readytorunbook Chapter 405: The Purpose of the Lu Clan
Chapter 405: The Purpose of the Lu Clan
Emperor Yuanwu made the decision to appoint Ye Ping'an as the trade officer after careful consideration. Although Ye Ping'an was also a rare military talent, he was more savvy in business.
More importantly, he is a relative of the Nalan royal family, and the two countries have just started to communicate with each other. With this kinship, the friendship between the two countries will be better and the exchanges will be smoother.
Once the exchanges between the two countries have completely stabilized, Ye Ping'an will be able to retire and return to the army to continue improving himself.
Emperor Yuanwu did not impose any restrictions on Ye Ping'an, whether in business or in the military. He would not employ a person if he did not trust him. Since he had employed Ye Ping'an, he naturally had to give him the best trust.
Furthermore, the brother and sister Ye Tang and Ye Ping'an have never disappointed Emperor Yuanwu.
After saying goodbye to his family, Ye Ping'an got on a carriage and left the city.
When they were ten miles outside the city, Ye Ping'an saw Ye Qianbai on the pipeline.
"Uncle, why are you here?" Ye Ping'an was a little surprised.
Ye Qianbai flew onto the carriage, got in and sat next to him: "I'll go with you, I'll protect you."
Ye Pingan: "Why? I already have many experts around me, so my uncle doesn't need to accompany me."
Ye Qianbai said calmly: "None of the masters your grandfather prepared is a match for your great uncle. Your great uncle has nothing to do in the capital, so he goes out with you to explore the world and find something to do."
He is no longer a dead soldier. He is quite free and can go wherever he wants and do whatever he wants.
Ye Ping'an narrowed his eyes: "Uncle, I think you are not looking for work, but escaping! You are in front of my grandfather, afraid that he will find you a wife again."
Ye Qianbai looked a little uncomfortable: "No, I just want to find something to do."
Ye Ping'an sighed and said, "Granduncle, although you are already in your forties, you are not too old and can marry. The situation did not allow it before, but now you are well enough and can marry. You are the only man in our family who has not married except me who is not yet an adult. Although my grandmother is gone, my grandfather at least has my father as his son. Although my mother is also gone, my father at least has two children, me and my sister. What about you? You have nothing."
"My father, my sister and I all have the surname Shangguan. My great uncle is the only one left in the Ye family, so the responsibility of carrying on the Ye family line can only be entrusted to my great uncle."
Ye Qianbai listened to his condescending tone and knocked on his head impatiently: "You, a junior, are trying to teach me a lesson!"
Ye Pingan covered his head and said, "Uncle, let's talk about the matter at hand. We can't use our status as elders to pressure others."
Ye Qianbai knocked him again: "I understand what you said, but I don't have the idea of getting married now, let's talk about it later."
He is not opposed to getting married, he just doesn't want to settle.
The carriage went further and further away.
At the Duke of Huguo's Mansion, Shangguan Zhenhua couldn't find Ye Qianbai anywhere, so he went to find Ye Tang. Ye Tang was confused: "My great-uncle never came to see me, and I don't know where he went?"
Xiao Yunting raised his hand and said to Shangguan Zhenhua excitedly: "I have some, I have some!"
Shangguan Zhenhua and Ye Tang looked at him at the same time.
Xiao Yunting squatted down, picked up Xiao Jin on the ground, pried open its mouth, and took out a small note.
Shangguan Zhenhua opened the note and his beard stood up in anger.
"Old boy, he actually followed Ping An!"
Ye Tang was surprised for a moment: "My great uncle is at Ping'an's place, Grandfather, have you been pushing my great uncle too hard recently?"
Shangguan Zhenhua blew his beard and glared, "Who forced him? I was just worried that he would be unhappy in his later years, so I found him a companion. This old guy didn't appreciate it."
Ye Tang glanced at him and said, "Grandfather, I think you and my father can find a new partner. After all, we still have a long way to go in the rest of our lives!"
"No, women are very troublesome!" Shangguan Zhenhua was very resistant.
Ye Tang frowned: "Woman...trouble?"
Shangguan Zhenhua hurriedly explained: "I'm not talking about you, you're not a problem."
Ye Tang chuckled.
Shangguan Zhenhua stopped talking. The look on his granddaughter's face, which seemed to be neither laughing nor not laughing, was a little scary.
The grandfather and grandson did not dwell on Ye Qianbai's affairs for too long. After a few days, Shangguan Zhenhua forgot about Ye Qianbai and returned to the military camp, where he once again started the devilish training for his own son Ye Peng.
When Jamel Xiao was not at home, Ye Tang would take care of his son and inspect the family stores when he had time.
In early August, the Han family, which had been silent for a long time, finally made a move. The person from the Lu family who came to find them was an elder of the direct line. He gave the Han family a design drawing of the mechanism, and disguised himself and secretly went to the sword-making workshop under the guidance of a Han family craftsman.
The Han family was extremely bold to bring craftsmen from other countries into such an important place as the sword forge.
The Han family thought that their secret operation was very secretive and no one else would know about it, but they didn't expect that Emperor Yuanwu saw it all.
And Baixiaolou also knows everything the Han family has done.
Those people from the Lu clan entered the sword-making workshop not to steal secrets, but to meet people from the Xiao clan.
But unfortunately, the Xiao family members were not in the sword-making workshop, and the Han family did not know where they had gone.
The people of the Lu family were extremely disappointed with the Han family and did not stay there for long. After coming out of the sword-making workshop, they left the capital.
The people from Baixiao Tower and Emperor Yuanwu had been following them secretly for a long time.
Only after entering Haicheng did Emperor Yuanwu's men give up surveillance, but the people of Baixiao Tower did not give up. After making sure that the people sent by Emperor Yuanwu had left, Yun Zhen led his men to tie up the members of the Lu family and interrogated them cruelly.
Only then did I know the relationship between the Lu family and the Han family.
The existence of the Xiao clan not only influenced the Yuan Dynasty and Beiyi countries, but also affected the Lu clan of Penglai.
The Lu family considered themselves to be a family of master craftsmen, the best in the world, and the one and only super powerful family in Penglai. However, the rise of the Xiao family made the Lu family feel a crisis. After seeing the amazing weapons and mechanisms made by the Xiao family, the Lu family wanted to win over the Xiao family to their own camp, but they were rejected by the Xiao family.
The demise of the Xiao family was not only caused by the Han family, but also by the Lu family. Otherwise, how could the Han family ancestor alone attract so many people to deal with the Xiao family and lead to the extinction of the glorious Xiao family.
Yun Zhen sent the news back to the capital. Ye Tang learned about the feud between the Lu and Xiao families. He frowned and asked, "What does the Lu family mean now? They are already so powerful, but they are still unwilling to let the Xiao family go?"
Yun Zhen shook his head and said, "No. The Lu family sent people here this time not to target the descendants of the Xiao family, but to target the Han family. The Xiao family has disappeared for so many years, even if there are descendants, they cannot be compared with the Lu family. The letter sent by the Han family to the Lu family, in addition to informing them of the descendants of the Xiao family, also contained a lot of threatening words. If the Lu family does not help them get rid of the descendants of the Xiao family, they will tell the world about the evil things the Lu family did to the Xiao family. This move completely angered the Lu family, and they tampered with the mechanical drawings sent to the Han family."
"What did they do?" Ye Tang asked.