Chapter 473: Lu Xun's serfdom reform? Just a final surgical operation!

"Zhuge Kongming, where exactly is our lord?"

"Could it be that he abandoned us and fled alone?"

The leaders of the four great Jiangdong aristocratic families, seeing that they had not seen Liu Bei for a long time,

even if they were stupid, realized something was wrong.

However,

under Zhuge Liang's suggestion, Liu Bei had long since taken Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and thirty thousand troops south to Yuzhang Commandery.

In the city at this moment,

besides the people of the Jiangdong aristocratic families,

among Liu Bei's camp, only one important official, Zhuge Liang, remained here to garrison.

Facing the questioning of the four great aristocratic family leaders,

Zhuge Liang, in an emergency, quickly thought of a countermeasure.

He revealed a calm and composed expression on his face, then slightly shook his fan and smiled:

"Everyone, rather than obsessing over where the lord is, it would be better to hurry and gather the remaining strength of your respective families."

"After all, if the retainers and hidden households you left in the other commanderies learn of the riot that occurred in Wu Jun..."

"I fear... everything will repeat itself once again!"

Hearing this,

the leaders of the four great aristocratic families were all sweating profusely.

Wu Jun could erupt with such a large-scale rebellion.

What about the other commanderies?

Even if the scale could not catch up to Wu Jun, I fear it would still cost them their old lives!

Thinking of this, the four great aristocratic family leaders' obsession with where Liu Bei was also faded quite a bit.

Although Liu Bei was the lord in name,

he was ultimately just an outsider.

And the matter of the retainers and hidden households erupting in rebellion belonged to the Jiangdong aristocratic families' own family affairs.

Even if Liu Bei participated in it,

he would only play the role of sending troops to suppress it, treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

Besides, those retainers and hidden households were each "private property" belonging to the Jiangdong aristocratic families.

If they all died,

I fear the Jiangdong aristocratic families would also be reduced to the masses in the future, thereby completely losing the "aristocratic family" label!

Therefore,

compared to finding Liu Bei,

for the Jiangdong aristocratic families,

the most urgent task was to quickly find a way to stop the losses in time!

And the method to stop the losses in time

was naturally to gather all the retainers and hidden households from the other commanderies to Chaisang.

Afterward, find an opportunity to control all the "women and children" among the retainers and hidden households.

In this way,

the young and strong among the retainers and hidden households would definitely not dare to abandon their families and rebel alone because they would be afraid of harming the rat to hit the vase.

It must be said,

as the "Celestial Dragons" of the six commanderies of Jiangdong,

the four great Jiangdong aristocratic families had grasped the methods of exploitation and oppression to perfection.

Don't the retainers and hidden households want to rebel?

Fine, I will directly control the family members you care about.

Do you still dare to continue rebelling?

At least eighty or ninety percent of the retainers and hidden households would abandon the idea of rebelling because of this.

As for the remaining ten or twenty percent,

even if they rebelled, they would ultimately be isolated and helpless, unable to cause too much lethality to this group of Jiangdong aristocratic families.

After bidding farewell to Zhuge Liang,

the leaders of the four great aristocratic families hurriedly returned to their respective residences to arrange for the gathering of retainers and hidden households from the other commanderies to head to Chaisang.

And in the Lu family residence in Chaisang city, a completely different scene was occurring.

Lu Kang did not, like the leaders of the other three great aristocratic families, gather the retainers and hidden households from the other commanderies.

On the contrary,

laid out before him were one "indenture contract" after another that had turned yellow and white.

"Boyan, do we really have to do this?"

Lu Kang pointed tremblingly at these indenture contracts, his eyes full of reluctance.

And beside him sat a youth nearing fifteen years of age.

This youth had a heroic spirit between his brows.

He was precisely Lu Kang's grandson, Lu Xun.

When Lu Xun was young, his biological father and mother passed away because of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Perhaps, in our inherent impression, the Yellow Turban Rebellion mainly occurred in the north and did not affect the south.

But in reality, the south also had a portion of uprisings, large and small.

It was just that the momentum was relatively not as grand as in the north.

Although the Lu family was one of the four great Jiangdong aristocratic families, did the rebel army care about these things?

Whether it was an aristocratic family or common people, when it was time for people to die, they all had to die!

Just like that, Lu Xun's biological parents both lost their lives at the hands of the Wu Jun Yellow Turban rebel army.

And after that, Lu Xun had always lived with his grandfather Lu Kang.