"Yi'er, it's been a year and a half since you went up the mountain. How have you been feeling during this time?"
In the study room, only father and son Xu Chun and Xu Yi were left.
Although he really wanted Xu Yi to give up the idea of practicing martial arts, Xu Chun showed that he was not in a hurry and took a slow sip of tea before speaking calmly.
Having been the head of the family for so many years, managing so many businesses of the Xu family, and having dealt with so many people, Xu Chun understood very well that to achieve one's goals in a conversation, it was definitely not just about speaking loudly. It requires skills!
Xu Chun, who has mastered various conversation skills, used step-by-step techniques at this time. Through step-by-step questioning, not in a hurry, he gradually made Xu Yi realize the difficulty of practicing martial arts, and then allowed him to give up practicing martial arts. Wu's thoughts.
Xu Chun had been preparing for today for half a year. Based on what he knew about his son's character, he had considered it hundreds of times and included every reaction. He felt that he was absolutely foolproof.
"Dad, what do you think our Xu family lacks most right now?"
"Um?"
Xu Chun was stunned.
This is not in his default answer!
Xu Yi smiled in his heart. He had already seen Xu Chun's thoughts. Although he didn't know so many conversational skills, he knew how to make the other party not understand either - just interrupt the other party's rhythm.
The most important thing in a conversation is rhythm. Those who control the rhythm will have a great advantage.
Interrupt the other person's flow and move the conversation to your own pace, and you'll be in control.
Of course, this kind of thing is easy to say, but it is not that easy to actually do it. Interrupting the other person's rhythm does not mean that you can say whatever you want. The topic you bring up must be of extreme interest to the other person!
Otherwise, people will ignore you, so why would you drag the conversation into your own rhythm?
What Xu Yi is talking about now is obviously a topic that Xu Chun is very interested in - what exactly is the Xu family lacking at the moment?
As soon as Xu Chun heard this, he couldn't help but think deeply.
Similar to Yue Buqun, what he cares about most is his family. How to make his family better has always been what he wants to do most!
And from a certain perspective, the situations he and Yue Buqun encountered were actually very similar - they both had reached their peak.
In its heyday, the Xu family was not only the largest family in Huayin County, but its influence even spread to the entire Shaanxi Province and even several surrounding provinces.
The Huashan Sect was indeed powerful decades ago, and the Xu family, which relied on the Huashan Sect, naturally grew stronger with it.
It's a pity that with the decline of the Huashan Sect's sword fighting, the Xu family has also declined. Although it is not as miserable as the Huashan Sect, it is now basically shrinking in Huayin County, and it is no longer even in Huayin County. The first family was chased by other families.
Xu Chun was born and grew up in that peak period, and experienced how glorious and glorious the Xu family was in its heyday.
As the only remaining head of the Xu family, how could he not want the Xu family to return to its heyday?
Therefore, Xu Yi's topic directly made him fall into deep thought.
But before Xu Chun could give an answer, Xu Yi asked and answered his own questions and gave his own answer.
"It's power! What we lack now is power!"
"strength?"
Xu Chun frowned.
"That's right."
Xu Yi nodded.
"Dad, you must not have forgotten what happened to our Xu family more than ten years ago, right? If it weren't for you and my mother at that time... maybe our Xu family might not even exist now."
He didn't go into details, and his son couldn't elaborate on this kind of thing, but the meaning was clearly stated.
With the decline of the Huashan Sect's Sword Qi Contest, the Xu family suffered a very serious blow. After all, the bigger they were, the stronger the enemies they faced!
At that time, the Huashan Sect, which was the backer of the Xu family, had too much to take care of itself, so naturally it was unable to help the Xu family.
At that critical moment, if Xu Chun hadn't decisively given up his interests outside Huayin County and married Xu Yi's mother, Xu Liu, perhaps the Xu family would really be gone now.
"go on."
Xu Chun's face was calm. Although he was a little embarrassed to be told such a thing by his son in front of his face, he didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did back then, so he quickly calmed down.
Just like Xu Yi said, if he hadn't done that at that time, the Xu family might have ceased to exist now!
"Dad, I can guess a little bit of what you are thinking. If my guess is correct... you probably want me to take the scientific examination, right?" Xu Yi seemed to be doubtful, but actually said firmly.
"Um?"
Xu Chun looked at Xu Yi in surprise.
It seems that he didn't expect that he could guess it so accurately!
"It's not hard to guess."
Xu Yi shook his head slightly.
"In this world, there are only two types of forces that can play a decisive role. One is the warrior, and the other is the country. If you don't want me to take the path of a warrior, then the only way left is to take the imperial examination, which can rely on the power of the country."
Although at this time, the capital power of this country had begun to sprout, and strong capital prototypes had even appeared in the southeastern coastal area. If it were normal history, there would be no way out for just doing business.
But in this martial arts world after the magic reform, the reason why these big capital families, who seem to only do business, are able to rise up is also because they are inextricably linked to the major martial arts forces.
Either they are from a family of warriors themselves, or they rely on powerful Jianghu forces behind them, or they have various connections with the imperial court.
All in all, in this world where warriors can play a big role, it is difficult to get up by just doing business and accumulating wealth.
Or speaking of it, you can’t keep your wealth at all!
In this world, even the so-called imperial court is, in a sense, a warrior force, but it is just the largest warrior force.
From this point of view, Xu Chun's idea of borrowing the power of the imperial court can be said to be a disguised change of his backing from the Huashan Sect, a declining warrior force, to the Ming Dynasty, a 'warrior' force.
Change the door!
This is what Xu Chun thinks.
If it were another force like Shaolin and Wudang, then this approach would definitely be courting death, but due to the special nature of the Ming Dynasty, the problem would not seem so big.
I have to say that there is nothing wrong with Xu Chun’s idea, and it can even be said to be very good!
The Huashan Sect is indeed no longer suitable to be the backer of their Xu family.
However, whether analyzing from the present or analyzing the future of the Huashan Sect in the original work, it is not a good choice to take refuge in the Huashan Sect at this time.
If Xu Yi hadn't turned on the golden finger, he would also have carefully considered Xu Chun's ideas and left a way out for himself and even the Xu family.
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