Chapter 87: Behind the Interception
When Luo Yangde, Luo Zifeng, father and son were sitting in front of Luo Xiao sincerely and telling the truth, a whole day and night had passed since the incident.
The sudden death and injury of so many people was a relatively serious case for the "Dongjiang City" under the jurisdiction of the incident, but fortunately, the matter was relatively "simple": a group of robbers attacked this team that looked like it was rich in oil and water, causing serious casualties. Fortunately, there was a hidden samurai in the team, who counterattacked, and the robbers were all wiped out.
Such an official document seems to be quite harmonious, as for more details, such as the fact that there is a well-known sixth-order early stage wild samurai "snake halberd" She Qingzhu among the robbers, but it was a nameless wild samurai who killed him, why is an ordinary team actually involved in the level of samurai, etc....... These things, after Luo Yangde reported his name and a sum of money and spilled out, were finally pressed.
In fact, Luo's father and son had anger in their hearts, first plotting and then intercepting and killing, and killing them all, causing most of the casualties among the servants, and no one could swallow this breath...... However, they clearly have some scruples and do not want to make a statement. asked Luo Xiao's opinion, and was surprised to find that Luo Xiao also asked them to press the matter down and not involve themselves.
Luo Yangde has not been in vain for decades, and immediately realized that Luo Xiao's identity was most likely problematic, and he did not hesitate to do so - if the father and son's previous feelings towards Luo Xiao were only grateful to the other party for giving medicine to continue their lives, then the current Luo Xiao, whether it was saving the lives of their father and son from the hands of the three killers or the identity of a sixth-order warrior, was enough for the father and son to treat each other with a respectful attitude.
"We are the side branch of the Gyeonggi Luo family, and before Yijiazi, the seventh ancestor of the Luo family, Cheng Zhanggong, was just a cloth cloth. Cheng Zhanggong was extremely talented, and in just seven years after becoming a disciple of Shengjing Xiuwutang, he was promoted to a warrior. Because he was deeply appreciated by the emperor and the emperor, he was promoted to the guard, and later as the commander of the guard, and was able to give the field house in Gyeonggi Xifu. Cheng Zhanggong was finally retired as the chief teacher of the above Qing Mansion, and he was already the strength ......of the Qinglong Samurai at that time."
Luo Yangde first recounted the glorious history of his ancestors, which was called a dancing eyebrow, looking excited, and the process was inevitably longer.
Luo Xiao can also understand this kind of feeling, and he listens patiently.
"Under the blessing of Chengzhang Gong, my Luo clan has spread out, and its descendants are all over the counties of Gyeonggi, Qijiang, Yunzhou, and Nanping, and there is even a branch in Xinghai Country......"
Luo Xiao nodded, knowing in his heart that Luo Yangde was a branch of Yunzhou.
"Chengzhang Gong Zhongxing Luo clan, so that the Luo family from just three households, cloth family, to Gyeonggi Wang, martial arts family. However...... Since the Luo clan became Zhanggong, no one has been promoted to a samurai......" Luo Yangde said this, his voice was low, and Luo Zifeng on the side showed a ashamed expression on his face, bowing his head and saying nothing.
Luo Xiao listened for a long time except for hearing a round of the Luo family's development history, and couldn't hear anything else, so he was inevitably a little impatient: "Then?"
"Then ......" Luo Yangde also heard the young warrior's tone impatient, coughed dryly, and was about to speak.
Luo Zifeng, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke: "Because it involves the martial arts system, it's up to me to talk about it." Presumably, Brother Luo also knows that after a warrior is promoted to a samurai, as long as he passes the imperial court assessment and registers on the record, he can become a scholar and obtain the rewards of the field house and the resources of the spirit stone. ”
Luo Xiao nodded, of course he knew this, this was also the ultimate pursuit of almost all the disciples of the Martial Arts Hall who had been cultivating for ten years of hard work.
Luo Zifeng said in a low voice: "But the imperial court also stipulates that these rewards can only be inherited by the samurai family, if the current samurai dies, and there are no samurai in the future, the reward will be withdrawn......"
Luo Xiao nodded slowly, as a disciple of the Martial Arts Hall, he still knew this common sense.
In this world, if there are samurai from generation to generation, it shows that the family is strong and has a "valuable heritage" and is worthy of the court's wooing. If one generation is not as good as the next, and there is not even a sixth-order warrior, why do you have so much wealth and resources? The imperial court will also have a certain amount of compensation if it is withdrawn, and if it is targeted by other powerful families, I am afraid that even the belt bones will be swallowed up.
