My life skills in Daming Liver

Chapter 123 Fighting in the ring

Huang Shixing really didn't understand why the two gentlemen Chen He went to Changningwei.

In the past few days, Huang Shixing can be said to be full of ambition. With the gift of "Wenyuan Xinyun", Huang Shixing can be said to be famous in Nanping County.

And after doing the math, all two hundred copies of "Wen Yuan Xin Yun" were sold out, and Huang Shixing "only" lost fifty taels of silver!

Although I lost money, the cost of printing and binding of "Wen Yuan Xin Yun" is almost two taels of silver.

Huang Shixing also donated a lot of gifts, so the loss of only fifty taels of silver in the end is quite impressive.

The fifty taels of silver won the discussion and praise of scholars in the whole county and even the whole prefecture. Huang Shixing felt that he had made a lot of money!

Huang Shixing came to visit He Liangjun today just to find out what He Liangjun said.

Now that everyone in Nanping County knows about Huang Shixing's plays, He Liangjun should "know the pearl" and rate his plays as the number one at this time.

But he never expected that Huang Shixing would miss out today.

Then we can only come back tomorrow.

After Chen Moqun and He Liangjun stayed in Changningwei for half a day, He Liangjun began to stay behind closed doors after returning to Nanping County, thinking about adapting "Du Shiniang Sinks the Treasure Box in Anger" into a drama.

But Su Ze received the news from Lin Xianliang, and heard that fifty copies of "Surprise" were sold out, so he immediately ordered Yao Chun and Xiong Wu to continue printing. In the bookstore.

Two hundred copies of reprinted newspapers were delivered to the bookstore, and Nanping County immediately became a sensation. Lin Xianliang and the bookstore staff did not expect the hot sales, and there was a long queue at the door of Yujia Bookstore.

Some people are happy but others are naturally worried. These days Huang Shixing has been visiting Mr. Tuohu every day, but He Liangjun just shuts the door and sees no visitors.

Huang Shixing bribed Menzi with money, but no matter what Menzi told him, Mr. Tuohu refused to see him.

What went wrong?

When Huang Shixing returned to his own home from He Liangjun's house, he suddenly saw a long queue at Yu's Bookstore.

Huang Shixing is also a frequent visitor to the bookstore, but he has never seen such a long line. He called the book boy who accompanied him and asked:

"What's the matter today? Why is there a queue at the bookstore? Is there any new book?"

"Little man, go and find out."

The book boy squeezed into the crowd, asked for a long time before he found out about the situation, and replied to Huang Shixing:

"Master, these are people queuing up to buy newspapers."

"Buy a newspaper?" Huang Shixing felt something was wrong, he asked:

"What newspaper?"

The book boy said: "It is said that it is a newspaper produced by scholars in the county."

Huang Shixing was a little puzzled. Apart from his own "Wenyuan Xinyun", he hadn't heard of any scholar in Nanping County running a newspaper?

Huang Shixing said to the bookboy, "Go and buy a newspaper."

The bookboy spent a lot of effort and added a tael of silver before he bought a copy of "Surprise on the Table" from a customer.

When Huang Shixing saw the yellowed paper and the large page without binding, just this, can this be called a newspaper? Is this kind of rubbish worth queuing up to buy?

Seeing the poor quality of this newspaper, Huang Shixing despised it even more.

He opened the file and was surprised, the first thing he saw was naturally Su Ze's novel.

Seeing Su Ze's name, Huang Shixing almost frowned and finished the novel.

It was indeed a good story, Huang Shixing frowned even more.

Huang Shixing was a little panicked now, if this novel was changed to a drama, wouldn't it kill his own drama?

Fortunately, this guy Su Ze wrote a novel, Huang Shixing comforted himself.

Then scrolling down, Huang Shixing's blood pressure went up again.

Version three and version four are the dramas of Chen Chaoyuan and Lin Qingcai. Huang Shixing clearly remembered that he rejected their manuscripts, and now they are actually published in "Surprise".

This Su Ze printed the newspaper just to fight himself?

You, the newspaper, are also worthy of fighting with me?

Huang Shixing's face was livid, and he brought the book boy and servant back to the printing workshop quickly. He called the printing master and asked:

"Now, how long will it take to print another hundred copies?"

The printing master immediately said: "If you go back to your son, printing is not difficult, but it will take at least seven days to wait for the ink to dry before framing."

Huang Shixing's printing workshop is engraved, which means that every page of the entire newspaper is engraved with an engraving, and can be taken out and printed again.

Huang Shixing immediately said, "Print another hundred copies!"

The popularity of "Surprise" also exceeded Su Ze's expectations. It took only half a day for the 200 copies to be printed, and they were sold out in line. Under the crazy spread of Shen Treasure Box, it quickly rose to Lv3, 160/300.

