"Platform?" Xu Mengyun immediately noticed the word and frowned slightly, "What does this mean?"
"That is, I am not a seller and a buyer, but I want to be a middleman between the two." Lin Chen explained.
"Just be a book transporter?" Xu Mengyun thought carefully for a while, unable to understand, "Then what are the benefits of this?"
"The benefits are huge. We can get the most spiritual stones with the smallest amount of work." Lin Chen tapped the table and said with a smile.
"How is this possible?!" Xu Mengyun was a little surprised.
Her family had taught her to operate with integrity since she was a child, and the emphasis was on getting a share of the goods. This was the first time she had heard of this.
"For example, senior sister, do you know the price of Ziyun Dan refined by the sect's recycling alchemy disciples?" Lin Chen did not answer her directly, but asked instead.
Purple Cloud Pill is a pill commonly used to improve cultivation in the later stage of Qi refining [Cyclone Realm].
"One pill and two spiritual stones." Xu Mengyun recalled for a while and immediately gave the answer.
As the sect's information dealer, and since elixirs are closely related to monks, she naturally pays a lot of attention to this aspect.
"Then what's the price of a bottle of Purple Cloud Pill on the sect's exchange order? How many pills are there?" Lin Chen continued to ask.
"A bottle of thirty spiritual stones, a total of six. If converted this way, it is one... Wait, what do you mean..."
Xu Mengyun's eyes widened instantly, and she understood what Lin Chen meant.
Be a forwarder of goods between buyers and sellers, thereby taking advantage of both sides in the process!
Lin Chen didn't want to be a seller, because he didn't want to spend too much energy on this aspect, so he became a middleman, eating both sides. This way he did the least and got the most!
"But will the seller agree to this? After all, this will harm their interests." Xu Mengyun asked.
"Do they dare to disagree?" Lin Chen said with a smile, but there was a hint of coldness in his voice, "At that time, the entire market was monopolized by us, and it was up to us to decide whether the book could be redeemed or not. If anyone has any opinions, , suppress directly."
"Even if some sellers are somewhat famous, can those monks who buy his books fight us for these books? Of course, if they unite, we will divide them and give some benefits to the top people, so that they can help us in turn. Isn’t that enough?”
"And senior sister, don't look at us taking advantage of both sides, but we have formed a platform, controlled the entire market, expanded our influence, and can bring more spiritual stones to the monks who wrote the book. From this aspect, although we have done It’s small, but the benefits it brings to sellers are not small!”
Xu Mengyun was silent, and after calculating in her mind, she raised her head and glanced at Lin Chen, sighing softly: "Junior brother, you are quite suitable to be a businessman."
"Haha, I'm just talking on paper. If I really want to take action, I still have to look at my senior sister!" Lin Chen shook his head with a smile and continued.
"And we can also sink the market, find more buyers, and earn more spiritual stones!"
"The market is sinking, what does this mean?" Xu Mengyun frowned slightly.
"The meaning is very simple. It is to expand the book sales to the entire Qingyun Sect area and establish branch markets in various Dafang cities."
"Rogue cultivators need to vent their life of licking blood, while small-power cultivators need to relax in the face of the pressure of competition. These are potential customers."
"The Qingyun Sect has a vast territory and contains an unknown number of monks. Even if one tenth, no, even if one percent of the monks are willing to buy it, how many spiritual stones will it bring to us?"
"And we will have to transform later."
"Transformation?" Before Xu Mengyun had time to digest what Lin Chen said, a new word came up. She had no time to think about it and couldn't help but ask.
"When people read more and experience more, they will gradually get used to it. By then, when the spiritual needs caused by physical desires can no longer be satisfied by the books we provide, higher-level spiritual food will be needed. .”
"What is that?" Xu Mengyun asked subconsciously.
"That is longevity and freedom, which is the purpose of our cultivation." Lin Chen raised his head and looked at the distant sky.
"Humans are just short-lived species. To heaven and earth, they are just living and dreaming of death. Therefore, they yearn for immortality that can coexist with heaven and earth and shine with the sun and moon."
"In life, not everyone has a fortune and countless spiritual stones. Naturally, they have to face all kinds of constraints in reality. They cannot be free and oppress their own will, so they yearn for freedom without all constraints."
