This is a mysterious manor on the outskirts of the capital. The manor covers a very wide area, and the outlines of several snow-covered green hills can be faintly seen in the depths. Not many people know who the mysterious owner of the manor is, because there is no sign on the stone sign next to the iron gate. Leaving no writing, not even a symbol.
The convoy of black bulletproof cars and dark green military vehicles was forced to stay in front of the unmarked stone sign. Except for a middle-aged man who looked like a butler, no one came to greet them, and the iron gate was tightly closed.
It is unimaginable that the President of the Federation is stopped outside the door when he visits. No one dares to do such a rude act in any region of the Federation or even Bermuda.
The door opened, and the Secret Service agent in a black formal suit got out of the car with an indifferent expression, monitored the surrounding movement, and communicated with the system through the small white piece in his ear, trying to solve the current embarrassing and irritating situation.
As time passed by, Du Shaoqing's expression in the back row of the carriage became more and more gloomy. Although there was no emotion in his icy eyes, everyone could see that he was almost unable to suppress the anger in his chest.
It is intolerable for the people in the manor to treat the elected president who should be respected, the person he respects the most, he frowned and said, "The Lee family is so rude, do you really think you can do whatever you want with money?"
President Pabur's expression was very calm, he put down the teacup in his hand, looked at him with a smile and said: "People who are about to leave this world, no matter how many bloody sins they carry, should always have some privileges, let alone that old man. To some extent, it deserves your respect."
Smooth metal wheels rolled over the expensive TLF material ground, dozens of the most advanced medical equipment in the entire universe, were quietly pushed away, and the luxurious room suddenly became much empty.
The drapery next to the soft bed was blown by the wind, and the vast environment made the shriveled old man on the bed extremely small.
The current head of the Tie Suanli family, the old man of Liyuan Palace, coughed twice, and let the seventeenth wife wipe the phlegm from her lips in disgust, looking at Li Xiuzhu and Li Xiaotong who were standing in front of the bed, The hoarse voice said: "I shouldn't die at this time, but death cannot be arranged after all, it's just that the time has come, you don't need to be sad, just remember my words."
The age spots on Li Yuangong's face are very thick and have lost all their luster. With his smile, they are piled up like small round yellow leaves floating in a pond, piled up extremely densely.
"What I am pleased with is that I can see the real sadness in your eyes, which proves that it was very correct to choose you from so many boys for inspection. A real businessman does not need to be ruthless every day, that is Du Shaoqing. So what is a real businessman?"
"What a businessman has to do is simply stare at all the money, the money at his feet, the money under the bed, the money now, the money in the future."
"This is not inferior quality, but the greatest honor, because only money can promote the distribution and circulation of resources. Since the great catastrophe, we have always been doing things to ensure the circulation of human resources."
"Businessmen are the foundation of modern society. Whoever tries to prevent businessmen from making money is the enemy of all mankind, and they are courting death."
The sparse white hair on the top of the Liyuan Palace old man's head is like old catkins blown by the wind, drooping weakly, but his voice is hoarse but still firm and powerful.
"I'm keeping the ambitious president out, and I'm saying this to you in the hope that you will understand that businessmen need persistence and a strong heart the most."
He slowly tilted his head to look at Li Xiaotong, and said with regret: "I told you three years ago that investing must persist to the end. It's a pity about Xu Le, you must know that investing in an emperor is the biggest thing in my life. It is a pity that this dream has no chance to be realized until death.”
Li Xiaotong knelt down to admit his mistake, and Li Xiuzhu also knelt down.
Liyuan Palace smiled and said: "You all know that the ancestors of the family once invested in Emperor Tai. Although we may have missed an imperial emperor, don't miss it again this time. You must invest in at least one President Tai."
The old man mocked lightly: "Although it is not challenging to invest in the president, the family has done it too many times, but it is always better than nothing."
