The Heavens Start to Reverse Fate from Martial Arts

Chapter 49: Contract Signed, Origin Harvested

Three days later.

The living room of the east wing of the palace.

Wang Yi and Li Yuan and his son sat around the table, all three of them looking solemn.

On the desk was a set of exquisite and elegant writing instruments, as well as two contracts written with text. The official seal, public seal, and private seal were all on the documents, and they would take effect only after being signed and sealed.

"My friend, I have staked my entire fortune on this. Whether I can sleep peacefully underground in the future depends entirely on the future achievements of Limin Commercial Bank..."

Li Yuan's face was solemn and his tone was indescribably serious. He had put a lot of effort into making this decision. Appeasing the tribesmen was secondary. The most important thing was to convince himself.

It is easy to convince others, but it is really difficult to convince yourself.

In just three days, his hair, which originally had a few strands of black, had turned completely white, and his face looked much more haggard.

Wang Yi solemnly assured, "I will definitely not let Mr. Li down. The merger of the two companies has deepened our emotions, interests, and positions, which will make the alliance between the two sides more solid. Only those who are in the same boat can help each other. This is an eternal truth."

Li Yuan nodded in agreement. If it were anyone else, he would have sneered and refuted it, but the boy in front of him had the qualifications and ability to say this.

He took a deep breath, but couldn't help but ask, "Young man, can you tell me a little about the other two components? I'm really curious."

According to the terms in the contract document, after the Toyo Trading Company is merged into the Limin Trading Company, it will receive 30,000 taels of gold and 30% of the shares, which is a guarantee for the Li family.

Limin Commercial Bank retained 50% of the shares as a guarantee of its voice, but the whereabouts of the remaining 2% were unknown to the other party no matter how he asked.

Wang Yi smiled and shook his head: "Mr. Li, now is not the right time. When the time comes to let you know, I will naturally not hide it."

The fewer people who knew about the alliance with Nalan Yuande, the better. Although it might not be kept secret for long, the later they knew about it, the better it would be for him. Naturally, there was no reason to point it out.

Li Da smiled and said, "Father, if the teacher doesn't want to say it, there's no need for you to keep asking. When it's time for us to know, the teacher will naturally tell us clearly. Since both parties have no objection to the contract document, let's sign the contract as soon as possible, so that we can quickly integrate the industries and personnel of the two major companies."

Li Yuan glanced at his third son, rolled his eyes in annoyance, stood up, picked up the brush, dipped it in ink, and signed the two contracts.

Wang Yi smiled, stood up, took the brush handed over by the other party, and also signed on the contract document.

"Hahaha... my friend, we will be a family from now on. We must celebrate today." Li Yuan laughed heartily and put the contract document into his arms. He seemed particularly happy.

Wang Yi chuckled and nodded: "We must celebrate this properly." He looked towards the door of the living room and ordered loudly: "Ah Fu, have someone bring the wine and food from the kitchen."

"Okay, sir!" Ah Fu's voice came from outside the living room door, followed by a series of light footsteps that quickly faded away, and soon a series of light footsteps were heard outside.

Ah Fu led the maids and servants in the mansion into the living room. They each carried a wooden tray and placed plates of delicious dishes and fine wine on the eight-immortal table. The house was soon filled with the aroma of food and wine.

As soon as the maids and servants left, Yan Zhendong hurried over. He came to Wang Yi's side, leaned over and whispered: "Sir, the news I got from the sea merchants is that all the foreigners in Jishan died in the sea. It is said that their bodies were already rotten when they were found, and there were dead seabirds lying all over the ship."

Wang Yi nodded slightly to show that he understood, and pointed to an empty seat beside him, saying, "Master Yan, you've come just in time. Let's sit down and have a few drinks together."

After saying that, he summoned the panel and took a look at it. Looking at the extra thirty points of origin, a look of satisfaction flashed in his eyes. 366 points of origin were another step closer to the number of one thousand.

Li Yuan's right ear twitched a few times, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and he laughed heartily: "It's been a long time since I drank with Master Yan. This is a good opportunity to have a few drinks."

Being an old and cunning man, he deduced a lot of things from Yan Zhendong's whisper and had a rough guess about the whereabouts of the two components.

A smile appeared on Yan Zhendong's face and he sat down. The news of the complete destruction of the foreigners made him in a good mood. After getting to know each other for a while, he didn't hate Li Yuan as much as before. Of course, this was also due to Li Da's identity.

The four of them toasted each other until the evening when they finally left.

Before leaving, Wang Yi handed the medical plan to Li Da, asking him to take advantage of the merger of the two major trading companies to put the pharmaceutical workshop into operation directly, and also let him collect precious medicinal materials that are hundreds of years old for him in preparation for refining Qi and Blood Pills.

Of course it would be best to collect thousand-year-old medicinal herbs, but in this world, don't hold out too much hope. Just think about it, it's impossible.

With the departure of Li Yuan and his son, only Wang Yi and Yan Zhendong were left in the living room.

Ah Fu led the rest of the maids and servants to clean up the living room, served a pot of hangover tea to the two of them, and then quietly left with the others.

Wang Yi picked up the teacup, blew on it, took a sip, raised his eyes to look at Yan Zhendong, and asked, "Have you decided on the guards?"

Yan Zhendong nodded and said seriously: "Fifty people, all of them are elite guards of the business, they have families and are well-informed, and they have a good reputation among the people."

He spent a lot of time thinking about the selection of guards and asked many people for their opinions, in order to ensure that the candidates were reliable and loyal.

Wang Yi nodded slightly, and after a moment's thought, he said, "I'll give you a task. Select some tough guys from the company's guards. I need to build a secret guard team. The selection must be careful. Only reliable people and those with weak martial arts qualifications will be selected. This is a team that focuses on killing. Li Hu is the future captain of the secret guards. Let him accompany you when selecting people."

He will invest a lot of resources in training secret guards, and the selection of personnel needs to be cautious to avoid training some ungrateful people.

Yan Zhendong's eyes flashed with surprise, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Sir, I'm afraid that there will be very few people who can be selected. I think... it would be better to adopt a group of orphans and beggars and train them from childhood. After all, martial arts should be practiced from a young age, so that they can achieve great success in the future."

"Then we should do both. Isn't the Merchants' Academy going to be ready soon? We can send all the orphans and beggars we adopt to it. While accumulating talents for the Merchants, we can also teach them advanced martial arts."

Wang Yi pondered for a moment and then said, "Inform Li Da and let the students of the academy study both civil and military. This will give them more choices and guarantees in the future."

Yan Zhendong nodded in agreement. Now he had a deep understanding of the inseparability of literature and martial arts. If he could learn literature from a young age and understand the Xingyiquan Sutra of Grandmaster Guo Yunshen, he might have a chance to enter the Huajin level in this life. Unfortunately, there is no if...

As the sky gradually darkened, the two of them carefully discussed many issues regarding guards and secret guards, and did not disperse until late at night.

(End of this chapter)