After the guests dispersed, Li Ang looked at the natural people who were cleaning up the tables, chairs and dishes around him, he was still not used to such a noise, and more importantly, he could see that many of the guests who came today were coming for him.

Walking into the study and seeing Murong Bai Yao reading quietly, Li Ang nodded to Li Yanzong on the side and let him go out. "I don't think you like to read these kinds of books." Walking to Murong Baiyao's side, Li Ang glanced at the 'Haixi Zhi' in his hand.

"I didn't expect you to like reading so much." Closing the book and looking at the many books on the shelves in the room, Murong Baiyao replied, he looked at Li Ang, "Miss Zhuge doesn't feel like a rude eldest lady who is very impulsive?" ”

"I was going to say yes, but when you ask that, I don't think he's what you say?" Looking at Murong Baiyao's playful expression, Li Ang thought for a while and replied.

"She is a secret member of the Dragon's Tooth Society, few people know her identity, everything she does in front of people is just a disguise." Murong Baiyao looked at Li Ang, who never seemed to be alarmed by anything, and frowned.

"I don't understand, you're so optimistic about me." Looking at Murong Baiyao, Li Ang was not used to this young man's ambitious gaze.

"It's not that I'm optimistic about you, it's the Murong family in Liucheng who is optimistic about you." Murong Baiyao replied, "Because of you, the Tuoba family, the sworn enemy of our Murong family, has collapsed. ”

"The Tuoba family is self-inflicted, and it doesn't have much to do with me, you think highly of me." Leon doesn't like to be taken too seriously, and that feeling of being watched is not good.

"We don't think highly of you." Murong Baiyao replied. The expression on his face suddenly became serious, "Let's start talking openly and honestly." I want you to let Snow Tiger into your Dark Riding Camp. ”

"How do you know about the Dark Riding Camp?" Seeing that Murong Baiyao knew about the secret cavalry camp, Li Ang's eyes sharpened.

"The dark cavalry battalion is no longer a secret, the staff officers of the White Tiger Festival Hall all know that the chief has newly formed such a secret force, but they don't know who is in control of this force." Murong Baiyao met Li Ang's blade-like gaze and replied lightly, "I know the ground." It's news from the Dragon's Tooth Society. ”

"The Dragon's Tooth Society is not as simple as I knew before, there are three kinds of members, the outermost are the active radical officers in the army, the second is the children of the family who have passed the test in the Elysium Building, and the third is the person who is personally favored by the highest member of the inner group and joined after the approval of the other three highest members."

Listening to Murong Baiyao's words, Li Ang looked at him, a cold air beating in his eyes, "You are already a member of the third type?" ”

"I was lucky enough to be favored by one of the top members. The observations of the remaining three members were also adopted. Murong Baiyao did not deny it, but directly admitted it. I came to you today, in addition to the matter of Snow Tiger, I just want to ask if you are interested in joining? ”

"Join?" Li Ang smiled noncommittally, "It should be that I am taken by you, so it is appropriate to say this!" ”

"Indeed, you are a terrible man, and I cannot hide anything from you." Murong Baiyao stared at Li Ang with a calm expression. He muttered to himself, then he thought for a moment and said, "The Sect of the Dragon's Tooth Society has taken a fancy to you, and he really wants you to join." ”

"Please tell him for me, I have no interest in participating in this kind of secret society." Li Ang glanced at Murong Baiyao, who was a little relieved, and said coldly, "Now you can tell me the purpose of letting Snow Tiger join the Dark Cavalry Camp." ”

"Quite simply, I don't want to mess with you by killing him." Murong Baiyao said unabashedly. "The position of the head of the next generation of the Murong family in Liucheng is only between me and him. I want to be the head of my house, so he's my enemy. ”

"Xuehu, he seems to like you very much, and he is not suitable to be the head of the family, his talent is to use soldiers, only the battlefield is suitable for him." Murong Baiyao said in a low voice, "Your dark cavalry camp is a good place to go, presumably you will take better care of him than I do." ”

"Is power really that important to you?" Looking at Murong Baiyao, who always looked like ambition in his eyes, Li Ang asked, he liked Murong Baiyao's confession, but he didn't like his ambition.

