Chapter 279: Unexpected Good News
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After this battle, Gu Xiancheng felt that his vitality was greatly damaged, and he left Zhao Shilang Hall almost dejectedly. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info saw him leave, and Zhao Shilang said to Fan Hongdao: "You really don't plan to pursue it?"
Fan Hongdao replied: "That's it, in fact, he has already been punished!"
Zhao Shilang praised: "Fan Sheng has a measure!" Then he took up the pen to rewrite the judgment, and after consulting Fan Hongdao's opinion, he directly assigned Fan Hongdao to the Nancheng Branch Office of Daxing County, and acted as a master bookkeeper.
Fan Hongdao felt a little dissatisfied, if it weren't for Gu Xiancheng deliberately making things difficult for himself, he might not have had the opportunity to make friends with the future first assistant Zhao Zhigao like this.
"Don't talk about him!" Zhao Zhigao turned to chatting: "Actually, Dr. Xu from Guozijian once wrote to introduce you, saying that you have a lot of wonderful ideas, if you can calm down and do a few years of learning, at least it will not be a problem to make a statement." โ
It turned out that Dr. Xu really wrote a letter to Zhao Zhigao to say that he was himself! Fan Hongdao suddenly realized, no wonder Zhao Zhigao had a relatively kind attitude towards himself at the beginning, and he was biased towards Gu Xiancheng before he came up, and there was still a context to follow.
In the relationship network of the Ming officialdom, there are various contexts such as fellow villagers, teachers and students, the same year, and fellow Taoists, which are intertwined and colluded with each other to form a big network, and anyone who is in the official career is in the network.
In this big net, the relationship derived from teachers and students is still more valued, Dr. Xu and Zhao Zhigao are fellow villagers and the same year, and Fan Hongdao can also be regarded as half of Dr. Xu's student, at least Dr. Xu is more recognized in his heart. There are such twists and turns, so Zhao Zhigao will be more friendly to Fan Hongdao.
Zhao Zhigao didn't know Fan Hongdao's psychological activities, and was still sighing: "The old man is from Wang Xue, judging from Dr. Xu's excerpts, you are further ahead than Wang Xue." After Kong, Mengcheng, Zhu and Mr. Yangming, I don't know how many righteous principles can be explored.
If it weren't for Gu Xiancheng's sideways, he wouldn't be able to keep you in the ministry, otherwise the old man would really have the idea of leaving you in the ministry and accompanying the old man to do scholarship. โ
Dr. Xu is like this, and Zhao Shilang is actually like this, no wonder these two have such a good relationship. Hearing this, Fan Hongdao couldn't help but sweat at Lushan Waterfall, could it be that being keen on academics is a common problem for these old men?
It seems to be understandable, probably this kind of person feels that the career is hopeless as they get older, but they can't go through the world in vain, and they always have to think of leaving a mark, anyway, the breakthrough point is not academic or literature.
But he Fan Hongdao is different, now he is young and famous, and he has the future in his hands, as long as he crosses the threshold of the imperial examination, he will have a great future!
After thinking about it, Fan Hongdao decided to persuade Zhao Shilang, in case Zhao Shilang really plunged into the ocean of academia in this time and space and couldn't help himself, and finally didn't enter the cabinet as the first assistant, then wouldn't he Fan Hongdao lose?
Therefore, Fan Hongdao persuaded: "The old man is familiar with history books, and he should know that there was Gongsun Hong in the Han Dynasty, who studied at forty and became an official at sixty, and only became prime minister when he was almost eighty." The lord must not indulge himself, but he must be diligent in the king's affairs and do some business. โ
After that, Fan Hongdao didn't have the heart to continue to be polite with Zhao Shilang here, so he casually chatted a few words and said goodbye, lest Zhao Shilang change his mind again and have to catch himself to do scholarship together.
In the case of everyone's attention, Fan Hongdao, the focus of everyone who felt that he had "lived for a long time", walked out of the ministry, and today's main task was completed. Then I waited to get the appointment letter again, and then I had to go to the Nancheng branch office to report to Shen Dagongzi.
The acting chief bookkeeper of his internship does not need to ask for the approval of the imperial court or the seal of the palace at all, and it is not an edict, so the officials can appoint it themselves, and it can be done quickly, and it can be completed in about two or three days.
returned to the residence and rested for another day, but Ma Chaofeng from the Mingyi Bookstore in Nancheng came over. Fan Hongdao was very surprised and asked, "What do you have to do outside the horse? Everything has already been agreed, is there any change?"
"Great joy!" Ma Chaofeng said very encouragingly: "After the last farewell, I engraved the edition overnight and printed your poem banknotes! I don't want to work hard for a few days, and the printed ones are almost sold out!"
Fan Hongdao couldn't help but be taken aback, even he didn't quite believe this "good news."
Speaking of books in this year, the best ones to sell are the Bagu Anthology and Commentary books, but anyone who is interested in the imperial examination will buy them to figure it out, and there is no reader who does not read this kind of book.
And every time the examiner's style changes, these books will be new, and they will sell well anyway, so this kind of book is a bit like a teaching aid book from another time and space, and the sales are just right.
The second thing that is easy to sell is the Four Books and Five Classics plus the Historical Records Tongjian, which readers must read, schools must use, and whether they are readers or not, as long as they are rich, they will probably put a few sets at home.
Other types such as novel words, ancient anthologies and the like are not easy to say, it depends on the popular atmosphere, but generally the ancients are noble and the present are cheap, like Fan Hongdao, the poetry of the world, can be sold, but it is generally a few books of meaning and meaning, enrich the variety.
Unless the world moves to the point of Wang Shizhen, the collection will really sell a lot. And as an aside, after Wang Shizhen's death, the price of his collection rose sharply, and many booksellers made some money.
So when Fan Hongdao heard that his poetry collection was actually sold out, he couldn't believe it, and he had a stunned feeling that "I, Fan Hongdao, how can I go against the trend".
His original idea was that if he put his own poetry money in the Beijing bookstore, even if there was no sales, he would be able to make himself brush up in Shilin. As for how much it can sell, don't think about him, everyone admires the classics of the ancients, how many people are so idle to buy the collections of contemporaries?
Fan Hongdao still couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "You can't be mistaken, right?" Or did you just send out three or five copies, and they all happened to be bought?"
"No, no, how can you be mistaken!" Ma Chaofeng hurriedly said: "That's not the case, I've only printed 200 copies in the past few days to try it, and it's really sold out, and it's selling out quickly, and there is still a lot to be done in the future!"
Ma Chaofeng felt that he had inadvertently dug up a treasure, and originally thought that he could earn back a few taels of silver and the profit would be over, but now it seems that this one may not be a few taels but a few hundred taels!
And there is also follow-up potential, Fan Hongdao is less than twenty years old, and there is still a peak period of creation, as long as he can maintain his current exposure, he will still make a lot of money in the future!
For Fan Hongdao, who is in charge of the restructuring of the salt industry in Hedong, he doesn't have much feeling about the business of a few hundred taels of silver. But for ordinary merchants, a few hundred taels of silver is quite generous.
The popularity of poetry collections is enough to make everyone who reads them excited, and it is not a matter of money, but a great honor. But Fan Hongdao is still wondering, why is this?