Although the Taiyi Sect and the Mobei Qi Family had a faint tendency to unite when facing the Feihong Sect, they were still wary of each other.
And in order to avoid irritating the Feihong Sect, the two forces have little contact on the surface.
In fact, given the current situation in the Endless Sand Sea, it is very unlikely that a civil war will break out in a short time. The alliance between the Taiyi Sect and the Mobei Qi Family is just a precaution.
Meng Zhang’s main gaze began to look beyond the endless sea of sand.
After the Huoyun Sect was defeated and the war ended, Xuanfeng Zhenjun, the man behind the Fireyun Sect, made no new moves for the time being. However, the commercial exchanges between Gale City and Endless Sand Sea did not resume immediately.
Such an approach is certainly not Gale City’s original intention.
A large part of the reason why Dafeng City has become a major commercial city is because of its superior location and location on a thoroughfare.
It is connected to the endless sand sea to the north and the core area of Jiuqu League to the south. To the west is the vast sea and to the east is the endless prairie.
The various resources and specialties produced here in the Endless Sand Sea are basically imported into Gale City, and Gale City sells various cultivation materials to the Endless Sand Sea all year round.
Especially after Taiyi Sect occupied a large area of Yaofeng Gobi, it began to continuously buy the products of Yaofeng Gobi into Dafeng City.
If these businesses are lost, the overall transaction size of Dafeng City will drop by at least 30%.
Of course Dafeng City is not willing to lose these businesses forever. True Lord Xuanfeng is not easy to mess with, but the interests cannot be given up easily.
When the Fire Cloud Sect invaded the Endless Sand Sea, Gale City severed all transactions with the Endless Sand Sea in accordance with the will of True Lord Xuanfeng.
Although the war is over now, the face of True Lord Yuanshen still needs to be taken care of.
The Windy City did not publicly restore the deal with the Endless Sand Sea. But at the border between the two places, a large number of smugglers suddenly appeared. Traveling back and forth between the two places, trading supplies.
There is also a not too long border between Yaofeng Gobi and Gale City, and there are also many smuggling caravans.
Last time, Meng Zhang hired many casual cultivators from Gale City to join the battle in the Endless Sand Sea.
In the war, this group of casual cultivators suffered heavy casualties.
After the war, Meng Zhang did not break his promise. The benefits promised were given out in full. Even for those casual cultivators who died in the battle, Meng Zhang gave the promised rewards to their relatives and friends according to their wishes during their lifetime.
Although this puts Taiyimen under heavy financial pressure, there are also many benefits.
Some surviving casual cultivators have expressed their willingness to continue serving the Taiyi Sect.
Among the smuggling caravans sent by Taiyi Sect, there were casual cultivators who were familiar with the situation in Jiuqu League.
The Taiyi Sect’s reputation for keeping its promises slowly spread to the Jiuqu League.
Reputation is something invisible, intangible, and seemingly useless, but at certain times, it can play an unexpected role.
A sect that honors its promises will have many invisible conveniences when interacting with other forces and conducting business transactions.
Although the officials of Gale City have not resumed trade with Taiyi Sect, Feihong Sect, etc., they have restored a lot of trade through these smuggling caravans.
The Gu Yue family also secretly sent an envoy to Xiongshi Ridge to visit Meng Zhang and express the family’s apology.
The person acting as the envoy is Gu Yue Youlan, an old acquaintance of Meng Zhang. She kept her attitude very low and fully explained the family’s original difficulties.
In order to express the Gu Yue family’s apology, she gave a lot of compensation on behalf of the family.
Previously, Taiyi Sect had borrowed a large amount of spiritual stones from the Gu Yue family using the output of Yaofeng Gobi.
The Gu Yue family is willing to waive part of the interest and extend the repayment period.
In terms of business between the two parties, the Gu Yue family is willing to make some concessions and provide more benefits.
When the Gu Yue family sent people to cut off all contact with the Taiyi Sect, Meng Zhang expressed his understanding, but was a little unacceptable.
Before, because he was good friends with Gu Yue Huaidie, he thought that the Gu Yue family was a reliable friend of the Taiyi Sect.
Now it seems that all this is due to Meng Zhang’s high expectations. Faced with the pressure from True Lord Yuanshen, there are no truly reliable friends.
This can be regarded as a lesson to Meng Zhang, making him understand that in the world of cultivation, different forces must not rely on personal feelings to maintain their relationships.
Gu Yue Youlan pointed out in front of Meng Zhang that the last decision made by the family was strongly opposed by her and Gu Yue Huaidie. It’s just that they spoke softly and could not change the views of other elders in the family, nor could they change the clan leader’s decision.
She and Gu Yue Huaidie felt very sorry about this matter. When she came this time, she also brought Gu Yue Huaidie to apologize.
After Meng Zhang became the Golden Core Master, he had the innate magical power of mind telepathy and could easily read the thoughts of ordinary monks in the foundation building stage.
But monks like Gu Yue Youlan who come from a big family have either practiced the secret technique of locking the heart, or they carry magical weapons that prevent mind reading. It was difficult for Meng Zhang to read her thoughts and judge whether what she said was true or false.
No matter what, no matter what Gu Yue Huaidie’s attitude is. Anyway, from now on, Meng Zhanghui would be more thoughtful and secretly increase his defense against the Gu Yue family.
