The night was thick and unusually dark, and I couldn't see my fingers.

Jinling City Xiao Mansion.

The candlelight casts a dim reflection in the hallway through the window screens, and the noise in the living room is particularly noticeable in the quiet of the night.

"Master Xiao, your cousin is the prime minister of the imperial court, and he has been a hairpin for generations, and the barbarians of Longxi want to occupy our land, how can we agree?"

"Exactly! Yes, extremely! Jiangnan is not the same as Guanzhong, if we are in Guanlong, we must let that old man, but this is Jiangnan, Wude four years Xiao Milling set himself up as the King of Liang, the power east to Jiujiang, west to the Three Gorges, south to Jiaozhi, north to the Han River, unprecedented, Li Jing and Li Xiaogong think that it is easy to break Xiao Milling, but they don't know"

In the darkness, the man snorted coldly.

The Liang State established by Xiao Mill, the ninth grandson of Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, seemed to be strong, but in fact it was troubled internally and externally, because Xiao Milling wanted to win over the people, which caused the displeasure of the family, and even the Lanling Xiao family of his own family no longer supported it.

After just a few years of glory, it was defeated, and Qiu He, the governor of Jiaozhou, Gao Shilian, and Sima Du Zhisong, went to Li Jing to surrender.

Later, Li Tang also thought that he could not effectively manage the southern family, and the Shandong scholars and Guanlong nobles in the middle of the court stood side by side, so he was really lacking in skills, and he was unable to govern the south, so he secretly handed over the real power to the southern family.

The family became bigger, from the Wei and Jin dynasties to the end of the Tang Dynasty, and it has always been the emperor's confidant.

Even if Li Shimin has the ability to reach the sky, it will not help him, and the family and the imperial court are dependent on each other, so they can only be constantly weakened secretly.

But now Li Shimin and Li Yuan are ruling by dividing the river.

Things immediately became complicated.

Li Yuan, who represented the nobles of Guanlong, stepped into the south of the Yangtze River, which was bound to muddy the original situation, and the reclamation of Huguang was the fuse, but it was more of an inevitable result.

Corruption was rampant in the entire southern government, and there was not even a third of the 3,000 wastelands left.

In Li Yuan's opinion, this is a big rebellion, but in their eyes, it is very normal.

It can be regarded as saving face for Li Yuan.

"The head of the Lu family, the head of the Liu family, the head of the Zhou family, the head of the He family, I know the meaning of your intentions very clearly, isn't it that Chen Tingshi wants you to spit out the land of the thirteen counties you occupy, and you don't agree."

Xiao Qian smiled, knelt on the straw mat, and burned the copper stove on the desk, the sound of water was boiling, and the tea leaves were tumbling, rolling up several waves.

In recent years, the popular roasted tea in Jiangnan, although Xiao Qian has also drunk it, but the price of roasted tea is low, how can it be expensive to boil tea.

Drinking tea is not only to solve the appetite, but also to learn.

How can the etiquette cultivated by the family gate valve for hundreds of years be wasted!

"To tell the truth, our Lanling Xiao clan doesn't look at those hundreds of land, as far as I know, the Lu family in Wu County occupies nearly half of the fertile land in Wu County, aren't they still satisfied? And the rest of you all occupy a lot of fertile land, so take it. Xiao Qian added some minced ginger to the tea.

The spicy taste is suddenly stimulated, mixed with the aroma of tea, and there is a strange and unique taste.

The head of the Lu family twitched, his Lu family in Wu County occupied nearly half of the fertile land in Wu County, but that was slowly accumulated from the hands of the governor of Wu State.

Originally, they didn't pay much attention to the wasteland, but they didn't expect that nearly half of the wasteland was cultivated.

Fields need to be raised, especially in the fields, without decades of cultivation, it is difficult to turn into fertile land with a wide variety of yields per mu.

However, the wasteland in Huguang is of good quality, and it only needs to loosen the soil for a year or two, and the value will immediately increase several times.

The potential is huge.

Besides, hehe, apart from the Xiao family, which one doesn't occupy an area?

The Xiao family can't look down on them, they are rare.

"Master Xiao, let's take a step back now, then tomorrow will be two steps, in a few years, I'm afraid that all the fields under my name will be confiscated, who knows what kind of immoral things those Hu people can do!"

Yes, the Lu family in Wu County thinks that they are of orthodox Han and Miao descent and look down on Li Tang, who has Hu blood, and Li Yuan's mother is the sister of the famous Queen Dugu.

Queen Dugu is the daughter of Dugu Xin, one of the eight pillars of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the name Dugu is a Xianbei name.

It can be said that Li Yuan has one-half Hu blood.

It's half a Xianbei person.

And the southern family has always been arrogant, although the iron cavalry of the Guanlong nobles has already broken through Jinling, the dignity of the nobles reminds them that they are noble.

The family was ashamed to marry with the royal family.

"Bold! Is it up to you to talk about the emperor today? Besides, since ancient times, Yi Di into China naturally to China, in the Spring and Autumn Period, this place is still owned by the Southern Barbarian Chu State, Chu people said: I am the Southern Barbarian!

Does the head of the Lu family really think that his family has never intermarried with other aliens? Xiao Qian's face turned red and asked loudly.

Hearing this, Lu Xin would not be stupid to refute the next step, he remembered that the Lanling Xiao clan was also full of contempt for the Li Tang royal bloodline.

How could it change suddenly?

Could it be otherwise?

The other family heads became vigilant, guarding the surroundings, and the sword at his waist was also secretly held in his hand.

The atmosphere froze all at once.

"Xiao Qian, what do you think, did you take refuge in the imperial court?" Lu Xin's middle finger clasped the sword, and his expression was solemn.

More than a dozen other family representatives also drew their swords one after another and surrounded Xiao Qian.

"The Imperial Court? You and I are the people of the Tang Dynasty, how can you take refuge in this. Xiao Qian said with a smile.

"Footsteps outside?"

"Such neat footsteps, it's the army coming."

"Xiao Qian, I'm ashamed to be with you!"

"Huh! Who said I was going to be with you down there? Xiao Qian lifted his sleeves, his face was kind, and he couldn't see the ruthlessness and viciousness at all.

He smiled: "Lanling is in the north of the Yangtze River, not in the south. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the door to the living room was kicked open by the Guards with torches.

Dozens of Imperial Forest soldiers held torches left and right, and knives in their right hands, surrounded several of them.

"I did get a good show here." Li Yuan yawned and walked in slowly.

He stretched his waist and said, "One, two, three, four, five, there are seven people, and almost all of the families above the third rank are here." ”

Li Yuan smiled, the Jiupin Zhongzheng system has been passed down for hundreds of years, and it has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the southern families, but unfortunately the Langya Wang family and the Chen Jun Xie family are no longer there, the two have been reduced to small families, and the county can't look at their hometown.

"May I ask Your Majesty what is important, come here late at night, and the minister Lu Xin greets the saint." Lu Xin put away his sword and bowed respectfully to Li Yuan.

Able to bend and stretch, the true character of a husband.

As long as he kept silent about his malice towards Li Tang just now, he still didn't believe that Li Yuan would dare to kill him?

The Lu family of Wujun may not be as well-known as Wang Xie and the two families, but after the southern crossing of the cloth, as a local wealthy family, the Lu family has developed rapidly, and there are countless officials and eunuchs in the imperial court.

If you dare to kill him, then Li Yuan will wait for the counterattack of the Lu family of Wu County.

Although the loach is small, it can also roll up waves!

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