The strength of the Lao Zhi family ranks medium among the various Qing families.

Compared with the top Qing family, it is two or three percent worse, and it is not the same compared with the middle family.

The "Battle of Yi" more than 20 years ago greatly damaged the vitality of the Xun clan, including the other Zhi clan.

So many years have passed, and it has been fourteen years since Zhigang returned to Jin from the Chu State.

Zhigang has always had a reputation for being greedy for money and stingy.

In fact, it was Zhi's urgent need to restore his strength, which made him unable to do things, and he grabbed the advantage while picking at the rope.

The reputation of greed for money and miserliness did not drag down the Zhi family, just because Zhi Gang was greedy and greedy, and greed for others would generally be rewarded.

Just, right?

The reward of wisdom is generally to take other people's things.

The old Zhi family has been under the leadership of Zhi Fu for fourteen years, and has recovered to the strength to be able to pull out a legion.

It's just that being stingy has long become his habit, and he is usually never willing to be too extravagant, and every time he pays for it, he will pull out at most two "divisions", and if he has more, he has to talk about the conditions.

Zhishuo judged for himself.

If the old wisdom family wants to pull out a "brigade", it will take at least five days no matter how fast it is, and the supply of materials will not be very sufficient.

"Yin Wu concentrated the population of the fiefdom, and more than 2,000 warriors were stationed in the city...... "Zhishuo felt that this was the reason why the old Lu family was able to gather troops so quickly.

He saw the benefits of concentration among the samurai, but he didn't want to learn it, and he couldn't learn it.

In many families, especially those with a long enough history, the distribution of samurai is generally scattered.

That was the premise that was decided when the land was allocated to the samurai.

The samurai had their own estates, and they were not usually drafted, but they must have stayed in their own homes, training on their own, and supervising the various tasks of the slaves.

And their land can't be too close to the city, it will usually be in some corner areas, and there will be no concentration of multiple samurai food estates.

The situation on Lu Wu's side is different.

In his early days, he had so many manpower, and most of the land was deserted, so the old Lu family could only concentrate manpower to do big things.

When it came to the distribution of land, he did not like the various families, which were to concentrate the samurai.

There are many samurai living next to each other, and they are surrounded by the same class, so it is impossible to expand secretly.

To put it bluntly, Lu Wu started from a small aristocracy, and he knows too well what people with property think in their hearts.

It is the nature of most people to work hard, and it is also the driving force for social development.

The main family is strong, and the samurai or small nobles naturally dare not do the act of occupying land.

Waiting for the main family to begin to decline, and still stop the samurai or minor nobles from making a move?

In fact, many of the current vassal states were divided by the Zhou royal family, but they were not willing to have too little, and slowly expanded their fiefdoms, forming the current Zhuxia pattern.

Many of the lands originally did not belong to Zhuxia and were habitats of foreign races.

The feudal princes of Zhou Tianzi drove away or annexed those foreign races, so that the living space of Zhuxia was expanded.

Lu Wu, who has become a middle-class nobleman, is himself pioneering outward, and many frontier nobles are actually doing this.

Those nobles who are surrounded by the same strength, and even the nobles who are stronger, anyway, are the nobles who are wrapped in the "circle", and they can only watch others perform all kinds of fancy performances, and they keep drooling.

Lu Wu did not want to have a problem with the internal tilting in the entrepreneurial stage.

He also has no people who can keep an eye on his subordinates.

Simply pinning your hopes on retainers?

In other words, the Spring and Autumn nobles may unconditionally trust their retainers.

However, Lu Wu is not an authentic Spring and Autumn person!

There are too many deceptions in thousands of years of history, and the more people who are further down in the timeline, the more difficult it is to simply trust anyone unconditionally.

Lu Wu will not be an exception.

When they passed through the city of "Zhao", Zhao Wu, who accompanied them, said goodbye to Lu Wu.

Zhao Wu didn't like "Xintian", he couldn't help it when he was a child, and when he grew up and returned to his fiefdom, there was no need to go to "Xintian", Zhao's sad place.

He took his team back to "Zhao Di", and stopped in place before leaving to watch Lu Wu go away.

"The prosperity of the Yin clan is started by the yin." Shi Kuang has already agreed to be Zhao Wu's master.

In fact, as long as you have enough understanding of the Zhao family, no one will refuse to be Zhao Wu's master.

Especially Zhao Wu has been favored by Han Jue, as long as the Han clan does not fall, the Zhao clan will inevitably rise again one day.

Shi Kuang knows better.

He said: "Yin Zi loves you, and you must respond to your requests repeatedly, and you must not be capital and ask for too much." ”

Zhao Wu asked: "What the division said, is it about me borrowing troops?" ”

Shi Kuang said: "Yin Zi is seven years old to have today, and every bit of it is from his own hard work. Since ancient times, there have been no stupid people among entrepreneurs, all of them are wise people. You need to wonder why Yin Zi has agreed again and again. ”

"My Zhao clan is declining now, and I have nothing to ask for my brother-in-law." Zhao Wu actually thought about it, but he couldn't think of a reason.

Shi Kuang stopped talking.

He was actually quite curious about why Lu Wu was so accustomed to Zhao Wu, if he valued the connections of the Zhao family, the connections of the Yin family were not bad.

Which one can get the attention and care of several families at the same time?

Again, in the process of rising, who can jump sideways like Lu Wu repeatedly, but he didn't make any enemies?

