Cooperation, Hired Labor!

A green jade slip radiating an ancient aura appeared before Mu Xingqi.

Mu Xingqi decisively reached out and opened the jade slip.

He looked through it once, only to find he could not understand it.

After all, it was a profound-grade technique; with his innate talent, it was impossible to comprehend it at a single glance.

Putting away the jade slip, Mu Xingqi prepared to go directly to find his grandfather.

Next, just as had happened in the simulation, Mu Xingqi presented the Pei Yuan Secret Manual to his grandfather, while he himself obtained a transcribed copy.

A month later, Mu Xingqi successfully switched to cultivating the new technique, much faster than he had anticipated.

In this past month, their Mu family businesses not only successfully captured the entire market in Jinzhou County, but also successfully seized about half of the markets in the two neighboring counties.

It could be said that the reputation of the Mu family's businesses had completely echoed throughout the three-county region.

This time, rather than directly launching a night raid on the overlord factions of the two counties as he had in the simulation, he sent people to negotiate a peace.

He hoped to reach a cooperative agreement with the factions of the two counties, where they would provide labor and raw materials, while his Mu family would use corresponding spirit stones to purchase them.

This was because he realized that given the current scale of the Mu family, controlling Jinzhou County was fine, but if they were to send people to manage operations in the two counties as well, it would inevitably become overwhelming over time.

Thus, he came up with the idea of cooperation, believing that in this world, as long as enough spirit stones were given, the factions of the two counties