At the moment when Lu Qian, the head of the Lu family, suddenly pulled out his knife and rushed out, Qin Mu jumped out first, taking the initiative to block Lu Qian's splitting knife, Qin Mu suddenly pushed away, and a horizontal slash counterattack was split, and Lu Qian turned over to dodge.

Qin Mu had several sets of fierce attack knife techniques, and Lu Qian was caught off guard, so he could only retreat again and again, and then retreated a few backflips to dodge the knife techniques, reached the side of the pillar, jumped on the pillar, and counterattacked Qin Mu.

Qin Mu raised his knife to block, and Lu Qian was slashing left and right, and he could only defend. Seeing the situation, Qin Mu found a loophole and kicked it with his foot, but Lu Qian dodged, so the offense and defense were exchanged.

In this way, Qin Mu and Lu Qian fought inseparably.

Ji Zhen's eyes never left Jiang Mo, neither ordering the knife and axe to hack Jiang Mo to death, nor stopping Lu Qian's attack, as if letting the situation develop.

Jiang Mo beckoned to Ji Zhen, and seemed to see that the two were on par in kung fu, so he let it go.

Ji Zhen still approached Jiang Mo with a polite smile and asked softly, "What's the matter with the son?" ”

Jiang Mo unfolded his fan and said with a smile: "It's nothing, looking at your appearance, you have already prepared for the worst, right?" ”

"What does that mean?"

"You're just showing it to the owner of this restaurant, right?"

Ji Zhen laughed awkwardly: "I don't understand what you mean?" ”

"It doesn't matter!" Jiang Mo shook his fan, "I'll just tell you, not only is it useless to kill me, but even if that person appears to reconcile with you, it's useless, the papermaking technique has already spread!" ”

Ji Zhen's pupils dilated and retreated to his position, and his arm hesitated for a long time before finally smashing the wine glass.

In an instant, several strong men rushed out with knives and axes, wanting to surround Jiang Mo and the others, and even a close knife and axe hand came up and slashed over.

This time, Wutong screamed again, but he still hugged Jiang Mo with his trembling body, as if trying to block the chopping axe for him.

For a long time, the axe did not fall.

Seeing that something was wrong, Qin Mu immediately protected Jiang Mo and went to block the sudden attack.

At this time, dozens of big men had surrounded Jiang Mo and the others.

Jiang Mo pushed Wutong away, touched Wutong's head with his hand, and comforted gently, "Silly girl, it's okay, if you're afraid, hide behind me." ”

Jiang Mo then got up and stretched, and several big men seemed to be stunned, obviously a little surprised that Jiang Mo was so unafraid of death.

Jiang Mo put away the fan and sneered: "Since I dare to come, naturally I didn't die in vain, I originally wanted to talk about business, but I didn't want to be treated like this!" Yune! ”

I saw a white shadow suddenly break into the house, and a few followers kicked a few times on a certain beam and pillar, and then jumped directly to Jiang Mo's side, that body is not comparable to a few big men, the sword is like a lotus in front of those people, and the weapons of several big men are picked out in an instant.

Of course, there are two of them who obviously have higher martial arts, and they are quick and have not been unloaded by Yu Ne, and the two sword and axe men still have weapons in their hands, and they are ready to continue to attack, and the big man who picks up the weapons also tries to pounce on them without his life.

Yu Nie glanced at Jiang Mo obliquely, his eyes were full of murderous intent and tried to tell him: these people are all using all their strength, he can only use the killing machine, otherwise he will not be able to protect him.

Just as the two axemen were about to drop their swords, Yune's sword was about to pierce one of them in the throat.

"Wait!"

A domineering shout made the axe men stop, and they also saved their own lives.

At this time, Ji Zhen finally stopped the fight, and waved his hand, and the swords and axes retreated behind the guests.

Ji Zhen was no longer so polite, and said with a little playfulness: "I'm very interested, what else can you talk to us about?" ”

Jiang Mo unfolded the fan again, and the opening and closing of the fan also showed his nervousness and relaxation, but he had to pretend that he didn't care, and said with a bit of arrogance: "Is this what it looks like to talk about business?" ”

All the representatives of the Shi clan gate lords were talking, and Lu Qian even still held a knife and shouted, "What is there to talk about you?" ”

Ji Zhen first appeased the other scholars, and then acted respectfully, and continued to pretend to be harmless to humans and animals, in this noisy negotiation, only Li Hongliang of the Li family always drank tea quietly, and did not look angry at all, but made Jiang Mo feel uneasy.

Only a person with a plan in his heart can be so calm.

