"I might as well tell everyone." Gong Guangjie sat on a chair, crossed his legs and said to everyone: "Our Shen Nong Baicao Sect performed well in supplying medicine last year, and the reward will be handed out soon.
In a few days, I will be an official of the imperial court.
Seventh grade!"
When Gong Guangjie said this, everyone took a breath.
Then, the loud cheers broke through the roof.
This is an era where it is important for one person to achieve enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven. To put it in a nice way, it is called "to promote virtuous people without avoiding relatives".
Gong Guangjie became an official of the imperial court, and the Shennong Baicaomen was about to ascend to heaven with him.
Gong Guangjie turned to Deputy Sect Leader Wang, who had traveled extensively all over the country, and asked, "Hey, Old Wang. How big is that seventh-grade military attaché?"
"Seventh rank." Lao Wang rolled his eyes, looked at the roof and thought for a moment, then said to Gong Guangjie: "It should be the general manager."
The commander-in-chief is also called the commander-in-chief.
In this dynasty's military attache position structure, the general flag was the lowest official in the court. Under the general flag, there were five smaller flags.
This small flag can be appointed or dismissed by the general banner himself, because the military salary of the small flag is deducted from the military salary of the general banner (there were many types of military salary systems in the Ming Dynasty, it was too confusing, here is a certain version as an example).
Gong Guangjie became the general manager, so this flag must have been given to someone from the Shennong Baicao Sect, so everyone's minds were immediately raised.
The nominal salary for Xiaoqi is one stone and two buckets (about 120 kilograms) per month, but most people receive only about half, and many of them are millet or brown rice.
This amount of food is certainly enough to feed one person, but no matter how rich it is, it is never enough to support a family.
However, although Xiaoqi is not a life official and cannot give his children the official status of "official descendants", he is still an official of the imperial court.
Not to mention too much, if you see someone you don't like, just give him a lump (punch), will the other party dare to fight back?
Do you dare to kill an official and rebel!?
Not to mention that a military attache can walk on the street with a knife, which is a completely different feeling from ordinary people carrying a knife on the street. It definitely requires a lot more energy (prestige).
Therefore, when Gong Guangjie said this, everyone became excited.
There are five Xiaoqi, and there are only three sect masters of Shennong Baicao Sect. Counting the second sect leader Huang Xiaoshi, there is still only one Xiaoqi left.
At this time, not only the three deputy sect masters were not calm, but the eight hall masters stretched their necks and puffed up their chests: now is the time for the imperial court to employ people, and it is their duty to be loyal to the imperial court.
thing.
Seeing everyone like this, Gong Guangjie nodded with satisfaction, everyone is still very good.
Afterwards, Gong Guangjie said to everyone: "Actually, I just thought of a way on the way back. I will tell you this, and everyone can listen to it."
Gong Guangjie put down his legs and said to everyone: "Everyone also knows where these medicines are sent. If we directly open a workshop to produce medicines in the place where the goods are needed, we can save time on road transportation.
In this way, if we can produce 100,000 pieces of goods before summer, it will be a sure thing."
When Gong Guangjie said this, Deputy Sect Master Wang frowned and said, "Sect Master, what do you mean?"
"That's what it means." Gong Guangjie's eyes flashed, and he said to everyone: "We must take down the medicine mountain in Yunling."
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Yunling has a warm climate. Herbs grow here all year round, and there are many types of herbs.
If a production workshop can be established there, it will not only solve the problem of raw materials, but also solve the difficult transportation problem on the Shu Road.
"Sect Master, are you ready to kill the poisonous dragon sect?" At this time, Deputy Sect Master Zhang, who had been silent until now, finally spoke up.
For so many years, Deputy Sect Master Zhang has only focused on one thing, which is to practice internally and fight externally.
This job was originally done by Huang Xiaoshi. After Huang Xiaoshi left, Gong Guangjie handed over the Shennong Baicao Sect's thug team to Deputy Sect Master Zhang.
