Big Data Cultivation

The True Sage of Fishing is easy to talk to, so Feng Jun went to White Pebble Beach again to recruit people.

The number of True Immortals at White Pebble Beach isn’t too high, and there are even fewer True Sages. However, there are hundreds of people at the Dust Removing stage; in fact, each of the Four Sects at Wutai has at least four to five hundred practitioners in the Dust Removing stage, not to mention those cultivators coming down from Tianqin.

Besides that, among the clan disciples around White Pebble Beach, there are especially many in the Dust Removing stage. There are currently at least six to seven hundred practitioners in the nearby areas—many of them are not from the cultivator families of the Kunhao Realm.

Feng Jun made an announcement, again asked Mei Yeyu for help with registration, Xiao Meng to help with screening, and then went to analyze some theories himself, alternating sleep between Kunhao and the Earth Realm.

After these three days, when the manpower was nearly selected, he returned to the Earth Realm this evening.

Upon this return to Earth, Yang Yuxin took the initiative to approach him. "That Leukocyte Proliferation Inducer, it works exceptionally well. Do you have more?"

Feng Jun was slightly stunned upon hearing this. "You can actually sell this stuff to hospitals?"

He really couldn’t believe Yang Yuxin could achieve this, considering the regulations of the health system, even someone powerful like Director Yang couldn’t go against the rules, right?

"I sold it as a health supplement," Yang Yuxin answered nonchalantly, then explained a bit further, "You know I don’t care much about the money, but if I can do some good for society... particularly to give back to my hometown folks, I’d like to do something."

In the past, she had to consider avoiding any appearance of favoritism, but now it was unnecessary. Her focus was on cultivation, her only daughter was advancing further along the cultivation path, and she was really financially well-off now, so why care about mundane opinions?

However, she also noted, "Currently we’re only experimenting in Bashu, but according to others, they don’t mind if I try in other provinces either. To put it simply, the attitude is one of tacit approval, even indulgence."

"Indulgence is good," Feng Jun nodded, "At least, when the new drug is launched, many green lights can be given."

"New drug launch?" Yang Yuxin blinked, "Selling it on a large scale?"

"I got a production line back," Feng Jun replied casually. "Last time I heard from Li Shishi that the best drug for increasing white blood cells seems to be Teutonic’s? It’s said to be expensive... but the side effects are also significant."

"Our medicine has almost no side effects," Yang Yuxin stated without hesitation. In her view, the cell telomere abrasion wasn’t really considered a side effect, but she was skeptical, "However... without pharmacological support, can we start the production line?"

Actually, the relevant theories surely exist, but it’s not something that can be explained in a few words, and the key is... this is really future technology. To explain it clearly might involve a lot of advanced medical theories.

"Anyway, the production line is back," Feng Jun replied indifferently, "I’ve always thought playing edge cases isn’t quite a good habit... Cancer Care Center, Stroke Rehabilitation Center, now health supplements too? Hopefully, no one tries to piggyback."

Yang Yuxin pondered for a while, then replied solemnly, "Piggybacking is indeed troublesome, health supplements... Hehe, they’re all about bait and switch. If possible, I wouldn’t want to make health supplements. I don’t want some people to revive their lost grounds taking advantage of this."

"But not making health supplements makes it hard to push into the market. We can’t just do direct sales, right?"

"Direct sales are even worse," Feng Jun answered without hesitation because, in his view, direct sales are like legal pyramid schemes—even though some direct sales products are indeed passable, their proportion is really very small.

He always believed that if a product truly has competitiveness and profit can be assured, then it’s better to open a store and sell rather than pull in people to increase numbers, isn’t it?

Besides, he didn’t think the pharmaceutical process should necessarily follow the conventions, "Why can’t we just make a special case to push it into the market?"

"Drug approval process, you old bigwig," Yang Yuxin also felt a bit frustrated, "Selling some health supplements, controlling the dose, not letting them consume too much is good... Even in Sichuan, I can’t get it into the hospital’s storeroom."

"Then you are thinking too small," Feng Jun smiled carelessly, "Contact the wrong people, you should contact people from the Military Medical University!"

Yang Yuxin was no fool, and her grandpa is a truly military man, so after some thought, she reacted quickly, her eyes gleaming brightly, "Military supply?"

No matter which country it is, military supply has its unique characteristics, the most advanced military technology is like this, and so are the most advanced drugs—this medicine, we might not know all its mechanisms, but it truly can cure diseases, and the military can equip it first.

Compared to civilian products, military products first require "usefulness" or "efficacy", as for licenses and production codes, those considerations only come when there’s an equivalent product available.

"I do have this idea," Feng Jun answered nonchalantly, he wanted the production line not to earn money for himself, "If they’re interested, just take it away. As for how to arrange it, let them fiddle."

