Unlike Zhang Zhongwu, although Zhang Zhongwen is a little skilled in martial arts, he belongs to the circle of scholars. He cultivates children from wealthy families, and always divides the path of civil and military affairs. With Zhang Youchi, in peacetime, he is naturally civil officials, but in troubled times, he speaks with his fists. Compared to Zhang Zhongwu's generous and arrogant and domineering nature, Zhang Zhongwen seems much dull. In Lu Long, although Zhang Zhongwen is the elder brother, he is almost completely blocked by Zhang Zhongwu's huge figure. People in the world only know Zhang Zhongwu, but not Zhang Zhongwen.

But this does not mean that Zhang Zhongwen is an ordinary person. On the contrary, people like Gongsun Changming who are deeply familiar with Lu Long's background are definitely not inferior to Zhang Zhongwu.

In Lu Long, Zhang Zhongwu was responsible for expanding territory, and Zhang Zhongwen was responsible for taking care of the backyard and tightening the fence. Lu Long is now managed like an iron barrel and has become the back garden of Zhang. Not to mention that the court cannot penetrate it, it is even more difficult to get a glimpse of it. This can be done not only by force.

Although Zhang Zhongwen is a literati, the blood stained on his hands may not be less than Zhang Zhongwu.

In the words of Gongsun Changming's evaluation of Zhang Zhongwen, this person is this person, he is ruthless and doesn't talk much, and is a typical guy with kind face and a bad heart.

Of course, this is just the way Gongsun Changming evaluated Zhang Zhongwen's governance, and it was not an attack on this person's private morality. In fact, compared to Zhang Zhongwu's uncontrollable personal life, Zhang Zhongwen is a very principled person. In Gongsun Changming's view, personal morality is nothing criticized.

Both were literati, and during the honeymoon between Gongsun Changming and Lu Long, the two had a close relationship. In terms of friendship, they were far from comparable to Zhang Zhongwu. Zhang Zhongwu simply regarded Gongsun Changming as a leader, and Gongsun Changming at that time only regarded Zhang Zhongwu as a knife to harvest the Khitans, that's all.

But Zhang Zhongwen and Gongsun Changming could call him friends.

Of course, this friend spared no effort when he was chasing him in the end. Zhang Zhongwu didn't care about Gongsun Changming's escape. He didn't see a thin and dry old man, but Zhang Zhongwen was deeply aware of Gongsun Changming's destructiveness. After chasing him all the way, he finally took the opportunity to kill him.

This is also the last step for Zhang Zhongwen to clean up the court's forces in Lu Long.

After completing this step, Lu Long officially announced his breakup with the court.

Of course, during this meeting, neither of them mentioned this as a son. They each had their own masters and did their own things. This was not a personal grudge.

The two sat opposite each other and drank, only talking about the romantic relationship, only talking about the past, and only talking about the passionate past when they were dealing with the Khitans side by side. When they were happy, they laughed and raised their glasses to drink.

The attitude of the two getting along made Yuan Tan, the boss of Zhuxuan who was serving himself, confused. Of course, he knew the many grudges and hatreds between the two. He thought that this time the two would meet would definitely be swords and swords, and he might lose his manners after drinking a little, and even rolled up his sleeves and fucked one. For this reason, he also made sufficient psychological preparations and conceived many solutions in his mind.

But these two people were really like old friends I hadn't seen for many years. Until they both drank down, they didn't say a harsh word to each other.

Looking at one leaning on the chair, his big head resting on the back of the chair, his mouth was still drooling, and the other leaning on the table, his nose was soaked and shrunk. Yuan Tan shook his head and smiled bitterly, greeted people, and helped the two drunks to rest on the inner bed.

Zhuxuan's services are naturally first-class. They take a bath, change clothes and have a full set of flowing water. Two drunkards sleep with their feet and make a loud noise.

The lights in the Zhuxuan Xiangfei Pavilion were extinguished. There was only endless wind and snow, accompanied by the thunderous snoring of the two.

At this time, in Chengde Jiedu Mansion, Li Ze's small study room, he was staring at a person opposite him unhappily.

The guards of the Tang Dynasty were the officers and soldiers of Gao Xiangsheng.

This person was sandwiched in Wang Duo's team and appeared quietly in Chengde.

Wang Duo is worthy of being an experienced personnel cadre. He is very loud, speaks very beautifully, and has a bright future. But whenever Li Ze talks about the important points, he either changes the topic or is ambiguous. In short, it is almost impossible to take out a truth from his mouth.

Li Ze felt it was very hard because he wanted to play a young and ambitious young man in front of Wang Duo. He was strategic, but a little impulsive, scheming, but a little immature. Even he felt it was very difficult to grasp the importance of the situation.

