Many things have to wait until everything falls into the ground before the parties will realize it.

Thinking about it again, Cheng Jinyang confirmed that the old man's body had indeed had a problem a long time ago, so he arranged so many aftermaths.

For example, let yourself go to the clan study first, and then enter Tianluo, so as to get to know Cheng Yuexian and Cheng Huaiyan, and establish a personal relationship with the second and third rooms at the same time. Is this a coincidence? It looks like it, but it's not.

Another example is Uncle Cheng Qingxin's "rebellion", although there is Dafang's own choice in it, but who can say that there is no old man's instruction and permission in it?

On the ground network pipeline train, Cheng Huaiyan had already counted the list of clan members and handed it over to Cheng Jinyang.

At present, the remaining clansmen were sent to the urban area in 6 batches, including:

There are a total of 7 people with six abilities, including the second and third uncles.

Including cousin Cheng Huaiyan, there are 38 people with seven abilities.

There are a total of 202 eight-rank abilities, including himself.

Including cousin Cheng Yuexian, there are a total of 487 people with nine grade abilities.

In addition, the concentration of the supernatural bloodline is less than the ninth grade, but there are another 290 people who participate in maintaining the operation of the clan affairs on a daily basis.

A total of 1,024 people, this is the full list of the current members of the Shendu Cheng clan. However, considering that there were more than 2,000 people in the clan before the war, it means that after this war, more than half of the people were killed and separated.

Of course, the separated clansmen, as long as they are not captured by the Long Xiang Army, there is still a possibility of finding them back in the future.

Even more heavy losses are the family property.

Due to the "Tianluo Net" of Cheng Xing's family business, the headquarters and warehouse are located in Pukou District, and the huge materials in it are impossible to temporarily transfer away, and they must have fallen into the hands of Long Xiangjun.

Of course, the most valuable asset is people. As long as the Tianluo killers and earth net dealers of their own clan are still there, they will be able to rebuild another brand new Tianluo net sooner or later...... However, when it comes to people, another problem arises.

The Shendu Cheng clan no longer has a five-rank ability.

The premise of joining the scholar clan is that the family must have a five-grade ability, which is not a regulation on the surface, but a consensus formed by all the scholars.

In fact, it does not mean that with the five-rank ability, the family can immediately turn into a warrior clan; After losing the fifth-grade ability, he will not be expelled from the clan gate valve immediately. The Tao in this is similar to officialdom, it is difficult to get to the top, and it is difficult to come down after really taking the position, in short, the liquidity of different classes is very poor.

For example, the Wuxing Shen clan and Shen Shiju have all become four-grade abilities, and the Wuxing Shen clan is still a Hanmen clan, and even the five-grade family can't compare to the five-rank family in terms of resource strength.

Why? A turnip, a pit. Under the circumstance that the existing overall market resources are divided up by all the scholars, if the Wuxing Shen clan wants to join the ranks of the scholars, there will inevitably be families who want to eat less or even not eat. Who will bear the loss?

There is no such thing as a strong centralized leader, finding a family and saying, "Wu Xing Shen is stronger than you, you can retreat", but a long process of all families playing with each other.

In the same way, if the Shendu Cheng clan loses the last fifth-grade ability, it is not immediately expelled from the Shi clan. No one has the qualifications or willingness to do this kind of offending thing, after all, the resources owned by the old Wupin family are there, and if you really want to disgust anyone, you will lose both, and it is not impossible to do it.

But the subtlety of the overall atmosphere is that once your family doesn't even have a fifth-grade ability, although everyone doesn't say it on the surface, they will downgrade your family's rating in their hearts.

So in the next few years or even more than ten years, the Shendu Cheng clan will inevitably suffer more and more resistance in various fields: the Wupin family, which used to associate with you, gradually shirked its reluctance to interact; The business partners and employers with whom they work will gradually terminate their cooperation or terminate their employment.

