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In the early morning, in the main hall of the Closed City Hou Mansion, fragrant tea was curling, and four good-looking maids stood respectfully on both sides of the hall, carefully serving the people in the hall. And next to Ji Yuan was still sitting Luo Xiu, and behind them were standing four mortal disciples with solemn faces.

The morning light illuminated the hall through the doors and windows of the hall, Fang Chengtian and his son, Ji Yuan and others talked and laughed, and the atmosphere between the talks and laughter was also harmonious.

"Haha...... I haven't seen you for a long time, old man, I am very worried about Lu Gongzi, you will definitely say hello to Lu Gongzi for me when you go back!" "Fang Chengtian's face is full of red light now, and the whole person seems to be much younger than before.

In fact, since Louzong was destroyed, Fang Chengtian has regained the power to close the city, and more importantly, due to the relationship between Louzong for many years, the closure once became the most prosperous and lively place in the fourteen cities in the southwest, so it can be said that all industries are thriving, and Fang Chengtian, as the lord of the closed city, is naturally full of oil and water, even if he has to pay tribute to the emperor every month, it is not a big deal for Fang Chengtian today, a million silver shells per month, in Fang Chengtian's opinion, it is really a little worthless.

Ji Yuan and the others rode a thousand-mile dragon horse, galloping day and night, and it only took seven days to cross thousands of miles of desert and come to the closed city located in the desert. After a simple greeting, Ji Yuan single-handedly showed his intentions that he thought that Fang Chengtian, the old fox, would refuse, but what Ji Yuan and the others didn't expect was that Fang Chengtian not only did not excuse himself, but agreed very happily, which saved Ji Yuan a lot of things. Because it was still early, they drank tea and rested in the hall under the warm retention of Fang Chengtian's father and son.

"It must be!" Ji Yuan saluted Fang Chengtian and his son with a teacup, and happily promised, "If Yifan knew that City Lord Fang would agree so happily, he would definitely be very grateful to you!"

"Yes!Yes!" Fang Chengtian complimented again and again, "The lives of my father and son were all saved by Lu Gongzi, and it is naturally not a problem to help you with this little favor, let alone help you with some money, even if you want the life of our father and son, it will definitely be done! The Emperor Sect has indeed gone too far, and if it goes on like this, the Fourteen Cities in the Southwest will be squeezed alive by them sooner or later!" It's a pity that we are all a group of mediocre people, we don't have the courage or the ability to resist them, this time it's okay, with Lu Gongzi standing up to uphold justice for us, the end of the emperor must not be far away! haha......"

When chatting just now, Ji Yuan did not deliberately hide the matter of dealing with the emperor, he knew that Fang Chengtian was an extremely smart old fox, so he couldn't hide it, so he simply told him frankly, Fang Chengtian was happy, and in a few words, he and Ji Yuan shared the same hatred and hatred, and there was no prevarication at all.

"Hmph, that Pang He, I already knew that he was not authentic!" Fang Qingyun said with a disdainful expression, "He doesn't want to think about how he, the Lord of the Western Imperial City, became timid when he needs to come out now, he should not have helped him to take the throne in the first place!"

Fang Qingyun is Fang Chengtian's only son, the future closure of the city will definitely be his world, and Fang Qingyun is different from Fang Chengtian, he has been ambitious since he was a child, when Louzong unified the southwest, he repeatedly spoke disrespectfully to Louzong, and now he finally survived until Louzong was destroyed, but the good days have not passed for two days, but an imperial sect has appeared halfway, which makes Fang Qingyun extremely annoyed, so after hearing Ji Yuan's intention, he was full of excitement to join it. Once upon a time, if Fang Chengtian hadn't stopped him in time, I was afraid that Fang Qingyun would have gone to the trouble of the Emperor Sect a long time ago.

"I can't say that, after all, in the end, City Lord Pang still decided to stand on our side!" Luo Xiulang laughed, he was a few years younger than Lu Yifan and Ji Yuan, so even today, in the eyes of people like Fang Chengtian, Luo Xiu has always been a milky kid, if it weren't for Lu Yifan's relationship, how could Fang Chengtian condescend to drink tea with a hairy boy?

