Rizhao, Wang's home, Wang's ancestral hall.

Some time ago, the two children sent by his family to the Xu family to serve as protons, Xu Shiyang's two cousins, returned home today.

Regardless of whether it was the owner of the dock fort or not, all the high-level officials of the Wang family immediately gathered for a meeting, and they all wanted to hear the two children's evaluation of the Xu family.

Now that the power of the Xu family is getting stronger and stronger, it has made the surrounding forces have a feeling that it is difficult to match.

The head of the Wang family believes that it is necessary to make a reasonable judgment on the true strength and purpose of the Xu family, so as to determine the future policy direction of the Xu family.

"The Xu family said at the beginning that Shiyang defeated the Tartars with a dock fort." The head of the Wang family squinted his eyes and asked lightly, "Wang Qi, Wang Wei, do you think this is true?" ”

The current head of the Wang family is over 70 years old, and in this era, it is already an age when even great-grandchildren can run all over the ground.

The next generation of the Wang family understands that it won't be long before the head of the Wang family should be replaced.

It's just that it's not clear who the new head of the family will be.

"Grandpa." Wang Qi stood in the middle of the lobby and replied loudly: "I think this is true, the child has carefully looked at the dock fort of Brother Shiyang, only the wall of the west gate has traces of battle, and the Tartar may not have entered the dock wall at all." ”

"I think it's true, too." Wang Wei added: "It's only been a few days since the Xu family won the Tartar? First, the head of the family changed, and all the forces of the long house were swept away except for Brother Shisong. In the blink of an eye, he went to fight the Fan family again, which is enough to show that the Xu family has nothing to lose at all. ”

"Yes, the Xu family didn't lose anything, but they seized a lot." Wang Qi added: "I saw a yellow-haired girl who had not grown up, and she was carrying a Tartar slave - it is said that she was still a mooke, and she was like a dog." ”

Hearing this, the Dock Castle Lords couldn't help but start discussing with each other in a whisper, and a buzzing sound suddenly sounded in the hall.

The Tartars like to use the Han people as slaves, which is something that everyone knows, and now the Xu family is in turn and uses the Tartars as slaves, which really makes these people feel a little novel.

And it does sound like a bit of a pleasure!

More than one thought to himself: 'If I could have a Tartar as a slave, serving before and after the saddle, it would be majestic!' ’

"Since even the Tartars have been beaten, is it true that Xu Shiyang broke Juzhou one day?"

Wang Qi looked at the person who was questioning, it was his uncle Wang Fu, a powerful candidate to compete with his father Wang Ping for the throne of the next head of the family.

"Yes, uncle, this is what my nephew saw with his own eyes." Wang Qi replied.

"The Fan family is also a member of the alliance, they should have wooden cannons, right?" Wang Fu continued: "How many casualties did those wooden cannons cause to the Xu family? ”

"Not a single one."

There was another buzz.

Now the wooden cannon has become the treasure of the powerful in the alliance, but this treasure is completely useless to the Xu family?

"Is there something better in the Xu family?"

"Indeed it is! Brother Shiyang's cannons cast in iron and bronze are farther and more powerful than wooden cannons, and the city walls of Juzhou can't hold it anymore after a few cannons. ”

"Second brother, it seems that Xu Muhe still has a hand hidden from you, the eldest brother." Wang Fu turned his head and smiled at Wang Ping.

Xu Shiyang's biological mother is a brother and sister with Wang Ping and Wang An. The three of their brothers and sisters are half-siblings with Wang Fu and Wang Gui, which are also the two largest factions under the head of the Wang family.

"That's the capital of the Xu family." Wang Ping replied flatly: "People give us wooden cannons for the sake of my little sister's face." ”

"The second brother is free and easy, have you ever thought that if the Xu family comes to attack our family, what will we resist?"

"I don't understand what the eldest brother said, the Wang and Xu families are both in-laws and allies. If I didn't take refuge in the Tartars like the Fan family, how could my little sister's husband and my nephew come to attack my royal family's fort? Wang Ping pretended to be suddenly enlightened, and exclaimed with a false mouth: "Does the eldest brother want to vote for the Tartars?" ”

"You!"

"Enough!" The head of the Wang family shouted violently: "What are you brothers messing around!" ”

Wang Fu immediately died down, and Wang Ping still looked fearless.

The brother-in-law is just that, and the relationship between the two families has actually cooled a lot after the sister leaves. But the children are all uncles, Xu Shiyang's strength is getting stronger and stronger, and seeing that he has become the most powerful heir of the head of the Xu family, Wang Ping feels that he already has a strong foreign aid outside the family.

"Two questions." The head of the Wang family patted the armrest of the chair and said loudly: "First, how can you be sure that the Xu family will not treat us as the next Fan family?" ”

Wang Fu and Wang Gui were silent, Wang Ping and Wang An glanced at each other, and they both understood that this was asking the contenders for the throne of the family about the future direction of the family.

Wang Ping stood up and said loudly: "Form a closer alliance with the Xu family!" I plan to find a suitable daughter from my family, marry into the Xu family, and then marry back a girl from the Xu family, so that we can kiss each other, Wang Xu is one, how can I still be afraid that the Xu family will attack? ”

"I agree with the second brother." Wang An also stood up and echoed: "The Xu family has not completely eliminated the power of the long house, which shows that Xu Muhe's father and son still care about family affection. ”

"Moreover, if the two of us can really achieve unity and one heart, then no matter how far the Xu family achieves in the future, our family can follow behind and take some advantages."

Wang Ping's idea is that in the future, the Wang family will fully cooperate with all the strategies of the Xu family, just like the Xu family's own dock fort.

In exchange, the Wang family was to receive equal benefits from the Xu family's victory with those of their subordinate Wu Fort, including booty, reputation, and security.

To put it simply, with the autonomy of the Wang family, go and exchange other benefits with the Xu family.

"Is the second brother going to sell the Wang family to the Xu family? Are you the castle master of the Wang family or the castle master of the Xu family? ”

"What's the difference?" Wang Ping said calmly: "In the past, I was bullied by the Tartars all the year round, and I gave the women in the fort to the Tartars to spoil them, and the wives of our tenants were scattered. ”

"Now someone has defeated the Tartars for us, by the way, the Xu family has also exterminated the bandits, looking at this, they are not afraid of the Tartars coming again. So why don't we support them? Isn't this equivalent to a small court? When Da Zhou was still there, our family didn't have to raise so many militias to build such a high fence. Our family also has to pay for labor and pay for food and taxes. Now it's just a return to that time. ”

"Our family has worked hard for ten years, and you want to give it all to the Xu family?"

"Does Big Brother have other ideas?" Wang Ping sneered and asked, "Big brother still wants to maintain independence?" Can you beat the Tartars and give us peace in the Rizhao realm? If the eldest brother thinks that he can do it, then we support you, but what is the woman that the eldest brother dedicated to the Tartars a few years ago? ”

"Wang Ping! Don't go too far! I'm thinking about the Wang family! ”

"You're just thinking about yourself!"

"Enough!" The head of the Wang family patted the chair vigorously and interrupted the brothers' quarrel again.

The old man said tiredly: "Wang Ping, Wang An, Wang Qi, Wang Wei, you stay, and the others go out first." ”

"Daddy!" When Wang Fu heard this, he immediately felt that things were not good.

"Get out first!"