My life skills in Daming Liver

The little servant told about the corruption of ink, and Yu Dong, the shopkeeper of the bookstore, turned pale.

Immediately afterwards, Su Ze recorded all the things confessed by the boy and asked him to sign it.

Now Yu Dong couldn't stand anymore, he knelt down in front of Zong Yuan and cried, "Master, spare me!"

Yu Zongyuan didn't expect that Yu Dong would covet so much money from their Yu family, and his face was also very ugly.

Yu Dong was already trembling with fright, he kept kowtowing to Yu Zongyuan, cursing and vowing to make up for the shortfall.

Su Zela said to Zongyuan: "Brother Yu, I think it's just to let the shopkeeper make up for the shortfall."

Yu Zongyuan said angrily, "That old thief has stolen so much money from my family!"

But Su Ze said: "He's greedy for the Yu family's money, and he's making up for your shortfall."

This reminded Yu Zongyuan, and he stopped making trouble immediately.

That's right, if Yu Dong was sent to Yu's house, the money for the compensation would definitely not be given to him.

It's better to extort oil and water directly from this old guy.

Yu Zongyuan immediately said: "Thank you Brother Su for your guidance!"

Su Ze said again: "Let him make up for the shortfall, and then what does Brother Yu think?"

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Su Ze nodded and said, "Such a person, do you want Brother Yu to use it again?"

Yu Zongyuan frowned and said, "I don't want to use it either, but I don't have any capable people in my room, so who can I use without him?"

Su Ze immediately said: "I have a few trustworthy brothers in Changningwei, who are honest and responsible, if Brother Yu doesn't dislike him?"

Yu Zongyuan immediately said: "Don't dislike it, don't dislike it! Brother Su's brother is my brother!"

Su Ze said again; "But the shopkeeper can be changed, but the clerk can't be changed. The clerk has only been worth tens of taels of silver these years. He is a child of the family and is familiar with the situation of the bookstore. Brother Yu can continue to use it."

Yu Zongyuan immediately nodded and said: "Brother Su is right, forgive him and dare not continue to be greedy!"

The number one angel investor, Yu Zongyuan, was kind and good, and instead of turning over the shopkeeper to the government, he asked him to send the corrupted money to his house within a time limit.

Because the buddy was free to report, Yu Zongyuan spared his punishment and ordered him to continue working in the bookstore.

The clerk kowtowed and thanked him non-stop, but Yu Dong's face was ashen, his life was saved, but he had to spit out nearly a thousand taels of silver that he had been greedy for ink all these years.

Yu Zongyuan struck while the iron was hot, and took Su Ze to the pickle shop, rouge shop, and dye shop, and sure enough, he found the problem from the accounts.

Yu Zongyuan and Su Ze, one with a white face and the other with a red face, asked the shopkeeper and the clerk to sign and pledge to recover the money that the shopkeeper had embezzled.

By the evening, the money recovered in the account had exceeded a thousand taels, and Yu Zongyuan's face was flushed, and he was a little drifting when he walked!

He excitedly took Su Ze's hand and said, "Brother Su! You are really my nobleman!"

Su Ze smiled, and secretly said in his heart: "Brother Yu, you are my nobleman."

According to Su Ze's suggestion, the four shops all kept their buddies, and all the vacant shopkeeper positions were filled by members of the Changning Weilin clan recommended by Su Ze.

Su Ze had already made up his mind about the candidate. The bookstore was the most profitable store in the Yu family. Lin Xianyang could write and count, and he was smart in handling things, so he was appointed as the shopkeeper of the bookstore.

However, Changningwei still has a quota to be recommended to the county government as an official, so let's go back and see Lin Xianyang's own choice when the time comes.

Hey, Changningwei still has too few talents! There are not enough talents now!

Yu Zongyuan was also very generous. The dowry he offered was twenty-five taels of silver a year, which was much more profitable than farming in Changningwei!

As long as the Lin clan becomes the shopkeeper, it will be much more convenient for Su Ze to sell the books printed by Chang Ningwei himself.

Lin Deqing has an introverted temper, but he is reliable and prudent in his work. He can be the shopkeeper of a pickle shop.

Rouge Shop and Dyefang then found two smart people from Changningwei to recommend to Yu Zongyuan, and Changningwei immediately had four more shopkeepers.

With the character of the number one angel investor Yu Ergongzi, he would definitely not dictate the management. Doesn't this mean that Changningwei has four more shops in the county?

Both Su Ze and Yu Zongyuan felt that the other party was their noble person. Yu Zongyuan took Su Ze to drink at the Yueyue Building. Su Ze thought about it but refused. Changning Wei still has a lot of things to do. Su Ze is going to get dark Before rushing back.

