The plum garden is not big. Walking into the plum garden, passing through the entrance hall at the door, bypassing a flower bed, you will reach the main hall of the plum garden.

This was originally a place used by the newspaper to talk about things with guests. If it was placed in Yan Liqiang's previous life, it would be the newspaper's living room and the general manager's reception room.

As soon as Yan Liqiang walked in, he saw a man dressed in an elegant manner, in his fifties, with a little fat body, and a bit like Wang Gang, who played Heshen, sitting steadily beside the coffee table in the hall, slowly savoring a cup of tea in his hand.

The man also heard Yan Liqiang's footsteps. When he saw Yan Liqiang walking in, he put down the teacup in his hand, stood up with a smile, and bowed to Yan Liqiang, "This is Yan Ziwei. I have heard of Yan Ziwei's name for him for a long time. I know that Yan Ziwei is famous in the imperial capital at a young age. I didn't expect that meeting him is even more famous. I am so respectful. I am Gu Zhongren, the shopkeeper of Huaixiang Bookstore!"

"Shopkeeper Gu is polite, please sit down, please sit down!" Yan Liqiang walked over very seriously. He was neither intimate nor cold, but asked Storekeeper Gu to sit down. He and Fang Beidou sat on the other side of the coffee table.

"I wonder if Manager Fang has explained my intention to Captain Yan!" Manager Gu spoke tepidly, and there was a seemingly friendly smile on his chubby face, but in a vague way, there was a feeling of being the domineering person, being arrogant and not taking Yan Liqiang and Fang Beidou into consideration at all.

Yan Liqiang narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the shopkeeper Gu on the opposite side with a smile. "I wonder why shopkeeper Gu suddenly became interested in newspapers. With the strength of shopkeeper Gu, it should not be difficult to publish another newspaper in this imperial capital, right?"

Manager Gu shook his head, "It's naturally not difficult, but what you have made has opened up in the Imperial Capital City, everything has come true, and the reputation has also been revealed in the teahouse and restaurant. Everyone has read and talked about the most is your newspaper, so it's better to buy it now than to buy it now. If you can buy your newspaper, everything will be simple, right? Besides, weren't the previous possessions of your newspaper also bought from others? Isn't it like this the so-called business?"

"Shopkeeper Gu said it well. If you do business, you can buy and sell. Our newspaper's property is indeed bought from others, so it can be sold!" Yan Liqiang said indifferently, "I wonder how much silver the shopkeeper Gu is going to pay to buy our newspaper. I heard from Shopkeeper Fang that Shopkeeper Gu has not yet offered a price!"

Manager Gu smiled and stretched out a finger, "What do Captain Yan thinks the price is?"

"100,000 taels of silver?" Yan Liqiang asked.

Manager Gu smiled and shook his head.

"It won't be ten thousand taels of silver. You know, we can buy this village and the bookstore in the city, which is more than that price!" Yan Liqiang laughed.

Manager Gu still smiled and shook his head.

Feeling the joke in the smile on Manager Gu's face, Yan Liqiang stopped talking, but put away his smile and said calmly, "How much does it mean, Manager Gu will just speak up!"

Manager Gu smiled and looked at Yan Liqiang carelessly, "One tael of silver, our Huaixiang Bookstore is willing to pay one tael of silver to buy your newspaper, including this farm, workshop, and several shops in the city. Everything in the newspaper can't be moved!"

"What, one tael of silver, Shopkeeper Gu, aren't you kidding!" Before Yan Liqiang could speak, Fang Beidou's face changed, he stood up, stared at Shopkeeper Gu angrily, and said loudly, "If Shopkeeper Gu wants to make such a joke, please go elsewhere. I and Son Yan don't have this time..."

"Shopkeeper Fang, don't worry, why don't you ask Captain Yan if he is willing?" Storekeeper Gu laughed, and his smile almost made Fang Beidou kick his greasy face.

