Just as Charlie took care of all the installment agreements for the side branches of the Wade family, the William Rothschild family also smashed the pots and pans to pay the rest of the funds in place.
In just one ancestral ceremony, Charlie grew five billion euros in cash, two hundred billion RMB in cash, and debt with a principal amount of over three hundred billion RMB and five-year interest of over two hundred billion.
He finally understood why many emperors in history were particularly fond of exploiting the various vassal kings, and even often the various vassal kings were arrested and beheaded, mainly because these vassal kings were mobile vaults, fat and oily.
If they were loyal to the sovereign, then everything was fine, but if they did not even have the basic idea of loyalty to the sovereign, then what else to wait for if not to raid their homes?
If he didn’t raid their homes and cut their strength in time, it’s possible that they’d hit on the idea of the throne sometime.
After accompanying Charlie for half a day, seeing that the dust had now settled, Joseph came to him and asked in a low voice in his ear, “Mr. Wade, when are you going to tell them the truth?”
Charlie casually said, “There is no hurry, the matter is not finished yet, you can later ask all of them to start from the foot of Waderest Mountain, three steps and one kowtow for them to climb up the Mountain, I will wait for them up there.”
Joseph said, “Mr. Wade, it will take at least half a day to climb up from here, I’m afraid it will be dark by the time they climb up, why don’t you go back and rest first, I’ll pick you up when they are done.”
Charlie shook his head, said blandly: “No need, I will wait for them on the mountain, they climb up this time, I also happen to accompany my parents, when they climb up, I will reveal the mystery.”
Saying that, he added: “Joseph, you don’t need to stay in Waderest Mountain, first go to find a good cemetery for your parents, as soon as possible, let the two be buried in peace, this side just to leave some manpower is fine.”
Although he was convinced and willing, he still felt very guilty about his parents because their coffins were also on Waderest Mountain.
Originally thought of as soon as possible to let his parents into the ground, but Charlie did not say few words, he also did not dare to speak.
Now that Charlie took the initiative to say it, he was naturally very grateful in his heart.
So, he was moved to say: “Thank you, Mr. Wade, then I will go down to the mountain to take care of my parents’ affairs, if there is any need, you can always instruct the men of the Cataclysmic Front, or call me directly, I will definitely come over as fast as possible!”
Charlie smiled faintly and said, “No need, you go ahead and go about your business, this time you took the chance to raise your parents’ coffin out, disturbing the two old people’s peace, indeed too rash, re-enter the earth in peace, or a good job, is also a kind of compensation.”
Joseph was ashamed and nodded his head repeatedly.
He did not know his own rashness and unfilial behavior would come to such a point, his heart has long regretted countless times, now only want to do their best to make amends, so hearing Charlie’s words, his heart is even more ashamed, and hurriedly said: “Mr. Wade you are right, subordinate will definitely do it properly.”
Charlie nodded slightly and said, “You don’t have to worry about this side of things, later on, tell the Wade family people that I will decide everything on the Waderest Mountain, and then you can go first.”
Joseph was busy saying, “Your subordinate will do it!”
While Charlie and Joseph were whispering, the seven hundred or so members of the Wade family’s side line had been apprehensively and quietly gauging the two.
At this moment, what they were thinking in their hearts was that Charlie must have been slandering to Joseph, not knowing what bad he was holding back again.
In their opinion, he has been as abominable as the traitor back then.
At this time, Joseph came to the crowd, said in a loud voice: “Listen to me, all of you, all matters here are left to Charlie’s full discretion, you have to listen to his orders, not half disobedience! If not, I will definitely not spare you!”
When Joseph said this, the Wade family people almost collapsed on the spot.
Originally, they had thought that Charlie had just surrendered to the Cataclysmic Front and become its lackey, but they had never expected that Joseph would take him so seriously.
While they were dumbfounded, Charlie walked up to Joseph’s side and said:
“You sons of the Wade family, at this critical moment, have disregarded the safety of the family and the ancestors buried in the ancestral tomb. Climb up Waderest Mountain! Go to the ancestors buried in the mountain to repent!”
As soon as Charlie’s words were spoken, more than seven hundred members of the Wade family’s side lineage wailed!
