The Wen Building is now renovated, with bright varnish and bright tiles, and bright and clean windows. The aroma of mahogany from the mahogany tables, chairs and bookshelves, the aroma of the paper from the books and the aroma of fine sandalwood from the incense are mixed together. It is elegant, calm, sweet, refreshing and calming. The current Wen Building is far from comparable to the previous Wen Building that was in disrepair. And all of this is naturally because of one person - the little girl Gu Ying.
Gu Ying was the adopted daughter recognized by Ye Feng, the current "number one", and Ye Feng even knelt down on one knee to the seventh elder of the Gu clan for this adopted daughter. Because Gu Ying worships the seventh elder Gu Yiyao as her teacher, Gu Ying naturally has to study with Gu Yiyao for a long time. So how could Gu Ying's study and living conditions be so bad?
As for why the Wenlou had such changes, it was the lower-level managers in charge of various businesses in the Gu family who spent their own money to build it. These guys, despite their low status in the clan and limited rights, are each many times richer than the so-called senior members of the clan. But this is normal.
In fact, throughout the history of mankind in China, except for the emperor who can legitimately combine the highest power and the most wealth in the world, everyone else has at least one limitation in terms of wealth or power. In this social class pyramid, the closer you get to the bottom, the more obvious the sense of separation between money and power is: those who have money often have no power, and those who have power often have no money, and the greed of human nature is Endless and difficult to restrain. Therefore, when people with money but no power pursue more money, they will pursue power and use power as a tool to make more money, so bribery appears. While those with power but no money began to pursue higher power, they also began to pursue money, using money as a means to gain more power, so bribery also appeared. Of course, such behavior should be punished by law in any dynasty. At the very least, the rulers of any dynasty must clearly state that they stand on the opposite side of this phenomenon.
However, in some special circumstances, of course there will be some exceptions, such as Heshen. Do you think Qianlong is an old fool? No, Qianlong was actually very smart. Qianlong knew that Heshen was not only a huge corrupt man, but also a powerful minister with one hand covering the sky. However, Naihe Heshen is easy to use. It is very easy to leave many things to He Shen, and it can even be left to He Shen. The most important thing is that Heshen has no rebellious intentions, he just wants to be the emperor. This is the most important reason why Qianlong could tolerate Heshen and did not let Emperor Jiaqing kill Heshen until Qianlong's death. Since ancient times, loyal ministers and capable ministers have never been the same concept. For an ambitious emperor, incompetent loyal ministers are far inferior to capable treacherous ministers
Of course, the working people at the bottom of the pyramid have neither money nor power. And we can only say that most of those people are kind. After all, it is very difficult for people to remain kind in a difficult environment.
As a pyramid, if the top building is lost, as long as the base building is still there, it can still be re-established. But once the base building is lost, the pyramid will only end up collapsing.
Of course, the actual situation of a country and a society is extremely complex, and where a few simple sentences can explain it in detail, I will just briefly touch on it and stop here.
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The narrator said: Ye Yu, what you just said was ancient times, so modern. . .
Ye Yu suddenly shouted coldly: That's enough! That's it, don't say any more.
The narrator seemed to understand Ye Yu's intention to stop him and said: Oh.
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The book returns to its true story,
The wealthy lower-level managers of the Gu clan, under the banner of "how can the seven dignified elders of the same clan stay in such a dilapidated place", donated generously and raised funds to rebuild the Wen Building. If Gu Yiyao hadn't stopped it, those snobbish guys in the clan would have wanted to tear down the entire building and replace it with bricks and jade tiles.
But Gu Yiyao couldn't see their purpose.
On the one hand, it is naturally because of her close disciple Gu Ying. Thanks to her cheap father, Gu Ying is now the real treasure of the entire Gu clan. On the other hand, because of the ancestor’s foresight, the Gu clan is the first An ancient clan responded to Ye Feng's Mortal Immortal Culture Research Institute, thus ensuring its status as the largest shareholder. In addition, Ye Feng was widely publicized in the early stage as the prince-in-law of the Gu clan. Therefore, if other ancient clans want to truly get a share of the pie at the Institute of Mortal Immortal Culture, they really have to go through the Gu clan. Thanks to this, the Gu family's business has taken off qualitatively. Those in lower management are even richer. These guys are better than anyone else. Only a blind person can't tell whose thigh they should hug tightly at this moment. However, not everyone can hold Ye Feng's thighs, but there is still a way to hold them indirectly. The first target is naturally Gu Ying, and the second target is Gu Ying's brother, Gu Lie.
So I have to say that the Institute of Mortal Immortal Culture and the Ministry of Defense are really not the same place. One is a place where people are benefiting from discord, and the other is a place where lofty ideals are striven for.
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This afternoon, according to study arrangements, Gu Ying and Gu Lie are going to study at Gu Yiyao.
Surrounded by books, Furu Ying, who was wearing a light and beautiful pink dress, sat on a chair that was obviously much taller than her, practicing calligraphy seriously, but her calves in white stockings were dangling back and forth under the table. With.
Gu Yiyao coughed and said, "Xiaoying, when you stand, you need to look like you are standing, and when you sit, you need to look like you are sitting."
Xiao Ying winced when Gu Yiyao drank. She glanced at Gu Yiyao secretly with a smile and squinted her eyes. She stuck out her tongue and said, "I know, Grandma Wang."
"How many times have I told you to call me master. You can always call me Grandma Wang. When you are studying, you must call me master. Do you understand?" Gu Yiyao really doted on this only closed disciple. She couldn't help it. He couldn't help but sigh deeply.
Sitting next to Xiaoying was Xiaoying's brother Gu Lie. Gu Yiyao could feel that this child used to be, well, how to describe it, like a wild boy who entered the rebellious stage too early. But since becoming Ye Feng's registered disciple, Gu Yiyao can clearly feel that this wild boy has changed. Gu Lie went to Lao Ba's place for weapon refining training in the morning, and came to his place to study regardless of rain or shine in the afternoon. To be honest, this child's learning talent is not high, far inferior to his sister Gu Ying, but he has to admit it. , this child is very hard-working and seems to be holding back a lot of energy. Gu Yiyao knew that this child obviously wanted to be recognized by his teacher and let Ye Feng accept him as his disciple in the future.
