Fuzhou, the capital of Libo County, more than 30 miles north of the county seat, there is a manor that occupies a large area and stretches dozens of buildings.

One of the largest buildings, a carriage slowly stopped, Nguyen Dong Lang announced the curtain and stepped out of the carriage.

"Second master, you're back."

Ruan Donglang asked, "Have you all arrived?" ”

"It's all here, it's just about you, the second master."

Ruan Donglang nodded, said no more, and walked towards the main hall.

In the main hall, there are a lot of people, there are dozens of people, this is one of the three headquarters of the Beijiang Society, the people present are all the internal high-level of the Beijiang Society, the age is big and young, but the youngest is also in the thirties, so when Ruan Donglang, a young man in his twenties, walked directly to one of the five main seats in the front and sat down, the atmosphere in the entire hall suddenly seemed a little weird.

The roots of the Bac Giang Society come from the Manyue Cham royal family.

Cham continues to this day, it is almost 300 years, the establishment of the Champa country, is the result of the cooperation of five brothers, so after the founding of the country, all five people are kings, the king is respected, the southeast and northwest are second, and the name of the king is added to the surname, and it will be passed down through the ages.

But no regime is eternal.

Because the founding of the Cham country was established by the five brothers together, and the credit was great, so after the founding of the country, in addition to the same line of the king, the heaviest official positions in the regime have always been produced in the other four royal families, almost hereditary, this practice, in the beginning, the effect is very obvious, by their own brothers to control the core of power, can quickly stabilize the situation of the whole country.

But with the passage of time, this kind of system has exposed great disadvantages, the highest positions in the country, there are always so many people, no matter how talented you are, no matter how capable you are, that is, this makes the bureaucracy of the whole country, no longer a meritocracy, but look at the background, look at the bloodline, the hierarchy between people, become very strict, the rules of officialdom, solidified, stiff, always a pool of stagnant water.

If we always maintain such a situation, even if the country will not have much development, but there will not be any big chaos, there is a good saying, where there are people, there will be fighting, as time slowly passes, the five brothers at the beginning of the founding of the country, their descendants, the relationship is becoming more and more strange, and the core position of power, there are only a few, others do not fight, and they can't fight, they themselves have started infighting.

This kind of infighting situation began more than a hundred years ago and lasted for a long time, with the chaos and strife within the royal family, the political situation of Cham has always been very unstable.

During the period of Wuzong, the three veins of the East King, the South King, and the West King began to hold together, ranking the last, but always belonging to the North King of the Middle King's henchman, to forcibly squeeze out the core of power, and the internal struggle within the royal family escalated on a large scale, becoming life and death, the Cham king, the middle king's line, the right was completely hollowed out, and it was abolished several times, and finally, the Zhongwang first line had to seek other ways, that is, to break the pre-existing bureaucratic system, and began to promote a large number of people other than the five kings to hold more senior official positions.

Does it work? It was very effective, the Cham king received the full support of all the scholars in the country, and the three veins of the eastern, southern, and western kings were severely attacked, and at the beginning of Zhao Zhi's succession, the Cham king began to regain power.

With the withdrawal of the four royal families from the political core, the controller of power, of course, must be replaced, Zhang Fu is the most dazzling existence among them, although he is only a deputy minister, but he has the highest military power in the country.

In the sixth year after Zhao Zhi succeeded to the throne, that is, in the sixth year of Guangyuan, the young Zhongwang began to drastically reform the control, and conspired with Liu An, the prime minister, to reunite the four royal families, intending to abolish Zhang Fu's military power.

More than 200 people from the Zhengxiang Liu An clan were beheaded all over the house, and the four major royal families, except for the North King line, which had already been squeezed out, the rest of the East King, the West King, and the South King had suffered heavy casualties, and the family was almost wiped out.

Subsequently, in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, Zhang Fu began to hunt and kill the remnants of the royal family, and the only remaining royal family members of Cham had to flee from Annam, went to the Jin Dynasty, and took refuge in the Northern Wang.

After decades of development, the Beijiang Society, especially the Jiangnan generation, has developed extremely strongly, with a dense network of relationships in all directions, and its economic strength is second to none among the countless businessmen in the entire Jiangnan, and few people can match.

"Ruan Donglang, your shelf is getting bigger and bigger, every time you have a meeting, you are the last one to arrive, which one here is not as senior as you? You are so slow, have you ever wanted to go? ”

The five people at the top, except for the main seat in the middle, is a man in his thirties, and the other three people are all more than 100 old people, and the one who just reprimanded Ruan Donglang is the leader of the Nanwang lineage, Ruan Nanqing.

Ruan Donglang glanced at him and said lightly: "Elder Nanqing, you are all elders, I, Ruan Donglang, am a junior, it's too late to respect, how dare you deliberately treat it slowly?" I really can't accept what you just said. ”

Ruan Nanqing smiled coldly, and was about to speak, when the man in his thirties in the main seat stretched out his hand to interrupt and said with a smile: "A little thing, it hurts feelings too much, both of you have extinguished the fire, and it is important for us to talk about business." ”

With the addition of the Cham royal family and a large number of remnant elites, today's Bac Giang Society has slowly changed from the original pure chamber of commerce.

The Beijiang Society is the development and growth of the Beiwang lineage, but now the people in power in the association are the king of the middle and the king of the south and the king of the west, and the closest people of these three veins, in the coup d'état in the country, have almost been killed by Zhang Fu, and now the three veins sitting here are just its branch clansmen, and now the five major royal families, not to mention the North King line, the main vein of the East King is also killed by Zhang Fu, Ruan Donglang is the fish that slipped through the net, his father is the third son of the previous generation of the head of the Dongwang line, Ruan Donglang is his only son, his bloodline, In addition to the king of the north, he is the most authentic, so young, he became one of the five elders of the Beijiang Society, which naturally caused the envy of many people and was targeted by many people.

"Lord, everyone is here, is the meeting begin?"

A middle-aged man in his forties stood up and arched his hand.

Ruan Zhonghe nodded: "On weekdays, everyone is busy with their own work, and it is rare to be able to get together, let's not waste time and start talking about business." 2k reading network