The first thousand and forty-seven chapters add fuel to the flames
Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan sat down on the main seats, and Zhang Yue, the blood shadow elder, took out several animal skin books.
"To the Shadow Master, this is the record of various matters we handled after you left the headquarters.
As well as various resource usage and personnel transfer records, please take a look."
Zhou Luan took the animal skin book and looked at its contents one by one.
After these years of absence, there have been no obvious abnormalities in Blood Shadow's finances, personnel, and resource allocation.
It can be seen that no one at the headquarters is taking advantage of the movie owner's absence to cause trouble.
Zhou Luan looked through it for a long time before nodding: "When I was not at the headquarters, all the elders performed their duties faithfully, and I am very pleased.
But what else needs to be reported?"
Next, the heads of each hall began to report on the important matters they had handled.
The three elders also reported some important matters, but since the shadow master was not around, they did not dare to deal with them rashly.
After struggling for most of the day, I finally finished the matter.
The elders dispersed, and Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan returned to the Zhou family courtyard.
Not long after the meeting, Wang Daojian came to visit.
Wang Daoyuan welcomed him in: "Yes, his cultivation has reached the peak of Jindan.
It’s pretty good to manage the Blood Shadow headquarters without making any mistakes and without affecting your cultivation.”
Wang Daojian said with a smile: "Compared to the seventh brother and the seventh sister-in-law, you are far behind. You have all broken through the realm of spirit transformation.
I heard news before that you broke through the spirit transformation, killed all the demon kings of the demon clan, and also took care of a sixth-level dragon turtle that had lived for 20,000 years.
I couldn't believe it until the God Transformation Ceremony was held before I could be sure.
Our Wang family suddenly has two god-transformation monks, and the throne of the largest force in Beiyuan is now secure."
"While your Seventh Sister-in-law and I were away, were there any big moves at Blood Shadow Headquarters?"
Wang Daojian shook his head: "Now the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce is annexing more and more Blood Shadow branches, and more than half of the branches have been integrated into Wanchuanfang City.
Most of the remaining branches have been negotiated with the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce.
Now they are one minister serving two masters, and they may disobey orders from the headquarters at any time.
In fact, the Blood Shadow headquarters no longer has much control over the branches.
A few elders have also expressed dissatisfaction and want to draw a clear line with the Yan Kingdom, but most of the elders are relatively friendly to our Yan Kingdom.
There are also some elders who have made it clear that they are willing to join the Yan Kingdom. Even if they occupy a small spiritual vein and spread their branches, it is better than being a rat here at the Blood Shadow Headquarters.
If I had said this before, I would have definitely been severely punished.
But if I say it now, no one will object at all, let alone severely punish me."
Upon hearing this, Wang Daoyuan knew what was going on.
At the Blood Shadow headquarters, they have basically accepted the reality that they are a vassal of the Yan Kingdom.
Even Xueying's integration into the Yan Kingdom is reasonable and reasonable in most people's minds.
But if you think about it, you will know that Xueying was supported by the Zhang and Xu families.
Since these two pillars of support have gone to work as governors of the Yan State, others will naturally have ideas.
After all, being an assassin is a job of licking blood from the edge of a knife, and it is far less profitable than the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce.
The Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce is earning spirit stones openly and with the backing of Yan State, the risk is much smaller.
He nodded with satisfaction: "It seems that the blood shadow is almost ripe. As long as you continue to guide it carefully, it will only take a few years to completely swallow the blood shadow."
Zhou Luan looked curious: "How to guide?"
"It's not difficult. Those monks who are still hostile to the Yan Kingdom should take some action to suppress them.
As for those who threaten to join the Yan Kingdom, they will be promoted and rewarded.
Now that Xueying has integrated into the Yan Kingdom, it is impossible to stop this momentum with just a few grumbling elders.
The current situation is that smart people all know what will happen next, but no one wants to talk about it.
Once Xueying integrates into the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce, the 70,000-year-old foundation will be lost.
Whoever speaks this way will be blamed for ruining a 70,000-year-old foundation.
In the final analysis, immortal cultivators also want reputation.
If any of the Blood Shadow disciples are dissatisfied in the future, whoever raises this matter will be stabbed in the spine.
What we have to do is to add fuel to the flames and make the call for the Blood Shadow Headquarters to be integrated into the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce more and more louder and louder.
In the end, the lower-level monks reached a consensus and then forced the higher-ups to do so.
Most of the top management are our people. When the time comes, it will be logical and reasonable for Xueying to integrate into the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce.
You can also arrange some low-level monks to publicize how the Blood Shadow disciples who joined the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce are doing.
I think the disciples in the Chamber of Commerce will have a better life than the disciples at the bottom of the Blood Shadow."
Wang Daojian also repeatedly praised: "Seventh Brother's method is good. He suppresses those elders who complain and rewards those disciples who threaten to defect to the Yan Kingdom. This is a subtle expression of the higher-ups' intentions.
I also know a lot about the situation at the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce. The living conditions of the lower-level disciples are much better than those at the Xueying side.
As long as someone is sent to spread the word, the low-level disciples here at the Blood Shadow Headquarters will definitely be willing to join the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce.
When most of the disciples agree to join the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce, the senior management will nod, which is to follow the trend.
This infamy that has ruined Blood Shadow’s foundation for tens of thousands of years will not fall on the top management.”
"Go down and deal with these matters. You can go to the elders of the Zhang and Xu families.
After all, they have deep roots in the Blood Shadow headquarters. Even though most of the clan members have moved to the Yan Kingdom, there should still be many cronies at the bottom.
With their help, it will be easier to do this."
Wang Daojian nodded and said: "Don't worry, seventh brother, I will handle this matter beautifully."