They had already taken out almost all the cash and signed an installment treaty that could be called a contract of betrayal, so it could be said that they had lost most of their fortune.
But even so, they have not yet been able to pass this hurdle, and now Charlie even let them three steps to worship on Waderest, is it not to torture them to death?
Although Waderest Mountain has been thoroughly developed by the Wade family, from the foot of the mountain to the tomb on the mountain also has a flat concrete road, but all the way up the mountain, there are also three to five kilometers of travel.
Three steps worship, almost two meters less than three meters to kowtow a head, so the calculation, at least more than a thousand heads to go up.
Three steps a worship process is tedious, a little nimble movement, a minute can be completed two or three times, so the calculation says five or six hours to go up.
If Joseph made this order, they did not dare to put a fa.rt, certainly without saying a word to start kowtowing all the way up the climb.
But when these words came out from Charlie’s mouth, the members of the Wade family’s side line were all furious.
Someone directly cursed angrily: “Charlie! Don’t you fcuking bully us too much! We don’t even take a p!ss to see what you are! You are no different from a traitor!”
Some people had bad intentions and deliberately wanted to provoke the conflict between Charlie and Joseph, so they accused,
“Charlie! Your father, Changying, was the culprit of the death of Lord Wan’s parents! Even if he raised 100,000 dogs, it’s not your turn to bark here!”
Someone even shamelessly blurted out, “Yes! Lord Wan! You can’t listen to the slanderous words of this despicable person!”
“The Wade family is your father’s enemy! He even asked us to kneel down and worship the ancestor of the Wade family in front of you.
As Joseph listened to these people’s words, he was shocked and thought, “I had a vague feeling that Mr. Wade was a little too cruel to these people,”
“But now I realize that these people deserve what they get. If it were me, seeing their faces like this, I would really have the heart to kill them!”
Thinking of this, Joseph was furious and immediately shouted coldly, “How dare you! I have just said that I will leave everything here to Mr. Wade’s discretion! How dare you disobey orders?”
The people trembled in fear.
Joseph instructed the soldiers around him, “Take out those who insulted Mr. Wade, and give them a hundred slaps each! No! Five hundred slaps!”
This was also the key to the success of the Cataclysmic Front.
He had been grateful to Charlie for being compassionate about his parents’ need to be buried in the ground, and then, seeing the shameless faces of the Wade family’s side members, he was already extremely angry.
It was because of his anger that he inattentively blurted out the words “Mr. Wade” and said it twice in a row.
This makes these Wade family side members, smacking out the extraordinary taste.
If the Wade family had completely given up resistance and surrendered to the Cataclysmic Front, it would not be incomprehensible for Joseph to accept Charlie as his lapdog.
However, Joseph suddenly referred to Charlie as Mr. Wade, which seemed a bit wrong.
However, before they could be too surprised, many men of Cataclysmic Front rushed into the crowd and dragged out the people who had just spoken shamelessly.
Immediately after, there was the sound of firecrackers like slapping one after another throughout the valley.
The Cataclysmic Front members are all martial arts experts, and their arm strength is almost as strong as, or even stronger than, an adult tiger.
Really if a slap did not hold, I’m afraid it is possible to let the other side lose a life.
Although Charlie is very dissatisfied with these members of the Wade family side, but did not want to take their lives.
So, he opened his mouth to stop, “All right, there is no need to beat anymore.”
He just lightly opened his mouth and said these words, and one by one, those members of the Cataclysmic Front stopped the movements of their hands.
This scene, moreover, surprised the gang of Wade family side line members.
If just now Joseph respectfully called out “Mr. Wade” to Charlie, they were a bit confused, but the performance of these few members of the Cataclysmic Front, who obeyed Charlie, was enough to make them fall down.
Almost every member of the Wade family’s side lineage asked themselves a question that hit them straight in the soul: Why did Joseph, as well as the members of the Cataclysmic Front, treat Charlie with such respect?
Was it just because the Wade family had given up half of its assets to the Cataclysmic Front?
That didn’t seem very realistic.
I’ve never heard of any aggressor who, after having succeeded in his invasion, treated his victim with respect.
Generally speaking, but all aggressors are bottomless and have no credibility.