"With desire, there will naturally be demand, and with demand, there will naturally be a market, so we can create this type of book."
"Then from now on, the Book of Wind and Moon corresponds to the low-level monks, while the Book of Immortality and Freedom satisfies those foundation-building monks who seek immortality but have no hope of golden elixir."
"We can even produce some books that are full of practical knowledge and practical information and sell them to those determined seekers."
"In this way, monks with different needs correspond to different types of books, upper, middle and lower. How many spiritual stones will there be?" Lin Chen asked with a smile.
"This..." Lin Chen's words made Xu Mengyun subconsciously calculate.
There are tens of thousands of monks in the sect, and if there are tens of thousands more outside the sect, the total will be only more than 100,000 monks. Add in the consumption of the foundation-building monks, even if you only earn a few spiritual stones a year, then, then There are hundreds of thousands of spirit stones...
How many or hundreds of thousands? !
If these spiritual stones were piled up, they would probably form a small mountain. Let alone owning them, Xu Mengyun had never even seen them!
"Not only that, we can also buy a book in volumes, divide it into volumes one, two, three, four, and five, and release them in batches."
"Of course, we have to export enough books to the market, so we need enough book writers."
"We can appropriately incline some spiritual stones on certain disciples, so that their cultivation will continue to improve, and create a low-level disciple who will be promoted to the foundation building stage because of writing a book, thus attracting many people to invest in us... Of course, this is our promotion Things that can only be arranged after the foundation building period.”
"Well...the purpose of cultivating the Immortal Hundred Arts is to earn enough spiritual stones to be promoted. If that's the case, then does this count as me opening up another way to write a book for the Immortal Hundred Arts?" At this point, Lin Chen I couldn't help but become interested.
The purpose of cultivating immortals and various arts is to earn enough spiritual stones to serve oneself, but there is no prescribed form.
In other words, if writing books could earn spiritual stones, I don’t know how many monks would invest in it.
Maybe thousands of years later, it will become one of the hundreds of arts of cultivating immortals. At that time, maybe some monks will say: "I became a Taoist with *books!"
"But, but, will the benefits brought about by this cause other people to be greedy?" Although Xu Mengyun was confused by Lin Chen's words, she did not forget the most important benefits.
"The platform is not that easy to form. It will take at least several years, or even ten years. By then, I will have already established the foundation.
Moreover, the interest groups formed by the book-writing monks supported by this market are enough to compete with other monks. "Lin Chen took a sip of spiritual tea.
"As for the Patriarch of the Golden Pill? They look down upon this benefit, and maybe they will give us preferential treatment because of the role of these books." Lin Chen put down the tea cup and said meaningfully.
Then, he changed the topic and said: "Now that we have envisioned the future vision, shouldn't we talk about something more realistic, such as how to do it and how to divide it?"
When it came to dividing the spirit stone, Xu Mengyun finally came to her senses. Lin Chen said a lot before, but she couldn't understand it at all, so she could only nod in agreement. Now when it came to dividing the money, she finally returned to the area she was familiar with.
"How do you plan to divide the work, junior brother? How do you divide the spiritual stones?"
"Senior sister, what are you talking about? When it comes to spiritual stones having many births, we should work together and harvest together!" Lin Chen said a little surprised.
"Don't be careless with senior sister. You little guy keeps saying one thing after another. Senior sister is really afraid of being betrayed by you and has to count the money for you." Xu Mengyun rolled her eyes.
Although Xu Mengyun didn't quite understand what he said just now, she also understood that Lin Chen also had tricks in business, so she had to guard against it!
The relationship between us is one thing, but money is another. The two cannot be confused!
"My heart is towards the bright moon, but the bright moon is towards the ditch!" Lin Chen sighed with a bitter look on his face, "I don't want to do business with senior sister, but I want to invest in senior sister!"
"Investment?!" Xu Mengyun was confused.
"I publish books and provide labor force to seize the market and let my senior sister be the boss. In the end, it is divided into seven for me and three for you."
"Wait! I'm the boss, why am I the boss and you are the boss?!" Xu Mengyun quickly grasped this point.
"I do the work, and I publish the books, not to mention the publicity, operations, and advertising..." Lin Chen said confidently.
