Dragon's Origin

More furious than the steward was the City Lord of Worry-Free City. Upon receiving the steward's message via messenger bird, he immediately dispatched people to take over Liu's Tavern.

The mastermind probably felt that nothing had happened, so there was no need to kill anyone and alarm outsiders. Besides, this was Worry-Free City, and the consequences of killing people lightly were very serious. Therefore, when the City Lord's people controlled Liu's Tavern, everything was still normal here.

The waiter responsible for building the bridge on the front line was also there. Originally, he was just an insignificant little person who was rewarded with a few gold coins for passing on a message. He had no idea that there was such a huge conspiracy behind it.

The people from the City Lord's Mansion didn't even need to use torture. Just relying on the prestige of the City Lord's Mansion, they made the waiter explain the whole story in detail.

Unsurprisingly, someone was operating privately behind the scenes. To be honest, in Worry-Free City, with the Assassin's Hall not far away, Liu's Tavern dared to operate privately here, which could be said to be a direct provocation to Worry-Free City.

Even the Son of Heaven dared to openly offer rewards, so what couldn't be done openly in the Assassin's Hall of Worry-Free City? The only explanation was that there was something fishy going on.

Obviously, the guy operating behind the scenes also underestimated the waiters in Worry-Free City's taverns, thinking that he could appear occasionally without revealing his background. Unfortunately, he was wrong. Although this waiter usually didn't stand out, he had been chased into Worry-Free City after all. Just because someone appeared low-key and honest didn't mean their abilities were also low-key.

The waiter had a skill, which was photographic memory, but he had never shown it before. Now that the City Lord was personally handling the matter, and seeing an opportunity to connect with the City Lord, the waiter immediately took out his trump card, identifying where he had seen that person in Worry-Free City and who else that person had met.

This made things easy. The people from the City Lord's Mansion directly brought all the involved people back to the City Lord's Mansion. After questioning so many people, they easily found out the identity of the guy who issued the private task to the red-level assassin.

That person was a shopkeeper in charge of inspecting the various branches of Baoqing Yu Tang across the country. He was not currently in Worry-Free City, but in some branch of Baoqing Yu Tang. This didn't matter. The City Lord of Worry-Free City only needed to determine who this person was, regardless of where he was.

People from Baoqing Yu Tang, interesting. Ordinary people didn't know about the conflict between Wang Sheng and Baoqing Yu Tang, but how could the City Lord of Worry-Free City not know? Obviously, this was a targeted revenge.

To really trace the conflict between Wang Sheng and Baoqing Yu Tang, one would have to start with Mei'er. Mei'er was originally the young owner in charge of Baoqing Yu Tang. She bought the production methods of refined salt and snow sugar from Wang Sheng, and then made a lot of money. During the two years of operating these two businesses, Baoqing Yu Tang's strength expanded like a balloon.

However, when the real young owner of Baoqing Yu Tang, Zhu Shaodong, began to take over Baoqing Yu Tang, things took a 180-degree turn.

First, Zhu Shaodong wanted to exile and kill Mei'er, but Wang Sheng rescued her. Even the underground palace marked on the map passed down from Baoqing Yu Tang's ancestors was occupied by Wang Sheng and became the Lao Jun Guan's base in the Thousand Absolutes Land.

If that was all, Baoqing Yu Tang would probably just admit their bad luck and honestly do their own business. However, as soon as Song Yan saw that Baoqing Yu Tang had changed hands, she immediately used the salt and iron monopoly to snatch Baoqing Yu Tang's refined salt and snow sugar business. Other feudal lords followed suit, and Baoqing Yu Tang suffered heavy losses.

At this point, Wang Sheng didn't have the intention of completely cutting them off. Baoqing Yu Tang still had the opportunity to cooperate with Wang Sheng. When Lu Wenhou of Yu Bao Zhai took over the business, in Tongxing City, Wang Sheng had already promised Mei'er to give Baoqing Yu Tang a chance to cooperate on a business.

With Wang Sheng's creativity in business, as long as Baoqing Yu Tang honestly cooperated, earning hundreds of millions of gold coins a year would not be impossible. Baoqing Yu Tang would still be the top chain business.

Unfortunately, the pig-like Zhu Shaodong, harboring resentment, was easily provoked and jumped out to find trouble with Wang Sheng, easily severing the bridge of cooperation between Baoqing Yu Tang and Wang Sheng. From then on, Baoqing Yu Tang almost fell into decline.

Even in this situation, Wang Sheng still didn't completely cut them off, and in the end, he still gave Baoqing Yu Tang a chance at the base in the Thousand Absolutes Land. For this reason, Baoqing Yu Tang's Old Master Zhu didn't hesitate to personally take charge of Baoqing Yu Tang and imprisoned Zhu Shaodong. In the end, the news that seemed to come out should have been that Old Master Zhu personally ended Zhu Shaodong's life.

All of this, in essence, shouldn't be Wang Sheng's fault. Unfortunately, Baoqing Yu Tang probably didn't think so. This was how the world worked, or rather, people were inherently selfish and wouldn't easily admit their mistakes. Baoqing Yu Tang was like this, and wasn't Worry-Free City the same? The only difference was that Worry-Free City had temporarily reached a small, short-term agreement with Wang Sheng and hadn't taken action against each other yet.

Anyway, as long as there was profit, the big fish eating the small fish was the most common thing. Wang Sheng had only now gained a foothold, with a large amount of gold coins and Lao Jun Guan as his backing, so ordinary people didn't dare to act rashly.

It was perfectly normal for Baoqing Yu Tang to instigate people to do this in secret. It was just that Wang Sheng was lucky this time. Such things would probably increase. If the City Lord was right, Baoqing Yu Tang's Old Master should have blamed Wang Sheng for his son's matter.

Even though Zhu Shaodong was killed by Old Master Zhu himself, the root cause was still the conflict with Wang Sheng. Was it strange to blame all of this on Wang Sheng?

The news obtained by Worry-Free City was immediately sent to the capital via messenger bird. After passing through the steward, it was forwarded to Wang Sheng.

"Immediately send people to see if the people from Baoqing Yu Tang are still in the capital?" Wang Sheng received the information, and without saying a word, he didn't even think about the reason, and directly ordered: "If they are still there, keep them all!"

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Wang Sheng's reaction was already extremely fast, but unfortunately, it was still a step late. After all, it would take a certain amount of time to send messages back and forth from Worry-Free City, and it would also take a certain amount of time for Worry-Free City to investigate the clues. This time was enough for Baoqing Yu Tang's owner to leave the capital swaggeringly with his people.

"Place an order with Worry-Free City, 50,000 gold coins for the head of any shopkeeper from Baoqing Yu Tang, and 200,000 gold coins for core figures." Wang Sheng's decision was even more decisive. The other party had obviously anticipated failure and left immediately. But since the other party had already taken action, then don't blame Wang Sheng for not being sentimental.

Just as he was giving the order, Steward Wang suddenly rushed in, his face full of anxiety. As soon as he saw Wang Sheng, he hurriedly shouted: "Duke, something happened outside the city."