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Inside the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum Management Office building, pairs of eager yet solemn eyes were fixed on the contracts written in black and white on the conference table.

This involves the establishment of a company, proof of personal investment, and jurisdiction over account funds.

Everything was moving rapidly forward at the negotiating table.

The amount of money involved in this plan was enormous, and even Feng Xiangyu, who had seen a lot, was a little nervous.

The director of the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum Management Office is also the highest authority responsible for appeasing the remnants of the old regime. In the era of this new director, this is all they have to accept, and it has cost them everything.

"I welcome everyone to continue injecting funds to increase your shareholding, and strive to make the mausoleums of the sixty-eight former emperors the largest and best memorial Sacred Land in our Alliance States!"

"Whether you old-timers truly remember the late emperor or are just using this name to freeload, you can tell by raising funds. This will also help weed out some of the slackers!"

"Seven hundred million in fundraising isn't much; it's only a few cents more than what we casually chip in for a contribution!"

"We will assemble the best construction team and provide the best design and construction!"

"This is very likely the largest man-made tourist attraction in our Alliance States!"

"The Dongshan area is vast, so developing it will be quite challenging!"

"Contribute money if necessary, and provide manpower if needed!"

At the negotiating table, Wang Haoran and Zhu Liangping occasionally made noise.

They unexpectedly discovered that this massive construction project had another benefit: it could further reduce the number of members from the old guard and their families, and also continuously reduce the wealth and resources of these Lineage.

If Zhang Xuezhou successfully develops this area, it will attract many former officials and their descendants to live and work here, making it extremely convenient to manage.

Normally, attracting a large number of tourists here would be very difficult, but the Zhang Household family has the most powerful propaganda tool in the Alliance States right now, and Song Fengying is extremely good at marketing. If they continue to promote it in the future, there will be no shortage of people coming here.

Wang Haoran and Zhu Liangping would obviously give strong support to such a project that could achieve multiple benefits at once, and they kept urging Feng Xiangyu to contact relevant people to increase funding.

"Everything is handled on a case-by-case basis. The funds will arrive today, the design plan will be finalized tomorrow, and construction can begin the day after tomorrow," Zhu Liangping assured.

"Everything will be built to the highest standards," Wang Haoran said. "If you agree with the plan, we can even replicate the Louvre Palace in Dongshan on a one-to-one scale!"

"Our family has a design institute; we can mobilize two hundred people to design architectural plans," Zhong Zhenzhen nodded.

"If you need a Northwest style, we can create one. I can even persuade General Zhao to move the artifacts left behind by the Luofu Dynasty after conquering Wanping to this side of Dongshan," Zhou Bo chimed in.

"We also have artifacts from the Louvre Dynasty. If any of you are interested, you can move them over here," Huo Deqian said.

"Qing'an Liuyuan is willing to give its all; all kinds of rare and precious antiques, totaling 42,355 pieces, can be moved to this museum for exhibition," Pei Ying said with a forced smile, trying to ingratiate himself.

"Our Xuanping province has no problem in this regard either!"

Many provincial and municipal committee members began to provide guarantees, increasing the weight of each guarantee.

Seeing that Wang Haoran and Zhu Liangping were leading the way and that they knew Zhang Xuezhou, these people also flattered them, especially Pei Ying, a committee member from Qing'an Province, who practically suggested moving Liuyuan to Dongshan.

Pei Ying dealt with various matters in Qing'an and arrived in Western Capital City to assume his post relatively late. This was also his first time participating in important affairs in Western Capital City, and he was extremely enthusiastic.

Pei Yingqing listed many items in Liuyuan Garden, and he happened to know the exact quantities, which prompted everyone to occasionally mention antiques unique to their own province.

Later, some committee members who couldn't produce any distinctive antiques began to mention cultural relics.

The more the group discussed, the more Feng Xiangyu nodded in agreement, and many respected figures who had come with him repeatedly added funds.

Having fought and clashed with the Western Capital City Sequence Committee for decades, these old-timers had never seen such a policy green light and such a united effort, especially one being planned and built to such high standards.

With cameras recording the conversation, and everyone here being influential and discerning, they wouldn't speak carelessly; every word they uttered was practically a guarantee, something that could be included in a contract.

Many hands make light work; as long as someone takes the lead, the accumulated energy will eventually become terrifyingly high.

"What a pity! If only this money had been used to build space satellites, we could have built a dozen more, almost enough to replenish one-third of the number of Earth-orbiting satellites!"

Among the many attendees, only Luo Gaogao, representing the Luo family, seemed somewhat wistful, feeling that it was a waste to use such a large amount of money to build a museum that combined eating, drinking, entertainment, and historical artifacts.

Of course, Luo Gaogao couldn't control how other people used their money.

Since everyone is willing to contribute money to this project, then the money is being used legally and reasonably, and these people feel it's worthwhile.

But when he thought about how he had begged and pleaded to raise the start-up capital for the aerospace company back then, Zhang Xuezhou didn't say a word, and everyone else was joining in the fun to add more funds. He felt a huge difference.

"The aerospace industry doesn't generate much profit, but the construction of the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum is bound to lose money. Recouping the costs through ticket sales would take forever. Especially since Zhang Xuezhou said that the entire site would be free, with only maintenance and equipment upgrades requiring a small fee. Profitability is a distant prospect. So why are people willing to invest money in it? It's all money going down the drain, so why is it so easy for him to raise funds, but so difficult for me!"

Luo Gaogao had neither a committee member seat nor an alternate member seat, but he still contributed ten million yuan in cash according to the Luo family's standards.

For Luo Gaogao at this moment, this amount of money is not a problem.

What Luo Gaogao couldn't understand was why it was so easy for Zhang Xuezhou to raise the money, while it was so difficult for him to raise the funds, even though the other party hadn't even asked for help.

"Using hype to intimidate others!"

Wang Haoran could perfectly answer the questions that Luo Gaogao couldn't understand.

Sitting in the director's seat at the negotiating table, Zhang Xuezhou took the lead in throwing money at the problem, followed by Wang Haoran and Zhu Liangping adding fuel to the fire, and Pei Ying and others joining in astutely as possible. This passed down the chain of command, almost forming a tacit unspoken rule of spending money.

Furthermore, given Zhang Xuezhou's recent promotion, this sum of money is essentially half investment and half gift, so people's resistance to it will be very low.

In particular, most of the people who came to the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum to participate in the inauguration ceremony were arranged by Li Yingbo, and most of them had some connection with Zhang Xuezhou.

If the news were to leak out privately, Wang Haoran be certain that many other people had invested, but their amounts of money would not be as large as theirs.

Even today, Zhang Xuezhou's network of connections and reputation are indeed worth the price; some people would even join in to curry favor rather than choose to be excluded from the group.

The atmosphere heated up, and even the usually composed negotiator Feng Xiangyu lost his composure, with the second phase of additional funding being added again and again.