Wang Zhi is just Wang Zhi, he is not Li Su.

So he couldn't keep up with Li Su's jumping thinking, he was very tired of talking to people like Li Su, one moment he was still conspiring and calculating the prince, and the next moment Li Su's thinking jumped to a penny gamble.

I was very tired, I didn't want to talk to him more, and going back to Chang'an to drink and eat meat with my younger brothers and scold my mother was the life he should live.

"Eat and drink casually, but you still have to do what needs to be done, Wang Zhi, you need to change a little." Li Suzheng looked at him and said.

Wang Zhihu looked at him suspiciously, and said tentatively: "What do you say...... It has nothing to do with the penny you gambled, right? ”

"This time it's serious." Li Su is very serious.

After repeatedly making sure that Li Su's thinking showed no signs of jumping again, Wang Zhi said seriously: "My brothers and I were gathered together according to your instructions, it is a chess move that you secretly buried in Chang'an City, you can use it as you want, if you say that those idlers go to the soup for you one by one, I can't do this, but help you run errands, inquire about the news, or create any rumors, it is still very easy for them, how do you want to change, just say, I will do it when I go back." ”

Li Su pondered for a moment, lowered his voice and said slowly: "You are now the number one person in the city well of Chang'an, and your subordinates have gathered a bunch of people, although I don't know how loyal your subordinates are to you, but it is conceivable that in just a few years, your subordinates may not be loyal, at most they are just a fox friend and a dog......

Wang Zhi raised his eyebrows unconvinced, as if he wanted to refute, but after thinking about it seriously, he had to admit that Li Su was not wrong, so he had to sigh gloomily.

Li Su seemed to see through what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "What are you discouraged? In just three years, there can be such a weather. It's already very remarkable, the word 'loyalty' is very valuable, don't think it's a good thing for people to bow down when they see you, when you meet this kind of person, you will immediately drag it out and bury it, this kind of person can't be used. There is nothing wrong with your subordinates taking what they need from you, the idlers on the street are all begging for a living, and taking money to buy their loyalty is also a way, but as their leader, you must have a clear understanding of yourself, knowing that such 'loyalty' is actually not reliable, and if you want to get real loyalty, you have to spend more than money. You also have to spend affection, you are good to them, always caring, fair, and establish prestige, and you will naturally get loyalty ......"

"The change I was talking about is the structure of your community...... Don't understand, right? It's okay, I actually like to see your ignorant face. Very pleasing to the eye...... In other words, you are currently rooted in Chang'an City. But you are still just a plate of loose sand, so you need to find a few real henchmen among these people, and these confidants must be able to live and die for you, be able to entrust you with big things, and can work for you. Don't tell me you've been messing around for a few years and can't even find these people, then you're a failure. ”

Wang Zhi kept nodding, this time he had confidence, puffed up his chest and said, "Yes." ”

Li Su stared at his eyes and said in a deep voice, "Really? ”

"Really! There are five or six. Belong to the kind of people I want their heads, they can cut off their own without blinking and give it to me, my king has been in Chang'an for many years, and has done a few things, these five or six people, I have the grace of reinvention for them, and I have secretly observed their character, I don't have to choose, all of them are downright men. ”

Li Su smiled: "It seems that I really underestimated you, you have been really good in the past few years." ”

Wang Zhi also smiled: "How much has I grown compared to before, otherwise I won't be able to waste food?" ”

"If you have five or six cronies, you can set up a shelf in Chang'an City, you assign these cronies to the four directions of Chang'an City, find them a house to live in, and divide all your subordinates equally to them, and they will manage them, and what you have to do is to manage these five or six cronies, seize power, and money, and establish absolute prestige among them......"

Wang Zhi was confused when he heard this, and kept scratching his head: "Do this...... For what? Didn't that work before? Every day, everyone gets together to eat and drink, a few bowls of wine, humming and chirping, and all the big things are done, why do you want to disperse all your subordinates to those few cronies? ”

Li Su sighed: "Because whether it is an organization or a criminal gang, if you want to survive for a long time, the internal management structure must be rigorous, and it doesn't hurt to be a mess at the beginning, but there are more people under your command, and after the power has gradually formed, it will not work if it continues like this, you must establish rules, do you understand the 'rules'?" The state has national laws, families have family rules, and criminal gangs must also have the rules of criminal gangs......"

Wang Zhi: "............"