This deputy sect leader is not an ordinary farmer. He came here with an artist. Although he is not well-known in the world, he is almost on the same level as Duan Heihu of Black Tiger Hall.
In fact, there are too many people who are neither above nor below the level in the martial arts world. This is the extremely large grassroots class of the Central Plains martial arts community.
Deputy sect leader Zhang was reused by Gong Guangjie, which directly had the effect of buying horse bones for a thousand gold. Many small sects who could hardly afford to eat simply took away their own sect plaques and took the whole family to Shennong Baicao sect.
Already.
Shennong Baicao Sect is in a period of rapid expansion. As long as you are loyal and willing to fight and kill, the money will be well spent.
As a result, the Shennong Baicaomen's thug team has reached the scale and level of local team training. Now, four of the eight hall leaders have such origins.
Don't underestimate the local regiment training. The Hunan Army that destroyed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the local regiment training.
If Heifeng Village was still there at this time, they would have robbed and killed Shennong Baicaomen's goods. Without Huang Xiaoshi's action, the thug team could defeat Heifeng Village.
Not to mention, Gong Guangjie will soon be the seventh-grade military attache of the imperial court. These people will immediately transform and become real officers and soldiers.
With the Shennong Baicaomen supported by force, its tentacles will naturally continue to expand towards the outside world.
Last year, Shennong Baicaomen expanded southward, and then fought against the fire in the land of southern Sichuan and the tribes there.
At the beginning, everyone was quite angry. After a few fights, neither party got much benefit, so after enough anger, the two parties sat down and talked.
The main content of the conversation was to draw the tops of our respective mountains, which ones are yours and which ones are mine.
Shennong Baicaomen occupied several mountains by force and refused to spit them out after being beaten to death, so he paid a sum of money, which was equivalent to buying them.
Although these tribes refused in every possible way, they could not defeat the Shennong Baicaomen after all, so they accepted a large amount of compensation with pinched noses.
One party got the mountain and the other got a large sum of money, which was regarded as a certain amount of compensation. Therefore, the dispute between Shennong Baicaomen and the tribes in southern Sichuan stopped.
Now, just a few mountains cannot meet the needs of Shennong Baicaomen, and a second southward expansion must be carried out to eat up the entire Yunling Mountains.
Gong Guangjie has already calculated that it will take almost two or three months to ship goods from Chengdu in Sichuan to Annan.
Because in the land of Annan, as the temperature rises in summer, diseases will spread everywhere, so the imperial army needs 100,000 pieces of various antidote pills at the beginning of spring.
By the time the elixir is delivered to Annan, it will be just in time for summer.
However, if elixirs are produced in Yunling, Yunling is much closer to Annan, and the waterway is convenient and large in cargo carrying capacity.
In this way, Shennong Baicaomen not only spends more time making medicines, but also greatly reduces transportation costs.
Originally, doing business for the imperial court was actually a matter of earning recognition at a low price.
But if you do it this way, it will really lead to big trouble.
After all, the imperial court requires large quantities of goods for a long time, and this business can continue for many years.
Besides, if the Southern Expedition is completed, after supplying the imperial army, Yunling's workshops can continue to produce elixirs and sell them directly locally.
Although most of the people in Yunling are extremely poor and their spending power is not very high, Shennong Baicaomen's medicine itself is not expensive and has good curative effects. You can make money wherever you throw it away.
In this way, it is equivalent to Shennong Baicaomen getting a large mountain of medicine for nothing, as well as a huge newly developed market.
As soon as Gong Guangjie came up with this idea, everyone said it was a good idea.
However, if the Shennong Baicao Sect wants to expand southward, the biggest headache will be the Poison Dragon Sect.
The Poison Dragon Sect is a rather peculiar sect entrenched in Yunling.
What is more peculiar is that it is half witch and half doctor.
