Since the eunuch Cai Lun invented the "papermaking technique" a hundred years ago, the transmission of information has finally gotten rid of the heavy bamboo slips.

Cheap raw materials such as bark, hemp rope, and bamboo chips can be produced with soft texture and full toughness after frustration, pounding, frying, drying and other processes, and the cost is low, making paper quickly popular.

This also allowed Yuan Mai to use the media to launch a public opinion offensive against Cao Cao, otherwise, it would be simply whimsical to rely on bamboo slips to spread information.

There is a medium for communication, but it is purely manual copying, which is really inefficient.

You Heng wrote down an article, and sprinkled four or five thousand words, and a calligrapher could only write seven or eight copies in a day. The newspaper recruited a dozen bookmakers, all of whom were transcribing at full capacity, and at the end of the day, it was about 100 copies.

After the opening of the newspaper, dozens of bookmakers took turns working day and night, and only produced more than 1,000 copies of the "Dahan Monthly".

"It seems that we have to promote the printing industry, otherwise my public opinion offensive will definitely not have much effect!"

Yuan Mai sat in the study, holding his chin with both hands, and after some careful consideration, decided to implement "engraving printing".

Yuan Mai knows the principle of printing, but it is not easy to implement, this is not something that can be done with a stroke of brain.

Immediately sent someone to summon Ma Jun, Fu Zhu, Xu Shu and other highly intelligent people to discuss the plan, after listening to Yuan Mai's idea. Everyone applauded in unison, "Wonderful, wonderful, this idea is simply genius!" ”

Immediately appeared on the list, recruited stonemasons with high salaries, and then began to make "letterpress stone carvings" under the leadership of Ma Jun.

Yuan Mai once again made a suggestion to popularize the "movable type printing technique" that only appeared in the Song Dynasty, and let Ma Jun lead the stonemasons to carve some of the radicals of the men, and then combine them according to the content of the article when printing, which will greatly improve the efficiency of printing.

Half a month later. The "Dahan Weekly", which was engraved and printed by letterpress, was finally published. After a day of printing. The three thousand sheets were uniformly laid out, and the same font "Fa Cao Xuanwen" was presented in front of Yuan Mai and all the staff.

He took a newspaper in his hand, and after reading it, he looked happy and praised it repeatedly: "Okay." That's great! The crimes of the Cao thief are listed one by one. Bullying the king. Indiscriminate killing of innocents is a heinous crime! Your article is written in a beautiful and sonorous manner. Childe's idea is even more whimsical. Rambled; The advent of printing is the first of its kind for mankind. In this way, the evil deeds of Cao Thief are well known, and the people in the world are bowing and spitting, and the day of their fall is not far away! ”

Within a few days, 20,000 "newspapers and periodicals" listing Cao Cao's crimes flowed into Cao Cao's control area, although the printing technology at this time was extremely simple, neither color printing nor ink, but it still made the people feel fresh, and there were many discussions about Cao Cao's crimes described in the newspapers, which made Cao Cao's reputation decline, and the most significant impact was that the number of recruits was lower than usual.

"Yuan buys a rebel, it is very hateful, and he actually uses such a method to demagogue!"

Cao Cao was furious after reading the case, and what especially gave him a headache was that the article signed by You Heng was written bitterly and bitterly, making his satirical body incomplete, and describing him Cao Mengde as a cruel, black-bellied, cunning, lustful, and arrogant demon, who was extremely sarcastic.

couldn't help but look up to the sky and said angrily: "I knew this earlier, I regret not at the beginning, if I killed You Heng with a knife, it would also save the disaster of today!" ”

Guo Jiajin said: "The matter has come to this point, it is useless to regret it, when people are sent to all counties to search strictly, once such a document is found, it will be confiscated and destroyed immediately." And the announcement that if someone spreads it privately, it will be punished as a crime of collaborating with the enemy! ”

Cao Cao had no better way, so he had to hand over this matter to his son Cao Pi, and ordered him to organize a special force to go to various places to collect the propaganda newspapers and periodicals distributed by Yuan Mai, and to warn the people that they should not spread it privately, and hand it over immediately once they were found.

Under Cao Pi's strong suppression, the influence of newspapers and periodicals on Cao Cao's smear was slightly weakened, but it made the people of the Central Plains panic, and some timid people not only did not dare to hide the "newspaper papers" they had picked up, but even burned the books left by their ancestors, so as not to be wrongfully imprisoned by the people of the Yamen.

was bought by Yuan to make such a fuss, in the Spring Festival of the fifth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao had a very unhappy time, and was infected with a cold, after the diagnosis and treatment of the doctor, fortunately there was no major problem.

But after this incident, Cao Cao suddenly understood that his biggest opponent was not Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao's son Yuan Mai!

This guy does things out of nowhere, and he doesn't play cards according to normal routines, such as the last time he let Koji surrender and abduct Gao Shun and Zhang Liao from Xuzhou, no one in normal people would do this; And this time, the so-called "newspaper" was unheard of before.

Yuan Shao's strength seems to be strong, but in fact, he is strong on the outside, and he has been defeated repeatedly in continuous confrontations with himself. Although Yuan Mai has only become famous in recent years, he has not taken advantage of him, from the defeat of Zhu Ling Liyang, to the fall of Pingyang, and then to the looting of Henan, one by one, the losses are all the generals under his own hands......

