Cao Zhang is the kind of person who is circumspect and always fantasizes about how he can save the people, but reality often brings fatal blows to people like him again and again, because his ideas are not only not recognized by ordinary people, but also people like his father are also sniffed.

After being repeatedly hit, people like him became more persistent in searching for their ideal world in books and searching for the past paradise in old papers.

After hearing Cao Xin's introduction to his second son, Li Ze also had an idea. He thought about the Yixin Society, which is now under Yang Kai's leadership, and the Yixing Society is expanding vigorously. However, Li Ze did not have a completely accurate positioning of what kind of organization the Yixing Society should become, and he could only be considered as exploring while walking.

Because Li Ze only knew about such an organization in his previous life and did not have a deep understanding of it. After developing a general framework, he gave it to Yang Kai completely to let Yang Kai play it freely. In fact, Yang Kai did a good job. So far, Yixing Society has been completely expanded in Wuyi, Xindu, and Shiyi.

Yang Kai targeted his expansion target on ordinary people at the grassroots level. The set of relatively systematic things he made based on the general framework formulated by Li Ze just catered to the most sincere desires in the hearts of the people at the bottom, so they were very popular. After Cao Zhang joined, these theoretical things began to be improved further. Because Cao Zhang reads much better than Yang Kai, and Yang Kai always makes some new things, this nerd in the eyes of others can always find a lot of past examples from the pile of old books and find the roots for him.

This has completely put Yixingshe's theory on the same level.

If the previous theory of Yixing Society could only attract the lower class, then now they have begun to make many scholars interested in it.

Looking at the soulful son inside through the window, Cao Xin was filled with emotion. Is this still his familiar, somewhat dull and taciturn son? He was really wise to decide to send him to Li Ze. Or he would eventually gain a son who was late to achieve success.

"Stand up your mind for the heaven and earth, establish your destiny for the living, inherit your unique knowledge for the past sages, and bring peace to all ages!" Cao Xin gently recited the four sentences that Cao Zhang said inside that shocked him just now. He was also a scholar, and a scholar who passed the Jinshi. He was the top scholar in the world, but he had never been able to summarize such a capable language so incisively. "Young Master, this cannot be summed up by my son, probably by your hands? I heard Yang Kai say that most of the things in Yixing Society were made by you."

Li Ze laughed. These four sentences came from Zhang Hengqu, the Northern Song Dynasty, and were almost well-known in later generations. However, at this time, Zhang Hengqu was still unpredictable, so Li Ze used them without hesitation.

"I feel something when I read, so I wrote these words." He said to Cao Xin shamelessly.

"Young Master is really amazing." Cao Xin said sincerely.

"What's even more amazing is them, Yang Kai, Cao Zhang and others." Li Ze said: "I just made a shelf, and I didn't care about the others at all, and I didn't have much time to care about it. It's like I built a big house, but this house is not only empty inside, but also has no doors and windows. Yang Kai, Cao Zhang and others are working hard to decorate this house for me. If you want this house to look exquisite and live comfortably, the later work is even more difficult and more important!"

"Where can we get the next thing without this house?" Cao Xin smiled and said, "I have seen all the things in Yixing Society, but the young master, I don't understand it, and I want to ask the young master."

Li Ze pointed to a pavilion in the middle of a bamboo forest not far away and said, "Why don't we sit down and talk slowly, so as not to stand here to disturb them in class."

"Okay, please, my son." Cao Xin reached out to give in.

The two walked to the pavilion and sat down. The breeze was blowing, and Tian Bo personally brought a pot of iced sour plum soup. The weather in September was still very hot. Sitting in the breeze pavilion and drinking a glass of iced sour plum soup was naturally particularly comfortable.

"I saw a store selling ice in Wuyi. After asking, I found out that it was from the Gongzi family. Did the Gongzi family hide a lot of ice in the cellar last winter? Can it be sold out? More importantly, the price is very low. Isn't this a loss?"

Li Ze laughed: "Mr. Cao, this was not stored in the cellar last winter. In fact, our family never stored ice cubes in the winter. These are all made now and the cost is very low. If you sell it at this price, you have made too much money. I gave this to my mother as my mother's own money."

"Making ice?" Cao Xin widened his eyes.

"It's very simple, Tian Bo, let me give Cao Gong a secret recipe so that Cao Gong won't have to suffer the heat in the future." Li Ze turned around and told Tian Bo.

"Yes!" Tian Bo bowed.

