Chapter 235: Driving Force of the Times
Chapter 235: Driving Force of the Times (IV)
Hua Changxi took Hua Sanlang and found a seat in the teahouse next to the restaurant, waiting for the result of Tong Yao's interview with Hua Liulang.
"These days, tribesmen come to visit every day, and many of them have helped my grandfather before."
"Although the Bo Mansion will provide a portion of cultivation resources to those in the clan who have their spiritual roots tested, it is far from enough for cultivation."
"Knowing that you are now the master of the Divine Tree Secret Realm of the Dan Sheng Temple, all the clan members have come to you for help."
"But you don't want your family to get involved in your affairs, and you insist on your word. Grandfather is almost overwhelmed by your requests."
"When I get home later, I will tell my grandfather that you are willing to recruit people from the tribe into the secret realm. He will definitely be so happy that he will jump for joy."
"Ever since my grandfather became the elder of the clan, he has always wanted to do something for the clan so that our family can have more say in the clan. Now that you are willing to recruit clan members, other elders in the clan can no longer use my grandfather's qualifications to make excuses."
Hua Changxi faced the street, supported his chin with his left hand, tapped the table with his right hand, and listened to Hua Sanlang's chattering with an expressionless face.
Hua Sanlang said this while looking at Hua Changxi's face. Seeing that she didn't react at all, he felt helpless.
Why can't Jiu Niang understand that her family is her greatest support!
The Bo Mansion had already found out that the other secret realm masters all used clan members as core members, and then had relatives and friends who knew them well to assist them.
If we cooperate with each other and get what we need, we will naturally work together.
Look, there is still no movement from Jiu Niang's side, but the owners of other secret realms have already arranged their personnel, let each party perform their duties, and started to develop the secret realm in an orderly manner.
Hua Sanlang sighed in his heart. He really couldn't understand why Jiu Niang was unwilling to use her own family members. It was like this in the Fire Spirit Mine before, and it was also like this in the secret realm now.
Fortunately, Jiu Niang was willing to recruit members of the clan this time, otherwise, their family would not be able to explain to the clan.
As for the proposal by the Bo Mansion to contact several nobles who had close ties with the Hua clan to assist Jiu Niang in managing the secret realm, he did not dare to mention it at all, for fear of angering Jiu Niang and eventually ruining the clan's plan to enter the secret realm.
At this time, Hanazaburo finally understood why his grandfather disliked his sister.
Yes, Jiu Niang has made great achievements and brought honor to the family, but she is too arrogant. Even the elders and relatives in the family have to bow their heads before she will give them a few favors. This is so embarrassing.
Why.
Hua Changxi noticed Hua Sanlang's constant glances at her, but she ignored him.
She couldn't turn a blind eye to the Hua family and completely ignore them, but she also didn't want to be interfered with or influenced too much.
When recruiting apprentices, she would not deliberately exclude members of the Hua clan, but she would not give them any preferential treatment either. She would only treat them equally with other monks who came to apply for the recruitment.
She let her third brother enter the secret realm as a manager because, firstly, she really wanted to help them. But there was no other way. Nowadays, it was too difficult for cultivators without a backing to obtain resources. She couldn't really ignore the fact that the Hua family had no cultivation resources available.
Second, to develop the secret realm, she needed a few managers to manage the newly recruited apprentices, and she could only choose managers from people she was familiar with.
The third brother has studied medicine since he was a child and has experience in running a pharmacy. It should be no problem to let him manage the apprentices in the early stage of the secret realm development.
"Third brother, Sixth brother and the others are out, let's go over there."
Hua Changxi saw Tong Yao and Hua Liulang coming out of the restaurant, and hurriedly walked out of the teahouse with Hua Sanlang.
"Fellow Daoist Tong!"
Hua Changxi walked towards Tong Yao with a smile, and seeing Hua Liulang's happy expression, he immediately asked with a smile: "Fellow Daoist Tong, are you willing to accept my sixth brother as your disciple?"
Tong Yao shook his head: "I will not accept your sixth brother as my apprentice."
Hearing this answer, Hua Changxi was stunned, and then he saw Tong Yao smile.
"If your sixth brother accepts me as his master, then wouldn't I be a generation older than you? But I dare not let you call me senior."
Tong Yao saw Hua Changxi breathe a sigh of relief and the smile on his face deepened.
"Fellow Daoist Hua, I want to take your sixth brother back to the sect. If my master is willing to accept him as a disciple, it may take some time for him to return home."
Hua Changxi's eyes lit up. It was a pleasant surprise that his sixth brother took Tong Yao's master as his teacher. "Then I'll trouble you, Brother Daoist Tong."
Tong Yao smiled and said, "There's no need to be so unorthodox between you and me."
Afterwards, Hua Changxi and Hua Sanlang gave Hua Liulang some instructions, and then watched him leave with Tong Yao.
Watching the two walk away, Hua Sanlang couldn't help but ask, "Jiu Niang, who is the master of fellow Daoist Tong in the Qisheng Palace?"
Hua Changxi looked at him and said, "Third brother, I will tell you about the Qisheng Palace in person someday." He paused.
