There is a tiger in your heart

The day after returning to Taiyuan, Li Ke first arranged Li Yan's errand, which was to send him to the Wolf Cavalry Camp and let Su Dingfang teach him personally. Then it was about Chai Zhewei, Li Zong and Yuchi Jun. Because Li Ke wanted them to form an expeditionary force for invasion and opium trafficking, Li Yan did not want Li Yan to arrange the arrangements for the three of them as openly and cautious. At the same time, he had two requirements for the training of this army, that is, cruel and bloodthirsty. After he arranged these things one by one, he had a moment of friendship with Changsun Bingning in the study and found that it had come to the time to make an appointment with Li Yan to attend the banquet at his mansion. Li Ke was about to invite Di Zhixun, and found that Di Zhixun had arrived at the governor's office, and then the two came out of the governor and came to the Li mansion.

Li Yan made an appointment with Li Ke to go to his mansion to have a banquet in the evening, so he naturally sent someone to wait for news from Li Ke at the door. When the frames of Li Ke and Di Zhixun were parked at the door of Li Mansion, Li Yan had already walked quickly to meet Li Ke who had just walked off the frame. His attitude towards Li Ke seemed extremely respectful, which made Li Ke a little uncomfortable for a moment.

Li Ke walked into the Li Mansion with Li Yan and Di Zhixun. When he came to the living room, he was suddenly shocked, because in addition to Yuan Deqian and Yu Kailun, there were two middle-aged men in the living room, except for Yuan Deqian and Yu Kailun, who were wearing gorgeous clothes and short beards on their faces, giving people a refreshing feeling. Yuan Deqian and Yu Kailun hurriedly bowed to Li Ke, while the two in gorgeous clothes were a little arrogant, and just bowed slightly and were already a tribute. How could Li Ke not understand this official rules? The other party wanted to give himself a warning, so he bowed slightly to the four people in the hall. Li Yan, who was following Li Ke, calmly asked Li Ke and Di Zhixun to sit down at this time, to resolve the embarrassment of meeting everyone. Everyone sat down with the guests. Li Ke asked, "I don't know what my cousin wanted to find me?"

Li Ke's straightforward words were obviously beyond Li Yan's expectations. Li Yan didn't know how to answer, so he could only introduce Li Ke to the more arrogant two people opposite Li Ke. Through Li Yan's introduction, Li Ke finally understood the two very arrogant guys opposite. It turned out that they were the patriarchs of the Guanlong Yu family and the Yuan family. No wonder they were so arrogant and did not take Li Ke seriously.

Li Ke was not interested in both of them, and they were not interested in Li Ke, and the atmosphere suddenly came to a deadlock.

"Your Highness, today I invite you to the mansion just to gather and chat, and there is no other intention." Li Yan said to relieve the situation when he saw the atmosphere became stiff.

But now Li Ke is in power and has already had the idea of ​​taking action against the Taiyuan family. He doesn't buy Li Yan's account at all. He said with a serious expression, "Cousin, if there is no serious matter, I will say goodbye first. I just arrived in Taiyuan yesterday, and I have accumulated a lot of military affairs and I will deal with it." Li Ke had already stood up while he was speaking, and turned around and wanted to leave. But Li Yan took the initiative to invite Li Ke naturally had his purpose, so how could he let Li Ke leave like this? I hurriedly thought about the Yuan family and the head of the Yu family opposite. The two naturally understood what Li Yan meant, so they had to get up and talk, "Your Highness, Han King, please stay!"

Li Ke stopped and turned around and found that he was the head of the Yuan family introduced by Li Yan just now. He asked in a bad tone, "I wonder what advice the head of the Yuan family can give?"

At this moment, the head of the Yu family also stood up and politely said to Li Ke, "Just just now, my brothers offended His Highness the King of Han, please forgive me!"

"Ha!" Li Ke sneered, "Is it the king invited by the two heads of the family tonight?"

"Your Highness, it is our three families' idea to invite you," Li Yan interrupted when he saw that Li Ke was not kind to the head of the family and Yuan family, "Your Highness will sit down and we will talk in detail after dinner."

Li Ke stopped when he saw the good news and sat down. However, after the awkward atmosphere just now, the dinner seemed lifeless, which was beyond Li Yan's expectations.

After dinner, Li Yan invited everyone to his study room, and the maid brought tea. After closing the door and leaving, Li Ke saw the head of the Yu family and the Yuan family suddenly apologized to Li Ke, "I just asked you to forgive me for my disrespect for Your Highness, but I was forced to do this show."

"Please ask for it, two heads! Are you?..." Li Ke was also stunned by the actions of the Yu family and the Yuan family. He couldn't help but look at Li Yan on the side, hoping that he could explain it to him.