"It's really worthy of Lu Gongzi, there is really a way!" Fang Chengtian nodded with a smile, and then he deliberately showed a casual look, and asked casually, "I don't know how many cities you have visited now?"

"Yifan personally persuaded City Lord Pang in the Western Imperial City, while Brother Liu, I, Xie Yun and some other brothers went to the Fourteen Cities in the Southwest separately, after all, time is running out!" Ji Yuan showed maturity between talking and laughing, and the reason why Lu Yifan asked Luo Xiu to follow Ji Yuan was to let him learn from Ji Yuan to behave in the world.

"Okay! What is the result?" Fang Chengtian asked casually while lowering his head and drinking the tea in his cup, but when he finished asking, the teacup that had been delivered to his lips inadvertently stopped at his lips and did not continue to drink. Obviously, he had pricked up his ears to listen to Ji Yuan's words, after all, this was the most important thing.

"I'm afraid I won't know until I go back!" Ji Yuan chuckled, "But I expect that the fourteen city lords in the southwest have all received favors from Yifan more or less before, so they should all agree, and they will definitely not refuse!"

"Of course!" Fang Chengtian's eyes flashed with a glint of thought, and then he smiled and sent the tea in the cup into his belly, "Lu Gongzi's reputation among the fourteen cities in the southwest is very loud!"

"But does the city lord on the Emperor's side know how to deal with it?"

"Don't worry!Fang will never drag Lu Gongzi back, since it is said that the fourteen cities in the southwest will no longer pay tribute to the emperor, then I will never give the emperor another point!" Fang Chengtian assured with a straight face, "After all, I also hate this emperor very much!"

"That's good!" Ji Yuan nodded with satisfaction, then got up and arched his hand slightly at Fang Chengtian, "In this way, we won't bother much, the Southwest Chamber of Commerce has just been established, and Yifan still has a lot of things waiting for us to do together!"

"I've prepared a banquet ......"

"Next time!" Without waiting for Fang Qingyun's words to finish, Ji Yuan took the lead in waving his hand and refused, "Now that our Southwest Chamber of Commerce has entered the Southwest, are we worried that we won't have the opportunity to meet in the future?"

"That'...... Okay!" Fang Chengtian pretended to be sorry and stood up, "I have prepared a silver ticket of one million silver shells, you should be careful all the way! If Lu Gongzi needs anything in the future, it doesn't matter!"

"Thank you Fang City Lord!" Ji Yuan and Luo Xiu once again arched their hands to Chengtian and his son, and then left the Sealed City Hou Mansion under the welcome of everyone in the Fang family.

"Brother Ji Yuan, this Fang City Lord looks like a loving and righteous person!" On the way, Luo Xiu said with a smile on his face, "This time, we didn't have to do anything to pull the city in, and it's thanks to this Fang City Lord! You all said before that Fang Chengtian is not as good as Pang He, but in my opinion, Fang Chengtian is much more righteous than Pang He!"

Hearing Luo Xiu's words, Ji Yuan smiled slightly, then shook his head and said, "Do you think that Fang Chengtian's father and son helped us because they missed their old relationship? This is not the case, the real purpose of them doing this is actually for themselves!"

"What do you mean?"

