After the so-called "inspection" passed, Zhou Yan left the dock with the Dongwu sergeant in a gloomy manner. On the side of the Seahorse, Lu Ren had a slight contemptuous smile on his face, watching Zhou Yan and the people go away.

Suddenly, Minchan poked Lu Ren with her finger and asked in a low voice, "Yihao, you're not usually like this." This kind of person, can't you just ask Xiaozhen to give some money to send it away? ”

Lu Ren frowned, shook his head and said, "You think I want to do this?" Spend a lot of money to send these people away, and I'm happy to be idle. But people will make a mistake, and those of them are used to fishing for oil and water in Mi Zhen's hands a few times ago, and they will think that I am a bully, and they will inevitably have a mentality of inching in. If you don't tap it at the right time, they'll only get more and more excessive. ”

Saying that, Lu Ren glanced at the three extra Jinfan clippers in the fleet, and said to himself with a little helplessness: "The main thing is that today's situation is a little different. If it was another time, it would be nothing to spend a few more bad money, but Gan Ning and Xu Shu are staying in our fleet now, if I look too weak, they will look down on me, then I will still solicit a fart! ”

Of course, you can't say that, so what Lu Ren said to Minchan was another set of words: "Those people, once they get an inch, will be insatiable, and they will find excuses to make money and water." But Ah Xiu, look at it, our fleet has hundreds of Jiang/thief corpses dragging not to mention, the Jinfan thief Gan Xingba is also in our fleet. If you don't just drive those people away and get caught by them to make a fuss, then the real trouble will continue. At that time, it was a trivial matter to spend two bad money, and if Gan Xingba was annoyed and fought with them for a while, the matter would be endless. ”

Minchan nodded abruptly, but said with some concern: "It's just that now you will inevitably offend people by doing this, so you are not afraid that they will make trouble for you?" ”

Lu Ren shrugged: "Trouble this thing, the more you are afraid, the more it will find you...... Actually, to put it bluntly. Those people are all bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and when we should be tough, they dare not speak up. Besides, is it true that our Jiangdong Lu clan is easy to bully? Giving them some benefits is called politeness, and it has to be called a reward, it should be that they call us uncle, but it is not that we want to provide for them. Don't get it wrong. ”

Lu Ren said this with a lot of confidence. In this matter, others may not be very clear, but Lu Ren is very clear about how much Sun Quan relied on the power of the wealthy families in Jiangdong during this period, because after Sun Ce's death. If Sun Quan wants to sit firmly in Jiangdong, he must rely on the support of Jiangdong's local wealthy forces. And if the incident in front of him is really big, it is easy to arouse the dissatisfaction of the Jiangdong wealthy family, and the person who dies ugly in the end will only be a guy like Zhou Yan who is not long-sighted.

After all, Lu Ren is a guy who has opened a plug-in, and now he is in such a big environment, so he naturally has read the analysis of later generations of scholars on the various periods of this era. On the issue of Sun Wu, some scholars have pointed out that the Sun group could not be regarded as a large clan in Jiangdong at all during the period of Sun Jian and Sun Ce, and at most it could only be regarded as a small clan.

The group of Sun Jian and Sun Ce should belong to the Huaixi power group, but it is not the local power group in Jiangdong. Therefore, in a sense, Sun Ce led his troops into the Jiangdong territory. It is not so much to return to his hometown as to "invade" Koto, and of course it will be resisted by the local power groups in Koto. And Sun Ce's murder in Jiangdong is like hemp, and even "the heroic and heroic heroes who can win the death force of people are also". To a large extent, it was a helpless move, because he couldn't stand up if he didn't kill.

It's a pity that Sun Ce died too early, this main heart collapsed, and Sun Quan was too young at that time. Therefore, the deterrent effect on the local wealthy families in Jiangdong suddenly dropped to the freezing point. After Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, he knew very well that the only way for the Sun Group to sit firmly in Jiangdong was to cooperate with the local wealthy families in Jiangdong, in other words, to gradually change the internal composition of the Sun Group from "Huaixi type" to "Jiangdongization". And in this situation. Where would Sun Quan have any conflict with the local wealthy families in Jiangdong?

The matter turned back to Lu Ren, Lu Ren's former official position was the governor of the Dasi Nong Mansion, the commander of the Shoushang Shutai, and the servant of the Shangshutai, which was not lower than Sun Quan in terms of grade alone; In terms of identity and fame, Lu Ren at this time is more likely to be the highest among the many wealthy celebrities in Jiangdong. If Lu Ren really made some noise here, he didn't dare to say it, and it would be okay for Sun Quan and Zhang Zhao to have a headache for a while.

So in general, if Lu Renzhen is really against the Sun Group at this point, as long as he is reasonable and the matter is not very big, there are still some people who have no fear, and to put it ugly, he is afraid of a yarn! And this is also where Lu Ren's confidence lies in the pretend color of Zhou Yan.