"Shhh...... This Yuan buys great! ”

Cao Cao stood on the magnificent Jinluan Hall in Xuchang, looked out of the main hall, and saw that the ground was covered with snow, a piece of white, and the palace against the background was even more solemn and sacred, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

At this moment, the civil and military officials and the emperor have not yet come to the early dynasty, as long as they are in Xuchang, Cao Cao will often come to the Jinluan Hall early to look out.

Looking at the majestic palace, Cao Cao's fighting spirit will be burned, even if he does not have the opportunity to ascend to the supreme throne, he must clear the obstacles for future generations, whether it is the temple Jiuqing, or the princes of various states, those who stand in my way will be destroyed, those who follow me will prosper, and those who oppose me will die!

Facing the cold wind, standing at the door of the main hall, Cao Cao enjoyed the feeling of the cold wind, only in this way will he be more motivated, and comfort will only make people fall!

"It seems that we must re-examine Yuan Shao's son in the future, and we can no longer use the eyes of Yuan Shao's other dogs to locate this Yuan Mai, otherwise, I will definitely suffer a big loss!"

Cao Cao stroked his beard and said to himself in his heart: "The last time I was cooking wine with Liu Bei and talking about heroes, I missed a Yuan Mai, maybe this kid is my lifelong enemy!" If you can't trample him under your feet, there will be no way to talk about hegemony! ”

The New Year is approaching, Yuan Mai pinched his fingers, and the few days of the New Year happened to be the period of Lu Lingqi's childbirth, so he took advantage of the absence of war and took Zhou Cang to lead 500 people to march to Jinyang in the face of the severe cold.

I once promised Lu Lingqi that I must be by my side when he gives birth, and my husband promises a thousand gold, and he must do what he says!

As soon as the team left Huai County, they greeted Zhu Gongdao, who was returning from Hedong, and when he saw Yuan Mai, he shook his head and sighed: "Alas...... It's really embarrassing, I really didn't expect Jia Liangdao to be so stubborn, he refused to come and surrender, he had to be a small county lieutenant in Jiangyi! ”

Jia Kui refused to surrender, and Yuan Mai was also a little surprised, but it was useless to blame Zhu Ao, considering that Jia Kui and Wang Ling were a pair of good friends in history, I don't know how their friendship is now?

"Justice doesn't have to blame yourself, everyone has their own ambitions, I heard that Wang Ling and Jia Kui have a good personal relationship, you can go to Taiyuan with me, see Wang Ling, let him persuade Jia Kui, see if he can abandon Cao to vote!"

A group of more than 500 people braved the snow to the north, rode fast horses, walked 600 miles for three days, and entered Jinyang City.

Yuan Mai didn't bother to go into the Assassin's Mansion to visit Concubine Lu and Concubine Zhao, so he first came to the Taishou Mansion with Zhu Gongdao to look for Wang Ling, and asked him if he knew Jia Kui in Hedong?

"Oops...... You see, I forgot about it! ”

Wang Ling patted his head and apologized after hearing this, "Don't you know, Liang Dao and I have known each other for more than seven years, and we are like siblings, and I still helped him get him, the county lieutenant of Jiangyi!" I have been busy with political affairs for the past year, and I have forgotten this good brother! Since the envoy wants to recruit Liang Dao, I will take a trip to Jiangyi, and even if I tie up, I will tie up Jia Kui! ”

Yuan Mai was overjoyed, and immediately entrusted Wang Ling and Zhu Ao to go to Jiangyi in Hedong again and invite Jia Kui.

and Concubine Zhao have been separated for half a year, and they have to turn the phoenix upside down at night; Zhao Zhi and Lu Lingqi have a deep sisterhood, and the three of them shared the bed that night, so naturally they had to go to Wushan, but Lu Lingqi was about to give birth, and she could only be an audience.

Three days later, Lu Lingqi felt abdominal pain, and Yuan Mai sent someone to urgently recruit Wen Po to deliver the baby, and after tossing for most of the day, the baby fell to the ground, and it turned out to be another boy.

"Haha...... It seems that I, Yuan Xianyong, were born with many sons and grandchildren, so I don't have to worry that there will be no successors in the future! ”

Looking at his infant son, Yuan Mai laughed loudly. Although this child is small, he looks at the broad bones, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and has the style of his maternal grandfather, and is likely to be a fierce general when he grows up.

The child's name had been chosen when Lu was just pregnant, the boy was called Yuan Zhuo, and the girl was called Yuan Ke. But at this moment, looking at his son's heroic face, Yuan Mai decided to change the name of Lu's son.

"My son seems to be the material of a fierce general, you can't call Yuan Zhuo such a polite name, just call Yuan Meng! In the future, he will be a member of the tiger general, invincible on the battlefield! ”

Lu Lingqi didn't care, hugged the baby in the swaddling clothes, and sighed: "The concubine wants to give birth to a daughter, but I didn't expect it to be a son, the daughter is well-behaved and filial, and it is better to give birth to a daughter." ”

Yuan Mai laughed evilly: "Don't mind, madam, if you work hard in a few days, you may have a daughter in the next year and a half." ”

When Lu Lingqi heard this, she said in a coquettish voice: "In front of many people, the husband must not talk nonsense. ”

Listening to the frolic between Lord Thorn Shi and his wife, the maids lowered their heads and snickered. (To be continued......)