"I'm sorry, Ancestor, for the trouble of rushing back so quickly."

"I was going to come forward with this kind of thing, and for hundreds of years, there have been two times in the family......"

"I'm sorry, it's my godson who can't ......"

"Stop talking nonsense, let's go, go home."

William Wang waved his hand to the former patriarch of the Wang family, who was standing there bowing and apologizing, and walked straight towards the car that was quietly waiting on the tarmac.

The old patriarch hurriedly followed.

This is less than twenty hours since William Wang went home and slept for a day after dealing with the snake, finally got up and cooked a bowl of instant noodles and ate there.

On the tarmac of Geneva International Airport, the Wang family's special plane stopped behind William Wang, and the engine had just turned off.

When returning from the airport to the royal family's castle in the mountains, Wang William did not speak.

The latest long trench coat wrapped around his body seemed to be sheltering from the cold.

It's just that his facial expression definitely doesn't look cold.

Particularly gloomy.

It even looks a little angry.

"Meow, master, don't be so calm, it's useless for you to be angry now, you'll know it when you see it soon."

“…… He's not lying, is he? William Wang lowered his voice and replied to the succubus cat in the Peninsula language.

"Meow, I've already checked it as soon as I got off the plane, and I and Grandma Shan are inclined to tell the truth."

The succubus cat said and glanced at the former patriarch of the Wang family who was sitting in the passenger seat.

"Ancestor, what did you say?"

Hearing William Wang muttering in a low voice, the former patriarch who didn't hear or understand clearly turned his head and looked at William Wang.

"It's nothing, I'm talking to the cat." William replied in French.

“…… Sorry to bother me. The old patriarch immediately twisted his head back.

He also knows what makes this prophetic cat special.

To be honest, he was more afraid of this cat than his ancestor......

"He's not lying, so there must be something wrong with this incident this time?" William Wang continued to ask the succubus cat in Peninsula dialect.

"Well, but it's close to the Holy City...... I'm not very convenient to use too much of my abilities in remote situations...... Let's talk about it after we meet. The succubus cat nodded at William Wang.

"Got it." William Wang nodded.

I closed my eyes.

He whispered a mantra.

Then, he raised his hand to the co-pilot's seat in front.

Spiritism, activated.

……

The car drove back to Wangjia Castle smoothly.

And when the car stopped in front of the main building in the center of the huge courtyard, there were several people over sixty or seventy years old standing outside the door.

"Ancestor."

In a proper manner, he bowed neatly to William Wang, who got off the car.

"Haven't all the people yet?"

William Wang squinted his eyes and glanced at the people who were bowing there.

He didn't say anything to make them straighten up.

Pochetti and Salami are coming back from Brazil and Canada, respectively. None of them have a very convenient transportation, so they should be there later today. ”

The former patriarch who got out of the car with William Wang hurriedly answered the phone next to him.

"Let's go inside."

William Wang nodded.

Ignoring the few old men who were bowing there, they walked straight into the building.

Walking into the door, along the white marble steps next to the hall, William Wang walked up quickly all the way upstairs to a room at the top of the second floor.

This is his room in this ancient castle, and it is also his "home" in the royal family.

The area is not large, that is, the size of a business suite in a five-star hotel, with bedrooms, with a small living room.

He doesn't usually meet here, so there are only two simple single sofas in the living room, leaning against the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, facing the garden in the courtyard of the royal castle.

William Wang, who walked into the room, naturally took off the windbreaker he was wearing and threw it on a single sofa, and then sat on the other one, and the servant who had been waiting in the room immediately brought William Wang a cup of black tea and put it on the coffee table, but before he could hang the windbreaker that William Wang had left there to hang on the hanger next to him, he waved his hand and drove him out.

A group of sixty or seventy-year-old men who followed William Wang or even walked a little tired, but there was no way, William Wang was from the ancestors, they didn't dare to say anything, they could only suppress their somewhat uneven breathing, and stood in front of William Wang.

"You can, too, I haven't had such a meeting in two hundred years." William Wang's voice was not angry, with a little questioning.

It is also not French, but German.

The tone of German tends to sound a little more fierce than French.

His words made the group of old men in front of him lower their heads one by one, not daring to raise them.

“…… Some of you...... Is it that the good days have been too long, or do you think that my ancestor is useless? ”

William Wang's eyes narrowed.

"Ancestor, we have conclusive evidence for this incident."

