Chapter 441 Industrial Crisis!

Chapter 441 Industrial Crisis!

Chapter 441 Industrial Crisis! (4k)

The sun is just right.

Chishan raised his horse's head high, snorted and exhaled hot air, his streamlined muscles twitched and his blood-red short hair glowed silver.

Liang Qu kicked off his pedals, jumped off his horse, and told the two attendants at the door to go in and report.

Just crossed the threshold.

The news spread throughout the martial arts hall like wings.

The apprentices at the second martial arts arena of the martial arts hall had no intention of resting and poured out like a tide.

The team collecting medicines were eager to go forward and see the legend of the martial arts hall.

As soon as a few apprentices took a step forward to put it into practice, someone immediately took advantage of the chaos to take advantage of the situation.

There was some unpleasantness in the team and the quarrel became louder.

The cook in the kitchen kept knocking on the bucket with an iron spoon and yelling at those who cut in line to go to the back.

The poor boy sitting on the flower bed was closest to the door and grabbed the seat first.

Amid the crowd, a tall young man was seen coming towards the martial arts arena. He had a dignified appearance, a tall stature, and two badges hanging from his waist. He walked with his head held high and was full of vigor. His appearance alone was superior to that of the senior brothers who taught him on a daily basis!
Is that Senior Brother Liang?

Eyes like torches, holding a red horse in the hand.

The strong man's momentum is overwhelming.

It perfectly matches the fantasy in my heart.

The legendary Senior Brother Liang, what a real man!

Excited heart, trembling hands.

When someone approached, the apprentice blushed slightly and greeted awkwardly.

"Senior Brother Liang!"

"Morning, Senior Brother Liang!"

"Hello, Senior Brother Liang!"

"Well, good morning! Good!"

Liang Qu walked through the corridor, nodding in response to everyone, but he was surprised to see apprentices coming up to him one after another.

Are you all so enthusiastic?

When I am not out, don’t you see many people coming to the martial arts school?
"What are you all getting together for? Spring is the season of growth, and planning begins in the morning. How many times have you stood in the stance and punched today?
Zhou Zhiyong, Zhang Xiaoming! You two were late for 15 minutes this morning. Why don't you take advantage of the time to practice and waste your time here? You two paid to come here, so you should be worthy of yourselves first!

And Song Yifei, Yu Faxian, you guys are all from the Second Hospital, why are you here in the front yard to join in the fun?"

The sound chiseled into the clamor.

Hu Qi frowned and scolded them one by one.

He waved to Changsong and asked the people in front to go back quickly.

"Did you hear what Senior Brother Hu said? Go back and practice standing meditation. The year starts in spring and the day starts in the morning. The morning is full of energy. Don't waste such a good time.

"If you pass the test today and practice your skills well, you can join the Hebo Office tomorrow. You may even be assigned to work under your Senior Brother Liang!"

"The two brothers are right. Let's go back and practice."

Liang Qu responded with a few sounds.

Chen Jiechang and Li Libo came from the Second Hospital to help evacuate the crowd.

The apprentices who had come to join in the fun dispersed in a hurry, and order was restored in the martial arts arena.

Liang Qu smiled and said, "The museum is very lively today. There must be more than a hundred people here, right? It's more than when I came here a few days ago."

Hu Qi shook his head.

"Master is coming this afternoon, so everyone is here. They all want to show up and leave a good impression. Usually, only 70% to 80% of the people are here, and with your sudden arrival, everyone from the Second Hospital is here to join in the fun, so it looks like there are a lot of people here."

Xiang Changsong smiled and said, "In our sect, Master Du and Junior Brother Liang are so impressive. Even if Senior Brother Lu, Senior Brother Yu, or even Senior Brother Xu came, they wouldn't be that impressive."

"Me?" Liang Qu walked down the steps, turned around and brushed off the dust, "Am I that prestigious?"

Hu Qi and Xiang Changsong each took a step forward and brushed away the yellow dust.

The three brothers all sat down on the steps of the corridor, their shoulders resting in the shade of the trees, chatting.

The light and shadow are mixed.

Xiang Changsong pointed at a group of apprentices standing in line.

"He's an apprentice from Yixing Town. There are several big towns near Pingyang Prefecture, and each town has its own martial arts school.

