After being silent for a long while, Father Xia finally spoke: "You boy, you are so capable, such a noble person as Li Guojiu, you beat him to death with a little trick!"
Ye Xiaotian bowed to him, and said humbly: "My lord, Yuezhang, just played a game of fighting beast chess, like a lion, tiger, leopard, wolf, dog, cat and mouse, big eats small, big snacks, that's all. Uncle Guo has many scruples, There are more constraints, so I have to retreat in spite of the difficulties, it is not Xiaotian's ability."
Father Xia slapped the table heavily, and said angrily, "Am I praising you, huh?" He gasped for breath, leaned back on the chair, and said in a deep voice, "Tell me, what do you want?" Are you willing to let Yingying go because of the condition?"
Ye Xiaotian frowned and said, "Master Yuezhang, Yingying and I really love each other."
Father Xia said contemptuously: "Promotion? Within twenty years, I will guarantee you to be promoted to the fifth rank, how about it?"
Ye Xiaotian said: "Master Yuezhang, Yingying and I really love each other."
Father Xia frowned, and said: "Want to get rich? My Xia family has four gold sand mines, it's a big deal... the old man will give you one, and with this gold sand mine, you will be safe forever!" The expressions of the warriors standing beside him also changed.
Ye Xiaotian said: "Master Yuezhang, Yingying and I really love each other."
Father Xia closed his eyes, then opened them abruptly, and said, "Beauty? I will send you three hundred beautiful girls who are not yet sixteen, how about it?"
Ye Xiaotian said sincerely: "Master Yuezhang, Yingying and I really love each other."
Father Xia stood up suddenly, bursting with anger, Ye Xiaotian also stood up, looking at him without showing any weakness. Father Xia thought for a while, then sat down slowly, and said: "I forgot, you are a respected person. If you are greedy for power, money and beauty, these things are easily available."
Father Xia paused, and then said, "Do you really like my daughter?"
Ye Xiaotian nodded vigorously and said, "Yes!"
Father Xia said: "Then, do you have the heart to harm her? You have only had a relationship with the world for twenty years, and now it is less than twenty years. By that time Yingying is still very young. You have the heart to let her be alone, alone." live on?"
Ye Xiaotian also became serious, and stopped talking to him in a frivolous tone. Ye Xiaotian said solemnly: "Uncle, I also know that this is unfair to Yingying. At first, I thought she was a poor girl, and I thought that I could give her a good fortune." A rich life as compensation...”
Ye Xiaotian looked at Father Xia, and said: "Later, of course I knew her true identity. But liking someone is not like getting something, and you can put it down if you say it. Uncle, Yingying and I are both I really like each other, and she is also clear about my status as a venerable."
Father Xia said coldly: "So, you just take advantage of her affection for you and would rather sacrifice her happiness?"
Ye Xiaotian said: "No! I will have a good talk with those elders and change the rules that have existed for thousands of years."
Father Xia said: "Is it possible? The rules passed down from the ancestors are so easy to change? Those old guys squatting in the mountains have their heads turned into elm bumps. Will they agree?"
Ye Xiaotian said: "Uncle, this junior hasn't talked to them about this matter yet. In order to force them to give in, this junior has already tried his best to force them to give in. This junior also knows that it is very difficult to make them take another step back. This is also the reason why the younger generation wants to gain a foothold in the officialdom. The younger generation wants to be an official and a high-ranking official, not only to honor the ancestors, but also... as long as I can grasp enough power, those elders will have to face up to my ideas."
It is people who make the rules, and of course they can be changed by people. But not everyone is qualified to change the rules, unless you have strong power, you can negotiate on an equal footing when your strength is equal.
If Ye Xiaotian stays in Gu Sect, no matter how powerful he is, it is impossible for him to overthrow the rules of Gu Sect inheritance, because his power comes from Gu Sect, even if a strong man has the power to shake mountains, how can he improve Lifting himself who weighs only a hundred catties with his own hair
Ye Xiaotian wants to have a greater influence on the elders of the Gu Sect, so he can only master external forces. If this external force is too large to be ignored by the elders of the Gu Sect, once combined it can have a major impact on the Gu Sect, then Ye Xiaotian wants to force the elders to It is not impossible for us to take a step back.
