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The Lu family was extremely excited today. Not only was the emperor personally attending the birthday party, but more importantly, the important minister Pei Ju brought a news that made the Lu family cheer. His Majesty the Emperor had decided to appoint the head of the family Lu Zhuo as the Imperial College.

It was already late at night, and the Lu family was still brightly lit. Everyone was busy preparing for tomorrow's small birthday party. The small birthday party was also an internal family birthday party, attended by representatives of the same clan from all over the world. Although they were all from the Lu family, there were hundreds of people.

More than a hundred servants and Lu family members were busy preparing various items for tomorrow.

At this time, in the inner hall of Lu Mansion, Lu Shenzheng discussed with his two sons the path the Lu family would take next. Although such major events are generally negotiated within the family, Lu Shen is very strong. He believes that he can decide everything and does not need to be arguing within the family and fight for interests.

"I am very satisfied with the position of priest of the Imperial College. I am not very powerful, but I can accumulate enough connections. Even if the world changes dynasties, it will not be affected. On the contrary, it will be more valued."

Lu Shen was very satisfied with the position of Imperial College Priest, and he smiled and said to his eldest son: "Since Zi asked Pei Ju to pass the message today, then this matter has basically been decided. You will start preparing to go to Beijing to perform your duties tomorrow!"

Lu Zhuo quickly bowed and said, "I understand."

Lu Shen turned around and said to his second son: "Tomorrow, I will send someone to the capital to clean up our house in the capital, so that your brother can live in it."

"Yes!" Lu Yi agreed weakly.

Lu Shen heard a perfunctory look in his tone and couldn't help but glar, "Are you still dissatisfied with it?"

Lu Yi was so scared that she shivered and quickly lowered her head, "The boy is not dissatisfied!"

"Hmph! Don't think I don't understand your thoughts. You think I didn't recommend you to be an official in the capital, so you are dissatisfied, right?"

"The child dare not be dissatisfied with his father!"

Having said that, Lu Yi was really dissatisfied with her. The eldest brother took all of everything. He was the head of the family. Now that the Lu family has the opportunity to become a senior official, she was still snatched away by her brother.

But he had nothing. Isn't he the legitimate son? Is he not capable? He was full of resentment and dissatisfaction with his father.

Lu Shen narrowed his eyes and looked at the second son for a moment. He said coldly: "Do you know why I don't recommend you? You are too small to do big things. You can see from Zhang Xuan's work. I asked him to arrange for him to attend the table, but you are narrow-minded. You are extremely humiliating. If he hadn't been disdainful of leaving, how would you tell my Lu family to explain to the emperor?"

Lu Yi hurriedly defended: "The Child didn't know that he would be valued by the emperor. In fact, Child just dealt with this matter according to common sense. He injured Bai Xinyang, and Child couldn't offend the Bai family for him--"

"That's because you have a problem with your prior arrangement. He is Luo Cheng and Qingyuan and his friends. You should arrange them to sit together. With Luo Cheng and Qingyuan there. Does Bai Xinyang still dare to provoke? It's clear that you look down on him and deliberately arrange him to humiliate him in the corner. Do you think I don't understand your little thoughts?"

Lu Yi was so angry that he was scolded by his father. His face turned red with a swelling. He argued with a hard neck: "I believe that anyone will handle this matter the same as a child, and the elder brother, even his father, you will deal with him like this, but now you put all the blame on me. I am not a saint. How could you know that the emperor would value a beggar like him?"

Lu Shen was furious and slapped the table hard, "You still have the face to argue, get out of here. Get out!"

Lu Yi was extremely angry and finally lost his mind. In anger, he turned around and left. With a loud bang, Lu Yi knocked open the door and strode out.

"Rebellious!" Lu Shen pointed at his son's back and cursed in anger, almost fainting.

Lu Zhuo was so scared that he hurriedly supported his father and repeatedly advised: "Don't calm down! Stop the anger!"

Lu Shen slowly calmed down, and he couldn't help but sigh, "Why did I give birth to such a stupid and ignorant son?"

But Lu Zhuo knew what the problem was, so he whispered to his father: "Since the child has gone to Beijing to work, it is better to step down from the position of head of the family and let the second brother take office. What does his father think?"

"no!"

Lu Shen flatly denied his son's suggestion, "The rules of the Lu clan are written very clearly. The position of the head of the family must be inherited by the eldest son. I don't want to modify the rules of the family because of this matter, otherwise there will be endless troubles. You will continue to serve as the head of the Lu clan. As for you are not in Zhuo County, I am here! I will temporarily handle family affairs for you."