"How can a husband have no power, you and I both crave power, but you are more powerful than me, and others can't see it." Murong Baiyao looked at Li Ang and said, "Many people know the trick of retreating into advance, but when faced with temptation, few people will really do it. ”

Listening to Murong Baiyao's words, Li Ang knew what he was thinking, but he didn't want to explain anything, he just replied, "I can let Xuehu join the Dark Cavalry Camp, but the elders of your family, how do you plan to deal with it." ”

"You just promise, I have my own way there." Murong Baiyao glanced at Li Ang, thinking of the brother who was often praised by the elders for being a heavenly ruler, and a trace of jealousy flashed in his eyes.

"Your ambitions are too heavy, if you can't learn to restrain yourself, sooner or later you will destroy yourself." Looking at Murong Baiyao who was walking towards the door, Li Ang said quietly behind him. Murong Baiyao's figure paused for a moment, and then strode towards the door.

Looking at the closed door, Li Ang sat in the chair, his brows furrowed, Lu Sheng and Zhao Lie had told him that they knew about the Dragon Tooth Society, thinking that they were only the second kind of members in Murong Baiyao's mouth, thinking that the Dragon Tooth Society actually knew about the Secret Cavalry Camp, Li Ang's eyes were full of solemnity, could the Dragon Tooth Society infiltrate the White Tiger Festival Hall.

"Impossible." Leon muttered to himself, knowing that he was the commander of the Dark Cavalry Battalion, there were no more than five people, and he didn't believe that these five people could be bought by the Dragon's Tooth. Who is that Huizong, thinking of this mysterious Huizong, Li Ang's brows furrowed even tighter.

"Maybe I should have agreed just now to come down and go in and see what happened." Leon shook his head, muttered to himself, and closed his eyes.

On the street outside Li Ang's mansion, in a big car speeding into the distance, Murong Baiyao respectfully said to the young man in front of him, "Huizong, he refused. ”

"Oh, refused." The young man was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, and he looked very ordinary, except for his seemingly gentle, but always misty eyes, which gave people a somewhat unfathomable sense of sophistication.

"Yes, he refused very simply. There is no possibility of persuasion at all. Murong Baiyao replied with his head down.

"Very interesting people." The young man didn't say anything, just smiled. Chao Murong Baiyao said, "You really plan to put your younger brother in him, so you don't have to worry that he will come back to compete with you for the family in the future." ”

"Lord Huizong, although I don't like my brother, he always has the same blood as me, unless it is absolutely necessary. I don't want to use too drastic measures, and Leon is not as cold as he seems. Murong Baiyao looked at the young man in front of him and replied quietly.

"You're an honest person, but most people don't like someone who is too honest." The young man glanced at Murong Baiyao and didn't say anything more, just closed his eyes quietly.

The wind and snow fell more in the middle of the night, and in the governor's mansion, Guo Ran looked at the heads of the major families sitting and said in a deep voice. "Ladies and gentlemen, Your Majesty has agreed to expand the army. The only problem at the moment is the resistance in the court. ”

"The Supervision Yuan should have been waiting for this moment for a long time, they should be able to deal with the three provinces and the six ministries, right?"

"After 30 years in power, those civil officials are not so easy to defeat, and those businessmen who collude with them are also forces that cannot be ignored. What we need is not cleaning. Guo Ran forced his eyes to look at the masters, "And this is Your Majesty's bottom line." ”

"This is impossible, the purge of the three provinces and the six ministries is necessary, they have too many henchmen, if we don't take advantage of the strength we still have, completely defeat them, I am afraid that there will inevitably be another disaster in the future."

"Everyone's considerations, I also understand, but Your Majesty..." Guo Ran saw that all the lords of the convened place were all holding on to completely defeat the civil officials. The plan to rebuild the court couldn't help frowning.

"For the past ten years. Those civilian officials are almost full-fledged, and if they get involved in the expansion of the army, then it will be difficult for us who are loyal to the royal family and control the army to continue to maintain overwhelming control in the army, so it doesn't matter? ”

Hearing this, Guo Ran couldn't help but start worrying, the number of army expansions is huge, as long as it is controlled by the people of the civilian faction, it will be an unstable factor for the whole country, and the army must be in the hands of the royal family and the local families loyal to the royal family, thinking of this, he stood up, looked at the heads of the major families, and said in a deep voice, "What do you mean, I have understood, I will try my best to advise Your Majesty, if Your Majesty still does not obey the words, then at the big court, we can only fully cooperate with the Supervision Yuan and bring down the civilian faction." ”

Looking at the heads of the major families who left one after another, Guo Ran sat down, and at this time, in the huge secret room, only he and Sima Yuanan, the only one who did not leave, were left.

