Chapter 22: The Heart of the Calf
Whoever clears out the group of foxes that obstruct the trade route, the interests of the mortal trade of this trade route will belong to whoever owns it, this matter is quite deserved, and it was strongly promoted by the Zhao family at that time.
At that time, Zhao Pingsong thought that the three Han families were the weakest, the Lu family was second, and the Zhao family was the strongest. Neither Lu nor Han had monks in the Enlightenment Period, and unless the Zhuji monks had special divine sense and spiritual ability, they would not be able to catch those foxes.
There are no such people in the Lu and Han families.
In contrast, the Zhao family was the easiest to clear out that group of foxes. The Zhao family has a foundation-building monk, who has cultivated a divine soul method, and he is a little more powerful in this regard.
If you go back and invite the senior monk of that family, you can easily open up the trade route, and won't this income fall into the hands of their Zhao family?
The income from the trade between the two counties, even if it is just mortal trade, can accumulate about twenty spirit stones in a year, which is enough to support two Qi cultivators.
Not to mention, if you control the income of a trade route, you can set up a special caravan to operate, and the income will be greatly improved; if you occupy an outward trade route, you can also arrange a fat difference in the county government, so that the family's control over Pingyao County will be further increased......
Unexpectedly, the monk of the family did not have time to come over in a short time, and this matter dragged on for five years.
Originally, Zhao Pingsong thought it was nothing, and the remaining two families couldn't solve this problem anyway, but he didn't expect that the Lu family would suddenly solve it.
To be honest, this is a bit beyond Zhao Pingsong's expectations.
He was sure that the Lu family would take advantage of this matter to further seek control of Pingyao County.
But he thought about it for a moment, and then he felt that this was not a good thing.
I was still thinking about what his son Zhao Qing'an did, which caused the Lu family to rise up, so that the interests of the Zhao family in Pingyao County were damaged.
If the Lu family wants to fight for more benefits, let them fight for it, and he only needs to transfer the previous losses to this time, and he can smooth out the previous shortfall. For this reason, when the Lu family wants to fight for benefits this time, it doesn't matter if they let it out a little more.
Anyway, it is the family interests that are lost. The income handed over by Pingyao County has to be given to the family, not to his own pocket. In contrast, it is more important to protect his son from punishment.
Of course, he didn't defeat the demon fox but let the Lu family take the lead, and there will definitely be questions in the family, but the problem is not too big. After all, he had already reported this matter to the family a long time ago, and it was the family that had not sent the foundation building monk who was good at searching for divine sense, what did it have to do with him Zhao Pingsong?
After thinking about the whole thing clearly, how to talk to Lu Chaojun, the fifth elder of the Lu family, about the next thing, he was also sure in his heart.
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Lu Chaojun is eighty-seven years old this year, and his cultivation is a ninth-level cultivator, and he is a three-spirit root monk.
It stands to reason that Sanlinggen's talent is neither good nor too bad, when his father was still there before, the resources were sufficient, and he had every chance to impact the foundation building period.
But when he was young, he was ignorant, he felt that he had a Jindan ancestor as his father, he was not afraid of anything, he was a little greedy for red dust, wandering in the wind and snow, and he also used his father's name to cause a lot of right and wrong, and after being ruthlessly educated by Lu Qing a few times, he only restrained a little.
In terms of cultivation, it is definitely not hard work, and the progress of cultivation is not fast.
Later, the family was ruined, of course, he was also sharpened, his personality was much better, and he was more down-to-earth, and he was willing to make up his mind to cultivate hard.
The prodigal son does not change his money, and the time that can be passed cannot be made up.
After the decline of the family, the resources were far from being comparable to when Lu Qing was still there, and his talent, which was not good, did not allow him to reverse the situation. By the time he reached the ninth level of Qi training, he was already more than sixty years old, and his qi and blood had decayed, and he had missed the opportunity to build a foundation.
If this is the case, Lu Chaojun will also practice the ninth layer of qi in this life, and he will be about one hundred and twenty years old.
Of course, regret is regret, but at such an age, he has gradually understood some truths: the sins he has created, he bears them.
Pingyao County has always been a very important piece of income for the family, especially after the decline, more than 200 spirit stones per year is also a lot of money, so naturally an important family monk is needed.
In the past, there was a family of Zhuji monks who took turns to sit in charge, and then the struggle between the Zhao and Lu families subsided, although the relationship was still bad, but the Zhao family withdrew the Zhuji monks, and there was no need for the Lu family to continue to keep, so they only sent people from the ninth layer of Qi cultivation to come over.
Lu Chaojun is that person.
This time, his seventh brother Lu Chaohe sent news that the big cave fox group on the trade road had been cleaned up by the family, and he immediately understood what the seventh brother wanted to express, and began to prepare to form a caravan to Luyi County, and after those fox skins were delivered, they were shown to the outside.
Subsequently, as expected, he received a message from Zhao Pingsong and asked him to talk about things.
Before going to Zhao Pingsong, he was prepared for hard negotiations. That guy wasn't an easy guy to deal with, and he was an old fox.
But after coming back from talking to Zhao Pingsong, he felt that the whole thing seemed a little dreamy.
When it comes to interests, it's always the lion who opens his mouth and talks slowly. He first proposed a condition that he felt was already very favorable in advance, and he was ready to fight Zhao Pingsong for a long time, but the other party was far softer than he imagined. In one afternoon, the two sides reached an agreement on the matter of business, and the Lu family got a lot more than expected.
Of course he was very happy, but after he came out, he always felt that something was wrong, when did this old thing of the Zhao family become so easy to talk to?
He thought about it carefully, but he couldn't imagine what was wrong with the things he talked to Zhao Pingsong about just now.
"Could it be that there will be a problem in execution?" Thinking about it this way, he decided that when he established a caravan and got the benefits that belonged to the Lu family in the future, he must keep an eye on it, so as not to make a ghost for the Zhao family.
The follow-up proved that he thought too much.
The Zhao family showed quite sincerity, and the good things they talked about were not bad, and they gave everything that should be given.
Ten days later, the first wave of caravans departed, and two months later, normal trade between Pingyao and Luyi counties resumed.
Lu Chaojun stared at this matter tightly, and after staring at it for more than a year, the wind and waves were calm, and the Zhao family really didn't have any ghosts.
This is a bit strange, but Lu Chaojun couldn't imagine that the whole thing turned out to be because Zhao Pingsong didn't report it truthfully to the family in order to cover up his son's mistakes.