At the insistence of the mammoth demon, the market opened three months later. Although it took such a long time to prepare, it was actually quite hasty and there were only a few beast cultivators who came to trade.
There are fewer human cultivators coming. The Xixue Plateau is a bitter cold place and a gathering place for beasts. Who can afford to do business here?
Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and there is no obvious improvement in the market's business. The Mammoth Demon is a little unable to sit still. Please note that it listened to Chen Taizhong's suggestion and will not charge management fees in the short term.
However, although there is no management fee, work such as maintaining the order of the market must be done. The big demon uses people of the same race, and the cost can be lower, but it cannot be used for free.
For this reason, the Mammoth Demon came to Chen Taizhong again and said that he wanted to start charging. Since he had been hanging around half-dead, no one would appreciate it if he continued for free, right?
However, the shares in the market are split in half, with Mammoth taking half and Chen Zhenren taking half, so it cannot make the decision alone.
If you charge a fee, the free first half of the year will be completely in vain. Chen Taizhong clearly opposes this opinion.
Although he does not take the market's profits seriously, if the market is not lively, not only will his face be disgraced, but he will also not get too much information because there are no people and traffic.
He runs this market with the purpose of collecting information. The black market in the underworld is a good example.
So he insisted on keeping it free, and emphasized to Mammoth that when doing business, you can't just look at the present. Compared with the number of people and traffic in the past, although there is not much growth now, there are more and more old faces, which shows that this place is becoming more and more popular.
People recognized it.
This is word of mouth, the most valuable thing in business.
But it will take a certain amount of time to turn word-of-mouth into tangible benefits.
If you really don't have confidence in this, then this market is all my fault. No matter how many spiritual stones you have lost before, I will make up for the loss of your brother's spiritual stones.
The last sentence made the great mammoth demon angry. It said that you are not short of spiritual stones. Although our mammoth clan is a little poorer, we will not take this little spiritual stone in our eyes.
Its persistence out of face-saving was quickly rewarded. Starting from the eighth month, the number of human cultivators coming to the market obviously began to increase.
The turning point came after several small conflicts: several times other beast tribes accused the human cultivators of shoddy goods and wanted to confiscate their belongings.
This is a common excuse used by beast cultivators when robbing humans. Humans are treacherous. This is the consensus of all beasts. When they see something they like, if they cannot trade it according to their ideas, they usually use this as an excuse to rob it.
Anyway, we are now on the territory of the Orcs, so there is no risk in doing so.
However, the cultivators of the Mammoth tribe stopped this phenomenon simply and resolutely. It was not because they turned their elbows outwards and turned their hearts towards the human race. It was actually because the mammoth demon had an explanation: If order was not maintained, it would be easy for the human race to leave, and they wanted them to come back.
. But it’s difficult.
The foreign beast tribe could not fully accept it, and the most intense dispute even alarmed the great mammoth demon. Because the wolf tribe was attacking, they moved out their own great demon to support them.
The big mammoth demon who came over said, in my territory, you have to listen to me: Your wolf tribe wants to drive away the human traders so much, do you intend to open a market of your own?
This was a bit heartbreaking to say. Even the wolf demon was wondering, how could this mammoth clan become so smart overnight?
What the great mammoth demon said actually touched its heart. The wolves did not want the mammoth to run this market well.
These stupid elephants already have a movie theater. Not only can they make a profit, but they can also improve their cultivation. If the market is done well, will other orcs join in?
So the wolf demon wanted to stir up trouble in this matter. Of course, it would be better if Chen Taizhong could be forced to go to the wolf demon's territory to hold a market.
The Mammoth Demon exposed this matter and was obviously ready to take action.
So the wolves defended themselves by saying: We are not trying to rob them, but their price is really not fair enough.
The prices of goods sold by human merchants in the market are indeed relatively high, but this is normal. The risk of doing business deep into the hinterland of the orcs is much higher than in human society.
High risks are naturally accompanied by high profits. This is an iron rule. Otherwise, people will come here just because they can afford it?
Moreover, when human cultivators come to trade, they are escorted by mammoths into the Xixue Plateau and escorted all the way to the market.
In fact, this escort is also a supervision to prevent the human race from playing any tricks. However, this fee must be paid by the human race.
The human race trades here, and the price offered is only more than half the market price, which is actually not much.
Of course, not every product is exactly half the price, sometimes it is more, sometimes it is less. The evaluation of this price even needs to be approved by the three immortals of the Haoran Sect.
In these days, Chen Taizhong frequently went in and out of the Emerald Valley, but the other three masters were not very interested in the Emerald Valley. The aura there was not much better than that on the Xixue Plateau.
In fact, when the three of them have reached this level of cultivation, the spiritual energy in ordinary places is no longer enough for them to practice as immortals. It is best to go to the spiritual land.
Chen Taizhong set up a huge spirit gathering array in the restricted area. While consuming some spirit stones, it was barely enough for two masters to practice at the same time. However, there was not a big spirit gathering array in the Emerald Valley. He had the Babel Tower in hand.
