Chapter 104: Your Majesty, we’re rich.

Actually, Zhang Anshi was not hiding at this time.

With Zhu Yong and Zhang Yoking at his side, and a little demolitionist Qiu Song, he is afraid of who will come.

At this time, Zhang Anshi had furtively appeared in a bookstore that had already hung a sold-out sign.

Immediately afterward, a wagon began pulling in a new stock of books.

Zhang Anshi went in and greeted the proprietor of the bookstore, who met Zhang Anshi with a smile on his face and arrogance.

This is his god of wealth, holding the source of goods, as long as he is willing to take the goods to him, one day’s sales, can catch up with a month’s sales.

At this time, Zhang Anshi said, “I think you’re a kind-hearted person, and it just so happens that I’m also kind-hearted, so I’m planning to do an activity with you.”

“Activity?” The proprietor of this bookstore was astonished.

“Book signing! Look, I’ve even invited our club members here.”

Said, Zhang Anshi pointed toward the back of the Gu Xingzu, then said, “This is the Huiyuan ah, do you know, come to your book store to buy, let him to sign.”

The proprietor of the bookstore was in awe, to be honest, even if it was a scholar, he felt admiration, not to mention that the one standing in front of him was the Duke of Huiyuan.

The proprietor said, “To be able to labor Huiyuan to come here, this …… this …… how to be good.”

Zhang Anshi said, “There is no need to be embarrassed, this is a collection of money, a signed book of ten taels of silver.”

The proprietor sucked in a breath, “Are people willing to buy?”

“The book is almost sold out.” Zhang Anshi said, “All the major bookstores have no more stock, I’m still desperately trying to increase the printing here, but …… I’m afraid that in a short time, it can’t be increased, in addition to that, but also to the Jiangnan and Jiangbei places to supply, so …… at least For the time being, the rest of the goods are sold here.”

The proprietor said, “What if the buyer refuses to buy a signed book?”

Zhang Anshi said firmly, “Only autographed books will be sold.”

The proprietor hesitated, honestly, it was a bit shady, and he was worried about his bookstore being trashed by the readers.

Zhang Anshi is aware of the proprietor’s concerns, patted him on the shoulder and said: “Listen to me right, if you are not willing, I will find another family, I tell you the truth, you can not offend me, I am a person with a bad temper, offended me, in the future, your bookstore, do not expect me to supply.”

The proprietor was shocked, and now this Zhang Anshi eight shares of pen talk, is the hottest book of the moment, and the future may also be out of the second edition, the third edition, basically, Zhang Anshi want to cut off the goods of whoever, it means that which a bookstore don’t want to mix in the capital, close the door and get out before it’s too late.

The proprietor quickly smiled and said, “There is something to be said, there is something to be said, this …… is good, just do it.”

Zhang Anshi in this book store fiddled a bit, in fact, mainly put a long table, pointing to Gu Xingzu sat behind the table to go, teaching people to take the pen, ink, paper and inkstones to, and then let the people began to unload, enough thousands of books unloaded.

Zhang Anshi ordered a few more sentences, and the proprietor just nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice.

Zhang Anshi then said to Gu Xingzu, who was sitting behind the table, “Xingzu ah, the master has something else to do, you sit well here, if someone comes, you sign the book and sell it to him again, got it?”

Gu Xingzu: “……”

“Then Master will leave first.”

Gu Xingzu: “……”

Zhang Anshi raised his leg to leave.

“Enshu.” Gu Xingzu suddenly called out.

Zhang Anshi stopped by, “What now?”

Gu Xingzu said, “Will someone come to beat me?”

Zhang Anshi had known that he would ask these words, shaking his head, “Don’t worry, they are all readers, readers don’t beat readers.”

Gu Xingzu: “……”

Zhang Anshi added: “And even if you fight, how many kilograms of strength can a reader have? Take another ten thousand steps back, even if there is really any good or bad, I will definitely take revenge for you.”

By the looks of it, there seemed to be no room for refusal at all, so Gu Xingzu could only say, “Oh.”

Zhang Anshi retreats at light speed.

