Chapter 1430: Hanqi Tianxia (One Hundred and Twenty) Investors in the Teahouse

Regarding the battle in Shanyang, Dahan Daily did not have much description, it only took up half of the entire page. It can be seen that they did not pay too much attention to this battle. It didn't take the middle-aged man long to read the entire article. After reading it, the middle-aged man sighed and sighed. Tan Feng's thoughts and actions from the beginning had completely fallen into the opponent's calculations. The Han army He accurately predicted Tan Feng's reaction after they started to attack Chu and sealed Qu Wan's army. He had already set a huge trap for Tan Feng in Shanyang. Tan Feng had no idea and ran into it. In this battle, he did not lose unjustly. The monarch of the Han Dynasty calculated Tan Feng's character and style very accurately.

This made the middle-aged man feel cold in his heart.

The entire army of 30,000 elites was wiped out in Shanyang, and more than 10,000 people died in the battle. The remaining people were all taken as prisoners. {} Batch of generals were being escorted to Jicheng, but another general under Tan Feng, Yin Cuo, was retained because he surrendered to the Han Dynasty and gave up Jiaocheng.

Tan Feng, who had dominated the world for more than ten days and had a great reputation, died silently like this.

"Uncle, do you want a newspaper?" A voice rang from the side. The middle-aged man turned around and saw a young man standing next to him, carrying a bag on his shoulder with rolls of newspapers on it.

"I already have it here." The middle-aged man raised the Dahan Daily in his hand and said.

"Uncle, this is Dahan Daily. I am Jicheng Evening News. They are different." The young man smiled, pulled out a newspaper and placed it in front of the middle-aged man. "Uncle, I am reading the report about Tan Feng's death in battle. Are you interested in this? Our Jicheng Evening News has the life story of Tan Feng on the front page? Speaking of which, Tan Feng is not an ordinary person. He was a high official and had a close relationship with our king before? "

Zhou Yu glanced at the other party strangely, "How do you know this? And what is this Jicheng Evening News? Why haven't you heard of it before?"

The young man laughed: "Sir, you are coming to Jicheng from out of town. Our Jicheng Evening News was just started this year. Of course it cannot be compared with Dahan Daily, but it has its merits. Uncle, do you want a copy?" "

"Okay, have one." The middle-aged man smiled and reached into his arms, took out a dime and put it on the table. "Seeing as you are also a literate person, you must have read a book. How come you started hawking on the street?"

The middle-aged people think that young people are literate, naturally because the young people just glanced at the newspaper in their hands. You will know what you are interested in.

"There are more literate people in Jicheng now." The young man laughed, "Unlike in previous years, as long as you are literate, you will have nothing to do. I am currently working at Jicheng Evening News, which is not bad.

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"Isn't that good?" the middle-aged man said with a smile.

"Of course, we are now in the initial stage of our Jicheng Evening News, which is a bit difficult, but as long as we survive this period, everything will be fine. The boss has promised that those who were the first to join, like us, will get some shares in the future, then I am now the boss." The young man looked very confident.

"Boss? Give you a newspaper seller on the street?" the middle-aged man said with a smile.

"Master, don't look down on people. I can endure hardships, find out things that people don't know, and can write about them. I can write about a dry matter in a colorful way, and I can also look down on you. Look. I'm willing to sell our newspaper on the street. , In fact, there are basically people like me in our newspaper now, how could it not be successful?" the young man said seriously.

The middle-aged man nodded, "I made a mistake, but with such a big mountain pressing down on you, do you think you have any hope of success? Come, sit down and say, I am really interested in your evening newspaper." "The middle-aged man poured a cup of tea and handed it to the young man.

"Of course, Dahan Daily is backed by the imperial court and has strong financial resources, but we don't regard them as opponents!" The young man smiled and pointed to the newspaper in his trousers, "Look, like Tan Feng's death, in Dahan Here in the daily newspaper, it is just a dry report, but here, it is different. We have dug up all the eighteen generations of Tan Feng’s ancestors. Tan Feng is a celebrity in Jicheng. He was a Yan The imperial censor of the country had a very good relationship with our king back then, and he and our king's third princess were childhood sweethearts. How much literature can be done here? So what we are doing now is a story about Tan Feng's life? Serialization, with this east wind, should be able to open up sales even better.”

The middle-aged man didn't know much about these business matters. He was interested in another thing, "You can actually talk about the past of your king and princess so casually?"

"What's this?" the young man said with a smile: "The Dahan Daily dared to publish the story about the king's pursuit of the Minister of Finance? People like to see and read these things, so we gave them away, and we were afraid that they wouldn't be sold. ? Anyway, let’s write whatever you like. As long as we pay taxes according to regulations, there will be no trouble.”