At this time, I heard Luo Yangde sigh and said: "These are not nothing, and what the court has taken back is only the part that was rewarded at the beginning, and what is really difficult to give up is the spirit stone resources......"
Luo Xiao faintly guessed the reason when he heard this. After becoming a registered samurai of the imperial court, those good fields and beautiful houses are good, but after a few decades of making a fortune, how can a big family that has spread everywhere still rely on the little land property at the beginning? Even if it is taken back by the imperial court, it will not be painful, and the loss will not be much, and what really makes the whole family unbearable is the loss of resources.
The spirit stone veins and various high-quality cultivation resources are basically in the hands of the imperial court, and a small amount is in the hands of powerful and powerful gatekeepers with a long heritage. And whether it is a warrior to be promoted to a warrior, or a low-level warrior to a high-level warrior, they can't avoid spirit stones and resources - hoping to absorb that barren and pitiful heaven and earth aura, even if they cultivate to death, they can't condense a spirit bud.
The higher the level, the better the quality of the spirit stones, and the more resources - if you don't even have a samurai in your family, then I'm sorry, these things have nothing to do with you.
A family without a samurai originally needed these resources the most, hoping to build a samurai from these, but because there were no samurai in the family, they were not eligible to obtain these resources, so a vicious circle was formed...... In the end, the strong will always be strong, and the weak will always be weak, and the family will prosper as a samurai, but also lose because there are no samurai.
Therefore, for the current Luo family, try your best to get a warrior out of the family, otherwise the Luo family will be eliminated from the scholar class, slowly decay, and finally reduced to an ordinary Xiangkun family. Although the future generations have no worries about food and clothing, their social status has plummeted, and they are not the same as the famous families of the past.
At this time, Luo Yangde finally explained the real reason for this trip to Beijing: "The Luo clan has been in business for many years, and it has some background, and after the patriarch convened all the family elders to discuss, he made up his mind and used some of the resources accumulated over the years to exchange for a medium-grade spirit stone and a high-grade flesh spirit stone, plus a seven-leaf red jade grass, ready to select a Luo family disciple from all branches of the family who has reached the fifth order consummation and has the most potential to be promoted, and give the above resources to make him a warrior and revitalize the family......'s reputation."
I see, Luo Xiao understands it all now. Indeed, if a fifth-order consummate martial artist can obtain such good things as a medium-grade spirit stone, a high-grade flesh spirit stone, and a seven-leaf red jade grass, the promotion rate can be increased by seven or eight percent. Of course, this kind of high-end cultivation resources that have no price and no market, except for the clan, I am afraid that it is only available in the hands of some family gate valves, and it is not difficult to imagine how much the Luo clan has paid.
It is precisely because he understands that Luo Xiao can better understand the despair of Luo's father and son - being plotted like this, reviving the family reputation or something, basically has nothing to do with the father and son.
As for the masterminds behind the hiring of She Qingzhu's killers, even if the Luo father and son had scruples and didn't say it, Luo Xiao could roughly guess according to the basic principle of "who has the motivation and who benefits".
This is someone else's family matter, or a family ugliness, Luo Xiao naturally didn't bother to pay attention to it, figure out the cause and effect, and don't be confused, but he still has one last question: "Since your Luo clan's Gyeonggi clan doesn't want the branch to take advantage of this, you can just digest those resources quietly, and it is normal for the clan to have a samurai at that time, and the branches will not be unconvinced, why do you have to go to great lengths to gather the children of the qualified branches in various places, and then use such means...... You wouldn't say that there is not even a fifth-order consummation martial artist, right?"
Luo Xiao had some words to the end, and he believed that Luo Yangde would understand.
Luo Yangde really understood, smiled bitterly, and said, "The sect family does have a fifth-order consummation martial artist, and there is more than one, but this matter is ...... It should have nothing to do with the clan. ”
Looking at Luo Xiao's puzzled expression, Luo Yangde didn't sell Guan Zi: "The fifth-order consummate martial artist of the sect family, the youngest one, is already thirty-five, and this time the children of the Luo family, who are qualified to enter Beijing to compete for promotion resources, must be under thirty, the younger the better." ”
It turns out that the clan really doesn't meet the requirements, so in this way, most of the motivated ones are a branch of a certain family.
Luo Xiao thought for a moment and nodded lightly: "This is to make this generation of warriors protect the family for a longer time......
"It's not just for that. Luo Zifeng, who had been silent, had a rare red tide on his face, and said in an excited tone, "To do this, it is more important to ...... The new generation of warriors of the Luo clan will be able to participate in the 'Battle of Tianjiao'!"