is a huge sum of money that no one can ignore.

Besides, this is just a commodity.

If you add up all the goods being negotiated today, the difference in price of each item by a few hundred wen would amount to a fluctuation of more than 100,000 taels.

What's more, the expected price range of the same product by both parties even differed by several taels or even more than ten taels. The fluctuation was so large that it made all the people involved in the negotiations tremble with fear.

Whether it was the "professionals" in Bajiafang who were good at bargaining and price protection, or the small business operators on the Giant Bear Gang who were known for "shortchanging weights and measures" and were also extremely sensitive to unit prices, this was a big project that they had never encountered before in their lives.

Such enormous pressure forced all those involved in the price negotiations to take the matter extremely seriously.

However, although the atmosphere was solemn, it was not as tense as the first negotiation on the price of the blood-replenishing pills.

The two sides in the fight, one side tried its best to push the unit price down, while the other side tried its best to push the unit price up.

However, the words of both sides were very restrained. There was no unreasonable throwing tantrums, and the reasons given were all reasonable and well-founded.

The real decision makers of both sides, Geng Xuan, Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng, Chai Ye, and other neighborhood leaders, sat aside with a rather relaxed look.

He drank his leisure tea and listened with a relaxed expression.

When it is discovered that the negotiations between the two parties have entered a certain zone and are about to enter the most brutal and most exhausting "close combat".

They will also take the initiative to call a halt and reach a consensus on the unit price of such products, allowing the negotiators on both sides to continue to negotiate on the unit price of the next product.

The reason why the decision makers of both sides were so easy to talk to this time was that they had cooperated on blood-replenishing pills in the first phase, and both sides reaped huge rewards.

The tangible and huge profits have provided a solid and strong foundation for mutual trust between the two sides.

With such a foundation, we will naturally be willing to show more goodwill to each other in the subsequent cooperation.

Geng Xuan sold 80,000 blood-replenishing pills to Wei Wanzong and others, each pill costing 21 taels and 500 wen, for a total of an astonishing 1,720,000 taels of silver.

Because the amount of silver was too large, after the last transaction of blood-replenishing pills was completed, Geng Xuan transported another one million taels of silver away alone.

Xuanyou horses carried ten carriages loaded with silver, entered the underground network of Kangleji through the underground tunnel connected to the Wei family study, and returned empty-handed after two or three hours.

Geng Xuan made a lot of money, and Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng and the other eight families also made a lot of money this time.

Geng Xuan estimated that they earned 650,000 to 700,000 taels of silver from these 80,000 blood-replenishing pills alone.

This is already higher than the total income from an autumn hunt in Bajiafang.

——Not only medicinal materials, but also gains in other aspects.

It was not until nightfall that the negotiations between the two sides came to an end.

Although the transaction of Xuanyou Pill has not yet been officially launched, the price has been agreed upon: forty taels per pill.

As for the transaction quantity, Geng Xuan, who had refined a total of 13,652 pills, thought about it and decided to sell only 3,000 pills.

The remaining more than 10,000 pieces were all kept in hand.

……

The unit price of Essence Pill was set at fifty-four taels per pill.

Before the price increase, the Essence Pill was 30 taels per pill, which is three times the price of the Blood Replenishing Pill at 11 taels per pill.

The reason why the final unit price was only fifty-four taels per pill, instead of three times the transaction price of the Blood Replenishing Pills, was because the medicinal power contained in the Essence Pill was not three times that of the Blood Replenishing Pills.

Simply because it is more refined, it can be digested and take effect faster than swallowing three blood-replenishing pills.

In combat scenarios where quick recovery is urgently needed, and for high-level practitioners who are not so sensitive to price, they will naturally prefer Essence Pills.

But that was before the general price increase. Now, if the prices of Blood Replenishing Pills and Essence Pills were both tripled, many people who originally favored Essence Pills would choose Blood Replenishing Pills instead.

As for taking more pills and taking more time to digest, that is acceptable.

This makes the rising momentum of Jingyuan Pills far less strong than that of Blood-Replenishing Pills.

As for the transaction quantity, Geng Xuan, who had refined a total of 12,467 pills, decided to sell 10,000 pills.

The remaining 2,400 or so were kept in hand.

……

A total of 8,439 tranquilizing pills were refined, and the unit price was set at 70 taels per pill. Geng Xuan decided to sell 7,500 pills.

