Chapter 106: This is an Order, not a negotiation!
“A martial artist is the pivot of the Dao. The human body is a small Universe, containing the transformations of Yin and Yang, and the changes of the Five Elements. The key to cultivation is not in strong muscles and bones, but in gathering the Qi into the bones, and the spirit illuminating the void; it is not in complex techniques, but in the mind moving and the form following, and the force erupting from a single source……”
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“The highest level of Cultivation Technique is in the generation of Yin and Yang, and the endless cycle. Inhaling is accumulating Yin, exhaling is releasing Yang; stillness is Yin, and attacking is Yang. Practitioners should be like Taiji silk-reeling, with strength containing gentleness, and gentleness concealing sharpness. Like a river, the surface is calm, but the undercurrents are surging—this is called the form is gentle but the force is strong, the outside is relaxed but the inside is integrated.”
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“Externally, train the muscles, bones, skin, and hair, internally cultivate essence, Qi, and spirit. At the beginning of cultivation, one should use the stance as the foundation. Feet on the ground, like pine and cypress taking root, the crown of the head suspended, like a jade pillar supporting the sky. Breathing softly, like a silkworm spitting silk, guiding the clear Qi to wash away the turbid impurities, muscles and bones stretching, like the ebb and flow of the tide, opening the joints and connecting the meridians……”
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After a series of comparative translations, the complete content of the Cultivation Technique gradually appeared before everyone.
When the last word was translated, and the entire content was read, everyone present, whether it was Xue Cheng, Zhang Meng, or the experts, couldn’t help but show expressions of amazement.
Just looking at this Martial Arts general outline, it has profound meaning and a very high level. In the specific stage of cultivation, the wording is rigorous, interlocking, and the various details and precautions are extremely complete, just like a master teaching step by step, fearing that the disciples will not learn it, which is completely not as difficult and profound as everyone had imagined.
It can be said that even if one has only completed nine years of compulsory education, one can easily understand this Cultivation Technique and practice it.
Of course, understanding is one thing, and practicing is another.
Even with math problems that have definite answers, many people can get them wrong, not to mention this kind of pure textual comprehension, it is normal for various deviations to occur.
In practical application, this Cultivation Technique still needs to be taught by masters, further broken down in detail, and experience continuously summarized during practice, otherwise, it is not difficult to imagine that one might accidentally go astray.
In addition, there are some other problems…
“Do you think the various Realm levels mentioned above really exist?”
An expert couldn’t help but ask.
Another expert who had a very deep research on Cultivation Techniques and Martial Arts immediately replied:
“To say that the description of the strength of each Realm above is indeed exaggerated, especially those Realm abilities later on, such as the unity of heaven and man, the spirit illuminating external objects, such as soaring through the air, true essence protecting the body, which sounds mysterious and mysterious.
However, leaving aside the later stages, those Minor Realms in the early stages do have corresponding references in reality.
Such as the sound of muscles and bones in Manifest Force, the force erupting from a single point in Hidden Force, senior Martial Cultivators in reality can also do it, which is enough to prove the possibility of its realization.”
“In fact, even if the descriptions of the Grandmaster and Great Grandmaster Realms later on are so exaggerated, I don’t think it’s necessarily impossible.
Simply put, refer to Qi Xuan.
His various performances have long exceeded the scope of normal people, which is also the reason why countless people are eager to seek Martial Arts. Now, through this Cultivation Technique, we should be able to see that he has already walked a considerable distance in the Martial Dao, and is an extremely successful pioneer, which further confirms the authenticity of the subsequent Realms, and the feasibility of cultivation.”
“What stage do you think Qi Xuan is at now? Grandmaster? Great Grandmaster? Or Supreme Grandmaster? It can’t be the final Land Immortal, right?”
“Land Immortal should be unlikely, the various performances of a Land Immortal are much more exaggerated than his, just a short-distance flight is not something he can do.”
“I think it should be at the Great Grandmaster level, just from the perspective of speed and strength, it’s not much different from a Great Grandmaster, and even a little stronger than a Great Grandmaster.”
