Chapter 323: The Final Confession
Chapter 323
Liu Ye stroked the head of the wooden cane in his hand, his face showed a little memory, he sighed, "Don't tell me for the time being, let me first explain the ins and outs of the matter to you, the old man is sixty and nine this year, and he is a person buried in the soil to his neck, it stands to reason that he should have lived a long time ago in the countryside to retire, and the reason why he is still here is because the old man still has an unfinished mandate." β
I listened curiously, and couldn't help asking, "Master Liu, you are this age, who else can entrust you?"
Liu Ye shook his white eyebrows, "Yes, I'm this old, and I'm really ashamed that I haven't been able to complete the old man's entrustment." β
Yes, I'd better stop talking, just interject such a sentence, and it was misunderstood as a reproach, so let's listen to Liu Ye's story honestly.
"You should all know that the current pattern on the rivers and lakes was formed after the Beiquan Conference in 1988, after the Beiquan Conference, black and white made efforts at the same time, unified and reorganized the originally mixed provincial gangs, and laid the foundation for social stability, but not all provinces were reunified with the help of Baidao, Hubei is an exception. β
As early as six years before the Beiquan Conference, that is, in 1982, Xiong Anhuang, who was born in Zigui County and went to Wuhan to work hard, founded Chu Tianmeng with his own strength, with his personal charm and blood and bravery, Xiong Anhuang completed the great cause of unifying Hubei with the help of gentry from all over Hubei Province, in this process, the traditional families belonging to different regions of Hubei have made a lot of efforts, but also buried many hidden dangers, and after Chu Tianmeng unified Hubei, the distribution of interests and chassis alone, it started a months-long debate. β
Seeing that Hubei, which was finally reunified, was going to split again and start an internal struggle, Xiong Anhuang stepped forward and took the lead in giving up the interests of the Xiong family, not only that, but he also established a special task force to govern the rights of the Xiong family, Xiong Anhuang set an example and blocked the mouths of many people, and the turmoil of the Chutian League for power and profit also subsided, and the meeting was held to the end, and a series of rules and regulations were setγ β
"In all fairness, the power in the hands of the five veins is not small, accounting for one-half of the Chu Tianmeng, even so, the five veins are still not satisfied, they think that the rights of the Xiong family are still too big, Chu Linghan, who was the head of the Chu family at the time, once forced Xiong Anhuang, saying that if the Xiong family's virtue is not obvious, how should Chu Tianmeng deal with it, Xiong Anhuang replied, if the virtue is not obvious, the five veins can be replaced, and the five veins got Xiong Anhuang's promise, and then they died down and settled down. β
"After the Beiquan Conference, the above relaxed the policy, to give a lot of preferential conditions to vigorously support economic development, at this time the advantages of the Chu Tianmeng were highlighted, in other provinces are still busy with the unification, Chu Tianmeng is one step ahead of the development of economic construction, thanks to the advantages of the pioneers, Hubei came out of the crowd, in one fell swoop became the largest province in the eastern economy, the other provinces only hope to be able to bear the shares, the prestige of the Chu Tianmeng is unparalleled for a while. β
Liu Ye said this, his face flushed with a wisp of red, it seems that the memories of the past also made his heart surge, from Liu Ye's words just now, I heard a few familiar words, that is, virtue is not obvious, the five veins can be replaced by this sentence, when we first saw Xiong Qingzhong, he inadvertently said after drinking that the virtue is not obvious, the five veins seize power, and the words are also extremely indignant, as if unwilling.