After saying goodbye to Yu Zongyuan, Su Ze promised that Changningwei's new shopkeeper would report to his house in two days, and Su Ze returned to the county school to pick up his luggage.

Once back to Su Ze, Chen Chaoyuan and Lin Qingcai hadn't returned yet, they sat on the ground and sighed, their faces were full of sorrow.

Su Ze quickly asked: "Brother Lin, Brother Chen, what's the matter?"

Chen Chaoyuan was still sighing, and Lin Qingcai said: "Today we went to submit articles to Huang Shixing's new tabloid, but Huang Shixing humiliated us a lot."

"Then how did Huang Shixing humiliate you?"

Lin Qingcai said: "Brother Chen and I went to submit papers, but Huang Shixing said that Mr. Tuohu's essay competition was a prosperous age for scholars in Yanping Prefecture, that we didn't even have a reputation as a scholar and wanted to participate, that we were not qualified to submit papers, and humiliated us in public. some."

Su Ze held back his anger and said, "Mr. Tuohu himself didn't say that he must be a scholar to participate in the essay competition. Why does Huang Shixing say that?"

The circle of scholars in Yanping Mansion is so big. Lin Qingcai and Chen Chaoyuan were humiliated. The entire Yanping Mansion literati circle can talk about it for a long time, and this insult will accompany them for a long time.

Even Huang Shixing not only insulted the two of them, but also insulted Su Ze who also had no fame.

The so-called scholar can be killed but not humiliated. In the ancient times when reputation was highly valued, being humiliated was a matter of lowering one's social status. However, a scholar like Chen Chaoyuan who makes a living by writing pleadings and deeds, once his reputation is poor, he will not even be able to get business. .

Lin Qingcai sighed again, the tabloid was run by Huang Shixing, so the standard was naturally set by him.

Lin Qingcai also regretted it at this time, he could just submit an article to Mr. Tuohu directly, why did he submit an article to Huang Shixing's tabloid.

Su Ze thought about it for a while, and it was true that Huang Shixing paid for the tabloid. Even if he asked him to make a theory, he would be humiliated.

Su Ze thought for a while and said, "Brothers, can you give me the play you wrote?"

Lin Qingcai asked suspiciously; "Brother Su will give it naturally, but why does Brother Su want drama?"

Su Ze said: "To tell you the truth, I actually wanted to run a newspaper a long time ago."

Lin Qingcai and Chen Chaoyuan looked at Su Ze in surprise: "Brother Su also wants to run a newspaper?"

Chen Chaoyuan immediately said: "Brother Su, you can't do it! Running a newspaper is expensive, and it's not worth spending this money just to keep yourself alive!"

Chen Chaoyuan was worried that it was because they had been humiliated, so Su Ze wanted to run a newspaper and compete with Huang Shixing, so he persuaded him.

The purpose of Su Ze's movable type printing is to publish newspapers, and now Yu's bookstore has also been acquired, and there is also a place to sell newspapers.

As for Huang Shixing running a newspaper, it happened to hit Su Ze's muzzle.

Su Ze sneered, since you, Huang Shixing, don't accept Lin and Chen's manuscript, then I will publish it in my own newspaper.

Then let's see whose newspaper sells well!

Su Ze said to the two of them: "It's not a whim to start a newspaper. After seeing the Fuzhou government's tabloids from Hai Jiaoyu last time, I wanted to start a newspaper. It has nothing to do with Huang Shixing."

"If the two brothers don't dislike it, how about publishing the drama in my newspaper?"

Although the dramas written by Lin and Chen are clichéd, but when Su Ze went to the bookstore today, the level of the novels was similar to the dramas they wrote.

The operas of the two are also relatively vernacular, which is in line with the mainstream aesthetics of today's common people.

Su Ze was already worrying about the content of the first newspaper, so he could just use their drama to make up the number of words.

Lin and Chen were still skeptical, but they still handed over the play to Su Ze.

But the last time Chen Chaoyuan accompanied Su Ze to buy an engraved house slave, it was not a moment of anger that Su Ze wanted to run a newspaper.

Just a craftsman of engraving, when will he be able to make a newspaper?

It will take more than a month just to engrave these two operas. I am afraid that by then the essay call will have ended, and Mr. Tuohu will have traveled to other counties.

However, Su Ze also had good intentions. Although the two of them were not optimistic about his newspaper, they were still very grateful to Su Ze.

After bidding farewell to the two classmates, Su Ze contacted Xiaoqi who had escorted him to the county, and under the guard of the soldiers, he embarked on his way back to Changningwei.

At the same time, in a printing house in Nanping City, the Mr. Huang Shixing Huang just mentioned was inspecting the printing house he had just bought.

This was originally a printing house for printing books, but the booksellers in Jianyang have been fighting price wars these years, and Nanping County is so close to Jianyang that the printing house has been squeezed out.

