"I invite you today, just to say something!" Lu Chen glanced at Liu Jing, who was standing aside, and Liu Jing directly picked up the wine jar and began to pour wine for several family officials.

To be honest, the aroma of this wine had already attracted their attention, and if they hadn't been wary of Lu Chen, they would have wanted to taste it a long time ago.

Liu Jing took the wine jar and poured a full cup for these people, then returned to Lu Chen's side, put down the wine jar, and continued to stand on the side.

"Lu Xiangong, if you have something to say, just say it!" Xiao Yu looked around for a moment, and then as a representative of the family, he said to Lu Chen.

"Good! Since a few fast people are quick to talk, the prince is not verbose! Isn't it time to pay off their debts? Lu Chen looked at Zheng Shanguo, Wang Qi and Wei Ting, and said with a smile.

"The date of this appointment has not yet arrived, and Lu County Gong is so urgent, is there a little bit of shame for us?" As soon as they heard that Lu Chen directly opened his mouth to ask for debts, the three of them suddenly turned cold, Wei Ting looked at Lu Chen and said with a sneer.

"Face?" Hearing Wei Ting's words, Lu Chen also sneered, "To put it mildly, a few of you really don't have such a big face here, not to mention a few of you, even if you are the helmsman of your family, here in this father, whether you want to give face or not depends on your father's mood!" Lu Chen glanced at Wei Ting with disdain.

"Lu Xiangong, don't be overconfident! Our family can stand for a thousand years without falling, there must be means you can't imagine! Being said so unceremoniously by Lu Chen, these people were suddenly a little angry, and Xiao Yu directly warned Lu Chen with a gloomy face.

"To tell you the truth, your little tricks are all children's stuff in the eyes of my father!" Lu Chen continued to sneer and said, "My father has kindly invited you to a banquet, and when you come up, you will talk to your father coldly, it seems that I am afraid that I will not be able to eat this table today!" Lu Chen took a sip of wine from his glass and said with a sneer.

"This table wasn't so tasty! We haven't figured out how to eat this seat of Lu County Gong! Wang Jue on the side hugged his arms around his chest and snorted coldly.

"My father called you here today, just to let you pay off the debt, and then let's clear the two, you take your Yangguan Road, and this father takes his own single-plank bridge, judging from your attitude, this is nothing to talk about?" Lu Chen played with the wine glass, squinted at the several family officials in front of him, and asked in a low voice.

Although Lu Chen's moaning was a little low, there was a hint of threat in the ears of these people from the family.

"Lu Xiangong, are you threatening me?" Hearing Lu Chen's threatening words, several people suddenly became even more displeased, their faces were gloomy, Xiao Yu's eagle-like eyes flashed with cold light, staring at Lu Chen's face, and said in a rather gloomy voice.

"It's not a threat, it's just telling the truth!" Lu Chen waved his hand indifferently at Xiao Yu's eyes and said, looking like he was indeed telling the truth.

"This is the funniest joke the old man has ever heard!" Looking at Lu Chen's appearance of not taking everyone in his eyes, looking down on them is equivalent to looking down on the five surnames and seven wangs they represent, how could this not make them feel annoyed, and even they felt that it was a mistake to accept Lu Chen to participate in the banquet he hosted at this time.

Xiao Yu looked at Lu Chen with an angry smile and said coldly.

"Looks like we shouldn't have come!" At this time, Wei Ting on the side said coldly, and glanced at several other people at the same time, the meaning was obvious, these people felt that there was no need to talk to Lu Chen anymore, and they were ready to get up and leave.

In fact, in their hearts, at Lu Chen's invitation this time, coming to attend Lu Chen's banquet was already giving Lu Chen a big face, don't think that Zheng Wangwei and the three families made a bet with Lu Chen and lost a lot of things to Lu Chen.

In the eyes of ordinary people, there are a lot of these lands and mines, but compared with the heritage of the family, these things are not even a drop in the bucket, and they came this time only because they promised Lu Chen outside the Taiji Hall at that time, and at the same time, they also had a glimmer of hope, hoping that Lu Chen would be able to give in, but after coming, after seeing Lu Chen's attitude, they knew that they thought that Lu Chen wanted to be soft, and it was purely a fantasy.

"My father admits that the background of your family is indeed far beyond my father's imagination!" Lu Chen was still looking at the wine glass, but he raised his head and shot straight at Xiao Yu and the others who were sitting opposite him, "However, you have never thought about it, why doesn't this prince take your family in his eyes at all?" Lu Chen smiled slightly and looked at Xiao Yu.