Lu Zhuo sighed in his heart. After all, his father refused to give up his power in the family.

After a moment of silence, Lu Shen asked again: "Why did you decline the Cui family's proposal today?"

"The Child just thinks that the Cui family is too strong. It is obvious that Cui Lu's agreement is that Qing'er marry the heir of the Cui family. Now that the head of the family has not decided, they ask Qing'er to marry Cui Wenxiang again. This is not in line with the rules. The Child thinks that the Cui family is a bit too bullying!"

"The Cui family is the number one in Hebei. They have strong capital. The Lu family's reputation is far inferior to the Cui family. You should not refuse them, and you should agree to this marriage."

Lu Zhuo pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, the child did not refuse. The child just said that he would talk about this matter after Cui Wenxiang made some achievements in his career. Now he is still Bai Ding. The child feels that the marriage has not come. If they are really sincere, they should think I am justified."

"Wait for a while and there will be troubles in everything. I wonder how many things will happen?"

Lu Shen sighed, "Well, since you have made this decision, I won't care. Take all your family to Luoyang! I feel a little uneasy when I place it in Ji County."

Lu Shen glanced at the eldest son meaningfully, "You should understand what I mean!"

Lu Zhuo was secretly shocked. Did his father already know that Qing'er was almost kidnapped?

He didn't dare to explain, so he had to give a deep tribute, "Children obey the order!"

As soon as the next day, Luo Cheng ran to Zhang Xuan's yard panting. At this time, Zhang Xuan was packing his luggage. Seeing Luo Cheng running red, he smiled and said, "Are you so anxious?"

"Brother, come with me quickly, someone will look for you!"

"Who is it?"

"Just come with me!"

Before Luo Cheng could explain in detail, he grabbed Zhang Xuan and left. The two of them quickly walked to the guest hall. In the guest hall, Deputy Governor Luo Yi was chatting with a guest.

The guest is nearly 70 years old, has a medium figure and is very energetic. He is not a little old. He is wearing a gauze hat. He is wearing a golden-purple python robe and a jade belt on his waist. He is obviously a senior official of the court.

Zhang Xuan felt that this person looked familiar, and seemed to have seen him at the birthday party of Lu yesterday. But he didn't know the person's name.

Luo Yi saw Zhang Xuan and smiled and said, "He is here!"

The old man sat in his seat without moving, looking at Zhang Xuan thoughtfully. At this time, Zhang Xuan quickly walked into the lobby and bowed to Luo Yi, "See Uncle Luo Shi!"

"Are you leaving today?" Luo Yi asked with some regret.

"Yes! The Ministry of War asked my nephew to go to the military camp to report today and have to leave. Thank you for your care during this period."

"No need to be polite about a small matter."

Luo Yi waved his hand with a smile, and introduced the old man next to him and said, "This is Shangshu Pei and the head of the Pei family. Have you heard of it?"

Zhang Xuan was shocked. Although there were two powerful officials of the Pei family in the court, there was only one head of the Pei family. That was Pei Ju. Zhang Xuan hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "I will meet with Shangshu Pei for a low position."

Pei Ju smiled and said, "Congratulations to General Zhang for his promotion."

"Thank you, Shangshu, for your praise, Zhang Xuan is ashamed of being accused of taking responsibility!"

Luo Yi smiled at Zhang Xuan and said, "Today, Shangshu Pei came to accompany his nephew to the military camp. The nephew's position is indeed different!"

Generally, military officers are accompanied by officials of the Ministry of War. Martial generals like Zhang Xuan are at most accompanied by ordinary doctors.

But today it was accompanied by Shangshu Pei Ju, which was extraordinary, so Luo Yi's tone was full of envy. Even if he, the governor, took office, he might not be able to invite a high-ranking official like Pei Ju.

Zhang Xuan was slightly stunned, but after a second thought, he realized that Pei Ju must have something to look for him. He quickly said gratefully: "What kind of virtue does Zhang Xuan have? He actually alarmed Shangshu Pei."

Pei Ju smiled, "You don't have to be polite. If you pack up, let's go!"

Zhang Xuan nodded, "It's already packed!"

Luo Yi hurriedly ordered someone to carry the luggage for Zhang Xuan, and the Luo family and his son took Pei Ju and Zhang Xuan outside the gate. Two carriages were parked under the steps outside the gate, and a groom had already taken Zhang Xuan's horse out of the stable.

