Somewhere outside Xuchang City, Lu Ren was instructing the people in the fields how to farm, and suddenly a messenger came to inform Lu Ren that he would go to Sikong Mansion for a meeting tomorrow. Sikong Mansion is Cao Cao's place, because Cao Cao had given up the post of general to Yuan Shao in order to appease Yuan Shao before, and he was reappointed as Sikong, one of the three dukes.

After receiving the news, Lu Ren of course wanted to rush back to Xuchang City immediately. In fact, Lu Ren does not need to participate in the general meeting, because Lu Ren is in charge of Tuntian, and he often runs back and forth between Zhutun, and often can't come back for the meeting. But if it is like now, Cao Cao specially sent someone to inform Lu Ren, which means that Cao Cao wants to discuss more important matters, and as long as he can be present at the meeting, he must participate.

He was busy here, and Lu Ren also began to consult relevant historical materials, wanting to see if he could find out what the purpose of Cao Cao's meeting was. After checking it, Lu Ren understood that if the original historical process was followed, Cao Cao would send troops to fight Zhang Xiu three times in March in the near future, but this time it was still the same in vain. The reason is that Xun You received information that Yuan Shao wanted to go south to Xuchang to rob Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, so Cao Cao had no choice but to abandon Zhang Xiu and return to Xuchang, but in the end it was just a false alarm.

However, these have nothing to do with Lu Ren, and Cao Cao will ask Lu Ren to go back for a meeting, which should be a comprehensive meeting that Cao Cao will definitely hold before sending troops, and Lu Ren's head is nothing more than to explain everything in the rear. After having such a bottom in his heart, Lu Ren also relaxed his mentality, after all, he didn't have anything to do with him in the end.

After rushing back, I found that Wan'er was still with Cai Yan and did not come back, and she only took Cai Yan to take a bath twice in the middle. Lu Ren really couldn't say anything after hearing it, and said in his heart that you Lao Cao has a woman who wants to make up your mind, why do you have to ask the woman next to me to help you accompany you? Could it be that you are a person of your age, and like the boys who were ready to chase girls in my time, they usually find a helper before they succeed, so that they will not be so awkward when getting along with them?

Smiling helplessly, Lu Ren went back to his room, ready to take a change of clothes and take a bath first. However, when he returned to the room, he saw that his room was clean and tidy, and all kinds of things were placed in corresponding places according to his usual habits, and Lu Ren understood that Wan'er had helped him tidy up when she came back to take a bath twice. And people are like this, big events will be exciting, and subtle details will make people feel warm, at least at this moment, Lu Ren's heart is full of a very warm feeling.

After thinking about it again, Lu Ren sent someone to Cao Mansion to spread a message and tell Wan'er that he had returned from patrolling. Of course, it would be great if Wan'er could come back immediately, but if she couldn't come back all of a sudden, Lu Ren couldn't do anything, after all, it was Cao's Mansion, not an ordinary family. And Wan'er quickly came back with a message, saying that Wan'er couldn't come back for the time being, and Lu Ren could only smile.

In a blink of an eye, it was the next day, and Lu Ren attended the meeting. As Lu Ren guessed, Cao Cao mainly ordered all his troops to reorganize their troops and horses and prepare for the battle. For the rest of the things, such as Lu Ren's situation in Tuntian, Cao Cao only made a general inquiry to make sure that there would be no problems in the rear.

Seeing that the meeting was almost over, Cao Cao was about to announce the dismissal of the meeting, but Sikong Dong Cao Peng Mao Jue suddenly stood up and said: "Ming Gong, Xu Du ordered Lu Ren to secretly send people to sell goods to Xu last year, and under the pretext of his authority, he privately issued a tax exemption order to evade money and taxes. Now that the matter has been ascertained, I hope that the Ming Gong will investigate his crime in accordance with the law. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar, and Lu Ren was even more stunned at that time. He himself came with the mentality of playing soy sauce, and he was in a very relaxed mood, and suddenly such a thing that he was not psychologically prepared for at all, it would be strange that he would not be stunned.

Cao Cao's face also changed slightly. The matter of Lu Ren getting 30,000 catties of iron is a very secret matter, after all, this is a relatively scarce strategic material from Yuan Shao's territory, and the relationship between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao is already becoming increasingly tense, so this kind of thing can only be carried out in secret, to put it mildly, it is playing smuggling, and the smuggling is still strategic materials.

And such a thing cannot be known to others. Thinking about the protégés of the Yuan clan all over the world, there are many former ministers of the Han court in Xuchang who have more or less relations with Yuan Shao, and even Cao Cao himself can hardly guarantee that there will be no one in his staff who has anything to do with the Yuan clan. Therefore, no one knows about Lu Ren's incident except for Lu Ren, Xun Yu, and Cao Cao, and Mao Jue belongs to people who don't know.

