Cao Zhang is the kind of person who reads books and reads roundabouts. always fantasizes that he can help the people and save the world, but the reality often gives people like him, and it is fatal blow after time, because his ideas are not only not recognized by ordinary people, but even characters like his father are also sneered.

After being hit repeatedly, people like him are more obsessed with finding their ideal world in books, and looking for the former paradise in the pile of old papers.

After Li Ze heard Cao Xin's introduction to his second son, he also had an idea, thinking of the Yixin Society that Yang Kai is now in charge of, and the Yixing Society is vigorously expanding, but what kind of organization does the Yixing Society want to become, Li Ze does not have a completely accurate positioning, and can only be regarded as groping while walking.

Because Li Ze only knew about such an organization in his previous life, and he didn't know much about it, after getting a rough framework, he completely handed it over to Yang Kai and let Yang Kai play freely. On top of the facts, Yang Kai has done a really good job, and up to now, the Yixing Society has completely expanded in Wuyi, Xindu, and Shiyi.

Yang Kai targeted his expansion at the ordinary people at the grassroots level, and a set of relatively systematic things he made according to the general framework drawn up by Li Ze just catered to the most sincere desires of the people at the bottom, so they were extremely popular. After Cao Zhang joined, these theoretical things began to be further improved. Because Cao Zhang's books are much stronger than Yang Kai's, Yang Kai always comes up with something new, and this nerd in the eyes of others can always dig out a lot of past examples from the pile of old books to find out the roots for him.

This makes the theory of Yixing Society completely up a notch.

If in the past, the theory of Yixing Society could only attract the people at the bottom, then now, they have begun to make many readers interested in it.

Looking at his energetic son through the window, Cao Xin was full of emotion, is this still his familiar and somewhat taciturn son? He decided to send him to Li Ze in the first place, which was really wise. Or you will eventually reap a late-blooming son.

"Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for living beings, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations!" Cao Xin gently recited the four sentences that Cao Zhang had just said in his heart that shocked him extremely much, he was also a scholar, and he was a scholar who had passed the Jinshi, and he was the top group of scholars in the world, but he had never been able to summarize such a capable language so incisively." Childe, this can't be summed up by my son, probably from you, right? I've heard Yang Kai say that most of the things in the Yixing Society were made by you."

Li Ze laughed, these four sentences came from Zhang Hengqu in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it can almost be said to be a household name in later generations. However, at this time, Zhang Hengqu did not have a shadow, so Li Ze unceremoniously used it.

"I occasionally felt it when I was reading, so I wrote these few sentences." He said to Cao Xin unashamedly.

"Childe is really amazing." Cao Xin said heartily.

"What's even more remarkable is them, Yang Kai, Cao Zhang, etc." Li Zedao: "I just got a shelf, and I didn't care about the rest at all, and I didn't have much time to take care of it. It's like I've built a big house, but this house is not only empty inside, but there are no doors or windows, and Yang Kai, Cao Zhang and others are working tirelessly to decorate this house for me.

"Without this house, where did the rest of the matter come from!" Cao Xin said with a smile: "I've also seen everything in Yixing Society, but Childe, I don't understand a little, and I want to ask Childe."

Li Ze pointed to a pavilion in the middle of a bamboo forest not far away and said, "Why don't we go where to sit down and talk slowly, lest we stand here and disturb their class."

"Okay, Childe, please." Cao Xin stretched out his hand.

The two walked to the pavilion and sat down, and with the breeze blowing, Tian Bo personally brought a pot of cold sour plum soup. The weather in September is still very hot, sitting in the breezy gazebo and drinking a cup of chilled sour plum soup, which is naturally extraordinarily pleasant.

"I saw a store selling ice cubes in Wuyi, and when I inquired, I found out that it was Childe's family, did Childe's family store a lot of ice cubes last winter? Can you actually take it out and sell it? What's more, the price is very low, isn't it a loss?"

Li Ze laughed: "Gong Cao, this is not cellared last winter, in fact, our family never cellars ice cubes in winter, these are all freshly made, the cost is very low, sold at this price, for us, it has made too much money, I gave this to my mother, as my mother's own money."

"Ice?" Cao Xin's eyes widened.

"It's very simple, Tian Bo, go back and give Cao Gong a secret recipe, so that Cao Gong will not have to suffer from the heat in the summer in the future." Li Ze turned back to Tian Bodao.

"Yes!" Tian Bo bowed.