Not long after, all the luggage was loaded on the carriage. Pei Ju bowed to Luo Yi and said with a smile: "I disturbed Governor Luo today. It's too late. I will accompany General Zhang to leave!"

"Welcome to the Secretary Pei to the Mansion again, and the door of the mansion is open to the Secretary at any time!"

"Sure! Sure!"

Luo Yi sent Pei Ju into the carriage. Zhang Xuan nodded to Luo Cheng and also got into the back row of the carriage. The carriage slowly started and quickly drove towards the south of the city.

Looking at the back of the carriage, Luo Cheng made up his mind to win the battle agreed next year.

"Yulang, remember what you say to your father. If you have time, you should have more contact with Zhang Xuan!" Luo Yi left a sentence and walked quickly into the mansion.

Luo Cheng shook his head helplessly. How could his father be so snobbish? He couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Inside the carriage, Pei Ju smiled and said to Zhang Xuan: "General Zhang, we have actually dealt with each other. Do you still have the impression?"

Zhang Xuan really couldn't remember where he had dealt with this Pei Ju, so he smiled apologetically.

"I'm sorry, I really don't remember it."

"We have never met. To be precise, you are unwilling to see me. Do you have any impression of you in Bayegu Club?" Pei Ju looked at Zhang Xuan with a smile.

"You are-"

Zhang Xuan suddenly remembered that on the night he came back from Beihai, Tule said that there was a Mr. Pei who wanted to see him. At that time, he was unwilling to talk about Beihai to Tule, so he politely declined the request for a meeting. It turned out that Mr. Pei was actually Pei Ju.

"I'm rude!" Zhang Xuan said reluctantly.

Pei Ju smiled slightly, "No need to be guilty. Even if you came to see me at that time, you only saw a businessman named Pei. But once you left the next day, I went north to deal with you after you were killed. Such a serious incident, isn't it the end of just sinking the soldiers into the lake? Do you understand?"

Zhang Xuan nodded silently, "I understand Huyi, but the subsequent things cannot be solved with Huyi's ability."

"Indeed, the Pugu tribe and the Uighur tribe will not listen to your explanation. I guaranteed it in the name of the Northern Vocational General of the Great Sui Dynasty, which made them believe that the Baye Gu tribe did not have the intention of monopolizing the military armor, but hid the military armor for the Great Sui Dynasty. In fact, the key is not that batch of military armor, but Shi Shu Hushi. You shot and killed this person, right!"

"Yes! If Bei Zhi didn't kill him, it would be difficult for him to escape from Beihai. Is it not good for Da Sui to kill him?" Zhang Xuan asked with some concern.

"Not that, the emperor has been killing him for a long time, so I have to get rid of this person at all costs. I plan to use his Sogdian business nature to lure him south to trade and take the opportunity to kill him. I didn't expect you to take the lead. What do you say? You solved a big problem for us."

Zhang Xuan immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Killing Shi Shu and Hu Xi has always been a hidden danger in his heart. He didn't know what consequences would be. It was not until Pei Ju's words that completely untied his heart.

Zhang Xuan felt grateful to Pei Ju, and he whispered: "Peo Shangshu's love for Bei Yi will be engraved in his heart."

Pei Ju accompanied Zhang Xuan to the military camp today to report. On the one hand, it was Yang Guang's arrangement, and on the other hand, Pei Ju wanted to take the opportunity to win over the young general.

Only he knew that Zhang Xuan had been regarded as the pillar of the crown prince by Yang Guang, and how could he miss such a promising young man?

Pei Ju stroked her beard and smiled without saying anything, but she was thinking about how to further win over Zhang Xuan.

At this time, Zhang Xuan saw that the carriage was heading northeast, and he wanted to meet Yang Nai, so he asked, "Shangshu Pei, can I thank His Highness Yan first?"

Pei Ju shook his head, "The emperor doesn't like the relationship between the King of Yan and foreign ministers, so don't see each other today, there will be opportunities in the future."

Zhang Xuan didn't say anything. He understood Pei Ju's meaning. The so-called "foreign minister" refers to himself. Yang Guang did not want him to have too close contacts with Yang Qing again.

But no matter what, Yang Neng was always full of gratitude in his heart. It can be said that it was because of Yang Neng's respect and recommendation that he was discovered by Emperor Yang Guang of Sui in less than a year and promoted him to the general of the Wu Yonglang. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!