Chapter 156: Snowy Night Harvesting Wealth Through Auctions; Eastern Divine Religion Fabricates False History and Fictional Ancestors

The puppet evolution finally ended, and the top combat power under Zhuang Xingyu was further strengthened. It was still safe to use this kind of puppet without worrying about betrayal.

Zhuang Xingyu does not intend to develop puppets towards intelligentization, and will never allow them to develop self-awareness.

Just use a part of your consciousness to control them, even if it's a little troublesome.

The auction was about to begin, and guests had already arrived in the box to wait. As the annual [Tiandou Unlimited Auction], the entry threshold for this auction was more stringent, so there were not many people.

There are three conditions for participation, and you only need to meet any one of the three conditions. One is that the guest must have a wealth of 1000 million gold soul coins, which is cash. This is terrifying, because it is cash, not the sum of fixed wealth. Many so-called billionaires in Douluo Continent cannot even take out 1000 million cash, let alone 500 million gold soul coins in cash; and within 2 years, at least 3 times, the consumption in the Tiandou Auction House on a single day is not less than 150 million gold soul coins!

Second, the soul power is above level 80;
3. Possessing the status of earl or above in the Tiandou Empire (king, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, and baron). People who are not from the Tiandou Empire need to have a status equivalent to that of marquis or above in the empire.

The above are just prerequisites. Whether or not you are eligible to participate depends on the decision of the interest groups behind the auction house. Invitations are divided into four categories according to their level, which can bring 4, 5, 4, or 3 people without invitations.

The auction items are not limited to a certain item. Land, mansions, chamber of commerce shares, prescriptions and other things can all be traded.

Zhuang Xingyu looked at the list of auction items in his hand. There were no precious resources worth bidding for. However, the items commissioned by the Barak royal family were a bit interesting. It was an ancient city that had hardly been developed and was 45 years old. It was very well preserved.

In fact, the Barak royal family had long been completely controlled by the Eastern God Cult, but on the surface the two were two different forces.

The Eastern Divine Religion has big plans and ambitions.

Zhuang Xingyu knew at first glance that this was fake. The remains of an ancient city 45 years ago on Douluo Continent, isn't this pure comedy! How could he not know after reading the novel! At that time, humans had not yet come to Douluo Continent. The people on Douluo Continent were migrated from other places by the God Realm.

Zhuang Xingyu knew the other party's purpose very well. It was nothing more than fabricating relics and making up history, saying that those things were left by their ancestors to enhance their confidence in civilization. This thing was actually very important. Zhuang Xingyu was too lazy to elaborate. Those who understood would understand.

The reason why he knew the other party's purpose at a glance was because Zhuang Xingyu was too familiar with these operations. In Zhuang Xingyu's previous life, there was a group of guys in the western part of Blue Star who loved to do this. They clearly only had a history of 400 years, and they were still uncivilized savages 400 years ago, but they forged things every day. They took a magic book they made up on the spot to do archaeological research, saying that it was a cultural relic that was thousands of years old, and that everything on it was true. It was ridiculous!

They invented a large number of false characters, books, history, and cultural relics. When Eastern civilization was declining due to barbarian invasions, they took advantage of the chaos to rob and steal many treasures.

Then they imitate these things and make up their own pseudo-history, because they have no history at all, they don’t know the true development of history, they can only imitate others stroke by stroke, and the result is full of loopholes and make a fool of themselves!
They copied the looted technology and developed the first technological leap, thus occupying the top. Then they turned around and discredited their teachers, saying that they had no civilization and that they learned all their technology from them. They were also good at training hooks, and cultivated a lot of filial sons and grandsons to cheer for them. Many people believed it and turned around and discredited the mother who gave birth to them and raised them. How sad!
But that is destined to be short-lived. History will eventually return to its rightful place, and justice and civilization will return to the center of the world.

Some people have no civilization, that is to say, they have no civilization. Thousands of years of civilization are not something they can fabricate! That is a heritage engraved in their bones, and it cannot be imitated by wearing a dress or pretending to be civilized. They are doomed to fail!

Zhuang Xingyu doesn't care about these clownish tricks, strength is the most important thing!
With the sound of footsteps, Zhuang Taosheng came to the auction stage. "Dear guests, thank you for waiting! On behalf of all the staff of Tiandou Auction House, I welcome you all. It is my honor to stand here and speak... I declare the Tiandou Unlimited Auction officially open!"

The two top gold medal auctioneers at the Tiandou Auction House also hurried up to the stage. Both of them were Soul Sage-level soul masters. They were also old partners, and they sang in unison during the auction, just like performing crosstalk.

Naturally, they didn't dare to fly into the air to host the auction like they did at other auctions. Of course, all the people present were big shots. You dare to stand over their heads and hang around. Do you want to die?

"Now we will auction the first treasure, the thirty-five forests in Tiandou City, including the [Liberation Forest], [Victory Forest], [Justice Forest], etc. I believe everyone knows this place."

