"Sorry, I'm going to catch the moon in the sea, touching the three families!" Li Ze smiled and placed the card in his hand in front of his card. Zhang Zhongwen on the opposite side looked a little bitter and handed the last chip in front of him to Li Ze.

"How could you share so many cards?" Zhang Zhongwen was a little suspicious when he looked at the long row of cards in front of Li Ze.

"Are you suspicious of me? " Li Ze smiled and put all the cards on the table. Zhang Zhongwen looked at it for a while, sighed, and fell down the cards in front of him.

The cards he listened to in front of him were all very good, but unfortunately, the cards he wanted to get were locked tightly by Gao Lei from the previous family and Wang Duo from the next family. Even though these two people heard of the dead cards, they still made Zhang Zhongwen lose nothing and became a big card by himself.

"No more playing, no more playing." Zhang Zhongwen pushed the card in front of him into the middle of the card table, shook his head and sighed. "If I continue playing, I will lose nothing."

Li Ze laughed and stood up.

Seeing this, Gao Lei and Wang Duo also stood up with a smile. Gao Lei said, "Brother Zhang is no longer interested. You might as well go and talk to Li Xiang about the important matters, but we are in the game, so why not ask the Prince of the County and Shangshu Xia to make a fight!"

"No, no, no, please ask Mr. Gongsun to come and make a corner. I dare not play cards with Shangshu Xia again. I lost badly last time." Wang Duo waved his hands repeatedly and said, "You must not play with people who are good at numbers. Shangshu Xia is the one among them. You Gao Lei has a lot of money, but I am a small family."

Gongsun Changming stood up with a smile: "Since that's the case, I will play with you a few games. Is the prince interested?"

"After watching for a while, my hands were itchy." Li Anguo was ready to rub his hands, "Today, Brother Gao must not leave his armor."

Mahjong was specially made for people like Li Ze who lived in idle sons Li Anguo, Wang Duo, Gao Lei, and others. For this reason, Li Ze also took a break from his busy schedule and wrote a booklet that recorded various ways of playing. Since this thing came out, several old comrades were happy. Originally, Li Ze just asked the craftsmen to make a wooden mahjong plaque for them, but after Gao Lei became obsessed with this thing, he actually spent a lot of money to let the craftsmen carefully polish two pairs of ivory mahjong for him. One of them was presented to Li Ze.

After Zhang Zhongwen arrived in Wuyi, he did not meet Li Ze immediately. Wang Duo, Gao Lei, Li Anguo received him enthusiastically. While drinking and having fun every day, he also taught Zhang Zhongwen to play mahjong.

The four of them started fighting again, but Li Ze and Zhang Zhongwen changed into a quiet room. The room was covered with fire dragons and thick carpets on the ground. A short table was placed in the center of the house. Xia He knelt on one side and started making tea for the two of them.

"I heard from the prince that Li Xiang played this mahjong out of filial piety, and he rarely played it. Zhang originally thought he could win a little money against Li Xiang, but he didn't expect Li Xiang's mahjong to be so good!" Zhang Zhongwen held the teacup and nodded first to express his gratitude to Xia He, then turned to Li Ze and said.

Li Ze smiled and said, "Governor Zhang forgot that the rules of mahjong were originally made by me. Governor Zhang learned very quickly. Before I came, I saw Gao Lei and the others losing so much that their faces turned blue."

"In the end, I lost to Lee Sang?"

Li Ze played a haha: "Today we play bloody. It is good for governor Zhang to be a big card, but he also has to judge the situation. Otherwise, he can't get a card by himself. What's the use? Even if I only do little tricks, as long as I keep connecting cards, I will accumulate small victory into big victory. Governor Zhang, there is a characteristic of governor Zhang, that is, he doesn't look at who gets better early, who gets more, and he has to play the last card. Each deck of cards can get countless cards, so, it's hard for anyone to tell the winner until the last card!"

Zhang Zhongwen was silent for a while and bowed, "I've been taught."

Li Ze smiled and picked up the teacup, tasted it a few times, and said, "Your life is not going to be a good time this year, right?"

"How can we live a good life?" Zhang Zhongwen shook his head and said, "In fact, it has never been a good life. This year is very successful. Deng Jingwen was defeated in Pingzhou some time ago, and we have prepared the worst. However, Li Xiang always makes unexpected moves and wants to negotiate peace at this time. This surprised us and was full of doubts. I wonder what Li Xiang is trying to make? To be honest, over the years, we have suffered too much loss and are afraid of it."

