Chapter 543
There are just too many people here.
"Uh... let's place an order."
"An order?"
Tang Lingwu stepped forward, exuding the confidence of the chairperson of Jiushan Grain Company, standing behind Zheng Fa.
"We have money."
She thought for a moment and repeated, "A lot of money."
Team Leader Yang knew just how profitable Jiushan Grain Company was... She glanced down at the documents and felt that some industries seemed to have welcomed the God of Wealth.
(End of this chapter)
**Chapter 408: Authenticity and Divine Clients**
Zheng Fa was indeed very wealthy now... or rather, he had money that he couldn't spend.
Jiushan Grain Company's flagship products, Jiushan No. 2 and Lingmai No. 1, had already spread nationwide.
The purchasing scene was a bustling crowd, with drums beating and firecrackers popping...
The reasons behind this were complex.
The promotional effect of that documentary was not to be underestimated. As far as Team Leader Yang knew, many online sellers of divine statues had started new businesses—
After all, amidst the myriad of divine lineages, a new face with the surname Zheng had emerged.
How to describe it?
Feudal but not superstitious.
After all, he was a true immortal.
But the main reason these two crops had exploded in sales was still their effectiveness.
Jiushan No. 1 rice had already shown significant nutritional advantages, but due to yield issues, it had not gained much fame.
Once Jiushan No. 2's yield increased, its reputation naturally skyrocketed.
Lingmai No. 1 was in a similar situation.
Because the price was low, most people could still afford it, so Zheng Fa had been limiting purchases—there were always people hoarding grain.
Along with other fruits and vegetables, Jiushan Grain Company had become a veritable cash cow.
The problem was that the power behind the nursing home was too strong, so strong that it could obtain resources without needing money.
Most of the time, money wasn't even necessary.
...
"So, you have so much money that you don't know how to spend it?" the old man Bai said with a look of disdain, glancing at Zheng Fa. "Only here can you say that; otherwise, you'd get beaten up for it."
Tang Lingwu, with a serious expression, surprisingly shot back at the old man, "That's why Zheng Fa wants to spend money..."
Old man Bai was taken aback.
"Actually, Team Leader Yang said... there's no need."
Old man Bai looked at Zheng Fa with a puzzled expression, and Zheng Fa just smiled.
Tang Lingwu seemed to be standing up for Zheng Fa and added, "Zheng Fa told me that the conditions in Hongshan are limited now, and the spiritual energy is insufficient to support more people in cultivation."
"Why not use this money to reward some researchers who can't enter Hongshan?"
Upon hearing this, old man Bai's gaze toward Zheng Fa changed slightly.
"No, this is Lingwu's imagination. What I meant was... at least we shouldn't let people work for free, right?"
"Just letting this money sit there is a waste."
"Who knows, it might help cultivate some talents needed by the nursing home in the future."
"Consider it a reinvestment."
"Since we're already in the spotlight, it wouldn't be good to keep relying on Team Leader Yang."
Zheng Fa's thoughts were actually quite simple:
He didn't need money; he needed more talent and more technology.
It was manageable before, as their research field was small, mainly focused on talismans and agriculture.
But starting from the first fifty-year plan, it became a massive undertaking.
One could even say it was a national effort to support the Xuanwei realm.
The demand for talent would undoubtedly grow stronger.
In Zheng Fa's view, the core researchers in the future could naturally enter Hongshan for study and cultivation.
But those on the periphery were also reserve talents.
The money earned by the nursing home would likely be invested in educating talent and peripheral research.
"To be honest, this money isn't enough..." Zheng Fa felt a bit poor at this moment, "Fortunately, we only need some design drafts."
What Zheng Fa needed most now was actually the technology for resource collection and refinement.
The foundation of industrialization is a massive amount of resource consumption.
Zheng Fa hadn't anticipated this when he first designed it.
Even the spiritual materials in Jiushan Realm were becoming insufficient—external elixirs consumed a lot of spiritual materials, and now Zheng Fa had suddenly launched external elixir factories and shipyards, causing the previously stored spiritual materials in Jiushan Realm to deplete rapidly.
Moreover, Zheng Fa had been expanding the education system, striving to increase the number of cultivators.
Sister Zhang's accounts were already in the red.
