A month has passed since Gu Cheng arranged all this and took action. Murong Hou and others have even established a temporary residence in Nanyi County.
Although they were not together, they began to disperse after disembarking from the ship. Each controlled one or several bandit forces and monopolized the elixir output of several small local forces, and then transported them to Leping County in batches.
The only time they gathered was at the Leping Chamber of Commerce established by Murong Hou, and they handed over part of their profits to Murong Hou on time.
Murong Hou's Leping Chamber of Commerce was established at the junction between Nanyi County and Leping County. Although it seemed to be out of the way, it was a must-pass for official routes between the two counties.
At this time, in the Naleping Chamber of Commerce, unlike other young disciples who had worked hard to develop their own forces after coming to Nanyi County, Murong Hou seemed to be very leisurely, lying in the yard basking in the sun. Behind him was a man wearing white clothes.
The beautiful maid in a gauze robe placed his head on the top of her chest and gently rubbed his head.
"Sir, others have already launched many actions in Nanyi County, but if we do nothing but establish a chamber of commerce, will we fall too far behind them?"
The maid asked anxiously, as if she was even more anxious than Marquis Murong.
Murong Hou closed his eyes and said calmly: "One chamber of commerce is enough. If they do ten points, they will give us three points, so why should we bother to take everything into our own hands?
Besides, Nanyi County has become so weak. In fact, there is no need for the family to send me here at all. They can just send any deacon here. Do you think I still need training?"
The maid chuckled lightly: "Of course the young master doesn't need training, only the old guys in the family need training."
Murong Hou said calmly: "So why did the clan send me here?"
The maid's massage hands suddenly paused, and her face showed doubts.
She had been following Murong Hou for several years. She was not just a concubine who was responsible for entertaining people with sex, but she was actually able to help the Lord Murong Hou solve his problems. Her thinking and skills were not bad.
But it was precisely because of this that she felt doubtful. Murong Hou did not need any experience. The situation in Nanyi County was even easier than she imagined. Why did the family send Murong Hou here? On vacation?
Murong Hou moved his head and found a comfortable position for himself. He patted the maid's hand and motioned for her to continue. He said calmly:
"It's just that the old guys in the clan saw me as an eyesore and felt that I was blocking the way for the entire younger generation of the Murong clan, so they transferred me away for a while and left it to their heirs to shine.
A group of old and immortal guys insist on supporting a group of losers to rise to the top. Without me, even if they can be in the limelight, they won't be able to make any waves.
My father is also old and confused. Perhaps the head of the family has been too comfortable in these years and only knows how to balance the forces of all parties. He actually agreed.
But it doesn’t matter, just think of it as a period of rest.”
When the maid heard that the other party actually talked about her father and the current head of the Murong family, her expression couldn't help but change. This was something taboo.
Just when Murong Hou wanted the other party to ignore him, Lu Hongyuan walked in and reported some recent situations to Murong Hou, and then asked cautiously: "Mr. Murong, then Gu Cheng has already stated that he wants to fight with us.
, our trade routes have been completely opened now, and the situation has stabilized, shouldn’t we also find an opportunity to deal with Gu Cheng? "
Murong Hou said calmly: "Why should we deal with him? Now he should be thinking of ways to deal with us.
Hongyuan, take a longer view. How can you defeat your elder brother if you only focus on such a small thing in front of you?
Your status in the Lu family is not as good as your elder brother. It is useless to rely on these conspiracies and tricks. Only you are qualified to deal with everything if you are strong enough.
The bandits in Nanyi County were recruited by us. Due to our power, all the major forces chose to cooperate with us. He, Gu Cheng, only has these forces on the surface. What can he use to fight us?
Unless he ignores the entire Nanyi County and sends out all his forces to plunder our troops, but in that case, he, the great commander, will not be able to sit down anymore."
Lu Hongyuan nodded, and just when he was about to compliment Murong Hou, someone suddenly came to report from outside.
"Sir! What's wrong! Our team escorting the elixir was robbed and killed! There are almost no survivors left!
The teams of several other young masters were also robbed and killed almost at the same time, and some of them were not even done by humans!"
Murong Hou suddenly sat up straight, his face that had always been extremely calm finally turned solemn, and his eyes showed a strong gloomy look.
Just now he was calmly telling Lu Hongyuan that Gu Cheng had no power to touch them, saying that absolute strength could crush all conspiracies and tricks.
In the blink of an eye, he was slapped in the face and slapped hard. This had not happened to him for a long time.
No matter how much preparation Murong Hou made and how many things he calculated, he still couldn't figure out how Gu Cheng was able to use so much power at the same time to rob and kill their team.