They will first make the first step request to the victim, and if the victim complies, they are unlikely to give up, only to possibly intensify the second step request, the third step request, until all the value of the victim is squeezed dry.
Even if he has a high reputation, and after the Wade family took out half of the assets, he did what he said he would do and stopped making things difficult for the Wade family, but it definitely did not rise to the level of such respect for the Wade family.
So, they all want to know, behind this, what kind of hidden agenda is there from the people?
At this time, Charlie looked at these jaw-dropping Wade family members, cleared his throat, and opened his mouth,
“What I originally thought was to let you know the truth after you climbed all the way to the top of the mountain on your knees,”
“But since you are all suspicious one by one, then I will simply stop pretending and show my cards.”
More than seven hundred members of the Wade family’s side lineage were all awe-struck, staring at Charlie with unblinking eyes, waiting for his next words.
However, before Charlie could speak, Joseph, who was at the side, knelt down on one knee with a face of shame, and said incomparably, “Your subordinate just now was impulsive and did not control my mouth, so please punish me, Mr. Wade!”
“Crap!”
“What the h3ll?!”
“Joseph actually knelt down for Charlie?
“Did he just call himself a subordinate? What does he mean? Did the Cataclysmic Front submit to Charlie?!”
The people of the Wade family below exploded in a flash.
None of them had expected that things would go in this direction now.
This was simply a direction of development that they had least expected.
This feeling, as if you drop a brick from a hundred-meter high building, you thought it might hit people, cars, animals, or flowers, but you dare to think that this brick it not only did not fall but directly subvert the gravity to fly upwards, all the way out of the atmosphere?
This group of Wade family side members, at this time, are feeling this.
Shock has long been insufficient to describe their state of mind, they have begun to feel that this world is ridiculous to the extreme, so ridiculous that it is full of magic.
Everyone was afraid of Joseph before they fled in haste, who the hell would have thought that Joseph would become Charlie’s henchman?
At this time, Charlie unconcernedly waved his hand to Joseph and said blandly: “It’s okay, there’s always a showdown coming, it’s just sooner or later.”
After saying that, he looked at the seven hundred or so members of the Wade family’s side lineage and coldly questioned, “Do you think that the Wade family is bound to fail in front of the Cataclysmic Front?”
No one dared to respond from the more than seven hundred people below.
He asked again, “Do you think that the Wade Family is doomed this time, so you can’t wait to get rid of the Wade Family name?”
More than seven hundred people looked flustered, and no one dared to speak up.
Charlie asked again, “Do you think, against this own wings have long been hard, even if the Wade family this time completely finished, will not affect your future?”
More than seven hundred people, many people have begun to panic and wipe the cold sweat on their foreheads.
At this time, Charlie sneered, his expression carrying full contempt, and said sternly,
“You short-sighted, rat-eyed verticals, have you ever thought that I, Charlie, can not only save the Wade Family from distress but even take the Cataclysmic Front under my command?!”
The crowd was frightened by Charlie’s rebuke, and their bodies trembled.
Only then did they realize what they had missed.
If they had not run away and held on to Waderest Mountain with the Wade Family, then every one of them would have been a meritorious servant.
But none of them looked after the Wade family, and none of them took into account the relationship between the same clan as well as the kindness of the family, and all of them ran away with their heads in their hands.
Now, it’s time for Charlie to settle accounts after the fall!
Charlie sees this group of people face panic, but they did not dare to say half a word, full of contempt he said:
“Now, I am the Wade family head, and you clansmen, also let me realize, what is called the human heart!”
“In the beginning, the Wade family helped you and supported you, but it was completely raising a tiger as a problem!”
When the crowd heard that Charlie was already the head of the Wade family, they were all even more shocked and speechless.
In their hearts, many people had already started to curse themselves for being a complete and utter fool.
Thought he was avoiding a monstrous catastrophe, but did not expect to avoid, a splendid fortune!
Charlie continued at this point: “As the saying goes, the vertical son is not enough with the plot! Such a critical moment like you have no responsibility for the trash.”
“I should borrow the hands of others, quick to kill you all! But I was so naive as to think about my clan wanted to save your lives and your family’s chance of survival.