I just didn’t expect to be intercepted by a couple of men in fish suits before I could take two steps.

These people were polite and saluted Zhang Anshi before saying, “Uncle Cheng’en, His Majesty has an invitation.”

When Zhang Anshi arrived at that tea house, Zhu Di was still sitting against the window.

He was holding a book in his hand.

Having spent three taels of silver on it, Zhu felt a little heartbroken.

Zhu’s brain hurt when he looked inside.

He was especially shocked by the play that when he turned a page, he almost scrapped a page.

As for what want to know how the aftermath, welcome to order, even Zhu Di felt that he could not endure.

Well, when Zhu Di thought of himself as if he was not a reader ah, so the mood changed slightly, grin …… happy.

Just at this moment, Zhu turned to the end of the book cover, but found that here, there is actually a line of small words that people usually tend to ignore.

“Yu in the first month of the second year of the A Shen Yongle, fortunate to have a dream, dreaming of Confucius, the son said: my disciples three thousand, the beginning of the light of Confucianism, the so-called seekers of benevolence, benevolence also, I see your bones clear and strange, is the ability to create the material also, this time to teach you the art of the eight shares, so that you teach the four sides ……”

Zhu’s eyes went straight as he watched.

To be honest, he was a bit skeptical.

Confucius actually gave Zhang Anshi a dream.

Given Zhu Di’s opinion of Zhang Anshi’s character, he probably didn’t believe in this bullshit.

But when you think about it, under the sky, who dares to be so bold as to say that Confucius gave himself a dream ah, not afraid that the supreme master in heaven, a thunder to him.

Speaking of which, the hostage to the dream of countless people, those crazy paradoxical readers, but also anyone who dares to amuse, but only dare not amuse Confucius.

Furthermore, if he didn’t have a dream, where did Zhang Anshi get this eight-legged pen talk? This eight-legged pen talk can teach the readers to scramble to buy, really Zhang Anshi’s own realization?

When Zhu Di was alarmed in his heart, he saw Zhang Anshi walking towards him with gusto, and when he reached him, he gave him a salute in a regular manner.

He looked up and nodded, “Sit.”

Zhang Anshi took his seat.

Zhu Di pointed to the book and said, “You do good business, a book is three taels of silver.”

Zhang Anshi smiled bitterly and whispered, “Your Majesty, there is nothing I can do, Your Majesty knows how much this printing costs.”

Zhu sneered, “Only printing …… this and other inferior paper, the cost is also high?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Your majesty, the problem lies in this bad paper, to print on this kind of stuff that is not even as good as straw paper, the demand for ink and engraving skills is extremely high, and printing so many copies in a short period of time, you have to add money to the printing workshop, I have upgraded several processes together with the printing workshop in order to print this book, and this 80,000 books alone, together with the printing, transportation, and also to the book store’s concessions, it cost me nearly ten thousand taels of silver, I am smashing the pot.”

Zhu Di said, “Nearly 10,000 taels of silver, 80,000 books, a book of three taels, is not 240,000?”

Zhang Anshi smiled, “Your Majesty has miscalculated.”

Zhu looked at him in disbelief, “Huh?”

Zhang Anshi said, “There are still a few thousand books in the back, I don’t intend to sell them alone, in order to let everyone dip a little bit of Huiyuan’s joy, I intend to let Huiyuan sign the books and sell them at ten taels a piece.”

Chu: “……”

Zhu froze for a long time before spitting out a sentence, “Then isn’t this robbery?”

Zhang Anshi said, “I am selling books, knowledge, and learning, there is a golden house in the books, and there is a face like jade in the books, and with this amount of silver in my district, I have sold the golden house and the face like jade to the readers, and I feel that I am doing a good deed.”

Chu: “……”

Zhang Anshi excitedly continued, “I am now planning to increase the printing, this book is such a hot seller, I did not expect it, it can be seen that my Daming literary style is flourishing, the military and civilian people are thirsty for knowledge, this is all because of your majesty’s literary and military achievements. So I want to take advantage of the beginning of the spring of the coming year, and strive to break through the sales to 300,000, I think it can be done.”