"Don't be deceived by Mochou Houshan's attitude. The reason why Madam didn't stand up to support her son is because she still has a lot of trump cards to reveal. She is qualified to wait."
"But we are not qualified to wait. Our trump card is obviously money and only money. We will continue to increase our support for the Silent March. We will give whatever the prince wants. In addition, Lin Banshan and Tian Dabangzi will be satisfied as much as possible. their needs."
"As for Xu Le, who claimed to be coming back, although I think this stinky stone is a person who is nostalgic, he is the prince of the empire after all, so please be quiet and watch."
The old man of Liyuan Palace calmly finished the most important instructions, waved tiredly, and signaled the two most important men of the next generation to leave.
There was a dead silence in the room. The old man of Liyuan Palace lying on the bed and President Pabble sitting in the chair at the end of the bed stared at each other, and no one spoke for a long time.
The war between the federal government and the Seven Families has already begun, and it is about to enter a white-hot state. At this critical moment, President Pabble came to Lijia Manor, which is hard to imagine.
Because of some very important questions, Mr. President must come and find the answer before the old man closes his eyes.
"Mr. President, my family and I have controlled federal finance for many years. Regarding this war, if you want to fight, I can fight it. In fact, as long as I say a word at this time, the federal financial system will collapse immediately, and the federal government will collapse. It will go bankrupt this afternoon, and the whole Commonwealth will be in chaos."
Anyone who said this would appear arrogant, stupid and funny, but it was Liyuan Palace who said this, so no one dared to doubt it.
"I know your intentions very well. The government accuses the Li family of colluding with the imperial people. I don't have the guts to actually put my family's little seven in the Qingcheng military prison."
The old man of Liyuan Palace looked at the man in the chair, and said slowly, "Threatening me with this crime will not make too crazy self-destructive measures before the destruction of the Li family. Don't you think this request is absurd?"
After a moment of silence, President Pabble replied: "The end of a war will never be slaughter. The government and the people only need victory and truth. An ancestor of your family once said a word before his death: Even if there is a flood after my death It's monstrous, and the government doesn't want to see a flood, so the government can give your family some promises in exchange for your compromise."
"Promise what? Promise not to slaughter them all, to leave enough funds for my children and grandchildren after splitting up all the properties of the family?"
The old man said: "You don't know businessmen. It's more terrifying to steal my money than to take my life. You have to know that the money is mine. I'm willing to donate it to the army. But when I don't want to, No one wants to take it away."
"You have the army, you have Du Shaoqing, you can kill all the people in this manor, and there are no tigers in the Zhong family. You can even kill all the people of the seventh family, but you are very afraid of this kind of picture."
The old man looked at President Pabble and said sarcastically: "Because in that case, the Federation and the world left by the Seventh Family will be left in ruins."
"Are you intimidating the federal government?" President Pabble asked with a smile.
"I'm just stating the facts." Liyuan Palace smiled and replied: "When it comes to intimidation, I believe that Mochou Houshan's silence is what you fear most."
long silence.
The old man waved his hand and murmured in a low voice, "Let the government withdraw the charges against Xiao Qi. Even if I die, I will not let the federal economy collapse."
"But it has nothing to do with the government's clumsy tactics."
The old man laughed in a low voice: "How can you understand how a businessman like me loves this system? How can I have the heart to hurt it? I also don't believe that you have the ability to push these thousands of generations into a desperate situation of suicide. ."
The old man turned his head slowly, looked into President Pabble's eyes, and said, "The crown prince has done a good job recently. Although the Parliament Hill's impeachment case against you has not even passed the first reading, I think that day will come sooner or later."
"Do you really dare to force the parliament? Even if you are so crazy, Du Shaoqing and the military will follow you crazy? Even if all of you lunatics are really sick, don't you know that Xu Le will return to the Federation soon?"
An inexplicable smile appeared on the old man's face, and he said, "Xu Le's return means that the little princess of the Zhong family will return to Xilin. You and Li Zaidao will not have any chance unless you dare to fight a civil war."
