Tui Siyuan, Mianfeng Pavilion, study room outside the study.

The family who delivered the letter to Xu Jie worshipped Hai Rui's reply.

Master Xu took the letter and picked up the jade handle and silver letter-opening knife on the table, wanting to open the letter.

But after a few times, I failed and almost got the hand.

"This is usually Xu Fan's errand." He smiled self-deprecatingly and handed the envelope and letter-opening knife to the family.

The man dressed in the family had gray hair and beards, a low figure, and a calm face. He was not like an ordinary servant.

In fact, he was a guest of the Xu family, with his surname as Lu and Guang, and he was also a famous hero in the world back then.

Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty was not suitable for the survival of the characters in the martial arts world, otherwise his colleague Shao Daxia would not have actively transformed into a broker.

Lu Daxia was not as lucky as Shao Daxia. When he was young, he walked around the world and killed people and was wanted by the government. He had to flee to Hetao, which was occupied by Tatars at that time, and lived there for many years.

During those years, he wandered between the Han and Mongolian tribes, and knew a lot about the mountains, rivers, terrain and humanistic customs of the inner and outer covers. Later, by chance, he became the disciple of Zeng Xian, the governor of the Three-sided side.

Lu Guang summarized his years of experience and proposed a plan to recover Hetao to Zeng Xian. When Governor Zeng saw it, he felt very good, so he reported the plan to the court and asked him to go to Beijing to lobby.

The chief minister of the cabinet at that time was Xu Jie's teacher Xia Yan. After Xia Yan talked to Lu Guang, he felt it was very appropriate and took it as the top priority. With Xia Yan's recommendation, Emperor Jiajing also felt it was very favorable, so he issued an order to discuss the "reconciliation" of the court.

With Xia Yan's promotion, the reconciliation plan was quickly passed. The court was ready to go and was about to be implemented.

That was also the highest moment of Lu Daxia's life.

Unfortunately, Jiajing, the coward, remorse again and began to find various reasons to delay. Everyone knows what happened later. The second assistant Yan Song grasped the change in Jiajing's mentality and mobilized his party members to submit a memorial to attack Xia Yan and Zeng Xian. In the end, the emperor ordered Xia Yan and Zeng Xian to behead Xia Yan and Zeng Xian on the grounds of "close ministers colluding with border generals", and the world was wronged. The matter of reconciliation was naturally lost and no one dared to mention it.

Although Lu Guang was not affected, he felt deeply guilty and secretly rescued Zeng Xian's family who was exiled to the army and spared no effort to lobby for the rehabilitation of the former leader. In the end, nearly twenty years later, in the first year of Longqing, Mr. Xu took the opportunity to rectify the trouble and rehabilitate the mentor, and also to clear Zeng Xian.

Lu Guang was grateful to Xu Jie's kindness, so he joined Xu Jie's disciple, regarded himself as a servant, and protected him every day.

Last year, the defeat of Xu's mansion was revealed. The Qingke's disciples who surrounded Xu Ge Lao left cleanly, but only Lu Guang did not leave, and still kept vigil for Xu Ge Lao every night.

Since then, Xu Jie has become more and more respectful to Lu Guang, and has relied on him as his confidant, and has discussed all major issues with him.

~~

Lu Guang cut the envelope open, presented it to Master Xu with both hands, and helped him pick up the slip on the table.

Xu Jie put on reading glasses, took the letter far away and squinted his eyes. He saw that the content was not long, only a few words:

‘The day when the auspicious journey arrived in Songjiang, I learned the teachings and gained benefits. But the love between the two men was no different from the past, and I felt different. I read the book of the land withdrawal recently and realized that the virtues were unexpected. However, the number of retreats was not large, so I could clean up the work. In the past, people changed their father's policies, and the gold from the seven houses was scattered in a moment. The king said that the father changed his son and did not need to withdraw all the land. He could leave 6,000 mu of land, and the rest of the industries remained unchanged, which was enough to support the wealth of the public...’

