Chapter 109 Never Tried

Zheng Fa arrived at Senior Sister Zhang's house early in the morning.

"What's up?"

Seeing Zheng Fa coming to find her, Senior Sister Zhang looked a little confused.

"Senior Sister, I've looked at the past account books these days. The income of this market...has not been as good as before."

Senior Sister Zhang thought for a moment, pointed to a chair beside her, and asked Zheng Fa to sit down.

"When I first took over the General Affairs Office, the income of the market was more than 2,000 spirit stones a month." Senior Sister Zhang said bluntly, "But over the past hundred years, both the rent and transaction tax of the market have been declining."

Zheng Fa was also a little surprised when he heard this. This was a big drop.

"This is not a problem for our Jiushan Sect." Senior Sister Zhang comforted her, "Just do your best."

It was obvious that she thought Zheng Fa was afraid of being punished if his income continued to decline after taking over the market, so he came to her.

He revealed his shortcomings to comfort Zheng Fa.

Zheng Fa was silent for a while, then said, "I'm not worried about that. I just have an idea and would like to ask you, Senior Sister Zhang, to see if it's feasible."

"idea?"

Senior Sister Zhang glanced at Zheng Fa and said in a daze, "You feel that your cultivation level is not enough to hold the formation, and you want to make some contribution to the business of the market?"

Zheng Fa smiled and said, "Senior sister has seen through it. Since I don't have the cultivation that can convince others, I can only use my brain on these things."

There is no other way around this if I want to keep this position.

Or, like Senior Sister Yuan, use her Golden Core cultivation to suppress the people below.

Or make the market more prosperous.

Senior Sister Zhang nodded, but her expression did not show much expectation. It was obvious that she did not think Zheng Fa could have any good ideas.

"Tell me about it."

"Sister, you also know that the income of the market has decreased. The root cause is the decline of spiritual energy." Zheng Fa said, "But the current problem is that the vendors and shops in the sect can no longer make money."

The income of the market town actually comes from these vendors and merchants. If they have no business, the market town will naturally have no income.

"Especially since there are too many talisman masters in our sect, it is becoming increasingly difficult to sell talismans. Han Qi and the others who want to sell talismans to me now have to use yellow-grade talismans to sell them."

Zheng Fa looked a little strange.

This idea was actually thought up by Han Qi himself. He is really talented and does business very well.

But in fact - this thing is so popular that it is almost numbing the talisman stalls in the market.

Senior Sister Zhang nodded upon hearing this: "Some stalls have actually been difficult to rent in recent years."

Her expression did not change much. Not only Zheng Fa, but also the top leaders of Jiushan Sect had figured out this matter a long time ago.

But now the entire world of immortal cultivation is experiencing a consumption downgrade, and they don’t have any good solutions.

"Junior brother, if you want to increase their income, it's nothing more than increasing revenue and reducing expenditure." Zheng Fa said his plan: "Junior brother, I don't have any idea about reducing expenditure, but I do have some ideas about increasing revenue."

"oh?"

Zheng Fa took out a booklet from his sleeve and handed it to Senior Sister Zhang.

Senior Sister Zhang took the booklet, flipped through it for a while, and when she looked up, she looked at Zheng Fa with a strange look in her eyes: "You want us to send out a pick-up boat to attract customers from the various immortal gates and markets in the Hundred Immortals Alliance? And provide free transportation?"

"Yes." Zheng Fa said, "Junior brother, I think the reason why we have too many talisman masters is because we have too few customers. We can also arrange staff on the ship to let those who don't have time to come to place orders, and then we will deliver the goods to them."

After all, this is actually free public transportation for those supermarkets.

The kind that old men and women who don’t want to spend money like most.

Plus easy mail order.

It’s not hard to imagine, but no one in the Xuanwei Realm has ever done this.

This model has not been around for many years in modern times - it requires business civilization and service awareness to develop to a certain stage.

Every market town in Xuanwei Realm is run by landlords who are only responsible for collecting rent and protection fees.

In Zheng Fa's plan, the responsibilities of the Fangshi are actually more like those of a modern shopping mall - it has to undertake marketing responsibilities.

Especially those vendors and small shops, they actually have no marketing capabilities and can only rely on the market.

This kind of thinking actually requires the market town to have a sense of service towards small traders. Obviously, it is really difficult for a market town backed by a large sect to have this kind of thinking.

"This idea... is quite interesting. It is aimed at those low-level monks who don't have much money." Senior Sister Zhang patted the booklet in her hand lightly, with a little appreciation in her eyes: "You can try it."

Zheng Fa nodded and said, "Senior Sister is wise. I was thinking that there are too many yellow-grade talisman masters in our sect, and the largest audience is those low-level cultivators who are not very skilled and it is not convenient for them to come. In fact, the talismans here are relatively cheap. If we don't need to pay for the travel expenses, those people will probably be willing to come, at least to come and have a look."

As for whether you will buy something after you come here - there is a saying that goes, since you are here, you are here.

Senior Sister Zhang looked at the booklet again and found that there was quite a lot written in it.

We should first go to some nearby sects or markets to conduct a pilot project.

There is some kind of promotion - just writing and decorating on the boat.

How to arrange the guides - Zheng Fa recommended Han Qi, who had great potential to be a black tour guide. He could also use his expertise on the boat and sell some goods.

