Chapter 19: The Uninvited Guest

However, Shen Yue thought to himself, these arrangements alone are not enough, if he wants to gain a foothold in this Ming Dynasty and change the regrets in history, he needs to bring more people in, otherwise with the development of the beacon business, he will continue to be hated and suspicious by others, and he also needs to spread his influence from this small county town, so that there can be a day when the beacon fire will burn the plains, so that the tragedy at the end of the Ming Dynasty will not be staged again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The lobby of the beacon shop is full of businessmen and gentry at this moment, and this time they were invited to the gathering, everyone was a little uneasy in their hearts, since the news that the Huang family was intercepted and killed after leaving the city, there were rumors in private, and they were a little in awe of this young man's bloodless means of killing people.

A group of people were gathering around and talking to each other, and when they saw Shen Yue and others coming in, the lobby became silent.

Motioning for everyone to sit down, Shen Yue said loudly: "I invite you to come to the meeting today, because I want to discuss a way out with everyone and make a fortune together." ”

Everyone listened to this, and their hearts were a little relieved, this beacon business is now booming, the goods are novel and practical, all the merchants are a little red-eyed, and now they have the opportunity to cooperate, and they will definitely make a lot of money, so they are all listening.

Seeing that everyone was hung up with appetite, Shen Yue continued,

"Nowadays, the north is in chaos, how many shops are closed, how many businessmen are displaced, these are all seen with your own eyes, but the more difficult the world, the more we must unite, and now we urgently need to go out and open up trade routes in the stable south."

Everyone had personal experience of the difficulties Shen Yue said, why didn't they think about going south to do business, and they were all happy to see that the Beacon Firm wanted to take the lead, and asked Shen Yue what the charter was.

"You have all seen it these days, the goods of our beacon company are unique, and we will be able to open up a big market in the south, but the business is just beginning, and we are in urgent need of various talents, so I want to use the agency of these commodities to teach you, and at the same time, you need to send some skilled craftsmen to the business, so that there will be more and better things to make in the future, and we will be more sure to go south."

For the craftsmen under them, everyone didn't care much, but they were all active when they could exchange the agency rights of the Beacon Firm, and they didn't give in to each other, so they started bidding at Shen Yue's suggestion.

Don't look at this as the border pass in the north, those who can persist so far are all wealthy people, and finally raised more than 100,000 taels of silver, as well as nearly 100 craftsmen from all walks of life.

Shen Yue was happy in his heart, this time not only earned enough capital to go south, but also got a hundred craftsmen, so that he could continue to play his strengths, and these merchants would also be attached to the Beacon Firm in the future and charge forward for their own development plans.

After some consolidation, the business is now on the right track, and the workshops have also stepped up their efforts to prepare goods for the south.

Taking advantage of his leisure, Shen Yue set his sights on the printing bureau again, after all, relying on himself to influence the people around him is still slow, and it can spread farther through books, and it is easier for people to accept.

Shen Yue did not intend to publish the theories or techniques of later generations, but wanted to instill in the people a kind of enterprising ambition, and although the Ming Dynasty's policy of seclusion and seclusion was partly due to the invasion of the coast by the Japanese invaders, it was also plagued by the idea of self-sufficient small peasants.

And Shen Yue knows that the technology he is good at, no matter how advanced it is, in the eyes of the world, it is just a trick that is not in the flow, and it is not attractive to people who are not enterprising and adventurous, and they will be regarded as outliers.

The tragedy of the Chinese nation in modern times is because of this, and Shen Yue is determined to break this cage.

The book to be published has been brewing for a long time, and finally Journey to the West was chosen, a story that has been written since the Yuan Dynasty and has been praised by many people. Although Wu Chengen was born in one or two hundred years, he has this book on his mobile phone, and it is easy to write.

After exhausting all the remaining power of the mobile phone, Shen Yue sorted out the wonderful passages in it, and revised it repeatedly in a few days, and a Journey to the West that was completely contrary to the original book was born.

In line with the spirit of giving full play to the obscenity of later generations of online novels, Shen Yue adjusted the identities of the four Tang monks and apprentices, and changed them into roles such as down-and-out scholars, exiled refugees, and reckless heroes.

For this unrecognizable Journey to the West, Shen Yue doesn't care about its literaryness, but tries his best to seduce the greed of people today. In all walks of life, businessmen are the most adventurous, and some people can do whatever it takes for their interests, Shen Yue did not hesitate to release money, the most irresistible devil, to attract the eyes of the world overseas. Stimulated by the dream of glory and wealth, come and pursue the Tao you want to spread.

Just as the Western powers described the Eastern countries as mountains of gold in the Age of Discovery, the thirst for money stimulated the rapid development of science and technology.

Listening to Shen Yue's new Journey to the West, Guan Xing and others were excited, they had not experienced the indiscriminate bombardment of all kinds of obscene and cool texts in later generations, and the first time they heard such a heartstring-piercing story, they were all addicted, and they were eager to go to sea to hunt for treasures.

And the treasure near Wei County has just been experienced, and everyone is not satisfied, and when they see this novel published by the Beacon Firm, they are all talking about it on the streets and alleys for a while, and they are vying to buy it. The Ming Dynasty was able to appear three of the four famous novels, which shows that the printing industry has been very advanced, and the people are very enthusiastic about these novels.

Shen Yue raised his eyes and looked into the distance, his little butterfly had begun to tremble its wings, and a violent storm was about to set off under the big tomorrow.

On this day, Shen Yue was designing new tools in the blacksmith workshop, but he saw the county commander Ouyang Chen walking in with a burly strong man, and saw Shen Yue The strong man laughed and said: "You are the little proprietor who can make bows and crossbows and bombard thieves?" ”

Shen Yue saw this person stumbling around as if he was in his own home, and asked with some doubts: "It is under you, dare to ask the surname of Haohan?" ”

"You kid is a little bold, I'm the invincible general Mao Taiye." The strong man smirked.

The invincible general Mao Taiye? Isn't it Chang Mao, the eldest son of Chang Yuchun, the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Yue listened to the commentary "The Legend of the Martyrs" when he was a child, and he was very familiar with Chang Mao.

Seeing that although he is not eight feet tall and has a waist circumference of eight feet like the storyteller, he has resolute lines on his face, sword eyebrows and sideburns, and a pair of fine eyes revealing shrewdness and wisdom.

Although Shen Yue likes Chang Mao very much in the commentary, he doesn't know what this person's true temperament is.

"I heard that the thunder you made is extremely powerful, and I need you to help me deal with the Yuan soldiers in the north, and I came here this time to ask you to go with me on the expedition." Chang Mao said earnestly.

Seeing that Shen Yue was a little hesitant, Ouyang Chen hurriedly stepped forward to explain,

"This matter is very important, General Chang led the troops to come, because a group of Yuan soldiers gathered outside the pass, under the nest, there are eggs, my generation should do their best to serve the country."

Shen Yue saw him talking eloquently, and his heart was not that you went to the front line to kill the enemy, so he naturally said generously. But it is true that the situation is not in his favor, and there was originally a plan to go north to the three northeastern provinces, so I can check it out this time. It will take some time to prepare for going south to do business. Looking at the posture of the two of them, it is difficult for him to dodge, but if he can make contributions from it, it will also be beneficial to the later development, so he agreed.

Chang Mao saw that he agreed, and he was not in a hurry to leave, he walked around the workshops, he had no shelf, and he was a little arrogant, so Shen Yue went by him, and he hurriedly found some craftsmen to prepare for the expedition.