Five Elements Sect, Zhang Wanjing’s Cave

“Master, you are really wise and brave. You defeated the enemy with just one move. Now we have new rules. Those..."

“Master, you will definitely go down in history. In the future, when disciples of the Five Elements Sect talk about Zhang Wanjing, they will definitely think of..."

“Master, you are now in a high position and have great power. No, you are admired by everyone. How did those disciples say Master? It’s time to call him..."

“Master..."

“Ahem, junior brother, can you stop flattering me? I can’t stand it anymore.”

Lin Jiang caught Zhang Wanjing and started flattering him. Zhang Shuhua on the side couldn’t stand it anymore. Why didn’t he realize before that his junior brother was so shameless and praised people in a lot of ways.

Zhang Wanjing had squinted his eyes to listen to the praise before, now he opened his eyes and said, "Why don't you praise me anymore, go on."

"No words of praise in the world can describe Master's great achievements, disciple has nothing to say."

"Really? You can go then."

"No, Master, are you so heartless to chase your disciple away, without talking about the relationship between master and disciple?"

"If you have to fart, say something. Do you really think I don't know what you are thinking?"

"Haha, Master still understands me. Master, I want to do some small business."

"You want business, why do you look for me? I have no money."

"Okay, I'll tell you the truth, I want to contract the sect's restaurant,"

Lin Jiang said directly. A restaurant is a cafeteria, and he has been eyeing a piece of fat meat for a long time.

"Junior brother, the restaurant belongs to the sect, how can it be contracted to the disciples?"

"Brother, you are wrong. I was in seclusion some time ago. I don't know how many people involved in the restaurant were involved in the corruption cases caught by the sect. The corruption and waste here are simply shocking. Master knows it."

"Xiao Yi is right. The waste in the sect's restaurant is so serious that it is simply appalling. The food eaten by the disciples is not as much as the food thrown away."

Zhang Wanjing said. The canteen of the Five Elements Sect is free, and the daily expenses are calculated according to the registered disciples of the sect. But the problem is that many disciples in the mountain gate do not eat in the canteen. Some are guarding outside, and some are in seclusion. There are servants at home who can cook for themselves.

But so many people didn't eat, but they still did it. Of course, they also deducted a lot, but they still threw away a lot of food every day.

Throwing it away is not a complete waste, because the Five Elements Sect also raised many spirit beasts for food, but in Zhang Wanjing's eyes, it was also a waste. This time, many low-level disciples were caught in the canteen.

"In addition to corruption and waste, the food is not tasty. There are sixteen restaurants of all sizes in the mountain gate. Except for the two restaurants in the inner gate, the food in the outer gate restaurants is not worth eating even if it is thrown to a dog. Master, I think the biggest disrespect to food is to cook it unpalatable. Do you think I am right?"

"Yes."

"So I am willing to respect food."

"This reason is not enough to convince me. As a master, I must set an example in the sect and I will never give you a back door."

"I don't need a back door. I have my reasons for contracting the restaurant in an upright manner."

"Then continue."

"The sect's system is rigid in all aspects, not just at the top level. The reform of the restaurant can leverage many aspects, such as spiritual grain. The outer disciples grow spiritual grain for the sect. Every year, they have to hand in a large amount of spiritual grain to complete tasks, and they have very little left. Therefore, the sect disciples are not very motivated to

farm. We made a lot of trouble in the outer gate before, building water conservancy projects and optimizing seeds, but the sect turned around and increased the number of tasks, which destroyed our efforts. Now we are back to the previous level, right?"

"Yes"

"Master, you don't want to destroy the hope of these disciples, right?"

"Yes."

"Then we can do this. The amount of spirit stones that the farming disciples should collect for their tasks should be revised every ten or twenty years based on the market price outside. We can leave a certain profit for the disciples, and then their enthusiasm for farming will be high. This is called profitable.

In fact, it's not just spirit grains, but also low-level spiritual medicines. The sect doesn't need to spend so much manpower and resources to take care of these. The sect only needs to control high-level elixirs and strategic elixirs like foundation-building elixirs."

"Then aren't you afraid that someone will drive up the prices?"

"No, if it's the sect's top leaders who instruct him, there are sect rules to deal with him. If it's an outsider, just chop him up as if the swords of the Five Elements Sect are made of tofu."

"Haha, I understand. What you said is a bit like the Single Whip Method, but didn't the Single Whip Method fail?"