After that, he left the small courtyard.
Zhou Luan opened various restrictions in the small courtyard and asked: "When do you plan to go to Juetianyuan?"
"I planned to stay here for a few days before heading to Juetian Abyss.
Now it seems that there is not much time left to annex the Blood Shadow.
I'll just stay a little longer and wait until the overall situation is settled.
In the past few years, I delayed my cultivation in order to cultivate the magical weapons.
Now that I have some free time, let’s practice some practice?”
After Wang Daojian left the Zhou family courtyard, he communicated with the elders of the Zhang and Xu families.
These two families already had a county in Yan State and had a bright future, so they naturally cooperated fully.
Wang Daoyuan also sent a message to Wang Mingchen, asking those disciples in the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce who came from the Blood Shadow Headquarters to send a message to their acquaintances here to show off.
After a few days, everyone in the Blood Shadow headquarters started talking about it.
In a forest north of Blood Shadow City, a dozen shirtless strong men were resting.
One of the men with a curly beard sighed: "It's really hard to cut down spiritual trees. I work hard and only get about two hundred spiritual stones a month."
A simple and honest monk next to him said: "Brother Li, what you said is wrong. I think when the Zhang family was in power, we could get a hundred spiritual stones a month and we were all enjoying ourselves secretly.
Since the movie master took care of the Zhang family, he has taken more spiritual stones than before.
Monks like us who have little future do not expect to improve our cultivation.
Two hundred spirit stones are enough, and supporting the family will not be a problem."
The bearded man was dissatisfied: "I used to think so too, but a distant cousin of mine works in the Zhenze branch of Wu Guo, and now he is a member of the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce.
His talent and cultivation are not as good as mine, and he has no skills, so he can only earn spiritual stones by working hard.
Before I joined the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce, I could only earn a few dozen spiritual stones a month.
But he is helping the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce to mine ore, and his job is not as heavy as ours. He can get at least 500 spiritual stones a month.
If you dig good ore, you can get some rewards.
Added together, you can get up to more than a thousand spiritual stones in a month."
As soon as he said this, a dozen other strong men also became interested.
"Brother Li, is this true?"
"How can this be false? Old Chen, my cousin is called Qi Zheng. You should know him, right?"
The monk surnamed Chen nodded repeatedly: "Can I not recognize that boy? Let's play with the big one naked.
He has been the stupidest since he was a child, and he is always one step behind me in cultivation.
I was still a bit lazy and couldn't make it in the headquarters, so I followed a Zifu monk to a small branch in Wu State to make a living.
I heard that I was not taken seriously and my life was not very good, but now I am so developed?"
The strong man with beard sighed: "No, it's just because the branches in Wu State have all joined the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce.
The treatment there is much better than here.
Such a fool earns much more spiritual stones than us now.
Last time he wrote to me to show off, saying that he had married three concubines."
Upon hearing this, everyone became jealous.
He also does hard work, barely supports his family, and the spiritual beings are only willing to eat spiritual grains.
How can a family have food, drink, and how many concubines they can marry?
While they were filled with righteous indignation, an early stage cultivator from the Zi Mansion came over.
No one dared to speak anymore, and the early monks of the Zi Mansion sighed: "Don't complain, you can't compare to the monks in those branches, why can't I be the same?
It has been more than thirty years since the establishment of the Zi Mansion, and the cultivation level is still far from the middle stage of the Zi Mansion.
Since opening the Zi Mansion, he has become the steward of this large forest.
With an income of only a thousand spiritual stones every month, apart from daily practice, how many spiritual stones are left?
Until now, I haven't even collected enough spiritual stones for my natal magical weapon, so I'm not even a cultivator of the Purple Mansion.
Morey, the former deputy head of the Zichuan branch of Qi State, grew up with me and was always one step behind me in cultivation.
More than sixty years ago, the eighth floor of the foundation was built, and he followed a Blood Wolf disciple to the Zichuan branch.
The Zi Mansion was opened about ten years before me. Within ten years after that, I collected enough spiritual stones and refined each of my natal magic weapons.
His cultivation level is already in the middle stage of Zifu, and is not far away from the late stage of Zifu.
Now he is the president of a second-level branch of the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce, and his apparent income is six to seven thousand spirit stones a month.
Being a branch president and guarding one area by yourself, how can you still have no profit?
It is not difficult to get tens of thousands of spiritual stones in a month.
I heard that at the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce, as long as you perform meritorious deeds, you can redeem most of the fourth-grade or lower spiritual items. Foundation Building Pills and Ziyun Pills are open for sale.
Not to mention magical weapons, fourth-level magical weapons can be sold without restrictions, and fifth-level magical weapons can be purchased if you have made great achievements.
This boy has not taken any wives and concubines, and everyone is now starting to prepare for the formation of pills."
Upon hearing this, everyone else sighed.
Happiness is expressed through comparison, and of course frustration is also expressed through comparison.
Back then, those people who were inferior to me in all aspects suddenly climbed on top of me, which made no one feel comfortable.
The strong man with beard stepped forward and said to flatter him: "Master Steward, you are a monk of Zifu, do you have any connections?
The brothers have followed you for decades, and you have made a fortune with them."
The cultivator in the early stage of Zi Mansion looked around and whispered: "I really have a way, now the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce has made it clear that it will swallow up all the Blood Shadow branches.
We can now apply to be transferred to some branches that have not been annexed. In a few years, we will also be members of the Wanchuan Chamber of Commerce.
I have a family friend who is a second-level branch leader in Yongguo, and his deputy leader is vacant.
Not long ago, he wrote to me, asking me to come over and be the deputy hall master.
It just so happens that I don't have many people under my command, so I can take you there."