Chapter 284 Economic Unification of Tiannan
Ye Changsheng's sudden change of expression made Master Zhiyang and the old demon Hehuan look thoughtful.
If you think about it carefully, what he said makes sense.
The reason why these people resisted the Mulan people was because they had sect roots and deep interests in Tiannan.
Wei Wuya is the grand elder of the Nine-Nation Alliance, and he bears the brunt of the attack. Although the righteous and evil forces represented by Master Zhiyang and the old demon Hehuan do not border the Mulan grassland, the Mulan people have too big an appetite this time.
If they do not take action and stay out of the matter, then when the Nine-Nation Alliance is defeated, both the good and the evil will not be spared.
It is precisely because of the consideration of mutual dependence that they joined in and helped the Nine-Nation Alliance resist the Mulan people.
As for any lofty slogans like for the survival of the Tiannan Yan people, these Yuanying old monsters will never believe them.
They also didn't expect to use this slogan to trick Ye Changsheng into working for them and resisting the Mulan people.
After all, as Ye Changsheng said, whether the Mulan people win or lose has little impact on him.
Thinking of this, the two great monks probably understood what Ye Changsheng meant by what he had just said.
Wei Wuya's reaction was much faster than theirs. When Ye Changsheng just said these words, he understood what this person was thinking.
It simply means that if you want him to take action, you have to give him benefits.
He would not help these four forces to resist the Mulan people in vain.
After all, after winning the battle, all the benefits will go to these four major forces. If Ye Changsheng doesn't get something from them, it would be like he is just being a thug for these people for nothing.
Wei Wuya knew it very well, so he said nothing. The Nine-Nation Alliance had already made its promise to Ye Changsheng.
Now, it depends on what both the good and evil sides can give.
After Master Zhiyang and the old demon Hehuan exchanged a glance, they had a rough idea in their minds, so Master Zhiyang slowly said:
"Brother Ye, what are you talking about? You have always been a member of the Tiandao League. How can you say that you have no interest in Tiannan?"
"When I met fellow Taoists Long Han and Feng Bing from Luanming Sect two days ago, I also heard them say that they wanted to nominate Brother Ye as the grand elder of the Tiandao League. If that's the case, Brother Ye can't stay out of these matters!" said Master Zhiyang.
"Haha!" Hearing this, Ye Changsheng laughed and looked at Master Zhiyang and the old demon Hehuan.
These two old guys still want to use this false title to deceive him. To put it bluntly, the title of a grand elder of the Tiandao League is just that.
Master Zhiyang was able to hold the position of leader of the Righteous Alliance and benefit endlessly from this position because he was also the supreme elder of the Taizhen Sect, the largest righteous sect.
The same goes for Hehuan Lao Mo and Wei Wuya. They can benefit from their respective positions because they have a large number of people under their command and their will can be extended.
If being a leader, great elder or something like that doesn't have any benefits at all, how could they possibly take on the position?
No one who can cultivate to this level cares about fame. They must bring in real benefits.
But Ye Changsheng is different from them. There is no one under his command who can be ordered around. Even if he sits on the position of the Grand Elder of the Tiandao League, he cannot gain any benefits from this position.
If that’s the case, what’s the point of having this position?
It's just an empty title and a false facade!
Even after Han Li joined the Luoyun Sect, he knew how to support the forces loyal to him in the Luoyun Sect and helped his subordinates to the position of the leader of the Luoyun Sect.
How could Ye Changsheng become the grand elder of the Tiandao League for nothing?
With a faint smile, Ye Changsheng said: "Brother Zhiyang, your words are not convincing. Just relying on the title of the Grand Elder of the Heavenly Dao Alliance is not enough!"
Hearing this, Zhiyang and Hehuan's eyes flashed, and Hehuan Old Demon suddenly said: "If Brother Ye wants to establish a sect and leave a legacy, we will certainly welcome it!"
"We can find a way to select a top-notch spiritual vein from Tiannan for Brother Ye to use!" Zhiyang also said.
Hearing the two of them say this, Ye Changsheng no longer hid his intention and stated it clearly.
"None of the existing spiritual veins in Tiannan is unowned. Ye doesn't want to be known as someone who robbed other people's spiritual land!"
"Let's not talk about the matter of spiritual veins for now. I have no intention of establishing a sect. I just want to do some small business!" Ye Changsheng said lightly with a smile on his face.
