Yu Zizhen's forehead twitched a few times, and she said to Jiang Yunshan, "It's just an ordinary book about textiles and printing and dyeing."
As a scholar, Jiang Yunshan had a mysterious love for good books and fine paper. When he heard Yu Zizhen say this, he immediately corrected him unconvincedly, "It's not an ordinary book, it's a divine book sent by heaven."
After saying that, he stared at Yu Zizhen with a stubborn look as if saying, "You said this yourself."
Yu Zizhen: ...
What else could Yu Zizhen say? She could only wave her hands helplessly at Jiang Yunshan, "Okay, okay, you're right."
Jiang Yunshan was satisfied and left with the small wooden box containing the books, while Yu Zizhen picked up a pen and began to write a letter.
At present, she has laid out three lines. The first is the bodyguards, the second is merchants, gentry and the like, and the third is to cultivate land and train private armies in the name of mountain bandits, water bandits, and horse thieves. By the way, the core personnel of these three lines will help her train a group of useful people while making money and storing food.
There are system character cards for her to monitor people's favorability towards her at any time, and there are also ready-made brainwashing packages sold by the system for her to brainwash people. Yu Zizhen does not have to worry about their loyalty to her.
These people are connected together to form an intelligence network that is no less powerful than that of monks and Taoists.
Half a year ago, Yu Zizhen had sent a message to the Lu family who were responsible for cultivating land and training private armies in the name of mountain bandits, water bandits, and horse thieves, asking them to defeat the bandits in nearby states and counties, take over their territory, manpower and wealth, and then train troops, store food, and collect information.
Anyway, those bandits and fierce criminals with blood on their hands basically deserve to be put to death. Yu Zizhen doesn't mind the Lu family using bloody means to subdue them.
As for those who were simply forced to live by local officials and nobles and had no choice but to go into the mountains and become bandits to avoid heavy taxes, Yu Zizhen ordered the Lu family to give them the right to choose.
Those who are willing to farm can farm, those who have skills can weave baskets, do blacksmithing, or open a clinic. In short, all walks of life can be developed.
As for those local officials and nobles who committed crimes, in order to prevent the whole family from being affected and causing suspicion and vigilance from others, Yu Zizhen specifically reminded the Lu family to only collect evidence and rescue people secretly. As for those guys who committed crimes, they would be left to be liquidated in a unified manner later.
Jiang Yunshan was given the task of selecting and training suitable candidates to work as hired farmers in Taoist temples and Buddhist temples, while Yu Zizhen continued her simple life of studying, practicing martial arts, and completing tasks day after day.
The highly repetitive and fulfilling daily routine day after day seemed to speed up the passage of time. Yu Zizhen felt as if it was just a blink of an eye, and she had already welcomed the autumn harvest season of her third year in Beijing.
In the past year, she has recruited sixteen artisans in trouble and twenty-three old farmers who have lost their land. She has sent them to the various strongholds she has developed, and arranged for them to continue to shine in all aspects.
The wine-making family she had saved before, as well as the family of the head shopkeeper who was sold out by the original owner and bought by her by pretending to be the stupid son of a landlord, also resumed their old businesses in their new place of residence, opened a winery, a pawn shop, and a grocery store respectively, and began to make profits for Yu Zizhen.
The textile and printing and dyeing technology that she asked Jiang Yunshan to pass on also began to show its potential and make profits through the hands of Meng Tingru, a local squire in Kangping County.
Like Jiang Yunshan, Meng Tingru also regarded the book that Yu Zizhen took out as a rare treasure.
He copied and drew the manuscript himself, and then gave the manuscripts to his son and trusted subordinates bit by bit, asking them to improve the technique step by step. As for the original printed volume, Meng Tingru was reluctant to let even his own son see it or touch it.
In addition, Mo Huaiyang, who had obtained the "control" skill given by Yu Zizhen, had gradually taken the initiative in his relationship with Princess Anqing over the past year.
In order to prevent Empress Dowager Da Lu and the palace maids around Princess Anqing from becoming suspicious, Mo Huaiyang did not retaliate by firmly controlling Princess Anqing right away.
He suppressed the strong desire for revenge in his heart, and used slow and steady methods to gain the initiative bit by bit as naturally as possible.
Because the speed was so slow, even though he spent nearly a year, Princess Anqing was still the same Princess Anqing in the eyes of others.
As for the change in the relationship between him and Princess Anqing, others saw it as nothing more than him being a cuckold for too long and becoming unbearable to endure the humiliation, so he decided to take the risk and become tough.
As the saying goes, those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. He is a miserable man who cannot even decide his own life and death. It can be said that he has almost lost everything. If he really goes all out and fights to the death, or is really driven crazy by Princess Anqing, it is hard to say what he will do.
You know, he knows a lot of secrets about Princess Anqing and the Lu family. It's possible that Princess Anqing would occasionally give in to him.
Anyway, those concessions only meant that he would no longer bully his relatives who would come and go at will, no longer run to the Marquis of Anqing's Mansion to deliberately anger his mother, and no longer let that bastard whose biological father was not known to her come to the Mansion of the Marquis and give orders every day under the title of the Crown Prince.
This is just a small concession, in exchange for him continuing to behave himself and be a coward. No matter how you look at it, it is a good deal.
Not only outsiders, but even the Empress Dowager Da Lu and the trusted palace maids around Princess Anqing also viewed Princess Anqing's occasional concessions in front of Mo Huaiyang in this way, which shows how flawless Mo Huaiyang was.
There is a system that conveys information to her from time to time, so Yu Zizhen naturally knows about Mo Huaiyang's actions. She admires Mo Huaiyang very much, because if it were her, she would never be able to be as patient as Mo Huaiyang.
In order not to ruin Mo Huaiyang's plan and arouse the suspicion of the spies around him, Yu Zizhen never went to see Mo Huaiyang again.
Because they had no contact since that time, those who originally suspected that Mo Huaiyang had some connection with the Zhenbei Palace gradually came to believe that he had indeed just met Yu Zizhen by chance.
In the new year, the emperor did not take people on the autumn hunt again. However, this year was the time when the military examination held by Da Qi every three to five years was held in Beijing. Yu Zizhen and his men did not have to worry about not having any fun this autumn.
The military examination was scheduled to be held after the Mid-Autumn Festival, on August 18th. All academies, schools, and government offices in the capital were closed early, and the vast majority of officials and students in the capital were qualified to enter the venue to watch the military examination.
The same went for Yu Zizhen and the others, and they even accompanied the emperor to the military examination hall.
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