Chapter 138: swear to follow
When he heard Xia He report back outside the curtain that Shi Zhuang and the others were coming back to ask for a visit, Li Ze, who had already fallen asleep, turned over and got up, without wearing any clothes, and opened the curtain with barefoots and ran outwards.
As the bedroom door was opened and hit the wall with a bang, Xia He came to his senses and grabbed a jacket, carried his shoes and trotted and chased after him.
In the small hall, Shi Zhuang and the other four were shocked when they saw Li Ze's appearance.
Li Ze didn't say anything, just stared at Shi Zhuang.
Shi Zhuang clasped his fists with his hands and said with a smile: "Young Master, live up to your responsibilities, the big thing has been decided."
Hearing this sentence, Li Ze held it in a long breath and vomited it out for a long time, and suddenly felt relieved all over.
"Young master, clothes, shoes!" Xia He trotted in, stretched out his hands to put the jacket on Li Ze, and then squatted down to put on shoes for Li Ze.
After Li Ze finished vomiting, he suddenly burst into laughter. He pulled his shoes and bent down to pick up Xia He and turned around several circles in the same place. Xia He, who was caught off guard, screamed with shame, and his face was flushed.
"Young Master, let me down."
Li Ze smiled and put down Xia He.
Xia He, who was flushed, glanced at Shi Zhuang, whose face was not changed, then looked at Chen Changping and Li Hao and Li Han who were holding their faces aside. He turned around and ran out of the hall like the wind.
Li Ze smiled and put on his shoes, and said to the few people: "Let's go and talk in the small study."
He took a few people into his small study. Xia He had somewhere to hide, so Li Ze made a pot of tea for the few people, poured a cup of tea for each of them. When everyone sat down, Li Ze sat down and said to Shi Zhuang: "Tell me how did it do it?"
Shi Zhuang took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then he went out all the time. From meeting Liang Han and finally killing Li Che, he told Li Ze in detail.
"Four thousand soldiers and 30,000 soldiers in the palace are gone?" Li Ze sighed.
"It's gone." Shi Zhuang nodded and said, "The opportunity for the Khitan cavalry to enter the battlefield is really amazing. In that case, even if the gods descend to earth, they cannot save the Cheng German army. A big defeat is inevitable. Losing this battle will destiny for them."
"Thank you for your hard work this time," Li Ze said.
"I lurked in the peach forest and saw the Khitan soldiers chasing into the peach forest with their own eyes and chopping back the heads of Li Che and others. The Khitans and Lu Long Army took the blame. And they couldn't explain it at all, and they couldn't explain it clearly." Shi Zhuang smiled and said, "This matter is seamless and there is no hidden danger. You can do your own thing with confidence."
Li Ze nodded slightly.
Since Li Che came to the house and since he learned about the grudges between the two families of Su and Wang, killing Li Che has become his only choice, but how to kill this person without being retaliated against by future troubles is too difficult.
Li Che is not an ordinary person, but Chengde's young master, Li Ze's half-brother, and the heir recognized by Chengde. If someone knows that the person dies at his own hands, it will be too unfavorable for his future development. More importantly, the reputation of a killer brother will be held above his head from now on and will never be washed away in his lifetime.
Not to mention that you are just an illegitimate son of a small governor, so what if you are an emperor, the glorious historical books and the swords and pens of the Spring and Autumn Period will still leave a lot of marks.
Such stains will never be washed away.
But now, there is no need to worry about all this anymore. Someone has taken the blame for him, and they have no choice but to take it.
Li Ze was very happy.
He fell on Chen Changping on one side, and Li Ze smiled and said, "Changping, before leaving, I told you that after this matter is done, you four brothers can regain their freedom and no longer sell themselves to me."
He stood up, took a box from the bookshelf behind him, took out four body deeds from the inside, placed them on the table, and pushed them towards Chen Changping.
Shi Zhuang smiled and turned to look at Chen Changping. Li Hao held the corners of his mouth, and seemed to be smiling, while Li Han looked indifferent.
Chen Changping took a deep breath, took the four body deeds from the table, looked down for a moment, and his expression changed constantly. After a while, he suddenly placed the four body deeds on the table and pushed them back to Li Ze.
"Hmm?" Li Ze tilted his head and looked at Chen Changping.
Chen Changping stood up, bowed to Li Ze with his fists, "Please allow the four brothers of Chen Changping to follow the prince until we die in battle or die in old age. Chen Changping here made a vow with heaven and earth as evidence. If there is any deviation, the heaven will be punished and the earth will be destroyed, and the whole family will not die well."
Li Ze smiled and sat upright, "Have you thought it through? Don't you regret it?"
