Daqing: Reborn Prince, intercepting Si Lili at the beginning

"Why refuse?" Li Chengyuan asked.

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"I cannot accept rewards without merit!" Yang Wanli bowed and replied.

Li Chengyuan secretly praised him, saying that Yang Wanli was indeed a man who dared to shed blood. This integrity was worthy of praise.

Li Chengyuan didn't beat around the bush and said directly, "Yang Wanli, this prince admires you very much. Are you willing to be his disciple?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Wanli did not rush to agree. Instead, after thinking for a moment, he asked, "I dare to ask Your Highness, if I surrender to Your Highness, what will Your Highness do with me?"

Li Chengyuan said directly: "It depends on you. If you want to become an official as soon as possible, then I can recommend you to enter the officialdom directly.

If you have confidence in yourself, you can wait a little longer. First, do some odd jobs under my command in the transfer group ③7①72 911⑨, and then participate in the Spring Examination next year!"

When Yang Wanli heard Li Chengyuan say this, he knew that Li Chengyuan really wanted to train him. This made him feel at ease. At the same time, he no longer had any worries. He bowed and said, "Student Yang Wanli is willing to serve His Highness!"

Upon hearing this, Li Chengyuan finally smiled and said with relief:

"Very good. From now on, you will be my first retainer. By the way, do you want to become an official directly or participate in the Spring Examination?"

Yang Wanli said without hesitation: "Your Highness, I want to take part in the Spring Examination!"

"Well, very good, you are ambitious. Then you can help me run the bookstore first!"

"Bookstore?"

"Well, I'll tell you about this later!" Li Chengyuan said, turning to Jian Jiuhuang and saying, "Old Huang, please help me take him to change his clothes, and then call the other guests and Shopkeeper Zhao over!"

"Okay, let's go, Wanli!" Jian Jiuhuang smiled and pulled Yang Wanli away.

As soon as the two left, Li Chengyuan opened the system.

She had just heard the system prompt sound.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for intercepting the retainer Yang Wanli. Reward some of the maids and servants in Wutong Garden! (Note: This reward is for 81 people in total. The host needs to publicly recruit them before claiming it!)]

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Good guy!

Li Chengyuan is just a good guy!

The maids and servants in Wutong Garden?

This is really like giving you a pillow when you feel sleepy!

Li Chengyuan was still thinking about cleaning up the Prince's Mansion!

Now the maids and servants in his Prince's Mansion are a mess, and their abilities are very average!

Li Chengyuan even suspected that apart from Lao Huang, Qingniao and Sang Wen, the rest in the palace were spies from other forces.

His Prince's Mansion is like a sieve, with no secrets at all.

As a result, he even had to practice martial arts in secret.

But Li Chengyuan had no choice before.

After all, he has no confidants of his own. Even if he drives these people away and replaces them with a new batch, it is difficult to guarantee that there are no spies from other forces.

So instead of messing around, it’s better to just use it for now.

Fortunately, this time the system finally heard his call and rewarded him with the maids and servants he needed most.

In particular, these maids and servants came from Wutong Garden.

Wutong Garden is Xu Fengnian’s exclusive villa in the snow, and the maids and servants there are all carefully selected.

Every servant has his or her own special skills, and no one does things in a sloppy manner. Some maids' skills are even better than those of the palace maids.

What made Li Chengyuan most happy was that among the rewarded maids, sweet potatoes, green ants and cucumbers were all there.

Especially Hongshu, he is not only a ninth-grade top master, but also very good at dealing with people. Not only can he get along with everyone, but he also knows how to measure things well. He is definitely the best candidate to be the butler.

It is worth mentioning that many of the maids and servants in the Snowy Wutong Garden were assassins and spies from various forces.

But now, they are rewarded to Li Chengyuan by the system, so they can be said to be loyal to Li Chengyuan. There is no possibility of betrayal, and you can use them with confidence.

With them, from now on, the Prince's Mansion will no longer have to worry about leaks.

Li Chengyuan, in a good mood, directly greeted the blue bird beside him.

"Your Highness!"

"Well, have someone post a notice saying that the Prince's Mansion is recruiting maids and servants!"

"Huh?" Bluebird exclaimed in surprise, "Post a notice? Your Highness, that would probably cause a huge uproar!"

"It's okay. I'm a prince. It's okay to act up occasionally!" Li Chengyuan said nonchalantly. "Also, find an excuse to drive out all the maids and servants in the mansion, including the housekeeper. Except for you, Sang Wen, and Old Huang, the rest of them. Give them a generous severance pay!"

After hearing what Li Chengyuan said, Bluebird finally understood what Li Chengyuan was going to do, and nodded in understanding.

"I understand, Your Highness!"

