When Li Ang saw Cui Hao, he saw only a middle-aged drunkard with a sloppy beard, but the white blue robe on his body was very clean, and when Li Ang swept Cui Hao's eyes, he obviously felt that this middle-aged man who looked like a drunkard looked at him with a calm and indifferent gaze, although he covered it up well, it was just a flash, but he couldn't hide it.

Li Ang didn't say much, just agreed to let him stay, be the gentleman in charge of the accounts, and after Huang Yuan and Cui Hao left, Li Ang looked at Li Cunzhi beside him and asked, "What do you think of this person?" ”

"This man is dangerous, his gaze just now is cold and ruthless, even the most elite scout can't compare." Li Cunzhi expressed his opinion, as the commander of the scout troops under Li Ang, his observation skills have always been excellent.

"It seems that you and I agree on the same thing, find a way to check his details, and people of unknown origin can't stay at home." Li Ang groaned, although he felt that Cui Hao made him feel that he was a powerful character, but he was not a person who would easily trust others, and he would not make a judgment until he knew more about Cui Hao.

"Yes, father-in-law." Li Cunzhi walked out of the study, before the spy force belonging to the family was formed, he, the scout commander, had to provoke intelligence matters first and handle everything on his behalf.

Following Huang Yuan through the Zhuangzi, Cui Hao shuddered a little when he thought of the look in the eyes of the young man in black looking at him. He hadn't seen such a look for a long time, that sense of oppression made him feel like he was under the blade, picked up the wine jug, Cui Hao poured a small sip, and made up his mind, he knew that he might not be able to hide from that General Li, but he didn't care, even if he was known underground, he would just see if General Li was bold enough to see if he was brave enough to use it.

Putting down the flask, Cui Hao returned to his usual indifference. It's just that when he looked at the orphans who walked by from time to time, there was some warmth in his eyes, to be honest, everything in this Zhuangzi surprised him, and after listening to Huang Yuan's words all the way, he quickly arrived at his room.

"I'll go and ask someone to boil water for you, you'd better shave your beard first, the Lord doesn't like people who are too sloppy." Stand in the doorway. Huang Yuan said to Cui Hao, "You just use this place as a military camp." ”

"Barracks, what an interesting place!" Looking at the back of Huang Yuan leaving, thinking of the orphans who were all dressed in black, Cui Hao touched his chin and chuckled.

Looking at the clear water, Cui Hao shaved his beard, and the face reflected in the water gradually became handsome, put down the razor, Cui Hao touched his smooth chin. Suddenly I remembered the past, 'I haven't seen you in ten years!' Friends! Looking at his reflection in the water, Cui Hao muttered to himself and walked to the wooden barrel that was already filled with hot water in the distance.

In the evening. When Li Ang saw Cui Hao again, the original sloppy drunkard had completely disappeared, and standing in front of him was a handsome middle-aged man with sharp eyes, with a dark aura on his body, but it was not too annoying.

"Hmm." Li Ang nodded, he looked at Cui Hao, who had changed his face in front of him, and said to Trist beside him, "From now on, he is your deputy, and there are some things you can leave to him." ”

"Yes. Master. Trist glanced at the man in front of him with some surprise, who looked like an unsheathed knife, and nodded thoughtfully, which he could hear from Leon's tone. Leon didn't trust this man, but some trivial things that didn't matter could be left to him.

In the evening, Huang Yuan did not stay in the hall with Li Ang and them, but accompanied Cui Hao to his room, "Lord him..." ”

"He's not a man who trusts people easily, and if you want to stay in the hall, you have to get him to agree, right?" Cui Hao had a somewhat unfamiliar smile on his face, and said to himself, "It's really a lord who is quite looking forward to it, but it's better to let him come to me than to let me go to him first." Cui Hao said and sat down at the table.

"What the hell are you up to?" Looking at Cui Hao, who was smiling strangely, the expression on Huang Yuan's face became solemn, his hand pressed on the handle of the knife on his waist, and Cui Hao in front of him made him feel a palpitation.

