While Li Chen was visiting the Xu family to offer condolences, Zhao Tailai was experiencing firsthand the horror of the Zhao family's family law.
Zhao Tailai, who was tied to the bench, screamed like a slaughtered pig as the whip was whipped on his body.
"Dad! Dad! Stop fighting! Please stop fighting!"
Seeing Zhao Tailai screaming so hard that his back and buttocks were bloody and bloody after being slapped by him, the anger in Zhao Xuanji's heart was still unquenched.
"I asked you to make friends with the Crown Prince, but I didn't ask you to serve as a shield for them! Did you know that your position as the president will make your father and the entire Zhao family die without a burial place!?"
Zhao Xuanji's roar made Zhao Tailai turn pale.
"Dad, I really didn't think too much about it. Besides, this Wenyuan Society seems to be really good. I agreed as soon as my mind got excited. Dad, please forgive me and I'll resign immediately, okay? Right now.
Just go."
Zhao Tailai was really scared of being beaten, so he begged bitterly.
Zhao Xuanji snorted coldly, dropped his whip, and gritted his teeth and said, "Resign? It's easy to become the president of this guild, but it's difficult to resign!"
Seeing Zhao Tailai's tears streaming down his face, Zhao Xuanji felt extremely disappointed.
"I no longer expect you to be able to help me with anything, but now you are too old to be able to do anything. Instead, you keep helping me and causing trouble. Why did I give birth to such a useless thing like you!?"
Zhao Tailai was unwilling and even more dissatisfied, but he did not dare to talk back at this time. He just said aggrievedly: "Dad, I still can't figure out why I am a shield as the president of this association."
"If you could figure it out, you wouldn't be a pig!"
Zhao Xuanji scolded: "This Wenyuan Society was organized by Prince Wen. Why did he give you the position of president so easily? Do you believe it or not, even if you didn't take the initiative to join, he would try his best to bring you in, and then use
I will try my best to give you the position of president!"
"Think about it again, now that the Wenyuan Society has just been established, how many dignitaries in the capital have already flocked to join? Those who join the Wenyuan Society are all children of aristocratic families with extraordinary family backgrounds. Once they form an alliance with each other, how huge a force will it be? Such a big thing
, Will Dongchang not notice? Once Dongchang notices, will Donggong not know?"
Zhao Tailai was stunned and said: "What does that have to do with me being the president? Isn't it good? It will increase the influence of our family."
"Why does the Zhao family need you to increase this influence!?"
Zhao Xuanji said angrily: "Zhao family, I, Zhao Xuanji, are influence. I have worked hard for decades, and my real power connections are like a network of roots that have already spread throughout the court. Do I still need this kind of influence on paper?
This is called a big tree attracting the wind!"
"What will Dong Gong think about having such a Wenyuan Society in such a grand manner? What on earth do you, Zhao Tailai, want to do? Are you going to rebel? If you are rebelling, is it because I, the father, am rebelling?"
There are too many subtleties in the game and balance in politics that can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words, and these subtleties cannot be explained clearly by Zhao Xuanji, nor can Zhao Tailai understand them.
Of course, Dong Palace is not that stupid. Just because Zhao Tailai became the president, he concluded that the Zhao family was going to rebel. Everyone could see that Zhao Tailai suffered this loss and was deceived into it.
But does it matter?
unimportant.
The important thing is that the president is Zhao Tailai.
Once Dong Gong wants to take action, Zhao Tailai will not be able to escape.
This is passivity.
It was far more uncomfortable to be passive than when he planned to get rid of Xu Changqing.
