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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.

hundred pounds. This is a surprisingly high price. Your 15,000 pounds of new grain sitting in your warehouse is useless. With the autumn harvest approaching, you might as well sell the new grain to me. In less than two months, new grain will grow in the field again.” The well-dressed Wan shopkeeper suggested to Shen

with a

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 offer was initially so tempting that Shen Dafa was just about to agree. However, a thunderous voice resounded in the sky, shaking the

pack up your belongings and take all your grain

carefully to the announcement and his face turned ashen. He swallowed back his intended agreement to

blanched and denied, “How could

clear. There are three days left until the flood comes. I am bringing my family and grain

salute. But in his mind, he was casting curses on Tang Luo, “As the eldest son of the Tang clan who is also the strongest Mortal Realm warrior in Xiling, why is he always obstructing me! Creating the Righteous Business Group to monopolize Xiling’s agriculture in just a few months, now he’s collecting grain and announcing the impending

flood warning to the whole city, it meant the

Xiling, the five family heads who had happily obtained land and shops from the four families were practically grinding their teeth

their properties and

land 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 stages, and by the later stages, a sack of rice could save a Mortal

grain reserves, leaving just enough for their clans to eat. If they attempted any operation now, they’d undoubtedly

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

Luo. In all of Xiling, the only one who could

“This is really strange.”

great families’ daughters were about to become servants to Mr. Xu Sheng. Logically, shouldn’t the four

but entangling themselves with the Mi Clan instead, it