After it was sold out, many people asked Lin Xianliang whether "Surprise" was still printed. Lin Xianliang sent his staff to Changningwei again to ask Su Ze to print more.

Although "Surprise" only sells for three renminbi, but such popular style has also attracted a lot of popularity. Those who didn't buy the newspaper will also buy one or two books back home, driving the sales of the entire bookstore to skyrocket. Crazy up.

During this period, Yu Zongyuan also sent someone to buy newspapers, and saw the brisk sales of the bookstore. The second son Yu was very satisfied with Lin Xianliang, the new shopkeeper, and rewarded Lin Xianliang and his assistant with two taels of silver on the spot.

The Second Young Master is in a happy mood recently, and the shopkeepers recommended by Su Ze are quite reliable, and the sales and profits of the four stores have all increased.

The bookstore even sold half a year's worth of books in half a month, and the second young master has made a lot of money in the past few days.

After buying a newspaper, it is naturally impossible to read Su Ze's articles, and the articles of Lin Qingcai and Chen Chaoyuan are gradually being talked about.

Although the dramas they wrote were vulgar, they were all benevolent plots, and they were quite interesting as reading materials after dinner.

At this time, I don't know who compared the dramas of Chen and Lin with the dramas in "Wenyuan Xinyun". Maybe it was the addition of "Surprise". The drama and text of "Wen Yuan Xin Yun" are all good.

Huang Shixing, who received the wind review, was even more furious. While urging the printing house to print "Wen Yuan Xin Yun" as soon as possible, he kept rushing to the gathering of scholars to promote his "Wen Yuan Xin Yun".

By the end of the month, 500 copies of "Surprise" had been sold, and Huang Shixing's newly printed 100 copies of "Wen Yuan Xin Yun" were all in his hands.

Huang Shixing gritted his teeth to sum up the problem. It must be because his "Wenyuan Xinyun" was too expensive. Huang Shixing tearfully lowered the price to one tael, but still no one bought it.

On the other hand, in "Surprise", now people in the county have offered a reward of a tael of silver to buy second-hand newspapers, so it can be said that it is still hard to find a newspaper.

Lin Xianliang sent his staff to find Su Ze to print again, but this time Su Ze did not agree to print.

His "Literature" skill has risen to Lv4, but the growth has slowed down in the past few days, which shows that the spread of "Du Shiniang Sinks the Treasure Box in Anger" has reached its limit.

How many literate people can there be in Nanping County? Five hundred newspapers are already a terrifying sales volume.

If you continue to print, you will definitely not be able to sell it.

Moreover, "Surprise" is a newspaper. Since it is a newspaper, you can't just stare at a print. Su Ze is already preparing the content of the second issue.

From the perspective of transmission speed, two issues per month should be the most efficient.

Naturally, it is impossible for Su Ze to write all the content of the fourth edition, and there must be content such as Lin Qingcai and Chen Chaoyuan filling the page.

It seems that we still need to set up an editorial department.

It's almost the end of the month, and the editorial department's affairs will be discussed in the county seat.

Su Ze asked the clerk to go back and tell Lin Xianliang that from now on, the 5th and 20th of each month will be the release date of a new issue of "Surprise", and let old customers wait for the second issue before buying.

Hearing that there will be a second edition of "Surprise", the guy is very excited.

If there are two surprises every month in the future, won't the business of the bookstore explode?

It's no wonder that Second Young Master Yu valued this Mr. Su so much, this is simply the God of Wealth!

The man left Changning Guard respectfully, and Changning Guard came again.

Su Ze was a little depressed, what happened to Changningwei these days, why did you come here one after another.

Su Ze put down his brush and followed the messenger to the ancestral hall.

I saw a short and fat old man in ordinary clothes, sitting in the ancestral hall with a gift in his hand, beside the old man was Lin Xianyang who had gone to work in the county government.

"Brother Xianyang, why are you back?"

Lin Xianyang immediately stood up and said: "Brother Aze, this is Sun Dianshi from our county government office. Today, I am here to accompany Sun Dianshi back from Xiumu."

Sun Dianshi?

Only then did Su Ze remember, this is the history of the county government that was broken into by the black mountain bandits?

Thinking about the name again, isn't it Sun Dianshi who recommended Brother Lin Qingcai's clan to be a clerk in the county government office?

It turns out that the county is so small.

Sun Dianshi stood up politely, saluted Su Ze and said:

"Thank you Changningwei and Mr. Su for taking the initiative to wipe out the Black Mountain bandit and avenge the lives of thirteen people in my farm!"

Su Ze now understood why Sun Dianshi came, and it turned out that he came to express his thanks.

