Xu Tingsheng said: "I don't know what to do. Where to stab, how to fight back, how to untangle... I can't find that line, that point."
The meaning of this sentence is not that I don't know who the opponent is. After all, from the perspective of the Fang family, the two people on the opposite side are just there, not covering up at all. But the problem is not to look at it this way, it doesn’t mean that you are being oppressed and coerced, just spend money to get two desperadoes to try and see if you can stab them.
It's the same with those two who have been feuding against each other for more than 20 years. They never tried to secretly give Fang's old man a shuttle for a moment of pleasure, so they avenged their revenge.
Humans are at this level, not this way of playing. When every move is too involved, the people above have to see it, and the people below have to live... Those twists and turns become inevitable.
And these things were things that Xu Tingsheng couldn't see through right now.
The three chess players in this game have actually retreated. For a long time, in this country, people have stepped back after reaching a certain height in official career and officialdom. Although it means letting go of the direct power in their hands, it also means adding a talisman to their body.
Generally, no one dares to attack them directly and settle accounts after the autumn, because the panic that will be caused may turn into dissatisfaction and common hatred of the entire similar group.
Therefore, the rest is the contest between the nets and chess pieces in their respective hands.
At this point, the Fang family is at a disadvantage, completely at a disadvantage.
In the old man's own words, he was eccentric, self-righteous, independent, and not good at communicating with others, so his network was very scattered, and even groups of people from his subordinates were not loyal. Colleagues, let alone allies.
Therefore, those who are still willing to stand up for him or die for him, either died on the battlefield a long time ago, or they didn't.
No matter what, Xu Tingsheng could still hear a bit of arrogance and admiration from what he said. In fact, at the level the old man used to be, to build a network of his own, personality and so on are secondary. As for friendship, it may be even less meaningful. The real core thing is interest.
This old man has always held a high position, but he has little interest involvement with his subordinates and old friends, and almost no interest alliance with his colleagues. This is the crux of the matter. It's silly and hard to do that.
As for the two people on the opposite side, if the whole picture of the network that they have worked hard for 20 years is really unfolded, it will shock many people. This can be seen from what happened to the second-generation eldest son of the front family a few days ago.
The Fang family doesn't want to win at all now, they just hope to make the opponent stop, so as not to kill them all.
The point that Xu Tingsheng mentioned is the point of unraveling the net. No web is unbreakable. And once the net is broken, the two old men on the opposite side will be left to find old man Fang to wrestle with real people.
And the line he mentioned is the critical line of the opponent. That is to say, once you press or hurt, different voices will appear in the other party's net, and you will have to rebalance the line of gain and loss. It is also the line where the other party will feel the real pressure, will be scruples, and may even throw a mouse and give up the plan because of this. that line.
All stakes have a stop loss point. The popular saying is that when things go to a certain stage, some people will feel that they are at a loss and are unwilling to play.
This point and this line are hard to grasp, Xu Tingsheng can't, neither can the old man.
So the old man who fought in the war said: shoot first, then aim.
…
Xu Tingsheng came out from the inner room of the ward, and the outer room was overcrowded all the way to the door. Many of them, presumably, came here after receiving the news.
The entire Fang family looked at Xu Tingsheng together. The look in his eyes could not be said to be anticipation, but a question, wanting to know from Xu Tingsheng, when the old man who has been inactive all this time will fight back and what he intends to do.
They still hold some hope, but this hope lies in the dying old man in the middle. It has to be said that for dozens of members of the Fang family, this is a very pitiful and exasperating state.
No wonder, nine out of ten will be abandoned.
No wonder, Fang Yuqing would say: "The descendants of the Fang family are not worthy."
They hoped that Xu Tingsheng would confide a few words that the old man usually didn't say.
But Xu Tingsheng just left with a smile.
A man and a woman blocked him.
Both Fang Zhong and Fang Ying had just returned from abroad, uncle Fang Yuqing's son and daughter, his cousins. Because their father had an accident a few days ago, they couldn't help being agitated.
"What did grandpa say? You, an outsider, heard it. What right do you have to keep our Fang family from knowing?" Fang Zhong asked, pointing at Xu Tingsheng's nose.
"I think Grandpa is old and confused." Fang Ying continued.
Fang Yuqing took a step forward to speak, but Xu Tingsheng raised his hand to stop him.
"What are you?" Fang Zhong said again, but Fang Yuqing, who was planning to get ahead, remained expressionless, as if he was not Xu Tingsheng at all.
Fang Yuqing's father, the second and third child of the Fang family, came over. Just now, as soon as Xu Tingsheng left the inner room, he went in to see the old man. He is also the only one among the descendants of the Fang family who is allowed by the old man to freely enter and leave the inner room.
"Snapped."
The slap fell on Fang Zhong's face.
Fang Zhong covered his face and looked at the third uncle in astonishment.
"The old man ordered the beating. The old man said, from now on, this will be the rule."
"The old man said, let us all go in."
The Fang family rushed to the inside.
Xu Tingsheng went out.
In the corridor, Fang Cheng chased after him.
"Xu Tingsheng."
"Um?"
"Thanks."
"You're welcome, I'm not used to you being polite."
"I, I want to ask you, what can I do?"
"You can do nothing, you are not allowed to do anything. Especially you are not allowed to make claims."
"ah?"
"Also, break up with Tan Yao."
"… you know?"
"Well, go. The old man loves you very much, go talk to him. "
"Um."
…
The second day Xu Tingsheng met Mr. Fang.
The Fang family, who had been silent before, fired their guns indiscriminately.
Staring at Fang Yuqing's cousin's shooting case, assuming a posture of vowing to save Fang's parents and sons, the power that Fang's family can still use can make people move forward collectively in an incomprehensible way.
When someone arches, someone needs to press down.
The old man used a random gun to force the people in the opposite net, those chess pieces, to stand up one by one.
On Xu Tingsheng's side, Zhicheng Real Estate, with a "self-inflicted" attitude, triggered the opponent's ambush in advance on the Ningyuan land plot and took the initiative to provoke a dispute. Immediately, Fang Yuqing went berserk on the spot at the contact meeting between the government and local enterprises, and left the manuscript for an hour, blatantly criticizing the government departments for persecuting local enterprises.
Compared with the state where the first two matters were temporarily suppressed by the upper echelon, the social shock caused by the dispute over the Ningyuan project was obviously much greater.
After dinner, Xu Tingsheng sat in front of the desk in the study, and added one point after another to the piece of paper where he was sorting out the clues, and drew one line after another.
The first step, he needs to compile a list.
This list will eventually go to Chen Jianxing.