At night.
The clouds are gathering.
In the west courtyard of Li Garden, outside the room, Li Junsheng stood quietly, looking towards the sky, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart.
Finally, I came back.
"Why did Miss Taotao arrange for the second master to stay in the west courtyard?"
In Li Garden, many servants saw the second master in the west courtyard and whispered, "Isn't that a place for entertaining guests?"
"There is nothing we can do about it. The young master has not come back yet, and Miss Taotao has to give face to the princess. Letting the second master come back and stay in the west courtyard temporarily is the best choice."
An older woman sighed softly and said with emotion, "You have only been in the Li family for a short time. You can't understand how big a blow it was to the Li family when the second master left. I love you deeply and blame you deeply. Before the young master, It’s not without reason that I got so angry recently.”
Even if the second master could come back a few years earlier, maybe the result would be different.
Nowadays, the Li family has been ennobled and successful, and the second master is back. It's hard not to think too much about it.
If the second master has no purpose, let alone the young master, they don't believe it, even her, a servant, doesn't believe it.
For more than ten years, everyone in the Li family has worked hard to make the family better. The young master and the eldest daughter have worked hard to elevate the Li family from an ordinary merchant family to a behemoth that can now compete with the royal family. , the hardships involved cannot be understood by those who have not experienced the hardships of these ten years.
The young master is disabled and his hair has turned white, but no one will have the slightest disrespect or contempt for the young master.
The second master is different.
"Young Master."
At this moment, a man in ordinary clothes was waiting outside the city of Great Shang Capital. After seeing the three young masters coming back, he quickly stepped forward and saluted respectfully, "The second master is back."
"I know, let's do the work." Li Ziye said calmly.
"yes."
The man took the order and immediately turned around and left.
"Brother Li, won't the royal family be suspicious of the second uncle's return to the Li family?" Bai Wangyu asked with concern.
"I was just afraid that they would be suspicious, so from beginning to end, the Li family just passively accepted this matter."
Li Ziye replied calmly, "It was the eldest princess who promoted Li Junsheng's return. She put in so much effort in the process. Who do you think she would suspect? Do you think she is a traitor to the royal family and an insider of the Li family?"
"Where is the second uncle? Will the royal family trust him?" Bai Wangyu continued to ask.
"of course not."
Li Ziye said calmly, "However, it is a fact that Li Junsheng has been away from the Li family for ten years, and the knot in the hearts of the Li family is also a fact. It is enough for the royal family to be sure that the Li family and Li Junsheng have discord. As for whether Li Junsheng can be trusted, regardless of Li It doesn't matter whether it's family or the royal family. Everyone is now competing around him, and the word trust is too far away."
"I don't quite understand." Bai Wangyu said with a complicated expression.
"No need to understand."
A smile appeared on Li Ziye's face and he responded, "When you sit in the position of a Confucian leader, you will naturally understand that there are many things in his position that must be experienced personally to slowly understand them."
"Brother Li, there is one thing I have never asked you."
Bai Wangyu stared in the direction of the capital and asked, "Do you think the contemporary Shang Emperor is a qualified emperor?"
"no."
Li Ziye said calmly, "This is what I said before. Just judge by the results. If you look at what Emperor Shang did, he is no different from the previous emperors. He did what an emperor should do. But , Judging from the results, wars are raging in the Great Shang today, and the people are in dire straits. As the emperor of the Great Shang, this responsibility is his."
At this point, Li Ziye paused and continued, "To put it simply, over the millennia, the Great Shang Dynasty has been rotten to the core. The classes have solidified and officials have become corrupt. However, the Shang Emperor has no intention of changing these at all, but continues to rely on the nobles. , eliminate dissidents, and stabilize the class interests of the imperial power. I admit that the Eight Tribes of Mobei are indeed very strong, but they are not as strong as they seem now. The failure of Dashang lies in its own internal corruption. If this does not change , the collapse of Dashang is already foreseeable.”
"Brother Li, do you think the Fourth Highness is okay?" Bai Wangyu asked.
"Mu Bai has no idea of valuing the king over the people."
Li Ziye responded, "So, I want to push him up and give it a try."
"Brother Li is not sure either?" Bai Wangyu asked in surprise.
"No one can be sure about this kind of thing."
Li Ziye sighed softly, "If you remove the carrion, you will definitely break your muscles and bones. You will encounter a strong counterattack by the nobles and vested interests. If you can hold it back, the big businessman will be reborn. If you can't hold it back, the big businessman will be doomed."
Bai Wangyu fell silent after hearing this. After a moment, he asked with some uncertainty, "Is Brother Li doing an experiment? Take the whole Dashang?"
"You can think so."
Li Ziye did not hide anything and said in a firm tone, "I am different from Confucian leader. Confucian leader is a saint, kind and philanthropic, but I am just an ordinary person who came from a businessman. In the same situation, Confucian leader may choose to educate the world, but I would choose to use Chongdian in troubled times. In my opinion, the carrion should be cut out directly instead of waiting for it to get better again."
In fact, he, the Confucian leader, and Tai Shang all had different ideas. There was never an accurate answer to how the era should move forward.
As the two of them talked, they were getting closer and closer to the capital city of Dashang.
When the east lit up, the three of them entered the capital together, and then each returned to their homes.
In the front yard of Li Garden, when Li Ziye came back, Taotao was already there to greet her. At the same time, she immediately sent someone to the palace to deliver a message to invite the Ninth Princess.
"Young Master, the Second Master is back."
In front of the main hall, Taotao reported truthfully, "It's in the west courtyard."
"Um."
Li Ziye responded without saying anything else, turned the machine chair and rushed towards the west courtyard.
Not long after, in the west courtyard, the uncle and nephew met again.
There was no tense situation as imagined, nor was there any so-called meeting and a smile on one's face, only a deathly silence.
Outside the west courtyard, many servants who happened to pass by could feel the terrible depression in the west courtyard, which made people shudder.
There was no need to say more, it was useless to say more. On the machine chair, Li Ziye raised his hand. Spiritual energy surged rapidly between heaven and earth and gathered into shape. Then, a strong wind blew and the sand turned into waves.
Ten steps away, Li Junsheng stood there quietly, motionless, with no intention of resisting.
After a few breaths, Li Ziye waved away the aura of heaven and earth on his palms, turned around on the machine chair, and left the west courtyard.
From beginning to end, neither uncle nor nephew said a word.
"Take good care of the second master. If you ask for anything, I will answer it!"
When leaving the west courtyard, Li Ziye glanced at the servants outside, said something indifferent, and left without looking back.
