Seeing the prefect's mansion, Wen Yuan suddenly saw Wang Li standing at the door, looking out from time to time.
When Wang Li saw Wen Yuan coming back, he stepped forward and saluted: "My lord!"
Wen Yuan patted Wang Li on the shoulder and said, "Let's go in and talk." As the head of an intelligence agency, Wang Li's whereabouts are unpredictable. Sometimes he doesn't even visit for a month or two, but he is still waiting for such a good weather.
There must be something important to report in front of Wenyuan Mansion.
"Tell me, is there any news about Jizhou City?" Three months ago, Wen Yuan asked Wang Li to increase the intensity of collecting intelligence in Ye City, and he had already made preparations in advance. When Wang Li came back this time, he must have brought
What news...
"My lord, please read this." Wang Li handed over a letter and said.
Wen Yuan touched the paper in his hand with interest. Yes, it was paper.
Wen Yuan had to admire the Zhen family's motivation in pursuing wealth. It took only half a year to master the production process of rice paper. It not only has whiter and smoother paper than Saeki paper, but the price is only that of Saeki paper.
One-third of the paper! According to the previous agreement, Wenyuan obtained the naming rights of the paper without any shame and officially named it - Julu Paper!
I remember that when Julu paper was made just now, Wenyuan and Zhen Yan had a slight disagreement over the price of the paper. Zhen Yan originally planned to price the paper produced by himself at half the price of Saeki paper, while Wenyuan suggested a price of
It is a quarter. As a businessman, Zhen Yan has always pursued maximizing profits. At first, he refused to give in and was not afraid of Wenyuan. However, in order to promote the paper faster, Wenyuan insisted on
After lowering the price, the two quarreled behind closed doors for two days before finally giving in. Even so, the profit from selling a piece of Julu paper was still five times the cost!
In just three months, the rice paper produced by Zhen's Chamber of Commerce became popular all over the country. Officials and wealthy families were all proud of using Julu paper to write letters. It is not an exaggeration to describe Wen Yuan and Zhen Yan as making money every day.
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Although the price of Julu paper is still expensive, Wenyuan doesn't take it seriously. After all, papermaking is no longer a high-tech technology in this era. Once Julu paper is promoted, there will definitely be countless people who follow the trend of papermaking. Even if these people follow the trend of papermaking
Merchants will not be able to produce paper that is better than paper for a while, or the profit margin will be far less than that. However, in any case, with the competition between the Zhen family and countless following paper manufacturers, the price of paper will inevitably increase.
Low, and eventually so cheap that ordinary people can use it. This is the ultimate goal that Wenyuan wants to achieve, and it is also the reason why Wenyuan did not hesitate to hand over the rice paper production technology to the Zhen family.
What's more, the paper produced is just a semi-finished product in Wenyuan's eyes. As a carrier of text and culture, paper is of extremely important significance to the spread of culture and the development of civilization. Its role is reflected in countless products developed from paper.
Derivatives, such as what Wenyuan has given Zhang Yuzai to do - publish books!
The topic was a little off topic, so Wen Yuan read it again and his eyebrows twisted together involuntarily.
There was only one short sentence in the letter: "In May, Gongsun Zan, the governor of Peking, marched out of Panhe and marched into Hebei in large numbers!"
Speaking of which, things have not been peaceful outside Julu in the past six months.
In the first month of the second year of Chuping, Yuan Shao and Han Fu, in the name of the generals in Guandong, sent Zhang Qi, the former governor of Lelang, to meet with Liu Yu and submit a proposal to establish Liu Yu as emperor. Liu Yu flatly refused. Yuan Shao still did not give up.
, and asked him to take charge of the affairs of the Secretariat and take charge of the power of appointing officials, but Liu Yu also refused.
In February, Sun Jian, the only force among the princes still fighting against Dong Zhuo, was defeated first and then won. The people in Yang defeated the Xiliang cavalry! His reputation was greatly improved! Dong Zhuo was afraid of Sun Jian's bravery and wanted to marry Sun Jian.
Sun Jian flatly refused, so Dong Zhuo retreated to Mianchi and said to Liu Ai, the chief historian: "Sun Jian is a fierce tiger in the east of the Yangtze River! The rest have nothing to fear!"
