Seeing off the Great Elder Kunling, Li Mu asked Zhenyu to take care of Wang Ou, came to the next room, and accompanied Tang Jian to eat hot pot together.

Tang Jian is old and can't stand the bumps, so he tosses for a day, his heart is pounding, and he drinks several glasses of wine to calm down his emotions. When Li Mu came in, he had been eating for a while, the copper pot was bubbling, the boiled meat slices were flying, Tang Jian was like an old glutton, stuffing the meat into his mouth while blowing, afraid of being hot.

"Someone just died in this house yesterday, but you can eat it."

Li Mu said this in his mouth, but he didn't listen to the movements in his hands, and he took the chopsticks to pick up the meat in one go, but he didn't seem to care.

"Come on," Tang Jian drank a glass of wine, rested for a while, and looked at Li Mudao: "Death is a person, you can't scare me." I'm sixty years old, how many winds and waves have I experienced in this life, is this still a problem? ”

"In the second year of Wude, Dugu Huaien rebelled, and the old man was imprisoned for several months, tortured and asked every day, when did he not see a few dead people, and didn't he survive in the end? When in this world, if no one dies, and when someone else dies, will he not eat? ”

"That's right." Li Mu dealt with it casually, got himself a glass of wine, drank it, and sighed unconsciously.

The stomach was full of sorrow, and the wine was much more bitter.

Seeing him like this, Tang Jian poured a glass of wine for him, and said: "Li Mu, we have met from acquaintance to later ......" He muttered, Li Mu glanced at him, and didn't say anything, Tang Jian continued: "Our master is also a good fate, I have always seen that you are full of confidence and facing difficulties, why are you so depressed today?" Isn't the matter of Miao Jiang under your control? ”

"Miao Jiang's affairs are all under my control. But-" Li Mu sighed, briefly told Wang Ou about it, and said: "If she has something, Miao Jiang's matter, no matter how completely it is resolved, it will be difficult for me to be happy." ”

After listening to this, Tang Jian didn't speak, and kept drinking.

Li Mu looked at him and said, "Tang Gong seems to have something to say?" You just finished speaking, our father has a lot of fate, why do you have something in your heart, and you still hide it? ”

"You want to listen?"

"Of course,"

"Then the old man will say a few words, don't play a temper and turn your face." Tang Jian looked at Li Mu and said, "According to the old man, the current situation is the most beneficial for you." ”

Li Mu raised his eyebrows and said, "How can you see it?" ”

"Wang Ou is not an ordinary person." Tang Jian stopped at the point, but Li Mu already understood what he meant.

Li Shimin's thoughts about Wang Ou, Li Mu couldn't be clearer. It can be said that the existence of Wang Ou is the root cause of the rift between Li Shimin and Li Mujunchen. As long as Wang Ou is in the world, there will always be a thorn in Li Shimin's heart. But if Wang Ou died, there would be no more thorns. After all, the deceased is gone, and Li Mu can still do many, many things for Li Shimin.

While Li Shimin hated Li Mu, he would also think that after all, Li Mu didn't get Wang Ou, and the hatred would slowly fade. But if Wang Ou lives, lives with Li Mu, Qin Se and Ming, and helps each other to grow old, it is impossible for Li Shimin not to know, and it is impossible not to see it, so that this hatred will become more and more, and it will accumulate together, and something will happen sooner or later.

Tang Jian's meaning, Li Mu could understand, but he couldn't accept it. He asked himself if he owed Li Shimin anything, and he didn't do anything wrong. Glory and wealth, he doesn't see it so important. With a system in place, it is not difficult for him to support his family. As an official, he has no obsession, he can do what he can, and do something for the people. If you can't do it, you won't do it. Anyway, there is no him in this world. Perhaps without his influence, the trajectory of the world would be normal.

But he couldn't give up on his family, which was his deepest and deepest obsession. is originally an 'outsider', if you can't even protect your family, what else does this world belong to you?

Li Mu smiled and said, "I know what to do." ”

"I knew I couldn't persuade you." Tang Jian shook his head, buried his head in eating hot pot again, and no longer paid attention to Li Mu. Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he looked up at Li Mu and said, "But after this incident, you have to think about how to deal with the relationship with the Cheng family." ”

"The Cheng family?"

"Cui Yuzheng is the younger brother of Mrs. Cheng Yanjin, and the Cheng family has grown and grown over the years, thanks to the help of the Cui family. If you hurt his life, the Cui family will not rest, and when the time comes, Cheng will bite Jin, I'm afraid it will ......"