“That’s not right, he is very particular about short-term bursts when fighting, which is enough to prove that his strength is not enough to last too long, he should be at the Grandmaster stage.”
“Damn it, have you seen any Grandmaster who can shoot a Golden-Eyed Winged Dragon with one arrow?”
“You’re talking as if there are many Grandmasters in reality, no one has seen them, why do you think he’s not a Grandmaster?”
“You little brat, your skin is itching, right? Come, let’s spar, let’s see if your Eight Extremes has improved over the years?”
“You old man, I’m not afraid of you?!”
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In order to determine Qi Xuan’s Martial Dao level, a group of experts argued with flushed faces and thick necks, and almost started fighting on the spot.
In the end, the people next to them persuaded them to stop.
“So now it can be roughly determined that this Cultivation Technique should be able to be practiced, right?”
A leader in his old age asked the experts present.
The experts thought for a moment and nodded in response:
“Theoretically, there’s no problem.”
“The details of cultivation also have extremely strong operability.”
“Referring to some of the characteristics of Qi Xuan’s performance in the Live Stream, he should have practiced this Cultivation Technique.”
“You can first find someone to try it out, cooperate with observation, and immediately interrupt if any problems arise.”
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The leader nodded, then beckoned to the Bodyguards beside him.
Soon, twenty strong and healthy Soldiers, with excellent qualities and absolute loyalty to the country, were brought to the scene and began to prepare for the first stage of the early cultivation.
“The Cultivation Technique is temporarily not a problem, so the next thing is the medicine.”
“What do you all think about the medicine mentioned above?”
Hearing this, the experts replied one after another:
“According to the Cultivation Technique, in the early stages of cultivation, especially before Innate, one can supplement the body through regular diet.
But after Innate, if you want to increase the speed of cultivation, you have to take Yang-Extreme Pills and Yin-Extreme Pills in conjunction with cultivation.
Yang-Extreme strengthens the body, Yin-Extreme strengthens the spirit, and the lack of either will greatly reduce the speed of cultivation.
Therefore, if we want to vigorously promote Martial Arts cultivation in the future, in the absence of better medicine alternatives, Yang-Extreme Pills and Yin-Extreme Pills must be prepared in large quantities to meet the needs of the outside world, to avoid the price of Pills being driven up, and being controlled by a few people, which will trigger social unrest.”
“Yang-Extreme Pills are relatively easy to obtain, various Auxiliary Materials are very common and there are a large number of substitutes, not to mention, as the main material, Ginseng, China happens to be a major Ginseng producing country, and the Ginseng output can account for 70% of the world.
This is our unique advantage, we need to make industrial plans in advance, purchase a large amount of Ginseng for storage, and formulate corresponding policies to prevent the large-scale outflow of Ginseng after Qi Xuan announces the Cultivation Technique in three days, and we must strictly control the source materials.”
“As for Yin-Extreme Pills, the main material of Yin-Extreme Pills is Storax, which is more troublesome.
Storax is collected from the Storax tree, and Storax generally grows in the Mediterranean climate areas with warm winters and cool summers, small annual temperature differences, and uniform rainfall, while most areas of China belong to the monsoon climate, which is not suitable for large-scale planting at all.
The Storax currently circulating on the market completely relies on imports, which is our fatal weakness, and we must find a way to solve it.”
“I remember that there were attempts to introduce and cultivate Storax in Guangxi and Yunnan, right?”
“The introduction is also on a small scale, which cannot meet the cultivation needs of the vast masses of the people.”
“How about grafting and propagation? Using the Sweetgum Tree, which is widely grown and has strong propagation in our country, as the rootstock, and the branches of the Storax as scions for grafting, this method has been successfully tested by research institutions, and can completely solve the problem of Storax not adapting to the climate in our country.”
“The grafting method is indeed useful, but the problem is that both the Storax tree and the Sweetgum Tree grow too slowly!
From planting to producing Storax, this process takes at least twenty or thirty years, who can wait that long?”
