Yipin Danxian

Chapter 156
In the afternoon of the next day, Cui Ming officially arrived in Shangyong, and Yuan Sima came forward to welcome him into the city and place him in the post.After Cui Ming moved in, he counted the number of tributes without haste, and there was no further movement. He neither went to Yuguo, nor went to Kui and Yu to inspect the tributes, but waited for Shen Douke's arrival.

Yuan Sima tried a few times, and Cui Ming talked about him from left to right, and he didn't tell the truth even when Young Master Qingyu visited him in person. On the contrary, Young Master Qingyu praised him full of praise, saying that he has the style of a celebrity and the style of a wealthy family. Qi, he is worthy of being a nobleman from Linzi—even if he is in trouble, he is still a nobleman from Linzi.

Three days later, Shin Doo-ke arrived in Shangyong.In the State of Chu, the Four Kingdoms are under the supervision of Yangzhou. As the most powerful person in Yangzhou after Zhou Yin and Youtu, Shen Douke is also in charge of supervising the Four Kingdoms. His arrival is definitely a major event for Yongguo. Young Master Qingyu and Young Master Wushuang They went out of the city hand in hand and brought Shen Douke into the post with a group of officials.

Shen Douke declined son Qingyu's banquet, shunned son Chengshuang's hunting agreement, and talked with Cui Ming behind closed doors.

Cui Mingdao: "The minister deliberately delayed for some time in the realm of Chu Yong, and secretly sent people to investigate. Everything in Yongrentang is as usual."

"Yongrentang?"

"This is the alchemy hall opened by alchemist Shen Wu, just like Yunji's Yun Kaitang in Yutou City."

"Go on, did you meet him yesterday?"

"Congratulations Zuo disciple!"

Shen Duke was very excited: "Oh? Shen Wu agreed?"

Cui Ming stroked his beard and smiled: "It's almost half done!"

Shen Duke thought about it: "Half? What condition did he offer?"

Cui Ming talked eloquently: "I entered the city alone yesterday, and when I sat down with him, I felt that Shen Wu was not loyal. A sum of money for alchemy, he agreed to put it under Zuo disciple's door."

Shen Douk frowned: "As an alchemist, why do you still want to make offerings to me? How can there be such a reason? When Yun Ji was under my sect, not only did he not want to make offerings, but he also had to give me a batch of elixir every year."

As he said that, he paced back and forth in the room and quickly calculated that he really wanted to poach Wu Sheng, but Wu Sheng's conditions were really not in compliance with the rules.

The emperor divides the world, and the princes establish the country with fiefdoms, and they must pay tribute to the emperor every year; the princes also entrust the officials in the country, either for mountains, forests, waters, or good fields for towns, and the officials must pay the princes every year; The doorkeepers provide shelter, or appoint them to handle errands, and they have their own way to get money, and the doorkeepers have to pay half of the income to Doctor Qing. This is the rule.

There has always been only the rule that subordinates worship upwards, so how can there be any reason to receive money in reverse?
If there are, they are also a small number of impoverished dead men. The purpose of raising them is to serve death.Is it Shenwu?Obviously not!The rules can't be broken. If you agree to Shen Wu, how should you raise dozens of diners under your door?Who can afford it?

Thinking of this, Shin Doo-ke shook his head: "It's against the rules. Is there anything else?"

Cui Ming hurriedly said: "Shen Wu also said that if the left disciple can't agree to this one, he can change it. After he arrives in Yangzhou, ask the left disciple to help him and hand over the alchemy business in Yangzhou to him."

Shin Douk shook his head even more: "No way!"

Cui Mingdao: "If Zuo disciple is in a difficult situation, he promises to give up the next best thing, and ask Zuo disciple to pay a buyout fee." At that moment, he told Shen Douke what he understood about the buyout fee.

After hearing this, Shen Douke's face turned dark. Without him, the buyout fee was at least five hundred gold, how could he afford it?
"This person is too greedy, how can he get into my door with such a character? It needs to be beaten!" Shen Douke made a decision.

"Then" Cui Ming asked about his next step.

