Sales Line
At an altitude of 8,000 meters, a Flying Boat came from the northeast, rapidly breaking through the clouds and heading southwest.
Yang Ning leaned against the deck, scattering mist Water Droplet while listening to the crew of the Flying Boat bragging and looking at the human landscape below.
Taiheng has a long history. Although its productivity is low, it is not sparsely populated because it was developed with the help of cultivators. Below the Flying Boat are endless farmlands, and you can see a city from time to time.
The people in the city did not kneel when they saw the Flying Boat in the sky. Instead, just like earthlings seeing airplanes, most of them did not raise their heads. Some children would chase after the Flying Boat for a while, and then stop.
"I invented the Curved Shaft Plow seven years ago, and the people here are still using the Straight Shaft Plow to till the land!" Yang Ning exclaimed in surprise. With the help of the Cloud-Mist Information Matrix, he could see clearly that it was the busy farming season, the previous crop had been harvested, and the land needed to be replanted.
But farmers find using Straight Shaft Plow laborious and inefficient, and they don't even have oxen!
It wasn't that there were no cattle; after the Flying Boat had traveled forty kilometers, Yang Ning saw three luxurious estates where cattle were kept.
These cattle are used to provide food for the master's spiritual practice, not for farming.
"Hello, Brother Yang, I am the captain of this Flying Boat, my name is Wen Ze!" A voice rang out behind Yang Ning.
Yang Ning immediately turned around and saw a handsome young man standing 1.85 meters tall with a long, narrow face, wearing a white brocade robe and a jade hairpin in his hair.
To be honest, this person is like a poet, a singer, a young heartthrob who can sing, dance, rap, and play basketball, but he's just not like a captain.
However, this is the Cultivation World, so it's normal for people's identities and appearances to be mismatched.
"Brother Wen, greetings!" Yang Ning quickly greeted him, for one cannot refuse a smiling face!
"I heard you boarded the ship a while ago, and I wanted to come see you right away, but I've been too busy!" Wen Ze laughed. "You know, this ship is heading to the sect. If anything happens, I can't bear the responsibility!"
"I understand!" Yang Ning nodded. "I'm not some big shot, and it's not like I absolutely have to meet him!"
"You're different!" Wen Ze laughed. "Although you don't know me, I know you very well. Didn't you invent eyeglasses? Before, my ship would bring things from the sect to the Ascension Academy and then return empty. But now, many inner Outer Disciple inner disciple, as well as servants and pageboys on the mountain, are interested in eyeglasses. The ship is now fully loaded with hundreds of thousands of pairs of eyeglasses!"
"Hundreds of thousands?" Yang Ning asked in surprise, "I can understand that sect disciples would like glasses, but hundreds of thousands is a bit exaggerated. Does the entire sect have that many disciples? And don't they all have their own Artifact Forging Master? Glasses shouldn't be difficult to make, right?"
"Of course, it's not all for the sect disciples!" Wen Ze laughed. "After passing the sect, my ship will also be transporting goods south. You know the Hundred Nations Battlefield, right? The sun is strong there, so the demand for sunglasses is high!"
"The Hundred Nations Battlefield? What kind of place is that?" Yang Ning asked.
He had heard of this term before, but he didn't know the specifics. It wasn't mentioned in the Vast Universe Records either. Yang Ning guessed that it was a newly published map, after the Vast Universe Records was written.
"Oh, it's those Tianyi brats again!" Wen Ze's face immediately darkened at this point. "That area used to be under the jurisdiction of our Taiheng Sect. There was a sect called Nanming located there. Forty years ago, the old leader of Nanming passed away, and a new leader took over. Then this guy actually publicly stated that Nanming was leaving Taiheng and joining the Tianyi Sect. Can you tolerate that?"
"I definitely can't stand it!" Yang Ning immediately shook his head.
The Nanming Sect is right next to Taiheng, and suddenly it became a subordinate of the Tianyi Sect. This is equivalent to the enemy pointing a gun at their face!
"That's right, even we in Taiheng couldn't stand it!" Wen Ze slapped his thigh. "When we got angry, that guy died. With his death, the Nanming Sect immediately split into forty or fifty sects. Add to that the dozens of small sects that originally belonged to the Nanming Sect, and now such a tiny place has more than one hundred and forty forces!"
