"Captain Yan, here is a letter for you. I was just looking for someone to deliver it to you!"
Yan Liqiang was just about to walk out of the Deer Garden when an officer at the gate of the Deer Garden immediately came over with a smile on his face and handed a letter to Yan Liqiang.
"Ah, when did you receive it?" Yan Liqiang took the letter and found that the stamp of the word "Lu" on the wax seal of the letter was still intact, which meant that the letter had not been opened. Among all the people he knew, the only person with the surname Lu who could send him a letter at this time was Lu Peien in Imperial Capital! The last time he met Lu Peien, Yan Liqiang told him that if Lu Peien had anything to do, he could come directly to Luyuan to find him. Yan Liqiang had not contacted Lu Peien during this period, but he did not expect to receive a letter from Lu Peien today.
"Just half an hour ago, a man who looked like a servant brought the letter and said he wanted to give it to Captain Yan!"
"Okay, I got it, thank you!" Yan Liqiang muttered to himself, wondering if Lu Pein was in any trouble.
"Hahaha, Captain Yan, you're too polite, too polite..."
After saying hello to the soldiers at the gate of Deer Garden, Yan Liqiang took the letter and left Deer Garden.
"In the entire Deer Garden, Captain Yan is the most free. He comes and goes as he pleases, and leaves Deer Garden once every three days on average. I wonder if he can't help but go to the Imperial Capital to look for a girl, but Eunuch Liu doesn't care..." Looking at Yan Liqiang's receding back, a soldier guarding the gate of Deer Garden couldn't help but mutter with sourness and jealousy.
"Liu Neng, stop talking nonsense here!" The captain Feiyang, who had just handed the letter to Yan Liqiang, glared and cursed, "Captain Yan is special because he has abilities, so naturally he will be favored by Eunuch Liu. If a character like you, Liu Neng, fights with Captain Yan, even if two hundred people rush up together, they will not be enough for him to kill..."
"Boss, this is an exaggeration. Although I, Liu Neng, am not a ruthless character, but I will never believe that even if two hundred of me rush up to him, no one can defeat Captain Yan. Even if Captain Yan is stronger than me, I can believe that he can beat ten of me by himself, but how is it possible that he can beat a hundred of me by himself? I'm not a tied-up pig standing here with my neck stretched out for him to kill. Could it be that he has three heads and six arms?" said the soldier named Liu Neng unconvinced.
"Liu Neng, don't be unconvinced. Although Captain Yan has been quiet in Luyuan recently, his reputation has spread throughout the Imperial Horse and Foot Division in the past few months. Did you know that?"
"Ah, boss, tell me, how did Captain Yan become so famous in the Mabu Division?" The soldiers next to him suddenly became curious and pricked up their ears.
"The Imperial Horse and Infantry Division said that when Captain Yan was escorting Lord Sun back to the capital, he slaughtered more than a hundred Black Wind Bandits in a single battle, which frightened the Black Wind Bandits. The Black Wind Bandits are the most famous horse thieves and bandits in the northwest..."
"Ah, how is it possible that one person killed more than a hundred bandits and horse thieves in one battle?" Several soldiers were shocked.
"Don't disbelieve me. This was not witnessed by just one person. It was witnessed by all the brothers of the Imperial Horse Guards who came back with Lord Sun. There are countless witnesses who say that Captain Yan's archery skills are as good as a god. Within a thousand meters, with a bow in hand, killing people is as easy as blowing away the dust on his hands. The brothers of the Imperial Horse Guards who came back simply shared the rhinoceros horses left by the Black Wind Bandits killed by Captain Yan. Each of them got more than one horse. After selling them, they all made a lot of money..."
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Yan Liqiang naturally didn't know that his "reputation" had now spread to the soldiers in Luyuan. After leaving Luyuan, he walked on the road and opened the letter sent to him by Lu Peien. When he read the content of the letter, he couldn't help but mutter in his heart, this is too coincidental...
