Li Zhe didn't know that his right-hand men were figuring out how to use power for personal gain.

But even if he knew, he couldn't stop it.

On the contrary, he may have to support Hong Chengchou's Hong family's drill camp in turn, the reason is very simple, because the Hong family is destined to be his iron core because of Hong Chengchou's existence, and the growth of his iron power is equal to the growth of his own power.

These irons are unlikely to betray him Li Zhe, and they can only stand with him in various aspects, which means that he will like to see the expansion of his subordinates, because the more resources that these irons below him directly control, the more it means that he Li Zhe has more power in this country.

The current Li Zhe's status is high enough, his official position is big enough, and he has a strong prestige among the people because of his repeated victories. But the power that comes with these is actually not secure.

Power means not only an official position, nor is it just prestige.

There are actually many things it contains: status, official position, seniority, prestige...... In fact, the core of the essence of power is the right to control and distribute various forms of resources in human society.

Your position in the chain of resource distribution in this society is equal to your actual power.

And this is exactly what Li Zhe lacks the most now.

After all, he Li Zhe is young, he has grown up too fast, and he is far from being like those old families who have been entrenched in the officialdom of Mengzhou City for a long time. Everything he has now is only brought to him by his own abilities and merits. But this kind of power, which is based on personal merit and prestige, is far less stable than that built on the resources that are actually controlled.

For example, those old families and nobles in the city, which clan does not have thousands or even tens of thousands of people to serve as lackeys under the door, and which one does not have hundreds of thousands or millions of acres of fertile land overseas.

The resources and connections they have are enough to make them play a pivotal role in Tianzhu and influence national policies in all aspects. They are almost everywhere.

Therefore, this is called power, this is called the family.

So without this kind of deep foundation, it is difficult for you to gain the respect of others in all aspects.

It is difficult for a tree to grow into a large tree without enough foliage.

Now Li Zhe is just walking on the road of strength.

……………………………………

Cairo, Egypt.

The Qin family got the news of Mengzhou, and the old marquis Qin Ming, who was still lingering on the bed, reluctantly sat up, and he could barely see things.

During the period when he fainted, Qin Fang, who was ordered to come back, also did a good job, and honestly maintained the current situation, and now that he woke up, the Qin family could finally react.

"Very good, the imperial court supports us in fighting, and it also sends reinforcements, and will also support logistics supplies, so that this battle can be fought with those ghosts."

Qin Fang said.

"It's nature." Qin Ming nodded, "But how and to what extent this battle will be fought is up to us to decide." ”

Qin Ming was crooked on the bed, and a maid next to him was supporting him behind his back, while handing him a cup of medicine, which was a medicine porridge made by a famous doctor.

He raised the medicine cup and drank it down, then smacked his lips and sighed:

"Hmmm! is old, it seems that this time it is really inseparable from medicine. ”

Qin Fang hurriedly stepped forward to help,

"Father! Where is it old. ”

"You are still young, and when you are well, I still want you to take us to the battlefield in person?"

To the battlefield? Qin Ming's expression was a little dazed, and after a moment, he shook his head again,

"Hey, no."

Heroes are in the twilight, no one can escape it! Neither can he, Qin Ming. Immediately, his expression tightened, and he looked at his son Qin Fang with sharp eyes.

"But although I am old and can't go to the battlefield anymore, my Qin family still has to win this battle, even if I am a hundred years later, the prestige of our Qin family cannot be lost."

"Yes!" Qin Fang nodded, "Father, don't worry, Erchen will never let my Qin family's reputation be disgraced!" ”

Qin Ming looked at his son seriously, and after a while, he said:

"Hey! You still don't understand! ”

seemed to see the hesitation in his son's eyes. Qin Mingdao:

"You don't understand how our Qin family behaves under King An!"

"The way to do it?"

Qin Fang had never heard Qin Ming say this to him.

"That's right, that's the way of my Qin family!"

"Everyone in this world has his own place, and so does each of our families."

"The previous generation of my Qin family, the Feixiong Army, fought on the battlefield for decades, and helped King An pacify the heavens. This is the way of my Qin family. ”

"Father, what do you mean?"

"That's right, I mean that our Qin family is a knife, a sharp blade in the hands of King An in the past. Wherever King An's command is pointing, our Qin family's knife will look. Our Qin family is the most loyal dog under King An. ”

"Loyal dog?"

"Yes, loyal dog."

"It is precisely because we are loyal dogs that the Qin family can have such a piece of land far away from the imperial court, which is even larger than the scope directly under the imperial court. The great one is even stronger than the sum of many princes. Tianzhu has never had a prince as strong as us. Qin Ming paused and said with a smile, "If the master wants a dog to bite someone, he will always give some bones." ”

"So that's why, no matter how many other princes in the court fight with the court, our Qin family can always stand tall in King An's heart?"

"Not bad!" Qin Ming nodded and looked at his son with relief.

"This is the path our Qin family is going to take. We were loyal to the court, so we got far more than anyone else. We've been that way for so many years. The status of the Qin family is higher than that of any of the princes of the imperial court, but we have never aroused the suspicion of the imperial court. ”

Qin Fang lowered his head and pondered.

Qin Ming continued:

Of course, this dog is not without the opportunity to become its own owner. But that depends on chance. ”

"Huh? Good luck? ”

"This canal is our chance!"

"Our opportunity is in the West, across that sea. The future of the imperial court can only be the Central Plains, it is the Shenzhou Continent, they will always go to the east, and it is impossible to turn around and compete with us for the opportunity to go west. ”

"So this war, not for others, but really for ourselves. The Mediterranean, that sea belongs to us. ”

Qin Fang looked at his father with his mouth wide open in surprise, he didn't expect that there would be such a picture scroll in his father's chest.