"This time, I really have no other ideas!" Li Ze coughed lightly and said, "I have always been a person who has no profit to get up early. Governor Zhang, to say something unpleasant, you really have no threat to me now. After Deng Jingshan was defeated by me, you have no strength to pose a threat to me. Since you can't threaten me, why am I still holding you back? Where are you? I'm losing money when fighting with you!"

Zhang Zhongwen's face turned red and he took a few breaths of heavy breaths, but he finally forced himself to suppress it again.

"The northeast is vast and rich in resources. Li Xiang has never been to where he has been. Maybe he is not sure, right?" Zhang Zhongwen said.

"I believe that the land is huge and the things are vast, but now it is a barren place. What's the use of me fighting hard?" Li Ze spread his hands: "I don't have that population to move wherever I have moved. Besides, there are now ethnic compositions, savages and miscellaneous people everywhere. After fighting, it's even more difficult to manage. Since there is a hard place for Marshal Zhang to fight bandits and build hard, I might as well wait for some years and wait for some atmosphere before making plans?" Li Ze said seriously.

Zhang Zhongwen looked at Li Ze opposite him with a strange expression, and after a while, he said: "This is the first time I have seen someone who can speak such shameless words in such a righteous manner."

Li Ze smiled and said, "I have always been thick-skinned, and I really think so. In fact, this is the same. If you build the place well and have a strong power, you will destroy me and steal my territory. I will be convinced of my achievements."

"Are you so confident that you can defeat us?" Zhang Zhongwen sighed: "As long as we are given time to develop, it is unknown who will kill us in the future?"

"Let's just ride a donkey and read the songbook, let's take a look!" Li Ze said: "My self-confidence has always been extremely strong. When you are the strongest, I will naturally not be afraid of you biting me back in the future. Now you are already quite far behind in the ranking of my enemies."

Zhang Zhongwen was so angry that he couldn't speak this time.

Li Ze changed his subject and continued: "Actually, from another perspective, I still admire you brothers. No matter what, you were once a hero of the Tang Dynasty. After more than ten years of hard fighting on the border, they defeated the Khitans. I admit this credit. Now you are working hard to manage the Northeast. If you can assimilate them in a few years, let them recognize the culture of our Tang Dynasty and make them become Tang people, maybe at that time, we don't need to fight and use some other means to resolve the differences between us!"

Zhang Zhongwen stared at Li Ze in a daze.

"From another aspect, you are also expanding territory for the Tang Dynasty. This is why I am willing to let you go for the time being, reach a reconciliation with you, and be willing to give you some support." Li Ze said seriously.

"We are not fighting the Tang flag now!" Zhang Zhongwen said.

"But you speak Tang language and write Tang literature." Li Ze smiled and said, "Your living habits and customs are still from the Tang people. Wherever you are, you will pass on these unconsciously, which will infect the miscellaneous people there, the savages there, and force them to become your obedient people. Perhaps after one or two generations, they will forget their original origins and think they are also Tang people. This is a merit. Although they do not raise the Tang flag, they are still doing what the Tang people should do, right, Governor Zhang?"

"I really didn't expect that Li Xiang was actually considering the problem from this perspective." Zhang Zhongwen took a deep breath: "You stand higher than us, Zhang is ashamed."

Li Ze said: "Gu Han told me, you are in Yingzhou, and Liaozhou is imitating our strategies in all aspects and trying to naturalize the saints and savages. A few years ago, General Zhang just ordered the abolition of slavery and divided the fields for these people. He even opened a general school in these places to teach Tang Wen and Tang Dian?"

"Okay, we naturally want to learn it!" Zhang Zhongwen said in a daze: "Yingzhou, Liaozhou and other places are not as many wealthy families as the Central Plains. The only ones have been defeated by us. They have eaten up and no more wealthy families are available for us to plunder. We have more land, but we lack people who can farm."

"So you have started to naturalize these people!" Li Ze said: "The system of the government troops has also regained its vitality, which in my opinion are excellent strategies. I believe that in a few years, these places will truly regain their vitality."

"But we lack everything now!" Zhang Zhongwen said seriously: "This is also the reason why I have to come to Wuyi. Li Xiang, since he has reached this point, I want to know, what help can you give us?"

"What do you want?"

"We want everything!" Zhang Zhongwen said: "Farm tools, cloth, daily necessities, and even weapons!"

"weapon?"

"Not bad." Zhang Zhongwen said: "Li Xiang, where are we, we are still fighting and conquering. We want to use the least force to achieve the greatest results and save more manpower and material resources to develop people's livelihood. So we need better weapons and better farm tools. Can Li Xiang satisfy us?"
Chapter completed!