CHAPTER XXIII

Early the next morning, Li Lizhen arrived at the Ganlu Hall very early, but Li Shimin was earlier, now he has already gone to the court, and those ministers are discussing major matters, Li Lizhen can only wait outside, and his heart is anxious, knowing that he needs to sell paper today, but he didn't go, and he didn't know what Wei Hao would say when the time came.

And Wei Hao, who was outside, found that there were already scholars waiting outside, and those scholars rushed here after seeing the notice.

"Excuse me, do you have paper to buy here, and it's the kind that costs a lot of money?" A scholar saw Wei Hao standing at the door of the store and asked.

"That's right!" Wei Hao nodded and said.

"That's... When will you start selling? The scholar continued to ask, and the other scholars looked at him as well.

"Right away, don't worry, there must be!" Wei Hao smiled and comforted the scholar and said, and then he saw Li Lizhen's subordinates, who also came over early in the morning.

"That girl hasn't come yet, really, don't care, open the door for business!" Wei Hao said to those subordinates.

The servants nodded hurriedly and began to open the door of the shop.

As soon as they opened the door of the store, those scholars saw that inside the store, all of them were white papers, and they were stacked one after another, I don't know how many there were.

"That, a big piece of five cents, take it back yourself, cut it as much as you want, it's so much cheaper than rice paper, it's about the same price as yellow paper, you can take back such paper, you can copy books, write, do anything!" Wei Hao said to those scholars with a smile.

"Hurry up!" A scholar at the door said anxiously to Wei Hao.

"What are you doing in a hurry? How much do you want? When Wei Hao heard this, he immediately shouted at the scholar.

"I want five!" The scholar held out his hand and said.

"Take the money!" Wei Hao also stretched out his hand and shouted at him.

"Here you go!" The scholar counted twenty-five dollars and handed it to Wei Hao.

Wei Hao immediately asked the people behind him to count five sheets, rolled them up, and handed them to the scholar.

"Okay, if you want to prepare the money, we will count it directly to you when the time comes!" Wei Hao stood there shouting, and then the scholars began to line up here.

"Give me ten!"

"Get me two!"

"Give me a hundred!" ...

The scholars reported the number in front, and the subordinates went to count the papers, and gave the papers after paying the money.

Wei Hao carried a chair and sat there watching, watching all the money thrown into the basket.

After a while, a basket was thrown full, worth at least 50 yuan, and those scholars were also happy when they got the paper, and some people who didn't have enough money hurriedly sent back the paper they had just bought, and went back to get the money again, and continued to come and buy it.

Soon, the entire store was full of scholars, and some businessmen saw that the business here was so good, and it was still selling paper, and it was so cheap, so they also came to see and buy a few to have a look, hoping to cooperate with Wei Hao.

"Cooperation, in two days, now it is only sold in Chang'an, if you want to sell it in other places, you can also, come here in two days to talk, now I don't have time!" Wei Hao sat there and said to the businessmen who came to inquire.

"Okay, okay, what do you call you?" When the merchants heard this, they asked with great joy.

"The surname is Wei!" Wei Hao opened his mouth and continued to stare at the money and threw it into his basket, which was already filled with three baskets, and it was still loaded, and I don't know how many people there were outside.

Wei Hao is quite happy at the moment, but he also has a little regret, why hasn't this Li Changle come yet, is something wrong with her, the key is that he doesn't even know where her house is, and he forgot to ask, what kind of prince is his father?

"Hey, it can't be an accident, if something happens, then it will be cheaper for me!" Wei Hao sat there, thinking with a little regret.

And at this moment, in Kong Yingda's mansion, Kong Yingda is already the doctor of the Tang Dynasty, and he is also the descendant of Kong Shengren, just now, the grandson of his own family, with the paper he bought, ran over excitedly, and said to Kong Yingda: "Azu, Azu, look, paper, such a good paper!" ”

"What?" Kong Yingda looked at his eldest grandson puzzled, not knowing why he was so excited.

"Look, Azu, look!" As he spoke, Kong Yingda spread the paper he bought on Kong Yingda's bookcase.

