Yang Kai got up, filled Li Ze with wine, and said, "Xiangye, I originally expected you to rush back to the city in the evening, but I didn't want to talk about it, so I talked about this hour, and I could only wronged you to eat the food in this big canteen." ”

"It's very good, I haven't eaten it for a long time, but I miss it a lot!" Li Ze smiled and took a piece of braised pork, stuffed it into his mouth, and melted in his mouth, but the aftertaste was endless: "The master's craftsmanship in the big canteen has improved a lot compared to before, Yang Kai, Cao Zhang, the two of you sit and eat together." ”

Yang Kai and Cao Zhang accompanied each other on the left and right, Cao Zhang didn't speak, and when he wasn't in class, he looked a little wooden, and he sat there a little detaine. However, when Yang Kai was with Li Zeqi and Wei Mo, after all these years of companionship, Yang Kai could be regarded as sharing hardships with Li Ze.

Now he is no longer the small county magistrate who was greedy for money and afraid of death, his position is higher, he has seen more, but he is also more open-minded, compared with the past, he is like two people.

He presided over the Yixing Society, watching and reading the things written by Li Ze every day, at the beginning, he was just looking forward to making Li Ze's power greater, so that his life would be more secure, and his future would be brighter, but in fact, he believed a little bit in his heart, and he was really suspicious.

However, when one thing has been done persistently for many years, this matter has become one with him, and unconsciously, Yang Kai is already convinced of these purposes he is promoting.

When he was convinced of these things, the whole person began to change qualitatively from the inside out, in Li Ze's opinion, this originally obscene guy, no matter where he stood now, was always so radiant and righteous. Some of the purposes of the Yixing Society that Li Ze wrote casually back then were carried forward by this guy and Cao Zhang, and now they are being carried forward and blue.

Today's Yang Kai is an out-and-out core minister of the Tang Dynasty, Yixing Society, and now it is not only famous among the people, but also integrated with the bureaucratic system and the military system. It is a founder of the Yixing Society like Yang Kai, whose reputation and influence far exceed that of ordinary officials.

In the earliest days, Li Ze regarded Yang Kai as a follower, and his trust and reliance on him were far inferior to Cao Xin, Tu Lichun, Tu Hu, Shi Zhuang and others, but as time went by, Yang Kai's importance became more and more important, and now, Li Ze has promoted Yang Kai to a like-minded partner.

"Xiangye, if you stay in Wuwei Academy today, I don't know if Madame will be angry and come to the door to scold me?" Yang Kai saluted Li Ze with a glass of wine, and said half-jokingly: "After all, now that Zhang Shangshu is not here, Wuwei Academy is temporarily in charge of me, the deputy mountain chief. ”

"She, out of the ten days now, she has stayed in the barracks for seven or eight days to train the Right Thousand Niu Guards." Li Ze shook his head with a smile.

"Madame is not here, Xia Shangshu came to find it, but I am afraid that I will be scolded even harder!"

"She's busier!" Li Zedao: "I haven't seen her for eight days. Food and accommodation are on top of her small building, spring sowing is imminent, and she has to deal with possible drought, she is also very busy. ”

Yang Kai laughed: "Then I'll rest assured, Xiangye, I can get drunk tonight!" Cao Zhang, fill the wine for Xiangye and give Xiangye a glass. ”

Cao Zhang stood up, raised his glass and said: "Today, after listening to Xiangye's talk, Cao Zhang has benefited a lot, many problems that were difficult to solve before, but also easy to solve, Zhang respects Xiangye, Xie Xiangye solves the problems in my heart." ”

Li Ze smiled and drank it all.

"Cao Zhang, you are the great talent of my Yixing Society, the purpose of Yixing Society, now that it can be systematic, you should be the first to take the lead." Li Ze said: "I should give you a cup and thank you for your efforts." Yang Kai, you come to accompany you. ”

I raised my glass, looked at each other and smiled, and drank it all.

The Yixing Society was initiated by Li Ze, organized by Yang Kai, and Cao Zhang formed a system for the purpose of the Yixing Society, and found a basis for benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith.

After three rounds of drinking, Li Ze looked at the two leaders of the Yixing Society and said, "The Yixing Society is now huge, and now it's time to settle down and cultivate its internal strength." The early development is too rapid, and there will inevitably be many problems inside, which I believe you have also noticed. ”

Yang Kai nodded and said: "Yes, Xiangye, we have also discovered this problem, the cleaning operation within the Yixing Society has never stopped, and we will never tolerate those speculators whose beliefs are not firm enough." ”

"Yes, when an organization was first founded, the motives were all pure, and the hearts of the people were neat, but as it grows, there will always be some opportunistic people who come in for personal gain, and these people may not be many in number, but it is like a basket of fruits, if there is a bad one, it will always quickly pollute many of the originally good, and only by constantly finding these bad fruits and cleaning them out can we ensure that the whole basket of fruits will not spoil." Li Zedao: "If you can notice this problem, I will be relieved." ”

"Xiangye, next, we will tighten the opening to join the Yixing Society, today's Yixing members, in the army, in the official system, are promoted faster than ordinary people, and they can be trusted more, Yixing members are about to become a stepping stone for officials, in view of this, the threshold for joining Yixing Society in the future will be greatly increased." Yang Kai said: "Cao Zhang and I are discussing, in the future, new members of the Yixing Society need to have a joint guarantee system, at least three members of the Yixing Society jointly as a guarantee, before a new person can be introduced, if the new personnel have a problem, then the three members of the joint insurance will also be punished accordingly." In this way, they can monitor each other and minimize the chance of problems. ”

"That's a solution, right?" Li Ze nodded in approval.

