Chapter 401: Just Let Go
The day after the dinner, the families began to become ready to move, driven by huge interests, and those families who had received Xu Rui's promise wanted to fulfill their promises, and those who were verbally divided were ready to deal with it.
Everyone was gearing up, and chaos was about to erupt, but Xu Rui, who was faintly pressing on their heads, was like a dark cloud that crushed the city, maintaining a fragile balance with fear.
However, the level was soon completely broken.
Without warning, the Zheng family suddenly attacked, using the remnants of their army to launch a surprise attack on the three small families at the same time, and swallowed up all their forces and property in one day.
These three small families are all emerging families, and the original family industry is not large, and they quickly became rich by forcibly seizing the Cui family's property when the Cui family fell, but they did not get Xu Rui's promise.
As soon as this incident came out, it immediately caused an uproar among the emerging families, and the heads of the families immediately found Zhang Youlin and wanted to ask him to mediate with Xu Rui in fear and administer justice for everyone.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Youlin closed the door, saying that he was suddenly seriously ill and no one was seen.
The heads of the family ate the closed door, and they refused to give up, so they immediately went to the Qin Cha Xingyuan to ask Xu Rui to see Xu Rui, shouting that the Zheng family was the accomplice of the Cui family, and asked the Qin Cha to be the master and destroy him.
But when they entered the Qin Mission, they learned that Xu Rui had gone out of the city early in the morning to hunt, and the return date was unknown, and Lin Shaodong, who was temporarily in charge of all affairs of the Xingyuan, loudly condemned the Zheng family's behavior in front of the heads of the family, but as long as he talked about coming forward, he shook his head like a rattle.
One day passed in a flash, and the next day, new news came, the Zheng family tasted the sweetness, refused to stop there, and embezzled the land and property of the four families, and the scope of the attack gradually expanded, and there was a great momentum to return to the era of the four major families.
This time, not only the emerging families, but even those powerful old families can't sit still.
At this time, the Lin family, who presented the Great Han Treasure Seal to Xu Rui, also pulled up Xu Rui's banner, and sent people to receive the large piece of land that Xu Rui promised them that day, and forcibly drove out the tenants of the family who originally controlled the land, causing a bloody brawl.
Dozens of people were killed and injured in the brawl, but the government has not yet been re-established, and even if there is a murder, no one can take care of it.
In addition, the Lin family relied on Youqin to be the master, acting unscrupulously, not only robbing Xu Rui of the land promised, but even occupying an additional 600 hectares of fertile land that did not belong to them.
The family that suffered the loss was immediately furious, and also came to Xu Rui to call the shots, but the reply was still unknown.
At this point, those clever family heads have already reacted, Xu Rui seems to have no intention of interfering in the competition between them at all, as long as it is within the rules of the Qin Cha, then whoever grabs the benefits will be whoever.
Thinking about this matter, all the families with a little strength suddenly couldn't sit still, and more and more families increased their weight on this huge roulette, betting on the lives of the clansmen and the future of the family.
Nishikawa instantly entered the "Warring States" era.
The big families in Xichuan have a lot of manors and ridges, just like the Haoqiang clan in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, with countless tenants and long-term workers, and once they are armed, they can immediately become a powerful force.
With these forces, many families who started faster began to seize other people's property on a large scale and grew rapidly.
However, once the matter of the sword and war begins, it is extremely difficult to control, because no one will easily give up the interests in their hands, and in order to defend the interests, conflicts will inevitably form, and conflicts will inevitably lead to casualties, and as long as there are casualties, there will be hatred.
Conflicts that were originally born purely for profit were soon cloaked in the bloody cloak of revenge, and after only three days, the conflict turned into a brutal revenge that you came and went.
When the essence of the struggle changes from rational robbery to emotional killing, the form of conflict will also change terribly, with conspiracy, assassination, and everything being done, and for a time the major families are in danger.
But it's like a giant wheel, once it turns, no one can easily stop it, and even the families who don't want to get involved will have to strike first for their own safety.
Among them, only two families are considered exceptions, the Zhang family and the Wang family.
From the beginning of the conflict, Zhang Youlin has always said that he is not sick, and the entire Zhang family is extremely low-key, even if it has become a pot of porridge outside, even if his interests are seized by other families, the door is still closed and he swallows his anger.
Maybe just this is not enough to survive in the family that kills the red eye, but a small team of Apocalypse Guards guarding the gate of the Zhang family's mansion can make the people who are ready to make a move against the Zhang family a little clearer.
In contrast, the Wang family is much more active, I don't know if it got some kind of promise from Xu Rui, or if it was blushing when I saw the Zheng family get rich, the Wang family, which was already one of the four major families, once again opened its tentacles to attack everywhere.
In just a few days, with their strong strength, they not only recovered the huge benefits lost due to the fall of the Cui family, but even annexed several neighboring families.
