Take the mall to Datang

After putting down the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Li Shimin said to the little eunuch beside him: "Ma He, take this book written by Li Shang, copy a few copies and save it, and take the rest to the Imperial College."

"Kong Yingda is really causing trouble for me." Li Shimin muttered.

He has many things in mind, and Kong Yingda's influence is quite large. After all, he is the descendant of Kong Yingda.

After all, the development of the Ministry of Economic Development has divided some of the powers of the six ministries, and the attitude towards Yuan Shan will be considered by the courtiers as arrogance, but for Yuan Shan, he has done nothing wrong.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Shimin put the matter aside, and said, "Ma He, call Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui over tomorrow."

He decided to leave this matter to his courtiers to find a solution.

The next day in Lantianhou Mansion, Li Shimin dealt with Kong Yingda's impeachment of Yuan Shan, and the result was that Yuan Shan stopped publishing Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The intruded control made Yuanshan very upset. He originally showed respect to the old man Kong Yingda and didn't intend to argue with him, but the project between him and Chang'an Shi's family involved a lot of money, so stop it if you say it It is simply an act of hegemony.

Chapter 550

The Shi family in Chang'an City.

If the business fails, it means that a lot of money will be lost. The Shi family is not a super powerful family, so such a loss is very huge for them.

But this matter has nothing to do with Yuan Shan, the main problem lies with Kong Yingda.

Shi Yi negotiated with Yuan Shan as a representative, and there must be a solution after something happened.

"This incident happened suddenly. I didn't expect Kong Yingda to be so decisive. After all, this incident was caused by Ben Hou. The money paid by your Shi family will be refunded in full, and the previous part of the income will be regarded as belonging to the Yuan family. Some compensation." Yuan Shan said.

"Where is it, Lord Hou, it's not the first time we've cooperated with you, so we don't have to be so polite to each other. Originally, this is a very profitable business, which means that my Shi family is not so lucky." Shi Yi said.

Listening to what Shi Yi said, Yuan Shan could also hear some dissatisfaction. Of course, this was not aimed at him, but what was the dissatisfaction? Still difficult.

"Shi Yi, besides the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, maybe we can publish some other books. If there are so many candidates, can we get a scientific exam exercise book, and study books such as notes and notes will be popular." Yuan Shan said suddenly.

"Hey, that's a really good idea, but what's the matter with the quiz, and how to compile such a book." Shi Yi asked curiously.

He is a businessman and immediately thought of a lot when he heard this statement. Taking candidates as the main sales force, if some gimmicks such as betting questions can attract a lot of people, but if anyone knows what the scientific examination is about, it will be overwhelming. Wouldn't it be lifting a rock to shoot yourself in the foot if you don't allow the question?

"Are you worried that you won't win the test? In fact, there is no need to worry about it. Maybe we can make some articles from the previous year's test questions. For example, binding all the previous year's scientific test questions will be enough as a reference material. In addition On the basis of these topics, more topics can be analyzed and expanded, it doesn’t matter if you fail the bet, Fan Kuo expands it, there will always be something that can be touched, anyway, they are all extracted from the Four Books and Five Classics.” Yuan kindness.

What Yuan Shan wanted was to change Confucianism in this era, which was absolutely a dream. Most officials in the imperial court studied Confucianism, and no one could match them in numbers, so why bother to carry it out.

Anyway, the purpose of doing business is to make money. What is the difference between publishing Romance of the Three Kingdoms and publishing Confucian books? As long as the sales are good, it is enough, and he does not need to be responsible for any ideology.

"Master Hou is really powerful. This idea is really great. Then the Shi family's money will not be refunded. The business can continue." Shi Yi said.

"Then shall we continue?" Yuan Shan asked with a smile.

"Of course continue." Shi Yi said affirmatively.

After staying in Shi's house for some time, he went directly to Shangshu Province after leaving.

Half a month later, Shijia Bookstore officially opened for business. Compared with the previous small-scale consignment business, this time it is obviously going to be bigger.

The name of Shi’s bookstore is Zhuangyuan Bookstore. On the first day of opening, it withdrew from the imperial examination questions over the years. There are also various case analysis manuals, complete sets of four books and five classics. There are book sales, schoolbags, the four treasures of the study, pens, inks, papers and inkstones, everything is available.

On the day of the opening, several bicycle convoys began to spread the news in various places in Chang'an, and there were news of the opening of Zhuangyuan Bookstore in every restaurant and teahouse as long as there were scholars.

