Chapter 579: Chapter 589: Deliberately Suppressing
"Please!"
Chu Feng naturally would not cozy up to soone coldly rejecting him.
A re Chief Clerk has no right to require him to flatter shalessly.
"Little Chu, although you hold an important position at a young age, you must not beco arrogant or proud. Many have spoken ill of you before , criticizing you as too young, lacking qualification and competence, and saying that your tenure as Manager won’t last long, only adding burden to our dicine Mountain 106..."
Master Cheng The Third spoke today as if he had a cannon in his mouth, spewing nonsense as he opened it.
Chu Feng’s face remained indifferent, but he sneered inwardly.
There’s ill intent with this visit.
"Which Big Chief’s dicine Field under your command you plan to start collecting from?" Manager Cheng The Third ranted at Chu Feng, but sadly Chu Feng paid him no attention, which bored him like punching into cotton.
It lacks force.
"Any Big Chief’s dicine Field will do; let’s start with Fang Zhengda’s area!"
Chu Feng, along with Administrative Officer Cheng and others, took the lead into the dicine Mountain area governed by Fang Zhengda.
"Greetings, Manager Chu, greetings, Administrative Officer Cheng!"
Fang Zhengda seed sowhat nervous, standing by the roadside with his hands hanging down and bowing early.
Administrative Officer Cheng flipped through the ledger in his hands and stopped after a few pages, "Fang Zhengda, you manage the dicine Mountain area in section 8, left side. It totals 95 acres, including 42 acres of superior dicine Fields, 30 acres of inferior dicine Fields, with a due quota of one hundred and forty-four hundred-year-old dicinal herbs and five thousand and six hundred ten-year-old dicinal herbs."
Superior dicine Fields are those with plenty of sunlight and soft soil.
As for inferior dicine Fields, they are a lower grade, possibly with less sunlight, or containing more rocks or suffering from serious pest infestations, etc.
Even so dicine Fields are in low-lying areas, with mountain water seeping from the ground all year round.
Many dicinal herbs are not suitable to cultivate in such fields, hence they are called inferior dicine Fields.
"According to the rules, one hundred-year-old dicinal herb can be equal to ten ten-year-old herbs. One thousand-year-old can equal ten hundred-year-old. If there are dicinal herbs from the catalogue of precious herbs, it can be doubled."
Manager Cheng The Third recited so rules.
In fact, even Chu Feng, a newcor, knew these rules.
The higher the age of the dicinal herbs used in concocting elixir, the better the effect.
Thus, to encourage various dicine Mountains to cultivate older dicinal herbs, the Sect deliberately ca up with this exchange thod.
One thousand-year-old can equal one hundred ten-year-old.
But one hundred ten-year-old cannot compensate for one thousand-year-old.
Moreover, as Chu Feng knows, if the dicinal herbs collected from the dicine Field exceed a thousand years, there will be extra rewards from above.
Most tis, the reward is rit for the dicine Farrs who submit the herbs.
For instance, a thousand-year-old herb would equate to a thousand rits.
For a ten-thousand-year-old, that would rit ten thousand rits.
Beyond cultivating thousand-year-old dicinal herbs for extra rewards, planting so extrely rare dicinal herbs also garners rit rewards.
Administrative Officer Cheng has a catalogue of rare dicinal herbs in his hand.
It lists over three thousand kinds of rare dicinal herbs, divided into three levels.
The more precious, the lower the level.
First-class precious dicinal herbs, each has high cultivation difficulty or slow growth. Just cultivating one, even if only a ten-year-old first-class rare dicinal herb, can be worth a thousand-year-old common dicinal herb.
"Let’s start!"
At the command of Administrative Officer Cheng, the more than twenty subordinates he brought imdiately went full force. Each went to a dicine Field, assisting the dicine Farrs to harvest the dicinal herbs grown there.
Why must we leviate taxes in the dicine Field?
This is to prevent people from deliberately concealing so extrely precious dicinal Herbs. For instance, so dicine Farrs might painstakingly cultivate a ten-thousand-year-old dicinal Herb and wish to keep it for their own use.
They do not want to hand it over to the Sect.
Once discovered by Master Cheng the Third, that dicinal Herb would imdiately be registered, integrated into the archives, and assigned a number.
At that ti, this dicinal Herb would beco one of the treasures of dicine Mountain, receiving special protection.
Even the dicine Farr who planted it has no right to handle it anymore.
They would not even have the right to dig it up.
If the Sect has a need, they can dispatch soone to harvest it anyti.
Moreover, since it has been elevated to a treasure of the Sect, if the dicine Farr were to kill it, it would be a serious cri.
If it is well-cared for, they would receive so credit, but it wouldn’t be substantial.
It can be said that any dicinal Herb, once entered into the Sect’s archives of precious dicinal Herbs, imdiately becos a hot potato.
Of course, for a dicine Mountain, the more dicinal Herbs recorded in the archives, the higher its ranking will be. There could also be nurous extra rewards from the Sect.
This ti, it’s not about rits.
It could be a Cultivation Technique or even a Divine Weapon. It might even lead to the Mountain Master and the Big and Little Chiefs getting promoted to higher positions.
It is said that once, the Big Chief of a dicine Mountain managed to get twenty-one precious dicinal Herbs recorded in the Sect’s archives. The higher-ups of the Sect directly promoted that Big Chief to Mountain Master.
It was indeed an instantaneous rise to the top.
The harvesting of dicinal Herbs is being carried out tensely and orderly.
Every dicinal Herb harvested requires the prior consent of the dicine Farr. However, the professional dicinal Herb Gatherers brought by Master Cheng the Third are incredibly efficient, harvesting with astonishing speed.
In less than an hour, the over seventy acres of dicine Field managed by Fang Zhengda were completely harvested.
"This can also be called a hundred-year-old? I see it as at most seventy or eighty years old!" Master Cheng the Third criticizes harshly.
With a few dicinal Herbs that are clearly hundred-year-olds, he stubbornly claims their age to be under a hundred years.
Fang Zhengda and the dicine Farrs who cultivated them are so angry they are trembling, yet dare not speak out.
Growing a dicinal Herb is not easy.
Not to ntion ones older than a hundred years, even those over ten years are extrely challenging.
"These two also do not et the thousand-year standard! Little Chu, this is not I criticizing you unfairly, but a crooked beam leads to crooked pillars. You are too eager for quick results, pursuing pragmatism is not good. This act of substituting inferior goods for good ones, obviously not eting the age requirent, yet classifying them as thousand-year or hundred-year quality, this is not good."
Master Cheng the Third accuses first, clearly it is he who intentionally undervalues these dicinal Herbs.
Now he turns around to lecture Chu Feng.
"Administrative Officer Cheng, these dicinal Herbs were all painstakingly cultivated by the dicine Farrs under . Please review them again, their age should et the standards!"
Fang Zhengda pleads with a smile, humbly requesting.
"Hmph, I’ve been doing this for many years, am I still unable to discern the age of dicinal Herbs? Such a trivial matter, could I be mistaken?"
"Or are you actually questioning my capability?"
Cheng the Third’s expression imdiately darkens.
"This... I dare not!" Even though Fang Zhengda is furious, he dares not contradict Administrative Officer Cheng.
He may not dare, but Chu Feng does.
With his subordinates’ dicinal Herbs being deliberately devalued and undervalued, Chu Feng was already at the peak of his anger.
"Since Administrative Officer Cheng has stated that these dicinal Herbs do not et the age standards, no problem, let’s first take them out. I believe that within Ten Thousand Sword Sect, there are definitely others who understand how to assess the age of dicinal Herbs, not just you alone, Administrative Officer Cheng."
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