Zeng Yi said a lot of things, Lu Yuan also said a lot, Ding Yi listened silently, his heart was very entangled. is different from those cultivators who have been in contact with in the past, at least a cultivator like Zeng Yi who is worried about the country and the people, Ding Yi has seen it for the first time.

Zeng Yi's starting point is very high, he himself is the son-in-law of the Zeng family in Tiangang City, he is the descendant of the ten swords in Tiangang City, the top five gentlemen's swords, and he is extremely talented, and at the age of thirty, he has already become a Xuan-level grandmaster. He is a dignified, upright, generous, sincere and humble gentleman.

Zeng Yi was worried about the workshops that were at the bottom of the rankings. This concern is even stronger for those workshops that are not led by cultivators. Tiangang City has continued to decay for more than 400 years, and although this state of depression does not start now, in the course of his decades of life, he has witnessed that the city continues to sink and fall.

Tiangangcheng's main product is weapon manufacturing, and this market is sluggish and compressed. In the history of the empire for more than 400 years, the population has shown explosive growth, and the dividends brought by the population have not allowed this thousand-year-old soldier to gain growth momentum. Since cultivators dominated the empire's national defense and military, the traditional weapons manufacturing market was greatly compressed.

The weapons of cultivators are different from the weapons used by ordinary people, and the market for manufacturing these high-end weapons still has a certain development, but the market for ordinary mortals has faded a lot.

Although there is a custom of wearing weapons among the people, with the stability of the empire for hundreds of years, fewer and fewer people are willing to travel with swords. This custom is gradually changing. Iron and steel products for household use are now the city's main source of economic income.

High-quality blood-streaked steel could not be used as a weapon in the hands of samurai, but was made into kitchen knives, scissors and other daily utensils in large quantities, which was also completely helpless.

Tiangang City can imitate Xintiandi's car puppets, but they can't copy Xintiandi's production process. The puppeteers and craftsmen of Tiangang City are undoubtedly highly skilled craftsmen, and the car puppets they reproduce are completely comparable to the various types of car puppets produced by Xintiandi. But even the two places are separated by more than 4,000 kilometers. The car puppets transported from Jiyun City can still crush Tiangang City in terms of price.

Xintiandi's intensive factory management and assembly line manufacturing mode is the magic weapon of Xintiandi's success, and the advanced mechanism of factory management and enterprise management is not the craftsman of Tiangang City, who can catch up with a few masters.

Ding Yi is Zeng Yi's hope, so he can put down his body, don't care about face, and circle around Yang Qi and Ding Yi before and after the saddle. He has studied Ding Yi and knows what kind of person Ding Yi is, and he hopes to influence Ding Yi through his sincerity, and is willing to help him build a factory like Jiyun City in Tiangang City.

"Senior Brother Ding, in business, otherwise, as long as you nod your head and open a factory in Tiangang City, the number of locals in Tiangang City is guaranteed to reach more than 100,000 people, and you don't need to spend a copper plate, the new factory can even be called Xintiandi Branch, land, and factories can all be provided for free, and you can even take fifty percent of the profits......"

Ding Yi was still silent.

Lu Yuan said angrily: "Ding Yi, Senior Brother Zeng has already given in to this point, what else do you want?"

Ding Yi looked at Lu Yuan, whose eyes were almost on fire, then at Zeng Yi, sighed, and finally said his thoughts.

"Councilor Zeng, Senior Brother Lu, in fact, even if you don't make money, just with the sincerity of the two of you, it is said that I will help Councilor Zeng build a factory here. Everyone knows that I am from a civilian background, and I know very well the life of a civilian and the hardships of a civilian. I didn't have time to visit Tiangang City, but Vice Principal Yang and I went into the city, and we also saw a lot of scenes along the way, Senior Brother Zeng had this heart and was willing to help these civilians, to be honest, I was also very moved. ”

"Actually, not only the three great grandmasters have warned me, but the vice president of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce has also warned me, this is a tricky matter. Traditionally, puppeteers and puppeteers have only produced dolls and toys for children to play with, or simple mechanical puppets. The civilian market has not been developed. The car puppet is not a high-end product, and the manufacturing and use of the car puppet can be traced back to the Battle of Akano more than 2,000 years ago. However, car puppets have not been widely used among the people. One reason is that there are still too few puppeteers in this world. The complexity and variety of various basic disciplines discourage many cultivators, but ordinary people do not have the possibility of learning puppet art because they cannot obtain the knowledge of the formation and the spirit stones that are key to building the formation. ”

"For quite a long time, the puppet technique was only studied on a small scale in the cultivation realm, as a small Dao Gate. There are very few records of famous puppeteers appearing on the mainland. And the puppeteer, as a money-burning profession, restricts the development of puppeteers and puppeteers. ”

"Even after the establishment of the empire, even if part of the spirit stone market was opened up, and education was widely popularized, the development was still slow. In the Xuanzang Academy where I work, I couldn't even find a few decent books on puppetry, and the various puppets made by puppeteers are generally not for sale, and the empire provides all the benefits of cultivators, and puppeteers can't make puppets to sell. ”

However, this model of Xintiandi has finally changed this situation, and civilians can also start to produce high-end puppets in large quantities. And high-end puppets have gradually entered the lives of civilians, this development trend, so that a variety of possible puppets, become no longer far away, I believe that the buyers and experiencers of car puppets, will definitely in the near future, put forward new requirements. If the cart puppets that replace the mules and horses appear, will the puppets that replace the flying beasts be far away? The puppets that imitate the abilities of the cultivators will inevitably spring up in large numbers. And with the massive influx of these puppets into the people. Will the 'separation between heaven and man' still exist for cultivators? In the foreseeable future, civilians will be able to manipulate mechanical puppets and fight with cultivators, and will the status of cultivators still be as honorable and prominent as they are now?......"