Joseph immediately clasped his fist and said, “Mr. Wade! Just one word from you, I guarantee with my life that none of these 700 people will walk out of Waderest Mountain alive!”
“And this charge, Cataclysmic Front is also willing to take all the blame for you!”
When Charlie put forward his recommendation, this group of Wade family side members, still felt that he was simply shameless to the extreme.
However, after Joseph sang along with him, they were all scared almost to the ground again.
The words of Joseph made them understand one basic truth, that is: if Charlie ruthlessly wants a life of one of them, Joseph will definitely let him have it.
Moreover, for a mercenary organization like the Cataclysmic Front, which has its roots overseas, they had no concept of law at all, so they could not do anything to them if they ran to war-torn areas.
So, the gang didn’t know who started first, and they all knelt on the ground while kowtowing and begging.
“Charlie …… the fact is that we are worse than pigs and dogs, please give us another chance, from now on we must be loyal to the Wade family, even if the sky collapses, we will not run away again ……”
“Charlie …… how you set us off, we are willing to admit guilt and admit punishment,”
“Just please, for the sake of the fact that all of us are the same clan, spare us a dog’s life, in the future, we will work hard for the Wade family to redeem ourselves!”
“Yes, Charlie …… after all, we are all of the same tribe, originally born from the same root, why are we too anxious to fry each other?”
“Even if we were wrong, we were just timid and afraid of life and death, never wanted to harm the Wade family’s heart, beg you to forgive us this time.”
Charlie saw the tearful appearance of this crowd, said with a cold expression:
“Since you are all of the same clan, it is not impossible to not spare your lives,”
“But you must first climb up the Waderest Mountain from here three steps and one kowtow,”
“After your confession to the ancestors of the Wade family, I will then consider whether to give you a break!”
Saying that, he said: “Listen to me, for the first 50% who go up there first, I will not punish you more for the time being, but the 50% who are left behind, go up and then kneel for 24 hours!”
Once these words came out, a member of the Wade family side line said excitedly, “I’ll climb! I’ll crawl!”
After saying that, he immediately kowtowed in the direction of Waderest, then stood up, took three big steps, flung himself on his knees, and kowtowed again.
Others saw this, one by one, they also scrambled to say.
“I also kowtow!”
“I’ll do it too!”
In a flash, everyone went crazy, kneeling all the way towards Waderest with three steps and a kowtow.
Charlie asked the members of the Cataclysmic Front to keep an eye on these people to prevent them from being sneaky, and then he himself ignored these people and stepped up to the Mountain alone.
At this moment on the Waderest Mountain, the Wade family’s gang was still kneeling honestly.
Seeing Charlie coming back, each one of them looked with fear and awe in their eyes.
All of them were thinking, what has delayed his return? Where has he gone? But seeing him coming, Old man hurried to welcome him, almost running.
Elder Wade asked: “Charlie, things are still going well over in Northern Europe, right?”
“I have seen the news, the Nordic Queen has officially announced the abolition of that Olivia’s succession to the throne, and at the same time announced to pass the throne to Helena in three days.”
Charlie nodded and said indifferently, “The Nordic side has been taken care of, after Helena ascends to the throne, the Wade family will officially start business cooperation with the Nordic royal family”
“At that time, I will send a business team all the way over to meet with her.”
Elder Wade said with a look of admiration, “Charlie, to make the Nordic throne change hands in such a short period of time,”
“To make the entire Nordic royal family’s pattern change drastically, I’m happy that only you can do it in the world!”
Charlie did not take the old man’s horse’s a55 seriously, but said with a bland face: “The Northern European royal family will be the Wade family’s future bridgehead into Europe,”
“So the relevant cooperation must be quickly promoted, to grasp the ground, there must not be any mistakes, and this we will not just send an all professional managers team,”
“But to show importance and sincerity we will have to include some Wade family direct members, so it is time to choose suitable people to go over.”
Elder Wade nodded his head: “That’s natural! Charlie, this matter, do you think you should go personally, or I go on your behalf?”
Charlie thought about it and spoke, “Helena is a young girl, after all, I’m afraid there will be some generation gap in communication with you.”
Kneeling in the crowd, Cynthia hurriedly volunteered,
“Charlie! Why don’t you let me go? I am familiar with Helena, and you asked me to kneel here for three days, I have two more days to finish!”
