The decisive battle is imminent, but before the final resort to force, the current land trade in Yuzhang City still has to be carried out.

The purpose of the Seven Sects and Five Surnames is to use the land speculation provoked in Yuzhang City, so as to plunder the financial resources of the local wealthy families in Yuzhang, and if it can induce a chaos like Yangzhou in Yuzhang City, it will naturally be better.

It's just that Wan Shijun's sudden comeback made it impossible for Lu Zongbao's original plan to be implemented, and now the seven sects and five surnames have no rest of the land in their hands except for a batch of cultivated land outside the city that they had just bought at a higher price. Without sufficient inventory, it is naturally impossible to achieve the purpose of market manipulation.

In addition, with the example of Yangzhou City first, the local wealthy families in Yuzhang have not put their cash and land into the market until now, and they have made up their minds to stick to it. The adversary did not enter the market at all, so naturally it was impossible to defeat it by market means, let alone disturb the commercial market and plunge Yuzhangcheng into chaos like Yangzhou.

Therefore, strictly speaking, Lu Zongbao's original purpose of starting with business has not yet been achieved.

And Xu Chen, who has a lot of land in his hands and plays a big role in this battle, is desperate to end this battle as much as possible for his own reasons. In fact, Xu Chen didn't need to inform Lu Zongbao, and quietly sold off the land in his hand, and he could also make a lot of money at today's low price. It's just that in this way, Xu Chen's rest of his goal cannot be achieved, and that goal is related to his success or failure against the unknown enemy in the future, which is the difference between life and death.

The most important thing is that this goal cannot be achieved with money, so Xu Chen has no choice but to carry out this field war to the end.

On the second day, Xu Chen personally came to Yahang to place an order with the land in his hand according to the agreement, not only the land in the city, but also a large amount of arable land bought at a low price when the price of cultivated land outside the city plummeted a few days ago, and it was also ready to be sold off slowly this time.

The largest dental shop in Yuzhang City is located in Jinxian Fang, which is located in the center of the city, and in a private room on the second floor of this dental shop, Xu Chen, Lu Hao and a few men and a team of teenagers are waiting here.

A quarter of an hour later, a young man pushed the door open.

"The owner, the personnel are already in place. The young man said.

Xu Chen nodded and said, "Then let's start too!"

As soon as Xu Chen finished speaking, several guys in the private room were busy on the table, and the blank sheets of paper were neatly spread on the table, and the trained guys were starting the calculation of reservations on the white paper.

"What is the price of land in the city now?" Xu Chen asked.

The young man who came in to report just now replied: "The average land price of several squares in the center of the city is 4,350 and 1 mu, with the highest land price in Jinxian Fang, and the land on both sides of the street where we are now located is the highest in the city today, but the most advantageous houses are the properties of various families, and they have not entered circulation so far, and they cannot be estimated, but the land price around them has risen to more than 12,000 guan a mu. ”

Lu Hao listened silently, and after the young man finished speaking, he said with emotion: "Yuzhang City is really not as good as Yangzhou! For so many days, the land price has not even reached half of Yangzhou. ”

Xu Chen smiled and said: "It can't be said that Yangzhou is a commercial city, businessmen account for the majority, and there are many people who have money and desire to invest, so the land price can naturally be speculated very high." Coupled with the promotion of local families in Yangzhou at the beginning, it is normal for there to be such crazy high prices. And Yuzhang is different, with the experience of Yangzhou, plus the leader of the Wanjia, the local wealthy family has not been involved until now, plus the business of Yuzhang City is not bad, but the power of the businessmen is very scattered, there is no big businessman with a family property of tens of millions, the family has not joined, and the merchants are weak, if it is not for this group of outsiders who come to make money, even if we and Lu Zongbao try our best, we may not be able to burn the fire of Yuzhang City. ”

Lu Hao nodded silently, but then realized something, and asked, "Big brother, how is Lu Zongbao going to drag the local wealthy family in Yuzhang into the water?"

