Stop it, Taoist, Your Fight almost Ruins the DAO!-Chapter 478 - 334: The Movie Star! The Taoist Strategist! The Advancing Martial King!

"Taoist, please enjoy your meal!"

King Jing's consort brought over a bottle of new Jinlei Bamboo Wine with a smile that was as gentle as the breeze through willows. After opening it, she brought it to Yi Chen's desk. However, the attentive Yi Chen noticed that she had served a different fine wine to His Highness King Jing, prompting him to sigh that indeed even the landlord's family does not have surplus grain.

This time he did not gulp down the wine, but rather took a small sip:

"Your Highness, my thoughts are pure and well-intentioned, my insights modest. By listening to both sides, you will be enlightened."

"I attend the Great Qin Legal Assembly not for fame but for profit, and moreover, I dislike making money from the poor."

"So, Taoist, whose money do you wish to make?" King Jing glanced at his consort and then raised his cup from afar, toasting Yi Chen with a smile.

"Whoever has the money, we will make money from them, such as the sects and Martial King."

Upon hearing this, King Jing also stopped drinking his wine, and a glint of sharpness flashed in his eyes: "So, does the Taoist plan to make money from Martial King or from the sects?"

"Only children make choices; since I've taken action, naturally, I want it all! Don't you agree, Your Highness?" Yi Chen grinned, locking eyes with King Jing for a moment, both clearly understanding each other's true thoughts.

Both men raised their cups at the same time, laughing in unison:

"Ambitious!" (In chorus)

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After drinking the wine in their cups, King Jing couldn't help but bow and press Yi Chen for answers, "Then, Taoist, how do you intend to lure Martial King and the sect cultivators into the fold?"

"Heh, there's no rush on this matter. My thoughts are pure and well-intentioned, and when it comes to making money, we need to be justified and convincing, to win people's hearts and minds."

"The plan proposed by Black Butterfly was actually nonsensical. To make money from others, you first need to draw them in. Therefore, in the early stages, we can hype up the market, starting with the Loose Cultivators' rising stars, those cultivators ranked lower down the list."

"At the beginning, even if it means losing money, we should not deliberately make money. In the early stages, we only do three things: fairness, fairness, and still fairness!"

"I must make this clear to Your Highness upfront. Take leeks, for example, although they grow with just water, they grow faster with fertilizer!"

"We need to engage people. When more people join in, that will be the time for us to make money."

Yi Chen, with a jade ring on his left hand, unconsciously stroked his cup with a smile, bowing slightly to King Jing,

"Your Highness, do you not see that within the Heavenly Dao, there's change, there's adherence and there's opposition, within defiance there's compliance and within compliance there's defiance?

In the past, Great Qin arrayed against the Xirong, surrounded by wolves, yet it became stronger, with sharpened soldiers and mighty generals. The principles of adherence and opposition, gain and loss, their subtleties, should be clearer to Your Highness than to me, how Great Qin came to rule the world."

"If Your Highness is swayed by minor benefits and fears for your own safety in the pursuit of great undertakings, then I might as well have not come today."

Since Yi Chen regarded King Jing as a partner, he still tried his best to clarify the benefits and consequences, to prevent future disputes. The strategy between partners must be clear.

"I am well aware of this, but I dare to ask, Taoist, how do you plan to entrap Martial King?" King Jing asked again, unable to restrain himself, probing Yi Chen with his most pressing concern.

Yi Chen looked at King Jing with surprise. His Highness had always been shrewd and effective, steady in his actions, especially in the affair of the classics where he forced him to clarify the matter. He had not expected King Jing to be so impatient today, indicating Martial King, his dear brother, must be putting a lot of pressure on him.

Damn, that's a steal.

Now it seems, even if he asks for sixty or seventy percent, King Jing would agree, after the clarification of benefits and consequences.

It appears that sometimes one's own people hate their own more than the enemy; the fruits borne from the tree of time taste the same in any world.

With this thought, Yi Chen slightly relaxed; this King Jing was more human, otherwise, what was the difference from his past life.

Spit, strike that last line.

Chilled wine poured into the air, landing in the cup. After taking a sip, Yi Chen then said with a smile, "Your Highness, since we have set up such a stage and made such a commotion, Martial King must know that Your Highness is the backer behind this game."

"I heard that Martial King has been opposing you at every turn. Tell me, with Martial King's temperament, when it comes to this game, will he follow, or will he not?"

"Not only will he follow, but he'll soon see the huge benefits in it. Martial King is not lucky enough to hold a land as prosperous as the Eastern Region in his grasp. Driven by greed, manipulation in combat is almost inevitable."

Pausing for a moment with a smile, Yi Chen locked eyes once more with King Jing, and both of them laughed in unison:

"Despicable!" (In chorus)

"Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! Brilliant indeed! However, since that is the case, how do we profit from this?" King Jing's eyes sparkled with excitement. He pounded the table repeatedly, praising it, so thrilled that he stood up.

At that moment, he had faintly guessed the subsequent developments, but he was more eager to hear the thoughts of Hidden Dragon Taoist before him.

"Your Highness, still talking about money!"

King Jing's consort, seeing her husband so carried away, couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, hiding her face behind her wide sleeves. She downed a jar of clear wine before continuing with a laugh, "When Hidden Dragon Taoist is here, isn't the money here as well?"

"Let's eat first."

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"And don't worry, Taoist, there are no wild geese amongst these 'Hundred Birds' tongues; I've made it clear to the kitchen earlier."

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Hearing this, Yi Chen couldn't help but take another look at the consort beside King Jing; truly attentive to the finest details, lively and spirited, it was no wonder that King Jing favored her so.