Chapter 933: Clan Assembly

The Li family's request for help in the water of Taicang Mansion is like a gap in the eggshell, although Zhou Yu did not promise too many conditions, but in the current situation, the Li family no longer has too many choices.

Li Changqing stayed in Suzhou City for only one day and hurriedly rushed back to Linshui County with people, and Linshui County is now almost a mob world, the county seat has long been breached, and along the way, most of the villages and towns in the past three miles and one village and five miles and one village have become ruins.

The Li family's local foundation can be said to be destroyed, although nominally these lands are still the property of the Li family, but these villages are the roots of the Li family's roots, and if the roots are destroyed, if you want to restore the power of the Li family, even if there are no foreign forces to intervene, it will cost the Li family all their efforts, plus at least ten years of work.

And the Li family wants to restore the glory of the past, is it possible, obviously impossible, the commander of the Zhou army in Suzhou has explained that Da Chu can't tolerate them, the big landlords who dominate one side, and the only way to give them is to belong, and then agree to those two conditions, giving up the foundation of the Li family for three hundred years.

Li Changqing didn't dare to make a decision on this condition, the matter involved the future of the Li family's ancestors, even his father estimated that he would not dare to make a decision, and eighty percent would hold a clan meeting for each room of the family.

From the ground, it is impossible to enter Lijiabao, although these mobs are completely unorganized, even the camping is a mess, there is no charter, and between the various parts, it is also a mess, it is not a big problem for them to mix in, but most of the superstructure of Lijiabao has fallen, and he has been out for three days, it is estimated that this last position will not be able to hold on.

Li Changqing took people to the Lijia River seven or eight miles upstream into the water, the river is not far from Lijiabao, and there is a dark passage built at the bottom of the river, down the river, under the cover of night, a few people all the way to the river bank There is a big banyan tree in the water section, and then dived to the bottom of the river.

With the light of the night pearl in their hands, several people directly picked up the roots of an old banyan tree and drilled into a tunnel.

Li Jiabao is actually a very large family, if you pick up the number of families, even the four major families, the four wealthy families are also slightly inferior, generally, after a family grows and grows, it will divert out a part of the family, spread out in other places, and also reduce the burden of the family.

And the big landlords in Taicang are the opposite, from the beginning of the ancestors, generation after generation has lived together, this has a strong surname, Lijiabao is only within five suits of no less than 100,000 people, and in Linshui County, there are more than seventy percent of the population, surnamed Li, and this Li is also a family of Li.

It is precisely because of this that the hundreds of landlords in Taicang can take root in Taicang, and people dare not move lightly, because they have been completely connected with this land, and if they want to clear them, they must move tens of millions of people in Taicang.

As the saying goes, although this plague has caused great trauma to Yangzhou, it has to be said that it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and Leng Zhuo does not need to pay for it!

Li Changqing said the conditions he got in Su Cheng, and then looked at his father silently, Li Changqing's father was only sixty years old, and he was originally well maintained, but after only a few months of hard work, his temples were already gray.

After a long time, Li Guichang sighed and said, "Changqing, go and invite the uncles and elders of each family to the ancestral hall!"

The ancestral hall of the Li family is in the center of the underground palace, it is a very magnificent hall, the center of the hall is a ladder pillar altar, like a pyramid, from the top of a spiritual position, to the second layer of several spiritual positions, each next layer, the spiritual position is several times more, and these can enter the ancestral hall, for the descendants of the Li family to worship, are all for the Li family to do their best, the ancestors who have contributed.

The entire underground palace is constantly expanding, expanding under the ground, and this pyramid will continue to increase, and the prosperity of the Li family is vividly reflected in this ancestral hall.

The people in each room of the Li family have sent the most respectable people, just like that, there are enough two or three hundred people, densely packed, but there are so many people, there is no noise, or even order.

Li Gui saw that the people were almost here, so he took a deep breath and said: "My Li family, from one generation of ancestors to the present, has been passed down for thirteen generations, there are two hundred and thirty-two veins in each branch, and two hundred and thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and ninety-six people, today the patriarch of this clan convened this clan meeting, and there is only one topic!"

"Since March, there has been a plague in Yangzhou, only less than half a year, the plague has spread all over Yangzhou, the government is incompetent, resulting in the collapse of the place, the people are not living, and gradually become a riot, now the mob is raging in the place, there are countless people, where they pass, the villages and towns are a wasteland, the fields are mourning, and the plague is rampant!"

"In this environment, it is difficult for my Li family fort to be alone, since the influx of mobs, the whereabouts of countless people of my Li family outside are unknown, the village has been destroyed, and now the ancestral town of my Li family has also suffered from the impact of the mob, with thousands of dead and injured, and most of the town has been destroyed!"

"My Li family has reached the critical point of life and death, I have sent my son Changqing out to ask for help and support, however, the Yuhang Zhong family in the north, the Zhu family in the west of Orange Yang, and several nearby families are similar to our situation, and even the Zheng family in the northwest was slaughtered by the mob, and the clan died!"

