The brisk Heisen boat quickly approached Tianhefang City, and finally stopped steadily at the gate of Tianhefang City.
The casual cultivators who had not yet entered the city were attracted by the fallen Kuromori boat. They all stopped entering the city and focused their eyes on it.
Then, Li Changqing, Li Changzhi, Li Changji, Li Qingyang, Li Qinghuan, Li Qingjing, Li Qingshui, Li Xuangang, Li Xuanyuan, a total of nine foundation-building monks came out of the flying boat one after another.
This scene shocked the surrounding casual cultivators.
It’s rare to see all the high-level combat powers of a foundation-building family appear at the same time!
This somewhat shocked them.
The black uniforms looked a bit solemn at this moment. The nine members of the Taiqiu Li family had expressionless faces. Under the leadership of the patriarch Li Changqing, they stepped into the gate of Tianhefang City.
However, there were still some rustling crowds in Fang City. After seeing Li Xuangang and others slowly appearing on the street, they all became silent for an instant, and the atmosphere suddenly became depressed.
The coercion of the nine foundation-building monks appearing together was released without any restraint, making the entire Tianhefang City aware of their existence.
The casual cultivators who saw this scene couldn't help but wonder: What is the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain doing?
"Is the leader Li Changqing? I heard that he is already at the peak of foundation building."
"Who are the last two? Why do they look so young? Are they members of the Li Jiaxuan generation?"
"Isn't that Li Changji, the eighth in the family of the Li family? How could he have broken through to the late stage of foundation building?"
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At this moment, the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain showed all their family's power without any secret, and they were building momentum for the next action.
After Li Changqing led Li Xuangang and the others into Tianhe Tower, the casual cultivators on the streets outside suddenly exploded.
"Although I have heard about members of the Li family entering the Foundation Establishment Stage in the past few years, I didn't expect that there are now nine Foundation Establishment Stage monks on Taiqiu Mountain!"
"Yes, it has not been a hundred years since their ancestor Li Yishang was enthroned. How come the Li family has become so powerful! In terms of the number of monks in the foundation-building period alone, I am afraid that in the entire Tianhe region, only the Wang family of Qingyuan Mountain can
It’s overwhelming them.”
Just when these casual cultivators were talking about each other, inside Tianhe Tower.
Except for Wang Yanfan, who had already known the general situation today, the patriarchs of the other three families all looked at Li Changqing who slowly walked in front of them with different expressions.
Looking around, Li Changqing didn't say anything, just looking at the four people opposite.
The scene fell into a very strange state for a while.
Realizing that the situation was developing in an uncontrollable direction, Wang Yanfan laughed, and while calling the clan leaders to sit down, he said:
"Now that everyone is here, take your seats. According to the rules of previous years, this time... Wang will be the host."
Seeing someone trying to smooth things over, the atmosphere relaxed a bit.
As the patriarchs of the other families sat down at a wooden round table, Li Changqing also walked over.
Li Changji and others behind him stood still behind him, not saying a word, just standing quietly.
Ignoring the expressions of the clan leaders on the round table, Wang Yansheng began to flip through an account book in his hand, and finally.
He raised his head and said: "In the past five years, Tianhefang City has made a total of 114,064 spirit stones. According to the agreement, my Wang family will take 30%, the Hu family will take 20%, the Pan family will take 20%, the Zhao family will take 20%, and the Li family will take 10%."
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"Calculating this way, our profit distribution this time is 34,219 pieces for my Wang family... 11,406 pieces for the Li family."
Passing the account book in his hand to the middle of the round table, Wang Yanfan continued:
"Everyone, please take a look and see if I made any mistakes."
It is unlikely that Wang Yanfan would tamper with such a major matter. Over the years, the distribution of interests in Tianhefang City has been clean every time.
Therefore, the other people just flipped through the account book symbolically, and expressed their approval of the number of spiritual stones mentioned by Wang Yanfan.
The matter is finalized, but this meeting is not over yet.
Wang Yanfan took away the account book, and the tribesmen behind him immediately laid a large map on their round table.
"Everyone, Tianhefang City has developed well in the past few years, and it has attracted a certain number of casual cultivators. So I propose that starting from this year, each of our five families will contribute a sum of spiritual stones to expand the scale of the city."
The map on the round table is exactly what Tianhefang City looks like today.
After Wang Yanfan finished speaking, he stopped speaking and quietly waited for their answers.
As one of the most advanced monks on site, Li Changqing did not hesitate and said directly:
"Our Li family agrees with Fellow Daoist Wang's proposal. What do the remaining fellow Daoists think?"
The patriarchs of the Hu family and the Pan family did not think about it for long, and immediately expressed their opinions:
"My Hu family has no objection."
"My Pan family has no objection either."
So the four of them focused their attention on the Zhao family who was the only one who didn't speak.