"Hmph," Li Mu snorted coldly and said, "If you talk about helping the family, do I help the Cheng family less?" Sixty percent of the Cheng family's current income is all my care. Uncle Cheng is a pragmatic person, he knows how to choose. ”

"Alas," Tang Jian shook his head and said, "I knew it was useless to tell you, but I still couldn't help but want to say it." Let me remind you, the five surnames and seven sects have survived for thousands of years, and everyone has the ability to press the bottom of the box. Don't talk about it, let's just talk about Boling Cui's family, how did Cui Yuyan get to Miaojiang from exile, who helped and who did it, I didn't find out for several months. The Boling Cui clan sold grain to Tibet, and there were thousands of miles along the way. I can't imagine how many joints need to be opened! But people can do it, how deep does this have to be? ”

"Most of ......" Li Mu pondered for a while, and said, "Most of them are inseparable from the heir hall." ”

Speaking of this, Li Mu remembered something and said, "Some time ago, the Miss Lu of the Stepsister Hall, did Tang Gong hear about the grain in Luoyang?" ”

Tang Jian nodded and said, "I know, that Miss Lu hoarded a large amount of food before the locust plague. intends to hoard Juqi, but didn't you see through her abacus? ”

"It's seen through, but the food is gone." Li Mu frowned and said, "This batch of grain from the Boling Cui clan can be that batch of grain?" ”

"Impossible," Tang Jian waved his hand and said firmly: "You still don't know much about the Succession Hall, that's why there is such a misunderstanding." Jihetang is not the imperial court, and Miss Lu is not the emperor, and her control over Jihetang is not as good as her command. Conversely, it is impossible for several large valves to control her. This grain transportation line in Tibet is considered the core secret of the Boling Cui clan, and it will definitely not be shared with others. The food that Miss Lu hoarded must be of other use. ”

"She finally went to the direction of Taiyuan, what use can it be?" Li Mu was puzzled and said; "Didn't you see that the land in Taiyuan is barren and there is not enough food to eat, so you want to make a little difference? But with such a toss back and forth, she is not profitable. ”

"This old man can't guess." Tang Jian didn't bother to think about it, and said: "The old man has been sent by His Majesty to this kind of poor and remote country, he is already so old, and he is just looking forward to taking care of his old age, what do these messy things have to do with me?" ”

Li Mu smiled and said, "That's right—Tang Guan said in his letter that you have already moved most of the Tang family?" Is this going to take root in Shuzhou? ”

"That's exactly what I was going to do." Tang Jian nodded and admitted, and said, "Originally, I still had two worries—one was that I was not used to staying in this place, and I had heard that this place was damp. But when I got here, I found that it was not as unbearable as I imagined, so I just didn't drill into this deep mountain and old forest. The second is to worry about Miao Jiang, when I was in Chang'an, I always heard that Miao Jiang was not peaceful here, and when I came here, I found that it was not peaceful, but it was not the Miao people who were not peaceful, but our Tang people, Qinghe Cui Clan, Boling Cui Clan, operating forces here, local officials, six or seven out of ten out of his door, the governor's decree could not get out of the city, when I first arrived, if it was not for the desperate protection of the house slaves in the house, my old life was almost gone! ”

When Tang Jian said about the atmosphere, his beard was cocked, he took a sip of wine angrily, and continued: "Now that you have solved the matter, the Tang family will take advantage of you." When this is over, I will choose a blessed land and build a Tangjia Fort, and in the future, the Tangguan branch will take root here. ”

Tangjiabao? Li Mu raised his eyelids, thinking to himself that he seemed to have heard of this name somewhere, when he was playing "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3" in an Internet café, every day when he even dreamed, he could dream of the sentence "I am Tang Xuejian, the eldest lady of Tangjiabao".

"Does Tang Guan know about this?"

"I discussed it with him, and he said that he wanted to discuss it with you, isn't it that you two are staggered and haven't seen each other?" Tang Jian said: "The old man told you first, just to let you persuade him. I have seven sons, all of whom have been scattered as officials, and there is only one left around me, and I still expect him to retire in the future. ”

Li Mu also expected him to take care of the Sun family, thought about it, and said, "That's it, I can't force him." I can only persuade him that when he is two years old, he will come back and take care of him. After a pause, Li Mu said again: "I owe the Tang family a favor, and when this matter is over, I will express it." ”

Tang Jian waved his hand and said, "In the relationship between you and me, what else do you say about being unkind, and besides, you have also helped me a lot, Hugh Ti, Hugh Ti." ”

Li Mu didn't argue, but he had already made a decision in his heart. He plans to support the Tang family and become the master of Miao Jiang in the true sense.