"As for Xu Le doing something crazier than you, I can't even imagine it."
The old man of Liyuan Palace smiled innocently like a child, the white hair on the top of his head was tossing and turning uneasy, watching Pabul shaking his head with difficulty to express sympathy.
"The war has not yet begun, and you are doomed because you have been following the wrong path. To demolish a dilapidated building, you have to carefully start from the top floor, and you chose to rudely Destroy the foundation of the building, and even if you destroy the building, the building will fall and all the demolitions including you will be crushed to death."
After a long silence, President Pabble replied: "Slowly dismantle from above, I don't have that much time."
"Don't have that much time?"
The voice of the old man of Liyuan Palace suddenly became severe, and he asked indifferently: "You don't have time, but the Federation has time!"
"The chair you're sitting on is the one I've been sitting on for decades, and I'm used to taking it with me wherever I go, because the chair represents the location."
"And location represents responsibility."
Liyuan Palace looked blankly at President Pabble and said, "As the elected president, you should know that the responsibility of the president is not to achieve selfish ideals, but to seek a better present for the federal people."
"You're not even qualified to talk about a slightly further future!"
President Pabble frowned slightly.
"Human social organization is very fragile and can't stand the tossing of so-called ideals. You insist on doing this just to satisfy your desire to leave a name in history."
The old man of Liyuan Palace looked at him indifferently and said, "You don't have time, but the federation has it, and your successor has it. You can lay the foundation and pass the bill without rushing to clean it up. Take it slowly."
"You didn't do it, you were anxious, you were anxious because you knew that if you only did that, then your successor or even some president in hundreds of years would do it for you, and You never have a chance to be the most famous president or even a savior in federal history."
"Mr. President, admit your selfishness and hypocrisy, and maybe let me retain some respect for you before I die."
President Pabble was silent for a long time, and asked with a stern expression: "Do you want to pin the hope of federal change on the politicians who are raised by you, or on the seven nobles like Tai Zhiyuan?"
"Why not? History has its own power, and man has an innate desire to betray his own camp. He will do it more smoothly than you."
"Trash will never go into the garbage heap of history by itself. Someone needs to do the cleaning."
Pabble replied, and then frowned slightly, feeling that this sentence was very familiar, as if he had heard someone say it a few years ago, because of this memory, his mood became a little strange, looking at the old man's face full of spots , asked: "Speaking of selfishness, what about you? You are no different from the previous ten generations of the Li family. Your name will not be left in history. Even the people don't know who you are. Wouldn't you be reconciled and feel that your life is meaningless?"
"That's not what life is about."
"What's that about?"
"You'll know when you die that life has no meaning at all."
The old man of Liyuan Palace calmly looked at the snowflakes outside the window, sighed somewhat moved, and said slowly in a low voice, "Life is a meaningless journey, so whether it's you or the man who took off my little black hat, There is no point in doing so many things in your life.”
"Maybe your words are right, but I always think that since I am alive, I should do something that I think is meaningful."
President Pabble replied calmly. At this point in the conversation, he used honorifics for the dying old man for the first time.
The old man of Liyuan Palace said slowly, "There are two people in my life that I can't see through. One is the man who lifted my hat just now, and the other is Xu Le."
"I can't see through the former because I still don't know what he cares about; I can't see through the latter because I don't know why he cares so much."
"I finally got the answer after hearing your answer. People like you are just unwilling to be lonely when they talk about the meaning of life."
There was a mysterious smile on the old man's face, and he sighed: "They are all uneducated idiots. I am very pleased to confirm this."
After saying this, the old man of the Liyuan Palace who ruled the federal financial and even economic circles for 60 years passed away.
The old man closed his eyes, and the little black hat beside the pillow was silent, like an old-fashioned oil lamp that would never be lit. It is said that this represents some mysterious religious belief of the ancestors of the Lee family.