Comprehension Ability: Creating the Five Thunders Technique in Reality-Chapter 824 - 415: The Downfall of the Family (Part 2)
The man was about to step forward to establish a connection, but Master Wang immediately waved his hand, pushing him aside and then instructed people to guard the entrances of the treasure vaults.
After completing these tasks, Master Wang turned around to face the crowd and extended a hand.
Next to him, a person dressed in a Daoist robe, holding a long sword, stepped forward slowly and took out a document approved by the officials of Xiang Island.
Upon seeing this Daoist, the members of the Zheng Clan were immediately startled in their hearts. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
Xiang Island and the cultivators are fully integrated, and this integration is not just talk, but involves every aspect of society's operation.
With many cultivators, some choose to follow their clan, while others choose to follow the official path.
This Daoist is the leader of the official faction of Xiang Island, known as the Yin Yang Dharma King.
When Zhou Kuangtian was still alive, he used to say that this person's Daoist Skill was not inferior to his, but because he was obsessed with Sword Dao all his life, he couldn't fully comprehend it.
The Southern Feng Shui school has always regarded this person as the number one under Zhou Kuangtian.
"Dharma King, since you are with the government, you announce it."
Master Wang said.
The Yin Yang Dharma King nodded, looking coldly at the crowd, especially at a few people holding clubs in the distance.
"From today onwards, all properties of the Zheng Clan are sealed, especially the treasure vaults of the Zheng Clan. Everything will be managed by the officials. If you have any dissatisfaction, you can take your own accounts to apply to the government, and the property will be unsealed after official confirmation.
Your Zheng Clan's property involves many debts, and these debts cannot be borne by the people of Xiang Island. After all the debts are cleared, compensation will be made based on the industry each of you hold.
But before that, you cannot touch a single blade of grass or tree here."
Upon hearing this, the members of the Zheng Clan, who were just extremely joyful, suddenly felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave.
A few of them only felt as if heaven had collapsed, falling into hell, and wailed miserably.
"You can't do this. These properties belong to our family. This is the money earned by our ancestors. Who do you think you are to take it away?"
"Ancestral earnings? I doubt it."
The Yin Yang Dharma King coldly looked at the person speaking, fiercely flinging the list in his hand, a bill several hundred meters long, spreading from the beginning to the end of the courtyard.
"This list records every investment your Zheng Clan has made. As early as 20 years ago, you secretly used illegal means to siphon private funds by robbing Peter to pay Paul."
"Over the years, you have harmed hundreds of thousands of ordinary people, involving funds of up to hundreds of billions. Previously, it was just because your master was still alive, making it inconvenient to act against you. Do you really think Xiang Island couldn't survive without the Zheng Clan?"
The killing intent on the Yin Yang Dharma King was incredibly intense.
Seeing this, everyone around trembled involuntarily and dared not say another word.
The Yin Yang Dharma King is a cultivator specially dispatched by the government, and he even brought weapons.
It's already clear what the other party wants to do!
They were lucky to keep their lives, and thinking about taking away most of the property was simply courting death.
The treasure vaults were sealed by the government, and the properties were watched by the bigwigs of each family.
Even though the members of the Zheng Clan were unwilling, they could only leave dejectedly.
The same scenario occurred throughout the various estates of the Zheng Clan.
If Lin Beichen had taken over the Zheng Clan, all families would have secretly helped the Zheng Clan considering they were all from Xiang Island.
After all, they don't benefit much, and rather than leaving all the benefits to Lin Beichen, they might as well secretly lend a hand and leave a legacy for the Zheng Clan.
But now it's different.
With a wave of Lin Beichen's hand, most of the secular properties were distributed among them.
Anyone with the ability immediately regarded the Zheng Clan as their own property.
To benefit oneself, of course, the more, the better.
As for past sentiments?
In the face of interests, what sentiments are there?
Even though Master Wang was an outsider, he was no exception.