"One tael of silver cannot be sold..." Yan Liqiang spoke calmly and glanced at Fang Beidou. Fang Beidou took a deep breath, suppressed his anger and sat down. "Then the shopkeeper Gu should at least show us who is the master behind him. Let us weigh whether the weight of that master can make the shopkeeper Gu worth 100,000 taels of silver as soon as he spoke! Although Fang Beidou and I are not a big shot in the Imperial Capital City, we cannot bully you casually!"

"It's refreshing, Captain Yan is indeed a sensible person!" Manager Gu gave Yan Liqiang a thumbs up, and then looked at Manager Fang, "If Manager Fang is convenient, I don't know if he can avoid it. This is also for Manager Fang. I am entrusted by someone here, and I just want to explain some of the words to Captain Yan in person!"

Hearing Manager Gu's words, Fang Beidou stood up suddenly and nodded at Yan Liqiang, "Then I'll go out and talk to you!" After saying this, he left the hall directly.

"Shopkeeper Gu can say something now!" After Fang Beidou left the hall, Yan Liqiang spoke calmly.

"The Prime Minister admires Yan Xiaowei very much..." When talking about the Prime Minister, the shopkeeper Gu's body suddenly straightened up, and his expression became respectful and humble.

"Shopkeeper Gu is on behalf of the Prime Minister..." Yan Liqiang asked in surprise. The four words spoken from Storekeeper Gu were beyond Yan Liqiang's expectations, but they were also expected, which made Yan Liqiang's mood slightly complicated.

Manager Gu nodded, "The Prime Minister asked me to give Captain Yan a few words..."

"What's the matter?"

"The Prime Minister said you are a smart person. Let me tell you straight to the point. Cough cough..." Manager Gu coughed twice and cleared his throat. "As long as Captain Yan is loyal to the Prime Minister from now on, and knows who to listen to do things, the Prime Minister will not be grudges. What Sun Bingchen and His Majesty the Emperor can give you, the Prime Minister can also give you, and they will give you more. Regardless of money, status, and the secrets of beauty, as long as Captain Yan speaks, there is no problem!"

"What else?"

Manager Gu's voice suddenly became cold, "The Prime Minister's original words, if Captain Yan does not know the current affairs, then next August 15th will be the death day of Captain Yan. On the contrary, if Captain Yan figures out and knows where he should stand, he is his own person, then in the day of blind comparison in a few days, Captain Yan will be safe and sound. In the future, Captain Yan will rise to the top, and his future will be more than one fifth-rank guard with a knife!"

"Where is the newspaper?"

"The Prime Minister admires this newspaper produced by Yan Xiaomao. If Yan Xiaomao decides to stand on the Prime Minister's side, this newspaper, Yan Xiaomao will be a small gift to honor the Prime Minister, and I will take over it in the future. On the contrary, if Yan Xiaomao still insists on his own, then there is no need for this newspaper to exist in the Imperial Capital. Where to go, Yan Xiaomao can decide by himself..."

This is not a negotiation, it is simply an ultimatum.

If I agree, I will be Lin Qingtian's person in the future. Whether it is his own person or the newspaper in his own hands, Lin Qingtian wants it. If I disagree, then the blind comparison will be the time for Lin Qingtian to execute him openly, and the newspaper will not be able to save it in the end.

In just a moment, Yan Liqiang suddenly discovered that the Prime Minister had just moved his little finger. Yan Liqiang discovered that all his plans and plans in the imperial capital had become a joke in an instant. It was not that Lin Qingtian had found value. He was just waiting to reap the value from himself when he was mature. Lin Qingtian was not completely unaware of what he had done before. He just watched calmly, and after discovering his value, he forced himself to the guillotine and made a choice on the guillotine.

This is the real skill of the imperial prime minister! In the past few days, it was time for Lin Qingtian to close the net and show his hideous face!

Is it easy to be able to sit at the position of prime minister in this vast empire and make countless powerful sects bow their heads?