The most apprentices come from Yixing Town. They refuse to go to the martial arts schools in their own town and would rather walk more than ten miles every day to come and learn from us.

When there are many apprentices from other places, they will form groups. Yixing Town has a large population and they form groups well, so they are more conspicuous than people from other places and have louder voices.

Your story spread like wildfire, and became more and more widespread, especially among those from less well-off families, who all took you as a goal and role model!"

"what?"

Liang Qu laughed.

From a fisherman to a water boy, his many deeds are recounted one by one, which is truly amazing.

Unexpectedly, according to the opinions of the two senior brothers, with the help of fellow villagers from Yixing Town who came to learn martial arts, he became a legend in the Yang's Martial Arts School.

"Don't mention it, the effect is good." Xiang Changsong patted Liang Qu's shoulder and raised his thumb. "With your reputation, after Pingyang became a prefecture, the number of people in the martial arts hall has not decreased much. On the contrary, the other few... Let's not talk about those far away. Do you remember Master Pang?"

"I can't forget that his strong-boned disciple is working under me."

"Master Pang's number of apprentices has almost been halved."

Liang Qu was stunned.

"Behead?"

"Well, everyone has more choices." Hu Qi added, "After the city was established, there are eight new martial arts schools in the towns, not to mention the city itself."

Xiang Changsong said: "Junior brother, why don't you guess, among the eight martial arts schools, how many martial arts schools have great martial arts masters?"

Liang Qu thought about it.

"Three families?"

Open your five fingers towards Changsong.

Liang Qu was shocked: "Five! Why so many?"

"That's all! All five martial arts schools nominally have great martial artists, but most of them are not as powerful as our master, they are in the middle or lower realms. There is only one who is on par with us, and like our master, he only comes a few days a month."

Hu Qi added: "The master changed the date of the instruction. He used to come at the end of every month, but now comes every ten days. I think this is a response measure."

Liang Qu frowned: "Among the eight martial arts schools, five have great martial arts masters. Isn't that a bit too high?"

Is the competition in the capital so fierce?
Could it be that if there are any great martial artists in the family, all of them would come out to open a martial arts school?

Xiang Changsong said, "Because their martial arts school is different from ours and Master Pang's. The outstanding apprentices in it can be selected, not to be taught by the master, but to serve in the corresponding great martial arts family and do work."

wipe!
Assign work!

Liang Qu was shocked, and immediately understood why his master's martial arts school was at a disadvantage in the competition and why the surrounding martial arts schools were experiencing poor business.

"It's not a martial arts school at all. It's clearly employee training."

From Pingyang Town to Pingyang County, and then to the current Pingyang Prefecture, Pingyang Town has experienced two rounds of crossing the river.

In fact, the two rounds are completely different.

In the first round, people from the Demon Hunting Division, the Three Law Divisions, and the Hebo Police Station were ordered to come. They were very powerful, all second generation. Their strength, both overt and covert, was no weaker than those in the second round, and some were even stronger.

But they came as individuals, with no industrial interests involved, and they were fed by the court.

On the contrary, the second round is mostly family relocation, with the need to support a large family.

This will naturally bring about industrial invasion. In theory, the situation will be more complicated than the first round, and it will involve interests and be more aggressive!
The decrease in the number of apprentices in many local martial arts schools is a direct reflection of this!
If each family wants to expand its industrial chain, it is impossible to rely solely on its own family members, and it must reasonably absorb outsiders.

Therefore, the essential purpose of a large family opening a martial arts school is completely different from Yang Dongxiong's purpose of opening a martial arts school for a living.

It’s not about making a profit from the martial arts school.

This income is optional.

The key is to cultivate talents by ourselves, absorb them into our company, and ensure fresh blood and vitality!

Liang Qu asked: "Brother, is their tuition cheaper than ours?"

Hu Qi tilted his head: "Brother, how did you know?"

"Because their purpose is not to make money, but to recruit people... I guess the quality of their teaching is usually average?"

"I'm not sure. We can't sneak in and learn secretly. But Changsong and I noticed that the group is very relaxed. We heard from others that only the old apprentices put on the show and let the others do it. They don't care how well the apprentices learn. There are even those who are injured in practice. Unless they pay dozens of taels of silver, they will help them one by one."

"You get what you pay for..."

As a substitute for the sect, the martial arts school has many advantages.

