Chapter 1572
In the governor city of the northern regions, all three vice governors were killed . The grand governor of the Lifire City personally sent people here to question Qin Wentian but after they learned of what happened, they didn't say anything and left directly .
Lu Tong attacked Qin Wentian and injured him . Zhao Yichuan and Zhong Zihua actually joined forces, forming a sinister plot wanting to kill him . Although he killed them, Qin Wentian did everything according to the rules and no one could say anything . After that incident, his subordinates all had fear in their hearts, nobody dared to challenge Qin Wentian's authority again .
After several days, Qin Wentian nominated three new vice governors, all of them were bandits from the Thousand Feathers Palace . Other than the Evil Emperor, he nominated the bandits to key positions within the governor's palace . Although Qin Wentian temporarily couldn't take revenge, he still had to gain complete control of the governor's manor first . If it was like in the past where no one showed up when he gave an order, how would he even be able to accomplish things?
Naturally, Qin Wentian also didn't intend to do anything temporarily . The incident that day was truly dangerous to the extreme . Despite his powerful physical defense due to his undying body, he had almost died . That could be considered a lesson . After the Evil Emperor gained control of Zhong Zihua, although there was no way to prove that the Jialan Clan was behind this, they could ascertain that a mysterious man gave him the Soul Slaying Needles and even told him to join forces with Zhao Yichuan . Let alone Qin Wentian, even Zhong Zihua himself guessed that that mysterious person should be someone from the Jialan Clan .
Not only so, according to Zhong Zihua, there were plenty of attendants under the three vice governors that had received bribes from different powers before . Everyone had a tacit understanding and knew what would happen at the end but no one said anything . After all, their cultivation resources, other than the Lifire Palace giving some out once every ten years, the remainder would come from a percentage of the tributes offered to the northern governor by the powers here on tribute day . However, how much tribute would the northern governor be able to achieve? The people of the governor's manor here were truly extremely poor .
Qin Wentian got the Evil Emperor to find the butler . He also simultaneously went out to do an investigation and also checked the file room for records . At the end, he discovered to his shock that all the large businesses in the northern city regions were controlled by the Jialan Clan . They even had their shadow in the medium-sized businesses .
Before the Lifire Empyrean took over, the Jialan Clan had already laid down their roots in Lifire City . Among the many large clans in the northern regions, the Jialan Clan was the publicly acknowledged number one clan, all of the other clans also had very deep relationships with them . For example, many of the madams and mistresses of the various large clans, all originated from the Jialan Clan .
Not only were their foundations extremely deep, they even extended outwards, having some people beside the Realmlord . From this, one could tell how strong the Jialan Clan really was . This was why they had enough power to contend against the Lifire Empyrean .
Qin Wentian couldn't help but to have a feeling of unease . In the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms, if you were wealthy and had control over a large number of resources, just a single sentence from you would entice immortal emperors to join you . This was much more attractive compared to the conditions the governor's manor was offering . Just because the Jialan Clan was wealthy enough, they were able to provide sufficient cultivation resources for the unaffiliated immortal emperors and even provide powerful weapons and valuable medical pills .
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The day of tribute that occurred once every ten years, finally arrived . The entire Lifire City was extremely busy . Naturally, the people who are the busiest were none other than the five governors in the five city regions . To a majority of the people, it was just a day to pay tax, tribute day . Many powers in the city would take the initiative to pay the tributes .
However, for the northern governor's manor, the amount of powers that took the initiative to pay was extremely little . Almost none did so . From this point, one could see how bad the prestige of the northern city governor's manor was . All the powers completely didn't give a damn about it . Naturally, this was because in these ten years, the northern governor's manor didn't really provide much protection for the powers . When many conflicts occured, the powers were the ones who settled things themselves .
Today, the newly appointed three vice governors brought their subordinates to collect the tribute but things weren't so smooth for them . Some of the smaller powers unwillingly complied but for the larger powers, they weren't cooperative at all .
Vice Governor Xu Li had a mid-stage immortal king cultivation base . He was at the Ancient River Auction House and when he was collecting tributes, a major incident occurred . An expert who obtained a treasure from the auction house was killed and the treasure and his spatial ring was stolen away . Lifire City absolutely forbid such slaughter in the streets . For conflicts that couldn't be mediated, there were specially assigned areas for both parties to battle .
Xu Li glanced at the corpse on the ground and had an unsightly expression on his face . In front of him, an old man from the Ancient River Auction House stood there . He then spoke, "Vice Governor Xu, it isn't that my auction house doesn't want to cooperate . It's just that there has been many minor and major incidents that happened here at my auction house through these years . Right now, there's even someone who got killed at our doorstep . Had the governor's manor helped me to handle any of these matters at all? Now that tribute day has come, the governor's manor instantly became so proactive and came by wanting to collect tributes? This isn't too good, right?"
"That's right, we shouldn't have to pay if the governor's manor has not offered any help to us . Even if the Lifire Empyrean is here, he should understand our feelings . " Someone clasped his hands to the air as he spoke, showing his respect to the Lifire Empyrean .
"The Ancient River Auction House is a great auction house, the experts here are as common as the clouds but there actually is such an incident appearing here on tribute day? This…?" Vice Governor Xu's expression turned cold . As a former bandit, what schemes has he not seen before? This was clearly a trick, they were deliberately going against the governor's manor .
"Vice Governor Xu, what do you mean by this?" The old man's expression instantly turned heavy . He icily continued, "My Ancient River Auction House has existed for many years, how could I tarnish my own reputation by doing this? It's just that Vice Governor Xu, there's such a major incident happening before your eyes and you refuse to investigate and is even hurrying us for the tribute collection, even doubting my auction house . Isn't this too ridiculous?"
"Actually to the northern city regions, the governor's manor can exist or not exist, it wouldn't affect anything at all . Why do we need them? They even still have the face to collect tributes from us every ten years? How laughable . "
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