After a while, Deng Hua walked in from outside the door, Liu Xun didn't have a good face for the family, and after reluctantly coping with his subordinates, he asked him to sit down, Deng Hua could only find a place to sit down nervously.

Since the head of the Lu family set the plan to oppose land reform, the Deng family has been one of the pioneers, but he really can't understand why Liu Xun called him here.

After Deng Hua sat down, Liu Xun suddenly turned cold and shouted to Deng Hua: "Your Deng family is terrible, you have done a lot of big things recently, not only instructing the children of the family to resist the land reform of the official, but also daring to control the Lujiang rice shop, using the power of the family to wantonly raise the price of rice.

There are a lot of crimes committed by the children of the family, one of your sons robbed the people's daughters, and more than once, he actually killed people because of usury, and the nephew who served as a subordinate official of Taishou made a lot of money in the name of taxation, and dared to secretly help embezzle taxes and falsify accounts, my Deng patriarch, Ben Taishou is not wrong, right? ”

Deng Hua's thousands of thoughts flashed through his mind, I don't know what Liu Xun is doing, is he using himself to warn other people who resist land reform? But no matter what the case is, with so much incriminating evidence in Liu Xun's hands, he knows that the family is in big trouble.

However, Deng Hua is the head of the clan after all, and it is impossible to say that he has no ability. Although his heart was weak and afraid, he stiffened his face and said: "Lord Taishou, these grass people really don't know, and I hope that the adults will not blame." ”

"Hahaha. Ignorance? After Liu Xun laughed a few times, he praised: "Patriarch Deng answered well, the responsibility is clean, but Ben Taishou doesn't like it very much, Ben Taishou hates ambiguous people the most, and he hates those who follow the old puppet of the Lu family and shout." ”

Liu Xun stared at Deng Hua in front of him with eyes like looking at a dead man, Deng Hua seemed to be surrounded by a cold murderous aura all over his body at this moment, and his face suddenly changed greatly, and he was as white as paper.

Liu Xun looked at Deng Hua, who was trembling all over, and said coldly: "Patriarch Deng, to be honest, Ben Taishou didn't want to see you tonight, but he still called you, you must be very curious about the reason, right?" You may think, is this too shou I want to take your Deng family and warn the Lu family, I can only tell you that you don't overestimate yourself too much.

There is a general in your Deng family, named Deng Qiang, you definitely don't know who this person is? But he was one of the first generals to follow Ben Taishou to the death, and he made great achievements. Ben Taishou is looking at his face and doesn't want him to suffer because of the loss of his loved ones. But if you're still obsessed after tonight, don't blame me for being ruthless. ”

"Deng Qiang?" Deng Hua couldn't help but be a little puzzled

Liu Xun said coldly: "Patriarch Deng, Ben Taishou has no patience, I have given you a chance today, and I have already given General Deng Qiang's face." Ben Taishou shows you a way out, according to Ben Taishou's intelligence, the Lu family will besiege the county government tomorrow, your Deng family must clearly oppose it, and openly support Ben Taishou's reform, and at the same time hand over your nephew and son who are causing trouble everywhere, from now on restrain the clansmen and act in a low-key manner, otherwise, except for Deng Qiang's direct line, no one in your Deng family will be able to see the sun the day after tomorrow, don't question what Ben Taishou said today. ”

In the face of such a naked threat, Deng Hua was suddenly startled, his face was cloudy, and the sweat of the bean was rolling down.

Liu Xun took a step forward and said coldly: "You can think that Ben Taishou is provoking the Lujiang clan, but you remember, there is only one chance." ”

Watching Liu Xun coming, Deng Hua's pressure increased dramatically, he couldn't help but tremble all over, sweat had already wet his entire back, and his heart struggled fiercely, whether to obey or disobey, to obey is to be the enemy of the entire Lujiang clan, if Liu Xun is just a paper tiger, then the Deng family may be forced by various clans to fall into a desperate situation, and disobey? The entire family was destroyed, and Deng Hua couldn't afford such a price.

Reason told Deng Hua that no matter how brutal Liu Xun was, it would be impossible to destroy a family, let alone slaughter the Lujiang family. But for some reason, Deng Hua had an inexplicable fear of Liu Xun in his heart.

How do I choose? Deng Hua felt that the decisions he made in his life were not as difficult to choose as they are now.

After half a ring, Deng Hua gritted his teeth and said to Liu Xun: "Cao, the grass people are willing to obey the will of Taishou, but other families will definitely be embarrassed by me in the future......"

"It depends on your own luck, Ben Taishou can't give you any guarantees." Liu Xun said coldly: "Ming Japan Taishou only depends on your attitude, and the rest, Ben Taishou can't control it." ”

"Yes, yes." Deng Hua trembled and responded a few times, then retreated from the hall, and when the night breeze blew, he found that his whole body was already wet with sweat, and even his shoes were full of sweat. The whole person seemed to be soaked in water.

In the house, I don't know when Deng Qiang had appeared in front of Liu Xun, bowed deeply to Liu Xun, and said very movingly: "Thank you for your success." ”

"If he doesn't listen to Ben Taishou's orders, and when Ben Taishou wields a knife, the Deng family's blood will flow like a river, will you resent me?" Liu Xun asked a little unbearably.