"Stop, stop, stop!" Another bunch of unintelligible words made Xu Mengyun's head hurt, "Stop saying that, 64 points!"
"I'm six and you're four? It's not impossible to consider..."
"It's me six and you four..."
"impossible!"
After a dispute between the two, Xu Mengyun finally took out a precious spiritual contract from her storage bag with a look of great pain on her face and signed a contract for 50% of the spiritual stone.
"Sister, please go slowly!" Lin Chen waved and sent Xu Mengyun off. Then he sat on a chair, raised a cup of spiritual tea, and took a sip.
"I'm good at talking on paper, but in practice, I may not be able to do it." Lin Chen looked at the distant sky with a faint look in his eyes.
Lin Chen was not clear about how much benefit he would gain by creating a platform and taking it all. If he had the choice, he would also want to take it all.
But the reason why he roped in Xu Mengyun was not because of the good relationship between them, but because he himself didn't really have the ability.
It's true that he traveled through time, but that doesn't mean he knows everything.
It's just that they have slightly different thoughts and opinions from this world, and it's impossible to be proficient in everything.
Regardless of what he said just now, it was clear and logical, but when he really wanted to get started, he was probably confused.
After all, Lin Chen was just an ordinary college student in his previous life. Maybe he had read too much on the Internet and could summarize some knowledge, but if he really wanted to do business, he would be a layman.
You know, in business matters, the idea is one thing, but whether it can be implemented is another.
An idea is just a beautiful vision. If you want to succeed, you need start-up capital, connections, reputation, subordinates, buyers who trust you, etc. But these cannot be accumulated overnight.
If he had a lifespan of hundreds of years, he wouldn't mind slowly accumulating while doing research, but he only has a lifespan of about a hundred years, and he has all kinds of research and promotions. Time is tight, he seizes the day, and there is no room for distraction. .
So the best way is to find a business-savvy partner, let her do the work, and let you get a share.
And this partner must have certain power and influence within the sect.
But he cannot be stronger than Lin Chen, otherwise he will not be able to control him, and he cannot be too involved with other forces, otherwise he will be restricted by the upper management. Therefore, in summary, Xu Mengyun is the best candidate in the entire sect.
Coincidentally, Lin Chen happened to know her, and they had a good relationship with each other. They had the most basic trust, so they could naturally cooperate.
But what’s interesting is that the relationship between the two began when Xu Mengyun happened to meet Lin Chen taking a bath in the stream, and they have been in contact ever since.
But Lin Chen has always been a very cautious person. When he is not sure of his safety, he will not relax his vigilance about his surroundings. How could he be bathing naked in the stream and be accidentally touched by her?
"So life is like a play, it all depends on acting!" Thinking of this, Lin Chen smiled slightly, looked at the sunset sinking in the distant sky, and drank the spiritual tea in his hand.
He stood up and was about to leave, but suddenly he was stunned and took out the communication talisman from his hand.
After seeing the information clearly, Lin Chen was silent for a long time and said softly.
"It seems it's time to resolve the Lin family's matter..."
On the other side, Xu Mengyun, who was returning to the cave, felt something was wrong the more she thought about it.
Because when Lin Chen was dividing the money, she had been fighting with him, but she always felt that it was a little too relaxed.
His junior brother is not a good person, how can he be so easy to talk to?
Xu Mengyun took out the spiritual contract and carefully observed the treaty on it.
"He helps me with promotion, operations, advertising, and is also responsible for publishing books. Although I'm not sure what this means, I feel like he does a lot... There doesn't seem to be any problem, but I always feel like something is weird."
"Junior brother, junior brother..." Xu Mengyun closed her eyes and carefully recalled Lin Chen's information.
"Lin Chen, I always like to be alone. In the outer sect competition... wait, alone?!"
Xu Mengyun instantly realized something was wrong.
Lin Chen didn't have enough capital, no connections, and no reputation in the market. He said he was helping, but how much impact could one person have?
In the end, it’s not his job as the boss to do it, he just needs to publish a book.
No, even at the end, there is no need to even publish the book, other monks write it, the platform is his own responsibility, the coolie is his own, and he only has to wait on the side waiting for his share, then in the end, his only role is -
Split the money lying down? !
