Chapter 177: Mingxin Pavilion (Third Watch)
One day in late October, taking advantage of the five-day holiday), Li Yuntian led Lu Cao, Chen Ningning and Zhao Wanrou to a house in the east of the capital. Watch the latest chapter of Perfect World, and look at it quickly.
To be honest, the location of this mansion is not good, it can even be said to be remote, not only close to the root of the city wall but also in the civilian area, which is not suitable for people of Li Yuntian's status to live in at all.
A middle-aged man named Qi Fu led a group of people to greet him outside the courtyard gate and led Li Yuntian and others into a courtyard in the southeast of the house.
There is a tall and spacious storeroom in the courtyard, and some machines used for movable type printing are neatly placed in the storeroom, which was originally a small printing factory.
A year ago, Li Yuntian asked Zheng Wanrou's eldest brother, Zheng Boxin, to buy a small printing workshop in Yangzhou and invest a sum of money to renovate it.
Zheng Boxin was very strange, he didn't know why Li Yuntian was interested in a small workshop, but since it was Li Yuntian's request, then he would do it.
Qi Fu and others entered Beijing with Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou, and with them came a large number of printing machines, that is, those in the warehouse.
With Qi Fu's order, the guys operated the machine in an orderly manner to print, and their movements were skillful and concise.
"Very good." Soon, Qi Fu handed a large piece of paper full of words to Li Yuntian, Li Yuntian checked it and nodded, the handwriting was clear, and the effect was better than he expected.
"Master, are you going to sell books?" The green calyx walked over suspiciously, and asked with some puzzlement, in her opinion, this kind of printing workshop has no other use than to print books.
"Books are just one of the businesses, and the master wants to create a new industry in Daming." Li Yuntian smiled and said meaningfully.
"Master, you are still playing dumb riddles with the concubines." Chen Ningning smiled when she saw this, she was also very curious about what Li Yuntian was going to do after all.
"This piece of paper has not only the decisions of the imperial court, but also the interesting stories of the people, as well as the quality of the classics of history, so my father called it 'newspaper', a paper newspaper of the world!" Li Yuntian smiled slightly, handed the paper in his hand to the green calyx, and clapped his hands outside the warehouse door.
The two men then walked in carrying a plaque with gold edges, and inside the plaque was a piece of rice paper, on which there were two big characters with vigorous pen power - Ming Xin, and there were signatures and seals on the side.
Zheng Wanrou was closest to the plaque, and when she walked over to see it, she was stunned, and then looked at Li Yuntian in surprise.
The word on the plaque is "Qin this", and the word on the seal is "Hongxi Imperial Treasure", Hongxi is the year name of Zhu Gaochi, doesn't Hongxi Imperial Treasure represent Zhu Gaochi?
"These two words were mentioned by the emperor, and our newspaper will be called 'Mingxin' in the future." Li Yuntian nodded to Zheng Wanrou, confirmed her guess, and announced with a smile.
"Long live the emperor, long live, long live!" Hearing this, Lu Cao, Chen Ningning, Zheng Wanrou, Qi Fu and others knelt down one after another, and saluted the plaque respectfully.
Li Yuntian handed the plaque to Qi Fu and asked him to find a spacious and bright place to hang it, and in the future, this mansion will be called "Mingxin Pavilion".
Qi Fu hurriedly sent someone to hang the plaque on the wall facing the door of the front yard hall, with an excited smile on his face, he never thought that he would one day see the emperor's Mobao.
Li Yuntian led Lu Calyx and the others in the hall to look at the plaque on the wall with great interest, with Zhu Gaochi's Mobao in charge, then the grade of Mingxin Pavilion was virtually raised to a new height.
"Alas, this yard is really lively!" Just as everyone was talking and laughing, a rough voice came from the courtyard gate behind him.
Li Yuntian turned his head and saw that a tall and fat man led a dozen gangster-looking young men swaggering in.