Chen Changping emphasized: "Never regret it. In fact, since he was captured by the young master, I have been thinking about the comments that the young master gave to me at that time. After thinking about it, I asked myself that in the past, I did have selfish intentions, thinking about doing a great cause, and thinking about becoming famous all over the world. But this failure made me sober. After following the young master for so long, Changping also understood a lot of things in his heart."
Li Ze smiled and picked up the teacup and took a sip, "What have you figured out?"
"If you want to achieve something, you need to have a stage for yourself to perform what you have learned. In the past, Changping didn't know how high the world was, and he had to make a comeback, and eventually suffered a crushing defeat. But now, the young master is the one who can provide me with this stage, so Chen Changping naturally has to follow him to the death." Chen Changping looked up at Li Ze and said.
Li Ze nodded with satisfaction. If Chen Changping spoke of loyalty, he would not be too relieved of this person. He would relax his heart like now and directly say that he would use the platform Li Ze to show his ambitions, which would make Li Ze look up to him.
This is the normal state.
If Li Hao and Li Han are loyal to him, there is nothing to say. Xia He and Tu Lichun are loyal to him, that is natural. And he has neither kindness nor morality to him for the four brothers Chen Changping. Where did such loyalty come from?
It’s the same old saying that their interests overlap. I need a strong general like Chen Changping, and Chen Changping needs to provide him with a stage. When the two of them come together, it’s a perfect match made by heaven.
Even if a person like Chen Changping goes elsewhere, he can still make a name for himself with all his skills, but it is hard to say what kind of situation he can reach. But now he is very different with him. He is the one who follows him when he is most unlucky and an old man around him. There are not many people around him who can rely on. This provides him with room for rapid growth.
If I were just a small country force in the past, but now, with Li Che's death, my future suddenly became brighter, and I must try to approach Chengde's supreme power. As long as I can take this step, Chen Changping will be considered to have reached the top of the sky.
If it were another force, just relying on his courage, he would not know how many years, how much blood shed, and how many dangers shed to obtain it?
Is there any better choice than yourself?
Of course there is nothing.
This is a smart person.
Li Zechacha likes smart people the most.
He also confidently believes that he can control smart people.
In his previous life, his subordinates were almost the smartest people in the world. Li Ze could gather them to fight for him and sweep the world, relying not only on personal charm, but more importantly on sharing of interests. At that time, he did the same work as he is now. He formulated strategic directions, set a general framework, and then he could freely play it out. He placed more important work on reconciling the distribution of interests of a large group of subordinates, and tried his best to make the interests of everyone generally consistent.
Seek big common ground while keeping small differences!
Of course, there are also irreconcilable contradictions, which lead to the emergence of betrayers. Li Ze did not feel so sad and angry that he was. He just concentrated his firepower and knocked out the betrayers.
Compared to the wars in the previous life that were not smoke but more complicated, Li Ze felt that what he was experiencing now was much simpler.
He reached out and helped Chen Changping up. Li Ze smiled and put the four body deeds back into the box, put the box on the bookshelf behind him, and said, "Okay, just like what I told everyone on Baizhangyan, you will never let me down, and I will never abandon you. These body deeds are used as a souvenir. When we all have white hair and beards, we can take them out to recall the glorious years of today."
Shi Zhuang smiled and said congratulations to Chen Changping. After experiencing this incident, Chen Changping truly integrated into this small group.
After sitting back, Li Ze said to Chen Changping: "Your work needs to be adjusted. From today on, you should go to Shen Congxing's subordinates and replace Li Han as a village chief. With your joining, Shen Congxing's absolute force will increase by a lot."
Li Han on the side stared at Li Ze with wide eyes: "Young Master, where am I going? What am I doing?"
Li Ze smiled and looked at Li Han's tall and burly figure and said, "I found a good place to learn something from some people. If I learn it, it would be a great contribution for the young master."
Shi Zhuang was a little curious and couldn't help asking: "Where did the young master ask Li Han to go?"
Li Ze looked at him with a smile: "There are 500 people from the thousand Qianniu Guards that Gao Xiangsheng promised. Guess what I want Li Han to do?"
Shi Zhuang frowned slightly, looked at Li Han's figure and said in disbelief: "Young Master, is there Mo Dao Shu in these five hundred people?"
"One Hundred Mo Dao Hands!" Li Ze raised a finger and shook it in front of Shi Zhuang.
Shi Zhuang laughed: "Gao Xiangsheng is such a big deal. Young Master, if Li Han can pull these hundred Mo Dao Hands over, it will lay the foundation for Young Master to form a real Mo Dao Hand army in the future. If Young Master can have thousands of Mo Dao Hands, where can't the world go?"
"Thousands of Mo Dao Hands?" Li Ze widened his eyes, "Then do you think, when will I build such an army?"
Shi Zhuang suddenly realized and laughed.
Chapter completed!