Chapter Seventy-Five: If you come soft, I will come hard
From knowing that Li Che was coming to Yizhou, Li Ze never expected Wang Mingyi to hide anything for him. The Wang family will definitely stand on Li Che's position, and Li Ze has long expected to be sold clean by Wang Mingyi.
Yixingtang does have an income of 200,000 yuan this year, but not much of this money really falls into Li Ze's pocket. Although the income is large, there is also a lot of work on the Henghai side, and those officials in Henghai are like gluttony, and they will not be satisfied no matter how much they have. Li Ze couldn't refuse, because offending one of them might bring him more losses...
Compared with the money made by Henghai Zai, Li Ze actually values the network that Tu Hu has worked hard to lay out in Henghai, both bright and dark, has allowed Li Ze to follow his own ideas and run through the entire Henghai rule, which is a real priceless treasure.
In addition to these money, Li Ze also needs to raise the secret camp, and he also needs to subsidize his tenants, and this year he has spent a lot of money to settle Qingshantun, if it weren't for Tu Hu running a few trips to Lu Long, this year will be an out-and-out loss year for Li Ze.
Wang Mingyi knew some of the accounts, but he didn't know where the rest of the money went, and in his opinion, the money must have fallen into Li Ze's pocket, and he must have thought that in this Zhuangzi, he had a huge cellar where he hid money, which was full of countless copper coins or silver ingots and gold.
Li Che is definitely going to be red-eyed.
A person who has great ambitions and wants to make a career is always poor in money, no matter how much money they have, they can find a place to use it, Li Ze also understands with his ass, when Li Che knows that he has so much income, he will definitely try to keep the money for himself, as for the old hen of Xingyitang who can only lay golden eggs, he must also be determined to get it.
If you want Yixingtang, it is equivalent to pulling out Li Ze's backbone, shattering all his ideas, and all his good wishes will come to naught.
This made Li Ze angry.
It also made Li Ze panic.
Because the current power balance between the two sides is not an order of magnitude at all, Li Che wants to be tough, he has no ability to resist, and moving the secret camp out is just to add some more souls. And Shi Zhuang's idea didn't work out, at least not now.
Li Ze did make a move.
But how to kill someone and save yourself is a difficult question.
It is definitely not possible to be blatant, even if you can kill Li Che, you will not have any good fruit to eat. Assassination? If Li Che really died in Yizhou and Wuyi, everyone knew that he did it. And Li Che didn't think that assassination could kill someone like Li Che, you know, it was Tu Lichun, and he was also quite impressed by Li Che's bravery.
Turning the other cheek is for sure. But to do it, he is not an opponent, and he can't do it in secret, thinking about it, the other party actually ate himself to death, Li Ze was in great pain, and he only felt a splitting headache.
"Childe, have you come up with any solutions?" Xia He hugged the account book in his arms and asked miserably.
"This time, it really stumped me." Li Ze sighed, "I can only take one step and look at one step. There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village, and the living can still be suffocated to death by urine?"
"It's really not good, son, you just run! Run to the side of the sea and hide, where can he still chase him?" Xia Ho Dao.
"Your son-in-law is a person who is used to enjoying happiness, so if you go to Henghai like this, your son-in-law will be miserable in the future, if you bring too much money, you will only become someone's fat, and you can't even keep Yixingtang, not to mention that there is a mother, and you, how can I be willing to let you go to that kind of hard life of displacement."
"Then you really have to go up to the mountains and be a bandit!" Xia He said with a stiff neck.
"Being targeted by Li Che, even if you go up to the mountain to be a bandit, you can't do it, and when the army comes, there is no place for us in this big green mountain." Li Ze shook his head.
"Isn't that really a no-brainer?"
"Let's take a look, I guess he won't tear his face this time. If you really want to rob it openly, won't it also ruin his reputation? My eldest brother is famous in Chengde, famous for benevolence, righteousness, filial piety, and bravery, if he robs his half-brother's property with a shy face, it is not a good reputation, he will definitely not do this, so this gives us a chance, of course, it will also give us a little time. After the spring sowing, the big war will start, and he will definitely lead the troops to the battlefield, and there will be no chance to take care of me in a short time. So, we still have time to figure it out."
"But he's got a dog's leg! Didn't Childe say that Cao Xin and Wang Mingshu were his dogs?"
Li Ze was amused by Xia He and laughed, "Childe, when did I say that the two of them are doglegs!" It's the title you added to them yourself, the official has done Cao Xin's part, then it is not something that can be supported at will, that is, for my Lao Tzu, Cao Xin is also more of a partner. They already have the right to choose, do they know? So, Cao Xin will never get into this troubled water, look at Wang Mingyi, he sold me clean in front of Li Che, but when he turned around, he sent someone to send me a letter, warn, apologize, these people, all of them are more shrewd than ghosts!"
"That bad thing, looking at a talent, polite, but a person without conscience, I knew he was such a person, I should have spit a few mouthfuls of saliva in his dish last time!"
Li Ze shook his head with a smile, stretched out his hand and pulled Xia He's sharp little nose, and said: "Childe doesn't blame him, pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages, this is human nature, he can send someone to warn me, I still have to accept his favor, at least I know that Li Che will not come hard this time!"
Xia He didn't understand, obviously Wang Mingyi was a traitor, why did the son still say that he wanted to accept his love. But what Childe said always makes sense, but I just don't understand it.
"Settle your account with peace of mind, and then think about how to allocate funds next year, and your son-in-law will take care of other things." Li Ze patted Xia He's head, turned around and walked out of the house with his hands behind his back.
Tu Lichun greeted him.
In the past few days, I am afraid that Tu Lichun was the most tormented, and the two big dark circles under his eyes were particularly eye-catching, but Shen Congxing's face was eager to try.
"Childe, the news has come from Xinyue Fox, the eldest prince has already set off from Wuyi, considering the time of the news transmission, and now they are afraid that it is not far from us."
Li Ze nodded, put his hands behind his back, and continued to walk outside.
"Childe, what should we do?" Shen Congxing held the handle of the knife and asked.
Li Ze glanced at Shen Congxing, and knew that what this guy had in mind should be exactly the same as Shi Zhuang's idea, slaughtering Li Che here, Lao Tzu was left with only one son, so he had no choice. Li Che came this time, only brought more than 100 horsemen, and now there are 300 people in the secret camp, hiding in the Zhuangzi, early this morning, the prince ordered the tenants to gather together to perform martial arts, no matter how you look at it, you want to do a show.
But it's not that simple!
This is not an either/or choice, this is a territory issue involving dozens of counties in the four prefectures of Chengde, and it is an out-and-out political issue, when Shi Zhuang proposed this idea at that time, he immediately vetoed it, he really dared to do it, Li Che's mother family is not overturned, even if the old man has the heart to protect himself, he can't protect it.
His own existence is definitely not as important as the territory of Chengde in the old man's heart.
"Wang Mingyi's letter to me is very clear, Li Che is just coming to see this time, since he wants to come soft, let's come hard, let him know that I am not easy to bully." Li Ze said lightly. Just let him know the difficulties and retreat."
Shen Congxing suddenly looked disappointed.
"But what about the future?" Tu Lichun still had a sad face.
"Later, let's talk about it later!" Li Ze laughed: "If he can't rob it, he can only kill people with a soft knife, isn't there no way to deal with it?"