Such an invitation has never been met since Gao Lan turned from a bandit to a commander. He had the heart to refuse, but he couldn't refuse, unless he really had a street fight as soon as he entered Haicheng.

If things really develop like this, the entire Haicheng, whether foreign or local, will never be able to tolerate him.

"Big guy!"

The adjutant looked over nervously.

Gao Lan waved his hand, looked around at the muzzle of the gun, ordered two guards at random, then turned around and walked towards the Guanglai Teahouse.

The tea customers in the lobby of the teahouse were watching the madness of the big smoker outside, and they were very happy. In the blink of an eye, they saw that the battle outside changed, all guns to guns, swords drawn, and they were momentarily stunned. was stunned and stayed on the stool.

"All Worlds"

Seeing Gao Lan come in, the shopkeeper, several very experienced customers, immediately squatted down and drilled under the table.

Gao Lan glanced at it, ignored it, and went straight to the second floor.

There is only one private room on the second floor with a guard standing in front of the door.

As soon as Gao Lan approached, one of them pushed open the door and made a gesture of invitation, while the other reached out to stop the two guards who were about to follow.

"Mr. Gao, you'd better go in by yourself."

One of the guards glared, opened his mouth and scolded: "You're a motherfucker, you're cheating too—!"

"All right."

Gao Lan cut off the guard's scolding, showing displeased: "Just wait outside. I believe in Mr. Yu's character, this will not be dangerous."

As soon as the words fell, the two guards were still angry, but they didn't say anything anymore. They just held the gun with one hand and stopped outside the door.

Chu Yunsheng, Yu Jingzhi, listened to the double reed at the door, looked at each other and smiled.

Immediately, Yu Jingzhi blinked, Chu Yunsheng took his own tea bowl, left his seat, and turned to the back of the screen in the private room.

Although his identity is no longer an unknown secret in many eyes, but from his point of view, it is best not to go to the front of the stage if he can.

Just as Chu Yunsheng sat behind the screen, Gao Lan came in.

"Mr. Yu is quite leisurely and elegant. At this time, he came to drink tea and enjoy the scenery."

Gao Lan looked calm, without the slightest bit of coerced anger and vigilance. He smiled and spoke while taking his seat, as if he was really an idle guest who was invited to drink tea.

Yu Jingzhi smiled and said: "It's just for a walk around, if you always stay in one place, it would be too boring. I think Mr. Gao thought so too, so he was very quiet and thoughtful, all the way from Gansu North, thousands of people have come all the way to Haicheng."

Lu Yun came over to make tea.

Gao Lan looked at the orange-yellow tea that rolled into the porcelain white tea bowl, took off his hat, shook his head and smiled: "I can't talk about Mr. Yu's quiet and thoughtful state. Haicheng is a metropolis, and Mr. I long to urinate, and now that I am free, I naturally want to go to the city to see it, but I can’t stay in a remote rural area all the time, and my livelihood is a problem.”

"Mr. Gao is still worried about his livelihood?" Yu Jingzhi raised his eyebrows slightly.

Gao Lan said: "‌It's nature."

"Mr. Yu is also the head of the family. He must also know that it is not easy to raise some food for his subordinates. I don't know how much food and military salaries are needed for a month. It is really impossible to raise them."

"Not to mention that there was a famine in northern Jiangxi last year. There was no grain harvest. Ordinary people could not get enough food every three or five days. It is a parent official, seeing the miserable people under his control, his heart is also uncomfortable, so he thought of coming to the wealthy land of Haicheng to try his luck."

Inside the screen, Chu Yunsheng listened to Gao Lan's biting words, thinking about some rumors after Gao Lan's fortune, and a few things in the original play.

Gao Lan was the most taboo to not mention his bandit background, and he was envious of him. After sitting in northern Jiangxi, he learned to read and became more particular about his speech.

But no matter how words and deeds move in the direction of elegance and nobility, bandits are still bandits.

During the famine in northern Jiangxi, Jinling and many wealthy merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang allocated a lot of food, and Yu Jingzhi secretly sent a confidant of his own to supervise the matter. But say a thousand words and ten thousand, Jiangbei is surnamed Gao after all. Although the food was gone in large numbers, the starved corpses on the roadside were not much less than before.