This is not a whim, but the result of thinking about it for a long time.

Miao Jiang had always maintained a balance, and this balance was based on the Snake Spirit Sect. The Snake Spirit Sect is in the center, and the white and black parts are lined up on the left and right. It forms a stable triangle, but now that the Snake Spirit Sect is facing extinction, and the White and Ube have no religious constraints, then there will be two situations. Dualistic balance, or the combination of two into one.

Duality balance, of course, is the situation that Li Mu wants to see. But there is no guarantee that this will happen as expected. What if the two become one? When the Snake Spirit Sect exists, the Snake Spirit Sect will definitely find a way to maintain the split situation of the Wu and Miao tribes in order to stabilize its rule. But without the constraints of the Snake Spirit Sect, the completion of the internal unification of Miao Jiang is really a big trouble for the imperial court.

Therefore, there must be a third-party force to sit in Miaojiang and make Miaojiang chaotic.

This force must be the power of a Han people. Block the Miao people on the south bank of the Minjiang River, and subtly control the sphere of influence of Miao Jiang. What it replaces is not Bai Miao, nor Wu Miao, what it replaces is the sphere of influence that was vacated after the Qinghe Cui clan and the Boling Cui clan were cut off.

The Boling Cui clan has been in business for many years, and the Qinghe Cui clan has the foundation of the Snake Spirit Sect, and the power here is very stable, and the Tang family is bound to be constrained everywhere when they first arrive. What Li Mu said is that it solves this problem.

If you want to expand your power in one place, money and power are indispensable. Money, the Tang family is not lacking, power, as long as Tang Jian is still in the governor of Shuzhou, he is equivalent to the soil emperor of Miao Jiang, and he is not lacking. What he lacks is a weapon that can counterbalance the Miao people.

Miao people are good at three things, Gu and poison. Li Mu also gave the Tang family two weapons, mechanism technique and poison. The trick can break the Gu, and the poison is to fight the poison with the poison. He doesn't know poison, but it doesn't matter, he now has the codex of the previous sect leaders of the Snake Spirit Sect, and he can choose some from it, and it is better to restrain it with the same root and origin, at least the Miao people use poison, and the Tang family knows how to deal with it.

"It turns out that the Tang Sect in Shuzhong is actually from my own hands." Li Mu felt funny and couldn't help laughing. Tang Jian heard the voice, looked up at him strangely, and said, "What did you think of again?" ”

Li Mu shook his head and said, "It's nothing, when building Tangjiabao, if there is a shortage of craftsmen, you can send a letter, and I will transfer it to you from Luoyang." By then, the Chi Road was almost finished. ”

"If you can use it, you will naturally not be polite."

……

The Boling Cui clan has been in business for many years, and the Qinghe Cui clan has the foundation of the Snake Spirit Sect, and the power here is very stable, and the Tang family is bound to be constrained everywhere when they first arrive. What Li Mu said is that it solves this problem.

If you want to expand your power in one place, money and power are indispensable. Money, the Tang family is not lacking, power, as long as Tang Jian is still in the governor of Shuzhou, he is equivalent to the soil emperor of Miao Jiang, and he is not lacking. What he lacks is a weapon that can counterbalance the Miao people.

Miao people are good at three things, Gu and poison. Li Mu also gave the Tang family two weapons, mechanism technique and poison. The trick can break the Gu, and the poison is to fight the poison with the poison. He doesn't know poison, but it doesn't matter, he now has the codex of the previous sect leaders of the Snake Spirit Sect, and he can choose some from it, and it is better to restrain it with the same root and origin, at least the Miao people use poison, and the Tang family knows how to deal with it.

"It turns out that the Tang Sect in Shuzhong is actually from my own hands." Li Mu felt funny and couldn't help laughing. Tang Jian heard the voice, looked up at him strangely, and said, "What did you think of again?" ”

Li Mu shook his head and said, "It's nothing, when building Tangjiabao, if there is a shortage of craftsmen, you can send a letter, and I will transfer it to you from Luoyang." By then, the Chi Road was almost finished. ”

"If you can use it, you will naturally not be polite."

Li Mu shook his head and said, "It's nothing, when building Tangjiabao, if there is a shortage of craftsmen, you can send a letter, and I will transfer it to you from Luoyang." By then, the Chi Road was almost finished. ”

"If you can use it, you will naturally not be polite."

Li Mu shook his head and said, "It's nothing, when building Tangjiabao, if there is a shortage of craftsmen, you can send a letter, and I will transfer it to you from Luoyang." By then, the Chi Road was almost finished. ”