Three Kingdoms: defect to Liu Bei and backhand intercept Mrs. Hu Mi

Night falls in a luxurious house on the bustling street of Xiangyang.

The heads of the aristocratic families who gathered at the Zhou Mufu during the day gathered together again.

More than ten people gathered around a large round table, all sighing and looking unhappy.

"Everyone, do you want to give up the accumulation of a century-old family in our hands?"

"What's the use of sighing to oneself? Will the knife that cuts on our bodies be spared?"

The speaker was the host of today’s banquet, Master Sun.

The Sun family is naturally inferior to the Kuai family and the Cai family in politics, but its influence in business is faintly greater than that of the Cai family and the Kuai family.

If it were not for the fear of the Kuai family, the political power of the Cai family would probably be able to suppress these two families.

It is precisely because of their strength that everyone came to discuss today.

Seeing that the head of the Sun family had started, the other family heads became more energetic.

Their eyes were shining brightly: "Brother Sun, do you have any good ideas?"

"As long as it works, we will absolutely obey your orders."

The head of the Sun family smiled lightly: "If there is no other way, how can we attract you all here?"

"Cai Mao, although Kuai Yue spoke openly, none of us know how much wealth he left behind."

"Isn't it just to survive in troubled times that we obeyed any of their arrangements?"

"But now that Gao Zhi has arrived, he has abandoned us like worn-out shoes."

"They are unwilling to help us make decisions, so we can only make our own decisions."

Speaking of this, Master Sun paused for a long time: "What happened tonight is extremely dangerous. If any news is leaked, we will die immediately without a burial place."

"So I need you to make an alliance with your blood."

Speaking of which, the head of the Sun family took out a yellow scroll from his arms.

"Everyone, write your name on it, whoever has other ideas."

As soon as these words came out, all the family heads present looked at each other, their eyes full of contemplation.

They didn't have a deep friendship with each other, and they didn't trust each other. They left evidence rashly, and if someone exposed it, they would be killed.

However, the head of the Sun family had already anticipated this. He picked up the brush first, scrawled his name and put his fingerprint on it.

"Everyone, you shouldn't have any doubts now, right?"

The other family heads smiled coquettishly, looked at each other, took down the brushes in their hands, and hurriedly wrote their names.

There were still a few people who wanted to make a joke, but they were seen through by the Sun family leader at a glance, and his face was full of disappointment: "Everyone, I treat each other with integrity, how can you treat me like this?"

"You still have to muddle through this kind of thing. Do you think that by exposing us, Lin Fan will be lenient to you?"

Those who deliberately wrote wrong names quickly picked up their pens and wrote a few more words.

The head of the Sun family checked them one by one, and when they were correct, a smile appeared on his face.

"Everyone, now we can speak freely."

"Lin Fan's victory in Jingxiang was all due to our great help. Not to mention sharing honor and disgrace, and sharing wealth, at least our family's wealth can be preserved, right?"

"It is precisely because of this that we are willing to welcome him to Jingxiang, but what do we have now?"

"If Jing Xiang doesn't sit still, he will attack us."

"Instead of forcing us to work as soldiers, we must completely loot our property."

“Are we just going to give up the wealth that our ancestors left us?”

"Are you willing?" A few words aroused the anger in the hearts of the other family heads.

"Why should we hand over the wealth we have worked so hard to accumulate?"

"Just because of his words?"

"That's right, we can't just sit back and wait for death. If we had known this, we might as well have supported Cao Cao and brought him in, so we wouldn't be in a desperate situation now."

"What's the use of saying this now? It's too late, what can be done?"

"that is."

Sighing sounded again, and after a brief silence, everyone looked at the head of the Sun family.

"Brother Sun, we have written a bloody letter together and are in the same boat. Now we can say whatever we want and no one will leak it."

Patriarch Sun smiled: "When it comes to weapons, there is no way we can be Lin Fan's opponent."

"It is even more impossible to welcome Cao Cao into Jingxiang."

"But there is one thing we are good at."

"When Jingxiang was first decided, Lin Fan couldn't wait to attack us, but we are not easy to bully."

"Together, we here control more than 70% of the business in Jingxiang."

"We can use ordinary people and the strong public opinion to put pressure on Lin Fan."

"If he wants to calm the people, let's bring chaos to him."

"Let Xiangyang move, let Jingxiang move, let him know that the water in Jingxiang is not as simple as he thought."

"We are not at his mercy."

"As long as chaos breaks out in Xiangyang and Jingxiang, it won't be us who will be anxious, but Lin Fan."

Everyone's eyes lit up, and after a brief silence, a flash of surprise flashed in their eyes: "Wonderful, wonderful!!"

"But...but what if Lin Fan ignores us and directly pursues our fault? What should we do?"

These words were like a bucket of cold water poured directly on everyone's heads.

Everyone looked at Master Sun again.

After a brief silence, Master Sun said confidently: "It's not that we don't want to do business, it's just that after the war, things are lacking, and we have to hand over the things. What can we do?"

"Could it be that Lin Fan didn't even understand the truth and just killed us?"

"I don't believe it!"

"If you are so cruel, why do you want to conquer the world?"

"What do you think?"

After a brief consideration, the other family heads nodded: "That makes sense. We don't do shortage of this kind of thing all the time, nor do we do it once or twice. It's just that this time we have to be more realistic and lead people to others."

"I agree."

One person agreed, and the others agreed, and in a blink of an eye, more than ten people agreed.

A smile appeared on Patriarch Sun's face. At this moment, he finally understood the benefits of power. It felt good to have everyone follow his words.

"Everyone, since we all agree, let's prepare separately."

"Tomorrow we will cause chaos among the people of Xiangyang."

(End of this chapter)