In the midst of the discussion of the sergeants, a man in the uniform of a colonel rode out of the battle, hugged his fist at Lu Renyao on the horse, and asked with a somewhat puzzled look: "Mr. is Lu Lingjun and Lu Servant?" ”

"Lu Lingjun?"

Lu Ren smiled: "I don't know how long no one has called me that." It has been nearly three years since I abandoned my official position, and I have long been a white cloth without an official lord, which makes the title of king and servant really dare not be deserved. I didn't ask your Excellency for your name. ”

Of course, to say this politely, Lu Ren carefully paid attention to the actions of the general on the other side, because the next move of the general school would directly tell Lu Ren whether there was any malice in Dongwu surrounding Lu Ren's fleet today.

Seeing that the general didn't dare to slack off, he immediately turned over and dismounted, and saluted Lu Ren again respectfully: "The last general's surname is Zhou Mingyan, and he is the former lieutenant of my family's Governor Gongjin." I have heard the name of Lu Servant for a long time, like thunder! See you today, fortunately! ”

Lu Ren returned the salute with his fists clenched, and said secretly in his heart: "Such a respectful salute, it seems that the Dongwu Navy has no ill will towards my fleet except for vigilance, so my previous assumption should be correct." His name is Zhou Yan Zhou Zilu? Also the tent captain of 'my family's governor Gongjin'? It should be Zhou Yu's clan disciple, who took him with him to help fight. ”

After each salute, Lu Ren was very straightforward and not very polite when he said it because he had some bottom in his heart: "Zhou Duwei, although I, Lu Ren, am only a businessman now, I have always been law-abiding, and I have never been short of the taxes payable in the Jiangdong realm. ”

"Hey, this ......"

Zhou Yan's eyes rolled a few times, and he immediately smiled and apologized: "Lu Servant doesn't know anything, Jingxiang Liu Biao and my family's lord General Gongsun have always had a grudge and secretly harbor the heart of embezzlement, and he often sends a fine work across the river to spy on my Jiangdong military situation on weekdays. Recently, I heard that Liu Biao was wantonly recruiting troops and horses and reorganizing ordnance warships, and my family was afraid that he had the intention of crossing the river and violating the border. Therefore, I should be a little more cautious than in the past when patrolling the river, as if I had to guard against the sneak attack of Liu Biao's soldiers pretending to be a merchant house......"

Lu Ren scolded in his heart: "Damn! With your Zhou Yu's ability, will you still be afraid that Liu Biao will come to 'Lu Zi understands that clothes cross the river'? Oh yes, Lu Meng's affair will have to be more than ten years later! Let's not say that Liu Biao, the dog who guards the house, doesn't mean that at all, even if there is, and he sends someone to do it, the trick is not enough for you 'American wolf' to serve as a drink! Don't think I don't know what you Dongwu want to do now, obviously you want to use troops against Jingzhou, but because you are afraid that the news will leak out, you use the method of seizing merchant ships to block the news, but on the surface, you insist that someone else is preparing to do it, and you are strengthening your vigilance...... You couar have the ability to do it again. You also have to pay attention to whether your subordinates will take advantage of the opportunity to extort merchants! ”

The rule of the officials of Eastern Wu is relative, and it is not really possible to achieve a complete autumn with the people, but it is done in a more measured manner, and it will not make the people too disgusted. In addition to the taxes payable when Mi Zhen ran the boat, the "favor" of the flower was also spent. I think Cao Cao has always been strict with the law, but there is never a shortage of such things under him, and Lu Ren has been in Cao Ying's camp for so many years, so there are naturally a lot of such things. Therefore, Lu Ren has never paid attention to the "favor" on the side of Soochow, after all, if you mix in this environment, you have to follow the rules of the environment.

But at this moment, Lu Ren was on such a fire, because Lu Ren had already seen that this Dongwu Navy was treating himself as a big piece of fat. I want to knock on the stroke. Originally, spending more money was not a big deal for Lu Ren, but with Lu Ren's experience in officialdom, he knew that he couldn't be too polite to this kind of person, otherwise he would be on his nose and face and endless. Therefore, Lu Ren rolled his eyes, pondered for a while, and then had a countermeasure, and then arched his hand to Zhou Yan and sneered: "It turns out that Zhou Duwei regarded my Lu Ren's fleet as the Jingzhou Navy?" ”

Zhou Yan hurriedly waved his hand and smiled: "Don't dare, don't dare." It's just a misunderstanding! However, since Lu Servant's fleet is docked here, we and the other generals have ordered the patrol of the river and the shore, and we dare not slack off. If there is something offended. I hope that Lu Servant will forgive me! ”

The meaning is very clear, this is to inspect Lu Ren's ship.

Lu Ren sneered again: "Lu Ren was also in the army, and he knew what a general order was, so he didn't dare to stop it, but ......"

Speaking of this, Lu Ren suddenly raised his voice and said aloud to the Jiangdong sergeants: "Which brother is annoying to tell Zhou Dudu, and he said that I didn't know anything, but today the Jiangdong Navy treated me like this, but instead told me what you Dongwu want to do now." ”

One sentence almost didn't make the Dongwu sergeant blow up here, as for Zhou Yan himself, he was even more startled, and suddenly remembered that this Lu Ren was rumored to be a character who was even afraid of Cao Cao, and if he wanted to knock on his bamboo pole, wouldn't he be making trouble for himself? But to be honest, Zhou Yan mainly thought that the Lu family boat group would be just led by Mi Zhen, a female streamer, as in the past, but he didn't expect Lu Ren to come to Chaisang this time, and he didn't expect that Lu Ren would ruthlessly attack him at the beginning, and this time Zhou Yan would be locked there.

