In fact, the Emperor's desire to refine immortal pills had a lot to do with the gourd of life-saving spirit pills that Li Rui had left in the medical hall. It turned out that ever since Li Rui went into seclusion, there were also one or two patients who were seriously ill. After taking one pill, the disease was quickly cured and he was alive and kicking. Such a miraculous pill naturally made people feel that it was an immortal pill.
This spirit pill was sold for 1,000 taels of silver. It was naturally nothing to the rich, but it was not easy for the poor to sell it at a sky-high price. Therefore, Li Rui promoted that if the poor could not afford it, they could sell it to the Hundred Herb Hall. In the future, they would be provided with food and accommodation, and they could also receive a small monthly salary. This was to offset the cost of using the spirit pills.
This was a great benefit. One had to know that poor people could not afford it. However, if they really got seriously ill, they would not lose their lives because they could not afford it! However, ever since Li Rui's first use of this pill, not only had it been sold out by a large family in the capital, but the Hundred Herb Hall's medicine store had also stated many times that after the pill was sold, its effects would gradually decrease until it reached its lowest point in ten years. It would be close to the effects of ordinary medicine, which was the original medicinal effect of the pill. As long as they left the Jade Gourd, these pills would not have the ability to gather spiritual energy. Therefore, they would slowly disperse the spiritual energy of heaven and earth until it was almost completely dispersed in ten years. However, even so, they were still sold out.
Li Rui had earned 100,000 taels of silver just from these 100 spiritual pills. What kind of earning speed was this? Although the medicinal herbs themselves were valuable, the medicinal herbs needed for 100 spiritual pills definitely did not cost 1,000 taels of silver. However, he had earned 100 times more. It was a huge profit! In fact, the most important thing was the jade gourd. With this gourd, one could produce unlimited spirit pills. Therefore, this gourd was a priceless treasure. Of course, outsiders did not know about this.
In order to meet the market demand, Li Rui refined many spiritual treasures and put them back into the jade gourd to give to the guard captain. However, in order to let the spiritual pills absorb enough spiritual energy and ensure that the current market was not saturated, Li Rui requested that he could only sell them after a month! This guard captain was completely obedient to Li Rui's words. When Li Rui said that he would sell it after a month, he would carry it out resolutely. He would never do it earlier ~ This was something that had been strictly examined when he first selected the guards ~
Originally, Li Rui had been living a carefree life in Bianliang. Although he still had to train, Li Rui thought that life was also a kind of training. He would stay in Bianliang for half a year and then go out to train for another half a year. Li Rui had also made a few friends during his time in Bianliang. After all, Li Rui had begun to make a name for himself in the officialdom and business world. It was common for him to go out and socialize occasionally. Of course, even if Li Rui knew how to clone himself, it was impossible for him to meet everyone. Therefore, Li Rui had specially set a rule. All visitors had to submit their name cards and visiting cards in advance. Only those who passed the examination of Li Rui's head guard would be invited. Even so, Li Rui was often very busy.
However, there was a way. When officials came to visit, although Li Rui would personally receive them, if other merchants wanted to discuss business, Li Rui would give full authority to his Hundred Herb Hall's head shopkeeper. As long as it was an existing business partnership, he could handle it. The only requirement was that the shareholder did not have any management rights, and they were not allowed to sell their shares or withdraw their shares without prior notice. If the matter was of great importance, the head shopkeeper could report it to him if he could not make the decision.
Li Rui, the head shopkeeper, was very experienced in doing business. Although he didn't have the foresight of a thousand years like Li Rui, more and more new industries were handed over to him to take care of. So far, there hadn't been any trouble. It could be said that Li Rui was very relieved and at ease ~
On the other hand, Li Rui had been staying in Bianliang for more than three to four months and had originally planned to go out to gain experience. It was already early summer. On this day, a spy from the Green Phoenix's Douque Palace reported that Li Rui's good friend, Duan Xingyan, who had been in Dali, had been kidnapped by a foreign monk and was heading all the way to Jiangnan. In fact, the spy from the Green Phoenix's Douque Palace would not have cared about such matters in the past, but ever since Li Rui had taken over the Douque Palace, all of his subordinates had admired Li Rui. Moreover, it was obvious that Li Rui was very likely to be the next Palace Lord of the Douque Palace!
Because Li Rui had always been kind and liked to help others, he was also learned by many disciples. Everyone's good deeds were recorded in the merit book. As long as there was a special mission to secretly investigate the disciples, they would definitely be rewarded. Therefore, the members of the various departments were all concerned. It just so happened that the prince of Dali had been captured and discovered by the spies of the Green Phoenix Douque Palace. Because he knew that this was a friend that Li Rui had just made, he used the communication channel of the Green Phoenix Dou Que Palace to inform Li Rui of this matter.
