After a few months, Li Ze met Cao Xin again.

However, as soon as they met, Cao Xin's great gesture of paying homage surprised Li Ze.

Speaking of which, Li Ze was still a little embarrassed when he saw Cao Xin, after all, he had now forcibly occupied Xindu, and he appointed officials to manage it, which was a corner of Cao Xin. Yizhou, but Cao Xin's territory. Yu Gong, he is a assassin, Yu private, although this person has no obvious support for himself, but he ignores it at the time, which is a kind of wordless help in itself. What's more, now this person is still the biggest and most likely help for himself to become a virtue?

At the moment, he returned the salute in a panic, clasped his hands into fists, and slammed them to the ground.

"Gong Cao, please get up quickly, isn't this tormenting Li Ze?"

Cao Xin stretched out his hands, held Li Ze's arms, and held him up stiffly, feeling the strength of Cao Xin's hands, Li Ze found that this old man who had been a jinshi was only afraid that his kung fu was really not weak, and he could barely be regarded as a brave man, but he was entrusted by the other party, and he couldn't bend down anymore.

"Childe, Cao's worship is not because you are the son of Duke Li, but because you saved Yizhou." Cao Xin said with emotion: "Cao is fundamentally in Yizhou, if Yizhou is lost, it will become a lost dog, even if these things outside the body are willing to go, but Cao's relatives and families are all in Yizhou, if it falls into the hands of the Henghai thieves, where is there a way to live?"

"Cao Gongyan is serious. Li Ze has been under the rule of Cao Gong all these years, and it is natural that he can do something for Cao Gong, although he is saving people, he is also saving himself." Li Ze said calmly, "I don't dare to take credit for this."

Cao Xin laughed when he heard this: "Well said, it is to save people and save yourself, this is like-minded. Childe, this time, if you hadn't calculated that Li Che would be defeated, and let me gather soldiers and horses in advance to rescue, Shenzhou would be in danger, and Chengde would not be guaranteed. He is indeed a great benefactor of virtue."

"It's still the same sentence, but it's just to save yourself." Li Zedao: "Say something that shouldn't be said, if Chengde is gone, Cao Gong may still have a place to stay, and my Li family will definitely die without a place to be buried."

Cao Xin nodded again and again, the minister can surrender, the king cannot surrender, it has been the case since ancient times.

"You've all come to see Li Gongzi." Cao Xin turned around and shouted.

Behind Cao Xin, two people came out. One Li Ze is very familiar with Wang Mingyi, who has worked with him for more than two years, but his expression is a little haggard at the moment, and the other is tall and lofty, and his face looks somewhat similar to Cao Xin.

"I've seen Li Gongzi." The two of them clasped their fists in unison and saluted.

"Brother Wang, please get up." Li Ze picked up Wang Mingyi and looked at another one: "Forgive Li Ze for being clumsy, this one has never seen it, it is not Cao Gong......"

"It's my unsuccessful second son, Cao Zhang." Cao Xin introduced.

"I've seen Brother Cao." Li Ze smiled and clasped his fists and saluted.

"Li Gongzi is good." Cao Zhang's expression was a little sneering, and his eyes flickered a little.

I have long heard that Cao Xin's two sons are not successful, so Cao Xin has to vigorously cultivate Wang Mingren, but now that Wang Mingren is dead, the two Cao and Wang families can no longer find a person who can stand alone, it seems that Cao Xin can only launch Wang Mingyi. Wang Mingyi is actually a rather shrewd person, but he has never been involved in military politics.

Cao Xin came this time, I am afraid that he is not simply thanking himself, but has something important to discuss with himself.

Sure enough, after the greetings were over, Cao Xin waved his hand to let Wang Mingyi and Cao Zhang retreat, and only Cao Xin and Li Ze were left in the room.

After Li Mi made tea for the two, he also tiptoed out of the study, closed the door, and stayed outside the door.

"Li Che is dead, what are the plans of the son next?" Cao Xin went straight in: "Are you ready to enter Zhenzhou?"

Li Ze took a sip of tea and put down the tea bowl, but shook his head: "Gong Cao, although Li Che is dead, I am afraid that it is not a matter of time or three before I enter Zhenzhou. Now my father took Li Che's coffin back to Zhenzhou for burial, logically speaking, at this moment, he should recruit me into Zhenzhou in the name of paying tribute to my brother, and he can also take this opportunity to let me enter the ancestors, enter the genealogy, and determine the name, but until now, there is still no news, which shows that on this matter, the resistance is quite large. If my father summons me to Zhenzhou at this time, it is very likely that Chengde will fall apart, so I can only pretend to be confused and pretend not to know."

"Childe is wise, can analyze the benefits and disadvantages of this matter, Cao is very happy, to be honest, I have been worried that Childe will be dirty with Li Gong again because of this matter! Before leaving, I talked to Li Gongshen once, and Li Gong was also very helpless. On top of this matter, Suning strongly objected, Li Anmin was ambiguous, You Yong, Wang Sili and others were silent, which already explained the problem. Please also ask Gongzi to wait patiently, Li Gong will inevitably have a comprehensive plan for this matter, Li Gong only has such a son as Gongzi, Chengde, will eventually become yours. As long as the Zhenzhou family fully supports you, and I Yizhou, Childe will win."

