"No adults!"

Liu Po held down the big sword on his waist tightly, then took a step forward, and said with a serious face: "My lord, Liu Po's life was saved by you, and the matter of the paper mill was also caused by my negligence, I should take revenge for Niu Xiaosi, kill Meng Yun, the county lieutenant, please tie me to the county jail, no matter life or death in the future, everything is done by me Liu Po alone, and Qinghe Town, and Lord Lidian!" ”

"Choking~" After Liu Po finished speaking, he pulled out his big sword, and a touch of golden light flashed a terrifying cold light under the sun.

"Chen Xu, you...... Didn't you say there was a second way? Say it, I'...... I'm willing to accept your offer! Meng Yun completely collapsed, looking at Liu Po who had drawn his long sword, and shouted tremblingly.

"It's late, my second method is to kill you and avenge Niu Xiaosi!" Chen Xu said coldly.

"No...... No, you...... You must have a third way! Meng Yun was completely frightened by Chen Xu, who played cards out of common sense.

He is the son of Shangqing, pampered since he was a child, and now the Great Qin world is stable and there is almost no war, the son of the prince and the prince has basically nothing to do, life is very leisurely, mixed in a group of princes and princesses of the disciples all day long, although the reputation is not obvious, but in Xianyang absolutely no one dares to underestimate him, at most he does not like his personality is a little estranged, he grew up in the imperial capital Xianyang, and there are some flatterers around him every day. I have never seen a person like Chen Xu when he is so big, not only did he beat him with a blue nose and swollen face, but also blatantly threatened to kill him, and in front of the county lieutenant and a group of people, what is even more unreasonable is that he actually killed Ma Teng in three or five sentences, this is completely a mountain village man who does not follow the rules, and completely treats the law as child's play, if he really kills himself, this is called wronged.

"Nope!" Chen Xu shook his head.

"You...... You have to have! Meng Yun stammered.

"Haha!" Chen Xu raised his head and laughed, "Okay, then I can have one, but I'm afraid you can't accept it!" ”

"No, no, I'll think it through this time!" Meng Yun shook his head again and again.

"Xu Fu, prepare pen, ink and paper, everyone except the county lieutenant of Kaifang will leave for the time being, and no one is allowed to stay!" Chen Xu commanded.

"Yes~" Liu Po breathed a sigh of relief and took the people in the yard out after inserting the big sword back into the scabbard, but a group of people walked out of the courtyard gate, only to find that Yu Wuya was standing outside the door with the iron sword idle, although Ma Teng was lying motionless on the ground, except for a small wound on his thigh, his whole body was still intact.

In a separate room in the inpatient department, Meng Yun sat at the table, Chen Xu and Fang Kuan sat opposite, with pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table, and the three of them sat opposite each other, the air was solidified, just like the interrogation room of the police station in later generations.

"Tell me, who picked you up, I don't think it's your father!" Chen Xu said slowly.

"No, no, I was in a juju to listen to the craftsman Shaofu Ling Ao Ping's son Ao Jun talk about a thing called paper, similar to cloth, can write a lot of words very lightly, but the craftsman Shaofu has brought together countless craftsmen to study more than a month without success, I have been interested in these strange things since I was a child, so I took it back and thought about it for a long time, and found that this paper was made of hemp grass after being pulped, but it was tried and tested many times without law, and it was never possible to restore the production method of paper. So I found Ao Jun again and inquired repeatedly, and finally he revealed that this method came from Nanyang County, maybe it was related to the legendary immortal disciples, so I couldn't wait to come to Nanyang! ”

"And then?" Chen Xu asked.

"After arriving in Wancheng, because I had an old acquaintance with Ma Teng, the nephew of the county guard, I asked about it, and he helped me inquire for a few days and told me that the paper matter has been whereabouts, and it is in Qinghe Town, Pheasant County, so I came!" Meng Yun roughly guessed that Chen Xu would not kill him at this time, so his emotions slowly settled down, and his speech became much smoother.

Chen Xu lowered his head and pondered.

