After multiple deliberations, the camp finally confirmed the list of personnel traveling with the Wei Family Trading Team.
This trade mission, codenamed "Tao Zhu," comprises a total of forty members.
Among them, there are four trade representatives, all from the Huaxia Ministry of Commerce office in Chixian City. (Leave your name, gender, and age here if you want a character role.)
Accompanying miscellaneous personnel include six individuals: Lin Ziming, Ma Ning, Dai Chaohong, Wang Qiang, and two assistants.
The escort team comprises thirty members, led by Gu Junming, the Chief of Staff of the Modu Armored Garrison Group. The warriors are selected from the Modu Special Operations Team, currently the strongest in the camp.
Each team member is equipped with a standard QTS11 individual combat system, with related ammunition traveling with the team as dispatch material.
Yes, that’s right, QTS11, so all accompanying warriors are right-handed.
According to information from the Wei Mansion.
The route the trading team will take is exceedingly safe, avoiding any beast gathering areas.
Therefore, such a scale of security personnel should suffice.
Once the camp decided on the travel personnel.
Shi Zehong quickly returned to Chixian City and handed the list over to Wei Qiangsheng, the head of the Wei Mansion Trading Team.
Wei Qiangsheng is a little old man in his fifties, at the Qi Cultivation Stage Seventh Layer, with a head full of silver hair, appearing very shrewd.
Oh yes, during the beast siege, he was the one using a coffin weapon.
Besides being the head of the Wei Mansion Trading Team, Wei Qiangsheng holds another extremely important position in Chixian City:
The Wei Vein Master of the third branch of the Wei family.
When the Wei family’s ancestor, Wei Siming, married a female transmigrator whose name the author can no longer remember, they had a total of five children.
Now, over a hundred years have passed.
The descendants of those five children gradually expanded into the current five branches of the Wei Mansion, like branches spreading.
Wei Fan and the Patriarch Wei represent the main branch.
Among the remaining four branches, apart from the fourth branch’s sparse population, the other three branches do not cooperate well.
The fifth branch, being the most junior, tends to follow the main branch in everything—Wei Niandong and his sister Wei Xixi come from this branch, hence their good relationship with Wei Fan.
The remaining second and third branches...
They each have their own thoughts.
The second branch is responsible for producing talismans within the family. Wei Yuan, who was once so angry with Hua Jun that he drew circles, is the current Wei Vein Master’s own brother.
He is also currently the only Tier One Talisman Master within the Wei Mansion with an extraordinary status.
The third branch is where Wei Qiangsheng belongs.
The Vein Master of the third branch is Wei Qiangsheng, and the highest combat power of the branch is the third elder who appeared during the siege, Wei Shudu at the Third-Layer Foundation Establishment.
Wei Qiangsheng is truly a talent; from an early age, he displayed an astonishing talent for commerce.
Since taking over the Wei Mansion’s economic industry.
Through operations like reducing trade taxes and shortening lease periods, he gradually revitalized the trade sector in Chixian City, providing a means of livelihood for many city folks. Newest update provided by noveⅼfire.net
Moreover, in the more crucial high-level resource trade, Wei Qiangsheng almost single-handedly dismantled the trade barriers with Ziqiong City two thousand miles away.
For the Wei Mansion, he opened a stable and high-profit commercial route, bringing in substantial profits.
After all, a fundamental principle of trade is that during a phase where transportation levels are underdeveloped, the farther goods are transported, the more valuable they become.
For instance, the Wei Mansion relies on a local specialty spirit medicine called the Seven-Color Vine, which is very popular in Ziqiong City and its surrounding areas.
By this means, Wei Mansion signed a long-term supply agreement with Ziqiong City’s largest merchant, Purple Treasure Pavilion, and secured preferential purchase prices that only families at the Core Formation Realm can enjoy.
To be slightly immodest about it.
If not for Wei Qiangsheng’s hard work over the years, Chixian City might not even have enough spirit stones to illuminate the night.