"Fang Chengtian knows Yifan's character to do things, since this matter has been decided, he will definitely not waver, he Fang Chengtian has to agree in the end, and if he doesn't agree, he has to agree! And instead of saying goodbye to us for a long time and finally everyone has a stiff fight, when Yifan personally comes to the door to force him to comply, it is better to push the boat down the river and agree directly, so that at least he Fang Chengtian can still have a reputation as a good person!" Ji Yuan explained with a light smile, and a faint light flashed in his eyes from time to time, " And there is another most important reason why Fang Chengtian agreed so happily, that is, the emperor is in the West Imperial City, and he Fang Chengtian is thousands of miles away from the city, the so-called mountain is high and the emperor is far away, even if the southwest fourteen cities and the emperor fight completely in the end, then the first unlucky ones are the West Imperial City and the city close to the West Emperor Mountain, and when the emperor kills him to seal the city, it will be at least a month or two later, and if the emperor is beaten down by us, then he can sit back and enjoy it. If the Emperor has the upper hand, then it will be completely too late for him to defect. And Fang Chengtian has a sentence that is right, that is, he actually hates the Emperor Sect, after all, the Emperor Sect is scavenging his oil and water, and the Emperor Sect will deduct one more share, then he Fang Chengtian will take one less, if we can get rid of the Emperor Sect for him, Fang Chengtian will naturally be happy, how can he oppose it? Anyway, if he fails, he can also find a reason to shirk his responsibility, and he can even bite us back and say that we forced him to comply, and then he can take out another 18 million silver shells to protect himself! Fang Chengtian's move, attacking and retreating, can be defended, he really hit the abacus home!"

"Brother Ji Yuan, hearing you say this, this Fang Chengtian is too cunning!" Luo Xiu looked suddenly enlightened, "Fortunately, Brother Ji Yuan came in person, if he only sent me, he would definitely be deceived by their father and son!"

"It's not a lie!" Ji Yuan said and shook the thick stack of silver tickets in his hand, "Didn't we get what we wanted?

"Good!"

Luo Xiu happily agreed, and then he, Ji Yuan and the others rode their horses and whipped away, galloping away in the direction of the Western Imperial City.

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Ji Yuan and the others came and went quickly, they only took a million silver shells from Fang Chengtian in the morning and left the closed city, and in the afternoon, a group of uninvited guests came to the Sealed City Hou Mansion.

There were not many people in this team, only a dozen people, men and women, but most of them were young people in their twenties, and even the leader was a young man with a rather delicate appearance.

The costumes of these people are surprisingly unified, all of them are dressed in bright yellow robes, and there is a blue word 'emperor' embroidered on their robes, if it was placed a year ago, such a dress must be extremely unfamiliar to the people in the closed city, but now there is no one who does not know this dress, this is the emperor's robe. The color of the word 'emperor' embroidered on the robe determines their different identities in the sect, divided into blue, purple, red, and black, the darker the color, the higher the status within the sect, blue is the outer sect disciple, purple is the inner sect disciple, red is the sect protector, and black is the sect elder.

Now the power of the Emperor Sect has expanded rapidly, and the disciples in the door have reached thousands, but most of them are disciples of the outer sect, it is said that there are only more than 100 disciples of the inner sect, and the core of the entire imperial sect, the ten protectors and the four elders, it is said that the worst cultivation of the emperor's protector is also the soul king, just through this is enough to show how strong the emperor is, you must know that Lou Yi, the sect leader of the Lou Sect back then, was just a nine-turn soul king.

And now the leading young man among the disciples of the Emperor Sect is named Ye Qiu, and the color of the word 'Huang' embroidered on the robe is purple, which is the symbol of the disciples of the Inner Sect.

Fang Chengtian and Ye Qiu are now old acquaintances, because after the Emperor Sect strongly shocked the Fourteen Cities in the Southwest, the first disciple sent to seal the city to collect tribute was Ye Qiu, because everyone knew each other, so Fang Chengtian and Ye Qiu had always been a group of harmony, until today, Fang Chengtian was dealing with the Emperor through Ye Qiu, and when they met, they were as polite as old friends, and no one had ever made any trouble for anyone. After coming and going, they were also familiar with each other, so they knew that Ye Qiu would come to collect this month's tribute today, so Fang Chengtian deliberately led people to wait in the mansion early, and as soon as he heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the mansion, Fang Chengtian took the initiative to greet a group of house slaves with a smile on his face.

"Brother Ye, after a long journey, go to the house to rest, I have made a special trip to prepare high-quality tea for you!" Fang Chengtian still looked so kind, and walked towards Ye Qiu with his hands as he spoke.

"City Lord Fang, it's not troublesome this time!" Ye Qiu didn't seem to be in a good mood, he just nodded symbolically towards Fang Chengtian, and then said lightly, "I'll take this month's tribute and leave!"

