Li Ze sat high on the seat and looked condescendingly at Du Yu Hou Xiangzhen from Lingnan Festival Town.

If the current situation continues, there is no doubt that this person will become the future commander of the Lingnan Festival, cutting one side of the drama and becoming the king.

The eldest son of a family, if there are no other accidents, is generally the focus of the family's cultivation, these people have lived since childhood, although there is no shortage of food and clothing, but to say happy, it is really not possible. The education they have to receive is beyond the imagination of ordinary children.

Not only to be literate, but also to be able to fight. This is determined by the peculiarities of this era.

Therefore, the probability that the eldest son is the son of a gentleman is very small.

Just like Li Ze's own family, he has been the one who has been free-range since he was a child, he can not study, he can not practice martial arts, he can go down to the river to fish, go up the mountain to catch birds, and howl twice on the roof when he has nothing to do, and everyone is used to it. Anyway, when a rice worm is raised, just live. If you grow up and still have some talent, you will find an errand in the family to contribute to the main support, if you can't do it, then you will receive a salary, eat and wait for death.

Xiang Zhen is naturally the former.

At this moment, in the face of Li Ze's huge pressure, although there were some sweat stains on his forehead, the whole person was still sitting straight, with a formulaic smile on his face, and his eyes were looking directly at the opposite side.

Nourish the body, live and move the qi.

Li Ze has been in a high position for a long time, and even the emperor has to look at his face to act, he may not feel it himself, but every word and deed, every move, but naturally with a bullying atmosphere, ordinary people contact with one, without saying a word, the momentum is three points shorter. This is a person who holds the power of tens of millions of lives and kills, and exudes an indescribable confidence from the inside out.

Now, people with old qualifications like Lian Zhanghui and Cao Xin, in front of Li Ze, are also very attentive to their words and deeds, and they are just a grandson Changming, who still maintains the state of laughing and scolding in the past.

This Xiang Zhen, sure enough, there is still a bit of material. Looking at Xiang Zhen opposite, Li Ze still praised it in his heart, although out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the tail fingers of the other party's palms on his thighs were trembling involuntarily.

In fact, the current Xiang Zhen, although calm on the surface, is panicked inside.

Very simple thing, he was frightened by Li Ze's thunderous methods.

In a short period of time, Xue Ping was demoted, Qin Zhao was placed under house arrest, and Jin Shiyuan was imprisoned, and these three people all had a close relationship with him, especially the fact that Qin Zhao's 1,000 Zuo Xiaowei people were stopped by Tang Junshui Shengsheng, which put him on the side of the back. If Li Ze asked, he really didn't know how to answer.

Of course, the best answer, Xue Ping has already given him.

is to push everything on Xue Ping.

Now Xue Ping is handing over the affairs of the Ministry of Industry with Guo Fengxiao, and next, the core figure of this royalist faction will be exiled to the Western Regions, and he does not know the possibility of coming back in this life.

What worries Xiang Zhen is that the royalist faction has been hit hard in this incident, and if Li Ze turns his face and denies it, they really have nothing to do. Even when Li Ze was angry and detained him, Xiang Zhen could only consider himself unlucky, and his father, who was far away in Lingnan, had no way to help him.

Li Ze's thunderous anger this time, even Tai'an didn't fight, and he wanted to take down Qin Zhao Jin Shiyuan, which shows how angry he was in his heart. The emperor was angry, bleeding and pestle, it was really not a joke. And now Li Ze, although he does not have the name of an emperor, but he has the reality of an emperor, and when he is angry, he even feels that he can't bear it.

"Du Yu Hou, this official is busy with official business during this time, and he neglected Du Yu Hou, please don't be responsible!" Li Ze finally opened his mouth.

As soon as Li Ze spoke, Xiang Zhen felt a lot more relaxed, the other party's tone was kind, and he didn't seem to have much blame, which made him put a heart in his stomach.

"Li Xiangri has a lot of opportunities, and the officials will take care of it."

"Du Yu Hou has always been in the south, the two places in the south, the customs and eating habits are very different, Du Yu Hou is still used to it?" Li Ze asked with a smile.

"Wuyi is no different from other places, that is, our Lingnan restaurant, there are two or three, and the officials of the post house specially invited the chef there to prepare food for us, but there is nothing unaccustomed. It gave me a taste of the different customs of the north, and many scenery that I can't see in the south. Xiang Zhen bowed.

There are Lingnan restaurants in Wuyi, which really surprised him, but after further exploration, it made him even more worried, the rise of Haixing Port has a huge impact on Guangzhou Port. Now Wuyi, it can be said that it brings together businessmen from all over the world, not to mention Guangzhou, in the past, in Luoyang, Chang'an and other places can only see some commodities and goods, now all can be seen in Wuyi. This shows that Wuyi is becoming a new commercial center and a new commodity distribution center.

Prosperity means economic strength.

"Just get used to it. Du Yu waits to look at my Wuyi, how is it compared to the handsome Guangzhou City? Li Ze asked with a smile.

