In the early morning of the next day, Lu Ren, who had already rested all night, came to the courtyard to move his muscles. www.biquge.info After moving for a while, Cai Yan came to Lu Ren's side, and stared at Lu Ren with a very strange gaze between his arms.

Lu Ren was a little furious by Cai Yan's gaze, and the fitness tai chi in his hand naturally couldn't be beaten, so he had to hastily close the form, and smiled at Cai Yan reluctantly: "Wen Ji, are you ......here?"

Cai Yan replied with a "hmm", and still looked at Lu Ren with that kind of gaze for a while before saying, "Yihao, I ask you very seriously now, do you have any thoughts about the Zhen family's sister?" Oh, I mean, have you ever coveted her beauty? ”

Lu Ren was stunned, and after a few glances at Cai Yan's calm demeanor, Lu Ren put away his grinning face, and then raised his head and thought about it before asking Cai Yan rhetorically: "Wen Ji, do you think I am a saint?" ”

Cai Yan shook his head: "You're not." ”

Lu Ren said: "Isn't that the end?" Wen Ji, you and I have been married for more than ten years, you should know what kind of virtue I am. If I hadn't been forced by the times, I would probably be a scoundrel in the market. Again, beauty is such a thing, what man in the world is not good? Since I am not a so-called saint, how can I be bad? ”

Cai Yan nodded and said: "But today, you have experienced a lot of things, people have become more thinking and doing more, and there will always be some concerns of your own between actions, so you have learned to suppress your greed, right?" ”

Lu Ren nodded.

Cai Yan said: "Okay, just have your words." ”

Lu Ren was stunned again, but after thinking about it again, he understood something, so he asked tentatively: "Where is Xiao Mi ......?"

Cai Yan glanced at Lu Ren and said, "I've already negotiated with her...... Xiao Mi is a woman who knows the general situation, and we have more than a few such sisters who can rest assured. Then again, it is better to have a woman like her to satisfy some thoughts in your heart than those women who are indiscriminate and covet something, lest others say that I and Ah Xiu are jealous. ”

Lu Ren was dumbfounded: "What are you talking about?" ”

Cai Yan said: "Tell the truth...... Yoshiho, you're honestly good. In fact, with your current identity, status, net worth, and power, even if you have ten or eight concubines in your family, and then raise a bunch of Kaki Maiko, it is very common in the eyes of people, but there are only three of you around you: me, Ah Xiu, and Xiaozhen, and as for Kabuki or something, there is no one. Sometimes when I think about it occasionally, I am a little worried that others will say that I am too strict and cannot tolerate others. ”

Lu Ren continued to be dumbfounded, but secretly gave a thumbs up in his heart, saying in his heart that in this era, there may be other things that are not very good, but it is quite cool to be a man in this one. Especially when you meet a woman like Cai Yan, if you don't have a few women around, she will worry about what others will say about her.

Cai Yan glanced at Lu Ren a few more times at this time, shook his head lightly and said, "There are some words that you and I don't have to say so clearly." Oh, I'm here to tell you that Xiao Mi will recuperate with us for two days, and then she will announce that she is recuperating from her injuries, and when she is in good condition, she will go home, and then discuss with her people about giving her to marry you directly...... Last time it was a poisonous snake, this time it was the collapse of the secret passage, with these two things, she deduced that her reputation was difficult to protect, and it was completely reasonable to ask the clan to marry her. And because it's a wedding, it's not you who come to the door to propose, so you don't have to worry about some concerns in your heart. ”

Lu Ren lowered his head and thought about it, and nodded to Cai Yan when he looked up again. In the past, he was in a passive state when he proposed marriage, and it was easy for the Zhen clan to use this as an excuse to make some fame; Zhen Mi took the initiative to say that he would marry, but Lu Ren was in an active state, and the Zhen clan couldn't find any excuses. is still the same sentence, the beautiful Lu Ren certainly wants it, but if she wants to use this to do something, it is something that Lu Ren does not allow. And now that it is the eve of the Battle of Chibi, Lu Ren wants to focus his main energy on Jingzhou, and he really doesn't have much energy to play those hearts with the Zhen clan.

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Time always flies by inadvertently.

Lu Ren was doing his own business in Yizhou, and in a blink of an eye, it was mid-May of the thirteenth year of Jian'an. And in April, Zhen Mi played a game of "one crying, two troubles, and three hangings" in the clan, so Zhen Mi was sent to marry Lu Ren...... Don't be surprised, this kind of thing was actually very common in that era, like in the original historical process, Mi Zhu directly sent Mi Zhen to Liu Bei, and Huang Chengyan also sent Huang Yueying to Zhuge Liang's house without saying a word after obtaining Zhuge Liang's consent.

