I became a fox girl and was captured by the True Dragon Saint

After a night of practice, Jiang Keer opened her eyes and looked at the roof lined with green bamboos.

She had probably gotten used to the days without Qiao Xiaoxian guarding her bedside... After all, they had been together for so many years, and it would be nice to change things up and take a break from it occasionally.

A little separation is better than a newlywed.

Looking forward to our next reunion... uh... forget it, let’s not look forward to it.

Thinking of the flash floods and tsunamis that she might encounter when they meet again, Jiang Keer couldn't help but shudder all over.

Destroy it.

She glanced at her plan, then got up full of energy and jogged all the way to the Jianping Terrace on the top of the mountain for her morning class.

After running to Tingjianping, she did not stop.

She continued to jog until she reached the valley master's residence.

Speaking of which, this was her first time coming to Yiqin's residence.

It is a green bamboo hut exactly the same as that of ordinary disciples.

Jiang Keer knocked on the door.

"Come in." Yiqin's voice came from inside the room.

"Master." Jiang Ke'er bowed slightly.

Most places in the room were very tidy, except for the table in front of Yiqin, which was messy.

Jiang Ke'er took a closer look and saw that it was filled with various account books, letters and bills.

Most of the numbers on the account books were in red, and there was not a single good news in the letters, only warnings of emergency.

Yiqin looked haggard, her hair was a little messy, and she seemed to be in a bad mood.

"Master, are you worried about the shops and clinics in various places?" Jiang Keer asked curiously.

"You don't have to worry about these things," Yiqin raised her head and pretended to be nonchalant while blocking the table, "Did I delay the morning class? I'll take care of it right away..."

"Last night, Jiantian Sect urgently launched a siege on Taiming Sect's shops, lowering prices near Taiming Sect's shops to attract customers... Master, I saw it." Jiang Ke'er read out the contents of a letter.

"Alas." Seeing Jiang Ke'er saw it, Yiqin stopped covering it up, sighed, and said, "Qingyi, you don't have to blame yourself. This is not your fault. Jiantian Sect and my Taiming Sect have a fundamental contradiction..."

"I can help." Jiang Ke'er said bluntly.

"Ok?"

"The Taiming Sect's main elixirs are Qingxin Pills, Zhixue Pills... and other eighteen kinds of elixirs. The selling prices of these eighteen kinds of elixirs in the Taiming Sect are close to the cost price, which only guarantees a small profit to maintain operations." Jiang Ke'er described the situation of the Taiming Sect like a treasure trove.

"That's true." Yiqin nodded.

“So when Jiantian Sect lowered the price and launched a price war, my Taiming Sect found it difficult to cope with it. After all, the other party is big and powerful, with abundant funds, and can afford a price war... but we can’t,” Jiang Keer said.

"That's right." Yiqin admitted.

"Let me show you something."

Jiang Ke'er said as she took out a few pieces of paper from her arms.

The words on the paper looked like a dog's crawling, obviously they were written in a hurry.

Jiang Ke'er blushed, scratched her head, and said, "This is the recipe I came up with last night, take a look."

"You dreamed about it?"

"Almost." Jiang Ke'er said shamelessly.

Yiqin didn't ask any further questions, but just took the prescription and took a look at it.

After a moment, she showed a look of realization, with a relieved smile in her eyes. She stroked Jiang Ke'er's head and sighed to the sky: "You are worthy of it."

The new pill recipe on this paper actually reduced the cost of the eighteen kinds of pills by half.

Moreover, in response to the current shortage of spiritual power, new considerations have been made in warehouse storage, herb transportation, and so on.

It not only greatly optimizes the cost of refining, but also significantly saves the operating costs in every link of the entire medicine sales system.

With this calculation, Tai Ming Zong can still lower the price by half and still make a profit!

"Since Jian Tian Zong wants to start a price war, then we will fight them." Jiang Ke'er showed a wicked smile, "Let's also lower the price, even lower than them."

"But they lose money and we make money. They will never be able to beat us in their entire lives!"

Yiqin rubbed Jiang Keer's head with tenderness in her eyes... This little girl really has never let her down.

After so many years, she still looked like a defenseless child in front of him.

"I will convey your plan right away."

"Be careful, don't leak the recipe." Jiang Ke'er reminded quietly, "It's quite difficult to dream about them."

"Don't worry, only you, me and a few senior sisters who participated in the refining know about it," Yiqin said with a smile.

"Are there only a few senior sisters in Lingyin Valley who are responsible for alchemy at present?" Jiang Ke'er couldn't help but ask.

She remembered that in the past, there were hundreds of disciples in Lingyin Valley responsible for producing pills, but now there are only a few left.

"Times have changed. There are not so many people, and not so many medicinal herbs." Yiqin shook her head and sighed, "Tai Ming Zong...is not the powerful holy place it used to be."

(3/3)

152. Outside the sect

A letter of appointment issued by Lingyin Valley was announced to the entire Shenzhou.

——Appoint Jiang Qingyi as the new chief trade officer of Taiming Sect, responsible for the overall management of all trade activities of Taiming Sect.

When they heard the news, everyone thought that Tai Mingzong’s management had gone crazy.

Appoint a child to run all the businesses of Taiming Sect?

Do you really think this little girl is the reincarnation of the imperial teacher?

"To destroy him, one must drive him crazy. It seems that Taimingzong will not live long."

Voices like these were heard all over Shenzhou. The older monks sighed one after another, lamenting the fall of a huge behemoth and the decision to suppress the Taiming Sect to the point of distortion.

In their opinion, Taiming Sect's actions were at most just to provoke Jiantian Sect.

