Mo Xingchen's dark and profound eyes looked at the bold and orthodox-looking Uncle Xiong. If it hadn't been for what Le Xiaojing had said before, he would never have imagined that Uncle Xiong now had the decision-making power on all major matters in Gulou.
As soon as Uncle Xiong opened his mouth, the other seven elders looked at each other and said nothing.
"Thank you for your hard work, elders. Xingchen has just come back. He doesn't know much about what happened in Xingmang Valley in the past six months. I hope the elders can explain it to Xingchen." Mo Xingchen looked at Uncle Xiong with a slight twitch in his mouth, but his smile was a bit cold.
"Young Master, in the past six months, many outsiders have come to Xingmang Valley, from all four countries. The most people are from the Xilin Kingdom. They are very domineering and often clash with Gulou because they have many strong people. Gulou
Lou doesn't dare to offend too much. As long as it's not too much, we will turn a blind eye. However, this also causes those mercenary groups to become more and more rampant, and even the monthly tribute paid is much less." The Eighth Elder.
Elder Qi said immediately.
Uncle Xiong nodded and said: "Elder Qi is right. I have negotiated with them in the past six months and had many conflicts. Some mercenary groups have finally restrained themselves." Uncle Xiong frowned.
"How many mercenary groups are there now?" Mo Xingchen asked.
"Young Master, as of last month, there were only ten mercenary groups left. The original small mercenary groups began to rely on the large mercenary groups for some reason. Each of the four countries has two large mercenary groups.
There are eight in total, and two of them were gathered by scattered soldiers." Elder Le said, "I always feel that there is something wrong here." After speaking, he glanced at Uncle Xiong.
"What's the problem? In fact, there's nothing wrong with this. It's more convenient for us to manage." Uncle Xiong said.
"The problem is that there are more and more of them, and their strength is getting stronger and stronger. Each one of them is enough to compete with our Gulou, so how can they listen to our Gulou?" Elder Le snorted coldly.
"Exactly! Elder Xiong, although you can make the two mercenary groups of Dongxun Kingdom surrender to you, this is because there is no one in the two mercenary groups who is stronger than you. Once they do, they will still listen to you.
Yes? Just look at the two mercenary groups in Xilin Kingdom." Elder Fu, the weakest, said.
"Elder Fu, what do you mean by this? I have intimidated two regiments from the Xilin Kingdom after all, haven't I? And you see, the Xilin Kingdom has given me face, but it only reduced its friendship by three levels, while the other three countries also obeyed.
What's wrong with paying tribute? Do you really want everyone to quarrel with each other? Based on our strength, our Gu Lou has long been no match for them!" Uncle Xiong said with a red face.
"Then what you mean is that our Gulou has to please them in turn? Xiongchu! We will let you deal with it before the young master comes back, but now that the young master is back, we have to revitalize the Gulou. This Xingmang Valley is...
Mr. Mo led us to establish, how can we allow those bastards from the four countries to usurp the throne?" Elder Fu also had an upright temper and immediately became unhappy.
"You! What do you mean! I am also thinking about our Xingmang Valley. If you don't come back, in order to save the young master, we can't fight with those bandits. Why not coexist peacefully? This is the best way to protect the Valley Tower.
Isn't there a way?" Xiong Chu shouted angrily.
Mo Xingchen suddenly slapped the table and stood up. His whole body exuded a cold and forbidding aura, and the living room seemed to have frozen a few degrees.
"My father will come back. The Mo family and Xingmang Valley will live and die together. Uncle Xiong, have you forgotten what my father told you so quickly?" Mo Xingchen's voice was extremely cold, and his eyes stared sharply at Xiong Chu, full of emotion.