Chapter 104 Competing for the Patriarch (6)(1/2)
Chapter 104: Fighting for the Head of the Family (Sixth)
As night came, a few barking and sobbing sounded on the streets. The gate of Zhang Mansion quietly opened. After a while, a carriage drove out of the door from dozens of samurai and rushed north. Since the head of the family returned, Zhang Ruojin did not dare to be arrogant anymore, and he was careful when he went out.
The carriage almost circled around Taiyuan City before gradually walking towards its destination.
Today, when Zhang Ruohao came back, he took a strong move, released all the detained accounting rooms, and dissolved the security camp he had just established. Although almost all the tribe members expressed their support for him before he returned, no one dared to stand up and oppose Zhang Ruohao's strength this afternoon.
"A bunch of guys who change their minds when they see the wind!" Zhang Ruojin gritted her teeth secretly.
The carriage turned and drove into the alley of the deep house again.
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Li Fanyun stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, looking at the big tree in the yard with cold eyes. Since she got the news that Zhang Ruohao entered the city, her face has been as gloomy as water. Obviously, if her plan failed, the ten people must have been finished, but she did not know the details of it. Now she has already alerted the snake. It is really difficult to assassinate Zhang Ruohao again. Just! The Zhang family should do the matter! She should concentrate on doing her own business well.
At this moment, a humble report came from outside the door, "Sir, Governor Zhang is here!".
Li Fanyun's thoughts were interrupted, and she said intently: "Let him in!"
Soon, Zhang Ruojin was brought in, and he stepped forward and gave a gentle salute, "Mr. Li, are you okay with me?"
Li Fengyun glanced at him and said coldly: "I'll ask you, you have taken all the initiative, why did the Zhang family delay the meeting?"
Zhang Ruojin replied carefully: "Now most of the clan members have arrived, and there are more than 30 people who may arrive tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. According to the clan rules, the number of people who will dismiss him will not be able to be dismissed."
Li Fanyun didn't say anything, and she said slowly for a long time: "I just got the news that the Li clan has accelerated its speed and will arrive in Taiyuan in three days. At the latest, you must hold a clan meeting the day after tomorrow to remove Zhang Ruohao, otherwise you will explain it to the prime minister yourself."
Seeing that she pushed the blame on her, Zhang Ruojin cursed in her heart, but she was helpless. He hesitated and said, "Can you ask the Prime Minister, in a critical moment, ask Shandong to send troops...?"
Before he finished speaking, Li Fanyun flatly refused, "Send troops to Hedong? Humph! Do you think Prime Minister will not think of it? Do you think Zhang Ruohao will not think of it?"
Three questions in a row that emphasized the tone caused Li Fanyun to strongly question Zhang Ruojin's ability. With such a simple truth, he would even ask, didn't he know that the real purpose of Li's visit to Hedong was to prevent Shandong from taking the opportunity to send troops to Hedong?
She shook her head secretly. Cui Xiangguo had misunderstood. This time the Zhang family dispute was probably not optimistic. Thinking of this, she said in a slight tone: "Governor Zhang, you can ask Cui Xiang directly for this matter, and you don't have to pass me."
Seeing that she had no sincerity, Zhang Ruojin had to leave with hatred.
After he left, Li Fanyun pondered for a moment, pulled the rope again, and a subordinate hurried in and bowed to her, "Please give me the order?"
"What's the situation in Lanling Lefang?"
"Mr. Qi Bing, according to the established plan, it is no problem to win the championship of this music conference."
Li Fanyun nodded, "If you want to make your fame bigger, you must make a sensation in the whole city in the past two days."
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Zhang Ruojin returned to the mansion with concern. In fact, he did not tell the truth to Li Fanyun. The Zhang family members had arrived in the afternoon. However, Zhang Ruohao's strong appearance weakened his confidence. Seventy-ninth percentile members of the clan's club had to pass the removal of the head of the family. He was really unsure. If the removal failed at the clan meeting, Cui Yuan would not spare him, so it would be best to delay it for two days and leave some time for himself. However, thinking about it, Zhang Ruojin slowly came to Zhang Ruojun's room.