If it weren’t for the fact that Wei Fan’s branch has a Tier One Alchemist, and the existence of Patriarch Wei, a Fifth-Layer Foundation Establishment cultivator, who knows into whose hands the patriarchal position might fall?
Comparing Wei Fan with Wei Qiangsheng individually, Wei Qiangsheng’s reputation is even slightly higher.
Therefore, in this situation.
It’s impossible to say Wei Qiangsheng harbors no ambitions.
However, due to the threat of beast tides,
These ambitions had only been lurking in seed form, indistinctly. Unity against outsiders is something both the second and third branches understand very well.
If internal conflicts had truly become irreconcilable, Wei Qiangsheng wouldn’t have chosen to coexist with Chixian City during the beast siege.
But now with the advent of the Huaxia people, especially after witnessing many local mechanical marvels firsthand,
The seedlings of Wei Qiangsheng’s ambitions have started to sprout slightly.
Inside the camp in Chixian City.
Shi Zehong handed the personnel list for this mission to Wei Qiangsheng, using a translator:
"Brother Qiangsheng, this is the collated list of personnel accompanying the group, totaling forty people, would you please take a look?"
Wei Qiangsheng received the list, stuffed it into his pocket without even glancing at it:
"Your provided personnel is naturally fine, no need for verification.
The Wei Mansion’s accompanying personnel for this merchant team number up to one hundred and twenty, including about ten or more cultivators, so adding forty more people presents no issue."
Shi Zehong was about to nod when he suddenly noticed Wei Qiangsheng communicating with him without using the translator, his eyes widened instantly:
"Oh, brother Qiangsheng, it’s only been a few days, how has your Chinese become so fluent?"
Wei Qiangsheng laughed heartily, a hint of pride on his face:
"I’ve been practicing Huaxia language recently, after all, it’s the language of our ancestors.
Learning languages is actually quite fast for a cultivator at the Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer, and wasn’t it you who informed me about the trade mission details this morning? If it was me, you’d have noticed my progress in Huaxia language hours earlier."
After speaking, he hesitated for a few seconds before continuing:
"Director Shi, may I speak with you about something?"
Shi Zehong thought the other party wanted to discuss the accompanying personnel matter, such as the collaborations in transit, so he said:
"You can say whatever you wish, I’m all ears."
Wei Qiangdong glanced around, then leaned in closer, discreetly:
"Director Shi, if I’m not mistaken, didn’t Master Wang set up accounts for all four branches when the agreement was signed?"
Shi Zehong maintained the smile on his face, but internally, he began to focus seriously:
"That’s right, initially, thirty million was deposited as preferred funds in each account, but none of these four accounts have been touched yet."
Wei Qiangdong took a deep breath and got straight to the point, speaking gravely:
"Director Shi, can our third branch use this account to conduct some independent deals with Huaxia?
For instance, better clothes, higher-quality food, as well as local textbooks, even... weapons?
Currently, our third branch is working hard to learn Huaxia language, and I recall your mentioning before that simultaneous translation machines are not applicable in some contexts, a limitation we don’t have with human resources.
If permissible, we can arrange a group of juniors to assist your working sites."
Then he paused, seeming to make a determined decision:
"Furthermore, during this trade,
I can introduce some precious personal connections to you—not those publicly controlled by the Wei Mansion, let me put it this way... if there are enough spirit stones, a space storage pouch is guaranteed to come by."
Shi Zehong’s expression gradually became serious.
As a person responsible for material movement within the organization,
he very much understands the weight of the term ’precious personal connections’ in the context of Damo Realm’s societal makeup.
Not to mention, the person uttering this phrase is a cultivator who has controlled a cultivation family’s purse strings for several decades.
Shi Zehong looked seriously at Wei Qiangsheng and solemnly asked:
"Wei Vein Master, with so much to offer, besides various materials, you must have other requests, right?"
Now that the conversation had become open and frank, Wei Qiangsheng also did not hesitate to look back at him with determination:
"Through records left by the Siming Ancestor, some local information was noted...
I want five ’enlistment’ spots and two positions for children under six years old to ’attend school’ locally."