Theoretically speaking, every inch of land and every citizen in Daliang is the private property of the emperor. Lu Xu doesn't believe that he wouldn't feel bad for giving up such a large piece of land on Qinfeng Road and so many people on the land.
Obviously, Wen Yuanzhong didn't believe it either! That's why he did everything possible to prepare for the war, even paying attention to a small person like Lu Xu.
Lu Xu guessed that Wen Yuanzhong should be planning to cooperate with Qingliu. As long as Wen Yuanzhong leaves some dirty evidence when cooperating, Qingliu and others will not dare to cross the river and burn bridges. No matter how he performs on the battlefield, at least Qingliu will not
Will attack him.
If he could perform better, such as saving such a large piece of family property for the emperor, or leaving the emperor with hope of recovering the family property.
Then he can gain the emperor's support. Even if he delays the Wu Party's plan to make a fortune, the Wu Party will not attack Wen Yuanzhong who has the emperor's protection.
Having a guess, Lu Xu naturally had to test it. Duan Chengwang obviously didn't want to say anything more to Lu Xu, but even though Lu Xu had already made a guess, Lu Xu was still convinced that his judgment was correct through the few words that came out of Duan Chengwang's mouth.
The whole thing gradually became clear in Lu Xu's mind.
His only remaining doubt is how did Shen Binhong get involved in this matter? What is his relationship with the Wu family?
So he threw this doubt to Duan Chengwang. When he heard Shen Binhong's name, a look of disdain was visible on Duan Chengwang's face.
From the test of Duan Chengwang just now, Lu Xu has roughly judged Duan Chengwang's position. Although he seems to be loyal to Wen Yuanzhong now, his actual position should also be of the Qingliu school. His attitude towards Wen Yuanzhong
Loyalty is just because both parties now have a common goal.
Whether it was from a party standpoint or from Duan Chengwang's current struggle with Shen Binhong, he definitely didn't have any good impressions of Shen Binhong. So Lu Xu was not surprised by the look in his eyes.
Just listen to Duan Chengwang say: "Shen Binhong? In fact, he should be called Wu Binhong. He is actually Wu Yuanqing's son. But Wu Yuanqing cannot recognize him, so he can only be called Shen Binhong."
Lu Xu frowned: "Born in an outer room?"
Duan Chengwang: "Absolutely."
Now Lu Xu didn't understand even more. The so-called outer wife was another kind of woman besides wives and concubines. Simply put, it was "a woman raised outside."
Which one is more miserable, the concubine or the concubine? It’s hard to say. Generally speaking, it depends on the origin of the concubine. The concubine is basically the private property of the family, even if it is beaten to death or even buried with the man after his death.
No one can stand up and accuse this family.
But if the foreign minister is a good citizen with a flat head, even if he has a bad reputation as a foreign minister, at least he will not be killed at will. But if the foreign minister is also a slave in the hands of others,
Then her ending may be even more tragic than that of a concubine.
This is actually what Lu Xu doesn't understand. People who are used as illegitimate wives are often people with not very good backgrounds. Children born from illegitimate wives are actually just illegitimate children. How could such a proud and arrogant Liu Xiangling be possible?
Falling in love with a child born out of an extramarital relationship?
Duan Chengwang seemed to see Lu Xu's confusion, and he explained to Lu Xu very thoughtfully: "Shen Binhong's mother, Shen, is also a woman from a noble family."
"The Wu family was a famous family when Wu Yuanqing was young. He grew up with the Shen family. The two were real childhood sweethearts."
"But Wu Yuanqing was a playboy when he was young. Even if the Shen family and Wu Yuanqing were in love, the Shen family would not marry their daughter to Wu Yuanqing, but would marry her daughter to the then top scholar in a new subject."
"I just didn't expect that the late emperor fell in love with Wu Yuanqing's unpopular biological sister when he was in hiding. This was nothing at that time. You may have heard that the battle for the legitimate rights of the emperor was not a problem at that time.
At that time, the late emperor was just an idle prince."
"However, after the battle for the succession entered the final stage, several princes were unable to succeed, and the late queen came to ascend to the throne. From then on, Wu Yuanqing relied on the shelter of the late emperor and his sister to advance in his official career!"
The more he listened to Duan Chengwang's words, the weirder Lu Xu's expression became. Why did he feel that Wu Yuanqing's growth process made him look so much like the barbecued pork brother in the heroine of the female channel?
Originally, this topic was a very serious and sensitive one involving two generations of emperors and a queen mother. Duan Chengwang only dared to share the secrets with Lu Xu when he was sure that no third person could prove what they had said.
Lu Xu also knew the stakes, but he couldn't help but ask: "After Wu Yuanqing gained power, he wouldn't take revenge on the Shen family and the men of the Shen family, right?"
Duan Chengwang looked at Lu Xu with a strange expression. His expression seemed to be accusing Lu Xu of why he thought so?
Lu Xu felt a little ashamed when he looked at him, and he also felt that his thoughts seemed a little too dirty. Reality is not a novel after all, and this kind of Long Aotian plot is difficult to happen in reality.
Especially in Daliang, this kind of behavior of retaliating against the girl's natal family and the girl's husband's family only occurs when a wealthy family bullies a small family.
It is difficult for such a thing to happen to top wealthy families like the Wu family and Shen family who are qualified to marry the royal family. After all, almost all top wealthy families have marriage relationships, and this marriage relationship is the bond of mutual protection between the wealthy families.
Not to mention Wu Yuanqing, top wealthy families like the Wu family and the Shen family would have a hard time even if the emperor wanted to touch them.
What's more, the royal family supported Wu Yuanqing in taking revenge on the Shen family because of a woman.
Just when Lu Xuxu wanted to apologize for his gaffe, he heard Duan Chengwang say: "How did you know that Wu Yuanqing had taken revenge?"
Lu Xu: "..."
Lu Xu was really shocked now: "Did he really take revenge? How did he do it?"
Precisely because he knew the difficulty of this matter from the memory of the original owner, Lu Xu was even more confused about how such a novel-like plot could be realized?
Duan Chengwang shook his head and said: "No one knows what kind of bargaining chip Wu Yuanqing or... the Queen Mother brought out? In short, the Shen family was scared. Shen's husband was executed by Wu Yuanqing."
"Without the obstruction of her husband's family, Mrs. Shen simply became Wu Yuanqing's concubine. The Shen family also kept a secret about this matter. They pretended that they had lost their daughter and announced that Mrs. Shen was dead. Over time, people gradually
Forget Mr. Shen."
"But who knew that Wu Yuanqing was really ruthless and unkind to outsiders. But he was pretty good to his own woman. Not only did he and Mr. Shen know each other until now, but they also had a child. But the appearance of this child can