Li Su winked at him: "Don't you understand?" ”

Wang Zhi nodded violently.

"If you don't understand, it's right, if you don't understand, the truth is very deep, and the deep truth is generally a good reason, you just worship and look up, and do what I say after looking up, don't think about anything else, with your brain, you must not understand."

Wang Zhi's eyes suddenly became very resentful: "I understand the last sentence, it shouldn't be a good word......

"Tsk! Praise you! I can't hear a bad word. ”

"So, what do you mean...... Scatter all your subordinates and spread all over every corner of Chang'an City? ”

Li Su said solemnly: "Yes, all dispersed, but you have to do it inconspicuously, and you will slowly fade out of the sight of these subordinates in the future, and in another year or two, the only people who really know you can only be your five or six cronies, these cronies are not subordinate to each other, do not contact, and live their own lives, when you need this force to do things, you will secretly send people to order those cronies, you don't have to show up, just wait for the results, as for the weekday expenses of this stall, I will still bear it, and you are responsible for distributing the money, remember, The power of wealth must be in your hands, and it must not be given to anyone. ”

Wang Zhi looked at him suspiciously: "What do I think of this approach...... A little quirky, huh? Li Su, what do you want to do with this arrangement? ”

Li Su sighed and said, "I just want to survive in this chaotic and complicated Chang'an City, if I can, it would be better to live like a fish in water......"

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After returning to Chang'an, life seems to have returned to the original plain and comfortable.

The sound of killing is far away, and there was a bloody battle. The picture of fighting for his life on the battlefield seems to have become a memory of his previous life, so far away that it seems to be separated by a faint mist, and there is only a hazy scene left in his mind.

How to enjoy a peaceful life has become the biggest problem that plagues Li Su at present, and he thinks about it. It is more in line with Li Su's character to spread his hands and feet into a "big" shape, lying on the bed and being lazy.

Summer in Chang'an is not necessarily cooler than the desert, but it is also so hot that it is disturbing, and I can't wait to spend the whole summer in an ice bucket.

It has been three full days since he returned to Chang'an, after Li Su saw Dongyang and Wang Zhi, he lay at home and slept day and night for three days, and in the early morning of the fourth day, Li Su stretched his waist and yawned, and walked out of the door refreshed. After jumping on the spot a few times, I found that I was full of blood and blue.

Enough rest, what needs to be done still has to be done.

The first thing to do is to go into the city and visit the elders, especially Niu Jinda and Cheng Yanjin, Niu Jinda is Li Su's crown conferrer, from the perspective of etiquette, this relationship is equivalent to blood relatives. As for Cheng Biting Jin...... This demon king should be classified into the category that he can't afford to provoke and dare not hide, and he can't be lazy. What's more, he asked his eldest son to lead Zhuang Ding to travel thousands of miles to help Xizhou, this kindness is greater than the sky, and he must pay a visit to return the gift.

Since it is a "visit", there must be no lack of etiquette, and gifts must be prepared.

Opening the Li family's warehouse, dust was mixed with cobwebs. There were empty rats inside, and Li Su's heart was half cold at that time.

Sure enough, there was a vacuum, and a dozen strings of copper coins in the warehouse were lying on the wooden shelves in a desolate manner, and there was nothing else.

Xu Mingzhu's promise to the Yumen Pass soldiers and Chengjiazhuang Ding who rushed to the aid was fulfilled on the day he returned to Chang'an. The Li family's perfume and liquor trading accumulated in the past few years was completely emptied overnight, and now the Li family is talking about the Hou Ye Mansion, and no one knows that in fact, there are only a dozen strings of money left in the entire Hou Ye Mansion to live.

After coming back, the holy decree had a reward, Li Su didn't understand it at the time, in addition to the title of "Marquis of Jingyang County", it seems that there are gold silk and fields or something, but it takes time for the court's reward to be issued, and the will must be verified in the three provinces, and then transferred to the household department, and then transferred to the degree branch division for allocation, and there is no ten days and half a month to not come down.

Li Su stared blankly at the empty warehouse, and after a long time, he closed the door and turned around in despair, looking up to the sky and sighing with a sense of pathos like the end of a hero.

If you are poor like this, how can you live? Teach him how to enjoy peace happily?

More importantly, teach him what to buy gifts to visit those respectable and unreasonable elders?

After thinking about it, Li Su decided to visit Niu Jinda first.

