Another year had passed, and many of the technologies were now mature and showing signs of rapid development. The Zhao Xin Group project team had invested the most.

Zhao Xin had invested a considerable amount of money, which, considering today's society, was considered a lavish expenditure. However, most of the things he had hoped for had come true, and he had received rewards.

For example, the optimization and update of Tiangong Kaiwu.

During this time, I also received a General Card and Luck Points for a minor twist in a project. While the General wasn't particularly famous, it was still better than nothing.

So, while the situation was hot, he was sent to Liaodong to deal with Shentu Jing. I had heard before that he really had the idea of ​​becoming king and dominating the world.

Zhao Xin just smiled and said nothing.

Shentu Jing should have at least had some self-awareness and offered him something as tribute. Why did Zhao Xin support the Liaodong region the most before, but now that he has achieved great success, he has ignored his benefactor?

"Your Majesty, the Liaodong region seems to be somewhat out of control, and no one is responding now."

What a mess! He just made him lose contact just to avoid paying the tribute. Zhao Xin had invested a lot of money before, hoping to make this guy change his ways, but Shentu Jing really thought he could become something big.

Zhao Xin really wants him to know that without Zhao Xin's special code, he is nothing!

Shentu Jing, who was far away in Liaodong, sneezed.

"Your Majesty, it's unusually cold even in spring these days. It's best to keep warm."

“…”

"Shut up."

Shentu Jing was lazily lying on the upper chair, with several memorials beside him. Those were rejected by other prefects, and he directly blocked them.

Now it is all thanks to the emperor, because he weakened the provincial governor system, and the provincial governor has less and less power. In addition, the governor here is an old acquaintance of him, and he can report more bad things to the emperor.

Now the governor can’t even make a comeback.

As the prefect, he is now directly promoted to the position. As long as the governor covers him and the money given by Shentu Jing is in place, he will be the only one in power!

But he was wrong. The tough guy he faced was the general sent by his emperor. The officials drawn from the general cards were all 100% loyal to the king. Not to mention giving him some money, even if he spent money like water, it would not be a big deal.

After all, the benefits he will gain after a lifetime of loyalty will be much more satisfying than the momentary pleasure he gets now.

But his majesty also said that even if Shentu Jing wanted to win him over, he could only express his wavering attitude, neither agreeing nor denying, and he would close the net when he found out the real secret behind this powerful prefect.

This can be considered as playing the long game to catch a big fish.

Although this fish is not easy to catch, and although Shentu Jing looks kind, the information found on the Internet about the relationship between His Majesty's subordinates shows that he is two-faced and ruthless.

Anyone who believes in things like face reading will lose, after all, the face and the mind can't be interchanged. Nowadays, this vicious person still does good things, while those who look kind still commit petty theft.

This is not strange, it's just part of life.

"Li, the governor, I promise that if you give His Majesty more feedback, I will take you to eat and drink delicious food after I ascend to the Mahayana stage!"

"What does this mean?"

Li Zhi also tried to probe deeper. He had no intention of getting any useful clues from this man. After all, this man was very smart. He didn't know how many people had fallen into the hands of this prefect before.

Therefore, Li Zhi naturally would not follow the old path of this group of people. He chose to associate with them temporarily and sell out the emperor when necessary.

"Since we are brothers, there's no need to beat around the bush. After all, I consider you my brother and that's why I accepted you into my fold!"

My goodness, this King of Liaodong must have said this to everyone so many times, but he still pretends to trust you in front of him to gain sympathy and achieve his goal?

"Although this governor can agree, what are the benefits?"

So, in order to gain the governor's trust, he used his second trick, throwing a brick to attract jade.

But this idiom is not suitable for this scenario. It should be called "throwing a brick to attract a brick." And it is the kind of ruthless brick that directly breaks the wall.

Shentu Jing breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

This man seemed so self-righteous, I had thought he would be a difficult client, but I didn't expect that this mere gold could keep him under my command. It was a good deal. After all, this man was a good adviser. Which governor I met nowadays was as clever as him?

To be honest, the most important thing is that this person was sent down by an imperial decree, and the rest of the areas were simply given horses, people and food, and brought here in groups of three or five.

And this Li Zhi actually came here on horseback with the imperial edict in hand. After arriving at the place, he even went straight into the governor's residence to have a dinner without any courtesy.

It happened to be the full month of Shentu Jing’s son’s birthday.

So the golden lamp he brought with him also worked. There was nothing wrong with giving it away as a gift to please people. As long as he could achieve his goal, he didn't want to know what happened to it.

"My sincerity is evident to all, Governor. Why didn't you let me join your army before? What's the meaning of your second invitation today?"

"Do you really think that this Governor is someone you can order around at will?"

Shentu Jing raised his hand and made a mathematical gesture as if he had figured out the routine long ago. Li Zhi ignored him and even glanced at him with disdain, looking completely dissatisfied with the price.

"Golden Mouse."

"make a deal."

Shentu Jing had no choice but to give away the golden mouse that someone else had given him, and Li Zhi looked at the mouse and put it in his arms without saying a word, as if he had given it nothing.

"You...how can you, the governor, be so unreasonable!"

"How am I unreasonable?"

Li Zhi thought that if he didn't accept this free gift, he would be in debt. Since this cunning old fox had paid out of his own pocket to give him a mouse, why wouldn't he just accept it?

After all, isn’t it true that others have given him so many rare treasures and good things?

"Li, what else do you want before you join our army?"

"I don't need anything. Just take me to eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks. If you really want to overthrow the rule, I don't have any big ambitions. I will just be a prince."

Li Zhi had thought this person would think for a while before coming to a conclusion, but he hadn't expected him to be so shameless that he simply clapped his hands on his thigh and gave a look of complete approval.

"I have agreed. Wait till I become a great master!"

Another useless blank check.

Li Zhi was also confused. How could anyone believe these so-called bills? It would be strange if the country could rebel now.

Nowadays, it can be considered as a weird door.