However, for a powerful force that is self-styled and detached from the outside world, how much power is needed to have an impact on them? Is a small canon possible? Even a local emperor like Zhang Zhifu in Tongren is not enough, unless he is a figure at the level of King Kong, the eight chieftains in Guizhou.
Of course, the Xia family is one of the Eight Great Vajras, if they can't separate Yingying and Ye Xiaotian, it seems that they can only stand by Ye Xiaotian's side and help him put pressure on the Gu Sect, forcing the elders to give in. But the power of the Xia family is not Ye Xiaotian's power after all, although Father Xia loves his daughter, it is impossible to trade the interests of the entire Xia family, so the influence of this power will inevitably be greatly reduced.
Father Xia stared at Ye Xiaotian, and said disdainfully: "What a big tone! You are just a small classic history, do you think you are the chief envoy of Guizhou? Do you think you will be able to rise to such a big official one day?"
Ye Xiaotian asked back: "Why not, I have unique resources, and I also have wisdom and ability! It's just that I am in Baoshan, and I didn't know how to use it before."
When Ye Xiaotian said this, he suddenly looked at the warriors standing on the left and right. Father Xia understood what he meant. These people were his confidantes. People get out.
After these people had all exited the hall, Ye Xiaotian said: "Uncle, in fact, the younger generation's plan has always been very simple. After twenty years of fate, to be an official, marry a beloved wife, and have a few lovely children, what a pity God does not allow me to be so carefree.
I just want to be an official, an official with a sense of peace of mind. It is enough to get to the seventh rank or at most the sixth rank. I don’t want to compete with others, and I don’t want to step on others to climb up. This time, I went to Jinling to wait for participation, but it was my luck that I was safe and safe, but what about next time
I don't necessarily have good luck every time. If it wasn't for the great changes in the court this time, I might be beheaded. Maybe Xu Xiancheng is right, as long as you walk on this road, you can only work hard to climb up. If you don't step on others, you can only be stepped on by others. If that's the case, I'll just step on people too! Gu religion has great power. I didn't want to have too much to do with them in the past twenty years, so I never thought of using it, but now I have changed my mind. If I can use the power possessed by the Gu religion as a backing, where will I go in the officialdom? "
Ye Xiaotian's eyes were burning. At this moment, he really changed. He was no longer the Ye Xiaotian who drifted with the crowd, the Ye Xiaotian who had a small fortune, and the Ye Xiaotian whose wife and children were hot on the bed. There was a gleam of ambition in his eyes, and he began to know how to use it. All resources at his disposal.
If you want to be promoted, you need background, backing and contacts, and all of these cannot be separated from the power of money. But who is new to the officialdom who can have such power? Either he needs his family to pave the way for him, or he needs to rely on a strong person to develop his wings, but Ye Xiaotian has an innate advantage in this regard.
If he is willing to manage with his heart, his strength is enough to make friends with powerful people. In order to avoid restraint and embezzlement, Qi Jiguang needs to make friends with a big man like Zhang Juzheng to ensure his excellent military equipment and control over the army.
In order for Zhang Juzheng to be able to implement his policies and realize his lifelong ambitions, he needs to make friends with a great inner palace eunuch like Feng Bao, and all of these require money to pave the way. Ye Xiaotian has an inexhaustible golden mountain. If he wants to do the same, he will be short of a long-term accumulation process compared to those who stand on the same starting line.
Money paves the way and you can meet those big people, but if you want people to appreciate you and feel that you can be cultivated, these alone are of course not enough. This is just a stepping stone. You, you must have enough wisdom and ability, and Ye Xiaotian is not lacking in this aspect either.
Does he not have wisdom and power? He turned Hu County upside down, he killed Qi Mu, the local emperor of Hu County, and he wasn't even a real official at that time! He was able to be used by Li Jiaoyu in Tongren and appreciated by Zhang Zhifu. It was not without luck, but luck just helped him choose a suitable time, a suitable place, and met a suitable person.
But was Tongren Mansion deserted at that time? Can Li Jiaoyu only choose Ye Xiaotian? Of course not. He chose Ye Xiaotian because he felt that Ye Xiaotian met his requirements. This is not luck, but ability. Didn't Li Jiaoyu think about other candidates before? It's just that others can't meet his requirements. He saw Ye Xiaotian's calligraphy which is not inferior to famous masters, and when he talked with him, he considered Ye Xiaotian's knowledge, which made him determine Ye Xiaotian as his goal. This is Ye Xiaotian's ability.
