Cyber Daming

The poor live in a shabby courtyard, the poor live in a lonely building, and the rich live in a mansion.

This proverb is an unwritten unwritten rule among the people of the Ming Dynasty. It is also a true description of the architectural style of a place from the periphery to the inner city.

Especially in the areas controlled by the Confucian clan, there is a step by step and a situation. The steps are clear and the threshold is strict.

A slight violation would be a suspicion of transgression, which would be enough for the guards patrolling the city to use this as an excuse to come and provoke.

However, after the Zhu Ming royal family transformed the palace into a giant square building that towered from the sky to the ground, this so-called unspoken rule changed drastically.

The second-class and above imperial nobles have abandoned the traditional flat mansions and instead stacked them layer by layer to form a three-dimensional mansion.

The area of ​​each floor is extremely vast, with pavilions, rockeries and flowing water all available, and the level of luxury is far beyond the past.

The Lu family, considered to be the most noble in the entire Liaodong province, is even more prominent among them. With its many floors rising up on a solitary peak in Liaozhou, the capital of Liaodong, it overlooks the millions of people living in the city.

At this moment, in an elegant courtyard on the sixth floor of the Lu Mansion, a group of Yanren servants were kneeling outside the door, listening to the angry curses coming from the house, as well as the low sobbing among them.

Snapped!

Lu Siyi slapped the woman in front of him to the ground, pointed at her and cursed angrily: "Your good brother Lu Yuzhang is so audacious. He even dares to scheme against me. I think your Lu family doesn't want to continue living in Liaodong." !”

"Lu Lang, I don't know what you are talking about."

Lu Qinse's eyes were horrified, she held her red and swollen cheeks tightly with her hands, and said sadly: "Is there any misunderstanding between you and eldest brother?"

"Misunderstand?"

Lu Siyi squatted in front of the woman and grabbed her hair, with a ferocious smile.

"Do you know that the dowry he prepared for you is all dirty money obtained from the bones and marrow of those royal guards?"

The severe pain from the top of her head made the woman unable to move at all, and there were only tears in her blank eyes.

"Of course you idiot, you don't know. Apart from trying your best to conceive my Lu family's child every day, what else can you think of?"

Lu Siyi's expression was twisted, and he pinched the woman's chin with his fingers, crumpled a few red banknotes into a ball, and forced them into the woman's mouth.

"Originally, I didn't care where he got the money, as long as he could handle it from beginning to end. I even deliberately sent Xiuyue to him and told him some little secrets inside the Lu clan, just to give Lu Yuzhang this head. The hungry wolf eats a little bit of meat and slowly tames him into an obedient domestic dog. Otherwise, without my acquiescence, how would he be able to manipulate my young master's personal maid with his unattractive skills? middle?"

"But I still underestimated how crazy he was. Not only did he want to drag me into the water, he actually wanted to push the Lu family in front of him through Lu Quan and block the knife for him. Who does he think he is?!"

Lu Siyi pushed the woman away and stared at the woman's crooked facial features with disgust: "Look at your face, it's not even original. Any servant you choose from outside will be more refined than you. If it weren't for the purpose of winning over you, Lu family, do you deserve to let me sleep with you, a low-grade creature?"

After roaring, Lu Siyi became strangely quiet again. He picked up the ball of treasure paper stained with saliva on the ground, gently smoothed the wrinkles on it, folded it into strips, and held it between his two fingers and handed it to the woman.

"Eat it. Remember this taste. This is the trouble you Lu family caused me. After I finish dealing with Lu Yuzhang, I will come back and slowly process you bitch!"

The closed door opened with a clang, and Lu Siyi strode out without looking back.

There was only a poor woman left behind who was shivering but biting the note and not even daring to cry.

Lu Siyi took the sedan elevator to the top of the ninth floor of the Lu Mansion, where Lu Ning, the head of the Lu family, lived.

The furnishings and landscaping here are far more luxurious than the floor where Lu Siyi lives, and the winding paths are deep. In the past, every time Lu Siyi came here, he would choose to walk to show respect.

But today he did not have this leisurely elegance and took the shuttle bus directly to the other courtyard where Lu Ning lived.

Before the car came to a complete stop, Lu Siyi opened the door and got out of the car. As soon as he walked into the gate of the other courtyard, he saw his father-in-law.

The prefect of Liaozhou Prefecture, Lu Huzheng.

Among the Lu Clan, the only person who could make Lu Huzheng serve him with fear and sincerity was naturally the only Lu Ning, the leader of the Lu Clan, the governor of Liaodong, and the third Confucian scholar.

Lu Ning has just turned sixty this year. Counting from the time when he became the magistrate of a county in Liaodong at the age of sixteen, the head of the Lu family has been in the officialdom for more than forty years.

In the pre-Ming dynasty, this was already the age of sixty when people retired behind the scenes and enjoyed their old age. But today's Ming Empire is still in its prime.

Even among the first-class nobles in Ruxu, there are only a few who can become leaders of a province at this age like him.

As a young upstart in the Confucian order, Lu Clan made his fortune by relying on the "division of military power in the world". Even without that turmoil, the Lu family would now be at best an inconspicuous second-class family in the Liaodong region.

