One thousand one hundred and sixty-eight chapters: personal matters
Without heirs, the inheritance is unstable. Even if it is prosperous for a while, it is just a fleeting thing. Every big family understands this truth. Therefore, when the person has been married to Chen Jiaying for a long time and has no children or even a daughter, the Chen family turns to support Yong.
Others around Wang are not surprised.
This is the way for a big clan to survive. They will not put all their eggs in the same basket. In this way, even if one team has problems, there is still enough room for maneuver. To put it more bluntly, it is the probability of error tolerance.
King Yong was naturally not very concerned about the changes in the Chen family, because no matter how the Chen family changed, the people he supported were still his subordinates. If the flesh rotted in his own pot, there was nothing to worry about.
As for Wu Yi's influence, it is not a simple change, it is a trend of gradually leaving the core circle around King Yong.
In order to reverse this trend and to weaken the influence of the Liu and Chen families on King Yong, Wu Yi promoted Liu Chen's plan to expand the county.
Liuchen County is too small to be the land of King Yong's Hidden Dragon. It must expand outwards. Moreover, the territory is too small, so there is no increase. It is all allocated from stock. Why is there a saying that the temple is small and the demon is strong? It is not because of involution.
, only by making the cake bigger, everyone will look at the extra cake, and the internal contradictions will be temporarily suppressed.
King Yong relied on marriage to achieve power penetration and successfully control the overall situation of Liuchen County, but it also caused the status of the Liu and Chen families to rise sharply, so caution is needed.
In addition, the court sent King Yong to Liuchen County to test King Yong's ability to deal with conflicts between large and small clans.
If King Yong fails to make progress after the marriage, the situation will be too small, and the important officials in the court will not be optimistic about King Yong. And at the end of the selection system, the opinions of these important officials must not be underestimated. A frivolous evaluation can make the prince fall.
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Therefore, the suggestion put forward by Wu Yi was endorsed by King Yong. Because it complied with the fundamental interests of King Yong, he had no reason not to accept it. At first, in order to gain a foothold, he had no choice but to marry the Liu and Chen families. How can it be done now?
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Expanding outward and making the pie bigger will inevitably dilute the power and status of the Liu and Chen families. King Yong stood behind the scenes, while Wu Yi stood at the front. All pressures from the front and back were pressed against Wu Yi.
That period was also the period of greatest pressure for Wu Yi after he came to Liuchen County.
The adjustment of interests is undoubtedly the most difficult. At the most difficult time, when Wu Yi went to visit the head of the Chen family, the other party claimed that he was unwell and disappeared, which made Wu Yi feel rejected.
However, as the reform progressed, King Yong used his own connections and was good at dancing, and the surrounding counties were merged into Liuchen County one by one. Although it was still called a county town, it was actually the same as a prefectural city, and its status had undergone earth-shaking changes.
It is meritorious to appease the exiles in troubled times, and to expand the county to calm the people in prosperous times. This is also a latitude that tests the prince. When almost every prince governs the county, he will propose to expand the county, and the court will agree.
Of course, there is also the support of economic theory behind it. The prince himself is a resource, not to mention the various other resources sent by those who support or are optimistic about this prince.
Naturally, a small county town cannot accommodate the huge resources. Excessive resource investment without expansion will only lead to inflation in the end.
It's like giving an eighteenth-tier county 100 billion in liquidity now. Can it be used up? After the infrastructure construction is completed, it won't end up sitting in a bank account.
Do you think it can be used as a reserve of welfare funds to achieve free medical care, education and elderly care? Hum, it’s a beautiful idea. The problem is, what happens when the money is empty after many years?
Those resource-exhausted cities all think this way. In the early stage, they relied on selling resources to make a prosperous life. When the resources are gone and the finances are exhausted, they are just like a ghost town.
Gold and silver are not as good as mobile factories that continuously generate funds. This is what expansion means.
At the same time, as the reform progressed, the Liu and Chen families who had previously abused Wu Yi gradually changed, and their vision also rose to a higher level. In terms of mentality, they truly had the style of a wealthy family.
If we say that initially they controlled 70% of Liuchen County's resources, and regarded Liuchen County's resources as one hundred and divided them equally between the two families, then one family would control thirty-five.
With the expansion of Liuchen County, the resources have increased tenfold, reaching one thousand. Even if the resources they can control only account for 30% or even less of the original ones, after being divided equally, the family will have one hundred and fifty.
Thirty-five and one hundred and fifty, the income of more than four times is indeed lower in terms of proportion, but in terms of absolute numbers, they are the group of people who have gained the most.
Moreover, they also realize that in a small county town, they can dominate, disagree with each other, and even ignore the county magistrate. However, as the level of contact becomes higher and higher, they must accept the reality that their ability to influence is gradually shrinking.
Start choosing more efficient investments.
Wu Yi once again became a guest of the Liu and Chen families. This is the difference between stock allocation and incremental allocation. Incremental allocation can bridge disputes to the greatest extent.
This time, Wu Yi's identity is no longer Chen's uncle, but the person leading this reform.
There were more and more able people and lofty ideals around King Yong, but no one could shake Wu Yi's personal status. Even as time passed, King Yong became increasingly unable to leave Wu Yi.
Is this a good thing? Yes and no. In the eyes of outsiders, asking Wu Yi for something is the same as asking King Yong. It is even more convenient to ask Wu Yi. They all join Wu Yi's sect and serve as Wu Yi's pioneers.
In this way, the person's high power could not help but arouse suspicion in King Yong's heart, just because Wu Yi did not have any unethical actions or thoughts, so it would not be easy for him to explode.
However, neglect is unavoidable, at least let your subordinates understand who is the true leader.
In order to seize Wu Yi's power, King Yong found many opportunities, but the results were not very good. Until the other princes started provoking provocations on the border and seeking prestige through foreign wars, King Yong thought this was a good opportunity and worked hard to gain prestige.
Make preparations.
At the same time, Wu Yi was put in charge of internal affairs (actually it was King Yong who made the decision, Wu Yi had the position but not the power) and sent other confidants to take care of the matter.
When the person is happy and pure, he leaves the tedious affairs to his subordinates. He spends no more than an hour in the Yamen every day, just walking around and looking around.
This style of behavior provoked a group of people to impeach him, and Wu Yi even took the initiative to ask his own forces to report him to King Yong. The reason was for no other reason than self-defeat. If King Yong wanted to seize power, let him seize it.