The first to react was definitely the family finances. As the income decreases and the finances deteriorate, the family's business will inevitably decline further, causing the influence of the noble clan to decline again.

To use an analogy, it's like a bear market stock: the market maker quietly sells out, and the stock price starts to fall. More people became bearish on the stock, and the price fell further...... In the end, it fell to a price that even stock experts don't know, and no one knows why it fell like this.

Of course, it takes time. Therefore, he must make good use of this precious buffer period, and use the remaining resources of the family as soon as possible before the family can irrepressibly fall to the lowest point, so that he can grow to a strength that is enough to support it.

Some things can be postponed, while others must be done as soon as possible, such as maintaining existing alliances as much as possible, and gaining the support of the imperial court.

After planning the current difficult situation and the future direction again, Cheng Jinyang, who took over the position of the patriarch of the family at the time of crisis, will start to do the first thing:

Negotiations with Xing Shuhe, the head of the Xing clan.

The Xing clan of Hejian is not close to the Cheng clan of the god capital in terms of blood relationship, but the high complementarity of the abilities of the two clans determines that they will inevitably become close allies.

Even after the Shendu Cheng clan entered a period of decline, the Hejian Xing clan was the least likely ally to give up cooperation, but it is estimated that the two clans will gradually change from an equal status of helping each other to a host-guest status with a clear distinction between strength and weakness.

Cheng Jinyang couldn't stop himself, but he at least had to try his best to recover the decline and win more benefits for his family.

Because when Old Man Cheng was dying, Xing Shuhe, the head of the Xing family, was also in Chongbentang, so when he evacuated later, he followed everyone to the same subway train and was assigned to the last carriage.

It's just the right time to talk to each other.

came to the rear carriage and said to the children of the Xing family at the door. Not long after the other party went in to report, he quickly came out and opened the door to greet him.

Cheng Jinyang entered the carriage and saw Uncle Xing talking to Xing Yuanzhi. Seeing him coming, Uncle Xing said:

"Qingfeng, you go back to the back first."

"Hmm." Xing Yuanzhi left the carriage, leaving the conversation environment to them.

Cheng Jinyang said a few polite words here, and when he saw that the other party was unmoved, he simply pointed out the meaning:

“…… My grandfather died, and the people of the clan were terrified. Our two ancestral properties have fallen into Pukou District, and if they can't be rescued, the follow-up road will definitely be difficult. At this critical juncture, I still hope that the two ethnic groups can continue to work together to get out of the current predicament as soon as possible. ”

Regarding the situation of the Shendu Cheng clan, Xing Shuhe is of course clear. Seeing that this junior did not blindly show weakness and win sympathy, nor did he put up a stand and bluff, but communicated with him without humility or arrogance, I couldn't help but think a little more highly of him in my heart.

"I'm the same generation as your grandfather, but after all, now that you are the patriarch of the Cheng clan, I'll call you a good nephew." Uncle Xing stroked his beard and said, "Actually, before your grandfather passed away, he had already communicated with me about you. ”

Cheng Jinyang's face remained unchanged, and he thought to himself: Could it be that grandpa has already paved the way for me in advance here?

That's right, since he already has a handover plan, it is impossible not to make any arrangements on the part of the allies.

"Next, the cooperation between the Hejian Xing clan and the Shendu Cheng clan will not be terminated." Xing Shuhe said indifferently, "At the same time, the original profit sharing ratio will not change. ”

"Oh?" Cheng Jinyang was surprised. This condition ...... It couldn't be more generous.

But the more favorable the conditions, the more uneasy he felt. can make Uncle Xing and after his grandfather's death, he is still willing to abide by the agreement, what kind of price did grandpa offer?

"Of course, I don't say you should be able to guess too." Xing Shuhe didn't plan to continue selling Guanzi, and said, "Your grandfather has promised that your marriage contract with Yuan Zhi will be put on hold indefinitely, and you will talk about it when you are promoted to the fifth rank." ”

Cheng Jinyang: ???