It serves the general public, increases the base of grassroots warriors, makes it difficult to form local forces, reduces the difficulty of centralization, and at the same time can reap the benefits and absorb top talents from martial arts schools.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to absorb all talents.

Especially people who have some talent, but not enough.

The big families open their own martial arts schools in order to absorb this kind of talent, thereby expanding their influence and winning over various groups.

As long as you are initially screened out, the rest of the people will not care about you. If you make mistakes by following the old apprentice's practice, it itself is a manifestation of "stupidity".

However, this kind of selective martial arts school with ulterior motives will have a huge impact on those like Yang Dongxiong who specialize in making profits from running martial arts schools.

After all, it's cheap, and on the surface it seems to have more options. As for those who are injured during training... people are profit-driven, no one will care, and people are even more lucky. No one thinks that they or their children happen to be the untalented ones who are eliminated.

"Can't we arrange positions in our martial arts school?"

"Where can we arrange it? Master is not from a wealthy family. He has a lot of businesses. He usually runs a martial arts school and doesn't do any business. He just has some connections with the Medicinal Materials Chamber of Commerce. Can we force him into the government?"

"This won't work."

Liang Qu was puzzled.

He knew how well the two senior brothers taught him.

Bad money drives out good money, that's the way the world works.

With Liang Qu's deeds as an example, the martial arts school will certainly be able to survive for a period of time.

But family members know their own business well and there is no possibility of copying.

After a few years, no one succeeded in imitating it, and as an untouchable castle in the air, its appeal naturally began to fade, and people gradually began to consider reality.

It is true that Master Yang is better than other martial arts school owners, but he only rarely participates in actual teaching and cannot be a key part of the attraction of a martial arts school.

Xiang Changsong and Hu Qi understood this.

a long time.

Liang Qu's eyes lit up.

"I have two ideas!"

Asked Changsong: "What's the idea?"

"One is that we cooperate with Shanghu Academy and ask them to send two teachers so that the apprentices can learn pinyin and literacy while taking a break!"

Xiang Changsong was puzzled: "If we hire a college to teach, won't it cost us a lot?"

"The tuition fee has also increased. Don't raise it too much. Going to a college is not cheap because there are many things to learn. You have to write essays, practice calligraphy, and study the classics, history, and miscellaneous books.

We will only add one more item, charge two or three taels of silver, and only teach literacy, nothing else!

Moreover, large classes are offered, with one teacher teaching dozens of students. The teacher teaches his own lessons and the students learn on their own. There is no need to teach students in accordance with their aptitude or care whether they learn well or not.

As long as you work hard, you can learn a lot of words in three months. This is different from martial arts training. You don’t have to learn martial arts to become successful, but learning words will benefit you for the rest of your life!"

Hu Qi looked thoughtfully at Changsong.

Unlike Liang Qu, many apprentices had the opportunity to go to academies for further studies or to learn medicine in clinics as a direct disciple, specifically to broaden their horizons and knowledge and develop in an all-round way.

When entering a martial arts school, many people only learn a set of boxing techniques.

Anyway, it's a step-by-step guide. You just do what you are taught. There is no need to understand any secret books or meridians. After you graduate, you will still be illiterate and unable to achieve anything high or low.

On the contrary, literacy is very useful and it is a real skill!

Hu Qi asked, "What about the second one?"

Liang Qu scratched his temples.

"Junior brother actually has an industry, farming."

Xiang Changsong was puzzled: "Farming? How much money can you make by farming one acre of land? Many apprentices come from farming families. If they really go back to farming after learning, wouldn't it be a waste of their learning?"

"In the medicinal herb field I plant, I grow black-spotted frogs, golden-thread leeches and rice together, but the scale is relatively small at the moment and I am still experimenting. I will start sowing soon when the weather gets hot.

After this year is over and we have achieved results, we will definitely expand, and then we may have to buy fields in other counties.

The transportation, protection, distribution and guarding of large quantities of medicinal materials all require manpower. It would be a good idea to be able to recruit and employ people from the master.

I personally think that the two methods work together, teaching literacy, and providing other opportunities for development after success. In addition, with a great reputation, the advantages are definitely much greater than other martial arts schools!"

Hu Qi said, "Junior brother, I have a question."

"Senior brother, please tell me."

