Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Ling Cao opened his mouth. In fact, he had already agreed in his heart, but he still felt a little dazed, because this situation was quite different from what he expected.

However, under Li Yi's scorching gaze, Ling Cao quickly lowered his head, took a deep breath, and said softly, "Ling Cao, I've met my lord."

A smile suddenly bloomed on Li Yi's face, a very bright smile.

Obviously, a mere talent of Ling Cao cannot make Li Yi so happy.

What Li Yi really cares about is that Ling Cao has the experience of serving under Sun Ce.

It can be expected that when Sun Ce knew that Ling Cao was working under Li Yi's command, he would definitely be furious, but Li Yi didn't care about him, anyway, the two of them would not meet for a long time, but when Sun Ce was gone, That's the time for Ling Cao to come in handy.

How would the Sun family think when Ling Cao was sent to the Sun family with the ancient ingot knife and the blood letter left by Sun Jian?

Let Li Yi transform from a murderer to the son-in-law of the Sun family, and he has been despised by Sun Ce for a long time, and he has endured humiliation. With such a good character, is it possible that he cannot become the future support of the Sun family?

Once the Sun family came over, even though those subordinates who were most loyal to the Sun family didn't like Li Yi, they had to hold their noses to work for Li Yi so that the Sun family would not be bullied. As long as there was such contact, Li Yi believed that in the future His own personality charm, or his hypocritical appearance, will win these people's hearts sooner or later.

As for those who have ordinary feelings for the Sun family, it will be easier to handle. As long as Li Yi treats Ling Cao better, with Ling Cao as the first example, it is better for them to defect to Li Yi than to suddenly defect to a completely unfamiliar lord?

Thinking of the possible gains in the future, the smile on Li Yi's face became even stronger, he helped Ling Cao up, and said loudly: "I am very relieved to have Kuntao's help, and I will drink three hundred cups tonight." , If you don’t get drunk, you won’t return!”

Ling Cao felt a little terrified at being laughed at by Li Yi, but the big man confessed to the master with every spittle and nail, let alone drinking, he would have to do it if he swallowed a knife.

That night, there was a banquet in the prefect's mansion, but it wasn't just Li Yi and Ling Cao, but almost all the "celebrities" under Li Yi's command were present, which made Ling Cao very dazed, especially when he saw Cai Yong call Li Yi When he was the lord, the shock in his heart couldn't be further increased.

Li Yi is indeed better than Sun Ce!

For the shocked Ling Cao, Li Yi just drank a few more drinks with him, and then stopped meddling, and let Ling Cao make up for it on his own.

Li Yi's more experience was indeed placed on Mi Fang, who was almost as shocked as Ling Cao.

At this banquet, Mi Fang could be said to be an outsider, but Li Yi was very kind to him and let Mi Fang sit next to him.

This banquet was said to be for Ling Cao, but in fact part of the reason was that Li Yi asked his own people to get together. As for the rest, it was actually for Mi Fang. Li Yi wanted Mi Fang to see his own strength, otherwise he would be empty-mouthed. Why let people rely on you?

Of course, Li Yi didn't forget, and introduced Xu Huang to Mi Fang first. After all, the two sides originally had conflicts, but they disappeared immediately after meeting.

Xu Huang is calm and introverted. Although he is burly, he is not aggressive. At first glance, he does not seem to be doing bad things. And Mi Fang knew the cause and effect of the time before, so how could he care about it? The heart was completely uncovered.

In addition, it was Jia Xu, Zhang Liao and others that Li Yi introduced to Mi Fang one by one. Although Mi Fang did not dare to say that there is anything the world can do, but the comparison is still no problem. After this introduction, he found that the people here in Li Yi, It is not weaker than Tao Qian's.

Seeing Mi Fang's reaction in his eyes, Li Yi was satisfied, but said that tomorrow, he will take Mi Fang to a place to open his eyes!

Chapter 346 The Influence of Paper

"Master, please look."

While talking, Huang Yueying handed Li Yi a few pages of paper. Li Yi touched it and found that it was thin and smooth, and the color was closer to earthy yellow. In terms of quality, it was quite different from the white paper of later generations, but Li Yi was quite satisfied with this.

Seeing the satisfied look on Li Yi's face, Huang Yueying said: "This is the paper that was modified from the earliest formula a few days ago. Some more expensive things have been omitted, and several easy-to-obtained ones have been added. The cost of cheap objects, from processing to paper, has been several times lower than the original cost."

Li Yi nodded with a smile on his face, then took a few new sheets of paper from Huang Yueying, handed them to the people behind him, and said, "Look, everyone, how about this paper?"

Li Yi is now in a yard behind the Taishou's Mansion, which faces the Taishou's Mansion across the street, and the guards are very convenient, otherwise Li Yi would not rest assured to put the papermaking workshop here.

And those who came to visit with Li Yi recently are almost all Li Yi's confidants, only one Mi Fang is an outsider, but Li Yi also intends to train him as his confidant.

Guo Jia took the paper and distributed it with the rest of the people one by one. Some people here have seen the high-priced paper made by Huang Yueying last time, but most of them are the first time they come into contact with it, so they can't help but be amazed.

Cai Yong eagerly bowed his hands to Li Yi and said, "My lord, is there any pen and ink here?"

Li Yi looked at Huang Yueying, Huang Yueying smiled slightly, and the Ming people sent pens and inks, Cai Yong thanked him, and immediately spread the paper on the bluestone without worrying about it, and hurriedly picked up the pen and wrote "Ren Yi" on it Li Zhi" a few words.