Zhu Di couldn’t help but be invigorated when he heard, “The coming spring?”

Zhang Anshi immediately said, “Yes, to the next year in the spring, will be the township examination, after the township examination, there are provinces of the court examination, as well as the county’s children test, I carefully thought about, the second edition is best in the court examination before the opening of the sale of about half a month on sale.”

“At this time, it happens to be not far from the examination, everyone has to revise their homework in a hurry, if someone wants to think of crooked thoughts and go to transcribe other people’s books, it will definitely be too late. So I foresee that in order to get the second edition of the book the fastest, everyone can only fight to take the first edition, so that they lose the qualification to snatch it.”

Zhu Di sucked in a breath of cool air, “This second edition, how much do you want to earn again?”

Zhang Anshi commiserated, “Your Majesty, knowledge is priceless.”

Zhu Di’s heart is on fire: “This sale …… is your family’s?”

Zhang Anshi said, “It’s from our merchant bank, let’s get rich together.”

Zhu Di would have liked to scold him for his conscience being eaten by a dog, for the sake of the silver face are not.

Upon hearing this, he was instantly dragon-focused, his eyes glowing.

Tiger body a shock, he said: “This is a book of business, but you are right, I think about it, this reader to buy a book, is not natural? You this book …… well …… in addition to the paper inferior to some, the word is also less, can be true knowledge, those who read the book bought, even on their point of enlightenment, that is also benefited, is not the area of a few two silver can be measured. ”

Zhang Anshi cheerfully laughed, “Your Majesty is wrong.”

Zhu said, “Hey, if I had known this, you could have set the price a little higher, five taels of silver would be best.”

Zhang Anshi let out a sigh of relief in his heart, but he busied himself by saying, “Your Majesty, I have a good heart, and I can’t see the readers paying more silver.”

“Also.” Zhu said, “I’m just talking off the top of my head, I don’t understand the affairs of the readers.”

Just saying, outside the street someone howled: “This Zhang Anshi he shameless, he even falsely claimed to be the hole saint dream to him, the supreme sage how saintly, he also has the face to say, really teach people to be disgusting.”

So many people cursed again, “Insult the sages and deserve death.”

“I don’t share the same fate as the Zhang thieves.”

Zhang Anshi blinked, a little aggravated.

Zhu didn’t say anything, just smiled.

In fact, this is understandable, people and people’s feelings are not the same, people readers are really spending money, but also by Zhang Anshi a hole saint dream held down on the head, their own most holy master, are taken out by this kid as a tool to increase sales people.

But for Zhu Di, it is not the same, what he thinks is, Zhang Anshi in order to earn money for me, really do not want to face.

When you think about it that way, it certainly feels considerably different.

Zhu pointed to the back of the book cover, “Did the saint really send you a dream?”

“It seems like it was done.” Zhang Anshi said, “After getting this dream, my brain seems to be enlightened, but …… I can t remember the specific details.”

The bull’s-eye of this thing is that he has no way to disprove it, and if you bite the bullet, you’re dreaming, so what can anyone else do to you?

Of course, the vast majority of people must not believe it, but there will always be those who do.

As long as someone believes it, then there’s more room for maneuvering later.

Zhang Anshi for the supreme sage is respected, but the corrupt Confucianism of the latter days, but really do not like it, these people monopolize learning, take learning to be used as a knock on the door to seek glory and wealth, turn the head, but also put out a high and mighty look, as for their mouths in the hole sage, in fact, but also is only their signboards, if the Confucius know, know that some people take their own signboards to do these things! If Confucius is aware of what he has done with his own signboard, I am afraid he will not be able to press the coffin board.

Since they can use Sage Confucius as a signboard, and this Sage Confucius is not a registered trademark, why can’t I, Zhang Anshi?

You are allowed to pull the wool over Sage Confucius, but I, Zhang Anshi, can’t?

Just saying ……

But then I saw a few people in the next seat, also whispering.

