[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers":3,"chapter-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-11":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Mountains and Rivers of the Imperial Granary",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2231427,4184,"Chapter 11: Layout","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-11",11,"\u003Cp>\"You set up such a big gamble in the hall, could it be that you are just hoping I can offer an idea?\" Lu Xingzhou smiled. \"I don't believe you didn't have any confidence yourself, to dare to make such a pact with others.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Tang didn't deny it: \"I have some ideas, but not enough confidence. Since this matter was proposed by you, you must have a more comprehensive consideration. Two heads are better than one.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou glanced at the hall and made a gesture: \"Let’s talk somewhere else, please.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anu had a headache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn't push two wheelchairs by herself; her hands were too short.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The good news was that Lu Xingzhou didn't let her push; the bad news was that he and Shen Tang rowed away chatting and laughing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anu, who had been abandoned, looked at the two of them rowing wheelchairs together, and suddenly a strange thought arose—if these two were dating, how would they kiss... She couldn't imagine that scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Anu knew Master didn't have that intention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now Master probably wouldn't have any intention toward anyone, and wouldn't dare to move his mind easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the person who moves their feelings first is always the one who gets hurt first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anu sighed with her hands behind her back and returned to the room, swaying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them arrived at a small garden in the back, where there was a small pond. The two stopped by the pond and sighed in unison: \"So inconvenient.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, they were both stunned, as if surprised by the synchronization of both sides, and then Lu Xingzhou didn't make a sound, and Shen Tang also looked down at the pond water without speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pond water had not been cleaned and was very turbid, unable to reflect their shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, Shen Tang said: \"It is difficult to force swordsmen to do business. In the past, there were fixed channels, and things were already paved. What everyone actually did was just the use of a bodyguard. This time I let them be responsible for promotion, and I knew from the beginning that it would not be effective.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou said \"Hmm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, he originally thought Shen Tang wouldn't do it either, but now it seems Shen Tang is still different from ordinary swordsmen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Tang said: \"This kind of thing cannot be promoted by oneself. Xiazhou people don't have this consciousness themselves, and it’s not something that can be changed by promotion. Therefore, this kind of thing should be promoted from the top down by the government. A word from the Pill Department is more useful than anything else. But none of them thought of this point, and they actually went to sell it one by one...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou turned his head to look at Shen Tang with some surprise. This mode of thinking, let alone the swordsmen under her, ordinary people wouldn't think this way. This is really the angle that people who are used to being imperial merchants would think of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He nodded calmly: \"One of the reasons you chose to come to Xiazhou is that you have your own people in the Xiazhou officialdom. Many disciples who graduated from the Heavenly Travel Sword Sect are at the grassroots level in various places, and Xiazhou must be one of your bases.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Sheng Yuanyao’s choice of Xiazhou for gilding might have a lot to do with your background. This is only a guess, and Lu Xingzhou didn't say it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Tang smiled: \"You thought of this layer early, so you gave me this idea, thinking it was suitable for us to do? Then besides this, what else do you have to add?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This thing has no technical barriers. Although the Sword Sect is more suitable for doing it, others are not unable to do it. And there are many big forces locally. Don't let the officialdom promote it, but the market is competed away by others, and the peaches are picked.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is indeed a problem. What ideas do you have?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You need to hoard a large amount quietly. Once the officialdom promotes it, immediately seize the market on a large scale and catch others off guard. Of course, if you have the ability to make it an official designation, that would be best. If you can't make it an official designation, you must take the opportunity to sign long-term contracts with major pill shops. When others want to do it, only the scattered market will be left.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Tang was thoughtful: \"So in fact, our main customers are pill industry practitioners, not the public.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Correct. Once the officialdom promotes it, pill shops will inevitably stock up and bundle sales with pills. No one is a fool; this is a big business for nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Tang revealed a smile: \"Hearing you say this, this direction is clearer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou said casually: \"Follow-up... in fact, there will be a new change in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Different pills, due to different raw materials, naturally have different toxicity. Since the public has to spend so much to solve pill poison, they will naturally resist pills with heavy toxicity in the future. However, ordinary people don't know much about such professional details. We can secretly popularize it, for example, the 'Divine Qi Pill' that the Danxia Sect has been pushing these days has 70-80% more toxicity than ordinary Qi-Benefiting Pills.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Tang’s expression became very strange, looking sideways at Lu Xingzhou’s nonchalant expression, not knowing how to describe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You were waiting here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Chi is not a flowery pillow; he is an alchemist who has reached the seventh grade. Liu Yan'er saying he is \"sprinting to the seventh grade\" is nothing more than that he has not been officially certified like Lu Xingzhou, and he is not recognized in the \"job market,\" but his seventh-grade strength is there. After he took over the position of chief alchemist of the Danxia Sect, he made great achievements within a few days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, Lu Xingzhou mainly refined the most common Qi-Benefiting Pills that everyone needed in the Danxia Sect, using high quality as a selling point, allowing the Danxia Sect to occupy a place in the pill market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The so-called Qi-Benefiting Pill is used to assist in restoring spiritual energy, which can greatly increase the speed of spiritual energy restoration, which belongs to the continuous restoration type.