Lu Zhan wrinkled his nose, "Well, this compensation is indeed quite high."
"But it is effective and can save lives." Lu Bufan said, stroking his beard: "To this day, the Hang family is still the most wealthy family in Haizhou. Their annual income has reached 200 million taels of silver, which is almost as much as ours.
The Lu family's income is more than ten times that of the Lu family, and they also have several core relatives who are high-ranking officials in the capital, and their relationship with the royal family has always been very good. Back then, the old head of the Hang family sacrificed one person to save the whole family. Now it seems,
The sacrifice is worth it.”
Lu Zhan heard this and stared at Lu Bufan: "Master Hou doesn't want to imitate their Hang family, right?"
"If this is possible, why don't you learn?" Lu Bufan said with a wry smile: "I am already old, and my martial arts attainments have stagnated. To be honest, I feel that I am already half a useless person. I should leave more opportunities to you.
These young people.”
As he spoke, he looked at Lu Zhan solemnly: "So I hope that you can improve your martial arts attainments to the Huajin realm in the shortest possible time, and it is best to reach the middle stage of the Huajin realm within three years. In this way
, you will have a chance to be appreciated by the royal family."
"Even if I have a chance to be appreciated by the royal family, what about my financial resources?" Lu Zhan asked back: "Although I have not been in the palace for a long time, I also know that the income situation of our Lu family in recent years is not optimistic."
When talking about income, Lu Bufan's face suddenly darkened: "Yeah, it's still a matter of financial resources! To be honest with you, our Lu family is indeed a little unable to make ends meet at the moment. It can even be described as 'the sun is declining'. We are now
In order to maintain the operation of the huge family, we have even begun to sell off some of the fields and properties under our name. I think if the income situation continues to deteriorate, I am afraid that I will have to reduce the scale of the family property as much as possible and reduce the expenses of the government as much as possible.
"
"But why is this happening?" Lu Zhan asked in confusion: "I remember my father once told me that our Lu family has the strongest financial resources in the entire Yunmeng City and even Yunmeng County. Why has it changed now?
If we can’t make ends meet, we have to rely on reducing the scale of industry and expenses to make ends meet?”
"Well -" Lu Bufan touched his chin and muttered: "There are many reasons for this. Firstly, the third child was the troublemaker. He colluded with Liu Dagu and secretly linked many of our Lu family's profitable properties to
His name went down, and then Liu Dagu came forward to run the business, and all the income was accounted for Lao San himself. Many of us in the Lu family knew this, just because Lao San had already matured at that time, and even I
We couldn't do anything about him, and others didn't dare to accuse him. As a result, they became more and more arrogant and occupied more and more of the family property. This time, after you killed Liu Dagu and Lao San one after another, we
When we go back to trace these properties and the money they made, a lot of it can no longer be traced. It is estimated that the money earned by the third child was used to honor his biological father and the 'Fire Crow Cave Mansion'."
Lu Bufan paused for a moment and then said: "The second reason is the rapid rise of the Yan family in recent years. It turns out that the Yan family is just a small Jianghu gang in Yunmeng City, and there are only two gangs in the gang.
The leader of the family also has an old man, Mr. Yan, who is away from home and rarely comes home. The first leader’s martial arts attainments are about the same as mine, and the second leader seems to be slightly behind me. And our Lu Mansion still has Jin Yantang and Hu Hu.
Among the many masters in the courtyard, our strength was originally higher than theirs. But one year, Mr. Yan, who had been away all the time, suddenly returned to Yunmeng City. This Mr. Yan’s martial arts cultivation level was much higher than mine, and he and the capital city
We have formed a relationship with a powerful person in the capital. This is great. With the support of Mr. Yan and the powerful people in the capital, the power of the Yan family has expanded rapidly, taking away a lot of our business and territory. Especially the new secret they opened.
Workshop, it turns out that there has always been only one secret workshop in Yunmeng City, our Lufu, but since the opening of the secret workshop invested by Yanfu, because they are a gang, they control the docks, caravans and other external freight exchanges.
The transportation channels are much smoother than ours, so their goods and prices are more advantageous than ours, which has caused the scale and income of our secret shop in Lu Mansion to shrink rapidly, reaching a point where we cannot make ends meet."
"The third reason is Ghost Face Cliff,"
Lu Bufan said: "Because we are the largest aristocratic family in Yunmeng City. As the saying goes, a big tree attracts the wind. Ghost Face Ya often invades our Lu Mansion from outside and robs our Lu Mansion's farms, shops, cavalry and fleets. In fact,
The power of Ghost Face Cliff itself is not very strong. We can easily deal with these thieves by gathering the masters in the Lu Mansion who have entered the Qi Condensation Realm. However, considering that they have the support of the Thirty-sixth Route Anti-Army Alliance behind them, other
The leader, General Duobao, is the nephew of the Grand Marshal Tiangong of the anti-military alliance. People are living and property is dead. Once we completely offend them, Guimianya, it will be tantamount to offending the 36th Route Anti-military Alliance, and
Our Lu Mansion’s properties are scattered all over the place, and we can’t take care of them at all. In such a hurry, our Lu Mansion’s properties located in various places will suffer, and transportation by land and water will be blocked. So we can’t do it for a while.
