This is a tree that may have been dead for a long time. With Cao Lie's profound knowledge, he cannot recognize what the trees in the north are called.

Especially in Yanzhou, there are many species of cold pine alone, but he looks almost the same.

There was also the forest I saw before entering the city. He asked if it was a poplar tree, and the answer he got said it was a white birch.

I always feel that the species in the north are much worse than those in the south. Take trees for example. The species of trees in the south seem to be far more than this cold and bitter place.

But it just seems that things that look similar are the most difficult to distinguish.

For example... Mei Wujiu and Lu Wuman.

Cao Lie had been standing next to the dead tree in the yard for a while, looking up at the sky, as if he was in a daze.

After Mu Fengliu entered the door, he took a few steps and leaned over and bowed: "Greetings to the young master."

Cao Lie just said a huh, and then asked, "Have Mei Wujiu been fooled?"

Mu Fengliu shook his head: "He made me think he was fooled, but I could see that he was still testing me. And if I really contacted him with the people from Shanheyin, he probably thought about how to follow the clues."

Cao Lie smiled and said, "How could a person like him easily regret it once he makes a choice..."

He took his eyes back from the sky and pointed to the dead tree: "What is this dead tree called?"

"Not dead."

Mu Fengliu replied: "That's wintersweet. Normally, it will bloom in another month or two, and leaves will not grow before blooming."

Cao Lie smiled and said, "Even trees can pretend to be dead."

He rubbed his hands and turned around and walked into the room: "We didn't plan to expect Mei Wujiu to be fooled, to be precise, we didn't expect him to be fooled."

Mu Fengliu smiled and said, "So he will definitely come to another one."

Cao Lie entered the room and sat down. The servant had already arranged the brewed tea and chessboard, and seemed to have calculated the time for Mu Fengliu to come back.

The two sat opposite each other, Cao Lie grabbed the two wooden signs in the box and signaled to Mu Fengliu.

Mu Fengliu pointed to one of them, and Cao Lie opened his hand. It was a long tag and the other was a short one.

Cao Lie made a gesture of invitation: "Sir, hold the black man."

Mu Fengliu said: "Let me, the young master please first."

Cao Lie smiled: "Sir, still so confident."

Mu Fengliu said: "The main reason is that I am old. When I get older, I become cunning. The older the cunning, the more I like to take action."

Cao Lie was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "I know a young man who is about the same age as me. Others think he is a rookie, but he likes to take action and uses it better than anyone else."

Mu Fengliu smiled and said, "Young Master is talking about Li Chi?"

Cao Lie nodded: "Who else can he be, have you seen anyone who can use the post-test so skillfully and extremely effective."

Mu Fengliu said: "People who like to take the lead are generally difficult to deal with. Such people have at least two great advantages. One is to be calm and the other is to have a good overall view."

Cao Lie smiled and said, "Sir, I don't hide my boastfulness."

Mu Fengliu laughed loudly. He waited for Cao Lie to make a move before following him, and then continued, "I will give Mei Wujiu advice. If nothing unexpected happens, Lu Wuman should rush back to Xijing as soon as possible."

Cao Lie nodded, looked at the chessboard, and then he fell two pieces as if he was thinking.

"Sir, who will win the two of them?"

Mu Fengliu replied: "Neither of them will win, the young master is the winner."

Cao Lie sighed: "People who like to take action may have an innate advantage. Mr. Forgot to say it just now."

Mu Fengliu asked: "What is the young master referring to?"

Cao Lie smiled and said, "I am naturally thick-skinned and even flattering is more natural than others."

Mu Fengliu said: "The young master is not right. Those who are trying to take action may be thicker in their faces. I have accumulated a lot of accumulation in the day, but it is not innate. That person is really shameless."

That person...

Cao Lie couldn't help laughing. Although Li Chi destroyed most of his property and his status, the most important thing is that his father might have been killed.

But I have to admit that Cao Lie really admires Li Chi a little.

He always felt that that guy really gathered the traits that all successful people should have. In the eyes of others, these traits may be bad, such as lack of intention or lack of ruthless means. If you are a hero, these two shortcomings will basically be impossible to be a hero.

However, Li Chi is like this, at least it seems.

Cao Lie fell another chess piece and asked, "This Yanzhou is so bitter and cold, sir, do you think it can really be successful?"

Mu Feng said: "Young Master, it's not that I think Yanzhou can succeed, but that there are not many places left for the Young Master."

Cao Lie was stunned for a moment, then laughed again: "Sir, speaking really... It feels comfortable to flatter, and it makes people feel unhappy when they are acupuncture."

Mu Fengliu said: "Since ancient times, ministers who can't flatter or ministers who can only flatter are not good ministers."

He looked at Cao Lie and said seriously: "If a minister is not happy, he will only be able to confront the lord. This will test the relationship between the king and the minister. Therefore, you must learn the skill of flattery well. If you only learn this skill, you will probably be able to be a eunuch."

Cao Lie was amused by his words and laughed again, and then he fell into a piece of cake.

After a while, Cao Lie said, "I only hope that guy Li Chi will not have the idea of ​​attacking Yanzhou for the time being."

