Chapter 735: "Changing the Sky Plan" Five
With the vision of the Chen family, of course, they know that the Alfred family is not the kind of mascot on the surface, but a royal family with power all over the world, maybe the financial resources are not very strong, and there is a big gap between the top ten richest people in the world, but in terms of influence, then Alfred is not the first in the world, at least it is also the top three families.
After all, not every family was once an imperial royal family with colonies all over the world, and not every royal family is still in power, there are more down-and-out nobles and exiled royal families on the Europa side, and there are not many who still have a certain amount of influence.
So the Alfred family seems to be a little lonelier than a hundred years ago, but if you really underestimate them, it will definitely make people suffer a lot.
"Virtuous niece, Brother Wu, he can actually get in touch with the royal family of Bu? Why haven't I seen your family in the West and still have this connection? ”
It's no wonder that the head of the Chen family is suspicious, but the gap between the Chen family and the Alfred family is a bit big, and the influence of the Chen family is far inferior to that of the royal family of the country, and it is not comparable in terms of financial resources.
It is said that the Chen family is also a wealthy family in Nanyang, but the industry they operate is biased towards planting and other industries, so they have a lot of fixed assets, but their cash reserves are far less than some emerging rich people who have risen by relying on the Internet and energy.
This is also the consistent style of the Xia people since ancient times, after all, the ability of farming experts and the desire for land are the genes engraved in their blood.
It can be said that the old group of Xia ethnic groups who entered the Nanyang may have been engaged in the business of sea trade at the beginning, but after having a certain amount of capital, the first thing to do must be to buy land to reclaim.
It is this kind of conservative thinking and customs that makes the hard-working and down-to-earth Xia descendants the first to take root and mix with a stable food and clothing group everywhere, but it also imprisons their thoughts.
And the reason why people feel that there seem to be a lot of Xia rich people in Nanyang is that in addition to the Xia people who can choose to go to Nanyang to wander a little adventurous, the other is that they are only seen by the contrast of the local natives.
Therefore, although the Chen family took root in Nanyang half a century earlier than the Wu family, its wealth accumulation is not as huge as that of the Wu family, and I am afraid that it is not even one-tenth of the total amount of the Wu family.
The outside world estimates that the assets of their Chen family are about more than two billion pounds, that is, about one billion meters. As a well-known chaebol family in Nanyang, the Wu family's assets on the surface have exceeded 10 billion meters before swallowing some of the Liu family's excellent assets, reaching the level of more than 10 billion.
This is only the family assets on the face of the Wu family, if you count the tax revenue and total economic output value of the entire Sanlikun Autonomous Prefecture, the economic figures that the Wu family can leverage will exceed the above by at least ten or even twenty times!
Wu Zhixuan and Gao Jingfei also knew that the Chen family's financial resources did not seem to match their identity as a centuries-old family, in addition to the more conservative atmosphere of the Chen family, there were also elements deliberately done by the Chen family.
Although the Chen family motto is based on benevolence, loyalty, moderation and prudence, although they are all intercepted from Confucianism, the Chen family does not have any academic knowledge, and it is still the kind of businessman and wild road who is despised by Confucianism.
But it is such a wild way, but they can draw the essence of Confucianism such as the mean for their own use, and they have seen through the sinister heart of the colonists and native tribes early on, so they have always adhered to the principle that wealth is not exposed and too much, and has not pursued wealth excessively. It also allows the Chen family to continue in Nanyang without danger.
On the contrary, a lot of resources have been invested in reading and other skills, so that every member of the Chen family can have at least one skill, even if the family declines, they can have the ability to make a living, and they have the foundation to make a comeback.
Therefore, the Chen family has a history of nearly 400 years in Nanyang, and it is not a time when it has not suffered trauma and almost collapsed, but every time it is turned the tide or dormant by the Chen family, it can finally turn the corner and make a comeback.
Wu Jizong and his wife had mentioned the family motto of the Chen family when they analyzed the Nanyang family that needed to be wooed by them before, and they were deeply impressed by it. The Wu family was born as a martial artist, although it is not the same as Confucianism and Taoism, but they are all branches of the Great Xia civilization, and they also have similar truths to each other.
