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Chapter 731: Chapter 95 Zuo Qiu Admits Defeat! Shou Zhe Wins Big_3

“By the last sentence, the tone of Zuoqiu Guanyu had also hardened. After all, a Grade Four Prominent Family is always a Grade Four Prominent Family, they have their dignity and pride.”

Wang Shouzhe noticed it as well, that buying the cultivation and sales rights for the grains in Qing’an Prefecture was indeed the bottom line for the Zuoqiu family.

Otherwise, for the Wang family only to withdraw from the Qing’an market, not to mention whether the other prominent families of Qing’an who have tasted sweet success would agree, who knows if the Wang Clan, once becoming powerful, wouldn’t strike back?

It is true that obtaining the cultivation and sales rights was the bottom line, but the price was not.

Wang Shouzhe had already made an estimate of this, and also investigated the financial power of the Zuoqiu clan.

“We, the Wang family, can sell the cultivation and sales rights within Qing’an Prefecture to you, the Zuoqiu family,” Wang Shouzhe said, sipping his tea. Without letting Zuoqiu Guanyu feel joyful, he continued, “but the Zuoqiu family needs to make an upfront payment of fifty million Qian Gold for monopoly fees, and from then on, pay two million Qian Gold per year for licensing fees.”

After all, did the Wang family want to start a fight to the death just like the Zuoqiu family?

Nowadays, the Wang family is in the process of rising rapidly, with a future that is boundless. Unless necessary, Wang Shouzhe is not willing to go head-to-head with any Noble Family from the Purple Abode.

Just giving away some low-grade grains will grant him a significant amount of money, solve the present financial crisis of Lady Wang, and relieve the crisis confronting the Keep Achieving Commercial Firm. Additionally, it can repel the Zuoqiu family, so why wouldn’t he do that?

After all, what the Wang family is most in need of now is time and money.

Given enough time and space for the Wang family to develop, in one or two centuries, the Wang family may not be afraid of directly confronting the Zuoqiu family.

As for the money…

The Sky Prides, Great Heavenly Prouds, and Little Sky Prides of the Wang family, the old and young of the family, dissipate a sum of Qian Gold per year that reaches colossal figures. With the birth of new family members, this number is still growing.

If it was not so, why would Wang Shouzhe have just finished developing the new town of Xin An and set his sights on the “Qingluo Guard” next?

And the future establishment and development of the Qingluo Guard is even more of an “insatiable” gold-consuming beast.

At Wang Shouzhe’s quote, Zuoqiu Guanyu was frightened and roared in rage: “Master Shouzhe, even extortion should have a bottom line. Do you treat us, the Zuoqiu family, as sheep awaiting slaughter? Ten million! Only ten million, not a shilling more, our Zuoqiu family…”

“Master Guanyu, do not be so impulsive. The price is something we can negotiate~ How about this, forty-five million…”

For the benefit of each of their own clans, the two Noble Family heads began to haggle over the price as if they were vendors at a vegetable market.

This process lasted a good half a month.

In the end, after Zuoqiu Guanyu stormed out several times, and after consulting with the Old Ancestor of his family, the two sides finally agreed on the terms of their peace negotiations.

Apart from the Zuoqiu family completely leaving the Flying Carriage Market and opening the Anqing County Flying Carriage Market unconditionally, the Zuoqiu family paid twenty million Qian Gold in cash to buy the cultivation rights for the grain and will pay 10% of the total sales price for the grains to the Wang family every year as patent usage fees.

This agreement will last for a hundred years.

During the period covered by this contract, the Wang family can’t actively sell grain inside Qing’an County.

With this, the great turmoil caused by the grains came to an end, and the outcome could well be termed as “happy ending”.

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Some time passed.

In Qing’an County, there was the renowned food manor known as “Quiet Elegance Residence.”

After seeing Zuoqiu Guanyu away, Xiaoyue returned to the Qingzhu Court, furrowing her brows involuntarily.

Although what Zuoqiu Guanyu had said was phrased diplomatically, the meaning was rather clear: the Zuoqiu family had suffered too much loss this time, so they won’t take part in the plans against the Qian family and the Wang family. They asked Master Ce to find another capable helper. As for the favor owed for renting the Flying Carriage, the Zuoqiu family would find a way to repay it.

Zuoqiu Guanyu having put it this way, Xiaoyue naturally couldn’t force him and could only politely see him off after he’d said some niceties.

Honestly, she had never thought that things would develop to this stage.

The struggle amongst the prominent families has always been about financial and actual strength.

A four-rank prominent family with a two-thousand-year history, a family full of strong individuals, whether it be financial or actual strength, they are worth several times that of the Qian family of Longzuo and the Changning Wang family combined. By common sense, they were absolutely not supposed to lose.

For the Longzuo Qian family and the Changning Wang family to be able to turn the tables under such circumstances, it almost seems like a “miracle”. It is a representative incident that can be written in the “Longzuo County Records”.

Even if the Qian family and the Wang family had taken advantage of the situation and prepared ahead, this result could still be described as “unbelievable”.

Moreover, according to the news sent from Luo Yuqing’s “Dawn”, the one who had taken the lead in this confrontation against the Zuoqiu and Cao families, was surprisingly not the Longzuo Qian family they initially suspected, but the Changning Wang family.

To be more precise, it was the head of the Changning Wang family: Wang Shouzhe.

From start to finish, the Longzuo Qian family had been executing everything according to Wang Shouzhe’s plan, as if firmly convinced that he would snatch victory for the Qian family.

Unaware, Xiaoyue again recalled Luo Yuqing’s appraisal of Wang Shouzhe: “strategically deep, good at making bold moves and thorough in his caution”.

At the time, she felt that this appraisal was slightly too high.

However, looking at it now, this appraisal seems to have underestimated him. Maybe, she should add “he cannot be measured by common standards” to this evaluation.