Chapter 2810

Just as Mr. Wang was about to give a definitive answer, his gaze suddenly caught sight of his trusted confidant, and he couldn't help but pause.

A shrewd old fox like Mr. Wang could read the general situation through the other party's eyes at a glance; the main reason, of course, was that this was his confidant, so he could grasp the man's thoughts very clearly. If it were anyone else, Mr. Wang probably wouldn't be able to see things so clearly.

Mr. Wang saw very clearly what his confidant was conveying right now. Since that was the case, afterward Mr. Wang would certainly ask about the man's thoughts. If the man's thoughts were correct, Mr. Wang would also be very gratified.

Conversely, if the other party's thoughts completely clashed with what he was currently doing, then no matter how much Mr. Wang had appreciated this person before, afterward he would definitely change his current attitude, and might very well throw the man straight into the sea.

The situation now was a hundred percent settled. What the Wang family needed to do next was quickly retreat to where they came from—that is, turn the ship around.

Under this premise, Mr. Wang actually no longer needed to purge the current members of the Wang family, because once this decision was made, the other Wang family members would heap praise upon him and even stand behind Mr. Wang at the first opportunity.

Even those who had betrayed him would step in Mr. Wang's place and settle everything; there would be no deviation in this, at least Mr. Wang himself had that confidence.

But ultimately, Zhang Lin's side had to be dealt with first. If there was no baseline that satisfied Zhang Lin a hundred percent, then Mr. Wang's remaining plans would be nothing more than fantasies conjured up in his own mind, and no one would cooperate with him.

Mr. Wang wanted to whitewash the Wang family, hoping the authorities would give him a chance—all these ideas were naturally good, but a step back, if Zhang Lin's side didn't loosen up, even if the authorities had the mind to take in the Wang family, they wouldn't have the guts.

To put it plainly, even the authorities now had to read Zhang Lin's face when acting, which was enough to prove just how pivotal Zhang Lin's position was.

It's just that many people hadn't yet realized this; they naively believed that everything Zhang Lin did was ultimately in service of the authorities. If they clung to such thinking, that would be truly laughable.

Zhang Lin had never submitted to the authorities; on the contrary, the authorities had always been wagging their tails at him, hoping he would say more and give the archaeological team more guidance. That was the essential difference.

But Zhang Lin had never thought to flaunt this either. He always believed that justice resides in people's hearts, and that many people could see through the surface to the essence, see everything, and know that Zhang Lin doing these things had nothing to do with the authorities in the first place.

It was all entirely his own initiative, and through this approach, Zhang Lin felt he could bring a certain sense of satisfaction to his readers.

That was what mattered most to him. As for other things, Zhang Lin could completely disregard them, even brushing past them with the utmost nonchalance—that had always been Zhang Lin's outward way of behaving.

At the same time, Zhang Lin also showed everyone an established fact: once he had decided on something, it wouldn't change, unless certain matters truly required a principled shift in subjective terms, in which case Zhang Lin would settle for the next best thing.

But so far, nothing like that had happened. Whether it would in the future was unknown, but facing the current situation, Zhang Lin was very clear on how he should choose.

Looking at Mr. Wang, he only needed a glance at his confidant to basically have the measure of things. At the same time, Mr. Wang was also convinced that he needed to quickly settle this matter afterward, or the situation might get worse. One thing Mr. Wang had learned well from Wang Canghai was that he too was a person who paid attention to detail.

Mr. Wang understood that many things were governed and influenced by details. Once the details changed, or there was a major deviation, then no matter how well he performed on the actual situation, or how precisely he controlled all the major directions on the macro level—

—it would all be like foam, without the slightest value. Only by handling both the macro and the details very well could one reap the rewards one deserves; Mr. Wang had long been very clear on this. Perhaps that was also why he had always been striving so hard to win Zhang Lin's promise.

This was the detail he needed to control, and his subordinates were naturally part of those details. If he couldn't even control this one thing, then Mr. Wang also knew that the Wang family under his leadership was destined not to go far. But then again, from this point one could see that Wang Canghai's initial choice of people was indeed very discerning.

Although Mr. Wang was not the smartest one, he was the one who best made up for lack of talent through diligence. He chose to be diligent. The saying that some things cannot be mended by sentiment is the biggest lie; given enough time, there is nothing in this world that sentiment cannot mend.

If such a thing existed, then that diligence would surely be false. Zhang Lin thought the same, including the knowledge of tombs he possessed.

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