Lu Chen sent a total of more than 10,000 people, and he wanted to take down all the small county towns in the vicinity. In the small cities around this www.biquge.info, there were only 1,000 defenders at most, and under the strong attack of more than 10,000 of them, there was no resistance at all. In less than three days, all seven or eight small cities in this area were under control.

At this point, the confluence of the Tuojiang River and the Wen River, this vast area, except for Luzhou City, has all been controlled by Lu Chencheng. Of course, on the premise of not capturing Luzhou City, all this is in vain. No matter how many small cities he owns, once the civil strife breaks out in the Tang Dynasty, all of them will fall.

It can be said with certainty that even if all these small cities are combined, they are not as good as half of Luzhou City.

On the third day, Lu Chen and several generals were discussing in the tent how to lure out the governor's army and then wipe it out in one fell swoop. Suddenly, the voice of the guards came from outside the tent, "Report to your lordship, General Lin has something important to see!" ”。 Hearing this, Lu Chen said softly, "Come in and talk"

After getting Lu Chen's permission, this general walked in from outside, and after seeing Lu Chen and a few of them, this person first saluted, and then said, "Report to your lord, just now there were three people who claimed to have been sent by the patriarchs of several major families in Luzhou City to discuss important matters with you. The last general told them to wait outside."

Hearing this, both Wu Deng and Long Yan looked at Lu Chen in shock, those big families actually sent someone to discuss with Lu Chen! They couldn't understand what Lu Chen had asked the more than twenty soldiers to say to the heads of several major families, causing the heads of these major families to be willing to take such a risk to come to them to negotiate.

Although the attitude of these major families is now, they are not clear. However, since they are willing to come to them for a detailed discussion, it means that the major families have become vacillating in terms of their positions. After all, they secretly sent people to talk to Lu Chen and the others in detail, but they took a big risk. Once this matter is known to the Governor, I am afraid that these big families will be targeted by the Governor immediately.

Even if they weren't too afraid of the Governor, no one wanted to provoke a fierce opponent for no reason. Therefore, their major families were willing to take such a risk and send people to negotiate with Lu Chen, obviously they really wanted to cooperate with Lu Chen.

After thinking of this, Lu Chen immediately said, "Invite these people in, whether we can easily take Luzhou City depends on them."

Under the gaze of Lu Chen and the others, three people walked in from outside the tent.

These three people are all middle-aged men, and it is understandable to think about it, after all, they are going to secretly climb down from the walls of Luzhou City. People who are too old simply can't. In case something happens to your body when you go down the city wall, when the time comes, you will lose yourself instead of doing it.

After these people came in and saw Lu Chen, they first bowed to them. Immediately, a person standing at the front said, "I don't know which one is the supreme general here?" Our head of the family has repeatedly told us that there are some things that must be told to the supreme general! ”

Hearing this, Lu Chen nodded to Wu Deng and Long Yan. Seeing this, several people immediately turned around and walked out of the tent. After seeing everyone go out, Lu Chen said, "Okay, now I'm the only one left in the entire tent, just tell me something."

Hearing this, although the three of them were a little shocked by Lu Chen's age, they still saluted Lu Chen, and then the person standing in the middle said in a low voice, "I am the second brother of the current head of the Liu family, and the two next to me are the core figures of the Yan family and the Lin family. We are here this time just to confirm whether the rights and strategies that the general told us before are true? ”

Hearing this, Lu Chen smiled slightly, and said, "This naturally won't lie to you, and besides, I still want you to help me manage Luzhou City, and there is no reason to harm you."

After hearing Lu Chen's personal assurance, the three of them felt slightly relieved. Although before, those soldiers had already relayed to them the concept of Lu Chen's management of the city, and their major families were also quite excited about the way this city was managed. But they had always been worried that this was just a scam, after all, according to what those soldiers described, the future control of this city would be controlled by Lu Chen and their major families.

In the past, although these families controlled the trade of goods and private school books in Luzhou City, it can be said that they controlled all the economy and culture of Luzhou City. However, only this regime, whether it was the previous Sui Dynasty or the current Tang Dynasty, the controller of Luzhou City firmly controlled the power in his own hands.

It is precisely because it has always been the case that the major families have not shown their ambitions for the regime. After all, they knew that neither the rulers of this city nor the imperial court could let them control the power. After all, there is only one thing in the city that can balance them.

However, the soldiers who followed them back a few days ago said that the general in front of him actually wanted to hand over the city to them to manage, and Lu Chen only controlled the military power in the city. Even the oil and salt, which were strictly controlled by the imperial court, promised them to be in charge of the trade, which, of course, would set a range for them, and forbade them to monopolize it.

But even so, several major families are also excited. If they really control these two daily necessities, even if the price is still the same, it will be a huge profit for them!

It is precisely because of this policy proposed by Lu Chen that their major families, although they think that this is impossible to achieve, they still can't help but come to Lu Chen to confirm, after all, once they take control of the power, there will be nothing in Luzhou City to balance them.

Although they felt that Lu Chen would not lie to them, the three of them still said cautiously, "Let's take the liberty of asking, does the general have any practical guarantees?" After all, we don't dare to take this risk at all. ”

Hearing this, Lu Chen didn't get angry at all, but nodded with a smile and said, "I can understand this, if I write a letter of guarantee to you now, I guess you won't believe it, come on!" ”

Speaking of this, he saw Lu Chen suddenly shouting loudly to the door, and then saw two guards rushing in from the outside, these two people saluted Lu Chen, and said, "What does the general command?" ”

"Go and call General Wu Deng, I have something to look for him!"

Hearing that Lu Chen was actually going to call others in, the three of them suddenly looked at Lu Chen with a little vigilance, and one of them asked with some concern, "General, what do you want here?" ”

Hearing this, Lu Chen smiled and said, "Don't worry, you'll know in a while."

As soon as Lu Chen's words were finished, he saw Wu Deng walking in from outside, and when he saw Lu Chen, he immediately arched his hand and said, "Lu Gongzi, you called me?" ”

Lu Chen nodded, and then asked, "General Wu Deng, I have something I want to ask you for help with now, I wonder if it's okay?" ”

(To be continued.) )