Chapter 921: Soft and hard persimmons are pinched together
More than three years have passed since the last time the Zhang family was tormented, and the original turmoil has almost subsided.
The reputation of the Zhang family in Blood Shadow is completely bad, and all the middle and lower-level disciples criticize the Zhang family.
Of course, Zhou Luan punished Zhang Dingyi and promoted Zhang Dingming to the position of Supreme Elder without real power.
He also repaid the salary that Zhang Dingyi had embezzled before, and his prestige was as good as ever.
The Zhang family has been considered honest in the past three years or so, and those who still have positions in the headquarters try their best to remain inconspicuous.
Work diligently, for fear of making any mistakes.
Now he came out to cause trouble again, which Wang Daoyuan didn't expect.
"They did not dare to fight for power directly, but instead took the initiative to send the children of the Zhang family to various branches.
Originally, it was just adjustments to the internal management of each branch, and the headquarters had no control at all.
Nowadays, the hall masters and deputy hall masters of the secondary branch are always replaced, and then the children of the Zhang family from the headquarters come to fill in the gaps.
You have said before that the most important thing about the Zhang family is not the inheritance and the resources of the headquarters, but the influence in each branch.
By doing this, the Zhang family is increasing the influence of the branch. When the time comes, it will be even more difficult for us to destroy the Zhang family."
Wang Daoyuan thought for a long time before asking: "How many first-level branches are there that are doing this?"
"Blood Shadow has a total of more than twenty first-level branches, and there were thirteen first-level branch leaders who originally belonged to the Zhang family faction.
But after we dealt with the Zhang family once, most of the first-level branch hall leaders had a distant attitude towards the Zhang family.
Several hall masters with foreign surnames who were attached to the Zhang family did not act rashly, and even the distant branch of the Zhang family watched the excitement.
There are only six people who have replaced all the second-level branch hall masters and deputy hall masters with Zhang family children.
These six first-level branches have jurisdiction over more than 40 second-level branches.”
The Zhang family has reached this point, and more than one-fifth of its branches have responded.
Other branches also have a wait-and-see attitude, if the movie owner can't come up with any good way to deal with the Zhang family.
Their attitudes will also change and they will continue to support the Zhang family.
After all, the Zhang family and the Xu family have been fighting for tens of thousands of years. During this period, the Zhang family also experienced extreme decline, but they were not completely killed.
In the eyes of others, the Zhang family is still very likely to make a comeback.
"If you want to promote a branch leader to the headquarters, do they have the right to refuse?"
Zhou Luan shook his head: "Of course not, the shadow master forcibly gave the order, and even the three elders and one of them couldn't stop it. What does a hall master who goes outside mean?
It's just that the deputy hall masters of these first-level branches are also nominally the powerful elders.
If you want to promote them to the headquarters, you must always give them the position of a powerful elder.
If you give them a sinecure elder, it will be a demotion, and there must be a suitable reason.
Otherwise, it will be me, the movie owner, who takes revenge on the Zhang family."
Wang Daoyuan smiled and said: "This is not difficult, these six Zhang family members are always divided into main lines and branch lines.
Remove the main vein first, and release the branch veins first.
Moreover, the butts of these hall masters are so clean?
Find a random leader of the Zhang family who has bad deeds, take him out and deal with him.
There is no need to pack too much, just take it to the headquarters and become a casual elder.
This will also prevent the Zhang family from being too frightened and causing them to jump over the wall.
You have to ask Xu Qinghe to do this kind of thing, he is better at this job."
Zhou Luan glanced at him: "You two cunning villains are conspiring to deceive people again."
After that, he sent a message to Xu Qinghe.
Xu Qinghe moved quickly and quickly arrived at the Zhou family courtyard.
As soon as he came in, he cupped his hands towards Zhou Luan and Wang Daoyuan and said, "Shadow Master, Your Majesty, what's the important thing for calling your subordinates here?"
Wang Daoyuan smiled and said: "The Zhang family is causing trouble again. Most of the senior officials at the headquarters are our people, and the Zhang family has no place to stand.
However, the old guy Zhang Dingming seems to have figured out my purpose and wants to give up the fight for power at the headquarters.
Hide the family's strength in each branch.
In this way, it will be difficult for Zhou Luan to completely control the Blood Shadow Intelligence System."