"Small business?" Master Zhiyang and the others showed surprise in their eyes.
"What does Brother Ye mean?"
"In the future, I want to open a business alliance covering the entire southern part of Tiannan. I hope that you fellow Taoists will not make things difficult for me in this matter!" Ye Changsheng said calmly.
Upon hearing this, not only Master Zhiyang and Old Demon Hehuan showed astonishment in their eyes, but even Wei Wuya was a little surprised.
So this was his idea?
For a moment, the three of them looked solemn.
They are naturally very clear about the pros and cons of establishing a business alliance.
Business alliances can not only make money, but also serve as intelligence organizations, collecting all kinds of intelligence secrets while doing business.
Once Ye Changsheng's business alliance spreads across the entire Tiannan, it will undoubtedly cause the three major forces to suffer varying degrees of loss of interests.
A large part of the spiritual stone income that the major sects can obtain on a daily basis comes from the markets they run.
The income in the market mainly comes from two sources: one is the income from the shops directly opened by these sects, and the other is the taxes collected from shops opened by others.
But if Ye Changsheng’s business alliance opens shops in these markets, would these sects dare to collect taxes from his shops?
This is a problem!
Another question is, if Ye Changsheng's business alliance is run very well, and the things sold there are of high quality and have a very good reputation, then all the customers from the world of immortal cultivation will be attracted to them.
This will create the following situation:
After the disciples of the major sects complete their own sect’s tasks and receive spirit stones distributed by the sect, they will take these spirit stones to Ye Changsheng’s Chamber of Commerce to purchase things.
If that is the case, wouldn’t all the spirit stones of the major sects fall into Ye Changsheng’s hands?
In the end, will it develop into a situation where all the sects in Tiannan work for Ye Changsheng?
After hearing Ye Changsheng's request, the three great cultivators almost immediately figured out the various problems involved.
It can be predicted that once they agree to Ye Changsheng, the commercial benefits that their various sects can obtain in the future will gradually decrease.
If they want to obtain spiritual stones, they may have to work hard to mine, plant spiritual medicines for sale, cultivate spiritual beasts for sale, make talismans, and refine equipment...
After they make these things, the only channel through which they can sell them may be Ye Changsheng’s Business Alliance.
In this way, even the price may be monopolized by him!
If someone else had made such a request, the three great monks would have definitely refused.
No one would want such a superpower to emerge in Tiannan and monopolize all business activities.
If this is the case, then all the major sects will have to rely on him for survival in the future .
This is tantamount to unifying Tiannan in another way.
Not by force, but by unifying the economy of Tiannan.
However, now that Ye Changsheng has made this request, the three great cultivators have to consider it carefully.
"What do you two fellow Taoists think? Do you think Brother Ye's proposal can be accepted?" Master Zhiyang asked in a voice transmission.
The old demon He Huan frowned and said nothing, but Wei Wu Ya's eyes flickered, and he finally said in a voice transmission:
"What's the harm in agreeing to him? It will only mean that our respective sects will lose a certain amount of profit for a period of time!"
“Even if he breaks through to the Spiritual Transformation stage in the future, his life span will only be 2,000 years. After 2,000 years, no matter if he ascends to heaven or dies, the Merchant Alliance will never be as strong as it was when he was still alive!”
Wei Wuya's words made Zhiyang and Hehuan the old demon narrow their eyes, and at the same time they felt something in their hearts.
There is some truth in what he said. If Ye Changsheng were no longer around, the Chamber of Commerce would certainly not be able to exploit the major sects like it did when he was still in Tiannan.
In this case, there is no harm in agreeing to his request. It will only take two thousand years anyway.
Ye Changsheng just wanted to earn some spirit stones from them, not to dig up the foundation of their inheritance.
This is not unacceptable.
So, thinking of this, the three great monks came up with an idea in their minds. Wei Wuya was the first to speak and said:
"I have already promised Brother Ye that the Nine-Nation Alliance will support Brother Ye on these issues. Now I naturally have no objection!"
"I also agree!" Master Zhiyang nodded to express his opinion.
The old demon He Huan said expressionlessly: "I have no objection!"
Hearing what the three said, Ye Changsheng smiled and said, "Okay, since the three Taoist brothers are so straightforward, it is my responsibility to resist the attack of the Mulan people!"
