Chapter 584: Chapter 594 Master Wei
"Good, very good! You keep your word and discern right from wrong; I admire such character!" Chu Feng revealed a smile of appreciation.
As for Wu Ming kneeling and declaring servitude, he did not indulge in sentintality but accepted Wu Ming with dignity and rectitude.
To the outside world, becoming a Sword Slave might seem humiliating, a loss of face. But it also depends on whom one is serving as a Sword Slave.
Ordinary people, even if they wish to beco Chu Feng’s Sword Slave, lack the qualifications to do so.
Thus far, the only Sword Slaves Chu Feng has taken are Li Shishi and Han Dong.
Now, there’s one more — Wu Ming.
Perhaps in the future, if Chu Feng encounters soone with exceptional abilities and noble character, he might take in a few more Sword Slaves.
In his previous life, it was precisely the scarcity of trusted aides that led to his betrayal by those traitors, resulting in his tragic end. In this life, Chu Feng will surely learn from his past and devote a portion of his energy and ti to building a reliable Personal Guard Army.
"Rise!" Chu Feng personally helped Wu Ming up from the ground. "For now, you needn’t follow ; continue to serve as the Big Chief. Future arrangents will be made in due course."
"I shall heed the master’s orders with utmost care!"
Wu Ming rose and perford a respectful bow. Now, his attitude towards Chu Feng had undergone a complete and utter transformation.
Chu Feng’s supremacy in the art of dicinal herb cultivation, which he most prided himself on, utterly subdued Wu Ming.
This form of subjugation was by far more than ten tis superior to that of using Puppet Elixirs.
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Once the dicinal Herbs from each dicine Field were collected, they were all handed over to the Pharmaceutical Departnt.
The Pharmaceutical Departnt is one of the most crucial divisions of the Ten Thousand Sword Sect as it controls all the dicinal Herbs contributed by the dicine Mountain, certainly constituting the economic backbone of the Sect.
Given the imnse importance of the Pharmaceutical Departnt, the volu of dicinal materials handled daily is beyond count.
These are actual silver and gold, and if soone were to embezzle, the loss to the Sect would be imasurable. Moreover, due to the Pharmaceutical Departnt’s unique nature, it couldn’t be accounted for as clearly as silver in terms of exact amounts.
Instead, it is asured by the plant.
There is much room for manipulation here.
A ten-year-old dicinal Herb and a thousand-year-old dicinal Herb are both considered one plant, yet their value is worlds apart.
If the Departnt Director of the Pharmaceutical Departnt wanted to embezzle and switch a Crown Prince for an impostor, they would certainly have the capability to effortlessly alter the records, and it would be extrely hard for outsiders to detect.
The Sect must not only guard against the Pharmaceutical Departnt Director’s embezzlent but also prevent other mbers of the departnt from secretly pilfering the Sect’s dicinal materials.
Therefore, the Sect’s Supre Elder and Sect Master are particularly ticulous when it cos to selecting the Departnt Director of the Pharmaceutical Departnt.
In the end, Wei Wuxie, who served as the Deputy Director of the Inner Sect Punishnt Departnt, was appointed to this crucial position.
On one hand, with the status of Deputy Director within the Inner Sect, Wei Wuxie is unafraid of even the influential figures of the Inner Sect. This ensures to the greatest extent that the influence and power of Inner Sect individuals cannot affect the Pharmaceutical Departnt.
For instance, if a descendant of an influential figure of the Inner Sect wished to acquire a precious Elixir from the Pharmaceutical Departnt.
But they are unwilling to follow official procedures, instead exercising their influence to coerce the Pharmaceutical Departnt’s personnel into offering the herbs, or securing rare dicinal Herbs at a very low cost.
With Wei Wuxie in charge of the Pharmaceutical Departnt, even a personal visit from an Inner Sect Elder would be futile.
He would not accept any part of such sches.
Furthermore, Wei Wuxie has ascended to the Inner Sect step by step from an Outer Disciple of the Outer Sect’s Enforcent Hall, one can say he climbed up from the very bottom.
He was extrely familiar with all the routines of the Sect, both inner and outer.