Lu Yuan said: "This is just the alarmism of the great grandmasters, the core of building a puppet is still a formation, it is impossible for mortals to master these high-end process technology, and the manufacture of high-end puppets is not something that those mud legs can play." ”

"Besides, isn't there still the Imperial Supervision Department, as long as these high-end puppets are guaranteed to not flow into the people, this possibility will not exist. What you said can be completely eliminated, and you can't choke on food because of this impossible thing, and cut off the good opportunity for the development of puppetry. ”

Ding Yi pinched the bridge of his nose, sighed and said to Zeng Yi: "Councilor Zeng, you are a member of the Empire's Congress, and you are more familiar with the laws and regulations of the Empire than me. ”

"One of the key factors in the Southwest Rebellion is that the Truth Society and other cults have used a lot of car puppets to transfer people. The empire did not liquidate Xintiandi because Xintiandi has the endorsement of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, and the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce is a large chamber of commerce controlled by the empire, if there is no such relationship, do you believe that Xintiandi can continue to exist?"

"This kind of sign, I believe that the empire will not sit idly by, and will definitely increase its control over this area, at this time, open a large-scale factory with a scale no less than Xintiandi, do you believe that the empire will not take action?"

Zeng Yi fell into deep thought.

"Ding Yi, your consideration is very comprehensive, as a member of Congress, there is still a blank in the formulation of laws and regulations, supervision and management of this area, I know what I should do, thank you for telling me these things openly and honestly, for the matter of opening a factory, I am indeed a little Meng Lang, and I am a little anxious. I will put forward a bill on puppet manufacturing in the parliament, before this bill is passed, we will not ask you to cooperate for the time being, I will find relevant legal people, jointly study and draft a bill, I hope that this bill for the benefit of the country and the people can plug all kinds of loopholes and become the cornerstone of the rise of Tiangang City in the future and reshape its glory. Thank you!"

"Councilor Zeng, you are too polite, I am ashamed of it, you have helped us so much, but I can't help you......" Ding Yi really felt a little guilty.

Lu Yuan saw that Zeng Yi said this, but he was still a little annoyed, and he was idle on the side. Ding Yi didn't know how to comfort him.

Zeng Yi got up and said: "Although the matter has not been negotiated, but it has finally come to an end, I believe that after the law is passed, Ding Yi will not refuse to cooperate with our Tiangang City again." ”

Ding Yi hurriedly stood up and said, "That's certain." ”

Zeng Yi smiled and said to Lu Yuan: "Ah Yuan, there is still a long time to go, you accompany Ding Yi to go around Tiangang City, you brothers and sisters have a good time, I can't wait to find someone to talk about revising the law, I won't accompany you." Tomorrow I will personally see you off, then, I will leave first. ”

In the afternoon, Lu Yuan took Ding Yi and Yang Qi around to play in Tiangang City, although Lu Yuan had not completely opened his heart knot, but he also knew that Ding Yi could not be blamed. He took Ding Yi and Yang Qi to visit various scenery in Tiangang City.

Lu Yuan's interest is not high, he doesn't know much about politics, in fact, most of the cultivators are technical nerds, they pay more attention to their own cultivation, and then they only care about the development of their own sect and cultivation department, and they don't like the superstructure and the related legal system very much.

Lu Yuan didn't have any opinions on Ding Yi. In the morning, he listened carefully to Ding Yi's speech. He only felt a little heartwarming, in such a good situation, the puppet line had to endure everywhere, which made him very unhappy.

As the most outstanding person in the Iron Casting City, Lu Yuan was taken by the three great masters by his side, in addition to his own excellent talent, he was bent on strengthening the puppet system, had a pure heart, and thought about the Iron Casting City everywhere. This is the fundamental reason why the three masters kept him by his side, otherwise there would be many people with a higher level of ability than him, so why did he choose him alone? He was originally cultivated as the future successor of the Iron Casting City.

If it weren't for all of Ding Yi's work in Jiyun City, Lu Yuan might still be immersed in the ocean of knowledge as before, concentrating on the supreme mystery of puppetry, and would not face changes in the world unexpectedly.

His heart was disturbed, Ding Yi's speech at the Hyatt Hotel was like a piece of firewood, which lit him, the world described by Ding Yi was too beautiful, it was a new avenue, he couldn't and would not continue to stay in the Heavenly Puppet Divine Machine Courtyard, behind closed doors, he thought that what Ding Yi said and described was the road he wanted to walk.

