Seeing that all the guests had arrived, Zhang Leqian immediately notified them and started the banquet immediately.
In order to prepare for this banquet, the Zhang family has already spent thousands of kilograms of spiritual rice, dozens of jars of spiritual wine, and purchased white-tailed reed fish from the Wu family. Together, these resources are worth more than three hundred spiritual stones.
Holding such a luxurious banquet was not just to cheer up the vassal families, the main purpose was to negotiate with the other four major families and regain some of the lost interests.
For the entire five major families in Taicheng County, the most important annual income, apart from Xihefang City, is the annual trade with Black Mountain casual cultivators.
Among the three southeastern counties, the Taicheng County monks are closest to the Black Mountain monks. Relying on this geographical advantage, under the organization of the five major families, a large amount of resources are prepared to exchange with the Black Mountain monks every year.
Black Mountain has not been developed for a long time, and there are not many spiritual fields opened in the mountains. The local spiritual rice is not self-sufficient.
Whenever the spiritual rice matures, the five major families in Taicheng County will prepare a large number of manpower to transport a large amount of spiritual rice to Montenegro.
Along with it, there are a lot of other resources.
In order to protect the safety of these large supplies, the five major families would take turns sending foundation-building monks to escort these supplies.
Because of the huge amount of materials exchanged, foundation-building monks from the five major families can earn hundreds of spiritual stones in profit from just one trip to Black Mountain.
In recent decades, due to Zhang Leqian's injury, the Zhang family had no foundation-building monks available, so they could only give up the place to trade in the Southern Wilderness to the Wu family, which was the most powerful and had the most foundation-building monks.
This time Zhang Zhixuan succeeded in establishing the foundation. Zhang Leqian just wanted to tell the Wu family that the Zhang family already had a foundation-building monk. He hoped that they would be self-aware and not fall out easily because of this matter.
The head of the Wu family, Wu Xiangjie, also saw this. Although he was a little reluctant, for the sake of Taicheng County's rules and the unity of the five monks, he still sent Wu Xiangheng, a foundation-building monk, to attend Zhang Zhixuan's foundation-building celebration. This is the default.
Unlike Wu Xiangjie, Wu Xiangheng is not too old and is only in his sixties now. He is a close blood relative of Wu Siheng.
Because the Wu family has been strong and prosperous in the past hundred years or so, he has been going smoothly since his cultivation, and his behavior is rather domineering and domineering.
He was dissatisfied with the clan leader's decision, but in the more than a hundred years since the clan leader had been in charge of the family, the family had grown more and more prosperous and gained the trust of the clan members.
He did not dare to object openly, so he deliberately arrived late to give the Zhang family some trouble.
Seeing everyone coming together, the patriarch Zhang Leqian raised his wine glass and said: "Since Patriarch Chuyun passed away, our family has been in trouble.
In my hands, it deteriorated even more.
Simply hope that God will not abandon my Zhang family. The younger generation of monks can overcome all difficulties and successfully build the foundation, and continue our family's destiny.
This celebration today is neither to show off nor to threaten.
Just to celebrate, the first thing to celebrate is that our family has finally bid farewell to bad luck, things have turned around, and we are finally out of the trough.
The second is to tell the monks at home to learn from Zhixuan, spend more energy on cultivation, continuously inject strength into the family, and work hard to prosper and strengthen the family.
On this happy day, I hope that our monks in Taicheng County can enjoy the joy of our Zhang family, and I also hope that our Taicheng County can be safe and stable without twists and turns."
As soon as Zhang Legan finished speaking, Wu Xiangheng's expression changed, he slammed his wine glass on the table and said, "I heard that this nephew Zhixuan went to Montenegro a few years ago. I wonder if he has ever heard of my brother Wu Xiangcheng." news.
We are all local Party members in our hometown, so we naturally exchange news. I wonder if Nephew Zhixuan would like to exchange some news with me?
If there is any news that your nephew is like your elder brother, please don’t hide it, you must tell him.”
Before Zhang Zhixuan could speak, the patriarch Zhang Leqian said first: "Who is Wu Xiangcheng?"
Wu Xiangheng replied: "It is an elder brother of my family who went to Montenegro many years ago. He happened to disappear when Zhixuan's nephew went to Montenegro, so I would like to ask Zhixuan."