Visiting the elders should also be ordered, picking the relatively reasonable ones first, and leaving the most difficult ones to deal with last.

So Li Su ordered his subordinates to prepare horses, bring Zheng Xiaolou and a few veterans, and regarded it as his Hou Mansion honor guard, so he entered Chang'an City empty-handed.

Chang'an City is still full of people and prosperous.

A few days ago, Li Su was in the limelight in Chang'an City, and now His Majesty is ceremoniously rewarded, and countless subjects in Chang'an City have deeply remembered this young man, after a few days, Li Su entered the city again, and many people actually remembered him, which immediately attracted countless curious and admiring eyes.

Li Su dismounted after entering the city gate, and like everyone else, honestly led the horse towards Suzaku Street.

Although Li Shimin gave him the honor of riding a horse in Chang'an City, it is better to be a low-key person, if he really climbs up the pole and rides into the city with his head held high, it is certain that no one dares to stop him, but he sits too high and is too conspicuous, and it is not a good thing to be remembered by someone with a heart.

After entering the city, his mood suddenly brightened, Li Su took a deep breath, and suddenly felt that it was not a big deal to visit the elders without gifts, everyone was so familiar, and the elders would not care about these red tape with him, it was too vulgar.

Niu Jinda lives at the south end of Zhuque Street, which belongs to a relatively remote corner from the Taiji Palace, after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the founding heroes began to divide the fruits of victory, the main street of Zhuque Street, which leads directly to the palace, was rewarded to the founding heroes by the Li family father and son, Niu Jinda silently let aside, after all the heroes picked, he took the remote corner of the house at the south end, and Cheng Biting Jin, but grabbed the nearest to the palace, covering the widest area of the land, it is estimated that the old hooligan took this house without much effort, rolling and splashing all over the ground is inevitable, It is also possible to pretend to be crazy and dance an axe in front of the heroes, there is nothing in the world that this old rascal is embarrassed to do.

Walked to the door of Niu Jinda's house, Li Su stood still, looked up at the plaque on the lintel, the vigorous and powerful "Langya County Mansion" next to a few big words, left Li Shimin's handwriting, the gate is slightly dilapidated, the door has been peeled off in many places, the bronze beast head knocker has also lost its luster, there are rust stains, the door is closed, there are only a few old soldiers standing at the door, about forty or fifty years old, still standing by the sword, standing straight like a javelin, with a bit of coldness in his eyes.

Li Su is a frequent visitor to Niu Mansion, the veterans know him, seeing Li Su and his party coming, the veterans showed a smile, hugged their fists and saluted, and no one reported, immediately someone opened the side door and invited Li Su to enter.

Without notification, let you enter, this is the highest etiquette for the guests, or rather, the Niu Mansion has not taken Li Su as a guest at all, but really as his own nephew, Niu Jinda is Li Su's crowner, from this point of view, Li Su and Niu Jinda's own son are generally the same.

I have been to Niufu many times before, and I don't think it was fashionable, but I just know that a few veterans standing outside the door are playing cool, and the kind of cold temperament they exude, Li Su also subconsciously feels that it is not easy to approach, and now after experiencing the battlefield battle, Li Su suddenly understands where the cold temperament on their bodies comes from, and like Li Su, this is a group of veterans who are really lucky to survive from the pile of dead, and the lives of their subordinates are afraid that it is a very terrifying number.

Before entering the door, Li Su couldn't help but glance at them more.

The veterans returned with a friendly smile, and grinned two rows of yellow, uneven big teeth with a smile, Li Su shivered, and hurriedly stepped into the threshold, just now he planned to pry the corner of the wall to dig people's minds disappeared, it was too ugly, and it didn't seem to care much about personal hygiene, so it was better to leave it to Uncle Niu.

Entering the Niufu, bypassing the wall, there is a peach tree planted in the front garden, and now it is June, the peach blossoms are gradually withering, and the trees bear sparse green peaches.

The sound of steady footsteps came, and every step was unhurried, and Niu Jinda's square face came into view.

Li Su smiled, reunited after three years, this face ...... Why is it still like a brick? If your head sways up the well, you will be suspected of falling into the well.

"Boy, meet Uncle Niu......" Li Su hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Niu Jinda looked a little excited, stepped forward to help Li Su up, looked at him carefully, and his eyes were moist.

"Okay, it's good to come back alive, I've been thinking enough in the past few years, and I don't dare to run out in the future." (To be continued.) )