The initiator of opening up this path extinguished the burning torch himself, and Lu Yuan knew Ding Yi's hard work. Although he is not interested in politics, he still knows how difficult it will be to pass the legal provisions proposed by Zeng Yi. This is a law that will shake the country, and it would be hell if the parliament would pass it easily.

As you can imagine, it will be a long wait. Is this blood of my own going to be wasted in this endless long wait?

Lu Yuan is good to Ding Yi, Ding Yi can feel that this thin and tall senior brother Lu, the heat under his cold appearance can only be experienced by those who are familiar with him. Being recognized by Lu Yuan and regarded as a confidant is something that Ding Yi feels very honored. Ding Yi didn't want to disappoint Lu Yuan, but this matter was not negotiable. Ding Yi represents the hundreds of thousands of civilians in Xintiandi, and he can't bring those people into the fire pit because of his own heat.

Qipan Street, Chengxing Avenue, Terracotta Square, the most prosperous neighborhood in Tiangang City, Luyuan took Ding Yi and Yang Qi to visit here, Ding Yi and Yang Qi even played a wargame in the Terracotta Square, this is a super metropolis, although it has been dilapidated, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and its former glory can still be seen from many places.

Yang Qi has already visited these places in the past few days accompanied by Zeng Yi, but he is still very willing to accompany Ding Yi to visit again. He gained a lot from this trip to the military capital, and in addition to the friendship of Tiangang City, he also gained a lot of knowledge. Ding Yi's performance made him quite satisfied, and he didn't mind giving Ding Yi preferential treatment for most of the day.

Luyuan took the two of them around to enjoy the customs of the Chinese capital, which is different from the southeast and has a very different culture.

"Lao Yang, Xiao Yi, the next place I will take you to is Qunfang Pavilion, Lao Yang, that is the most dazzling place in Tiangang City's nightlife, Senior Brother Zeng must not have brought you here. Lu Yuan introduced in the car.

When they traveled in Luyuan, Zeng Yi specially equipped them with a Hurricane series car puppet produced by Jiyun City Xintiandi.

Sitting on the car puppet produced by himself, hearing Lu Yuan's words, Ding Yi couldn't help but be stunned.

Isn't this group of Fang Pavilions just Qinglou? Is it okay for me to be still a minor?

Yang Qi still had a cold face that couldn't guess his thoughts, and Ding Yi didn't know what he was thinking. However, Yang Qi did not object, and he did not say anything.

In fact, along the way, Lu Yuan, as a tour guide, said a lot of things when introducing the scenic spots and historic sites of Tiangang City, all of which meant something. Ding Yi only pretended not to know, it seems that this senior brother Lu is still very unwilling.

Ding Yi didn't expect the scale of the Qinglou in Tiangang City to be so large, what Beauty Street, Silk Street, Rouge Lane...... If there is a large area of Tiangang City in the south of the city, the warblers sing and dance everywhere, the pavilions and buildings stand everywhere, the sound of silk and bamboo, and a piece of spring is full of joy.

The car puppet drove directly to a photo studio and stopped. This so-called photo studio is nothing more than a giant illusion made by an illusionist, a means to attract guests. This is the same form of advertising that Ding Yi did in Black Sand City.

The puppets who drove this year were either rich or expensive, and the people of Qunfang Pavilion had already seen them from afar, and more than a dozen girls with flowers and branches stood at the door early to greet them.

Ding Yizhi didn't have any other thoughts, Qinglou was just a big battle, he just didn't understand what Luyuan meant by bringing them here.

Lu Yuan was not a pleasure seeker, and he very unceremoniously pushed away the women who came forward with spiritual power.

"The best private room on the third floor, open the best wine, serve the best banquet, and let the bride come over. Lu Yuan instructed while opening the car door for Ding Yi.

Knowing that it was a cultivator in front of them, those girls were a little panicked, some people ran in to inform the steward inside, and the others were a little pale and at a loss.

Ding Yi and Yang Qi got out of the car, and a beautiful woman in her thirties ran out in a hurry.

"Lu Gongzi is here, the bride is greeting you, the private room upstairs has been prepared for you, please move with me." The beautiful woman hurriedly led the way.

Ding Yi and Yang Qi followed behind Lu Yuan and entered this group of Fang Pavilion. It's only three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and there are not many people in the Qunfang Pavilion. Knowing that Lu Yuan was a cultivator, the guests and girls inside looked at them from a distance with curiosity and a little fear.

Ding Yi's private room is in an excellent location, with a bird's-eye view of the whole situation, and the layout inside is also magnificent. The bride of the Qunfang Pavilion personally accompanied, maybe the bride knew Luyuan's personality and didn't call them girls.

Lu Yuan still had to consult Yang Qi's opinion, and Yang Qi waved his hand.

The bride opened a bottle of daughter red and filled the glasses for the three guests. The feast at this table is luxurious and exquisite, but Ding Yi is not interested in this. He wanted to know what kind of medicine was to be sold in the Luyuan gourd.