This time, he sent for Zhang Zeyu and his younger cousin, Cheng Zongwen.
They were the ones he intended to make his assistants in the procurement department.
He had originally considered his maternal cousin, Zhou Zhenyuan, but his personality was ill-suited for the tasks he had planned. While Li Xuejin would have been the best replacement for Zhang Zeyu, Cheng Zongyang wanted to train his own cousin and worried that Li Xuejin would be a bad influence on Cheng Zongwen.
Faced with a shrewd and calculating man like Li Xuejin, both his younger cousin and maternal cousin would inevitably be outmaneuvered.
That was why he had chosen Zhang Zeyu and his cousin instead.
「Cheng Residence, the study.」
Cheng Zongyang looked at Zhang Zeyu and Cheng Zongwen and laid out his thoughts.
