Inside the tent.
Murong Yanran looked troubled and ordered the guards to remove the curtain. Looking at the Jiangnan family heads behind the curtain, who all had different and trembling expressions, she asked, "Have all the family heads understood this matter?"
"Yan Ran is incompetent and really doesn't know what to do. What do you think, the heads of the families?"
As soon as these words were spoken.
The heads of the noble families present felt relieved. In order to stop the internal strife and unite, they hurriedly comforted each other:
"Old Lu, don't worry, there's something fishy going on here!"
"That's right, Lao Lu! In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with what Lao Cao said."
"Yes, the Cao family and your Lu family are old friends. How could they do such a dirty thing?"
"Your Excellency, I believe there is something fishy going on here!"
Everyone expressed their willingness to smooth things over and advised Lu Jia to be magnanimous.
Anyway, it wasn’t their ancestral grave that was dug up, and it wasn’t their family that was blackmailed.
But despite this, everyone was still feeling a headache.
Among the aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River, the Lu family and the Cao family are of similar strength and compete with each other.
If the internal strife between these two top families continues, won't the Jiangnan family, which shares the same fate, be torn apart?
By then, what will we use to fight against those people in the north, and what will we use to fight against the imperial power?
Everyone also realized that Murong Yanran clearly wanted to cause internal strife among them.
In order to take advantage of the opportunity to implement the court's strategy of "distributing labor service according to land area".
If this tax burden is really implemented, their losses will be huge!
For some small tyrants whose sphere of influence is not large and who are formed only by clans, imposing labor service on land is a strategy to wipe out the whole family!
Because a large part of their labor force comes from refugees and outsiders!
There are even some local people who are willing to come and join them, bringing their land with them and becoming their anonymous tenants.
In this way, each family will have more labor under their control, and they can organize these people to farm together and take turns organizing young and middle-aged people to perform labor service.
This allowed them to evade corvee labor to a certain extent.
It's okay now.
Corvée labor was abolished.
Without the oppression of corvee labor, why don't these people cultivate their own land instead of becoming tenant farmers for you?
Then there would be no refugee laborers and no tenant farmers offering land.
Why do these small-scale families have the right to act so arrogantly in the state?
Over a long period of time.
Their power will only gradually shrink and disappear.
Therefore, for these people, no matter what, they cannot allow the Lu and Cao families to fight among themselves and destroy the current good situation!
Lü Jia looked at the Jiangnan gentry, especially those who had grudges against him, and shouted with a sneer, "The Zhu family! The Wang family! The Duan family!"
"Others are just trying to smooth things over!"
"But your ancestral tombs were completely dug up by the Cao family during the war in the previous dynasty. How dare you speak up for him now?!"
"Alas... pity your ancestors, they can't rest in peace even after death."
"If they knew about this, they would definitely come up and beat you, the filial sons and grandsons, to death!"
Cao De was so frightened that his heart skipped a beat and his face changed instantly.
This is bringing up old scores. If this bastard really exposes all of his family's black material, how will the Cao family survive in the circle of aristocratic families in the future!
It wasn't easy for them to get clean and get ashore!
Therefore, Cao De shouted: "Lü Jia! How dare you frame me!"
"False accusation?"
"Hahaha--"
Lu Jia laughed out loud towards the sky.
Now that things have come to this, we might as well give up and go all out to get rid of the Cao family.
With his own abilities and the Cao family's background, he might have a chance to win in the chaos!
Maybe we can even seize most of the Cao family's assets and become the number one family in Jiangnan!
At that time, even if these people are dissatisfied, they can only hold it in. What else can they say?
Lu Jia's heart was set, and he said proudly: "If I hadn't told you the location of the ancestral tombs of the Zhu, Wang, and Duan families back then."
"Why did your Cao family so easily dig up their ancestral graves and resell the burial objects to make a fortune, even buying the position of a Grand Marshal in the previous dynasty?!"
"The Zhu family! The Wang family! The Duan family!"
"It's a shame that you've been close friends with the Cao family for these past few years, but you're still unaware of this irreconcilable blood feud, and you're even here recognizing the enemy as your father. It's truly pitiful and lamentable!"
"Hahaha--"
"I'm dying of laughter!"
The sneers were deafening to the eardrums.
Cao De was suddenly extremely panicked. He looked at the three pillars of his camp and said hurriedly, "Everyone, please listen to my explanation..."
"Untie your mother's head!"
The heads of the Zhu, Wang, and Duan families cursed loudly, immediately knelt down, and said angrily, "My Lord, the Imperial Envoy!"
"The Cao family is immoral and is condemned by both humans and gods!"
"I hope the Imperial Envoy will help us and execute Cao the thief!"
Internal divisions occurred and the situation suddenly reversed.
The heads of the Jiangnan gentry families began to have doubts in their hearts.
Although they knew that the Cao family started out by robbing tombs.
But they never expected that the Cao family would be so bold as to rob tombs right under their noses!
That’s right, Zhang Chengshi still has to rely on these aristocratic families to govern Jiangnan.
How could he secretly instruct his men to dig up their graves?
It turns out that it was that bastard from the Cao family who did it!
Today, the Cao family dared to dig up the ancestral graves of these families. Wouldn’t they dare to dig up their family’s ancestral graves later?
As the saying goes, feed the fish and beat the cat!
A common thought arose involuntarily in everyone's mind.
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