Of course, being half witch and half doctor is not strange. What is strange is the traditional Chinese medicine part of the Poison Dragon Sect.
The Poison Dragon Sect is good at fighting poison with poison and treating diseases with poison.
This may have something to do with the local environment. After all, Yunling is a poisonous place. Snakes, insects, rats, and ants are all poisonous.
Poisons are everywhere, and antidotes are so hard to find. People always have to find some way to survive.
As a result, the Poison Dragon Cult came up with many weird treatment methods. Although these methods may not necessarily save people, with the blessing of witchcraft, they have won over many people's hearts.
Therefore, although the Poison Dragon Sect is not big, its influence is very great, and the entire Yunling tribe is affected by it.
Not to mention that the Poison Dragon Sect owns several of the best medicinal mountains.
Gong Guangjie said to everyone: "This time, we must be polite first and then attack. Let's work together how to arrange it."
After Gong Guangjie took the general direction, everyone started talking about it.
Although these are all rough people, they are also outstanding people who have been killed from thousands of grassroots. To a certain extent, these talents are the truly most capable elites. At the practical level, they are not
It must be worse than someone who is full of strategies.
This is the most cruel screening of survivors. Geniuses may not be able to pass the screening, but those who can pass the screening must be the best among men.
This is called: A strong general must rise from the ranks of soldiers.
With this meeting of the Shennong Baicaomen, a major martial arts event that was not widely known by the Central Plains martial arts people, and that they would not care about even if they knew it, began.
According to Jianghu Baixiaosheng's records, this was the second large-scale martial arts fight since the six major sects besieged the Tianlong Sect, but its scale and bloody level far exceeded the six major sects' war against the Tianlong Sect.
Both sides of the armed struggle each dispatched thousands of people, and carried out a tug-of-war in the dense forest for several months, and finally reached the point of attacking the city.
This battle even affected the imperial court's southern expedition strategy.
At this time, Huang Xiaoshi, who had just arrived in Luoyang, had no idea that Gong Guangjie was playing a big game in the south, and the scene was much bigger than he could predict.
After this battle, Huang Xiaoshi finally understood the scale of the Shennong Baicao Sect now.
Shennong Baicaomen was indeed an armed pharmaceutical company, and the East India Company was nothing more than an armed merchant group.
After a brainstorm, Gong Guangjie said fiercely to everyone: "This time to deal with the Poison Dragon Cult, we will first chop off the legs, then take out the heart, and finally chop off the head!"
After the plan was decided, the three deputy sect masters and their subordinate hall masters started working separately.
Deputy Sect Leader Li, who is in charge of production, plans to quickly select and transfer a group of people. These people will be paid five years' wages to work in Yunling for three years. After three years, they will withdraw or stay voluntarily.
Deputy Sect Master Wang, who was in charge of sales and logistics, set out a few days later with a huge caravan, all of which contained the best-selling elixirs of Shennong Baicao Sect.
These elixirs are not for sale, but for giving as gifts. Vice Sect Wang mainly conducts financial offensives against the various tribes in Yunling, buying them one by one and dismantling the control ability of the Poison Dragon Sect.
Secondly, Deputy Sect Leader Wang also has an important task, which is to persuade the Poison Dragon Sect to surrender. Of course, this task can only be called courtesy first and then attack. Everyone just thought it could be done, but they never thought it would be successful.
Finally, Deputy Sect Leader Zhang stepped up his efforts to organize and train the team of thugs who were about to go to Yunling to fight. This time was a great opportunity to truly make a contribution.
At this critical moment, Lan Ting, the leader of the Poison Dragon Cult, was leaving her religious affairs behind and went deep into the Central Plains again and again, often taking several months to come back.
Lan Ting is extremely upset now because two extremely important things have been lost in the Poison Dragon Cult.
One is the Poison Dragon Sect's "Five Poison Manual", and the other is the "Five Colorful Poison Gu".
