"Leave?"
Lu Kang's brow furrowed sharply, and he instinctively glanced outside the door.
"Elder Brother, I personally think that would be unwise..."
Lu Kai shook his head. "Youjie, I have my own difficulties."
Lu Kang had been somewhat dazed with exhaustion, but now he was fully awake. He said, "Elder Brother, I know the Wu Kingdom's current predicament. We should think of our clan, but if you leave now, you will hand others a weapon against us. The entire clan will suffer."
Over the years, as the Wu Kingdom showed signs of decline, large numbers of young scions from the great clans had begun fleeing. The younger members of the Quan Clan, the Zhu Clan, and the Zhang clan had practically all left.
The reasoning was simple. The Wu Kingdom was nearly finished. If the basket was about to break, surely a few eggs had to be moved elsewhere?
Otherwise, once the Wei people fought their way in, everything would be finished.
They had no foothold in Wei. A look at the Shu Kingdom made that clear. Those in the Shu Kingdom with relatives to back them, such as the Zhuge Family, the Huang family, and the Zhang clan, had suffered no real reprisals. Their land and manpower had been preserved. By contrast, the great clans without any foothold in Wei had been subjected to all manner of harassment by the officials sent there, and their holdings had shrunk drastically.
Naturally, they too had to prepare an escape route for their clans before their kingdom fell.
But the problem was that Lu Kai was not some young scion of the clan.
He was the General Who Conquers the North!
What sort of blow would the flight of a General Who Conquers the North deal?
It would be the equivalent of