Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 48: Besieged City

In the end, Wei Danbai did not let Wei Tianchong take action, but acquiesced to the Gu family's delay and wrote a letter wishing Gu Liangde a speedy recovery.

This is not surprising. He is a businessman, and he is not a combative person at heart. He is naturally lacking in bloodiness and courage.

Although he was right, if Wei Tianchong really wanted to take action against the Gu family, it would definitely have an impact on the reputation of the Wei Mansion, but he didn't know that not taking action would bring even greater losses to the Wei Mansion!

The originally rumored matter of accepting the Gu family's property suddenly stopped, causing the entire Canglong Mansion to focus on the Wei Mansion.

Tang Jie passively retreated and ignored foreign affairs. On this basis, it fermented and gave people unlimited reverie.

Many people speculate that the reason why the Wei Mansion acquiesced to the Gu family's repentance was because Tang Jie - not everyone could regard giving in as magnanimity, and more people would interpret it as weakness.

When one side is weak, the other side is strong.

This kind of behavior first appeared in cities outside Canglong Mansion. After all, in these places, the Wei family's foundation was still shallow.

Earth Fire City.

This is a small city three hundred miles away from Canglong Mansion. It is named because there is a river of fire flowing underground that does not burn out all year round. Although it is small in area, it is an important town of the Immortal Family. Including Xiyue Sect, about ten sects have set up weapon refining mines here, and they have been refining weapons for the sect for many years. The top magic weapons are naturally used by each sect, while some inferior ones are handed over to the official for use, and the worst ones go to the private sector and fall into the hands of people such as the bodyguards and guards. Because of this, Dihuo City is also a famous weapons town. Every year, a large number of merchants come and go here to purchase and sell weapons. Two years ago, the Wei family expanded their business and took root here for the first time. Now, there are seven or so weapons in Dihuo City. Home shop.

Today, a group of uninvited guests came to the door of Wei's shop.

The leader was a dark-faced man with his clothes open, revealing a large amount of chest hair. He was facing the store manager and said, "Manager Zhang, you are polite. Speaking of which, the Wei family has been doing business here in Dihuo City for two years. , in the past two years, dare I ask how the Hongyun Gang has treated your shop?"

The manager, Zhang, smiled and said: "Your gang has taken great care of my shop and has never collected protection fees from us. I understand this very well and have always mentioned it to my boss."

The black-faced man nodded: "As long as Manager Zhang understands, but the manager also knows that our Hongyun Gang also needs to eat. There are so many brothers in the gang. If everyone doesn't have to pay protection fees, everyone doesn't have to hang out. ."

Manager Zhang was stunned: "The third master means..."

The black-faced man replied: "Starting from next month, I'm afraid your shop will have to pay some money. It's not much. The Bibang has always been rigorous in doing things. The shops are all based on the size of the area and the scale of the business. They will never let everyone Our business is losing money, but for a shop like yours, we only need twenty taels of silver per month, and we only charge half of it."

Manager Zhang’s expression changed greatly: “My Wei family is not an unknown person, it is a family property protected by cultivators. How dare you take it?”

The black-faced man's face darkened: "Every place has its own rules. Even if the Wei family's cross-river dragon is protected by cultivators, it is only in the mortal realm, and it is not exempt from protection fees. ”

"But my young master is the true successor of Guanrifeng!"

"That's why I only accept half of you. This is the friendship of my gang leader. After all, there is no such thing in the rules." The black-faced man said: "Manager Zhang, my Hongyun Gang follows the rules and also respects human kindness. Although I accept it, Your money is not an unreasonable deception. I hope you will understand and don’t make it difficult for us. Otherwise, if I really don’t accept your money, I’m afraid that other companies that pay us money will complain that we are unfair.”

As he spoke, he bowed his hands to the steward and left.

The steward looked at the black-faced man’s leaving figure, dumbfounded and speechless.

The guy next to me came over and said, "Chief steward, what do you think we should do about this?"

Manager Zhang said leisurely: "What else can we do? I can only agree."

The guy said angrily: "Isn't this too cheap for them?"

Manager Zhang gave the waiter a cold look: "Then what else do you want?"

"Of course I want Master Wei to come over and teach them a lesson!"

Manager Zhang said disdainfully: "Let Master Wei come over to teach you a lesson? Are you kidding? If you are a member of the Hongyun Gang, there will be no cultivators? Besides, we are outsiders here. When the Hongyun Gang operates, it is fair to say that the regulations have not been Violating the rules, if we call the young master to come, that would be a violation of the rules. This is not the Canglong Mansion, and there are many reasons why we cannot defend the family, so just bear with it."

