Chapter 84 Struggle
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. These resources combined are already worth more than three hundred spirit 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 casual cultivators. 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 make hundreds of spiritual stones in profit from just one trip to Black Mountain.
In recent decades, because Zhang Leqian was injured, 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.
Wu Xiangjie, the head of the Wu family, 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 foundation-building monk Wu Xiangheng to attend Zhang Zhixuan’s foundation-building celebration, which was acquiescence to this.
Unlike Wu Xiangjie, Wu Xiangheng is not too old and is only in his sixties now. He is a close blood relative of Wu Sixeng.
Because the Wu family has been strong and prosperous in the past hundred years, he has been going smoothly since he started practicing, and his behavior is relatively 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 didn’t dare to object openly, so he deliberately came 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 a lot.
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 the good fortune of our family.
This celebration today is neither to show off nor to threaten.
Just to celebrate, first of all, our family finally bid farewell to bad luck, things are turning 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 grow the family.
On this happy day, I hope that our monks in Taicheng County can enjoy the joy of our Zhang family. 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 heard about 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’s 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 Wu Xiangcheng brothers 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 in depression for many years and lost a lot of profits for several consecutive years.
These two people were also hated within the Wu family and had been 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.
He made an excuse 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 have no idea what the relationship between the five monks in Taicheng is.
Although our five families have many internal disputes, they have always been united externally.
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 dominate?
When 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 Qingxuan Sect without any explanation.
It is still 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 it is far from the time to be unscrupulous.
When you don’t reach the level of Qingyunzi in cultivation, you will never be able to do whatever you want, 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.
But the monks who are most suitable to follow him are, in addition to his own disciples, his fellow countrymen.
Patriarch Chuyun knows this truth, and so does Patriarch Si Heng of your family.
Therefore, over the 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 Establishment, what does it matter?
If you want to go back on your word, your Wu family is powerful, and 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 are not willing, our Zhang family is small and weak. Of course, if you Wu family follows your lead, we will suffer some loss of profits.
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, and immediately left Tiantai Peak with a pale face.
(End of chapter)