Chapter 143
"Hehe, this kid has a pretty sharp mouth." Zhao Lei became interested when he heard that the child in front of him was Lu Xun.

"Let's talk about business first." Zhang Han came over and whispered in Zhao Lei's ear.

"Zilong is here, and by the way, send people to guard the gates of the Lu residence, and no one is allowed to enter or leave." Zhao Lei said after hearing Zhang Han's words.

"No!" Zhao Yun clasped his fists and shouted.

"My lord, you, what do you mean?" Lu Kang panicked and said, "I don't know where I offended my lord, please don't take offense."

"Lu Gongcao, don't be nervous. These soldiers of mine are only protecting me. For the sake of the quietness of our conversation, I let them guard your house temporarily. I am afraid that someone will disturb you." Zhao Lei said with a smile, but Zhao Lei Lu Kang's creepy smile made Lu Kang's hair stand on end.

"Daddy, don't be afraid of this old ghost, just talk about it. He's trying to show Daddy off!" Lu Xun said behind Lu Kang's back.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Hanpu laughed out loud, and even Zhao Lei almost laughed out loud, thinking that Lu Xun's words were really amusing.

"Little ghost, come in with me." Zhao Lei held back the smile in his heart and said with a straight face.

"Come here, whoever is afraid of you, old ghost." Lu Xun said in a provocative tone.

Seeing that Zhao Lei was interested in bickering with his son, Lu Kang was relieved, at least Zhao Lei came with no malice.

In the hall, Lu Kang ordered someone to pour tea, and after being polite with Zhao Lei for a while, he asked, "I don't know what the governor is doing here today?"

"Lu Gongcao is older than me, so you can call me Zihan when there is no one else, instead of being called by Inspector Inspector." Zhao Lei laughed.

"How is this possible?" Lu Kang asked in surprise.

"Just call it that! Lu Gongcao, I came today to ask you to clarify one thing." Zhao Lei said.

"Master Zihan, please tell me." Lu Kang said with anxiety.

Zhao Lei thought to himself, Master Zihan's call is really ingenious, he didn't offend me, and he didn't suffer, this Lu Kang is really an old fritter in the officialdom, he is very slippery, very slippery!

"Today I just want Lu Gongcao to clarify his identity." Zhao Lei still said with a smile on his face.

"What identity do you want to know?" Lu Kang asked in confusion.

"Daddy, that old ghost wants you to know whether Daddy is a meritorious person or the patriarch of our family." Lu Xun interjected.

Zhao Lei and Zhang Han looked at each other in surprise. Is this Lu Xun really a child?Guess this too?
Hearing Lu Xun's words, Lu Kang immediately understood that Zhao Lei came today to ask Lu Kang to stand by.

If he stood on the side of the aristocratic family, Lu Kang would become an enemy of Zhao Lei.If he stood on Zhao Lei's side, it meant that he would become an enemy of the family of Wu County.

"Master Zihan, the identity of this meritorious person does not seem to have anything to do with the patriarch of my family!" Lu Kang seemed unwilling to give up on both, and continued to bargain with Zhao Lei, sitting in the final resistance.

"Before I came, there was no contact, but now there is contact. If you choose to continue to be your master, then you will be my subordinate, Zhao Lei, and you must draw a line with those Wu County families. If you If you choose to continue entangled with those noble families, of course you can continue to do your best. But after a while, I will clean up the noble families in Wu Jun. It is beyond my control whether it will affect Master Lu's family It's gone." Zhao Lei said coldly.

"My lord, what does this mean? What does it mean to clean up the family of Wu Jun? Do you think so?" Lu Kang said incredulously.

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask." Zhao Lei said.

"Little ghost, why are you silent?" Seeing that Lu Kang was thinking, Zhao Lei asked Lu Xun.

"It's not a choice for daddy at all, it's a threat." Lu Xun said.

"Shut up, Bo Yan." How could Lu Kang not know the meaning of Zhao Lei's words.

"Lu Gongcao, how are you thinking?" Seeing that Lu Kang had been thinking for a long time, Zhao Lei asked.

"My lord, may I ask, if I stand on your side, what benefits will your lord give me?" Lu Kang said.

"Benefits? Lu Gongcao, are you qualified to talk about benefits with me now?" Zhao Lei sneered.

"Hehe, my lord, please don't trick me. If I choose to stand on the side of my lord, I will definitely fight with other aristocratic families, and if I stand on the side of an aristocratic family, I will definitely fight with my lord. No matter what, the strength of my family will be weakened. If the adults don't give me some benefits, then no matter which side I choose to stand on, won't my own interests be lost?" Lu Kang said.

Zhao Lei thought for a while, then smiled and said, "Lu Gongcao! You are not simple!"

"If your lord can protect my own interests, then I'm willing to stand on your side." Lu Kang said straightforwardly.

"I've already said that you are not qualified to negotiate terms with me." Zhao Lei pulled out the Lightning Sword and put it on Lu Kang's neck.

"Daddy." Lu Xun called out.

