Dragon's Origin

Chapter 622: Regret (Part 1)

With a down payment of only 30%, you can borrow 70% from Lizhen Workshop, repayable over ten, twenty, or thirty years. Regardless of identity, as long as you are not a wanted criminal by the Jingcheng government, even criminals wanted by various countries are welcome. Anyone can buy. Moreover, those responsible for law and order in various countries cannot touch these people, because this is the condition they promised the Emperor.

Identity is not an issue, but the ability to repay the loan within the loan period will be carefully assessed. Age, occupation, cultivation level, and so on will all be considered. And once, due to unforeseen circumstances, repayments are missed for several consecutive months, the house will be taken back as collateral, and the previous loan repayments and down payment will not be refunded.

Of course, to get a loan, you still have to register with the government and acknowledge the loan contract. When the time comes to take back the house, the government will be the one to step in.

With such harsh conditions, would anyone borrow money to buy a house? The people from the major families looked on, feeling somewhat unimpressed. The previous few hundred sets of waterfront villas and residences had already exhausted the purchasing power of the various families with the greatest buying power. Seventy billion gold coins, plus taxes, was close to eighty billion. Spread across each family, that's nearly ten billion gold coins in cash. Where would they get any extra purchasing power?

To expect people outside the major families to borrow money to buy houses? How much face do Wang Sheng and Mei'er have to dare to have such an idea? These carefully crafted mansions and courtyards in Jingcheng are probably going to be vacant.

Almost everyone in Jingcheng from all sides was waiting to see Lizhen Workshop make a fool of themselves, waiting to see Wang Sheng and Mei'er make a fool of themselves. However, the matter of seventy billion in three days was quickly sent back to each family via messenger birds.

In the Song Kingdom, within the royal palace, Song Yan read the message from the messenger bird, her figure trembled slightly, then she regained her composure and handed the note to Song Hongde, who was accompanying her for dinner.

The current Duke of Song, Song Hongde, looked relatively hale and hearty, but his cultivation had been almost completely depleted. He was just a healthy person, not much different from an ordinary person. Although he could walk and jump, looking like a normal person, without his cultivation that once looked down upon the world, he was just an ordinary person.

This was still thanks to Song Yan using Wang Sheng's favor to invite two senior Taoists of the Qing generation to alternately cast the effect of the Nine Character Incantation on Song Hongde twice a day. Without these two senior Taoists supporting him, Song Hongde would probably have a hard time even being an ordinary person. He would definitely be bedridden.

Although Song Hongde's cultivation was gone, his eyesight was still there. He couldn't possibly miss the slight trembling of Song Yan's body just now. What kind of big news could make his daughter, a woman who was not inferior to men, so excited?

When he took the note and glanced at it, Song Hongde's hands trembled, and he couldn't even hold the note, dropping it directly to the ground.

"How is that possible?" Song Hongde exclaimed, then bent down to pick up the note again and carefully reread it.

After reading it, Song Hongde's hands were still trembling, but he could now hold the note with one hand. He covered his heart with the other hand and took a long time to catch his breath.

"Three days, seventy billion gold coins!" Song Hongde finally spoke, filled with regret: "It was only because there weren't enough people to count the gold coins that it took a full three days. If I had known he was so capable, I would have had everyone rush to leave him as my son-in-law!"

Hearing Song Hongde's words, Song Yan's eyes suddenly turned red. She looked up at Song Hongde, then lowered her head and silently drank her wine.

This time, Song Hongde truly regretted it. If he had known this would happen, why had he acted that way in the first place? He had tempered himself in the Thousand Absolutes Land for more than ten years, but he hadn't managed to grind away his arrogant nature. What had he gained in return?

Such a wealth-bringing prodigy as Wang Sheng had directly benefited others. Moreover, Wang Sheng was the first to see that something was wrong with his body. If he had asked Wang Sheng for help at that time, his cultivation might not have been crippled. The two old Taoists of the Qing generation who were helping him regulate his body every day had said that the Nine Character Incantation was created by Elder Wang, and Wang Sheng's cultivation of the Nine Character Incantation surpassed theirs tenfold. If Wang Sheng had really taken action, Song Hongde might still have had hope of cultivating again.

Unfortunately, all of these great prospects were ruined by Song Hongde's arrogance and self-righteousness. Especially after he returned to the Song Kingdom and sent people to hunt down Wang Sheng, he had formed a deadly feud. It was already impossible to get Wang Sheng to take action.

Putting aside these matters directly related to Song Hongde, just the gold coins alone were enough to shock Song Hongde! Seventy billion gold coins! Even though Song Hongde had also been the head of the Song family, even though Song Hongde was still nominally the Duke of Song and the ruler of the Song Kingdom, he had never seen seventy billion gold coins in cash!

The Song Kingdom's assets, added together, certainly exceeded this number, without a doubt. However, that was what the Song family's ancestors had painstakingly accumulated over hundreds of years, generation after generation. Seventy billion gold coins in three days, what kind of concept was that? Piled up, it could fill dozens of palaces, right?

What could seventy billion gold coins do? How many good things could it buy? To what level could it elevate the Song Kingdom? If these gold coins belonged to the Song Kingdom, what would the situation be like? The Song Kingdom would probably have dominated the world long ago, right? Wang Sheng had such a great advantage in the Thousand Absolutes Land. If he had accepted Wang Sheng at that time, wouldn't the entire Thousand Absolutes Land belong to the Song Kingdom?

Everything, just imagining it, could make Song Hongde go from all kinds of wishful thinking to heart-wrenching regret. Why hadn't he taken a fancy to Wang Sheng back then? He had already shown his absolute advantage in the Thousand Absolutes Land!

Looking at his daughter, who was silent with her head lowered, and thinking about how she had secretly worn the wedding dress sent from Dream Workshop in Jingcheng at night, admiring it alone and then shedding tears by herself, Song Hongde really wanted to crack open his brain and dig out his brains. What kind of mindless things had he done back then!

In Worry-Free City, the City Lord also received the news and learned about Lizhen Workshop earning a huge profit of seventy billion gold coins in three days. Looking at this news, the City Lord was silent for a long time, and then sent the butler to invite Uncle Li to the City Lord's Mansion.

"What, you're willing to let me out?" Uncle Li enjoyed the delicacies of the City Lord's Mansion in a carefree manner, while sarcastically teasing the City Lord with that unruly attitude.

The City Lord shook his head and gave the butler a look. The butler immediately sent the message from the messenger bird to Uncle Li's face.

The most ⊥ new ⊥ small ⊥ say ⊥ is ⊥ in ⊥ six ⊥ 9 ⊥⊥ book ⊥⊥ bar ⊥⊥ first ⊥ hair!

Uncle Li casually wiped his hands on the clothes on his body, took the piece of paper recording the message, and glanced at it casually. After only one glance, at most only one glance, Uncle Li's eyes suddenly widened as big as copper bells, and then he suddenly straightened his attitude and began to carefully read the records above.