As for Zhen Mi, many people in the Zhen clan originally wanted to use Zhen Mi to ask Lu Ren for benefits, which was also one of Lu Ren's concerns all along. But now it is Zhen Mi himself who uses the "famous festival" as an excuse to make trouble, and those Zhen clansmen who have ideas have no choice. After all, Zhen Mi is now twenty-five years old, and Lu Ren doesn't seem to be very good at Zhen Mi, if this drags on any longer, Zhen Mi will really become old, and then he won't be able to sell it for a good price, right? And like now, Zhen Mi took the initiative to make trouble, and he was more or less able to get some soup and water from Lu Ren......

I won't mention this, but in mid-May, Zhao Yu, who was on the Hebei side, sent a telegram to Lu Ren, saying that Cao Cao's troop mobilization had been completed, and he would set off from Xuchang to Jingzhou in the near future, and Zhao Yu would also return from Hebei when the time was right. In addition, more than 100 people sent by Mrs. Ding from Fuyou Yishe have been staying by Zhao Yu's side to help before, and they will follow Zhao Yu to Yizhou when the time comes.

Hearing that many of the children who were raising children would come to him, Lu Ren was also full of emotion. It has been two or three years since Jian'an, and more than ten years have passed, and some children who were five or six years old, six or seven years old at the beginning are now sixteen or seventeen-year-old teenagers. And I was twenty-five or six years old at that time, but I was almost forty in a blink of an eye.

But no matter what, those children at the beginning can be said to have been cultivated by themselves, at least in terms of basic quality, it should be very good, and when they arrive in Yizhou, let them go to the college for further study, then in another two or three years, these children will be some usable people. It's not easy to say about top talents, but Lu Ren is still quite confident in cultivating qualified middle-level and grass-roots talents.

On the other hand, Xu Shu from Quanzhou and Shi Tao from Guangzhou reported to Lu Ren on the situation of the displaced people who had fled from Jingzhou in the past few months. According to statistics, from February of the thirteenth year of Jian'an to May now, nearly 20,000 displaced people have arrived in Guangzhou in about three months, and Shi Tao is currently busy diverting these displaced people.

As mentioned before, Lu Renyou considered that these refugees in Jingzhou were not necessarily willing to move to Yizhou, so it was okay to let those refugees settle down in Guangzhou, Zhuya, and Quanzhou. At the same time, because Lu Ren had been prepared for this aspect of the matter for a long time, the food, clothing and other materials needed were sufficient, and there was no problem with the supply side.

According to Deng Ai's report in Shaoguan, some of the displaced people were attacked by some Shanyue tribes in the process of fleeing, or they were robbed of their money, food and goods, or even people were robbed, and most of them became slaves in those Shanyue tribes. And the "caravans" sent by Lu Ren also suffered some casualties in the battle with these Shanyue tribes.

Lu Ren was furious when he heard this, and immediately called Shi Tao and Deng Ai back, asking them to send corresponding personnel to teach a lesson to the Shanyue tribes who were engaged in looting at this time, while increasing their efforts to escort the displaced people. Are you kidding? The road that they have spent so much effort to open up, these Shanyue tribes want to pick up the cheap? These displaced people will all be taxpayers in Lu Ren's territory in the future, okay? Taking a step back, if these things are not solved, the displaced people in Jingzhou will definitely have doubts, and if they don't do well, they will no longer go in the direction of Guangzhou!

After giving such an order, Lu Ren immediately sent a telegram to Xu Shu from Quanzhou, asking Xu Shu to find out which tribes had done these things. Lu Ren's words were also very simple:

"Yuan Zhi, you send me a message, and say that if there is another incident of Jingzhou refugees being plundered by the Shanyue tribe, you will immediately cut off the trade with all the Shanyue tribes! We have limited manpower, and if we really want to investigate, we will definitely not be able to find it, so let those Shanyue tribes check it themselves, and let them give me an explanation after finding out! Meow a cat, the tiger doesn't make a threat, I'm a sick cat!? ”

Of course, Lu Ren dared to do this because he had his own confidence. Lu Ren's game against the Shanyue tribe is actually a means of economic control, so the Shanyue tribe has not been the main body of Lu Ren's trading partners for a long time, in other words, Lu Ren cut off the transaction with the Shanyue tribe is not trivial at all. But the Shanyue tribe can't bear it! Over the years, many Shanyue tribes have formed a dependence on Lu Ren's trade of goods, and once Lu Ren says ruthlessly to cut off the supply of trade to Shanyue, many Shanyue tribes will immediately be chaotic.

As a result, only a few days after Lu Ren's order was issued, several leaders of the Shanyue tribe on the Quanzhou side rushed to Yizhou by speedboat, begging Lu Ren to open up trade and supply. And Lu Ren actually didn't want to do things so desperately, so he took this opportunity to send a message to the leaders of these Shanyue tribes:

"It's good for everyone that I'm trading with you, but I don't want my trading partners to be a bunch of robbers he meows. Of course, I know that those things may not be relevant to you, but who can say some things clearly? In this way, all of your tribes will send some people out to help me go to Shaoguan to protect the displaced people fleeing in Jingzhou, and I will provide the money, food and equipment needed, and you tribes will naturally not be able to suffer losses. But if you run into the marauding tribes...... You know what to do! (To be continued.) )