This letter is like Hai Rui's personality, sharp and direct. If you take aside the polite words at the beginning, you will point out bluntly that the Xu family has retreated, but the number is far from enough.

So how much is the right amount to withdraw? This time he gave a correct number - leaving 6,000 acres, and the rest were all withdrawn.

He also pointed out that your business and residential gardens can be preserved, so the Xu family is still the most wealthy man in Songjiang. What else can you ask for?

To be honest, if Hai Rui had not been armed by Zhao Hao with the old man's theory, he decided to "establish a united front", "develop progressive forces, fight for the middle forces, and isolate the stubborn forces"... Specifically, he would separate the big landlords from industrial and commercial landlords, big merchants and small landlords, fight for the latter three, and fight for the big landlords together...

Otherwise, with his bad temper, the Xu family must spit out the industrial and commercial assets.

Maybe it felt that it was too cheap for the Xu family. They could escape after doing so many bad things! Hai Rui's tone also became mean, using the sarcastic words of "The past people changed their father's policies, and the gold from the seven houses scattered in a moment, and the prince used his father to change his son to change his son." It pointed out that Xu Ge was "changing his son with his father" and asked him to consider whether it was important to be outside the body or his son.

After reading it, Mr. Xu laughed in silence and handed Hai Rui's letter to Lu Guang and said, "I am another white-eyed wolf, and I am the kind of eating people and not spitting bones."

Lu Guang quickly glanced at the letter and looked up at Ge Lao Xu. Seeing that although he was laughing, his laughter was full of solemnity and his left eyebrow jumped, obviously because he was angry with Hai Rui.

To be honest, Lu Guang thought Hai Rui was quite reasonable. The ancients changed their father's fault, and the gold from the seven houses was dispersed in a moment. Xu Ge Lao's son did all his bad things, which directly led to a governor's serious injury and coma. If he wanted to atone for his sins, he might not have enough gold from the seven houses? I have to ten houses and fourteen houses?

He had seen the Prime Minister and the Governor beheaded and his family was destroyed, so he naturally felt that the things outside him could not be compared with the "people are safe and their families are peaceful."

But for some people, no matter how much integrity education is, they cannot change their greedy nature of sacrificing their lives and not giving up money.

~~

I saw that Master Xu's smile became colder and colder, and he gritted his teeth and said with hatred: "It's too much! It's so hateful! If I had known today, I wouldn't have saved this wolf-hearted thing at the beginning, so that he could die in the imperial prison!"

"Master, calm down," Lu Guang hurriedly advised Xu Jie to remain calm and said, "If you don't agree to Hai Rui, I'm afraid he will attack us."

"Yes, he is Governor Yingtian, holding the king's flag, and the name of Qingtian. He holds the handle of countless wealthy families. No one in Jiangnan is his opponent."

Xu Jie smiled coldly and said, "But Jiangnan is not the Ming Dynasty. He has Nanjing and Beijing courts above him. There are people there who can cause trouble for him and let him get out!"

As he said that, Mr. Xu picked up the orchid finger and smiled contemptuously, "Save my Xu family, one million taels is more than enough. Forty-six thousand acres of fertile land can be sold for 10 million taels of silver. Who would like to do such a blood loss transaction?!"

"Master, the risk of confronting Hai Rui is still quite high..." Lu Guang advised again.

"I know, I know." Xu Jie suddenly fell down and sighed quietly: "But I can't retreat anymore. Back then, I copied Yan Ge's hometown, and only collected more than 10,000 taels of gold and more than 2 million taels of silver, fifty-seven houses and houses, more than 20,000 acres of land and ponds, various gold and silver utensils, jade ware, jewelry, furniture, precious calligraphy and paintings, and thousands of books. In this way, they were engraved by the court as a publication to warn others."

"I didn't expect that my husband's family was even more exaggerated than Master Yan..."
Chapter completed!