Li Rui thought that since Duan Xingyan, the prince of Dali, had been captured by a foreign monk and brought to Jiangnan, he should save him since he was an acquaintance. After all, if the prince of Dali died in a foreign land, the Great Song and Dali might directly fight each other. This rare peace and prosperity would be destroyed, which was also something Li Rui did not want to see. Once war broke out, the poor people would suffer the most! Moreover, he was planning to travel for a period of time. It just so happened that it was convenient ~
According to the time comparison of the spies in the Dou Que Palace, Li Rui deduced that Duan Xingyan should be arriving in Jiangnan at the beginning of July. Li Rui suddenly thought of a book he had read before, which had a passage,"This soft whip belongs to this Master Da? It was rude of me to play with it in such a mess. Master Da, come on board too. I'll give you some fresh red caltrops to eat after a break. This was said in the local dialect of Suzhou, which was known as the soft language of Wu Nong. (Water chestnut, produced in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and Jiaxing.) Sowing early, sowing in Qingming, harvesting young water caltrops at the beginning of autumn, harvesting old water caltrops at the end of summer and frost.）
The beginning of autumn was the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Thus, Li Rui thought that it was definitely time to eat this red caltrop. He didn't forget to bring some fresh things home to give to his wives. Hence, after explaining the situation and the approximate time of return to his wives, Li Rui rode Bai Zhi to Jiangnan.
Up to this point, Li Rui no longer thought about what kind of world this was. Li Rui would not rely too much on his understanding of the future. At most, he would only use it as a reference. Instead, he would truly integrate himself into it. This was because Li Rui's family, master, uncle-master, senior brothers, and six wives were already in this world. In the future, he would make more friends and have something to worry about. Thus, Li Rui didn't hesitate and decided to go to the rescue.
In order not to miss the time, Li Rui came to Suzhou at the end of June in advance. Presumably, the early maturing Hong Ling would be able to eat fresh ones in a few days at most, so the timing was just right. Li Rui contacted the spies of the Green Phoenix Fighting Palace in Suzhou. In a prosperous place like Suzhou, the Green Phoenix Fighting Palace had quite a number of people. Li Rui instructed them to follow the information sent from other places along the way and to pay attention to the Jianghu people entering Suzhou, Wuxi, and preparing to enter Taihu Lake according to the image of Duan Xingyan and the monk.
Li Rui himself visited the gardens, academies, experienced the daily life of the Suzhou people, or boated on Taihu Lake every day. It was so uncomfortable! In addition, as soon as he arrived in Suzhou, he asked his subordinate to lead him to the most beautiful and rich red caltrop water area in Taihu Lake. It might be difficult for ordinary people to find all of this misty Taihu Lake, but the Qingluan Douque Palace, which knew almost everything about the secrets of Jianghu, had all the beautiful island sceneries on Taihu Lake explored by the Qingluan Douque Palace's intelligence department, the Serene Sky Division, twenty years ago and drew a detailed map.
The scenery drawn on this album was beautiful and there were many rich products. However, Li Rui didn't need to do it himself to pick the red caltrops. Moreover, Li Rui felt that the hairy crabs he had eaten on the night he had just arrived were very delicious. Although it wasn't the time for the hairy crabs to be the most beautiful, it was still good to eat them fresh. Hence, Li Rui instructed the subordinates of the Dou Que Palace to catch a lot of them first and temporarily raise them in his own water tank. Firstly, it was to make it convenient for Li Rui to eat for the next few days. Later, when Li Rui left, Li Rui would take them away himself. After all, the speed of transportation in the Song Dynasty was really slow. It was difficult for non-locals to eat fresh hairy crabs, but Li Rui was different. If he rode Bai Zhi at full speed, he could travel between Gusu and Bianliang in less than a day.
Li Rui was particularly interested in the two private villas on Taihu Lake. He heard that the scenery was very beautiful, but it was not easy for ordinary people to enter, so Li Rui's curiosity was piqued. One was called Buyao Dock, and the other was called Mandala Flower Island.
Li Rui asked the spies of the Serene Sky Tribe to bring him to the dock, and Li Rui told them to hide. Li Rui entered the dock alone as if he was returning to his own home. No one in the manor could find any trace of him. The scenery of this private island was indeed not bad. However, Li Rui soon discovered a secret place here. After careful observation, he easily entered and exited.
Li Rui didn't care if there was a trap or not, he just jumped over and arrived at the door of this secret room. Li Rui raised his head and saw the board hanging high above that read Stellar Tower.'At this moment, Li Rui was using an extremely fast and long-distance movement technique. It was the unique movement technique of his uncle master, the Heavenly Mountain Supremacy. It was called the Heavenly Chasm Flying Crossing. He also taught it to Li Rui before leaving the mountain. It was just a lightness skill that consumed a lot of true qi, but as long as Li Rui used it with the Star Sucking Moon Art, he could just apply it in and out.
Although Li Rui knew the Luoshen Illusory Step, strictly speaking, it was actually a footwork. It moved according to the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes. However, he had to step on the hexagram position to use it. If he simply ran fast, he would not be as fast as some top-notch qinggong. When he used the Heavenly Chasm Crossing, he completely ignored the hidden traps in the water. The owner of this secret room probably never thought that there would be such a qinggong that could cross such a long distance in the world. He did not even need to breathe to cross such a long distance.
After Li Rui entered the Stellar Tower, he carefully checked if there were any other traps. Fortunately, Li Rui was well-versed in all sorts of things in the Douque Palace. Other than the traps at the entrance and windows, the rest of the place was safe. Li Rui searched carefully in every corner, hoping to find some exquisite finger techniques. However, he found that most of them were third-rate or second-rate martial arts secret manuals. Li Rui did not think that these martial arts were garbage. He just wanted to learn from them. Thus, Li Rui secretly came to the Stellar Tower every night to study the secret manuals of finger techniques, hoping to combine the advantages of various finger techniques and Shaoyang Finger to create a long-range attack unique skill.
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