My life skills in Daming Liver

In the back house of the magistrate's yamen, Fang Ruolan was checking this month's account book.

Holding a reed pen, Fang Ruolan checked out several problematic accounts, ordered the personal maid to turn out the detailed account books, and casually ordered the servant outside the door to do some chores in the house.

Mrs. Li, the magistrate's family, didn't care about things, and Fang Ruolan took over the job of housekeeper since she was sensible.

Fang Ruolan treats her servants fairly, but she can also know that Qiu will not be fooled by her servants. Only then can Fang Zhifu's house be stable, and Mrs. Li can go out to play horses with peace of mind.

Oh no, Mrs. Zhifu is obsessed with watching operas these days, and often gathers wives and ladies from the Quyi Club to listen to operas in the back house.

Fang Ruolan became even angrier when she thought of this. Her good poetry club has become this quyi club, and she has to manage the family business on behalf of her mother. Fang Ruolan can only think bitterly about what chaos will happen at home after she gets married!

After a while, I heard the message from the maid, and saw Fang Zhifu happily returning to the back house.

Fang Ruolan immediately served the bowl of herbal tea without sugar, and brought it to Fang Zhifu.

"Lan'er, did you forget to add sugar?"

Fang Ruolan said with a smile: "Yesterday I asked Huang Tiju that eating too much sugar would cause toothache, so I removed the sugar from the herbal tea."

Fang Zhifu's face was pale, and he carefully recalled whether he had offended this precious daughter.

Finally, he drank the herbal tea under the watchful eyes of his daughter.

Fang Zhifu said with a bitter face: "The matter of the mine thieves has been resolved, and Yanping Guard is also bleeding, because my father just sent Su Ze away."

Fang Zhifu is used to discussing business affairs with his daughter after going down to the office, he sighed and said:

"I didn't expect that Deng Dai really colluded with Zhenwa. I have already reported this matter to the Third Division through private messages, but other prefectures and counties may not have such good luck as our Yanping Mansion."

The good luck Fang Zhifu said was Changning Guard, and Fang Zhifu knew very well that the large and small guards in Fujian were basically at the same level as Yanping Guard.

Anyway, the Yanping Guard dared to send people to fight, and some guards might not even have the courage to fight outside the city.

The magistrate Fang said again: "Jianyang fell, and the magistrate of Jianyang died in battle and martyred for the country."

The atmosphere in the room was silent, Jianyang is not far from Yanping Mansion, this is not good news.

Fang Zhifu sighed again and said: "The good news is that our Yanping Mansion is too poor, and the Japanese pirates looked down on them, so they turned around and attacked Jian'an City in Jianning Mansion. It's a bunch."

Fang Zhifu said again: "It would be great if all the counties in the mansion could have such elite soldiers as Chang Ningwei."

The fall of Jianyang County made Fang Zhifu's mood, which had just improved, turn sour again. It was really unlucky for him to be an official in Fujian.

I only blamed myself for not having a high rank in the imperial examinations, so I couldn't stay in the capital as an official, and I blamed myself for being too cash-strapped when I was in the Wenxuan Department of the Ministry of Officials, so I didn't get a good starting point in the officialdom.

But there is no point in regretting now, Fang Ruolan said: "Father, if we can keep the peace of Yanping Mansion, that would be great good governance."

Fang Zhifu nodded, an official like himself is just an insignificant magistrate in the court, and it is not his turn to worry about court affairs.

Su Ze came out from the magistrate's yamen, and then went to the county yamen to meet Baizhi County.

Naturally, the magistrate of Bai County also praised Su Ze greatly, and Su Ze proposed to let Lin Xianyang work in the government office.

Of course, Baizhi County didn't have any obstacles. He just expressed regret that he had just found out that Lin Xianyang was a talented person, and he was about to go to the government office, and then asked Su Ze to recommend another talent to fill Lin Xianyang's lack in the county government.

After all this was done, Su Ze came to the county school again.

After handing over the homework assigned last time to Hai Rui, Hai Rui said to Su Ze:

"I didn't expect the southeast frontier defense to have deteriorated to this point."

Hai Rui was one of the few people in the county who knew the news of the defeat of the Yanping Guards. He was also afraid for a while. If the Changning Guards hadn't taken action to wipe out the mine bandits, this gang of mine bandits who had colluded with Japanese pirates might really be able to invade Nanping City.

Hai Rui said again: "Jianyang was breached by Japanese pirates."

Su Ze was startled, and Hai Rui stroked his beard and sighed, "The Japanese pirates are coming fiercely. There are already Jianyang refugees in Nanping City. Ru Lin, what you can say in both prefectures and counties, if these refugees can't be properly resettled, it's human relations Tragedy."

