Daqin: I was overheard by Zulong

Chapter 342
After returning from the Prince's Mansion, Ying Zheng thought about it and summoned Feng Quji, Li Si and others into the palace.

Although Zhao Yi had promised to cut off the supply of papermaking and printing to the Central Plains, Ying Zheng still felt that it was not enough and wanted to work together, so he wanted to hear the opinions of Feng Quji and Li Si.

But Li Si and Feng Quji thought that Ying Zheng already had a countermeasure, so they came to the imperial study and directly said to Ying Zheng, "Your Majesty, you already have a strategy on how to deal with "Central Plains News" ?”

When Ying Zheng heard this, his head suddenly filled with black threads. Am I the minister, or are you the ministers?Why do you expect me to solve such things that belong to you?

However, Ying Zheng did not intend to dwell on this issue. After calming down for a while, he said straightforwardly: "I have decided to cut off the paper supply and printing demand for the Central Plains region from now on. The Paper Manufacturing and Printing Administration have ordered this to be followed. .”

"Hiss..." Li Si and Feng Quji gasped when they heard the words, this is a bottom line, amazing!
Li Si, Feng Quji and others didn't expect that Ying Zheng would think of such a ruthless move, and was so shocked that he couldn't even speak.

"What do you think of my plan?" Ying Zheng said. Seeing that no one agreed, he couldn't help but ask, with an expression of "Come on, praise me!" on his face!

Feng Quji finally came to his senses, nodded again and again and said: "Your Majesty is wise, this strategy is excellent. In this way, "Central Plains News" will be like water without a source, let us handle it."

Li Si also laughed and said: "Not only that, His Majesty has cut off the paper supply of students from all over the Central Plains. Presumably, all the students will criticize the aristocratic families because of this. You don't need to guess how embarrassed they will be!"

"In that case, let's let this be done." Ying Zheng smiled lightly and said: "Before the second issue of "Da Qin Weekly" is released, I don't want to see anyone secretly supporting the Zhongyuan family. If anyone dares to do this, I am asking for him!"

Hearing Ying Zheng's words, Li Si and Feng Quji were stunned. This is Ying Zheng beating them. If the officials below are colluding with the family, they, as the heads of all officials, must be responsible for it.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, we will do our best to live up to your Majesty's entrustment!" Li Si and Feng Quji quickly expressed their loyalty.

Upon seeing this, Ying Zheng nodded with satisfaction. The ministers then left, and then they all got busy.

A few days later, when the second issue of "Daqin Weekly" was officially released, people in counties and counties across the Central Plains were surprised to find that all their local paper-making and printing houses had shut down, making it difficult to find paper in the market.

Because of this, the scholars of the Central Plains suffered unspeakably, especially from the "Daqin Weekly", it was because the aristocratic families made up and published false newspapers and periodicals privately, which led to the shutdown of the printing office. Generations of ancestors have scolded them.

For this reason, the heads of several major aristocratic families had to gather together again to discuss how to deal with it.

"What should I do?" Li Qiao was suing at the moment, ""Daqin Weekly" has released the second issue, what about our "Central Plains News"? Why is there no clue at all?"

Li Qiang threw out a sentence weakly: "Who said there is no clue, the second issue of "Central Plains News" has completed the plate-making, but the problem is that now the printing and paper factories are closed, and they don't do anything even if they are paid. what to do!"

Gongsun Xiu and Xun You were helpless, completely at a loss for the dead situation in front of them, they only knew how to scold them blindly.

"Damn it, it must be the one from Xianyang Palace who did something good. He couldn't beat our newspaper, so he resorted to such dirty tricks!"

"Does he think that this will make us submit? It's just a dream. I don't believe it if I throw money at it. There must be a brave man under the reward..."

"Forget it!" Li Qiang stared at Gongsunxiu who was just barking, "We have plenty of money, but the problem is that they have to collect it. This time, the imperial court specially arranged a large number of spies to investigate, and all the counties and counties got it. News, no one dares to act rashly!"

Li Qiang's words made everyone even more troubled, and Li Qiao suddenly had an idea, "Otherwise, let's find a way to make paper and print it ourselves, and use our own workshop, it shouldn't be difficult!"

Li Qiang looked at Li Qiao as if he were an idiot, "It seems that the Li family master knows very little about the workshops below and does not understand the problems involved. We can only make bamboo slips in our workshop. If we use this to publish "Central Plains News", what will the cost be? Not like this now!”

"And we can't afford to wait for the time-consuming. By the time we finish printing one issue, the imperial court may have already printed four issues of "Daqin Weekly"!"

Xun You also nodded when he heard the words, "That's true. Compared with the printing house, our printing skills are far behind. The printing house's technology is far ahead of ours, and we haven't got the relevant information so far. Technology."

"Then speaking of it this way, isn't it helpless?" Li Qiao became even more anxious when he heard Li Qiang and Xun You say that.

"My lord, it's bad! Something's wrong..." At this time, the Xun family's head steward rushed in.

"Why are you panicking? Speak up!" Xun You was annoyed at the moment. When he saw his housekeeper barging in rashly, he couldn't help but yell angrily.

But the butler ignored these things, and hurriedly said: "Master, it's really a big problem. There are countless students gathered outside the gate of our house at this moment, blocking our gate and saying that we should be responsible!"

"They said that if the court is not allowed to immediately supply paper to the Central Plains, they will block our door every day!"

Upon hearing this, Xun You's complexion instantly darkened, and at this moment, when there was a burst of noise and knocking on the door outside, Xun You's complexion suddenly became even uglier.

"So it seems..." Seeing this situation, Li Qiao's face became ugly, "Our plan this time may fail, and "Central Plains News" will have to stop publishing."

"It's also because we didn't think carefully before, paper and printing are controlled by others, alas..."

"Sigh, we haven't decided the winner yet, so if we don't run the newspaper, we won't do it!" Gongsun Xiu glared angrily, "Now that we have confessed to the court, we can still stand, but if we continue to be so stubborn Just go down, I'm afraid none of us will have good fruit to eat."

Gongsun Xiu was the first to admit that he was cowardly, which was a bit unexpected to everyone, but they all felt it was reasonable.

After all, Gongsun Xiu's words were not rough, and Xun You was the second to express his attitude, "The old man seconded, "Central Plains News" is no longer necessary, and it is more important to stop losses in time!"

Li Qiang smiled wryly and nodded, "That's all I can do. The feeling of being controlled by others is really hard to accept. It seems that the court knew how to deal with us early on. It's ridiculous that we are still overestimated and want to fight the court. !"

Li Qiao saw that everyone was discouraged, so he had no choice but to say: "Since this is the case, we can only do this, and wait until we think of a better way, and then make a fuss!"

Several family heads quickly reached an agreement, and soon a letter acknowledging the mistake signed by several family heads was sent to Xianyang by fast horse...

(End of this chapter)