Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 254 The Peerless Double Pride
Original bookstore.

It was already the second watch, but the original bookstore was still brightly lit.

Hou Donglai entered the house, wiped off his sweat, and said to Zhang Fei who was sitting inside: "Don't worry, Sanlang, it won't be a problem to print a hundred copies of Bachelor Sima's articles."

"That's good!"

Zhang Fei nodded, "Have their money been delivered yet?"

Hou Donglai said: "All of them have been sent, and Baifanlou and Panlou have sent over a hundred more."

Zhang Fei was taken aback for a moment, "Why send more?"

Hou Donglai said: "They are afraid that they will not have enough money, and it will be very troublesome to send money here temporarily, so they simply put a hundred coins here with us first, and if they need it at that time, they will directly send someone over to get the tabloids."

Now that there are hundreds of guan, they have to be transported by bullock carts. Baifanlou and Panlou don't care about this little money, what they want is efficiency.

It is no longer possible to allow the situation of "not reporting to other stores" in their stores.

"As expected of the Alumni Building, you are really rich and powerful!" Zhang Fei nodded with a smile, and suddenly looked at the energetic Hou Donglai, "Old Hou! You must have stayed up all night yesterday, right?"

"It seems. It seems to be true. I squinted for a while in the morning."

After speaking, Hou Donglai asked again: "Why does Sanlang ask this?"

Zhang Fei said awkwardly: "I just see that you don't seem sleepy at all."

Hou Donglai hehe said: "I have never done such a profitable business in my life, but I am so excited, I probably won't be able to sleep today."

Speaking of the back, the eyes are all laughing.

Not only him, Bai Ban, Hong Zhong and other craftsmen are like this, the more they work, the more vigorous they are.

It's so interesting that people rush to give money to this business!

There were occasional tabloids in the market before, but they are completely incomparable with their tabloids!

One of the very important reasons is that those tabloids are all manuscripts, and the quantity is extremely limited, while they are printed with movable type. The greater the quantity, the more they earn.

Coincidentally, there is really a lot of demand, so if it continues to sell like this, it will be a real hit!

What sleep.

Zhang Fei said: "You still have to pay attention to rest these two days, I still have a task for you."

Hou Donglai hurriedly asked, "What mission?"

Zhang Fei said: "I plan to divide this authentic bookstore into two workshops, a movable type workshop and a printing workshop. One workshop is dedicated to the production of movable type, while the other workshop is dedicated to printing."

Hou Donglai felt puzzled and asked, "Why?"

Zhang Fei said: "For one thing, we have limited houses here, and the surrounding housing prices are very expensive, so there is no need to make movable type here."

Hou Donglai nodded: "That's right, not to mention expensive, you can't rent it at all."

Zhang Fei continued: "Furthermore, movable type can also make money, and we can sell movable type to Bie De Workshop."

After Hou Donglai listened, he said, "Sanlang, this is absolutely impossible."

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Are you worried that someone will snatch our business?"

"Isn't it?" Hou Donglai said.

Zhang Fei said: "Then do you know that this tree is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it. If there is only one printing workshop like ours left in Tokyo, then we will be finished."

Hou Donglai nodded half understanding.

Zhang Fei added: "But for now, we still won't sell the movable type, after all we haven't made much money."

Hou Donglai nodded again and again, expressing his approval.

Zhang Fei said: "The task I entrusted to you is to find the workshop."

Hou Donglai said: "I see, I'll ask Fang Ya tomorrow."

Zhang Fei said: "Then rest early today."

"Hey!"

By the time Zhang Fei returned home, it was already midnight.

But no matter when he came back, Gao Wenyin always opened the door for him.

"I remember I said many times, if I come back late, Madam won't have to wait for me."

Zhang Fei apologized slightly.

Gao Wenyin just smiled shyly as usual, and said: "The water is always hot, and the food is also hot. Should Saburo take a bath first, or eat something first."

