[1-200] MY SWORD INTENT CAN BE INFINITELY IMPROVED

Chapter 46: Come Back and Stand Still

Linjiang City

“Where’s the Patrol Department you mentioned? How long had it been? why hasn’t he shown up?”

Chu Sen sat opposite Qin Lei and mocked.

Qin Lei didn’t mind. He said calmly, “The time has not come yet. While there is still time, I advise you to consider what I have said.”

“Heh… impossible. Do you know how much money is involved here?” Chu Sen sneered, “According to your estimation, conservatively speaking, I would have to pay around three thousand taels of silver extra per month to the Snake Gate.”

“Up to thirty thousand taels a year. Do you think it’s possible to purchase at the normal price?”

The money they give to snake breeders these days is very little, only about one-fiftieth of the actual value of the snake. This was the only way to ensure that the Snake Gate disciples had sufficient cultivation resources and did not have to think of ways to earn money.

After tasting such sweetness, how could they buy snakes at a high price? Qin Lei shook his head and said, “It’s up to you. Anyway, there are still five days. I will report this matter to the higher-ups. It doesn’t matter if the Patrol Department manages it or not. I don’t want this benefit of mine. I can’t help you with anything.”

Chu Sen frowned. Qin Lei was a very greedy person. His actions were indeed unusual. But purchasing at a normal price… was impossible.

In the past, when they didn’t use such malicious methods, the Snake Gate had limited cultivation resources. The disciples fought each other for even a tiny bit of resources.

To obtain more cultivation resources, they had to hunt and kill monsters in the Bai Duan Mountains, exchanging them for money and obtaining more resources.

The Bai Duan Mountains were extremely dangerous. While hunting monsters, they themselves became the prey of those monsters. Naturally, many disciples of the Snake Gate died in the Bai Duan Mountains.

Later on, they came up with a method of breeding snakes. It was too troublesome to raise them themselves, so they started having ordinary people raise them.

When ordinary people heard that there was money, they were also willing. So Snake Gate could obtain cultivation resources at a lower cost.

At first, they purchased snakes at a normal price, around five taels of silver per snake. But as the Snake Gate continued to develop and the strength of their disciples and the sect leader grew, they needed more snake gallbladders and snake venom for cultivation.

However, they did not have enough money to let the commoners raise more. So someone thought of lowering the price.

They gradually reduced the price from five taels of silver to fifty wen per snake.

The purchase price dropped from five thousand wen to fifty wen. When the risk and the rewards were not proportional, the common people naturally refused to sell.

Snake Gate had also thought of a way. They joined forces with the Martial Suppression Division and the county magistrate to issue a mandatory mission to each household to complete a certain number of rearing tasks.

If they couldn’t complete the tasks, the disciples of the Snake Gate would come and give them a beating.

In other words, even if they didn’t want to raise snakes, they had to. If they didn’t, they would be beaten. Gradually, this created the current situation in Linjiang City.

The people complained, but no one stood up for them.

County City

After the announcement was made, the Martial Suppression Division of the city moved and stood guard on the streets.