“Then we can only go outside and buy it, buy the amount for the next thirty years at once!”
“I’m afraid we can’t buy that much, the yield of Storax is very small, and the price is expensive. If it is according to the authentic traditional Storax, because of destructive harvesting, it has been listed as an endangered species, and it is difficult to buy.
As for the Storax that is popular on the market now, it is also called white gum, which is a substitute for Storax, and it is native to the North American Sweetgum Tree.
And even for the North American Sweetgum Tree, there is no large-scale commercial cultivation now, and it basically belongs to the wild or semi-wild resources in the primeval forest, and the yield is extremely limited, only a few hundred tons a year, what is a few hundred tons for 1.4 billion people?”
“You can’t calculate it that way, not everyone wants to practice the Cultivation Technique, and not everyone is suitable for practicing the Cultivation Technique. Although Martial Arts can bring great improvement to individuals, there are always various problems involved in the process of cultivation.
Some people don’t have the patience, some people are naturally disgusted with Military force, some people think that no matter how strong cultivation is, it’s not as good as a pistol… In the end, the practitioners who can really persevere may not even reach ten million, so a few hundred tons of Storax is barely enough.”
“Still not enough, even if there are only a few million people practicing, a few hundred tons can barely meet the needs of a year, what about next year? What about the year after? Are we going to let the public buy Storax with soaring prices? Or Storax that is monopolized and not sold to the outside world?
If they have experienced the cultivation effects of Yin-Extreme Pills and Yang-Extreme Pills in advance, do you think they can go back? At that time, I’m afraid it will cause a wider range of social unrest, especially those Martial Cultivators who have already practiced the Cultivation Technique, the destructive power they cause will be stronger than that of ordinary people.”
“Tricky, too tricky, in the final analysis, the yield of Storax is too low, and the announcement of the Cultivation Technique is just around the corner, we don’t have that much preparation time, and long-term planning is even out of the question, we can only try to purchase as much as possible.”
“That’s all we can do, and we’ll also try to equip other Pills with similar effects, and it’s acceptable if the effect is a little worse, the key is not to be strangled by foreign countries.”
“The grafting in the laboratory also needs to be promoted, it is best to research a tree species that can grow rapidly, even if it takes a few years to harvest, at least it can give everyone a hope, twenty years is really too long.”
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Because time was tight, after a series of intensive discussions, several strategic plans related to drug raw materials were quickly formulated on the spot, and orders were issued one after another, and with the operation of the vast system of the country, they quickly reached various places and were implemented.
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Jilin.
As a major Ginseng producing and planting province, Jilin’s Ginseng output accounts for 60% of the country and 40% of the world. The planting area of garden Ginseng in the province exceeds 140,000 acres, and the planting area of forest Ginseng exceeds one million acres.
At this moment, a conference related to the Ginseng industry is being held in the conference hall of the provincial government.
Government personnel, industry members, plantation owners, enterprise representatives, scientific research experts, Media reporters, etc… all kinds of relevant people filled the entire conference hall.
Facing the members of the meeting who were at a loss, the government leaders immediately issued a series of industry-related policies—
Ginseng will be listed as a national strategic reserve Medicinal Herbs, implement a forest Ginseng planting permit system, and designate the core production areas such as Changbai Mountain as protected areas, prohibiting unauthorized excavation.
Promote the forest-sen rotation model, add 50,000 acres of Ginseng planting base, and require a 50% increase in the annual Ginseng output in 2027.
Establish a national Ginseng storage mechanism, provide special subsidies to Ginseng growers, and require 70% of their output to be supplied to the country.
Establish an annual Ginseng circulation quota, give priority to ensuring domestic market demand, and the export of Ginseng needs to be approved by the provincial-level or above Traditional Chinese Medicine management department.
Implement a white list system for Ginseng products on cross-border e-commerce platforms, and only allow certified enterprises to sell processed products.
Revise the 《 Regulations on the Protection and Management of Wild Medicinal Herb Resources 》, and list Ginseng as a restricted export catalog, and smugglers will be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison.
