Chapter 660 The Way of Balance

In fact, Xia Xiang has not changed at all, the level has not changed, the smile has not changed, and everything has not changed. Mei Shengping also knew that what has changed is not Xia Xiang, but his mood, the situation, and the changes in the situation have raised the importance of Xia Xiang to an unprecedented level.

"Xiao Xia, no matter what important things you have today, no matter how important the reasons you have, you are not allowed to leave. You must stay for dinner, otherwise you will not give me face." Mei Shengping was not polite, and said to Xia Xiang in a half-joking and half-order tone, "What, do you have any objections?"

"No." Xia Xiang responded very simply, "It's a good thing to have food, how can you have any objections? No one can't get along with food, right? Besides, Minister Mei's face is more powerful than anything else, so I dare not obey?"

Mei Shengping smiled and said, "This is okay, I love to listen." He glanced at the old man again, hesitated, and asked, "How is the talk with Qiu Renli?"

When Xia Xiang saw Mei Shengping ask directly, he smiled and answered very directly: "It's OK, it basically achieved the effect that both parties want."

"What effect does the Qiu family want to achieve?" Mei Shengping was not at all implicit and asked directly.

"As soon as the proposal of the Great Beijing Economic Circle was put on the agenda, everyone was a little anxious. They were anxious to show that the interests were at stake, but they couldn't eat hot tofu. The Qiu family now has a municipal party committee organization minister in the city, and in the province, they also want a secretary-general." Xia Xiang also knew that he could not hide anything. When the Qiu family started to operate, there would be rumors immediately. Moreover, he would also help the Qiu family contact the Qiu family in Yan Province. Everyone knew that he had his own hands. Instead of letting Mei Shengping know the truth from others, it would be better for him to tell it in person now.

"Qian Jinsong wants to move?" Mei Shengping frowned, thought for a while, and suddenly said half-resentful, "Xiao Xia, it's not that I criticized you. Why did you tell Qiu Renli such a great thing but not me? Do you think you have a long relationship with me?"

Only Mei Shengping can ask these words in a real and false way. If it were someone else, he would really be unable to say it.

Xia Xiang smiled and glanced at Mr. Mei, then said, "Minister Mei, I not only want the Qiu family to take the position of Secretary-General, but also want you to come forward to help, stop the Fu family's small movements behind the scenes and withstand the pressure on the Wu family."

Mei Shengping's face darkened: "Xiao Xia, there are some things that you can't just joke around."

"I'm not joking, I'm telling the truth." Xia Xiang was not surprised at Mei Shengping's big change in his face, but still looked at Mr. Mei with a smile and said, "Old man, Minister Mei uses his authority to suppress me, you have to judge."

Since Xia Xiang said that the Qiu family wanted the throne of Secretary-General, he has been squinting his eyes and thinking about things. When Xia Xiang said to him, he seemed to have woken up, and then widened his eyes, nodded slightly at Xia Xiang, and turned his head to Mei Shengping and said, "Shengping, go and see what Xiaolin is doing. It has been a long time since she has not come down to greet the guests..."

It is obvious that it means to chase the plum blossoms and leave peacefully.

Mei Shengping was not embarrassed at all, and even smiled at Xia Xiang. There was something meaningful in his smile, and then he went upstairs on his own.

As soon as Mei Shengping left, Xia Xiang and Mr. Mei were left in the living room. Xia Xiang knew that it was the old man who was going to take the exam in person.

"It is rumored outside that among the four major families, the Wu family is the first, the Mei family is the second, the Qiu family is the third, and the Fu family is the fourth. This is actually not the case." Mr. Mei said amazingly, and the first sentence surprised Xia Xiangxiao.

"I wish to listen to the old man's teachings." Xia Xiang saw that the old man intended to reveal some family secrets to him. How could he have no reason to not listen to it? He immediately took a look at listening with scrutiny.

"It's true that the Wu family is the first. After so many years, no one has caught up with the Wu family. Not only is the old man Wu the most skilled and has the most accurate vision, but also because there are a large number of capable people around the Wu family. Of course, everything is related to the old man Wu's superb layout. Old man Wu's long-term vision and good at taking three steps at a time. His technique makes us old guys far beyond the reach of the old man." As Mr. Mei spoke, he laughed at himself, "Actually, to be more accurate, the reason why the Wu family has today's strength is because of the smartness of Mr. Wu alone. So I am convinced by the first place in the Wu family. But for the remaining three families, whoever goes up and down, each family has a ranking in his heart..."

"The four major families are not static, but they are just names given by the people who are interested in making up the numbers. In fact, not only the capital city, but also the number of family forces in all parts of the country. There are dozens of families of all sizes in the capital city alone. But generally speaking, in recent years, Wu, Mei, Qiu and Fu families are the most powerful, so they are called the four major families." The old man looked out the window with a calm face, "Among the four major families, the Wu family and Mei family have the greatest influence. The Qiu family and the Fu family have only squeezed into the four families in recent years. If time goes forward, there are no Qiu family and the Fu family among the four major families. The other two families have declined due to various reasons and have been replaced by Qiu and Fu families."