Seeing that the three people seemed to have a trace of worry in their expressions, Ye Changsheng smiled and said:
"In fact, the three Taoist friends don't have to worry about anything. I opened this business alliance, which will only bring benefits to Tiannan, and there will be no harm!"
"I'm sure you three also know that Ye was not in Tiannan for more than a hundred years, but went to another place!"
“That place has a large amount of resources that can help foundation-building and core-forming cultivators advance. If I open a trade union in the future, I can sell these resources in bulk to Tiannan. In this way, the overall strength of Tiannan’s cultivation world will be raised to a higher level!”
Hearing Ye Changsheng's words, the three great cultivators were immediately surprised. Master Zhiyang asked solemnly, "Did Brother Ye go to the Great Jin Dynasty before?"
The only other immortal cultivation world known to the people of Tiannan, besides the Mulan Grassland, is Dajin.
Ye Changsheng shook his head upon hearing this and said with a smile: "It's not Dajin, but some other place!"
"You fellow Taoists will know it later!" Ye Changsheng said.
He had no intention of hiding the matter of the ancient teleportation array. In fact, the three great cultivators had already known that he controlled such a teleportation array.
In the future, Ye Changsheng might make this ancient teleportation array completely public, allowing all cultivators in Tiannan to use it by paying a sum of spirit stones.
In the long run, Ye Changsheng knew that this business of earning the difference by selling demon pills and elixirs in two places could not last long.
This is because demon pills are also quite precious in the Chaos Star Sea, and spiritual medicines are not everywhere in the south of the sky.
At first, small-scale sales can indeed make a lot of profit, but as the number of transactions increases, the rarity of spiritual medicines and demon pills in the two places will decrease with the increase in supply.
In this way, the price will inevitably fall, and as Ye Changsheng purchases a large number of spiritual medicines in Tiannan and a large number of demon pills in Chaos Star Sea, the prices of spiritual medicines and demon pills in these two places will inevitably rise.
Eventually, the prices in both places will converge to be the same, and the business will be less profitable.
If you want to achieve sustainable fishing, the best way is to send the Tiannan monks to the Chaos Star Sea to develop the Chaos Star Sea and obtain more demon pills.
In Ye Changsheng's opinion, Tiannan has undoubtedly become a red ocean that has been involuted to the extreme, while the Chaos Star Sea is a blue ocean waiting to be developed.
What does Chaos Star Sea lack the most?
It's people. The human race in the Chaos Star Sea does not have enough manpower to develop the outer star sea.
Tiannan has no shortage of people, and its high-level cultivators can be sent to the Chaos Star Sea to hunt monsters. This will not only reduce Tiannan's internal conflicts, but also make the pie bigger.
And Ye Changsheng can also gain huge benefits from it.
The simplest one is that he can make a lot of money by collecting tolls.
Just look at Xinggong and you will know. With control over those teleportation arrays, it is simply making money without doing anything.
The cultivator from Tiannan had to pay a toll if he wanted to go to the Chaos Star Sea. After arriving at the Chaos Star Sea, he found that he wanted to go to the outer sea to hunt monsters, so he had to pay another toll to the Star Palace. Then, if he wanted to come back, he had to pay another toll.
As a result, they had to pay four tolls for each round trip.
And these tolls will eventually fall into Ye Changsheng's hands.
What he had to do was to collect enough spirit stones before leaving the human world.
Obtaining spirit stones only through mining is very slow and not the best way.
Of course, Ye Changsheng also knew that once he left, these money-making organizations he left behind would definitely suffer backlash.
But it doesn’t matter. Ye Changsheng has achieved his goal and he left with enough spirit stones.
Moreover, the major forces in Tiannan may not have the ability to retaliate against his business alliance.
Because when he leaves, he will definitely leave enough power to protect.
Apart from anything else, Nangong Wan, Yuan Yao and the others must have been great cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage.
Shocked by such a powerful force, others did not dare to act rashly.
At most, his Chamber of Commerce finally reached a compromise with the major forces in Tiannan, and handed over part of its interests and gave them to the major sects in the form of taxes.
In the end, this business organization that spans the entire human world may really last for a long time.
Of course, this is all a story for later.
Now, whether it is Ye Changsheng, Master Zhiyang, Wei Wuya, or the old demon Hehuan, none of them can think that far.
After reaching an agreement with the three great cultivators, Ye Changsheng's business organization no longer encountered any obstacles in Tiannan.
When the Seven Spirit Islands appear, he can start to do this.