As soon as Li Gui said this, everyone present immediately whispered.

After a while, the old man of Li Gui's uncle and uncle stood up and asked: "The situation is not optimistic now, we have also made preparations, the patriarch summoned me and others today, it should be to discuss how to face the current situation, I don't know if the patriarch has a plan!"

"Second uncle, all the elders, the alliance families, are now too busy to take care of themselves, and now the only force that can save my Li family is the nearby Great Chu Army, I have sent Changqing to Suzhou City, but Suzhou City has brought back two conditions! As long as my Li family agrees, the Great Chu Army will immediately rush to the aid and relieve the siege of my Li family!"

"Oh, I don't know what conditions the other party offers!"

Li Gui smiled bitterly and said, "First, my Li family wants to give up 100,000 hectares of land in Linshui and move from Linshui, and second, the clan guards will be incorporated into the Chu army!"

As soon as Li Gui's voice fell, it immediately caused a big uproar, and immediately some people objected: "No, moving from Linshui will not destroy the foundation of my Li family, my Li family has only had today's situation for three hundred years, how can you say that you will give up if you give up, that is 100,000 hectares of land!"

"That's it, absolutely not! I will never say yes!"

"Shut up for me!" Second Uncle Li Gui was considered to have the most prestige among the previous generation in the Li family, and when he roared, everyone below suddenly fell silent.

"Patriarch, what do you think!"

Li Gui was looked at by the second uncle, and his face was immediately bitter, but he knew that he couldn't express his position today, so he said with a bitter face: "Do we still have a choice, even if we survive the mob rebellion, Da Chu will not let us be the emperor of the soil, and now my Li family's foundation in the local area has long been cleaned up by this group of mobs, and our previous reliance is now gone!"

"If we don't agree, even if the mob can't help us, but what about the Great Chu Army, we have enough food and enough water underground, but how long can we hide and hide, a year, two years, or three years!"

"As long as the Chu army leveled the Li Family Fort, and then stationed some soldiers and horses, my Li family will have no way out, and Tian will still not be able to keep it, and even tens of thousands of people from the Li family will have to die underground!"

"Commander Zhou has already said that in addition to these two conditions, my Li family can take away the savings of many years and will be properly settled! Moreover, if the descendants of my Li family make meritorious contributions in the army, Da Chu will treat them equally. ”

"This day is still here, the tree has deep roots, and it is also the most windy, the patriarch's choice, I also agree, however, Tian can not do it, all the houses in the family can be moved, and even the children of the family can also serve Dachu, but there is only one point, Li Jiabao must be kept, the Li family ancestral hall is here, everything can be lost, the ancestors cannot be lost!"

"This is the only condition of my Li family, if Da Chu agrees, then we will agree to the other party's conditions!"

The clan assembly of the Li family was held for most of the day, and finally this resolution was finally passed with the support of the majority, and Li Changqing once again became the envoy of the Li family and led people to Suzhou City.

Zhou Yu got Li Changqing's reply, thought about it, and did not agree directly, because Leng Zhuo was in Yangzhou City, and the two places were not far apart, and it was better for His Majesty the King of Chu to decide this kind of thing, so Zhou Yu asked Li Changqing to wait in the mansion, and while he sent someone to Yangzhou to pass the news to Leng Zhuo, he began to dispatch troops.

He knew that this was the last condition of the Li family, as long as the Li family was willing to give up the land and carry out a large division, the clansmen were scattered all over the place, naturally there was no need to worry, and the disintegration of Taicang could be carried out smoothly, and there seemed to be no reason to refuse.

The messenger sent by Zhou Yu soon arrived in Yangzhou City, and at this moment, Yangzhou City has been taken by eighty percent, and the number of walking corpses is also being cleaned up one after another, and there is gradually not much left, and it is only a matter of time before Yangzhou City recovers.

However, Yangzhou City is now ten rooms and nine empty, and there are still many places in the city that have been destroyed by fire, even if they are intact, they are temporarily uninhabitable due to the impact of the walking corpse plague, so it is a long-term task to restore Yangzhou City, as prosperous as in the past.

And from Songjiang, the army dispatched by Jinfeng Mansion was also like a bamboo, and several streams of mobs were annihilated one after another, although the order of the entire Yangzhou has not been restored, but the overall situation is under control!

"Okay, the door of this golden Taicang can be regarded as being opened, as long as the Li family is subdued, the Taicang landlord alliance will be cracked, and it is time to go all out and completely solve the entire tumor!" Leng Zhuo received Zhou Yu's letter, and immediately shouted Okay, when he won Yangzhou, there was the landlord alliance in Taicang among the most troublesome problems, which is a difficult stone.

But now that this stone has finally cracked a crack, Leng Zhuo naturally won't let go of this opportunity!

"Pengju, you look at Yangzhou City, after cleaning up the city, I will pull the soldiers to the edge of Taicang Mansion, I will go to Suzhou first, if everything goes well, we will have another big granary!"

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