Where is the need to set up the spirit gathering array?
Therefore, for the Sanshang people, the Emerald Valley is not only closed, but also does not have enough spiritual energy. It is better to be outside.
While the two masters are practicing in the spirit gathering formation, the other one will patrol around, helping guard the Emerald Valley while helping Mammoth appraise the value of the goods.
The cultivators of the Haoran sect are not very good at doing business, but since they are immortals, they have some good eyesight and the valuation will not be too outrageous.
The Mammoth Demon saw that the Wolf Demon was raising the price, so he said: How about we go to Chen Zhenren to comment?
How can the wolf demon have the courage to go to Chen Taizhong? Chen Taizhong's bad temper is also very loud among animal cultivators. This time he is supporting the mammoth, and it has nothing to do with the dispute between the human and animal camps. He really wants to fall out and beat him up.
Killing is possible.
In short, because the safety of human cultivators has been guaranteed, the market has gradually returned to the right track after surviving the initial depression period.
The great development of the market took the opportunity of Jianbao Pavilion coming to see Chen Taizhong.
Jianbao Pavilion came here to agree on the method of auctioning the Origin of Thunder. After several years of publicity, almost all high-level cultivators in the Five Domains already knew that Jianbao Pavilion intended to sell a copy of the Origin of Thunder.
The person who came here to discuss matters was headed by the seventh-level Jade Immortal Bai Fengming. He had been on duty in the Nether Realm for twenty years. After expiration, he returned to the Fenghuang Realm and received this task as soon as he came back.
Master Bai and Chen Taizhong are also familiar with each other. After meeting, they were not polite, but spoke directly, "The royal family is determined to get this source of thunder. I wonder what Master Chen wants?"
The origin of thunder is to be auctioned, but the royal family is extremely eager to get it in their hands, which means that they will fight with other forces at all costs.
Chen Taizhong waved his hand casually, "You can do whatever you want. As long as it is a genius treasure of a sufficient level, we will sell it to the family with the largest number."
"Huh?" Bai Fengming looked at him strangely, "Qilin is a divine beast of the fire attribute. Do you want me to ignore the species?"
Chen Taizhong waved his hand casually, "If it can't be used, it will naturally be cheaper for our Haoran sect."
"Oh," Bai Fengming nodded and glanced at him sideways, "Zhenren Chen's friendship with his fighting partners is very enviable."
To put it bluntly, Jianbao Pavilion is now a little suspicious. Chen Taizhong is naturally suspicious of the origin of the thunder. Although such suspicion is a bit out of character, the appearance of the origin of thunder is itself out of character.
"I helped it grow kylin grass, and Fairy Yanwu also knew about it," Chen Taizhong replied calmly, "I am a real farmer, so I can't harvest anything from it?"
Of course Bai Fengming had heard about the Kirin grass. He nodded and said, "Master Chen's planting technique is really enviable to others. I wonder who he inherited it from?"
Chen Taizhong drooped his eyelids, "I learned it from Wang Yanyan, I don't know where she learned it from."
"Oh," Bai Fengming nodded, then raised his brows slightly and spoke with a smile, "Since it can benefit the Haoran Sect, would it be more in line with real people's taste if the royal family prepares more geomagnetic energy stones?"
Chen Taizhong turned his head and asked calmly, "What do you mean by Bai Zhunzheng's words? But I don't quite understand."
"The original five masters of the Haoran sect have been promoted one after another, and now three more masters have been added. Master He has not only been promoted to two levels in a row, but also made a big fuss in Xijingbo Mansion," Bai Fengming looked at him with interest,
"No wonder you have plans to ascend to the throne."
After a pause, he sighed softly again, "Don't tell me that it's not the work of the geomagnetic energy stone."
Chen Taizhong shook his head slowly, "I don't understand what you said at all, and I have never heard of anything about Xijingbo Mansion... By the order of Fairy Yanwu, I have been living in seclusion on the Xixue Plateau and rarely go out.
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"Haha," Bai Fengming laughed after hearing this, "Zhenren Chen, you must also be aware of the capabilities of Jianbao Pavilion's foreign affairs system... Is it interesting to say this?"
"Whether it's useful or not, it's always better to deny it first," Chen Taizhong replied lazily, "Even so, you can't believe that the geomagnetic energy stone has such a great effect... Do you believe it yourself?"
"I really want to not believe it," Bai Zhunzheng smiled bitterly, "but other than that, there is no way to explain why so many spiritual immortals from the Haoran sect suddenly ascended to immortality, and all of them advanced to the next level... I heard that ancient Qi cultivators have a method of ascending to immortality on the battlefield.
, I guess the Haoran Sect still has similar methods, right?"
"The geomagnetic energy stone...you can't give me much, can you?" Chen Taizhong replied feebly, looking uninterested, "The royal family should take a very close look at this thing."
"I can try to fight for as many as I can," Bai Fengming stared into his eyes and spoke slowly, "Except for the government system, there is no other company that can produce a large amount of geomagnetic energy stones." (To be continued.)