They acted more ruthlessly, and the power they invested was stronger, and almost instantly overshadowed the Zheng family, faintly having the appearance of the first family in Xichuan.
However, the unscrupulousness of the Wang family also attracted the dissatisfaction of other families, including injustice to Xu Rui and indignation against the Wang family.
Of course, with the precedent of 400 people breaking the 200,000 Cui family's army, the family would never dare to be disrespectful to Xu Rui, and these accounts would naturally be counted on the head of the Wang family.
An even more turmoil is brewing fast, and no one knows how tragic it will be.
And at this time, Deng He led the army of the imperial court into Xichuan, Xichuan wealthy families are vegetarian, everyone wears filial piety, and the entire Xichuan seems to have become a huge powder keg, which will explode at one point.
And the biggest talker here, Qin Cha Xu Rui, seemed to be nothing, and took the Apocalypse Guard to join Deng He's army thirty miles outside the new Chang'an City.
After the baptism of this war, the southeast border army, which originally had low combat effectiveness, also had a bit of bravery, and the coach Deng He also had the temperament of a famous general.
In the midst of the army waving the flag, the southeast general soldier of the fourth rank saluted to the Qin messenger from the fifth rank with a sinking face.
Although Xu Rui is a Qincha, no matter who he meets, he will be more than half a level, but generally speaking, when he encounters officials with higher status and older qualifications, he will be exempted from some of them, especially the bowing ceremony, which basically will not appear.
But this time Xu Rui was not half polite, and there were a lot of ceremonial guards, without the slightest intention of being polite, asking Deng He to bow down to Xu Rui, who was younger than his son and whose qualifications and experience were far inferior to his own, and he couldn't say anything awkward in his heart.
What's even more infuriating is that not only did he accept Deng He's kneeling salute with a smile, but also made this dusty old general have to continue to kneel three times and bow to the "saint" in the north after bowing, and all the cumbersome ceremonies were completed.
After the ceremony, Deng He's face had turned pale, he arched his hand towards Xu Rui, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Qincha, Deng He, the general soldier of the southeast, led 50,000 border troops to serve. ”
"Okay, well, General Deng's 50,000 army came just in time, and Ben Shuai is looking forward to the arrival of the general day and night."
Xu Rui said with a smile in official words, clearly without the slightest welcome, Deng He's face became more and more ugly.
He gritted his teeth, took out a bamboo tube sealed with fire paint from his arms and handed it to Xu Rui: "This is the secret decree of the saint, Xu Rui will accept the decree!" ”
Deng He took out the holy decree, just to suppress Xu Rui's arrogance, who knew that Xu Rui did not mean to kneel down to accept the decree at all, but took the decree casually, without looking at the fire paint, directly opened the plug and took out the holy decree from the bamboo pipe and opened it.
"You ......"
Deng He was about to reprimand, but his eyes inadvertently fell on the holy decree.
I saw that the holy decree reads: "Boy, do you know what to do?" Work hard, if you are lazy, be careful to come back and I will punish you to stand guard in the palace! ”
Xu Rui took the holy decree with a grin, without any precaution at all, and this short holy decree fell into Deng He's eyes word for word.
Although the number of words is not much, it immediately set off a storm in Deng He's heart.
This kind of casual tone should not be a conversation between the saint and the courtiers at all, but like an exchange between a father and a son, and even with the temper of the saint, even the closest prince would not be so casual!
Besides, the generals who can lead the troops in the palace are all the most trusted courtiers of the saint, no matter how you look at it, it is a great honor, what kind of punishment is it to punish Xu Rui to see the gate to the saint?
Xu Rui'er is so proud?
This can no longer be described by the saint, the relationship between the saint and Xu Rui is even beyond the scope of ordinary monarchs and ministers, how can Deng He not be shocked?
Compared with Deng He's shock, Xu Rui pouted and whispered: "You know that I will not stop from such a distance, what about the promised holiday?" Sure enough, the capitalists are all evil......"
Deng He was stunned, not only because Xu Rui dared to complain about the saint, but also because his attitude was not half pretentious, and he was really impatient.
Could it be that this kid has swelled to such a point after a few victories that he is impatient with the closeness of the saints?
Just when Deng He was surprised, Xu Rui seemed to react, and smiled curtly: "Let General Deng smile, you have come thousands of miles away, Ben Shuai is grateful, just prepared some gifts for you, and I hope to accept it." ”
Deng He frowned, and said in his heart, why didn't Xu Rui play his cards according to common sense, he just looked like he was inflated, and now he is offering a gift, is there any plot that can't be done?
He was about to refuse, but when he saw Xu Rui pointing to his side, several Apocalypse Guards immediately lifted the tarpaulin, revealing the mountains of things underneath.
Seeing these things, Deng He's eyes suddenly widened and his mouth grew.