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Chapter 441: Chapter 437: The Actions of the Four Clans

East City Outskirts

Since yesterday, the Bai, Wan, Bie, and Pan clans, the four great esteemed families, began to jointly collect grain and handle their assets.

As the three families who have been recognized by Xiling for having merged with the Xu Sheng family, it is unknown how they joined forces with the Wan family. People in Xiling say that the three families have a deep bond.

Rumors circulated among the populace that the four great families were preparing to move their clans to Yuanzhou, and thus needed to deal with all the assets in Xiling.

The prices were exceedingly fair. A shop along the Golden Avenue only needed a million pounds of grain. A courtyard house in the city center could be bought with just one cargo ship. The prices for ordinary stores and wine shops were cheap to the point of craziness. Except for the fact that they only wanted new grain, the only things they accepted in exchange were chariots, beast-drawn carriages, cargo ships, and warships.

People understood their reasons. After all, Yuanzhou was 30,000 miles away, reachable by both land and water routes. A family clan of at least tens of thousands of people migrating 30,000 miles would require food and transportation resources of breathtaking proportions.

Xiling has nine major families. The other five, seeming to spot a rare opportunity, immediately went to the four families and secured deals. In just one day, the properties of the four families in Xiling had been largely swapped. Apart from a few high-value shops and family lands that hadn’t been settled yet, the ownership of all others had been transferred.

The stewards under the four families had all been sent out to collect grain, specifically the new harvest from the people of Xiling.

As beneficiaries of the ‘Five Acres of Farmland Decree1, the citizens of Xiling were finally able to stop worrying about food. The first group that had cleared their farmland had even wrapped up their first harvest.

Some Xiling free citizens, who were doing small businesses, saw their family sizes grow and managed to secure dozens of acres of farmland.

is useless. With the autumn harvest approaching, you might as well sell the new grain to me.

tasked with a commission to buy up the new grain. Being one of the core staff members of the Wan group, he knew exactly why the Wan group was buying new grain and made extra

Realm, they could become a new clan in Xiling. Due to their large population, the Shen Family could cultivate nearly a thousand acres of farmland, making them one of the main targets of Wan Tong’s grain collection. Wan Tong’s

flood will arrive in three days. Citizens, pack up your

He swallowed back his intended agreement to sell the grain and asked Wan Tong,

blanched and denied, “How could I

denial, Shen Dafa knew better, he coldly replied, “I can’t sell this grain. Tang Tianjiao made it clear. There are three days left until the flood comes. I am bringing my family and grain to Red

mind, he was casting curses on Tang Luo, “As the eldest son of the Tang clan who is also the strongest Mortal Realm warrior

the flood warning to the whole city, it meant the four

Xiling, the five family heads who had happily obtained land and shops from the four families were practically grinding their teeth in anger. Looking at the land deeds and contracts in

were frantically selling their properties and

and shops were worthless in the face of disaster, and grain became the top necessity in such times. Its value surpassed gold in the early

the five families handed out most of their grain reserves, leaving just enough for their clans to eat. If they attempted any operation now, they’d

similar, so why did the four families receive information so much earlier? Listening to Tang Luo making his announcement, it seemed that the young man couldn’t bear to see the civilians being kept in the dark, so he announced it to the whole city. The announcement being three days in advance gave the family heads an estimation: the Tang Clan must have received the news not long

families were a day ahead of Tang Luo. In all of Xiling, the only

“This is really strange.”

Three out of the four great families’ daughters were about to become servants to Mr. Xu Sheng. Logically, shouldn’t the four families be closer

Mi Clan instead, it was really unclear what the four families were up