Hai Rui once saw the plight of hungry people in the capital, but at that time he was just a soft-spoken person, and now he is also a soft-spoken county school teacher.

Su Ze nodded heavily and said, "Students should do their best!"

Hai Rui said blankly, "I'm a dignified man, why can't even the Japanese pirates be put down?"

Hai Rui was indeed confused. He had read sage books for so many years, and after entering the officialdom, he found that the officialdom was completely different from what he read in the books.

In all fairness, the two chief officials of the prefectural and county second yamen in Nanping City were quite good in the Ming Dynasty.

Baizhi County has the power of scheming, but he can also do a good job in the affairs of the county government.

Fang Zhifu is a bit lazy in government, but he never oppresses the people.

But even so, the current situation has deteriorated to this point.

Su Ze said: "The government of the world is corrupted by 'selfishness'."

"Officials in Fujian Province, if everyone has more selfishness, the common people will lose a share of publicity. If they have selfishness and forget the publicity, they will lose a little today and lose a little more tomorrow. The predecessors will lose more, and the future generations will learn from their predecessors and lose more. This world is going down."

Hai Rui stroked his beard and said, "That's true. If all the officials in Fujian were free from selfishness, it wouldn't be like this."

Su Ze said with a smile: "Teacher, there are no selfless people in this world."

Hai Rui was stunned for a moment, even if he himself, it is impossible to say that he is completely selfless, let alone use this standard to demand all the officials in Fujian.

Discussing human nature is naturally not the scope of Hai Rui's favorite debate. He thought for a while and said, "It's all because the treacherous ministers in the court are in power, and Fujian is so corrupt!"

Su Ze asked again: "Since everyone knows that there are traitors in the court, why can't they be punished?"

Hai Rui said: "It's not that the Holy Majesty was deceived by treacherous and loyal ministers!"

Su Ze thought to himself, sure enough, Hai Rui had just stepped into the officialdom at this time, and he was still thinking "the emperor is good, but there are traitors under him".

This set of things has been played by the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years. Anyway, the officials scolded Shoufu, and Shoufu had to take off his hat and wait to be played.

If you scold the emperor, you will have to drag it out to court battle.

"The teacher said that what works from above will work from below, and that what is good at the top must be followed by the bottom."

After saying this, Hai Rui stopped talking about it.

He said to Su Ze:

"The prefect Fang just sent someone here to ask you to write some stereotyped essays. The prefect Fang is familiar with Fujian Xuezheng. He will give your article to Xuezheng for a look. It will be beneficial for you to have some advice from Xuezheng. He passed the provincial examination."

Hai Rui also had high hopes for Su Ze, and told Su Ze:

"The stereotyped essays of this dynasty are not allowed to talk about current affairs. You must not write those remarks that are against the emperor."

Su Ze said: "Thank you teacher for teaching, the students will write when they go back."

Hai Rui gave Su Ze another lesson, answering a few questions he encountered while studying. Su Ze came out of Hai Rui's room after adding 40 points to his imperial examination skills.

Then I went to the editorial office of Lin Qingcai and Chen Chaoyuan. To Su Ze's surprise, the current situation is tense these days, but "Surprise" is selling very well.

Especially after the number of people in Nanping County increased, it became a way of pastime for many ordinary people to spend three renminbi to buy a copy of the table and watch it in surprise.

Especially after Su Ze serialized "The Peony Pavilion" on "Surprise", the bookstore has to rush the goods after each issue is sold out, asking for more prints.

Su Ze also heard that the bookstore bought by Huang Shixing also began to pirate "Surprised by the Case", but they only pirated one issue, and then they encountered chaos in the southeast. The pirated newspapers that were originally going to be sold to the next county had to continue to sell in Nanping County.

After receiving the report, Chen Chaoyuan immediately asked his brother who was a lawyer to sue Yuanwai Cai's bookstore for selling pirated newspapers to the county government with a pleading.

Cai Yuanwai was naturally dissatisfied and asked a lawyer to respond to the lawsuit, but Lin Xianyang directly approached Sun Dianshi, who was in charge of the county government's criminal department, and Sun Dianshi immediately sealed up the pirated newspapers in Cai's bookstore.

Huang Shixing did nothing to steal chickens and lose rice. The pirated newspapers were sealed up by the county government, and the cost of engraving and printing was wasted. Hearing that Mr. Huang was in a bad mood, he even asked for leave of absence from the academy.

Su Ze also laughed out loud after hearing this, but the rampant piracy is also a problem that all publishers in Ming Dynasty cannot escape.

Su Ze asked again: "Jianyang City is broken, Brother Chen, Brother Lin, may wish to pay attention, if there are any printing workers with clean net worth, may wish to recruit a few of them."