As he said that, he went back to the shop.

The store clerk spat on the ground and said, "I'm afraid if this happens only once, I'll be in trouble later."

The little man’s words speak the truth.

Twilight City.

This is located on the edge of Lingzhou, at the junction of the three states. Therefore, although Lingzhou has no specialties, it is an extremely important transportation thoroughfare. A large amount of goods are handled here every year and flow to all parts of the country. Therefore, it is also a must for merchants. Fight for land.

If the Wei family's business wants to go further, Chaomu City is an indispensable and important place.

Here, the Wei family owns a shop. Although it is only one shop, its vast area, many employees, and scale are greater than the seven stores in Dihuo City combined. It integrates acquisition, sale, transfer and many other functions. One body. The person in charge, Li Chaoxu, is an old man who has been in the Wei Mansion for many years. He is known as the Smiling Buddha and always smiles when he sees people.

But today, the Smiling Buddha has a bitter face.

In the reception hall behind the shop, a smiling Buddha said to a scribe in blue: "You are so good, why is the rent going to increase? And it will only increase by so much."

The scribe in green shirt held hot tea in his hand, used the cup lid to skim the tea leaves, and said slowly: "Manager Li, what he said is wrong. It is not that our boss wants to increase the rent, but to return the rent to where it should be." In terms of prices. In the past few years, the business in Chaomu City has become more and more prosperous, and the big manager has also noticed it. The rental prices of shops everywhere are rising sharply, but the prices of our shops have always been the same. Give the lowest to your house."

Li Chaoxu smiled and said, "Li certainly understands this."

"But all good things must come to an end." The green-shirted scribe said leisurely: "Our boss is also a little short of money recently. We can't always subsidize the Wei family at our own expense, right?"

"Heh, heh...yes, yes." Li Chaoxu smiled helplessly, but he was secretly cursing in his heart, what a shame he was for sticking to the Wei family. In the past two years, your Zhong family has made a lot of money just by collecting land rent, and your life has been extremely prosperous.

To rent this shop alone, the Wei family has to pay a rent of 4,500 taels of silver to the Zhong family every year. As for now, the rent has jumped to 7,000 taels.

Although 7,000 taels is not an excessive figure and is indeed a reasonable price compared to the surrounding areas, it is naturally a very bad feeling if you are used to enjoying discounts and suddenly there are no discounts.

The most terrible thing is that in order to expand his business a few days ago, Li Zhaoxu spent a lot of money to purchase goods. He only prepared a limited amount of money to pay the rent, but did not pay attention to the other party's price increase. This sudden change suddenly caused funds to appear immediately. Nervous question.

Fortunately, the matter was not too serious, and the green-shirted scribe obviously did not want to push people too far, and said that he could give Li Chaoxu time to raise money. Li Chaoxu finally had time to ask for help from the Canglong Palace Master's family.

After the discussion, Li Chaoxu sent the other party away, and when he came back, his face was filled with sadness again.

His personal servant saw Li Chaoxu like this and asked, "Didn't the Zhong family already promise to give us time to raise money from the master's family? Why are you still so worried?"

Li Chaoxu shook his head and said: "What do you know? When foreign businessmen enter, they often use low-price strategies to open up the situation and try to build a reputation first. Because of this, the profits are meager. I heard that my wife was doing this a few days ago. I have complained about my incompetence in foreign affairs, but in fact, this meager profit is only possible because the rent is cheap enough. Fortunately, now that the rent has increased, the original meager profit will be difficult to maintain. If I don't think of some methods next, I'm afraid... You will lose money."

As soon as the word "loss" was mentioned, Li Chaoxu immediately became worried.

The boy also nodded and said: "This is indeed a trouble, but fortunately it is not the master who has to face it."

"Huh?" Li Chaoxu raised his head and looked at the boy.

The boy smiled and said: "Master, you don't know yet, do you? I just heard about it before. Recently, many businesses in various places have encountered such things. The shops in Dihuo City were collected by the Hongyun Gang for protection fees; The ferry in Dingjiahe was charged a parking fee; for the Wanhua embroidery in Qiansi Town, our Wei family is no longer one of the priority suppliers, but has to go through the lottery and bid for it like ordinary merchants; I heard that Even the gang of wood-cutters from Guwan Township jumped out and said that the money my Wei family gave us was too little and they stopped working for us."

Li Chaoxu was stunned when he heard this: "Is this happening? How could this happen?"