Charlie looked at the fawning Cynthia and frowned slightly.
He naturally knew her intentions, it is only to grasp the time to please himself.
In addition to also grasp the time to have a seat in the future Wade family dominanted by him.
However, he really couldn’t have a good feeling about her.
Although this time she behaved quite well, but he also does not intend to give her a chance so early.
Just at this moment, he saw Laila, the youngest aunt beside Elder Wade, so he spoke: “Youngest aunt, why don’t we work hard for you to lead a trip, you and Helena should also know each other.”
“I?” Laila with some bottomless surprise said: “Charlie, I for many years have spent most of the time with husband and children,”
“I rarely got involved in business activities, such a big thing, I’m afraid I will drag the leg if I ……”
Charlie said seriously: “I let you go over, just on behalf of the Wade family to show a little sincerity, the specific details of cooperation, when the time will be completed by our professional managers’ team,”
“And the royal side will certainly also have their professional managers team to dock with our side, although Helena is the Queen, but the real business it may just shoot the board, the details are not involved,”
“So when the time comes you will be responsible for exchanging feelings with her, and the rest will be left to the professional management team of both sides to complete.”
Only when Laila heard this, she finally put her heart down and nodded, “OK! Then I will take a trip with the team.”
Charlie smiled faintly and said, “Then it will be hard for aunt.”
Cynthia at this time lost her face, originally thought that she was the most suitable, after all, even if she married for many years has not been idle.
She has almost always participated in various business activities, in the Wade family’s affairs she is not less involved, she can be said to be more experienced.
But, this time, she did not expect Charlie to give this opportunity to her sister who rarely has had any business experience.
And kneeling next to Cynthia, Morgan’s expression was even more ugly.
In his heart at this moment, he was simply depressed to death: “Da*n it! Helena was originally my fiancee! Now she’s about to become the Nordic Queen!”
“If my marriage contract with her was still in place, wouldn’t I be the Duke of the Nordic Kingdom now?”
“Da*n …… had I known that Charlie was so capable, I would have kneeled down to lick him even if he had grabbed my fcuking head, how could I sneer at him right away …… really fcuking blinded my dog eyes!”
Morgan’s father Andrew is even more depressed to the extreme, thinking in his heart: “Originally almost married the Nordic empress as a daughter-in-law, the result is that now the daughter-in-law ran away.”
“Not to mention that I fcuking have to be here to observe mourning for three years if this is not the day of the dog then what is!”
Let alone Andrew and Morgan.
Every member of the Wade family kneeling here has regrets in their hearts at this time.
If they had known that Charlie was so capable, they would not have offended him even if they had died.
Let alone quietly buying mourning clothes and planning to surrender to Joseph.
Now they are like those traitors after the victory of the war. One by one, in addition to doused in regret, they are more groundless and incompetent.
At this moment, behind the Wade family lines, there were two people kneeling.
These two people are the father and son, Chengfeng and Zynn of the Su family.
Originally, the Cataclysmic Front members after kneeling for a full day and night departed down the mountain, they had also started at the same time, but Chengfeng and Zynn continue to kneel and must kneel until Charlie came.
At this time, when the two heard him even talk about putting Helena on the throne of the Nordic Queen, their hearts are shocked beyond measure.
Charlie’s eyes also glanced at the two of them and opened his mouth to ask: “Chengfeng, Zynn, why are you two still here?”
Chengfeng hurriedly said, “Back to Young Master Wade …… you didn’t come, how dare we leave ……”
Charlie smiled and casually said, “All right, you two people do not need to play here, hurry back to prepare for the departure, each will go to the future destination.”
Saying that, Charlie thought of Olivia, spoke: “Right Chengfeng, I found a group of long workers for your future estate in Madagascar, which includes the three families members of Princess Olivia of the Nordic royal family.”
“When the time comes, they will be treated as former black slaves, planting cotton and cutting sugar cane and other things.”
Chengfeng could not help but shiver, thinking: “This Olivia is not only the princess of the Nordic royal family, but also the previous heir to the throne, her father is also the prince of the Nordic royal family,”
“Get their family to the future of my estate as a long laborer? Charlie this guy is also a little too careless about the dignity of the royal family, right ……”
Although the heart thinks so, but his mouth still promised down, said gratefully: “Young Master Wade, everything for your sake ……”
Charlie lightly said: “You go to Madagascar, must give me a good operation, later I may still have people to send to you.”