Shi Kuang thought of something and asked, "Why doesn't Han Bo like Yinzi?" ”

Zhao Wu was stunned and asked, "So obvious?" ”

Shi Kuang smiled and said, "Yin Zi was under Han Bo's command for the first time, and there will be no more contributions to the army in the future. I heard that Zhibo reasoned with Han Bo many times, and how could Han Bo be the next general. ”

It's no secret.

Lü Wu's decision to pay for the army was the result of negotiations between the Wei clan and the Han clan.

However, Zhi Gang discovered Lu Wu's potential first.

Later, Zhi Gang proposed many times to recruit Lü Wu to the lower army to pay taxes, but was rejected by Han Ju again and again.

The reason for Han Ju's refusal is quite interesting.

The reason why he didn't want his son-in-law to come to the army was that he was worried that he would not be able to do official business.

Who in the Jin Kingdom doesn't know Han Ju's iron-faced selflessness?

Zhigang was very helpless after hearing this, but he didn't say anything again.

Han Ju did not break his own personality, no matter who he treated, he was a businessman, no matter how much he cultivated Zhao Wu, he did not give any convenience in official affairs.

In this way, people who don't know the actual situation can't guess that Han Ju is worried that Lu Wu's high profile will affect Han's low profile, and believes that Han Ju's high style and brightness do not want to use Lu Wu's martial arts to make meritorious contributions for himself.

Zhao Wu didn't want to answer such a sensitive question not long after Shi Kuanggang became his master, and he didn't want to answer it, but he was also very unhappy in his heart.

Winter is not a good season to go outside.

No matter how good the road is, unless it is a cement road like the old Lu family, it will inevitably become muddy after repeated trampling.

Lu Wu and Zhishuo shared a car.

It's okay to walk in front.

There are too many cars in front, and the wheels will run out of ruts, and it is easy for the cars behind to get stuck in the mud.

Hiking is even more uncomfortable!

The same people in front are better, and the back is simply stepping on the mud and moving forward.

"Why is Han Bo like this?" Zhishuo asked why Han Ju rejected Lü Wu to go to the army to pay for the endowment.

Lu Wu didn't know that Shi Kuang also asked a similar question, or he definitely suspected that Zhishuo had communicated with Shi Kuang.

He asked rhetorically, "So talking about it?" ”

Zhishuo smiled and said, "I have a few friends. Now the Yin clan is still thriving, and the Zhao clan cannot lag behind. ”

Lu Wu smiled and didn't speak.

If I'm not mistaken?

Zhishuo seems to have stated many times that if the old Fan family delays the fulfillment of the marriage contract with the Zhao family, their old Zhi family will not be polite.

It's not about drying.

It's the old wisdom family who wants to marry his daughter first.

Zhishuo's statement, as well as some actions in recent days, are easy to think about.

Lu Wu guessed: "It seems that the Zhi clan has decided to take the Zhao clan with them. Why would they do it? ”

If the Zhi clan wanted to get closer to the Han clan with Zhao Wu, there was no need for this.

After all, the strength of the Zhi family is stronger than the Han family, and no matter how close the two families are, they are only holding together for warmth, and they cannot increase the strength of the Zhi family itself.

It can even be said that Zhigang has worked with Han Ju for so many years, and there is no reason not to see what Han Ju is calculating.

Lu Wu looked at Zhi Shuo out of the corner of his eye, and thought to himself, "Shouldn't the Zhi clan want to seek those 'inheritances' that should have been inherited by Zhao Wu?" ”

It's just that even if Zhao Wu can't get it, it doesn't seem to be the turn of the Zhi clan, right?

Zhao Zhuangji relied heavily on the Hao family before.

After the fall of the main sect of the Zhao family, the benefits of the Yin clan were also the greatest, and then the Luan family.

About two or three percent were taken by Zhao Zhuangji and the women surnamed Ji.

The rest of the soup was divided among many small and medium-sized nobles.

"I think I'm missing something?" Lu Wu couldn't think for a while, and thought deeply: "After all, Zhi Gang is in a high position, and he has seen and heard far more than me, so he must know something before he re-attaches importance to the marriage contract with Zhao Wu." ”

Until he arrived at "Xintian", Lu Wu wanted to inquire about something from Zhishuo many times.

Zhishuo didn't know that he noticed that it aroused Lu Wu's curiosity, and he took the initiative to change the topic every time.

After arriving at "Xintian", Han Qi, who had been avoiding Lu Wu, did not forget the etiquette and left after saying goodbye.

Of course, Zhishuo didn't want to go to Miyagi with Lu Wu, so he naturally said goodbye and left.

And it takes one more step for Lü Wu to bring his troops into Miyagi.

He met with the monarch and completed all the relevant formalities.

It was the monarch who recruited Lu Wu from the fiefdom to protect his own safety, so naturally he would not make things difficult.

Lu Wu still needs to see Luan Shu again.

He only led about fifty people to the Luan family's mansion in "Xintian", and before the team approached, he saw from a distance that the guards in front of the gate were very tight.

Coming to the front of the courtyard, he said to the retainers of the Luan clan who came out: "Please tell the marshal that Wu was ordered to come to protect the king, and the marshal needs to be sealed." ”

As the words fell, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the distance.

Lu Wu turned his head to look, and the streets in the distance were galloping with a number of chariots, and the soldiers following behind were nearly a thousand.

Look at the flag, it's the army of the Hao clan.

He was on top of the leading chariot, dressed in full armor and holding a bow and arrow.

Lu Wu was wondering why Hao Qi had brought his troops over.

But he saw that Yin Qi opened his bow and arrows, as if he had sneered, and shot an arrow at the gate of the Luan family's mansion......