Judging from Zhai Jiong's statement, the Du family fire and the attack on the Yan family manor were most likely caused by the Cai family. At least other families in Xiangyang thought so. Otherwise, there would not be so many families collectively plotting against the Cai family. In the end, the Cai family was forced to

The head of the family came out and swore that he would never do anything similar to the Xiangyang family in the future.

The ancients believed in heaven, earth, ghosts and gods, and took their oaths very seriously.

He was willing to come out and swear an oath, and he swore an oath on behalf of his family, and other families recognized the result.

The tragedy of the Du family and the Yan family has happened and cannot be changed. It is a good result to be able to force the Cai family to publicly swear and make a commitment. The fight between the Xiangyang families has returned to the pattern that everyone has long recognized.

On the surface, the Cai family was forced to swear an oath, and their face was greatly damaged. However, from an objective perspective, four of the five major families in Xiangyang have declined. Only the Cai family has stood out. It can be said that the Cai family has won a complete victory. All the important opponents have gone.

, the Xiangyang area returned to the normal mode of family fighting, and no other family could compete with the Cai family. The Cai family's dominance in Xiangyang has now been unshakable.

Cai only lost a little face, but won almost all the honor.

If all the families had not shared the same hatred and used radical methods to deal with the Cai family, forcing the Cai family to swear an oath as a talisman, the Zhai family, which has had grievances with the Cai family for several generations, would have been difficult to continue to thrive in Xiangyang.

The changes that happened to the Du family and the Yan family happened after the head of the Cai family was replaced by Cai Mao.

It is difficult to explain the Du family fire and the attack on the Yan family with simple natural and man-made disasters. The Cai family is the most suspected. If it was the Cai family, the then head of the family, Cai Mao, must have been involved, and he was probably the mastermind of many incidents. Cai Hao's previous family head was Cai

Cai Xi, Cai Xi was a great scholar in Nanjun County and had a great reputation. Although Cai Xi had fights with other families when he was in charge of the Cai family, his methods were within the normal scope and not out of the ordinary.

The owner of the house has changed, and the style is completely different.

Cai Mao's threat index suddenly increased in Yu Buzhi's heart.

Setting fire to destroy the Du family shows that he is ruthless; asking Wuling bandits to attack the Yan family shows that he is bold; arousing public anger and swearing to escape shows that he is flexible and flexible; taking refuge with Liu Biao and being highly valued shows that he is good at dancing. Facing a person with the above qualities, it is definitely not a pleasant thing to do.

Pleasant things.

What's more, there is also a huge family power supporting Cai Mao.

In recent years, the power of the Cai family has grown steadily, and their influence is no longer limited to a corner of Xiangyang. Now it has grown into one of the largest families in Nan County. The Cai family's daughter will soon marry Liu Biao as her stepmother. By that time, the Cai family's power in Jingzhou will reach its peak.

, except for the Zhonglu Kuai family, it is difficult to find a rival.

If given the chance to choose, Yu Buzhi would not want to compete with someone like Cai Hao.

I am a lord player. Is fighting against historical figures the correct development path for a lord player?

But he had no choice.

Being targeted by the mastermind behind the scenes, he was not allowed to back down.

Judging from the current situation, Cai Mao has all the conditions to become the mastermind behind the scenes.

He was able to mobilize the Wuling bandits; he had enough strength and courage to let a prefect risk crossing the border to do things for him; Yan Ji was probably the orphan of the Yan family, and Xu's mother took her in and was pursued, and finally the Wuling bandits were dispatched. The connection is intriguing.

; There are few people in Jingzhou who can make the Wuling Army and the Wuling Bandits join forces...

Yu Buzhi asked: "Do you still remember the year when the Yan family was attacked by the Wuling bandits?"

"It's Guanghe six years."

Guanghe is the reign name of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. In the sixth year of Guanghe, which is 183, and one year before the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Xu's mother came to compete for the throne during that time, and the timeline is also highly consistent.