"This is really... a bit outrageous!" Yang Ning agreed.
"Who says otherwise!" Wen Ze nodded and said, "In the past, it was just a struggle between Taiheng and Tianyi Sect, but now more and more forces have gotten involved. Of these more than one hundred forces, some are supported by Taiheng, some are backed by the Tianyi Sect, and there are also the South Sea Exchange, Yingzhou Loose Immortal Alliance, South Sea Man Family, and even the Great Luo Sect Yiyuan Pill Cauldron Sect, each with their own supporting forces."
"No wonder it's called the Hundred Nations Battlefield!"
"That's right, that's how the name came about!" Wen Ze laughed. "Many inner disciple of Taiheng also participated. If you become inner disciple in the future, you might be able to go to the Hundred Nations Battlefield. Disciples who can fight their way out there can become famous throughout the entire Taiheng Realm!"
"Becoming inner disciple isn't that easy!" Yang Ning smiled, not taking the bait.
"There's hope! There's hope!" Wen Ze said with a smile.
Yang Ning responded twice, then, as if remembering something, asked, "By the way, you said before that the journey from the Ascension Academy to the sect was by empty ship?"
"Yes!" Wen Ze nodded. "The sect doesn't need the things from the Ascension Academy. On the contrary, the sect has to provide the Ascension Academy with a lot of supplies, such as minerals, food, meat and so on. The situation is the same when running other routes."
"Don't sects need medicinal herbs and minerals produced in the mortal world?" Yang Ning asked.
"The sect has its own small world, and an entire world can cover hundreds of millions of acres. What use would they have for medicinal herbs from outside?" Wen Ze retorted. "Then the same goes for minerals. Mortal Mineral are useless to immortals, but Spirit Materials must be moved directly!"
"So that's how it is!" Yang Ning understood. Thinking about it, it made sense. If you were an immortal who could capture mountains and the moon, would you still mine in a step-by-step manner? You would definitely move the entire mine away.
At this point, Yang Ning felt somewhat fortunate.
Thankfully, I didn't choose to leave the sect, otherwise, wouldn't my supply of Spirit Materials have been cut off?
"Since you can transport glasses for the Nangong Family, can you also transport things for us?" Yang Ning asked again.
"Of course!" Wen Ze nodded, then suddenly his eyes lit up as he thought of something, "You mean you're going to sell that car you invented?"
"So, do you think there's any potential in the sedan market?" Yang Ning asked.
"Well," Wen Ze stroked his chin, "To be honest, if you were selling them to the public, I'd really like to buy one for fun, but inner disciple and Outer Disciple probably wouldn't need one."
"What if I buy a mortal kingdom's capital and sell it to a king, prince, or nobleman?"
Wen Ze's eyes lit up, and then he gave a thumbs up. "Then I can only say, it's guaranteed to be a bestseller!"
"So, I'll produce the cars here, and you can help me with the transportation. How about the sales?" Yang Ning asked again, "I'll give you a factory price; you can decide the retail price later."
He noticed that Wen Ze's cultivation level was only at the Body Refinement Seventh Level, just one level higher than his own, which clearly indicated that he also had a need for money.
Moreover, as a captain of Flying Boat, Wen Ze's social circle inevitably involves other Flying Boat captains, and the Flying Boat of the Taiheng Realm are the transportation lines of the Taiheng Realm, just like trains, airplanes, and trucks on Earth!
How can any business function without a transportation network?
"No problem!" Wen Ze's face immediately broke into a bright smile, "Brother Yang is giving me a chance to make a fortune, I definitely have to seize it!"
As the captain of Flying Boat and in charge of the transportation lines between the sect and the Ascension Academy, his background is far beyond what a small Lineage like the Nangong Family can compare to.
For an ordinary disciple of the Ascension Academy, he would simply get on the bus, offer a greeting, and that would be it. Why would he need to chat for so long? Isn't it because he knows that Yang Ning's invention of the car has caused a sensation throughout the city and is profitable?
I was originally planning to subtly steer the conversation towards the car, but Yang Ning brought it up herself.
Now, both sides are heading towards what they belong to!