Just as he was staring, suddenly a sergeant rushed to Zhou Yan and whispered a few words in Zhou Yan's ear, Zhou Yan's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he sneered at Lu Ren: "This matter will be passed down from generation to generation." But now I have to dare to ask, why are there so many dead bodies in the fleet of servants? ”

Zhou Yan's question was actually expected by Lu Ren, and he smiled coldly at the moment, and responded loudly: "Those dead bodies were originally meant to be sent to your Dongwu Naval Army, and it just so happened that you were here, so I don't need to send someone else to send them to the barracks." ”

Zhou Yan was startled again: "This, what does this mean?" ”

Lu Ren stared at Zhou Yan, and said with a smile: "I don't know if anyone in your army knows these people, so it's better to tell you directly." These dead bodies are the Jiang/thieves who have been harming Sanjiangkou for many years, and the first three people are called Sanjiangkou Sanjiao. Just because my Lu Ren's fleet has a lot of money and goods, these rivers/thieves want to plunder me in the river last night, but they don't know that I, Lu Ren, dare to trade and freight on the Yangtze River waterway, so naturally I have some fear. In last night's battle, more than 600 river thieves were lost in my hands. Now there are 374 dead bodies and 367 knives, guns and instruments on these sixteen brisk river boats, and you just take them with you to invite merit...... Hum! Although I, Lu Ren, am no longer an official, I am also not so easy to bully! ”

As long as people who are not too stupid know what Lu Ren means in his words, Zhou Yan understands it thoroughly at this time, and Lu Ren is by no means a person to bully. Plus how big is Lu Ren's name? If you really provoke Lu Ren, you will definitely not be able to eat and walk around. Not to mention anything else, Sun Quan had sent people to Wu County many times to invite Lu Ren to come out, and Zhou Yan had also heard about it.

All of a sudden, Zhou Yan's face was immediately filled with sneers, and he said beautiful things to Lu Ren: "I see! Thinking that these three Jiao have been harmed for many years, and the people of Jiangdong have also suffered a lot from them, I didn't expect to be shot by Lu Servant overnight, which is really happy! Zhou thanked Lu Servant for shooting on behalf of the people of Jiangdong first...... Oh, what about the hundreds of men in each of the other three river boats, in addition to the fifteen big boats in the land servant shooting fleet? ”

Lu Ren sneered: "Waterway freight, don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case." Besides, I received the news in advance this time, so I asked my friend to escort the convoy with his servants, is there anything wrong with that? Or is it that Zhou Duwei suspects that those people are Liu Biao's water army? Then I might as well tell you the truth, my friend is the Jinfan thief Gan Ning Gan Xingba, who has now abandoned evil and followed good and is no longer a thief. ”

As soon as he heard Gan Ning's name, Zhou Yan's head buzzed several times bigger, and he said that just one Lu Ren would be so difficult to deal with, and now there is a Jinfan thief Gan Ning...... If you really mess with these two, you may get into a lot of trouble. And now this situation is really a bit difficult for Zhou Yan to ride a tiger.

Minchan, who was beside Lu Ren, had already seen Zhou Yan's embarrassment at this time, and quietly pressed it on Lu Ren's palm, and said softly: "Take it when you see it, don't make everyone have no steps down." ”

Lu Ren nodded secretly and responded softly: "It's inconvenient for me to play a round at this time, come on." ”

Minchan laughed softly: "Yo, you take care of me, a good person asked me to do it." ”

Saying that, Minchan took two steps forward and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, what's wrong?" Yihao, it's time for your impatience and stinky temper to change! Captain Zhou just obeyed the general's order to inspect our fleet, and there is nothing unsightly in our fleet, so let Captain Zhou inspect it. If it's really stiff, it's not good for everyone, isn't it? That's really nothing. ”

Lu Ren nodded with a straight face, and Minchan made a gesture of invitation to Zhou Yan sideways, and said with a smile: "Captain Zhou, please take the sergeant on board the ship for inspection." ”

Zhou Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly instructed the junior colonels behind him: "The detachment boarded the ship for inspection!" Remember, the land servant is a famous person, so you must not be rude! "The meaning is very clear, just let the subordinates test it randomly, don't mess with the two thorns of Lu Ren and Gan Ning.

The sergeant of Dongwu obeyed the order, and Zhou Yan also came back to his senses at this time, and peeked at Diao Chan carefully. Looking at this, I really hated Zhou Yan so much that the roots of my teeth itched, and I said in my heart that you Lu Ren looks mediocre, why are the women around you more beautiful than the other? As for the one next to Lu Ren, although there is a faint mark on his face, his appearance and charm seem to be much better than Zhou Yu's wife Xiao Qiao.

Lu Ren noticed Zhou Yan's gaze at Diao Chan, first coughed hard to pull Zhou Yan's gaze back, and then said lukewarmly: "Zhou Duwei, Lu Ren has long heard that Zhou Dudu Yaming has long been acquainted, but it is a pity that when I arrived in Chaisang last year, Zhou Dudu led his troops to quell the chaos elsewhere and did not see him. Coming here this time, I wonder if Zhou Dudu can do it? ”

Zhou Yan hurriedly responded: "The governor of my family is now coaching the navy in the camp, and Lu Servant asks Rong to send someone to pass it on." I think the governor of my family often mentions Lu Servant Shooting, and I have a great desire to make friends with Lu Servant Shooting. Now I hear that Lu Servant is here, and when I have spare time, I will definitely send someone to invite Lu Servant to meet with one of ......" (To be continued.) )