When he saw Lu Calyx, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou, the fat man's eyes suddenly lit up, he had never seen such a beautiful and charming little lady, and there were three.
"This is the Tiger Master." After entering the hall, a thug who was as thin as a hemp pole pointed at the fat man and said to Li Yuntian with a big grin.
"I wonder what your Excellency is here?" Li Yuntian glanced at the fat man who was staring at Lu Cao, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou in a daze, and asked quietly.
"You're from Jiangnan." The fat man came back to his senses, sat down on the chair on the side of himself, and looked at Li Yuntian with Erlang's legs on his feet, "This capital is not as good as the place, the hidden dragon and the crouching tiger, if you want to mix here, the incense that should be burned must be burned, otherwise you may not be lucky enough." β
"I don't understand what Your Excellency means." Li Yuntian heard the threat in the fat man's words, and his brows couldn't help frowning.
"For your sake, Uncle Ben will sue you." The fat man thought that Li Yuntian was a "chick" who was not deeply involved in the world, so he said slowly, "Although the capital is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the dragons and snakes are mixed, and the three sects and nine streams converge, and it is easy to have an accident if no one covers it." β
"If you have any accidents, wouldn't these three little ladies stay alone in the empty room?" Then, the fat man looked at the three green calyx in a daze, and the big man standing behind him suddenly burst into a burst of laughter.
Green Calyx, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou saw the fat man openly ** them in public, and suddenly their willow eyebrows rose up, and their masks glared at him with frost, and there was a special flavor between the coquettish anger.
"How are you going to cover it?" The corners of Li Yuntian's mouth showed a sneer, and he asked expressionlessly, it seems that this fat man really doesn't know life or death, not only blackmailing him in public, but also daring to ** his concubine.
"Five hundred taels of silver a month!" When the fat man heard this, his eyes rolled, the lion opened his mouth, and stretched out his right hand and five fingers at Li Yuntian, "Uncle Ben guarantees that you are okay in Dongcheng." β
The so-called sky-high asking price, pay back the money on the spot, of course he wants to open the price a little higher, so that Li Yuntian can bargain.
"Qi is in charge, and five hundred taels of silver are on the counter for the tiger master." To the surprise of the fat man, Li Yuntian did not bargain, but smiled slightly and said to Qi Fu who was standing aside.
Qi Fu was stunned when he heard this, and then walked out quickly, he didn't understand that Li Yuntian was afraid of these gangsters as an imperial historian.
Green Calyx, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou couldn't help but glance at each other, and when they looked at the fat man, their eyes showed a look of pity, whenever Li Yuntian smiled, it showed that he was about to kill the killer, as long as the fat man dared to accept the five hundred taels of silver, then the end would be very miserable.
The fat man couldn't help but feel extremely annoyed in his heart now, he had known that Li Yuntian would agree so quickly, so he would raise the price.
After a while, Qi Fu came in with five silver tickets of one hundred taels and handed them to Li Yuntian.
"Master Hu, I handed over the money in the next, do you want to give the next voucher?" Li Yuntian glanced at the silver ticket in his hand and looked up at the fat man.
"It's nature." The fat man nodded disappreciatively when he heard this, and said to the thug next to him who was as thin as a hemp stick, "Write a receipt for this son." β
The hemp thug asked Qi Fu's people to take the pen and paper, and wrote down a receipt, which stated that he had received a silver ticket of five hundred taels, and then the fat man pressed his handprint on it.
"Master Tiger, since you are here, let's have a cup of tea and leave, I have a good Longjing before the rain here, and I will rely on Lord Tiger a lot in the future." Li Yuntian picked up the receipt and looked at it, and said to the fat man with a smile.
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." The fat man saw that Li Yuntian knew the current affairs so well, so he stuffed the five silver tickets into his arms, and sat there with a big grin, his eyes swirling on Lu Cao, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou, secretly thinking about how to get these three beautiful little ladies.