Deng Qiang took a step back, thinking of the scene of the clansmen falling into a sea of blood, he couldn't help but tremble, and only said to Liu Xun after half a sound: "Lord, you have already given them a chance, my family has long been cut off from them, and I ask the lord to pardon my family." ”

"What are you talking about, although I, Liu Xun, am not a good person, I naturally don't treat people close to me so cold-bloodedly. You are my confidant, and I certainly won't embarrass you. At that time, if Deng Huazhen does something out of the ordinary, Ben Taishou will allow you to protect the people close to you. Liu Xun replied very dryly.

Deng Qiang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and bowed: "Thank you for your great kindness." ”

"Alright, get up."

At this time, Liu Panjin walked in from outside, Liu Xun waved his hand to let Deng Qiang out, and asked Liu Panjin a little eagerly: "Will the children of the Hanmen of Lujiang County be loyal to us?" ”

If the family is disobedient tomorrow, the officials of the Lujiang clan will almost be killed, and their positions must be replaced, Liu Xun sent Liu Pan to persuade those children of the poor family, so that those children of the poor family can take over their extra positions, although Liu Panjin is not very in favor of Liu Xun to deal with the family, but at this time, Liu Xun has made up his mind, and he can no longer persuade him, so he can only obey Liu Xun's will, hoping to have a stable Lujiang County as much as possible after the destruction of the family.

But Liu Panjin still shook his head helplessly, and said to Liu Xun: "Although these children of the poor family are talented, they are afraid of the world, and they are even more afraid of causing the revenge of the world, so they dare not promise to take over the vacant position, and find some high-sounding reasons to prevaricate. ”

Liu Xun let out a sigh of relief and said, "This is what I expected, didn't I find a few brave people?" ”

"No......" Liu Panjin said very simply

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The weather was sunny on the second day, Liu Xun only slept for two hours last night, and the patriarch of the Lu family was also busy all night, and discussed with several patriarchs of the Lujiang clan all night, preparing to complete his work today and completely dispel Liu Xun's idea of reform.

Sure enough, early in the morning, hundreds of people gathered to go to the county government, surrounded at the gate of the county government, because Liu Xun did not interfere, the people knew about the reform early in the morning, because the reform was beneficial to them, the butt decided the head, most of these people were on Liu Xun's side.

At this moment, the people on both sides of the street went out to watch, these crowds of people gathered to make trouble, there were scholars, gentry, and even ordinary people involved, almost including all the three religions and nine streams, they shouted slogans against reform, the Lu family and other patriarchs of various ethnic groups watched on the side, but what made them strange was that the gate of the county government was closed today, and there was no figure on the three poles in the sun.

The patriarchs smiled similarly, only thinking that Liu Xun was afraid of public opinion and did not dare to resist in person, and everyone couldn't help but feel even more proud when they thought of this.

In the county government, Liu Xun sat on the main seat of the hall with a cold face, Wang Hao stood next to him according to his sword, the hall was cold, all the officials of the Lujiang County Government were basically there, looking at the many officials below, each brain was full of fat. Liu Xun couldn't help but flash a trace of killing intent in his eyes, and said coldly: "Summoning you today, Ben Taishou has only one order, those who support reform stand on the left, and those who oppose stand on the right." ”

Officials, you look at me, I look at you, all waiting for others to be the first bird. At the front of the crowd there was an official who looked like a white-faced scholar, this person was called Lu He, who was born in the Lu family, the largest family in Lujiang. Seeing that everyone didn't dare to express their stance at this moment, he was very disdainful in his heart, and thinking of the explanation of the head of the family, Lu He walked to the right very disapprerovingly in front of everyone.

After Lu He walked to the right, he found that these people were still hesitating and did not follow, and he couldn't help but be a little angry. He glared at the men fiercely.

The people of the family saw Lu He as the first bird, and the contemptuous gaze. Looking at Liu Xun's face that did not change much, the other clan officials also chose to follow up after some hesitation and walked to Lu He's side.

But after they finished, they couldn't help but be a little stunned, and few of the people from the poor family chose to follow up.

In fact, at this moment, most of the children of the poor family are also struggling fiercely, they were recruited by Liu Panjin last night, where can I not hear that Liu Xun wants to attack the county officials, today Liu Xun has a bad face, between being bullied by the chief official and sending him to death, these subordinate officials have chosen the former, hesitated, but they all bowed their heads and did not dare to look directly at Lu He and others, and slowly walked to the left.

"Have you chosen them all? Ben Taishou solemnly stated that there is only one chance. If you choose, there is no turning back. Liu Xun walked down the steps and said in a cold voice.

At this moment, Fa Cao Shi Deng Wei suddenly took a step forward, and then quickly ran to the left to stand still, causing a burst of surprise and anger among the other officials, Deng Wei didn't dare to look up, he just remembered Deng Hua's words last night, he didn't believe it at the time, but now seeing Liu Xun's cold eyes, he believed it.