Ma Chenyi's expression changed slightly, but there was still hesitation on his face.
After all, the family hands over 40% of resources to the Gongyang family every year, which is already a heavy burden for them. Now they have to pay 20% more, which is completely forcing the family into a dead end.
Seeing that Ma Chenyi was hesitant and still hadn't made up his mind, Lu Kaiming continued:
"As for what Chief Ma will choose, it's up to Chief Ma himself. I'm trying to persuade him because of the good relationship between our two tribes."
Hearing these familiar words, the head of the Ma family paused for a moment.
This seems to be his word?
"I still need to go to other families. So I'll take my leave now."
Seeing Lu Kaiming preparing to leave, Ma Chenyi sighed and then said:
"Chief Lu, our clan is willing to submit to the Chen family, but I don't know if you can give us more resources."
"Patriarch Ma, this matter is not something I can decide. Our family has also been against the Chen family this time. If we don't hand over some resources, I'm afraid the Chen family will not easily agree."
After hearing this, Ma Chenyi's face turned pale and he said no more.
After all, compared with resources, family is of course more important. What's more, the deadline is only three years. At worst, the family can just live frugally during these three years.
As a small family, they have no right to choose. This was the case when the Gongyang family attacked the Chen family before, and it is the same now.
Unless you move away from your clan’s land and leave Yelang County.
But even though southern Xinjiang is so vast, where can they find a place to stay?
Seeing that the head of the Ma family had finally made his choice, Lu Kaiming also sighed and invited the head of the Ma family to go and persuade other families in Yelang County.
After all, with the first family surrendering, other families will be more receptive.
Although Lu Kaiming had his own selfish motives, he couldn't bear to see other affiliated families destroyed. After all, they had been neighbors for such a long time.
Even the Gongyang family, which has warriors in the Concentration Realm, is no match for the Chen family, not to mention that there are only one or two warriors in the Controlling Qi Realm among their families.
Two days later, Lu Kaiming headed towards the Gongyang family's territory.
But behind him, there were many clan leaders from various tribes who looked confused and worried.
Compared with oral documents from various ethnic groups, Lu Kaiming still felt that it would be better to bring the clan leaders of each ethnic group to meet the Chen family in person, so as to show the sincerity of each ethnic group.
When Lu Kaiming arrived at the gate of the Gongyang family again, there were already two clansmen wearing Chen family costumes guarding outside the Gongyang family.
Lu Kaiming concentrated his mind slightly, then bowed and said:
"Please inform Lord Qinghe for us, and tell him that the head of the Lu family, Lu Kaiming, has brought all the clansmen to surrender."
After the tribesmen went to report, Chen Qinghe appeared in front of everyone in a short while.
The clan leaders of each tribe looked at the young figure in front of them, and their hearts had different emotions.
They originally thought that Lord Qinghe mentioned by Lu Kaiming was an elder of the Chen family, but the Chen Qinghe in front of them was too young, which made the clan leaders of each clan think more.
However, as Chen Qinghe's sharp gaze swept over everyone, no one dared to look at them.
"Master Qinghe, the eleven clan leaders in Yelang County are all here. Please give us your instructions, Master Qinghe."
Looking at the dozen people in front of him, Chen Qinghe said with a smile:
"Since you are all willing to submit to my Chen family, then you will be my family from now on. My Chen family will not make things too difficult for you. From now on, the family will give orders, and you only need to obey them. If you do a good job, the family will never treat you unfairly."
Chen Qinghe's gentle words made people feel like spring breeze, and many clan leaders felt relieved after hearing them.
After all, if the family they choose to rely on is too overbearing or does things without any reason, then life for these affiliated families will not be easy.
But just as the clan leaders were celebrating, Chen Qinghe suddenly changed the subject:
"But I heard that several families seem to be conspiring and do not want to submit to my Chen family. I wonder if this is true?"
Although Chen Qinghe's words were light, Lu Kaiming was shocked and said hurriedly:
"Lord Qinghe, all the tribes are sincerely convinced and have no such intention."
The clan leaders behind him also echoed:
"We have no such intention."
"Oh, really?"
Chen Qinghe sneered, which made everyone shudder.
Without waiting for everyone to react, Chen Qinghe used the internal energy to pull out the three clan leaders from the crowd. This made the clan leaders present look confused, not understanding why Chen Qinghe did this.
Chen Qinghe ignored everyone and just looked at the three people who were pulled out, and asked with a smile:
"Chief Bai, Chief Shui, and Chief Dou, what do you three think?"
The three people who were pulled out had a flash of panic in their eyes, but then they quickly calmed down and replied at the same time:
"Sir, I really don't understand what you mean."
"Yes, we are convinced and have no other intentions. Sir Chen, please make sure to investigate thoroughly and do not wrongly accuse a good person."
"You can always find a pretext to accuse someone of something. If Master Chen thinks that we are not sincerely surrendering, he needs to provide evidence!"
The three men spoke eloquently, which made the several clan leaders behind them have different expressions and thoughts in their minds.
After hearing the three people's explanations, Chen Qinghe laughed a few times:
"It seems that you guys won't cry until you see the coffin. Since you three want evidence, I'll give it to you."
After he finished speaking, Chen Qinghe threw out a locust leaf.
Just when everyone was confused by Chen Qinghe's move, they saw that the locust leaf thrown into the air suddenly turned into a mirror.
In the mirror, three figures were slowly condensing. At the same time, everyone could hear the conversation of the three people in the mirror:
"The small Chen family actually wants us to surrender. Chief of the Water Tribe, what do you think about this?"
"Hmph, what else can we do? Since the annihilation of the Gongyang family is true, we should leave as soon as possible. Instead of handing over 60% of our resources to the Chen family, we might as well go to other counties and seek refuge with other clans. Why should we have to look at the Chen family's face in Yelang County?"
"Yes, this time we are following the Gongyang family to target the Chen family. If we surrender now, we may be attacked by the Chen family later, and then our family will be in danger."
"In my opinion, we will pretend to surrender tomorrow, and secretly leave early while the Chen family has not yet taken control of the situation."
"This is a very good plan. Our three tribes should work together."
As the picture gradually became clearer, the three figures in the picture soon appeared in front of everyone.
The clan leaders below all changed color when they saw this, because the three people in the mirror were none other than the clan leaders of the Bai, Shui, and Dou clans, and the scene before them was clearly a secret conspiracy among the three.
And the moment the image appeared in the mirror, the expressions of the three people changed drastically.
Especially after hearing the familiar conversation, the three of them turned extremely pale.
Because that was exactly the conversation between the three of them last night, the location and the words were exactly the same.
But the place where they had conversation was in the family ancestral hall, which was guarded by the family totem. How could it be leaked, and almost completely restore the scene at that time?
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