Not willing to use any thunderous tactics against them, General Duobao kept stealing a lot of goods, but he could only endure it.
Especially five years ago, a large number of goods in our secret workshop were snatched by them. That batch of goods contained a large number of first- and second-level elixirs. The loss was extremely heavy, which directly damaged our vitality.
He was seriously injured, and finally had to close the secret workshop. As a result, in the next period of time, Yunmeng City was dominated by the secret workshop family of Yan Mansion. Later, Guimianya was wiped out by a mysterious "bloody devil"
I thought our Lu family could breathe a sigh of relief, but I didn’t expect that the remnants of Guimianya would continue to hijack our goods and those of other families, and robbed us of several batches of valuable goods. I secretly asked Yao Shi from the Guardian Hall to
They are responsible for chasing down the remaining troops in Ghost Face Cliff, but no matter how much leader Yao casts the net, he cannot find their whereabouts, so these losses cannot be recovered to this day."
Speaking of this, Lu Bufan let out a long breath: "Based on the above reasons, our Lu Mansion's industry has repeatedly suffered heavy losses, so we are gradually unable to make ends meet. In the past two or three years, we have basically been resting on our laurels. This year, even
I had to start selling some fields and valuable items collected in the house to maintain..."
"Master Marquis, please wait a moment...let me think about it again." Lu Zhan suddenly made a silent gesture. He tilted his head and squinted his eyes, thinking hard about something.
When Lu Bufan saw this, he couldn't help but asked curiously: "Did my nephew think of something important?"
"Yes, I remembered it." Lu Zhan slapped his thigh suddenly: "I remembered an incident last winter."
"What's up?"
"It's about Gui Mian Ya's robbery of our Lu Mansion's goods," Lu Zhan's eyes flashed coldly, and he said in a deep voice: "In fact, it was not Gui Mian Ya who robbed our Lu Mansion's goods. It was Yan Mansion and Mi Fang who pretended to be
The ghost-faced cliff thieves did it, especially the incident five years ago when Lu Mansion’s secret shop was robbed of a large amount of goods, leading to its closure. It was also done by the Yan Mansion.”
"Zhan'er, what you said is true." Lu Bufan's eyes widened and he looked slightly surprised: "How did you know about this?"
"I heard it accidentally." Lu Zhan went to the stone forest of Zixia Mountain last winter to practice "Bloodlight Slash", and accidentally met the second head of Yan Mansion and Qiu Gongfeng, who died in Yan Dahai.
The conversation at the local memorial service was carefully told to Lu Bufan.
"At that time, I did hear what they said about people dressed as Ghost Face Ya robbing their enemies, and they proudly told about the public case in the secret workshop five years ago. But at that time, I was focused on practicing martial arts and didn't pay attention to them.
Who was the enemy mentioned, so I didn’t seriously think about the true meaning of those two people’s words. Now that you mentioned it like this, Lord Marquis, I suddenly understood that it turned out that they were the ones who had been hijacking our Lu Mansion’s goods and causing Lu
The real culprit behind the closure of the Secret House."
Lu Bufan furrowed his brows, and then angrily hit the desk next to him with his fist, smashing the rosewood desk into pieces. "These are these heartless villains." He raised his voice and cursed: "No wonder this is happening.
The Yan Mansion has developed so rapidly in the past few years. It turns out that Yan Mansion has relied on hijacking the goods of our Lu Mansion and other merchants to support itself. Alas, it is also our fault that our Lu Mansion has a nuisance like the third child. We only let Yan Yan live under internal and external difficulties.
The government has grown up unscrupulously."
"These hateful guys must not be spared lightly." Lu Zhanhu stood up and said: "I will go to them to settle the score. I must turn their secret workshop upside down."
With that said, he started to walk out the door.
"Wait a minute, a good nephew must not make mistakes."
Lu Bufan mobilized his movements and stopped in front of Lu Zhan: "What you are saying now is only what you heard, and there is no conclusive evidence to prove them. If you make a fuss like this, there is no real evidence, but it is easy to scare the snake. And he is so handsome.
Behind our secret workshop, there is also the powerful World Secret Workshop Alliance as a secret aid. If we don’t have concrete evidence and are regarded as unreasonable, then I am afraid that the secret workshop alliance will also start a war with us."
"Let's start a war. Aren't we just afraid of insidious villains like them?" Lu Zhan said passionately.
There is a saying that blocking someone's financial path is like a life-and-death feud. Lu Zhan didn't mind it at first, but now that he is the next heir to the Lu family, it's no wonder that he became really angry because of the Yan family's evil deeds of seizing their own property!
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