"Xiangye, the tightening of the mouth is still only applicable to our ruling area, in other places, we are still constantly developing Yixing members, and the conditions for people in these areas are much relaxed." Cao Zhangdao: "As Xiang Ye said, seek common ground and keep small differences, as long as they support us, we are willing to develop them first." ”

"That's true." Yang Kai continued: "Now the pseudo-Liang and the southern festival towns have become extremely jealous of the Yixing Society, and the pseudo-Liang even declares the Yixing Society a cult, but if it is found, it will be killed. In those festival towns in the south, although they did not make a statement, judging from the current development situation, they were also ruthless. So now, in those places, anyone who is willing to join the Yixing Society still takes a huge risk, and just looking at this is enough for us to accept him. ”

Li Ze touched his chin, thinking that this was the underground party of this era.

"Today, I specially stayed to talk with you by candlelight, not only about the organizational structure and development of Yixing Society, but also about the special point I want to discuss with you, and I hope you can vigorously carry out the next work." After drinking a cup with the two, Li Ze continued.

The two of them turned pale and sat upright at the same time.

"Xiangye, please command!"

"Next, we will go one step further in the propaganda of Yixing Society." Li Ze stood up, paced back and forth in the room, and said: "The land of China is always divided for a long time, and it must be divided for a long time, and it is commonplace to change the dynasty, and even many foreign invasions, since the three emperors and five emperors, the people only know what is home, they don't know what a country is, and they don't know what a clan is?" Next, the propaganda and work of our Yixing Society should be carried out closely around the key point of the family, the country and the nation. ”

"Home, country, nation?" Yang Kai's eyes widened.

"Before me, the family and country were already in the country, and after me, the family and country will still exist forever." Li Ze said word by word.

Cao Zhang's eyes lit up suddenly, and he blurted out: "The foundation of the world is in the country, the foundation of the country is at home, and the foundation of the family is in the body." ”

In the end, he was a person who read poetry and books, and he immediately found the right point, Li Ze nodded appreciatively at Cao Zhang: "Home is the smallest country, and the country is tens of millions." Let our people slowly establish the idea that their home, their happiness, and their life are closely linked to our country. When the country is good, the family is good, and when the family is good, people will naturally be better. Linking everyone's destiny to the country. Yixing Society wants to slowly instill the concept of the state in our people, bit by bit. ”

Yang Kai pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Xiangye, I'm a little eyebrows, just a nation?" Datang has a vast area and many ethnic groups, and there are countless ethnic groups in our northern land now. ”

Li Ze laughed loudly: "But whoever is a Tang person is the same race, and if Di Yi enters my China, then China will be Chinese." No matter what kind of appearance he looks like, where he is, he speaks my Tang dialect, reads my Tang books, knows my Tang etiquette, and regards my Tang Dynasty as his mother country, then he is also a great Chinese nation. Thinking of my Datang, it has always been inclusive, even if it is a Hu person, there is no shortage of high-ranking officials, there is no shortage of people who govern one side, there is such a precedent, why can't it be included? ”

Yang Kai and Cao Zhang both nodded thoughtfully.

"It is necessary to infuse the feelings of family and country into our culture bit by bit, into our blood genes, so that our people have the foundation of national identity, national identity and cultural identity, establish the concept of the country before the family, and the family for the country, and advocate that our people give up their small family for everyone when the interests of the family and the interests of the country conflict, and the country is more important than the family. Yang Kai, Cao Zhang, what I want you to do is to shape the soul of our nation, the root of the nation, and the spirit of our nation. Once such a national spirit is formed, we will have incomparable centripetal force, cohesion, and combat effectiveness. Our country will be immortal through the ages. ”

Yang Kai and Cao Zhang were shocked, and they all got up together and slammed to the ground.

"Yixing Society, be a pioneer."

"Or it will take a generation or even several generations of effort, but it doesn't matter, as I said before, the work doesn't have to be mine, the work doesn't have to be in the present. As long as the efforts of one generation and one generation continue, they will eventually achieve results. Li Ze poured wine into the cups of the three of them and poured: "Yixing Society, be a pioneer." ”

Three wine glasses collided together, and three pairs of eyes, under the reflection of the candle flame, shone brightly.