Zhao Mansion

Since Zhao Wenkuan was impeached by Lu Desheng and demoted to half an official rank, he has not been treated well by Emperor Kang Cheng since these days. Therefore, Emperor Kang Cheng took his important minister Weifu to visit Hongsheng Restaurant privately, which naturally did not have his share. On the contrary, it was the Xie family, because they lost a Dali Temple, Emperor Kang Cheng looked at them inexplicably and was a lot more pleasing to the eye, and then took Xie Mingtang with him.

It's not that he can't go by himself, but if you think about it, forget it, and carefully accuse yourself of watching the emperor's traces.

Not being able to be there in person filled his heart with regret. So he waited quietly at home.

Fan Quan was degraded to worthlessness by Lu Desheng and then rejected by the emperor and refused to be hired, and even Zhang Yong's personal recommendation failed to make the emperor change his mind The news was transmitted back to Zhao Mansion as soon as possible, and Zhao Wenkuan immediately changed his clothes and planned to go to Xie Mansion.

At this time, Luo's grandmother came to invite him to the courtyard of his fourth son Zhao Bin, saying that Zhao Bin was making a hysterical noise after receiving the news of Hongsheng Restaurant, and asked him to go over and have a look.

Zhao Wenkuan is impatient, these days, his son has to make trouble almost every day, he has been nervous and concerned at the beginning, and he is impatient now.

I'm going to go out for a while, and I'll go to see him again when I get back, and let Madame persuade him more."

Zhao Wenkuan arrived at Xie's house and found that it was his son-in-law Xie Zhan who received him.

The two moved to the council chamber for a conversation.

After the next person served tea and retreated, Zhao Wenkuan silently looked at his son-in-law opposite.

Zhao Wenkuan can feel that the Xie family is imperceptibly changing power recently.

Because of the failure of the last joint recommendation of Lu Desheng, the Xie family lost the position of Dali Temple, his future son-in-law became stronger, and now he is gradually taking over the authority of the Xie family, and Xie Mingtang silently retreated behind the scenes. In fact, it's okay, Xie Zhan is his son-in-law after all, and the relationship between Weng and his son-in-law is relatively close.

After Zhao Wenkuan signaled Xie Zhan to explain his intentions, he couldn't wait to say, "Ah Zhan, I know the results of Hongsheng Restaurant, but are we really unable to take the Lu family?" The two of them joined forces, but they were slapped in the face by a fifth-grade official one after another, and Zhao Wenkuan really couldn't accept it. Not to mention how many resources the Zhao family replaced in order to make the Xie family take action. This result was so disappointing to him.

"This result is expected, Uncle Zhao knows it."

"You've got a good brain, think of something else. Ah Bin is your brother-in-law, he was beaten by Lu Songli and Qin Sheng, and he was insulted by them in that way, but we have nothing to do with them! I know it's my father's incompetence, but it's your face, isn't it? ”

Xie Zhan rubbed his forehead, "First of all, we have already competed with the Lu family and the Qin family on the matter of Zhao Bin, and then lost." "At least at this stage, they lost. The Xie family also paid a Dali temple for this. As for the follow-up, he doesn't want to start the war lightly for the time being.

Zhao Wenkuan immediately answered, "If we lose once, we have to win back a big one!" "It's all back!

Xie Zhan coldly rejected his suggestion, "I have decided to make a truce with the Lu family, and I will no longer take the initiative to make enemies with the Qin family and the Lu family." The Lu family also agreed. ”

He was mature and sane enough to be a natural politician, as his grandfather praised him.

For those who are in power, the pattern must be large, and they cannot just focus on the loss of one city and one place, but need to look at the overall situation, and if a battle has been lost, they cannot be entangled in it, especially to avoid continuing to invest resources in it. Otherwise, it will become a mire, an abyss into which it will drag itself completely.

As the head of the family, stopping losses in time, abandoning the car to protect the handsome, and making trade-offs are the decisive ability that every qualified homeowner should have.

"What?" Zhao Wenkuan couldn't believe that Xie Zhan had reached such a consensus with the Lu family so quickly.

"In addition, we need to face up to the fact that the enemy is not weaker than us."

Xie Zhan's words were very cold, and at the same time very realistic, like a basin of cold water poured on Zhao Wenkuan's head, waking up his hot head.

"We continue to fight with it, it's dangerous, don't forget that the snipe and the clam fight, and the fisherman wins." The lessons from the past are still there, in addition to the Lu family, they have other political enemies.

Zhao Wenkuan didn't speak, intellectually, he could accept Xie Zhan's decision, but emotionally, it was very difficult to accept.

"Uncle Zhao, don't forget, you have other sons. Do you really want to exhaust the Zhao family's resources for the sake of Zhao Bin, who is already useless? ”

Zhao Wenkuan was silent.

If you lose this time, you will have a chance to compete again next time.

However, for the sake of face, it is too irrational and crazy to consume resources like this. It is not easy for the family to develop to this day.

For a big family like them, face is important, and it is not important, if you choose between strength and face, the core is always strength.

It would be unwise to blindly consume one's own strength for the sake of so-called face. Face can be won back with strength, if you don't have strength, then you never want to get face back.

"When you fight with the Lu family and lose both, it is also the most dangerous time for our two families, are you sure you want to gamble?" After analyzing the pros and cons, Xie Zhan handed over the choice to Zhao Wenkuan.

Zhao Wenkuan was silent in the conference hall for a long time, and finally did not insist that he must trouble the Lu family.

Before he left, Xie Zhan handed him his investigation of the backyard of the Zhao Mansion.

After Zhao Wenkuan took it, he looked down and saw that his face behind him was red and white.

Xie Zhan finally said, "If the Zhao family had sent Zhao Bin to Zhuangzi or other places for recuperation earlier, maybe his state would have been better than now." "The current Zhao Bin is basically a wasted person. The Zhao family can only raise it, hoping that he can do something for the family, but it can't be, except for having children.

But his words may not come true, with Lu Songli's ruthlessness, even if Zhao Bin is sent to a distant place, she can let people mess with Zhao Bin until he collapses.

Messing with such a person is really a big disadvantage to the two of them.

Hearing this, Zhao Wenkuan's steps to leave paused, and then he left without looking back.

Xie Zhan knew that he was a bit of an afterthought when he said this, and he meant to pour cold water on the Zhao family, but the Zhao family's handling of this matter really made him very dissatisfied.

Zhao Wenkuan returned to Zhao's house angrily, ignoring the greetings of his subordinates, went straight to the main courtyard, found Luo, and scolded her for slapping her head and covering her face.

Bang, he slammed the table and said angrily, "How do you manage this backyard?" You see, you see, it's a person who can reach out to our back house, are you a pig? Didn't notice it at all? ”

When the future son-in-law handed him the results of the investigation, he saw the sieve-like backyard of the Zhao family, and was pointed out by his son-in-law that anyone could really insert a hand into his backyard, Zhao Wenkuan only felt that his face was lost, and he really wished that there was a crack in the ground for him to get into!