Stunning beauty

into the night.

Overcast.

In the west courtyard of Li Garden, outside the room, Li Junsheng stood quietly, looking at the sky, feeling a little emotional in his heart.

Finally, it's back.

"Why did Miss Taotao arrange the second master in the west courtyard?"

In the Li Garden, many servants saw the second master in the west courtyard and whispered, "Isn't that a place to entertain guests?"

"It can't be helped, the young master hasn't come back yet, and Miss Taotao has no choice but to give the princess a face. It is the best choice for the second master to come back and live in the west courtyard temporarily."

An older woman sighed softly, and said with emotion, "You have only been here in the Li family for a short time, and you can't understand how much the second master's departure had dealt a blow to the Li family, and the deep love and responsibility, the young master. It’s not without reason that there is such a big fire in the near future.”

Even if Second Master could come back a few years earlier, maybe the result would be different.

Now that the Li family has been conferred with titles and achieved great success, it's hard for people not to think too much about the Second Master's return.

If it is said that the second master has no purpose, not to mention that the young master and the others don't believe it, even her servant doesn't believe it.

For more than ten years, everyone in the Li family has been working hard to make this family better. The young master and the eldest lady have worked hard to elevate the Li family from an ordinary family of merchants to a behemoth that can compete with the royal family today. , the hardships in it are understandable to those who have not experienced the hardships of the past ten years.

The young master is disabled and his hair has turned white, but no one will disrespect or despise the young master because of this.

The second master is different.

"Little boy."

At this moment, outside the city of Dashang Capital, a man in ordinary clothes was waiting outside the city. After seeing the three young masters coming back, he quickly stepped forward and saluted respectfully, "Second Master is back."

"Understood, let's do something." Li Ziye said calmly.

"Yes."

The man took the order, turned around and left immediately.

"Brother Li, won't the royal family be suspicious of Second Uncle returning to the Li family?" Bai Wangyu asked with concern.

"It's because they are afraid that they will be suspicious, so the Li family just passively accepted this matter from the beginning to the end."

Li Ziye replied calmly, "The return of Li Junsheng was made possible by the Eldest Princess. She put in so much effort in the middle, who do you think she will suspect, suspecting that she is a traitor to the royal family, the internal support of the Li family?"

"What about 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 the second uncle left the Li family for ten years, and the pimple in the Li family's heart is also a fact. It is enough for the royal family to believe that the Li family and Li Junsheng have a suspicion. It doesn't matter whether the Li family or the royal family, everyone is playing games around him now, the word trust is too far away."

"I don't really understand." Bai Wangyu said with a complicated expression.

"You don't need to understand."

A smile appeared on Li Ziye's face, and he replied, "When you sit in the position of the Confucian chief old man, you will naturally understand. In his position, there are many things that must be experienced in order to slowly understand."

"Brother Li, there is one thing that I have never asked you."

Bai Wangyu stared in the direction of the capital, and asked, "Do you think that the current emperor of Shang is a qualified emperor?"

"No."

Li Ziye said indifferently, "This is what I said before, judging from the results. If you look at the actions of Emperor Shang, he is no different from the previous emperors. He is doing what an emperor should do, but , As a result, in today's Dashang, wars are raging everywhere, and the people are living in dire straits. As the emperor of Dashang, this responsibility belongs to him."

Having said this, Li Ziye paused, and continued, "Simply speaking, over the past thousand years, the great merchants have been corrupted to the core, their classes have solidified, and their officials have been corrupted. However, the emperor of Shang has no intention of changing these at all, but continues to rely on the help of the nobles. , Eliminate dissidents, and stabilize the class interests of the imperial power. I admit that Mobei Babu is indeed very strong, but it is not as strong as it seems now. The failure of the big business lies in its own internal corruption. If this point does not change , the demise of the big business is already foreseeable."

"Brother Li thinks the Fourth Highness can?" Bai Wangyu asked.

"Mubai doesn't have the idea that the king is noble and the people are light."

Li Ziye responded, "So, I want to push him up and give it a try."

"Brother Li isn't sure either?" Bai Wangyu asked in surprise.

"No one dares to say that this kind of thing is sure."

Li Ziye sighed softly, "Gouging out the rotten flesh will definitely hurt your muscles and bones, and you will be strongly counterattacked by the nobles and vested interests. If you hold it back, the big businessman will be reborn. If you can't hold it back, the big businessman will never recover."

Bai Wangyu heard the words and fell silent. After a while, he asked with some uncertainty, "Brother Li, is he doing an experiment? Take the entire Dashang?"

"You may think so."

Li Ziye didn't hide anything, and said firmly, "I'm different from the Confucian chief. The Confucian chief is a sage, kind and fraternal, but I'm just an ordinary person who came from a businessman. In the same situation, the Confucian chief might choose to educate the world, but I will choose to use heavy codes in troubled times. In my opinion, rotten flesh should be plucked out directly, rather than waiting for it to get better again."

In fact, he, Confucian leaders, and Taishang have different ideas. There has never been an accurate answer on how to move forward with the times.

While the two were talking, they were getting closer and closer to the Great Commercial Capital City.

When the east was bright, the three of them entered the capital together, and then went back to their respective homes.

In the front yard of Li Yuan, when Li Ziye came back, Tao Tao had already greeted her in the front yard, and at the same time, immediately sent someone to the palace to deliver a letter to invite the Ninth Princess.

"Little son, the second master is back."

In front of the main hall, Taotao truthfully reported, "It's in the west courtyard."

"Ah."

Li Ziye responded without saying anything, turned the mechanism chair, and rushed towards the west courtyard.

Not long after, in the west courtyard, the two uncles and nephews met again.

There is no imaginary tension, and there is no so-called meet and smile, only the silence of death.

Outside the west courtyard, many servants who happened to pass by could feel the terrible oppression in the west courtyard, which made people shudder.

No more words, more words are useless, on the mechanism chair, Li Ziye raised his hand, and in the world, spiritual energy surged rapidly, gathering and forming, and then, a strong wind blew up, rolling the sand into waves.

Ten steps away, Li Junsheng stood there quietly, motionless, with no intention of resisting at all.

After a few breaths, Li Ziye waved away the aura of heaven and earth on his palm, turned around the mechanism chair, and left the west courtyard.

From the beginning to the end, neither uncle nor nephew said a word.

"Take good care of the second master, and answer any request!"

When leaving the west courtyard, Li Ziye glanced at the servants outside, said something indifferently, and then left without looking back.