The fifth brothers of the Zhang family, except for the third brother Zhang Ruofeng, are very thin, and they all look quite similar. They are tall and fat, with big faces and big noses. However, Zhang Ruojun is the most unprosperous, has the smallest official position, and has no influence in the clan.
But his two sons are eye-catching. One legitimate son controls the financial power of the Zhang family, while the other concubine son is famous in the Tang Dynasty. However, he would rather not have this famous son, the Tang Dynasty. The whip in front of the mansion swept away his father's face.
At this moment, Zhang Ruojun was lying on the soft couch, and a concubine was carefully applying medicine to him. Zhang Huan's whip was too fierce. Not only did his lips swollen, but his teeth were also loosened. He looked like a distant relative of a horse living in a river.
"Sixth brother! Are you feeling better?" Zhang Ruojin sat down beside him and asked with concern. The whip was taken for him, which brought the hearts between their brothers closer.
After applying the medicine, the concubine used a few layers of gauze to cover the part below his nose. Then she stepped back. Zhang Ruojun sat upright, and the anger in his eyes was undoubtedly revealed. He took out the paper and pen and wrote a line of words: I want to kill that evil man!
Zhang Ruojin sighed. He understood his brother's suffering very well. He was whipped by his son in public, which could not be tolerated by anyone. However, since Zhang Huan dared to publicly beat his father, it means he no longer cared about him.
"Sixth brother, have you ever thought about it? Who is supporting him because he is so arrogant?"
The anger in Zhang Ruojun's eyes became even stronger. He wrote another sentence, "I saw my son hurt my father but was indifferent. This person turned his back on his own selfishness and was not worthy of being the head of the family."
"Yes! From these little things, we can see that he is naturally cold and has no brotherhood in his heart."
Zhang Ruojin patted his hand gently, "For the sake of my Zhang family's future, I have decided to give it my best. Sixth brother, you must help me!"
Zhang Ruojun waved his pen and his heartfelt words came to the paper, "Please rest assured, I will repay you ten times the humiliation today."
Seeing that he was writing, he raised his hands and waved freely, as if he was faster than speaking, and the words written on paper were more persuasive. He was worried that his hidden worries would be solved at once, and he was the pioneer of his clan meeting.
He turned around and closed the door, pulled out a large stack of paper from the bookshelf and smiled: "Come on! Let's discuss the details of the clan meeting."
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Just as Zhang Ruojin's brothers discussed dealing with Zhang Ruohao, Zhang Huan came to Wang Yanluo's room by the head of the family.
Women are sometimes very strange animals. When she is hurt and determined to deal with someone, she will suddenly change her mind because of another irrelevant thing. This is what Wang Yanluo is like. She originally decided to testify with Zhang Ruofeng and was instructed by Zhang Ruohao to send money to the Wang family, but since Zhang Ruofeng refused to cooperate and was killed, Wang Yanluo was silent.
Her silence may be because she felt the coldness of her lips and teeth, or she may have seen her future fate. In short, no one knows what she thinks now, but no matter what, she will play an important role in the incident of destroying the head of the family, and her attitude is also extremely important.
When Zhang Huan walked into the room, Wang Yanluo turned her back to him and wrote something at the desk. Zhang Huan gave a long tribute at the door and said respectfully: "Zhang Huan meets with his wife!"
"Come in!"
Wang Yanluo slowly turned around and pointed to a soft couch next to her, "Please sit down!"
She seemed to know that Zhang Huan was coming, and after a moment of silence, she said first: "He asked you to come!"
Zhang Huan smiled and said nothing. The current situation is very subtle. According to the rules of the Zhang family, as long as someone raises evidence that the head of the family is not conducive to the family, and with the signatures and consents of ten elders who are higher than the head of the family, the Zhang family must convene a clan meeting to review the qualifications of the current head of the family. Once more than 70% of the people agree, the current head of the family will be dismissed from the position of the head of the family.
In May, the Zhang family held a plenary meeting because of the heir of the head of the family and Zhang Potian. The situation was quite bad for Zhang Ruohao. After several months, Zhang Ruohao gave up the position of the cabinet to Zhang Potian and the disappearance of the Zhang family's huge sum of money.