He looked down on secular properties, but besides secular properties, Lin Beichen also had a profound Array capable of achieving Unity of Heaven and Man.
The same went for the Yin Yang Dharma King.
These cultivators, before the Celestial Gate was opened, their bodies remained in the wilderness while their hearts dwelt in the world.
After the Celestial Gate opened, their bodies were in the world, but their hearts soared to the heavens.
Lin Beichen's Unity of Heaven and Man Array is a great treasure trove, and any opportunity to curry favor with Lin Beichen could not be missed.
After just one day, the Zheng Clan had already become history.
All the families worked together to swallow the assets of the Zheng Clan.
When this news reached the public's ears, the Zheng Clan had already become a thing of the past.
For ordinary people, the influence of the Zheng Clan was enormous.
Generations grew up under the influence of the Zheng Clan.
The roadside breakfast shops, the hotels where weddings, birthdays, and even funerals are held, and the schools, hospitals, and entertainment centers for daily life.
Every aspect involved the Zheng Clan.
While the Zheng Clan was around, they cursed the Zheng Clan every day, but after it was gone, they began to miss the past.
Especially a portion of diehards, although the Zheng Clan didn't give them much benefit, they possessed an inexplicable sense of superiority.
Now that the Zheng Clan has been dealt with by someone from the mainland, they are immediately disgruntled and scold in anger.
"When the Zheng Clan was around, those from the mainland were still wearing patched cotton and linen clothes! What has the world come to, when did we, the people of Xiang Island, become food on a mainlander's plate?"
"I was wondering why the breakfast tasted different recently. The Huanglian buns used to be made with custard, but now they're using fake butter. Truly depraved times."
"Uncle Zhao, I remember you're diabetic. Why are you secretly eating custard buns again? Aren't you afraid of going to the hospital?"
"Old Zhao, didn't you say just last month that you were ripped off by the Zheng Clan's hospital? Why are you now reminiscing about them?"
"You guys stop spreading rumors. When did I ever say that? And, no matter how bad the Zheng Clan was, are they worse than mainlanders?"
In the streets and alleys, there were countless people like Old Zhao.
They clearly hated the Zheng Clan all their lives yet deliberately lied with their eyes wide open.
Besides street gossip, each tabloid newspaper was also vigorously broadcasting.
There are hundreds of tabloid newspapers on the streets of Xiang Island, and to survive, each newspaper agency went to great lengths to find suitable topics.
Celebrity gossip, wealthy family feuds, financial scandals, real estate disputes.
Any sensational news they could find, the tabloids disseminated without regard for their livelihood and influence, only to attract public attention.
Pursuing sales, many tabloid editors even resorted to being insiders for the government.
A major event occurred a month ago.
An editor-in-chief of a tabloid actually infiltrated a gang smuggling transaction site at the port to chase after explosive news.
He indeed found sensational news, capturing a large-scale smuggling transaction.
However, after the report, the gang, based on the related content, directly tracked down their newspaper office and burned it to the ground, with the editor disappearing without a trace.
It wasn't until three days later that someone found him in a nearby market.
Although he wasn't dead, he had been tortured to insanity, with only one leg left, lying in a stinking gutter, desperately crying out. If it weren't for passersby hearing him, he would have been devoured by the rats in the ditch.
Gossip news is very risky, but these past few days, there haven't been any risks at all.
The tabloid editors have been in sheer joy these days.
Whether it's the astronomical changes on Jiulong Mountain or the Zheng Clan's scandals, it's as if every scoop they dig up is explosive.
According to the publication sales released by the Xiang Island Association, the overall average sales for each agency have increased by 70% in these few days.
Along with the sales boom, messages spread.
All households in Xiang Island witnessed the crisis the Zheng Clan faces.
It also piqued their curiosity.
The Zheng Clan was one of the top ten most urban clans in Xiang Island, yet it completely collapsed in just a few days.
What exactly caused this?