Chengfeng’s heart panicked, can not help but ask himself: “I fcuking go to Madagascar this time, in the end, is to be the landlord’s, or to be Charlie’s warden ……”
Panicked, he still did not hesitate to say:
“Young master Wade do not worry, I will certainly run the Madagascar industry well, before leaving I will communicate well with Zhiyu again, the details, and then properly matters will be dealt properly.”
Charlie said casually: “Hurry up, I have a large number of people waiting to be arranged over in Northern Europe.”
Chengfeng hurriedly said respectfully, “Yes, Young Master Wade! I will definitely hurry up!”
Charlie nodded slightly, then said, “All right, from now on, the rest of Waderest is the Wade family’s business, you guys can go.”
After saying that, he looked at a few of the Cataclysmic Front members and said,
“A few of you escort the two of them and go to Shangri-La to find Zhiyu, so that they can do all the things they promised to do.”
Several members of the Cataclysmic Front immediately arched their hands and said, “Okay Mr. Wade, your subordinates will do as we are told!”
Seeing that both Chengfeng and Zynn were taken away, Charlie looked at the Wade family kneeling in front of him, then he turned to Elder Wade and said,
“I’ll go to my parents’ graves for a while, when the gang at the bottom of the mountain kowtows all the way up, let them kneel here first.”
Elder Wade did not hesitate to say, “No problem Charlie, you go, I’ll deal with the things here.”
Charlie nodded and walked alone through several rows of tombstones.
Walking for a while he finally stepped in front of his parents’ tomb and slowly knelt down.
Gazing at his parents’ photos, Charlie’s heart was filled with emotions, he couldn’t help but say softly,
“Dad, your son is now the head of the Wade family, back then if grandpa had passed the headship to you earlier,”
“I think you and mom wouldn’t have left your hometown for Aurous Hill, much less incurred the scourge of killing yourself ……”
“Mom and Dad, you two please rest assured that your son will definitely find the murderer who killed you two back then, I will avenge you two!”
Speaking of this, he looked at the portrait of his father’s handsome face, choked: “Dad …… I know you always wanted to carry forward the Wade family, let the Wade family stand at the top of the world.”
“Now, your son has decided to carry your banner, one day, I will let the Wade family become the top of this world. One day, I will make the Wade family the top family in the world!”
After that, Charlie looked at his mother’s portrait and said ashamedly:
“Mom …… they all advised me that I should go and meet my grandparents, I believe you must also want me to go and see them, but I really have little contact with my grandparents,”
“And now that you are also gone, I really do not know how to face them both, so this matter may not be possible for the time being, please can you forgive ……”
Subsequently, he bent down and kowtowed three heads in front of his parents’ tombstone.
Immediately after that, he said, “Dad, Mom, your son will keep you two company today, tomorrow I may have to return to Aurous Hill,”
“Right now your son is not ready to disclose the identity, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, but in the future, I will often take the time to come over to see you ……”
“When your son formally discloses the identity to the world in the future, your son will definitely bring you two’s daughters-in-law over together, so that you two can see your son’s other half, so that you two are more at ease.”
At this point, Charlie’s heart is full of melancholy, tears also silently slipped down.
In the following hours, he did not speak again but silently kneeled long in front of his parents’ spirit, without saying a word.
The Wade family could only see his back from below.
And no one knew that the man who had just subdued the Cataclysmic Front and completely changed the pattern of the Nordic royal family with his own power had already burst into tears in front of his parents’ grave.
A few hours later, most of the members of the Wade family’s side lineage came all the way to the bottom of the pagoda on the hill on their knees.
Seeing a group of first cousins also kneeling here, each one was a little dumbfounded.
Before they could figure out why the first family members of the Wade family were also kneeling on the ground.
They were chided by the members of the Cataclysmic Front to kneel down again.
As more and more people came up, the bottom of the Waderest pagoda was almost full of people kneeling.
