Immortality Cultivation: I Can increase My Stats Using Clansmen's Qi-Blood

Chapter 643: Chapter 309: A Whole New Reform?_2
 

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“Otherwise, shall we play another game?”

“I feel that your chess skills have greatly improved during this period.”

“Just try a bit harder, just a bit more effort.”

“You may well win.”

A faint smile appeared on the face of Luo Changfeng.

He, as always, seduced with such enticing words.

Whispering softly to the girl in front of him, Luo Youwei.

However, this time,

Luo Youwei didn’t seem to take the bait.

“No, no…”

“I think there’s still a tremendous gap between Elder Changfeng and me.”

“Even to call it a difference between heaven and earth wouldn’t be an exaggeration.”

“So, I better practice more, and when my chess skills have improved, then I’ll play Elder Changfeng again.”

Luo Youwei said somewhat listlessly.

In truth, her main reason for not continuing the game of Go was because she was somewhat afraid.

She feared that if she kept on like this,

Her mental state would really collapse.

When she chose to enter the treacherous world of business alone, she had never felt as powerless as she did now.

“Alright then…”

Seeing that Luo Youwei had no desire to continue,

Luo Changfeng could only silently sip the cup of tea in his hand.

Until Luo Youwei, that little girl, had finished packing up the chess pieces.

And slowly left the courtyard.

Inside the courtyard, under the Stone Pavilion,

Sat Luo Changfeng, silent, his expression peaceful and unchanging. Then, he narrowed his eyes slightly: “In just such a short period of time, that little girl has established a huge trading company, and even seized about a fifth of the business share within the Da Feng Dynasty and the Great Flame Dynasty. This is rather astonishing…”

Luo Changfeng mused to himself.

However, just moments later,

He shook his head regretfully.

It seemed that Luo Youwei, that little girl, really did have some talent in the world of commerce.

However, what’s a pity is,

This world is a world of fantasy.

In this world, there are no rules or laws.

On this world, what’s most important and eternally unchanging, are only the mighty cultivation and absolute power.

What good is a successful business?

In the eyes of those supreme beings, those unprotected merchants will always be just pigs or sheep to be slaughtered at will.

“Forget it, if Luo Youwei, that little girl, is happy,”

“then just let her be.”

After murmuring to himself,

Luo Changfeng poured himself another cup of steaming tea.

He blew on it lightly before his lips,

Then finally drank the hot tea in his hand.

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As time passed.

Soon, several days had gone by.

During these days, the interior of Da Feng Dynasty remained as calm as ever.

The Qingshi City, under the control of the Luo Family, though still seeing a high volume of people coming and going each day,

At least, had not reached the population limit as it initially did.

Of course, because of this series of operations,

Luo Yao, the next Family Head of the Luo Family, made a fortune.

It wasn’t only Luo Yao who made a killing.

The members of the advisory group who took on this task also made a fortune through this venture.

Even the residents of Qingshi City gained great benefits because of this.

If you were to say who lost out on this deal?

It would probably be only those wealthy merchants and nobles who were desperate to flood into Qingshi City.

However, for such an insignificant sacrifice,

To those rich merchants, as well as the powerful familial forces, as long as they could enter the city,

It would be a definite gain for those people.

An insignificant sacrifice was of no concern to anyone at that time.

So if someone says that this deal satisfied everyone,

They might not be too far from the truth.

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This is actually not wrong.

However, if we were to delve deeper into the matter,

there is actually one person who is not quite satisfied with this whole affair,

and that is Luo Ping, the current head of the Luo Family in Qingshi City.

Originally, Luo Ping’s intention was just to leave the matter to that kid Luo Yao to handle.

What he wanted to see was Luo Yao struggling to deal with this issue,

and thus becoming extremely distressed.

In that case, he would have felt comfortable.

As the current head of the Luo Family, he naturally did not wish to see his successor, who was to be the next family head, in a state of prolonged leisure.

But to Luo Ping’s surprise, an unforeseen event occurred.

What Luo Ping considered a rather troublesome issue,

turned out to be a highly profitable business in the hands of that kid Luo Yao.

This incident didn’t even require Luo Yao’s personal involvement,

and yet, he was able to reap substantial benefits from it.

This made Luo Ping feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Dammit, if he had known earlier that the matter could be handled this way, he would have dealt with it himself.

Why would he then pass such a good opportunity to that kid Luo Yao?

However, what’s done is done.

Even if Luo Ping, as the current head of the Luo Family, felt depressed and uncomfortable, he could only endure it silently on his own.

Could he, as the current head of the Luo Family,

expect that kid Luo Yao to hand over all the profits he made from this affair?

That would obviously be impossible.

“Sigh…”

“No more thinking about this, no more.”

“I should instead consider the upcoming confrontation between the White Brahma Temple and the Great Flame Dynasty over Mortal Transcendence… What role should our Qingshi City Luo Family play then?”

“If the White Brahma Temple’s Mortal Transcendence is victorious, we will proceed as previously planned to gradually annex the territories of the Great Flame Dynasty.”

“But if the Mortal Transcendence of the Great Flame Dynasty wins,”

“wouldn’t that be a good thing for our Qingshi City Luo Family as well?”

Luo Ping pondered to himself.

After all, even if one side wins the conflict over Mortal Transcendence,

the other side is likely not going to have an easy time, right?

If at that moment, our Patriarch Changfeng delivers a fatal blow to the Great Flame Dynasty,

wouldn’t the situation become much simpler?

At that time, not only would we take on the Great Flame Dynasty, but we also wouldn’t easily let go of the White Lotus Prefecture controlled by the White Brahma Temple.

The only tricky part is dealing with the White Brahma Lotus, a heinous entity rooted in the void within the White Lotus Prefecture.

But if it’s Patriarch Changfeng,

surely he must have a way to handle this White Brahma Lotus, right?

Having nodded to himself, Luo Ping no longer dwelled on these matters.

He casually picked up a document on the table,

opened it, and started to read through it slowly.

“Hmm?”

“What is this?”

Upon seeing the document he was handling,

a look of surprise flickered through his eyes.

[How to strengthen the control over external towns?]

[How to improve the public order within other towns?]

[How to increase the happiness of the people living outside Qingshi City?]

Looking at the prominent words on the document,

Luo Ping suddenly felt a little stunned.

Although the Luo Family has grown to a tremendous size,

their control over areas other than Qingshi City is not very strong.

It’s not that people in other areas don’t respect the Luo Family.

They pay their taxes honestly,

and most of the orders they receive from the top are implemented.

Beyond that, the Luo Family does not have much powerful control over other towns under its banner.

The official systems within those other towns are basically determined by their own higher-ups.

The Luo Family has nearly no involvement in the official systems of these external towns.