Chapter 1212: The New Layout (I)
After the rotating charka ceremony finished for 2 days, various news about this rotating chakra ceremony were gradually fermenting. On February 6th, Zhang Tie had finished his reunion within his family members and left Jinwu City for Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory together with the disciples of Iron-dragon Sect, Mountain Lifting Hermit, Bai Suxian, Bai Suxian's elder brother, Feng Cangwu, Lu Zhongming, Lin Huanxi and their disciples, Donder and Zhang Su, Zhang Tie's cousin.
The airboat of Heavens Fortune Sect left Youzhou Province yesterday. After meeting their dad and reuniting with their family members, Zhang Tie's 3 sons returned to Heavens Fortune Sect together with the grand elder of Heavens Fortune Sect.
Zhang Tie became reassured about his 3 sons. The grand elder of Heavens Fortune Sect attended his rotating chakra ceremony. After the ceremony, Zhang Tie had talked with the grand elder of Heavens Fortune Sect carefully. Through this talk, Heavens Fortune Sect had become Zhang Tie's ally officially. Because of this relationship, Zhang Chenglei, Zhang Chengting and Zhang Chengpei could receive the best education in Heavens Fortune Sect for sure.
Speaking of education, besides Gold and Power Law, the educational systems of the other 6 top sects of Taixia Country were the best among humans. Without such high educational levels and systems, they couldn't be top sects in Taixia Country.
Zhang Tie's 3 sons were instructed by Deyang Immortal, the grand elder of Heavens Fortune Sect. Zhang Tie had met him in White Tiger Platform. This time, Deyang Immortal attended Zhang Tie's Rotating Chakra Ceremony on behalf of Heavens Fortune Sect too.
Immortal was an appellation of shadow-knights in Taixia Country. Deyang Immortal's original name was Wang Deyang. Because his cultivation method was a top-secret method in Taiyi Fantasy Sect, which was also cultivated by someone else; additionally, many people had promoted to shadow knight by the same secret method. Therefore, according to the universal appellation of Taixia Country, the appellation "immortal" should be prefixed with his original name. By contrast, as Mountain Lifting Hermit was the only one who cultivatedMountain Lifting Sutra , like how Cui Li cultivated Fire Dragon Sutra alone, "hermit" could be prefixed with the name of their cultivation method.
Zhang Tie and Deyang Immortal talked about the relationship and cooperation between Zhang Clan and Heavens Fortune Sect and the current situation facing Taixia Country as well as the cultivation of Zhang Chenglei, Zhang Chengting and Zhang Chengpei in Heavens Fortune Sect.
Top sects such as Heavens Fortune Sect definitely had more than one secret method that could be used to promote to knights. Such top sects concentrated on teaching students in accordance with their aptitudes. Due to different gifts, abilities, advantageous resources, cultivation resources and support strength, disciples of Heavens Fortune Sect would cultivate different cultivation methods for sure.
The top cultivation method was the throne-level Heavens Covering Sutra . UnderHeavens Covering Sutra , there were over 20 complete cultivation methods ranging from baron level to marquis level. Except for the duke-level cultivation method, Heavens Fortune Sect had collected all the cultivation methods on all levels. Ordinary disciples of Heavens Fortune Sect would be imparted with different cultivation methods through enlightenment optionally; however, top elites such as Feng Cangwu and Deyang Immortal of Heavens Fortune Sect were cultivating Heavens Covering Sutra .
Deyang Immortal promised Zhang Tie that his 3 sons could be imparted with Heavens Fortune Sect through enlightenment in the future. Therefore, Zhang Tie became completely reassured.
Although King Roc Sutra was an emperor-level secret method, it was incomplete for the time being as Zhang Tie had not got the corresponding battle skills. Additionally, the cultivation of King Roc Sutra required a lot of resources. Zhang Tie could only slowly comprehend it himself. Without the help of Castle of Black Iron and the small tree, Zhang Tie didn't know that whether he could make such a great achievement.
At this critical moment, he preferred to have his 3 sons cultivate the complete throne-level Heavens Covering Sutra rather than imparting the incomplete emperor-level secret method to them at a high risk; because they could easily become outstanding and make a great achievement by cultivating the completeHeavens Covering Sutra .
Zhang Tie was never greedy; neither had he thought about dominating the world. In his opinion, ordinary people could barely enter Heavens Fortune Sect, not to mention cultivating a throne-level secret method. Therefore, he had been satisfied with that.
