Chapter 537: Chapter 87 The Pill Alliance Falls Apart_2
Outside the house, Gu Wen pushed the door open and entered, seeing the crying child and Chi Yu Zi charging over like a young bull.
He reached out to hold Chi Yu Zi’s head and said, “With your current state, you still claim you can help Yu Hua and I with the child?”
“How would I, your aunt, know these little brats are so annoying? They only cry and don’t listen to anything. I can’t even hit them, it’s so frustrating!”
Chi Yu Zi complained bitterly as Jiang Fugui walked over, holding and comforting the three children well, while Jade Sword Buddha silently returned to the corner.
After thirty minutes, the children no longer cried. Gu Wen called in the Three Pure Ones disciples to send them ho.
The room returned to quiet. Gu Wen and Jiang Fugui sat across the table from each other, the latter brewing tea and pouring water, asking, “Sir, what are your plans this ti?”
“I’m just going through the motions, the actual work isn’t done by .”
Gu Wen shook his head, but Jiang Fugui didn’t believe it. “Considering your style, I fear you plan to uproot the entire Pill Alliance. You must see that it shouldn’t exist.”
“It’s not that it shouldn’t, but that it no longer suits the present. During warti, centralizing all resources is right, but any policy has inertia.”
“When you speak, it’s truly enlightening.”
“You’ve been managing for hundreds of years, you should know more than I do.”
“Although I’ve lived for eight hundred years, most of that ti was spent in ditation. Cultivators are different from mortals; others get better in their roles, we regress the longer we’re in them.”
Jiang Fugui poured tea for Gu Wen, shedding years of privileged refinent, reverting to that sharp, cunning little shopkeeper.
He also candidly said, “Sir, to be honest, cultivation is addictive. Every increase in mana, every progression in cultivation makes one obsessed. It’s like wealth; we’ll embezzle for more cultivation.”
“I have been greedy for a lot too.”
Gu Wen retorted, “Could you, old rascal, not be greedy?”
Jiang Fugui didn’t see any bla in his words, and couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
“Sir, how do you plan to solve this?”
“I want to dismantle the Pill Alliance. The dicine fields should be managed by the Farrs’ Association, cancel the Pill Alliance’s unified purchasing, allow major pill refining rooms to sell elixirs independently, and turn the Pill Alliance into a purely regulatory body.”
“Wouldn’t the prices then go up? What if cultivators can’t afford elixirs?”
“Before the Pill Alliance, could cultivators not afford elixirs?”
With one sentence, Gu Wen silenced him. Following this line of thought, many ideas he never dared to have before erged.
Elixirs could be traded freely, and middlen could also earn huge margins. Jiang Fugui, having managed the Pill Alliance for so many years, had connections not limited to internal but also external major forces purchasing elixirs.
“But will Immortal Qingcang agree with this? After all, she pushed it forward under imnse pressure.”
Worrying lines appeared on Jiang Fugui’s face, and Chi Yu Zi also spoke up:
“Now the number of cultivators is several tis that of eight hundred years ago. If elixir prices rise, all cultivators under heaven will riot. We are here to cover deficits, not to let those Pill Sects earn more money.”
“As far as I know, most cultivators consu Qi Cultivation Powder. And this stuff is in such large quantities that a batch is spoiled every year.”
Gu Wen placed the Jade Scroll on the table, letting them scan its contents with divine thought.
“I only make suggestions on sothing I’ve investigated thoroughly. Elixirs need marketization, not just supply. Without profit, people will create profit.”
“The Daoist Sect’s first step should be to turn productivity into quality goods, not to copy the last step of the process blindly.”
In Gu Wen’s view, the Daoist Sect’s rough managent style, instead of forcefully pursuing Universal Unity, should adopt a bit of capitalism.
als are eaten one bite at a ti. Although the Daoist Sect has been around for eight hundred years, considering it by generations, not even one generation has truly passed.
Chi Yu Zi glanced at the Jade Scroll, stayed silent for three seconds, then with bright eyes looked at Gu Wen and said sincerely: “I don’t understand, when is the al?”
Gu Wen helplessly said, “I didn’t expect you to understand. If you can cook up two dishes with that brain of yours, I could wake up laughing in my dreams.”
Jiang Fugui read it again and again, his expression changing from initial confusion to amazent.
The recomndations detailed in the Elixir Circulation Managent Regulations astonished him.
They were detailed, highly feasible, allowing the Farrs’ Association to manage farm fields, free trade for pill refining rooms, and the Pill Alliance to regulate the market…
The most important part was that no one would strongly oppose it. Mortals could benefit from higher purchase prices from pill refining rooms; pill refining rooms could sell at higher prices based on their own efforts, or adopt a strategy of small profits but quick returns.
The only entity really losing out would be the Pill Alliance, currently struggling to protect itself, like a mud Bodhisattva crossing a river.
The hardest part of reform is not how to change, but how to implent it.
Jiang Fugui danced with joy as he deciphered the content, listing every line and simultaneously sharing the issues he encountered managing the Pill Alliance over the years.
Jade Sword Buddha and Chi Yu Zi didn’t understand; they were not versed in this field, but they could sense its significance from Jiang Fugui’s retelling and explanation.
“Mr. Wen, you are truly a divine being! This piece, your work, surpasses a hundred years of the Pill Alliance. It must be sent to the Immortal imdiately; the poison of the Pill Alliance has penetrated deeply and must be swiftly removed.”
“I rely borrowed the wisdom of others.”
Gu Wen’s words seed humble, but they were his truth.
To him, modern grain circulation regulations were ordinary, the rules long familiar. But the cultivation world was different, a place with extrely primitive managent.
Strength as the ultimate truth is not just a saying.
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