...Perhaps reusing the traitorous disciples of Jiantian Sect can make the people of Taiming Sect feel more balanced?

That's about it.

How humble.

"I saw the legendary little girl this morning!"

On the streets of Chang'an, major chambers of commerce are busy in the morning.

The monks of the sects were hurrying along, holding their pockets. They were shouldering the heavy responsibility of transporting the great treasures refined by each sect to shops in various places for exhibition and sale.

While waiting for the goods to arrive, the guys would chat about business gossip in groups of three or four.

The biggest bombshell today was the ignorant little girl of Emperor Taimingzong and the declaration of war she issued without knowing her own limitations.

"At that time, I saw him standing at the door of Taiming Sect's shop. He stood on a bench on tiptoe, with his hands on his waist. His two ears barely showed through the crowd. He danced to gain attention while saying - from now on, we, Taiming Sect, are launching a trade war against Jiantian Sect!"

“Puff, puff, puff—”

Because both the pictures and the language were so ridiculous, the guys in the shops laughed out all kinds of strange noises.

The shop assistants of Taimingzong's shop walked through the streets and alleys with their faces covered in shame.

"Who gave you the courage?"

The sarcastic voice was deliberately amplified and poked at their backs.

The guys in Taimingzong's shop quickly quickened their pace - is this what happens when you follow the wrong boss? It's so embarrassing!

Mei Fugui is an outer disciple of the Taiming Sect and the owner of a small shop under the Taiming Sect in Chang'an City.

Although he is only an outer disciple, Mei Fugui has deep feelings for Taiming Sect.

Probably because Taiming Sect treated its outer disciples very well and there had never been a case of inner disciples bullying outer disciples, and the outer disciples' salaries were never lower than those of the leader, Jiantian Sect, so Mei Fugui had always been quite happy with his job.

"Alas, this poor little shop, how many days can it last..."

Of course, he didn't want anything to happen to Emperor Taiming. It was nice to take shelter under a big tree. If Emperor Taiming fell, his whole family would probably starve.

There is also the old woman’s illness and the cost of my children’s training…Alas!

But all the information before him seemed to be telling him that Emperor Taiming would not live long.

Shops and plantations were the lifeblood of large sects. Nowadays, due to the shortage of spiritual energy, most of the plantations have become deserted and turned into barren wastelands, so trade has become the sect's most important source of revenue.

Most of the goods in these shops are found during treasure hunts in the ancient realm of learning, as well as dropped by the demons in the ruins, and the quantity is very limited.

The Taiming Sect fought hard and finally opened a fairly reliable treasure hunting group in the ancient realm of Wenxue. This allowed them to obtain a stable supply of materials, which they were able to process into magical instruments and refine into pills to maintain the daily expenses of the sect.

These materials are extremely valuable, and the medicines that can be made from them are very limited, so the cost is very high and they cannot be sold at a reduced price.

"How could we possibly have ended up facing the Jiantian Sect?" Mei Fugui sighed in pain, leaning against the door railing.

In recent days, Jiantian Sect suddenly launched a fatal operation against Taiming Sect.

They sold all products of the same category as Taimingzong at a reduced price.

The Jiantian Sect is a large and powerful clan, so this small loss is not a big deal...but the Taiming Sect is in trouble.

Customers were lost at a visible rate, and many old customers chose Jiantianzong, which offered good quality products at reasonable prices.

As a result, there was almost no one in front of Taimingzong's shop.

However, Taiming Sect could not engage in a price war like Jiantian Sect - it didn't matter if Jiantian Sect lost some money, but Taiming Sect could not, as if it lost money its funding chain would be broken.

The funding chain was broken, and the sect couldn't pay the monthly salaries of the disciples, especially those who were desperately searching for treasures in the ancient realm of inquiry... If they got unhappy and just ran away, Taiming Sect would even lose its source of supply, which was a complete loss to them.

Everyone understands this truth.

But the new white-haired girl seemed to understand nothing at all.

As soon as possible, she issued an order to all shops in the name of the Taiming Sect's leader's permission -

declare war!

Is Jiantian Sect going to start a price war?

beat!

Let’s also lower our prices, even lower than theirs!

It was as if he was a young man who didn't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt were, lying in a leaky thatched hut, dreaming of becoming wealthy.

It was really great. This was the order that all Taiming Sect shop owners had dreamed of the most since the Jiantian Sect launched the price war.

But everyone knows that this is just drinking poison to quench thirst!

The Taiming Sect did not have strong financial support, nor could it snatch a few Xumo demons, and even the supply of raw materials became a problem.

In such a situation, selling hard-earned goods at extremely low discounts...what future is there?

Jiantian Sect could fight a price war with Taiming Sect for a year or two and still not collapse, but Taiming Sect couldn't do that! Taiming Sect would be emptied out in a week!

Others can use their money to smash it, but why should we?

"...Boss Mei, are we really going to lower the price as instructed?" The shop assistants were also clear about the situation.

They twisted the new price tags in their hands and looked at Mei Fugui with sad faces.

Mei Fugui clenched his fists, his eyes reddened: "Do as you say. The orders of the clan leader cannot be disobeyed. Even if it means losing everything, we have no choice but to do it."

This is so frustrating.

Tai Mingzong was not killed in an open battle, but was killed by a little girl's willful decision.

But it’s strange, the sect leader doesn’t look like a fool or a madman, right?

The leader is the one who least wants Taiming Sect to fall, so how could he give the decision-making power to such a little girl...

Or is there something else hidden?

"Anyway, let's sell the goods first. Have the goods from the sect arrived this morning?"

"It's arrived!" One of the guys quickly took out his Qiankun bag.

He untied the bag and dumped it out.