My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 87 New Master
Three days later, Lu Yi was pleasantly surprised to see the Zhen caravan that arrived earlier.

The Zhen family is indeed worthy of being the leading merchant family in Jizhou and Hebei. Even the caravan that delivers goods is larger than the caravan after Lu Yi's expansion.

There were 120 carts for transporting food alone, and 200 carts for other supplies, which was twice as many as the Lv Yi caravan. Behind the caravan were more than young men with complicated and confused faces. These people should be the servants sold by the Zhen family to Lv Yi.
"Brother Lu, I haven't seen you for several days. Don't blame me for coming here uninvited!" The caravan was actually led by the young patriarch of the Zhen family himself. After more than ten days of traveling, his handsome appearance remained unchanged, and his clothes were still spotless without even a wrinkle, which made Lu Yi marvel at it.

"Oh my, I didn't expect Brother Zhen to lead the team himself. You can stay in Jiuyuan for a few days first, so that I can show some hospitality. In a few days, it will be my wedding day, so I can also invite Brother Zhen to have a drink at the wedding."

"Haha, I already knew about Brother Lu's wedding before I came here, and I specially followed my father's order to bring Brother Lu some farm tools and seeds worth one million dollars as a token of my appreciation." Zhen Yi laughed when he heard it, and pointed to the back of the convoy. It turned out that dozens of extra cars were loaded with farm tools and seeds.

"Brother Zhen treats me very well. I feel guilty about letting Zhen spend so much money!" Lu Yi was greeting him on the surface, but in his heart he frowned at Zhen's behavior.

No one in their group revealed this news to Zhen.

The coachmen outside the city were always under his supervision and it was impossible for them to contact Zhen privately.

If Zhen could learn the news of Mayi, hundreds of miles away, so quickly, she must have acquired the information on her own initiative. The most likely way was that she was brought back by Manager Zhen who had previously collected horses from Mayi.

Manager Zhen had only been in Mayi for three days, and surprisingly he had time to collect such information. Lu Yi suddenly realized that he had really underestimated this family that had always presented itself as merchants.

I have the reputation of being a prophet, and this Zhen is so deliberate in collecting information, I'm afraid she has other plans in secret!
Yes, the wealth accumulated by the Zhen family over hundreds of years is itself a huge hot potato.

An innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. Without any skills, no matter how rich the Zhen family is, they will only become fat meat in the mouths of the powerful.

It seems that I have to be more cautious when dealing with Zhen in the future.

Lu Yi's mind was full of thoughts, and the outside world just flashed by.

"My father thinks highly of Brother Lu. It's rare to find someone who is so highly regarded by my father. A mere million dollars of supplies is nothing."

Zhen's face looked extremely relaxed, as if to him one million yuan was just a broken copper coin left by someone on the roadside, and he was too lazy to even bend down to pick it up.

"They are really wealthy!" Upon hearing this, Lu Bu, who was standing behind Lu Yi, couldn't help but sigh at the wealth of the Zhen family.

After Zhen Yi came to Jiuyuan, Lu Yi wanted to entertain this Prince God of Wealth first, but Zhen Yi took the initiative to ask to go for a stroll in Jiulihe Bay.

Lu Yi thought that he was just worried that his words were unfounded and that Lu Wu, who was used as collateral for the reception, did not exist, so he happily took him to visit the large construction site in Jiulihewan.

It just so happens that these new servants and supplies also need to be moved to Jiuheli, so as not to trouble two masters, they can just ask Zhen’s caravan to send them on their way.

After arriving at the construction site, Zhen Yi took a quick look at the size of Zhang's construction team and the piled up construction materials, and immediately had a general impression of the scale of Luwu. He couldn't help but admire his father Zhen's unique vision.

"The foundation of the fortress built by Lu Yi is not the size of the small fortress he mentioned. It is large even among medium-sized fortresses and is very close to a large-sized fortress."

"This is a cold and bitter land of Jiuyuan, with a vast area and few people. How could there be so many people to fill the fort? Lu Yi built the fort so big, it seems that he really has big plans as my father said!"

However, even though Zhen Yi had some guesses about Lu Yi's ambitions, he did not intend to distance himself from him. Instead, he planned to go back and persuade Zhen's father to increase investment in Lu Yi.

"However, when choosing partners, our Zhen family is not afraid of those with too much ambition and strength. Instead, we are afraid of those with too little ambition and who are timid and fearful!" Lu Yi didn't know what Zhen Yi was thinking, so he left Lu Bu to lead Zhen Yi to visit Jiuheli.

He took over 1980 million in payment for goods, 500 servants, and various food supplies from the Zhen caravan.

The houses that had been purchased from the villagers in Jiuheli came in handy. Lu Yi used them to temporarily house the servants and store food, seeds, and farm tools.

After these people were settled, Lu Yi took the trouble to take all the 1980 payment for the goods and took out 20 from the old house to make up a total of 2000 million yuan and went to Jiuyuan County overnight.

When Lu Yi returned to Jiuyuanli from Jiuyuan County at noon the next day, all the 20 million yuan he had with him had been spent, and what replaced it was a full 200 hectares of new land.

With these lands, all the fertile land near Luwu has been taken into Lu Yi's possession.

For places farther away, Lu Yi has limited manpower now, so if he buys the place, it will just be left vacant.

And the most crucial point is that Lu Yi has no money now!
During the month since returning from the outside of the Great Wall, Lu Yi had almost no idle days except for the first day when he had a good sleep. He was busy all the time, shuttling between Jiuyuan, Mayi and Zhongshan. He was either spending money or on his way to spend money.

As a result, the huge amount of money he had saved for two months was spent by him.

Fortunately, his wedding day is in three or four days, and after the wedding he can lead the caravan to the outside of the Great Wall to start a new round of money-making plans.

After returning to Jiuheli, Lu Yi immediately summoned the five hundred servants who had been resting for two days to give them a lecture.

These five hundred servants were all from Zhongshan. They were unable to afford the taxes levied by the imperial court and had no choice but to sell themselves as slaves to the Zhen family.

However, due to Lu Yi's entrustment, Zhen sold them to Lu Yi again.

However, Lu Yi did not speak first. Instead, he asked their former master Zhen Yi to read out Lu Yi's sovereignty over them on behalf of the Zhen family in public, and then handed over the five hundred indentures to Lu Yi in public.

From the time Lu Yi took over the thick stack of indentures, these people had already become Lu Yi's personal servants.

They watched numbly as Zhen Yi and Lu Yi traded their freedom, not knowing whether the future days would be better or worse than in Zhen Manor, nor knowing what the new master's temper was like, or whether he was stingy towards his servants.

Lu Yi took all their expressions in his eyes and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, giving up the idea of ​​immediately recruiting new soldiers from among them.

These people would rather sell themselves into slavery than rise up in resistance. They lack the most basic spirit of resistance. They are destined to be his tenants for a long time to come. If Lu Yi wants to develop them into soldiers, he still has a long way to go.

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Thanks to Cao Mao for the reward of 100 Qidian coins.

Thanks to Hahahahaha Lalala for the reward of 100 Qidian coins.

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