Xu Chen thought for a while and replied, "If it were me, I would come openly, and I can only come openly!"

Looking at Lu Hao's thoughtful expression, Xu Chen then explained: "Wan Shijun's reaction is no worse than the two of us, if you want to play Yin again, it is difficult to play a role, since it is going to be a decisive battle, then there is only an upright move to compete with each other's strength." Wang Xian has been in Yuzhang for several years, and he is not inactive, as can be seen from the last dinner in Tengwang Pavilion, he has also gathered a lot of small and medium-sized families in Yuzhang County, although he can't compete with the Wan family in terms of strength, but with the advantage of numbers in today's land speculation environment, it can still play a great role in responding in various places. ”

After Lu Hao listened, he asked rhetorically: "Lu Zongbao is going to do another big publicity, just like he did on the outskirts of Yuzhang City a few days ago?"

Xu Chen bowed slightly, and said: "That's right! I went to look at the local fish scale atlas of Yuzhang County, I don't know why the scale of land annexation in Yuzhang County is far less than that of other counties in the Tang Dynasty, more than 100 years since the founding of the country, land annexation has not been severe, and nearly eighty percent of the land is still registered in the names of ordinary people. ”

Lu Hao said suspiciously: "Isn't it like this everywhere? It's just a name!"

Xu Chen nodded when he heard this, and said: "At the beginning, I thought it was like this, but then I asked people to investigate, and I also asked the teacher, and based on the information obtained from the two aspects, I found that more than sixty percent of the land is still in the hands of the common people, not a name, but a real possession, most of them are based on the village, each village controls the land in its own village, and then the village chief makes unified arrangements, just like the Chenjia Village that Song Qing said yesterday." And the remaining nearly forty percent is in the hands of the wealthy families, but I can't get the specific proportion of each family. ”

After listening to the eldest brother's explanation, Lu Hao was even more puzzled: " Since each village is similar to the village land on a village basis, it is difficult for a single individual to sell the land with the consent of the village chief, just like Chenjia Village, although Ye Xuan's price is very high, and there are also villagers who are tempted, but it is difficult for the villagers to sell the land if the village chief does not agree, after all, few people dare to offend the public, and it is also impossible for the entire village to move to other places, so I think most villages will not agree to sell the land they have lived on for generations. ”

At first, Lu Zongbao wanted to take the road of encircling the city from the countryside, and the initial breakthrough point was not in such a village with a strong clan concept, but chose those scattered peasant households in the countryside. Xu Chen added.

Lu Hao nodded and agreed with the eldest brother's statement, and then asked the doubts in his heart: "Lu Zongbao They have the convenience of Wang Xian, I heard Zhu Da report that the household department in the Taishou Yamen has already changed all the blood, and all the land transaction records in the past few days are only clear to the people with seven clans and five surnames, with such convenience, I don't believe that Lu Zongbao will not know the current situation of land distribution in Yuzhang County, so why did he choose to start from the countryside in the first place?" And how can he ensure that he can make progress in the countryside after the breakthrough, you must know that the scattered peasant households in the countryside are only a minority after all. In addition, why did the Wan family and other families go all out to stop Lu Zongbao at the beginning, but then when Lu Zongbao went to the countryside, they suddenly fell silent? You must know that they don't have much land in the countryside, why do they think they can control the situation? And if Lu Zongbao is really ready to use the power of those small and medium-sized families accumulated by Wang Xian, is the strength of these small and medium-sized families really enough?

"This qiē is really weird!" Lu Hao concluded.

Xu Chen lowered his head and thought for a moment, then raised his head and smiled: "You have been holding these questions in your heart for a long time, right?"

Lu Hao nodded honestly.

Xu Chen smiled and replied, "I don't know any of your doubts to be honest!"