"So anxious?" Fang Chengtian looked at Ye Qiu in surprise for a while, then his eyes rolled slightly, and he pretended to hesitate and asked, "Is something wrong with the Imperial Sect?"

Hearing Fang Chengtian's words, Ye Qiu, who was originally tired, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and then said in a solemn tone: "City Lord Fang, there are some things you don't have to ask more, you and I have a good relationship, forget it this time, if you have any slight remarks against my emperor in the future, don't blame Ye for turning his face with you!"

"Yes, yes, I understand the rules of the Imperial Sect!" Fang Chengtian was not annoyed, he still nodded with a smile, and then he stood in front of Ye Qiu like this, under Ye Qiu's gaze, his head drooped, his eyes rolled from side to side, he didn't know what he was looking at, and there was a word in his mouth that was humming, looking very embarrassed.

"City Lord Fang?" Ye Qiu frowned slightly when he saw this, and then asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with you?" Why don't you bring the tribute silver so that I can rush back to pay the errand?"

"This ......" The smile on Fang Chengtian's face became more and more embarrassed, "Brother Ye, with our contact for such a long time, you should also understand that Fang Mou is by no means the kind of person who is unhappy...... Only this time ......"

Seeing Fang Chengtian's stumbling appearance, Ye Qiu's heart couldn't help but chuckle, and then a touch of ominous premonition quietly rose to his heart.

"Since City Lord Fang knows that we are old friends, why don't you have something to say?" Ye Qiu asked tentatively.

"This ......" Fang Chengtian's hands were clenched tightly together, his palms overflowing with nervous sweat, "Brother Ye, this month's tribute may ...... You may not be able to hand it over......"

"What?" As soon as Fang Chengtian's words came out, Ye Qiu's face instantly sank, "What does City Lord Fang mean by this? What do you mean by not being able to pay tribute? Could it be that you are not prepared?"

"Ready, ready, ready!" Fang Chengtian hurriedly nodded and explained, "Originally, I finally managed to get together one million silver shells this month, and I was going to hand it over to you today, but ......"

"But what is it?" Ye Qiu asked urgently.

"But before you, someone took the lead and took this million silver shells...... Fang Chengtian's forehead was already covered with beads of sweat at this moment, and the whole person was also standing there with a wrenched look of bewilderment.

"Someone took the million silver shells first?"

"It's true!" Fang Chengtian looked sincerely frightened, and promised again and again, "If I deliberately lie to you, the whole family will not die well! Originally, I didn't want to give it, but the person who came was too strong, and I really couldn't afford to offend it, if I didn't give it, I was afraid that it would ...... I'm afraid that I won't have a chance to stand here and talk to you, Brother Ye......"

"Do you know what happens if you can't pay the tribute?" Ye Qiu said coldly.

"Brother Ye, I can't help it...... I can't afford to offend you, I'm really in a dilemma with this cheap life......" Fang Chengtian actually knelt on the ground with a 'poof', and kowtowed to Ye Qiu, "I swear that I have prepared the tribute silver before, Brother Ye, when has my Fang Chengtian been sorry for you for so long? Which time did you come, I didn't hand over the tribute silver to you happily? This time I was also forced to be helpless...... If you want to blame, you can only blame Fang for being cowardly and incompetent, and he really doesn't have the ability to keep the tribute from those people......"

"You are looking for death!" An Imperial Sect disciple standing next to him took the opportunity to draw his sword, and with a swing of the sword, he was about to slash at Fang Chengtian's head, but fortunately, Ye Qiu made a timely move and stopped his movements.

"Who are you talking about, you have such a big guts!" Ye Qiu gritted his teeth and asked angrily word by word.

"I ...... I don't dare to ......" Fang Chengtian's appearance of kneeling on the ground with tears in his eyes was really unbearable to criticize him again.

"If you don't say that I want the life of your whole family today, if you say it, I can spare you for the time being!" Ye Qiuqiang endured the anger in his heart and gritted his teeth and said, "Say!"

"Yes...... It's the ...... of the Southwest Chamber of Commerce."

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