After Liu Wei's birthday, Liu Hong also entertained Ye Zhao to use a dinner in the palace, which was a sign of closeness. After all, whether it was Ye Zhao and Cai Yong or Liu Wei's relationship, they were already on the side of the imperial party. Moreover, the papermaking technique that Ye Zhao offered this time would definitely have a timely help for Liu Hong, who was determined to break the current situation of this aristocratic family.

It was not until late at night that Ye Zhao said goodbye to the palace.

"I don't understand a little." Qian Mo, who had rarely spoken since he returned to the mansion, couldn't help but ask.

"Oh? Is there something I don't understand, sir?" Ye Zhao looked at Qian Mo unexpectedly.

"The lord presented this papermaking technique to the emperor. I could probably guess what the lord thought, but this ten thousand-year-old lamp... is really just a smile to win the beauty?" Qian Mo looked at Ye Zhao. Even if there was no ten thousand-year-old lamp, just relying on Ye Zhao's previous advection and papermaking techniques, it would be enough to make Ye Zhao gain the trust of the emperor. Although the lanterns throughout the sky are beautiful, they seem a bit extravagant.

"Isn't it possible?" Ye Zhao asked with a smile.

"Of course, but it doesn't look like the lord's style." Qian Mo laughed when he heard this. With his understanding of Ye Zhao, he rarely does useless work.

"Mr. I'm really too careful this time. Zhao's actions are just to smile at the beauty. Of course, there will be some other gains. Mr. will know this in the future." Ye Zhao said with a smile.

really.

Qian Mo nodded and sighed: "Yesterday Liang Guo sent a letter to his family..."

"Need help?" Ye Zhao looked solemn and said to Qian Mo.

Shaking his head: "The Xi family is gone."

"Ah?" Ye Zhao looked at Qian Mo with a daze, and was stunned for a moment before he realized that Qian Mo originally had a surname, but later he followed his mother to Qian's family and changed his surname to Qian's family.

"When the peace and chaos broke out, the small clan of the opera family failed to escape the disaster. A message was left in the clan, hoping that I could inherit the family business." Qian Mo sighed.

Ye Zhao nodded after hearing this, saying that he was inheriting the family business. I am afraid that he hoped that Qian Mo could change his surname to Xi and not let the Xi family break the incense. This kind of thing is Qian Mo's family business after all, and Ye Zhao couldn't interfere, so he just asked, "What do you mean?"

"When I change it back, the Qian family has not regarded his family as a family member. My mother has left, so why bother with me?" Qian Mo sighed and said with some self-deprecatingness.

"That's their loss, and I will regret it later." Ye Zhao looked at Qian Mo and said, "Will it be a drama from now on?"

This name sounds a bit awkward.

Qian Mo shook his head: "No, let's take the name as the name."

"Xi Zhicai? This is a cheap name." Ye Zhao frowned.

"There is not a high birth." Qian Mo said nothing.

Ye Zhao didn't advise him anymore. He never thought that he could decide just one name. Since Xi Zhicai had already made a decision, he didn't need to spend more time on such matters.

In the next few days, Ye Zhao was very busy. After Liu Wei’s birthday, the ten thousand-year-old lanterns became a popular one. Ye Zhao had asked the Ye family store to build several good shops in Luoyang City. On Liu Wei’s birthday, Ye Zhao started the ten thousand-year-old lanterns business in various shops.

On the night of the seventh day of the lunar month, the shocking scene of the lights in the sky really brought a visual feast to the people of Luoyang. Therefore, after these shops started selling ten thousand-year-old lights, the bored young master came to buy lanterns almost every day, and every night, he could see countless ten thousand-year-old lights rising into the sky.

Correspondingly, the public security burden in Luoyang was increased. Ye Zhao released the ten thousand-year-old lamp on that day, but mobilized a large amount of manpower to put out the fire at any time. Because of the unified time, there was no damage. But now it is different. No one knows when a young man will put on a lamp to play. Some people even put out hundreds of ten thousand-year-old lamps in broad daylight, which made Luoyang government offices, including He/Nanyin, put out fires everywhere these days.

Of course, everything has two sides. Although the Wannian Lantern brought a lot of trouble, it also brought a lot of vitality to Luoyang City. Past merchants came to order Wannian Lanterns, which allowed Ye Zhao to make a fortune in less than a month, and also in disguisely made a move to Liu Hong to improve the paper.

Because of the hot sales of Wannian Lamps, many merchants in Luoyang City are competing to imitate, but the traditional Caihou paper is too expensive and cannot reduce costs. Therefore, when Liu Hong secretly sold the paper through royal channels, people's attention was immediately focused on the reduction of the cost of making Wannian Lamps. Instead, its real purpose was temporarily forgotten.

As the royal family began to sell large quantities of paper, merchants began to follow suit. Once people had a direction, their creativity was terrifying. The paper lanterns made by these shops were even more exquisite than Ye Zhao's. However, as the first person to try it out, Ye Zhao not only gathered a lot of money, but also won many customers. These followers began to fight price wars with Ye Zhao.

