"I can only tell you that if you pledge allegiance to the Cheng Family, you will have the opportunity to receive missions from the Cheng Family.
If you don't pledge allegiance to the Cheng Family, you will definitely not receive the opportunity to issue missions from the Cheng Family, "City Lord Zhou said calmly.
"Then I would like to know why the White City Alliance can receive missions from the Cheng Family after pledging allegiance to the Cheng Family?" City Lord Hai asked.
"You will naturally have the opportunity to find out after you pledge allegiance to the Cheng Family. I won't tell you now!" City Lord Zhou shook his head with a smile.
Although the White City Alliance had handed over more resources to the Cheng Family, he wouldn't tell them explicitly.
If they really wanted to know, they would have to wait until they pledged allegiance to the Cheng Family. Otherwise, there was no need to talk about it!
"City Lord Zhou, if that's what you want to say, I'm afraid we can't help you open up all the gates.
However, we can provide another option for the Cheng Family! "Wu Yun said again.
"Oh? What option is that? "City Lord Zhou raised his eyebrows and asked City Lord Wu.
Since these City Lords had already arrived at Qingyang City, he wasn't in a hurry.
This was because he was confident that everyone present would agree to open up the gates. However, since these people wanted to play with him, he would play along with them.
In the end, strength was still the most important thing in this world. Therefore, no matter how many tricks they had, they were not worth mentioning in the face of absolute strength.
However, he still wanted to hear what these people had to say.
At this moment, even the other City Lords turned their attention to City Lord Wu. Obviously, they didn't know what City Lord Wu had come up with.
After all, they hadn't discussed this before, so they didn't know what City Lord Wu was planning.
However, although they didn't like City Lord Wu's overbearing words before, City Lord Wu was fighting for everyone's interests now, so everyone was looking forward to City Lord Wu's plan.
"It's very simple. Our gates will definitely continue to be sealed. However, we aren't unreasonable people, especially when it comes to our relationship with the Cheng Family.
Especially when it comes to getting along with the Cheng family. Although we aren't too close to the Cheng family, compared to the entire Cultivation World, this distance is actually very close.
Therefore, we have always treated the Cheng Family as neighbors. Now that we have sealed the gates, it is indeed inconvenient for many people to enter and leave the Cheng Residence.
However, we will definitely not be so ruthless, so we are willing to open up these gates.
However, these people had to pay a certain amount of tax when entering and exiting the customs.
However, we can assure the Cheng Family that we will definitely give a more favorable customs clearance tax to those who accept the Cheng Family's mission.
As long as everyone pays these taxes, we will not obstruct their passage.
I believe that the other City Lords won't have any objections to this, right? "City Lord Wu said with a smile.
"No, no. I feel that City Lord Wu's method is very reasonable. City Lord Zhou, you should be able to understand our difficulties. After all, if we don't do anything, a large number of people will leave our territory every day. No one can bear such a loss.
If the Cheng Family is willing to hand over the mission to us, we can also solve this problem.
However, the Cheng Family didn't give us this opportunity, so I feel that City Lord Wu's method is the most suitable.
As long as these people are willing to pay a certain amount of taxes, we will definitely not make things difficult for them. We will even guarantee their safe passage through the various gates! "City Lord Yun Lai was the first to stand out in support.
Perhaps obtaining the Cheng Family's mission was what they were most looking forward to cooperating with the Cheng Family.
However, the Cheng Family was clearly unwilling to do so. Since that was the case, they could only settle for the next best thing.
If they were to collect taxes from all the people entering and exiting the White City Alliance, they could indeed make up for the losses of the alliance.
Moreover, because of the Cheng Family's mission, even if they wanted to collect customs clearance tax, they were not afraid that these people would not come.
After all, compared to the benefits from the Cheng Family's mission, this bit of tax was nothing.
"That's right, we all agree with this method. This is indeed the most suitable method!" Everyone was extremely happy.
City Lord Wu's method could be said to be deeply rooted in everyone's hearts.
Especially after being rejected by the Cheng Family, they could not continue to lose money like this.
It was fine if these people wanted to enter the Cheng Family, but they would have to pay taxes. This way, as long as there was a continuous flow of people entering and leaving the Cheng Family, they could also continuously collect taxes.
With this calculation, they might even be able to slowly earn back the money they had lost.