Li Yan took the opportunity to explain to Li Ke, "Your Highness, you don't know. Taiyuan is no longer the world of our three families. Since you left, someone has come to Chang'an to win us over for their use. However, our three families have too deep foundation in Taiyuan and do not want to have too many floods. However, the Yuwen and Dugu families, whose power is basically no longer in Taiyuan, have frequently contacted the people, as if they have reached some consensus. Later, after many inquiries, we learned about the content of their agreement, that is, Yuwen and Dugu have all their family strength to support him, and he fully supports Yuwen and Dugu families to regain the throne of the aristocratic family."

When Li Ke heard this, he understood the purpose of Li Yan and the three other families looking for him. They wanted to make themselves their support and consolidate their power in Taiyuan. From this, Li Ke could foresee that the so-called Chang'an visitors are not small, otherwise, with the great families like Li Yan, Yuan family and Yu family, they would not use the strategy of finding support to stabilize their position. At the same time, Li Ke still heard another problem he did not explain from Li Yan's words, that is, the content of the agreement not only had the purpose of allowing the two families to firmly hold the throne of the aristocratic family, but also the two might have the requirement to develop their power to Taiyuan, which would alarm Li Yan, Yu family and the head of the Yuan family to come to him without hesitation.

Li Ke did not speak and signaled Li Yan to continue.

Li Yan continued, "The relationship between our three families and Yuwen and Dugu families has reached a very delicate point. Since we can send someone to find out the content of their agreement, they may have had an undercover agent in our mansion. Therefore, the head of Yu and the head of Yuan in the living room just now were disrespectful to His Highness, just to confuse the East, just in case."

Li Ke heard Li Yan say this, but he didn't mention who the Chang'an guest represented. He was the representative of the force sent by that force. It can be seen that he wanted to use this as a bargaining chip for negotiations with him. So Li Ke was not in a hurry and continued to signal Li Yan to continue to say.

Li Yan seemed to understand what Li Ke meant, and coughed twice and continued, "The reason for finding the palace tonight is just to hear your highness's opinions and suggestions. After all, you are the Grand Governor of Bingzhou, and you are also valued by the emperor and are entrusted with important tasks. You command the power of the two dozen states' military power. You may have a much deeper understanding than those of us who have lived in Taiyuan for a long time."

"Yes, our purpose today is to hear what we think about this matter!" The head of the Yuan family also echoed.

Want to hear his opinions and suggestions, Li Ke sneered in his heart. Although Li Yan said that, he obviously wanted to recruit them. They were trying to save face and suffered, but they couldn't help but take the initiative to surrender to him. But Li Ke also sympathized with Li Yan, Yu family and the head of the Yuan family. He wanted to get close to the three families at the time, but the three families regarded themselves as noble and did not take themselves seriously. Today, when they encountered such a thing, they were really embarrassed to speak up.

"Since my cousin and the two heads of the family want to listen to my opinions and suggestions, I will not refuse. If there is any inappropriate point in the statement, I hope my cousin and the two heads of the family will forgive me." Li Ke did not want to pretend to be noble and missed this opportunity, so he spoke.

"I dare not! I dare not!" Li Yan said.

"Please speak frankly!" said the head of the Yuan family.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Li Ke stopped refusing, so he expressed his thoughts and plans in his heart. When Li Ke expressed his opinions and ideas, everyone did not come back to his senses. It was not until the people in the study had digested what Li Ke said and then took a breath. They never expected that Li Ke had planned such a huge plan. However, hearing that Li Ke's plan meant to invite his family to join, and the family gained a lot of benefits later. Li Yan, the head of the Yu family and the head of the Yuan family communicated briefly with their eyes and immediately agreed to Li Ke's invitation.

Li Yan, the head of the Yu family and the Yuan family agreed to Li Ke's invitation, but Li Ke did not continue to introduce the detailed process and implementation details of his plan to them, but told the three of them that the plan was specifically responsible for Di Zhixun, and introduced Di Zhixun around him to the heads of the Yu family and Yuan family. Li Yan and Di Zhixun were working together in the governor's mansion, of course there was no need to introduce it. The head of the Yu family and the Yuan family saw that Di Zhixun was so heavy and such a huge plan in Li Ke's heart.

Li Ke gave it to his confidant, and the heads of the two families couldn't help but look at Di Zhixun a few times. Li Ke introduced Di Zhixun to the Yuan family and the Yu family. He went to the side to have tea and chat with Yuan Deqian and Yu Kailun, leaving the opportunity for negotiation to Di Zhixun, Li Yan, Yu family and the four Yuan family members, Li Yan, Yuan family and Yu family members, and then talked with Di Zhixun a lot of details before he determined the final implementation steps of the plan.

The four of them spent nearly a stick of incense. When the four of them finished their conversation and reached a consensus, the matter was successfully resolved. At this time, the host and the guest were having fun, and the atmosphere in the study began to become very harmonious. It was not until dusk fell to the Li Mansion, and Li Ke and Di Zhixun left the Li Mansion accompanied by Li Yan. The head of the Yu family who stayed in the study whispered to the head of the Yuan family, "What do you think of His Highness the King of Han?"

The head of the Yuan family was silent for a moment and briefly uttered four words, "There is a tiger in my heart, it is unfathomable!"
Chapter completed!