The few people who originally wanted to get up and leave, after hearing Lu Chen's words, sat down directly, and their eyes converged on Lu Chen, as if they wanted to see through Lu Chen, and at the same time, they were also thinking about Lu Chen's words in their minds, because since they were on the line with Lu Chen, don't look at them all the time they have been suffering at Lu Chen's hands, but they really haven't looked at Lu Chen, the prince of Chang'an County.

Don't think that the last party was a plan, and how it was, but the plan has not been put into action, first, they really didn't get the opportunity, on the other hand, they also pondered later, for Lu Chen, a Chang'an county magistrate, if the plan is really confirmed, it will inevitably be a little too exciting, and second, the relationship between Li Jiancheng and Lu Chen is obviously deeper than they know, and their bargaining chips are all focused on Li Jiancheng, because they don't want to offend Li Jiancheng because of this matter.

Therefore, the plan to deal with Lu Chen has actually run aground.

And Lu Chen didn't deal with them, in fact, if you think about it carefully, the loss to them is not big, and it is more of a discouragement, but as soon as they were reminded of Lu Chen's words just now, they realized that Lu Chen was indeed right, since Lu Chen had a holiday with them, they talked about how to treat Lu Chen, but in fact, because of the relationship between the family, they have never faced Lu Chen.

I didn't even think about why Lu Chen dared to treat Wang Qi like that when they met for the first time and were in the Taiji Palace.

Several people couldn't help but look at Lu Chen, who was sitting opposite with a wine glass pouring himself a drink, eating the dishes in a leisurely state, and fell into deep thought.

But even if they want to break their heads, they can't think of what kind of background they have to support Lu Chen, so that the young man in front of them dares to face the five surnames and seven wangs at the same time, of course, they have also considered the Li family today, but what is going on with the Li family, they know better than Lu Chen, from how the Li family started to how they got their current status, they are all witnesses, they are confident, in this regard, they have more say than the young man who suddenly appeared on the other side.

"Lu Xiangong, you are bluffing!" After pondering for a long time, these people didn't figure it out, where is the background of Lu Chen's daring to be like this? Just because of his few inventions? Xiao Yu and these literati didn't think that what those craftsmen could do could make any big waves, so Xiao Yu looked directly at Lu Chen and said coldly.

"Bluffing?" Hearing Xiao Yu's words, Lu Chen smiled, "Since you think that my father is bluffing, then if you look at this, you will know if my father is bluffing!" Lu Chen said and took out a small pottery bottle from his arms, and then handed it to Liu Jing, Liu Jing held the small pottery bottle in both hands, and after placing it in front of Xiao Yu and others, he returned to his original position.

Those people didn't understand why Lu Chen suddenly took out a small clay bottle and put it in front of him, but since it had already been delivered, Xiao Yu was not polite, and directly picked up the small clay bottle and pulled out the stopper, and suddenly some white lens powder fell on the table with the plug pulled out.

"This is?!" Seeing those white lens powders, Xiao Yu's face changed, he was very familiar with this kind of thing, if the Zheng family in the five surnames and seven wangs was the family with the most iron ore, then the Lanling Xiao family in the Guanlong Eight family could be said to have the most salt ponds.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the salt and iron tax was also inherited from the Sui system and was not collected, that is to say, the salt and iron at this time were still sold privately and were not nationalized.

Why can the Xiao family become one of the eight families of Guan Long, and at the same time, the Xiao family can fund Li Yuan to raise troops, if there is no salt business that can make huge profits, where can the Xiao family get so much money to support Li Yuan?

So as soon as the white lens powder fell, Xiao Yu could see what it was, Xiao Yu couldn't wait to confirm the contents of the pottery bottle, directly trembled his hand, and tilted the mouth of the pottery bottle, and at this time, the white lens powder at the mouth of the pottery bottle poured out like running water, and soon gathered into a small white sandbag in front of Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu stretched out his finger and dipped it a little, and then licked it with his tongue, when the inherent taste of salt spread in Xiao Yu's mouth, Xiao Yu's face couldn't help but change greatly, because the taste was purer than the highest grade salt produced by their Xiao family, and there was no bitter taste at all.

Looking at the snow-like salt again, Xiao Yu suddenly changed several times as if he had been struck by thunder, and then looked up at Lu Chen, gritted his teeth and said, "Could it be that this is the dependence of Lu County Gong?" ”

"This?" Looking at Xiao Yu's gritted teeth, Lu Chen smiled slightly, "This is just one of them, as far as my father knows, your Xiao family lives on this, if my father sends this kind of salt to the market to sell, I don't know if your Xiao family can bear it?" Lu Chen smiled at Xiao Yu and said.

"Humph! Lu Xiangong, if you want to scare the old man with these salts in this pottery bottle, does Lu Xiangong treat the old man as a three-year-old child? Xiao Yu looked at the table salt on the table, then at the small clay bottle, and said with a sneer.