The daily routine of the ancient imperial examination

Holding a collection of poems in his hand, Lu Xiuyuan leaned back on the chair and continued to read leisurely. When his eyes were tired, he took a snack from the side drawer to eat, and then drank two sips of tea to relieve his boredom.

Life is really comfortable.

It's just that he hadn't been leisurely here for a long time, and when it was close to lunch time, he heard another person coming from outside the Discussion Palace, saying that this time he was here to deliver His Majesty's oral order.

Lu Xiuyuan listened to the movement outside for a while, as if he heard his own name, he quickly collected the poems in front of him, and sat up straight.

After finishing these, as expected, someone came over and called him to the yard to receive the order.

He followed the man to the yard with a dazed expression. His senior brother and others were all present, waiting for him to arrive.

The eunuch who came to pick up the book just now announced with a sharp voice: "His Majesty's oral order."

There was a crash and a kneeling down there.

"From now on, Lu Xiuzhuan will be in charge of sorting out the Fragments of Ancient Books of Poetry and Fu, thank you."

With just a single sentence, it was like water pouring into a hot oil pan, and it exploded in the courtyard.

Everyone had different thoughts, Wu Zhangyuan got up and politely sent the eunuch out, and when he came back, he couldn't tell whether it was joy or sadness.

There were so many people in the courtyard, Lu Xiuyuan didn't go to his senior brother immediately, but started asking questions on the way when he returned home for dinner at noon.

"Brother, what did the eunuch say when you went out last? Why did you suddenly let me be in charge of those fragments of poetry?"

His senior brother also didn't quite understand: "This matter shouldn't be a good thing. I thought His Majesty valued you and wanted to arrange this errand for you. But when I sent the eunuch who gave me the order out, the other party quietly told me that it was the second eunuch." The prince proposed..."

Come on, as long as the second prince is involved, nothing good will happen.

Wasn't it the other party who deliberately made things difficult for the book this morning?In the end, he couldn't figure it out, and he fooled himself into changing a job that was troublesome at first glance.

Seeing that Lu Xiuyuan's expression was not good, his senior brother comforted him: "It's not difficult to sort out those fragments of poems and prose, just sort out and copy the fragments that have been handed down."

He knew the meaning of this work, and it is precisely because of the existence of this work that the contents of ancient books for thousands of years have been preserved and survived to modern times.

This job sounds good, but I don't know what the second prince is going to do.

But they are going to the Wu Mansion soon, in order not to worry Ah Chen, they can only put this matter aside for the time being.

Soldiers come to cover up the water and soil, and he will worry about the affairs of the Imperial Academy when he is working.

So, his senior brother saw that Lu Xiuyuan, who had been sullen just now, changed his expression instantly after entering the gate of Wu Mansion, and his voice was brisk.

"Achen! I'm back, what's for lunch today?"

This, this switching is too fast, Senior Brother Wu sighed silently behind his back.

When Shi Yunchen saw Lu Xiuyuan smiling with a relaxed expression on his face, he unconsciously laughed.

"Today, I tried to make fried chicken with the sauce my mother brought over, and I'll try it at noon to see how it tastes."

Hearing this, his eyes lit up: "That's right, I haven't eaten for a long time, remember to ask the kitchen to bake a few more pancakes later, I'm afraid it won't be enough!"

"Look at you, you're so good-for-nothing, you know how to eat all day long." The other party gave him a light bump with his arm, "I'm glad to see you, what interesting thing happened in Hanlin today?"

The two chatted while walking. He and Shi Yunchen basically had nothing to hide when they got along. Usually, they were afraid that the other party would be boring if they just talked about it, so they would often talk about what happened when he was at work. An interesting little joke made the other party laugh non-stop.

For example, sitting on the bench before, he was obviously rejected by the whole room and had no work to do, but that would be the most sultry time for Qiuhu. He focused on those people who were sweating profusely, and drank tea and watched the theater leisurely by himself, drawing enough hatred.

In the end, the superior who was in charge of him had no choice but to kick him to the library to take care of the books.

So now when the young master asked about what happened today, Lu Xiuyuan organized his words first, and then thought of that editor Zheng's expression, before he started to speak, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Seeing him smiling like that, Shi Yunchen suddenly became more curious, and stared at him with twinkling eyes.

"What happened? Stop laughing and tell me!"

Then Lu Xiuyuan explained the ins and outs of this matter according to Shuangwen's face-slapping routine.

It was cool, but the other party frowned after listening.

"What's wrong with Ah Chen?" He stretched out his hand to smooth the other's frown.

Shi Yunchen was worried in his heart. Although Erlang slapped him in the face and went back today, what if he didn't classify?At that time, they will definitely not be able to complete the task and be punished. It's just a small Hanlin Academy, so dangerous.

"Okay, okay, don't worry." Lu Xiuyuan stretched out his head and touched his forehead to the other party, "I believe I will handle it well, those people are just such a trick, as long as they don't use force with me, I can definitely kill them all Cleaned up and docilely."

Hearing what he said, the other party couldn't help curling his lips, "I know how to brag all day long..."

"Hey, I don't like to hear what you say." The foreheads of the two were already pressed together, so Lu Xiuyuan simply put his chin together and sucked hard.

"Trust your husband."

In the next second, the young master's face turned red, and he also jumped a meter away.