On the contrary, the soldiers under Gao Lan's hands were full of fat and fat.

If Gao Lan was really a parental official who loved him like a son, as he said, he probably wouldn't be a bandit who oppressed the people even after he became a commander.

In this world, one should not be afraid of blood or sin, but should be afraid of not seeing the future and not being able to do things.

Outside, Yu Jingzhi's voice came, cool and warm like the summer breeze.

He seemed to be too lazy to deal with Gao Lan in a pretentious manner here, and his voice brought out a few subtle perfunctory: "Mr. Gao really came to the right place. The boundary of Haicheng is an inch of land. Gold is so precious that most people can't touch it."

Gao Lan's expression paused, he raised his eyes to look at Yu Jingzhi, and replied in a meaningful way: "It seems that Mr. Yu is indeed an earth emperor who covers the sky with one hand in this Haicheng."

Yu Jingzhi smiled, took the tea bowl and sipped the tea lightly.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, savoring the sweet flavor on the tip of his tongue and throat, and was noncommittal about it.

Gao Lan glanced at the tea cup in front of him again, instead of reaching for it, he changed his sitting position slightly, and said again, "Since Gao's intentions are here, Mr. Yu already knows more or less whether it is Gao's turn or not. A certain question, what is the purpose of Mr. Yu's visit?"

Just stepping into Haicheng, at this time, this place was suddenly threatened by Yu Jingzhi and invited to come, it is naturally impossible for Gao Lan to not have anger in his heart. But he was more surprised, or in other words, he thought that Yu Jingzhi should not be here at this time, and even named him to see him.

It's like a game of chess. When the two armies face off against each other, one side suddenly intervenes in a chess game that leaves him puzzled. It's very strange.

But what's even weirder, is Yu Jingzhi's answer.

"Yu has no intention of coming. He just met Mr. Gao by chance and just wanted to invite Mr. Gao for a cup of tea. After the cup of tea is drunk, Mr. Gao is free to come and go without any obstruction."

Yu Jingzhi spoke calmly and seriously.

But Gao Lan was stunned when he heard it, and his brows were furrowed—what kind of performance was this?

While the two of them were talking, Gao Lan was secretly measuring Yu Jingzhi.

In the early years, when Gao Lan had just established a foothold in northern Jiangxi, he had met Yu Jingzhi several times, and Yu Jingzhi had only established a firm foothold at the beginning of Haicheng. At a cocktail party in Jinling, Gao Lan met Yu Jingzhi and was quite curious about this young man who could open up an inch of territory amid the wolves.

But in addition to curiosity, there is also a strong sense of vigilance and a desire to win.

After a short conversation at the reception, perhaps because of some deep feeling, Gao Lan regarded Yu Jingzhi as a great enemy in his life, and believed that no matter how much attention he paid, it was still not enough.

Sure enough, within two years after that, Yu Jingzhi became the famous Mr. Yu, who controlled more than half of Haicheng. Together with Sun Decheng, who was a warlord, he did not dare to offend him rashly and retreated from Haicheng. Although there is a reason for Sun Decheng's lack of strength, Yu Jingzhi's horror is also evident.

So Gao Lan was sure that Yu Jingzhi was ambushed in this long street and stopped him and called him a tea house. There must be something to talk about and a purpose to achieve.

After entering the door, Yu Jingzhi's demeanor and words also seemed to prove this point.

But what's going on right now?

The tentative confrontation just met is over, shouldn't it be about getting to the point and starting to talk about business? This shouldn't be just drinking tea and chatting!

Gao Lan's eyes showed some confusion.

He looked at Yu Jingzhi's expression, decided to cut to the chase, and turned his attention to the customer: "I heard that Mr. Yu has a new type of medicine, which was made by a doctor, and even abroad. There are no foreigners, but really?"

Yu Jingzhi's expression remained unmoved, and he smiled: "Mr. Gao, today I'm not talking about business, I'm drinking tea."

"Mr. Yu, don't be stingy. If there is such a drug, it is urgently needed in our army, and we cannot say that we should not do a business." Gao Lan said.

Yu Jingzhi still didn't answer the question, just raised his hand: "The tea is cold, change the tea for Mr. Gao."

Gao Lan's face changed: "Mr. Yu, Gao is rough and can't understand too many twists and turns. What's your purpose? There's something wrong with calling me here. Let's open the skylight and say. Speak up, speak bluntly.”