When Sister Zhang patrolled the mortal realm, aside from managing accurate data, the most important task was... finding mines!
The spiritual plants in Jiushan Realm had long been collected by the Sun and Moon Bell and planted in the medicinal garden.
Among the remaining resources, the most valuable were actually a few spiritual mines.
Especially three special thunder-type spiritual mines, which Sister Zhang and Xiao Yuying estimated had a huge output and high value.
On the other hand, there were still many minerals on the land of the Hundred Immortals Alliance.
For example... Zheng Fa still remembered that when the Great Freedom Demon Sect emerged, they had blown up a spiritual stone mine!
That was all money!
Now, the most critical task in the first fifty-year plan had become how to develop the minerals in the Jiushan Realm and the Hundred Immortals Alliance more quickly and efficiently.
What Zheng Fa could think of now was to utilize modern mining exploration, collection, and refining technology, combined with Madam Xuanhua's artifact refining methods, to create new technologies that surpassed the efficiency of the Xuanwei realm.
In Zheng Fa's vision, major design institutes would provide designs, the nursing home would select from them, and using existing external elixirs, they would create experimental machines, with Madam Xuanhua leading the Tiangong Pavilion to replicate them in Jiushan Realm.
The goal was to provide those previous spiritual mines with an unprecedented one-stop service from both realms!
As for the initially envisioned shipbuilding and textile technologies... they were not the most important sequences and were even relatively simple.
However, spiritual mines were something modernity lacked, and the gap with non-spiritual ore was vast, making the technical difficulty evident.
After hearing Zheng Fa's thoughts, old man Bai and the others suddenly fell silent.
They looked at Zheng Fa, their expressions somewhat complex.
If they had only sensed something before, Zheng Fa's current demeanor clearly indicated one thing—
Zheng Fa had a foundation!
Otherwise, why would he be mining?
What about the shipyard and textile factory? They were useless for the current Hongshan...
"Is it... Jiushan Sect?"
Old man Bai hesitated for a moment before asking.
He remembered that Zheng Fa had initially claimed to be a disciple of Jiushan Sect, which was a hidden sect.
They had once discussed what secret places Jiushan Sect was in, what formations protected it, and the hidden masters within.
But this hidden world... was it a concealed realm?
Then... was Zheng Fa really the Zheng Fa they thought he was?
Zheng Fa met the somewhat unfamiliar gazes of old man Bai and Tang Lingwu.
He had been prepared for this, and by now, there was no need to hide many things.
Especially from old man Bai and Tang Lingwu.
"That world is called the Xuanwei realm."
Old man Bai and the others listened intently.
"There are many powerful cultivators and strong sects there."
"More importantly, aside from having spiritual energy, that world is identical to this one."
"The human body structure, material composition... one could say, within the margin of error, they are completely similar."
"Just like Hongshan?"
Tang Muda's eyes sparkled with excitement as he listened; as someone studying cosmology, he naturally sensed the strangeness in this.
"Exactly..."
"That's a whole universe!"
Tang Muda slapped his thigh.
Old man Bai was also taken aback, scratching his curly head, "Does this mean that Zheng Fa is most likely still a person?"
"…"
While the logic was sound, the wording was quite poor.
"Jiushan Sect isn't very safe in the Xuanwei realm." Zheng Fa found it hard to explain many things, "In fact, the Xuanwei realm isn't very safe either."
"It might involve a forbidden figure in modern times."
"Therefore, I don't want you to be known by them."
Zheng Fa couldn't say too much in detail, but old man Bai and Tang Lingwu exchanged glances and nodded.
They understood Zheng Fa's meaning—
To some extent, they were sheltered under Zheng Fa's wings.
This was actually a fact:
If the Yin-Yang Fish jade pendant in Zheng Fa's sea of consciousness were exposed, he would certainly be in trouble, but what kind of fate would modernity face? It probably wouldn't be optimistic either.
At this moment, the atmosphere grew serious. Tang Lingwu looked at Zheng Fa, pouting, her eyes suddenly reddening, as if feeling a bit heartbroken.
They had long noticed that Zheng Fa often appeared worried and under a lot of pressure.
Now they finally understood where that pressure came from.
Zheng Fa even worried about their safety, so he must be even less secure himself.
He must be bearing a lot on his own.
Old man Bai chuckled dryly and joked:
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