The maids soon brought tea, and the fat man boasted to Li Yuntian that he could eat both black and white dishes in the capital and made friends with many high-ranking officials and powerful children in the capital, and at the same time hinted to Li Yuntian that he had a crush on Lu Calyx, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou, and wanted Li Yuntian to send the three daughters to serve him for a few days.
In the fat man's opinion, Lu Cao, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou are obviously Li Yuntian's concubines, and it is normal to give concubines to others.
Li Yuntian was quietly perfunctory, and the fat man who was talking boastfully didn't realize that the smile on the corner of the young man's mouth in front of him became colder and colder, and his eyes became more and more awe-inspiring.
Just when the fat man finished drinking the second cup of tea, there was a messy footsteps outside the door, as if there were a lot of people, he subconsciously turned his head to look, and then jumped up like a spring, his eyes were full of horror.
The group of people who came in were wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives on their waists, which were the brocade guards who made the people of the capital talk about the tiger.
"My lord, ma'am!" The leading one is Li Manshan, he is already a hundred households of Zhengliupin at this time, and after entering the door, he bowed his hand to Li Yuntian and Lu Cao, Chen Ningning, and Zheng Wanrou.
"My lord, ma'am!" The brocade guards who followed him also bowed to Li Yuntian and the four of them.
Li Manshan was originally the general banner of the seventh grade, but after Emperor Hongxi ascended the throne, although Li Yuntian himself did not get any benefits, but the people around him rose one after another, and Li Manshan directly jumped from the test hundred households of the sixth product to the hundred households of the sixth product, and his subordinates were in charge of the brothers of the hundred and tenth.
The fat man looked at the scene in front of him dumbfounded, he recognized the clothes of Jinyiwei, and he also knew that Jinyiwei was the first guard next to the Son of Heaven, arrogant and domineering, but the hundred households in front of him were respectful to Li Yuntian, which was really incredible.
"This person is blatantly blackmailing this imperial history, which is really hateful!" Li Yuntian put down the teacup in his hand, coldly took out the fat man's receipt from his body and put it on the table.
"Imperial ...... Imperial History! When the fat man heard this, he only felt that his eyes were a little black, his body couldn't help trembling, his forehead was covered with beads of sweat, he didn't expect that the young man in front of him would be the imperial history anyway, and even those officials in the court didn't dare to provoke the imperial history, let alone him, a flat-headed commoner.
"Take them all away and hand them over to Tianfu!" Li Manshan picked up the receipt and glanced at it, and then said to his subordinates standing at the door with an expressionless face.
When the brocade guard at the door heard this, he immediately grabbed the collar of the fat man and the others and dragged them out.
"Adults spare their lives, adults spare their lives!" The fat man was walked out with his arms crossed by two tall brocade guards, and he was already so frightened that his face turned pale at this time, and he begged Li Yuntian for mercy with a crying voice.
"My lord, how should this case be handled?" Li Manshan glanced at the fat man, leaned over to Li Yuntian's side and asked.
"Eliminate the evil, fight the grass and scare the snake!" Li Yuntian groaned for a moment, and slowly spit out eight words from his mouth.
"Humble duty understands." Li Manshan bowed his hand to Li Yuntian and took the fat man and others to Shuntian Mansion.
Li Yuntian knew that the fat man was just a little minion who ran errands, and there must be a boss on the underworld behind him, but he didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so he only took the fat man under the knife, gave the person behind the fat man a dismount, and warned the other party not to provoke him.
Due to the huge amount of extortion, and the object of the extortion is Yushi, and it is a criminal sent by Jinyiwei, so Shuntianfu attaches great importance to this case, and many evil deeds of the fat man are exposed after an investigation.
As a result, the fat man was naturally sentenced to death, and he was dragged to the vegetable market to cut off his head in the autumn of the following year, and those gangsters who followed him were also punished by different Cheng DΓΉ.
Since then, no one from the underworld has come to Mingxinguan to make trouble, not to mention the people from the white way, who can afford to provoke Li Yuntian when they are full? One