After a while of silence, Dad Xia finally spoke: "You boy, you are so capable. Such a noble person as Li Guojiu, you will be beaten to pieces by your trick!"

Ye Xiaotian owed him and said modestly: "My father-in-law is too rewarded. The boy just played a game of beast fighting chess, like lions, tigers, leopards, wolfs, dogs, cats and mice, eating big and eating big, and eating big, that's all. The uncle has many concerns and has more constraints, so he has to retreat. It's not how Xiaotian is capable."

Dad Xia slapped the table heavily and said angrily: "Am I praising you, huh?" He gasped for a while, leaned on the back of the chair, and said in a deep voice: "Tell me, what conditions do you want to let Yingying go?"

Ye Xiaotian frowned and said, "My father-in-law, Yingying and I are truly in love."

Mr. Xia said despisedly: "Promoted? Within twenty years, I will guarantee that you will be promoted to the fifth rank, how about it?"

Ye Xiaotian said: "My father-in-law, Yingying and I are truly in love."

Dad Xia's eyebrows jumped and said, "Want to get rich? My Xia family has four sand mines, but at worst... I give you one. With this sand mine, you can guarantee you will be worry-free forever!" As soon as this sentence was said, the faces of the warriors standing next to him could not help but change.

Ye Xiaotian said: "My father-in-law, Yingying and I are truly in love."

Dad Xia closed his eyes, opened his eyes suddenly, and said, "Beautiful? How about I give you three hundred beautiful girls under 16?"

Ye Xiaotian said sincerely: "My father-in-law, Yingying and I are truly in love."

Dad Xia stood up suddenly, angry, Ye Xiaotian also stood up and looked at him without showing any weakness. Dad Xia thought for a while, then sat down slowly, and said, "I forgot that you are a venerable. If you are greedy for power, money and beauty, these things are at your fingertips."

Dad Xia paused and said, "Do you really like my daughter?"

Ye Xiaotian nodded vigorously and said, "Yes!"

Dad Xia said, "So, do you have the heart to harm her? You have only had twenty years of worldly relationship, and now it has been less than twenty years. By then, Yingying was still very young. Do you have the heart to let her live alone?"

Ye Xiaotian also became serious and no longer spoke to him in a frivolous tone. Ye Xiaotian said solemnly: "Uncle, I know too. This is unfair to Yingying. At first, I thought she was a poor girl and wanted to give her a wealthy life as compensation..."

Ye Xiaotian looked at Dad Xia and said, "Later, of course, I knew her true identity. But when I like someone, I didn't feel like I got something, and I could let it go if I said I could let it go. Uncle, Yingying and I really like each other, and she also knew my identity as a venerable."

Mr. Xia said coldly: "So. You should use her affection for you and would rather sacrifice her happiness?"

Ye Xiaotian said: "No! I will have a good talk with the elders and change the rules that have been around for thousands of years."

Mr. Xia said, "Is it possible? The rules passed down by our ancestors are so easy to change? Those old guys squatting in the mountains have their heads turned into elm-wood lumps, will they agree?"

Ye Xiaotian said: "Uncle, I haven't talked about this with them yet. In order to force them to make concessions, I have tried my best to force them to make concessions. I also know that it is difficult to let them take another step. This is also the reason why I want to establish myself in the officialdom. I want to be an official and a high-ranking official, not only to glorify my ancestors, but also... As long as I can hold enough power, those elders will have to face my thoughts."

People who set rules are people, and of course they can also be changed by people. But not everyone is qualified to change rules, unless you have strong strength and equal strength, you can negotiate equally.

If Ye Xiaotian had been in the Gu Sect, no matter how powerful he had, he would never be able to overturn the rules of the Gu Sect inheritance, because his power came from the Gu Sect. Even if a strong man had the power to shake a mountain, how could he carry his hair to lift him up, who was only 100 kilograms?

If Ye Xiaotian wants to have a greater impact on the elders of the Gu Cult, he can only master external forces. If this external force is so large that it cannot be ignored by the elders of the Gu Cult, once it is combined, it can have a significant impact on the Gu Cult. Then it is not impossible for Ye Xiaotian to force the elders to take another step back.

However, for a powerful force that is self-confidence and transcendence, how powerful does it take to have an impact on them? Is it possible for a small history? Even a local emperor like Zhang Gongfu of Tongren is not enough, unless he is a figure of the eight great chieftains of Guizhou.