The Wu family or the Zheng family has always pursued the idea of the ancestral motto left by the ancestors, "lying on the salary, tasting gall and accumulating grain, and slowly becoming the king".
These two, one from Goujian, the king of Yue in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the other from Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, are basically familiar to everyone, and they are both very suitable for the core ideas of the Zheng family who moved to Nanyang to try to complete the great cause of restoring the country.
And the Zheng family also did this, first hibernation and changed their name and surname, and then accumulated their own strength little by little, from a small settlement of hundreds of people, in just a few years, it developed to the Xia people under the command of thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of people, and later won the canonization of the Southern Ming Emperor and the prison state, and in the struggle with the native tribes, gradually established the predecessor of the Wu manor, the Wu Acropolis, laying the foundation of the Wu family for hundreds of years.
Speaking of which, the truth of the Wu family's ancestral training does not seem to be as lofty as the Chen family's family training, but it is very practical.
Therefore, Wu Zhixuan did not mean to be angry at all about the skeptical tone of the Chen family master, but patiently explained:
"Shibo, you just know, our ancestors were imprisoned by His Royal Highness King Lu of the prison country to seal the Jinyi Guard commander, and gave a number of python robes and honor guards, although it was only a false title at the time, but in the Yongli Ye Xue in the spell of the water, the previous Jinyi Guard commander was martyred together, and my Zheng clan's Dongning continued the Ming Dynasty, and did not set up the Jinyi Guard, the ancestor of the Jinyi Guard's name as the commander, for my Zheng family recruited a lot of Jinyi Guards and their descendants who were unwilling to serve slaves at that time and surrender to Jin, Therefore, the official position of the ancestor, the commander, can be regarded as being sent, and it is worthy of the name! ”
"And these descendants of the brocade guards have served my Zheng family from generation to generation, and now they have been integrated with my Zheng family, regardless of you and me, especially in the past few decades, we have combined some ancient intelligence methods with modern espionage theories, which can be regarded as pushing through the old and bringing forth the new, and my family is very powerful in terms of intelligence, so naturally we have dealt with the big forces in the intelligence community, and we have also caught up with the Brittania side!"
Although Wu Zhixuan didn't say it explicitly, and what she said was not entirely true, the Wu family hooked up with Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret because of the deal with the MIS. It's just that even the Wu family didn't expect that the real identity of the famous Mrs. M at the beginning was the Princess Margaret of the Alfred family who had not appeared for a long time.
The reputation of Jinyiwei is generally heard of by most people from the Xia Kingdom, and it is even more so for the remnants of the former Ming Dynasty like the Chen family. It may be an exaggeration to say that it is thunderous, but the legends of Jinyiwei are also heard by them since childhood.
So as soon as this Ming royal institution was mentioned, the head of the Chen family suddenly said: "No wonder, your family has always been able to get some news one step ahead of others over the years, but it turns out that it is assisted by the means of Jinyiwei, which is really amazing!" ”
The old man shook his head in admiration as he spoke, obviously making up for it in his own mind.
Wu Zhixuan wanted this effect, and she went on to say the main topic of the trip:
"Shibo, I have a third benefit, this benefit is not only my family's own benefit, but also the allies of my Zheng family's alliance can also get a lot of benefits!"
The old and slightly cloudy eyes of the Chen family master flashed imperceptibly, and he asked with great interest:
"Oh? This old man should listen carefully, what benefits can your family bring to your allies? ”
Wu Zhixuan smiled and said:
"My Zheng clan has the help of heaven, and I am lucky to obtain a way that can allow ordinary people who have no talent to obtain extraordinary power, for the sake of the ancestors' wishes, for the sake of the Ming Dao system and my Zheng clan's hundreds of years of restoration of the country, my family is willing to take out a part of the extraordinary quota, divide the extraordinary seeds, and hand them over to the allies to distribute, I don't know what Shibo thinks of this benefit?"
When the head of the Chen family, who had just been looking old and dizzy, heard this, he suddenly became taller, and he looked quite fierce, and asked loudly not at all like the old man before:
"Is that true?"