Chapter 133: The Lu Family's Past

Hearing Yun Li's words, Ren Fei was stunned for a while before coming back to his senses, stroked his palms and exclaimed: "Very good, it's really good, I've lived to my age, but my consciousness is not as high as your kid, it's really ashamed to think about it, don't you want to know about the Lu family, the Lu family is facing the same problem as me, it's just that my collections are a drop in the bucket compared to theirs, and the value of my collections is enough to build a few more villas, you can imagine what kind of huge and amazing wealth the Lu family has." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

"In this way, the Lu family can be said to be rich and rival the country, since they are so rich, there is no reason to put a smuggling case of a branch under their control unfair, right?" After hearing the news, Yunli was also shocked and continued to ask.

"This is not something that can be explained clearly in half a word, come to the study with me, wait for me to make a pot of tea, and then slowly tell you a piece of this historical news." Ren Fei beckoned to Yun Li, and the two came to the study upstairs, and Ren Fei told Yun Li the origin and history of the Lu family.

The Lu family they are talking about has been passed down for more than a thousand years, as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties there are records of their activities, the Lu family is not strictly speaking a family, but a huge organization, the founder is a general of a vassal state at that time, because the general's surname is Lu, his descendants and affiliated organizations regard themselves as the Lu family.

General Lu's transcendent status in the vassal states is not because of how powerful he is at leading his troops to fight, he has never even fought a small battle in his life, and his position in the army has another nickname, Captain Jin.

The so-called captain who touched the gold was a special raider who robbed tombs to obtain wealth, collect wealth for the war, and subsidize the military. General Lu's family has been robbing tombs for a living for generations, proficient in feng shui physiognomy, and has a very unique way of finding and locating the tomb, and General Lu is also because of this ability, so he was recruited by the princes and kings into the account, and let him set up the Lu family army, specializing in digging tombs in the Yangtze River basin and hoarding wealth.

At that time, it was the time of the change of dynasties, the political situation was chaotic, wars broke out, although the vassal states where General Lu was not short of money, but the combat power of the soldiers was far less than that of the northern peoples, and it was not long before they were captured and occupied, because the Lu family army had special ability and use value, although the vassal states died, but General Lu and the Lu family army were still regarded as guests and continued to serve the new overlord.

After several generations of the Lu family's efforts, they have been able to make a living on their own, without relying on any forces, and more outstanding figures have emerged to lead the Lu family to glory, not to mention that they have dug tombs for so many years, even if they have not stolen money and hidden treasures, they also know the location of the tombs of many emperors and generals, each of which contains huge wealth, which is in their pockets.

With a huge amount of money as the foundation, the development of the Lu family is quite smooth, especially in the newly expanded land south of the Yangtze River, its power is no less than that of several famous merchant families at that time, but what they do is mostly underground, and it is not necessarily light, so the people of the Lu family have always been very low-key.

The business is getting bigger and bigger, the reputation is getting bigger and bigger, it is impossible for the Lu family to be low-key, and there are still words like "the land under the sky" at that time, which means that above the ground, you have to listen to the emperor of the Son of Heaven, and under the ground, it is the world of the Lu family, which shows how strong the Lu family was at that time.

Tomb robbing has always been a taboo for those in power, because their mausoleums are definitely the biggest target of tomb robbers, no matter how deep they hide and how firmly they build, they can't stand the covetousness of people with hearts, and no one wants to be disturbed in their resting place after death, even if they can't dig themselves, digging up their ancestors is unforgivable.

What's more, the person in power at that time heard that the Lu family had an extremely large amount of wealth, so he calculated to wipe out the Lu family, and at the same time get rid of the troubles, he could also seize a huge amount of wealth, so why not.

At that time, the power of the Lu family was already very large, and the news that the royal family was going to destroy them in advance, although they had made sufficient preparations, but how could they be able to compete with the royal power, and in the end, many people of the Lu family could not escape from capture, and suffered heavy casualties, so the Lu family was silent for a long time.

Although the Lu family was dismantled, the royal family did not seize the expected treasure, and after interrogation, it was learned that most of the wealth of the Lu family was hidden, and only the core of the Lu family had the key to open the treasure, and they also asserted that if the Lu family used this treasure, it might be able to overthrow the rule of the dynasty.

The emperor was also shocked when he heard this, and immediately sent people to intensify the pursuit of the Lu family's remaining party, and at the same time did not rush to track down the whereabouts of the treasure, but none of the core figures of the Lu family were arrested, and the theory of the treasure gradually became a puzzle.