The boy said: "It wasn't that Tang Jie who made the fuss and said he no longer cares about the Wei family's affairs. When the Gu family heard about this, they were the first to jump out and refused to sell any of the shops that were originally intended to be sold to the Wei family. Now, the Wei family can't do anything to them. It's good now, everyone is seeing it, and some things will naturally come out. So don't worry, master. At this moment, I'm afraid the eldest master of the Wei family I'm more anxious than you, and I can't blame you."

Li Chaoxu was stunned at first, then his face became angry, and he slapped the boy with his hand: "You bastard, the master's family is in trouble, and you are here to gloat about it!"

The boy was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Li Chaoxu then regained his kind face and sat down slowly: "Tang Jie...I have heard about him, so it's not surprising that he reacted like this. But it's just Tang Jie, how could he attract such a big deal?" Such a big storm? And it comes so quickly and urgently? I think there are probably people who are secretly fueling the storm... If this is the case, I'm afraid there will be some action later."

"Are you still moving?" The boy was also frightened and was a little stupid.

Li Chaoxu snorted: "Then it depends on how the boss responds. It's just the beginning. All parties are doing things with a tentative tone, and they won't be too decisive. At best, they will erase part of the benefits that should be given to the Wei family. But if you don’t respond well..."

Li Chaoxu's voice lowered.

No matter where the family is, they don’t like outsiders to intervene in their business.

The Gu family, why did they refuse the deal even though they went back on their word and offended the Wei family? Isn't it just to continue to control the Canglong Mansion's casino business? If any family wants to open a casino in Canglong Mansion, it cannot succeed without the permission of the Gu family. By selling the casino to the Wei family, what they lost was not just a few shops, but the default casino franchise.

For the same reason, other places will not welcome outsiders to do business. The strength of the cultivators is the key to determining whether they can enter.

If you are strong, I will tolerate it. If you are not strong enough, you should naturally withdraw.

When the Wei family has the two pillars of Wei Tian Chong Tang Jie, the Wei family's business can be opened in various cities in Lingzhou, and their status is equivalent to that of the Quan Tianxin family, as long as they do not overwhelm the guests and usurp the master. But when Tang Jie expressed his negative attitude, his status dropped, and his due treatment also naturally dropped.

When the strength is great, all expansions are legitimate; if the strength is weak, then these originally legitimate expansions will become "a hand that is stretched too wide."

Faced with such a hand, cutting off is the most natural choice.

From this aspect, any action against the Wei family is actually not an excessive move. As long-term businessmen, we all know how to control the proportion and strictly adhere to the concept of how much strength we have and how much territory we can expand.

But for the Wei family, the nature of the matter is completely different.

Expansion requires investment, and a lot of money has been spent. The situation has just stabilized, not to mention making money, but the capital has not even been recovered, so it is about to withdraw? With this withdrawal, a lot of money was wasted. The Wei family's wealth accumulated over the years is all on this, and they even owe a lot of money. If it is all wasted, the loss can be imagined.

But if you don’t want to withdraw, you must show the corresponding strength.

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"I don't agree." Wei Tian said calmly.

"What did you say?" Wei Danbai looked at his son in surprise.

"I said I won't take action." Wei Tianchong replied: "Everyone's actions are just trivial matters, and they belong to each family's duty. Why do you want me to take action? Just for the rent. Is the Zhong family destroyed? Or is it to kill Qiansi Town and bleed it like a river of blood just to give priority to supply? Or go to Guwan Township and spread the word that anyone who dares not to work for our Wei family will be killed? Father, Wenxin is not a lawless place. , even if the royal family does things, they are not so unscrupulous!"

"What about the Hongyun Gang? You can always deal with them, right? The protection fee issue will never be brought to the table after all." Wei Danbai's voice was full of exhaustion and helplessness. It can be seen that these days, he has been suffering from the troubles in various places. All the suffering.

Wei Tianchong smiled bitterly: "You can't get on the stage, but the problem is that I can't beat your son! If you, the Red Cloud Gang, dare to collect protection fees in Dihuo City, are you a vegetarian? There are real people in their gang. Support me, am I not looking for death by going there?"

"They dare not kill you, you are Zhenren Yan's disciple."

"That's true. They definitely don't dare to kill me. But they can beat me up, take off my clothes and throw me out. The master had better have a face. If any apprentice is bullied by his elders, he may come forward. But if you come to trouble someone but get humiliated instead, then you will be the unlucky one! If the master knows about it then, let alone revenge, I am afraid the first thing he will do is pick up the sword and cut me down first... What are you doing again? It’s not that I don’t know that I am not taken seriously in his mind, so it is not easy to keep this true inheritance.”

