In a blink of an eye, it was the beginning of the year again. In front of the majestic main hall, a ray of light fell down, revealing Tang Ning's figure.

In the hall, several disciples were burying themselves in front of the desk, sorting out files. When they saw him entering, one person quickly stood up and came forward to greet him and bowed: "Disciple pays homage to Master Tang."

"I'm here to receive the funds from the headquarters. Can Senior Brother Wei be here?"

"Uncle Tang, please come with me."

The two came to a stone room on the second floor of the attic and knocked on the stone door.

"Come in." A strong voice came from inside.

The two pushed the door open and walked in. Sitting in front of the desk inside was a burly middle-aged man. It was Wei Zili, the financial manager of the brigade.

"Senior Brother Wei, excuse me, I'm here to collect the team's funds." Tang Ning bowed.

"Junior Brother Tang is here, please take a seat, we have already prepared it for you."

Wei Zili took out a file from under the desk and handed it to him: "Junior Brother Tang, just sign and make a pledge."

Tangning did as she was told.

Wei Zili put away the file, took out a strip of paper and handed it to the man next to him: "Go to the storage room and get the spirit stone."

"Yes." The man responded and left.

"Junior brother Tang, are you getting used to returning to the direct brigade this time? Ours is not comparable to other brigade. We have so many resources and industries under our jurisdiction. Compared with other teams, this headquarters can be regarded as Qingshui Yamen."

"I was originally a disciple of the Sixth Team directly under me. If I don't have any ambition, now I have returned to my hometown in glory. There is nothing uncomfortable about it. Although the headquarters is a Qingshui Yamen, it saves me a lot of troubles and I can just concentrate on my practice.

Brother Wei doesn’t know that when I was the director of Jingyuan Pavilion, I had to deal with trivial matters all day long. To be honest, I’ve long been tired of it.”

Wei Zili smiled and said: "This all has advantages and disadvantages. I heard that Jingyuan Pavilion, where Junior Brother Tang is in charge, has rich cultivation resources. It has a high-grade spiritual mine, a third-order high-grade spiritual vein and a third-order mid-grade spiritual vein. Light.

The annual funding is 40 to 50 million, not counting the private share, which this department cannot compare with."

Tang Ning said: "The 40 to 50 million spirit stone funding is true. After all, the one or two hundred people under my command are pointing to this amount of money! It is undeniable that the spiritual stone funding of several other brigades is a bit more than the main team, but they

The chances of getting meritorious service are slim."

"I have been at Jingyuan Pavilion for more than a hundred years, and I basically only have a fixed number of one hundred points of merit every year, while several of my disciples only have a pitiful ten points of merit every year."

"As for the captains under the headquarters, it is normal for them to have three hundred merit points a year. Coupled with the high mission rewards, in fact, the actual rewards they get are not much less than those of other brigades, and the merit points are far more useful than spiritual stones.

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"Otherwise, everyone else would want to stay in the direct brigade, Senior Brother Wei, don't you think so?"

While the two were chatting, the disciple had left and returned. He turned his hands over and handed the two storage bags to Tang Ning: "Uncle, please check."

Tangning took the storage bag and scanned it with her consciousness. Each storage bag was neatly placed with a thousand high-grade spiritual stones, for a total of 20 million spiritual stones. This is the team's funding for this year.

Ten million of it belongs to the entire team budget of the seventh team, and the other ten million is his additional dividend as the team manager.

Although the directly-affiliated brigade does not have any income from the resource industry, as a team under the direct jurisdiction of the alliance, the alliance will allocate a special amount to the directly-affiliated brigade as funding every year.

In addition, since the directly-affiliated brigade has to perform various missions from time to time, each mission has additional rewards, which are also allocated from the brigade.

"Then I won't disturb Senior Brother Wei and take my leave."

"Jin Yan, send Junior Brother Tang off for me."

The two turned around and left the room. Tang Ning left the hall and went to the finance hall of the alliance to receive this year's salary, a total of 44 million spiritual stones.

Since he broke through the middle stage of Nascent Soul, his salary has increased from the original 12 million to 24 million. Including an additional 20 million subsidy for the brigade management position, the total is 44 million.

Dark clouds covered the moon and heavy rain poured down. Inside the city, in front of the majestic and majestic hall, a ray of light shot down, revealing Tang Ning's figure.

Inside, several men were sitting in the spacious and bright hall, immersed in sorting out files.

"Senior Tang, you are here, what are your orders?" One of the men saw him entering and stood up to greet him and bowed his head.

"Nothing, I came over to see Shao Hui."

"Let me take you there!"

"good."

The two walked through the main hall and turned around several corridors. As they walked, Tang Ning asked, "Can Fellow Daoist Zeng be here today?"

"Yes, senior, do you want to see him?"

"I'll visit Shao Hui later after I meet him. By the way, Shao Hui is here, so he won't cause any trouble to your department!"

"This place itself is a place for people to make elixirs. How can Fellow Taoist Shao cause any trouble if he makes elixirs here? We will try our best to satisfy whatever Fellow Daoist Shao needs."

