After understanding that he will have 2nd elder's support from now on, Zhang Tianwen changed most of his plans from before awakening. Now he doesn't want to stay low key at all, because trying to slowly increase his cultivation at this point, where he has enemies like second elder is nothing more than seeking death.
At the same time, he also doesn't want to fight or rob, risking his life, because in his opinion those are all low-level things.
I mean, who makes more money than businessmen and politicians?
At first with his status in 1st space ka division and support from 2nd elder he decided to do some scams or political moves, while he was looking for things he found that wines are not packaged properly in this world at all. After learning about this for the first time he felt like seeing free spirit stones falling from the sky.
Then he immediately asked Zhang Yan to investigate about this, mostly about various popular wines and taverns and their complete details.
He selected this tavern for many reasons after thorough enquiries. Most importantly the owner of this tavern, although early rank 3, he has no connections and also has a bad reputation. Someone of rank 3 of course manages a place where real money flows in thousands of spirit stones.
This is a necessary risk, and he also knows that eventually one day his small scheme will come out and the owner will definitely find out. The owner definitely can't accept this, as, if things like this happen, he will lose his customers and even risk heavy losses.
But so what?
Will he dare to come and make trouble for him who is from 1st space ka division? If Tianwen did something excessive like killing or poisoning he may come to him questioning. But for mixing water a tiny bit? Questioning a Zhang family member? That too someone like him who had status.
If the owner really did that, people would only look at him like an idiot and instead question him back for not managing his workers properly.
Worst Case, if things really went out of control, Tianwen can just say that it was all done by this evil Chen Tao, who manipulated them, the innocent kids from the Zhang family, and even execute this guy righteously.
Chen Tao who don't know what he is thinking lowered his voice. "This Chen is not doubting your words. It's just… if we sell more of them or if someone traces the source…I cannot withstand that kind of trouble."
It was not refusal — it was seeking a guarantee.
Tianwen looked at him, expression calm.
"Quantity won't be much, at most 20 jars in 1 or 2 days, if you compared to the hundreds of original wines which you sell daily its almost negligible. If anyone appears rich or if your owner doubts, just sell real wine. Don't worry, even if things went bad, I will ask my teacher to intervene and nothing will happen. Worst case if you are in bad situation, I will take you under my wing, anyone working for me I won't treat badly." Tianwen reassured him grandly with his reason.
Chen Tao's eyes moved slightly, kind of satisfied. Seeing that this guy finally stopped making trouble Tianwen finally talked about money.
"I will give 10% of all the income to you, for protecting and handling I and my brother here will take 20% each, as for rest I will give it to my teacher, he is a rank 3 cultivator, I wont say him anything about this to him for now , but if we are in real danger and he learns about it he will definitely interfere to help us, as we are helping him gain some money."
That was a lie, he doesn't plan to give anything to his teacher. The reason he used his teacher's name is that he is a bit embarrassed to say that he will take 70% without doing any work. On the side note he is using his teachers name to reassure this Chen Tao and also warn him at the same time. Just in case if this guy wants to pull any tricks behind his back, he will now think twice.
Chen Tao cupped his fists, showing respect on his face.
"In that case… this Chen is at ease." replying he left carrying the wine jars.
Looking at the back of Chen Tao, Tianwen sighed feeling nostalgic. Just a few days ago, he was also facing almost the same situation; just like Chen Tao, he also acted respectfully before the second elder.
"Power huh?? It indeed feels good " he chuckled lightly.
"Brother, will there be any problems?" Zhang Yan, who had stayed silent all this time asked. Zhang Yan didn't think much about the profit share, because he knew it clearly in his heart — without Tianwen, with his own ability, he wouldn't even be able to earn anything, let alone touch a business that dealt in hundreds of spirit stones. But he is really worried about possible dangers.
"There won't be any problems" Tianwen replied simply.
"But just in case, you come here every day. Don't interfere with anything but watch over Chen Tao. How much he sells, who he talks to, whether there's any unusual movement."
Zhang Yan nodded.
"I'll collect the spirit stones in the morning and handle the distribution. Also be careful of the owner or anyone else with high cultivation, although if there is danger my teacher will help it's always better to take as many preventive measures as possible." he instructed Zhang Yan.
In fact, at first Tianwen wanted to do this business alone, but he is afraid that Chen Tao might pull some tricks on him. For example, by using his name if that guy sold more fake wine or even poison someone and throw the blame on him, he will really have nothing to defend himself, so he added his brother, although he will lose some money he will gain security.
Doing scams is really dangerous, we need to be careful of righteous guys, we need to be careful of competitors, we need to be careful of people like Chen Tao who might scam him in reverse, we also need to make sure that we have someone we can trust taking care of everything.
There is also a fact that if he has to take care of everything it's too time consuming, it's better to use Zhang Yan, this will decrease his personal involvement, and he can also better focus on cultivation.