"Since he wants to die, let's make his wish come true!"
Under bright lights, in the study of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Lin Qingtian's face remained calm after listening to Gu Chunyi's words. After taking a sip of the tea in his hand, he put down the teacup and spoke calmly, as if he was talking about a trivial matter.
"I didn't expect Yan Liqiang to be so ungrateful. Your Excellency has given him a chance to live, but he insisted on going down the path of death..." Gu Chunyi, the Minister of Justice, whom Yan Liqiang had met once during the trial, had a cold light in his eyes. His gloomy expression made his hooked nose look even more sinister and cold. "Yan Liqiang is just a small figure, so it's not a pity for him to die. But in this way, he ruined Your Excellency's plan. I also read the "Han Empire Times" when it first came out. I originally thought it was just a piece of entertainment for the market. If it weren't for Your Excellency's keen eye, I'm afraid I wouldn't have thought that small newspaper could be of great use in the future..."
"Although the newspaper is small, if more people read it, it is not a small matter, but it concerns the people's hearts and the public opinion!" Lin Qingtian showed a deep smile on his face, his eyes flashing, "Since we can't get the ready-made one, then we can make one. If a teenager and a makeshift team can do it, there is no reason why others can't do it. Even if we copy it, it's nothing more than spending a little money! In addition to the Imperial Capital, other states and counties far away from the Imperial Capital can also follow suit and slowly make newspapers, support each other, and have the same voice and spirit, and slowly build up momentum..."
"Your Excellency is indeed far-sighted. You are not only focusing on the Imperial Capital!" Gu Chunyi smiled flatteringly. "I will ask Manager Gu to do this. Those writers of the newspaper were originally just small-time figures in the Imperial Capital. The ones who collected information for their newspaper were just a few gangsters in the Imperial Capital. There are many such people in the capital. In a few days, our newspaper will be out. Please give the newspaper a name..."
"Let's call it The Imperial Capital Times..." Lin Qingtian said a name without thinking, then turned his head to look at the other person sitting next to Gu Chunyi, "On the 15th, everything will be up to you, don't drag your feet. Your father wrote to me last time, saying that you have learned a lot and wanted me to recommend a good job for you in Imperial Capital City to hone your skills. If you do this well, with the title of the Crown Prince's Kyudo instructor, you will be able to rise to prominence in the future!"
The man sitting next to Gu Chunyi also looked quite young, perhaps in his twenties. He was wearing a white robe, had thin arms and a slim waist, and was tall and straight. He looked okay, but his eyes were thin and long, with more white than black, like a wolf or a tiger. He looked a little uncomfortable, and there was a slight evil aura about him - this man was Shi Minzhang, the son of General Shi Tao of Anbei. He was quite famous in the archery circle of the Imperial Capital.
Hearing Lin Qingtian's words, Shi Minzhang showed a cruel but determined smile, "Yan Liqiang is only at the fourth level of archery, not worth mentioning. After I advanced to the fifth level of archery, I worked hard to practice the unique skill of sound-following arrows. On the fifteenth day, I will kill that brat within five arrows and let him know the consequences of going against the adults!"
"Yeah!" Lin Qingtian nodded, then shook his head with compassion and sighed, "What a pity, what a pity. I heard that Yan Liqiang is quite strange. The Journey to the West, which has been popular in Imperial Capital these days, I wonder if you two have read it. The Journey to the West was written by Yan Liqiang..."
"I haven't read Journey to the West yet, but that kid was just a self-righteous idiot. It's not a pity that he died. The last thing the Imperial Capital lacks is extraordinary people. If one dies, there are still ten or a hundred..."
Lin Qingtian said calmly, "Look for it when you have time. Although you are a high-ranking official in the imperial court, you should not be too detached from the mundane world. The powerful stone monkey in Journey to the West is quite interesting. Yan Liqiang and the stone monkey have some similarities. Kill him and then read the book he wrote. You will find it is quite interesting..."
"Since the adults have agreed, I will go back and look for it!" Gu Chunyi lowered her head and answered obediently.
