These two days have been peaceful.
When Ying Wuji had nothing to do, he practiced sword skills and read books. Apart from visiting the Mozhe Guild twice and having a secret meeting with Wu Shuangxu, he didn't do anything else.
Mechanical engineering was the Mohists' specialty, and there were many skilled craftsmen among them. Movable type printing was a piece of cake for them, and with the detailed steps, they made incredible progress.
As for Wu Shuangxu...
Ying Wuji finally figured out the details of this "Weiwo Sect", which is also a branch of the Taoist school.
Taoism was formally formed during the Laozi period. The "Tao Te Ching" laid the foundation for the entire Taoist thought, making Taoism flourish. Together with Confucianism founded by Confucius, it occupied most of the glory of that era, but Confucian disciples were more active in the political arena.
Later, for some unknown reason, within a short period of time, Taoist disciples disappeared from people's sight on a large scale.
However, not long after, the Yang Zhu School emerged as a dark horse, restored the glory of Taoism, and confronted the rising Mohist School head-on, breaking the pattern of Confucianism and Mohism competing in the court at that time. It even made the Confucian sage Mencius sigh that "the opinions of the world, if not those of Yang, then those of Mohist." Although there is some sadness and exaggeration in it, the influence of the Yang Zhu School is evident.
The core idea of the Yang Zhu School is: value oneself for the sake of oneself, preserve one's nature and maintain one's authenticity.
Later, for unknown reasons, the Yang Zhu school quietly disappeared and established many new schools outside the dynasty. The school where Wu Shuangxu belonged was one of them.
But among these schools, there was one that went astray. They lost themselves in the philosophy of the Yang Zhu School and went to extremes.
Most of them have lives full of pain, and their way of practice is to look directly at the pain and ultimately eliminate the pain by becoming the pain itself.
My disciples' whereabouts are extremely secretive and their actions are unpredictable. They also master all kinds of strange innate magic spells, which makes them quite difficult to deal with.
During the previous Gu killing, Feiyuwei found clues left by my sect.
Ji Su’s abnormal condition seemed to be related to teaching for me.
"Why are they targeting me?"
Ying Wuji pinched his chin and said, "Could it be that he has set his sights on my current situation and wants to kill me to start a war, causing more people to suffer, and thus attract more disciples?"
He was a little confused. Although his situation was very delicate and would have a significant impact if something went wrong, it was still difficult to get Gan Li to start a war immediately.
Using Ji Su's hand to kill himself seemed more like an attempt to instigate Gan Li to attack Yan State. However, these people did not expect that Ji Su was really a coward and was almost killed by himself.
There is too little known information to understand the mystery.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door and Bai Zhi pushed it open and walked in.
"Sir! Zhai Yun sent someone to inform us that the movable type printing equipment has been completed, and Miss Hua Chao has also transported all the paper to the bookstore, saying that we can start now!"
"good!"
Ying Wuji's eyes lit up, his first pot of gold was finally about to arrive.
…
He secretly watched the master and servant leave.
Xun Zhiyin returned to the embassy and went straight back to the courtyard where he lived. He opened the door and bowed respectfully to a figure: "Your Excellency, Ying Wuji has made a move."
Although the "envoy" was wearing a brocade robe, his temperament was rustic and his appearance was even more ordinary. He was like an old farmer who had been farming in the fields for decades and suddenly took a bath, changed into clean clothes and came to the embassy, which was obviously out of place.
But Xun Zhiyin's attitude towards him was extremely respectful.
Because he knew that this envoy named Tie Niu was Ying Wuque's confidant and had served him for more than ten years before Ying Wuque went to the palace to recognize his relatives.
His means were unknown, his strength was unknown, but this identity alone was enough to make him worthy of his utmost respect.
Tie Niu picked up the herbal tea on the table and took a sip, then spit the tea leaves back with a look of disgust: "I don't care what he does, your job is to prevent him from making any achievements. As long as we hear Ying Wuji say a good word in the palace, you'd better forget about following us."
"Yes, yes, yes! Your Excellency, rest assured. As long as I am here, I can keep Ying Wuji here for life."
Xun Zhiyin secretly complained in his heart, thinking that when one person succeeds, the whole family will benefit. If it weren't for his relationship with Ying Wuque, how could he possibly curry favor with such a person?
Seeing him being so humble, Tie Niu's expression softened a little and he asked, "What do you think he wants to do? Is it possible?"
Xun Zhiyin said quickly, "He just wants to open his own bookstore to buy out the stockpiled goods from the paper shops. But he is too ambitious and only sees that bookstores can make money, but he doesn't know how powerful the backgrounds of those bookstores are. In my opinion, the end result is a loss."
Tie Niu frowned and said, "What I want to hear is not your guarantee that he will lose money, but how you will deal with it if he makes money."
make money?
How can he make money?
Although Xun Zhiyin thought so, he still bowed and said, "Don't worry, Your Excellency! The business seal is in my hands, and the tax revenue of merchants in Li is also reported by me. Unless Ying Wuji does something that can alarm the supervisor, no one will know what he did!"
The so-called supervisors are officials specially sent by foreign countries to supervise embassy staff and they will not report unless it is a major event.
This is King Gan’s true confidant, and he cannot be infiltrated at all.
Tie Niu said calmly with a weather-beaten face: "What about that bookstore? Have you found out the details?"
Xun Zhiyin said: "Not yet, but don't worry, Your Excellency. No matter how stupid Ying Wuji is, he will never hand over his life to a woman who once assassinated him. As long as this bookstore is still our country's property, I will find a way to control him!"
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