However, Murong Hou was not one of those newbies with no experience. He took a deep breath and said, "Gather the survivors together and call them to ask them what's going on."
Lu Hongyuan lowered his head, not daring to look at Murong Hou for fear of offending him at this time.
He and Murong Hou were of the same generation and about the same age, so he almost watched Murong Hou rise.
When he was in Leping County, Murong Hou had never suffered such a big loss. Even when he faced barbarians who were stronger than himself, he was able to trick those barbarians around.
If Gu Cheng were here, he would probably think that Mr. Murong is still too obedient. He has never experienced the setbacks and beatings of society. How can he follow this?
When Murong Hou started to respond, Gu Cheng had already counted the looted elixirs and was preparing to visit various major sects.
Gu Cheng always likes to plan things first and prepare everything well. In the end, he will either kill with one blow or use a series of methods to stun the opponent.
Murong Hou has already taken the lead, so of course Gu Cheng will not only have one move here, he also has many methods waiting for the opponent.
At Cangming Mansion's Aoki Temple, the temple's leader, Master Aoki, looked so sad that his beard almost disappeared.
This Master Aoki is the old Taoist priest who came to persuade Gu Cheng when he was overthrown by Yunhaiguan in the past. Although he has the strength of the Sixth Level of Qi Refining, it is a pity that he is already very old and cannot even condense his spiritual energy into the tenth level.
Since then, the real combat effectiveness has probably dropped to a huge level.
Of course, it doesn't matter. Master Aoki is quite famous in Nanyi County, and the martial arts forces in several surrounding prefectures also give him face. After all, his qualifications are very old.
Moreover, Qingmu Temple is not developing very strongly. It does not pose a big threat to the surrounding sect forces, and it has not been targeted by anyone. That's why Yunhai Temple came to him to persuade Gu Cheng last time.
After Murong Hou and others came to Nanyi County, Qingmu Temple naturally chose to cooperate with them.
At first, they were a little nervous when they took out a batch of elixirs. They didn't know if the other party would pay them as promised after selling the elixirs.
However, after the other party abided by the agreement, the people in Nanyi County breathed a sigh of relief.
But who knows how many batches of this business have been completed, when news came over there that all the elixirs had been robbed.
Of course Murong Hou and others will not pay to make up for the losses of Qingmu Zhenren and others, so they can only swallow this loss themselves.
A small sect like Qingmu Temple has a small number of people and limited profits. At this time, it can be said that Qingmu Zhenren is both heartbroken and unwilling to lose such a large number of elixirs.
At this moment, a disciple suddenly came to report outside the door, saying that Gu Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the Jingyesi Division in Guangling City, was visiting.
Upon hearing this news, Master Aoki frowned immediately.
What is this guy doing here?
He didn't like anything about Gu Cheng. In his opinion, this guy was arrogant and arrogant, so he was not an easy person to deal with.
The control power of the Nanjiu County court was too weak, so the court did not have a good impression of Jianghu people.
It would be fine if they were just like the people in the imperial court who ignored Nanyi County's Jianghu, but Gu Cheng was ambitious and ruthless. During the time when he controlled Nanyi County's Jianghu, they probably had nothing to do with it.
The day went by.
However, although he didn't like Gu Cheng very much, after all, Gu Cheng was the commander-in-chief of Jingyesi in Guangling City, so he didn't want to see him anymore.
Master Aoki could only say: "Go and invite Gu Cheng in."
In the living room of Qingmu Guan, Gu Cheng smiled at Master Qingmu and cupped his hands and said, "I haven't seen you for a long time, but you don't look very good? But what difficulties have you encountered?"
The corners of Master Aoki's mouth twitched, and his face looked a little ugly as he said, "Master Gu is here just to laugh at Pindao?"
Gu Cheng shook his head and said: "I just want to make you, Master, realize the reality that cooperation between Qingmu Temple and Murong Hou and other outsiders will not end well.
They are from Leping County, but they don’t even have a foundation in Nanyi County, yet you took the initiative to cooperate with them, and now their things have been robbed, and they haven’t even given an explanation, so why don’t you just endure it?”
Master Qingmu sighed: "But that is the Murong clan after all, and there are also many younger generation disciples of many aristocratic families in Leping County. They came in person to ask for cooperation, and we dare not refuse."
Gu Cheng said calmly: "So you dare to tear up the previous agreement with me and betray my interests?
Good people are bullied by others. Does Taoist Master Qingmu think that I, Gu Cheng, am easy to bully? Do you really think that I am a Bodhisattva who repays evil with kindness?"
After saying the last sentence, a raging evil spirit has already hit my face!