Chapter 320: The Counterattack of the Demon Lord
Chapter 320 The Counterattack of the Confused Demon King
Cheng Yaojin came back from Changlepo, so he asked his servant to call Cheng Chumo.
"What are you busy with these days, you don't come home all day?"
Although Cheng Chumo is arrogant outside, he is afraid of Lao Cheng at home, because Lao Cheng relies on being Lao Tzu, so he doesn't reason with him at all, even if he is unreasonable, he will be arrogant, let alone reasonable. If you get anxious, Lao Cheng will just pick up the whip and whip him, but he won't be polite to you.
Don't look at juniors like Lao Cheng and Qin Lang who usually smile and are very kind, but this kindness has never been used on their own sons. Sometimes Cheng Chumo even wonders if he is the kind of Lao Cheng.
"Training in the martial arts hall, and taking turns to enter the palace as a guard on a daily basis, and go to the polo field during the ten-week break..." Cheng Chumo truthfully explained his itinerary to the old man.
"Okay, you're the only one busy, right? Your father, I am a dignified general and the prince's left guard, and I am not as busy as you."
Cheng Chumo didn't know where the old man had made a mistake all of a sudden, but the sages taught that being a minister is loyal and a son is filial piety, and you can't even talk back when you are scolded.
"Have you not been to the East Palace recently, or Huailiang in Pingkangfang?"
"I've been busy recently, so I'm not free."
"Busy!" Old Cheng rolled his eyes, "What are you doing?"
Cheng Chumo was also impatient, "If Aye has something to say, just tell his son."
"Your wings are stiff?"
"Don't dare."
"I just remind you, learn more from Huai Liang, do something meaningful, and don't fool around."
Old Cheng was rambling over there, talking for a long time, and finally got to the point, and it was related to the nearest Jixian Library. Because of the relationship between Lao Cheng and Qin Qiong, Qin Lang has always trusted the Cheng family.
Everything will attract the Cheng family, and the Polo League also attracts Cheng Chumo, sells white sugar, and also designates a large distribution area for the Cheng family, even with Qin Lang's fried tea, the Cheng family also does not fall behind.
Before they were engaged in paper making, ink printing, and bookstores, they also attracted the Cheng family.
The relationship between the two is fine, so if there are benefits, they will go together naturally.
The Cheng family now has its own bamboo paper workshop and ink making workshop, and even has its own Jixian Bookstore. Except that there is no printing office, the rest of the Cheng family has it.
Even the printing press, the Cheng family owns a share.
"Recently, a Tianyi bookstore opened in Dongshi, and they also have printed books. They printed the Analects of Confucius and sold them. You know, right?" Old Cheng asked.
"Really? My son hasn't heard of it yet."
Old Cheng was so angry that he almost rolled up his sleeves and beat the unfilial son again.
"It's in vain that Huailiang trusts you so much, but what are you messing with all day long? Our Cheng family has a copy of the Chongxian Library Press and Jixian Bookstore, so now the Tianyi Bookstore that popped up all of a sudden , They stole our woodblock printing technology, and even stole our ink technology, these **** thieves, they are stealing our money!"
"And then?" Cheng Chu asked silently.
Old Cheng looked at his son with a murderous look, "Forget about beating him to death, trash!"
Cheng Chu bowed his head silently, "Didn't Grandpa ask me to trouble them!"
"if not?"
"I have already found out that Fan Yang Lu's family is behind this Tianyi Bookstore. They are just foreigners from Hebei, but they can go to Chang'an to steal our money. Can this be tolerated? They can also start engraving and printing books in a short time. This must have stolen our technology, all in all, there must be a traitor among us, or someone leaked the secret, whether it was intentional or forced, this matter must not be let go."
"Hurry up and find out who is betraying us, leaking our ink technology and engraving technology." Old Cheng said viciously.
"What did Saburo say?"
Cheng Chu asked the old man silently.
"Sanlang is a person who is busy with important affairs. How can he have time to deal with these things? This is the time for you to play a role. Don't you always have to seduce your friends?"
Actually, Cheng Yaojin approached Qin Lang and mentioned the seriousness of this matter. He meant to strictly investigate the person who betrayed everyone and leaked secrets, and even more to fight back against the Lu family. It's just that Qin Lang rejected his proposal, thinking that it would be difficult to strictly keep the secrets of ink and block books.
If others want to steal it, they can always steal it, not to mention with the strength of the Lu family, even if they don't steal it, they will spend a lot of time figuring it out. This is the same as when Qin Lang organized people to develop bamboo paper and ink. Wait the same.
At the beginning, Qin Lang only proposed a research direction for them, and it didn't take long for them to succeed, but now that the Lu family has a ready-made object for research and reference, it is of course easier.
Qin Lang thinks that open competition is not to be feared, even a good thing.
But Cheng Yaojin was not very happy, the surname Lu was not Cui, and he could still turn a blind eye to the Cui family for the sake of Widow Cui, but why should the surname Lu?
Old Cheng couldn't come forward in person, so naturally he had to let his son do it. This is also the time to test his son's ability. As his son is getting older, it's time for him to do more things to exercise.
Qin Lang can be generous, but Lao Cheng has to take care of everyone.
He has always looked down on those aristocratic families, and this time he wants to let them understand that the things of these nouveau riche are not so easy to get.
"One more thing, you should go and contact each other. No one is allowed to sell the bamboo paper produced by our paper mills to Tianyi Bookstore. They want to print books. Without our bamboo paper, the cost cannot be reduced. "
Cheng Chumo took his father's order and left.