I'm sorry, but Gao Wenyin's thoughtfulness is really irresistible, Zhang Fei thought for a while, "I'll go take a shower first."

Gao Wenyin said: "I'm going to prepare now."

"Oh."

Zhang Fei suddenly remembered something, "Is Lao Qi back?"

Gao Wenyin said: "I'll be back in the evening."

Zhang Fei nodded, and said to the tired Li Si: "Li Si, you go ask Lao Qi to wait for me in the living room, and then go find Xiao Tao."

"Hey!"

In response, Li Si suddenly asked: "Third brother, why am I looking for Xiaotao?"

Gao Wenyin also looked at Zhang Fei curiously.

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Of course I asked her to make something for you to eat, otherwise what would you do?"

Gao Wenyin hurriedly said: "Everything is prepared."

In her eyes, there is no distinction between master and servant, so she usually prepares the meals for Zhang Fei, Li Si and Long Wu.

After taking a bath, I washed off my sweat and felt much better.

When I came to the living room, the hot food was already on the table, and Feng Nanxi was also standing in the hall.

"Old Seven! Sit!"

Zhang Fei pointed to the opposite side, then sat down on his own.

Feng Nanxi was not polite to Zhang Fei either, and sat opposite.

"You did a good job."

Zhang Fei nodded approvingly.

Feng Nanxi hurriedly said, "It's all Li Bao and the others!"

"You don't need to say such polite words in front of me, and I'm not saying polite words." Zhang Fei interrupted him, and asked again: "Do you know who you are working for now?"

Feng Nanxi hesitated, "I don't dare to guess the details, but it must have a lot of background."

"Official!"

Zhang Fei said straightforwardly.

Feng Nanxi was dumbfounded.

Zhang Fei said: "To be more specific, it is the tax department that was just established by the imperial court. I think your cautious and cautious style is very suitable for this job. Are you interested in joining the tax department?"

Feng Nanxi was stunned, "Can I do it?"

Zhang Fei nodded, "It depends on whether you want it or not?"

Feng Nanxi smiled embarrassedly, "Of course I am willing."

Compared with Zhang's status as a housekeeper, it is of course much more interesting to join the tax department.

Zhang Fei said again: "At the same time, I want Shi Erlang to go in."

Feng Nanxi asked in surprise, "Why?"

Zhang Fei said: "Because the Taxation Department needs to establish a very broad network of contacts, I hope to use Erlang's connections and his personality of making friends to expand the Taxation Department. One of you is an insider, and the other is an outsider."

Feng Nanxi frowned: "But Erlang is very loyal, I'm afraid he won't be willing to use his brother."

Zhang Fei smiled and said: "I just value his virtue of loyalty, and I won't let him betray anyone. As for using it, that's out of the question. What we want is news, and brothers have to help each other. If his brothers have If it’s difficult, we’ll help.”

When Feng Nanxi heard that it was feasible, she asked again: "Should I ask my sister-in-law first?"

Zhang Fei said: "No need, lest she worry. It's not appropriate for too many people to know about this matter, I didn't even tell Zhiqian."

Feng Nanxi nodded, "I see."

He knew that Wang Anshi's new law would come out soon, and a huge political storm would definitely form at that time, so he had to make arrangements as soon as possible, grab as many cards as possible in his hand, in order to face this storm by himself , will not be helpless.

Early the next morning.

Wang Anshi went out early and came to the tavern closest to the imperial city.

"Scholar Wang, what would you like to eat today?" the owner asked.

"Two pancakes and a bowl of porridge."

After Wang Anshi finished speaking, he glanced around and saw that there was another newspaper in his hand, so he couldn't help asking in a low voice, "What are they reading?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "Taboli. There is a new one today."

"The tabloid?" Wang Anshi asked, "Isn't it the mansion newspaper?"

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, "The shop has not received any report from the residence today."

