Lu Zhan wrinkled his nose, "Well, this compensation is indeed quite expensive. ”

"But it works, it saves lives. Lu Bufan stroked his hair and said: "Until now, Hangzhou Mansion is still the first wealthy family in Haizhou, and the annual income of their mansion has reached 200 million taels of silver, which is almost ten times the income of our Lu Mansion, and they also have several core relatives who have to be high-ranking officials in the capital, and the relationship with the royal family has always been very good." At that time, the old head of Hangzhou Mansion sacrificed one person and saved the whole family. Now it seems that the sacrifice was worth it. ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhan stared at Lu Bufan: "Master Hou doesn't want to learn from their Hangzhou Mansion too, right?"

"If this is possible, why not learn?" Lu Bufan smiled bitterly: "The old man is already old, and his martial arts attainments have stagnated, to be honest, I feel that I am already half a waste, I should leave more opportunities to you young people." ”

Saying that, he looked at Lu Zhan with a solemn face: "So I hope that you can raise your martial arts attainments to the realm of transformation in the shortest possible time, and it is best to rise to the middle stage of the transformation realm in three years, so that you will have the opportunity to be appreciated by the royal family." ”

"Even if I have a chance to be appreciated by the royal family, what about the financial resources?" Lu Zhan asked rhetorically: "Although I have not been in the mansion for a long time, I also know that the income of our Lu Mansion in recent years is not optimistic. ”

When it came to income, Lu Bufan's face suddenly sank: "Yes, it's still a matter of financial resources! Don't hide it from you, our Lu Mansion is indeed a little unable to make ends meet at the moment, and it can even be described by the word 'Bo Xishan', in order to maintain the operation of the huge family, we have even begun to sell some of the fields and properties under our name, I think if the income situation continues to deteriorate, I am afraid that we will have to reduce the scale of the family industry as much as possible, and try to reduce the expenses of the government." ”

"But why is this happening?" Lu Zhan asked rather puzzled, "I remember that my father told me before that our Lu Mansion's financial resources are the most abundant in the entire Yunmeng City and even in Yunmeng County. Why is it that by now, it has become impossible to make ends meet, and it has to be maintained by reducing the scale of the industry and the amount of expenditure?"

"Well—" Lu Bufan touched his chin and groaned, "There are many reasons for this. First, the third child made trouble, he colluded with Liu Dagu to secretly put a lot of money-making industries in our Lu Mansion into his name, and then Liu Dagu came forward to run it, and the income was counted on the third child's own head. Many of us in the Lu Mansion know about this matter, but because the third child has already achieved his wings at that time, even I can't help him, and others dare not accuse, so that they are becoming more and more arrogant, and they occupy more and more family property. This time, after Liu Dagu and the third child were killed by you one after another, when we went to trace these industries and the money they earned, many of them could no longer be traced. It is estimated that the money earned by the third child will be used by him to honor his biological father and the 'Fire Crow Cave Mansion'. ”

Lu Bufan paused for a moment and said, "The second reason is the rapid rise of the Yan Mansion in recent years. It turned out that this Yan Mansion was just a small gangster in Yunmeng City, and there were only two leaders in the faction, and there was also an old lady Yan who had been outside and rarely went home. The martial arts attainments of the big master and I are between the best, and the second master seems to be slightly inferior to me. And our Lu Mansion still has many masters of the Jinyan Hall and the Guardian Hall, and our strength is originally higher than theirs. But one year, the old lady Yan, who had been outside, suddenly returned to Yunmeng City, and this old lady Yan's martial arts cultivation was still a cut above me, and he had a good relationship with a certain powerful person in the capital. Fortunately, with the support of the old lady Yan and the magnates in the capital, the power of the Yan Mansion expanded rapidly, robbing us of a lot of business and territory. Especially the new secret workshop they opened, it turned out that there has always been only one secret workshop in our Lu Mansion in Yunmeng City, but since the opening of the secret workshop invested by Yan Mansion, because they are the first gang, they have a variety of channels for foreign freight exchange such as docks and horse gangs, and they are much smoother than us in terms of transportation, so their goods and prices are more advantageous than ours, which makes the scale and income of our Lu Mansion shrink rapidly, and they are in a situation where they cannot make ends meet. ”

"The third reason is the Ghost Face Cliff,"

Lu Bufan said: "Because we are the largest family in Yunmeng City, as the saying goes, the tree is a big wind, and the Ghost Face Cliff often harasses our Lu Mansion outside, plundering our Lu Mansion's farms, shops, horse teams and fleets. In fact, the power of this Ghost Face Cliff itself is not very strong, and if we gather the masters of our Lu Mansion who have entered the Qi Condensation Realm, we can easily clean up these thieves. However, considering that they have the support of the Thirty-six Route Anti-Army Alliance behind them, their leader, General Duobao, is the nephew of the Generalissimo Tiangong of the Anti-Army Alliance. People are living and their industries are dead, once we completely offend them, it will be equivalent to offending the Thirty-six Route Anti-Army Alliance, and the property of our Lu Mansion is scattered everywhere, and we can't take care of it at all. In that urgency, the industries located in various parts of our Lu Mansion will suffer, and the transportation by land and water will not be smooth. So we didn't want to use any thunderous means against them for a while, and we could only swallow our anger when we were constantly robbed of a lot of goods by General Duobao.