Shin Douk sneered: "Since you don't know how to flatter, let's test his panacea!"

Seeing Shin Douk leave with a flick of his sleeves, Cui Ming wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Early the next morning, Shen Douke took Cui Ming to the treasury of Sikong, where the elixir, spiritual materials and rice from Yongguo Mao Gong were piled up on the cart, and they were transported to Yangzhou only after Shen Douke nodded.

Cui Ming has already counted the number, so there is no need to check it now, what needs to be checked is the quality.After entering the storeroom, several of the doormen brought by Shen Douke immediately began to review and compare them. Young Master Qingyu, Yuan Sima, and Lu Sikong carefully accompanied them.

The first thing to come out is the rice, which is easier to review, but the spiritual material is more difficult, but Shen Douke brought some people who are good at refining weapons. I came to the conclusion that the total price of the more than [-] kinds of spiritual materials handed over by Yongguo, totaling [-] catties, slightly exceeded the stipulated total amount of mao tribute.

It would not be difficult for Shen Douke if he played tricks on this level, just pick and choose faults at will, so young master Qingyu was a little worried about this, he didn't understand Shen Douke's intention of coming to review, so he had to do it well Prepared for "if there is a shortage in the inspection, make up for it".

But Shen Douke obviously didn't intend to make trouble with the spiritual material, he approved it with a flick of a pen, and the young master, Sima, and Sima all heaved a sigh of relief.

Just when they thought they would pass the review, Lingdan took the inspection very seriously.

The doorman who checked the panacea took out a pill stove, opened a bottle of black ginseng pills, put one of the black ginseng pills into the stove, lit the bottom and burned it, and at the same time inserted a long jasper ruler into the stove.

The emperor and ministers of the Yong Kingdom had never seen such a method of inspection, so Lu Sikong stepped forward and asked, "Shen Zuotu, what is the meaning of this?"

Shen Douke smiled and said: "My disciple is good at alchemy. This jade ruler is a high-grade magic weapon, which can be used to check the effectiveness of alchemy. Today, he will verify one or two. Please take a look at it together."

The doorman explained: "Young Master, two Sikongs, my magic weapon is called Moyu Lingdan ruler. I bought it from Linzi with a lot of money. It was refined by the master master of the academy. It looks like jasper, but it is not a panacea. The true color of the ruler is black. Because I tried the pill before, it turned into a green color. The pill I tried was the sample pill from the Putai League meeting last year. If it is tested today, the color of the ruler has changed , it can be proved that the pill effect is different from the sample pill, the better the pill effect, the darker the color of the ruler, and the worse the pill effect, the lighter the ruler color."

Shen Douke added: "There is one more thing. If the old pill that is about to expire is used as a tribute, this jade ruler can also be found out."

The doorman nodded: "Exactly, there is usually no fear of failure of the middle-grade and above panacea, and it can be taken after being stored for more than ten years, tens of years, or even a hundred years, but the low-level panacea can't last for five or six years. It will fail immediately.”

Opening the furnace to test alchemy is not alchemy. It doesn't take half an hour or an hour. It only takes a cup of tea, and the alchemy can be refined and the work can be done without compromising the effect of the alchemy.After inspecting the jade ruler, the alchemist shook his head slightly to Shen Douke, and when everyone looked at the ruler, the color of the jasper did not change.

The ruler and ministers of Yongguo gasped heavily, and just now they were smiling, but Shen Douke said again: "Try it again."

The doorman took back the certified black ginseng pills from the alchemy furnace and put them back into the alchemy bottle, opened a new bottle of panacea, took out one and put it into the alchemy furnace. Ass, carefully observe the color change of the jade ruler.

After a cup of tea, there was a gasp of "huh", and the king and ministers of the Yong Kingdom straightened up and smiled.

"Reexamination!" Shen Duke's face was very ugly.

Menke take pills into the furnace
The ruler and ministers of the Yong Kingdom leaned over and bent over and pouted their buttocks
After a cup of tea, "huh".
"Retest."

bend over, poke ass
"call"

"Retest."

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(End of this chapter)