While the two were chatting, they came to a stone room and the man pushed the door open and entered.

The inside is only about ten feet in diameter. In the center is a large red cauldron with three legs and two ears. A group of faint blue flames is very conspicuous below. There are many cabinets and cabinets on both sides. There is another stone door at the end of the room.

It is a room specially opened for people who make alchemy to rest.

This is also one of the alliance's private properties, called the Fenghua Alchemy Hall. Some of the high-level herbs collected by the alliance are refined into elixirs here. The people in charge here are also the alliance's recruiters.

Although the alchemy hall here is unknown, its specifications are very high. There are fifth-level ice-blue fire veins connected to it. The alchemy cauldron is also extraordinary, and the conditions are sufficient to refine fifth-level elixirs.

Tang Ning interceded with Xu Mengyuan before transferring Shao Hui here, occupying an alchemy room, and only paid a symbolic payment of one million spiritual stones every year.

At this moment, a short-built man was sitting in front of the alchemy cauldron, staring intently at the changes in the elixir inside. He heard a sound from the stone door behind him, glanced at the two of them, and then turned around to continue staring at the alchemy cauldron.

"Senior Tang, I'll take my leave now." The man turned and left the room.

Tang Ning stood aside. For a long time, Shao Hui slapped the pill cauldron, and a black and round pill spit out from the dragon's mouth and fell into the wooden box.

"Senior Tang." After finishing his work, Shao Hui stood up unhurriedly and bowed to him.

"How's it going? Are you still used to it here?"

"Thanks to Senior Hongfu, everything is fine. The facilities in the alchemy hall here are much better than those in Jingyuan Pavilion. Thanks to this, junior, the success rate of alchemy is also higher than before. All the refined elixirs have been handed over to

I’m the person in charge here.” Shao Hui turned over his hands and took out a file: “Every account has a corresponding record.”

"Okay, put it away! Don't I still trust you? If I didn't trust you, I wouldn't have brought you here. By the way, is everything okay, Madam?"

"Thank you, senior, for arranging Zhuo Jing into your department. It's a great kindness, senior, and I will never forget it."

"Don't focus all your attention on refining alchemy. Spend more time with my lady."

"Thank you for your concern, senior. Zhuojing often comes to this alchemy hall to visit this junior."

The two chatted for a while, and Tang Ning took out two storage bags in her hands: "I came here today specifically to deliver the main ingredient of the Qing Ling Pill to you. There are four hundred beads of purple smoke fruits and poppies here. I will send you more in the coming year.

The medicine came here."

The two had an agreement before that Shao Hui would refine the elixir for him, and he would supply all the materials and share the profit 50-50.

Four hundred beads of purple smoke fruits and poppy flowers can be used to refine more than 3,000 Qingling pills. As for other auxiliary medicines, the Alchemy Hall will provide them.

Even if you work around the clock to complete more than three thousand Qingling Pills, it will still take three or four months to complete. This workload is still quite large, and the loss of spiritual consciousness and spiritual power in making the pills is not trivial.

It would be impossible for Shao Hui's cultivation level to refine the Qingling Pill for several days and nights without sleep. With the necessary rest, it would take half a year to complete this workload.

Tang Ning couldn't let him refine elixirs for her all year round. He had to spend time refining Qi and practice. Therefore, the two of them discussed and decided to refine Xiaoyang elixir based on the amount of four hundred beads of medicinal herbs every year.

In the market, each Qingling Pill sells for 8,000 spirit stones, and 3,000 Qingling Pills are worth 24 million spirit stones. Since they are sold directly to the Alchemy Hall, they can only be sold for 80% of the price, which is almost 20 million spirit stones.

stone.

Excluding the cost of the medicinal herbs and the four million annual salary promised to Shao Hui, Tang Ning could make about six to seven million spirit stones from it.

This spiritual stone is actually nothing to him now. The reason why he is willing to raise Shao Hui is mainly because of his potential in the future.

Anyway, it won't waste much time. He only needs to make a trip every year to deliver the main medicine he needs.

Shao Hui took the storage bag, checked it with his spiritual consciousness, nodded and said, "Thank you, senior."

"Don't worry about refining alchemy. Even if you lose one or two hundred beads a year, it doesn't matter. Monks still have to practice cultivation. I hope you can focus more on practice." Tang Ning said, and this was not a polite statement.

To be honest, he sincerely hopes that Shao Hui can make further progress in his cultivation.

If he could advance to the Nascent Soul and refine fourth-level elixirs in the future, the profits would naturally be incomparable. He spent so much effort to bring him under his command, not just for the mere millions of spiritual stones this year.

"The juniors know the good intentions of the seniors, and my wife often advises the juniors to pay more attention to their own cultivation."

"You have been in the late stage of the Golden Elixir for quite a long time. You should not be far from the Great Consummation! If you need anything during the pregnancy, just come to me. I won't disturb you and concentrate on refining the elixir."
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