"How do those people do things?" Wang Anshi muttered in a low voice, and then said, "Show me a tabloid."

"Hey!"

Soon, a tabloid was delivered to Wang Anshi.

When Wang Anshi opened it, he knew that Xu Zhiqian had written it. He glanced at it casually, and he knew roughly what he was writing.

It is nothing more than dissecting the previous lawsuit to discuss the court's revision of the law.

Use justice to explain politics.

These views are completely unattractive to Wang Anshi.

But others watched it with gusto.

He also listened to the discussion at the next table: "What the tabloid said is quite reasonable. Those landlords can use tenants today to create public grievances in order to prevent the court from legally collecting taxes. Then tomorrow they can use public grievances to kill people and set fires. "

"Yes! I also agree with this sentence very much. The court's revision of this law is actually a principle of respecting the law, which is nothing more than human feelings. In the past, those big landlords used their tenants to win the sympathy of the court. This made the court in a dilemma. If things go on like this, the imperial court will no longer sympathize with those tenants.”

"It is also true that the law does not punish the public. Now that the number of tenants is increasing day by day, those landlords cannot be allowed to control the tenants. No matter what they do, they can use the law to not punish the public to get rid of crimes. Only the judiciary can protect the tenants." interests."

"Then Bachelor Sima really deserves it. It took so long for this regulation to be revised. Why hasn't it been promulgated yet?"

Wang Anshi secretly looked down on those officials, feeling that you only understand these principles now, I really don't know how you became officials.

"Junshi!"

Wen Yanbo just came to the gate of the imperial city, and happened to meet Sima Guang, so he hurriedly shouted.

Sima Guang stopped and bowed his hands, "Morning, Duke Wen."

Wen Yanbo walked over and said, "Jun Shi, have you finished revising that law?"

Sima Guang said, "It's almost there."

Wen Yanbo said: "I think you can use this as a topic again and publish the revised regulations on tabloids first."

Sima Guang said depressedly: "Mr. Wen, it's been a whole day, can you stop talking about this, I really beg you."

Wen Yanbo hurriedly said: "I'm telling you the truth, but I didn't tease you. Do you know that another tabloid issue came out today, and it also attracted a lot of attention."

Sima Guang said weakly: "What does this have to do with me?"

Wen Yanbo said: "This issue of the tabloid is to use that lawsuit to explain why the law was amended from the perspective of the judiciary. When I was having breakfast just now, I found that many people were complaining after reading this tabloid. Why haven't you revised the law yet?" .

It can be seen that the hot discussion yesterday was not entirely because of your article, the tabloid also has credit.The article by the young lady of the Xu family is just so-so, but it can attract everyone's attention, which shows that the tabloid is not so ordinary! "

Sima Guang frowned, "What does Duke Wen mean?"

Wen Yanbo said: "After you have revised this law, write another article on this topic, explaining the idea of ​​the imperial court's revision of the law, and print it on tabloids, and print more. It is best to spread it to other places, so that you can get twice the result with half the effort. "

Sima Guang seemed a little hesitant, and said, "Will Mr. Wen write it?"

Wen Yanbo said: "It's not my practice, how can I write it."

Sima Guang waved his hands and said, "But I really don't want to be in the limelight anymore. Forget it, forget it."

In his opinion, it is enough, as long as those landlords dare not threaten the court with tenants.

Wen Yanbo said angrily, "You!"

While the two were chatting, while entering the imperial city, they suddenly saw many officials standing in front of a palace wall.

Wen Yanbo said: "It seems that the residence newspaper has been published."

This wall is specially used to post mansion newspapers.The residence newspaper generally publishes disasters that occurred in various places, and officials must read them.

The two went over to have a look, and it turned out that the disaster did not happen anywhere, but Wang Anshi wrote an article, which mainly discussed the method of dispatching labor, and it also slightly involved the method of equalization.

