Zhenguan Xiaoxian Wang Li Shen Li Shimin

Li Shen became popular again, not because of the cheap book sales, but because of the poem Li Shen wrote in the palace. Many readers saw their own shadow in the poem.

Not every scholar can achieve great wealth. Li Shen's sentence "A scholar is useless" also hurt the hearts of many scholars.

In the end, Li Shen still sold books in the bookstore every day as ordered, but most of them were bought by businessmen. Half a month later, someone saw cart after cart of copper coins being pulled out of the palace.

The queue stretched from the palace gate to King Ji, which took a whole day. Li Shen was also speechless. Money usually weighs six kilograms, a cart weighs six hundred kilograms and only costs one hundred guan, and hundreds of thousands of guan costs hundreds or even thousands of carts.

This was mainly because Li Shen was unwilling to use silk and other goods as substitutes. Li Shen always believed that silk, silk, spices, etc. might depreciate in value at some point, and they would not be able to keep up with gold.

Li Shen's method of getting money was well known to everyone in Chang'an City, especially the officials of the aristocratic families. They all thought that Li Shen might have gotten money from the palace because he was out of money.

Wei Ting, Cui Renzhi and others gathered in the palace of King Wei, and Li Tai sat at the top.

"Your Highness, in addition to the three provinces and six ministries, now there are basically [-]% of the officials who support His Highness. We can't do anything about the ministers of the six ministries, but we can contact the ministers below. The only thing to see now is whether His Highness can make some achievements. Your Majesty has seen it, as long as His Majesty keeps doing well, we are stumbling upon the Crown Prince, and there is still a chance." Wei Ting reported to Li Shen

"It's difficult. Big brother is now stable and not impatient. Aye will do whatever he wants. It's hard to find a reason." Li Tai is not a fool. Can't you see this?

Wang Weitu thought for a while and said: "To be honest, even if the prince makes a few mistakes, your majesty will not depose the prince.

What we have to do is to make the prince change and make your majesty continue to be disappointed in the prince. Otherwise, how could the country be destroyed because of some trivial things, unless the prince rebels. "

"The prince is right, we can't think of deposing the prince just because of a few things. We should find a way to make the prince change." Cui Renzhi continued.

"How can we make the prince change? Now the prince's status is stable." Wang Weitu asked

"Actually, His Majesty has been guarding against the Crown Prince in recent years. His Majesty is in his prime, while the Crown Prince is already in his twenties. Do you think the Crown Prince really has no other ideas?

The fact that His Majesty favors His Royal Highness the King of Wei is proof that we just need to find someone to lead the Crown Prince astray.

When you are in your twenties and are full of energy, this colorful world is very wonderful. And we are constantly trying to impeach the prince and disrupt his mind. It won't take long for us to have results.

Beauty, not everyone can resist the temptation of wealth. "Wei Ting said with a smile.

"Then who should we find to do this?" Wang Weiqi continued to ask

Secretary Lang Zheng Jingsi, who had been silent on the side, said: "I do have a candidate, his name is Zhao Jie, he is now an official of the East Palace, deeply trusted by the prince, and his wife is a member of my Zheng family.

Although this person is talented, he is narrow-minded. Good comparison. He is the son of Princess Guiyang and Zhao Cijing, and later became the Duke of Kaihua County.

As His Majesty's nephews, Chai Zhewei is a Duke, Duan Yan is also a Duke, and Dou Xiaoci is also a Duke. Zhao Jie was dissatisfied, thinking why he was just a county prince after all the heroes, so he was the most suitable one, and he would have other uses when the time came. "

"I also recognize that the person Mr. Zheng mentioned is indeed a good candidate. But you have also forgotten one person. Hou Junji's son-in-law, Helan Chushi. Hou Junji is extremely domineering. I heard that he didn't hide anything from your majesty because of what happened last year. .

He thought he had destroyed a country and was just trying to get some treasure, so he was thrown into prison. Although he was later released, Hou Junji must have resentment in his heart if we find someone to bring him and the prince together. From now on, whatever happens to Hou Junji will involve the prince. "Wei Ting named another suitable person.

Cui Renzhi also agreed after hearing this: "Okay, this will be easier. And we also have to see if other subordinate officials in the East Palace can win over."

"What should I do with King Ji? I heard a few years ago that it was because of King Ji that the prince became better. I'm worried that he will help this time." Wang Weitu asked.

"Prince Ji just let him take care of himself. I asked someone to check it out today. It really cost him a whole day. It seems that he will lose a lot of money this time.

Thirty thousand copies of each volume is 54 books, and a ten-guan book costs [-] million guan. How can he have so much money?

He could only sell some before printing the next batch, and His Majesty asked for three months, so he pulled out the money from the palace for emergency use.

I estimate that even if the compensation for a book is 50 yuan, not to mention the compensation may be more. This time he really lost his wife and lost his army.

What he didn't even realize was that most of those books fell into our hands, and his printing cost was a little lower than what we bought.

After he sold out all [-] copies, we sold the books at a higher price. With a profit of several million pounds, King Ji was considered a blessing to us. Hahaha..." Lu Chengqing laughed. A few million coins is not a small amount for a noble family. Everyone also laughed.

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As an international metropolis in this era, Chang'an has a very large daily passenger flow, so unless you are a regular customer, you will not be able to remember who is who.

"Prince Qi, our books have sold five thousand copies of each volume in the past half month." Wang Xuance reported

"Well, no matter what, we have to fulfill the imperial edict. Let everything go according to plan. This is all money. And how did you go when I asked you to investigate the main source of income of the Wei family?" Li Shen said while drinking tea. .

The tea Li Shen drinks now is fried tea, but after more than a year of experiments, he still hasn't achieved the effect Li Shen wanted. But the taste was very close to the medium tea of ​​later generations, so Li Shen started drinking tea.

"Back to your lord, we have found out. The Wei family's main business is salt, iron, tea, and silk and cloth. The rest are not as large as these." Wang Xuance replied

Li Shen thought for a while and said: "Well done, we want this year's autumn tea, and use our fried tea to deal with their boiled tea. Cut off their tea business. I heard my mother-in-law said that the one named Wei Ting is still I went to him to inquire about our book sales, but my mother-in-law didn’t see him. Since the Wei family doesn’t care about family ties, I don’t have to be polite to them.”

"Your Majesty will harvest autumn tea soon. If your Majesty wants it, you must hurry up. There are several large tea gardens near Chang'an and there are many in Luoyang." Wang Xuance reminded

"Well, I will arrange for Wang Hongfu to set off tomorrow. I will pay him a high price and I will send people to collect them in other places. But it is not easy to choose. This one needs to be sold locally, otherwise it will be difficult to transport it back to Chang'an. It’s fresh.”

When Li Shen was thinking about who to send, Wei Fugui ran in, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, General Manager Wang De is here. It's very urgent. I asked you to go to the Hejian Palace as soon as possible. I'm waiting outside now."

"What. King Hejian's Mansion?" Could it be that King Hejian's condition has worsened? Didn't it say that it was already stable some time ago?

"Xuance, you can be responsible for the sales of books now. Let's complete the imperial edict first." After saying that, Li Shen went directly to the gate and saw Wang De spinning around.

"Old Wang, why is it so urgent?"

"Your Highness King Ji, King Hejian is seriously ill. Your Majesty wants you to come over quickly."