The "Five Poison Manual" not only records the methods of cultivating poisonous insects, collecting venom, and making toxins, but also records the secret method of internal strength of the Five Poison Sect [Five Poison Magic Techniques].
Such an important thing was actually stolen.
The [Five Colorful Poison Gu] is even more incredible. It is an important poisonous poison to cultivate the [Golden Silkworm Gu King]. The Five Poison Sect spent several years fighting each other with countless poisons, and finally got the five-color poison.
As long as you raise this colorful insect, you can get the [Golden Silkworm Gu King].
[Golden Silkworm Gu King] is an extremely magical poisonous insect. It is not poisonous in itself, and it likes to eat poison, and it can eat hundreds of poisons. As long as a person is poisoned, [Golden Silkworm Gu King] can suck the poison.
Eat dry.
On the other hand, [Golden Silkworm Gu King] likes to eat hundreds of poisons. After it dies, it will be dried and ground into powder. This poison is the most poisonous in the world.
Because it combines hundreds of poisons in the world into one, and no one can tell how these poisons are mixed in the body of [Golden Silkworm Gu King].
There is no cure for this mixed poison.
And such an artifact was actually stolen.
Lan Ting was very upset. As long as she caught the thief, she would definitely take off his clothes and tie him up on an ant hill, so that the thief could taste the pain of being eaten by thousands of insects.
Now, these two artifacts, which can be called religious artifacts, have been stolen. The Presbyterian Council has questioned Lan Ting's ability. Although they have not said anything to ask Lan Ting to retrieve these two treasures within a time limit, as time goes by, the situation has changed.
Lan Ting is bound to be increasingly disadvantaged.
Last time, Lan Ting followed the road and found Hangzhou. This time she planned to change direction and try her luck in Luoyang.
Before Lan Ting set off, she was stopped by her cousin Huang Juan.
"Sister, please stop running outside all the time." Huang Juan persuaded Lan Ting: "The "Five Poisons Book" is lost, let's just ask a gentleman to write it out. This book is ours
I have memorized it by heart since I was a child, and I will never make a mistake in remembering it. I cannot miss a word.
[Golden Silkworm Gu King] is gone, we can just raise it again, it will only take a few more years.
Do you know that the Han people in the Central Plains and the tribes in the east are fighting fiercely now, and they might hit us one day, and everyone is very scared now.
You are the leader and the leader of the clan, so you should stand up and make an idea at this time.
Whether the tribes from the east have escaped or the Han army has come to kill them, you have to tell us what we are going to do to them."
Huang Juan is the second leader of the Poison Dragon Sect and the right protector.
Lan Ting is not named Lan, and Huang Juan is not named Huang either.
In the Miao village where the Poison Dragon Sect is located, they believe in the Five Poisons and worship the Five Colors God.
The five colors are green, yellow, red, white and black.
Therefore, the elder families in the Five Poison Sect were named after Wu Color.
Therefore, Lan Ting's blue comes from the color "green", and Huang Juan's yellow comes from the color "yellow".
Similarly, there are three color surnames: "red", "white" and "black".
All children of the elder family are given five-color surnames when they grow up to twelve years old, rather than a certain family controlling a certain color.
The most obvious benefit of this nomenclature is that you can tell the ages of two people of the same age just by looking at their names. For example, Huang Juan is younger than Lan Ting.
Faced with Huang Juan's persuasion, Lan Ting finally sighed and gave up going out.
In fact, Lan Ting also knew that if these two things were lost, they would never be found again. She did this just to reassure herself.
As for the war between the Han and Annan tribes.
After Lan Ting thought for a long time, she said to Huang Juan: "We won't help either side."
When Huang Juan heard this, she was dumbfounded.
When the quarrel was not serious before, you could avoid harm by not helping each other. However, now that you are at this point, if both sides don't help, doesn't it mean that they are asking both sides to come together to beat you?
"Sister, sister, listen to me." After Huang Juan came to her senses, she chased after Lan Ting.