With a weird smile on his own, he saw that Diao Chanxiu beside him frowned slightly. After thinking about it again, Diao Chan poked Lu Ren again and asked, "Didn't you always want to run into people like Sun Zhongmou and Zhou Gongjin before?" Then why did you say you were going to visit Zhou Gongjin just now? ”

Lu Ren spread his hands and said with a smile: "Scare that guy who doesn't have long eyes." In fact, if nothing else, Zhou Yu is busy preparing for military affairs at this time, how can he have the time and mood to meet me? Besides, as long as Zhou Yan is not a stupid person, he doesn't dare to mention this incident to Zhou Yu just now. If he really said it, wasn't he looking for a lottery himself? Okay, okay, let's not talk about this, our fleet will stay here for several days, and Xiaozhen will take care of the business of buying and selling goods, and you and I can't help much. In that case, you might as well go and get ready, and go back and accompany me to visit the city of Chaisang. I'll go to Gan Xingba first. ”

It is almost the natural instinct of most women to love shopping, and Minchan is no exception, so after answering the sound, she went back to the cabin and prepared to go. Lu Ren turned around and asked several people before he found Gan Ning in a cabin. And at this moment, Gan Ning, Ju Zai is watching the Lu family's children play cards there with great interest!

Speaking of cards, of course, it is a playing card made by Lu Ren, but it is not made of paper, but a wooden playing card made in the form of mahjong tiles. This is also a helpless thing, where can Lu Ren get the hard shell paper and the corresponding printing now? It's easier to find a carpenter to make wood. At the beginning, Lu Ren often played cards with Wan'er, Cai Yan and others in his spare time to relax.

And the things that are fun have always spread the fastest, and the most important thing is that this thing is popular enough, and it is easier to be accepted by the middle and lower classes of the people than the elegant things such as throwing pots and shooting plays played by the upper literati, so this relatively convenient leisure and entertainment soon spread in the places where Lu Ren went, for example, in the Tuntian Zhutun, the people of the Tuntian would come to have a few games of recreation after finishing work.

The people all play, so it can be said that Lu Ren's direct line of the sailors of the boat group will not play? Anyone who has ever been a sailor knows that when the boat is floating at sea, there is nothing to do most of the time, and there is something to have fun on hand, and if you want to play some sports such as basketball, there is no room for them to play on the boat.

It is precisely because Lu Ren understands this situation that he ordered a lot of wooden cards to distribute to the sailors, so it has become a habit for the sailors in the boat group to get together to play cards when they are fine, as for whether to gamble or not, Lu Ren doesn't care, anyway, if you want to ban gambling, you can't ban it, just don't make trouble. In fact, not to mention this kind of thing in that era, even in modern society, after the sailors who ran the ship went ashore, they drank and fought to find women, and they were not all the same virtues?

Today, the boat group has just docked, and the loading and unloading of the goods itself is to be carried out after Mi Zhen's head is dealt with, plus the matter of Jiang/thief's corpse has to be dealt with, Zhou Yan's blind guy has inserted another pole, and many sailors have nothing to do for the time being, so they naturally get together to play cards and have fun, so that Gan Ning will be interested in this thing, it is a little unexpected for Lu Ren.

But it's not surprising when you think about it, in a sense, Gan Ning is a big thief, and it's normal for him to be interested in eating, drinking, and having fun. Now at this stall, find something like this for Gan Ning and them to play with, and it will also save Gan Ning and a large group of them from having nothing to do and being bored to cause something to happen to Lu Ren.

As soon as he thought of this, Lu Ren called Huang Xin and asked Huang Xin to take Gan Ning and Xu Shu to play, and he accused Gan Ning of a crime, saying that he would deal with some related things, and then Lu Ren took Diao Chan, Lu Lan, and a few guards to Chaisang City. Originally, Lu Ren wanted to call Cai Yan, but Cai Yan said that he didn't want to move, so Lu Ren had to give up. As for Mi Zhen, there is no need to say more, she is busy with loading and unloading goods at this time.

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During this period, Chaisang was strictly a military town, one was that Chaisang went up the river without many waterways to force Jiangxia, and the other was next to Chaisang was Poyang Lake, which was suitable for large-scale naval garrisons.

When it comes to prosperity, of course, Chaisang can't be compared with a big city like Xiangyang, but as a famous city in the Jiangnan region, it is also worth mentioning. At least, Lu Ren can feel the vitality of the market when he walks in the Chaisang market.

Lu Ren's main focus is currently on Xiangyang, and he doesn't know much about the situation on Chaisang's side, and the fleet has docked here several times, but he just hurriedly loaded and unloaded the goods and left. So when Lu Ren and the others walked in the market, they felt quite curious everywhere.

The most energetic ones are, of course, Minchan and Lu Lan. Today's Erchan is a bit of a queen, and Lu Lan is a little girl, and the chatter has hardly stopped along the way. Lu Ren didn't bother to care about this, anyway, he was just out shopping, and it didn't make sense to talk so much.

In the market, there is inevitably some excitement to see, and at this time, Lu Ren and the others have finished watching a lively place, and they are about to find a place to eat something. And around a certain corner, Lu Ren and the others passed by a group of people from the opposite side, and Lu Ren and the others didn't pay attention to anything at all. But just a few steps after passing by like this, someone in the group turned around thoughtfully, and after taking a few careful glances at the backs of Minchan and Lu Lan, he immediately shouted:

"Stand still, you guys!" (To be continued.) )