Of course, Old Jiang knew he didn’t have the diamond cutter and couldn’t mend porcelain, he didn’t have it, but Qin Yi does have it.
Thinking how he was caught by the Second Uncle from the main branch of his wife’s family, who then purposefully pulled him to the side and warned him not to get too close to Ye Zhifan, to prevent fetching water with a bamboo basket, ending up with nothing, in any case, the Cao family treated him as one of their own that’s why they gave him a reminder.
After a brief struggle in his heart, Old Jiang slowly answered: “Second Uncle, I know I can’t send Director Ye’s daughter into the Beijing Political Party, that’s why I… found Qin Yi. He knows a lot of people in the capital; he must have a way.”
“I heard gossip that Director Ye was very likely to get into Provincial Construction at the end of this year. I wondered if I wanted to get a contract for the provincial construction projects, it’s necessary to make connections with Director Ye. Seeing how he was running here and there for his daughter’s future, so I risked making this move.”
“If this goes successfully, then I would’ve shown my name before Director Ye’s eyes, and it’ll be smoother for me if I wanted to get projects in the future. If it’s not successful, it also doesn’t matter; he would know that I had indeed put in an effort. Uncle also knows about us businessmen, businessmen always plan carefully… that’s why I took the opportunity of the Elder’s 80th birthday and arranged for Director Ye to meet with Qin Yi.”
Listening to his explanation, Principal Cao narrowed both his eyes, “Director Ye is a Cadre in the Provincial Government, if he wanted to enlist his daughter, there’s no need for him to find someone with connections, right?”
“The Beijing Political Party, with his daughter’s abilities, getting into them wouldn’t be a hard thing, so why does he need to find someone with connections? Based on his current influence in Yunnan province, if he wrote a Letter of Recommendation and sent it to the military, the military would still consider it with discretion or even consider it on priority. No matter what, there’s no need for him to rely on someone with connections, right?”
After a brief pause, he asked Old Jiang, “Zheng Yan, you have a close relationship with Director Ye?”
Old Jiang’s first name: Zheng Yan.
“Second Uncle, see what you said, if I really had a close relationship with him, why would I need to go through so much trouble to get Qin Yi to intervene? I was just trying… after all, I wouldn’t be losing anything.” Jiang Zhengyan laughed awkwardly, even though he could be considered to have made a name for himself. However, when compared to the true bigshots, he still lacked too much; now that he was finally given a chance to make his business turn over, it doesn’t matter that there was only a sliver of hope; he still wanted to try it.
Principal Cao did not blame him. Jiang Zhengyan was considered an outstanding person amongst his niece and nephew’s generation. Neither did he establish his connections while raising the Qin family’s flag, like what he had said today, businessmen needed to plan carefully, needed to know how to make allies, they also needed to know how to establish friendly relationships with the government offices… none of those were wrong.
Every line of business had its own rules for survival, and Jiang Zhengyan could still be considered as one of those rule-abiding people.
It’s just that, there’s still one thing he couldn’t understand, he doesn’t have a close relationship with Ye Zhifan, with Ye Zhifan’s carefulness of not giving anyone dirt about him, how would he agree to Zheng Yan’s arrangements?
That was no different than giving his political enemy dirt about him trying to use power for personal gain.
“Zheng Yan, I’m afraid this isn’t a simple matter. He’s already a Provincial Government Official, and if he wanted to send his daughter into the military, that was clearly a matter of moving his lips. So why would he have to rely on someone with connections?
Principal Cao reminded the younger generation that he quite fancied the Cao family was going downhill; if it wasn’t because of the Qin Family and Old Mister Cao, who was a Literary Master, the Cao family would’ve turned into a normal family a long time ago.
With such an outstanding nephew-in-law, he didn’t want him to tread on the wicked ways.
Jiang Zhengyan really didn’t go to find out the situation, neither did he think about investigating them.
Seeing how he was acting, Principal Cao sighed unnoticeably, he reminded yet again: “Zheng Yan, be careful that instead of achieving what you want, you’ll get a swarm of troubles. Something that even a Provincial Government Official like him couldn’t take care of, I have a feeling there’s a bigger story behind it.”
