Chapter 2764

Therefore, using public opinion to achieve something like this can only yield a relatively short-term gain; from a long-term perspective, it holds absolutely no meaning whatsoever.

Mr. Wang shook his head at this trusted confidant. He had never imagined the other party's thinking could be so one-sided, but this only served to highlight that the other party was still young after all.

The thinking was ultimately not seasoned enough — only believing that within this window, these matters would unfold in that particular way, but such thinking absolutely could not hold.

However, the other party still wore that same stubbornness in his eyes, and Mr. Wang understood that if he did not make this decision, the remaining members of the Wang family would very likely rise up in unison and attack him, raising objections, and at that moment everything would tip off balance.

Mr. Wang would also lose his complete control over the Wang family — that was not an outcome anyone wished to see. Clearly, the loyalty of the Wang family members made this confidant feel that certain things truly could not be done that way.

However, upon seeing the other party's reaction, Mr. Wang paid no heed to the others and instead patiently explained: "Your thinking is far too naive. If things were as simple as you imagine, I wouldn't have to go through such elaborate trouble."

The confidant could not help but be stunned, and he instinctively asked: "Mr. Wang, what do you mean by that? Could it be that using such a method still cannot sway the situation afterward?"

Mr. Wang shook his head without the slightest hesitation. "We can sway the situation afterward for a time, but there's no way to keep influencing it indefinitely. In the final analysis, by acting this way we bypassed Zhang Lin, and we also bypassed the authorities. If by simply bypassing the authorities we could pull off this reversal, then even if the odds were slim I could still take that gamble — after all, the ultimate payoff is indeed considerable. Fortune favors the bold — I understand this principle well enough, even though I'm already old."

Hearing these words, the confidant was all the more wide-eyed with astonishment. He thought to himself, well then isn't that fine? Since the other party had already thought things through, then what needed to be done right now was perfectly clear.

But why still be so conflicted, even changing his own thinking? Although Mr. Wang had not stated it outright, he heard it very clearly — by Mr. Wang's meaning, he no longer wished to persist in this matter.

To want to break free and stand aside — can things really be that simple? For others who wish to stand aside, all they need do is refrain from participating. But the Wang family has been wading through this muddy water from the very start; escaping now is already impossible.

Therefore, what they need to do is shoulder their own fate, absolutely not shut that fate out the door. Doing so would only make their subsequent choices narrower and narrower, until they could not find any clear direction at all.

He muttered to himself that this was a truth even a small fry like him could see clearly — there was no reason someone as clever as Mr. Wang, who had held his position for so long, could fail to see the current situation. In his view, this simply did not add up.

But what he did not know was that logic works exactly this way: if you joke with it, it jokes back with you. What Mr. Wang was truly thinking, only he himself knew clearly. And this time, he had been keeping his patience all along.

Because he had seen a very worthy successor — perhaps waiting until he met with an accident, or until a hundred years later, or until one day he truly grew weary of everything in his hands, he would still need to find someone to entrust the Wang family to.

And if, following a plan like Zhang Lin's, the Wang family existed in name only, it would still need a leader — this was something that had to exist within them internally, rather than everyone submitting to the authorities or to Zhang Lin.

Under this premise, he felt the person before him was very suited to take over his work in the future, which was why he was keeping such patience.

The next moment, Mr. Wang continued: "What I mean is, once we use the influence of public opinion to sway the situation this time, we may win a temporary victory. But afterward, given Mr. Zhang's temperament, he will certainly look for ways to retaliate against us — and it won't even amount to retaliation! All he needs to do is casually take certain actions, and the impact on our Wang family will be immensely far-reaching. Moreover, such things have happened before — this is not without precedent."

At this point, Mr. Wang promptly cut himself off, because if he continued, it would touch upon the situation over at Wang Wang Canghai's side. Clearly, for now he still did not wish to expose the Wang family's true sinister intentions.

Speaking from fundamental principles, Mr. Wang hoped that all members of the Wang family would never know that Wang Wang Canghai was still alive. Perhaps in the past Mr. Wang might have harbored that naive notion that Wang Wang Canghai being alive was itself a good thing — at least all the Wang family people would have a root to look to.

They had seen their faith and could follow it all the way. But as Wang Wang Canghai's ambitions grew ever larger, and as even Mr. Wang himself discovered that the other party would sacrifice even his absolutely loyal followers without the slightest hesitation, no matter the cost — upon seeing all this, Mr. Wang felt that Wang Wang Canghai's existence was not a good thing.

In fact, this was Mr. Wang himself being blind to what was right under his nose. If he had called to mind the former Queen of Jingjue, or the Wan Nu King, or even King Xian, he should have understood this point. Back then, the populace was absolutely loyal to such rulers — but faced with such loyalty, what did those rulers do?

They wantonly used all manner of bloody and violent methods against their own followers — that was simply the nature of these people.

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