Emperor Xuanyuan was something; however, he was the only one among billions of people. At that supreme position, although he looked imposing, Emperor Xuanyuan's hardships might only be perceived by himself. Zhang Tie didn't pose such a high request towards his 3 sons. As a dad, Zhang Tie only hoped for his sons to be happy, healthy and grow into real men who dared shoulder their responsibilities instead of falling into a wrong path. If not the holy war and people could expand their longevity through cultivation, Zhang Tie even felt it was unnecessary for people to cultivate.
Heavens Fortune Sect was actually a super interest group. Thousands of clans, various industries were relevant about this sect, either large or small. Tens of billions of people might be involved due to interest. Of course, it was not just a lip service to be the ally of such a sect. Zhang Tie had to provide actual interests to Heavens Fortune Sect so as to stabilize their cooperation.
Knights needed element crystals and golds; however, more commoners only needed golds instead of element crystals.
Super interest groups such as Heavens Fortune Sect also needed to make profits. The greater the interest group was, the more it needed money to maintain its operation and cohesive force. As long as commoners had demanded, they had to make money. Even knights couldn't only survive on element crystals.
Zhang Tie and Deyang Immortal talked something about profits too; namely the expansion and selection of the sites of production base of all-purpose medicaments and high-power alcohol.
As all-purpose medicaments gradually became well-known across Taixia Country, its market demand also grew larger. As a result, the capacity of all-purpose medicaments in Jinwu City and Yanghe Prefecture couldn't meet the demand of the market anymore. Now, less than 100 million vials of all-purpose medicament could be produced in Jinwu City and Yanghe Prefecture in each year. Such a low supply was absolutely insufficient for the huge market in Taixia Country. The gap in the market was terrifyingly large.
Zhang Tie's return completely stabilized the foundation of Jinwu City and Zhang Clan. After that, Jinwu Business Group and Zhang Yang had been considering about building another production base of all-purpose medicament outside Youzhou Province so as to meet the increasingly larger market demand.
It symbolized that Jinwu Business Group started to enter a larger stage outside Youzhou Province after accumulating enough strength.
The all-purpose medicaments in the market were expensive. Besides being rare, it was mainly caused by the high transportation cost. Youzhou Province was basically in the northernmost part of Taixia Country. It would take a vial of all-purpose medicament at least 2 months to arrive at Xuanyuan Hill from Youzhou Province even by airship. The farther it was, the longer the transportation process would be. Due to such a high transportation cost, its supply couldn't meet its demand.
According to Zhang Yang's plan, the first production base of all-purpose medicament that was founded outside Youzhou Province should produce at least 500 million vials of all-purpose medicaments annually. Given the size and population of Taixia Country, such an industrial base could only accomplish the basic production layout. Over 20 production bases with the same annual output should be founded across Taixia Country so as to meet the lowest demand in Taixia Country. After this step, Jinwu Business Group intended to build one production base in each province of Taixia Country so as to meet the demand of each province. Thirdly, they would consider building more production bases on the Western Continent and the other subcontinents which had civilized human countries.
By then, all the places that all-purpose medicaments could be seen and bought in the world would be covered by Zhang family's influence in Jinwu City. Such a layout was akin to the strategy which was adopted by some human petroleum interest groups who controlled petroleum resource and wanted to control the supply and demand of petroleum in the world before the Catastrophe. As long as a clan and a group could turn something under their control into the daily necessity of humans, they would have a greater power and influence.
Zhang Tie's return and the fact that he had promoted to an earth knight made Zhang Yang more ambitious about expanding the commercial empire of Jinwu Business Group by producing all-purpose medicaments outside Youzhou Province. This was the first step for them to build a commercial empire in the future.
At least now, Huaiyuan Palace and Zhang family in Jinwu City didn't have the ability, power or human resources to support the layout of Zhang Yang's commercial empire. If they wanted to further expand their market, they had to choose an ally. Cooperation was the best and stablest way for them to realize that.
Heavens Fortune Sect was the ally that Zhang Tie selected. The new production base with an annual output of 500 million vials of all-purpose medicaments would be built in Xuanzhou Province where Heavens Fortune Sect was located in.
The above was what Zhang Tie and Deyang Immortal had determined. As for the distribution of profits, shares of sales volume and sales channels, it was the matter of the managers of Heavens Fortune Sect and Jinwu Business Group...
Whatever, Zhang Tie didn't need to worry about the trick of burning the bridge after crossing as long as the production of all-purpose medicaments had to depend on his essential-energy aura yeast. As long as he would like to do that, he could ensure that none of the production bases could produce one vial of all-purpose medicament. This was Zhang Tie's trump card, the confidence of Jinwu Business Group on cooperating with the other forces and the eternal efficient means that Zhang family adopted to control the production and supply of all-purpose medicaments.