"Meng Yan, although there were some minor accidents during the process, you have passed my test."
"Let's talk about what we really want you to do next."
After saying this, Jia Baiyuan straightened his body and his expression became obviously serious.
Meng Yan saw the change in Jia Baiyuan's momentum and did not dare to neglect. He straightened up in his chair and regained his comfortable attitude at the dinner table.
"Do you know the four major families?"
"The four major families in the stone gambling world."
When Meng Yan heard Jia Baiyuan's question, he hesitated for a long time, and finally shook his head.
"I heard my grandfather tell you a few pieces of information about the four major families in the stone gambling world."
"However, since my grandfather made me a will and asked me to swear not to gamble with stones, I have never cared about these things anymore."
"I don't know what the situation of the four major families is now."
After hearing Meng Yan's reply, Jia Baiyuan took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it.
Since Meng Yan was going to be involved in his own affairs next, he simply taught Meng Yan a lesson at the dinner table and asked him to figure out the affairs of the four major families in recent years.
"I, you must have guessed my current identity." Jia Baiyuan slowly blew out a smoke ring from his mouth.
Meng Yan nodded, he could step down Liu Zhengting in the Zhu family and fish him out of the quagmire with just one word; Yubaotang could make the general manager come to support him with a phone call.
He guessed that Jia Baiyuan should now be the core group of people in the Jia family.
"If I guess correctly, you are from the Jia family, one of the four major families, and you are also one of the core family members. Am I right?" Meng Yan asked.
Jia Baiyuan smiled and nodded: "That's a good judgment, but I'm still not very familiar with my identity."
"I am now the head of the Jia family, and I have the final say in the entire Jia family's personnel affairs."
When Meng Yan heard this, he couldn't help being slightly shocked. He didn't expect that the Jia Baiyuan in front of him had already become the number one person in the Jia family.
But doubts immediately followed.
As the head of the Jia family, his importance to the Jia family is self-evident.
If you can't stay at the Jia family's headquarters in Kyoto, why would you come to a remote place like Lake City?
Moreover, since he has made it clear to Meng Yan that he is the head of the Jia family so straightforwardly, this means that he is asking Meng Yan to help him with his status as the head of the Jia family.
Then the thing he wants to participate in will definitely not be just helping him bet on stones.
Seeing the slightly shocked expression on Meng Yan's face, Jia Baiyuan smiled slightly and continued.
"In addition to my Jia family, there are three major families, namely the Wang family, the Tang family, and the Shen family. Our four major families control the entire Xia Kingdom's jade industry."
"Every jade-related stone in Xia is related to at least one of our four families, and our four families are basically in a state of checks and balances."
"But now, this balance is almost broken."
"The four major families have always been managed by the elected president. However, since the death of the last president, we have been in a state of leaderlessness."
"So now the respective camps are just fighting overtly and covertly for each other's interests!"
"The president of the Jade Association must be a prestigious person in order to control the four major families of the Xia Kingdom." Jia Baiyuan continued.
"Can't the president of the Jade Association be elected?" Meng Yan asked doubtfully.
"Of course it's an election, but since a few years ago, the Shen family colluded with the Burmese State to obtain a large amount of resources and then monopolized this position. It became the largest force among the four major families of our Xia Kingdom, and its power far exceeded that of any of our three families.
superior."
"Although the president of the Jade Association is nominally elected, in fact the Shen family uses its own power to recruit stone appraisers who are obedient to them and suppresses the stone appraisers of our three families."
"They even brought people over from Myanmar. After all, that country is the origin of jade mines and there are many experts in stone appraisal."
"With these means, the Shen family has occupied this position for several years."
"Of course, Myanmar's helping the Shen family in this way is not out of good intentions."
"In recent years, when the Shen family controlled the Jade Association and dominated the Xia family, national treasure-level antiques often disappeared."
"It is claimed that it is either damaged, or it is stored for conservation reasons and refused to be visited."
"But the core members of our four major families all know the inside story. These treasures of our Xia ancestors were transported to Myanmar by the Shen family in return."
"This?!" Meng Yan's eyelids twitched slightly.
"Isn't it treason to give away the treasures of our Xia Kingdom to others?" Meng Yan said with a hint of sullenness in his tone.
Jia Baiyuan keenly caught the sullenness in Meng Yan's tone and couldn't help but smile in his heart.
"Yes, the Shen family's treason is already known to many of our other three major families, but what can we do?" Jia Baiyuan continued.
"He did the theft of these antiques flawlessly with the cooperation of the Burmese people. There is no evidence at all. Even if all three of our families come forward to testify together, there is nothing the Shen family can do against him."
"Furthermore, the Shen family's power is at its peak now. If the three of us are ready to break the window paper, then the Shen family will also break up with us."
"At the end of the day, the three of us are suspicious of each other, and we are also tit-for-tat in the business world. Just because we have such a big enemy as the Shen family, we reluctantly join forces, so we are not a piece of metal."
"That's why Meng Yan, I found you." Jia Baiyuan said, took out an invitation from a drawer and handed it to Meng Yan.
"This year happens to be the year when the president of the Jade Association changes. The Treasure Appraisal Association will hold a new stone gambling conference in Suzhou the day after tomorrow to elect a new president."
"It's in the city next to us."
"In this election, I want you to help me win the competition and win the position of president."
After Jia Baiyuan finished speaking, he looked at Meng Yan calmly, waiting for his answer.
Meng Yan knew that he had no choice.
Jia Baiyuan lifted himself out of the quagmire of the Zhu family. It was because of his support that he got through the incident at Yubaotang yesterday.
Meng Yan thought about it for a while, even if he wanted to eat shit by himself now, he was only qualified to discuss how much to eat with Jia Baiyuan, not whether to eat it or not.
"Uncle Jia, you trust me so much, how could I let you down?" Meng Yan nodded and agreed to Jia Baiyuan's request.