Out of the mansion, I went directly to the polo field.
Pingkangfang Grand Polo Stadium, this is an important competition venue for the league. Now there will be a game almost every two or three days, and the polo stadium has long become a lively place.
A large number of merchants and vendors gathered in the field.
Of course, there are also many friends who come here. Cheng Chumo really found Yuchi Baoqi, Baolin, and Liu Shuyi in the museum.
"Everyone, we have something important to talk about."
A group of general disciples became irritable after hearing Cheng Chumo's words.
"Smashed the **** Tianyi Bookstore!"
"that is!"
"Not only are we going to smash his store, it's best to arrest people too!"
Wu Leng, the son of Zuo Jinwu's great general Wu Heitai, has a hot temper. His father, the general, is under the Zhenfu Division, and he is in charge of the Nine Gates Outside Chang'an. This bureau will arrest people and send them to jail."
After a while, they had already discussed a counterattack plan.
Niu Jinda's son asked, "Should I discuss this with Saburo?"
"Sanlang is now the prince's teacher. He is so busy every day. Let's take care of this little thing for him. How can we trouble Sanlang everywhere? We have to take care of Sanlang like this, and the usual benefits are a little bit less? If you bother Sanlang for everything, we have What's the use?" Cheng Chumo said.
So everyone decided not to disturb Saburo.
Liu Shuyi and his brothers have become very close to Shandong Jiangmen since the Zuixian Tower in Pingkangfang was besieged last time. He, the Changan hero, led the club, and he was obviously taken care of by Shandong Jiangmen, and his life was more chic.
Liu Shuyi is a relatively straightforward person. Of course he will appreciate whoever treats him well.
Since the store is going to be smashed, he must do his part.
"Don't rob anyone, I'm the best shot."
An imposing duke of the state of Lu, who is still a captain-in-law, but spends all day fooling around in the market place, should not be, but Liu Wenjing died early, the two brothers have been down and out for several years, and have tasted the warmth and coldness of human relationships, so now they like this kind of living.
Qin Lang treated him well, and he was also willing to hang out with Shandong Jiangmen. He was kind, without any hypocrisy.
The princess is not yet young, so now he is more chic and free.
Having money, good status, and generosity, he is also well-received among rangers.
Liu Shuyi did things straightforwardly, and immediately arranged for two younger brothers to give orders, so they immediately went to a group of city foxes and rats to take charge.
Several hooligans went to Tianyi Bookstore to pick quarrels, then fought, and finally smashed the store.
Tianyi Bookstore was smashed to pieces.
people were also injured.
Those guys were skilled in their actions, and soon disappeared in Chang'an Square, never to be seen again.
Lu Chengzong was furious when he received the news.
But soon another news came in that the book printing shop rented by the Lu family in Chang'an City Nanfang was forcibly broken into. They smashed the book printing house, injured the steward, and threatened the craftsmen such as engraving and printing books, saying who If you dare to come here to do things again, see you next time and hit me once.
The craftsmen were so frightened that they dared not stay to work anymore.
Tianyi Bookstore was smashed, the book printing shop was smashed, and several industries in the capital and the suburbs of Beijing were attacked and destroyed.
After all, the Lu family is a foreigner. They sent people to investigate, but they couldn’t find it at all, so they had to report to the official. As a result, they just reported to the official here, but there was no result, and something happened there.
Several properties of the Lu family, especially the managers of the Tianyi Bookstore and the Printing Workshop, were taken away by the Zhen Fusi, and they were sent directly to the imperial prison.
Didn't even tell him a reason, only that it involved a serious case.
Finally, Lu Chengzong had no choice but to go to find Mrs. Fang Xuanling. Fang Xuanling asked about it, and Zhang Liang from the Zhenfu Department replied that several important cases were involved.
"This must be what Qin San did!" Lu Chengzong got angry at Fang's family, and hoped that Fang Xuanling would come forward to solve it. Mrs. Lu persuaded her cousin to calm down and said that the Fang family would deal with it.
The reason why Lu, who was jealous, wanted to buy this package of tickets was that after Lu Chengzong discovered the printed Three Character Classic, he immediately realized the power of this thing, so he started to investigate.
In the end, it was discovered that the crown prince was under the name, and Qin Lang presided over the business. After many Shandong generals did the business together, he was both angry and shocked. In the end, he ran to persuade his cousin Lu Shi, and brought Fang's family together to jointly open Tianyi Bookstore. Of course The printing house is also a partnership.
The Fang family joined forces, but the people who worked before and after the run were all from the Lu family, and what the Lu family wanted was Fang Xuanling, who was the servant who was on the left.
It was really smooth.
After all, the Lu family has been a noble family for thousands of years. They have seen all kinds of things and have many means. Qin Lang's business is expanding rapidly, and it is impossible for everyone to be trustworthy in employing people. Buying with a lot of money, they got the technology of ink and engraving, and soon copied it, and launched the first printed book, Analects.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that he didn't have sex, but Qin Lang did.
This made him very dissatisfied and very angry.
At night, Mrs. Lu was blowing air beside her husband Fang Xuanling's pillow.
Fang Xuanling was a little unhappy, but he could only suppress it, "I'll talk to Qin Sanlang tomorrow."
"Why is Qin Sanlang and his family allowed to do it alone? You warn him."
"What are you talking about, we are all from the same village in Licheng, this matter is at best a misunderstanding."
"You consider him a fellow villager, but he doesn't regard you as one. Otherwise, why did he attract so many Shandong people from the central government, but not you, a fellow villager from this county?" Lu chattered endlessly.
(end of this chapter)