As the leader of a sect, no matter what he thinks in his heart, Meng Zhang’s actions on the surface are still to ensure the interests of Taiyi Sect as much as possible.
He very magnanimously expressed his intention to let things go by the past, and fully understood the difficulties the Gu Yue family had faced at the time.
Gu Yue Youlan had a good relationship with him when he was still a monk in the foundation building period. Of course, he would not blame his old friend.
Senior Gu Yue Huaidie was of great help to him, and he has never forgotten it.
No matter what unpleasant things happened between the Gu Yue family and the Taiyi Sect, Gu Yue Huaidie will always be his best friend, Meng Zhang.
In front of Gu Yue Youlan, Meng Zhang showed no arrogance as a real Jindan person. He still showed an approachable and equal attitude.
Meng Zhang certainly hopes that the future interactions between the Taiyi Sect and the Gu Yue Family will return to normal as soon as possible.
Gu Yue Youlan was very satisfied with Meng Zhang’s attitude. She could be considered to have achieved her purpose of visiting this time.
Although Gu Yue Youlan is just a foundation-building monk, as a disciple of Gu Yue Huaidie, she is also the next generation of Tianji Master trained by her family. Within the Gu Yue family, their status is second only to those of the Golden Core Stage elders.
For a Jindan sect like Taiyi Sect, which only has one Jindan master, if it weren’t for Meng Zhang’s relationship, she might not necessarily think highly of him.
For Meng Zhang, there is a huge difference between the Gu Yue family and the current Taiyi sect. Although this thigh is unreliable, you still have to try hard to hold it.
Now Taiyi Sect occupies a territory as large as Yaofeng Gobi and has very rich resources. In the eyes of many families in Gale City, Taiyi Sect is a sect with great development potential.
Among the Jiuqu Alliance, there have long been forces coveting the resources of Yaofeng Gobi. It’s just that because of the relationship between Tianzhu Zhenjun, no force has dared to invade rashly before.
In the eyes of the surrounding cultivation forces, the endless sand sea, the demon wind desert and the death sand sea are all regarded as the territory of True Monarch Tianzhu.
Taiyimen developed these resources and shipped them to Gale City for sale, which gave them a channel to obtain these resources.
The Gu Yue family is eager to repair the relationship with the Taiyi Sect. A large part of the reason is for the various resources of Yaofeng Gobi.
Gu Yue Youlan stayed in Xiongshi Ridge for several days, and after negotiating the details of the continued cooperation between the two parties, she said goodbye and left.
After Gu Yue Youlan left, Meng Zhang summoned the elders of the sect to discuss Taiyi Sect’s business plan.
Nowadays, among the Taiyi Sect, there are more and more monks who are successful in the various arts of cultivation. On weekdays, it can meet some of the needs of the door. However, Taiyi Sect still needs to purchase a large amount of supplies from the outside world. Especially during the war, Taiyi Sect has greater demand for external supplies.
What happened this time proved that a seemingly neutral trading city like Gale City was simply unreliable at critical moments.
Taiyi Sect cannot pin all of its commercial lifeline on Gale City.
The next step is for Taiyi Sect to find ways to open up new trade channels.
This is easier said than done.
Taiyi Sect now occupies a large territory in Yaofeng Gobi and Endless Sand Sea.
To the north is the Sea of Death Sand, so naturally there is no trade.
To the northeast is the Qijia of Mobei.
The territory of the Qi family in Mobei is very barren and does not produce much. The family itself does not have strong production capabilities, so it is of little help to the Taiyi Sect.
In fact, it is the Mobei Qi family that is begging for the Taiyi Sect now.
The Qi family in Mobei has been suppressed by the Feihong Sect for many years, and their external trade channels are limited. They only rely on the occasional blood transfusions from True Lord Qi Mingyun and the Shuyuan www.zhaoshuyuan.com family to be able to persevere.
With Taiyimen, a powerful new neighbor, the Mobei Qi family has a convenient business channel. The Mobei Qi family also needs to purchase elixirs, talismans and other items from Taiyi Sect.
The trade with the Mobei Qi family was not very profitable, but it was still profitable, so the Taiyi Sect was maintained.
To the east of Taiyi Gate is Feihong Sect. The resources produced by both sides are highly overlapping, and there is little exchange of needs.
After Feihong Sect experienced great changes, its production capacity was greatly reduced.
The trade relationship with Feihong Sect is not of much help to Taiyi Sect.
The Feihong Sect continues to the east, and there is a boundary line bordering the prairie.
Business exchanges with the prairie are forbidden by the Feihong Sect, and no one else is allowed to get involved.
To the west of Taiyi Gate is the remaining part of Yaofeng Gobi. There is still the territory of monsters, and there are many third-level monsters living there.
Given the current strength of the Taiyi Sect, it would be a great blessing if those monsters did not take the initiative to attack the Taiyi Sect.
The Taiyi Sect, with only one Jindan master, Meng Zhang, is really unable to continue to expand in that direction.
And what everyone is discussing now is the sect’s business issues, not the sect’s next expansion direction.
There will be no business transactions between Taiyi Sect and those monsters.
After much deliberation, everyone discussed for a long time. If Taiyi Sect wanted to open up new business channels, they still had to find a way within the Jiuqu League.