The late Ming Dynasty in the living room

Chapter 142 New City Affairs

It's easy to send others to die, but it's especially difficult when it's time to die yourself.

Seeing the brigade of officers and soldiers on the bridge heading towards them with great momentum, the bandits were as panicked as the women and children of the Zhong family and the villagers of Hongjia Village before.

"Cannonhead, we can't wait any longer, let's jump quickly!"

"That's right! Let's jump out of the cannon. If you jump, you will die at most. You will still be a good man after eighteen years! If you are caught by a soldier, you will definitely be killed by a thousand cuts. Our brothers cannot bear that crime."

The bandits tried to persuade Han Sanjie one after another. In fact, they wanted Han Sanjie to jump down first to "test the waters."

Qualified subordinates are like this. They should keep their leaders in mind at all times and put their leaders first in everything they do. When encountering a big event like jumping into a river, they should not try to steal the limelight from their leaders!

Third Sister Han nodded repeatedly, but her feet did not move at all.

While they were hesitating, the officers and soldiers had already stepped off the bridge, only a dozen steps away from them.

The leading military general was holding a long wild goose-winged sword, with a distorted expression on his face... Sanjie Han didn't know how to run away, but knelt down very neatly. He kowtowed like a fool, with tears streaming down his face: "My lord, spare my life, sir. Lord, spare your life! My third sister, Han, is willing to surrender, and I am willing to recruit people. I also know Tu Qiuzi and Zhao Yuanwai’s old village..."

Luo Shangwen didn't respond to his plea for mercy. He rushed forward and slashed into the shoulder of Third Sister Han.

Hot blood and heart-rending screams burst out together. Luo Shangwen withdrew the knife, slashed again, withdrew it again, and slashed again... Luo Shangwen was covered in blood, but he was tireless.

Alas, it seems that Comrade Luo Shangwen is a solid person, and Third Sister Han is really going to be chopped into pieces by him.

The bandits couldn't wait for their leaders to test the water for them. They jumped into the river one after another. Those who moved slower were surrounded by officers and soldiers. No matter how they spared their lives or tried to protect themselves, they only had knives, only snow-white knives pointed at their heads. Cut it off.

The next day happened to be the weekend in the new city, so it was another good day to screen Journey to the West.

Fang Yu had already learned about the bandits in Hongjia Village last night. The bandits wiped out the Zhong family, the largest family in the village, and burned down most of Hongjia Village.

Then they were caught by Luo Shangwen and chopped to pieces. In the end, only two of them survived.

Fang Yu told Teacher Pan about what happened, and praised Teacher Pan for his timely action, which stopped the bandits from further brutal behavior and made outstanding contributions to the social stability and prosperity of Laishui County in the Ming Dynasty... Fang Yu also specifically reviewed the previous Regarding Teacher Pan's series of achievements for the people of the Ming Dynasty, he said that if the Ming Dynasty court intended to create a column that touched the Ming Dynasty, then Teacher Pan would deserve to be the Person of the Year.

Fang Yu talked a lot of nonsense in order to divert Teacher Pan's attention.

Because she felt deeply uneasy after hearing about the tragedy that happened in the Zhong family. (More than a hundred people died, and in the end the female family members were not taken away. They were all piled in the room and burned to death)

Because [Chinese] - has been changed to [Chinese], [Arithmetic], [Introduction to Gewu] and other teaching materials have been finalized, people from several printing workshops in the county have come as scheduled today.

Fang Yu led the logistics (purchasing) department to meet with them and spent a whole morning discussing various details with them.

Printing quantity and price are secondary.

The key is that at this time, each workshop used different ink ratios and engraving specifications for printing, including the paper, fonts, and binding they used.

This is definitely not possible.

Fang Yu asked them that if they want to take this big order, they must implement a strict standard system. For example, they can jointly raise funds and deploy technical masters and workers to establish a new printing workshop. This will make it easier to achieve unified procurement and unified specifications, including a series of later binding and (new city) acceptance processes, which can save a lot of trouble.

"Our new city is also willing to invest funds, and the total amount will not be less than 3,000 taels of silver. However, we only do quality supervision after standardization and do not participate in the basic operations of large workshops."

Fang Yu has never done printing, and Liu Ji has no clue about these things. Rather than stepping in and giving blind orders, it is better to be an angel investor with peace of mind.

As for whether they will donate money and escape? Will they make false accounts to deceive investors? Fang Yu was not worried at all.

It's not that Fang Yu believes in the integrity of these people, but that there are too many "brainless fans" or "eyes" in the county who belong to Xincheng (officials in the Yamen, merchants eager to get orders, county residents who want to work in Xincheng) ...), as long as they dare to make mistakes, there will definitely be no chance of escape.

People in various workshops were a little hesitant at first. In fact, they just couldn't bear to have their "core technology" exposed.

But this book order is so huge. The Chinese, arithmetic, history and other textbooks alone exceed 3,000 volumes, and 8,000 volumes are needed for the introduction to the study of things (mainly sent to Jiangnan and Beijing). Young Director Liu also told They, they need to get as fast as they can because this is only the first round.

For these small workshops in the county, this is an unprecedented super order, and there is no way to refuse it.

(Books at this time were very expensive. Good printed copies usually cost more than one tael of silver. Thin single-spaced volumes such as ink scrolls (a collection of excellent imperial examination papers) also cost two to three cents. Find some textual research materials. , two small charts are attached below)
After thinking about it, people from each workshop nodded in agreement. They also stood up and bowed collectively, asking Mr. Fang to name the new workshop.

Fang Yu thought for a moment, then with a wicked smile on his face, he said, "Then let's call it Xinhua Book Company."

After the meeting, Fang Yu planned to visit Hongjiacun.

Well, I have to go see Old Man Zhao first.

Old Man Zhao didn't know what was going on. He had been very sick these days. Several doctors came to him and he drank more than a dozen decoctions, but he still didn't get better.

As soon as Fang Yu approached the door, he heard Axiu talking inside.

"Grandpa Zhao, take the medicine quickly. You will get better soon after taking it."

"well!"

Old man Zhao seemed to be very happy and touched. He praised Axiu and said, "Axiu has really grown up. Now he can take care of Grandpa Zhao. Grandpa Zhao will get up and drink medicine now."

There was also a very old voice that also echoed, "Yes, the medicine prescribed by Miss Xiu must be good. Drinking this medicine will definitely cure the disease."

This is an old doctor from the county, his surname is Huang. He has been to Xincheng many times. (The one who went to Pang Tiande’s house to treat Xiao Ni)

What? Was this medicine prescribed by Axiu? !

Fang Yu hadn't come to his senses at first, and like Old Man Zhao, he was praising Axiu for being sensible. He didn't realize something was wrong until he heard what Dr. Huang said.

He quickly opened the door and went in.

(End of this chapter)