In Yu Buzhi's mind, he quickly sorted out a sequence of events.

The Yan family was attacked by the Wuling bandits... Yan Ji met Xu's mother by chance... The Wuling bandits pursued Xu's mother... Because Chen Dao desperately escorted her and the Zhulu army responded in time, Xu's mother arrived safely at Zhulu territory... During the Yellow Turbans, the Wuling bandits invaded Zhulu territory.

Returned with a disastrous defeat... In the battle against Dong Zhuo, Wuling bandits and Wuling troops appeared at the same time...

Logically, cause and effect are completely established.

Yu Buzhi smiled bitterly and asked again: "Do you know the young lady from the Yan family who is planning to marry into the Du family?"

Zhai Jiu shook his head: "After the defeat of the Zhai family, my subordinates went to Lumen Mountain to study. They spent most of their time on the mountain and rarely returned to their home in Xiangyang. They had never seen Miss Yan. I heard that Miss Yan was very beautiful, but

Due to the sudden changes that happened to the Du family and the Yan family, the clan members were angry with the Miss Yan family and regarded her as a disaster star. She was not allowed to stay in the Yan family's settlement. The Miss Yan family was forced to leave her hometown, which was very pitiful."

Yu Buzhi suspected that Yan Ji was a lady of the Yan family and wanted to find someone to confirm it.

Zhai Liong didn't know, so he had to give up.

If you want to know more information, you have to wait for the Mohists sent to Xiangyang to make progress.

The Wuling Army's cross-border incident has not yet subsided. Cai Mao was too worried to take care of himself, but Yu Buzhi was not in a hurry.

"You just said that the Yan family was prepared before the attack, trained Zhuang Yong, and also purchased a batch of machine beasts to strengthen the manor's defense. Were the machine beasts purchased from the Mo family?"

"Exactly. The Yan family is a family that has been passed down for hundreds of years. They know where the Mo family's secret market is. Fortunately, their head has the foresight. If it weren't for the help of those machine beasts to resist, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to wait for other families to rescue them. The Yan family

The village was captured by the Wuling bandits."

Yu Buzhi nodded silently.

Mohists are hard-working and have very low material requirements, but for such a large sect, various expenses will be high, and the Mohist family also needs to do some business to ensure the healthy and orderly operation of the sect.

Apart from being a dead warrior, the Mohist's most proficient skill is the mechanism technique.

As mentioned before, selling machine bags is the main source of income for the Moh family.

Although the line of Mohist machine masters seems to be somewhat withered, the machine manufacturing technology inherited by the Mohist family still has an absolute technical advantage. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Mohist family secretly opened a secret market for machine beasts, selling some relatively simple systems in the secret market.

Agency package.

The mechanism packs sold by the Mohist Secret Market are not the shoddy products named "Mojia Arrow Tower" sold in the system store, but standard mechanism beasts with real combat effectiveness.

The standard machine beasts sold in the secret market have a distinctive feature, they are all defensive.

It’s not that the Mohist machine masters can’t create offensive machine beasts. This is related to the Mohist philosophy of “non-offensive”. To put it bluntly, the “non-offensive” philosophy is to oppose aggressive wars. The Mohist family needs funds to maintain the operation of the sect, and still adheres to the sect.

According to the gate concept, no matter how high the customer bids, no offensive machine beast will enter the market.

The customers of the Secret City are mainly aristocratic families, schools, sects and merchants.

These neutral NPC forces lack sufficient self-defense capabilities, and the machine beasts can give them some help.

——After Yu Buzhi drew the crusade order, he once thought about attacking wealthy families, famous families, business settlements, and dreamed of easily plundering the technology, talents, and wealth of neutral NPC forces. Whether the crusade order could attack neutral NPC forces was irrelevant. Later,

He knew about the existence of the Mo family's secret market and that the neutral NPC was not as defenseless as he imagined. He was secretly glad that he did not do anything stupid impulsively.