In the letter, Lu Peien told Yan Liqiang that he and Lingshan Sect had already finalized the matter of lotus root coal, and today, the first batch of lotus root coal produced from Lingshan Sect's coal yard would officially enter Dijing. Lu Peien thanked Yan Liqiang in the letter, because in addition to lotus root coal, Yan Liqiang also left the Lu family a drawing of a small iron furnace suitable for burning lotus root coal.
Lu Payen said in the letter that in the less than one year since Yan Liqiang left Pingxi County, the sales of Lu's Pingxi County lotus root coal had been completely opened up, and the business had gradually expanded to Ganzhou City. In addition to lotus root coal, the small iron stove designed by Yan Liqiang for burning lotus root coal is now in short supply in Ganzhou because of its simplicity, durability, convenience and flexibility. Both wealthy families and ordinary people have gradually regarded that stove as a must-have in their homes. Blacksmith workshops all over Ganzhou are busy imitating it, which has made the blacksmiths in the blacksmith workshops all over Ganzhou very busy, because in a public gathering a few months ago, Grandpa Lu personally told everyone about Yan Liqiang's invention of lotus root coal and that small iron stove. Now in the whole Ganzhou, many people call lotus root coal Yan coal and that small iron stove Yan stove. Half a year after Yan Liqiang left Ganzhou, Yan Liqiang's reputation unexpectedly became famous in Ganzhou because of those two things that were deeply rooted in thousands of households in Ganzhou.
A few days ago, Lu Peien received a letter from Ganzhou. He learned that because of this incident, Yan Liqiang's father was actually elected as the head of the Pingxi City Blacksmith Guild. The Yan family's blacksmith shop became a hit in Ganzhou, and the business suddenly increased several times. Even the dog-legged scimitar that Yan Liqiang had made before was gradually becoming known to more and more people...
In a word, Yan Liqiang's reputation in Ganzhou has completely exceeded Yan Liqiang's imagination. He is so famous that he has shaken Ganzhou. Especially the dream that Yan Liqiang talked about when he spread the method of saving drowning people, which made Yan Liqiang extremely mysterious. Many people in Ganzhou and Pingxi City said that Yan Liqiang was enlightened by an immortal, gained infinite wisdom, and had a peerless immortal fate...
At the end of the letter, Lu Peien mentioned the friend of Mr. Lu whom he had talked to Yan Liqiang about last time—the manager of the Lingshan Sect's Dijing branch who had given the Resurrection Pill to Mr. Lu. He had heard about Yan Liqiang's situation in Ganzhou and was very interested in Yan Liqiang. He wanted Lu Peien to ask Yan Liqiang to meet and have a meal with him.
In the letter, Lu Peien asked Yan Liqiang's opinion and asked Yan Liqiang to visit Ganzhou Guild Hall in the next few days if he had time.
After putting the letter in his arms, Yan Liqiang was stunned for a long time while walking on the road, and finally accepted the facts written in the letter: after leaving Ganzhou for a few days, he unexpectedly, unexpectedly, suddenly became a celebrity in Ganzhou. To use the Internet terminology of his previous life, he was completely famous in Ganzhou...
At this time, Yan Liqiang had no idea what impact his sudden popularity in Ganzhou would have on himself in the capital. What he was concerned about now was the performance of the "Han Empire Times" which was officially released today.
The former only concerns his own future, but the latter concerns the future, fortune and even the lives and property of tens of millions of people...
The manor on Longqi Mountain that Yan Liqiang came to, which was originally called Shunyi Manor, officially hung a new sign today, which was very strange in the eyes of others - the Great Han Empire Times Newspaper Office...
Fang Beidou was making tea in a pavilion in the manor. After Yan Liqiang arrived, he did nothing else but drink tea and chat with Fang Beidou in the pavilion, looking at the carp in the lotus pond next to the pavilion, and then waiting for the sales data to be fed back from several distribution points in the city after dark.
To be honest, Yan Liqiang had no idea how well the newspaper would sell. After all, it was a new thing, and it was hard to say whether it would be a hit or not.
Finally, when it was dark, the sales data from the four distribution points in the city finally came back - for the entire day, the first issue of the Han Empire Times had only sold 318 copies in the Imperial Capital, a bad start, and it did not meet Yan Liqiang's previous expectations at all...
(End of this chapter)