The order was taken away, and to put it mildly, the state of Chu would lose hundreds of thousands of silver, or make hundreds of thousands of taels less.

To put it mildly, it is a provocation of national prestige.

The rise of a great power, the transportation of tens of millions of books, was actually robbed, what a slap in the face?

Isn't this a joke?

So, no matter what, you have to check, find out, and take it seriously.

Between the western part of the Chu State and the Western Cang Kingdom, there is a country called the Jin State.

The Jin State is not big, nor is it small, its strength is average, it was a little weaker than the Chu State at the beginning, but now it is completely inferior to the Chu State.

There is the West Cang Kingdom in the west and the Chu State in the east, so this Jin State is pressed by both ends and has always been very low-key.

This time, the book was lost in the Jin Kingdom.

Qin Ming had every reason to suspect that the five million books were taken away by the Jin State.

After all, there are not thousands of people, and there are not so many books.

Qin Ming didn't believe that he would be an ordinary thief if he was a bandit on such a scale.

Ordinary thieves have neither the strength nor the guts, and it is meaningless and unnecessary to take away these books.

Therefore, Qin Ming was ready to communicate with the Jin Kingdom.

At the same time, in the Sifang Pavilion, the prince of the Yuan Kingdom was in a hurry.

He had already placed an order, and during the period when the book was being made, he had to find a way to get his hands on paper-making and printing, otherwise, when the book was made, he would have to leave Chu with the book, and he would not have the opportunity to get paper-making and printing.

In this way, his mission will fail, and he will basically have no advantage in competing for the position of prince in the future.

Thinking of this, he was even more anxious, but the people sent out had already been discovered, and they couldn't enter the factory at all, let alone stealing technology, that is, how people were doing it, and which workers were doing it, he didn't know.

The reason is very simple, these workers live in factories, basically do not go out, their identities are very secretive, and they do not give anyone who wants to snoop on the secrets a chance.

In the house, Princess Yuanguo looked at her imperial brother and said, "Imperial brother, if you go on like this, I'm afraid the big plan won't work!" ”

The prince of Yuan State nodded: "This emperor of Chu State is not easy to deal with, we made a mistake at the beginning, but the papermaking and printing technology, this prince is bound to win, and now, it is really a dilemma!" ”

"Brother Huang, otherwise, in my opinion, forget it, right? Let's try our best to promote cooperation with Chu State, in the form of buying books, we can also let my Yuan Kingdom have a lot of books, which is nothing more than spending some money. Princess Yuanguo said.

Hearing this, the prince of Yuanguo frowned: "What do you know?" We are spending some money, but Chu has always made money, and this technology not only allows a country to have a huge supply of books, but also a huge source of economic development.

It's easy, I don't know how much money I can make, if my Yuan Kingdom gets this technology, why won't I grow in the future? The most important thing is that the importance of this papermaking and printing technique is enough to determine whether I can become a prince or not, and I am bound to win! ”

Princess Yuanguo pouted: "But what now?" How can you not get this technology at all! ”

The prince of the Yuan Kingdom took a deep breath, thought about it, and then said: "There must be a way, I don't believe it, none of the workers in those factories go out of the factory."

Even if not, someone has seen them, right? Send someone to check on me, find out that there are family members of workers working in the paper printing factory, use them, threaten the workers, and hand over the paper printing technology to us......"

……

The prince of Yuanguo thought that his own method was still very good, and he did what he said, and he immediately sent someone to do it.

And this bad idea is indeed feasible, a day later, the subordinates reported that they found out a family, and found out that the man in her family was working in the paper printing factory.

So, the prince of the Yuan Kingdom sent someone to this family's house and started his plan.

His plan was simple, designed, let the family, find a way to get the men working in the factory back, and then threaten, induce, until they got what they wanted.

One day later......

In the backyard of an ordinary person in a small alley.

The prince of the Yuan Kingdom, dressed in white and shengxue, sat on a chair, and in front of him was a beautiful woman in her twenties, a man in her nearly thirty, and a little boy of seven or eight years old.

The family of three all knelt on the ground and looked at the white-clothed prince in front of them.

The prince in white looked indifferent and said, "One hundred thousand taels of silver, say it!" ”

Yet, the man looked at the woman and said, "How did you trick me back into betraying my country?" ”

The woman wept and shook her head and said, "I don't know, they came to the door yesterday and said that they were your creditors, and they came to ask for debts, and I really thought that you were in debt, and in a fit of anger they called you back, and I really didn't know that they lied to me......"

Seeing her like this, the middle-aged man sighed, knowing that he and his wife had been tricked by the man in white in front of him.

The prince in white was obviously a little impatient, and his voice sounded: "You ignore my words? ”

The middle-aged man did not raise his head and said, "I can't tell you the raw materials and processes of papermaking and printing and the sketches of the machine, don't bother here!" ”

The prince in white smiled slightly: "You're not afraid of death?" ”

The middle-aged man snorted: "I'm afraid, and I won't say it!" ”

"Then you, aren't you afraid of the death of your family?" The white-clothed prince said, pulled out the dagger in his hand, and looked at the woman and the child with some playfulness.

The middle-aged man was a little scared when he saw this: "Don't hurt them......"

"Then tell me!" The prince in white yelled.

The middle-aged man shook his head: "Impossible, I can't do anything to betray the State of Chu, His Majesty the Emperor of Chu saved us back then, so that we, and even the entire people of the State of Chu, have a good life, and you want me to betray the State of Chu and your Majesty?" Dream! ”

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged man remembered, but was pressed by the guards beside a prince of the Yuan Kingdom.

The prince of the Yuan Kingdom smiled slightly and said, "Why bother? It's so tough, it's not interesting. ”

The middle-aged man snorted and stopped talking.

However, he saw that the prince of Yuanguo slowly got up and came to the seven-year-old child: "Such a young child, can you bear to let him have no mother?" ”

The middle-aged man's eyes widened: "You don't want to hurt them." ”

"Then say it, I will not only give you money, but also let you go to the Yuan Kingdom to live, glory and wealth, and enjoy inexhaustible, why should you be loyal to a Chu country? No matter how faithful you are, aren't you just with the workers? The prince of the Yuan Kingdom spoke.

The middle-aged man shook his head: "If I don't say it, you will kill my wife and children?" ”

"If that's the case, you must have forced it, and you said it all, why bother?" The prince of the Yuan Kingdom seemed to have a loose tone when he saw the middle-aged man.

So, the dagger continued to roam around with the child, wanting to scare the middle-aged man and hurriedly said.

The middle-aged man took a deep breath: "Don't try to threaten me, I don't want my wife and children to die, I won't tell the secret of paper printing, I will protect my family, I won't betray my motherland......"

As he spoke, the middle-aged man stood up suddenly, rushed to the corner of the courtyard in a few steps, and slammed his head against the wall.

(End of chapter)