The patriarch of the Zhao family in Wutong Mountain is named Zhao Yiheng. He is only in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment. Facing the somewhat aggressive gaze, he was silent for a moment and then said softly:
"Speaking of which, the four fellow Taoists are all my seniors. I believe everyone knows the situation of our Zhao family in the past few decades. It is not that my Zhao family does not agree with the expansion of Tianhefang City, but that we really cannot afford the cost of expansion.
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The strength of the Zhao family in Wutong Mountain was originally ranked fourth among the five major families. There were a total of six elders in the foundation-building stage in the family. However, perhaps due to luck, they lost two of them in the Hengduan Mountains battle launched by the Corpse Ghost Sect.
The monks in the foundation-building stage even included Zhao Tianqi, the original patriarch of the Zhao family.
Soon after, another clan elder died in the family residence due to exhaustion of his lifespan. This made the Zhao family even worse and in a difficult situation.
In fact, the Zhao family has been in crisis because they have not trained any new foundation-building monks in recent years. It is only thanks to Zhao Yiheng's hard support that they can barely keep the family running normally.
Wang Yanfan continued what Zhao Yiheng said:
"We also know the situation in Wutong Mountain, um... But the expansion of Fang City is related to the vital interests of our other four major families. Wang Mou privately believes that it is imperative. But since Zhao Daoyou can't afford so much,
of spiritual stones, then in my opinion, how about the extra spiritual stones being mined by fellow Daoist Li from Taiqiu Mountain?"
Hearing this, the patriarchs of the Hu family and the Pan family secretly sneered in their hearts.
“Finally we got to the point!”
Although Zhao Yiheng had already gotten wind of it beforehand, now that it was actually happening, he still couldn't accept it.
Li Changqing pretended not to see Zhao Yiheng's clenched fist and said calmly:
"Since Fellow Daoist Zhao is not able to provide so many spiritual stones, it is understandable that our Li family can help. Fellow Daoist Hu and Daoist Pan, what do you think?"
The two looked at Li Changqing's half-smiling expression, and then shifted their gaze to the eight foundation-building elders behind him. Then they both sighed in their hearts and said with a slightly helpless tone:
"Since neither Daoyou Wang nor Daoyou Li have any objections, and this matter does not have much to do with our two families, as long as Daoyou Zhao agrees, we have nothing to say."
Turning his head, Wang Yanfan's tone became slightly harsher and he said:
"What do you think of Fellow Daoist Zhao?"
Zhao Yiheng already knew that the outcome was inevitable and that the family's interests in Tianhefang City could no longer be preserved. Today, the Li family sent all the foundation-building monks here to put pressure on him.
And it seems that Wang Yanfan of Qingyuan Mountain is also on the side of the Li family.
Therefore, Zhao Yiheng knew that this was not at all a question of whether he could come up with the spirit stone to expand Fang City, but a question of whether he dared to offend the two major families, the Wang family and the Li family at the same time.
He was very sure that some deal must have been reached between the Wang family and the Li family, and the Li family must have promised some benefits to the Wang family, otherwise Wang Yanfan would not have spoken for Li Changqing like this.
Moreover, the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain is no longer something that he can compete with. I am afraid that as long as he says no today, the family business outside Wutong Mountain will be hit to varying degrees tomorrow.
Situations are stronger than people. In this world, the one with the big fist has the final say.
Now that the Wang family and the Li family have big fists, things can only be done according to their wishes.
In the end, Zhao Yi had no choice but to agree to this humiliating plan.
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The next day, news spread that Tianhefang City was going to expand:
The spiritual veins in the city will be upgraded from the second-level high-level to the third-level low-level, and the streets will also be expanded from fifteen to twenty-five.
Finally, the five major families will build a small dock on the bank of the Tianhe River due east of Tianhefang City to connect the water trade between Wujiangfang City and Binhaifang City.
This information is not surprising to the monks who have been in the Tianhe area all year round. Tianhefang City has developed rapidly in recent years, and expansion is a matter of time.
But what surprised them was that the voice of the five major foundation-building families in Tianhefang City changed.
The Wang family still accounts for 30%, the Pan family and the Hu family still account for 20%, but the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain has changed from the original 10% to 2.5%, and the Zhao family has changed from the original 20% to 50%.
After receiving the final result, these small families and casual cultivators couldn't help but sigh.
Not only lamented the decline of the Zhao family in Wutong Mountain, but also marveled at the strong rise of the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain.
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On the Heisen flying boat back to Taiqiu Mountain, Li Xuangang thought about the whole story.
The fifth uncle, Li Changqing, exchanged 10% of the profits from the copper concentrate in Mangshanfang City for the support of the Wang family of Qingyuan Mountain at the Tianhe Conference, allowing the family to successfully obtain greater interests in Tianhefang City.
But he is also very clear that the fundamental reason why the family can obtain this benefit is its own strength.
A family with nine foundation-building monks, whether it is the Hu family or the Pan family, must consider the consequences of offending Taiqiu Mountain.