Mu Fengliu said: "He will definitely fight. Fortunately, his main energy is in the south now. He has no spare energy in Yanzhou yet. Otherwise, with Li Chi's step-by-step nature, how could he have a cold light behind him?"

Cao Lie nodded: "What Mr. said is... Mr. Seeing Li Chi so thoroughly, can he see what is Li Chi's biggest weakness?"

Mu Fengliu smiled and said, "Shameless people always have fewer weaknesses than others."

Cao Lie smiled again: "Sir, I really saw Li Chi thoroughly."

He looked at Mu Feng Liuzi, and this time he followed him quickly.

"Sir, how much time do we have at most?"

Mu Fengliu replied: "One year."

Cao Lie frowned slightly: "One year... seems to be a bit short."

Mu Fengliu said: "I may have said too much in a year. If it were just Li Chi, it would be fine. Another big change in this game is matched by Tang."

Cao Lie fell into deep thought, as if he had subconsciously lost a piece of it.

Tang Piddi seems to be a little different from Li Chi. Li Chi's origin and Li Chi's experience led to Li Chi being that person. If it weren't like that, it would be somewhat unreasonable to Cao Lie.

But Tang Pidian is really unreasonable, because Tang Pidian's origins and his experiences seem to be enough to make him become such an undefeated war god like today.

That is a person who cannot understand, and he cannot understand the leadership of his troops.

"Some people are indeed treated well by God."

Cao Lie slowly breathed and thought about it. If Tang Pidian was treated well by God, wouldn’t Li Chi be treated even more by God?

Because even a guy like Tang Piddh was willing to be a subordinate of Li Chi, isn't this even more difficult to understand?

So Cao Lie sighed again: "The people over there are unreasonable, and no one can speculate according to common sense."

Mu Fengliu said: "The young master has been watching Li Chi all the time. The first person to be sure that Li Chi will achieve great success in the future is the young master. So the young master actually understands in his heart that the most important thing is that Li Chi can emerge in this chess game that does not belong to him is that he does not follow the rules on the chessboard."

Cao Lie seemed to have woken up and nodded: "He is making the rules himself."

Mu Feng said: "The farmer said Li Chi was good, and he divided the land and grain, reduced taxes, and the merchant also said he was good... but he said he was bad, and he was the old noble. But when the farmer and the merchant lost awe of the nobles, then the nobles had nothing to care about..."

Cao Liedao: "There are already a source of troops and wealth."

Mu Fengliu nodded: "So no matter Mei Wujiu or Lu Wuman, it is impossible to be Li Chi's opponent. Yanzhou is one of the few places that the young master can use now. This time, it really cannot be lost."

He looked at Cao Lie, seemed to hesitate for a moment, and finally said: "The young master's current state of mind is a little problem."

Cao Lie looked at him: "What is the sir?"

Mu Fengliu said: "Have you not noticed that you are thinking more and more about Li Chi, and you are more and more willing to learn from him..."

He paused for a moment and shook his head slightly: "I believe that Li Chi will definitely not achieve great things in the future. The farmers and merchants he relies on are subordinates. If you use subordinates to fight against superiors, you can get a corner, but not a country."

He looked at Cao Lie and said, "So, the young master should understand that no matter in any aspect, the young master is stronger than Li Chi, so why bother comparing everything and everything."

Cao Lie fell silent, and after a long time he nodded: "What sir has taught me is that I will pay more attention in the future."

He made a move.

Mu Fengliu frowned slightly, as if she had discovered something: "Did the young master fall several more than me when he was talking?"

Cao Lie laughed and said, "It seems that I am still a little bad. I was noticed by my husband. He said that it is not good to learn from Li Chi in every way, but did he not notice that Li Chi likes to do this and make secret moves."

Mu Fengliu was stunned, and he thought about Cao Lie's words carefully.

Cao Lie smiled and said, "Also in a chessboard, others follow the rules, you and I follow the rules, but Li Chi will walk secretly and not let others notice that he makes more moves. When others take a step, he has taken several steps unaware. As the teacher said just now, Li Chi does not follow the rules, but the teacher is still careless... Mr. can say that this is a trick, shameless, and a rogue, but it is really useful..."

He pointed to the chessboard: "When Mr. focuses on one thing, no one can reach it, but what Li Chi can do is do several lines at the same time, and he is not able to reach it, sir... do you still think that Li Chi is not the biggest opponent?"

Cao Lie stood up, walked to the door, and looked at the tree that seemed to be dead.

“We shouldn’t have been that long as a year.”

He said to himself.

Then he looked back at Mu Fengliu and said, "Sir, it's wrong for Li Chi to only use farmers and merchants. Look at what he did in Yuzhou. On the surface, because he did my Cao family, most people in Yuzhou at the same time could not be used by him. But is it really not worth the loss for him to knock out the Cao family? No... He knocked out the largest one and reused the smaller ones..."

He took a breath and said, "Others thought he had picked up sesame seeds and lost the watermelon, and they joked about him short-sightedness... but they ignored it. He snatched the watermelon and did not let the sesame seeds go."

After a while, Cao Lie said in a heavy tone: "In half a year, you must take down Yanzhou."
Chapter completed!