Genshin Impact: A Mortal's Ascension to Godhood

The next day, at Liyue Feiyunpo, the food festival street.

Amidst the huge crowd, a small group of businessmen were gathering together to communicate.

"Brother, are you awake? Why would Qixing issue such a ridiculous order as 'Abolish the Food Festival'?"

"I don't think so. He just neglected his duty! He must have heard something wrong and came back to tell us nonsense!"

The businessman who was accused of "neglecting his duties" was about to burst into tears: "Why would I lie now? Am I deliberately making fun of you? I am sure, I heard it clearly - Qixing is planning to abolish the food festival that has been held for two years, leaving only the chef competition!"

"No, who will make up for the food festival profit that I'm missing? Without the food festival gimmick to take money out of everyone's pockets, I have to wait for the next festival?" A businessman couldn't help but wail, "No! I finally got a chance to sell [Moon Egg] for Mora, but in two days this thing can only be sold for 5200 Mora!"

A tray of moon eggs seems to be worth only 3800 Mora, buddy, you are also a black-hearted merchant. After hearing this man's offer, the merchant next to him felt that the price he set for his own food was still too low.

However, these businessmen also knew that they alone could not dictate Liyue’s policies, so after sighing for a while, they had to leave in a depressed mood.

Although the merchants left, the news they spread spread like wings to the ears of the major chambers of commerce of the Food Festival. When these people heard the news that the Liyue Seven Stars wanted to ban the Food Festival, their first reaction was disbelief: "What? Impossible! Absolutely impossible! We have to pay taxes to the Liyue government for hosting this event. They get money and we earn money. Why don't the Seven Stars allow us to host the Food Festival?"

However, when the General Affairs Department posted the news that [The Seven Stars decided to cancel the Liyue Food Festival and the next Food Festival will not be held], all the major chambers of commerce went wild: "What are the Seven Stars doing? Are they crazy? No, no, we must protest!" "Yes, yes, yes, unite to protest, we want a food festival!" "Food festival, food festival!"

Just when a group of big businessmen were indignantly preparing to deal with their peers in power, the second move of the Seven Star Combination Punch hit them hard in the face: the General Affairs Department sent someone to read out the relevant policies to abolish the Food Festival, that is, to merge the Food Festival with Liyue's traditional festival, the Moon Festival, and to hold the Moon Festival as usual, and to move the Food Festival's classic event, the Chef Contest, to the Moon Festival. Now the businessmen who only participated in the Chef Contest quickly backed off - since the Chef Contest is still being held, what are we doing? Even if we can't make the little money during the Food Festival, we can still make money from the Chef Contest.

Of course, the others were not happy: "We just agreed to strike together to prevent the Seven Stars from riding on our shoulders and ruining our chance to make money, how come you guys are running away in the blink of an eye?" But they couldn't stop these timid businessmen, so they could only let them withdraw on their own - you guys can hold a chef competition, go ahead, we will continue to insist on our right to hold a food festival!

These merchants would never have thought that the Seven Stars' methods were far more than that. After a few hours, the Seven Stars announced the latest results of the meeting: in order to prevent the market from overheating and frequent chaos, and to ensure the stable operation of normal economic activities, the Liyue Seven Stars decided to re-select a group of people to form a special committee responsible for various matters of this Food Festival. The specific plan will be issued and implemented by the General Affairs Department; at the same time, the competition system of the Chef King Competition will be revised, and the competition areas will be divided to select contestants. In order to ensure the fairness of the competition, the Liyue Seven Stars will come forward to serve as judges for the Chef King Competition.

It exploded. The business community of Liyue was completely blown up. All the big merchants who participated in the various activities of the Food Festival cried out to the heavens, believing that the world was unfair and that the Seven Stars were deliberately targeting them; as for the small and medium-sized vendors, those who broke the law were rectified, while those who did not break the law were at ease - after all, there were so many festivals in Liyue, there were always opportunities to make money.

In short, under the iron fist of a series of policies organized by [Tianquan] Ningguang, the market chaos of Liyue Food Festival has been rectified. At least no one dares to jump out and directly oppose the Seven Stars. The new committee presided over all the affairs of the Food Festival, and the Chef King Competition was also re-regulated. A large number of investors no longer acted on the wind, but could only carefully observe the current situation in Liyue.

.......

"boom!"

A porcelain teacup was slammed heavily onto the table by a hand wearing a red and black arm guard.

The owner of this hand wore a copper mask that resembled the long face of the Hillock Rock Helmet King, making it difficult to see his expression. But his reprimand for his subordinates revealed a strong anger: "This is outrageous! The Seven Stars of Liyue are actually going to die at this time. Isn't the money we invested in the food festival a waste?"

Another man, who was dressed in the same dark clothes as this man, humbly replied, "Boss, what should we do?"

The man touched the dark Eye of God on his waist, pushed aside the hem of his fiery red windbreaker hanging on his thigh, and said bitterly: "What should we do? Now is the time to do our old business! Notify the brothers to take all the bonds we issued. It's time to collect the debts from those Liyue bastards!"

Suddenly, a heat wave arose in the room, and a fiery red flame suddenly ignited in the void, and then slowly went out.

The next second, the two people in the room disappeared mysteriously, leaving behind only a teacup with several cracks.

......

On the other side, the Hall of All Peoples.

"No matter what, we have done something good for Liyue this time, right?" Chongyun asked Li Tao curiously while chewing his favorite mountain delicacy cold braised noodles.

Li Tao was picking at a piece of honey-glazed barbecued pork with chopsticks. When he heard Chongyun's question, he just smiled and said, "Of course. Otherwise, why would we come to Wanmin Hall for a dinner? To celebrate the victory of this operation."

"When Liyue was in an invisible crisis, Brother Li stepped forward - it really sounds like something a hero would do!" Xingqiu raised his wine glass and saluted Li Tao from a distance, "Come on, Brother Li, drink this glass to the bottom!"

Li Tao laughed and drank the rice wine in one gulp. This stuff didn't have much alcohol, but Chongyun still didn't dare to drink it.

As for Xiangling, another protagonist of the banquet? Unfortunately, the kitchen of Wanmin Hall has been repaired, and she has to be busy helping her old father in the kitchen and serving as a waiter. However, after the new policy of Liyue Seven Stars was introduced, she has been smiling all the time - in short, Xiangling has regained her confidence in herself and others.

"Ah, everyone is here."

A clear and gentle voice came, and Li Tao recognized it as the lawyer Yan Fei who had helped them a lot. He quickly swallowed the food in his mouth and turned to greet Yan Fei who came to Wanmin Hall: "Consultant Yan Fei, have you eaten? If not, sit down and eat something?"

Yan Fei nodded to Xingqiu first, then replied to Li Tao: "No need for that. However, I didn't actually provide any constructive suggestions this time, but I got a large sum of money. I always feel a little embarrassed."

"Consultant Yan Fei has helped us a lot. According to the contract, I will pay the remaining fees." Xingqiu supported the table, stood up, and said to Li Tao and Chongyun, "I will go and negotiate with Consultant Yan Fei. You guys take your time to eat."

Li Tao and Chongyun were the only ones left at the table. Chongyun, who was not very good at communicating, took the initiative to ask Li Tao: "Brother Li, now that this matter is over, what are your plans for the future?"

Li Tao also said without hesitation: "I still have a long-term task at hand, and I think my energy will be transferred to it later. At least now, I can complete this task smoothly and happily."

At this time, Li Tao has not yet realized that this is a very classic flag...