Yu Jingzhi sighed: "Don't get me wrong, Mr. Gao, Yu really just wanted to invite Mr. Gao for a cup of tea and sit down for a while."

"you!"

Gao Lan couldn't hold back his aggrieved anger, and he had to suspect that he was being played by Yu Jingzhi.

After a stalemate for a while, the second cup of tea in front of Gao Lan was going to be cold, and he finally could no longer bear it, Huo Ran shrugged, and said coldly: "Gao doesn't like drinking tea, since Mr. Yu has nothing to talk about,  Gao Mou was in a hurry, so he said goodbye first."

"Mr. Gao walk slowly, don't send it." Yu Jingzhi said.

At this moment, Gao Lan finally confirmed that Yu Jingzhi wasn't showing off anything, but he was really just inviting him to drink tea and not talking about anything else, which was just weird.

If something goes wrong, it must be a demon, Gao Lan hesitantly glanced at Yu Jing, then Yu Jingzhi was looking down at a pocket watch in his palm. In a flash, Gao Lan, like a dick, suddenly realized the true meaning of what Yu Jingzhi did today.

"Trap!"

Gao Lan turned around suddenly and glared at Yu Jingzhi.

Lu Yun immediately prepared to draw a gun.

Yu Jingzhixu raised his hand and smiled slightly: "Two cups of tea is enough time to negotiate too many things and exchange too many benefits, even if Mr. Gao went out immediately, he would have jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it out. ."

"If you leave calmly, there will be people who think that you have cooperated with me and have a good talk. If you leave without a face, there will also be people who think that you are covering up your relationship with me. The result of the conversation. If you leave in a rage, there will still be people guessing whether this is a play that you and I played together, pretending not to."

"Of course, Mr. Gao can also explain a little more to the outside world, and it seems that there is a lot of trust."

Yu Jingzhi looked at Gao Lan's face and curled the corners of his lips.

Gao Lan cast a gloomy glance at Yu Jing, said nothing, and strode away, stepping on the wooden floor with his heavy military boots, his voice resembling a furious thunder.

The elegant room quickly recovered.

The team on the long street downstairs quickly moved away, as if staying for one more second would be bad luck.

Chu Yunsheng walked out from behind the screen, glanced at the untouched tea on the table, and said softly: "This move can only be regarded as a delay, Gao Lan will not give up Haicheng, even if there is no north-south attack, There will still be robbery.”

Yu Jingzhi smiled and said softly: "It can be delayed for a while. What I lack is time. If we have another two or three months, the arsenal will be able to support enough weapons."

"Only weapons are not enough."

Chu Yun said.

Yu Jingzhi leaned against the seat, closed his eyes, and said nothing.

A belated, heavy atmosphere gradually permeated the room.

Not enough, of course not enough.

Not enough time, not enough weapons, not enough supplies, not enough strength, not enough everything.

If it wasn't really enough, how could he take the risk of taking the plunge, destroying Dongyang's reporting point, killing Adams, and intercepting Gao Lan when he knew that the peace could be maintained for a short period of time?

Chu Yunsheng knew that according to Yu Jingzhi's plan, even with his own participation, he would need at least three to five years to strengthen his strength and make all capital more abundant, so that he could truly be capable. Drive out the Tartars with confidence, support Zheng Yuansheng's cause, and change Haicheng.

But the flapping of butterfly wings is limited.

It may move the tsunami, the drama, or the wheel of history.

If Chu Yunsheng remembers correctly, in the original play, after the European meeting was over, the army of the East would step into the Qingzhou Peninsula. And after completely occupying the Qingzhou Peninsula, he will join the Eastern army from the northeast to the south and break through Jinling together.

The outcome of the European Conference cannot be changed, the battle in the Northeast is stalemate, and everything seems to be a dead end.

And the time when the Eastern Army goes south can only be earlier than the original drama, and it will never be later.

This is the truth, this is history.

When Yu Jingzhi vaguely pointed out his identity in the evening, Chu Yunsheng decided to tell Yu Jingzhi the news.

What was more unexpected to Chu Yunsheng was that even if Yu Jingzhi didn't have the original drama to reveal, he still got a glimpse of this from the changes in the current situation, and was willing to accept Chu Yunsheng's statement.