My two lifetime experiences have been less than fifty years in total. In front of people like Lin Qingtian, they are not of the same level. When I came to the imperial capital, I really imagined everything in the imperial capital too simply and it was too natural.

From beginning to end, even until now, Yan Liqiang has not even seen what Lin Qingtian looks like. Lin Qingtian doesn't even bother to see him. He just sent a small person who ran errands here. The heavy blow like Mount Tai had already fallen from the sky, forcing Yan Liqiang to make the most difficult and important choice in his life...

The torrents of the imperial capital can really make people accidentally crushed to pieces...

In the burning gaze of Manager Gu, Yan Liqiang was silent for almost five minutes before he slowly spoke, "This news is too sudden, I am not prepared at all. Please let me think about it for a few days and I will give you a reply!"

A smile appeared on the face of the shopkeeper Gu, and his eyes turned around Yan Liqiang's face, "The Prime Minister is not an inhumane person. I said, I will give you three days to consider it. Three days later, give me a reply. If there is no reply, then if you reject the kindness of the Prime Minister, what consequences will be, you will think about it yourself and I will leave..."

"Shopkeeper Gu walked slowly, I won't send it!"

Manager Gu stood up and left directly...

Yan Liqiang sat in the room, sitting quietly, frowned slightly, as if thinking about something...

In the conversation just now, Yan Liqiang heard not only the words that Manager Gu said. All the psychological activities of Manager Gu and all the real thoughts in his head did not escape Yan Liqiang's brain insight. The snake that was integrated into Yan Liqiang's head had already stripped Manager Gu naked in front of Yan Liqiang...

Manager Gu didn't say something, but Yan Liqiang already knew it. He even knew how the people behind Manager Gu and Manager Gu would deal with him and the newspaper after he refused. They had actually prepared two plans, one was brought forward by the Ministry of Justice, found fault and blocked the newspaper, and then arrested people. Among the literati hired by the newspaper, there were also several craftsmen in the workshop. Some of them had already been controlled and bribed by them, and came up with a sinister way to return the entire newspaper.

Fang Beidou and Yan Liqiang cheated together, and there was another plan, in the arms of the shopkeeper Gu. In these few days, they had already gone to Cangzhou to find the shopkeeper who sold Shunyi Bookstore to Fang Beidou a few days ago. Under some coercion and temptation, the shopkeeper asked them to sign a contract to sell the shopkeeper Gu before Fang Beidou bought Shunyi Bookstore. He also greeted him in the yamen. Together, these two plans, this newspaper and the Han Empire Times have long been regarded as the things in their pockets...

The real killer move is not on the day of blind comparison. If I rejected Manager Gu, even if I had a greater life than that day, I could survive under Shi Minzhang's arrow. Once their conspiracy in the newspaper was launched, the only thing that awaited them was to be arrested and arrested and killed in prison by the Ministry of Justice. Even the emperor had no choice. Fang Beidou, Hu Haihe, Xiaowu, and Xu Enda would all be buried with him...

The gangster Guo Si who ambushed Xu Enda a few days ago is now under Manager Gu. A few days ago, Guo Si and several constables from the Ministry of Justice went to Cangzhou and found the old shopkeeper before Shunyi Bookstore...

The person who instructed this killing situation was Lin Qingtian, and the person who personally set up the plan was Gu Chunyi, the Minister of Justice. Gu Chunyi came forward. Gu Shanggui and Gu Chunyi both had surnames Gu, but they thought the two had nothing to do with each other. In fact, twenty years ago, Gu Shanggui was a servant in the family of Gu Chunyi, the Minister of Justice. With Gu Chunyi's development, this Gu Shanggui left the Gu family, whitewashed his identity, changed his name but not his surname, and came to the Imperial Capital, opened a bookstore, and became one of Gu Chunyi's eyes and ears and white gloves in the capital...
Chapter completed!