After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

Yu Zizhen's forehead twitched a few times, and she said to Jiang Yunshan: "That's just an ordinary book about textiles, printing and dyeing."

As a scholar, Jiang Yunshan has a fascination for good books and good paper. When he heard what Yu Zizhen said, he immediately corrected him unconvinced: "It's not an ordinary book, it's a divine book."

After finishing speaking, he stared at Yu Zizhen with a stubborn look like "You said this yourself."

Yu Zizhen:

What else could Yu Zizhen say? She could only wave her hand to Jiang Yunshan helplessly, "Okay, okay, you're right."

Jiang Yunshan was satisfied and left with the small wooden box containing the books, while Yu Zizhen picked up his pen and started writing a letter.

Currently, she has three lines, one is bodyguards, the other is businessmen, squires, and the like, and the third is farming and cultivating private armies in the name of mountain bandits, water bandits, and horse thieves. Incidentally, the core personnel of these three lines will While making money and saving food, help her educate a group of useful people.

There are systematic character cards for her to monitor people's favorability towards her at any time, and ready-made brainwashing kits sold by the system for her to brainwash people, so Yu Zizhen does not have to worry about their loyalty to her.

When these people are connected together, they form an intelligence network that is as good as the monks.

As early as half a year ago, Yu Zizhen had already sent a message to the Lu family, who were responsible for setting up land and cultivating private armies in the name of mountain bandits, water bandits, and horse thieves, asking them to knock down the rogue bandits in nearby counties and take over their territory and manpower. and wealth, and then train troops, collect food, and collect information.

Anyway, all the rogue bandits and their likes with blood on their hands deserved to die, so Yu Zizhen didn't mind if the Lu family used bloodier methods to subdue them.

As for those who were simply forced to live by local officials, gentry and gentry, and had no choice but to go into the mountains and become bandits to avoid exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, Yu Zizhen told the Lu family to give them the right to choose.

Those who are willing to farm can farm, those who are skilled can do basket weaving, blacksmithing, or open a medical clinic. In short, all walks of life can be developed.

As for those local officials and gentry who did evil things, they used their whole bodies to prevent others from getting involved, which aroused the suspicion and vigilance of others. Yu Zizhen specifically reminded the Lu family to only collect evidence and secretly rescue people. Leave it to be consolidated for later settlement.

Leave the matter of selecting and training suitable candidates to work as farmhands in Taoist temples and temples to Jiang Yunshan, and Yu Zizhen continues to live her simple life of studying, practicing martial arts, and completing tasks day after day.

The highly repetitive fulfilling daily routine day after day seemed to speed up the passage of time. Yu Zizhen felt as if in just a blink of an eye, she had already ushered in the autumn harvest season of her third year in Beijing.

In the past year, she recruited 16 craftsmen who were in trouble and 23 old farmers who had lost their land under her command, and sent them to various strongholds she had developed one after another, arranging their all-round work. Keep shining.

The family that she had rescued before and knew how to make wine, as well as the family of the big shopkeeper who was sold out by the original owner and bought by her pretending to be the stupid son of the landlord, also resumed their old business in their new settlement and opened wineries respectively. And pawn shops and grocery stores began to make profits for Yu Zizhen.

In addition, the textile, printing and dyeing technology she asked Jiang Yunshan to pass on also slowly began to show its clues and earn profits through the hands of Kangping County squire Meng Tingru.

Like Jiang Yunshan, Meng Tingru also regarded the book that Yu Zizhen took out as a rare treasure. He copied and painted by hand, and then gave the manuscripts bit by bit to his son and close subordinates, asking them to improve the technology step by step. As for the printed tome, Meng Tingru did not even part with his own son. Let them see and touch it.

In addition, Mo Huaiyang, who received the "control" skill from Yu Zizhen, has gradually taken the initiative in his relationship with Princess Anqing in the past year.

In order to prevent the Empress Dowager Da Lu and the palace attendants around Princess Anqing from becoming suspicious, Mo Huaiyang did not retaliate and firmly control Princess Anqing.

He suppressed the strong desire for revenge in his heart and worked hard to gain the initiative for himself bit by bit as naturally as possible.

Because the speed was too slow, even if he spent nearly a year, Princess Anqing would still be the same Princess Anqing in the eyes of others.

As for the change in the relationship between him and Princess Anqing, in the eyes of others, it was just because he had been a green-headed bastard for a long time and was really unbearable to be humiliated, so he went all out and became tough.

As the saying goes, those who are barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes. He can't even control his own life and death. It can almost be said that he has lost everything. If he really risked everything and was defeated, or if he was really driven crazy by Princess Anqing, then It's hard to say what he will do.

You know, he knows many secrets of Princess Anqing and the Lu family. It is possible for the Princess Anqing to give in to him occasionally.

Anyway, those concessions were just that he would no longer bully his relatives who would come and go as soon as he was called, no longer go to the Anqing Marquis Mansion to deliberately anger his mother, and no longer let her be that bastard who didn't know who his real father was. Every day, he went to the Hou Mansion to give advice in the name of the crown prince.

No matter how you look at it, it's a good deal to just give in and let him continue to keep his peace and be a coward.

Not only outsiders, but also the confidants around the Empress Dowager Lu and Princess Anqing also viewed Princess Anqing's occasional concessions in front of Mo Huaiyang in this way, which shows how impeccable Mo Huaiyang did it.

There is a system that delivers news to her all the time, and Yu Zizhen naturally knows about Mo Huaiyang's actions. She admires Mo Huaiyang very much, because if it were her, she would never be as calm as Mo Huaiyang.

In order not to ruin Mo Huaiyang's plan and arouse the suspicion of the informants around him, Yu Zizhen never went to Mo Huaiyang once.

Because they had not interacted with each other since that time, I originally suspected that Mo Huaiyang was someone who had some connection with the Zhenbei Palace, but gradually came to believe that he had indeed met Yu Zizhen once by chance.

In the new year, the emperor did not lead anyone to go hunting in autumn. However, this year was the time when the martial arts examination held by Da Qi every three to five years was held in Beijing. Yu Zizhen and the others did not have to worry about the lack of excitement in autumn this year. Can be made up.

The martial arts examination is scheduled to take place after the Mid-Autumn Festival. On August 18, all academies, schools, and yamen in the capital are on holiday in advance. Most of the officials and students in Beijing are qualified to attend the martial arts examination.

The same goes for Yu Zizhen and the others, and they accompanied the emperor to the martial arts examination room.