Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 443 - 356: Made a Fortune_1

Chapter 443: Chapter 356: Made a Fortune_1

"Earl Huichang Sun Jizong?"

Li Xuan’s eyes narrowed instinctively, showing a touch of severity. He wondered what that guy was planning to do again?

It was not until a moment later that he returned to his usual demeanor, and then sent out a flying talisman with a wave of his hand.

Li Xuan had enough confidence that regardless of what kind of schemes Sun Jizong used against him, he could handle them all. However, his companions in the Capital City, Luo Yan, Peng Fulai, and Zhang Yue, were extremely busy with their work in the Shenyi Department. They might not be able to pay attention to Sun Jizong’s actions.

What followed was the handling of the aftermath. Although their conditions had roughly been negotiated, there were still many details.

The impact of this weapon smuggling case was immense, reaching the highest levels, so it was not possible for only Dai Longli, the leader of the Shenqi Union, and Bai Zheli, the head of the Shenji Building, to take responsibility.

Especially Shaobao Yu, the Minister of War, who had been watching the Shenqi Union for quite some time. He just didn’t have solid evidence and an opportunity.

The fact that Li Xuan could mobilize the Xunan Yushi from different places to investigate this case was partly because he was the Hufa of Neo-Confucianism, and partly because Shaobao Yu Jie was exerting his efforts.

So, the Shenqi Union would surely have to sacrifice some people to quell the anger of the various officials in the Court.

For the Shenqi Union, this wasn’t hard. Both Dai and Bai had plenty of loyal subordinates. They could hand them directly to the Court.

Without clearing some positions in the Shenqi Union, how would Li Xuan send people in?

Especially those key positions, he had to have control over. For instance, the Shenqi Union’s account and storage room managers in various places had to be Leng Yurou’s men, to effectively prevent the twelve factions underneath from playing tricks.

As Leng Yurou was on her own, without any suitable people to use, these people would have to be transferred from Earl Chengyi’s mansion. Even people from Su Zhaojun’s family and the Peng’s family would need to be borrowed.

Then, they had to hire martial masters to give the newly formed ’Peacock Manor’ some armed strength.

He couldn’t allow Leng Yurou to become a puppet of the Shenqi Union after taking over.

According to the Shenqi Union’s past rules, all twelve factions of the Shenqi Union would hand over seventy percent of their net profits to the headquarters. Of that, sixty percent was used for greasing palms and making offerings. The remaining ten percent was used to support the martial masters.

But now that the Shenqi Union had his protection, they could save at least twenty percent of the profit, at least four million silver coins. This wealth is enough to support six to eight experts from the fourth gate, along with a large number of spellcasters and martial masters.

With this force, the newly built ’Peacock Manor’ would have a foundation to stand in the world.

"You don’t need to worry about your properties being confiscated in various places. I will help you mediate. However, people like the Zhenshou eunuch in Nanjing and the Zongbing in charge of the canal transport would definitely have to bleed some money. As for the Dragon Kings in various places, I will give a hint, and you can handle the specifics."

Li Xuan couldn’t possibly let his friends help without getting anything in return.

Strangely, before, he felt at ease since he thought it was generosity at someone else’s expense, and he didn’t mind at all.

But now that the Shenqi Union had become Leng Yurou’s Shenqi Union, Li Xuan started to care a bit more.

This money needed to be paid, but he had to budget closely.

By the time he had dealt with most of these matters, it was already evening.

Li Xuan became somewhat distracted, his eyebrows unknowingly furrowing. Seeing his abnormality, Su Zhaojun asked in a worried tone, "Little brother, are you still worried about the situation in Capital City?"

Li Xuan nodded, "Sun Jizong’s envoy met with Dai Longli three days ago, but Yurou was ambushed over twenty days ago. I am slightly concerned."

After thinking for a while, Su Zhaojun suggested, "Then go back and check it out. Don’t give Earl Huichang a chance to take advantage. I will help you look after the situation here with Yurou. It’s just some minor affairs; I can handle it and won’t let Yurou be deceived by them."

Li Xuan immediately stood up: "I’ll leave it to my sister-in-law."

He had complete faith in Su Zhaojun’s abilities.

Especially when it came to business, Su Zhaojun was definitely better than him. All sorts of businesses and farmlands of Earl Chengyi’s mansion were managed by Su Zhaojun, and they had been thriving.

"And Xuanchenzi as well." Li Xuan looked at Xuanchenzi: "I hope you can stay and help."

Only after this meeting did he learn that Xuanchenzi had cultivated ’The Sutra of Innocence’ to the peak of the ninth house level. The next breakthrough would make her a top expert of The Fourth Gate.

Even now, Xuanchenzi’s speed was on par with Zidie’s, and her twin swords were faster than lightning. As a dual cultivator in martial arts and spell-casting, her overall strength was enough to compete with the majority of the martial cultivators of The Fourth Gate.

With her staying behind to help, he would feel much more at ease.

Xuanchenzi however, thought something was amiss. She had originally traveled north to the Capital City at the command of Xue Yunrou to ’keep an eye’ on Li Xuan. But she ended up being delayed for almost a month due to helping Leng Yurou.

She had just received Miss Xue’s letter of praise for her assistance to Leng Yurou. But implied in the later part of the letter, was a plea for her to devote more time and energy to the ’important matter’.

What was the important matter? Of course, it was Li Xuan.

But at this moment, Li Xuan was personally asking her for help, which she found difficult to refuse.

Xuanchenzi thought it wouldn’t make much difference pretending to be reluctant for a few days, so she reluctantly agreed.

What Li Xuan didn’t know was that right after his hurried departure, Leng Yurou, who had been sitting statue-like at the head, suddenly spoke: "I plan to make some Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Magnet Miejue Needles of the fourth tier. The more, the better.

I wonder how much materials and money you all can contribute? These Extinguishing God Needles will be distributed based on the contributions afterwards. However, there will be a fee of one hundred thousand teals of patterned silver for each one."

We Shumeng trembled at these words. He and the others in the room exchanged glances, their eyes filled with joy and surprise.

Wasn’t the reason they went to great lengths to capture Leng Yurou because of these fourth-tier Extinguishing God Needles? Wasn’t it to use the power of this instrument to protect their own industries from others’ covetous eyes?

Seeing this, Su Zhaojun couldn’t help but chuckle. She thought that Li Xuan’s worry that Leng Yurou would become a puppet of the Shenqi Union was an overreaction.

As long as the ’Peacock Secret Technique’ was still in Leng Yurou’s hands, the twelve sects of the Shenqi Union could only obey her.

At this moment, Li Xuan, still riding the Demon Qilin, speeding towards the capital city, was checking his gains.

The profits from this trip out of the capital were huge. Not only did he bring the entire Shenqi Union under his wing, but he also gained a great deal himself.

Seven days ago, during the battle on Artifact Mountain, although Dai Longli and others had escaped, they had left behind a total of 270,000 teals of silver in the warehouse.

Neither of them had ever mentioned this sum.

Then, from the small Qiankun bags of Dai Longli and Bai Zheli, he got a lot of wealth.

Just the two small Qiankun bags alone were worth hundreds of thousands of teals. They also contained five third-tier ’Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Magnet Miejue Needles’, fifteen Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles with a thousand shots each, a great number of talismans, and a lot of elixirs.

Li Xuan was overjoyed, thinking the debt he owed Luo Yan could finally be repaid.

However, his good mood disappeared after arriving in Beijing.