Chapter 490: Chapter Four Hundred and Eighty Six:

Building the City

‘”‘Is the Heavenly Pride serious about this?”

“Of course.”

“Then the old man would like… would like…” Shen Dafa struggled uncomfortably, wringing his hands repeatedly in front of him. After repeating “would like” over a dozen times, he finally forced out a number, “I would like two, no! A million catties of grain.”

Having made his demand, he looked at Tang Luo anxiously, feeling guilty as if his request was too much.

“Understood.” Tang Luo’s face remained impassive as he willingly agreed.

With Shen Dafa as an example, all the other renowned people of Xiling started to voice their grain needs, even though they were much more conservative with their numbers.

“Eight hundred thousand catties.”

“Six hundred thousand catties.”

“Five hundred and fifty thousand catties.

“Five hundred thousand catties.”

dared to ask for fifty

the hall concluded their requests, Tang Luo asked

you all sure that’s all the grain you

to a middle-aged man with a thick beard, Tang Luo spoke with exasperation, “I can understand others, but Elder Nian, you have at least seven to eight hundred strong men under you in the Mortal Realm. A martial artist consumes three to five catties of rice per day. How is

in Fenling Port and Yongning Port under the jurisdiction of Tang

in Xiling for generations, making their living on the water by training sailors, laborers, and fishermen. Although

poor souls under Elder Nian’s care, who have no grain, all rely on his handouts. There are thousands of them, families included. As the man in charge of taking care of these people, Elder Nian’s request for only a hundred thousand catties of gram left Tang Luo

up in confusion and waving his burly arms, repeatedly saying, “Enough, enough, a

before addressing everyone, “I understand your reluctance to cause me further trouble. But there’s something you all need to know. The flood is not receding. If you’re pinching pennies to survive this winter, hoping for the

people. They simply want to avoid entanglement with the young masters of influential families, preferring

nature, but only if the floodwaters are indeed likely to recede. Otherwise, on this Red Cloud Mountain with only a few basins, their frugal approach will only make them weak until they starve

people here initially thought that this was a once-in-a-millennium flood, now they

to serve me through grain demands. Secondly, Red Cloud Mountain, where you are currently residing, is now my territory. Given the sudden disaster, I’ve offered it as a place for you to live. In exchange, I hope you can lend some assistance to your dwelling place, which

flood, were now utterly bewildered. They had

Luo.

promising wealth, beauty, and futures. Yet, they were still sitting

to every Xiling craftsman. The young masters would only trust their family’s martial artists and household servants. External families become appendages, and although establishing kinship fares better in preserving some degree of autonomy, the common consequence for such families was to disintegrate only

Luo’s seemingly casual remarks had caused a huge stir among

any other family, they would not openly disclose the non-receding

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