Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1536: Chapter 481: Dan Medicine Follow-Up, Feudal Town System and Turning the Tables

The selling price for the Bone Burning Pill at Cai Qiu’s Treasure Pavilion is 490,000 taels, the top-grade Bone Shedding Pill is 200,000, and the Washing Marrow Pill is 250,000.

But the batch of Dan Medicine Jiang Xinfan brought back costs 750,000 taels for the Bone Burning Pill, 300,000 taels for the top-grade Bone Shedding Pill, and 370,000 taels for the Washing Marrow Pill.

So, buying these Dan Medicines from the Frost Ash Association inflates the price by about fifty percent compared to the normal channels.

This is understandable; after all, they are non-standard channels. Selling them to you carries risks, and a fifty percent markup is probably due to Ji Hong and Jiang Xinfan being inside members of the Frost Ash Association.

With the Dan Medicines renewed, Xia Hong naturally started a new round of seclusion.

Washing Marrow Pill combined with Twelve Blood Scripture Skills can serve two purposes: one is to cleanse meridian impurities, and the other is to enhance the efficiency of qi and blood circulation.

The former can purify and unclog the meridians, releasing the body’s potential, thereby slightly enhancing strength; the latter can directly increase cultivation speed.

Without breaking through the Xianyang Level cultivation, Xia Hong can only rely on it to enhance strength, and it also helps to shorten the time to break through to the late-stage Xianyang.

“Continuously spending money on purchases isn’t a solution. Once back in Xia City, creating its formula will solve the issue. The only pity is that the cultivation conditions of the Twelve Blood Scripture Skills are too harsh, requiring breakthrough at the Cold Resistance Level with basic strength exceeding 5 Manes of Top-grade Battle Body Qualification to be eligible for cultivation, without a foundation for widespread promotion, otherwise…”

The Blood Ginseng Pill of Muyin Town, considered a diluted version of the Washing Marrow Pill, has already been mastered by Great Xia in its refining method. Not to mention promoting it widely among all of Great Xia, if the cultivation requirements can be lowered to ordinary Top-grade Battle Body Qualification, its effects would be extremely terrifying for Great Xia.

Thinking this, Xia Hong looked at the Enlightenment Lotus Platform underneath and murmured softly: “Always being outside is quite busy; when returning to Xia City, using the cultivation technique martial arts deduction function of the Enlightenment Lotus Platform to focus on researching the Twelve Blood Scripture Skills, it’s best to create a diluted version that lowers the cultivation requirements, thus promoting it to the fullest extent — the effect would still be great!”

Great Xia’s biggest shortcoming currently is that its rise has been too short, only a mere fifteen years, hardly finding equals in Town-level Camps.

On the one hand, this is certainly something to be proud of; it’s remarkable to reach a dominating strength in such a short time. On the other hand, it represents Great Xia’s lack of depth, easy to rule over the small areas of the Nine Towns of the Southern Slope, but encountering ancient Feudal Town Level forces in places like Moao River exposes its congenital weaknesses instantly.

Releasing body potential and slightly enhancing strength, accelerating qi and blood circulation speed, and improving cultivation efficiency — these two functions not only encompass all cultivation realms but can be beneficial for life. Once truly promoted widely, it would maximally compensate for the unbridgeable time gap between Great Xia and Feudal Towns, and even more historically enduring forces.

“75 Jun, finally some movement in strength, though the enhancement space seems limited, a slight improvement is better than none, primarily accelerating my cultivation speed, making an early breakthrough to late-stage Xianyang…”

After a moment of contemplation, Xia Hong closed his eyes and directly began cultivating.

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Like the Nine Towns Territory, the four Great Feudal Towns of Moao River from the overall system design to detailed local position arrangements are basically similar.

Within a Feudal Town, naturally, the Landgrave is the largest; below the Landgrave are the two Yi; the Commander controls the military and manages all military affairs within the Feudal Town, including all Commanding Admirals and generals in the Military Department, nominally under his jurisdiction; the Grand Master oversees politics, handling the six departments of Military, Jurisdiction, Penalty, Official, Civil, and Finance, theoretically all Six Departments have to operate under the Grand Master’s command.

Of course, these are considered the top-level structure of the Feudal Towns.

The Feudal Town territories span tens of thousands of square kilometers; these top-level individuals control the overall direction, while specific affairs of the various cities below naturally have to be managed by local departments at a lower level.

This lower level refers to the Six Ministries of each county and city.

Interestingly, the core administrative departments of the four vassals of Moao River and the titles of the local subordinate institutions are exactly reversed with Great Xia.

Great Xia employs Xia City Eight Departments, local Eight Divisions;

Whereas the four vassals have Town Six Divisions, and local Six Ministries.

Mentioning the Six Ministries, one cannot but discuss the relationship between the Prefectural Governor and the Six Ministries.

The Prefectural Governor is the leader of a county, usually appointed as the Landgrave’s son; even if not the Landgrave’s son, it is the strongest individual in the entire vassal, aside from the Landgrave, with the most robust background.

Such individuals have a status only slightly below the Landgrave. For them to preside over a county is already quite exaggerated; should they also govern the local Six Ministries, there would almost be no distinction between county cities and town cities.

To prevent local powers from growing too strong, the four vassals adopt similar measures, weakening the Prefectural Governor’s authority; except for special periods, the Prefectural Governor only supervises the Six Ministries but does not have governing rights.

In other words, the Six Department Heads only need to be accountable to town city superiors, conducting daily affairs according to the town city superiors’ commands, including their dismissal and promotion, all handled by the town city, the Prefectural Governor cannot intervene.

Of course, the supervision right of the Prefectural Governor is no mere formality; they can freely inspect the accounts of the Six Ministries, investigate the situations of the Six Ministry personnel. Upon spotting problems, they can report directly to the two Yi, and even bring cases before the Landgrave.

Thus, the relationship between the two is quite delicate, with underlying superior-subordinate elements existing yet not entirely defined as such.