The rest of the people also stood behind Cai Yong and watched. Cai Yong's handwriting is naturally excellent, and the content of his writing is also ordinary, but the focus of everyone's attention is obviously not on this aspect.

I saw that after the pen was written, the ink slowly penetrated into the back of the paper, but it did not spill around like ordinary straw paper.

Those who can follow Li Yilai are basically smart people. They immediately thought of something, and all of them showed joy on their faces. As for Cai Yong, his face was full of smiles, and he couldn't close his mouth.

However, in order to confirm how the paper is, Cai Yong thought about it, picked up the pen and dipped in the ink again, brushed a few more strokes, this time the ink was slightly heavier, and Cai Yong wrote more slowly, leaving a lot of ink on the paper , but the ink on the paper is only slightly diffused than before, which does not hinder reading and writing in the slightest.

Cai Yong's hands trembled, he put down the brush, turned around and bowed deeply to Li Yi, and said, "My lord, the classics of learning were first published, and now there is such paper, which is convenient for scholars all over the world. Such an achievement will be passed down forever!"

Cai Yong took the lead in flattering, how could the others fall behind?Immediately, one after another said that they agreed. In fact, they can't be regarded as flattering, because the appearance of paper is indeed for the benefit of the world.

Hearing everyone's compliments, Li Yi burst into laughter in his heart, but he still tried to maintain a calm expression on his face, waved his hands and said: "Everyone is too famous, in fact, the first credit for making such paper is Yueying, if it wasn't for her How can this paper come out after thinking about it every day?"

Li Yi's unsparing praise for Huang Yueying naturally led everyone's attention to her. The only one who didn't look over was Huang Chengyan, who gently held his beard and acted like a tall man, but anyone who had a little contact with Huang Chengyan knew that , This guy must be bubbling with beauty.

But so what if you know, there are really few daughters in the world who are as capable as Huang Yueying, what else can they do besides envy Huang Chengyan's good fortune?

Jia Xu said with a smile: "Miss Huang is indeed smart, and Jia often thinks she is not as good as that."

Because Huang Yueying is a young daughter's family after all, although everyone admired her, they didn't speak much.

But those are not important to Huang Yueying, because when Li Yi praised her, Huang Yueying's gaze was already fixed on Li Yi.

Not to mention that without Li Yi, she would never have thought of making paper at all. Even if she thought about it and made it, it would only be used by her husband's family. At most, the world would only remember her name. I don't know, how can there be so many praises?

This made Huang Yueying couldn't help but think of the words Li Yi promised her when she first met Li Yi, and her eyes almost watered for a while.

Fortunately, Huang Yueying knew the occasion, and Li Yi was her master in name, so she quickly restrained her emotions, gave her a blessing, lowered her head and said softly: "Master, Mr. Jia, the method of making paper is what Master invented." According to what Yueying did, she followed what her master told her to do, so she really deserves such praise."

Huang Yueying's calm and gentle response made many people look up to her a little more. Apart from being envious of Huang Chengyan again, they were also moved by Li Yi's good eyesight.

Because Li Yi often brings Huang Yueying with him, there are more opportunities to show his face, so in order to avoid making some fools think that they shouldn't have, and make everyone ugly in the future, Li Yi simply took the initiative to let people spread some information about his relationship with Huang Yueying. Therefore, not to mention the people Li Yi often contacts, even Mi Fang, who has just arrived, knows that Huang Yueying is actually Li Yi's wife.

Guo Jia took a step forward, cupped his hands and said with a smile, "My lord, if this paper comes out, it will be a matter of time before it becomes popular all over the world. Therefore, Jia has the courage to ask my lord to name it, so that the world can know its origin."

Everyone also felt that this should be the case, and looked at Li Yi one after another, but Li Yi rubbed the paper, pondered for a moment, but suddenly smiled and said: "This matter is not urgent, and we will discuss it later when I have time."

Seeing that someone wanted to make further comments, Li Yi explained: "Now there is only one workshop for paper. Although the cost is low, due to manpower and materials, the daily production is limited. It is difficult to guarantee that it is only for Wancheng's own use, so We are not considering selling it to the outside world at the moment.”

Zhuge Xuan couldn't help but said: "Once the paper is used, although it will not be sold outside, unless the lord gives a strict order, there will definitely be rumors."

Li Yi laughed, and said: "It's okay, just a little rumor, even if there are a few in the hands of others, what's the use, but it's just white eyes, so it's possible that they will raise troops against Nanyang Xin?"

Hearing Li Yi's half-joking words, everyone couldn't help laughing. Yes, the benefits of paper are indeed quite large, but it is still a bit too exaggerated to say that a war was launched because of this.

However, Mi Zhu, the only guest among them, who was also a businessman, suddenly yelled, "Mr. Xiang, this is probably inappropriate!"

When everyone was obviously praising Li Yi, Mi Fang's voice was obviously a bit abrupt, and immediately attracted a lot of attention, and Mi Zhu felt something was wrong when so many people saw it, and felt that he had overstepped, but the words had already been spoken , he can't swallow it back, can he?

Moreover, because of his status as a businessman, although the overall personality of Li Yi's subordinates is not bad, there are some people who don't like Mi Fang who is a businessman. For example, Cai Yong and Zhuge Xuan are representatives of them. Hi, I can't say either.

Mi Fang was vaguely aware of these situations, and he didn't complain much, after all, he was either a great Confucian or a famous teacher. The status of a businessman these days is low, and it is only natural to look down on him, so he regretted his slip of the tongue even more.