Of course, the Lu family will not disappear, after this blow, they also realized that doing this kind of underground business will indeed become a thorn in the side of many people, a thorn in the flesh, the Lu family started by robbing tombs, and prospered with this, they can't give up this business, but there is no impermeable wall in the world, if they go out of the mountain again, they will definitely cause a lot of trouble, and the same encounter will be staged again.

The Lu family can't sit on the empty mountain, and slowly they began to run other businesses, not in the name of the Lu family, but with the money they invested behind the scenes, and supported a group of small forces subordinate to them, as they mixed up in all walks of life, all the doorways and checkpoints were opened, and the Lu family regained their old business, and under the cover of the external forces, they continued to turn their underground business.

In this way, the Lu family on this strategic road, gradually divided into two forces, light and dark, the bright side is doing legitimate business, the tentacles are very wide, penetrating into all levels of social economy, forming a huge information network, they are called the new Lu family, and the corresponding dark side is the old Lu family, they are under the cover of the new Lu family's huge network, the underground business is prosperous, and many potential risks are avoided, the light and dark sides work together, and the Lu family once again entered the heyday.

After several dynasties, the Lu family has not always been prosperous, during which there have been many trough periods, but they have survived, the old Lu family is still inherited, with their existence, there will be batches of new Lu families, weaving one new net after another to harvest wealth.

The second catastrophe of the Lu family appeared in the Republic of China period, when the situation of warlord secession was very serious, and the rumored treasure of the Lu family was remembered again.

At that time, the Lu family's right to speak was in the hands of the old Lu family, and the people of the old Lu family of this generation rarely went to rob the tombs, but they controlled many antique trading businesses at home and abroad.

But they take it for granted, in the troubled times, no one will have the patience to grind with them, and two of them have joined forces to deal with the Lu family with thunderous means, and they came to rob them directly. The Lu family's power is not weak, but it is mostly at the commercial level, and they have to flee in all directions against the military's guns, and many resources have been robbed, but there is still no news of the rumored treasures.

After this incident, the Lu family all evacuated the motherland, and most of the old Lu family moved to the United Kingdom, where they were granted asylum by the British government at the time, and they continued to do business around the world, eventually settling down in a Commonwealth colony in Southeast Asia, which is now Singapore.

Singapore is an emerging small island country, with a majority of Chinese, a stable political situation, and a clean and efficient government organization, which made Singapore soon become one of the most international countries in the world.

It was not until the period of reform and opening up that the Lu family appeared again in the country, when the country was in ruins, and was very eager to introduce external capital to drive economic development, the Lu family invested in many development projects in China as an overseas Chinese, and made indelible contributions to the development of the motherland, but this was implemented in the form of the new Lu family, and there was already a consensus within the old Lu family, they no longer returned to the country, nor did they meddle in the affairs of this side.

After listening to this historical past, Yun Li had more doubts, so he could only ask Ren Fei: "Old Ren, you just said that the problem of the Lu family is the treasure, but after listening to it so much, whether the treasure of the Lu family is real or not is still a mystery, is there any intrinsic connection between the treasure and the smuggling case?" ā€

Ren Fei took advantage of the time to drink a cup of tea, and then filled it with another cup before saying: "Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet, more than 20 years ago, due to the intervention of external forces in many countries in Southeast Asia, there were ideological differences between various forces, resulting in a rather chaotic situation, all kinds of farces were frequently staged, and the wind of the military government was very prevalent, and one of the autonomous regions was controlled by the Chinese, and they wanted to swallow all the surrounding areas to create another Singapore, and they urgently needed huge funds to purchase weapons, so they remembered the treasure of the Lu family. ā€

"So, is the rumored treasure really there?" Yunli was surprised.

Ren Fei nodded and replied: "Of course it exists, but there is no way to know how many treasures there are, but at least it is not comparable to my little thing, at that time, after the military government promised to complete the matter, it would set aside a state and hand it over to the Lu family to manage, the Lu family has absolute autonomy, and can also cultivate its own military power, which can be said to be no different from becoming a country of its own." ā€

"The Lu family has been persecuted by powerful forces several times in history, if there can be a piece of heaven and earth rules that they have the final say, this temptation is extremely huge for the Lu family, I guess their leader agreed." Yunli boldly analyzed.