Chapter 850 – Second Master Has Something to Say (1/2)
Chapter 850 – Second Master Has Something to Say
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
”None of you came to Wenshui City to investigate anything, only to show off your strength through this matter, shaking my position in Father's heart. At present, the Li Palace doesn't support me, Holy Maiden Peak doesn't support me, Scholartree Manor doesn't support me, Mount Li doesn't support me, and now even the Qiushan clan doesn't support me. And now you say that I'm colluding with the demons, damaging my reputation. Even if I don't care and no one dares to mention it, Father must consider it.”
The Tang Second Master looked at Chen Changsheng and said, ”In truth, you are much smarter than the common people and your believers might think, and there's also Qiushan and that nephew of mine. Although you're all still young, your methods truly aren't lacking. I regard myself as shrewd and ruthless, but now it seems that I've truly been beaten by you into a rather sorry state. It will truly be rather problematic for me to resolve the situation confronting me.”
Chen Changsheng asked, ”Can I understand, did you not just now admit that you were colluding with the demons?”
The Tang Second Master laughed, with all its usual lack of noise. He then restrained his smile and looked at everyone like they were a pack of idiots. ”I naturally wouldn't admit that I was colluding with the demons, and even if I did, so what? Do any of you really think that the Demon race can be completely exterminated? In the end, a truce will be called. How can one obtain a long peace? Through trade and communication. I was doing nothing more than doing some work in advance.”
Everyone fell quiet at these words, the old estate once more descending into silence.
After some time, Chen Changsheng replied, ”Your view truly is rather reasonable, but in the current circumstances, your conduct was incorrect.”
”How was I wrong? Ever since I was little, Father always taught us that the Tang clan is a clan of merchants. Merchants will be merchants, and what they want is to make money.”
The Tang Second Master sneered at him, ”Is there such a thing as a dirtier money?”
At this moment, a voice spoke.
”At times, a merchant cannot be only merchants.”
The speaker was the Tang Old Master.
His gaze fell on the storm raging outside the room, perhaps recalling that blizzard engulfing Luoyang those many years ago.
”Some matters might be correct if you did them several hundred years later, but since you have done them now, you are wrong.”
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The Tang Old Master's words were the verdict on this matter.
It was clear that the Tang Second Master had not expected for his father to say such a thing.
He calmly gazed at the Tang Old Master. There was no rage, no despair. He just looked.
And then he noiselessly laughed once more, his face still rife with derision and malice. This time, however, there was also some exhaustion and relief.
With the verdict handed down, what would the end be?
What happened next would be an internal matter of the Tang clan. Linghai Zhiwang, Zhexiu, and the others retreated out of the old estate, leaving only father, son, and Chen Changsheng.
The Tang Old Master looked at the Tang Second Master and said, ”When all of you were little, I said many things to you. Some of them you remembered up until today, like those words you said just now, so do you still remember when I said this: whether it's the Tang clan, the Qiushan clan, the Wu clan, or the Mutuo clan, why is it that they have managed to persist for so long, their succession never once interrupted?”
The Tang Second Master looked at the snowstorm outside as he replied, ”Because an internal conflict has never once taken place in these clans of ours.”
The Tang Old Master did not care that his son had his back towards him. ”Correct, clans like ours can disregard the greatest of external storms, but when we begin to rot from within, therein lies danger. Think about those clans of Tianliang County that were like blazing suns at their peak. Now they have all gradually withered away, only the Chen clan left sitting on the imperial throne, but even they were almost exterminated due to internal conflicts. Thus, our four clans have always been wary over this matter and have thought of countless methods to deal with it. I once believed that my method was correct. Before Little Tang inherited the clan, I did not allow any of the other branches to have descendants, severing your desires and severing the chance of any furtive glances being cast in your direction.”