Especially five years ago, a large number of goods in our secret workshop were robbed by them halfway, and there were a large number of first-grade and second-grade pills in that batch of goods, and the losses were extremely heavy, which directly damaged our vitality, and finally had to close the secret workshop, so that in the next time, the secret workshop of Yanfu was left in Yunmeng City. Later, Ghostface Cliff was destroyed by a mysterious 'Scarlet Demon'. I thought that our Lu Mansion could take a breath, but I didn't expect that the remnants of the Ghost Face Cliff continued to hijack our and other families' goods halfway, and robbed us of several batches of valuable goods in a row. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Bufan let out a long breath of turbidity: "Based on the above reasons, our Lu Mansion's industry has repeatedly suffered heavy losses, so it will gradually be unable to make ends meet. In the past two or three years, I have basically been eating my old books, and this year I even had to start selling some fields and valuable items collected in the house to maintain my ......."

"Master Hou, please wait...... Let me think again. Lu Zhan suddenly made a silent gesture, he tilted his head sideways, squinted his eyes, and tried to think about something.

Seeing this, Lu Bufan couldn't help but be curious: "Is there something important that you remember?"

"yes, I remembered. Lu Zhan slapped his thigh violently: "I remembered an incident last winter. ”

"What's the matter?"

"It's about the Ghost Face Cliff robbing our Lu Mansion's goods," Lu Zhan's eyes flashed coldly, and he said in a deep voice: "In fact, it was not the Ghost Face Cliff that robbed our Lu Mansion's goods. It was done by Yan Mansion and the Secret Workshop pretending to be ghost face cliff thieves, especially the past incident that the Lu Mansion Secret Workshop was robbed of a large number of goods five years ago, which led to the closure of the business, was also done by the Yan Mansion. ”

"Zhan'er, what you said is true" Lu Bufan's eyes widened, showing a slight look of surprise: "How did you know about this?"

"I overheard it. Lu Zhan carefully told Lu Bufan about the conversation between the second master of the Yan Mansion and Qiu Fengfeng when he went to the stone forest of Zixia Mountain last winter to practice "Blood Light Slash", and accidentally ran into the second master of the Yan Mansion and Qiu Fengfeng when they were hanging in the place where Yan Dahai died.

"At that time, I heard them say that the man dressed as Ghostface Cliff had robbed their opponent, and he was very proud to tell the case of the secret workshop five years ago. It's just that at that time, I was so focused on practicing martial arts that I didn't care who they were talking about, so I didn't seriously think about the true meaning of those two people's words. Now after you mentioned this, Master Hou, I Huo Ran understands, it turns out that they are the real culprits who have been hijacking our Lu Mansion's goods and causing the Lu Mansion Secret Workshop to close. ”

Lu Bufan frowned, and only after half a sound did he smash his fist against the desk beside him angrily, and immediately smashed the rosewood desk, "These unscrupulous villains." He raised his voice and cursed: "No wonder the Yan Mansion has developed so rapidly in recent years, it turns out that it has relied on hijacking the goods of our Lu Mansion and other business travelers to support its fattening. Alas, it is also to blame that our Lu Mansion had the trouble of the third child, and it was only under internal and external difficulties that his Yan Mansion sat unscrupulously. ”

"These hateful creatures must not be spared. Lu Zhanhu stood up and said, "I'm going to settle accounts with them, and I have to turn their secret workshop upside down." ”

As he spoke, he was about to go out the door.

"Wait, a virtuous nephew can't make a mistake. ”

Lu Bufan urged his body and stopped in front of Lu Zhan: "What you are talking about now is only what you heard, and there is no conclusive evidence to prove them. If you make a fuss like this, there is no real evidence, but it is easy to startle the snake. Moreover, behind the secret workshop of his old Yan family, there is also a powerful world secret workshop alliance as an Austrian aid, if we have no tangible evidence and are regarded as vexatious, I am afraid that at that time, together with the secret fang alliance, we will start a war with us. ”

"If we start a war, we will start a war, will we not be afraid of these insidious villains?" Lu Zhan said excitedly.

There is a way to block people's wealth is like a great feud between life and death, and Lu Zhan didn't haunt it before, but he is now the next heir of the Lu Mansion, so it's no wonder that he is really angry for the Yan family's evil action of forcibly seizing his property!