Hearing Su Yan say that he wanted to behead Shao Wen in public, Shao Cheng was so frightened that he wanted to jump up.
The ancients valued the inheritance of the family bloodline.
In order to maintain the purity of the bloodline inheritance, most families had to give birth to at least two generations, or even more.
After they were born, they would nurture them well and then choose the best to inherit the family business.
Of course, that was the truth, but it still depended on the actual situation.
Some people valued the direct line of descent, so they always chose the direct line of descent to inherit the family business, not the concubine.
There were many people in the Shao family's first generation, but most of them were illegitimate children.
Only Shao Wen was a legitimate son, but unfortunately, he was still an idiot.
Shao Cheng himself also knew what Shao Wen was like, but what he cared about was ultimately his background.
Therefore, Shao Wen naturally became a treasure in his hands and had always doted on him.
Now that such a thing had happened, although the Shao family's reputation had been completely destroyed, the most important thing was to protect Shao Wen's life.
Shao Cheng only came to the county office to look for Su Yan after so many days.
In the family, he had also gone through great difficulty to resist public opinion before deciding to protect Shao Wen, so the delay was very long.
Otherwise, Shao Cheng would probably have come on the second day Shao Wen was imprisoned.
Seeing Shao Cheng's extreme reaction, Su Yan smiled and said,"Then what does Master Shao plan to do?"
"This..."
Shao Cheng hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said,""As long as Milord is willing to let Shao Wen go, my Shao family is willing to offer a hundred gold to Milord.”
Who knew that Su Yan would shake his head after hearing this.
"Shao Wen is the eldest son of the Shao family and the treasure of the Shao family's head. Is he only worth a hundred gold? I don't think Master Shao is sincere at all.”
"Then what do you think?"
Shao Cheng asked.
"One thousand gold and ten thousand dans of grain, and I'll let Shao Wen go.”
Su Yan said indifferently.
"What?! "This is impossible, Sir. My Shao family simply can't take out so much.”
Shao Cheng was greatly shocked. He did not expect that Su Yan would actually demand an exorbitant price, asking for so much.
"Humph! It seemed that the Shao family's head did not want Young Master Shao's life. In that case, the Shao family's head should leave!”
"I'll inform the county later to choose a day to kill Shao Wen.”
Su Yan coldly snorted.
"You!"
Shao Cheng looked at Su Yan angrily and was speechless for a moment.
Su Yan smiled and looked at him without saying anything. He wanted to give him some time to consider.
After a moment, Shao Cheng seemed to have made up his mind. He gritted his teeth and said,"Sir, you want too much. My Shao family really can't take it out.”
"Then how much can the Shao family head take out?”
Su Yan asked.
"At most eight hundred gold," Shao Cheng said.
"Six hundred gold and a thousand dans of grain!" Su Yan muttered to himself for a moment.”
Seeing that Shao Cheng still wanted to bargain, he said coldly,""I'm already at my limit, Master Shao. If you're still unwilling, then there's nothing I can do.”
Shao Cheng saw that Su Yan had already revealed his bottom line and had no other choice. He could only grit his teeth and nod his head as he said,"Alright, we'll do as you say!"
Su Yan smiled.
"Since Master Shao is so straightforward, I won't be a villain. Young Master Shao, you can take it first. Just send me the food and money later.”
"Thank you, Milord. I shall take my leave first.”
Shao Cheng heaved a sigh of relief. Su Yan waved his hand and had a soldier bring them to the dungeon to retrieve the person.
"Tsk tsk, this deal is really good. I got the fierce general Dian Wei and also extorted a lot of money and food.”
Su Yan thought happily in his heart.
Although his previous strategy was to avoid confrontation with the aristocratic families of Zhuo County, this matter was different.
Dian Wei's appearance changed Su Yan's mind.
Su Yan was still able to distinguish between not offending the Shao family and recruiting Dian Wei.
Since he chose Dian Wei, he would definitely offend the Shao family.
Since he had already offended them, he might as well be more ruthless and extort them again.
In any case, Su Yan did not intend to kill Shao Wen from the beginning. After all, it was still fine if he locked him up, but if he really killed him, he would not rest until one of them died.
Therefore, with the idea of not killing him, Su Yan followed the lead and killed the Shao family.
It just so happened that he didn't offend the other party and even benefited from it. Wouldn't it be good to kill two birds with one stone?
After Shao Cheng brought Shao Wen back, he did not dare to slow down. In less than two days, the money and food were sent over.
Su Yan had people secretly store the food in the treasury. Then, he spent some money to buy some good medicinal herbs for Du Ji's mother to nourish her body.
Du Ji was naturally extremely grateful to Su Yan. His favorability increased by quite a bit, but he still did not change his address to "Lord".
Su Yan estimated that he still needed to display some of his true strength.
It just so happened that the grain delivery date mentioned last time was approaching. In the past few days, the county magistrate would occasionally look for Su Yan to ask about the specific route of the delivery.
Su Yan laughed secretly in his heart. He knew that this old fellow could not sit still anymore, so he told him that the transportation route was near White Bear Ridge.
When the county magistrate heard this, he was overjoyed and repeatedly promised not to tell anyone.
However, the person Su Yan arranged came back to report that he saw the county magistrate's butler secretly leaving the city for White Bear Ridge at night.
This time, Su Yan was greatly relieved. It seemed that this fellow had really taken the bait.
Seeing that there were still four or five days before that day, he called Dian Wei and secretly went out of the city to receive the three hundred guards of the Zou family.
After receiving them, he and Dian Wei familiarized themselves with the guards and then began to train them in secret.
What Su Yan didn't expect was that the Zou family was willing to pay the capital and give these 300 people were all elites.
All of them were strong and agile elite soldiers.
Many of them were veterans who had retired from the battlefield and had seen blood in hundreds of battles.
After Su Yan organized them and trained them a little, they became a proper team.
Their combat strength was not weaker than the regular army of the Zhuo County government. In fact, they were even slightly stronger.
With these three hundred people, Su Yan's plan was already foolproof.
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