In fact, the situation is quite unfavorable to Zhang Ruohao, but it takes 70% of people to agree to it before it can be dismissed, which leaves a glimmer of hope for Zhang Ruohao, and there are also people who support him. In this way, the victory or defeat of the clan association is likely to be lingered by a vote.
Therefore, it is urgent to strive for every advantageous condition, especially Wang Yanluo, who is the head of the family. If she stands up and testifies, the situation will be quite unfavorable to Zhang Ruohao.
On the contrary, if she could remain silent, it would greatly weaken the persuasiveness of Zhang Ruohao's accusations.
But Wang Yanluo is quite scheming. If she shows that she wants her, she will definitely ask for a price everywhere. Once the conditions cannot meet her, she will bite even harder.
"I will not be the heir of the head of the Zhang family." Zhang Huan was silent for a long time and finally spoke.
If you want to communicate with Wang Yanluo, you must first ease her hostility towards her. The heir of the family head is the fuse for the intensification of the conflict between them. Although it cannot make Wang Yanluo abandon the gap, it can at least make her rational and not blinded by hatred.
Wang Yanluo was stunned, and a happy expression gradually appeared on her face. It was a pleasure for a rabbit to hear the fox to die. She looked at Zhang Huan and her face became more and more pleasant. Finally, she couldn't help laughing loudly, and the sharp laughter echoed in the room.
When the anger in her heart was almost vented, Zhang Huan said coldly: "But it's not Zhang Xuan's turn to the heir of the family."
"Of course." Wang Yanluo sneer said: "Xuaner failed to pass the Jinshi exam and could not make great contributions to show his face. Of course, he did not like him."
Zhang Huan shook his head, "The head of the family said it was not the reason. I don't know what the specific reason is. The head of the family just said that you know it in your heart."
Wang Yanluo's face suddenly turned red, but disappeared in an instant. Of course, she knew what Zhang Ruohao was referring to. Only the couple knew this kind of thing in their hearts.
The expression in Wang Yanluo's eyes began to become turbulent, and she asked coldly: "Then what do he want to deal with us mother and son? Have me divorced and drive me back to the Wang family? Humph! I don't dare to do it!"
"What's the point of not daring to do this? Do you think our Zhang family can still be kneaded like before?"
Zhang Huan stood up and looked at her disdainfully and said, "I don't know who Wang Ang is? Cui Yuan asked him to go east, would he dare to go west? Madam, the current situation is not last year. Do you know why the head of the family gave up the position of Shangshu to Zhang Potian? Let me tell you the truth, this is to tie Zhang Potian's interests to the Zhang family and make his 30,000 Hedong Army truly become the private army of the Zhang family. Just imagine, will Cui Yuan fight with the Hedong Army for you? Besides, even if Cui Yuan defeated the head of the family this time, how should he deal with you? Sometimes you know too much, which will harm yourself."
Speaking of this, Zhang Huan saw her face turn red and white, so he relaxed and said, "Madam, think about it first tonight, I'll visit you tomorrow!"
After saying that, he bowed his hands and turned to leave. Just as he walked to the door, Wang Yanluo suddenly stopped him, "Wait a moment!"
Zhang Huan stopped, and he turned around and bowed to Wang Yanluo and said, "My wife, what else is there?"
Wang Yanluo's vision was extremely complicated. She knew that Zhang Huan was telling the truth. The eldest brother had indeed become Cui Yuan's lackey. Although the eldest brother would not kill her, Cui Yuan would do it and Zhang Ruofeng were still Zhang Ruojin's brother and killed it in a blink of an eye. What about herself? If Cui Yuan would keep her this hidden danger after the incident ended?
Zhang Huan is right, he will definitely die. Wang Yanluo has countless thoughts in his mind, so it is okay to silence him, but Zhang Ruohao needs to exchange conditions.
"You sit down!"
Wang Yanluo's eyes were no longer as hostile as when Zhang Huan first came in, but were extremely calm. After Zhang Huan sat down, she smiled faintly and said, "Tell me! What conditions did he give me?"
Seeing that she had regained her rationality, Zhang Huan smiled and said, "Still the status quo, you are still the head of the family, and you can enter the sect hall. You will ask about the marriage of each room for concubines."
Wang Yanluo shook her head and expressed her disapproval. These are all false things. She is a real woman, and she cannot accept such conditions.
To be continued...