Chapter 382: The Yan Clan's Choice

This matter is due to our Yan Clan's lax oversight, which caused trouble for the second branch; our Yan Clan voluntarily offers three shops in Yan City as compensation, and we ask the Princess Consort to accept it.

The Yan Clan also gave it much thought, and finally made this decision reluctantly.

The three shops are not the point.

The point is the three shops in Yan City; that is their core position, in the Yan Clan's headquarters.

This doesn't look like an apology; rather, it seems like……

Defection?

Jiang Yunchu looked at the Yan Clan Head and said, amused, 'Clan Head, please explain the matter clearly; otherwise this Princess Consort wouldn't dare accept it.'

The Yan Clan Head also hesitated, wondering whether his decision was right or wrong.

But those people are going too far; does the Yan Clan still have a way out?

'This is a letter sent to the Yan Clan three days ago.' At that moment, the Yan Clan Head took out a letter and handed it over with both hands.

Zi Su took it, checked that there was no problem, then placed it before her master.

Jiang Yunchu smiled, rubbed the paper, and it was this kind of paper again……

Interesting.

Those people really seem to be everywhere; wherever I go, I see their traces.

She slowly opened the letter, saw its contents and some threatening words, and smiled lightly, 'Is the Yan Clan preparing to pick a side?'

'Aren't you afraid that someone desperate will drag the Yan Clan into ruin?'

She spoke slowly, looking at the Yan Clan Head with an amused expression.

In her gaze, there was no scrutiny, as if everything was already in this Princess Consort's heart.

The Yan Clan Head stared, then said, 'Our Yan Clan can do business without scruples, but we are people of Da Ning; if Da Ning falls, what use is the Yan Clan? We would just be slaves of a fallen nation.'

He is a ruthless person; he can earn dirty money and set up schemes for his own benefit, but he knows his roots, not because he has any great patriotic sentiment.

Rather, he clearly knows that when the birds are gone, the bow is stored away; when the rabbit is dead, the hound is cooked.

With those people's methods, will the Yan Clan have a good ending? No!

'Heh—' Jiang Yunchu chuckled lightly, and when looking at the Yan Clan Head, she actually gave him a few assessing glances.

'Patriotism or selfishness, either is fine.'

'Choosing a side isn't scary; what's scary is……'

'I have always been petty; toward traitors, I will not spare them from tendon extraction, skinning, bone crushing, and scattering ashes.'

She stood up, and her aura instantly pressed down.

The Yan Clan Head had just been standing when, suddenly, his legs went straight to kneel; the immense pressure made him dare not resist in the slightest.

If he had been hesitant before, now he has made up his mind.

'I may have a bad reputation, but once I choose something, I will see it through to the end, including picking a side.' The Yan Clan Head gritted his teeth, finished speaking, and then let out a heavy sigh.

Because his pressure had gradually faded.

Only a sheen of cold sweat and a pale face remained.

'I believe.'

She believed!

Before meeting the Yan Clan Head, she had already understood his temperament, not only having learned about the Zhuang Clan, but also investigated the Yan Clan's past and its experiences over the years.

Even down to every individual in the Yan Clan.

'I actually have a cooperation plan: I don't need the shops, but my workshop's products must all be stocked in the Yan Clan's shops. What do you think?'

The shops, the Yan City shops, are a thorn in the Yan Clan's heart; she dislikes being monitored, and she thinks the Yan Clan dislikes it too.

Whether a person is loyal or not has little to do with whether they are monitored.

'A workshop?' At that moment, the Yan Clan Head suddenly realized something.

'The Zhuang Clan's workshop, is it yours?'

Having asked that question, he actually already had the answer in his heart.

Previously I thought it was the Zhuang Clan cooperating with the Regent Prince's Manor; actually, it's like this—no wonder Kang Yun is in charge, and no wonder the Regent's Consort came all the way to Zhuang City.

As it turns out, the workshop's behind-the-scenes person has always been the Princess Consort, and the formula has always been in the Regent Prince's Manor.

The Zhuang Clan is merely the front-facing party, not a cooperative partner……

Then what the Yan Clan has done……

'I didn't know that was the Princess Consort's workshop; please forgive me, Princess Consort.' The Yan Clan Head sweated more, thinking of his earlier arrogant conduct; now he regrets it—is it too late to make amends?

Jiang Yunchu smiled, then shouted outside, 'Bring tea for the Yan Clan Head.'

The Yan Clan Head sat to one side, trembling and unsteady.

'Speaking like this, I actually never intended to occupy the Yan Clan's shop share.' She lifted a cup of tea, didn't drink it, just held it lightly in her hand.

'My workshop mainly focuses on skin care, and it never conflicts with the Yan Clan's rouges and powders.'

Her words made the Yan Clan Head even more panicked.

They were also afraid; out of a merchant's sense of crisis, they therefore acted preemptively against the workshop.

But they didn't expect that the Zhuang Clan's workshop was united, causing them to try to steal a chicken and end up losing the rice.

'How does the Princess Consort want to cooperate?' Although the Yan Clan Head had already chosen a side, out of a merchant's instinct, since we're talking, we should discuss it properly.

Jiang Yunchu actually had a bit more esteem for this Yan Clan Head.

'You provide the shops, I provide the goods; profits split 20-80, you get 20%, I get 80%.' Jiang Yunchu spoke directly, leaving no room for negotiation.

She didn't want the shops, and she conceded the two percent.

The Yan Clan Head thought, then frowned, 'Princess Consort, we merchants believe in asking a high price upfront and paying on the spot.'

'My share is two, yours eight; the Yan Clan's portion is too small—this deal yields no profit for us.' When the Yan Clan Head talked business, his earlier demeanor vanished, and he instead earnestly haggled.

Jiang Yunchu, however, smiled: "Wrong."

"Head of the Yan family, wrong again."

"Oh?" The head of the Yan family, somewhat surprised, said: "I, the humble one, would like to hear the details."

"I've said before, it's profit distribution; I bear all the raw material costs of the goods, as well as labor and workshop expenses."

"But what about the head of the Yan family?"

"You only need to provide the shop's location, and that's enough."

"If sold, the Yan family gains two; if not sold, the Yan family loses nothing — a sure-profit deal."

"The head of the Yan family says there's no profit? That's somewhat excessive."

Jiang Yunchu lifted the teacup in her hand, took a light sip, and her half-smiling gaze also turned toward the head of the Yan family.

The head of the Yan family thought carefully; according to the princess consort's words, the Yan family indeed was a sure-profit deal.

"Furthermore..."

Just as the head of the Yan family hadn't finished thinking, Jiang Yunchu's words interrupted him again: "There's a term called chain-driven benefit."

"When you go into the shop to buy my goods, wouldn't you conveniently pick up a Yan family rouge as well?"

"I see, the Yan family profits."

The head of the Yan family's mouth twitched; this regent's consort, not going to mix in the marketplace, is truly wasting her talent.

He wasn't stupid either; he listened carefully and understood everything.