blueteamnovel Chapter 508: Talismans
Chapter 508: Talismans
Next day.
Lin Xuan Qi went to Fei Luo’s place for the new workers he wanted first thing in the morning.
Things went smoothly without a hiccup.
Fei Luo was waiting for him to hand over the workers he had requested.
"Come back soon." Fei Luo was all smiles when he handed the documents for the new workers over to Lin Xuan Qi.
Lin Xuan Qi nodded at him quietly and kept the documents.
In the next moment, a familiar sound erupted in his mind and information panels with words appeared in it.
[Congratulations to host for recruiting forty workers to the clan.]
[Additional 400KG of rice will be delivered to the mansion daily.]
[Keep up the good work and recruit more personnel.]
[System shall be upgraded when it’s done.]
Lin Xuan Qi began to brief the workers on what they would be doing, and after that he brought them to the factories.
Fifteen of them went over to the factory in the north and fifteen of them went to the factory to the east.
They would be handling the new factory lines that were built for the new franchise.
As for the other ten workers, they would be tasked to run the storefront for his franchise.
Lin Xuan Qi also checked on the progress of the living quarters and factory lines in the factories and he was happy to see that they were completed to his specifications.
What was left for him to do was to get the storefront for the franchise started before the factory line could get going.
And that was what he did next.
He went around the city before he decided to set up the first store of his franchise near his retail shop for the soap.
The area where the retail shop was located had a lot of foot traffic, being the busiest street in the city.
To get to the other parts of the city, all the average and rich folks would be passing through the street to get to their destinations.
He was lucky to get a store that was on sale for ten taels of gold.
The notification from the system was a relief for him when he saw the reward for the Five-Element Stones.
[Congratulations to host for procuring new property.]
[Host is unbeatable within its compound.]
[Bonus of 50 Five-Element Stones delivered.]
[Keep up the good work!]
Setting up the Formation Array to protect the factories would use up some of the Five-Element Stones he had, and the reward came at the right time for him.
Now, with the property settled, he would need to get it furnished and train the new workers next before he could get it up and running.
As for Sima Long, Liu Shao and Hun Xiong Kun, they could begin to go around and find suitable locations for their stores in the meantime.
Being their buddy and friend, he would rather let them be the first to have the chance to set up their stores in a more lucrative area.
As the saying goes, it’s all about location, location and location.
By the time Lin Xuan Qi was done with everything, he went back to the mansion for lunch.
He sent the servants to inform Sima Long and the others of his progress and told them to get started.
"While you were out there, so many of the young masters came over to the mansion to look for you." Xue Cong shook her head and said while she picked up a piece of meat for him.
He frowned and said, "I think your husband is getting too popular for his own good."
She shook her head at him and sighed.
Other young masters attracted women who fell for their looks and riches, but her husband attracted young masters eager to make a deal with him.
She didn’t know whether it was a fortunate or unfortunate thing.
"I will think of something soon." Lin Xuan Qi replied and pondered on it.
Once the first franchise store got started, these young masters would be even more unrelenting in striking a deal with him when they saw the store being successful.
He would have to figure out a way to placate them first.
Maybe he would have to let them operate some of the food carts first before they were able to get a store for the franchise?
It might be plausible but he would have to control the number of food carts and where they could operate on the streets.
Otherwise they would be competing against his store and the stores of Sima Long and the others.
He thought about it and put it aside for now.
Right now, he had more things to do for the factories.
After lunch, he went to the factories in the north, south and east to set up the Formation Array.
These factories were taking on the main bulk of the production for his soap, Lin Clan Taste Transcendent Essence and franchise business, so they were a much higher priority for him to do so.
He used up the fifteen containers he had bought from Wan Shou Fang and placed three Five-Element Stones into each container.
Using up a total of forty-five Five-Element Stones for it.
It was quite a lot but Lin Xuan Qi felt that it was necessary.
Having some defense mechanism was better than none, especially after what had happened during the battle between the Sima Family and the Six Pulse Sword Sect.
Lin Xuan Qi went back home for dinner after he was done but it was not over for him yet.
There was more work waiting for him.
He went to the lab after dinner and started to draw new talismans with the talisman papers and ink he had gotten on his trip to Bian Jing.
And this time, he went on to try the other types of talismans described in the Daoist Five-Element Cultivation Techniques manuscript.
The talismans he had created earlier were great for offense, but there were others with different effects that could help him in difficult situations.
Fighting his opponents head-on wasn’t always the best way to deal with them.