Book 3: Clear River in Tur in 2 (1/2)
Chapter 151: Roping in (2)
Long Qingjiang stared at Su Chen, tongue-tied “Su Chen…… You’re too vicious! You’re trying to wipe us out too!”
“Wipe you out? I don’t think so Actually, it’s the exact opposite – I’ you as recompense for what happened at the Southern Mountain,” Su Chen said calmly
“Do you really think that you’ve won for sure?” Long Qingjiang stared at Su Chen savagely
“Why not?” Su Chen countered “The He and Xiong Clans have both been finished off, and the Wei and Shen Clans are being bullied by you guys and would love to see you all destroyed They won’t be any help at all, at least at the very beginning The wang Clan is being suppressed by City Lord An They th to help; instead, they ht need the help of the other clans In other words, the current alliance is only really composed of five clans”
“You won’t be able to deal with five clans either!” Long Qingjiang said
“Wasn’t your ten-clan alliance unable to do anything toyou!”
“That’s why I’ you for help just like before,” Su Chen quickly replied, causing Long Qingjiang to fall silent
Su Chen laughed, “See, the situation really is that easy If you helpClear Gang, Evil Tiger Gang, and the Third River Arh to deal with four clans”
“And then? You’ll eliminate me as well?”
“You know I’et a favor,” Su Chen replied “It’s not that Clear River City cannot have any Bloodline nobility Clans However, the nobility Clans have becoer answer to the e, monopolize the economy, and offer no tributes nor taxes This is the reason why both sides have been locked in a battle all the way until now As long as the Long Clan is willing to be under the imperial jurisdiction in the future, none of this will be an issue”
Long Qingjiang laughed coldly, “Bloodline nobility Clans beco that only occurs in this city but all over the territory belonging to humans You can keep Clear River City in check, but can you watch over the whole human race?”
Su Chen replied, “Of course not, and I have no interest in doing so either I ain Bureau, and this is my duty Once my term is fulfilled, I will leave At that time, it won’t matter to me if you want to throw Clear River City back into chaos”
Long Qingjiang stared at hiht you were an official who loves the cohed, “Perhaps I love the co and there are too h for me just to do what I should do”
“But didn’t you vow to pave a way forithout a bloodline and to overthrow the Bloodline nobility Clans?”
Su Chen’s suys know about this too? You really did your ho – the vow I h the bloodline restrictions and create a cultivation syste uniquely to humans so that they don’t have to rely on bloodlines to cultivate This will cause the human race to rise to prominence…… but I never said that I want to overthrow the Bloodline nobility Clans That’s just how some people choose to interpret my actions”
“But if the common people rise to pohere will the Bloodline nobility Clans find a place to shelter themselves?”
“That doesn’t concern me I know that if the common people rise to power, the Bloodline nobility Clans will be indirectly attacked However, that is not oal nor my pursuit For instance, people will always produce excre, but you cannot say that I eat for the purpose of producing waste, can you? I don’t care about whether the Bloodline nobility Clans exist or perish Truthfully speaking, as long as they don’t bother me, I’m too lazy to even pay them any mind Whether there are still Bloodline nobility Clans in Clear River City doesn’t affect or ht over social status but because I was trying to carry outyou to try andQingjiang was stunned When he recalled the hatred he had initially felt for Su Chen, he realized that it was just because he had arrested two Origin Qi Scholars who had been stirring up trouble
Su Chen was just carrying out his official duties, but in the eyes of these Bloodline nobility Clans it becae numbers of people after him to have him answer for his “crimes”
It was at that moment that Su Chen had joined forces with An Siyuan Before then, he hadn’t ever gone to the City Lord’s residence to try and curry favor with hi startedout your official duty?” Long Qingjiang e, and there’s no way to change that truth,” Su Chen said “As long as the Bloodline nobility Clans wanted to try and re to answer to the emperor, this kind of conflict was bound to happen sooner or later If I didn’t arrest them on that day, I would have done it a few days later And if you guys tried to retaliate then, you would do it a few days later The only difference would have been ti, but this didn’t all occur by happenstance”
“That’s true” Long Qingjiang didn’t deny that the Bloodline nobility Clans held theard They wouldn’t have been able to accept being suppressed by a lowly Knowledge Executor like Su Chen, so so like this would happen sooner or later
However, this conflict was originally not irreconcilable, yet things had still played out in thisQingjiang to regret it even if he wanted to