Chapter Sixty-Nine: Meeting the Gambling

Yang Yi's ambition is simple, but it is enough to make everyone's hearts surge.

After some detailed arrangements, Yang Yi saw that it was getting late and asked everyone to go back to the room to rest.

"Lao Liu, you stay." Yang Yi stopped Liu Wenzheng, there were some relatively confidential things that needed to be explained to Liu Wenzheng alone.

Liu Wenzheng nodded, and also knew that Yang Yi had something to say to him, and when everyone left, Yang Yi closed them up, came to Yang Yi and waited for his orders.

"How? Feeling okay lately? Yang Yi said with a smile.

Liu Wenzheng understood what Yang Yi meant, Yang Yi changed his life, from a down-and-out scholar who no one looked at to him to the big shopkeeper of Chinese embroidery, there is no doubt that this is the most important turning point in his life.

Liu Wenzheng was a little excited, he was very glad that he had made a bold decision to follow this Ninth Emperor Prince Yang Yi, who everyone looked down upon, and said: "Your Highness's kindness is difficult for Wen Zheng to repay." ”

Yang Yi waved his hand and said with a smile: "I know that there is a saying that gold always has to shine, I helped you summon the sunshine, whether you can shine or not depends on yourself." ”

Liu Wenzheng clenched his fists and did not speak, it was useless to say too many words of gratitude at this time, and the two of them still had a long way to go.

Yang Yi waved his hand to let Liu Wenzheng sit down and asked, "I asked you to check that paper mill and have any results?" ”

"I have already sent someone to check, that family has moved out of the imperial capital, and they also have the same handle in the hands of others as Yuan Liu, and they may not come back."

"And what about their paper mill?"

"The paper mill has been bought by the government at a reasonable price, and now we are looking for someone to take over."

"Well, tomorrow you go to the government to buy the paper mill, and we will take over." Yang Yi turned around and took a small wooden carving seal on the table and said: "In addition, in terms of manpower, in addition to looking for people who know papermaking technology, we must also recruit a group of good craftsmen who print books. ”

"Your Highness, do you want to..."Liu Wenzheng said with some doubts.

Yang Yi put the small wood carving seal on the table and said with a smile: "I know that a set of very advanced printing techniques can greatly improve text printing, and when you recruit talents in this area, I will give you a specific plan." ”

"After the paper printing workshop is stabilized, it is logical that the first private newspaper in Daguang will be opened."

Liu Wenzheng was confused when he heard it, he didn't know what strange things he, a master with extraordinary thinking, wanted to do, but every time Yang Yi made these things, it would surprise people.

Yang Yi didn't explain much, of course Liu Wenzheng didn't know what traditional media was, let alone public opinion control. Daguang actually has a newspaper, Yang Yi has even seen it, the kind of thing called an official newspaper is actually more like a kind of Tang newspaper, not only has a small circulation and is only conveyed to the state-level officials, but also the content is very limited, it is some official words of the imperial court.

Yang Yi wants to set up a private newspaper, which is equivalent to having an extra mouth that can speak to the world. Of course, Yang Yi didn't mean that he wouldn't let his newspaper comment on political affairs, and in the imperial feudal society, he was looking for death.

Everything is explained, Yang Yi knows that his small chariot, which has already sat on many people, will start slowly, not so much because Yang Yi started it, but because he was forced by life to push forward.

Yang Yi began to miss his previous life a little. In my previous life, although I felt that my life was also very hard and tired, I didn't have to sleep anyway and closed my eyes when I was still thinking about whether I would die inexplicably such a funny thing.

The meaning of the word "life" in Daguang is very rude, and there is no need to associate any conceptual understanding of work pressure and emotional pressure, it will live and live. It's like playing chess, where there are only red and white pieces on the board, and the way to get out of this board is very simple--- to be eaten by the opponent.

The game of chess in the imperial capital is now complicated, Yang Yi is like a foolish Nine Emperors like a pawn next to the general, he has no strength but is very obstructive, this is a very troublesome thing, in Yang Yi's own words, he is easy to "lie down and get shot". Therefore, Yang Yi tried his best to defend but was still encroached upon step by step, and now that the opposite side has crossed the boundary river, how to solve this dead end, he can only set up a good formation and see the moves.

However, no matter how many dark tides are surging in the imperial capital now, Yang Yi's life has to continue, and every day he goes to the military department and still pulls Hong Zhi and Jia to do their jobs. The only change is that more and more people come to play cards in Langzhongfang, and they are about to become gambling houses.

"One-on-two! There is one left, whether it will be blown up or not. Yang Yi gently covered the last card on the small table, squinted at a middle-aged man opposite, and casually stuffed a melon seed into his mouth.

The middle-aged man looked up at Yang Yi, who was smiling harmlessly, hesitated for a moment and shook his head.

"Haha! A three! Yang Yi laughed and stood up, stretched out his hands and said, "Come on, come on, give money and give money!" ”

The middle-aged man glanced at the pair of "generals" in his hand, patted his forehead in annoyance, and pushed all the remaining silver in front of him to Yang Yi.

Seeing this, Yang Yi smiled and said, "This uncle has no money?" If you don't have money, you'll come back tomorrow, and who else wants to come and fight! ”

Yang Yi won a lot today, Hong Zhi and Jia Zhushu both went out to do errands, and it was really impossible to say that he couldn't win with a group of novice rookies alone. For example, this somewhat sturdy middle-aged uncle, who came to see it for two hours and learned to be ignorant, was about to come up and fight Yang Yi, of course Yang Yi unceremoniously accepted all his belongings.

"Boy! Again! "The middle-aged man seems to have lost his eyes.

Yang Yi shuffled the cards and said with a smile: "I said uncle, why are you gambling when you have no money?" ”

The middle-aged man snorted, looked at Yang Yi and said, "Xiaowa will borrow some money first, and pay you back when I win!" ”

Yang Yi frowned and looked at the middle-aged man, grabbed the silver and said, "You don't have to pay it back, just don't ask me to borrow it after you lose." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, deal the cards quickly!"

The ending was predictable, and in less than half an hour, the silver in front of the middle-aged man was lost again.

Seeing the middle-aged man staring at him again, Yang Yi swept all the silver in front of him into his sleeve pocket, and said with a smile: "No way!" ”

The middle-aged man also smiled and said, "You baby is not bright." ”

"Everyone who is bright has to go hungry."

"The old man never loses his words."

"Half an hour ago you said you were going to win, and you lost again."

The middle-aged man thought about it seriously and said, "I didn't count just now, I found the trick this time." ”

"The trick is to ask me if you lose?"

"Little baby, you have a word, borrow or not!"

"Hey... Do not borrow. ”

The middle-aged man was about to get angry, when a pawn suddenly ran in from outside the hall and exclaimed, "Master Shangshu is here!" ”

One sentence was like a cannon battle blown up in the pigeon, and in the blink of an eye, the crowd in the lobby was dispersed, leaving only the middle-aged man and Yang Yi.