In that room, Lu Xia's house also set up a banquet.

The banquet was naturally convened by Lu Xia, and the five deacons invited were Lu Xin, Lu Kan, Lu Yi, Lu He, and Lu Yan. At this time, the wine has passed three rounds and the food has passed five flavors, and the nonsense that should be said is over, so it is natural to get to the point.

I saw that Lu Xia's black face was slightly flushed, and I don't know if it was because he drank a lot of wine or was emotional. He held his wine glass and said to everyone in a deep voice: "I don't know what you think of today's events? ”

"This ......" Everyone exchanged glances, each with different thoughts, and no one spoke first. But it's not hard to understand. Among the other five people, Lu Xin, Lu Yan and Lu Xia are sworn friends, so naturally there is no need to speak in a hurry. Because of his profession, Lu Kan has always liked to hide in the shadows and observe others, rather than being a rafter.

Lu Yi was too close to the Great Elder before, and at this time, he inevitably felt sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox, and his heart was up and down, how could he still have the heart to speak?

As for Lu He, he has never been very close to anyone, but he has no taboos. But if no one else speaks, why should he speak first? Naturally, he also started to make a gourd.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Lu Xia smiled and said, "You are all the pillars of my land valve, you should be very clear." Now that the wolf ambition of the Xiahou valve is clearly revealed, the emperor will definitely not sit still, and the changes in the Bao'en Temple ten years ago may be repeated at any time. And the bloody rain at that time will definitely far exceed that year, no matter who can have the last laugh in the end, if you don't clean the valves, you will never stop! ”

"Hmm......" The five of them couldn't help but nod together. Lu Xia is right, in fact, everyone here knows that the contradictions of the Great Xuan Dynasty have reached the point of irreconcilability.

"As long as you are not blind, you can see that all the lords are sharpening their troops and horses, and they are going all out to make pre-war preparations." Lu Xia said with an anxious face: "Only we Lu Valve, who fight all day long, and survive, there is no sense of crisis at all, and time is not waiting for me, if this continues, once the world is in chaos, the first one to be finished, it is our Lu Valve." ”

Lu Xia said, drank the spirits in the glass in one gulp, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and choked up: "I'm really in a hurry, everyone, ......"

Seeing that Lu Xia was moved by his true feelings, everyone was no longer a gourd. Lu He also sighed, nodded and said, "What the second brother said is not bad. I'll just say one thing, in the month of this year, our construction department bought iron nails, shovels, hammers and other ironware, and the price increased eight times compared with the beginning of the year! This is what I personally talked about, and there was no deception in it! Exactly eight times, guys, do you know what that means? ”

"Illustrates the surge in demand for ironware." Lu Yan said softly.

"Yes." Lu He nodded heavily and said: "I investigated carefully, and found that all the valves are secretly eating a large amount of iron weapons, what are they going to do, I think it is self-evident, right?" ”

"I'll add one more point." Lu Kan also said in a low voice: "According to the information collected by the Guanfeng Academy, Xiahou Valve, Pei Valve, Cui Valve, Xie Valve, and even Huangfu Valve, Wei Valve, and Mei Valve, are all recruiting blacksmiths and leathermen and sending them to their own fiefdoms. In the second half of this year alone, Pei Valve opened 100 new furnaces in Jinyang, and thousands of blacksmiths worked day and night to build ......"

"As for Xiahou Valve, this year, three new iron mines have been opened in the Kansai area, plus the previous five, they now have eight iron mines, tens of thousands of miners, and they can get tens of thousands of catties of refined copper and iron ore every day......"

"The Huangfu family has been training in secret. They ordered all the 1.2 million households under their jurisdiction to practice and compete in the slack time. It also stipulates that one out of every ten households can be selected, and there is no need to pay rent and pay food for service. It is because every family desperately supports Erlang to practice martial arts hard in order to win the competition......"

"Even the guards were in their fiefdoms, fortifying the cities, hoarding grain and grass, and taking advantage of the floods to recruit troops from the homeless people......"

It was Lu Kan, the deacon who watched the wind, who was the most informative, and one after another astonishing numbers burst out of his mouth, which shocked all the deacons and shuddered.

After hearing Lu Kan's report, everyone was stunned for more than a dozen breaths, and then they really realized how critical the situation had been.

After a while, Lu Pang asked Lu Kan with difficulty: "There are so many big things, why didn't you say it before?" ”

"I've reported it all, and the valve owner has mentioned it to everyone." Lu Kan lowered his eyelids and said lightly: "It's just that I didn't pay attention to it......"

"Alas......" everyone sighed together.

"So guys!" Lu Xia slapped the table and said to everyone in a deep voice: "Our land valve has reached the most dangerous time, we can't sit still, we must find out the problem of this valve, and then solve it!" ”

"Hmm." Everyone nodded in unison. As for Lu Xia's so-called 'problem', who does it refer to, they are like mirrors in their hearts.

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said that after Lu Xiu finished serving Lu Shang, he returned to his residence. Burn a pot of incense and prepare to meditate and calm your chaotic thoughts. This is the way he usually calms his mind carefully when he encounters troubles.

But today, Ren Luxiu silently transported the "Self-cultivation Formula" for several weeks, but he couldn't calm down. The farce of worshipping his ancestors, and the words that his father said to him later, swirled around in his mind like a marquee, and he was irritable.

'Alas, Father, is the throne of the Lord so important?' Isn't it okay to be the owner of this valve? Lu Xiu sighed helplessly, gave up his intention to meditate, and prepared to get up and go out for a walk.

At that moment, there was a knock on the door outside the quiet room.

"Big brother, it's me." It was the voice of his half-brother Lu Wei.

"Old Five, what's the matter?" Lu Xiu got up and opened the door. Seeing that his face was very ugly, he knew that there must be something important, so he hurriedly let Lu Wei into the house.

Lu Wei closed the door, and said to Lu Xiu with a blushing face: "Big brother, Lu Xia has set up a table at home, who do you guess invited?" ”

"Could it be, the five of them?" Lu Xiu's heart shrank suddenly.

"Exactly!" Lu Wei nodded heavily, gritted his teeth and said, "He invited Lu Xin, Lu Kan, Lu Pang, Lu He, and Lu Xin, but he didn't call the two of us." ”

"Which one is this singing......" I didn't expect to really let myself say it, Lu Xiu couldn't help but think hard with a solemn expression.

"We usually get along well with them, but now they are just avoiding the two of us, which one do you say you can sing?" Lu Wei said with a disgruntled face: "I must be making up my dad to my heart's content." ”

"I'm afraid it's not as simple as a few words." Lu Xiu's brows furrowed tighter and tighter, he paced a few steps in the room with his hands behind his back, and suddenly raised his head and asked Lu Wei, "Did you tell your father?" ”

"No, I heard from Steward Liu that his old man fell asleep. Besides, I'm not sure whether I should report it or not, so I'll tell you first. "Lu Wei has an upright temperament, and he has never dealt with Lu Shang, so he moved out of the main courtyard after getting married and lived in Beppu.

"Well, you were right to come to me first." Lu Xiu closed his eyes for a moment, then raised his head and sighed, "Alas, this can be regarded as heaven's will." ”