Regarding the battle in Shanyang, Dahan Daily did not describe it too much, but it only took up half of the entire page, and it can be seen that they did not pay much attention to this battle. The middle-aged man didn't take long to read the whole article, after reading it, the middle-aged man covered his scroll and sighed, Tan Feng's thoughts and actions from the beginning were completely caught in the other party's calculations, the Han army accurately predicted that they began to attack the Chu State, and Tan Feng's reaction after sealing the Qu army, he had already set a huge trap for Tan Feng in Shanyang, Tan Feng didn't know anything, and he crashed into it, this battle, he didn't lose at all, the monarch of the Han Dynasty, Tan Feng's character and style, It can be said that the calculation is extremely accurate.

This made the middle-aged man's heart swish.

30,000 elites, the whole army in Shanyang was wiped out, more than 10,000 people were killed, and the rest were all taken prisoner, a group of generals led by Wan Ming were on the way to Jicheng, and another general under Tan Feng, Yin Cuo, was retained because he surrendered to the Han State and sacrificed the city.

After more than ten days of dominating the world, Tan Feng, who was famous, died silently.

"Uncle, do you want a newspaper?" A voice sounded beside him, and the middle-aged man turned around to see a young man standing beside him, carrying a blanket with rolls of newspaper on his shoulder.

"I already have it here." The middle-aged man raised the Dahan Daily in his hand and said.

"Uncle, you are Dahan Daily, and I am Jicheng Evening News, which is different." The young man smiled, took out a newspaper, and put it in front of the middle-aged man, "Uncle is reading the report of Tan Feng's death, is he interested in this, our Jicheng Evening News has the front page headline of this Tan Feng's life?" Speaking of which, this Tan Feng is not an ordinary person, he has been a big official, and he used to have a lot of relationship with our king? ”

Zhou Yu glanced at the other party strangely, "How do you know this?" And what is this Jicheng Evening News? Why haven't you heard of it before? ”

The young man laughed: "Uncle, you came to Jicheng from other places." Our Jicheng Evening News has just been launched this year. It is naturally incomparable with Dahan Daily, but there are also merits, uncle, do you want to have a copy? ”

"Okay, get one." The middle-aged man smiled and reached into his arms, took out a dime, and put it on the table. "I see that you are also a literate person, you must have read books, how did you start selling on the street?"

Middle-aged people think that young people are literate, naturally because the young man just glanced at the newspaper in his hand. You know what you're interested in.

"Now there are more literate people in Jicheng." The young man laughed, "It's not like a few years ago, as long as you are literate, you don't have to worry about having nothing to do, and now you are working in Jicheng Evening News, which is not bad." ”

"That's good?" The middle-aged man laughed.

"Of course, now is the grass stage of our Jicheng Evening News, and it is a little harder, but as long as we survive this period of time, everything will be fine. The boss promised that people like us who joined first would get some shares in the future, and I was at that time. But it's also the boss. "The young people seem very confident.

"Boss? Giving you a newspaper seller on the street? The middle-aged man laughed.

"Uncle, don't look down on people, you can endure hardships under it, you can find out what people don't know, and you can write. You can write a dry thing in a mess, and you can pull down your face, and voila. I am willing to sell our newspaper on the street, but in fact, now our newspaper office is basically full of people like me, how can I not be successful? The young man said seriously.

The middle-aged man nodded, "It's me who lost my word, but with such a big mountain pressing on it, do you think you have any hope of success?" Come, sit down, I'm really interested in your evening newspaper. The middle-aged man poured a cup of tea and handed it to the young man.

"Of course, Dahan Daily has the imperial court as a backer and has abundant funds, but we don't regard them as opponents!" The young man smiled and pointed to the newspaper in the jacket on his body, "Look, like Tan Feng's death, here in the Dahan Daily, it is just a dry report, but in our place, it is different, we have dug out the eighteen generations of Tan Feng's ancestors, Tan Feng is a celebrity in Jicheng, he was a figure who was the imperial historian of Yan Kingdom, and his friendship with our king was not shallow, and the three princesses of our king were still childhood sweethearts, two little guesses, how much literature can be done here?" So what we are doing now is a serial of Tan Feng's life, and with this east wind, we can better open up sales. ”

The middle-aged man didn't know much about these business scriptures, and he was interested in another thing, "You can casually talk about the past of your king and princess?" ”