"There is no eternal thing in the world, and the four major families are the same. Qiu and Fu families can replace others, and they can also be replaced by others. Similarly, Wu and Mei families may have lost their strength due to a major mistake and were eventually squeezed out of the four major families." Mr. Mei's Mandarin with a slightly southern accent is very soft and very nice. He speaks fast, and every time he says, there is a slight pause, as if he is carefully considering the words, "Although the four major families are just a false reputation, no one can escape a reputation when they reach the top of the sky. Moreover, because the reputation of the four major families is becoming more and more famous, it has influence in the capital and even the whole country, which is a huge invisible political wealth!"

Company property can be divided into tangible property and intangible property. Sometimes intangible property even accounts for a greater proportion of tangible property. Xia Xiang fully understands what Mr. Mei said about intangible political wealth. Politics ultimately means an influence, an authority that makes others obey your words. There are two ways to make others obey your orders. One is that this person is highly respected, everyone is convinced and obeys spontaneously. The other is that he occupies a high position, has power and decision-making power, and others have to accept it.

For the four major families, a high political position is the most basic guarantee, ensuring that the family has sufficient strength to influence the policy direction of a certain place, a certain province or even a country in order to seek greater benefits from it. Another type is invisible influence. If the names of the four major families are loud enough to have an impact on the decision-making levels in various provinces and regions, they can even influence their judgments so that they will not make decisions that are unfavorable to the family's power. In this way, reputation will be transformed into actual interests and benefits.

It has the same effect as the celebrity effect. When a celebrity arrives at a local area, the local area will send heavyweight officials to receive it, because celebrities can bring economic benefits to the local area. Although the four major families are just empty names, they are not empty scholars under their reputation. In the officialdom, they have always listened to the wind and rain, paying attention to mystery and background. Moreover, the four major families are all in the capital. It is difficult to know the bottom of the local area. Invisibly, they become afraid of the four major families.

With fear, there will be practical actions, and the four major families will have real strength that affects the local area. Therefore, although the four major families may arouse the disgust of top figures from grassroots in the highest level, the four major families are well-known, and no one can touch their foundation, and no one will have to ask for a next order, saying that the four major families are not allowed to spread everywhere. It would be ridiculous if they really do this.

For the sake of vested interests, long-term plans, and from the starting point of gaining fame and fortune, the four major families started from being a buzzer, and finally formed a huge invisible political wealth. Now they have become a conventional title and become a measure of whether a family's power can be listed as the top domestic families. The four major families are now deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and have an incomparable influence in the domestic political landscape.

Influence is political interests, economic interests, and the guarantee of both fame and fortune!

After the launch of the Great Beijing Economic Circle, it is conservatively estimated that a commercial circle of trillions of dollars can be formed around the capital. Who is not tempted by a trillion-dollar scale? Fu Pioneer spent all his energy to use 20 billions of funds, and what he wanted was only a few billions of profits. A trillion-dollar scale, not to mention how many job opportunities it can bring and how many rich people it can create, but only the construction of infrastructure, local fiscal investment, and the radiation and driving effect it brought by this cannot be limited.

Not to mention that Yan Province has increased its political weight and became a politically powerful province, it will create many senior officials from various ministries and commissions and even national levels. All of these will make all the four major families tempted.

Because whoever seizes the opportunity of Yan Province may rise among the four major families, and even the Fu family, which ranks last, may take the opportunity to become the first. And if anyone misses the opportunity, he will not only be left farther by other families, but may even be squeezed out of the four major families and completely fall into the trap.

Now the four major families are no longer just a false name, but can bring tangible benefits and huge benefits to each family. No one wants to be removed from the list, nor does anyone want to be forgotten.

Xia Xiang guessed that Mr. Mei told him the original intention of the secret of the four major families. Although Mr. Xin Mei would not reveal the real secret, he was the first person to truthfully tell the relationship between the reputation and interests of the four major families in person. Xia Xiang benefited a lot and deeply felt Mr. Mei's extraordinary and kindness.

Mr. Mei pays attention to treating others with sincerity, at least treating him sincerely.

"Intangible wealth is not the purpose, but the purpose is the purpose." Mr. Mei saw the change in Xia Xiang's expression and felt a little relieved. His painstaking efforts were not in vain. Finally, it touched Xia Xiang. "Now the reputation of the four major families is getting more and more famous and more widespread. What comes with it is the greater the benefits obtained. The greater the benefits, the more people don't want to give up what they have... Haha, to be honest, Xiao Xia, I am old and don't want to manage the matter, but the proposal of the Dajing Economic Circle still touched my old bones and couldn't sit still."

"When I first let Shengping go to Yan Province, I mainly liked that Yan Province was close to the capital. It was easy for him to go home and it was easy to transfer back. Unexpectedly, by chance, I took the right step. Originally, I meant to let Shengping stay in Yan Province for two years, and when the time was ripe, he was transferred back to the capital. Now it seems that he still needs to stay in Yan Province again, the longer the better..." Mr. Mei said enough foreplay and began to get to the point, "But Shengping is still alone in Yan Province. If the Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee also talks to him in the same voice, it would be much better."