After Cao Cao's face changed for a moment, his eyes immediately drifted to Xun Yu. Xun Yu understood, stood up and said to Mao Jue: "Xiaoxian (Mao Jue's words) is just afraid that it is a misunderstanding, right?" Last year, when a member of the Mi clan came to Xudu to defect to Yihao, the Ming Duke promised that the Mi clan's clan could be exempted from its money tax in Xu Xingshang, and Yihao was just acting according to the order of the Ming Gong. ”

Cao Cao was about to nod, but Mao Jue said in a loud voice: "I know about this matter below." If it was just an ordinary commercial product, it would be feasible to exempt it from money tax, but Lu Ren secretly made thousands of copper and iron smugglers to enter the permit to make huge profits! The benefits of salt and iron have been a heavy tax of the country since ancient times, and they cannot be reduced or reduced with it, so how can Lu Ren not know it? If you look at what you do, it is to hide the private iron in the regular goods, and then escape the tax inspection by taking advantage of the tax exemption, which seems to be the act of knowing the law and breaking the law, and its crime is very serious! Here is the incriminating evidence collected in the next few days, please take a look at it. ”

Cao Cao took the Jian Chun handed over by Mao Jue, and his face changed again and again.

Lu Ren was now completely stunned. Originally, with Lu Ren's cautious and clever character, it shouldn't be so useless now, but to tell the truth, although Lu Ren's small life in the past year has been a little tired, but in general, it is safe and calm, and it has the meaning of being able to mix back so calmly, unlike always having to be worried at the beginning of the crossing, so it is not as strict as it was at the beginning, and now suddenly something has happened to Lu Ren's head. Lu Rencai didn't know how to deal with it.

Let's use this analogy, this is like a person who has not found a job and has no financial resources, he will look for a job very carefully, and the money in hand will be spent very economically. Later, when I found a good job with a good income, I would naturally relax my mentality and save money so much. But all of a sudden, this person is fired, what kind of state will this person be in when they are unprepared?

In fact, don't say that Lu Renhui relaxed his mentality. Liu Bei is strong enough, right? But when he just married Sun Shangxiang, wasn't he once lost in the hedonistic things that Sun Quan gave him? And doesn't Cao Cao often his tail high when the spring breeze is proud? Such heroes and heroes are like this, not to mention that Lu Ren is just a very ordinary person?

And at this moment, Lu Renzheng's mentality was far less careful and rigorous than at the beginning of the crossing, and he was completely unprepared for this incident, so he suddenly became anxious in a daze, and took two steps forward and said urgently: "Hey! That's because ......"

Lu Ren couldn't say the next words, because Guo Jia rushed to Lu Ren's side, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he covered Lu Ren's mouth tightly, making Lu Ren speechless. But Lu Ren was in a hurry after all, and subconsciously wanted to break away from Guo Jia's hand so that he could speak out, but Guo Jia's physical fitness was not as good as Lu Ren's, Lu Ren's struggle, Guo Jia really couldn't hold down Lu Ren.

But at this time, two more people stood up and helped Guo Jia hold down Lu Ren together. And these two people, one is Xun Yu, and the other is Liu Ye. On the other hand, because this incident came too suddenly, Lu Ren didn't think about activating the physical enhancement agent at all, and now he was pressed by three people at the same time, and he was immediately pressed there and couldn't move.

Seeing that Lu Ren was pressed firmly, Xun Yu and Liu Ye did not speak, only Guo Jia shouted at Lu Ren with a change of color on his face: "Yihao! You're so confused! It doesn't matter if other commercial goods are exempt from tax, how can this iron tax be exempted!? ”

Although he said that, Guo Jia, Xun Yu and Liu Ye were all desperately glancing at Lu Ren. And Lu Ren is anxious, his mind is relaxed, and his cautious character is still there after all. Seeing that the eyes of the three people were desperately throwing at him, Lu Ren immediately realized that now was not the time for him to make a fuss here.

Guo Jia saw that Lu Ren's expression had woken up, and immediately rushed at Lu Ren and shook the corner of his eye in several directions in the conference hall. Lu Ren looked in the direction that Guo Jia was pointing to, and saw that Guo Jia was referring to officials in the court, and his heart began to slowly understand.

First of all, Lu Ren reacted that the 30,000 catties of iron could not be made public, and Yuan Shao could not be alarmed. And if this matter is exposed by him in a hurry, then Cao Cao's loss of face will be a sure thing. And if Cao Cao loses face, won't his life be in danger?

On the other hand, although Cao Cao opened a mansion, in order to show respect for Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty during this period, such important meetings would be attended by officials from the imperial court. Again, the officials of the court must not be Cao Cao's officials, and because Lu Ren's incident cannot be made public, Cao Cao has to make an appearance to show those court officials, otherwise the matter will become Cao Cao's unclear law enforcement, and then it will have an adverse impact on Cao Cao's governance.

In short, to put it simply and bluntly, Lu Ren has to carry this black pot down now, otherwise it will be difficult for Cao Cao to do it, and Lu Ren will not be safe in the future.

And at this moment, Cao Ren and Cao Hong stood up together and asked Cao Cao to punish Lu Ren according to the law, and there must be no leniency. And Cao Ren and Cao Hong took the lead, and then another group of people followed suit, asking Cao Cao to convict Lu Ren and severely punish him according to the law......