The bluebird responded and then went out.

...

Not long after Qingniao left, Old Huang came in with Yang Wanli, who had changed into new clothes, and other guests including He Zongwei.

Li Chengyuan was not polite to these guests and took them all in directly.

None of these people refused, nor did they dare to refuse!

Then Li Chengyuan gave all these people to Yang Wanli and asked him to be the manager of the palace.

Later, Li Chengyuan introduced Manager Zhao to Yang Wanli.

Shopkeeper Zhao is the bookstore owner that Mr. Thirteen found for Li Chengyuan.

The bookstore had already started preparations two days ago.

The venue, facilities, personnel, etc. for the bookstore are being prepared in an orderly manner.

Li Chengyuan introduced Yang Wanli to Manager Zhao, and then made Yang Wanli the second manager of Qiankun Bookstore, assisting Manager Zhao in running the bookstore!

Although Yang Wanli is talented, he is a novice in business after all. It is most appropriate for him to be the second manager. He can learn more skills from Manager Zhao and put them into practice in the future.

As for Qiankun Bookstore, this is the name given to the bookstore by Li Chengyuan!

Yang Wanli readily agreed to Li Chengyuan's arrangement. He did not refuse because of his low status as a merchant. Instead, he was very interested in running a bookstore.

As for He Zongwei and other guests, Li Chengyuan temporarily arranged them to work in the bookstore.

They will serve as editors, and their main job will be to write books.

After all, a bookstore cannot rely solely on Li Chengyuan's own writing to support it.

These people are not as good as Yang Wanli. It can be seen that they are all somewhat unwilling.

But Li Chengyuan didn't care what they thought.

Just a bunch of retainers.

Whoever is unwilling can leave. As a prince, how could he worry about not having retainers?

No matter what these people think.

Li Chengyuan directly assigned each of them a task of writing a book.

He gave them an outline and then asked them to use the outline to improve the story.

The outlines given by Li Chengyuan were all ancient bestsellers from his previous life, such as "Romance of the West Chamber", "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", etc.

In order not to reveal his identity, Li Chengyuan deliberately only gave the story outline, that is, the story summary, and did not give specific character names and related details, leaving it all to the guests to write themselves.

In this way, the stories written by the retainers would naturally be very different from the original works such as "Romance of the West Chamber" and "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", and Fan Xian would not be able to find any flaws!

......

Because there are many things to explain.

Li Chengyuan chatted with these people for a full hour before he explained everything clearly.

Afterwards, everyone left the palace and followed Shopkeeper Zhao to Qiankun Bookstore!

Chapter 38 Emperor Qing: This Li Chengyuan is really evil!

The Qing Imperial Palace, the sleeping hall.

Eunuch Hou ran in with small, skillful steps.

"Your Majesty, the Inspection Office has just received a secret report regarding the Prince's Mansion!"

On the couch, Emperor Qing was lying on his side, reading Li Chengyuan's "Journey to the West" with great interest.

He also had a pirated copy of "Dream of Red Mansions" on hand.

This book looks as good as new, it is obvious that Emperor Qing didn’t read much of it!

Compared to the romantic drama "A Dream of Red Mansions", Emperor Qing prefers "Journey to the West" with its havoc in Heaven!

After hearing Eunuch Hou's report, Emperor Qing finally looked up and asked:

"What did Li Chengyuan do again?"

"Your Majesty, His Highness has dismissed all the stewards, maids, and servants in the mansion!"

"What?" Emperor Qing was stunned. "Everyone was dismissed? Not a single one was left?"

"That's not the case!" Eunuch Hou said hurriedly, "The Third Prince left behind Qingniao, Sang Wen, and Jian Jiuhuang, who were with him, but not the others!"

"Jian Jiuhuang..." Emperor Qing thought for a moment and asked, "Has the Jian Jiuhuang Inspection Institute investigated this?"

Ever since Qingniao revealed his ninth-grade strength, Emperor Qing has paid special attention to the people around Li Chengyuan.

Emperor Sang Wenqing had already learned about her and knew that she was just a prostitute and nothing special.

However, Emperor Qing didn't know anything about Jian Jiuhuang.

"Your Majesty, we've investigated. The results from the Inspection Office show that Jian Jiuhuang doesn't have any true energy, nor does he have any other special features. He's just an old, drunken, and lecherous scoundrel. It's just that Your Majesty met him when he was young, and they have similar personalities, so they can be considered close friends regardless of age.

After the Third Prince was crowned king, he came to seek refuge with him, and was then kept by the Third Prince's side!"

"Oh!" Emperor Qing nodded and didn't think about it anymore.

Emperor Qing was just asking casually and did not doubt Jian Jiuhuang.