Tu Lichun drove the carriage and carried Li Ze and Gongsun Changming all the way to the county office. Since it was a private visit, it was naturally impossible to go to the main gate of the county government, and at the side gate of the backyard, there was already a member of Yang Kai's family waiting there, welcoming the three of them all the way in.

Li Ze walked in the front, Gongsun Changming was slightly behind half a shoulder, and Tu Lichun followed behind the two, looking at the wolf all the way, looking at the surrounding arrangements.

"Li Gongzi, please." The servant stood on the side of the gate and stretched out his hand in a gesture of invitation.

Li Ze looked inside, a middle-aged man who was about thirty or forty years old, and was sitting in the main hall. I didn't see anyone else around.

"Childe, there are at least twenty people in the wings on both sides." Tu Lichun leaned forward slightly, and said softly in a voice that only Li Ze could hear.

Li Ze smiled, and said in his heart, is this going to be hard when the negotiation breaks down? Even the knife and axe hand is ambushed, do you want to drop the cup?

Strode into the door, clasped his fists and waved at Yang Kai in the middle and said, "This is Ming Gong, right?" Boy Li Ze, I've seen Ming Gong!"

Yang Kai didn't answer, he sat upright, looking at Li Ze, ordinary people were afraid that they didn't do anything bad in the face of the officials' forced gaze, and their hearts were also a little weak, but Li Ze didn't realize it, he was still smiling, facing Yang Kai's forced gaze.

After being silent for a while, Yang Kai probably felt a little embarrassed by the scene, so he coughed lightly, "You are that Li Ze from Yixing Hall?"

"Yes!" Li Ze nodded.

"I just want you to come alone." Yang Kai's eyes swept behind Li Ze.

Li Ze smiled and said: "This is my teacher Gongsun Changming, I heard that Ming Gong has an invitation, for fear that I am young and ignorant and will collide with Ming Gong, so I must follow, the teacher is full of fists, and the kid really does not dare to disobey."

As he was talking, there was a sudden bang behind him, and Li Ze couldn't help but be stunned, is he about to prepare for the rhythm of his actions before he has finished speaking?

Looking at Yang Kai, Yang Kai was also embarrassed, and he coughed again, picked up the teacup and drank a few sips.

At this time, Li Ze also reacted suddenly, hiding behind, probably the second son Wang Mingyi, who was not driving, it seems that the name of Gongsun Changming is really still somewhat lethal, this Yang Kai's level is too low, and he can't be with Wen such a secret, but Yizhou Don't drive, but it's qualified.

It's good to know. Li Ze made up his mind, at least in this way, it would be impossible to turn his face on the spot today, there is one who knows that he is powerful here, then everything can be spread on the table and talked about it.

Deliberately pretending not to see Yang Kai's cover-up, he continued: "This is my family, named Tu Lichun, just a carriage driver."

"Well, sit down!" Yang Kai waved his hand.

Li Ze humbly dragged a chair first and asked Gongsun Changming to sit down, and then took a chair under Gongsun Changming and sat down in a dignified manner.

It is the kind of normal sitting, not the kind of virtual sitting like the subordinates seeing the superiors and the grass people seeing the officials, don't underestimate such a gesture, which shows that Li Ze in the bottom of his heart, he didn't regard Yang Kai as a big man who could control his destiny at all.

Yang Kai obviously noticed this as well, and his brows couldn't help but furrow deeply.

This is nothing more than two aspects, one is that this kid doesn't understand anything, he is a hillbilly vegetable melon, and he thinks that God is the first and he is the second when he has a few dollars. Second, this kid has no fear, but Yang Kai has already found out clearly, and Wang Mingyi has also made a note, this kid doesn't have any background at all, could it be this Gongsun Changming?

My mind turned and turned, but I still didn't figure out who this Gongsun Changming was.

He was a little impatient in his heart, looking at Li Ze's big style and the disdain in his inadvertent glance, he was already a little angry in his heart. I decided to get straight to the point, there was no need to go around and around.

"I'm looking for you to come over today, mainly to talk about Yixingtang." He coughed lightly. And your Zhuangzi thing."

"Xingyitang, it's a small business that the kid ran a few years ago, but I didn't expect to get Ming Gong's attention, it was really unexpected by the kid."

"Small business, hehe!" Yang Kai sneered: "Let's not talk about the Yixing Hall, let's talk about your Zhuangzi first, after the official took office, he took a look, it has been more than ten years, it seems that you have never paid the taxes that should be paid!"

"Do you have to pay taxes?" Li Ze looked surprised, "For a long time, there has never been a tax collector coming to the door, so I thought I didn't have to pay it?" He pretended to be crazy and stupid.

Yang Kai was furious: "Paying taxes is something that every citizen has to do, I don't care what your relationship with the previous county magistrate is, but when this official takes office, you have to do things according to the law, and the taxes you owe in the past ten years must not only be paid up, but also fines."

Li Ze's face also turned cold, and his smile was gone: "Dare to ask Ming Gong, how much do you have to pay?" And how much is the fine?"

"There is a fixed amount of taxes, but the fines are the ruling of the officials." Yang Kai looked at Li Ze proudly.

Li Ze looked at him, "Ming Gong allows me to guess, the fine you probably adjudicated, no more, no less, is exactly seventy percent of my shares in Yixingtang, right?"

Yang Kai was still an understanding person. In this case, it really saved a lot of tongues, and sneered at the moment: "That's not for sure, maybe even more, for example, including your land and Zhuangzi."

"What if I don't say yes?" Li Ze asked quietly.

"I'm afraid I can't help you." Yang Kai has already decided to be too lazy to talk nonsense with Li Ze, this kid is a person who understands, it seems that he is not ready to hand over Yixingtang honestly, and he still wants to die and struggle, in this case, it is better to give him a little bit of power, drag this kid to the torture room, let him see those torture tools, can he still be so impassioned?

How much money is there? In the face of power, money is nothing but a source of trouble.

Just as he was about to give a loud order, a servant from the side door hurried in. Master, the little boy suddenly fell, his head broke and bled out, Madame is in a hurry, please take a look at it immediately."

Yang Kai was stunned, this servant was not from his family, but by Wang Mingyi's side, he glanced at the servant, saw that the man's eyes were extremely firm, and glanced at Li Ze again, seeing that Li Ze was still the appearance of a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, he snorted and clapped his hands, "Come on."

In the wings on both sides, more than a dozen officials immediately poured out.

"Li Gongzi, please sit down for a while, it's best not to move, otherwise don't blame the official for being polite." He threatened.

"Ming Gong, please." Li Ze looked at Yang Kai with a smile, "It's just that since Duke Ming invited us to talk, didn't he even offer a cup of tea?"

Yang Kai is a god, this kid is really kind.

"Okay, come on, serve tea to the guests!" Dropping this sentence, he brushed his sleeves away.

Li Ze and Gongsun Changming looked at each other and smiled.

Yang Kai hurriedly walked to the back room, but saw that Wang Mingyi was anxiously turning around like an ant on a hot pot, and when he saw Yang Kai coming in, he grabbed Yang Kai a little disgraced and said, "Brother Yang, this time I'm just afraid that we will kick the iron plate and cause trouble."