"Du He, how is the situation on your side?" Du Gou asked.

"Don't worry, I still have two trips to complete the task." Du He replied.

The two brothers just passed by here on bicycles. Du He usually likes to show off with people from the bicycle team. He never imagined that one day they would also be able to make money because of this.

In order to meet the standard of sufficient number of people in the team, Du Gou was specially called together. At first Du Gou didn't want to agree, but when it was mentioned about Yuan Shan's matter, he came over, and it turned out that he was riding a bicycle to spread the news among the people.

I knew that he would definitely not come like this, but now it is too late, and it is impossible to leave midway. After all, this is a contract, and if you break the contract, you need to pay money.

What's more important is that this matter was specifically ordered by his younger brother. After finally seeing Du He able to concentrate on one thing, he, as an older brother, also wanted to help.

After a brief exchange, they started a new circle of publicity. The publicity fee is not low, otherwise Du He would not be so desperate. What he thought was that the revenge after finishing this business would be enough for their caravan to go to the Chunmanyuan Song and Dance Hall to spend. Two or three times.

For this purpose, they are simply willing to bear the burden of hard work, wishing to use all their strength.

If you let Du Gou know that this is the purpose of working so hard, I'm afraid Du Gou will really be so angry that he vomits blood.

The speed of the bicycle was very fast. In less than one morning, the matter of Zhuangyuan Bookstore was known to everyone in Chang'an City.

As a result, Zhuangyuan Bookstore was busy all morning, and the number of servants in the shop quickly increased from two to five. Shi Yi was originally here to sit in the town, but later he also began to take charge of collecting money.

How expensive is this book? The complete set of Four Books and Five Classics ranges from a few pennies to tens of pennies, while the newly launched booklet of betting questions is not so heavy, but a complete set of past exam questions is sold for five hundred cents a piece. Book.

Don't underestimate the five hundred coins, almost all the scholars and those preparing for the scientific examination in Chang'an have a copy.

The subjects that are often held are divided into six categories: Xiucai, Mingjing, Jinshi, Mingfa, Mingshu, and Mingshu. Each of these six subjects has a corresponding test paper set.

For scholars, this amount of money is nothing at all. Even if many of the subjects are not liked by anyone, even if you buy two subjects, you still need to spend a lot of money. In addition, Zhuangyuan Bookstore not only sells books, but also sells various exam and school supplies.

If the examination questions over the years are not unusual, there are more attractive scientific examination practice questions. There are various exercises in a set of books, with questions in the front and answers in the back.

Those who buy contact books just go back and write according to the topic, and check whether the answers are correct after writing. This kind of contact book is just an experiment, and the Shi family hired people to summarize it. The few printed ones are just as an experiment. to launch.

It's just that the slogan on the cover of the book says hundreds of daily exercises, such as the Datang Science Examination Question Bank.

Many scholars bought all of them without reading the contents inside. Scholars are very particular about face, especially rich scholars will not fall behind, and they are very willing to invest in knowledge.

After Shi Yi collected the money for a day, his hands trembled a little. It's no wonder that moving around like this isn't tiring.

After the meeting in the afternoon, Shi Yi called the boy in the store and said, "Go to the Yuanjia Papermaking Workshop and let me know that Zhuangyuan Bookstore will print another [-] sets of books, no, another [-] sets."

Chapter 551

National Supervisor.

"Brother Zhang, what are you holding in your hand? You are so engrossed in looking at it."

"It's Brother Li. These are the new exam questions from Zhuangyuan Bookstore. I feel pretty good."

"Exam questions for Zhuangyuan Bookstore? Brother Zhang, what do you think this thing is for?"

"Haha, you don't know yet, you can submit manuscripts in exchange for writing fees for writing scientific exam exercises."

"There is such a thing, Brother Zhang, can you show me this exercise..."

The students of Guozijian almost have a few sets of such exercises, and their purpose is relatively straightforward. The Zhuangyuan Bookstore has a demand for formal essays. Compiled exercises will be paid according to the reviewed topics, ranging from a few hundred essays to as many as There are several.

In addition to these exercises, there are also poetry collections, review articles, and biographical novels that can all be submitted, and once accepted, there will be a manuscript fee.

Many people may not know that the questions that appeared in the exercise book before were basically asked by the teachers of the Imperial College. They were all very private at first, but now they have become open and aboveboard. level of obsession.