On the occasion of Zhu Di and Zhang Anshi silence, then heard two tea guests whispered: “That Zhang Anshi is really amazing, really taught a Huiyuan, now …… he this book is really selling ten thousand people, I do not know how much I can earn.”

Another person said, “This person really fall out of the eye of money, I also heard ah, he is in Qixia there, even more ferocious to the extreme, brutalization of the people, killing people like ……”

“Shhh, be careful what you say.”

Zhu Di frowned slightly as he listened.

Zhang Anshi said in a low voice, “Your Majesty, these people are moving right and wrong and creating rumors ……”

Zhu Di was silent for a moment, reluctantly nodded, said: “Sometimes do not act frivolously, when Emperor Taizu Gao was there, repeatedly advocated the people’s fat and wealth, this people are your bread and butter, in the future, keep in mind.”

With that, Zhu stood up, it was getting late and he had to rush back.

The dreaming thing is the most cursed by the readers.

The so-called respect for ghosts and gods is far away, and the readers will not fall for Zhang Anshi’s trick.

However …… it is inevitable that some people are thinking, this Zhang Anshi will be eight stocks dissected so thoroughly, this scum like characters, how can be so proficient in the eight stocks?

This obviously doesn’t make sense. Could it be that there’s really a celestial connection?

Zhang Anshi did not pay attention to so many, they love to think what they want, but at this time, Zhang Anshi was called by the State Scholar Priest Hu Yan.

When he saw Zhang Anshi, Hu Yan immediately said with a stern face, “In these few days, there are many people who want to study in the National Zi Academy, specifying that they want to enter the Hall of Justice.”

Zhang Anshi said calmly, “It has always been Duke Hu who has cared for and loved me ……”

Hu Yan said coldly, “We’re talking about official business.”

Zhang Anshi then said, “My humble servant thought that, as the saying goes, Confucius’ 3,000 disciples have been taught.”

Hu Yan’s beard trembled, trying very hard to calm himself, “That’s Sage Kong, could it be that you want to be a saint as well?”

Zhang Anshi said, “I have always wanted to be like the Most Holy Master.”

Hu Yan: “……”

Hu Yan realized that when talking to Zhang Anshi, you must not carry any emotions, once you have emotions, you have admitted defeat.

So, he took a deep breath and adjusted his mind before saying, “It’s just that …… the old man was thinking …… that this is very wrong.”

“Not good?”

Hu Yan said, “The State Prison schools, the academic style is rigorous, this time to enroll in the school, mostly for shade students …… ”

The so-called yin sheng, in fact, are the sons and daughters of honored ministers and officials, most of these people are not very successful.

Hu Yan paused and added, “I’m just afraid that if so many people come at once, it will spoil the school spirit.”

“Hu Gong want to do how to do it how to do it well.” Zhang Anshi was indifferent to this, “In fact, this doctorate, I don’t really want to do it, teaching is too tiring, I am now more concentrated on writing books.”

Hu Yan: “……”

Hu Yan almost broke the defense, in the head of the readers, writing books is a very sacred thing, but apparently to Zhang Anshi mouth, seems to be more like a business.

Hu Yan took a deep breath and patiently said: “I have thought about it, this matter should be reported to the court, I implore His Majesty’s judgment. Dr. Zhang, I come to ask you, your saint dream, what is the matter?”

“I don’t know ah, anyway, just had a dream, I also think it is very strange, why I will dream of Confucius saint, perhaps …… may be daydreaming, night dreaming, perhaps also can’t be taken seriously.”

Hu Yan said, “If it’s a dream, then why publicize it widely and cause the world to look at it.”

Zhang Anshi said, “When I have a dream, I write it up, and there seems to be nothing wrong with that.”

At this time, Hu Yan looked deeply at Zhang Anshi, and then he sighed, in a way, he suddenly realized that he admired Zhang Anshi.

This guy …… is very capable of coming to things, only …… he always feels that Zhang Anshi s moral level seems to be not too high.

So, Hu Yan pick up the tea, sighed: “You are the crown prince’s wife brother, be careful with your words, wood show in the forest wind will destroy, you know, but teach people to stare at, there will be no good fruit to eat.”