"We can teach people to read, so aren't other martial arts schools able to copy? Is there any advantage in helping others?"

"So we need to get Hu Academy involved! Let the academy send teachers over, or just lend us the name if they don't send any teachers.

As for literacy, other martial arts schools can teach you how to read and write, but there is only one such school, Shanghu Academy in Pingyang Prefecture.

We should focus on promoting the fact that we are working with the academy to teach calligraphy, so that it will feel different to ordinary apprentices outside. "

Xiang Changsong and Hu Qi fell into deep thought.

Junior brothers always have good ideas, and the two of them know it.

If the industry can be expanded, it will definitely be expanded.

Xiang Changsong murmured, "That sounds good. Anyway, there won't be much drop in the next one or two years. It will take time for my junior brother to develop his medicinal field..."

Hu Qi asked again: "What if other martial arts schools also borrow the name of the academy?"

The two brothers have a lot of questions...

Liang Qu spread his hands.

"I haven't thought about it yet. Master Zhao and Master are friends, so it would be easier to talk to them than to an outsider.

Either we agree that we will use it exclusively for a few years and pay a large sum of money every year, or we can find some other way to let the academy share the profits.

In short, if we can keep it stable for the first few years, Pingyang Prefecture will have developed to a certain extent, and the basic impression will be left. Later, when my junior brother's industry is fully developed, we will not be afraid of those outsiders, as we are all the same."

Xiang Changsong and Hu Qi looked at each other.

"It's better to do it now than to wait for a better day. Let's go talk to Master!"

"Okay, I'm going to find Master to practice."

Liang Qu stood up and brushed the dust off his clothes.

"Oh, yes, I haven't asked you yet, Junior Brother, why did you come to the martial arts gym today?"

"Ha." Liang Qu slapped his forehead, "I almost forgot, Junior Brother discovered a treasure land under the water, and in about a day's time, strange phenomena will appear in the sky and the earth.

I came here specifically to ask the two brothers to prepare in advance, take care of things, and go over together to join in the fun."

Hu Qi, to Changsong: "?"

……

In the hall.

Hu Qi drank tea silently with Changsong and listened to Liang Qu telling him about his plan.

"That's a good idea."

Yang Dongxiong stroked his beard, quite interested in Liang Qu's idea.

Liang Channel: "For three months, I used the rest time of martial arts training to teach pinyin, which I think is more than enough for adults.

At that time, there will be two books with pinyin annotations in the martial arts hall for borrowing. After reading them carefully, you will gradually learn to read and write, which will also be easy for teaching. "

Yang Dongxiong nodded: "I will go talk to Mr. Zhao some other day."

Pingyang County became Pingyang Prefecture.

It is indeed time for the martial arts school to make changes. If it waits until its influence is truly weakened and its impression is set, it will be too late.

"Come on, let's go to the backyard."

Yang Dongxiong stood up and Liang Qu clasped his fists.

"Master, wait a moment. I have something else to ask."

"what's up?"

Hu Qi and Xiang Changsong were cheered up.

coming!

They both straightened their backs and looked up at their master.

Yang Dongxiong caught a glimpse of the two men's expressions and his eyes flashed.

"Disciple received news a few days ago..."

Liang Qu talked about the long energy in the sky and the possibility of strange phenomena in the sky and the earth appearing in the world. During the conversation, he concealed the process of obtaining the information and only talked about the results.

Silence.

Yang Dongxiong's eyes rolled.

"Is this the big thing you mentioned a few days ago?"

No response!
Hu Qi was very disappointed with Xiang Changsong and leaned back.

Liang Qu nodded.

"A single strand of hemp cannot make a line, but two strands of hemp can make a rope. When a strange phenomenon appears in the world, there must be a mixture of fish and dragons under the water, and there will be many monsters trying their luck.

I will go find my master today, and later I will go find Brother Yuelong, and ask him to help me fence off a few acres of land for me underwater."

With the help of an expert, Liang Qu's realization of the strange phenomena of heaven and earth was resolved, and it would also benefit others, achieving mutual benefit and assistance.

As for whether the competition for long-term energy will increase the number of anomalies.

Liang Qu didn't know what level Xu Yuelong had reached, but without the help of a master, he wanted to go underwater and compete with the aquatic creatures for the long air.

It's choking.

Most likely it will not be taken into consideration.

(End of this chapter)