The remaining more than 900 are kept in hand.

The most tedious and time-consuming negotiations were over conventional medicines such as hemostatic powder, detoxification pills, and anthelmintic powder.

It’s not because the psychological expectations of both parties are too different, but because their categories are too many and too complicated, and even the same medicine has many levels of quality because of the different medicinal materials used.

The negotiating parties need to make clear identification of each category and each grade.

Compared with Xuanyou Dan, Jingyuan Dan, and Anshen Wan, even the best quality ones have a much lower unit price.

But they have many categories and large quantities.

After the final statistics, the transaction amount reached a staggering 850,000 taels, and Geng Xuan still had nearly 10,000 taels worth of medicine in his hands that were not sold out.

Finally, the two sides agreed on the unit price of the medicinal wine.

The unit price of high-quality medicinal liquor was set at thirty-four taels per catty, while the unit price of ordinary quality medicinal liquor was set at eighteen taels, five hundred wen per catty.

When the last item was finalized, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng and others immediately paid 1.065 million taels and took away 10,000 Essence Pills and 7,500 Tranquilizing Pills.

Among them, 540,000 taels is the cost of 10,000 Essence Pills.

Five hundred and twenty-five thousand taels is the cost of 7,500 tranquilizing pills.

Geng Xuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The Eight-Family Fang was really shaking this time.

Before this, they couldn't even come up with 430,000 taels of silver in cash at once, and they had to circulate the money among the various families.

But now, more than one million taels of cash can be mobilized immediately.

From this perspective, the benefits gained by Bajiafang far exceeded the gains from an autumn hunt.

The cooperation between the two parties has only been completed halfway!

After completing this transaction, Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng, Chai Ye and others left without even a moment's delay.

This time, the so-called bottling costs were not even mentioned.

Faced with the silver boxes piled up all over the yard, Geng Xuan once again arranged for Luo Qing and others to load one million taels of silver onto a truck and transport them away.

……

Three days later, October 29th.

Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng and others appeared again.

This time, they paid 970,000 taels of silver and took away 850,000 taels of all medicines including hemostatic powder, detoxification pills, and anthelmintic powder.

At the same time, he also took away all the 3,000 Xuanyou Pills worth 120,000 taels.

Compared with the previous transactions, this time, a lot of vehicles were used to transport all the drugs.

And this time, compared to the previous times, they will be gone longer.

One reason is that the quantity of those medicines is too large. To integrate them as "unnoticed" as possible into the "pool" of more than a dozen surrounding markets requires slower and more meticulous efforts.

If they hit it too hard, it would easily cause obvious splashes of water, which is not what they want to see.

Another reason is that Fan Hongsheng has been the chairman of Kangle Auto Dealership for more than ten days.

It was time for him to fulfill his promise to the other members of Kangleji.

A real, large fleet of vehicles loaded with a variety of Kangleji specialty goods, which was grandly organized by Kangleji Vehicle Company, is fully ready and prepared to head to other markets.

This time, Fan Hongsheng and others will mix 850,000 taels of medicine into it, just as Geng Xuan described the first time, and "calmly" inject it into the "pool water" of more than a dozen surrounding markets.

It will certainly take longer than before.

Before they left, Geng Xuan also gave some instructions to Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng and others.

“I didn’t give you too many Xuanyou Pills because they are too sensitive.

If you are not careful, you may be involved in great danger.

My opinion is that you'd better use all these Xuanyou Pills for yourselves and not sell them.

Anyway, you now have the channel of Kangleji Car Dealership.

Throwing the Xuanyou Pill into it can significantly increase the operating efficiency of the vehicle company, and the value of the Xuanyou Pill can be realized in a more obscure way.

This is safer than just selling the Xuanyou Pills directly."

Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng and the others exchanged glances, then nodded solemnly, saying, "Thank you, Gang Leader Su, for the reminder. We'll take note of it."

Afterwards, Geng Xuan ordered Luo Qing and others to load one million taels of silver into a carriage, which he drove alone into an underground tunnel and hid together with the carriage in a place known only to him.

From then on, starting from the first batch of blood-replenishing pills to the end of this transaction, Wei Wanzong and others paid a total of 3,755,000 taels of silver to Geng Xuan.

Among them, 3.7 million taels were transferred away by Geng Xuan.

What remained in the Wei family, together with the spoils of war, amounted to only a few hundred thousand taels of silver.