The Mo family's machine beasts have a very good defensive effect and have a good reputation in the market. The government sometimes sends people to visit the secret market. The Mo family doesn't care about this. The machine beasts they sell are all defensive types. It is difficult for others to use their machine beasts to do evil. This

That's enough. Perhaps because the Mohist family does not sell offensive mechanisms and does not resist government procurement, the government turns a blind eye to the existence of the secret city. After hundreds of years of changes, the address of the secret city has been moved many times.

The secret market still exists.

According to Qin Di, when the secret market was at its peak, there were a total of eight defensive machine beasts for sale.

Due to the gradual decline of the Mohist Mechanism lineage over the years, many Mechanism skills have been lost, and some Mechanism materials that were previously easy to obtain have gradually become scarce, the number of Mechanism beasts provided by the secret market continues to decrease.

Before the end of the Yellow Turban War, the secret market could only provide three types of machine beasts for customers to choose from.

After Qin Di returned to the sect, he searched through the manuscripts of the giants of the past generations and successfully broke through the bottleneck. With his extraordinary talent, he used reverse reasoning to forcibly deduce the manufacturing methods of two types of machine beasts, and restored five types of machine beasts in the secret city.

The five standard types of gimmicks are the largest variety of gimmicks sold in the Mohist secret market in more than a hundred years.

The restoration of two kinds of machine beasts in Qindi not only increases the richness of secret market products, allowing customers to more flexibly choose the combination of machine beasts they need, but more importantly, there is a kind of machine beast with a higher level. A long-lost high-level machine beast

The appearance in the secret market has aroused strong interest from potential customers. The number of orders received recently for machine beasts has increased significantly, and the economic situation of the sect has improved significantly.

Qindi is working hard to restore other standard machine beast manufacturing methods, or invent new standard machine beasts.

It is not without reason that everyone in the Mohist family regards him as the best hope for the revival of the sect.

After communicating with Zhai Mao, Yu Buzhi had a preliminary understanding of Cai Mao's danger and destructive power. More and more clues are pointing to Cai Mao, but the information currently known is not enough to conclude that Cai Mao is the mastermind behind the scenes.

Bu Zhi only hoped that the Mohist who went to Xiangyang to investigate could bring back more conclusive news.

The days passed day by day.

The construction frenzy set off by Zhulu City continues to make progress.

Junior jewelry store is put into operation!

Stationery stores and bathhouses were also built one after another and began to serve the villagers!

The intermediate kiln factory has been upgraded!

After the upgrade of the high-level weaving workshop was completed, Yi Feng used the blueprint to upgrade it to the top-level weaving workshop!

The heavy infantry training camp was established, and the enthusiasm for joining the army was extremely high. The 1,000 tank battalion was quickly filled!

Except for the junior lacquer shop and the junior jade shop, which are temporarily unable to be built due to lack of skilled personnel, other buildings are under construction step by step. The blacksmith's house, master's house and market are more than halfway through the construction, and the completion date will not be too far away.

, but the construction progress bar of Tongque Terrace is still moving at a snail's pace. It seems that it will take a long time to get a complete picture of this special and unique building.

Yu Buzhi is quite calm, but he is too impatient to eat hot tofu.

If you are really anxious, you can use the stone city wall as a reference to compare, and you will feel much more comfortable.

No matter how slow the progress of Tongque Terrace is, can it be slower than the damn stone wall?

One of the most recently constructed buildings in the territory is the Junior Training Center.

The construction of the primary training center was completed and Zhai Jiong took office. However, he had nothing to do in the training center. The territory had no plan to cultivate job-changing talents through the training center. Zhai Jiong was mentally prepared for this and was not in a hurry. He was leisurely and contentedly in the administrative center.

Help, take the time to familiarize yourself with the administrative affairs of the territory.

Zhai Jiong seemed calm, but in fact he really wanted to prove his worth.

The lord said that he should first familiarize himself with government affairs and then make adjustments when the time comes.
To be continued...