The paper has been produced for more than two months, and it is not a small number of people who have circulated it, Jiangbei Pavilion, Zhao Qing, Shui Qingrou, Wang Jian and others all know, and have used a lot, so it is impossible to completely keep it secret, at least at this level of officialdom, paper should not be a particularly fresh item, but the scope of circulation is very small, after the hands of Jiangbei Pavilion, it is not strange that Ma Boyuan and others also know the existence of paper, and then send it to Xianyang to fall into the craftsman Shaofu.

"So you want to get the method of making paper yourself?" Chen Xu looked at Meng Yun and asked.

"Yes, this matter has nothing to do with anyone else, I am just curious, I didn't want to kill the helper at that time, and when the townsman rushed in, the servant's hand trembled......"

Shake your uncle! Chen Xu's cheeks twitched.

A sword almost cut Niu Xiaosi's neck, and it was especially said that his hands were shaking, Chen Xu couldn't wait to take off his shoes and fall on Meng Yun's face.

"So, you're admitting that you connived at the servant to kill Niu Xiaosi, right?" Chen Xu asked lightly as he knocked on the table.

"Yes!" Meng Yun was silent for a long time and nodded with an unusually ugly face.

"Why are you doing this? If you had identified yourself in the first place, you might not have caused this disaster! ”

"Ma Teng said that the law of papermaking is rigorous, and the county guard has also arranged for people to come to inquire, but they have not gotten, if they want to get it, they can only take advantage of the fact that they have not found the people who strictly ask the people of the workshop, and we have also asked the villagers after we came to Qinghe Town, and they are all secretive, and they will no longer pay attention to us when they talk about this matter, so we inquired about the location of the paper mill and went straight to it, and we didn't want to kill anyone!"

"Niu Xiaosi is a helper in the paper mill, familiar with the process and methods of papermaking, if he goes to Xianyang, he will be able to become a master craftsman or even an official in the craftsman Shaofu, even if the emperor wants to reward him, but now he is killed by you, this is a huge loss for me Qinghe Town, and it is also a loss for Daqin, you have to lose money!" Chen Xu said.

"Losing money?" Not only was Meng Yun stunned, but even Fang Kuan opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it for a long time.

"Yes, losing money, I spent a lot of manpower and material resources in order to cultivate Niu Xiaosi, and almost used the power of Qinghe Town to successfully research the paper, such a huge loss, how can you say that you don't lose money?"

"That'...... Repay...... How much does it cost? Meng Yun began to stutter again.

"Half a million dollars?"

"Ga~" Meng Yun's eyes bulged out suddenly, and Fang Kuan directly popped onto the table.

"Five...... 500,000 money, one ...... How could a teenager pay such a ...... So many coins? I...... Where did I get ...... from? Get ......" Meng Yun directly collapsed.

"The amount of compensation is indeed huge, but you have to know the value of Niu Xiaosi, if the paper is widely promoted in Daqin, you can know the consequences and value, how much bamboo and wood slips will be consumed in the entire Daqin now, and once the paper is circulated, almost all the Fang family warlocks and Daqin officials will need a lot, next year I only need to change Niu Xiaosi's household registration to a craftsman's registration, and then hand over the paper made to merchants to sell to all parts of Daqin, even if a volume of ten pages of paper only makes a profit of five yuan, do you know how much you can profit in a year, how much you can make in three years, How much profit can you make in five years and ten years? After Chen Xu finished speaking, he looked at Meng Yun, and said in a deep voice, "Let me tell you the truth, although the method of papermaking is cumbersome, but the materials are extremely cheap, almost worthless, the cost of a piece of paper is not more than a millimeter, and the profit can be counted dozens of times, 500,000 seems to be a huge number, but it only takes 100,000 copies to earn back, Daqin is now 36 counties and more than 800 counties, according to three years, the entire Daqin is distributed, each county is only a few dozen volumes, but do you know that if the hundred families are prosperous today, how many Fang family celebrities are there?" How many texts need to be copied? How many Great Qin officials still need to pass on the law, documents, and various historical materials and letterheads......"

Chen Xu used the big data used in later generations to fully demonstrate and analyze the demand for books to support the value of Niu Xiaosi.

"From this point of view, do you think 500,000 is more?" Chen Xu finally concluded.