……

October 30th, afternoon.

Geng Xuan mixed the last portion of medicinal residue into the steamed fine brew as an ingredient, and after everyone had thoroughly mixed and added koji, he put it into earthen jars to enter the fermentation stage.

From Geng Xuan to Luo Qing, Wang Xun and everyone else in the Giant Bear Gang breathed a sigh of relief.

it is finally over!
Luo Qing immediately arranged for people to restore the Wei family compound and the surrounding bumpy ground to its original state and carried out a thorough cleaning.

After distributing today's wages, all seventy or eighty people from various neighborhoods who were skilled in brewing were dismissed.

Seeing that there was still some time before the break, Luo Qing held a thick stack of books and gave Geng Xuan a comprehensive report on the expenses of the past few days.

“The biggest expense is on charcoal.

Charcoal is needed to process various medicinal materials, refine various pills and medicines, steam and cook fine grains for brewing medicinal wine, including three meals a day, making tea and boiling water.

In the past half month, the total consumption of charcoal was nearly 510,000 jin. Based on the selling price of 16 wen per jin, the expenditure on this item alone was 8,132 taels, 540 wen.

The second largest cost is labor, which totals 6,376 taels.”

"In addition, the fine grain used to brew the medicinal wine consumed a total of 14,650 catties, at 28 wen per catty, for a total expenditure of 2,930 taels and 200 wen."

"Then the food expenses totaled 1,188 taels and 600 coins."

After reporting here, Luo Qing added a few more words:
“At the beginning, I set the daily fee per person at around 200 wen.

In the first few days, when there were no large numbers of people coming in, all the food was fresh food provided by Wanfufang, and then cooked and processed in the Wei family kitchen by Hong Quan, Cheng Hui and their families and several experienced gang members.

Later, as a large number of people came in, the number of people eating every day reached more than four hundred or nearly five hundred. They were so busy that they had to entrust the people in Wanfufang to process the cooked food and provide it to people from other places.

There are only about forty or fifty of us. For safety reasons, we should directly purchase the fresh food and have our people cook it in the Wei family kitchen.

For this reason, in order not to compromise the quality of the dishes, an additional processing fee was added, bringing the average daily cost per person to approximately 300 wen. "In addition, the cost of various utensils was 1,426 taels and 580 wen.

Including the use of the Wei family mansion and the land outside Wanfufang, the payment was 1,174 taels and 800 wen."

"Then there's the issue of water use. Because water demand has surged, the Wei family's well is no longer sufficient.

In order to ensure water supply, Wanfufang had to arrange dozens of people to transport water every day at its peak.

I didn't have time to record every bucket of water with them, so I simply negotiated a fixed price, including labor, equipment, etc., for a total of 800 taels."

"Then we spent 1,300 taels on horse feed."

Geng Xuan, who had been listening quietly without saying anything, finally couldn't help but say:

"so much?"

Luo Qing nodded and said:
"By the 18th, the team's stock of horse feed had been completely used up.

I tried my best to purchase according to the original horse feed ratio of the team, investing twenty cents per catty, and a Xuanyou horse eats about sixty catties a day.

This time, I directly purchased enough food for the thirty-six Xuanyou horses to last them a month."

"In other words, a Xuanyou horse consumes one and two hundred coins worth of food a day?"

Geng Xuan remembered it very clearly. Even though every meal consisted of delicious meat and fish and several main dishes, the daily cost per person was only two or three hundred coins.

The daily consumption of a Xuanyou horse is equivalent to the consumption of four or five people.

Moreover, people's dietary standards can continue to decline. If we just want to ensure that we can live a relatively good life, there is enough room for reduction by more than ten times.

However, Xuanyou Horse's dietary standards cannot be changed at all.

By that calculation, in the extreme case, raising a Xuanyou horse is enough to feed fifty or sixty humans.

Is it that the Xuanyou horse is too precious, or that human life is too cheap, or... too tenacious?
The food standards for Xuanyou Horse can only be increased, not decreased.

But people are different. They can survive by eating meat and fish every day, and they can also survive by eating a bowl of rice porridge every day.

"Well... that's right. However, if we go by the market price, it won't be that much. Six hundred coins a day will be enough."

Geng Xuan nodded. This sounded more reasonable, but the ratio of people to horses did not change.

He looked at the last item in the book and asked curiously, "What is this last five hundred taels listed under 'others'?"