"Thank you so much!" Cao Xin was also not polite, "But don't worry, Childe, after I take this secret recipe back, I will definitely keep it properly and will not leak out, and the ice cubes made are only for the use of my family, and I will never dare to have a piece flow out."

"Left and right just let my mother pass the time and have some fun, and it doesn't matter if it flows out." Li Ze smiled and said, "What did Cao Gong want to ask me before?"

"Yixing Society." Cao Xin said: "I understand that Gongzi used the Yixing Society to control the place, and it has already achieved results, but now it seems that Gongzi is not satisfied with this, otherwise he would not let Cao Zhang and Yang Kai spend so much effort to do these things!"

Li Ze nodded: "Gong Cao, at first, I came up with the Yixing Society, as you said, to control the place. For hundreds of years, the Tang Dynasty has continued the most basic strategy of all dynasties, which is to use clans and families to control the localities, and the result is that the local power is getting bigger and bigger, and it can no longer be controlled after all. With the collapse of the current situation, a peasant uprising made the central court of the Tang Dynasty useless. In this peasant uprising, the imperial army collapsed, and it was the local wealthy families who finally suppressed the peasant uprising that swept the whole country, which formed the current system of festival envoys."

"Don't forget, you're one of them." Cao Xin said with a smile.

Li Ze also laughed, his son Li Anguo was the general of the local tycoon Wang clan in Zhenzhou in the past, and it was because he robbed the foundation of the Wang clan to have today, speaking of which, the Li clan can be regarded as a member of the wealthy family.

"What Cao Gong said is good. If it is only limited to the present, it is naturally unnecessary, but if you want to look at the world and want to regain the majesty of the Tang Dynasty at its peak, the situation in which such clan forces control the place must be changed." Li Zedao: "Therefore, my final task for the Yixing Society has slowly become clear."

Cao Xin's feelings were a little heavy.

He himself is a wealthy family in Yizhou, of course he knows how powerful the wealthy family is, Li Ze chose this path, and he doesn't know how many difficulties and dangers there are in the future.

"What other meaning do these actions of the Yixing Society have other meanings than controlling the place?" Cao Xin put aside this somewhat heavy thought and continued to ask.

"Of course there is, even more so than controlling the place right now." Li Ze accentuated his tone: "Because I want my subordinates, my army, and my people to become a group of people of faith."

"Faith?" Cao Xin was surprised.

"Cao Gong, do you have faith? Or did you ever have faith when you fought with your father?" Li Ze asked.

Cao Xin shook his head: "At that time, what we wanted was to settle down, to think about the continuation of the clan, to think of glory and wealth, and to think of the continuation of our descendants."

"So after you win the victory and win the Chengde, you will no longer have the spirit of enterprising." Li Ze nodded and said: "Rest the army and raise the people, run the place, and think about preserving a certain point of Chengde."

"Exactly."

"But in the end, it's still hard to keep." Li Ze said lightly: "This time, if it weren't for Gao Biao to contain Lu Long's main army, would Chengde be able to block Lu Long's troops?"

"Unstoppable." Cao Xinxin told the truth.

"Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat." Li Zedao: "The current situation is more difficult than what you experienced more than ten years ago, and if you want to rest on your laurels, you will bring about your own destruction!" Moreover, the current me is not the same as the previous me. In the beginning, I just wanted to be a small rural landlord with little wealth and background that no one dared to bully, but now that I have come to this point, I will naturally put myself in a higher position and see farther."

"Retrieving the scene of the Tang Dynasty?" Cao Xin asked.

Li Ze nodded and said: "Yes, if I want to achieve this goal, what I need is an army with faith, more subordinates with faith, people with faith, who can be rich and noble without lewdness, poor and lowly, mighty and unyielding, in order to realize their own ideals and achieve their beliefs and perseverance, although they go to the soup and fight bravely forward, and die without wavering."

Li Ze's voice gradually became high, and the expressions of Cao Xin and Tian Bo on the side gradually became solemn.

"It's a difficult road, and there aren't many people in the same company." Cao Xin said in a low voice.

"Isn't there already one now?" Li Zexiao pointed to the house in the distance, and Cao Zhang's voice was still faintly heard. The great waves will wash away the sand, and the gold will eventually be revealed, and in the arduous journey to come, those who have such a difficult faith will walk with me, and the others will be eliminated."

"Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for living beings, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations!" Cao Xin chanted softly, "It seems that I need to seriously pay attention to the belief that Childe said, because I want to walk with Childe all the way."

Li Ze stretched out his hand: "A person like Cao Gong is exactly the talent I desperately desire. We welcome you to join us."