After returning to Xiangyang, Liu Cong called Cai Mao, Kuai Yue and Huang Zu.
"General Duan, I wonder why the Lord summoned us?" Cai Hao asked quietly towards Duan Kun who was walking in front.
Duan Kun shook his head and said, "General Cai, even the last general doesn't know. As soon as the lord comes back, he will ask me to summon the three of you."
Hearing this, Cai Mao was a little confused. Why did he call Huang Zu here even if he and Kuai Yue were called? Because they had different stances on surrendering Cao Cao, Cai Mao and Kuai Yue were not enthusiastic about Huang Zu. The relationship between the three was not bad.
Okay, but it's just a meet and greet, nothing more.
"Meet my lord." The three of them entered the study, and Liu Cong was reading with a bundle of bamboo slips.
Liu Cong put down the bamboo slip and showed two rows of white teeth to the three of them, "Sit, sit. This is not a meeting hall, so there is no need to be polite. We are all in the same boat. Let's go ask someone to bring some refreshments."
As if it had been prepared a long time ago, as soon as Duan Kun accepted the promise outside the door, several maids came in carrying tea.
"I wonder why my lord called us here?" Cai Mao asked aloud.
Liu Cong chuckled, "The wedding date for Guhe's uncle's daughter has come a long time ago, right? When Gu marries Sun Shangxiang, it won't be long before she marries uncle's daughter, right? I asked you to come and discuss it."
Cai Mao looked overjoyed and said, "My lord, the Cai family can marry off their daughter at any time. We just need to wait for the lord to set a good date."
Huang Zu was a little confused and discussed this matter with Cai Mao. Why did he ask him to come?
Kuai Yue seemed to have guessed something, and sat there with a solemn expression.
Just listen to Liu Cong continue, "In terms of dowry?"
Cai Mao said with a smile, "My lord, don't worry about the dowry. The Cai family is willing to pay millions, provide thousands of fertile lands, and give it to 20,000 tenants!"
Kuai Yue sighed after hearing what Cai Mao said. Liu Cong suddenly sat up from his seat and said, "My uncle's family is really rich."
Cai Mao was completely unaware of Liu Cong's implication, "This is nothing, as long as I can..."
"How did so many places and so many people come here?" Cai Mao was a little surprised, not because Liu Cong interrupted him, but because of Liu Cong's problem. In these troubled times, who among us has not absorbed some refugees? Who has not?
Seize some land?
Liu Cong walked up to the three of them, grabbed a handful of red dates and stuffed one into his mouth, "General Huang, Military Advisor Kuai, what about you? The family is no better than General Cai's family, nor worse than others, right?"
Huang Zu was also a little surprised that Liu Cong actually asked this. He didn't know how to answer, "This..."
Kuai Yue, on the other hand, kowtowed to Liu Cong and said, "My lord, in these troubled times, human life is as cheap as a dog. When the Kuai family recruited refugees, it was just to help the weak and do good things in these troubled times."
"Bah." Liu Cong spit the date core into the spittoon on the side, "How can I know whether it is a good thing or not?"
"Bang!" Kuai Yue kowtowed directly and said, "The Kuai family owns 6,000 acres of land and more than 20,000 tenants. It's all up to the lord to decide."
"Alien! You?" Cai Hao stared at Kuai Yue with wide eyes and disbelief.
"Hahaha." Liu Cong helped Kuai Yue up, "Mr. Yidu, I am worried about the country and the people, and I am very happy in my heart. Don't worry, I will not let down the Kuai family."
"Thank you, Lord." Kuai Yue bowed.
Liu Cong looked at Huang Zu again, "General Huang, I remember that in Jiangxia, Gu said that if he left a golden mountain for Huang She, he could be defeated, right?"
"Lord..." Liu Cong raised his hand to interrupt Huang Zu, "Of course, that was before. Look at Huang She now. He is also a general who leads an army of ten thousand and guards one side. He has transformed from a playboy.
Isn't General Huang pleased that this is the case?"
"It's because the master respected him that he had room to repent." Huang Zu recalled the past. Comparing the current Huang She with the former Huang She, there was a huge difference.
Liu Cong nodded, "The man's fame will be obtained immediately. Both generations of Gu and his father have valued you and his son. I hope that your father and son can leave their names in history. Instead of just seeing them in front of me. Can you understand what I mean?"