Luo Qingdao:
"It's mainly the cost of the hundreds of underground jars, as well as the cost of Wanfufang arranging people to dig and bury these underground jars, and the cost of leveling the ground.

In addition, with more things to do, some extra manpower is always needed to do some chores. The extra manpower arranged by Wanfufang are also included in this, and the total additional expenditure is 500 taels.

Originally, they wanted to negotiate with me about the cost of transporting 500,000 kilograms of charcoal and 100,000 kilograms of fine grain from all over the place.

I insisted that these costs were included in the unit price of charcoal and refined grain, and they gave up. "

"From the beginning till now, the total expenditure is 23,828 taels and 720 coins."

Geng Xuan nodded slightly.

Each of these may not sound like much, but when you add them all up, it's a pretty staggering number.

“For the next period of time, we will have some expenses for food and lodging at the Wei family, but compared to the previous expenses, this is not very large.

However, after the medicinal wine is brewed, there will be a considerable expenditure." Luo Qing concluded after closing the last book after finishing his report.

Geng Xuan nodded and said, "Thank you for taking the trouble to keep such a clear account... How much do you have in stock now?"

Upon hearing this, Luo Qing took out a book from a pile and said to Geng Xuan while turning the pages:
"There is 118,971 taels and 280 coins in silver."

"The remaining medicines that were not sold this time, plus the various medicines that were seized in the past, are worth about 15,000 taels of hemostatic powder, detoxification pills, anthelmintic powder and other conventional medicines, based on the market price before the increase this time."

"There are also 5,764 blood-replenishing pills."

"Two thousand five hundred and eighty Essence Pills."

"Nine hundred and thirty-nine tranquilizing pills."

"Xuanyou Pills, 10,657 pieces."

"Three hundred kilograms of high-quality medicinal wine."

"There is also horse feed to last until the middle of next month, and dry food for everyone in our gang for five days."

"There are also 267 weapons with a total value of more than 34,000 taels."

"A whole box of books and notes related to medicine."

"We sorted out the cultivation techniques ourselves, as well as those confiscated from Zhong Yuanba, Anleji's convoy, Lu's guards, Zang Zigao and others. There are a total of 67 sets of cultivation techniques."

"There are also 168 modified carriages and wagons, tents for camping in the wild, and a number of chevaux de frise."

Geng Xuan nodded slightly and said:

"Keep twenty or thirty strong and durable carriages, and don't keep the others. Burn them as firewood."

"Yes."

"Everyone has worked hard these days, so don't keep the 300 kilograms of medicinal wine. Take it out and share it with everyone."

"Yes."

As he responded, Luo Qing smiled and said, "The gang leader is giving out benefits to everyone again. Everyone will be happy for a while after hearing this."

You should know that these 300 kilograms of medicinal wine were all obtained from Zang Zigao's private collection, and they are all high-quality medicinal wines.

According to the unit price agreed upon by Geng Xuan, Wei Wanzong and others, it would cost thirty-four taels to buy one catty.

If these three hundred kilograms were sold for silver, it would be twelve hundred taels.

This is no small sum of money.

Geng Xuan nodded lightly and casually, not taking it to heart. Instead, he was thinking about something else. While thinking, he said:

"You should discuss with Wang Xi, Ding Yong, Teng Yu and others how to distribute these medicinal wines.

However, there are two points I would like to mention separately. ”

"You say." Luo Qing sat up straight.

“First, this time when distributing, don’t separate the gangs into those inside and those outside.

Hong Quan, Cheng Hui, Xie Hang and their families, as well as Wei Yang, Yu Ze and others, have all done their best to ensure that they are not left behind.

Don’t discriminate against each other, and try to arrange it according to each person’s actual contribution.”

"Another thing, what you just said about modifying the carriage reminded me.

The last time Baiyuanji and his group came, Qian Dong, who presided over the modification of the carriage and later presided over the production of the raft, should have made an additional contribution.

At that time, I was thinking of giving him some extra rewards afterwards, but later I had a lot of things to do and forgot about it.

You should take this opportunity to put an end to this matter."

"...Yes." Luo Qing stood up and responded.

At this moment, he was inexplicably touched.

This is different from the feelings brought about by the gang leader's inhuman behavior. They seem to be some very trivial things, but they always inexplicably hit a certain spiritual point.

It makes people feel emotional.

