Lu Ren's Ambition
"Everyone, my Lu family has built a foundation for hundreds of years, and it has not been easy to develop to this point!"
"But this time, it will be the biggest gamble our Lu family has ever made since our ancestor invested all his resources in gambling on official careers!"
Lu Ren's words were sonorous and powerful, and his eyes radiated confidence!
"This time, we're betting on the fate of our nation! Once we succeed, our Lu family will soar to the sky!"
Looking at the extremely excited Lu Ren, Lu Xin secretly sighed. His niece-in-law Liu Buqi had already calculated Lu Ren's future very well, so there was no chance for him to soar to the sky!
"I know you can't stand my obedience to Shangguan Yan's orders. Humph! He's just a stepping stone for my Lu family! The person behind him is the true master who can continue the glory of my Lu family!"
Lu Ren's words finally succeeded in attracting the attention of the other four people!
Who was behind this? Who could have made the usually calm patriarch so devoted?
"Guan Nei Hou Yue Wuji! He is the trump card of my Lu family's gamble! This time, we are collecting grain so that he can smoothly control Youzhou!"
Lu Ren couldn't say more about the plan! He believed that just revealing this was enough to inspire the people of the Lu family!
This was a game of high-stakes gambling. The Lu family was able to take a position as the most important chess piece. What kind of rewards would they receive? He believed that the other four people could definitely figure it out!
But he still miscalculated!
"Brother, this is a gamble on the fate of the nation. One wrong move and everything will be lost! How can my Lu family afford to participate in this? How confident can we be of soaring to the sky!"
Lu Ren glanced at Lu Xin who stood up to question him, and still smiled confidently.
"Yue Lingxi! Our nephew is the biggest bargaining chip in this gamble of our Lu family!"
Seeing the puzzled looks from others, Lu Ren laughed out loud.
"You all know that Yue Lingxi has now inherited the title of Marquis of Anguo and has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of Youzhou! But his position as Lord of Youzhou is actually just a decoration!"
"After the Marquis of Guannei launched his rebellion, the General of Tai'an Prefecture immediately responded, effectively cutting off Youzhou's grain supply! Our Lu family blocked the grain intended for transport to Taiping Prefecture in Jinan, thus helping the Marquis gain control of the Youzhou army in the future!"
"And Shangguan Luoyang and Yue Lingxi's marriage was also to facilitate their control of Youzhou!"
Hearing this, Lu Xin suddenly asked Lu Ren with great sorrow: "Master, where does this put Lingxi?"
"Lingxi, originally it was impossible for you to control Youzhou. But now you have Shangguan Yan as your father-in-law, and with the support of Guannei Hou, you have your own power. Wouldn't it be a good thing if you could return to the capital in the future?"
Lu Ren had given Yue Lingxi far-reaching consideration. Lu Yi and Lu Zhi nodded slightly in approval. Even Lu Li was a little shaken!
Seeing the situation reversed, Lu Xin knew that nothing could be done. According to Liu Buqi's previous arrangement, he just had to wait and see what happened.
But this is a matter of great importance to the family's future after all! Looking at the extremely confident Lu Ren, Lu Xin couldn't help but give one last word of advice!
"Brother! Have you ever thought about what will happen to the Lu family if Lingxi grows up and becomes fully grown? As his blood relatives, what will happen to us?"
"Since you want to gamble on the fate of the nation, could Lingxi be another option?"
Lu Ren curled his lips in disdain. He would never believe that Yue Lingxi, who was already considered a playboy in the family, still had any "investment value"! What's more...
"Back then, my uncle was so stubborn that he insisted on helping Yue Fan, but he ended up dying of depression! My little sister's whereabouts are still unknown!"
"A bloody lesson happened right before our eyes! We, the Lu family, absolutely cannot place our bets on the wrong horse again! If we have to choose, we must choose the one with the most hope!"
He sighed softly, "Yue Lingxi is too young. If this chaos had happened ten years later, perhaps it would still be worth the Lu family's investment of energy. But he is a playboy by nature, and even his concubines don't know the rules. How can he be so strong?"
Lu Xin looked at the blindly confident smile on Lu Ren's face and suddenly felt it was so dazzling!
Brother, your ambitions may very well be ruined by the concubine you despise! Take care of yourself!
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After coming out of Lu Ren's mansion, Lu Xin rode his horse at full speed back to his residence. Zhang Xiruo had been waiting for him for a long time!
After relaying Lu Ren's words, he took Liu Buqi's letter from Zhang Xiruo and carefully considered every detail in the letter.
"Brother, your every move is seen through by your nephew's wife, how can you possibly turn the tables?"
Filled with emotion, Lu Xin followed the instructions in the letter and began to instruct his son Lu Qinghou to quickly work with Zhu Caicai to handle the sale of all the Lu family's businesses other than grain, which were controlled by the merchant Lu.
In less than a day, one-third of the Lu family's real estate had been secretly transferred to Zhu Changcai!
The trading documents and the large amount of gold and silver obtained from selling grain were handed over to Lu Xin, and were quickly converted into batches of grain and fodder purchased by the Lu family and stockpiled!
This trick of getting something for nothing made Zhu Caicai and Lu Xin, who considered themselves senior businessmen, admire him very much!
This was simply using the Lu family's money to buy back the Lu family's assets, and at the same time, severely cheating Lu Ren!
Just like this, more than ten days passed. Now, the Lu family had reached the point of being penniless except for the mountains of food!
Even the gold and silver jewelry in the hands of the ladies in the harem had been sold out!
The complaining "wives" in the back house did not dare to pick a fight with their own husband. Instead, they started to bully Liu Buqi, who currently had the lowest status in the mansion!
Shangguan Luoyang watched like a play, watching wave after wave of ladies coming in and out of Liu Buqi's courtyard. Today they would pay their respects to Qin, and tomorrow they would be scolded by their second aunt!
Every now and then, a few stones would be thrown in in the middle of the night to disturb Liu Buqi's sleep! After more than ten days, Liu Buqi had lost a lot of weight!
Bai Jinjing and Zhang Xiruo had dark circles under their eyes and hid from place to place all day, fearing that they would be dragged out and humiliated.
The day for the Lu family to open their ancestral temple and worship their ancestors is getting closer. In recent days, a large number of Jinan people have been flocking to the banks of Daming Lake every day!
They were not there to watch the fun, but were actually blocking the door of the Lu family!
The Lu family's practice of only collecting grain but not selling it has turned the grain normally circulating in Jinan City for people's daily use into a hoarded "burden on the Lu family"!
The soaring grain prices made the Lu family become grain hoarding profiteers despised by everyone in Jinan!
Until three days before the ancestor worship, the foreign merchants who had disappeared from Jinan city for a long time reappeared!
This time, they brought a steady supply of food, and easily harvested a wave of "leeks" by taking advantage of the high prices.
The large amount of food rushing into the market began to cause food prices to plummet!
Zhu Caicai, who had already exchanged grain for all the IOUs from Shangguan Yan as a guarantor and Lu Renchou for money, walked up to the Lu family's gate with confidence and became the last straw that broke the camel's back!
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