The Rise of the Shen Family

It may be that Shen Huanchi's powerful power in the late stage of foundation establishment has deterred the gang of snakes, ghosts, cows and gods. After this night attack, the Shen family members quietly guarded the goods and practiced meditation, and they were not attacked again.

However, tonight is destined to be unsettled. The night of the moon is dark and the wind is killing people. These family caravans in Linhai County have already been targeted.

In addition to the three caravans with base-building cultivators, the caravans of other qi-cultivating families suffered more or less losses!

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The night passed, and the rising sun shone again on the land of Linhai County.

Under the call of Shen Huanlong, the Shen family packed up their things, jumped on the ox cart, and drove the ox cart on the road again.

Shen Ruiling sat on the ox cart, looking at the vast wilderness, and his thoughts drifted to where.

Although Linhai County is the smallest of the four Qingyun counties, it is also thousands of miles wide, and there are very few families living here. Therefore, there are large areas in Linhai County or wild countryside.

After a while, Shen Ruiling turned his gaze to the clansman beside him, and saw that this man was wearing a gray robe and a hat, like a coachman driving a car.

This person and Shen Ruiling got into the car together, but they didn't say a word during the period. Both sides were doing their own things, but Shen Ruiling could feel a different kind of temperament from this person.

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At sunset, the outline of a square market appeared in front of everyone in the Shen family.

This is a square city built on a mountain. The buildings in the square city are stacked one upon another, and there are already motorcades queuing up at the gate of the square city.

Obviously, this square market is Linhaifang City, the only place in Linhai County where it is legal to buy and sell. Although it is not as huge as Shanghai Shangfang, it does provide a place for the monks in Linhai County to trade.

In other words, Linhaifang City was established under the leadership of the Shen family.

When Shen Yucang founded the Yunbifeng Shen family, there was no place for trading in the entire Linhai County, and the resources of each family could not be exchanged.

Because of its strength, the Zhuji family has the ability to organize caravans, and can rely on the caravan to transport goods to Shanghai for sale, thereby increasing their strength.

But those qi-cultivating clans with weak strength don't have that strength. Not to mention that the road is high and the road is long, even the robbers who are in trouble are not easy to mess with.

Although Linhai County is close to Hushangfang, it takes thousands of miles to get to Hushangfang from Linhai County. There are all kinds of monsters living in this thousand-mile no-man’s land, and there are countless loose cultivators. These are on the knife head. The blood-licking desperadoes specifically picked the caravans of these families.

Under such circumstances, the Qi Lian family can only sell the goods to the foundation building family at a low price, or sell it on behalf of the foundation building family, but in this case, these foundation building families who monopolize the trade route will collect a large amount of spirit stones.

These small families often agreed with the idea that they could earn a little bit in order to keep these spiritual valleys and spiritual fruits from breaking.

After the Shen family became the first family in Linhai County, they discovered why Linhai County was so desolate and poor? Or because there was no prosperous trading system.

So under the leadership of Shen Yucang, the remaining three foundation-building families and some powerful qi-cultivating families were brought together to discuss the matter of preparing to establish their own square market in Linhai County.

After hearing that the Shen family was going to establish a market, the two foundation-building families, the Chen family and the Li family, were strongly opposed to it, while the Du family had a dispensable attitude.

In the face of the strong opposition from the Chen and Li family, everyone knew it well. It is nothing more than that the establishment of Fang City will infringe on their interests. With Fang City, the trade of Linhai County will not be monopolized by them.

The small families in Linhai County can rely on this market to sell their spiritual items, and they don't have to go to Shanghai, and they can't grab benefits from these qi-practicing families.

But for the construction of Fang City,

Those weak qi training families are strongly supported, this is undoubtedly a good thing for them to get rid of the monopoly of those big clans!

Therefore, despite the opposition of the Chen and Li family, the Du family was neutral, but under the influence of Shen Yucang and surrounded by a group of qi-cultivating families, they finally decided to build it.

So they found a Lingshan in a blank area outside the sphere of influence of the four families and built a square market, which is now Linhaifang City.

Linhaifang City is built on top of a second-order top-grade Lingshan Mountain. It consists of two intersecting streets to form a frame. A total of more than 40 shops have been built.

Among them, the four foundation-building families contributed the most, so they also got a lot of shops. Among them, the Shen family was the advocate this time, and it conformed to the people's hearts. In addition, the Shen family was in full swing at that time.

Therefore, among these four, the Shen family took the lead again, controlling a total of ten stores, occupying a quarter of the stores in Fang City.

Then there are seven stores of the Chen family, the most powerful of the three, and the Li family and the Du family have five stores.

The remaining ten or so shops have been leased to some relatively powerful qi-cultivating families. Families who have produced spirit stones in the establishment of the market can reduce the rent for 50 years. After 50 years, they will be like other families. Pay rent as well.

The rent of these shops, the rent of the street stall area in Fangshi, the rent of the cave, and some tolls at the city gate will be handed over to the four major families for common distribution, and the way of benefit distribution is through Fangdou.

But now the Shen family only has five shops in Fangshi.

Ever since Shen Yucang sat down, the Shen family began to go downhill. Although it was difficult, it was still able to support.

But since the loss of two Foundation Establishment cultivators all at once, the Shen family has truly begun to decline.

In order to survive and turn around, the Shen family began to sell land deeds and sold the shops in Fangshi in exchange for spiritual stones to meet the needs of cultivation.

When it was passed to Shen Huanchi, there were only five shops left, but at that time it happened to be the most dangerous time when the family lacked foundation-building cultivators, so Shen Huanchi decisively ceded the four shops out to give The Shen family left a room for relaxation.

Later, after Shen Huanchi built the foundation, the life of the Shen family gradually improved. Facing the rising Shen family, both Li and Du felt pressure.

So shortly after the news of Shen Jinghua's foundation building reached Linhai County, the Li and Du family returned the shop that Shen Huanchi had ceded to them back then, and sent a small gift.

Since the two of them were willing to ease the conflict, Shen Huanchi would not go out of his way to pursue it. After all, it was only the Chen family who really wanted to bring down the Shen family.

In addition, the Du family's owner has been getting older in recent years, and the Du family's life has become more and more difficult. The Shen family purchased a store from the Du family, making up the current five stores.

Two of the stores were opened up by Shen Huanlong and turned into a large store, which was specially made into a medicinal pill shop, where all medicinal pills during the Qi training period could be found.

The rest, one is dedicated to selling magic implements, one is the Lingfu Hall, and the last one is for all kinds of sundries.

Originally, the five stores were managed by Shen Huanlong. Although the traffic volume was not large and could not be compared with the stores in Shanghai, the advantage was that their own stores did not need to pay rent, and they could earn nearly 800 spiritual stones every year. The shops in Shanghai Shangfang are comparable.

However, after being suppressed by the store headed by the Chen family last year, the store's business has gone from bad to worse.

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Under the leadership of Shen Huanlong, the Shen family's team successfully entered the market.

The road entering Fangshi is extremely spacious, and it will not be crowded due to the appearance of the carts. There are various shops on both sides of the road, and the clamor is endless.

At this time, the number of cultivators in Fangshi had obviously increased, and they were obviously all coming for the Linhaifang meeting.