Zhang Anshi, however, simply said, “Taught.”

He could feel the chicanery in Hu Yan, on the one hand it was annoying, don’t you come over.

On the other hand, yet there are a few hidden reminders and love from a teacher or senior to a junior.

See Zhang Anshi answered not salty, Hu Yan continued: “You are a relative origin, His Majesty seems to be quite favorable to you, the more this time, the more need to walk on thin ice, you may not take the readers seriously, but Zhang Anshi ah, think about it, since the readers …… ”

He paused, seemed to feel that the latter words may have some taboo, after careful thought, only politely said: “Since the readers, artifacts easier, thousands of years I do not know how many people claimed the king a few people for the emperor, but the readers …… are still readers … …”

Hu Yan sighed: “These words, should not have said to you, just want to tell you, the Tang and Song dynasties, can continue to date and still have family prestige, can there be after the vassal? Zhang Anshi, you are young and light, some things, not as simple as the surface.”

Zhang Anshi thought for a moment, “But aren’t students readers?”

Hu Yan laughed, then said: “Well, well, the old man to have a headache more things, no time and you are here to mess around, you think about it yourself.”

Zhang Anshi withdrew unhappily.

However, he was not convinced by Hu Yan’s words.

What do you mean by family continuity? Isn’t the so-called family continuity just whoever comes to be the emperor I kneel? What’s there to brag about?

Just at this time, but there is a big discussion in the dynasty has begun.

The hundred officials had an audience, and the matter under discussion was the affairs of the State Scholarship.

Once upon a time in the state school, shade students seldom come to enter the school, some people are only nominally hanging a supervisor s name, but now …… because of a Gu Xingzu, but there are many people who have to stuff people in.

Hu Yanyan reported that the State Prison could not afford to accommodate so many students.

This is the most laughable thing, because no one thought that the light of the State Council, so that the State Council back to the period of Emperor Taizu’s prosperity, is precisely the most unlike the doctor Zhang Anshi.

Around this point, the hundred officials were almost lopsided in their opinion that this would be untimely.

Zhu only grimaced and didn’t say a word.

No one knows what His Majesty’s heart is but there is one thing that all of these officials have in mind, they can’t let the Hall of Justice expand, if not, it seems that there will be some kind of unforeseen outcome.

Unpredictability is something that almost anyone in a position of power doesn’t like to see.

They like routine, they like rules, they like conventions, and that’s the only thing that will keep them in their place.

Zhu was only sick of hearing about it.

Zhu Gaoqi sitting on the lower side, sad eyebrows, the mind has drifted away, if the father’s boredom comes from the hundred officials have strife into the speech, are all the classics, a large number of axioms, churning people’s brain ache.

But Zhu Gaoqi can understand the strings behind many quotes.

The most vehement opposition was often from Hanlin officials and speech officers of low rank, who were low in rank and young, just when they needed to increase their own fame.

At the time of the controversy, suddenly, Yiluoha small steps into the temple, Zhu Di saw Yiluoha, his heart realized what, towards Yiluoha nodded.

Yizhuoha then broken steps to the front of the imperial court, took out a zhengshi, whispered: “Your Majesty, Zhang Anshi has a message, the slave girl feels urgent …… so I took the initiative ……”

Zhu Di nodded, took the zhangshi, open a look, and then looked around the hundred officials, only a short period of silence, Zhu Di said: “The Secretary does not have to fight.”

The hundred officials fell silent.

Zhu Di said, “Zhang Anshi petitioned, please I dismissed his doctorate official position, he said that he is growing body time, limited energy, can not take on the doctorate responsibility ……”

When these words came out, the hundred officials were in an uproar, and each one of them had a dismayed look in their eyes.

Zhu Di laughed and said, “The Secretaries are afraid that they can not be a doctor, but Zhang Anshi has this indifferent heart, compared with the Secretaries, does not it seem ridiculous?”

The irony of that statement is strong.

“What is the rationale for saying that the ministers are not compatible with the doctor who can teach the Huiyuan, and yet they all say that he is a bad influence on the academic style?”

