Spiritual Energy Rejuvenation: I Began Cultivating By Farming

Chapter 2250 - 1265

The Flying Treasure that Jiang Tang gifted the old General could turn invisible; they could fly in the sky and quietly do things inside and outside the city without anyone knowing.

The city was in chaos, and many people wanted to secretly sell their houses; in order to save their lives, they sold their houses, took the money, and went elsewhere.

Living in the bustling center here, once war broke out, they would die faster.

Especially some wealthy families; in any case, they had properties elsewhere as well. As long as they left this place, they could make a living somewhere else, take their money and go, keep the green hills and never worry about having no firewood to burn.

Families like these rich households also had farms and estates in the suburbs of the Capital City, some other courtyards and such; this was not their only house.

The luxurious house here was just for flaunting status.

But if a family was only wealthy without any officials among them, they were the ones who would at any time be forced to hand over their family property.

Now with war, certain disasters, and the current struggle for the heir apparent, anyone who heard the news knew that chaos was about to break out.

This kind of turmoil was not just oversight; some families would be killed, exiled, implicated.

Even these wealthy households were even more of a target for others.

And some merchants and other common folk who smelled something off all slipped away quietly.

They liquidated their property, sold off houses, but at this time many people were selling houses, shops, and the like, rushing to offload their goods. One person doing this would still find a market, but when too many did it, there was competition.

Only those who did not know the situation here would come; those who understood what was going on would not move in at this time.

They would wait until the court was stable, when they would not at any moment be dragged into it and have their lives endangered.

With that money, it was better to live in the suburbs or in nearby cities for the time being.

Those who did not know the situation and came here to buy were still very welcome.

When the old General and his people arrived, they did not have much money; after all, in recent years it had all been the family’s support that let them buy a lot of grain and supplies for their own use and for the Soldiers.

Especially this year, they had been victimized by treacherous officials who swallowed their money and grain.

But some time ago, he had sent his sons and grandsons out to scrape together some money—namely, the proceeds from those bandits selling off their supplies and grain.

Now they would use this money to buy houses here, letting some who originally did not live here, along with their Soldiers who followed them, secretly live in houses near the four city gates of the Capital City.

They did not need large houses; as long as they could live there and keep others from knowing that they were going in and out of the General’s Mansion, it was enough.

They could not let anyone know yet that they had returned.

If someone was on guard against them, their next goals would not be so easy to achieve.

The old General arranged all his sons and grandsons, first giving them masks and disguising them as different people.

They put on ordinary clothes or rich-looking clothes.

Those who could buy big houses were of course wealthy families—others might call them fat sheep. Buying houses at a time like this, the prices might even be a bit lower.

They still went through those middlemen.

The old General let his family do the work; they changed their faces, and of course, when doing these things they could not let people know they were theirs.

They had subordinates, they had shops; those were contact points and also places for receiving information. Even if they came with different faces to connect with people, they only needed to show the token.

They did not all go see the same broker at once, but visited one by one, separately.

As long as they knew where that broker lived, they just had to say they had someone from the Central Road who wanted to buy houses, then give that broker a small introduction fee.

The houses they bought varied in size; the large ones would of course be used to house their people and later serve as contact points.

The General’s Mansion was being watched, so going in and out was no longer convenient. These houses might also be watched, so with each house that they used as a contact point they would set up a Formation; anyone not one of their own could not enter.

In two days, the old General did quite a lot, and together with his sons and grandsons handled many tasks.

They went into the homes of those corrupt officials and embezzlers and stole most of the money and valuables from those sickly households; this "theft" of course went straight into their Storage Bags.

They also raided some supplies from those Princes or from inside the imperial palace.

The so-called state treasury had been pilfered—who cared about that now?

The Emperor and the Princes were all ill, and their Consorts were, of course, panicking. The Imperial Physicians could not cure the illness; death was a real possibility.

What awaited them might be being buried as funerary companions, hoping that one of their younger children could take the throne in their stead?

How could it be that easy? Now, the Consorts of the Emperor, and the families behind them, some of them also had people who had fallen ill.

The families behind the Princes, and the families behind the Princes’ Consorts, were all extraordinary, and more or less all had been implicated.

The reason the imperial palace was in chaos now was that those who had their own agendas wanted to prepare a way out and had turned on each other.

Originally, it was already difficult for descendants in the palace to survive because of all the palace infighting.

Some mothers died; those who did not die would be left with chronic illnesses or disabilities. Their sons and grandsons, without great power in their hands, might secretly cultivate their own people.

And now, given this opportunity, they were all fighting among themselves.

The old General and his sons and grandsons had been very busy these two days; they had scraped together quite a bit of money and also bought houses. Not only had they not spent their money to nothing, they had even earned quite a lot in coin and supplies.

From those corrupt officials and embezzlers, they had gotten a great deal of wealth.