Fang Kuan came back to his senses at this time, and couldn't help but nod and say, "It's really not much!" I'm afraid it's more than 100,000 copies a year! ”

"The ...... It's not much, but it's ...... But I ...... I didn't? ”

Meng Yun's head is completely blank, no matter who faces a huge compensation of 500,000 yuan, his mind will be blank, although money seems to be of little use in this era, but it can be used to buy grain, and it is 13,000 stone in exchange for food, and Zuo Xiang Li Si, the highest official in Daqin, has about 300 stone a month, and more than 3,000 stone of grain a year, if you want to compensate for this money, it will take four or five years without eating or drinking.

"No, it's okay, can you write me an IOU?" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"What is an IOU?" Meng Yun asked blankly.

"It's the proof that you owe someone money, the pen and ink are ready, write, just write about my son Meng Yun, the son of the imperial historian, because he mistakenly killed Niu Xiaosi, a paper mill helper in Qinghe Town, Pheasant County, and reached a compensation agreement with Lidian in Qinghe Town, a total of 500,000 yuan in compensation, paid in three years, 170,000 yuan per year, and if it is not returned within the time limit, it will be compensated 30% of the liquidated damages in the following year......"

"I ...... I can't pay for it! Meng Yun almost cried, he regretted coming to Qinghe Town, he almost lost his life, and now although he saved his life, these 500,000 coins are like a mountain, and sooner or later he will be crushed to pieces.

"No, if you write it down, you'll pay it out!"

"Why?" Meng Yun was even more sluggish.

"As long as you write it down, I will tell you in detail about the method of papermaking, and when the time comes, you will make a lot of money in a year or two, and a mere 500,000 yuan will naturally be no problem!"

"Really?" Meng Yun trembled a few times with excitement.

"I lied to you to do something, 500,000 seems not much, but it is by no means a small amount, you can't compensate for what is the point of letting you write this IOU, this is a situation that kills two birds with one stone, you have obtained the method of papermaking, and successfully achieved the purpose of coming to Qinghe Town, and Niu Xiaosi's family has also been compensated, and the pain of the loss of their parents can also be comforted! And this matter will also disappear and will never be spread again, otherwise I think that your father, as a royal doctor, if it is spread that his son is out of the country to kill ordinary people and rob finances, his reputation of honesty and honesty will inevitably be destroyed, what kind of face does he have to stay in the position of the third duke......"

Under Chen Xu's patient and earnest teaching, Meng Yun finally picked up the brush, dipped it in ink, and wrote down an IOU on a piece of hemp pulp paper.

Chen Xu took the IOU and looked at it, and couldn't help but praise it repeatedly, the handwriting was beautiful and neat, and the content was the same as what he just said.

"Chen Xu, is it okay to look like this?" Meng Yun was a little apprehensive.

"Well, that's it for the IOU, and the three of us each sign and draw on it to testify to each other!" After Chen Xu finished speaking, he handed the IOU to Meng Yun, asked him to put his name on it, and then bit his thumb and pressed the blood fingerprint, although Fang Kuan still had countless thoughts about this matter, but he and Chen Xu are now grasshoppers on the same rope, and they still need to be tied together for the time being to beware of Zhao Gao's revenge, so naturally they will not dismantle the stage, since Chen Xu can reach an understanding with Meng Yun to solve this matter, of course it is the best, although this method is very fucked up and shameless.

Fang Kuan picked up the pen and wrote the name of Fang Kuan, the county lieutenant of Pheasant County, on the IOU, and then slightly pulled out the big sword on his waist, his fingers crossed the blade of the sword, and then pressed on the IOU, which was also a blood fingerprint in an instant.

When it was Chen Xu's turn, he also quickly wrote his name, then glanced at his thumb and couldn't help but shudder slightly.

"Wait a minute!" After Chen Xu finished speaking, he ran out and returned after a while, with blood on his thumb, and he also pressed a bloody fingerprint under his name.

Outside the gate of the health center, You Liu Po, Yu Wuya, and Jiang Chuyue watched Chen Xu hurriedly run out of it, dip a little blood in the wound on the thigh of Ma Teng, who was lying on the ground unconscious, and ran back, all confused.