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As a series of related policies were announced by the government leaders, everyone in the audience was shocked.
When the leaders finished speaking, there was a buzzing sound in the venue, gradually turning from whispers to a boiling discussion:
“Why did you suddenly issue so many policies? There was no notice in advance, at least one by one.”
“That’s right, we finally reached a Ginseng cooperation agreement with Korea, and we are about to export a thousand tons of Ginseng, you suddenly issued this policy, how much economic loss will it cause us?!”
“There are few people who buy Ginseng from abroad, and we have tried our best to find ways to sell Ginseng abroad and expand the Ginseng sales market. Now that we have finally achieved a little achievement, you are here to pull our legs crazily. Do you deserve our efforts?!”
“There is no one like you who messes around! One-size-fits-all will only bring down the entire Ginseng market! What about national acquisitions, how much can the country acquire? Who will eat so much if it can’t be eaten? If it is dumped at a low price, it will harm all Ginseng growers! Aren’t the lessons of the past enough?!”
“Subsidizing growers, how much can you subsidize? There is already a lot of Ginseng circulating on the market, and you still have to add a new Ginseng planting base. The extra Ginseng will only further depress the price. Don’t you understand the principle of low prices hurting farmers?”
“It’s just nonsense! I have to complain to the higher authorities! You are harming the entire domestic Ginseng industry!”
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Facing the boiling opposition and refutation from the audience.
Limited by information confidentiality, the leader with a solemn expression only replied with eight words:
“This is an Order, not a consultation.”
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After the conference, the relevant Media reporters immediately conducted a large-scale report on the content of the meeting, and various online Media, Social Media, and even traditional newspapers and other Media channels all reprinted and reported on this meeting.
The discussion topic about Ginseng, for a time, topped the headlines of all Media, which not only attracted the attention of the domestic public, but also shifted the attention of countries around the world.
And at the same time.
Southwestern Turkey.
Antalya.
As the main production area of authentic Storax, since 2011, due to over-logging leading to resource endangerment, Turkey has banned the export of Storax to foreign countries, and only allows cultural heritage protection harvesting. By 2023, the annual output has barely recovered to a few tons.
However, because there are Storax produced by North American Sweetgum Trees as substitutes, the demand for authentic Storax on the market is not very high, only a very small number of medicines and high-end spices need to be mixed with authentic Storax.
Antalya Spice Market, an elderly Chinese man said with a smile to the middle-aged man with a dark complexion and medium height:
“Ouz, my friend, let’s stop here.”
“Since the Storax has been loaded, I will immediately rush to transport it to the head office. You know, Western pharmaceutical companies always attach great importance to these raw materials. If the transportation is a little slower, it may affect my evaluation.”
“Chen, is there no problem with the customs channels? I have some connections here, if you need it, I can help you get through it, it’s just the cost…”
“Since I dare to buy, there will definitely be no problems with the channels, no need to worry.”
“Okay, I wish you a safe journey, and I’m waiting for the good news of long-term cooperation you bring.”
“Don’t worry, I will strongly recommend your family to the board of directors, for the sake of our friendship.”
After embracing each other, watching the other party lead the convoy away, Ouz turned back to the house, and the smile on his face immediately became sarcastic.
“Stupid guy, he actually bought these Storax at three times the market price, even if it is purchased abroad, this price is too outrageous.”
A servant next to him worried:
“Won’t there be any problems?”
Ouz said disdainfully:
“What problems? I don’t know where they bought it and where they are going to transport it? They pay and I deliver the goods, it’s that simple, I don’t know anything else, okay, let someone go and harvest another batch, maybe there are still fools coming to the door.”
“But our share has been harvested for five years, if we harvest again…”
“Pay some money, and this time harvest for seven years.”
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On the car.
The driver with a calm and well-trained gaze asked:
“Sir, where are we going next?”
“First transport the goods to the designated location and hand them over, and then we will go to Mula.”