Wei Danbai took a breath of air: "That means you can't do anything?"

Wei Tianchong shrugged: "Let's wait until they go too far."

"Wait until they go too far? I'm afraid it will be too late by then! Do you know how much money the Wei family has lost during this period? That is all money used for your cultivation!" Wei Danbai was anxious road.

Wei Tian rushed to the scene but remained calm: "Oh, I don't care. Anyway, I have enough money now, so I don't need the Wei family to pay."

"What did you say?" Wei Danbai couldn't believe his ears. He stared at his son: "How could you say such a thing! You don't need the Wei family anymore, so you can throw the Wei family away Step aside?"

Wei Tianchong spread his hands: "Isn't this what you learned from my father? You think Tang Jie is not needed, so why don't you just throw him aside?"

Wei Danbai stood frozen on the spot.

He looked at his son: "So, are you standing up for Tang Jie? He did such a thing to my Wei family, and you still stand up for him?"

Wei Danbai started yelling.

Wei Tianchong sneered: "Dare you ask father, what did he do?"

What did he do?

Wei Danbai opened his mouth, but couldn't answer for a moment.

Wei Tianchong said: "He just announced that he no longer cares about everything. Considering what my father did at the beginning, why is it surprising that he made this decision? How can he be sorry for our Wei family?"

"But during this time..."

"What does what happened during this period have to do with him? Or does my father want to say that this person is so important that without him, the development of our Wei family will be greatly affected?"

Wei Danbai did not want to admit that Tang Jie was so important to the Wei family.

He glared at his son fiercely: "Are you speaking for Tang Jie?"

"The child is just telling the truth."

Wei Tianchong said and strode out.

After leaving his father, Wei Tianchong also let out a long sigh.

These days, he is caught between the two, and he is also in a dilemma, but today he finally spoke loudly and spoke what was in his heart. He never expected that the feeling of contradicting his father would be so refreshing.

The reason why he dared to do this was because of Tang Jie's retreat.

Originally, he had always been worried that Tang Jie would fall out, so all he had prepared was to protect the Wei family.

But when Tang Jie did nothing and just announced his retreat, he felt greatly relaxed.

No one understands everything Tang Jie has done for him better than him. Because of this, he feels even more sorry for Tang Jie.

So when the Wei Mansion was besieged on all sides because of this, Wei Tianchong was not worried, but felt a sense of joy and excitement. He thought, Dad, you finally realize the stupidity of your behavior, right?

Wei Danbai is his father. No matter how great his cultivation is, he cannot scold and lecture his father. However, because of this, from his perspective, he is very happy to see his father suffer.

As for the losses incurred by the Wei Mansion, he really didn't care.

As mentioned before, he is a cultivator, and in terms of values, he and Tang Jie are completely consistent.

Spiritual money is money!

Mortal gold and silver, earthly possessions, and busy work are no longer in the eyes of cultivators.

Furthermore, his refusal is not entirely unreasonable. Under the current circumstances, if he takes action, he is afraid that it will lead to gossip. If the master really knows that he is busy working for the family business, he is afraid that someone will be sent to arrest him immediately. .

But what Wei Tianchong didn't expect was that even if he did nothing, Yan Changfeng still sent someone.

Three days after defeating Wei Danbai, Nan Baicheng appeared at the Wei family.

Standing in front of Wei Tianchong~IndoMTL.com~Nan Baicheng asked: "I heard that something happened to the Wei family recently?"

Wei Tian hurriedly replied: "It's just some minor business issues."

"That's it..." Nan Baicheng looked at Wei Tianchong, half-smiling but not smiling, and said in a long tone: "In that case, then come back to the mountain with me."

"Go back to the mountain?" Wei Tianchong was shocked: "What are you going back to the mountain for?"

"Master has a destiny. You have made great achievements by taking down the Shimen Sect with Tang Jie. Master will reward you and teach you the Nine Transformations of the Sun."

Nine changes in the sun?

This is Yan Changfeng's best immortal technique, just like the chaotic wind steps in the bright night sky.

Wei Tianchong was also dumbfounded when he heard this, but then he woke up: "But my family..."

Nan Baicheng said impatiently: "If there is no big deal, why do you care about it? Just let me go."

As he spoke, he waved his sleeves, rolled up Wei Tianchong, and flew slowly into the air...