Chapter 123 The Zhao Family Should Be Destroyed

"Where is this? How did I get here? Oh, there are enemies invading. Have I been captured by the enemy?"

"It's so dark here. I can't see anything."

"Who is it? You stepped on my head. Why don't you move your foot away?"

"Sorry, sorry. What is soft and hard?"

The people who just woke up had no idea where they were. They were noisy and even fought.

But soon, they saw a bright light in the dark environment.

"Everyone, there is light there. It may be the exit."

Those who were close soon found that the light came from a hole.

"Do you think this hole is familiar?"

Someone who had entered the maze seemed to realize something after seeing this hole. He asked the person next to him with a trembling voice.

"Familiar, I am too damn familiar. It was here that I was almost eaten by those monsters."

One person gritted his teeth and said.

"Who brought us in? Was it the enemies who knocked us out?"

"It must be them. Could it be the master and his men?"

When someone said this, some people who were knocked out by Li Yan and others wanted to refute.

However, Jin Fenglei did not give him the time and opportunity.

"Hello, servants of the Jin family."

Jin Fenglei's voice came from the cave entrance. With his innate power, he guided the spiritual energy to vibrate the air, so that his voice could reach the ears of everyone in the maze.

"This is the voice of Master Lei."

"Master Lei, what is going on? Why did we run here?"

Some people were no longer as cautious as before. They moved towards the cave entrance excitedly.

Some people wanted to get through, but they stopped moving when they were halfway in.

The people who were pulling his legs and wanted to go in felt a little strange, but they didn't think much about it and pulled him out by his legs.

Then, with the light from the cave entrance, a person with a hole in his head appeared in front of his eyes and the people around him.

"Remember, I will only say this once. No one can get into this cave without my permission."

Jin Fenglei's words without any emotion swept through the crowd like a cold current.

Before the crowd started to make a noise, another thunder rang in their ears.

"Now, be quiet and listen to me."

Jin Fenglei carried the majesty of the innate warrior and the Jin family for a long time. After saying this, he actually made these people obediently quiet down.

"You are now in the tomb. What I need you to do is to explore the last part of the maze."

"As long as you do it, I will let you out."

"Those who can finally come out will be trained vigorously by our Jin family."

"But you don't have much time, because we only prepared a lot of torches and maps inside, but no food."

"So, everyone, work hard as soon as possible and explore the remaining part of this maze, otherwise all of you will die in it."

After saying that, Jin Fenglei blocked the only passage leading to the maze, and also blocked the abuse and pleading coming from inside.

"Elder Lei, what if they are passive and don't do what you say?"

Listening to the faint knocking sounds and continuous insults coming from the other side, a Jin family member asked in confusion.

"You are still young and don't understand human nature. Even in despair, the instinctive desire of human beings to survive will prompt humans to do everything they can to survive."

"Not to mention, I have shown them a way. As long as they follow the path I provide them, there is hope of survival."

"Maybe at the beginning, some of them would rather die than do what I ask."

"But such thoughts will not last too long, especially without food and interference from other people."

"There are so many of them, not everyone is a hard-headed person. On the contrary, there are many people with weak wills."

"If someone takes the lead, more and more people will join."

"So, you should not worry about whether they will do what I want, but whether their strength is enough to complete the task I assign to them."

Jin Fenglei said this to the person who asked the question.

However, his eyes were looking at the entire Jin family.

"You are all outstanding children of the Jin family, the hope of our Jin family's future, and even the master of the Jin family."

When talking about the master, Jin Fenglei looked at Jin Huolin.

"You can know nothing, but there are two things you must have: strong strength and a brain that can distinguish good from evil."

"People or things that are beneficial to the family are good people and good things. Those who are harmful to the family should be eliminated directly if they are capable, and those who are not capable should find a stronger person in the family."

Obviously, taking this opportunity, Jin Fenglei instilled his own ideas into these young Jin family members.

After saying this, Jin Fenglei let them rest.

As time passed, the voices on the other side became smaller and smaller.

Not only did the shouting and cursing disappear, but even the knocking sounds became intermittent.

The hardness of the Dragon Breaking Stone is no joke. Even if their group of people without any weapons continued to smash it for three days and three nights, they didn't know if they could make a hole the size of a fist.

Some people also tried to break through the blocked passage, but unfortunately there were two innate masters on the other side, Jin Fenglei and Jin Fengguang.

They didn't break through, they were just trying to do it. If they really did break out, they would only die faster.

Li Yan sat cross-legged on the ground, looking like he was resting with his eyes closed. In fact, most of his mind had returned to his body.

Now, all he can do is wait for the final result to appear.

"The strength is still too weak."

"When we break through to the Yunzang realm, we will destroy the Zhao family."

Judging from the news delivered by the clones in the Zhao family, the Zhao family has not been very honest recently.

They have been raising taxes on the civilians, businessmen, and major forces in Linshan City.

It is not increasing bit by bit, but directly doubling the amount. Linshan City is now full of complaints, but no one dares to refuse to pay.

Because, whether it was before or now, if you dare not pay, that will be the end of your family and your family.

The Zhao family is still hoping that you won't pay, so that he can swallow all your wealth.

Those who paid the most were various factions, especially the Li family and the Jiang family, who paid nearly ten thousand taels in taxes at once.

