744. Chapter 744: Small offerings and big offerings
Just then, a nearby vendor shouted: "Here comes the manager!"
The crazy Taoist immediately jumped up as if he had been electrocuted, and hurriedly said: "Little baby, something is not going well, the Taoist should take the first step!" After saying that, he closed the stall, turned around and ran away, and his speed was actually faster than the young man who ran away at the same time.
After the mad Taoist disappeared in the crowd, Zong Yuan said to himself: "I want to get those three things that the mad Taoist senior mentioned as soon as possible and give them to dad. Maybe I can use them."
When Zhang Xiaoqiang fully recovered, it was already noon the next day. He ate something casually and prepared to leave the place. Not long after, the young woman sent a package and said: "Brother Qiang, here is the head."
Let it be delivered."
Zhang Xiaoqiang nodded. He opened the package and saw a book, a painting, and an antique small tower. He placed the three things in front of him, with a flash of splendor in his eyes, and said to himself: "These three things
Everything seems to be mysterious."
After some research, he decided not to leave for the time being, but to stay and practice for a while to see if he could hold the elixir. The first level of the elixir has three realms: heaven, earth, and human. He delayed holding the elixir just to lay a more solid foundation.
Now that he had these three things in his hand, he felt that it was necessary to attack once, maybe he could reach the first level of Heaven Realm.
The picture of the empty mountain was hung in the center of the study. He sat cross-legged on the couch, stared at the picture, and understood its profound meaning. The picture of the empty mountain was created by Zhang Sanfeng, and Zhang Sanfeng was a great man with a great reputation. The picture contains his understanding of Tao.
A person as powerful as him can engrave his spiritual will on objects. This method is called "transmitting the spirit".
In fact, there are some calligraphy and painting masters among the people. Although they have not practiced, they can still "express the spirit", but such people are very few. For example, the painting sage Wu Daozi, the grass sage Zhang Xu, etc., their spiritual realm is not weaker than the supernatural power.
Great power belongs to the extraordinary people among the people.
At this moment, Zhang Xiaoqiang stared at this painting, and the spiritual will in the painting was gradually understood by him. His heart was as pure as a child, ethereal and untainted, and his understanding surpassed that of ordinary people. In addition, he had killed Ming Shao before and took away the opponent's luck.
There was luck in the dark, which also improved his perception. One day, two days, three days, and before he knew it, seven days passed like this.
On this day, as the sun set, Zhang Xiaoqiang closed his eyes. The spiritual will in the painting seemed to have been engraved in his heart. He murmured: "The empty mountain is not empty, and the heart of the sky has no heart."
After saying that, the empty mountain picture suddenly burst into flames with a roar and turned into ashes in an instant.
In the northwest base, Bai Xuan, Yuwen Jinghua and others were staring at the big screen to observe Zhang Xiaoqiang's practice. Seeing the empty mountain diagram burning, Yuwen Jinghua clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Okay! The giant has truly understood the empty mountain diagram!"
Mei Susu asked doubtfully: "Mr. Yuwen, as far as I know, Zhang Sanfeng's disciples once understood this picture and achieved a breakthrough to half-step magical power. If this is the case, why didn't this picture burn in the first place?"
Yuwen Jinghua laughed "haha": "The insights of Patriarch Sanfeng are all in the painting. His disciples must have understood less than one out of ten. But Juzi is different. He has completely understood the true meaning of the picture and the true meaning of the empty mountain picture.
Everything was engraved in his heart, so it had no value, so it burned into ashes."
On the eighth day, Zhang Xiaoqiang began to study the "Secret Book of Qi Watching Technique". This time it took longer. He stayed at home for more than two months. From the human chapter, to the earth chapter, to the heaven chapter.
During the process of research, he suddenly felt that these three chapters were extremely consistent with the three realms of heaven, earth, and man, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
More than two months are a long time. Zhang Xiaoqiang was immersed in cultivation, and a lot of things happened outside.
The construction of the Mechanical City in the northwest was finally completed. Wu Se, who had just graduated from training, was sitting in the computer room, helping Xiaoqiang test the operation of the Mechanical City. He stared at the rows of data on the screen, looking shocked, and couldn't help asking: "Xiaoqiang,
All equipment is controlled by a central computer. How efficient is it when there are sufficient raw materials?"
"We can do an experiment." Xiao Qiang said, "Let's take the Thunderbao V7 produced by Tianxing Automobile as an example. This car sells for two million, the production cycle of the whole vehicle is about ten days, and the cost is about one million. If I
If you come to produce it, the cycle time is only a few minutes."
After Xiaoqiang finished speaking, Wu Shi saw the Machinery City in operation through the monitoring screen. A small car had more than 20,000 accessories, ranging from engines to screws, all of which were manufactured in the Machinery City.
The world's most advanced manufacturing processes are perfectly displayed here. The detection scale of large parts has reached the micron level, and the precision parts have even reached the nanometer level.
Seeing the complicated production lines moving at the same time, Wu Se said: "Xiaoqiang, after all, the Machinery City is not a professional production line for certain products, but its manufacturing speed still shocked me."
Xiaoqiang said: "The purpose of the existence of the Machinery City is to manufacture professional production lines. It is the first-level heavy industry production line. If we build aircraft, we can use it to build aircraft production lines; if we want to build tanks, we can build tank production lines."
.And did you see that the Machinery City is an organic and unified whole, and all equipment is removable and disassembled. If necessary, the entire Machinery City can be relocated to Wasai, which is very convenient."
