The sea breeze was cold, pushing waves of sea water from far and near, hitting the reef heavily, and the white waves splashed up, floating away, and fell on the reef like a jade plate.

Li Ze stood on a tall reef, stared at the vast sea, lifted the wine jug in his hand, took a big sip, and then threw the wine jug to Yang Kai beside him.

Yang Kai's body was not as strong as Li Ze, and he followed Li Ze to stand on top of this tuyere, even though he was heavy on his body, he was still a little shivering from the cold. He took the flask and took a big sip. A line of fire went straight into the dantian from the throat, and a fiery fire burned from the lower abdomen, sending the warmth directly to the four feet and hundreds of corpses.

"Yang Kai, do you know why I started to lay out Henghai so many years ago?" Li Ze pointed to the sea in front of him and asked with a smile. "It's because of the sea!"

Even though Yang Kai now claims to be Li Ze's confidant, it has always been unclear why Li Ze began to lay out in Henghai so early.

"I've known my situation since I was sensible." Li Ze said with emotion, "I'm not afraid of your jokes, everything I did at that time was just to escape from the sea in the future." ”

"Huh?" Yang Kai looked at Li Ze with some astonishment.

"Look, how vast this sea is, do you know how big it is?" Li Ze asked with a smile.

Yang Kai shook his head.

"Let me tell you, if the area of this world is 10 percent, the sea is 70 percent, and the land is only 30 percent." Li Zedao.

Yang Kai's mouth opened a little wider, in the Tang Dynasty, the sea trade was actually quite prosperous, and he was not ignorant of the outside world, but like Li Ze said with certainty, the sea occupies seventy percent of the area, and the land is only thirty percent, but it is still the first time, and in the worldview of ordinary people, it is naturally the land area is larger, because no one has ever really felt the vastness of the sea.

"There are many islands in the sea, some of which are not suitable for human habitation, but some of them are paradise on earth!" Li Ze said with a smile: "At that time, I thought all day long about making a lot of money, and then building a lot of big ships, and then when the world was in chaos, I took my people to the sea to be at ease." ”

Speaking of this, he laughed, snatched the wine jug from Yang Kai's hand, poured it with a full sip, and laughed wildly at the sea breeze: "At that time, my biggest dream was to become a man of One Piece, hahaha!" ”

Li Ze's loud laughter drew Li Mi on another reef not far from them, and Li Mi and Li Mi both looked over.

Yang Kai opened his mouth, but he only laughed a few times with Li Zegan, although he didn't have any great achievements in studying, but fundamentally speaking, he was still an orthodox scholar, since following Li Ze step by step to his current position, the kind of grand original intention of taking the world as his own responsibility hidden in the depths of his heart slowly returned to him.

The scholars of this era, from the beginning of the enlightenment, I am afraid that they all have this mind, and the enlightenment teacher who taught them probably said the same thing to them, but in the days to come, life changed them little by little, and in the end, some people wore out their dreams, and some people embarked on a path that ran counter to their original intentions.

Now Yang Kai is excited to find back the original intention of the young man, and he is bent on following Li Ze to save the world, and then leave a name in history, and suddenly heard that Li Ze's dream is to be a pirate king, naturally he can't accept it no matter what.

"Jie Shuai, my subordinates think that you are the real you now!" Yang Kai said: "Take the world as your own responsibility, worry about the worries of the world first, and enjoy the joy of the world after the world." You are the hero of the world. ”

Li Ze pouted, and said: "Don't wear a high hat for me, in fact, I know very well that I am not such a person, if it is said that heroes make the times, what about me, it is the times that make me." This step by step, you are actually very clear. ”

Seeing that Yang Kai wanted to speak and stopped, Li Ze laughed again: "Don't worry, these words will just be said to you, I am not worried that you will ruin my reputation if you say it." ”

An ordinary sentence made Yang Kai excited, and he nodded again and again.

"Now, I can't help it." Li Ze shook his head and took another sip of wine, but under the influence of alcohol, his face was even redder, "Now I am sailing against the current, if I don't advance, I will retreat, even if it is hard and difficult, I have to go on step by step." ”

"In this world, it will be you after all." Yang Kai bit his cheek and said, this is only when he is alone with Li Ze, he will say it unscrupulously. "Jieshuai, in this world, you can make it better, Chang'an, it is absolutely impossible to do this."