After that, secret investigation, careful mobilization, and careful layout.

Using Adams' hand to clean up the Toyo Newspaper Network, as long as Toyo's understanding of Haicheng is less than his control, the time of his arrival can be delayed by one.

Kill Adams and trade with Louis France, so there will be three-way constraints. Toyo will bite Germany, Germany will bite France, the water will get mixed up, and the European conference will have to fight for a while. Even if the result cannot be changed, at least Buy time.

Gao Lan was intercepted with great fanfare, only drinking tea and not talking about things. First, Chu Yunsheng and Yu Jingzhi knew that Gao Lan came here for Haicheng, and was definitely not a partner who could cooperate. Lan confuses other forces.

As long as Gao Lan entered the Guanglai Teahouse and met Yu Jingzhi, it would be difficult for other forces to really trust Gao Lan, at least Dongyang would never believe him, and it would be very possible to take advantage of him. But Gao Lan is not a kind person, and will not be willing to be used by Dongyang.

Once Gao Lan can't win the trust of Dongyang, the north-south attack formed by him and the Dongyang Army against Haicheng will not be possible for a while, and the crisis facing Haicheng can be greatly reduced.

Chu Yunsheng went to see Fang Jiming with Yu Jingzhi two days ago, and was criticized for being reckless and having no rules.

As for many matters in the Qingzhou Peninsula and the Northeast, we can only do our best. If you are not God, you always have to admit that you will be powerless.

So, in the final analysis, everything he did during this time was just preparing for the day to come.

Chu Yunsheng is also clear that many people of insight must also have this concern or guess, but he is far from being prepared.

Even Fang Jiming and Zheng Yuansheng, after receiving Yu Jingzhi's hint, didn't quite believe that the world had just been restored to peace, and the war was about to start again.

But that's the truth.

After drinking half a cup of tea, Chu Yunsheng and Yu Jingzhi didn't sit any longer. They went back to the house and went out to a car.

The car drove to the apartment in the concession, and as soon as he got out of the car, Chu Yunsheng saw Liu Er hurried over and said in a low voice, "Sir, something went wrong, our company created chaos and helped Li Lingbi escape, But before he could catch him, he was taken away by Tianminghui."

Tomorrow will be.

When Chu Yunsheng heard these three words, the first thing that came to his mind was not Du Tianming, but Du Qi.

And Du Qi, who was missed by him, just shot and killed the last subordinate who rescued him with him, and then took Li Lingbi straight to a hiding place.

During the turbulence and travel, the white walls and blue tiles of the alleys quickly retreated, and the sky was full of cloudy clouds.

Li Lingbi lay on Du Qi's back, gasped lightly, and asked in a low voice, "Seven, Seventh Brother, why did you kill him? He...isn't your subordinate?"

A trace of impatience flashed in Du Qi's eyes, but his tone carried a gentle sigh: "Ling Bi, you are too kind. Although I am also reluctant, he had to kill you, you are being watched by the Gu family. If you are in a bad situation, the more people who know where you are going, the more danger you will have."

"Seventh brother, you will protect me, right?"

Li Lingbi asked again.

Du Qi quickly crossed the sewage flowing in the long and narrow alley and laughed: "It's nature."

Li Lingbi nodded and said, "Seventh brother, do you know that I have smoked a lot of cigarettes? I told you before that I have seen Xuan Qinghe use this method to control some people and work for him. I don't want to, he also played a poisonous hand on me."

"I don't even know that I belonged to Shiran. Although Gu Qishu tied me up and tortured me for my secrets, he was really helping me to quit smoking, seventh brother, after you settle down, you will also Will you help me quit?"

Du Qi's footsteps paused slightly, and returned to normal in the blink of an eye.

"This thing is very difficult to quit. I haven't seen anyone who really has the ability to quit successfully. But since you have this determination, Ling Bi, I will naturally help you. But if the quitting fails, you don't want to. If you are discouraged, there are only big cigarettes left and right, and if you smoke it for fun, it is nothing, if you want, you can have as many pastes as you want."

"Ling Bi, I will never wrong you."

Du Qi's voice was still gentle and deep, but Li Lingbi only felt a chill.

He closed his mouth and stopped talking.

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