At this time, the sky is getting darker, the golden sunset spread over the entire Waderest Mountain so that these white jade carved tombstones look particularly eye-catching.
The sky’s sunset reflected on Charlie’s back, everyone watched with rapt attention, waiting for his next instruction.
Only, this back kneeling there, has not moved for several hours, as if carved permanently to the ground.
Just as the sky reflected fiery red fire clouds, Charlie slowly rose, looked back, watched the Wade family people kneeling a piece, slowly walked down from the tomb.
The core members of the Wade family, as well as the members of the side lines all turned their eyes to him, the vast majority of them acting very apprehensive, except for Elder Wade and Laila, whose expressions carried full anticipation.
Charlie came to stand in front of the crowd, looked around for a long time, said in a cold voice: “From today, the Wade family ancestral ritual will be commemorated from once every twelve years to once a year!”
“All forms can be simplified, but all people must come to Waderest in person on the day of Qingming Festival to pay respect to the ancestors, no one can be absent!”
“In addition, all members of the Wade family must come to Eastcliff every three months.”
“This is for a debriefing meeting to report in detail to the head of the family on the business situation in the past three months, and no one is allowed to be absent! Do you all understand?!”
In Charlie’s opinion, these side clans of the Wade family only came over to pay their respects once every twelve years, this frequency was really too low.
And because of this, they could not talk about any loyalty to the Wade family at all, and the Wade family had no actual control over them.
However, from now on, all this must be completely changed.
Having them come to the ancestral rituals every year and report every three months is to strengthen the Wade family’s control over them as the main family.
If the Wade family is compared to a feudal dynasty, what Charlie wants to do now is to strengthen centralized power, weaken local decentralization, and hold these scattered vassal kings, in his hands!
No one expected that Charlie would change the ancestor worship ceremony, which was once every 12 years, directly to once a year.
You know, although the ancestral festival is very meaningful, but itself is also a laborious thing.
So, there was an older member of the side branch in the crowd who said: “Charlie …… ancestor ceremony once every 12 years is the rule set by the old ancestors, you want to change it to once a year.”
“It is too frequent, right? I personally think, we so frequently disturb the ancestor’s peace, which may not be a good thing! In case the old ancestors are displeased, then this is a great disrespect to them!”
Charlie looked at him and said in a cold voice: “It’s because it used to be once every twelve years, so you guys with the surname Wade have long forgotten the old ancestor to the clouds!”
“When people said they were going to dig up your ancestors’ graves, you all fled Eastcliff in the night! Is that how you respect your ancestors?
That old man suddenly blushed and hurriedly shut his mouth.
When Charlie saw that he didn’t speak, he questioned, “Why don’t you speak? Weren’t you quite capable of talking just now?”
After saying that, Charlie pointed to the ancestral tomb of the Wade family behind him and asked him in a cold voice:
“Come, in front of the old ancestor, you explain to the old ancestor properly, how exactly did you respect them?”
The old man was ashamed and said, “I …… I was wrong ……”
Charlie said in a cold voice: “Don’t tell me! Come out and tell the old ancestor yourself!”
The old man could only walk out from the crowd, facing more than a hundred Wade family ancestors’ graves, and said in shame:
“Wade family ancestors above, the unworthy grandson was wrong! I hope the ancestors will forgive me!”
Charlie coldly snorted, ignoring the old man, and continued to address the more than seven hundred Wade Family side branches in front of him, sternly saying,
“Don’t think that you are Wade Family side branches, and that I, the head of the main family, am bullying you by making demands of you!”
After saying that, he pointed at his immediate uncles and cousins and others who were kneeling on one side, and said in a cold voice:
“Open your eyes and take a good look at these kneeling around you! All of them are members of the Wade family!”
“Here are my own eldest uncle, my second uncle, my aunt, and my cousins, who have made mistakes and still have to kneel here for three days and three nights for me!”
As soon as those words came out, Andrew and other members of the Wade family’s original family, one by one, lowered their heads in shame, while the seven hundred or so members of the side branches, one by one, were dumbfounded!
Only then did they realize that Charlie’s iron blood was not just for them, the outsiders.
He had dealt with his own family even more ruthlessly than he had with them!