Zhang Leqian asked: "Why did this person go to Montenegro?"
The reason why the two brothers Wu Xiangcheng left Taicheng County and went to Heishan was that they were expelled from the family by the head of the Wu family.
As monks stationed in Xihefang, they killed Zhang Zhixuan's father, Zhang Mengzhen, in order to snatch the elixir.
This matter was widely publicized by the Zhang family and caused a stir. The Xihefang City controlled by the Wu family was depressed for many years and lost a lot of profits for several consecutive years.
These two people were also hated within the Wu family and were scolded for many years.
The main reason why the head of the Wu family kept the two brothers alive was to do some dirty work that was inconvenient for them to show up.
On the surface, both brothers have been expelled from the Wu family and cannot get what they say on the surface.
Wu Xiangheng's cultivation has gone smoothly. Although he has lived for more than sixty years, he has not experienced hardships and is not mature in his behavior.
He made excuses to find trouble, but the clan leader Zhang Leqian immediately caught the flaw.
Wu Xiangheng was about to continue talking when he was immediately pulled to sit down by an old ninth-level Qi practitioner behind him. Just as he was about to be dissatisfied, he found that the face of this elder brother, who was trusted by the clan leader, changed and he stared at him fiercely.
Realizing that the atmosphere was no longer right, Wu Xiangheng also knew that he had said the wrong thing and sat down angrily.
"This wise nephew of the Wu family, you are still young and don't even know the relationship between the five monks in Taicheng.
Although our five families have many internal disputes, externally we have always been united.
Your Wu family is so arrogant today that you want to do whatever you want. Ke Cheng has thought that one day your ancestor will also die. In the future, the monks bullied by your family will come to take revenge. What will you do?
Do you want to kill every monk who offends your family?
Let me tell you, your family simply cannot do this!
Let me tell you, any family that has survived for many years has rich survival experience.
In order to pass on the family, they formulated the rules of the five major monk families in Taicheng County. If your Wu family is going to violate this rule today, then other families can also violate this rule tomorrow.
Our Zhang family knows this rule, and so does the old patriarch of your family.
Do you think that having an ancestor of Zifu in your family can make you king?
I want to tell you, what if you can really become the king?
When the ancestor Chu Yun of our Zhang family was still alive, why didn't we kill off the Wu family, which had become more and more prosperous and gradually threatened the Zhang family?
If we had done everything right back then, you would not have been born from your mother's womb, and even Wu Sixeng would have died in Qingxuanzong without any explanation.
It is very easy for a Zifu stage elder to deal with a late-stage Foundation Establishment monk.
Do you know what our Patriarch Chu Yun did?
Within the Qingxuan Sect, he had never felt sorry for Wu Siheng, a junior. Instead, he always looked after him and treated this junior fellow countryman far better than ordinary monks.
Why did he do this?
Because he knows that even if his cultivation reaches the Zifu stage, he is still a weak person in the world of immortality and is far from being unscrupulous.
When your cultivation reaches the level of Qingyunzi, you will never be able to do as you please, and you will have to compromise with the cruel reality.
Even if he has cultivated to the Zifu stage, he still has to face cruel competition and he has to unite some monks.
Rather, the monks who are most suitable to follow him include not only his relatives and disciples, but also his fellow countrymen.
Patriarch Chuyun knows this truth, and so does Patriarch Si Heng of your family.
So these years, our five monks in Qingxuan Sect have always looked up to him.
Even he has to abide by the rules set by his seniors. If your cultivation level is less than the second level of foundation building, what does it matter?
If you want to go back on your word, your Wu family is powerful, but our Zhang family considers itself far inferior, so you should stay away.
But you also have to pray to God that your Wu family will not decline. Otherwise, if you break the rules today, then when you decline, other families will naturally do the same.
That's what I said. I hope you can pass it to Wu Xiangjian without missing a word. I think he will understand.
If the Wu family is willing to give up their trading quota to Nanhuang this year, I hope he can write a letter.
If you don't want to, our Zhang family is small and weak, and of course we will lose some profits if you, the Wu family, follow your lead.
Our Zhang family has been through so many difficulties over the years, why are we still afraid of a more difficult situation?"
Zhang Legan's words made Wu Xiangheng sweat profusely. He didn't even take a few bites of the food and wine, looked pale, and immediately left Tiantai Peak.