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The grade of instant restoration medicine is very high, and most ordinary cultivators can only use Qi-Benefiting Pills, which are used in large quantities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Bai Chi comes from the famous Burning Incense Tower and has unique alchemy recipes that are not available outside. The \"Divine Qi Pill\" he has been mainly refining recently is also at the level of an eighth-grade pill, but it can instantly restore a little spiritual energy, and then continue to restore. Although the instant restoration part is very, very small, if you really encounter an emergency, this little bit may save your life or counter-kill. It is one of the signature dishes of the Burning Incense Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its cost is about 30% more than the Qi-Benefiting Pill, but the selling price has doubled compared to the Qi-Benefiting Pill, and it is still very popular in the market. It caused a sensation not long after it was put into Xiazhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Chi’s efficiency in refining this pill is also five pills per furnace, with excellent and good grades. Although it is not as stable as Lu Xingzhou, it wins in huge profits, and it is indeed more profitable than when Lu Xingzhou was there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, a sect cannot live on the few pills refined by the chief alchemist alone. The low-grade pills like the ninth-grade Qi-Returning Pill and Qi-Refining Pill that Lu Xingzhou once trained them to refine in large quantities are the broader benefits. What the chief alchemist refines is called a signature dish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if the signature dish is boycotted, the reputation of the pills produced by the entire force will be hanging...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Divine Qi Pill’s pill poison is indeed much heavier than the Qi-Benefiting Pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this Lu Xingzhou buried a fuse to deal with the Danxia Sect when he proposed the plan to purify pill poison?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it seems that this can only slap the Danxia Sect, but it can't be fatal. After all, Bai Chi has so many alchemy recipes; if this one goes wrong, just change to another one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Tang didn't think much about it, just smiled: \"Very good, public opinion needs time to ferment to form a scale. I can send people to spread it secretly now... This has changed from an idea you offered to mutual assistance between you and me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou smiled slightly: \"Correct, it is mutual assistance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two separated. Shen Tang asked the whole sect to work overtime to rush the production of sword talismans, and she rowed her wheelchair to the City Lord’s Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real backer of the Heavenly Travel Sword Sect is Xiazhou City Lord Xu Bingkun, which is why they came to Xiazhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the world of cultivation, the difference between City Lords might be greater than the difference between humans and dogs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there is no particularly strong force in the locality, the City Lord naturally has great authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there is a powerful sect force in the jurisdiction, the City Lord basically has little say, and even the City Lord is directly from the sect, instead listening to the Sect Leader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even if it is the latter, these sects themselves are also submissive to the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty, and few dare to split and not be subjects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the royal family itself needs to be powerful to be the Emperor, and it is also backed by the Tianyao Holy Land to suppress the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are many distant countries in the world, and they are roughly similar molds. Although there is competition between countries, it is not fierce. After all, all humans have common enemies: demons and monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiazhou City belongs to the kind without a particularly powerful force, and City Lord Xu Bingkun has great weight in his words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This proposal is firstly responsible for the health of Xiazhou people, and secondly, it is a political achievement for the old man. It is also for Sect Leader Shen’s face, so how could the old man oppose it?\" Xu Bingkun was extremely polite to Shen Tang, smiling: \"I thought Sect Leader Shen was also doing the pill business when she came to Xiazhou, but I didn't expect to find another way. It is indeed a talent given by heaven. The Heavenly Travel Sword Sect can have Sect Leader Shen take over the burden, and the old man can rest assured.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He graduated from the Heavenly Travel Sword Sect and is of the same generation as Shen Tang’s master. Since he has graduated, he is not considered a member of the sect, roughly considered \"alma mater.\" It’s just that this relationship is much tighter than the alma mater relationship in modern society. Although Shen Tang cannot directly order him, in social consensus, he still has to give the Sect Leader face, otherwise, he will be poked in the spine by the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Tang didn't have any posture, bowed slightly to show respect: \"City Lord Xu is righteous, Shen Tang thanks you here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Easy to say, easy to say. The old man will let the Pill Department know to cooperate. Would Sect Leader Shen like to stay for dinner?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Tang was stunned. She originally wanted to say whether she could designate the supply, but the other party’s opening was already a word of seeing off guests, making it difficult to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if she said it, it might be useless, so why ask for humiliation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She quickly returned to a smile: \"The sect is newly established, and there are many complicated things, so I won't disturb you more. I’d better go to the Pill Department to discuss it in detail.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Also.\" Xu Bingkun smiled even more kindly: \"If you have anything in the future, just send a letter. Sect Leader Shen is inconvenient to walk, why run in person...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Meeting the City Lord, how can I be rude?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Bingkun laughed heartily: \"Someone, escort Sect Leader Shen to the Pill Department.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No need.\" Shen Tang smiled politely: \"I have guards.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the sound of her voice, the hall seemed to be several degrees colder, and the white-haired girl suddenly appeared beside her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Bingkun’s face changed slightly: \"Who is this...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My guard, Dugu Qingli.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Bingkun looked at Dugu Qingli with some fear, but still kept a smiling face, sending her out of the door all the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli didn't speak either, until she pushed Shen Tang away two streets, Shen Tang sighed lightly: \"The National Teacher is right, human hearts are treacherous, not inferior to demons.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dugu Qingli whispered: \"You mean, Xu Bingkun also has ulterior motives?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\" Shen Tang sighed slightly: \"Fortunately, Lu Xingzhou had a plan... Let’s go, go to the Pill Department first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2195,"2026-06-18T01:46:09.112Z","2026-06-18T03:18:02.290Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","30b9e9e6c5311fa76dbd4c2e1b7144ab44598f60c4727e9d1ead5933e5b9a1f5","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-12","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-10",325,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmountains-and-rivers-of-the-imperial-granary-cover.jpg"]