Chapter 11: Fifty Steps and a Hundred Steps
Sitting across from Yu Chunbing was a group of old men.
They are all over sixty years old, with gray hair, rough and black skin, a face full of ravines, dressed like dirt to the scum, and occasionally raised palms can also see that the fingers are full of black mud, and their hands are full of calluses.
In fact, if there is no fish inheritance, their fate may really only be to be old farmers to death, or one or two of them can become famous gods in ten miles and eight towns, relying on people to exorcise evil fortunes and watch feng shui Dingyin Mansion to earn some pension money, and then save some expenses for their children and grandchildren, which is amazing.
They are the current elders of the Maoshan Sect.
When the Red Dynasty was cleaning up the reactionary sects, the Maoshan faction did not know much about current affairs, or was too confident in itself -- no more than other sects, the reputation of the Maoshan faction among the people has always been quite loud, especially in the face of catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits, it is about the deepest among many sects -- in the view of the Maoshan faction, as long as there is evil in this world, there will be a bite of food for their faction, and the Maoshan faction is also a great faction that has been established for thousands of years. I don't see any dynasty or generation that can ban these mages.
Obviously, the Maoshan faction and many sects generally mislooked at the form, so it was natural to be a tragedy, the fundamental land of Maoshan was shoveled, not to mention, a group of disciples scattered everywhere, can only make a living from farming, until the reform of the yuan, the social atmosphere changed, the establishment of the Mage Association, and other sects have taken the opportunity to re-emerge, but the Maoshan faction has always been a general scattered sand, or after the development of the fish inheritance, after all, he thought that he was a disciple of Maoshan, and gathered around, and the Maoshan disciples who had been planted for decades were pulled and pulled all the way, and the Maoshan Mountain Gate was rebuilt. And with the Maoshan faction spell as a technical stock into the company, dividends every year, to ensure the success of the reconstruction of the Maoshan Mountain Gate, all the disciples are now in the world are also famous masters, and they have earned a lot, but after all, it is the reputation of the world, and it is nothing in the magic world, just like Liu Yinuo's famous feng shui master, in the association is just a white emblem. These disciples have been poor and afraid of suffering for so many years, and no matter how much money they earn, they are not willing to pay to the sect, and they all cover themselves to death, and the cost of maintaining the development of the sect mainly depends on the dividends from Yu Chengshi's side. Besides, no matter how much money those disciples make by relying on fortune-telling and looking at feng shui, how much money can they make by selling arms to the world?
Nowadays, money is king.
Therefore, although the elders of the Maoshan faction at the beginning were very disdainful of this set of spells and weapons engaged in by Yu Chengshi, thinking that this was a crooked and evil way, and they quarreled with Yu Chengshi a few times for this, but when the colorful banknotes were in hand, they would not be silent, and when Yu Chengshi's business became bigger, the dividends were more and more year by year, and the entire sect was maintained by Yu Chengshi's dividends.
Over the years, during the New Year's holidays, the faction always has to send disciples to give gifts to Yu Chengshi for the New Year, Yu Chengshi is worth a huge amount of money, so naturally he doesn't care about these small profits, but how much money is less and things are expensive is one thing, whether there is this intention is another thing, in case which festival is not delivered, Yu Chengshi thinks that the Maoshan faction did not put him in his eyes, wouldn't it be very bad?
On the other hand, the position of the head of the Maoshan faction has been vacant for so many years, not that there are no ambitious people who want to win the head, but because there is a big mountain of Yu Chengshi here, whoever is the head can only listen to Yu Chengshi, and Yu Chengshi has not yet taken the idea of becoming the head, so he had to leave the position vacant.
It's just that when Yu Chengshi was there, the Maoshan faction obediently obeyed the order, and now that Yu Chengshi is dead and the bones are not cold, the Maoshan faction can't bear it, and sends all the elders to rush to Spring City as soon as possible, with only one purpose, that is, to get back the equity of the Maoshan faction that has been managed by Yu Chengshi for generations.
Although when Yu Chengshi was in charge of the generations, the dividends were not missing from the pie every year, but such a large amount of wealth, how could it be held in his own hands by others, and Yu Chengshi didn't dare to mention it when he was not good at it, but now that others are dead, are you still afraid of the little girl he left?
Taking advantage of people's danger and bullying the weak is a shameful thing. Although everyone is doing something like this now, but the identity can't help it, your Maoshan faction has been taken care of and sheltered by Yu Chengshi for so many years, and now Yu Chengshi is dead, leaving orphans and orphans.
Therefore, when Gu Xijiang saw these old men, he was also tired of it, and he didn't want to look at them more, so he made up his mind that when he took charge of supervision, he would not give these guys a chance, and the first thing to do was to strip off and acquire the shares of the Maoshan faction, so that these parasites would fend for themselves.
The rest are all at the top of the association.
The main ones are two vice-chairmen, a chairman, a secretary-general, all permanent members, plus four executive directors.
This large group of people sat in several groups, and they were clearly distinguished, showing a clear faction of forces.
One faction is headed by Vice Chairman Xu Youzhong, sitting by the window in the conference room; One faction was led by Vice Chairman Lin Linggao, sitting on the side of the door; One faction is headed by Chairman Zhou Cheng and Secretary-General Jiang Kaiqiang, sitting on the side of the wall inside, and some with unclear attitudes, sitting sparsely and casually, Gu Xijiang himself is also a group of people, plus Qi Mengmeng's manpower, they all sit in a corner, and when they saw the two of them entering the door, they waved one after another.
And Xiao Zengxiang, who came first, sat beside Yu Chunbing.
This is a clear signal.
Originally, Xiao Zengxiang's attitude has always been not to participate in any fight, not to make any statement, in the past few meetings, he sat alone in the corner, either fiddling with his mobile phone, or there closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
But this time, he gave up his original attitude, and sat directly next to Yu Chunbing when he entered the door, although he didn't say anything or do anything, but this sitting was already an obvious statement.
This really surprised everyone present.
Xiao Zengxiang has always been very knowledgeable about current affairs, even if he said that he would not participate in any disputes, but I believe that he would definitely hear some rumors before, and at this time, his attitude of supporting Yu Chunbing is inevitably inconsistent with his usual reputation.
What is this?
Risky speculation, or is it a sudden sublimation of human nature, and loyalty is required, or is there some conspiracy that fails?