"Brother Su is planning to open a printing shop in the city?"

Su Ze nodded and said, "The printing workshop is located in Changningwei, so it's really inconvenient to transport it back and forth. Besides, the editorial department is also in the city. Afterwards, the review manuscripts will be handed over to the two brothers, and you can make the typesetting and printing."

Both Chen and Lin were overjoyed. Now "Surprise" is the most famous publication in Nanping County and even Yanping Mansion. As editors, their reputation in Nanping County is also growing day by day.

Now that Su Ze entrusted them with the whole "Surprise" they felt that the burden on their shoulders was even heavier.

Su Ze continued: "In addition, I have some ideas. I can hire some street children and give them newspapers to sell along the street."

Chen Qingchao immediately understood what Su Ze meant, and he said, "Brother Su is going to use newspapers to support these children?"

Su Ze nodded and said, "Jianyang City is broken. I think there are more orphans in the streets and alleys of the city. Letting them sell newspapers can be regarded as giving them a livelihood. It is our merit to live a few people."

Lin Qingcai said: "Brother Su, what you mean is to distribute it to newsboys for free and let them sell it on the street in exchange for money to make a living?"

Su Ze nodded and said, "Exactly."

"But how does the newspaper survive?"

Su Ze said: "Then we have to talk about another thing, and that is advertising."

"advertise?"

Su Ze nodded and said: "You hire these newsboys, and at the same time let them go to the street to inquire about which shops are looking for staff, which restaurants have new dishes, and which shops have new products that are eager to sell. "Surprise" set up a convenient and mutually beneficial page dedicated to publishing these news."

The more Lin Qingcai thought about it, the more he felt that Su Ze's idea was brilliant. Those shops must be dreaming of being able to be featured in "Surprise" that all scholars in Nanping County watched.

Not to mention that these functions Su Ze mentioned are indeed what many businesses need.

Su Ze said again: "The newsboys walk around the streets, and the two of you can also record the big and small things that happened in the city, edit them into gossip and publish them in the fifth and sixth editions."

Lin Qingcai and Chen Chaoyuan nodded repeatedly.

Su Ze handed the complete set of "The Peony Pavilion" he had written to the two of them:

"The serialization of "The Peony Pavilion" is finished first, and I will send it over after I have written a new drama novel. For the articles of the third and fourth editions, I will get rid of the two brothers to help with the selection."

"Brother Chen, please draft a contract. I will hire two brothers to be the editors of "Patient Surprise". Salary increase!"

Chen and Lin declined at first, but in the end they happily signed the contract with Su Ze.

Su Ze was the most at ease when he handed over the matter of the newspaper to the two of them.

Su Ze's Liaozhai and Peony Pavilion were the source of surprises, and most of the scholars also came for Su Ze's articles.

The most important thing in movable type printing is to make movable type. Yao Chun's wife and children are all in Changningwei, and he is asked to print newspapers in the county. Su Ze is not afraid that he will run away with his skills.

In fact, movable type technology has no technical barriers, but it is more complicated to explore the ratio of lead and tin of movable type, and to disassemble the characters to count the occurrence frequency of radicals. Su Ze runs a newspaper for influence, not for newspapers to make a fortune.

Thinking deeper, movable type printing technology is also a "pre-technology" for ideological enlightenment.

It is precisely because of the emergence of movable type printing technology that made publishing accessible to ordinary people, and the price of knowledge became lower, so that a large number of literate citizens emerged.

It is also because of movable type printing technology that reduces the cost of publishing, allowing more people to print and publicize their views.

In a sense, movable type printing is also an information revolution.

On the contrary, Su Ze is not worried that the spread of technology will delay his making money. In today's southeast region, there are many businesses that are more profitable than buying newspapers.

After finally finishing the affairs of the county seat, Su Ze returned to Changningwei.

Reading and teaching every day, and then pulling Captain Alfonso to brush up a few language skills.

Captain Alfonso has been shocked from the beginning to numb now, there really are language geniuses in this world!

It only took half a month for Su Ze to be able to talk with Alfonso proficiently from simple word conversations.

After brushing several language skills to Lv3, daily conversations are no longer difficult for Su Ze.

It's the beginning of August now, and I should be able to get to Lv5 by mid-August.

However, daily conversations no longer increase experience. Su Ze can only discuss sailing techniques with the old captain, and speak some complicated and remote sentences to gain skills.

In addition to discussing sailing with the old captain, the old priest Pierre who accompanied the ship was also a physics and mathematics enthusiast. Su Ze discussed these issues with him and could also improve his French skills.

In this way, Chang Ningwei was very busy, but Su Ze was brushing his skills with peace of mind.

On August 10, a young eunuch hurried to Changningwei.