Chapter 80 Strange Goods
No matter how magical the medicine is, if it cannot be used for oneself, it is no different from garbage. For the young formation master who was dying on the hospital bed, cinnabar elixir is like this. The general no longer looked at him, turned around and walked out of the house, stopped when he passed by Anhua and the priest, asked the two to take good care of him, and then said in a deep voice.
"I won't say that the man seeks fame, but he must have made great plans."
People understand the general's meaning. No matter whether the person found the holy prescription from ancient times or developed by himself with his medical talent, if he is concerned about the safety of the human race and compassionately, then the most important thing he should do is to take out the prescription.
Since confirming that the cinnabar pill is really effective and has saved many people who should be alive, Anhua has developed a great favor for the mysterious person who has never met and no one has ever met. She is unwilling to believe that the person will be a conspirator or have other thoughts, but she also has no way to deny the general's words.
The person could only take out a bottle of cinnabar pill every month. The number of dozens of pills was still too small compared to the needs of the frontline soldiers. She believed that the person had done his best, but because he could not collect enough rare medicinal materials, or had limited ability, he could not increase the yield. But as long as he was willing to hand over the prescription, these problems could be solved. As she thought at the beginning, no matter how rare the medicinal materials needed for this elixir were, the state religion and the court would definitely be able to find them.
The state religion and the court can produce this kind of elixir in large quantities. The human race will gain great advantages in this war and the future of the mainland will be bright. Of course, this will also be of great benefit to that person. He will gain gratitude from the whole world and countless merits. Even if he cannot practice, he will become a true saint.
So why is he unwilling to do this?
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The middle-aged man sat in a chair and drank tea quietly. The inn owner stood in front of him and did not dare to move.
Hearing the voices behind the wall, a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "Sage? It's just Juqi."
The inn owner pressed his body lower and dared not say anything.
Strange goods are a means for merchants to sell goods.
How much is cinnabar pill worth? In terms of efficacy, it can produce bones and cure people, and is naturally a priceless treasure. But in fact, since the first appearance of cinnabar pill in Yonglan Pass, it has never been sold for sale. If you want to get it, you don’t need any money, you just need to wait - if you have the life to wait until that moment.
Neither the owner of the Cinnabar Pill nor the Yinghua Palace or the current Wenshui Tang family can obtain any profit from the Cinnabar Pill. In the eyes of some people, the Wenshui Tang family has no reason at all for such elixirs that cannot obtain profits, offended so many forces and great people in the world. But in the eyes of a real knowledgeable person, this idea is undoubtedly extremely stupid. The owner of the Cinnabar Pill determined the rules, but the rules are dead, and there are always some places to be used, such as two formation masters who were seriously injured and about to die. Regardless of the level of practice, the conditions for past military merits were very similar. So how do you determine their order in the sequence?
At this time, it is the power of the Tang family.
Even if this kind of power does not appear all the time, it looks very slim, but the endless one-tenth is still as vast as the ocean, and it is not an exaggeration to pay attention to it. The Tang family will never give up on this kind of resource. In order to ensure the long-term retention of this resource, it will meet the conditions of that person as much as possible, including enforcing the rules for him.
After the Tianshuling Incident, the Tang family's status in the human race became higher, leaving the Tianhai family far behind and becoming the de facto first family of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Now they hold the right to distribute the cinnabar pill in their hands, and their status has been consolidated again, even making many forces feel vaguely afraid.
If it is an ordinary aristocratic family, you should be satisfied when you reach such a position. However, the Tang family in Wenshui is not an ordinary aristocratic family. They are the earliest merchants in the mainland. Merchants are never satisfied and are insatiable. Regardless of praise or criticism, when it comes to business, the Tang family will certainly not be satisfied with the benefits brought by cinnabar elixir.
Compared with the magic of cinnabar pill, the benefits are now a little too little, and... they are not the dominant ones.
That mysterious person is the real boss, and the Tang family cannot accept this.
Regardless of the weapons, food, cities, treasures, and medicines, the Tang family must be the only boss in all the businesses involved in the mainland, or at least the major shareholder.
Since tens of thousands of years ago, the greed for interests and strong desire to control are the most intense colors of the Tang family in Wenshui, and it can even be said to be the purpose of existence. These two points have long been deeply rooted in the blood of every member of the family and have become an obsession. Therefore, even if the Yinghua Palace blood case was ahead, they still wanted to get more from the cinnabar pill.
They want to know more than anyone else who is the real master of the cinnabar pill.
Compared with other forces in the world, they are undoubtedly close to that person, and there are several foggy mountains between them, but they can already vaguely see some truth.
Yes, this inn is the property of Wenshui Tangjia.
The middle-aged man is the seventeenth master of the Tang family in Wenshui.
He came from Wenshui to Songshan Military Mansion to find the secret hidden behind the cinnabar pill.
A respectful and implicit fear sounded outside the door.
“The goods delivered in Montenegro arrived.”
Hearing this sentence, Master Tang Shiqi raised his eyebrows slightly and his eyes became brighter.
He stood up from the chair, and under the guidance of the inn shopkeeper, he came to a secret room in the backyard of the inn.
In the middle of the secret room was a large black stone table, and above it was the goods transported from the Heishan Military Mansion at a great cost by the Tang family in Wenshui.
It was a corpse.
The deceased was a man who was extremely injured. His face and neck were charred. He had obviously been burned with poisonous demon flames. His half-unopened clothes had a distinct military style. His fingers were extremely slender, his knuckles were slightly raised. In the miserable crack between his chest and abdomen, there were faint traces of starlight that had not completely dissipated.
From these details, it can be seen that this is a cultivator in the Star Gathering Realm. He died in the battle with the powerful demon clan. He is very likely to be a general of the Great Zhou army.
Master Tang Shiqi took out a white hand towel from his sleeve and hid it on his mouth and nose, and signaled the shopkeeper forward with his eyes.
The shopkeeper walked to the black stone table, held a sharp knife, and began to cut between the chest and abdomen of the corpse, and cut down from the depths of the already existing crack.
With a slight sneer, the blade cut open the stomach of the deceased, and the unpleasant blue liquid poured out and flowed onto the table.
Master Tang Shiqi frowned slightly, and covered his hand towel tighter with disgust, but did not look away.
In front of him, the inn shopkeeper looked like a very mediocre servant, but at this time, he looked like a very experienced coroner.
The shopkeeper reached into the deceased's stomach without hesitation, and after fumbled for a while, he took out a small bag.
I don’t know what material the small bag is made of, it is not leather or paper. The surface is very smooth and feels very thin and soft. You can vaguely see a round thing inside.
That thing might be a stone, a pearl.
Chapter completed!