Of course, the Xia family is one of the eight great kings. If they cannot separate Yingying and Ye Xiaotian, they seem to be able to stand on Ye Xiaotian's side and help him put pressure on the Gu Cult and force the elders to give in. But the power of the Xia family is not Ye Xiaotian's power after all. Although Xia's father loves his daughter, he cannot trade the interests of the entire Xia family. In this way, the influence of this power will inevitably be greatly reduced.

Dad Xia glanced at Ye Xiaotian and said disdainfully: "What a big tone! You are just a little history. Do you think you are the governor of Guizhou? Do you think you will be promoted to such a great official one day?"

Ye Xiaotian asked back: "Why can't I? I have unique resources, and I am also very smart and capable! It's just that I am in Baoshan and I didn't know how to use it before."

Ye Xiaotian said this and suddenly looked at the warriors standing on the left and right. Dad Xia understood what he meant. These people were his confidants. He was not afraid of letting them hear anything, but he waved his hand and asked these people to withdraw.

After all these people left the hall, Ye Xiaotian said: "Uncle, my plan has always been very simple. After twenty years of worldly relationship, I will be a good official, marry my beloved wife, and have a few cute children. Unfortunately, God cannot allow me to be so carefree.

I just want to be an official, a sane official with peace of mind, and reach the seventh grade or the sixth grade. It is enough to shine the lintel. I don’t want to compete with others, nor do I want to climb up, but others can’t tolerate me. This time, I went to Jinling to wait for ginseng, but I was lucky, but what about the next time?

I don’t necessarily have luck every time. If this time it wasn’t for the court to undergo a huge change, I wouldn’t have to be beheaded. Maybe the county magistrate Xu was right. As long as I go on this road, I can only work hard to climb up. If you don’t step on others, I can only be stepped on by others. Since that’s the case, I will just step on people too! The Gu Cult has great power. I didn’t want to have too much connection with them in the past twenty years, so I never thought about using it, but now I have changed my mind. If I can call on the power mastered by the Gu Cult as a backing, then where will I go in the officialdom?”

Ye Xiaotian's eyes were bright. At this moment, he really changed. He was no longer the Ye Xiaotian who was drifting with the flow, Ye Xiaotian who was at ease with the flow, and Ye Xiaotian who was at the warm bed with his wife and children. There was a flash of ambition in his eyes, and he began to know how to use all the resources he could master.

If you want to be promoted, you need a background, a backer and connections, and all this cannot be separated from the power of money. But who can have such power for newcomers to the officialdom? Either you need a family to help him pave the way, or you rely on relying on a strong man to develop your own wings, but Ye Xiaotian has an innate advantage in this regard.

If he is willing to manage his business with his strength, he can make friends with powerful people. In order to avoid being constrained and deducted, Qi Jiguang needs to make friends with big men like Zhang Juzheng.

In order to implement his policies and realize his lifelong ambitions, Zhang Juzheng needed to make friends with eunuchs like Feng Bao, and all of this required money to pave the way. Ye Xiaotian had an inexhaustible mountain of gold. If he wanted to do this, he would have a long-term accumulation process less than those standing on the same starting line.

Money paves the way and you can get to know those big people. But if you want others to appreciate you, you think you can cultivate it. It is of course not enough to rely on these alone. This is just a stepping stone. The master leads it in the door and practices in person. If you really want those big people to appreciate you and cultivate you, you must have enough wisdom and ability. Ye Xiaotian is not lacking in this regard.

Did he not have wisdom or ability? He turned Huxian upside down. He killed the local emperor Qi Mu of Huxian. At that time, he was not even a real official! He was able to use it for Teacher Li in Tongren and appreciated by Prefect Zhang, which was not without luck, but luck only helped him choose a suitable time and a suitable place, and met a suitable person.

But was there no trace of Tongren Mansion at that time? Did Teacher Li only choose Ye Xiaotian? Of course not. He chose Ye Xiaotian because he felt that Ye Xiaotian met his requirements. This was not luck, but ability. Did Teacher Li never think about other candidates before? It was just that others could not meet his requirements. He saw that Ye Xiaotian was not inferior to the calligraphy of famous artists, and his consideration of Ye Xiaotian's knowledge when talking to him made him determine Ye Xiaotian as his goal. This is Ye Xiaotian's ability.