"Thank you for this!" Cao Xin was not polite, but young master, I will keep this secret recipe properly after I take it back and will not be leaked. The ice cubes made are only for the family to use, and I will never dare to flow out one piece."

"The left and right are just asking my mother to pass the time and find some fun, and it doesn't matter if it flows out." Li Ze said with a smile: "What did Mr. Cao ask me before?"

"Yixing Society." Cao Xin said: "I understand that the young master uses Yixing Society to control the local area, and it has achieved results now, but now it seems that the young master is not satisfied with this, otherwise he would not have let Cao Zhang and Yang Kaifei do these things with such great energy!"

Li Ze nodded: "Duke Cao, I originally created Yixing Society, as you said, to control the place. For hundreds of years, the Tang Dynasty has continued the most basic strategy of all dynasties, which is to use clan families to control the place. As a result, the local power is getting bigger and bigger and it is no longer controlled. With the collapse of the current situation, a peasant uprising made the central court of the Tang Dynasty useless. In this peasant uprising, the court army collapsed, and finally suppressed the peasant uprising that swept across the country, but the local wealthy families, which formed the current system of Jiedushi."

"Don't forget, you are one of them too." Cao Xin said with a smile.

Li Ze also laughed. His son Li Anguo was a general of the Wang family, a local hero in Zhenzhou in the past. He was able to get to the present day by stealing the foundation of the Wang family. Speaking of which, the Li family is also a member of the wealthy family.

"What Cao Gong said is right. If it is limited to the present, it is naturally unnecessary. But if you want to look at the world and want to recreate the might of the Tang Dynasty, the situation where such clan forces control localities must be changed." Li Ze said: "So, my final task of Yixing Society will gradually become clear."

Cao Xin was in a little heavy mood.

He himself is a wealthy family in Yizhou. Of course, he knows how powerful the wealthy family is. After Li Ze chose this path, he has no idea how many difficulties and obstacles there will be.

"Is there any other meaning in Yixing Society's current actions besides controlling the place?" Cao Xin put aside this heavy thought and continued to ask.

"Of course, it's even more important than controlling the place now." Li Ze emphasized his tone: "Because I want my subordinates, my army, and my people to become a group of people of faith."

"Faith?" Cao Xin was surprised.

"Mr. Cao, do you have faith? Or did you have faith when you fought with your father?" Li Ze asked.

Cao Xin shook his head: "At that time, what we wanted was to settle down, what we wanted was to continuation of the clan, what we wanted was to glory and wealth, and what we wanted to extend our descendants."

"So after you win and win Chengde, you no longer have the ambition." Li Ze nodded and said: "Stopping troops and raising the people, managing the local area, and thinking about preserving Chengde, a certain three-point land."

“That’s exactly that.”

"But in the end, it's still difficult to save it." Li Ze said lightly: "This time, if Gao Pian had not restrained Lu Long's main army, could Cheng De block Lu Long's military front?"

"I can't stop it." Cao Xin told the truth.

"Boat against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat." Li Ze said: "The current situation is more difficult than what you experienced more than ten years ago. If you want to be self-satisfied, you will perish yourself! Moreover, I am different from the previous me. At the beginning, I just wanted to be a small rural landlord with little wealth and background, but since I have reached this point today, I will naturally put my position higher and look farther."

"Retrieve the scene of the prosperous Tang Dynasty?" Cao Xin asked.

Li Ze nodded and said, "Yes, if I want to achieve this goal, what I need is an army with faith, more subordinates with faith, and people with faith can be rich and noble without lust, poor and humble without being moved, powerful and unyielding, and indomitable in order to realize their ideals and achieve their own beliefs. Even though I go through fire and water, I strive forward bravely, and die without changing their ambitions."

Li Ze's voice gradually became high, and Cao Xin and Tian Bo's expressions gradually became solemn.

"This road is very difficult, and there are only not many people walking with you." Cao Xin whispered.

"Don't you have it now?" Li Ze smiled and pointed at the house in the distance, and Cao Zhang's voice was still vaguely heard. "The big waves wash away the sand, and gold will eventually be revealed. In the future, people with such difficult faith will walk with me, and others will be eliminated."

"Stand up your mind for heaven and earth, establish your life for living beings, inherit your unique knowledge for the past sages, and bring peace to all ages!" Cao Xin recited gently, "It seems that I need to pay close attention to the faith that the young master said, because I want to walk with the young master all the way."
Chapter completed!