At that time, the "Division of Martial Arts in the World" had come to an end. Except for Zhenlu Court, all the martial arts sects in Liaodong had been eradicated.

The three schools of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism all want to monopolize the territory of Liaodong, but they also know very well that no matter who takes action first, they will immediately incur the joint suppression of the other two parties.

Just when everyone was in a stalemate, secretly resenting each other, and secretly preparing to strike first after eradicating the Zhenlu Court, the situation in this battle that was almost certain to end suddenly took a turn for the worse because of Su Ce's unexpected appearance.

Wudang, Shaolin, and a Confucian clan suffered heavy losses as a result, and a large number of their masters were slaughtered.

The Lu family took advantage of this gap period to suddenly rise. The Lu family, which was originally only a second-class family, suddenly had a third-class head. He forcefully expelled all competitors and brought most of Liaodong under his control.

Lu Ning, the second successor to the family, also had great talents and strategies, which allowed the Lu family to firmly establish itself in Liaodong and create the youngest first-class family member in the Ming Empire today.

Lu Ning was wearing a plain uniform, with a full head of black hair neatly tied on top of her head with a Confucian crown. She had a straight nose, thick eyebrows, and a pair of unfathomable eyes as deep as abyss hidden in the sunken eye sockets.

At this moment, he gently patted Lu Huzheng on the shoulder and said with a hearty smile: "Lao Lu, you don't have to worry so much. This time is just a fight between juniors. Who among you and me has not experienced this when we were young? Fighting between people is a kind of training. If they are really harmonious and have no ambitions, then we should really worry about whether they can take over our position in the future. "

"Your Excellency has a lot, so you can laugh it off, but I can't be shameless."

Lu Huzheng did not get off the donkey. Instead, he said with an angry look on his face: "This self-righteous traitor Lu Yuzhang made such a huge mistake behind my back this time. It is an unforgivable crime. I must"

"What you want to do is your housework, so you don't need to report to me."

Lu Ning chuckled and said, "Although we are related by marriage, we are all heads of the family after all. As long as you think it will be beneficial to the Lu family, then go ahead and do it without worrying about the Lu family."

"My lord, what you are saying is that I am too talkative."

When Lu Huzheng heard this, a smile suddenly appeared in his eyes. He turned his head and smiled awkwardly at Lu Siyi who walked in, and said hello.

"Siyi, are you here? Then I won't disturb you father and son. I'll go first."

Lu Siyi hummed in a polite way and replied as a reply.

After Lu Huzheng's figure disappeared, Lu Siyi spoke.

"Father."

Lu Ning raised his hand to interrupt him and said: "I already know what happened. Every time you learn something, you will gain wisdom. If this fall can make you more mature in the future, then it would be better if you get a small wound from the fall." It’s worth it too.”

Lu Siyi heard that his father's words did not mean to blame him, and his heart in his throat fell back into his stomach.

"Actually, my son has long expected Lu Yuzhang's wild ambitions, but he didn't expect that he would get into chaos when he encountered a little trouble, completely lose his mind, and do so many things that would embarrass the Lu family."

"No face is worth mentioning in the face of one's own life." Lu Ning said lightly: "Lu Yuzhang's prediction of the group of gangsters who broke out from the Japanese area was accurate. If he hadn't done this, I'm afraid he would have been killed by now. A corpse."

"Those people are just relying on the fact that no one is willing to waste energy on them at the moment, so they are so unscrupulous and mistakenly believe that they really have the capital to run rampant in the empire. To me, they are just a bunch of chickens and dogs."

Lu Siyi snorted disdainfully, "Father, what should we do with Li Jun and the Lu family next?"

"How do you think it should be handled properly?" Lu Ning asked with a smile.

This is testing myself in school.

Lu Siyi suppressed the heat in his heart, and after careful consideration for a moment, he said slowly: "Logically speaking, if Lu Yuzhang does this kind of thing this time, the entire Lu family should die. But now what the Lu family has done Those things cannot be disclosed to the public. After all, they are in-laws of the Lu family. If they ransack the whole family without any reason, I am afraid it will make other families in Liaodong feel uneasy and shake their minds. "

"The death of the Lu family is a small matter, but the stability of Liaodong is a big deal. Therefore, my son suggested that the Lu family should be put aside for the time being, and then we can find a more appropriate reason to deal with them after a period of time. This will not only ensure the stability of Liaodong, but also ensure the stability of Liaodong. It can show the justice of our Lu family, even if the in-laws commit crimes, they can be killed with justice. "

Lu Siyi originally thought that his words were based on the overall situation of Liaodong and were considered mature and prudent, so he should be praised by Lu Ning.

But contrary to Lu Siyi's expectation, his father's reaction was very calm. He just nodded and continued to ask: "Then Lu Yuzhang won't kill him either?"

"Lu Yuzhang wants to kill." Lu Siyi added: "But we are not going to kill him, we will leave it to Li Jun to kill him!"

Lu Ning said with a faint smile, "Do you want to have peace talks with Li Jun?"

"Of course not. What qualifications does he have to ask our Lu clan to negotiate peace with him? I want to use Lu Yuzhang as bait to trap him and kill him in Liaodong!"