Li Ze smiled slightly: "The road is long, I will go up and down and see, let's go and see." Although we can start planning for the future now, who can say for sure how far it will go? Maybe a small and inconspicuous thing will lead us down a different path. ”

"The 100,000 members of the Yixing Society are the most loyal followers of the Jieshuai, as long as the Jieshuai has a word, he will go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire." Yang Kai said loudly.

"Does Yixing Club already have 100,000 members?" Li Ze was a little surprised.

"Yes, there are more than 10,000 core members." Yang Kai said in a low voice: "In their eyes, there is only Jie Shuai and nothing else. ”

"Yixing Society is the foundation of our existence." Li Ze nodded and said: "With them, even if we will experience failure in the future, as long as we have them, we have the capital to turn over, Yang Kai, the focus of Yixing Society, still have to be placed at the bottom, of course, the upward penetration can not be relaxed, if you can dig one, you will dig one, from quantitative change to qualitative change!" ”

"In this direction, I have a division of labor with Cao Zhang, he goes up, I look down." Yang Kai said: "He is more familiar with the upper class, and I am more aware of what the people at the bottom need." ”

"Which side of Wuwei Academy?"

"Jieshuai, half of the people in Wuwei Academy are already members of our Yixing Society, and there will only be more and more in the future." Yang Kai said: "I, the deputy mountain chief, am not in vain. ”

"That's good!" Li Ze said with a smile, it can be estimated that in the future, most of the civil officials under Wuwei will come from Wuwei Academy, if there are a large number of Yixing members involved, it will naturally be beneficial and harmless to Li Ze's rule.

"After the spring of next year, the construction of Haixing's port will begin." Li Ze retracted his thoughts, looked at the sea, and said.

"And a port?" Yang Kai asked.

"What? Are you worried that my port will be built and I will be able to build a big ship, so I will run away to become the king of the pirates? Li Ze asked with a smile.

Yang Kai laughed a little embarrassedly.

"Haimao!" Li Zedao: "Now Datang's foreign trade is all concentrated in Guangdong, do you know how much money those ports in Guangdong can make a year?" It's making people's eyes and drooling just thinking about it! If we also have a good harbor here, and can provide a better environment for those merchants of the maritime trade, and can attract them to stop here, we will make all that money. Yang Kai, the profit here is unimaginable. With money, we can do more! ”

Speaking of money, Yang Kai is naturally energetic, he knows very well that if he wants to do great things, he must invest a lot of money, don't look at the territory of more than a dozen states now, but the money in the treasury has always been stretched, every time Yang Kai sees Xia He, he basically sees Xia He holding a pen and meditating on the account book, that is, during this period of time, Jin Mantang's funds began to flow into Wuyi, and her face showed a rare smile.

In fact, the annual expenses of Yixing Society are an extremely large number.

"In addition to money, we also need a strong sailor to protect our sea frontier!" Li Ze looked at Yang Kai and said, "Do you still remember the naval battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom during the Tang Dynasty?" That battle, after hundreds of years of fighting, the Japanese Kingdom no longer dared to take the edge of the Tang Dynasty, but now, if the Japanese Kingdom came again, would the Tang Dynasty still have enough strength to deal with it? ”

"I'm afraid they don't have the guts." Yang Kai said with a smile.

"Never take an enemy lightly, and never underestimate them. It is true that the Wa Kingdom is also very chaotic now, even more chaotic than our Tang Dynasty, but if it is possible, I want to organize a huge fleet and kill them again, so that they will never be able to turn over. Li Ze said viciously.

Yang Kai was a little unable to understand Li Ze's train of thought.

"People didn't mess with us, so we don't have to beat them up, right?" He asked whimfully. "We don't seem to have a conflict of interest with them!"

Li Ze smiled: "Do you know? Sail to the east, there are many island countries, all year round like spring, rice can grow heavy ears when thrown on the ground, and it can be ripened three times a year. ”

"Is there such a nice place?" Yang Kai's eyes immediately turned red.

"It's the country of Wa, there is a place called Iwami, there is an open-pit silver mine, just take a hammer and knock it, it is a silver mine with a very high silver content, do you want it?" Li Ze asked again.

"Of course." Yang Kai's eyes widened, "Jie Shuai, in this way, we must build this harbor, we must also build this warship, and we must build a sailor as soon as possible, and when the formation is completed, let them sail away, go to those places, let the people there grow food for us, and dig out all the silver there, so that when we go south in the future, we will no longer be short of money to spend." ”

Li Ze laughed: "That's the truth." Otherwise, what would I do with the trouble of digging up so many shipbuilders from Chang'an! ”