The Li family's recent plate spread was a bit too big, so it was already a bit difficult to take out all the money at once.

If taxes continue to be raised in the future, the Li family may have to start selling off some of the family's high-quality properties in order to pay the taxes.

When most of the ordinary properties in Linshan City are short of money, they cannot be sold at a high price.

In the end, it can only be sold to the Zhao family at a low price.

As for not paying taxes, the Li family has never thought about such a thing.

Even the head of the Li family did not dare to go to the Zhao family to discuss lowering some taxes.

I'm afraid that something will get into the hands of the Zhao family and give them a reason to destroy the entire Li family.

The Li family may think that the Zhao family's sudden and large interest rate increase is just to find a reason to destroy the Li family.

However, Li Yan, who has been undercover in the Zhao family for a long time, knows that the reason why the Zhao family is so anxious to raise interest rates is because the Zhao family is short of money.

The last Linjiang City [Tianbao Tower] auction meeting was attended by people from the Zhao family, and they were with the Zhao family in Linjiang City.

The Zhao family in Linshan City didn't buy anything else at the auction. They just focused on buying the elixirs that speed up the cultivation of the Blood Transmutation Realm and the elixirs that speed up the cultivation of the Yunzang Realm.

After seeing this scene, Li Yan understood that these things were bought for Zhao Tongcheng, who was in Guiyuan Sect.

The clone lurking in the Zhao family in Linshan City had heard the news that the Zhao family would fully support Zhao Tongcheng's cultivation.

Later, Li Yan also saw the scene where the Zhao family in Linshan City borrowed money from the Zhao family in Linjiang City next to them.

At that time, he realized that the two Zhao families were indeed from the same family.

After replacing Jin Yan, Li Yan led them to change the topic to this topic when chatting with other Jin family members, and then he learned about the relationship between the two Zhao families.

The head of the Zhao family in Linshan City, Zhao Deyan, used to be a direct descendant of the Zhao family in Linjiang City. However, he failed to participate in the fight for the position of patriarch of the Zhao family, so he left the Zhao family.

Before leaving, he took away most of the Zhao family members who supported him.

In order to resettle these tribesmen and obtain sufficient training resources, Zhao Deyan chose to seize the position of city lord of Linshan City.

Perhaps because he was holding back the anger in his heart, after killing two Han family Yunzang realm warriors in succession, he still felt that it was not enough, so he personally slaughtered the entire Han family.

Almost no clan leader has such a murderous intention. Even if he kills a whole family, he will leave it to the people below him. There is no reason to do it himself.

Li Yan had thought that maybe this was one of the reasons why Zhao Deyan failed in the competition for the head of the Zhao family.

Thirty years have passed, and Zhao Deyan is still in the Yunzang Realm. Although he is at the peak of the Yunzang Realm, it seems that he will reach the Xiantian Realm one step further, but this step is like a natural chasm, and many people have been trapped to death.

And his competitor thirty years ago, the head of the Zhao family in Linjiang City, was already an innate master ten years ago. Li Yan had seen the head of the Zhao family on the third floor of [Tianbao Tower].

Li Yan guessed that the reason why Zhao Deyan failed to break through the innateness over the years was not only due to lack of resources, but also probably had something to do with this incident.

This is also the reason why the Zhao family now fully supports Zhao Tongcheng's breakthrough in innateness.

Zhao Deyan wanted to take a breath.

At the same time, he obviously still covets the position of the Zhao family in Linjiang City.

It is precisely because of his ambition that the cash flow of the entire Zhao family in Linshan City has almost been drained by him.

If it were just like this, the Zhao family of Linshan City would not be so crazy as to double the tax revenue of Linshan City.

The reason that prompted the Zhao family in Linshan City to do this was that the end of the year was coming.

At the end of the year, the Ji family of the Zhou royal family would send envoys from various places to collect taxes for the next year from various city lords, county princes, state princes, princes, and even the royal families.

Anyone who dares not to pay will have their home confiscated and their clan exterminated.

Moreover, this tax can only be paid more.

As an envoy, I am not at home to celebrate the New Year. I come to you to collect taxes. I have to send the taxes back to the capital. Shouldn't I get some hard work fee?

No one dares not to pay this, otherwise they would dare to take away part of the taxes you pay on the road.

When we arrived at the royal capital, the person who inspected the goods saw that there was so much tax missing.

Is this dissatisfaction with the court? If they dare to pay less tax today, will they dare to rebel tomorrow?

The same fate is to confiscate the property and exterminate the clan.

Why don't they check the envoys first?

Please, to get such a lucrative job, those envoys must have a deep background or be from the royal Ji family. Who dares to be so ignorant?

So, if the year is approaching, if the tax and the money for the envoys have not been collected.

The Zhao family of Linshan City who wants to survive the year may have to kill the "year pig".

And one "year pig" is honest, and the other "year pig" is not very quiet, always trying to escape from the pigpen.

As the owner, the Zhao family of Linshan City will kill the other one, which one does not need to be guessed at all.

Li Yan calculated that he has no shortage of resources now, and it will take about one and a half months to break through to the Yunzang realm.

At that time, there will be at least one month before the year is over.

"Enough."

Li Yan's main body thought about this, and then gradually fell asleep.

The other clones also fell asleep at the same moment.