Chapter 932

In reality, this jade pendant was in his own hands. Now he knew that this was a gift from Zhong Shengguang to Lu Xun, and after Lu Xun engraved the "Lu" character on it, it became an heirloom of the Baili Lord's family.

This historical dislocation often made He Lingchuan confuse time.

The two walked into the post station, and He Lingchuan asked him: "How has Mr. Lu been these past few days?"

"Very good, the order in the city is almost unaffected by the Imperial Flowing Nectar, which is truly rare." The day after the first wave of Imperial Flowing Nectar descended, Yuheng City was still in good order, with only five houses burned down, and more than thirty people arrested for fighting, and the number of deaths was also in the single digits.

This kind of loss is already negligible, which shows that Panlong City had only taken over Yuheng City for one year, and the residents here were already law-abiding, and it also shows that He Lingchuan's scheduling was appropriate and the Yuheng Army's control was reasonable, otherwise the Imperial Flowing Nectar would stimulate desires and amplify malice.

He Lingchuan hesitated for a moment before asking: "I have something to ask Mr. Lu for advice."

"Commander He, please speak."

"I heard that the Lu family has been passed down for nearly three thousand years and is a rare ancient family today." He Lingchuan said, "I want to ask Mr. Lu, how does the Lu family pass down its heritage, and how can it continue from generation to generation until today?"

Many famous families could not withstand the passage of time and were eventually buried in the depths of history.

Even for a great empire like Beijia, very few of the meritorious families from the founding of the country have survived to this day.

"Is it just because of the inheritance of luck?"

Lu Xun looked sideways: "Have you also heard the legend of the Lu family's luck?"

"Commander Zhong mentioned it."

"It seems that Commander Zhong treats you differently." Otherwise, Zhong Shengguang and He Lingchuan are in a superior-subordinate relationship, and usually, he just needs to issue orders, so why would he chat about other people's family affairs for no reason?

He Lingchuan did not shy away: "I was just curious."

"The ancestor of the Lu family, Immortal Hongli, once said that the situation may not be satisfactory, and luck will always be reversed. In the end, it still depends on human effort."

"How does it depend on human effort?"

"Immortal Hongli left a little inheritance for our family, which can be inherited by anyone with the Lu family bloodline. But whether it can be used well depends on the descendants."

Inheritance? He Lingchuan's heart moved.

Lu Xun, however, did not go into depth. This is the secret of Baili, and he would not speak of it to outsiders.

So He Lingchuan asked again: "Only the main family can inherit it, right?"

"No, no." Lu Xun shook his head, "Even if it's a collateral branch of the Lu family or an outsider, it can be inherited within five generations."

"So lenient?"

"Spiritual energy is declining, and the world is changing. If we stick to the so-called main family and insist on strengthening the trunk and weakening the branches, the Lu family won't last long." Lu Xun laughed, "For so many years in the past, the Son of Luck has not only appeared in the main family, should we not want him?"

So it was still because of the Son of Luck. He Lingchuan understood that this is both the blessing of the Lu family and the biggest variable.

Lu Xun sighed with emotion: "I only understood after being in charge of the family for many years that in the eyes of Immortal Hongli in the past, the survival of Baili was the most important thing. Who is the head of the Lu family doesn't matter, does it?"

"So that's how it is." He Lingchuan asked again, "What if the descendants are incompetent but refuse to yield to the virtuous? What if both the main family and the collateral branches are mediocre, but they keep fighting endlessly?"

I'm afraid this is the norm.

"This is unavoidable. Even with the protection of a trace of Immortal Hongli's luck, it has been difficult for the Lu family to regain its former glory for so many years, precisely because the descendants are unworthy and the clansmen kill each other."

General family inheritance is the primogeniture system to avoid internal friction; however, because the Son of Luck appears randomly, the Lu family has to allow the main and collateral branches to swap, which increases many variables, and the struggle among clansmen has become the norm.

Did Immortal Hongli's kindness back then really seek blessings for his descendants?

"This is breaking and establishing, letting the capable rise and the mediocre fall." Lu Xun said softly, "If the main family is mediocre, the main family cannot last long; if the Lu family is mediocre, the Lu family cannot last long. The same is true for all countries and families in the world."

Looking at history, the Lu family has gradually declined, and even if a Son of Luck appears every few generations, it is difficult to reverse the trend.

This is the general trend, and the luck of a clan simply cannot compete with it.

"In this world, the hardest thing to gather and the hardest thing to rely on is the human heart." Lu Xun shook his head, "And for Baili, the hardest thing is to have talent in every generation."

When military talent appears, the Lu family revives; when there are only mediocre people, the family declines.

He Lingchuan understood that the latter is the norm, which is why Baili reached that point in reality.

But Lu Xun actually didn't answer his initial question, which was why the Lu family could be passed down to this day, with its incense burning continuously.

He Lingchuan guessed that it might be related to Lingshan, and Lu Xun was embarrassed to say it directly.

The two chatted for a while longer, and Hu Min came in from outside and stood silently behind He Lingchuan.

Lu Xun tactfully said: "Commander He, go ahead and be busy, no need to accompany me, an idle guest. I'm going to eat."

He Lingchuan didn't stand on ceremony with him either, laughed a few times, and said goodbye.

After returning to the City Guard Station, He Lingchuan walked into the council hall, summoned the sand table, and set up a barrier.

Hu Min had returned to report on the military situation in Longchuan.

After the Qianjin Stronghold and the Qiuhua Gang were recruited as road managers for the Longchuan trade route, they played a very good leading and demonstration effect. Even with the strong pressure from the Xiji puppet army, the bandit gangs within Longchuan surrendered to Yuheng City one after another.

If you can't survive, and you can collect money while sitting still, even a fool knows how to choose.

He Lingchuan even let the small and medium-sized bandit gangs that took the initiative to surrender choose the sections first, that is, the sections to manage and collect fees.

First come, first served.

Road sections have good and bad ones; you can't collect much money in bad places, and there are costs to manage them.

This greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the small and medium-sized bandit gangs to surrender; after all, no one wants to let others eat the first bite of soup, and when it's their turn, they can only gnaw on bones.

After the situation of the civilian bandits acting unanimously against outsiders was broken, Yuheng City promoted the heads and prestigious elders of the Longchuan villages to township officials, and asked them to promote household registration, that is, all villagers in Longchuan must be recorded in the household register one by one according to their name, age, place of origin, identity, appearance, and financial situation.

After decades, Longchuan finally conducted a population census again.

With this complete set of data, Yuheng City's control over Longchuan increased greatly.

At the same time, Yuheng City also stationed a large number of personnel in Longchuan, saying it was for collaborative management. But the gangs like Qianjin Stronghold were all eating public food from top to bottom, and the heads and elders of the villages also became township officials, so what power and position did they have to oppose it?

After this group of people moved in, there were no secrets within Longchuan; village locations, population distribution, types and numbers of monsters, and even information about crops and farmland were all sent to He Lingchuan for his reference in decision-making.

Of course, the most important thing is the enemy's intelligence.

He Lingchuan figured out the true number of the Xiji puppet army for the first time: 2,700 people.

This includes the Beijia squad brought by Fu Shanlie, the three remnants of the Xiji army defeated by General Hong and Commander Xiao, the other Longchuan water bandits they annexed, and even a portion of the Jin Tao army!

(End of chapter)