"Okay, this IOU will take effect from today, and I will naturally write down the detailed method of papermaking for you later, and even take you to the paper mill to visit the production process!" Chen Xu picked up the IOU and dried it, then carefully folded it and put it away.

"Thank you!" Meng Yun, who had escaped death, actually bowed his hand to Chen Xu, leaning back on the chair as if he was in prostration. I forgot the humiliating deed of sale I had just signed.

"Chen Lidian, is this matter over?" Fang Kuan also stood up, feeling a stone in his heart fall to the ground.

"I'm not busy, and I would like to ask Meng Gongzi to help me write another testimony?" Chen Xupi said with a smile.

"Huh? Still write? Meng Yun instantly felt like falling into an ice cellar, and his body was covered in cold sweat and cold to his bone marrow.

"Don't be afraid, it's just to testify against Ma Teng's testimony of killing Niu Xiaosi!" Chen Xu smiled and comforted.

Ma Teng...... Didn't Ma Teng be killed by you? Meng Yun's nose was blue and his face was swollen and his face was full of confusion.

"Hehe, I need to testify even more when I die, otherwise I won't be able to resist under the anger of the county guard Ma Boyuan, but Meng Gongzi's face is quite big, with your testimony, he will definitely not dare to act rashly!" Chen Xu explained.

"Okay, I'll write!" Meng Yun compromised step by step, just like being a traitor, knowing that he had embarked on a road of no return, if he couldn't complete Chen Xu's task, I am afraid that the IOU would be written, but the method of papermaking was still a bamboo basket to draw water, and in the end he owed 500,000 yuan.

Soon, Meng Yun's testimony was completed overnight, and the writing was extremely detailed and emotional, as if he had really seen Ma Teng use a long sword to force Niu Xiaosi to make paper, and killed Niu Xiaosi in anger when he couldn't get it.

"Okay, Meng Gongzi is really happy, this matter is over, follow me to the paper mill to watch the papermaking process!" Chen Xu happily dried the testimony signed by Meng Yun and put it away.

Outside the gate of the health center, a group of people were anxious, only Yu Wuya leaned against a big tree with an iron sword, and the old god took out two fried soybeans from his pocket from time to time and threw them into his mouth and chewed them.

"How is Eun Gong?" Seeing the three of them come out, Yu Wuya jumped in front of Chen Xu in one step, and his mood was not as relaxed as he seemed on the surface.

Chen Xu nodded and then pointed to Ma Teng lying on the ground and said, "Go get a basin of cold water and pour him awake!" ”

"Good!" One of the hunters turned to the kitchen, and soon brought a basin of water and poured it on Ma Teng's face.

He ...... He didn't ...... Not dead? Meng Yun was dumbfounded.

"Hehe, this is a bitter meat trick!"

"Alas~" Meng Yun sighed after being silent for a long time, knowing that this time he was completely caught in Chen Xu's way, but it was too late to regret it at this time

"Ahem~" Half a minute later, Ma Teng finally woke up dizzy, his eyes looked at the people around him without focus, and only after a long time did he get up tremblingly.

"Ma Teng, what do you think this is?" Chen Xu's hand shook, and a piece of testimony written by Meng Yun just now appeared in front of Ma Teng.

"You...... You...... Are you planting a blame on me? Ma Teng quickly finished reading, and then stared at Meng Yun with a pale face.

"Hmph, if you hadn't tricked me into breaking into the paper mill, how could I have had such a setback?" Meng Yun also regretted that his intestines hurt at this time, and he didn't have a good impression of Ma Teng anymore, and even had the urge to rush up and strangle him.

Ma Teng looked at Meng Yun's cold face, knowing that the general trend was gone, and suddenly sat on the ground with a weak ass like a frosted eggplant.

As long as this handle is pinched in Chen Xu's hand, he will never want to jump out of Chen Xu's palm in his life, with Meng Yun's status and family status, even if the testimony is false, it is true, and no one will doubt it.

