Chapter 754: Family Precepts

Back then your grandfather still had the glow of treasure on him, and relying on the things he messed around with, sooner or later people would pick them clean.

Don't think that back then many people gave him face just because; that was the goodwill left by your grandfather's father and your grandfather when they mixed in the martial world.

Back then they still observed some martial world righteousness, and with a few of your grandfather's brothers, they still had some influence on WanDao.

Plus what was happening on the Mainland at the time.

Your grandfather's value wasn't that great yet.

That only let us take temporary comfort.

By the 1970s-80s, who still talked about these things?

By then our Yang Family would likely be in trouble, with many people eyeing us covetously.

There's nothing to be done; I, your father, am born to a life of toil.

All we could do was start laying out plans—running newspapers, running Capital Gate, running Shunfeng Express…

It was just to put a protective shell around the Yang Family.

Later on, it became pure business war; if we don't deal with them, they'll try to swallow us.

Moreover, the Yinglian people want to cultivate lackeys.

I can't stand watching Gangdao being picked clean by these bastards, leaving nothing but a pile of shit, can I?

If we don't grab it, we'll end up with those lackeys disgusting us now.

Whether it's power and water properties, convenience stores, or pharmacies… they'll all end up under their control.

Gangdao will become their tool for harvesting wealth.

Gangdao's five million people will all become their hired hands.

Yang Fan muttered.

It seems that now this role is being played by our Yang Family.

Yang Qing glared at him.

Is it the same?

Look at where we've put this money.

Then look at what those bastards are doing.

We've invested all our money in endeavors that benefit the country and the people.

They're not just spinning their wheels in real estate; they go invest in others instead.

They know they're lackeys, so they dare not make big investments in Daxia.

Money should be in the hands of those who can skillfully make use of it.

Not in the hands of capitalists.

Our Yang Family develops well and is popular everywhere, precisely because we can put money to reasonable use in the right places.

If we were like Li Changjiang, we'd sooner or later be neither here nor there.

Remember, money is social wealth; the Yang Family represents society in making investments—whatever society, the nation, and the people need, that's what we invest in.

Don't take it for granted as your private property, or else trouble will come sooner or later.

Remember this saying of mine; put it into the family precepts and keep it in mind.

Yang Fan had already grown accustomed to Yang Qing's big talk.

He likes to wear the hat of 'great, glorious, and correct' in whatever he does.

But what they do is indeed not bad.

His own Tesla, if crowned with the hat of a national new-industry leader, indeed makes the blood boil.

Now the Qiming League goes even further, holding high the slogan of charging into the World Cup, gaining the support of countless people.

Even if the kicking is just so-so, every match is still a sea of people.

Its commercial value chases after the world's major leagues.

Money rolls in.

Who knows how many people envy them to death.

So what they say is actually quite reasonable.

We are not owners; we are reasonable users of wealth.

This level just shot up.

Compared with ordinary capitalists, the Yang Family instantly becomes one of us.

The father-son talk ended with Yang Fan taking a family precept back with him.

After Yang Fan returned, he passed the precept on to Yang Qihang and the others.

This is to be printed as a book of family rules and the Yang Family's foundation.

The booklet also contains many such precepts, like a collection of sayings.

For example.

"Human desire is the primal driving force of human progress; making reasonable use of the desire in one's heart is the key to personal success."

This is very different from the outside, where everywhere you hear the view that desire is a source of disaster.

For example.

"Human beings are composed of divinity, humanity, and animality."

"Divinity determines how high you can go, humanity determines how far you can go, and animality determines how fast you go."

"Lose divinity and you lose the future; lose humanity and you lose much; lose animality and you lose everything."

The Yang Family's family rules are completely a different world from the outside.

The Yang Family's family rules constitute the Yang Family's unique outlook on life, values, and worldview.

And the squid's sheepskin roll has the marvel of being different yet achieving the same effect.

However, the Yang Family's family rules are even more positive.

The squid appears as the face of the world's plunderer.

The Yang Family indeed appears as the face of humanity's pillar.

The Yang Family's family rules influence everyone in the Yang Family.

Let them have a unified thought.

The family rules continue to be enriched, and the descendants are also beginning to prepare to write the autobiographies of Yang Rong and Yang Qing.

History is the foundation, and autobiographies are also the Yang Family's foundation.

When the day comes that these autobiographies can be printed and published, people in the world will understand what kind of people Yang Rong and Yang Qing are.

It will also clothe the Yang Family in a layer of holy light.

Having the ancestors as role models can also effectively prevent the descendants from going astray.

This is the family tradition.

Yang Qing does not know that his descendants are making up for the family's spiritual deficiency for him.

The amount of material foundation determines what kind of spirit is needed to coordinate it.

This is the problem he once spoke of regarding the Yang Family's material foundation and the balance of pattern.

He said it, and the descendants began to do it.

Running a family is a very complex and difficult matter.

It is impossible to accomplish this with only Yang Qing.

Fortunately, his descendants are excellent enough and are making up for this shortcoming for him.

Otherwise, after he passes, the Yang Family would likely not go very far.

With these spiritual cores, the foundation for inheriting the family is established.

Zhou Xingxing sees Yang Ou holding an ever-thicker booklet and feels the gap between herself and the Yang Family growing larger.

He hesitated a moment, then said.

"Daughter-in-law, why not let our son also take the surname Yang?"

These two rascals have been tangled up to this point and still haven't separated.

Yang Ou is also used to this rascal, altogether like a sealed gourd.

Today he suddenly spoke up and even said such astonishing words.

"Are you mentally ill? How old are the kids already?"

"Still changing names, damn your mother."

"This booklet isn't forbidden for you to read; you can read it freely, and even let the children read it."

"And it doesn't restrict you."

Zhou Xingxing chuckled and moved closer.

"No wonder the old folks are so enthusiastic about public welfare."

"The vision is truly too high."

"It is truly worth our learning."

"Look, otherwise we could also set up a public welfare fund."

"Follow closely in the steps of the old folks."

These years Yang Ou has been filming movies, and he's also grown tired from it.

He began to focus on being his own councilor.

Zhou Xingxing suddenly proposed this matter, and her mind also started turning.

"Otherwise, let's set up an aid fund for poor families' education."

"Although the old folks place great importance on Daxia's education,"

"but they still somewhat neglect Gangdao."

"We just happen to have made up for this aspect."

"We two don't have the ability to manage a family, yet we've earned so much money and just keep saving it, which is indeed a waste."

"Let's just take out two hundred million and do charity."

"However, this fund must be invested every year, either entrusting it to the Black Tortoise to manage, or raising money from society, or we ourselves invest money inward each year."

"Once the education fund is started, it cannot be stopped."

"You've decided, so don't quit halfway and invite criticism."