"The seller is the Tiandou Imperial Family, and the buyer must be from the Tiandou Empire. The 35 forests can only be used for public welfare and business. Any form of large-scale soul master stationing is prohibited! Each forest can be purchased by 2 to 4 parties."

"Let's auction the Liberation Forest first. The starting price is 300 million gold soul coins, and each bid must not be less than 20 gold soul coins! Materials of the same value are also acceptable."

These [Liberation Forest], [Victory Forest], [Justice Forest]... thirty-five forests, together they form the original Blue Tyrant Academy. In order to commemorate Zhuang Xingyu's killing of the human traitor Liu Erlong here, the Tiandou Royal Family named them Liberation, Victory, Justice...

After that, it became idle. It was idle anyway. The Tiandou Royal Academy was big enough to meet the needs of the royal family. There was no need for the Tiandou royal family to build a new academy, so Xue Ye put it up for auction.

That's right, no one wore a mask at this auction, and the buyers and sellers knew each other's identities. There were only a few people here, and everyone joined by invitation, so they knew each other and couldn't hide it. And the auction house would not charge any fees for this auction.

"I will offer you 350 million gold soul coins!"

"I have 390 million gold soul coins!"

"My 410 million gold soul coins!" Many people were arguing with each other. These three pieces of land were in Tiandou City, and there were large areas of forests and beautiful scenery. Every inch of land was worth a lot of money. Coupled with the revival of the Tiandou royal family, the price here was rising rapidly. If it was converted into houses, with some commercial streets and high-end places, I don't know how many dignitaries would scramble to buy it. This thing is more valuable than gold.

The Tiandou royal family is not at a loss, he collects taxes! Emperor Xue Ye has completely controlled the taxation within his base.

In Douluo Continent, for any slightly larger country, there is no such thing as an empty treasury or financial crisis. The only problem is that the emperor of the empire has no control over taxation, and all the money has been taken away by the aristocratic families in the empire.

Soon, the auction price soared to 500 million, and the price was still rising. The buyers were all nobles in Tiandou City, and the rest did not participate according to the unspoken rules. The Tiandou royal family would not sell it to them. It was the Tiandou royal family that wanted to sell it to those people.

As mentioned before, the purpose of holding this auction is to provide a platform for major forces to conduct transactions that are not convenient to be put on the table.

These plots of land seem to be traded for ownership, but in fact they are located in Tiandou City, in the core ruling area of ​​the Tiandou Imperial Family. As long as the Xue family survives the auction, even if you win the land, nominally it belongs to you, but you only get the right to use it, and the Tiandou Imperial Family can take it back whenever they want.

It can be regarded as the nobles in Tiandou City giving money to Xue Ye to show their stance, indicating that I will no longer go against the royal family as I did before. I will obey Xue Ye's arrangements in everything, and those who are disobedient will be purged by Xue Ye.

Xue Ye's method was very tactful, and his meaning was very clear. I am not here to sell land, I am here to collect the stolen money. All the noble families in Tiandou City, you must return the stolen money to me! Give me back all the empire's wealth that you have embezzled before. I don't ask you to give it all back, but at least return 8% and leave you some. That's righteous enough. For all the past, I will let bygones be bygones. Just work honestly with me, Xue Ye.

It is a bad thing for the noble families in Tiandou, but it is a good thing for the royal family and the lower-class common people and the poor.

"I offer 3500 gold soul coins!" Zhu Rongming, the Minister of Agriculture and one of the Nine Ministers of the Tiandou Empire, directly raised the price to gold soul coins.

"3500 million gold soul coins at a time, is there anyone willing to bid?" The auctioneer recorded and asked.

"3500 million gold soul coins twice, three times! Deal! Congratulations to Master Zhu for taking over the Liberation Forest!"

The Grand Minister of Agriculture is one of the main officials in charge of the finances of the Tiandou Empire. For such an important position, Zhu Rongming is naturally a direct subordinate whom Xue Ye trusts absolutely.

Zhu Rongming naturally took the initiative to respond to Xue Ye's policy and set an example. You see, Xue Ye's own people are like this, and they have paid so much money. If you, the non-direct line, don't return the money, you will only perish! In fact, Xue Ye will return the amount of money that Zhu Rongming paid privately. You can't treat your own people unfairly, otherwise no one will work with you.

The remaining 34 plots of land were also bought by other nobles in Tiandou City. 11 of them were bought individually, and the remaining 23 were bought by multiple parties.

A total of 56 great nobles in Tiandou City returned the stolen goods to Xue Ye, and Xue Ye received a total of million gold soul coins in cash + real estate, shops and other collateral worth billion gold soul coins.