"It's still in the yard!"

After finishing speaking, he quickly looked around, but fortunately, he didn't see anyone.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I saw no one kissing." Lu Xiuyuan quickly pulled him back.

"No, we have to keep a little distance." The other party blocked it with his hands, and then trotted all the way back to their yard.

After all, now in the outer courtyard, it would be embarrassing if the servants saw it.

"Achen, don't run away." Lu Xiuyuan quickly ran after him.

They communicated with each other at a negative distance last night, why should they keep a distance from him during the day.

After lunch, when Lu Xiuyuan was about to take a nap, he happened to see Shi Yunchen changing his clothes and preparing to go out.

"Achen? If you don't sleep at noon, where are you going?"

The other party tidied up his collar, turned around and explained to him: "The store has accumulated a batch of books, I'm going to check the old and new ones for damage, and see if they can be disposed of at a discount."

"A pile of books?" He was a little puzzled: "Isn't our book not enough to sell? How can there be any left?"

Seeing that he didn't understand, Shi Yunchen simply explained in detail.

In order to de-homogenize them, Yan Ruyu has a variety of stories, and the market is uncertain. Before your book is sold, you can't guess which genre can be a big hit, so you can only print them all together.

In this way, unpopular subjects will slowly pile up, more and more, and when it reaches a certain number, Shi Yunchen will go over and deal with it.

"This is indeed a problem." Lu Xiuyuan rested his chin and thought, "It's not good to sell it cheaply. Why don't we organize an activity to give back to readers?"

"Giving back activities?" The young master tentatively asked, "Buy books and give them away?"

"That's right!" I gave the other party a thumbs up, "You can bundle popular and unpopular books together for sale, or buy three books of different types and get one free, buy five and get two free, etc. ..."

In fact, people have a bad habit, that is, they are addicted to collecting discounts. They obviously don’t need things, but after seeing the discounts, they feel that if they don’t buy them, they will lose money, and they can’t help but want to buy them.

"Since we have done it, why not make it bigger, buy five and get one free for all scripts, and do a few more activities, small profits but quick turnover."

However, when Shi Yunchen thought of their writing speed, he worried: "I'm afraid that the new stories will not be able to keep up, what should I do if there is a gap?"

This seems to be a problem too. They are now printing books only after everyone has finished writing a story, and the period of writing the story is the blank period.

Lu Xiuyuan narrowed his eyes and thought about it carefully: "It's not impossible..."

"You have a solution?" Now Shi Yunchen was not in a hurry to go out, and came to him and began to question him.

"How to deal with this?"

Lu Xiuyuan thought of the short story he would write when he reported Zhao Yu, maybe they could run a newspaper part-time.

First, he used the information network of the young master to publish some gossip news from various places every day, and used eye-catching headlines to attract people to buy, so that the newspaper gradually came into everyone's attention.

After we have a stable audience, we will launch a serialized story section. Several themes will be released together, with popular ones interspersed with unpopular ones, so that even if the tastes are different, we have to pay for them all.

They don't just make money by serializing story books. If the newspaper develops well in the future, they will dominate the family. Afterwards, if they don't deal with it, they will collect the other party's black material and put it directly in the newspaper, directly controlling public opinion!

You must know that in ancient times, reputation was very important, and their newspapers can be used as a trump card.

When I told Shi Yunchen my thoughts, the other party obviously imagined what the newspaper would look like if it could develop smoothly!

"But if we do this, will we be suppressed?" After all, they are small people in the capital, and if someone in the palace wants to punish them, they have nothing to do.

"Achen." Lu Xiuyuan said with a serious expression, "If the newspaper is launched, we can't touch these things in the early stage, and we can't touch them at all. We will only broadcast some trivial and trivial things every day."

"Nowadays, the general environment still looks down on story books. Our newspaper is positioned to serialize story books, broadcasting trivial things in various places, satisfying the curiosity of middle- and lower-level people, and attracting them to pay for consumption. As long as we are low-key enough, those upper-level people disdain to deal with these low-level people. s things."

"In the early stage, we will develop slowly, and when the foundation is solid, or we have someone behind us, then we can come at will."

When Lu Xiuyuan said these words, Yun Chen's little heart was beating.

The other party didn't expect that just discussing how to deal with the accumulated scripts would let him know that a single script can make so many twists and turns.

"Then what should we do now?" The young master asked uncertainly.

"Huh?" Lu Xiuyuan's eyes flashed blankly, and then he reacted and scratched his head.

"Sorry, what I said just now was too vigorous and accidentally digressed, let's get rid of these books for the time being."

"Then the newspaper you just mentioned, let them inquire about the news tomorrow and prepare it in advance?"

Lu Xiuyuan nodded: "Okay, let's prepare the gossip first, and when I have time, I will give you a typesetting issue."

Looking at the well-organized Erlang who arranged all the plans in front of him, Shi Yunchen swallowed uncontrollably, resisting the urge to throw him down.

What was written in the story book was correct, as expected, serious men are the most handsome.

The author has something to say: Ah Chen runs newspapers to make money, and is busy doing big things;

The old Lu Xiuxiu's broken paper was picked on and slapped in the face;

Ming Wang should be a pig teammate, nothing to hold back the second prince.

Although it is still very hot, I believe that all three of us will have a bright future.