Xu Qinghe sighed: "Zhang Dingming is still quite sophisticated. When my father was alive, I fought with him for hundreds of years and never gained the upper hand.
If it weren't for the presence of the Shadow Master and the Supreme Emperor, it would be difficult for me to defeat him.
However, among the descendants of the Zhang family, there are very few capable people and they have done a lot of stupid things.
Your Majesty, how do you plan to deal with the Zhang family?"
"Among the first-level branches controlled by the Zhang family, there are still six that are employing a large number of Zhang family's children.
What I mean is to find someone who has done more misdeeds and punish them, and then transfer them back to the headquarters to serve as a casual elder.
Let's shake the mountain and shake the tiger, so that those distant branches of the Zhang family dare not act rashly, and then slowly clean up the main line of the Zhang family."
The Xu family is indeed the old enemy of the Zhang family. When they heard that there were six first-level branches cooperating with the Zhang family, they immediately said: "These six branches should be located in the capitals of the six kingdoms of Wu, Qi, Shen, Sui, Huang, and Zhongli.
Bar?"
Zhou Luan nodded: "It is these six first-level branches."
"That's right, these six first-level branches have always been under the control of the Zhang family.
Among them, the Wu Qishen Three Kingdoms are all controlled by the main disciples of the Zhang family.
The other three are all distant branches, but this distant branch is not too far away, just seven or eight generations apart.
Zhang Dingming also takes care of these three distant clan members, and they are devoted to the Zhang family."
Wang Daoyuan asked: "You have to pick up the weak persimmons, first deal with the weak ones and the bad ones.
Which of the three descendants of the main lineage of the Zhang family is best to deal with, and what will be the greatest benefits after doing so?"
"That must be the Zhenze branch located in the capital of Wu State. Wu State has a large territory and manages ten second-level branches.
Although the state of Wu was not as powerful as Zhou and Qin, it was still extremely wealthy.
Although Qi's side is not bad, Zhang Mengjue, the leader of the Linji branch in the capital, is a rare capable person among the Zhang family's descendants.
Zhang Dingming's eldest son, Zhang Mengchen, was a miser and was not good at doing big things.
And Zhang Mengjue is Zhang Dingming's nephew. This guy is impeccable in everything he does. Over the years, our Xu family has only found some trivial mistakes and cannot bring him down at all.
Therefore, Zhang Dingming had always wanted to let Zhang Mengjue take charge of the Zhang family, and he also began to focus on training him.
The leader of the Zhenze branch is Zhang Dingming's other son Zhang Menggui, a standard dandy.
His talent is not that great either. He is over 500 years old and is still an early stage Golden Elixir monk.
All official matters are managed by the deputy hall master.
This guy just eats, drinks and has fun all day long. He has not committed any serious crimes, but he has also done a lot of deducting salary.
Since the purpose of the Supreme Emperor is not to kill people, but to demote him to a position of idle elder, it is perfect to deal with Zhang Menggui."
Wang Daoyuan pondered for a while: "In that case, I would like to squeeze both soft and hard persimmons.
You can bring these two brothers back together, and Zhang Menggui will make him a sinecure elder.
As for Zhang Mengjue, if this guy stays in Qi, he will be a disaster sooner or later.
Since he has no fault and his political performance must be good, then he should be promoted.
At the headquarters, the Xu family found a reason to take down an unimportant general manager of their own and send him to Yan State. It shouldn't be a problem to serve as a guard envoy.
Then let Zhang Mengjue take over the position of general manager and let him enjoy the happiness in Qingshui Yamen."
Xu Qinghe had long wanted to send Jindan monks there, but the intention of fighting for power and profit was too obvious.
Now Wang Daoyuan took the initiative to propose it, which made him overjoyed: "High! It's really high!
At the same time, the two main branch hall masters of the Zhang family were captured, and the three distant branch hall masters most likely did not dare to move again.
The two members of the Zhang family were promoted and demoted one after another, which showed that the film host was impartial and selfless.
By the way, what should we do with the two vacant hall masters?"
"The purpose of taking down these two brothers is to eliminate the influence of the Zhang family. The Zhang family has been in business for many years, so we must send a loyal and capable person.
It doesn't matter whether the Xu family has capable elders who are idle or not, or whether they are more junior.
As long as you are strong enough to suppress the power of the Zhang family, that will be enough."