Wang Anshi knew that the errand service method was the most concerned by the common people, while the equal loss method was more related to those big rich businessmen, who had an indirect relationship with the common people.

However, the article did not directly disclose his immunity law regulations, but explained the background and theory of his reform.

After reading it, Wen Yanbo saw that many officials around him were transcribing with pens, and they praised him again and again. He couldn't help but sighed: "I have to say, this article by Wang Jiefu is indeed superior to you and me."

Sima Guang snorted, "It's just words to confuse the people, so it's not worth mentioning."

Just leave after speaking, and you will definitely not be convinced.

Wen Yanbo suddenly had an idea, and chased after him, hehe said: "It turns out that Junshi dare not write any more articles because he is afraid of being compared by Wang Jiefu!"

Sima Guang said, "Am I afraid of him?"

Wen Yanbo said: "Your article was only published yesterday, and today Wang Jiefu published his article in the mansion newspaper. He obviously wants to compare with you. It's a pity that he didn't expect it, and you dare not Fight."

Sima Guang said: "Who said I dare not?"

Wen Yanbo said: "Then write another one and see whose article gets more attention."

"I."

Sima Guang was extremely guilty, and he was not blind. Wang Anshi's article was indeed better than his.

Talent is something that hurts.

Wen Yanbo stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, I know your difficulties, don't worry, I won't talk to others, just pretend that I haven't mentioned this matter."

Sima Guang is an old fox, he is calm in everything, except Wang Anshi.

No one can lose to Wang Anshi. The key is that Wang Anshi posted an article today, which is clearly aimed at him.

Sima Guang's forehead became hot, "What's the problem, I just don't want to show off the limelight, so I write as soon as I write, and I'm afraid he won't succeed."

Wen Yanbo hurriedly said: "Your Majesty calm down, don't force yourself."

Sima Guang snorted and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Wen. It's just an article. How reluctant can you be? Besides, it's my job to let the people know more about the new laws."

Diligence can make up for one's weakness, but it doesn't mean that talent can't be defeated.

Almost at the same time, Wang Anshi also entered the Imperial City. He went directly to the Jinzouyuan, and the Dibao was in charge of the Jinzuoyuan.

"Master Xing, didn't you say that the mansion newspaper will be sent out early this morning?"

He asked an official named Xing Zhi.

Xing Zhizhi nodded and said: "Yesterday we went into the Zouyuan and transcribed a total of [-] copies of Wang Xueshi's articles overnight, and all of them have been sent out."

Wang Anshi was speechless, and excitedly said: "People's tabloids are all printed, but the imperial court still copied them?"

Xing Zhi said embarrassingly: "We have always transcribed the mansion newspapers we entered into the Zouyuan. After all, we don't need too many copies. If we use printed ones, we have to engrave and engrave them first, which is more troublesome. It doesn't take many days. If it can’t be done, the transcription will be much faster, and it can be published today.”

After Wang Anshi listened, he didn't want to say anything more. He wanted to publish it today, but the engraving block would definitely not be in time, so he could only leave the theater depressedly.

Halfway along the road, I happened to meet Lu Huiqing.

"Master."

Seeing Wang Anshi, Lu Huiqing quickly walked up to him and said excitedly, "Master's article is really well written."

Wang Anshi said depressedly, "Really?"

Lu Huiqing said solemnly: "I swear to God, even if that article was written by Bachelor Sima, I would be overwhelmed by it."

Wang Anshi muttered in a low voice, "But I didn't listen to anyone's discussion."

Lu Huiqing groaned: "Nowadays everyone is engrossed in transcribing the teacher's article, so they don't care about the discussion. Wait a day or two, and it will definitely spark heated discussions."

After hearing this, Wang Anshi's eyes lit up, and he thought to himself, yes!Sima Junshi's article, if you don't print more and send it to others, who will read it.Although there are only [-] copies of my article, [-] copies can be copied, so there is no need to print it.

That's it.

He smiled.

(End of this chapter)