Xia Xiang was slightly stunned. He didn't understand what Mr. Mei meant. Did he want the Qiu family to join forces with Mei Shengping after he took the throne of Secretary-General? Or did he want the Mei family to take the throne of Secretary-General directly?

It would be okay if it was the former, but if it was the latter, it would be troublesome.

After thinking about it again, Xia Xiang couldn't help but feel a little headache. Just now, Mr. Mei patiently told him about the four major families. If he just wanted the people of the Qiu family to win the throne of the Secretary-General and interact and cooperate with the Mei family more, there would be no need to waste any effort to talk to him so much. It seems that Mr. Mei was also moved by the position of the Secretary-General.

Xia Xiang didn't know how to answer Mr. Mei for a moment.

In terms of his personal interests, among the four major families, except for the Fu family, he would not stop the other three families who wanted to come to Yan Province to establish forces, and he was optimistic. With the strength of several families and the geographical location of Yan Province too close to the capital, Yan Province has always been the first springboard for many senior officials in the capital. Although it is no longer a springboard for Yan Province to come to Yan Province, but seeks long-term interests, it is still the same. Judging from the inseparable interactive relationship between Yan Province and the capital, as more and more people know about the economic circle of the Great Capital, Yan Province will become a must-fight place for all forces.

Xia Xiang starts from the perspective of selfishness, politically concerned about balance and constraints. One person will not last long and will not be in line with the current far-reaching society. Only a few companies can achieve a stable balance and he can only maximize their benefits if he lives in it.

For Gong Yu, only a few companies have equal differences, each with their own income and checks and balances, can they ensure the stability and unity of Yan Province and allow Yan Province to continue to develop their economy steadily. No matter what he wants to see, any company dominates in Yan Province, it is not a situation he wants to see.

Moreover, in the long run, I'm afraid that some of the senior executives would not want the family to grow stronger and stronger, which would eventually affect the balance of the entire political situation. But considering the interests of the family, everyone wants to be the only one.

Even if you can't be truly dominant, you still want to suppress others as much as possible.

The Mei family was moved by the position of the Secretary-General. Although Xia Xiang was slightly surprised, it was reasonable to think about it carefully. The Secretary-General and the Provincial Party Committee Secretary have close contacts due to their work relationships and are the role of the provincial party committee’s main steward. Although they are not very powerful on the surface, they actually have a wide range of jurisdiction and are easy to establish connections in the provincial party committee.

In addition, with Mei Shengping in the Organization Department, the Mei family can really win the throne of the Secretary-General. One secretary-general checks around the provincial party secretary and the other organization minister takes charge of countless official hats. The Mei family's strength in Yan Province will increase greatly.

To be fair, Xia Xiang didn't expect to reveal to the Mei family that Qian Jinsong was about to move, and also imagined what kind of situation it would be if the Mei family took over the throne of the Secretary-General. As a result, he finally denied his ideas. According to comprehensive comparison, the Qiu family was the most in line with everyone's interests as the position of the Secretary-General.

Of course, it also includes his interests.

The Mei family is stronger than the Qiu family and is more powerful in Yan Province than the Qiu family. If the Mei family wins the position of Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee, the right to speak in Yan Province will be close to the Wu family. No, and its influence in the Provincial Party Committee will even surpass the Wu family.

In this case, the Wu family will definitely be dissatisfied. Will it take action to prevent the Mei family from succeeding? Xia Xiang is not sure, but he will definitely make some troubles with the Mei family in some matters and prevent the Mei family from continuing to grow in Yan Province. Because the Mei family's strength is second only to the Wu family, the Mei family's every move will definitely make the Wu family's great life be wary.

But the Qiu family is different. The Qiu family has the shallowest layout in Yan Province and the weakest power. After the Qiu family took over the secretary-general, it was equivalent to just opening up the situation in the provincial party committee. At least the Wu family can accept it, and even if the Fu family is dissatisfied, it is barely acceptable. Compared with the Mei family's position as secretary-general, the Wu family is likely to be opposed by the situation where the Fu family and the Qiu family jointly oppose it. The Qiu family's action will have the least possibility of a rebound.

It is precisely because the Qiu family has the least influence in Yan Province that the Qiu family took action. Although the other three families were wary of their guards, they did not pose a huge threat to them even after they succeeded, and they would not take the initiative to stop them. Even if one of them did some tricks in secret, it should be resolved by the Qiu family.

Needless to say, the Fu family wants to get the position of Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee, first of all, Xia Xiang will not agree, and will secretly obstruct. If the Wu family takes a fancy to the throne of the Secretary-General and wants to take it for themselves, it will arouse joint opposition from the other three companies, because the Wu family is now the most powerful in Yan Province, and after taking down the Secretary-General, it will have absolute strength and no one wants to see such a result.

I'm afraid that more than three companies will not want to, and no one will agree to the central leadership.
Chapter completed!