“This time you come forward, but the identity of the pharmaceutical company’s purchasing manager can no longer be used, you have to change it.”
“Although these salespersons belong to different families, there are also connections between them. A single pharmaceutical company buying too much will arouse their suspicion, and there may be variables on the way. The top priority is to transport the Storax back to the country, and everything else is secondary.”
“Understood.”
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Honduras.
Primeval forest.
North American Storax main production area.
A group of Business Affairs personnel from Da Qian are visiting a nearby Storax processing factory.
The factory owner, who led the crowd inside, introduced with a lot of enthusiasm:
“……The harvesting period of Storax is in the rainy season every year, that is, from April to October. Use a sharp axe to cut a horizontal harvesting opening at the lower part of the tree, deep into the resin ducts within the bark, so that the resin flows out and solidifies, and then come back to scrape it with a metal spoon after forty days.
Each tree usually harvests three times a year, and can harvest about two kilograms of resin.
After the resin is harvested, it will be transported to the processing factory here for processing, because the resin usually contains 6% water, and the purpose of processing is to concentrate and remove impurities.
The quality evaluation of Storax after processing is carried out by a combination of experience identification and instrument analysis.
Our factory is equipped with a quality inspection room, which mainly uses a gas chromatograph to determine the content of two components, that is, the water content does not exceed 1.5%, and the styrene content is usually 1.5%~1.6%, and must not be lower than 0.8%.
At present, the Storax products produced by our factory have already occupied more than 40% of the world’s Storax market, you have chosen us, that is really the right choice…”
The leading Business Affairs manager also pretended to ask many detailed questions.
The accompanying inspection personnel, after smelling the sample strips and analyzing with instruments, came to the corresponding results and nodded to the other party.
After confirming that the Storax here met the requirements of External medicine raw materials, the Business Affairs manager immediately changed his tone and stopped playing Taiji:
“How much Storax inventory does your factory have now?”
“Different products are different, and the inventory quantity is also different, specifically…”
“All together.”
“If all together, there should be more than fifty tons.”
“We want it all!”
“What! All?!” The factory owner widened his eyes, and was a little skeptical of life for a moment.
The Business Affairs manager smiled and said:
“But the transaction must be carried out immediately, and a long-term supply agreement must be signed, with strict breach of contract clauses attached to the agreement.”
“No problem, no problem, we accept all the clauses!”
The factory owner guaranteed with joy.
Soon, with the signing of the agreement, a row after row of trucks loaded with Storax products, successively drove out of the factory.
And all over the world, the companies and factories responsible for producing Storax products, all welcomed big customers.
Although Da Qian’s actions have been as small as possible, and various means have been used to cover up, but such a large-scale purchase is ultimately impossible to hide from everyone.
Lighthouse Country.
Alabama, with the influx of intelligence personnel, a transaction of five tons of Storax was urgently terminated.
Florida, a truck transporting three tons of Storax was stopped on the spot by several police cars.
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Worldwide, including Lighthouse Country and other countries, after receiving relevant information, they have tried their best to prevent it, but more Storax has already boarded planes and cargo ships, and quickly arrived in Da Qian.
Realizing that their own country may have suffered huge losses, led by the representative of Lighthouse Country, representatives of many countries have all cursed Da Qian at the United Nations meeting, and strongly demanded the return of Storax.
The Da Qian representative stated righteously that this was a fair and just transaction, there was no kidnapping, and any country that forcibly interrupted the transaction was violating the existing free trade agreement.
Anyway, it’s just a matter of arguing, who’s afraid of whom.
However, arguing for a long time is indeed a bit tiring, and the voice is almost hoarse.
Looking at Qi Xuan, who is still leisurely teaching Ancient Seal Script in the Live Stream light screen, the Da Qian representative couldn’t help but feel emotional.
Fortunately, the other party set a three-day deadline, and the countries can still bear it, otherwise, once the time is prolonged, it will not be far from the time when they will attack in groups.
Perhaps he had already calculated this from the beginning.
Three days is really a good time.
I hope that the country can gain more during this period.