However, Huang Shixing still spent five hundred taels of silver to buy this printing workshop.

In addition to the land and various printing equipment, the printing workshop also maintains ten engraving masters, and the annual salary of these people is two hundred taels of silver.

Naturally, such a large sum of money was not something Huang Shixing could afford. The money was paid by Huang's father-in-law, and the purpose was naturally to make Huang Shixing famous.

This is how the noble gentry played. There were so many scholars who became famous at a young age in the Ming Dynasty. Except for those who were really talented and talented, the rest were "packaged" by families like Huang Shixing with great effort.

Organizing poetry clubs, organizing newspapers and printing anthologies, none of these things cost money.

If you want to make a name for yourself in Shilin, you must have no money.

At this time, many young scholars gathered around Huang Shixing, and they were all invited to visit the printing workshop.

Seeing that Huang Shixing bought such a large workshop just to make a name for himself by publishing a newspaper, the scholars present were full of respect for Huang Shixing.

When Huang Shixing's newspaper is established, it will grasp the direction of the local scholasticism, and those who appear in the newspaper will naturally become famous in scholasticism, and this right to speak is too heavy!

At such a time, it is natural to curry favor with Mr. Huang, a clever scholar said:

"Brother Huang's newspaper is really a great event for the scholars in Yanping Mansion! It's just that those two shabby men dared to submit articles today, almost humiliating the scholarly fragrance of the bookstore!"

While talking, the scholar looked at Huang Shixing, and sure enough, Huang Shixing showed a satisfied expression. The scholar continued to preach:

"I heard that those two self-righteous guys are the classmates of Su Ze from last time, and they are both poor scholars recruited by Haijiao."

"These guys, who don't even have any fame, still want to be famous in Shilin, it's really ridiculous!"

The scholars present laughed one after another, and even a few scholars from poor families also laughed along with them.

Huang Shixing also felt much more at ease. Last time Su Ze robbed him of the limelight, he was annoyed for a long time.

But now Huang Shixing doesn't take Su Ze seriously anymore, as long as his own tabloid is run, the public opinion of scholars in the entire Yanping Mansion will be in his hands.

At that time, whoever I want to praise can be published in the tabloids, and whoever I want to be criticized can be sprayed in the newspaper.

Didn't that Su Ze say that "the daily use of the common people is the way"? Huang Shixing is already preparing to contact a few scholars in Fuzhou Prefecture who understand the Taizhou School of Learning, and ask them to write an article to refute Su Ze's point of view.

Put a big hat on him at that time, then Su Ze will never be able to stand up in the imperial examination again!

Thinking of this, Huang Shixing felt even happier.

The engraving masters in the printing workshop were busy, and at the same time, the magistrate's yamen was also busy.

Yamen naturally also had its own printing department.

The government has to post announcements. All kinds of policies issued by the imperial court, important personnel appointments and dismissals must be posted on the walls on both sides of the government office and county office. This kind of document is called an announcement, similar to today's policy propaganda column.

After these articles are issued by the superiors, they will be engraved and printed in the Wenyinfang of the government office, and then posted by the government officials.

The government office also has five engraving craftsmen, but the work in the government office is much easier than outside. There are not many notices to be posted throughout the year, and the workload is quite unsaturated.

However, the good days of these government craftsmen are coming to an end, the manager summoned them and announced that they would help the magistrate's wife's poetry club to publish poetry journals.

However, the person in charge also announced that if the magistrate's wife is printed well, the craftsman will be rewarded with silver, and it must be printed beautifully.

Now the craftsmen cheered one after another. They were originally craftsmen in the city and were dragged to serve in the government office.

The work in the government office is easy, but the money is also low. The service only has basic food expenses, and you have to find ways to earn private work to support your family.

Now that the engraving business in Nanping County is in a downturn, the prefect's wife can have extra rewards, so they are naturally full of enthusiasm.

Fang Ruolan also attached great importance to her poetry club, and wrote many invitations in her mother's name, inviting wives and ladies of local celebrities to gather in the government office.

The venue was set up and refreshments were prepared, and the poems written by the participants would also be printed.

After such a lot of tossing, it won't be able to drive for half a month.

Counting the days, the first poetry club meeting will be at the end of June. Fang Ruolan looked at the list of refreshments and was dissatisfied. She crossed out the clear tea that the man liked and replaced it with the sour plum soup that her daughter's family liked more.

Good rock sugar must be used! Fang Ruolan asked the maid in the mansion to find Huang Tiju from the pharmacy, and asked him to send someone to Changning Wei to find Su Ze to buy high-quality rock candy.

Everyone was busy, and Su Ze finally returned to Changning Guard in the night under the escort of the soldiers.

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