Xiang Zhen jumped into his heart, wanting to flatter a few words, but he didn't want to weaken his own prestige, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Each has its own strengths." It's just that the urban construction of Wuyi has opened Xiang Zhen's eyes. ”

Li Ze laughed: "Wuyi was originally just a small county town, with a population of less than 20,000, and it occupies no more than a thousand steps, but now it has a population of nearly 500,000. Although it is not comparable to the millions of people in Luoyang, Chang'an, it has developed in recent years. I've always been worried that the pace of construction can't keep up with the influx of people, but I'm relieved to say that. ”

This sounds like nothing wrong with this, but if you taste it carefully, there is too much meaning in it.

Now Wuyi, almost on the basis of nothing to develop, how much financial resources are needed to build a city, Xiang Zhen is naturally clear, Lingnan Guangzhou City, that is an important town in the southeast since ancient times, but more than 100 years down, the expansion is limited. Xiang Zhen, who first arrived in Wuyi, was shocked.

Of course, what shocked Xiang Zhen even more was Wuyi's economic strength.

The economic strength of a place is not measured by the rich people. No matter how poor the place is, there are rich people, there are also spenders of money, and there are also Zhumen wine and meat smelly.

What really measures the strength of a place is those middle class and those ordinary people.

When the common people are rich, that is the real wealth.

Xiang Zhen is still very clear about this.

And the prosperity of the people of Wuyi, in the past month, Xiang Zhen has felt very real.

The dazzling array of goods in the shops, the bustling crowds on the streets, and the endless stream of guests in restaurants and restaurants all showed him the strength of Wuyi.

He has seen that the peasants who carry the burden can buy back one piece of cloth after another, just to add a beautiful dress to his mother-in-law.

He had seen street vendors create entire sets of jewellery in gold and silver shops just for their daughter's marriage.

He saw the coolies carrying the bags, and he smiled and bought canned yellow peaches to coax his toddler dolls.

He had seen a half-grown boy running around and jumping into the school with a schoolbag on his back.

He had seen tax collectors walk through the market with a basket on their backs, and the vendors would consciously put copper coins in the basket and exchange them for a slip.

This is not the exception, but the norm.

The guys in those shops won't underestimate these people because of their dress, of course, because the juniors know that these people can afford to spend.

The general prices and salary levels of Wuyi that his subordinates inquired about made Xiang Zhen speechless for a long time.

Wuyi is much stronger than Lingnan.

At first, he thought that it was only Wuyi, but after in-depth exchanges with Xue Ping and others, coupled with his subordinates to inquire around, he suddenly found that the living standards of several prefectures near the left were not below Wuyi, and Xiangzhenzhou and Zhaozhou were even better. And Texas, because it is an important industrial town, has a large number of workers, and the consumption level of the people there is stronger than that of Wuyi.

This made Xiang Zhen completely speechless.

But there are some things that you can't learn by seeing them. It's not something that can be learned, but it can be learned.

What seemed ordinary under Li Ze's rule would not work at all in Lingnan.

Like Li Ze's land policy.

Like Li Ze's commercial tax policy.

Like Li Ze's people's taxes.

You know he's good, but you just can't do it.

Before coming to Wuyi, Xiang Zhen was full of confidence, and felt that Lingnan's strength was strongest in the southeast, and he would be ecstatic about Lingnan's joining.

But after coming to Wuyi, he really understood that what Gao Xiangsheng had told him on the road was true.

With Lingnan joining, it is the icing on the cake for Li Ze, and it is by no means a charcoal in the snow.

Yes, I am happy.

It doesn't matter if you don't.

Great, just push it all the way slowly.

In the past, Xiang Zhen didn't believe that Li Ze had this strength.

But now, he believed.

With a standing army of 300,000, an unknown number of reserves, and strong economic strength, Li Ze has indeed stood at the top of this era.

And when Xiang Zhen figured out this matter, he was even more determined to move forward with this matter. When you feel that you can't defeat someone, the best thing to do, of course, is to be his friend and stand in the same trench as him.

Now he understands why Han Qi and Xue Ping want to formulate such a long-term strategy.

Harmony and difference.

In addition to going toe-for-tat with Li Ze on the matter of supporting the orthodoxy of the Tang Dynasty, in other aspects, he was absolutely consistent with Li Ze, and Li Ze erected the banner of Li and Tang orthodoxy at the earliest, which made it difficult for Li Ze to attack them.

Of course, if you want to achieve this goal, you still need strong strength, even if you are weaker than Li Ze, it can't be a world of difference, it can't be that Li Ze can pinch them to death as soon as he stretches out his hand.

When Li Ze felt that if he did this, it would make the world chaotic again, he would definitely think twice about whether it was worth it.

This is their only chance.

And it's an opportunity that must be seized.

This point, after going back, I must make it clear to my father, the current father, I think I still have the same feelings as before I came here.