March 21st.
On this day, at the court meeting, the Grand Prince Feng Guangyu, one of the three overseeing princes, proposed that the ban previously imposed by Emperor Feng Tianming would be implemented, and that the trade in Longevity San in Northern Zhou would be completely banned, and that no matter what the identity of the people involved in the trade of Longevity San, they would not be tolerated.
This proposal naturally received the full support of Feng Jiu and Feng Qiwu. Both the real and the fake emperors, who practise “Hao Rang Zheng Qi”, abhor such a poison that wreaks havoc on the country and the people, and support the eldest prince’s proposal without a second thought.
As for Feng Chaonan, he was not even given a chance to oppose the proposal.
At the end of the court meeting, Feng Chaonan walked out with a completely gloomy face. The officials along the way were more or less aware of Feng Chaonan’s involvement with Eternal Life San, so naturally they did not dare to touch Feng Chaonan’s brow at this time.
When they reached the bedchamber, Feng Chaonan finally couldn’t hold back the anger in his heart, and the fiery Phoenix Heavenly Curse True Qi kept overflowing from his body, burning everything around him out of control, even Feng Chaonan’s own clothes started to smoke.
“Your Highness, calm down.”
The cold Qi dispersed the uncontrolled temperature, and Eunuch Wei quietly appeared behind Feng Chaonan, pressing his shoulder with one hand to suppress the uncontrolled Qi.
“Calm down? How do you expect me to be calm, that Feng Guangyu fellow is targeting me nakedly, and the officials who are seeing the wind and rudder are also echoing the same, each and every one of them is stepping on my face.”
That being said, Feng Chaonan tried to calm his mind and suppress the anger in his heart.
The more it came to this kind of time, the more it was necessary to be calm. Feng Chaonan naturally knew this, and he took several deep breaths, finally suppressing his irrational thoughts.
Seeing this, Eunuch Wei withdrew his palm from Feng Chaonan’s shoulder and said, “Your Highness, the trade of Longevity San is too dirty after all, and it is not suitable for you to get involved.
Now that the Longevity San trade is under attack, you can also take advantage of the situation to get rid of it and stay away from this dirty trade.”
Feng Chaonan only shook his head and smiled bitterly.
The Longevity San trade was a little dirty, but its benefits were far from being comparable to other methods. At the beginning, when he was cut off from the Si family and his capital was restricted, Feng Chaonan had used the Longevity San to maintain his power and even expanded greatly through the huge benefits it brought.
Now, although he seems to be fully connected to the Si family again, Feng Chaonan knows that the Si family is less supportive of him than before.
In the end, it was the idea of not putting eggs in the same basket that was at play. The fact that Feng Qiwu has the intention of seeking the phoenix for Si Qingwei has given the Si family a good reason and a way to do so.
Feng Chaonan and Feng Qiwu, the two most promising people to ascend to the throne, no matter who eventually wins and ascends to the throne, the Si family will be able to make a profit.
The difference is only whether the head of the Si family becomes the emperor’s uncle or the empress’s father in the end.
However, what concerned Feng Chaonan most today was not the matter of the Longevity San.
“Eunuch Wei, go to Shadow Market and deliver a message to Gong Zi Yu, double the reward, I want Feng Guan Yu to die, the sooner the better.” Feng Chaonan said in a fierce voice.
After this court meeting, Feng Chaonan was more and more eager for the position of the overseeing prince. Although he had secretly taken over the position of the overseeing prince, his name was not right, so it was difficult for him to reach the grand hall after all.
At least, if something like what happened at the court meeting today were to happen again, Feng Chaonan would still have no name to oppose or approve. After all, it was the three emperors who were exercising power in the courtroom, not Feng Chaonan.
“Yes.” Eunuch Wei disappeared again without a sound.
After he disappeared, Feng Chaonan was still thinking about what had happened at the court meeting, his face shifting with a complex expression.
In the end, Feng Chaonan’s eyes were ruthless as he stared at the location of the Grand Prince’s bedchamber, “You want to use the Longevity San to bring me down? Let’s wait and see how many people will really do it. You know, the network of connections woven by the Longevity San already covers the entire Great Zhou.”
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However, in the next few days, the developments were indeed very unexpected for Feng Chaonan.
Workshops of Longevity San were destroyed everywhere, countless people who sold Longevity San were executed, and the network of connections that once covered the entire Northern Zhou seemed to have suddenly lost its effect, as if it had never existed in the first place.
In just a few days, Feng Guan Yu had won a huge victory, breaking Feng Chaonan’s fortune.
And at this moment, the biggest handler of the Everlasting Life Scatter deal as well as the head of Feng Chaonan’s secret forces, the Medicine Master, was making a report to Qing Yu.
“Your Excellency, Feng Chaonan’s profits from the sale of Longevity San in various parts of Northern Zhou have all been secretly transferred, and all traces of it have been cleaned up by the court’s men.” The Medicine Master said in a respectful voice.
“This time, we can say that we have taken a big advantage of Feng Chaonan.” After receiving the detailed report handed up by the Medicine Master, Qing Yu patted the thick breakdown of his belongings and laughed.
Feng Chaonan had never dreamed that those forces he had in the shadows would have been infiltrated into a sieve long ago.
Before the various strongholds were destroyed, the Medicine Master had already transferred all the corresponding belongings, leaving only an empty shell for people to investigate and handle.
The people from the imperial court who came to deal with the Longevity Scattering also tacitly cleaned up the loose ends, ensuring that neither Feng Chaonan nor Feng Guangyu would be able to trace the whereabouts of the belongings.
They would even think that the other side had a good move and had collected a large amount of wealth.
As for why those officials who dealt with the issue of eldersun would help Qing Yu clean up the first and last, it was thanks to the huge network of connections that eldersun had built up.
Well —— now it shouldn’t be called the Chang Sheng San network of connections, it should be called the antidote network of connections.
There is an antidote to longevity. Although it is useless for someone who is incorrigible, it is still useful for most people.
At the beginning, when Qing Yu created the Longevity San, he thought of this day. Selling Longevity San is selling, selling the antidote is also selling, one harms people, the other saves people, the essence is different, but the money is the same.
Especially after the sale of Longevity San was taken over by Feng Chaonan, the reputation of scouring the country and the people was also taken up by Feng Chaonan. This way, Qing Yu’s side only needed to reap the good reputation of saving those who were scourged by the Longevity San.
“It is true that God is also me and the devil is also me. Harming people and saving them, two sides of the same coin, it’s really ironic.” Qing Yu mocked with a smirk as he thought about it.
“Well —— incidentally, Feng Chaonan is really a good person.”
Indeed a good man, not only did he take this bad reputation on his back, the final benefit was secretly transferred to Qing Yu, what is this if not a good man?