"The weapon refining workshop is still blocked now. Third brother, please don't tell anyone about Sixth Brother's admission into the Weapon Saint Palace." Hua Sanlang nodded: "Don't worry, I know about this." Then he looked at Hua Changxi and said, "Nineth Lady, after I enter the Pill Saint Palace, can I also have a master?"
Hua Changxi shook his head: "The Dan Sheng Temple is different from other holy places. It has long been infiltrated by the royal family and dignitaries from all sides."
"It is impossible to tell which party is the true successor of Dan Sheng Temple."
"Or maybe the inheritance of the Dan Saint Temple has not been discovered yet."
"In this case, who do you want to be your teacher?"
Hua Sanlang frowned, looking worried: "I didn't expect the Dan Sheng Temple to be so chaotic."
Seeing him like this, Hua Changxi comforted him, "Third brother, don't worry. After entering the secret realm, I will teach you and other apprentices how to make pills, starting with the identification and planting of spiritual herbs."
She is not bragging. When it comes to alchemy, except for Meng Qingyao, probably no one in the current Medical Department can compare to her.
Hua Sanlang looked at Hua Changxi suspiciously: "You're going to teach us?"
Hua Changxi looked at his suspicious and distrustful eyes and became unhappy: "Yes, I am the one who is here to teach you. Why, do you look down on me?"
Hua Sanlang was silent for a moment: "It's not a question of looking down on me or not. Jiuniang, you have only been on the path of cultivation for two years, and you have been learning alchemy for even less time."
"Third brother knows that you are very talented in medicine and alchemy, and you may be lucky enough to inherit the alchemy tradition."
"But I think that whether it is cultivation or alchemy, you need the guidance of predecessors. If you rely on yourself to explore, it will be a small waste of time. If you take the wrong path, it will be too late to regret it in the future."
Hua Changxi did not respond. Her third brother's worries were not unreasonable, but they did not apply to her.
It’s nothing else, what she obtained was the complete Shennong inheritance.
But she was too lazy to argue with Hua Sanlang. She would see the truth once she entered the secret realm.
It was already late, and Hua Changxi didn't say anything else to Hua Sanlang, and they parted ways.
Hua Changxi returned to the Medical Department and went straight into the secret realm to continue conceiving the secret realm's business management plan.
Talent training program: Apprentice → Spiritual medicine planter → Spiritual medicine preparation master → Pharmacist → Alchemist
Secret Realm Management Structure: Law Enforcement Hall → Mission Hall (divided into Planting Department + Processing Department + Alchemy Department) → Merit Hall → Logistics Department → Personnel Department → Lecturer Hall
The lecture hall is responsible for spreading medical skills and alchemy, so she can take this position first. When she finds a good talent and cultivates him in the future, she will be free.
The Human Resources Department is responsible for recruiting people. There are 150 million acres of medicinal fields on the first and second levels of the secret realm. If there are many apprentices to recruit, it will definitely take a long time. Let Pharmacist Xu and the other seven medicine boys be in charge;
The logistics department is responsible for handling food, clothing, housing, transportation, tools, etc., and let Yu Gonggong be in charge;
The Merit Hall is responsible for recording the apprentices’ contributions, so let Eunuch Zhao be in charge;
Mission Hall is responsible for the collection, planting, and preparation of medicinal materials, and Hua Sanlang and Zhou Gonggong are jointly responsible for this;
The Law Enforcement Hall is responsible for maintaining order in the secret realm, and Eunuch Jia is in charge.
Eunuch Jia, Eunuch Yu, Eunuch Zhao and Eunuch Zhou are all Hua Changxi's men. After all the people in the Miscellaneous Services Hall were replaced, the four of them are still working in the Miscellaneous Services Hall thanks to their own connections.
Before this, Hua Changxi wanted the four of them to continue staying in the menial service hall so that they could gather information conveniently. But now, in order to develop the secret realm, she had no one available and had to recruit them.
After determining the tone for the management of the secret realm, Hua Changxi used his spiritual power to construct two ridges on the first level of the secret realm that ran through the southernmost, northernmost, easternmost and westernmost ends, directly dividing the first level of the secret realm into four areas.
The entrance and exit of the secret realm teleportation array is located in the fourth area. After recruiting apprentices, we will start collecting spiritual herbs and cultivating medicinal fields from the fourth area, and then radiate to other areas in turn.
The first level of the secret realm covers an area of 100 million acres. Even if Hua Changxi is a Nascent Soul cultivator, it will take a lot of time to build the ridges.
While Hua Changxi was busy in the secret realm, other secret realm masters were also busy. However, they had people on their side, so they could act much more calmly.
On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Lingjing Pavilion held the first secret realm main conference on the Ninth Street.
The person who chaired the meeting was Xia Zhen. Among the sixteen secret realm masters, only Hua Changxi was absent.
There was no other reason. Xia Zhen did not send anyone to inform Hua Changxi.
Even in the conference room, Xia Zhen only put fifteen chairs, as if he was excluding Hua Changxi.
On New Year's Eve, Hua Changxi didn't give Xia Zhen any face. She even said that the secret realm was given to her by the sacred tree, and she had the final say on everything in the secret realm, and no outsiders had to interfere.
In this regard, Xia Zhen naturally wanted to teach Hua Changxi a lesson.
Doesn’t Hua Changxi want to be the only one who has the final say? Then there is no need for her to attend future Lingjing Pavilion meetings.