Yang Yuxin fully understood his mood, and she thought the same way, so she nodded, "Alright, I’ll arrange for people to liaise... A proper warning shouldn’t be lacking, right?"

"Warning?" Feng Jun looked at her suspiciously, but quickly reacted, nodding thoughtfully, "It’s indeed necessary to have a warning, three months... If within three months the production line can’t start, no good stuff will be given to them in the future."

"It should indeed be this way," Yang Yuxin nodded, "They are unlikely to disappoint us, but some words are better said upfront, it can also exert pressure."

Just then, Zhong Lijing came over, "Brother Jun, I heard we might switch to agricultural registration in the future?"

"Who did you hear from..." Feng Jun was halfway through his words when he remembered something, "Luo Hua is allowed to establish a nature village?"

"Nature village?" Yang Yuxin was startled. She hadn’t really paid attention to this term, "Here at Luo Hua?"

"It’s Chaoyang," Feng Jun answered casually then looked at Zhong Lijing, "Who did you hear this from?"

"Sister Shi Shi said it," Zhong Lijing blinked, "She even said something about being reluctant to transfer the registration."

Feng Jun shook his head with a mixed feeling of amusement and frustration. Li Shishi has an agricultural registration; her village belongs to Zhengyang. Although not in the suburbs, with the development of urbanization, becoming suburbs is only a matter of time. Zhengyang is a very large city, with lots of conveniences.

Meanwhile, Feng Jun’s Chaoyang was only under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city Yunyuan City, a city in the mountains, with very limited conditions for development. The same agricultural registration, Li Shishi’s reluctance to transfer to the mountains is understandable.

Yet Feng Jun was indeed slightly helpless, "She wants a transfer? Well, good for her."

Then he directly used his Divine Sense to contact Beauty Lin, "Did my request for a nature village pass?"

"Elder Feng?" Beauty Lin was initially stunned, then replied through thought, "It passed in principle, but the details are still under discussion, like limitations on the number of households..."

"Household restrictions?" Feng Jun furrowed his brow, "Minimum number or maximum number?"

"Certainly the minimum number," Beauty Lin smiled weakly, "Can’t make it a one-person village, right?"

She smiled sheepishly, proposing a nature village was an impossible dream for anyone else, but since it was Feng Jun who applied, no one could block it, and there wasn’t even a whisper of dissent.

However, establishing a nature village definitely requires certain conditions, and people were eager to think about them.

Since it’s a village, there has to be some people, right? Below a certain number of households, a village should be abolished, that’s regulation.

So everyone became interested, and people who usually couldn’t approach Feng Jun found a great opportunity now, as a village without villagers is unfeasible, it’s normal to arrange for some households to move in from the upper management.

Since a nature village appears out of nowhere, certainly some related organization has to connect, to include the village in effective management.

However, although all these reasons are valid, everyone still had to consider Feng Jun’s attitude, so the discussions remained unresolved.

Feng Jun didn’t even have to think to understand their intentions; earlier, he was merely land leasing, and the officials couldn’t dictate much to him, but with the establishment of a nature village, whether emotionally or logically, he would have to accept oversight from upper organizations.

Still, he didn’t fret over this matter but bluntly asked, "You all call me a national treasure, so why can’t it be a one-person village?"

You really dare to think! Beauty Lin secretly complained, but she had to answer his query, "There’s a regulation saying that a village with fewer than five households, if local placement conditions are available, must be abolished. Thus, for introducing new nature villages..."

"Are regulations supposed to restrain me?" Feng Jun expressed straightforwardly, "The hundred square kilometers are delineated by you guys, special cases should be done, right?"

"We are already handling it as a special case," Beauty Lin replied with a wry smile, "Otherwise, from land allocation to establishing a nature village, it would be difficult to pass. But wanting to make a one-person village..."

"Then let’s forget it," Feng Jun interrupted her, "I’m not interested in being a village chief anyway; I’m merely seeking land ownership, so don’t worry yourselves over it. It’s not like I can use it for seventy years."

"Not being able to use it for seventy years?" Beauty Lin was startled when she heard this, "What do you mean by that?"

"Literally," Feng Jun answered casually, "Since building permanent structures is inconvenient, forget it—honestly, wouldn’t it be hard for me to acquire land with permanent ownership?"

Beauty Lin was startled again when she heard this, "You mean... really planning to buy an island abroad?"

"I’m not investing in Huaxia; why go abroad?" Feng Jun replied leisurely.

Beauty Lin breathed a sigh of relief, but soon received another message, "I’m doing pretty well on alien planets too; the permanent ownership of land... heh, only Earth people take it seriously!"

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