An old man with pale blonde hair and a high nose that looked a bit like a vulture spoke.

"Proof?"

William Wang's eyes narrowed.

Glancing at the old man.

The old man calmly raised his head and looked at William Wang.

"Meow."

The succubus cat barked out of place.

"We'll talk about it in the evening when everyone is in a meeting." William Wang didn't say much, just nodded.

"Then Ancestor, you rest first, and we'll bother you after dinner...... "The former patriarch answered beside him.

"Let's go down."

William Wang nodded.

The group cheered and left William Wang's room.

The room, which had been a little crowded just a moment ago, suddenly became empty.

"Meow, master, there are three people who have a bit of a problem."

After the succubus cat left, it spoke to William Wang as soon as possible.

"We'll talk about it in the evening." William Wang glanced at the succubus cat and shook his head.

"Yes, master."

The succubus cat was silent, and then jumped on the sofa next to where William Wang had lost his windbreaker, formed a ball, and fell asleep.

William Wang sighed softly, picked up the cup of freshly brewed black tea on the table, and took a sip.

"It's still good coffee from Cat's Paw Cafe."

"Then master, you let them make you coffee, meow! Every time you go back to Switzerland for a meeting, you say it again. ”

"It's tradition. If I change this rule, it will be very troublesome. ”

"But in the past ten years, your new tradition has been established, right?"

"This, maybe the nine-tailed fox can understand, you ...... Never mind. ”

William Wang shook his head and looked out of the floor-to-ceiling window.

……

In the blink of an eye, it was evening.

After eating a very simple dinner that was basically all vegetable salad, and drinking a cup of black tea that William Wang thought was not very tasty, William Wang came to the third floor of the main building.

From the second floor to the third floor, it is necessary to pass the stairs in front of the door of William Wang's room at the top of the second floor.

This also means that there are basically no people going up to the third floor.

Because the third floor is the family meeting hall.

Compared with the conference room in the specially built detached building where the Wang family once a year receives the followers of the ancestors, the family conference hall on the third floor of the main building can hold a meeting once a year.

Most of the time, the affairs of the Wang family are decided by the patriarch alone, and there is no need to hold a meeting.

Only this year, this is the second time this room has been used.

The first time was at the beginning of the year, when the Wang family got the news that William Wang was under "house arrest" on the peninsula.

There were 10 people in attendance.

And tonight, there are 14 people present.

Eleven family elders of the Wang family, a former patriarch, and his son, the current patriarch of the Wang family.

and William Wang.

Eleven elders sat at the horseshoe-shaped conference table, and William Wang sat behind the Grand Elder facing the gap in the horseshoe, on the armchair that looked like a throne.

In the open space in the middle of the horseshoe-shaped conference table, the two patriarchs stood.

"Konstantin, do you plead guilty to colluding with outsiders to betray the interests of the Wang family in Barcelona?"

The words of the only Great Elder with his back to William Wang sat in front of William Wang, and the curtain was drawn on today's meeting.

Plead guilty.

Yes, it's a trial.

"Great Elder, I haven't done anything wrong, why should I confess?"

The current head of the Wang family bowed to the Great Elder in a regular manner, but his voice was neither humble nor arrogant.

It's very calm.

"We've been supporting and operating in Catalan for so many years, and because of this list you've provided here, we've been working for nearly two decades to come to naught, don't you recognize?"

The voice of one of the elders sitting at the side of the hand became very serious.

Even, some poignant and ferocious.

According to the order of seats, he should be the third elder of the Wang family.

"I don't know how you do this." The patriarch glanced at the elders seated, "My father doesn't know either, how many of the members of the Council of Elders here know?" ”

"That's not your ...... either"

"Since it was done behind the family's back, and it was the family funds that were used, I, as the patriarch, have no right to dispose of it?" The patriarch looked directly at the third elder who questioned him.

"When I didn't let you speak, you shut up."

The Great Elder said to the Patriarch beside him.

"Yes." The patriarch nodded.

"Catalan's independence is a great benefit to our family." The three elders, who had just been rejected, continued: "More than half of the current councillors of their autonomous region have some connection with our family, if they can become a country independently......

"Your uncle said that to me twenty years ago."

At this time, William Wang, who was sitting on the seat above, suddenly interjected.

“……”

Be quiet.

The three elders immediately did not dare to speak.

"Go on."

William Wang's cold voice.

Can't hear emotions.

