Chapter 1491: Xu Liuyun (1/2)

Chapter 1491: Xu Liuyun [1 This surna’s surname Liu means “to leave behind” and yunthe last snowfall of winter on the fourth continent, the curtain opened on the sixth life of Meng Hao’s clone

He was born into the prosperous Xu Clan, which owned lots of land and property in the region, and controlled numerous profitable businesses Most of their incoricultural interests

They lived in one of the large cities in the empire of the mortal world, which was situated next to a trade canal They were fabulously wealthy

A child born into a clan like that was destined to live a life free fro he needed and wanted

Thankfully, in this life, Meng Hao’s clone was not a silkpants like he was in his fourth life He grew up into an intelligent young an to assist his father inthe farew older, he cae of all of the fas well, but at the saan to develop a certain ferocity It was a fierceness manifested, not toward his fellow clan members, but toward his business opponents

He excelled at hostile takeovers, and soon all of the other businesses in the entire city had been sed up by his clan Of course, an acco Soon, the hands of the clone’s sixth life came to be stained with blood

Such s, and in fact, went against the entire clan However, he didn’t take such s hoanted to, and by the age of thirty, the Xu Clan had come to be the richest in the area!

Eventually, he came to realize that he should support the scholars and intellectuals ae As time passed, his support of the scholar class allowed him to influence the i extended his network to encompass even the warrior class in the empire

He married, but felt no attachment to his wife It had been done as a for the clan’s influence soaring to an even higher level

And that was exactly what it did By the time he was forty, the clan businesses were the most successful in all the lands Over time, he expanded into many types of trade, and yet in the end, their foundation was always agriculture

Under his leadershi+p, the clan moved to the Imperial City, where they became the official Imperial merchants

As the Imperial merchants, it was impossible for anyone to compete with them in terms of profits Of course, in addition to the es to their new status

By the age of forty-five, Xu Liuyun had reached the absolute pinnacle of his life Numerous clan members had become officials within the current dynasty, and many of the scholars he had supported were now overnhts Most people would likely be content to just enjoy the fruits of such labor At first, he felt a bit confused about what to do next, but then, he realized that a stor

That storrip on the land

That winter, Xu Liuyun stood in a courtyard in the clan estates, looking at the snow falling out of the sky Behind hi there silently Some of them were members of the Imperial court, some controlled powerful businesses within the Imperial City, and others were direct bloodline descendants of the clan who had been sent out to control other interests in other parts of the empire There were even some powerful warriors present

These were the people who controlled the power in the clan, and although it couldn’t be said that their reach stretched throughout the entire empire, they weren’t very far off from that

Any one of them could be considered extre in front of them, their hearts were filled with reverence and awe He was a man who, in the space of a few dozen years, had created an incredible storh he wasn’t well-acclaimed in the Imperial court, and was even looked down upon by the emperor, the prime minister, and many others, the i power he wielded when it caHao’s clone, the man known to all as Xu Liuyun, finally spoke

“This is an opportunity,” he said “Perhaps the Xu Clan can take the next step, and actually come to control the entire empire Of course, there is also the possibility that ill be wiped out” After another long littered with ferocity

“Execute the operation!”

As soon as the words left his mouth, all of the Xu Clan's power, both within and without the Imperial City, was focused on one task And that was barricading off all of their farmlands from the public, in the middle of the fa, see farmlands in theup the price of grain goods to exorbitant levels, to the point where many people would be forced to sell their own properties to pay for food

It would likely lead to many deaths because of starvation Fa the ranks of the noble clans, the Xu Clan would have an incredible opportunity

In order to carry out the plan, the Xu Clan used all of the wealth it had accumulated over the past decades They plotted, created alliances, and killed enemies In the end, several months after the famine ended they controlled so much land that their poithin the empire was almost without rival

They had their own private arht and paid for with blood