Huang Zu sat on his knees on the ground, holding the corners of his clothes tightly with both hands, thinking about Huang She now in Guizhou. In the past, this son only knew how to eat, drink and have fun. Since Liu Cong went to Jiangxia, he has seen Huang She's suffering in the army.
Here, he called Huang She to his commander's tent to eat and drink, but this son would still disobey him, "Father, the military book says that only by sharing the joys and sorrows with the soldiers can the soldiers serve."
He bowed his hand to him and walked out of the commander's tent without looking back. He was surprised at that time. When Liu Cong made Huang She a captain in Guizhou and guarded a county, he was really happy and relieved.
During that time, he told everyone he met that his son was going to be successful.
Huang Zu smiled, loosened his hands, kowtowed like Kuai Yue, and said, "The Huang family has fifteen thousand tenants and four thousand lands. I am willing to hand it over to the lord."
Liu Cong also helped him up, "General Huang, you and your son, father and son, are so loyal that you will be remembered forever!"
"Thank you, Lord!"
Liu Cong turned around and saw Cai Mao drinking tea there, as if what just happened had nothing to do with him.
Liu Cong walked over and knelt down suddenly!
"Lord!" Cai Mao was shocked, and Liu Cong grabbed him, "Now, you are Gu's uncle, and in the future, you will be Gu's father-in-law. We are a family, and Gu kneels down to salute his father-in-law.
, also begging my father-in-law to help the orphan."
Cai Hao couldn't ignore Liu Cong kneeling in front of him, "Lord, you..."
"They all support the orphans, doesn't the father-in-law help his own family?" Liu Cong pointed at Kuai Yue and Huang Zuda.
Cai Mao stood up anxiously, "Lord, this is not...this..."
Cai Mao was so anxious that he couldn't even speak. Suddenly he realized that he was standing and Liu Cong was kneeling. He stretched out his hand to help Liu Cong up, "My lord, no matter what, you get up first, my lord."
Liu Cong tilted his head slightly, ignoring Cai Mao's hands to help him. Cai Mao looked at Kuai Yue and Huang Zu, and then at Liu Cong who ignored him. With a gloomy face, he walked to the side and knelt down to Liu Cong and said, "Finally,
General Cai Mao, whose family has ten thousand hectares of land and thirty thousand tenants, is willing to hand it over to the lord!"
Liu Cong stood up and patted the invisible dust on his knees, "Hahaha, father-in-law, it's really his own family who helps his family."
After leaving the Hou Mansion, Cai Mao and others did not get into the carriage separately, but walked together on the street in a rare sight.
"Xidu, what happened to you today? If you hadn't compromised first, why would we be so passive?" After Cai Mao scolded Kuai Yue, he said to Huang Zu, "Huang Zu, the Huang family is also a big family in Jingzhou. You and your son have a future.
What does it have to do with the family fortune you have earned for your children and grandchildren? Why, do you dislike having so much money?"
Huang Zu was also upset at the moment. Yes, his son was promising. Where was his grandson? Where was his great-grandson? Why did he get so hot-headed and hand over the hand just as he said?
"You've agreed to take the bus out now, what can you do?" Huang Zu said angrily.
"What's the point of yelling at me?"
"Then what nonsense are you talking about?"
"Okay, okay, stop arguing, we're still on the street." Kuai Yue said with rare anger, "You think if you don't hand over, there's nothing my lord can do?"
"You have no idea how the land and tenants in the family came from? The lord is now discussing with us. If we hand it over, we can make him think better of it. If you don't hand it over, the lord will not only take over your land, but also destroy it.
Your clan!”
Cai Mao was a little unhappy, "If my daughter marries him, I can also give it as a dowry. At worst, I'll do it later, why does he insist on it?"
"Haha." Kuai Yue sneered, "Do you still want to do it later?"
Before Cai Mao could speak, Huang Zu asked puzzledly, "Why not?"
Kuai Yue looked at the two of them like idiots, "Don't you know what kind of character our Lord has?"
Huang Zu and Cai Mao looked at each other and then realized that their lord was not a good person.
That was a ruthless man who killed people just as much as he killed chickens. Only then did Huang Zu think that not only was he hot-headed, but he was also afraid of Liu Cong!
In the attic of the Hou Mansion, Liu Cong stood here, overlooking the whole city of Xiangyang. The three largest families in Jingzhou had compromised, and those small aristocratic families would have no problem. As for the future, Liu Cong's knife would kill him if he dared to stab him again.