Both of them were acting and observing each other, and they both wanted to get a glimpse of each other's background through these irrelevant conversations. This reminded Li Ze of a sketch he had seen in later generations, which were all old foxes for thousands of years, but they all had to pretend to be pure little luoli, which was a bit disgusting!

Wang Duo is a standard in this era. He can even be called an excellent senior official of the Tang Dynasty. Although he tried his best to hide himself, his occasionally inadvertent understanding of politics still made Li Ze quite impressed. Zuo Pushe was like this. I think that the ministers of the three provinces and the senior officials of the six ministries would not be much inferior. But how could such a group of capable and insightful contemporary elites make the Tang Dynasty look like this now?

It can only be said that the ice is three feet long, and it will not be cold for a day. If it is difficult to return, it can only break all the old bottles and jars and start over again, so that it can shape a brand new world.

Under the old order, it is obvious that today's problems can no longer be solved.

The breaking of the old order is precisely what their group of people least want to see, because in this way, they are the first one to lose their interests, so these people can only work hard to act as papermakers, repairing here, and replenishing there, and doing their best to extend the life of this regime that is falling into the abyss.

I think they are extremely distressed.

These people don't know the problem.

But knowing the problem is a more important problem. When they cannot choose the solution to the correct solution, no matter how clever their papering level is, they will eventually be ruined.

"Young Master looks very unhappy?" Gao Xiangsheng looked at Li Ze opposite him with a smile.

Li Ze looked at him sarcastically, "I overestimate you. I remember when you left, I said that when I took down Henghai, I would be the governor of Henghai. When I entered Chengde, Henghai and Chengde could be merged into a town, but now, this is not the case."

Gao Xiangsheng spread his hands: "Young Master, the governor of Henghai has given it to you, and General Qianniu Guard has given it to you too. Chengde is your father's commander. Is this the difference between giving it to you?"

"The difference is big, if the name is not right, the words will be unsatisfactory. In this way, you cooked all the good rice in my pot, and many things that were originally going to be done now cannot be developed. This is not a good thing for me and Datang!" Li Ze said coldly. "Isn't it okay to think I'm leaving you?"

Gao Xiang sighed: "Young Master, how can you merge such a big thing in the two towns? I did run hard, but the opposition was too loud. Chengde Henghai eight states with more than two million people. How could the imperial court not worry? They were also afraid that another Zhang Zhongwu would appear! Zhang Zhongwu has many bitter and cold lands under Zhang Zhongwu's command, but now Chengde Henghai is full of rich and rich lands, and it is closer to Chang'an. Once there is a change, who dares to take on this responsibility?"

"After talking, I still don't believe me!" Li Ze said angrily.

Gao Xiang smiled: "Honor, are you used to the exercises in front of Wang Duo? There is no need to pretend like this in front of me, right? You actually had a prediction in your heart. The court had been worried earlier. Now you have taken over Dingzhou, Yizhou, Yingzhou, and the court's concerns will only increase, not decrease!"

"So let Wang Duo come to test me and observe me?" Li Ze also laughed. Indeed, he didn't have to pretend in front of Gao Xiangsheng. The other party's understanding of him was not comparable to Wang Duo.

"This is just the first step, and it is also the most boring step." Gao Xiangsheng said: "Please ask the young master to go to Chang'an, the most important step."

"When I arrive in Chang'an, can they believe me?" Li Ze sneered, "I'm still worried that if I enter Chang'an, can I come back?"

"Chang'an has no courage to hold the young master!" Gao Xiangsheng shook his head and said, "Where does the imperial court mean that he wants to invite the young master's mother to live in Chang'an. By the way, your fiancée, Liu Ruyan."

Li Ze was furious: "Is this going to take my mother as a hostage? Liu Ruyan and I were just engaged and not married, so what does it have to do with her?"

"In essence, it means hostage." Gao Xiangsheng nodded and said, "The court is still discussing the issuance of an order to seize love, so that the young master only needs to accept the filial piety for thirty days. In this way, when you go to Beijing next year, you can bring Liu Ruyan to Beijing. The emperor will give you a marriage and take charge of the marriage. In this way, your mother and wife are all in Chang'an, and you will definitely have children in the future. In this way, the court will be relieved."

"In other words, only if I do this will the court agree to me merge with Henghai Chengde, right?" Li Ze laughed furiously: "What if I don't go? If I don't join, I will gather together; if I don't join, I will disperse. From now on, we will do our own things."

"If the young master does this, the court can also merge Yingzhou, Dingzhou and Yizhou into this new town." Gao Xiangsheng added. "Otherwise the court will definitely send people to Zhenwu. Although Zhenwu is actually in the hands of the young master, if this is done, it will inevitably make the young master passive, right? Prince, this is just a means of checking and balance by the court, and it is not malicious."

"Why didn't other governors send their families to Chang'an? Oh, there's one, that old guy Gao Pian!" Li Ze said viciously.
Chapter completed!