Moreover, this did not affect the people entering the Cheng Family. At this time, they believed that the Cheng Family had no reason to say anything.
"But I don't agree!" However, just as all the City Lords were excited about City Lord Wu's method, City Lord Zhou suddenly spoke up.
All of the City Lords turned to look at City Lord Zhou. Evidently, his voice was a little inappropriate, and it affected everyone else's interests. Everyone was naturally very displeased with him.
However, City Lord Zhou did not care about the unfriendly gazes these people were looking at him.
"City Lord Zhou, we have already taken a step back towards the Cheng Family. What we are doing now can be said to be a way out for everyone. The Cheng Family will not lose any manpower, and we will not lose any resources.
If the Cheng Family still does not give up, won't that be too much? "City Lord Yunlai frowned and said with dissatisfaction.
"The Cheng Family will not suffer any losses? You are guarding all the gates and collecting taxes from everyone. The people who could enter and exit the gates at will now have to pay to enter and exit. Do you think there will still be so many people coming to the Cheng Family?
Therefore, you are harming the interests of the Cheng Family. Of course, we will not agree! "City Lord Zhou said indifferently.
"These people are already passing through our territory. Now that we are collecting taxes from everyone who enters and leaves our territory, the Cheng Family does not seem to have the right to interfere, right?" Hai City Lord said.
"I have already made it very clear when I came in. As long as you do not harm the interests of the Cheng Family, the Cheng Family will definitely not bully you with our power.
If someone wants to harm the interests of the Cheng Family, the Cheng Family will definitely not ignore it.
Although these gates are indeed in your territory, the Cheng Family must ensure that all the gates are unblocked.
If any of the gates are blocked, we can only open them up ourselves, "City Lord Zhou said.
"City Lord Zhou, if you say that, are you really going to force all of us into a dead end?" City Lord Wu said coldly.
This City Lord Zhou was really unlikable. He did not even give them a single step back. He did not give them any way out at all.
If they really did not do anything and allowed everyone to enter and exit the gates freely, the members of the alliance would definitely leave a large number of people.
If they were to collect taxes now, there would definitely be a lot of people who would not be willing to enter the Cheng Family.
Moreover, even those who had entered the Cheng Family could leave the Cheng Family through these gates in the future.
If that was the case, they would basically be able to collect two taxes. If they were to return to the Cheng Family to hand in their missions, they would be able to collect three taxes.
If they were to calculate in this way, the taxes would definitely be a very considerable profit.
If the Cheng Family did not allow them to do this, they would really not be giving them any capital to continue living.
"I just hope that you can see the situation clearly. Completely breaking off with the Cheng Family for such a small profit might not be a good thing for the various alliances, right?" City Lord Zhou reminded them kindly.
Actually, from the point of view of the various alliances, there was nothing wrong with them doing this.
The fault was that they were not as strong as the Cheng Family. If they were stronger than the Cheng Family, or if they were on par with the Cheng Family.
If the Cheng Family could not do anything to them, then this matter would definitely not be a problem.
However, in a situation where the Cheng Family had the absolute strength to crush them, this matter became a problem.
Their actions did indeed harm the interests of the Cheng Family. Since the Cheng Family had the strength to make them change everything, why would they swallow their anger and allow them to harm the interests of the Cheng Family?
Therefore, in this world, strength reigned supreme, not fairness or unfairness.
If one was not strong, no one would look up to you. Naturally, there was no such thing as fairness or unfairness.
Fairness only existed between two people or forces that were on par with each other.
There was no such thing as fairness for the weak.
Did the alliance's City Lords not understand this logic? Of course they understood.
This was because back then, they had also expanded their alliance step by step to the current level.
They had also continuously relied on crushing the weak forces to reach where they were today, so they had a deep understanding of this. However, this time, it was their turn.
However, even though they knew this, they were still unwilling and wanted to continue.
This was because they felt that with so many alliances, they were also a very powerful force.
Although the Cheng Family was powerful, they should not start a war with so many alliances over such a small matter, right?
After all, starting a war would cause people to die, and they would also lose a lot of resources. Unless it was absolutely necessary, no one would be willing to start such a large-scale war.
However, they had underestimated the Cheng Family's strength and determination.
The Cheng Family would definitely not tolerate anything that would harm their interests.
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