Ignoring Lu Hao's surprised expression, Xu Chen said to himself: "I'm not an immortal, where can I guess everything? ”

"Then big brother, why do you think they did this?" Lu Hao's question this time was naturally what Xu Chen said.

Xu Chen replied: "First of all, to figure out this qiē, we must find out whose land in Yuzhang County is, although the investigation I did before seems to be no problem, but no problem is precisely the biggest problem, why is the land annexation in other places intensifying, but Yuzhang County has no movement, it can't be said that the wealthy families in Yuzhang County are more selfless than those in other places, right?"

"In addition, what is the specific proportion of nearly forty percent of the land controlled by the wealthy families on the surface, or how much land is in the hands of the first-line wealthy families of Yuzhang County, which is the key to determining the victory or defeat of this land war. Xu Chen finally concluded.

"Then big brother, how much land do you think they will have, will they have more than those small and medium-sized families around Wang Xian?" Lu Hao asked.

Xu Chen smiled and replied: "It stands to reason that these first-line families have more land, but what these families have done these days is really weird, at first their nervousness made me think that the land in their hands may not be enough, but then they were indifferent, as if they had a lot of land in their hands." ”

"I don't know!" Xu Chen shook his head with a wry smile.

"Could this be a smoke bomb they deliberately released?" Lu Hao also thought of a possibility.

Xu Chen replied: "It's possible, but I'm still not sure!"

Lu Hao said: "That is to say, you can only gamble!"

Xu Chen replied: "That's right!"

Lu Hao asked again, "Then big brother, what are you betting on?"

Xu Chen thought for a while and said, "I have a lot of land in my hands!"

Looking at the eldest brother's affirmative answer, Lu Hao asked, "Why?"

Xu Chen replied: "I can't see through the family of Wanjia!"

Because he can't see through it, this family must be extraordinary! Listening to the eldest brother's somewhat domineering and boastful answer, Lu Hao believed the eldest brother's judgment.

"Then we will follow the original plan?" Lu Hao asked.

"That's right! Now let's cooperate with Second Prince Lu!" Xu Chen said with a smile.

"Let's start!" After saying so long, the guys in the private room had already stopped their calculations, so Xu Chen immediately gave the order to start.

Soon after, a number of plots of land in various cities in the city appeared in the dental shops in various parts of the city, but just a pending order, which soon attracted the attention of everyone in the dental shops.

Now most of the people who still stay in the city and do not go out of the city to buy the land in the countryside have seen the rise and fall of the farmland in the countryside a few days ago, so they did not go out of the city to buy the farmland, and have been waiting in the city to buy the land in the city, after all, although the land in the city has also had ups and downs these days, but so far it has not fallen too much, in comparison, it is more prudent to invest in the land in the city.

"Hey, do you see, the land is sold!" As if it had been agreed in advance, there were such soft whispers in various dental shops.

"Where is the land?" the person next to him hurriedly asked after hearing this.

"Of course it's the land in the city!" replied the man just now.

"Really?" the man was a little incredulous.

"Of course it's true! I can't lie to you, it's on the counter! I just passed by and saw it in passing. The man in front of him emphasized.

"What are you waiting for, hurry up and buy it! Turn around and let others see it, and we still have our share!" The person next to him quickly got up when he saw it, and was about to run to the counter.

"Wait a minute!" the man from earlier called out to him.

"What's wrong?" the man next to him wondered.

"I think there's something wrong!" the man said.

"What's the problem?" asked the man next to him.

"There is a bit of land on the counter this time, and in the past, there would only be a little bit of land flowing out of the market every few days, and each time it was sold at a high price. But this time there was a little too much land......" the man said again.

"What do you mean?" asked the man next to him.

"I don't think it'...... Is the price of land going down? Now the big ones are starting to sell?" the man said unconfidently.

When the person next to him heard this, he was also a little hesitant, and said to himself, "Won't it?"

It's just that there's not much time left for them......

"Shopkeeper, I want to buy land!" shouted a middle-aged man at the counter.