In order to get out of the last bad breath and planted in Chen Xu's hands twice, Ma Teng's heart was dead at this time, and he couldn't hate Chen Xu anymore, but only had a deep sense of frustration and fear.

……

"Master Jiang, this is how Chen Xu disposed of it!" At the residence of Jiangbei Pavilion in Pheasant County, Fang Kuan, the returning county lieutenant, carefully told what he had seen and heard in Qinghe Town.

"Half a million dollars!" Jiang Beiting's hand shook, and he tore off a few of his beards again, and then his face twitched a few times, and a few words came out of his mouth.

"According to Fang, although Meng Yun is not young, he is quite pedantic and cowardly, and he didn't know that Chen Xu was frightened by him, so he fell into Chen Xu's hand!" Fang Kuan said with a strange face.

"Hehe, go to the army to fight, then attack the army, and attack the city, Meng Yun has lived in Xianyang since he was a child, and he gets along with a group of juniors and princes on weekdays, how can he understand this kind of deception, not to mention that Chen Xu is smart and cunning, and he is coerced by killing Ma Teng, and he does not leave the slightest room for concession every step of the way, Meng Yun can only compromise in order to survive, even if you are in the situation of Meng Yun, how can you distinguish the true from the false? This is a plan to hide from the sky and cross the sea, using the dead Niu Xiaosi to blackmail Meng Yun 500,000 money, this is a plan to rob while the fire is burning, coercing Ma Teng with Meng Yun's testimony, in order to kill people with a knife, Liu Po is forced to die, this is a plan to save Zhao from Wei Wei, many strategies are interlocking, so under the persecution, even if Meng Yun has all the ability, he can only compromise step by step, and finally let Chen Xu turn against the guest, and completely resolve the matter into invisible. ”

As a holy book in military law, almost all famous scholars of the Art of War are familiar with the art of war, and Jiangbei Pavilion is naturally handy, and Chen Xu's performance analysis is incisive.

Of course, if Chen Xu knew it, he would definitely shout that Lao Tzu bought a watch last year, naturally he would not admit that he thought of thirty-six plans at that time, in fact, until now, he has never seen the book of thirty-six plans, let alone read it, but Sun Tzu's art of war has been passed down for thousands of years, just like genetic inheritance has been deeply hidden in the blood of every Chinese in later generations, if carefully analyzed, every word and deed of the Chinese can be used to arbitrage it.

"Knowing that the method of papermaking must be let out, but he made a lot of money for nothing, and at the same time held Meng Yun and Ma Teng hostage, making something out of nothing, hiding a knife in a smile, and being undefeated in defeat, it is simply a demon!" Jiangbei Pavilion sighed.

"Master Jiang, then there is no hidden danger in this matter?" After listening to this, Fang Kuan opened his mouth and was stunned for a long time before asking.

"No, Meng Yun returned to Xianyang, Meng Yi will inevitably know about this, and there will inevitably be waves in the future, and behind Meng Yun's coming this time, it must not be as simple as he said, why did the son of Ao Shaofu suddenly reveal the papermaking matter to him, even my eldest brother Jiang Heng doesn't know about this matter, how can he know so clearly, there must be someone behind him, but this matter is no longer something you and I can ignore, wait and see what happens, Fang County Lieutenant, in a few days the summer grain tax will start to collect, The construction of the gallop road has been carried out for most of the time, it is best to complete the task before the snow falls, and wait for the autumn planting to recruit the third batch of people in advance, you have to be careful about these things, don't go wrong! ”

"Lord Jiang, rest assured, the matter of Chidao is reported by the soldiers every day, the weather is fine and the progress is going well, and there are no casualties, I don't think there will be a fork!"

"That's good! There you go! ”

Sending Fang Kuan away, Jiang Beiting thought for a while and asked the servant to call Jiang Chuyue into the study, looked at this smart and savage daughter, and said with a slight headache: "Yue'er, you went to Qinghe Town today, everything is in your eyes, what do you think of Chen Xu?" ”

"Shameless!"

"Alas, there you go!" Jiang Beiting waved his hand to drive his daughter away with a headache, rubbing his forehead and temples and feeling that there was blood gushing in his head, this daughter seemed to be unable to get married!