The news of Changning Guard's extermination of the Heishan bandits has already spread. As the county government Dianshi, he must be well-informed. This can be regarded as indirect revenge for Sun Dianshi, and it is natural to come to thank him.

Chang Ningwei was calm about the gift, and Sun Dianshi continued:

"Nowadays, the southeast is not peaceful. My Zhuangzi has suffered twice in the past few years."

After finishing speaking, the shrewd Sun Dianshi looked at Su Ze's face. He already knew from Lin Xianyang that Su Ze, the current Changning Guard, can be the master of most of the cases, and the order to rescue Beishan Village was given by Su Ze.

Seeing that Su Ze had no expression on his face, Sun Dianshi continued: "However, there are Changning guards to protect the safety of one side, so I can rest assured from now on."

Seeing that Su Ze still had no expression, Sun Dianshi said:

"The old man came this time not only for his own Zhuangzi, but also for the owners of the other two Zhuangzi who were harmed by the Black Mountain bandit this time. They all asked the old man to come to Changningwei. I hope Lin Baihu can take care of them."

Su Ze suddenly understood the reason for Sun Dianshi's visit. It turned out that he was paying the protection fee.

Sure enough, Sun Dianshi took out another brocade bag and opened it to reveal two twenty taels of girdle silver.

Sun Dianshi offered with both hands:

"This is our donation to assist the training of the Changning Guards. It can be made an annual rule in the future. Anyone who relies on the army of the Guards to dispatch will naturally have a donation!"

Su Ze understood what Sun Dianshi meant. The three farms near them paid 40 taels of silver to the Changning Guard as a protection fee a year.

Su Ze didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't expect Changning Wei to accept donations, but someone came to donate them.

But this deal is also very cost-effective, forty taels of silver for a year's protection fee, if you really do it, there will be additional money.

Su Ze thought for a while and said, "I, Changning Guard, only take care of suppressing bandits and fighting Japanese, and we don't care about other disputes in your three farms."

"That's natural!"

Su Ze thought for a while and then said: "A few days ago, I also talked with the patriarch of the Chen family in Beishan Village. During the slack season, the Chen family sent ten young men to our Changning Guard to practice. You three Zhuangzi can also send people. Get a joint defense team."

"I don't ask the joint defense team to kill the enemy. I just need to patrol daily, so that there will be no news of the Black Mountain bandits going down the mountain."

Sun Dianshi immediately said: "Mr. still thinks thoroughly! Their two sons, Sun, can't guarantee that there will be someone from our Sun family's farm!"

As expected of the Dianshi of the Ritual House, Sun Dianshi's speech is so comfortable to listen to.

But this guy can fight Xu Shisheng in the county government, and still vaguely have the upper hand, he is also an old fox.

Now the interests of this guy and Chang Ningwei are the same. King Lu wants to land and unite the surrounding forces, which is also Su Ze's anti-Japanese plan.

After discussing the main things, it is natural for the host and guest to have a good time.

Sun Dianshi also heard that Chen Moqun and He Liangjun had only come to Changningwei a few days ago, and they were even more submissive to Su Ze, and he also expressed on the spot that he would donate some paper and brushes.

After sending Sun Dianshi away, Su Ze dragged Lin Xianyang to ask him what happened after he went to the county government to report.

Lin Xianyang made up the clerk of the county government. He was a military guard, and the Baizhi County assigned him to the military room.

The Nanping County Brigade was rather embarrassing, except for Lin Xianyang, there were only two scribes and four helpers.

The reason is also very simple, Nanping County has no soldiers and horses to manage.

The affairs of Yanpingwei are under the control of the provincial capital's capital and the magistrate's yamen, and Haiwei such as Changningwei are under the control of the Fujian Haidao yamen and the general office of the general.

The soldiers and horses that can be managed by Nanping County, except Li Hu's people, that is, only the soldiers and horses station that convey military information, the rest are Chengdan who guard the city gate.

However, the power of the military room is light, and the powerful and powerful do not want to be assigned to the military room. The two old scribes are also simple people, which is the same reason as the fringe departments of today's yamen are dawdling.

The military room is good. The city defense map and pass map of Nanping County are kept in the military room. When there is a rebellion in the future, Lin Xianyang will be in the military room to respond, and Nanping County can be easily taken down.

Just now, I had a few words with Lin Xianyang, and another officer came over to send a message, saying that Lin Mojun had something to call her to the Baihu Office.

Su Ze said helplessly to Lin Xianyang:

"I'll go see Baihu first."

"Brother Aze is busy with work, I went to see my father and nephew before returning to the county."

What did Lin Mojun call her to Baihusuo? Is the sea not peaceful again?

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