"You wrote this booklet with great care." Senior Sister Zhang looked at Zheng Fa with admiration in her eyes: "I originally just wanted you to take over this position, but I didn't expect you to give me a surprise."

Zheng Fa shook his head and said cautiously: "This matter still has some costs, so I came to discuss it with you, Senior Sister."

"It's okay to give it a try. I'll make the arrangements." Senior Sister Zhang handed the booklet to Zheng Fa and said to him, "Go to the market and do it with confidence."

…

This day was the first time Zheng Fa met those disciples from the market town.

He came to the small building in the market town.

Senior Sister Yuan has been waiting here for a long time.

"Junior brother, are you nervous?" She asked curiously, "I was so nervous when I first took over the position of market manager!"

Zheng Fa smiled and shook his head.

He had done what he could to prepare.

Condensed into a Frost Blade Talisman.

He also used the business plan booklet to gain further support from Senior Sister Zhang - the success or failure of the plan was not the most important thing. The most important thing was to make Senior Sister Zhang recognize his talent and efforts in this area and be willing to remove some other obstacles for him.

He felt that he was now capable of dealing with some difficulties and exclusion.

No matter how much malicious intent there is, Zheng Fa is not unprepared mentally.

After all, because of his background, he has faced a lot of maliciousness both in Zhuangzi and in modern times.

Not liking fighting doesn't mean he is afraid of fighting.

Seeing him shaking his head, Senior Sister Yuan curled her lips, seeming a little disappointed.

Soon, all the disciples under Senior Sister Yuan arrived.

There are actually not many people, less than thirty disciples.

Standing together, they filled the first floor of the small building.

What surprised Zheng Fa was that all the disciples in the room seemed a little scared when they saw him.

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He looked from left to right, and no one dared to look him in the eye.

Whether he was practicing Qi or building his foundation, this person would lower his head when he saw him looking at him.

If he stared at that person for a long time, that person would raise his head and carefully give a flattering smile.

...What's going on?

Senior Sister Yuan watched with a smile on her face for a while, then she coughed softly and said, "Now let me introduce you to Junior Brother Zheng, who will be in charge of the market with me in the future."

Zheng Fa didn't have time to smile kindly.

These brothers started talking.

"I've heard of Junior Brother Zheng's name a long time ago!"

"The market should be run by someone like my junior brother!"

"Since I heard the news, I have been looking forward to it day and night, and finally Junior Brother Zheng has arrived!"

...No, what's wrong with you all looking like you've seen the sky?

He looked at this group of extremely enthusiastic brothers and said modestly: "My brothers' cultivation is shallow..."

"That's really self-deprecating!" A senior brother who looked older interrupted him, "Ambition is not about age! What's wrong with low cultivation? We have high cultivation!"

"That's right! If you need to do anything, Junior Brother Zheng, just leave it alone and let us do it!"

"right!"

"…Who is this senior brother?"

"My last name is Yang!" the senior brother said enthusiastically, "If anyone is blind in the future, tell me!"

Senior Sister Zhang’s lineage is much more united than I thought!

"Well... Junior Brother has an idea here, please discuss it with the senior brothers."

Zheng Fa thought about it and told these senior brothers about the measures that he and Senior Sister Zhang had discussed.

To be honest, he was not very confident in his business ability - after all, he had never done business in modern times.

What's more, they are different worlds.

Therefore, he was very cautious in what he wrote in the booklet - it was just a small-scale pilot at the beginning, and the investment cost was also limited.

He let these senior brothers discuss it, he really wanted to hear their opinions.

After all, their familiarity with the market town is beyond my reach.

“Great!”

But before he finished speaking, Senior Brother Yang clapped his hands and laughed.

“…”

"Junior brother, this method has solved the urgent needs of these shops in the market!"

"A kind-hearted person!"

"I think those shop owners are going to erect a longevity monument for you, Junior Brother!"

"Senior brothers, do you have any objections?" Zheng Fa asked sincerely but puzzledly.

"Junior brother, your plan is perfect. No objection, no objection!"

“…”

Looking at the brothers who were walking away, Zheng Fa slowly frowned. He asked Sister Yuan, "Sister, are all the disciples in our market so... kind?"

"...Why, you don't like it?"

“That’s not the case…” Zheng Fa shook his head and smiled, “I thought there would be some conflict, and Junior Brother has prepared some methods.”

"I have resorted to trickery."

"ah?"

Zheng Fa turned around and saw Senior Sister Yuan smiling with an expression that seemed to be seeking credit.

"These people have been coming to me in groups these past few days to sow discord among me." Senior Sister Yuan pouted: "I have taught them a lesson one by one."

“…”

"In the past six months, as long as I haven't left, this group of people will be well behaved." Senior Sister Yuan patted her chest and said, "After I leave, if they still make trouble, Junior Brother, you can find me and I will come back to teach them a lesson."

Zheng Fa looked at the booklet he had carefully prepared in his hand, then looked at Senior Sister Yuan who was full of pride. He moved his fingers, and a ray of cold air condensed into a cold blade in the air, which slashed across a pot of flowers in the corner.

A leaf on the flower or tree slowly fell.

"Junior brother?" Senior Sister Yuan looked puzzled.

"...I'll try it." Zheng Fa said a little depressed.

(End of this chapter)