Chapter 7 Playing Cards and "The Teacher's Talk"
That night, Wu Sansi and several of his brothers were summoned into the palace by Empress Wu, and when they came out, their faces were like mourning.
The next day, Wu Sansi submitted his resignation to the Daming Palace, taking the initiative to resign from the post of director of the Royal Assets Management Commission, and Empress Wu immediately approved it. Then a number of samurai children also resigned voluntarily from their respective positions as industry supervisors, and this series of resignations made the outside world talk about it, and the samurai family is going to fall at a pace?
Without waiting for everyone to react, the Metropolitan Procuratorate suddenly received a number of anonymous report letters, reporting the corruption of some martial arts children in their positions.
This investigation really brought out a lot of martial arts families, and then those who should be arrested and punished should be punished, and there is a great posture of pushing the martial family to the end.
The people naturally applauded such an anti-corruption act, and the media sang praises to the Empress Wu's righteous act of killing her relatives, but in the eyes of real discerning people, the board that Empress Wu hit the martial artist this time was just raised high and gently fell.
It was only some inconsequential figures of the martial arts family who were arrested, including several major figures of the martial arts who were punished, and the fines of millions of millions were already very heavy in the eyes of ordinary people, but for the money that the martial artists have used their positions to make over the years, this fine is not even a dime.
At that time, Emperor Taizong carried out political reforms from top to bottom, established the cabinet system, as a compensation for the royal family to delegate power and return government to the people, the cabinet classified the energy, communications, railways, and tobacco industries under the royal franchise, and the Daming Palace established the Royal Assets Management Committee to manage more than a dozen companies below.
Under the monopoly, how profitable are these companies? Just the general manager of a state branch can earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
According to the three-level administrative division of Daozhou County, there are a total of 34 provinces and 563 prefectures under the rule of Datang, and the combined volume is simply terrifying!
Datang Media publishes a list of the richest people in the world every year, the richest man changes every year, and the assets are about to fluctuate around the figure of more than 500 billion, but in fact, everyone knows that the Datang royal family is the first chaebol in the world, and although no one has counted the assets in detail, there are definitely more than ten trillion.
The Wu family has been holding the money bags of the Li Tang royal family all these years, and no one can say how much money they have made from it, but if the net worth of several nephews of the martial arts queen is exposed, it will be easy to rank in the top 50 of the world's richest list without any pressure.
And the Wu family is not completely retired from these oil and water departments, for example, Princess Taiping's husband Wu Youji is still doing a good job in the position of chairman of Datang Petrochemical, and then the children of the Wu family who married the princess are also not affected in any way.
And those children of the martial arts family who left the company, such as Wu Sansi, had just stepped down from the position of director of the Royal Assets Committee, and several companies immediately invited him to be an honorary director.
Wu Sansi is not so shameless, as the face of the martial family, he still has to pay attention to a little food, so he did not accept the "filial piety" of these companies, but went to "start a business" by himself, and established a shipping company with registered assets of 10 billion.
In this way, as long as the big tree of the martial queen does not fall, there are many ways for the martial arts to make money, and the martial arts have not fallen out of favor, but from light to dark.
Of course, as the initiator of this series of things, Zhang Yi was completely hated by the Wu family, although the Empress Wu warned them not to go to Zhang Yi for trouble, but there will definitely be no less small actions in secret.
However, for Zhang Yi, as long as his personal safety is not threatened, everything else is a trivial matter. He is an idler who has no quarrel with the world, and the martial arts family has to find a place to attack him if they want to target him, right?
Empress Wu thought about giving Zhang Yi a baron or something like that, but was persuaded by Shangguan Wan'er on the grounds that Zhang Yi was only twenty-three years old now, and it was not appropriate to reward too much.
The most important point of the way of the emperor is that the rewards should be gradual, otherwise it is easy to have no reward later.
Although "Touching the Dragon and Saying the Empress Dowager Zhao" is of great significance to the Empress Wu, you can dedicate an article to a baron, so should you be crowned an earl next time?
Moreover, it is not a good thing for Zhang Yi to be promoted to the knighthood early, without the motivation to be motivated, he can be comfortable and mix for a lifetime as an idler, wouldn't it be a waste of his talent?
Of course, for Zhang Yi, it is not easy for him to be motivated.