Li Zegan laughed: "Thank you Cao Gong here first. But Li Ze and I, I have never wanted to make things happen because of people. So let me passively wait for my father's call, then I can't do it. I'd rather enter Zhenzhou with a stronger stance."

Cao Xin was taken aback: "Childe, what do you want to do?"

"Don't worry, Gong Cao, I won't mess around in Chengde. My goal is Yokomi." Li Zedao: "I want to take the four states of Henghai first, at this point, I have reached an agreement with the imperial court, as long as I take Henghai, then, the imperial court will immediately canonize me as the envoy of Henghai Festival. At that time, when the people of Chengde look at me again, I will not only be the son of Li Anguo."

Cao Xin was dumbfounded.

"The future trend is now half-clear, but I'm afraid it's a big fist, and the truth is bigger." Li Ze said lightly: "When the time comes, I will have both family affection and prestige, and I am not afraid that they will disobey me."

Li Anmin is ambiguous, just because he also hopes to become the envoy of the Chengde Festival, and You Yong Wang Sili Zhenzhou is silent because they fought with the Wang family in the past. Among these two families, You Yong and Wang Sili are more likely to support Childe, but they need Childe to do something." After Cao Xin digested Li Ze's scheme, he spoke again.

"It's nature." Li Zedao: "The grievances between the Wang and Li families were many years ago, and I was not born at that time, so what hatred do you have for them?" If you really want to talk about enemies, isn't the biggest one your own Lao Tzu? If I want to avenge the Wang family, am I going to slaughter my own Lao Tzu, isn't this ridiculous? The past is based on the present. In this matter, I have to ask Cao Gong to ease it for me in the middle, if I rush to the door, it will not be easy to win the trust of others."

Cao Xin nodded slightly.

"As for my second uncle." Li Ze laughed: "It's not that I look down on him, but in fact, his mentality of suffering from gains and losses, and his indecisive style, are easier to deal with than Suning. If someone like Suning really starts crazy regardless of it, it is more likely to do bad things."

"So Childe laid out around his people in advance?" Cao Xin laughed.

Li Ze smiled awkwardly: "It was an accident. I was an idle man, but I didn't expect it to be a key move in the future."

"Mr. Gongsun analyzed, it is very likely that Li Gong also buried chess pieces by Suning's side, but now I can't guess who it is." Cao Xin said: "Nine times out of ten, this matter is true."

Hearing this, Li Zeleng was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "Speaking of which, the old man really has the demeanor of a temperate envoy, and he is not old and confused!"

"The Son speaks no matter what the Father has; Gongzi said cautiously, in front of outsiders, you must not show any dissatisfaction with Li Gong, this is not just filial piety!" Cao Xin admonished.

Li Ze hugged his fists and thanked him, "Thank you Cao Gong for reminding me, it is precisely because I don't treat Cao Gong as an outsider that I am so unscrupulous!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, and everything was silent.

"Speaking of crossing the sea, I'm afraid of many difficulties." Cao Xin returned to the truth, "Gongzi's burning of Texas to the ground for nothing hindered Zhu Shou's next revenge on Yizhou, but it also brought the same dilemma for us to attack Cangzhou in the future. Besides, the prince wants to pass through the four states of the sea and the land of virtue, but I am afraid that only my Yizhou will support it, is this power a little thin?"

"It's not thin at all." Li Ze smiled and said: "Henghai now has no land of four states, Texas has become a white land, and Jingzhou is not his now. Liu Chenglin killed Jingzhou Assassin Shi Lujin, don't drive Feng Song, and stand on his own."

"Ahh Cao Xin's mouth opened wide in surprise, he had just returned from Shenzhou, and things in the state were in a mess, because he didn't do a good job of flood control after spring ploughing in time, and the land of Yizhou suffered heavy losses, and he who had been thinking about internal affairs didn't pay attention to this matter at all.

"Where did Childe get the news?"

Hearing this, Li Ze smiled bitterly: "Because Liu Chenglin sent his henchman to send me a letter."

"Is Childe colluded with Liu Chenglin?" Cao Xin's eyes widened in surprise again, the one in front of him could always bring him some unexpected shock.

"It's a little collusion with the Liu family." Li Ze was a little reluctant to tell Cao Xin about the Liu family in detail. Hearing that Mrs. Wang was interested in hiring a girl from the Liu family, Cao Xin couldn't help laughing.

"No wonder Liu Chenglin wants to turn against Zhu Shou, it must be that after Zhu Shou learned about this, he wanted to take the lead to kill Liu Chenglin, but Liu Chenglin was a chess player. Childe, what did Liu Chenglin's letter say?"

"Said that if I don't marry Liu Ruyan, he will meet with my sword soldiers, if I marry Liu Ruyan, then Henghai is Liu Ruyan's dowry!" Li Ze spread his hands and said.

"Wonderful!" Cao Xin applauded and laughed: "Liu Chenglin is our northern general, very famous, with him sending troops in Jingzhou, let's send troops from Yizhou, two sides attack, where else can Zhu Shou run?" Childe, don't hesitate in this matter, don't say that Liu Ruyan looks beautiful, she is a sow, and she is also going to marry."

Seeing that Li Ze's vision was a little unkind, Cao Xin said curtly: "As the saying goes, marry a wife and marry a virtuous, and take a concubine!"