Zhang Yi and Zhang Magistrate were moody and usually just a fat man who looked completely harmless. But if anyone makes him unhappy, on his ground, he can make the other party's corpse disappear without his hands. Such a tyrant favors Ye Xiaotian, which is also Ye Xiaotian's ability. Ye Xiaotian has seen many big people, knows the psychology of such people very well, and knows how to cater to such big people. If someone else goes there, he will probably be trembling and will not arouse Zhang Yi's interest at all.

This was even more true when he was in Guiyang Prefecture. It came from Xie Chuanfeng, Xue Mu, Li Qiuchi or Xu Boyi's traps, and from Guoji Gelong's challenge. If he did not have enough wit and adaptability, how could he get rid of danger one by one? Luck provided him with the opportunity, but seizing this opportunity was based on his wisdom, courage and ability.

Moreover, isn’t luck an indispensable factor for everyone’s success? Looking at the lifelong actions of those who have risen step by step, can you still be separated from luck and opportunities that are difficult for the world to explain? Can you seize the same opportunity in front of you? When opportunities arise, some people don’t even realize it, but they will only blame others.

Take Qi Jiguang as an example. Even if he used troops like a god, if it weren't for the Japanese pirates' rebellion, if he grew up in a peaceful and prosperous era, he would have been nothing but a commoner. How could he establish a brilliant achievement? When he grew up, God provided him with a stage to play. This was his luck, and this luck was provided to everyone, and some people caught it, and some missed it.

Ye Xiaotian ascended the throne of the venerable, and the same was true. He did not sit there, but God sent the venerable's inheritance to him. He had been through it all the time, and all kinds of opportunities were combined, which created his status.

What if Zhan Ning'er, the person who fell to the river of the thousand-year-old, had he even failed to assassinate him before? Every choice is a part of life. Some people have chosen the wrong path, and some have gone to the dead end. It is not just a way of luck that can reach the end.

Ye Xiaotian was no longer confused. Although he was sent to Jinling, he got a nearly sensible result, but the terrible consequences of this incident awakened him. When he was determined to use the power he had mastered to climb up, how far could he go?

Perhaps, when he met the children of officials in Jinling and stood with them without hesitation, he had already had such long-term considerations. Think about it, he offended the foreign relatives represented by the uncle and disdained the heroes represented by the Duke of Wei, but chose relatively weak officials. Is it really just because of the situation?

In this small circle, the relatively weak force was the official force represented by Zhang Hongying and others he met. However, in the entire Ming Dynasty, the most powerful ones not only over foreign relatives and heroes, but even above imperial power were the civil servants. If Ye Xiaotian did this consciously, how deep his scheming and gaze would be?

As the leader of the clan, Dad Xia's mind is not as rough as his appearance. In this moment, he was more and more shocked when he thought about it. However, even if he had so many resources to use, it would take him thirty or fifty years to truly reach this day. How could he fail in the middle?

Mr. Xia's expression was changing, and Ye Xiaotian saw it. Ye Xiaotian said: "Uncle, who can ensure that everything is in his control in the next few decades? In terms of wise and magical martial arts, who can compare with the First Emperor, but he cannot even control the things behind him. Why don't you and I make a bet. If within three years, my little dictionary can be promoted to the sixth rank, you will marry my daughter to me. What? At that time, Yingying was not yet twenty years old, and I thought she would not delay her future."

Three years? Sixth grade! Dad Xia's eyes almost fell out.

This is a very crazy saying. Ye Xiaotian is now a classic history of not entering the grade. The previous level is from the ninth level, from the ninth level to the sixth level, he has to upgrade to the eighth level in a row. Even if he is a little vague, he will be upgraded to the sixth level in a row, which is equivalent to upgrading to the next level in less than five months. This is simply impossible.

Just now, Mr. Xia suggested that if Ye Xiaotian gave up Yingying, he would fully support Ye Xiaotian in the officialdom with the resources controlled by the Xia family. He just said cautiously that he would go to the fifth grade, and it would take twenty years. Ye Xiaotian himself proposed that he would be promoted to the sixth grade within three years.

Dad Xia looked at Ye Xiaotian suspiciously: "This kid, don't retreat because he is trying to find a way for himself, right?"

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