"Where is the land?" asked the old shopkeeper faintly.

"Of course it's the land in the city! Don't tell me no, I saw the guy bring it just now!" The middle-aged man's voice was still very loud.

"Oops!" the two who had been talking softly before screamed in their hearts.

"It doesn't matter! Whether it's going to fall or not, it's not clear now, but if we miss this time, our visit to Yuzhang this time will be in vain! Up to now, we don't have a hundred acres of land in our hands. No, I'm going to eat it this time!" the man beside him let go.

Seeing this, the person who had made the guess earlier had no choice but to suppress the thoughts in his heart and walk to the counter with his partner......

Soon, the sound of competing bids rose higher and higher.

At the same time, Lu Zongbao's side also began the final preparations.

Yuzhang Taishou Mansion, in Wang Xian's study, several people from the seven sects and five surnames who are currently in Yuzhang City gathered together.

"How sure are you?" Wang Xian asked at Lu Zongbao.

Lu Zongbao knew that what Wang Xian was asking about was not the situation of the deployment of this decisive battle, but the speculation he had just raised about how much land there was in Wanjia.

"Seventy percent! The little nephew is only seventy percent sure, the number of land in the hands of the Wan family is not enough, or at least not as much as ours, after all, the power of the Wan family is only limited to Yuzhang County, this is the comprehensive evaluation of the Wan family by our seven families for so many years, and it will not be wrong to think about it. However, our uncle is the supreme governor of the entire Jiangnan West Province, and his prestige in the other counties of Jiangnan West Province is very high, except for Yuzhang County! Aren't there many families from other counties around my uncle? Although they cannot directly provide us with land assistance, they are married to each other within the family, and these people still have some influence on the local wealthy families in Yuzhang County. ”

"The most important thing is that this time, we are only ready to deal with the Wan family, under the condition that we concentrate all our strength, even if the Wan family has a strength beyond our expectations, it is impossible to escape, it is impossible for the strength of his family to be comparable to our seven families, not to mention that there are so many small and medium-sized families in Yuzhang!"

Lu Zongbao said confidently.

After Wang Xian listened, he nodded, the battle has reached this point, and the comparison is only the real strength of the two sides, and in Wang Xian's heart, he also thinks that the Wanjia family cannot have such a strong strength, even if the Wanjia family has also been inherited for thousands of years, and it is even stronger than any of their seven families, but this time they are seven families together, just like Lu Zongbao said, it is impossible for the Wanjia family to defeat seven with one, right?

"Okay! I'll go and contact them and tell them about your plan. Wang Xian said.

Lu Zongbao naturally knew who Wang Xian was referring to by "they", so he nodded with satisfaction and thanked him: "Uncle Wang, don't worry! ”

"Hehe, you two brothers can be regarded as a family member now, and all your belongings have been put on the line, so why am I not at ease?" Wang Xian joked.

After the meeting, Wang Xian took action, and one by one the guards of the Wang family went out of the door and began to go to various places to contact those families who had fallen to his side in the past few years.

In the northwest of Changshan Island, in the small town on the shore of Poyang Lake, in the mansion of the Wang family, the group of people who appeared in the Wang family's mansion when facing the crisis of Changshan Island's change of ownership last time gathered together again.

Wang Yuan, the head of the Wang family, sat in the same seat, but the person standing next to him was not his housekeeper Wang Fu, but a young man with a lofty weapon.

"Wang Shuo, Commander Wang, presumably the big guys know each other, so I won't say more. This time, everyone is called, so everyone must know what is going on. Wang Yuan was the first to sit on the throne, stretched out his hand and pointed to Wang Xian's guard commander beside him, Wang Shuo, who had gone to Changshan Island with Xu Chen, said to everyone present.

"I, Wang Yuan, only ask you, do you want your family to soar from now on? If you want to, then stay, if you don't want to, I will never force ...... stay."