The last time was when the gang leader paid extra attention to the disabled Zhang Ming.

This time, it was an afterthought for someone's poor handling of his contribution, which had already passed, and which I remembered only after a long time.

Luo Qing thought he was "meticulous" enough, and the accounts he recorded were accurate to the penny.

But even though he was so particular about details, every time he heard the gang leader talk about this, he couldn't help but reflect:
"Why didn't I notice something like this?"

The answer is also very simple, it is not because he is not meticulous enough.

But except for Boss Su, everyone, including him, assumed that these were not problems.

……

After a busy October, when time entered November, Geng Xuan had some free time.

On the first day of the new year, Geng Xuan disappeared from the Wei family for the entire day.

Half a month later, he finally returned to Changpingfang again.

He thought that since he hadn't shown up for so long, he would have to give an explanation.

However, he didn't expect that his reappearance would attract any attention at all.

Occasionally I saw someone, but they were always in a hurry.

Zeng Rou and Chen Xiaoyu are not at home.

After understanding the situation, Geng Xuan realized from another perspective how big a stir his actions had caused in Bajiafang.

In order not to cause turmoil in the market and thus attract the attention of interested parties.

Whether it is the 500,000 kilograms of charcoal or the more than 100,000 kilograms of fine grain, they are all additional expenses of Bajiafang in addition to ensuring the normal supply to the market.

In Geng Xuan's opinion, this is not much.

Five hundred thousand kilograms of charcoal is only two hundred and fifty tons.

One hundred thousand jin of fine grain is only fifty tons.

But the key point is this "extra".

This is a demand in addition to normal demand, and the supply must be met within just half a month.

Many families in various neighborhoods who had no dealings with charcoal in the past have joined the ranks of cutting firewood and making charcoal.

These 100,000 jin of fine grain were also the "unplanned" supplies that each household had planned to store for the winter and that remained after selling the surplus grain to the rice shops.

It is also impossible for the local residents to purchase these grains from Kangle Market.

The practice of the neighborhood was to first allocate a sufficient amount from each household and send it to the Wei family compound in Wanfufang for his use.

After the withdrawal, facing the situation that the inventory was not enough to survive the winter, each family naturally had to turn their attention to the treasure house of Chiwu Mountain again.

Therefore, less than a month after the end of the autumn hunt, each neighborhood secretly organized a small-scale autumn hunt to make up for the shortfall from Chiwu Mountain.

This is certainly not without cost.

This is likely to lead to a decrease in next year's autumn hunting harvest. The villages and towns that rely on the mountains for their livelihood have a very good understanding of "sustainable hunting" and will try their best to avoid the eradication of hunting and gathering.

When hunting, they will let the young animals go, and when gathering, they will consciously save seeds for next year.

This time, in order to meet his needs, each neighborhood made a slight exception.

And all this has to be done when the neighborhood is severely short of staff.

You know, in order to ensure the safety of the convoy departing from Kangleji, in addition to the forces and manpower that were openly arranged by all the districts in Kangleji and were known to them, each district also secretly sent more personnel to escort and support along the way.

For example, in Changpingfang, nearly half of the hunting teams participated in this matter.

Chen Zheng is now leading the members of his hunting team and secretly following around the convoy.

For the eight villages around Kangle Village, every transaction with Geng Xuan would bring them extremely generous rewards.

But every time he handed over hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels of silver to Geng Xuan and took away the corresponding goods, it was a all-in gamble.

There is no room for any mistakes.

If something goes wrong once, it means that all the profits earned so far will be lost, and the capital of each village will also be lost.

Because everyone is aware of this, in this cooperation, each neighborhood does not dare to have any selfish thoughts.

From arranging a completely overflowing guard force around the convoy, either overtly or covertly, to emergency activities within each neighborhood, and then to maintaining a normal posture in Kangleji.

We have truly achieved concerted efforts, sharing of resources, and sincere cooperation.

If outsiders saw that these eight families, stimulated by the unexpected wealth of over one million taels, had done things to this extent, they would certainly be extremely shocked.

If Bajiazhongfang can do this, then if they want to start a war, they only need an opportunity.

Geng Xuan was quite moved when he learned about this.

Luo Qing, who was in charge of coordinating accounts with the local community, had always been dissatisfied with their insistence on money and their insistence on arguing over every penny.

According to him, all the fees we paid were double the market price, which is already a huge profit.