"What's this?" The young man smiled and said, "How did the Dahan Daily dare to go to the king to pursue the Minister of Finance?" These things, the people love to watch and read, so let's give them away, but I'm afraid that we won't be able to sell them? Anyway, let's write whatever everyone likes to watch. As long as we pay taxes according to the rules, there will be no trouble. ”

The middle-aged man nodded slightly, the political atmosphere in Jicheng was broad, although he had not been here for a long time, he had already fully felt this, yes, the discussion of politics was extremely extensive, and sometimes the criticism was extremely sharp, which made him, a newcomer, sometimes very frightened, which seemed to him, completely unimaginable. And there is also a further understanding of the big council system and the parliamentary system. It is not uncommon for anything to be discussed, even argued, and bloodied, but once passed, even the strongest opponents will carry it out with the most resolute attitude. Not at all as inefficient as he imagined. Moreover, in the eyes of middle-aged people, this system avoids to the greatest extent that one person has the power to make mediocre decisions, and everything is more and more clear, and the benefits of a thing have been discussed extremely fully before acting, and even the worst case has been estimated, so when doing it, it will naturally do its best to avoid the worst situation.

The middle-aged man sighed, everything has to be seen to be believing, what he heard before, it is really very different from the truth, he has left Jicheng for many years, when he returned to Jicheng, he almost didn't know the city he grew up in, Jicheng has changed too much, not only the expansion of the city, but more importantly, the change of people. That kind of spirit is something that middle-aged people have never seen in other places.

"Before, the uncle said that he was from out of town, but I listened to the accent, with the flavor of our Jicheng!" The young man drank tea and asked, the middle-aged man in front of him made him a little puzzled.

"Yes, I used to be from Jicheng, but I've been away from here for many years, and I've been out for some years, and I just came back not long ago." The middle-aged man smiled: "Jicheng has changed too much, I don't dare to recognize it at all." It was completely two cities when I was here, can you tell me more about it? ”

"Huh? This is not something that can be made clear in a moment, why should I still sell newspapers? "The young man is embarrassed.

"I've got all these newspapers for you." The middle-aged man smiled and took out some money and put it on the table.

"Uncle, I'm not here for this." The young man's face changed slightly, "I came out to sell newspapers because I wanted more people to see our newspaper and like our newspaper, we don't have a perfect distribution system like Dahan Daily, everything has to rely on ourselves, sell it all to you, and the money is not bad, but you will only throw these newspapers away as garbage when you turn around, which is contrary to my wishes." The young man's face changed, he stood up, and wanted to leave.

"Wait, it's me Meng Lang." The middle-aged man stretched out his hand and pressed the young man, "Well, let's put it this way, I want to know more about Jicheng, to be honest, I just came back from outside, and I have a lot of floating wealth in my hands, but I can't sit and eat empty, I want to find an investment business, but I have been away from Jicheng for a long time, and there is no one of my relatives and friends, and my eyes are black, you are so confident in your Jicheng Evening News, but it also makes me interested, if possible, I want to ......"

"Uncle wants to invest in our newspaper?" The young man's eyes lit up suddenly, and he immediately sat down again, "Our boss often sighs that there is no one with vision to help him, and most people immediately retreat when they hear about the newspaper, this thing is okay, I won't sell a newspaper today, so I will accompany you, where did you come back?" ”

"Qin State!" The middle-aged man laughed.

"It turned out to be Qin State, it was chaotic enough, I heard that the people there didn't eat the last meal, the family only had a pair of pants to wear, whoever wants to go out will wear it, right?"

"It's not that unbearable, but it's really poorer than Han." Middle-aged humane.

"Of course, our king is a saint who is rare in the ages!" The young man said triumphantly. "It's really the right time for you to come back, in our place, as long as you obey the law, no one cares about what you do, but there are no corrupt officials to skin you, as long as you can endure hardships, have ideas, and make a fortune, it is an easy thing."

"Are there really no corrupt officials?" The middle-aged man shook his head in disbelief.

"It can't be said that there is no at all, but it is really very few, we have a strict investigation of corrupt officials here, there is a special yamen to do this, and there are so many parliamentarians staring, if anyone does a little illegal thing, it will be revealed to the world in a blink of an eye, then the end is very miserable."

The middle-aged man nodded slightly.

Time passed little by little under the young man's narration, and when the young man left the address for the middle-aged man, agreed on the time to meet, and left happily, the time was already in the early days.

The middle-aged man stood up, looked at the report about Tan Feng on the second page of the Dahan Daily in his hand, sighed again, crumpled the newspaper, threw it on the table, but picked up the Jicheng Evening News, got up and walked outside the teahouse. (To be continued.) )