I felt that there was something else going on in this matter at the time, but I didn't expect to hear this sentence again in Liu Ye today, with some doubts, I tentatively asked, "Liu Ye, since the Xiong family has led Chu Tianmeng to the forefront of economic development, then it should be more credited and the status is more stable, how can it be... β
"You're trying to ask, how did it become that the five veins are in power? β
Liu Ye's eyes flashed with a fierce color, and soon dimmed again, "At the beginning, the Xiong family was indeed expected, coupled with Xiong Anhuang's prestige, the status of the Xiong family was as stable as Mount Tai, but no one expected that the change would come so quickly. β
"Xiong Anhuang worked too hard for Chu Tianmeng when he was young, he paid many times more effort than others in order to get ahead, this is not without a price, life was not good before, everyone was not well fed and clothed, plus from time to time he had to work hard with others, and he added a lot of injuries, he was not very obvious when he was young, and when he was older, all kinds of problems came out. β
"In the spring of ninety-eight, Xiong Anhuang fell ill, he was just in his early fifties that year, at that time everyone thought that Xiong Anhuang was not very old, just raise a good one, only Xiong Anhuang himself knew very well that his limit was approaching, and began to arrange the future one by one, he handed over all the rights in his hands to his righteous brother Xiong Dingjun, and then secretly passed on his good brother who fought the world together, and entrusted the last important task. β
Xiong Anhuang said that the Chu Tianmeng is not the Chu Tianmeng of the Xiong family, but the Chutian League of Hubei, and it cannot damage the interests of tens of millions of Hubei people for the selfishness of the Xiong family, but this matter is not a big problem, Xiong Anhuang initially set up the special task force for the purpose of supervising the corruption of those in power and stopping it, Xiong Anhuang is worried that after his death, no one can deter the five veins of the long-term disobedience, so he called his good brother, hoping that after his death, he can become a new shield of the Xiong family. β
"Xiong Anhuang's good brother, patted his chest and made a promise, saying that as long as he was in one day, the five veins would not be able to take Chu Tianmeng from the Xiong family, with his promise, Xiong Anhuang's last concern was also put down, and it didn't take long for him to return to heaven. β
"After Xiong Anhuang passed away, the five veins did have the intention to move, but because Xiong Anhuang acted cautiously, there was no handle to grasp, and if he acted forcefully, there was his good brother beside him, so after some turmoil in the five veins, he regained calm, so far everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Xiong Anhuang's power after his death was successfully completed, if there is no accident, with the passage of time, the replacement of the leaders of the five veins, the position of the Xiong family will become more and more stable, and it will become more and more difficult to shake. β
"It's a pity that people are not as good as the sky, no one thought that the change would come so suddenly, the abnormal large-scale rainfall in July and August induced the flooding of the Yangtze River, and countless people's homes were destroyed, in this disaster that affected the whole province of Hubei, the Xiong family led the Chu Tianmeng to fight the disaster at any cost, after losing a lot of material resources and manpower, the flood was controlled, but no one thought that the next thing the Xiong family had to face was not the gratitude of the people, but endless blame and resentment. β
"Because of the policy, Chu Tianmeng vigorously develops the economy at the same time, it is inevitable to take the construction industry as the core, Chu Tianmeng has registered a construction company called Chutian Construction Group, with the influence and strength of Chutian League, Chutian Construction Group has taken over nearly half of the civil construction projects in Hubei, in addition, national construction projects are also involved, the flood dam on the Yangtze River, several parts are built by Chutian League. β
"After the flood passed, some people began to spread rumors, saying that the reason why the dam burst was because Chutian Construction Group cut corners in the process of construction and used inferior materials, which suddenly pushed Chutian Construction Group to the forefront of public opinion and became the object of Qianfuγ β
"Chutian Construction Group closed down in a scolding, and the people's emotions were appeased, after dealing with the things on the surface, the rest was the internal crusade, the five veins took the Xiong family's moral corruption as the reason, and started their own journey of seizing power, they first greatly reduced the rights of the Xiong family, and then continued to encroach on the Xiong family's territory, and I don't know if the Xiong family was unlucky, in the follow-up process, they continued to have various scandals that were exposed, the credibility was getting lower and lower, and the support rate within the Chutian League also fell again and again, and the next consequences can be imaginedγ β
When Liu Ye said this, his tone was also a little embarrassed, and after a slight pause, I just took the opportunity to ask what I couldn't figure out, "Liu Ye, according to your words, Wumai is deliberately smearing the Xiong family, so as to push the black cauldron of Chu Tianmeng on them, this matter is not authentic, Xiong Anhuang is dying and the good brother who entrusted the orphan, just watch it and ignore it?"
"Xiong Anhuang's good brother who is dying, what kind of good brother is that!" Liu Ye became emotional, " Xiong Anhuang trusted him so much, but he lived up to this trust, when the Xiong family needed help the most, he chose to stand by, his good brother, he thought he was doing justice, he felt that the Xiong family did this kind of unconscionable thing, resulting in the displacement of millions of people, and ended up in this fate, it was deserved, but he didn't want to think about it, when the Yangtze River burst the embankment, Xiong Anhuang only died for a few days, and the several sections of the dam built by Chutian Construction Group must have been done by Xiong Anhuang when he was aliveοΌβ
When Liu Ye said this, he couldn't help but stand up with his cane, and said angrily, "In vain, he has worked hard with Xiong Anhuang for many years, and he can't even think of such a simple question, he simply betrays Xiong Anhuang's trust, Xiong Anhuang entrusted the Xiong family to his hands, but he watched the Xiong family being pulled down by others and was indifferent, this kind of person is simply shameless and unworthy of living in this world." β
Liu Ye's anger stunned me, I didn't expect him to attribute all the blame for the Xiong family's loss of power to Xiong Anhuang's good brother, this is inevitably biased, that person's inaction is indeed hateful, but what is more shown in this matter is the incompetence of the Xiong family after Xiong Anhuang's death, and in the face of the attack of the five veins, there is no power to fight back, but this is not good to say to Liu Ye now, he is angry, and if he raises objections, it will be angry at us.