Charlie continued to speak shockingly at this point: “And I might as well tell you that most of them, from now on, will have to stay at Waderest Mountain for the next three years to observe mourning for the old ancestor!”
“In the next three years, even if a knife falls from the sky, they are not allowed to leave half a step!”
“Even if anyone is seriously ill and needs to stay in the ICU, I will build the ICU for him right here!”
This group of Wade family side members heard this, they begin to feel fear, just now thought Charlie let their family kneel here for three days and three nights is already very cruel, they did not expect that the punishment was even more ruthless!
At this moment, Charlie with cold eyes looking at them, continued: “So you all listen to me, from now on, if any of you dare to betray the family, or let the family suffer losses, then one of you count one, must end up worse than them!”
Seeing this, no one dared to raise any objections to the ancestor worship ceremony.
The reason why Charlie wanted to hold the Ancestor Ritual once a year was to continuously strengthen their loyalty to the Wade Family through a faster frequency.
And at the same time make them understand the master-subordinate relationship between the Wade Family and them.
So that they would have loyalty thoughts in their hearts, and then strengthen the Wade Family’s control over them.
At this time, a young man spoke up and said, “I can understand that the ancestor worship ceremony is held once a year, but why do we have to come to Eastcliff every three months to report on our duties?”
Charlie asked him rhetorically, “You are taking the resources and earning the money of the Wade family, and I ask you to come to Eastcliff every three months for debriefing, do you have any other opinions?”
The young man busily said, “Our family moved overseas a long time ago, and gradually shifted the focus of our business over the years, and currently the business we run overseas has nothing to do with the Wade family anymore.”
Charlie nodded his head and asked him, “What is your name?”
The young man replied, “My name is Aron Wade.”
Charlie nodded slightly and said, “Good, let me ask you, what business does your family run overseas now?”
Aron busily said, “We produce and sell Chinese furniture for the whole of Europe, mainly for Chinese customers, and our production place in Romania.”
Charlie frowned and asked, “Why do you produce Chinese furniture in Romania?”
Aron replied, “Mainly because Romania has a very high production of wood and their labor costs are relatively cheap.”
Charlie asked again, “Then how many workers do you have in Romania? What is the annual output value?”
Aron thought about it and said, “We have about 10,000 employees there, with an annual output of about two billion euros and a net profit of about 20%.”
Charlie nodded and said, “In that case, you have a net profit of 400 million euros a year from this business alone.”
“Yes.” Aron said, “A few years ago our production base was still in China, and I was the one who suggested my family moved the production base to Romania.”
Charlie asked him, “The production base was placed in China, why did you suggest moving to Romania?”
Aron explained with some pride, “Originally we produced in China and sold in Europe, although the logistics cost was much higher, but because the domestic labor is relatively cheap, so the overall profit margin is even a little higher than now,”
“But I had a hunch five years ago that the EU will definitely continue to raise tariffs and other taxes on foreign products in the future, in that case, our products in the European market will lose all advantages.”
“And then the profit margin will also decline significantly, and I really did not guess wrong, since three years ago, the EU has been increasing the tariffs on imported furniture, and so far has increased by at least 40%!”
Charlie nodded and said, “After you moved your business there, you will be able to avoid this tariff policy of Europe’s foreign countries, right?”
“That’s right!” Aron explained, “When we moved our production base to Romania, we also re-registered a company there, which is equivalent to turning our products into local goods production,”
“And because Romania also joined the European Union, the whole European market gives great preferential policies to Romanian products, so that we also effectively enjoy benefits of this preference.”
“With lower tax costs, our prices can be lower, which also allows us to have more sales, so the overall profit margin is also considerable,”
“Compared to those other companies that have been producing Chinese furniture at home and selling it to Europe, each of them has suffered heavy losses.”
Charlie smiled and said, “It seems that you are quite good at business.”
Aron said confidently, “That’s for sure, I finished my bachelor’s degree at Yale University at the age of twenty and my MBA in two years, and I have been involved in the operation of the family business since I was eighteen,”
“I dare not say I am a genius in business, but I am definitely much better than most entrepreneurs who talk on paper.”
Charlie nodded slightly and smiled, spoke: “In that case, then you do not need to go back this time, stay in China to give me a hand, by the way, I also will test you to see whether you are what you say!”
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