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While Lin Qingtian and the other two in the Prime Minister's Mansion were casually deciding Yan Liqiang's life or death, Yan Liqiang was sitting under a tree in his yard, holding the several exotic beast core crystals he had obtained before, scratching his head and studying them over and over again, "Damn it, other than injecting true qi, how can this thing be distinguished as good or bad..."
An important event happened this morning. After finding a big backer for the newspaper, Yan Liqiang suddenly felt that the pressure on him was much less.
The newspaper office was handed over to His Majesty the Emperor, and some adjustments were made to the people in other newspaper offices, but everyone basically had arrangements, especially Fang Beidou. After Yan Liqiang had a detailed talk with him, Fang Beidou was entrusted with an important task by Eunuch Liu and continued to stay in the newspaper office, managing all matters of the newspaper office with the two assistant managers sent by Eunuch Liu.
Fang Beidou originally didn't want to stay in the newspaper, but Yan Liqiang just gave him a hint that if he wanted to save people in a few years, he had to stay in the newspaper. If he had the newspaper in his hands, it would be of great use in the future. Just this reason made Fang Beidou stay obediently and willing to work under a group of eunuchs. If it were the former self-righteous and pretentious Fang Beidou, he would definitely not be able to stand such treatment, but for someone who could run naked around the Imperial Capital, this was not something difficult to accept.
Without the newspaper issue and having found a big backer who no longer required him to worry about anything, Yan Liqiang felt relaxed at the moment. After returning to Luyuan, he prepared for the blind competition wholeheartedly.
The blind match is important, but the test on the sixth floor of the Sword Cave Crystal Tower is equally important.
After today's hard training and several recitations of the I Ching Xisui Sutra, the small golden vortex in his sea of consciousness grew a little bigger and larger, so at night, Yan Liqiang simply studied the exotic beast core crystal in his hand in the room.
Yan Liqiang still remembered what Fang Beidou had said to him about the spiritual consciousness of the array master, so he kept trying all night to see if the ball of energy in his sea of consciousness was the so-called spiritual consciousness and whether it could react with the exotic beast core crystal in his hand. But unfortunately, Yan Liqiang tried all kinds of ways, but the ball of energy in his sea of consciousness remained motionless. Yan Liqiang had no idea how to mobilize that ball of energy.
Just when Yan Liqiang was concentrating on studying the several exotic beast core crystals in his hand, he suddenly felt that someone was hiding in the dark and spying on him...
This feeling shocked Yan Liqiang. He even suspected that he was wrong, because since he came to Luyuan, except for the test by Eunuch Liu, he had never been spied on by anyone. It was very safe here.
Yan Liqiang remained calm, but felt it carefully again and found that his feeling was not wrong. The feeling of being peeped came from the crown of a tall camphor tree more than a hundred meters away to the west of the yard. Someone was hiding there, observing and spying on his yard, and had already seen him.
The prying eyes wandered around Yan Liqiang's vital parts such as the back of his neck and heart, making Yan Liqiang feel uneasy, as if there was a wasp with a poisonous stinger circling behind him. In just a moment, Yan Liqiang was 100% sure that the person who was peeping at him was a master of archery. Even the vague and cold murderous intent made Yan Liqiang feel a sense of déjà vu...
A face suddenly appeared in Yan Liqiang's mind...
It was him, the man next to Lin Qingtian’s nephew Lin Zhe…
What happened? After the last three-court trial, didn't Lin Zhe leave Imperial Capital and be driven back to his hometown in Haizhou by Lin Qingtian? This person is Lin Zhe's man, why would he come to Luyuan to spy on him
Could it be... Could it be that Lin Zhe asked him to come here to take revenge or kill him
But he was about to have a blind fight, and Lin Qingtian's side was already sure of victory, so why would they create trouble and send assassins
Yan Liqiang's brain was working rapidly...
Unless... Unless Lin Zhe didn't know about his blind competition, and he hadn't told Lin Qingtian about what he was going to do to me, and he was hiding something from Lin Qingtian...
(End of this chapter)