"Yes, Ancestor." It was the Great Elder who answered William Wang, and then continued to look at the patriarch: "So the list of parliamentarians we support in Catalan was handed over to the Luo clan by you, do you admit this?" ”

"It's not us, it's the two elders in the family, in the name of the family, behind the back of the Council of Elders and the patriarch, using the list of family funds to support." The patriarch nodded, "I gave it to the Luo clan." ”

"The second charge." The Great Elder was obviously unwilling to argue with the patriarch on this matter, and continued: "The matter of that iron mine in Brazil. Say it yourself. ”

"It was my investment mistake, I admit it." The patriarch nodded, "The price of steel and coal held up by the rapid development of a certain country in the past ten years made me misjudge, and I felt that taking over the iron ore that should be enough to mine for twenty years was a relatively long-term and prudent investment, and it turned out that I was wrong, so I accepted the punishment." ”

"Just an investment mistake?"

"Yes."

"But the woman who said in the charge that you made the decision to buy that iron ore was because of the intermediary......" the Grand Elder said, looking to the other side.

"A Brazilian woman, she was paid fifteen million dollars for this deal. Someone in our banking industry told me. One of the elders nodded.

They are ranked in eighth place in order of seat.

"How do you explain that?"

"First of all, I don't have anything to do with that woman." The patriarch was slightly stunned for a moment, and explained, "It is even more impossible to give her money in this way." At the daily meeting of the family work in March, I expressed my responsibility for the failure of this acquisition and accepted the punishment. ”

"Is there one?" The Grand Elder looked at one of the elders sitting at the end of the table.

This elder is the youngest of the eleven elders, and is the one who represents the Council of Elders in supervising the daily operation of the patriarch's family estate.

"Yes." The last elder nodded, "The patriarch accepts a total of two million dollars in fines for four years. ”

"Only 20 million fines? The family lost nearly $400 million in this investment, right? The Eighth Elder next to him asked.

"Three hundred and eighty-seven million." The last elder explained. "It's just that this is already the maximum punishment limit for the patriarch in the family."

"But how did I hear that he was paying nearly $100 million this year? The maximum limit is only 5 million a year? ”

"Oh, that's because ......" The last elder flipped through the information in his hand, and then glanced at William Wang, who was sitting in the upper seat, "At the beginning of this year, in the matter of the old ancestor, we acquired the shares of many companies in the peninsula and related island countries and the entire Greater China circle according to the arrangement of the old ancestor...... According to the rules of the family, these stocks and companies were purchased under the arrangement of the patriarch, and he received a bonus from the proceeds......"

“…… How high is the yield? How come we don't know? The expression of the Eighth Elder who raised the issue of salary was a little embarrassed.

"Oh, because it's still October...... This part of the income report will not be reflected in this year's annual report until February next year. ”

"That's all earned by the ancestors, what does it have to do with him." The third elder who had questioned the patriarch about the matter of Catalan had interjected.

"But according to the rules, the investment items of these earnings are listed in the name of the patriarch." The last elder said very seriously.

"Well, let's move on to the third charge." The Grand Elder interrupted the conversation and opened a new one: "About the marriage to the Zadeh." ”

"This matter is something I don't have to teach my daughter." The patriarch nodded, "And I have also made a public statement in the family, whose daughter is willing to marry, whoever marries, the family side will give corresponding treatment." ”

"You're the patriarch." The Great Elder coldly interrupted the faint disdain in the patriarch's words, "Your daughter deserves to take on this responsibility, not to mention that she is not your concubine......

"You just want your daughter to marry into the Spanish royal family." The Third Elder answered.

"It's not my hope, it's my daughter's hope. She and that Spanish boy have been classmates since middle school, why should I let her leave the man who likes her and marry in the desert to be a second wife? The patriarch glanced at the three elders coldly, "Why don't you go with your granddaughter?" ”

"Family marriages have always been decided by the Council of Elders, and you can't speak." The Great Elder coldly interrupted the patriarch's words.

"What kind of family is that...... Is it in the desert? ”

William Wang, who was sitting in the seat above, interjected.

"Yes, Ancestor, the ...... of the Aza Consortium"

"Are you short of money or oil?" William Wang's brows furrowed. "Also...... Is it a second wife? ”

"......" The Great Elder stopped speaking for a moment.

"Not even the chief crown prince." The patriarch continued to speak coldly beside him.