Any trickery would be imdiately seen through under his Eyes of Golden Fla.
Moreover, because Wei Wuxie was forrly from the Outer Sect, the Outer Disciples felt even closer to him.
Speaking of Wei Wuxie, he was indeed quite a character.
He started from the lowest rank of dicine Farr in the Outer Sect, and because of his integrity and impartiality, an Elder of the Outer Sect’s Enforcent Hall noticed him during a twist of fate and promoted him to be an Intern Judge in the Outer Sect’s Enforcent Hall.
Hey, it turned out that Wei Wuxie really had a talent for this.
The cases reviewed by him were not only clear of any wrongful convictions but also handled with great discernnt. Moreover, he dealt with complicated cases with compassion, resolving them to the satisfaction of all parties involved, receiving nurous praises.
It was precisely because of his extraordinary abilities and impeccable integrity that he rose steadily through the ranks.
Eventually, even the Sect Master and the Supre Elder took notice of him and promoted him to the Inner Sect Punishnt Departnt.
After Wei Wuxie reached the Punishnt Departnt, in less than a hundred years, he dazzled everyone once more. Climbing from a minor official in the Punishnt Departnt, step by step, he ascended to the high position of Deputy Director.
You should know, in the whole Punishnt Departnt, there’s only one Chief and two Deputy Directors.
Looking at the life of Wei Wuxie, it was as if he was on a cheat mode, becoming an object of worship among the Inner and Outer Disciples.
Each year, when the dicinal Herbs from each dicine Mountain are collected, Wei Wuxie would personally inspect them. And he would carefully check the accounts to prevent people from committing fraud.
"This year’s harvest is clearly weaker than last year’s!"
After glancing at the main accounts, Wei Wuxie frowned and said.
Several Deputy Directors and Managers of the Pharmaceutical Departnt were all attending to Wei Wuxie by his side.
In the Pharmaceutical Departnt, Wei Wuxie had absolute authority, with an unassailable status. No Deputy Director could compete with him.
"Lord Wei might not be aware, but this spring we experienced continuous floods, and then during the peak of sumr, we had over a month without rainfall, resulting in a drought. The irregular weather, coupled with a plague of pests, led to a reduction in the harvest of each dicine Mountain this year."
"The Mountain Masters, Managers, small leaders, and even the dicine Farrs on each dicine Mountain have been actively responding, coming up with nurous solutions. Otherwise, I’m afraid the yield would have been even lower."
The few Vice Mountain Masters beside him took turns explaining the primary reasons for the diminished harvest.
After hearing this, Wei Wuxie also nodded slightly, "The weather indeed has a significant impact on cultivating dicinal Herbs! The work of the dicine Farrs below is truly not easy. When the ti cos, I will speak for them in front of the Sect Master and others."
He began checking the dicinal Herbs of each dicine Mountain.
Since the entire Ten Thousand Sword Sect had over a hundred dicine Mountains, checking them was a massive undertaking.
Fortunately, the Managers of the Pharmaceutical Departnt who knew the rules set by Wei Wuxie had made ample preparations early on.
The dicinal Herbs submitted by each dicine Mountain had not entered the inventory yet but were piled outside the warehouse. They were sorted by type, grade, age, etc., clearly categorized.
For Wei Wuxie, checking one dicine Mountain after another was not difficult.
After inspecting nearly a hundred dicine Mountains, he was sowhat exhausted and stopped to rest for a while.
"Why are the rare dicinal Herbs and ten-thousand-year-old dicinal Herbs submitted by each dicine Mountain so scarce this year?"
"The Sect Master and the Supre Elders had all listed the rare dicinal Herbs they needed early on. At the ti, I thought for sure we could et their requirents. Now it seems, we might disappoint them."
Wei Wuxie had a bitter expression, as even a skilled cook can’t prepare a al without rice, and it was not easy to be the Departnt Director.
Several Deputy Directors and a group of Managers all looked at Wei Wuxie with envy, as he was the only one in the Pharmaceutical Departnt who could casually converse and have close contact with the Sect Master and Supre Elders.
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