Star Farming, the eldest lady relies on alchemy to counterattack

Chapter 366 Suzaku Pavilion

The next morning, Yu Mingche was supposed to handle the affairs of the inner quarters and Ning Xuan's various properties as usual. However, Yan Fuzhen had been waiting in the council hall for an hour, but Yu Mingche still hadn't appeared.

Yan Fuzhen went to Yu Mingche's courtyard. Feng Linran glared at Yan Fuzhen with a dark face and said that Yu Mingche was unwell and unable to handle affairs. If there were any difficult matters to decide today, he could report them directly to the head of the family.

Ning Xuan looked at the account books and various documents that Yan Fuzhen had sent over. There was a thick stack of them. She picked them up and flipped through a few. She recognized the words, but she couldn't understand much of the content.

"Are all these things supposed to be dealt with today? Can't we deal with them in a couple of days?" Ning Xuan asked hesitantly.

"Master, these all require urgent approval. They are related to project execution, important personnel appointments and removals, etc., and cannot be delayed," Yan Fuzhen said with a troubled expression.

Among Ning Xuan's contractors and slaves, only Lan Xin has no property under her name. Chen Nan only has two pharmaceutical companies. Di Youlin, Lin Mo, Yun Han and others have many properties under their names. In particular, Ying Yaoshi and Yu Mingche have a lot of private property. These properties are now all under Ning Xuan's name. Previously, they were jointly managed by Yan Fuzhen and Yu Mingche. After Yu Mingche moved into the villa, Yu Mingche took the lead.

Although each company has professional managers to handle things on their behalf, so they don't need to put in much effort, the execution of major projects, the formulation of major decisions and plans, and the appointment and removal of important personnel, which Yan Fuzhen just mentioned, all require the knowledge and authorization of Yan Fuzhen and Yu Mingche.

"Put it here, let me take a look first," Ning Xuan said, sounding a bit of a headache.

After Yan Fuzhen left, Ning Xuan forced herself to pick up the documents and start looking through them. After only a few pages, she felt dizzy and lightheaded. She pushed the documents aside, and suddenly, a file folder with a black and red cover caught her attention.

Ning Xuan pulled out the file folder. It was quite thick and heavy in her hand. Three large red characters were written on it: "Vermilion Bird Pavilion".

Upon seeing the file, Ning Xuan paused. A while ago, she had mentioned to Yu Mingche that she wanted to form an organization that would integrate security, assassination, intelligence gathering and trading, and the escort, collection, and auction of valuable and rare items. After listening to Ning Xuan's suggestions for preparation, Yu Mingche discussed it with Ying Yaoshi and quickly gave a positive answer. After discussion, three names for the organization were proposed based on Ning Xuan's characteristics. In the end, Ning Xuan chose the name Vermilion Bird Pavilion.

Ning Xuan opened the file folder, which contained a thick stack of information cards. The information cards contained detailed information about the candidates. Most of these candidates were between six and ten years old, and generally came from low-level stars of C grade or below. Their mental awakening time was within six years old, and their initial mental strength level was E grade or above.

After a quick glance, Ning Xuan estimated that the stack of information cards contained information on at least several hundred people. She was surprised that they had gathered so many candidates in such a short time. Yu Mingche and Yan Fuzhen were indeed very efficient.

Although these candidates are quite talented, most of them come from resource-poor areas and are orphans without parents or families to rely on. Before being selected into the Vermilion Bird Pavilion, they lived in poverty and often struggled to even have basic meals. In resource-scarce areas, poisonous miasma is common, and the better one's talent, the more susceptible one is to contamination by the miasma. Therefore, if these people were not selected by the Vermilion Bird Pavilion, they might not live to adulthood.

Supporting and training so many people is not as simple as just feeding them. It also requires providing them with various cultivation resources, all of which cost money. Furthermore, in the process of training these hundreds of people, there will inevitably be losses and losses, with a large number being eliminated. Only a small portion of them will truly succeed and be capable of being used.

According to Ning Xuan's original plan, a batch of trainees would be selected for the cabinet every year. As these trainees grew, they would gradually be divided into different levels and enter different regions to serve the organization.

These trainees are repeatedly brainwashed during their training, with the idea that once they enter the Vermilion Bird Pavilion, they are members of the Vermilion Bird Pavilion for life, and swear to serve the Pavilion Master to the death. This is Ning Xuan's own direct force, which she personally built. Although it is currently in the stage of spending a lot of money to build, its future is promising.

Ning Xuan was also thinking that once the preparations were almost complete, she would personally go to the Vermilion Bird Pavilion to teach, and if there were any promising students, she would nurture them in advance.

Beneath this thick stack of file cards lies a large sum of money transfer slip.

This large sum of money transfer order needs to be stamped with Ning Xuan's personal seal and signed before it will be valid.

Ning Xuan then remembered that her personal seal seemed to be with Yu Mingche. Ning Xuan put all the documents into her spatial storage and then got up and went to Yu Mingche's courtyard.

As soon as Ning Xuan arrived at the entrance of Yu Mingche's courtyard, Feng Linran, with a tense and angry face, stopped her. "Miss Ning, the Governor is unwell and needs to rest. Please do not go in and disturb him."

"Did he ask for this himself?" Ning Xuan asked, feeling a little guilty as she recalled what happened last night.

“Yes, Miss Ning,” Feng Linran replied coldly.

"Alright, give him these two bottles of healing potion and tell him I'll come see him again tomorrow." Ning Xuan handed the two bottles of potion to Feng Linran and turned to leave.

Inside Ning Xuan's villa, the security and service personnel are currently divided into two groups: one group consists of Ying Yaoshi's people, and the other group consists of Yu Mingche's people.

It's unclear how the news leaked, but organizations or families like Starry Sky Academy and Starry Sky Council, who were quite familiar with and concerned about Ning Xuan's true situation, quickly learned about the sordid affair between Yan Fuzhen and Yu Mingche.

Yan Fuzhen's power in managing Ning Xuan's various industries has been reduced, and Yu Mingche has been secretly punished by Ning Xuan. The struggle between Ying Yaoshi and Yu Mingche has become public, and currently, Yu Mingche still has the upper hand.

Upon learning this news, various organizations that had long coveted the businesses under Ying Yaoshi and Yu Mingche secretly deployed their personnel and launched operations.

Ning Xuan wanted to see Yu Mingche, but Feng Linran stopped her. Meanwhile, Yu Mingche was having a video call with Ying Yaoshi.

"Your body is too weak, isn't it?" Ying Yaoshi said with disdain as he looked at Yu Mingche leaning against the bed looking weak.

Yu Mingche rolled his eyes. "I can't compare to you. Just tell me what you need. I was kept up all night and I need to catch up on my sleep later."