novelraw Chapter 207: Funding is tight, but this won't stump Tong Yuheng.
Chapter 207: Funding is tight, but this won't stump Tong Yuheng.
Currently, the families and individuals registered with the Ancient Martial Arts Association all have mediocre cultivation techniques. They have limited cultivation resources, and even the good things they have are not fully utilized.
She couldn't give away her family's cultivation techniques to just anyone, nor did she dare to provide large quantities of particularly good pills. So, she used Dong Wuyou's name to release some cultivation resources, giving some ancient martial artists who were stuck at a bottleneck more opportunities to improve.
She underestimated the allure of pills to ancient martial artists. She originally thought that selling one pill for a thousand or eight hundred yuan would be an astronomical price, but she never expected that those crazy martial artists would actually drive up the value of a single Essence Pill to tens of thousands of yuan!
The powerful ancient martial arts families were alarmed. They even conducted a thorough search of Huanxi, the address where Dong Wuyou registered her family's address, investigating every household with the surname Dong. Unfortunately, no one found the woman named Dong Wuyou.
Everyone speculated that she must have a powerful family behind her, and that this family might even have martial artists at the "Land Immortal" level, and that Dong Wuyou was a junior member of the family who had come out to gain experience.
She was reckless, arrogant, and cunning, acting on her own whims, all of which indicated she had a strong foundation and powerful backing. It's said that the Yao family overseas had designs on her, but unable to find her, they turned their attention to the Qiu family, only to be swiftly wiped out. Aside from the elderly, women, and children who hadn't committed any crimes, all the other martial artists in her family mysteriously disappeared!
It was indeed Tong Yuheng who did this. At that time, she had just established herself overseas and was just getting into the swing of her professional studies. Li Chengsong compiled and summarized some information from China and showed it to her. Grandpa Li would also pass on information about the conflicts in the ancient martial arts world to them.
Tong Yuheng discovered that the Yao family, who had previously targeted his own family, had now turned against the Qiu family, injuring several of the Qiu family's younger members, including Qiu Lancheng.
Aren't they getting in the way of my wealth? I have to get rid of them so I can make a name for myself!
So, while she was on vacation for a few days, she wiped out the Yao family overseas! She threw the corpses of those Yao family warriors into the Qionghua Secret Realm's trial area, which was full of demonic beasts, and made sure there wasn't even a trace of them left!
After finishing this task, she decisively left and went about her business. Later, in the name of Dong Wuyou, she wrote a letter to the Qiu family, saying that she had left them some compensation in a bank safe deposit box, and had also increased the quantity of pills to be shipped, and gave them the password to retrieve them.
As a result, Master Dong's elixirs, which the Qiu family represented, sold out once again, generating a large amount of precious medicinal herbs and a substantial sum of money. She was only in her early twenties, and in this one fell swoop, she achieved financial freedom!
It seems that donating half of the money was the right thing to do. It's much better to do something meaningful than to let it rot in the Ancient Martial Arts Association's account.
I've heard that foreign countries are conducting research on superpowers, genetics, and even a Star Wars program. I wonder how big the gap is between us and them. At present, developing science and technology is still the most important thing for the country.
Li Chengsong and she did not study in the same country, and they studied different majors, which were quite cutting-edge. The country had strict controls on this and did not accept Chinese students.
Tong Yuheng was naturally not satisfied with this. She wanted to set up a studio mainly composed of our own people, under the guise of researching household appliances, to conduct some special research!
The two of them were on a long-term mission, and their superiors had given them a very important list of people they needed to contact and protect. So, in between studying various courses, they would participate in all sorts of activities to prepare themselves for establishing contact with their mission objectives.
At this moment, Tong Yuheng was at a banquet hosted by a Chinese entrepreneur, wearing a traditional Chinese cheongsam, holding a glass of red wine, and chatting happily with a group of Chinese scholars. Through these occasions, she made many friends and learned a lot of important information.
She had been trained in Western banquet etiquette in her previous life, and through intensive study and application of the local language during this period, she became even more adept at interacting with people.
She is now a distant relative of a branch of the Tong family that came overseas many years ago; this was arranged for her by higher authorities. Indeed, some members of the Tong family emigrated during the warlord era, and this family has a very friendly attitude towards the new country, making it suitable for her to use this identity to interact within certain circles.
The family welcomed her and offered her a place to stay on their estate, but she declined. She said she would focus her energy on her studies and that renting a place near the school would be more suitable.
She came under the guise of studying, and her family had no idea of the young couple's true purpose.
One of the relatives surnamed Tong, who is already ninety years old, still remembers Tong Yuheng's great-grandmother, that very wise and business-savvy aunt. Back then, it was with her guidance that their branch of the family crossed the ocean and settled here.
They thought they could stay away from war, but who knew that more than a decade later, war would ignite all over the world? Where is there any peaceful place left? Their ability to gain a foothold here is the result of the hard work of several generations.
Tong Yuheng came to seek refuge using her real identity. They checked her information and found it to be legitimate. They also knew that they were there to learn new technologies for the country, so they happily accepted this cousin. An uncle from the Tong family even helped her find a school and arranged for Li Chengsong to marry into the family.
Upon their departure, orders came down to Tong Yuheng as the person in charge, responsible for developing the action plan, while Li Chensong was in charge of liaison and personnel deployment. Because the people they needed to contact were scattered, they had to temporarily separate and operate under the guise of international students.
Li Chengsong went to study mechanical dynamics, while Tong Yuheng set her sights on cutting-edge technologies—new materials research and biopharmaceutical engineering. She could attend the theoretical courses for these two majors, but it was difficult for her to enter the relevant research labs to conduct experiments.
Tong Yuheng finally solved the problem with his money, giving a professor ten small yellow croakers as a bribe, thus becoming an unofficial member of his research group, a free laborer who could temporarily participate in their research project.
Tong Yuheng's task here is to study, to study hard, and to collect all the materials she can access, storing them in a separate area within the planting space.
It must be said that the research interests of Professor Zhong and his wife were really helpful. Their instruments and tools, though not very sophisticated, played a very important role in her initial experimental research.
The higher authorities approved some funds for the activity, which Li Chengsong was responsible for coordinating and drawing upon as needed. Funds were tight, but this didn't faze Tong Yuheng. She told Li Chengsong not to send her any more funds; she would handle it herself. Of course, she would collect a patent fee for the results of her own efforts.
So how did she solve the funding problem? By robbing the rich to help the poor, of course!