Chapter 1736: Sharing Worries for the Main Family

As soon as Ye Chen said this, Ye Tao was so scared that he trembled all over.

The reason why he said these things to Ye Chen was originally to make Ye Chen understand that his family's business did not rely on the Ye family, nor did it need the Ye family to provide any resources or help, so he didn't need to come to China to make a work report to him every three months.

But Ye Tao never expected that after saying so much, Ye Chen would directly want him to stay in China to help him.

He regretted it so much that he wanted to slap himself dozens of times!

Immediately, he said with a crying face, "Mr. Ye... please don't take what I just said seriously, because those were all my bragging..."

Ye Chen asked indifferently, "Oh? Is that so?"

Ye Tao nodded like a garlic-pounding machine.

And at this time, a middle-aged man beside Ye Tao opened his mouth nervously, "Ye Chen... I am Ye Tao's father, Ye Hongyang, and I am a cousin of your father. My son was born with a love for bragging. He is completely a 'half-bottle of water that rattles'. I don't know how many times I've scolded him, telling him not to brag outside, but this child just won't listen..."

As he spoke, he hurriedly smiled and said, "You are now the head of the Ye family, so don't bother with this kind of little brat who loves to brag..."

Ye Chen nodded lightly and muttered to himself, "Oh... so after talking for a long time, it turns out it was all bragging..."

Ye Hongyang slapped Ye Tao on the head and shouted angrily, "You bastard, hurry up and apologize to the head of the family!"

Ye Tao was slapped, but he didn't look half-aggrieved. Instead, he said with extreme anxiety, "Mr. Ye... it's my fault. I shouldn't have bragged in front of you... please... don't bother with me..."

Ye Chen waved his hand and said casually, "Oh, a young man is not light and crazy, who doesn't love to brag when they are young? This little thing, I definitely won't take it to heart."

Ye Tao breathed a sigh of relief and said gratefully, "Thank you, Mr. Ye, for your magnanimity! Thank you, Mr. Ye!!!"

Ye Chen nodded, then looked at Ye Hongyang and asked, "I have a question I'd like to ask."

Ye Hongyang hurriedly said humbly, "Head of the family, if you have any questions, just ask. It's not a matter of asking for advice. We are just playing around, how can we be worthy of you saying that..."

Ye Chen smiled and said, "It's like this, I want to know if what Ye Tao said just now is true or false. Did he completely fabricate a series of things that never happened for me, or did he take things that actually happened but had nothing to do with him and force them onto himself?"

Ye Hongyang stuttered a bit and said vaguely, "This... this... it can't be said that it never happened..."

Seeing his vague appearance, Ye Chen asked directly, "I just want to know, did the thing about predicting the future 5 years ago and moving the enterprise from China to Romania really happen?"

"Yes, yes!" Ye Hongyang hurriedly nodded and admitted.

He knew very well in his heart that things couldn't be hidden at all. As long as Ye Chen investigated a little, he would know the development path of all his family's industries. This couldn't be hidden at all.

Ye Chen asked again, "Then I want to know, if the person who made that decision 5 years ago wasn't Ye Tao, then who was it?"

Ye Hongyang became even more nervous and stuttered, "It... it..."

"What is it?" Ye Chen frowned and asked coldly, "Is it so hard to say a person's name?"

Seeing that Ye Chen was a bit dissatisfied, Ye Hongyang hurriedly bit the bullet and said, "It's me... it's me... I made that decision..."

Ye Tao looked at his father at this time, full of worry and fear, and also full of extreme guilt.

Ye Chen looked at Ye Hongyang and asked earnestly, "Is it really you?"

Ye Hongyang nodded repeatedly and gritted his teeth, "Really... it really is me..."

"Then that's it." Ye Chen said, "Since it's you, then you stay. The main family is now waiting to be rebuilt, and it is a critical moment when people are needed. And those descendants of the main family will basically have to observe mourning on Mount Ye Ling for the next three years, so it is precisely the time when you collateral branches need to contribute more to the main family."

Ye Tao protested upon hearing this, "Mr. Ye! Although everyone is surnamed Ye, we have long been independent, and our family has our own things to do. At a time like this, how can we throw our own things aside and run to serve the main family? Besides, we are just playing around, unlike the main family which is so big. If we delay our own family's affairs, wouldn't it be even more difficult in the future?"

As he spoke, he hurriedly looked at the people around him and incited, "Everyone, tell me, does what I just said make sense? The main family is originally a big family with assets of over a trillion. Just now, they forced us to take out half of our family property and took the Cataclysmic Front under their command. Their strength is much stronger than all of us collateral branches combined. How can they come and grab people from us collateral branches again?"

Others were also somewhat dissatisfied in their hearts.

Ye Tao's words indeed grasped the core point of inciting them.

This core point was that the Ye family main branch was rich and powerful, and after blackmailing everyone for so much money and forcing everyone to sign installment agreements, they now wanted to grab people directly from other families. This was indeed a bit unreasonable.

However, although they were dissatisfied in their hearts, Ye Chen didn't force them to send people, so at this time, no one dared to help. Everyone kept their heads down and said nothing.

Ye Tao was anxious and blurted out, "Everyone, say something! It's okay to judge a little, right?"

The crowd still didn't respond.

Ye Chen looked at Ye Tao at this time and smiled, "You are young, but you have quite a lot of thoughts, and your techniques are indeed there."

Speaking of this, Ye Chen changed the subject and added, "But you ignored a very important thing. Techniques are not even a fart in front of absolute power."

Ye Tao was seen through by Ye Chen, and the whole person was panicked.

Ye Chen continued at this time, "I don't care whether your family's business has anything to do with the Ye family now. I just want to know where the starting capital of your family came from. Was it given by the Ye family?"

The father and son didn't dare to answer for a while.

Ye Zhongquan said at this time, "Chen'er, when Hongyang's family split from the Ye family during the Republic of China, they were doing furniture business. When they split, the Ye family gave them 200,000 silver dollars, held 30% of the shares in their enterprise, and the Ye family also introduced them to a lot of business."

"Later, when the new China was established, Hongyang's father took the opportunity to play a little trick. He used the excuse that his own background was not good and he wanted to change the local people's impression of them, and voluntarily donated the original private enterprise to the local commune. But in fact, only one-tenth was really donated, but when he reported to the Ye family, he only said that it was all donated."

"Later, he was silent for two years and started another stove, and opened the factory again. But because the name was changed, the 30% shares of the main family naturally couldn't count. The main family knew all this, but didn't investigate deeply."

Hearing this, Ye Chen sneered, "Did you hear that? You bunch of collateral branches have a long history of pitting the main family. If I really want to settle old scores, none of you can stand the investigation."

Ye Hongyang and Ye Tao, father and son, were extremely nervous, lowering their heads and not daring to speak.

Ye Chen looked at Ye Tao at this time and said coldly, "Letting you stay to share worries and contribute to the main family is, on one hand, to let you repay the support and help the main family gave you back then, and on the other hand, it is also a good opportunity for you to strive for preferential treatment for your own family!"

"If you are honest and do your best to contribute to the main family for two years, maybe the 0.6% installment handling fee you pay every month can be halved;"

"If you perform very well, I will wave my hand and waive it all, which is also possible!"

"But if you still dare to play little tricks with the main family, then that is repeated teaching and incorrigible!"

"Since that's the case, then let your family also come to Mount Ye Ling to observe mourning for three years!" ===== CHAPTER 1737 =====