Zhu said and whisked his sleeves away.

The hundred officials who stayed in the temple, their jaws dropped.

They didn’t expect Zhang Anshi to suddenly kill back.

Especially Xie Jin, Xie Jin is an extremely intelligent person, he is very clear about Zhang Anshi and other eight-legged pen talk brings terrible consequences.

Jiangxi’s readers, or the entire south of the readers, the reason why they are able to dominate, relying on the family school of origin.

Because these centuries have been less affected by war, under a more stable situation, often have a greater advantage than others in reading.

But once this thing spread, the next imperial examination, in what people don’t know, and everyone learns that the eight shares of the pen talk, Zhang Anshi and in the name of the doctor in the State Scholarship, in the long run, is bound to shake the foundation of the whole scholars.

The Shire is a group of talented readers and clearly shouldn’t be filled with a bunch of people who take shortcuts.

Seeing Zhu whisking his sleeves away, the ministers dispersed.

Zhu Gaoqi was very angry and walked out of the hall in a rage, but Xie Jin chased after him and whispered, “Your Highness the Crown Prince.”

Zhu Gaoqi said, “Is Master Xie going to harm Anshi?”

Xie Jin said, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, I’m doing this to protect him.”

Zhu Gaoqi’s face became colder: “It is something to be happy about that he has talent.”

Xie Jin said, “Just because of this, it is not to be indulged. Your Highness ……”

Xie Jin lowered his voice, and then said, “Your Highness do not forget, the King of Han has not been dead, he wants to try to Prince position, is bound to start from the people around your Highness, Zhang Anshi wood show in the forest, sooner or later to attract trouble, I am worried about is that, at that time, I am afraid that your Highness will also be affected.”

This is Xie Jin’s long-standing rhetoric, the use of Han Wang’s threat to the crown prince, try to protect the crown prince, then as long as the crown prince ascended to the throne, then he is bound to have the merit of the dragon.

But in fact, there has always been a question here, that is, can the King of Han really be a threat to the Crown Prince?

Historically, Xie Jin was executed, only the essence does not lie in Zhu Di that Xie Jin has separated his two sons, because the courtiers support the Prince, would have been a matter of course, especially when Zhu Di decided to execute Xie Jin, Zhu Gaoqi’s position has actually been very solid.

In his own hundred years later, to his successor to leave a loyal supporter, with Zhu Di’s political wisdom, would never do to kill off Xie Jin.

Then the only possibility is that Xie Jin’s role in this is not to support the Crown Prince at all.

Instead, they kept on rendering the horrors of the Han King, and mentally PUA’d Zhu Gaoqi, who was at that time physically handicapped and obese because of his physical disability.

After rendering this horror, a group of people led by Xie Jin then appeared in the name of the Savior and attacked the mighty Han King in the void, revealing the great influence he had in the matter of the struggle for the crown.

Throughout the dynasties, the greatest merit is not necessarily the sealing of the wolf, but the merit of the slave dragon!

The throne has been fought over for you Emperor, can any credit be greater than this?

The shrewdness shown by Xie Jin, if it were in front of other emperors of the Ming Dynasty, the success would be very sure, and the benefits would be great.

But by chance, he met one of the three emperors of the Great Ming who could not be messed with, Zhu Di obviously sensed that the understanding of Jinyin in which overzealous mind, and soon insight into everything, so …… did not hesitate to choose to take him out.

As for the other two emperors who couldn’t be bothered to play smart with their followers, the segment was much higher than Zhu Di. One was Emperor Taizu Gao! The other, was the hefty Emperor Jiajing, Zhu Houjian.

Zhu Gaoqi listened to the words of Cie Jin, and not as before to produce the appearance of gratitude and respect.

Instead, he said coldly, “Hmph, this er family.”

Said the man, limping away.

Leaving behind a Xie Jin, but revealed a disappointed look.

He gazed at Zhu Gaoqi’s back, without much expression on his face, only his eyes were worth playing with.

Xie Jin is penetrated Zhu Gaoqi mind, today’s Prince angry, a few days to say a few soft words, naturally also obedient.