The middle-aged man nodded slightly. The political atmosphere in Jicheng was broad. Although he had been here not long ago, he had already fully felt this. The discussions on politics here were extremely extensive, and sometimes the criticism was extremely sharp. As a newcomer, he Sometimes he is very frightened. In his opinion, this is completely unimaginable. And I have a better understanding of the great parliamentary system and the parliamentary system. Everything can be discussed and even argued, and it is common to get beaten to death. However, once it is passed, even the strongest opponents will implement it with the most determined attitude. There was no inefficiency at all as he imagined. Moreover, in the eyes of middle-aged people, this system can avoid to the greatest extent one person's monopoly of power to make stupid decisions. Everything becomes clearer with more debate, and the pros and cons of a matter have been discussed before action is taken. It is extremely sufficient and even the worst-case scenario has been estimated. Then when doing it, you will naturally do your best to avoid the worst-case scenario.

The middle-aged man sighed. Seeing everything is believing. What he heard before was indeed completely different from the truth. He had been away from Jicheng for many years. When he returned to Jicheng, he almost didn't recognize the place where he grew up. As a big city, Jicheng has undergone tremendous changes, not only due to the expansion of the city, but more importantly, the changes in people. That kind of spirit is something middle-aged people have never seen anywhere else.

"Earlier, the uncle said he was from out of town, but the accent sounded like Jicheng!" The young man asked while drinking tea. The middle-aged man in front of him made him a little confused.

"Yes, I used to be from Jicheng, but I have been away from here for many years. I have been wandering outside for a few years and I just came back." The middle-aged man smiled and said: "Jicheng has changed so much that I don't dare to recognize it anymore. It's the same as me back then. When we are here, it is completely two cities. Can you explain it to me in detail? "

"Ah? This can't be explained immediately. Why am I going to sell newspapers now?" the young man said in embarrassment.

"I've covered all your newspapers." The middle-aged man smiled and took out some money and put it on the table.

"Uncle, this is not what I am doing." The young man's face changed slightly, "I came out to sell newspapers because I want more people to see our newspapers and like our newspapers. We don't have a complete distribution system like Dahan Daily. , I have to rely on myself to sell everything to you. The money is not bad, but you will just throw away these newspapers as garbage, which is contrary to my wish." The young man's expression changed and he stood. He got up and wanted to leave.

"Wait a minute, it's me, Meng Lang." The middle-aged man stretched out his hand to hold down the young man, "Well, let's put it this way, I want to know more about Jicheng. To be honest, I just came back from outside, and I have some things in my hand. I don’t have a lot of money, but I can’t just sit back and have nothing. I want to find an investment business, but I have been away from Jicheng for a long time, and I have no relatives or friends. My eyes are dark. You have so much confidence in your Jicheng Evening News, which makes me happy. I became interested, and if possible, I would like to..."

"Do you want to invest in our newspaper?" The young man's eyes suddenly lit up and he sat down again. "Our boss often laments that there are no visionary people to help him. Most people will immediately invest in the newspaper as soon as they hear about it. I backed down, it’s okay, I won’t sell the newspaper today, and I’ll just stay with you. Where did you come back from?”

"Qin!" the middle-aged man laughed.

"It turns out that it's the State of Qin. It's quite chaotic there. I heard that the people there don't eat enough. The whole family only has one pair of pants to wear. Whoever wants to go out wears it, right?"

"It's not that unbearable, but compared to the Han Dynasty, it is indeed a bit poorer." The middle-aged man said.

"Of course, our king is a holy king who is rare to meet in the ages!" the young man said proudly. "You have come back at the right time. Here, as long as you abide by the laws, no one will care about anything you do, and there will be no corrupt officials to skin you. As long as you can endure hardships and have ideas, it is easy to get rich. ”

"Are there really no corrupt officials?" The middle-aged man shook his head in disbelief.

"It can't be said that there are none at all, but it is indeed very few. We are very strict in investigating corrupt officials here. There are special yamen to do this, and there are so many congressmen who are watching. If anyone does anything illegal, Things will be revealed to the world in a blink of an eye, and the consequences will be tragic. "

The middle-aged man nodded slightly.

Time passed little by little under the young man's narration. When the young man left his address to the middle-aged man, agreed on a time to meet, and left happily, it was already the time when the lanterns were first lit.

The middle-aged man stood up, looked at the report about Tan Feng on the second page of the Dahan Daily in his hand, sighed again, crumpled the newspaper into a ball, threw it on the table, and then picked up the thistle. City Evening News, stood up and walked outside the teahouse. (To be continued.)