Zhang Yi Zhang Zhifu is moody, usually just a big fat man who looks completely harmless, but if anyone makes him unhappy, on his ground, he can make the other party's bones disappear with a flip of his hand, such a tyrant , but favors Ye Xiaotian a lot, that is also Ye Xiaotian's ability. Ye Xiaotian has seen a lot of important people, and he understands the psychology of such people very well, and knows how to cater to such important people, but if he were to go with another person at that time, he would probably be trembling and would not be able to arouse Zhang Yi's interest at all.
This was even more so in Guiyang Mansion. The traps from Xie Chuanfeng, Xue Mu, Li Qiuchi, or Xu Boyi, and the challenges from Guoji Gelong, if he didn't have enough wit and adaptability, how could he save himself from danger one by one? Luck provided him with an opportunity, and it was his wisdom, courage and ability to seize this opportunity.
Besides, isn't luck an indispensable and important factor for every successful person? Those people who have risen step by step and achieved success, looking at their life's actions, how can they be separated from the luck and opportunities that the world can hardly explain? The same opportunity is in front of you, can you seize it? Some people don't even realize when an opportunity presents itself, and instead just blame others.
Take Qi Jiguang as an example, even if he used soldiers like a god, if there were no Japanese pirates who made rebellions, if he grew up in a peaceful and prosperous age, he would just disappear from everyone, so how could he establish a career that will last forever? Just when he was growing up, God provided him with a stage on which to play. This is his luck, and this luck is provided to everyone. Some people catch it, and some people miss it.
The same is true for Ye Xiaotian ascending to the position of Venerable. He didn't just sit there, God sent the legacy of the Venerable to him. status.
What if Zhan Ning'er was the one who swung a knife at the millennium bug and fell into the long river? Even the previous Bai Xiaoxiao didn't choose to assassinate him? Every step of choice is a part of life. Some people choose the wrong path, some people go to a dead end, and he can reach the end, not just explained by luck.
Ye Xiaotian was no longer in a daze. Although he was sent to Jinling as a candidate, he got a result that was almost child's play, but the terrible consequences that this incident might cause woke him up. How far can he go on the climb
Perhaps, when he got acquainted with those officials' children in Jinling and stood with them without hesitation, he already had such long-term considerations. Think about it, he offended the influence of the relatives represented by the uncle of the country, and disdained the power of the heroes represented by the Duke of Wei, but chose the relatively weak official power. Is it really just a matter of circumstances
In this small circle, the relatively weak power is the official power represented by Zhang Hongyan and others whom he got acquainted with, but in the entire Ming Dynasty, the most powerful one is not only superior to his relatives and heroes, but even the imperial power. But it is the power of civil servants. If Ye Xiaotian did this consciously, then how deep is his scheming and gaze
As the head of the clan, Father Xia's mind is by no means as rough as his appearance. At this moment, his mind was spinning all over the place, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. However, even if he has so many resources to use, it will take thirty to fifty years for him to reach this point. How could he fail halfway
Father Xia's expression is ever-changing, and Ye Xiaotian can see it in his eyes. Ye Xiaotian said: "Uncle, who can ensure that everything will be under his control in the next few decades? In terms of wisdom and martial arts, who can compare?" The First Emperor, but he can't even control the things behind him. Why don't you make a bet, three years, if within three years, my little classic history can be promoted to the sixth rank, you will marry my daughter to me, how about it? At that time, Yingying was not yet twenty years old, so I thought it would not delay her future."
three years? Six products! Father Xia's eyeballs almost fell out.
This is an extremely rampant statement. Ye Xiaotian is now a classic history of not entering the rank. The upper level is from the ninth rank. Upgrading to seven levels in a row is equivalent to going up to one level in less than five months, which is simply impossible.
Just now Father Xia proposed that if Ye Xiaotian gave up Yingying, he would fully support Ye Xiaotian in the officialdom with the resources the Xia family possessed, but he only said cautiously that it would take twenty years from the fifth rank, but Ye Xiaotian himself proposed The most important thing is to rise to the sixth rank within three years.
Father Xia looked at Ye Xiaotian suspiciously: "This kid, don't retreat in spite of the difficulties, are you looking for a step for yourself?"