First of all, as a concubine, Zhang Yi's political career has been completely blocked, and the cabinet has finally taken over the power of managing the country from the hands of the royal family, and then let a person who is related to the royal family come in, isn't that a slap in the face? In fact, not only the Tang Dynasty, but also the concubines of all dynasties and dynasties are considered to be the end of their careers, but any officials who are a little self-motivated will not marry a princess, because marrying a princess's political career is over.
The second is business, Datang does not stipulate that horses can't do business, but doing business depends on whether there is talent, and secondly, it also depends on whether it is worth it, because the purpose of doing business is to make money, although Zhang Yi has no money, but the richest person in the world belongs to the Li Tang royal family, whether it is Li Xian or Li Dan as the emperor in the future, it will not treat Zhang Yi badly, just arrange a position for Zhang Yi, and the money in hand may be more than Zhang Yi's own business fatigue and hard work, so what else does Zhang Yi want to do business?
So for Zhang Yi, the best choice is to be a celebrity, brush up his prestige, and be a "mascot" who decorates the façade of the royal family.
This is the life route formulated by Empress Wu and Shangguan Wan'er for Zhang Yi together, as long as Zhang Yi is willing to follow this road, and does not capsize halfway, the future depends on his achievements, not to mention that he is also a marquis.
It's a pity that Zhang Yi has had enough of all kinds of intrigues in society in his previous life, and lives all day long for the house, tickets, and face.
"Kill!"
As the "lord", Xiao Gu put down a killing card, Zhang Yi looked at the cards in his hand, neither flashed nor peach, and then looked at the physical strength card that had been covered by the general's card and only left a hook of jade, and reluctantly threw down the cards in his hand and turned over his identity card.
In this game, Zhang Yi's identity is "anti-thief", "the lord" kills the "anti-thief", and the lord wins!
"Am I losing like that?"
After Zhang Yi folded the card, he looked at Fei'er on the opposite side, and Fei'er turned over his identity card, which said "Loyal Minister" in two ancient characters.
"Why is it that every time you two are either 'lords', 'loyal ministers', 'anti-thieves', and 'traitors', you always bully me one by one, and you don't play anymore!"
These Three Kingdoms Kill cards were made by Zhang Yi in his spare time, and at first he taught Xiao Gu first, and then Xiao Gu pulled Fei Er in, and the three of them sat together and played a few games whenever they had time.
At first, Zhang Yi relied on his familiarity with the rules to win a few times, but slowly it didn't work, Xiao Gu and Fei'er didn't know whether they were too tacit or too smart, and they killed Zhang Yi every time.
The dignified traverser was actually beaten by the natives, and every time he thought of this, Zhang Yi had an urge to find a piece of tofu to kill him.
Because he always loses, Zhang Yi's interest in playing the Three Kingdoms Kill was quickly exhausted, just like today, if it weren't for Xiao Gu's hard pull, he wouldn't have gotten out.
Kneeling for three games in a row, Zhang Yi couldn't hold his face, and he didn't play the scoundrel, and then when Xiaogu closed the cards, he pouted and complained that Zhang Yi must have deliberately lost so quickly, otherwise this card game was invented by Zhang Yi, and he had no reason to play so badly.
She has a cute bun face, and she looks very cute.
Although Fei'er didn't speak, she looked at Zhang Yi with bright eyes, obviously thinking that Zhang Yi didn't want to play with them, so she deliberately "released water".
Zhang Yi looked at the two girls with some tears and laughter, obviously the two of you are too high-ranked, and you don't bring this to bully people, right?
"That's right, I came up with this card game, but didn't Confucius say it? If you are a threesome, you must have my teacher! Therefore, the disciple does not have to be inferior to the teacher, the teacher does not have to be better than the disciple, there is a precedence in hearing the Tao, and there is a specialization in the art industry, and that's it. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard someone behind him applaud:
"It's a good thing to hear that there is a succession, there is a specialization in the art industry, I haven't seen it for a few days, and there is a new work coming out of the horse master!"
Shangguan Wan'er didn't know when she came, so she stood there with a smile, startling Zhang Yi, who turned around.
Does this woman belong to a cat? She walks without making a sound, and she does this twice like this, is this the rhythm that scares people out of heart disease?