Following the patriarch's instructions, a servant hurriedly turned around and went out, and after a while he came in with the buying butler, and the butler knelt down outside the door, greeted his patriarch, and then bowed his head and prepared to be questioned, he was absolutely not qualified to enter this hall, let him kneel outside the door to answer questions, this is already a rare reward.

Inside, the patriarch Mansheng asked, "Lu Peng, how much do you know?" How did he come from? ”

Among the procurement housekeepers is the task of collecting intelligence, so this housekeeper still has some interest in the newly promoted Captain Lu Peng, so he sorted out the information before and after a little, and began to answer: "Lu Peng, the word Hanqiang, is said to be the descendant of Lu Buwei, the prime minister of the former Qin. ”

"It's a hermit, and it's not small." Zhao Shantang muttered softly, squinting his eyes and weighing.

"Later, with the imperial family Liu Bei recruited as a village warrior, he participated in the Battle of the Yellow Turban in Youzhou."

"Liu Bei? Is that the guy who spends his days promoting himself as royalty? It's all eight poles that can't be beaten, that is, putting gold on his face, just a swaggering liar. Zhao Shantang was disdainful, and then frowned: "But Liu Yan's old thief is also a royal family, which is a bit troublesome." ”

"Later, Lü Peng and Liu Bei went to Huangpu Song to help in the war, but in the end they parted ways, Lü Peng returned to Youzhou, brought back 4,000 fresh troops, and then voted for Liu Yan, and was appreciated by Liu Yan, and was named the captain of other departments in Youzhou."

"Four thousand? How is the combat effectiveness? "Zhao Shantang was not interested in hearing whether he was appreciated by Liu Yan or not, but when he heard that he had brought four thousand people, he opened his eyes." You just said that there are three thousand in the valley outside the fort, but what about the remaining one? ”

The purchasing steward shook his head: "I don't know about this little one." ”

Zhao Shantang instructed Zhao Qianxi: "You immediately arrange for those children outside, and you must find out the whereabouts of Lu Peng's 1,000 men and horses, definitely." ”

Zhao Qianxi immediately agreed.

"Anything else?"

The purchasing housekeeper immediately replied: "There is another point, this Lu Peng is married to Zhang Shiyuan and Su Shuang, and that Moutai is his recipe." ”

At this time, Zhao Shantang really raised his spirit, straightened his fat body, and began to pay attention to it: "Zhang Shiyuan Su Shuang, his family assets are over 100 million, and that Moutai is still bringing him endless profits, and these two people are also very righteous, have a wide range of friends, and have excellent popularity in the world, now Lu Peng has money and soldiers, plus a Zhang Shiyuan's connections, this is the basis for great things, this Lu Peng will be a great figure in the future, I absolutely cannot tolerate a person who is deeply hostile to me and will develop in the future. I'm going to have to trample him underfoot. ”

This is what a family should really decide, and it must not leave any opponents for itself, especially those that may really endanger the interests of the family.

straightened his body, his eyes that seemed to be always squinting because of obesity, this time he became bright, and said word by word to his first housekeeper: "As a hermit, I don't know what the ability behind him is, but from the deep power he is showing now, we must pay attention to it, so I can see it now, whether this Lu Peng wants to curry favor in front of the upstart, or wants to lay the foundation for his future ambitions, even if he uses chicken feathers as an arrow, he will definitely use the plot to destroy my Zhao family, Establish authority to the surrounding clans, so our first step is to interrupt his design delusions, you now arrange for all the families in Zhuangzi to go to the city with arms, distribute all the most elite knives and guns to the long-term tenants, and at the same time tell those Zhuang guests that killing one enemy will reward one stone of food, and we must let our entire Zhaojiazhuang persist for half a year. ”

Now this situation is already obvious, Lu Peng has begun to take advantage of the entire Zhao family village, whether he is holding the token of Taishou, or out of his selfishness, this is no longer necessary, tomorrow Lu Peng's attack on the Zhao family will definitely not be delayed.

"The second point is to immediately send my henchmen and others, take the gold, silver and jewelry and hurry to Jingshi, and hand over these jewels and gold and silver to our brothers and uncles of the Zhao family, so that they can be in the grass court hall and immediately contact the families to drive Liu Yan away."

The chief butler looked at his head of the house, waiting for the next order.

The patriarch of the Zhao family ordered again: "Send a message to the clans who are good with us, let them hurry up to help, and tell them that as long as they help us resist Lu Peng's attack now, my Zhao family will have a good reward for them in the future, and if no one comes, the Zhao family will destroy it with the strength of the whole clan." ”

One after another orders were issued, and a fast horse rushed out of the four gates of Zhuangzi in the dark night, and in the blink of an eye, it disappeared into the darkness.

"Lu Peng, don't underestimate him, this may be our biggest threat in the future, we must nip him in the bud before his forces develop and mature." Once again, the straight fat body smashed his fist on the bookcase in front of him: "This time it is your life-and-death struggle, don't slack off, remember, this time Lu Peng is definitely desperate, and we, too, must be desperate, we will definitely not capsize in this small ditch." ”

In fact, for a petty official like the commander of another department, with the power of the Zhao family, he is not taken seriously at all, but this time, the patriarch of the Zhao family takes this insignificant petty official so seriously, which shows how scheming this person is.

"You go up and tell those people from the big families that the banquet is still the same, not only that, but you also have to raise the specifications, and you must know that our Zhao family is not the emperor of the emperor." Then he fell back on the bed again, and said casually, "Fighting with a promising hero, that's what I like." Then he sighed: "There is no opponent, it is really lonely." ”

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