Afterwards, Sun Jian sent his troops to attack Luoyang and engaged Lü Bu in battle. Lü Bu was eventually defeated and defeated. Sun Jian's army entered Luoyang. At that time, Luoyang was empty and there were no fireworks within hundreds of miles. Sun Jian entered the city and saw this tragic situation. He was infinitely melancholy and burst into tears. He
He ordered the troops to clean the Han Dynasty's ancestral temple and perform sacrifices with the Tailao ceremony. Unfortunately, at this time, the jade seal had been taken away by Wen Yuan without anyone noticing.
In March, Sun Jian made an effort and divided his troops to attack Mianchi. Dong Zhuo was timid and left Dong Yue to garrison Mianchi, Duan Xuan to garrison Huayin, Niu Fu to garrison Anyi, and other generals to stay in various counties to check and balance the Shandong heroes, while he retreated to Chang'an.
Sun Jian failed to attack Dong Zhuo and led his troops back to Luyang.
In April, because Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu fell out over the idea of establishing Liu Yu as emperor, Yuan Shao appointed his general Zhou Ang as the governor of Yuzhou and led his troops to attack Yangcheng, the county of Yuzhou established by Sun Jian. Sun Jian led his troops to attack, but Zhou Ang was defeated and returned.
Subsequently, Sun Jian followed Yuan Shu's orders and went south to attack Liu Biao's territory.
Throughout the first half of the second year of Chuping, Sun Jian was almost alone in the drama. However, Jizhou where Wenyuan was located also had undercurrents and turbulence...
As Yuan Shao's reputation and strength grew, Han Fu became more and more dissatisfied with Yuan Shao giving orders to him. Since March, Yuan Shao has deliberately used the Black Mountain bandits as an excuse to reduce military supplies in an attempt to starve him.
Yuan Shao's army.
Naturally, Yuan Shao was unwilling to be restrained and mobilized his troops to the Yanjin area south of Yecheng in the past few days.
Of course, this is only the information that Xi Zuo has heard. Wen Yuan’s understanding of this period of history is more detailed than that of Wang Li’s subordinate Xi Zuo!
It seems that Yuan Shao was already ready to take control of Jizhou at this time. As soon as Han Fu faced the defeat of Gongsun Zan, he would send high-ranking officials to Yecheng to persuade Han Fu to hand over Jizhou with Xun Chen and Xin Ping, who had already secretly defected to Yuan Shao.
Give it to Yuan Shao!
At this moment, Wen Yuan once again stood at the crossroads of the direction of history. According to the original direction of history, in June, Gongsun Zan defeated Han Fu's army (Han Fu did not have many generals under his command, Pan Feng died in battle, and a Qu Yi
Now he has led troops to join forces with Yuan Shao outside, showing his opposition. In July, he welcomed Yuan Shao into Yecheng and presented the seal letter of Jizhou Mu.
Of course, with Wenyuan's current strength, he is confident that he can withstand Gongsun Zan's attack as long as he sends troops, but this may make history move in a completely unknown direction.
Wenyuan has always carefully controlled the direction of history in his own hands, not daring to be careless at all, because Wenyuan knows that his only advantage is that he knows history and the cultural heritage that has been passed down for nearly two thousand years.
Of these, all that Wen Yuan has left is his fairly good martial arts skills.
When it comes to intelligence, Wen Yuan thinks that he is not as good as Tian Feng and Ju Shuo, not to mention that there are countless resourceful people in this era. When it comes to martial arts, Wen Yuan is not invincible at this time. It is precisely because of this feeling that he is in control.
, he gained incomparable confidence. If the trajectory of history was completely changed, Wenyuan would not know where he would go next.
What's more, with the two hungry wolves Yuan Shao and Qu Yi watching eagerly from the side, even if Wen Yuan blocks Gongsun Zan, Jizhou will probably fall into Yuan Shao's hands.
So although Wen Yuan felt a little sorry for Han Fu in his heart, he finally decided not to do anything!
Han Fu, just die! A coward like you lives in troubled times, and you can't avoid the fate of being annexed no matter what! But don't worry, I will definitely seek revenge on Yuan Shao for you in the future!