Wushe blinked: "In this case, I think you should build a few heavy-duty operating machine production lines first. In the future, there will be a large amount of material exchange between the base and Wosai, and sea transportation alone is not enough."
"Your idea is already in the plan. The large transport aircraft production line is already under construction and is expected to start production next month. With sufficient raw materials, one production line can produce one large transport aircraft every day. What we produce will be the most advanced in the world.
The large transport aircraft uses lightweight high-tech materials for its fuselage frame, has a range of 23,000 kilometers, and an unladen weight of only 120 tons, while the maximum aircraft weight can reach 380 tons."
Wu Se asked: "All of them are made of high-tech materials, so the cost of building this kind of transport aircraft is very high, right?"
"Our production cost alone is 930 million U.S. dollars. If we refer to production, the cost can be reduced by about 20%." Xiaoqiang said, "If we want to meet Wosse's air transportation needs within ten years, we must produce at least 500 aircraft."
Wu Shi curled his lips, the cost of five hundred aircraft was as high as 400 billion US dollars, and I am afraid that only Xiaoqiang, a prodigal, could do it. He couldn't help but ask: "Since it is the most advanced in the world, why is it not exported? This way we can
Producing while making money greatly saves costs.”
"Yes, I decided to sell a streamlined version of the transport aircraft. Its manufacturing cost is only 150 million US dollars, which is far smaller than other transport aircraft of the same level in the world. The market potential is huge." Xiao Qiang said, "We not only sell large transport aircraft, such as branch lines
Passenger planes, fighter jets, helicopters, and business jets can all be manufactured.”
Wushe narrowed his eyes, and he seemed to see a bright future, and said: "I have read a market assessment. In the next twenty years, the market size of civilian aircraft will exceed 5 trillion US dollars. If military aircraft are also included,
, the total scale should be no less than ten trillion US dollars. With our technical strength and cost advantages, it shouldn’t be difficult to occupy half of the market, right?”
Xiaoqiang: "In three years at most, we will be able to occupy a place in the aircraft market."
When Xiao Qiang and Wu Se were thinking about the future, a group of uninvited guests came to Longhu Mountain. The three immortals of Dragon and Tiger, as well as the most powerful masters such as Zhang Di, Zhang Yuan, Zhang Ling, etc. all came out to greet them, because the visitors had extremely high backgrounds.
Da, they are from Xiao Kunlun, a high-grade cultivation family.
In the Longhu Hall, three young men with arrogant expressions put their hands on their backs and glanced at the people in Longhu Mountain with a cold look. The fat Taoist stepped forward, bowed his hands, and said with a smile: "The three envoys are here, so I am sorry to welcome them from afar."
"There's no need to welcome you from far away." The young man in the middle, with a red mole the size of a mung bean on his eyebrows, said in a cold tone, "We are here to collect offerings from Longhu Mountain on behalf of Little Kunlun. I wonder if you are ready?
"
Offering? The three immortals, Dragon and Tiger, looked at each other. The fat Taoist smiled reluctantly and said, "Please tell me clearly, what is this offering?"
The young man on the left had very thin lips, and he snorted coldly: "People from small sects are just ignorant. Don't you know that it's easy to enjoy the shade under a big tree? You Longhu Mountain wants to have foundation but not foundation, and strength but not strength. If anything happens,
If a powerful enemy comes one day, how will you respond? Don't we need Kunlun Mountain to resist? Of course, Kunlun Mountain cannot stand up for you in vain. You have to make a small offering every year and a big offering every five years."
Regarding the matter of enshrining the top-grade family, the three immortals Longhu and Tiger had already heard about it, but they did not expect it to happen so quickly. They sighed secretly, knowing that they could not hide, so they had no choice but to accept it. The fat Taoist then asked: "Please tell me about the three envoys.
, what is a small offering, and what is a large offering?”
The young man with the red mole in the middle said: "This is a small offering, which means that you have to turn in twenty low-grade elixirs and five medium-grade elixirs every year. If you don't have any, you can turn it in to cash, but we only accept US dollars. As for
A large donation is made once every five years, and ten medium-grade elixirs and one high-grade elixir can also be converted into cash."
Upon hearing that the number of offerings was actually so large, the three Immortals Longhu immediately changed their colors. The Taoist Taoist Waizui trembled all over and said in a trembling voice: "I want the three envoys to know that our Longhu Mountain has not yet reopened its gates, and its foundation is weak.
I’m afraid I can’t get so many pills!”
"It doesn't matter if you can't get it, you can convert it into cash." Thin Lip Qing said young and pliable, "A low-grade elixir can be discounted at 100 million, a medium-grade elixir can be discounted at 600 million, and a high-grade elixir can be discounted at 400 million.
100 million."
Zhang Yuan was furious, took a step forward, and shouted: "The small offering is five billion per year, and the large offering is ten billion every five years, which is equivalent to Longhu Mountain giving out seven billion per year! You are simply too much!"
The young man with the red mole had a cold expression on his face, stared at Zhang Yuanyin and said in a voice: "Boy, there is no room for talking here, get out of here!"
The three immortals Longhu looked ugly. The blind Taoist stopped the impulsive Zhang Yuan. He said in a deep voice: "Three envoys, the Longhushan family has a small business and really can't come up with so many elixirs. Please show your support. Can you?"
Decrease the amount of offerings slightly?"
"It can't be reduced." The thin-lipped young man said resolutely, "We just came here today to inform you that starting from next year, Longhu Mountain will be attached to Little Kunlun. You can't miss both the small and large offerings. If you don't pay, huh, you should know that you will offend the top grade.