Jiang Mo slowly sat back in his position, and also let Qin Muyu put away his weapon, and slowly spit out: "There are no eternal friends, of course, there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests, the papermaking process I developed can give you, so that you can reduce some manufacturing costs and losses." ”

Ji Zhen spread his hands and seemed to smile with some disdain, but his tone changed from flat to tough: "This monetary loss is very small to the Ji clan, you know, papermaking and printing affect the fate of the Shi clan in the next few decades!" What compensation can you get? ”

Jiang Mo also replied unceremoniously: "The Gate Valve Clan relies on better education and higher material conditions, are you still worried that the people at the bottom will cultivate many talents who are stronger than you in the future?" Hehe, you just want to be superior to ordinary people, you want to be better than ordinary people in all affairs, just for that little bit of arrogant self-esteem and let the development of the Great Zhou stagnate for a hundred years, I don't know what it means? ”

"Of course not, but...."Ji Zhen arrogantly denied it, arched his hand towards the north, and did not say the rest of the words: "But the Son of Heaven will be inclined to give opportunities to people who have no relationship with the scholars!" It is also a threat to deprive the nobles of their existence. ”

"I heard that Lord Cai Yan, a scholar in the capital of the dynasty, is a member of the Hanmen Shu clan, and the imperial examination has been held for a hundred years, so it can be seen how ridiculous it is to guard papermaking and printing again!" Jiang Mo's implication is that His Majesty will not let the gate lord monopolize all officials because of the monopoly of papermaking, or that the imperial examination system is the fire that will eliminate the gate lord clan.

Of course, the Hanmen Shu clan here, just compared with the gate lord clan, no matter how poor the family is, it is also a small local landlord, and the big farmers who really own dozens of acres of land may not be able to afford the cost of books for ten years.

"It's useless to talk about it!" Wang Xiang, the old man of the Wang family, spoke again, with some disdain and disdain. But the rest of the people actually knew that what Jiang Mo said was true.

Jiang Mo said even more rampantly: "Ordinary people have no chance of promotion, they will create a world with promotion opportunities, will you still be able to keep the scholar clan at that time?" ”

Wang Xiang sneered, seemed to laugh, and seemed to grasp the offense of Jiang Mo's remarks, and shouted: "What do you mean?" Curse the Great Zhou again? ”

Jiang Mo also realized his excitement, and finally said helplessly: "The only thing that can completely eliminate the gate lords of the Shi clan is war, continuous war!" I...... There will be war when you die, and if the Great Zhou lags behind, there will inevitably be war......"

The audience was silent.

In the history of China, where Jiang Mo lived, the longest period of war and turmoil was the period of five dynasties and ten kingdoms that lasted for more than 200 years, and the family gate valve also disappeared in that period.

Whether it is papermaking and printing or the imperial examination, it is only a blow to the gate valve of the scholar clan, as long as it occupies social resources, it is still a gate valve, only the continuation of the war, the resources of the gate valve change from production to consumption, and when it is consumed, a gate valve will be destroyed. This is also the fundamental reason why the scholars oppose the national war, and stability is the foundation of the development of the family.

At this time, Li Hongliang suddenly spoke, and said with a cold smile: "You may have heard that Da Zhou and Yan Guo have been fighting for a long time, so you underestimate the strength of Da Zhou, if all the Shi clan gate lords and Xungui generals are ideologically unified, it will not be too long to destroy Qi and Chu!" ”

Li Hongliang may have said this deliberately, that is, not to let the enemy underestimate Da Zhou, but it can also show their desire not to want war.

Jiang Mo closed his eyes and arched his hand, "Qi is loyal to Zhou, if it is cut off, Chu, Qin, Yan, the countries of the Western Regions, and even the Xiongnu and Tubo will have a full-scale war, what will happen?" Can it really be pacified in a few years? ”

Ji Zhen was a little impatient, it seemed that he really didn't care about whether there was a war, "Don't be quick to speak, it's powerful, we know it, we just want to know, Qi Shizi, what benefits can you come up with to talk to us?" ”

Jiang Mo raised his eyes and said, "There are several rich coal mine resources......"

Everyone was in an uproar and discussed, the representatives of the gate valve are well-informed people, naturally they have heard of it, but they only know that it can replace carbon as fuel, and they have not yet realized what an important strategic resource it is.

Ji Zhen's eyes were small, and he seemed to care more than many people, and asked seriously and softly, "You mean ironmaking?" ”

Jiang Mo looked at the appearance of the rest of the people, and suddenly smiled, "Hahaha, I don't think that the value of this thing is greater than that of papermaking, that is the sorrow of being a scholar gate......"

Ji Zhen ignored the anger of the other scholars, and even agreed very happily: "You talk about it first, if there are a large number of coal mines in the place you said, if the coal mines are really as you say, we can not blame the past!" ”

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This night, Ji Zhen and the Wang clan seemed to compromise, they seemed to see the value of the resources Jiang Mo said, and the rest of the Shi clan were unwilling to let Jiang Mo go.

However, Jiang Mo still swaggered away from the Drunken Immortal Building.

It's not that these noble families discovered the value of coal and chose to compromise, but the monopoly of various resources is engraved in the genes. What's more, Jiang Mo is not the main person who implements the promotion of papermaking and printing, and killing him or not killing him will no longer be able to shake the promotion of the royal family.

As Jiang Mo said, even if Jiang Mo is killed and the world is in chaos, can all the gate valves really get any benefits from it?

But anger always needs to be vented, and it also needs steps, and Jiang Mo's papermaking technology and coal mining resources are steps, even if they are small.

What's more, the significance of coal mining is not small, coal mining in Datong, Shanxi Province, almost represents the beginning of large-scale use of coal resources, but also the beginning of steel smelting to a higher level.

Jiang Mo left, but the talks did not stop, Li Hongliang, who was silent for half a while, finally told everyone his plan: "The little grandfather has ordered me········ I have a plan to get rid of the prince of the world and make it impossible for the Qi Kingdom to provoke a war! Can you listen to it? ”