"My lord, you are reluctant to kill me. If you kill me, you may not be able to stay in Wu County for long." Lu Kang said.

"Oh? Why is that?" Zhao Lei laughed, the sword still in his hand.

"I think my lord's ideal is not just to live in a place in Wu County! As the governor of Yangzhou, my lord must want to unify Yangzhou. Now the world is in chaos, and Yangzhou's remoteness is a good place to raise troops and farm." Lu Kang Said.

"Then what does that have to do with killing you or not?" Zhao Lei sneered.

"My Lu family, Jianye's Gu family, and Kuaiji's Yu family are known as the three major families in Jiangdong, and they all have a pivotal position in Jiangdong and even the entire Yangzhou. Your Excellency may kill all the families in Wu County, including me. But my lord Is it possible to kill the entire family in Yangzhou? In other words, these small families in Wu County only have some influence in the local area, so it doesn’t matter if the adults kill them. But if the adults kill me, I am not afraid that the entire Yangzhou family will unite Rise up to resist your lord? Maybe a Wujun family is not strong enough, but the power of a state should be enough to counter the troops under your lord?" Lu Kang continued.

"Hehe, Lu Gongcao is really hiding something! It's a pity to let you be a little Gongcao with such a unique vision." Zhao Lei said.

"My lord, I'm overwhelmed." Lu Kang said with a smile.

"Alright! Lu Gongcao, in fact, I have already thought about the conditions you want." Zhao Lei took out a paper from his arms.

Before Lu Kang finished watching, Zhao Lei said, "After I unify Yangzhou, you will be the prefect of Wu County."

"What about Master Cheng Yu?" Lu Kang asked in surprise.

"You are quite considerate. To tell you the truth, I am only temporarily appointing Cheng Yu, the current prefect of Wu County, to help me stabilize the people's hearts in Wu County. Since Cheng Yu is my counselor, how could he be a Prefect?" Zhao Lei laughed.

turn out to be!It turned out that Zhao Lei had already arranged everything, even Zhao Lei had already thought about his own conditions.Thinking of this, Lu Kang couldn't help but feel cold. This Zhao Lei looks young, but he is so mature and steady in doing things. It can be said that he is watertight. Such a person is really scary.Fortunately, I didn't mean to disobey him just now, otherwise Lu Kang didn't even know if Zhao Lei would really kill them.

In fact, it doesn't matter if he dies, but he still carries his family, and he can't let his family fall with him.More importantly, Lu Xun was only four years old, how could Lu Xun experience such a setback of family destruction at such a young age?So, no matter what, Lu Kang must cooperate with Zhao Lei.However, cooperation belongs to cooperation, and bargaining is inevitable.

"Okay, I promise my lord. Regarding the cleaning up of the Wujun family, how can my lord want me to help?" Lu Kang asked.

"I don't need your help." Zhao Lei refused.

Lu Kang couldn't understand again. Zhao Lei wanted to win him over to clean up the family in Wujun for a while, and he didn't want his help for a while. What was going on in Zhao Lei's mind?
"I just hope that Lu Gongcao can keep silent in the days to come." Zhao Lei said.

"Keep silent?" Lu Kang asked.

"What I mean by keeping silent is not when dealing with Wu Jun's official documents, but when you need to hold a meeting with those aristocratic families, I hope you keep silent and don't get involved with them." Zhao Lei said.

Although he didn't quite understand what Zhao Lei was talking about, Lu Kang still nodded in agreement.

"By the way, Lu Gongcao, I want to take your son to the Governor's Mansion." Zhao Lei said suddenly.

Lu Kang was taken aback. Could it be that Zhao Lei wanted to take Lu Xun as a hostage?Use it to blackmail yourself in the future?

Seeing Lu Kang's surprised expression, Zhao Lei smiled and said, "Lu Gongcao, don't be nervous, I'm not that kind of despicable person, as the saying goes, it's not as bad as your family!"

After hearing Zhao Lei's words, Lu Kang said slowly, "Your subordinate is rude."

"I just look at your son Lu Xun. He is very smart and will definitely become a great person in the future, so I want to train him from an early age. I will tell Teacher Cai Yong after a while, let him accept Lu Xun as a student!" Zhao Lei laughed. .

"Really?" Lu Kang was overjoyed, not everyone can be a real Cai Yong's student.

"Of course. I want Wang Yue to teach him swordsmanship, Zhao Yun to teach him martial arts, Cheng Yu to teach him internal affairs, Jia Xu to teach him resourcefulness, Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai to teach him how to march." Zhao Lei said, basically using his words He recruited the top talents around him to train Lu Xun.

"Thank you, my lord." Lu Kang pulled Lu Xun to his knees and said.

In fact, Zhao Lei knows that the hearts of parents in the world are pitiful. Parents in the world don't want anything in their lives, but only want their children to be successful. Lu Kang also has this mentality.

In fact, Zhao Lei also hopes that under his training, Lu Xun can be better than the white-faced scholar in history.

(End of this chapter)

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