"Does the lord regret handing over this new paper to the court too early?" A month later, in the Ye Mansion's mansion, watching the various lanterns soaring into the sky at night, Xi Zhicai smiled and looked at Ye Zhao. As more and more shops imitating Ye Zhao, although Ye Zhao still makes money by relying on the ten thousand-year-old lantern, he is no longer as robbing money as he was at the beginning.

"This thing is just to play with it. When it feels fresh, everyone is not that crazy." Ye Zhao smiled and shook his head, saying, "The court has issued a ban. Except for this one hour, the ten thousand-year-old lamp must not be set off for the rest of the time."

"Although it is brilliant, it is not a long-term business." Ye Zhao turned his head and looked at Xi Zhicai and smiled: "Zhicai has also been a businessman. You should know that the way of doing business is that people have nothing, people have nothing, people have nothing, people have nothing, people have nothing."

Xi Zhicai smiled and said, "It only has sixteen words, but it fully explains the fundamentals of business. If the lord is in business, he may become the world's number one businessman in a few years. It seems that the next step is that the lord wants to use this fire to instigate His Majesty to sell books?"

"There are a few that have been bound, Zhicai see what?" Ye Zhao took out a thread-bound book from his arms and handed it to Xi Zhicai and asked with a smile.

A book of Analects of Confucius was taken from Ye Zhao and read it curiously. The book was very thick, with only one line of words on each page. Below are some small words as annotations for this sentence, which are very detailed. At least in Xi Zhicai's eyes, there is no problem. If it is recorded with bamboo paper, adding these annotations, it will probably cost hundreds of volumes of bamboo paper. At this moment, a book can completely cover it.

"This book can be used as a family tradition." Xi Zhicai returned the book to Ye Zhao and sighed.

The details of the annotations are probably written by famous masters. Not to mention ordinary families, even if they are placed among some wealthy families, they can be regarded as family inheritance.

"You can tell how much this book is selling for?" Ye Zhao said with a smile.

"It's worth a thousand gold." Xi Zhicai affirmed that even if it is changed to a paper book, it still needs to be copied, and there are also the annotations of famous artists above, which is a priceless treasure for many scholars.

"It's too much." Ye Zhao shook his head, stretched out five fingers and said, "This number."

"Fifty thousand yuan?" Xi Zhicai was stunned and frowned and said, "It's a bit cheap."

"It's five thousand coins." Ye Zhao said with a smile.

"This..." Xi Zhicai was puzzled. Isn't it a loss to do this? The people who commented were quite knowledgeable at first glance. Even if the court wrote a book, it would not be requisitioned for free, right?

"Zhicai has read this book and then talk about it!" Ye Zhao took out another book of the Analects of Confucius from his arms and handed it to Xi Zhicai.

Xi Zhicai took it and read it again. It was no different from the previous one. He also followed the annotation, and the handwriting was written by the same person...

Xi Zhicai suddenly looked up and looked at the Analects of Confucius in Ye Zhao's hand, and his expression suddenly moved: "Master, can you read that book to my subordinates again!"

Ye Zhao didn't say anything and handed the book directly to Xi Zhicai.

Xi Zhicai compared the two books one by one, suddenly looked up and looked at Ye Zhao in shock. At this time, he realized that the contents of the two books were surprisingly consistent. It was not only the contents of the books, but also the words were also the same. He specially found a few rare words to compare and came to the same conclusion.

"Is this a rubbing?" Xi Zhicai suddenly looked at Ye Zhao and asked.

"It's the rubbing." Ye Zhao nodded: "Write the documents in advance, ask the craftsman to carve the city template, and then apply ink to rub it. The process is difficult, but as long as you carve a board and as long as there is enough ink and paper, you can copy in large quantities."

"This move is to leverage the foundation of the aristocratic family!" Xi Zhicai shook his head and sighed: "Lord's move..."

poison!

Xi Zhicai did not say that word in the end, but the meaning was clear. Ye Zhao's move did not only leverage the foundation of the aristocratic family, but more importantly, he did not appear in front of the stage and showed it to the world, but instead served as a behind-the-scenes driver, presenting these things to the court without leaving a name.

On the surface, Ye Zhao was at a loss, but this move completely opposed the royal family and the aristocratic family, allowing the emperor to bear the anger of the aristocratic family, while Ye Zhao gained real benefits in it.

For example, the ten thousand-year-old lamp, the sales of this book, and the knowledge of Ye Zhao with the Ji Zhicai, may also take the opportunity to make profits, and it can also gain the trust of the emperor, and even take the opportunity to attract a lot of talents.

The Han Dynasty may have split early, but Emperor Liu Hong, as the victim, still has to be grateful to Ye Zhao, who was the initiator.

The most important thing is that the problem of restraining Ye Zhao's identity has always been alleviated.
Chapter completed!