bioinnovel Chapter 361 Too Clever for One's Own Goods: Buying and Selling
Chapter 361 Too Clever for One's Own Goods: Buying and Selling
After posing the question, Feng Zhenghao leaned back in his seat, waiting for his children's answers.
During the negotiations with Liangshan earlier, Granny Amu made a statement that was true: the Feng family may seem to be at its peak, controlling the large and powerful Tianxia Hui and the Tianxia Hui Group with a market value of hundreds of billions, but the core members of the Feng family are too few in number.
Feng Zhenghao has five children. His eldest son and eldest daughter had disagreements with him and left home. Now he has two daughters and a son by his side. His youngest daughter is still young. Feng Xingtong is not only highly talented, but also insightful. He regards her as his successor.
As for Feng Shayan, scheming and plotting are not suitable for her; it would be better to let her protect Feng Xingtong.
This is precisely why Feng Zhenghao brought them along. The Feng family may seem prosperous now, but in reality, they are like oil on a hot stove. If they are not careful, they will lose everything, and the Tianxia Society will become someone else's wedding dress.
Seeking protection from Liangshan was a strategic move by Feng Zhenghao, aimed at both preserving the Feng family's assets and providing them with a way out.
But this cunning old fox, who had been in business for a long time but had never actually set foot in Liangshan, still couldn't have imagined that while he was scheming against Liangshan, the people of Liangshan were also eyeing the Feng family.
However, what Liangshan valued was not the Feng family's assets, but the Feng family members themselves.
Inside the carriage, Feng Shayan didn't think about her father's question. "Judging from your happy expression, you must have succeeded."
After hearing her sister's answer, Feng Xingtong shook her head, then nodded again in response to Feng Zhenghao's expectant gaze, and said, "Father, your plan has only just begun. Today's success is just the beginning."
"Haha, Xing Tong is right."
Feng Zhenghao looked out the car window at the endless, wild mountains and forests, feeling the swaying of the car as it rolled over the rugged mountain road, and the smile that belonged to a businessman reappeared.
"What can be done in one go is called a sale, while what can be operated in the long term should be called a business."
"The project in Liangshan cannot be completed overnight, which means that the Feng family's exchanges with Liangshan will not be limited to today. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future to openly and legitimately visit Liangshan."
Feng Zhenghao glanced at the mother-of-pearl inlaid lacquer box beside him and reached out to stroke the shimmering mother-of-pearl pieces. He had commissioned it at a high price, and it was not supposedly Feng Tianyang's keepsake.
His grandfather didn't reminisce much about the past in his later years. He only mentioned a few old stories to his descendants, none of which were his own experiences in Liangshan.
"As a businessman, you need to learn to take advantage of every opportunity, and even create opportunities for yourself by combining them with other conditions."
"Although Liangshan doesn't have a strong desire for the [Spirit Binding and Commanding] technique, as long as there's even a sliver of hope, the Feng family might be accepted in Liangshan."
"The pinnacle of wizarding arts—I think no wizard can refuse the power to control spirits."
Feng Xingtong looked at her father's cold calculations in his words. Although there was some warmth in his eyes as a parent, it was more like the shrewdness and cunning of a businessman.
He was used to his father's attitude and spoke his mind without reservation: "But Father, wouldn't this take too long? There are too many things that could happen along the way."
Are you really ready?
"You little brat, it's not time for you to worry too much. As for the necessary preparations, the World Society has already taken care of them."
Feng Zhenghao turned his gaze to his son's still-childish face. While feeling a mixture of love and helplessness, his shrewdness as a businessman clearly calculated the gains and losses.
"There's not much we can do, just protect the Tianxia Society and let this business giant in North China and even the whole country thrive in our hands. Then someone will naturally protect the safety of the Feng family."
"The lives of the Feng family are no longer just the lives of a few of us; they are connected to the lives of millions of other families."
"If the World Society is at peace, then every household will be safe and sound, and the Feng family will naturally be safe; but if the World Society is gone, those who want our Feng family dead will no longer be just our old enemies."
When Feng Zhenghao spoke of the Tianxia Society, the business empire he had personally built, his tone was filled with pride.
"As for the Wang family, the Feng family can't compete with them in terms of supernatural abilities, but when it comes to business acumen, your father has never been afraid of anyone."
"Um."
Seeing Feng Zhenghao's confident demeanor, the two children of the Feng family remained silent and instead began discussing the Gao family's banquet.
"Dad, shall we go to the Gao family's banquet?"
Feng Zhenghao took out the invitation that Gao Zhan had given him in Liangshan, opened the dark red paper, stared at the ink that smelled of medicine on the paper, and said with a smile, "Go, why wouldn't I go?"
"The shamans dare not go south, but the Feng family's spirit-binding and general-dispatching abilities dare to go north. As long as the Tianxia Society is still in the hands of the Feng family, the Gao family will not be able to set up a trap."
"I've heard so much about the Gao family's banquets. This feast is comparable to the Peach Banquet. How could the Feng family possibly be absent? Come with me and broaden your horizons."
"Okay, Dad."
The Feng siblings nodded. Feng Zhenghao looked at his two children and was about to nod in relief when he suddenly stopped and looked at Feng Xingtong.
"Xing Tong, it will be the 100th day memorial for Grandpa Wang Zizhong soon. Why don't you come with me to visit him?"
Hearing her father mention the kind old man who had watched her grow up, Feng Xingtong revealed a more genuine emotion than during their conversation—a mixture of sadness and relief.
He felt saddened by the passing of his grandfather, Wang Zizhong, because he had lost a kind and sincere elder, but he was also happy that Wang Zizhong had let go of his obsessions and faced death with equanimity.
When a person is born, the primordial energy differentiates into life and nature, the three souls take shape, and the seven spirits reside in the body, which are connected to a person's seven emotions and six desires.
After a person dies, their vital energy transforms into a gentle breeze, and their flesh turns into mud.
Prince Zhong couldn't let go of his wife, Duanmu Ying, and his obsession lingered. So he asked Feng Xingtong to use the "Spirit Binding and General Dispatch" technique to imprison his three souls. But what was preserved was Prince Zhong himself, or the embodiment of his obsession with his wife?
Even Feng Xingtong, who had spent more than ten years with "Grandpa Zizhong," couldn't tell the difference. He only knew that when Prince Zizhong's soul dissipated, the life of this kind old man could finally end peacefully, without being disturbed by him or anyone else.
Mentioning Wang Zizhong, a hint of sadness suddenly filled the carriage. Feng Zhenghao considered himself a businessman by nature, and scheming had become an instinct. Even though his initial encounter with Wang Zizhong was by chance, he still harbored some scheming in his heart.
But the kind old man didn't care. He helped Feng Xingtong wholeheartedly, treated him as his own son, and even regarded him as an unnamed successor, teaching him medical skills.
The Feng family owes this great master a great debt, and now they can only express their gratitude at his tombstone.