"If you want to marry the daughter of the patriarch of our royal family, you can put away those strange problems for me, and if you should take a break, you should sort it out, and then talk about it as a crown prince. Otherwise...... Just marry the granddaughter of an elder's branch to them. William Wang said lightly.

"But the old ancestor, that's not his daughter-in-law, it's his ...... before"

"If you dare to marry into the desert, don't be an elder." William Wang shook his head, "Did you lose this person?" ”

“…… Yes, Ancestor. The Great Elder nodded and looked at the Patriarch again. So, there are three allegations in total...... Do you have anything else to say? ”

"Nope." The patriarch nodded.

"You're ready to go out."

"Yes."

The patriarch bowed to the Council of Elders, and then exited the room.

"You can go out too."

The Great Elder looked at the former patriarch who had been accompanying him but did not speak, and there seemed to be a little embarrassment in his eyes.

"Yes."

The previous patriarch also nodded, bowed the same, and withdrew.

There were only eleven elders left in the conference room, as well as William Wang.

"Let's talk about it." The Great Elder glanced at everyone present and said.

It was also the first time he had faced this kind of scene, although there were procedures and rules for impeaching the patriarch in the clan rules, and he was just following the script little by little according to the clan rules, but he really didn't know how he should proceed.

Free discussion session, then voting.

Let's start a free discussion!

"I just got back from Brazil." An elder spoke first, and in order of action, he should be the sixth elder, "I went to see that iron mine." There is no problem with the mine itself, but because of the influence of the Brazilian leadership on the local forces, there are some local snakes who want to seize our mine. In fact, it is not completely impossible to sort it out, arrange for our people in Africa to deal with it in the past, and then exert a little pressure on the new president of Brazil through the United States, our losses will not reach the level of 400 million US dollars, and it can only be said that it is not as profitable as expected. ”

"The problem of money is not a problem, our family has earned a little too much money in recent years, and it is nothing to spend it properly." The Seven Elders next to him spoke.

It is clear that both elders are supportive of the patriarch.

"But the cost of that intermediary ......," the fourth elder's eyes narrowed, "how can it be proved that it has nothing to do with him?" ”

"I think it's about proving that I have something to do with him." The last elder answered: "For an acquisition worth $400 million, the proportion of intermediary fees of fifteen million is not particularly high. ”

"Some time ago, I bought a forest in Sweden, and the intermediary fee was 15 points." The Seventh Elder nodded.

"Well, I think the iron ore matter can be revealed." The Great Elder came out to speak, "And he was punished too." ”

"The key is to betray the family's interests and marry the Zade family in Barcelona......"

"Don't mention the marriage." William Wang expressed his position at the upper seat.

“…… Yes, Ancestor. "The Great Elder can only come.

"Ancestor, please allow me to say a word......"

The Ten Elders, who were only in front of the last elders at the conference table, answered.

"Say."

"Our marriage to the Zadeh consortium still has some meaning. In recent years, the petrodollars of the desert have become increasingly influential in the world, and they have shown a willingness to integrate into our system......"

"To fit in is to follow the rules." William Wang glanced at the Ten Elders and interrupted him, "It's okay to marry, isn't the patriarch's wife also the daughter of the Luo family patriarch?" Do you understand it? ”

"But they asked......"

"It is they who ask you, not you who ask them." William Wang waved his hand, "What do they want?" ”

“……”

"You really said that you want to marry a rich and powerful royal family, pick a Thai royal family or something, I also admit it, people are so rich, those ...... in the desert What is the money? A sandy area. William Wang narrowed his eyes, "A little money will jump all over the world, and sooner or later something will happen." ”

"But there's oil,......" the Tenth Elder muttered.

"You just said that, petrodollars." William Wang glanced at the elders sitting here, and could only say one more sentence patiently, "In the final analysis, oil is something that relies on the US dollar, and the dollar minting right is now up to us and Roche, and their little oil ......."

“…… Be. ”

"So...... I'll put this matter down for now. "The Great Elder was a little embarrassed next to him and wanted to make a summary." Then here comes the first accusation, about Catal......"

It was really embarrassing, he couldn't see William Wang's expression with his back to William Wang, and he really didn't know how to manage the progress of this topic......

Yes, according to the record left by the successful vote to impeach the patriarch two hundred years ago, it is true that everyone came to vote at the meeting to impeach the patriarch.

And that time the vote was six to five.

But that was the result of the abstention of the old ancestor after the audit!

If the ancestors participated in the vote......

He has 12 votes for 12 votes!!

Ahem.