"I want to know, does Your Majesty have any intention of dealing with us families?" Sima Yuanan looked at Guo Ran and asked quietly, "Wasn't the national policy set back then made by His Majesty because he was afraid of us families with heavy troops?" ”

"At that time, the entire country had nearly two million troops in the hands of our families, and Your Majesty's worries were right." Guo Ran raised his head and looked at Sima Yuanan, "What would you do if you were replaced?" ”

"I understand, but Emperor Taizu's legacy was to let us families and the royal family rule the world together." Sima Yuanan frowned and said, "I want to know what Your Majesty means, if he wants to eradicate our families." ”

"You're thinking too much." Glancing at Sima Yuanan, Guo Ran said lightly.

"I didn't think too much about it, back then, His Majesty cut off the heads of 200,000 prisoners of war, and his heart was far more ruthless than you and I imagined." A trace of fear crossed Sima Yuanan's eyes, "If he doesn't want to deal with us families, why would he recruit and cultivate the children of the Han Sect in the Black Lance Dragon Guard, aren't those people used to deal with us?" ”

"That's enough, what the hell are you trying to say?" Guo Ran stared at Sima Yuanan with sharp eyes.

"I don't want to say anything, I just want Your Majesty to know that as long as it doesn't touch the bottom line of the Sima family, I'm willing to make any concessions, you should know that what our family really wants to be loyal to is Daqin, the royal family, not a certain person." Sima Yuanan looked at Guo Ran's fierce gaze and did not back down.

"As long as Your Majesty has no intention of moving the family, my Sima family is willing to be weakened." Sima Yuanan said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty just wants to weaken the major families, not what you think, those young people in the Black Lance Dragon Guard are just trying to create a new batch of families." Guo Ran was silent for a while and then replied, "There are so many armies, in fact, they are in the hands of so many families, and I don't feel at ease if I change them." ”

"You can rest assured, if what Your Majesty really wants to deal with is the family, I will stand with you, just like my ancestors a hundred years ago." Guo Ran made his own promise, a hundred years ago, the most power-hungry emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty Emperor Wu tried to gather all the military power in one, and was finally deposed by the major families, at that time, the Guo family as the most loyal to the emperor chose to be on the same front with the major families, and the family and the royal family ruled the world together, which is the way to long-term peace and stability.

"Okay, with your words, I'll rest assured." Sima Yuanan stood up, "As long as Your Majesty doesn't want to shake the family, our Sima clan will always be loyal to Great Qin and the royal family." ”

Looking at the departing Sima Yuanan, Guo Ran only felt a headache, he didn't know how many families had the same idea as the Sima family, but he would never miss it, the emperor was worried about the family, the family was worried about the emperor, this situation was very bad.

"It looks like it's necessary to unite the royal family for another ancestral meeting." Guo Ran muttered to himself, stood up, walked out of the empty room, and went to the study, where Zhou Ting was waiting for him.

"How's your majesty?" Guo Ran looked at his old friend, sighed and asked, "I'm there, Sima Yuanan has dealt with me, as long as Your Majesty doesn't deal with the family, it doesn't matter." ”

"Your Majesty should really worry about those civil officials and big businessmen, and the collusion between them is the most worrying thing." Zhou Ting muttered to himself, and then smiled and said, "Fortunately, Your Majesty is not old and confused, he has decided to fully support us, but the only condition is that there must be a new great family rising in the war and joining the ancestral hall meeting." ”

"I think that the major families should not stop this." Guo Ran nodded with a deep groan, and looked at Zhou Ting, "No matter what, before the Great Dynasty meeting, hold an ancestral hall meeting, and the royal family and the family will reach an agreement first, you go and talk to Your Majesty about this matter." ”

"It's me again." Zhou Ting shook his head with a wry smile, and as he spoke, he left the study