Everyone present nodded slightly. The chaos in Dingfu had indeed exceeded the bottom line.
Fang Yun continued, "I need your help, or rather, I want to make a deal with the Semi-Saint families present. I hope that from now on, the five major families of Jing Country will support me, and my reward is the thirty-year mining rights of minerals in some areas of the Shihan Ancient Land, the thousand-year management rights of the five cities in the Xuemang Realm, and a limited number of half-price divine objects, including Semi-Saint treasures."
The breathing of everyone present became heavy, even the knowledgeable heads of aristocratic families and elders of the Holy Academy were no exception.
No matter when and where, weapons, armor and mechanisms are one of the forces that maintain the foundation of the family, and the rich minerals in the ancient land of Shihan have always been a strategic resource that the human race must compete for.
As for the Blood Ray Realm, it is an ancient land coveted by every family. It is very similar to the Holy Yuan Continent in every aspect and has been tacitly recognized by the Holy Academy as a technology reserve base and one of the future refuges.
The divine objects that Fang Yun brought back from the Holy Burial Valley made all the holy families jealous. For many of these things, even the Kong family had very few stocks or even no stocks at all.
Whether it is minerals, Blood-Maned City or divine objects, they can greatly enhance the power of the family.
All of these can help a family survive longer and are related to the rise and fall of a family.
For any noble family, maintaining prosperity does not rely on ordinary wealth such as gold, silver and treasures, but what they need is exactly what Fang Yun can provide them.
However, Fang Yun’s requirements were not small either.
Full support means that the five major families will completely ally with Fang Yun, and as long as it does not harm the core interests of the five major families, Fang Yun will be the first in everything they do.
They believe in Fang Yun and understand Fang Yun's way of doing things. If they really want to form an alliance, Fang Yun will not overuse them because Fang Yun is a person who likes mutual benefit and win-win, especially for his allies.
However, as a noble family, they cannot place their bets on any one person, as they are naturally distrustful of anyone.
Throughout history, there are too many aristocratic families who lost everything and declined drastically because of a wrong bet, and have not been able to recover to this day, such as the family that bet on Xiang Yu and the family that bet on Sun Quan.
Fang Yun’s opponent is too strong, so strong that even the five major families joining forces cannot defeat him.
Fang Yun seemed to see through the doubts of the five great families and said, "This transaction is limited to the territory of Jing State. In other words, I need the five great families to support me unconditionally within Jing State. As for other countries, other families, and even the Holy Academy, you don't have to show up. I can't afford such a high price."
The people from the five major families looked at the elders of the Holy Academy who were sitting next to Fang Yun.
Outside of Jing State, the five major families combined are no match for any single palace, not to mention that so many palaces are standing behind Fang Yun, either openly or secretly.
If it were a few months ago, everyone in the aristocratic families would suspect that Fang Yun was just taking advantage of the power of others, but everything that happened in the past few months has proved that Fang Yun has formed a solid alliance with the Criminal Hall, the Work Hall, and the Agricultural Hall, and the three halls cooperate with Fang Yun in every way.
The support from the Medical Hall and the War Hall is slightly weaker, but at least they will not become Fang Yun's enemies.
To a certain extent, the cooperation between the five major families and Fang Yun is basically equivalent to cooperating with the Criminal Hall, the Works Hall, and the Agriculture Hall. Even if the profits in the future are not great, the losses are within an acceptable range.
What's more, the Zhang Heng family, one of the five major families, is destined to form an alliance with Fang Yun, because the Zhang Heng family is a giant in Gongdian who is as famous as the Mohist family.
Moreover, Fang Yun is already Jingguo's last hope.
If Fang Yun fails, the five great families will have to join other countries. Even if other countries will welcome them with open arms, it still cannot change the fact that they are helpless.
Aristocratic families may be defeated in a battle, but they will never surrender without a fight.
The five great families did not respond immediately, but communicated secretly through letters.
Soon, tea was served and everyone discussed secretly while drinking tea.
After a full hour, Zhang Hu, the head of the Zhang Heng family, was the first to agree and expressed his willingness to form an alliance with Fang Yun. As long as the Jing Kingdom did not fall, the alliance would be permanent.
The Chen Sheng family was the second to agree because they had no choice.
Chen Sheng is the only and last semi-saint in Jing Kingdom. He has the most serious conflicts with semi-saints from various countries. Unlike other families, even if he has conflicts with other families, they have gradually faded many years ago.
If Jingguo cannot be saved, then the countries and families that have grudges against Chen Sheng's family will definitely not give up, and the Chen family will inevitably fall into the abyss. What's more, the Chen family's foundation is difficult to compare with those ancient families. If Fang Yun helps, even if the plan fails, it can slow down the decline.
Cui Sheng's family was the third to agree, because Jingguo could be said to be jointly founded by Cui Sheng and Jingguo Taizu, and they were most reluctant to see Jingguo destroyed. Therefore, Cui Sheng's family had been secretly supporting Fang Yun, and there was a unified voice within Cui Sheng's family. If Fang Yun had a conflict with the royal family, they would try to stand on Fang Yun's side. There were even people in Cui Sheng's family who were willing to support Fang Yun's ascension to the throne, as long as the country's name remained unchanged.
The Gongyang family then agreed. The Gongyang family is an orthodox Confucian family. The semi-saint Gongyang Gao was taught by Confucius' disciple Zixia, and later by Dong Zhongshu. Their status in Confucianism is second only to the family established by Confucius' disciples. Even if the plan fails, Fang Yun's enemies will not target them too much.
The last is the family of Ban Gu. When the three heroes of the Ban family established the Ban family in the Han Dynasty, they inherited a radical foreign policy. Both Ban Gu and Ban Chao had participated in foreign wars. As a family of historians, although the Ban family was not as powerful as the Gongyang family, it was more pragmatic, so they always appreciated Fang Yun.
Since the heads of the five major families all agreed, Fang Yun and the heads of the five major families faced the holy temple and swore an oath of blood covenant in the presence of the guests.
Before the family dinner ended, Fang Yun took out some treasures that were very abundant in the Holy Burial Valley but extremely rare in the Holy Yuan Continent, and gave them to everyone who came. The very precious life-giving fruit and longevity fruit were just accompaniments.
However, Fang Yun secretly gave Chen Sheng's family a little more things, and they were all magical objects that were effective against semi-saints.
The next morning, the five major families of Jing State jointly announced that in view of the extremely serious situation in Jing State, for the well-being of the people, for the development of Jing State, and to resist the demon world, the five major families fully support the crackdown operations of the Severe Strike Force and fully support the reforms in Jing State.
The news swept across Panorama Country like a tsunami.
In the Shengyuan Continent, the status of the holy families has always been higher than that of the royal family.
For many things, no one pays attention when the royal family publicizes them, but once the holy families make a statement, the significance is far greater than that of the royal family.
Even though Fang Yun used the Council of State to threaten and bribe people yesterday, not a single family left the palace.
Today, within an hour after the five major families issued a statement, the families that surrounded the imperial palace dispersed in a hurry, and some families even cleaned the ground before leaving.
The imperial court officials have to follow the rules and regulations, and the law does not punish the masses, but the aristocratic families are different. They do not need evidence or laws. If necessary, they will use all means to deal with their enemies.