The only thing they didn't have was a soul bone that was over 10,000 years old. This showed that the Extreme Yin-Yang Leopard Clan had indeed blackmailed the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect, the Heavenly Dou Empire, and the Haotian Sect. Although they didn't ask for many gold soul coins, they asked for food, minerals, military equipment, 10,000-year soul bones, and other materials. These were all strategic materials! They were priceless!
About half of the state-owned wealth of the Tiandou Empire that had been illegally embezzled by private individuals over the past century has been recovered. This is dozens of times the tax revenue of the Tiandou Empire last year! The treasury was instantly filled up, and Xue Ye could use this money to nationalize the coinage rights again, but reality would not give him the time.

This time the targets are all those noble families who have done things against Xue Ye. For those people, it is undoubtedly tantamount to having their property confiscated, but their lives will be saved. Their titles and official positions will be downgraded a few levels, but they will still be among the great nobles.

Almost all the great nobles in the empire who were not direct descendants of Xue Ye returned the stolen money. However, there were still seven stubborn families who relied on the support of external forces of Tiandou behind them. Moreover, their direct children and descendants had all been transferred out, and a lot of wealth had also been transferred and hidden, but they refused to hand over the money.

Xue Ye could only detain them and secretly send people to the outside of the Tiandou Empire to capture their children, trying to make them return the embezzled wealth.

It was a critical period for the imperial celebration. These people were in high positions and represented the image of the empire. They could not be killed even on a snowy night, and their crimes could not be exposed. Otherwise, the people, especially the army, would easily riot when they knew about it.

Think about it, those ordinary soldiers, who go through life and death, only have a few gold soul coins in a year. These nobles do nothing, bully the common people on weekdays, and occupy high positions, but they embezzle hundreds of millions of gold soul coins at will. What will the soldiers think? How can they not feel resentful? What will they think of the Tiandou Empire? How can their loyalty be guaranteed? They can't say it out loud!
As for the remaining half of the empire's wealth that was embezzled, Xue Ye was powerless. One third of those who embezzled were his own supporters, and one third were generals who held military power. This was also the reason why Xue Ye broke the ancestral rules and personally served as the dean of Tiandou Royal Academy, setting up another platform to train small and medium-sized nobles and civilians to enter the upper echelons of the army. (Previous 1 chapters)
The remaining 1/3 of the people were from the external forces of Tiandou, and they could not be recovered in the short term, so they could only be abandoned. Fortunately, not many people were taken away by the external forces of Tiandou, and most of them were inside the Tiandou Empire. As long as they were not transferred out, there would be a way to deal with them.

As for the seven stubborn families, the patriarchs who were detained all died suddenly in just half a day. The reason was: they suddenly woke up, felt extremely guilty, and felt sorry for His Majesty's cultivation, so they committed suicide out of shame.

Of course, this couldn't have been done by Xue Ye. It was done by other aristocratic families in the Tiandou Empire.

Even though Xue Ye had tried his best to protect these seven people, even though Xue Ye had repeatedly stated, both explicitly and implicitly, that he would only recover the embezzled wealth and would not investigate the network of relationships behind him.

But the other nobles didn't believe it, and they didn't dare to gamble. They were not good guys. They had contacts with those seven people and received benefits from them. Many of them did more than them. It was not just embezzlement of wealth, but also the royal family's reverse scale. If these seven people confessed the evidence of collusion, then they were all finished!

This was not allowed by the nobles, and they were "kind" enough to make up for the wealth embezzled by the seven stubborn people. The meaning was also very clear, Xue Ye, just leave it at that, don't go any further, stop here, those seven people are the biggest culprits, there is no one else, the matter is resolved, it's good for both of us.

Xue Ye was still too impatient and unwilling to take things step by step. He knew that his life span was short, and once he was gone, he felt that the prince might not be able to control those guys below, and might not be able to follow his ideas and lead the Tiandou Empire along the path he had planned.

Therefore, Xue Ye wanted to solve these problems for future generations as much as possible while he was still alive, leaving them a strong Tiandou Empire. Once the empire's wealth was redistributed according to Xue Ye's plan and some of the wealth was given to ordinary people, the stability of the Tiandou Empire could at least be guaranteed for the next few hundred years.

Therefore, after Xue Ye activated the puppet, he immediately contacted various major forces to jointly eliminate the branches of the Spirit Hall in the empire, recover the separatist forces, send troops to various kingdoms and principalities, reform the empire's education system, reform the empire's military system, and weaken the aristocratic families...

Zhuang Xingyu watched all this in the VIP box and sighed, "Xue Ye is still too merciful. If it were me, I would definitely cut the Gordian knot for these parasites of the empire, confiscate all their properties, kill all the spirit masters and children under the age of six, and make the rest of the men slaves to mine, and send the women to the Jiaofang Bureau to make money for the empire. No one should be spared! Not a single one can be let go!"

"It's still because Xue Ye is not strong enough. Doing so would implicate too many people and cause unrest in the empire. There are not many soul masters to begin with, and if we kill them all, Tian Dou's strength will be greatly weakened. We also need to consider the current situation on the continent. If it were in peacetime, there would still be some hope of implementing it, but it's impossible now."

The auction continued, and many people were amazed that this year's auction started off on such a big scale.

(End of this chapter)