"I have no ill will." Cui Hao looked at Huang Yuan, who was pressing the knife, and laughed, "I just like it here and plan to stay, but whether I can stay or not depends on whether your lord is willing to take me in." ”

Huang Yuan's hand slipped from the hilt of the knife, and looked at Cui Hao suspiciously, he never thought that this man who was not familiar with martial arts would give him a terrifying feeling, maybe the Cui Hao he knew before was just an illusion, and now the man in front of him was the real Cui Hao, he shouldn't have found such a strange and dangerous man to go home.

"You regret bringing me back?" Looking at Huang Yuan's face, Cui Hao poured wine into the wine glass on the table and pushed it in front of Huang Yuan. Holding down the wine glass, Huang Yuan sat down, he raised the wine glass and glanced at Cui Hao, "I never regret what I have done, but if you are a threat to my family, I will kill you." With that, he drank the wine from his glass.

"You've changed." Looking at Huang Yuan who put down the wine glass, Cui Hao said quietly, and then he shook his head again, "No, you are the real you now, you are just suppressing your own nature in the Logistics Department of the Ministry of War, the tiger is locked in a small cage and kept in captivity, how can you show your fangs, it seems that those people who are with you now are also tigers and wolves, I am really looking forward to joining your family more and more!" ”

"Tiger wolf!" Listening to Cui Hao's evaluation of the other people in the family, Huang Yuan frowned, then he looked at Cui Hao and asked, "What about you, what kind of person are you, I don't realize now that I have never really known you?" ”

"I'm just me, and knowing someone is not the same thing as knowing someone." Cui Hao said, looking at Huang Yuan, and then he smiled, "You are a tiger wolf." I'm a fox. ”

"Fox." A different color flashed in Huang Yuan's eyes, and then he looked at Cui Hao and said, "It is indeed very suitable for you." "People often say that they are cunning like a fox, and they say that they are as wise as a fox, and in the eyes of people the fox is evil, just like Jia Xu, a strategist who was called 'ghost fox' by the world when Great Qin founded the country, although his wisdom was the founding of Great Qin

The top of the middle, but unfortunately most people except Emperor Taizu and Haoguo Gong (Guo Jia) don't like him, just because he is wise and cunning. All plans are based on victory and defeat, regardless of whether it is immoral or not.

In Huang Yuan's eyes, he didn't know if Cui Hao in front of him was as wise as the 'ghost fox', but if he was cunning, he felt that a person who could hide his true nature for so long was definitely good, but what he didn't understand was. Why didn't Cui Hao continue to hide it from him, thinking of this, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

Cui Hao swept Huang Yuan's eyes, as if he could see through what he was thinking at a glance, and chuckled, "He's a difficult person to deal with, it's a stupid thing to act in front of him, I've already expressed my sincerity, now it's up to him what he will think of me." ”

Of course, Huang Yuan knew that Cui Hao said that he was Li Ang. He couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, he didn't expect that just a casual glance, Cui Hao saw through his mind and hesitated. Huang Yuan looked at the wine jug on his waist, "I want to know, your alcoholism is like life, is it also that you deliberately pretended to deceive people, so that everyone thinks you are a drunkard?" ”

"Of course not." Cui Hao looked at the wine jug on his waist, then untied it and put it on the table, with a little nostalgia in his eyes, "Wine and it are the root of my life, there is no wine." I won't live a day. ”

"I just think he's very good, that's why I express this sincerity." Cui Hao said quietly, looking at the flat old wine jug. remembered some of the past, but he didn't tell Huang Yuan, just said quietly, "If it weren't for that, I would stay and be a bookkeeper in peace, maybe I would live the rest of my life like that." Cui Hao picked up his wine jug and laughed self-deprecatingly, "As long as there is wine." ”

Huang Yuan didn't say anything more, he didn't feel good in his heart, a person who had been regarded as a friend by him suddenly became a stranger, and he had been kept secret, this taste was difficult to understand, he only drank wine one by one, but the dishes on the table were untouched. Looking at Huang Yuan, Cui Hao just shook his head, and also drank the wine, he understood a truth from a long time ago, he didn't want to be betrayed by his friends, nothing more than having no friends, after all, people will change, no matter how good a friend is, there will always be a day when they turn against each other, maybe for power, or maybe for women.