As a result, the local residents still did not let go of a single penny, even charging for a bucket of water.

But he learned from inside Changpingfang that in order to force all the "waves" inside the inner block, each inner block had carried out a general mobilization that was no less than the level of autumn hunting. He felt that this double market price was justified.

Even if each family asked for a little more, it would be reasonable.

Although Wei Wanzong and others were also "meticulous" about every ounce and every penny in front of him, they did not mention a word about what the various neighborhoods had done and to what extent.

If the various families had not done things to this extent, it would not have been so easy for him to earn these millions of taels of silver.

Apart from anything else, if it weren't for Wei Wanzong and the others combining their strength with the Eight Families, working tirelessly to and fro in the dozen or so markets around Chiwu Mountain over and over again, even if he himself had these pills and medicines, it would have been difficult for him to easily cash in millions of taels of silver as he does now.

The reason why the profit was so huge this time was due to his extraordinary talent in pharmaceutical manufacturing, which allowed him to squeeze out the value of this batch of medicinal materials to the maximum extent possible.

Without being modest, if someone else were to take charge, even if that person was a so-called pharmaceutical expert like Zang Zigao, and could eventually produce pills and medicines that were about 60% to 70% as good as Zang Zigao's, he would be considered outstanding in talent.

In addition, Wuyou Palace and Anleji jointly purchased more than 80% of the medicinal materials around Chiwu Mountain, causing panic price increases for various medicines.

If these two factors were not present, under normal circumstances, Geng Xuan guessed that the medicinal materials purchased with 245,000 taels of silver could only be converted into finished medicines worth about one million taels.

……

Because Chen Rongshan covered for him and everyone in the neighborhood was busy, no one noticed Geng Xuan's strange behavior.

But Geng Xuan realized that, whether actively or passively, he had gradually left Changpingfang, the "newbie village".

After returning underground, Geng Xuan first spent some time filling up the entrance to the ground and the basement below that was used as camouflage.

Only a dark hole that leads to the ground in a serpentine shape and a larger underground space deeper underground were left untouched.

Then he dug out all the collections buried here.

Including all weapons, all martial arts manuals, and all silver.

There were also more than 290 kilograms of high-quality medicinal wine obtained from Li Xun's underground secret room, as well as the inferior medicinal wine obtained in exchange for the autumn hunt, which was given to Dahuang and Baxiao to drink. The unused part was all loaded into the cart by Geng Xuan.

Dahuang and Baxiao, who came with Geng Xuan, seemed to have sensed something as well. They ran back and forth in the place where Dahuang gave birth to Baxiao and where they played, chased and fought each other.

He put his nose to the ground and sniffed around.

Oh, Baxiao is not small anymore now.

Compared to when I first arrived at the Wei family compound, it is much bigger.

Now, only one month and two days have passed since they were born, but with their huge bodies, abundant physical strength and vigorous energy, no one would doubt that they are already eight or nine months old.

Now, the traces of Dahuang's skin shedding shortly after giving birth are no longer visible.

Its body is larger than before, covered with fluffy and soft fur, its movements are agile and vigorous, its demeanor is calm and relaxed, and it is extremely spiritual.

"gone."

Geng Xuan gave a shout and pushed all his belongings into the passage that was more than 500 meters long and extended to the river with a ten-meter drop.

Then, turn into the underground tunnel, enter the Kangleji underground network, and then enter the Wanfufang underground tunnel.

When Geng Xuan entered the underground network of Kangleji from the underground tunnel of Changpingfang through the secret hole he dug himself, he took some time to completely seal the exit.

This certainly does not mean that he will never return to Changpingfang from then on.

If he wants to go back, he can go back anytime.

You can try Aunt Zeng Rou's food, play with Chen Xiaoyu, or take a nap without doing anything.

It’s just that “home court” will gradually evolve into “guest home”, that’s all.

Geng Xuan did not show any pretentious sentimentality about this.

The iron cart was disassembled into separate parts and buried at a random place in the underground tunnel.

Geng Xuan took all his belongings and returned to the temporary room next to the study.

He left behind the "Earth-Walking Chapter", "Running Dog Chapter", "Medicine Stone Chapter" and the inherited skills of Changpingfang obtained from Li Xun, and gave all other skills, including all weapons, to Luo Qing.

"Put them all into storage."

　There is so much data that it is a headache. Although it is made up, it is not random.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)