Cui Hao lived in Li Ang's Zhuangzi and became a bookkeeper, Trist handed over some trivial affairs to him, and he didn't have any words, he took them all, Huang Yuan still went to him sometimes, for him, Cui Hao was brought into the house by him, and now Cui Hao is not Cui Hao in his previous impression, for the sake of the family, he has to keep an eye on him.

Li Cunzhi investigated Cui Hao's past, but it was not easy to find out a person who had hidden himself for a long time, and Li Ang was not in a hurry to know, all his current energy was put down on the family's spy force, after all, it was not a long-term solution to always rely on Jinyi Guards and scouts.

Many of the orphans newly adopted by Li Ang are orphans left behind by foreigners who came to Daqin because of their longing for Chang'an, and for Li Ang, these orphans are the best members of the spy force, and in order to conquer Haixi in the future, it is necessary for him to set up a powerful spy system in Haixi, no matter what era, intelligence has a decisive role in warfare.

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In the study, Li Ang looked at Li Yanzong and asked about the orphans who had been selected into the unit he named the 'Black Hand'. "There are a total of 376 people now, but it is estimated that as the training field deepens, about 30% of them will be eliminated." Li Yanzong replied that he had received systematic spy training in the secret guard before, and knew that a real spy could not be trained at will, for secret agents, skill is not important, the mind is the most important, of course, in the family's secret agent unit, the assassination unit is also indispensable.

"Yan Zong, I will leave this matter to you, remember that those who go to Haixi in advance in two years will rather be lacking than overuse." Li Ang nodded, and said in a deep voice to Li Yanzong, "The military hall has already begun to send people to Haixi, and we can't rely too much on the military hall in the future." ”

"My subordinates know." Li Yanzong said in a heavy voice, Li Ang did not hide from him that he would establish a country in Haixi in the future, for him, assisting Li Ang to establish vassal states for Great Qin and suppress Rome is a matter that has been passed down through the ages, even if he wants to risk his life, he will do it well.

After dealing with the affairs of the 'black hand' troops, Li Ang leaned back in the chair for a while, and then remembered that he seemed to be going to enter the palace today to accompany the prince, and couldn't help but smile, thinking of the pregnant Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang, and soon he would be a father.

In the afternoon, when Li Ang came to the imperial study, he did not see the prince, only Cao Anmin sat alone in the chair, frowning. Seeing Li Ang come in, he stood up, "The prince is sick, so he didn't come, I forgot to let someone tell you." ”

"The prince's illness, it doesn't matter, right?" Seeing Cao Anmin's brows furrowed, thinking of the crown prince, Li Ang couldn't help asking.

"It should be fine, by the way, since you're here, I'll tell you something first." Cao Anmin looked at Li Ang, took out a military report and handed it to Li Ang.

After receiving the military report, Li Ang couldn't help frowning, Wanzhou was actually looted by a barbarian army, and when the troops of the Anxi Protectorate arrived, all they saw was a miserable ruin.

"Your Majesty, where did these people come from?" Li Ang put down the military report and looked at Cao Anmin, since the Great Qin conquered the Western Regions, changed its name to Wanzhou, and expanded its power to the river, there has never been such a thing in one hundred and fifty years, and now there is a dragoon army stationed in the river, the barbarians in the desert and the grassland have just been abolished by him, and the Turks have fled far to the north, this sudden appearance of the barbarian army is puzzling.

Cao Anmin walked to the map of the four seas hanging in the imperial study, and pointed to the place between Wanzhou and Yizhou (the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau), "Where did the barbarian army come from?" ”

"Here?" Li Ang looked at the place that Cao Anmin was pointing to and remembered the name of this place in later generations, Tibet.

"This used to be a nomadic place for the Qiang people, since Emperor Taizu unified the world, he moved most of the Qiang people to Wanzhou, and it became a wilderness, but I didn't expect that there are people there now." Cao Anmin looked at that place and said to himself, in the eyes of too many people in Daqin, that place has always been a wilderness plateau with no human population, and it is not suitable for living at all, but I didn't expect that there are barbarians living on it now, and it is a great shame to attack the cities of the empire.