"It's... Is this paper? Where did you get such a beautiful piece of paper? It's no worse than rice paper! After Kong Yingda saw it, he also said very excitedly.

"Azu, it's sold here in Dongcheng, you can buy as many as you want, many people buy it over there, I just brought 100 yuan, and I bought it all, and now I still want that money to buy, buy more, five dollars a lot, just like that, you can copy a book! There are too many words, and I estimate that I can transcribe them in three sheets.

Azu, there are still so many bamboo slips at home, if we can buy enough paper, then those bamboo slips can be copied, so that they will not be lost! Kong Zhixuan said excitedly to Kong Yingda.

"I'll see, I'll see!" Kong Yingda took the brush and began to write, and found that it was very good, the ink was fast, but it was not transparent, and this kind of paper was quite good.

"Good paper, this is good paper!" Kong Yingda said excitedly.

"Yes, Azu, I'll go get the money, there are a lot of people over there now, it would be a pity if they were sold out!" Kong Zhixuan was also quite happy when he heard Kong Yingda say this.

"Go quickly, the old man will go too, go!" Kong Yingda said excitedly.

He still has a large number of bamboo slips at home, but because there is not enough paper, he has never copied them.

And as a doctor of the country, plus a baron, he can only get ten one-foot-square pieces of paper a month, where is enough, sometimes, in order to transcribe a book, he needs to save a few months of rice paper.

Soon, Kong Yingda took a carriage to Wei Hao's shop, and now it can be said that it is crowded with people, and there are a large number of carriages driving outside!

"Azu, let's come down, now this side is full of people, so we can only line up!" Kong Zhixuan said to Kong Yingda.

"You line up to buy it, and the old man goes up to take a look!" Kong Yingda said to Kong Zhixuan, he squeezed to the front, and finally got to the front, some people saw that he was old, and they didn't fight with him, so they let him go to the front.

"How much?" The subordinate looked at Kong Yingda and asked.

"Oh, really!" Kong Yingda was in a hurry and found that he had no money on him.

"Master, master here!" A subordinate in the back handed over a money bag, and now Kong Yingda also knows that the paper here is five cents a piece.

"Give me 20 first, and I'll count the money for you!" Kong Yingda stood there and had to count the money.

"You go to the side to count the money first, and then come over after you have counted it, don't stand in the way of the people behind, they have already counted the money!" When Wei Hao saw it, he said to Kong Yingda.

"It's okay, it's okay, the old man has counted 20 Wen, you can bring me 4 first!" Kong Yingda said and handed 20 yuan to the person in the store, and the person counted it for a moment and immediately handed over 4 pieces of paper.

After Kong Yingda got the paper, he immediately walked to the side.

And Wei Hao continues to watch here, today, there are 100,000 large pieces of paper in this store, but now, more than eighty percent have been sold, Wei Hao has asked people to load it, and now the business is so good, of course, it is necessary to sell more.

And Wei Hao looked at the people queuing outside, thinking that it was estimated that it would be possible to sell hundreds of thousands of copies today, and there were many people who went back to withdraw money, and they brought more money.

Now they are buying ten or twenty sheets, and even rich people are buying one hundred and two hundred sheets, Wei Hao is of course very happy to see these.

And after Kong Yingda went out, she was stopped by Kong Zhixuan.

"Azu, you got it? Why did you buy so many? Kong Zhixuan looked at Kong Yingda anxiously and said.

"You queue up to buy, the old man still has something to do, he wants to go to the palace, but you have to buy more!" Kong Yingda said to Kong Zhixuan as he walked.

Kong Zhixuan heard it, nodded his head, and then Kong Yingda ran into the palace.

At this moment, Li Lizhen is in a hurry, it is already very late, Li Shimin has not yet gone to the court, and he is still discussing something with those ministers, but he can't wait.

"Father-in-law, you go and urge my father, I still have important things to go out!" Li Lizhen said to Wang De.

"No, Your Highness, I just went to talk about it, and His Majesty glared at me, and now they are discussing a big matter!" Wang De said to Li Lizhi in embarrassment.

"This, oops, what can I do!" Li Li was anxious, thinking in her heart, she would definitely be complained about by that Wei Hanzi, such an important matter, she didn't go over, so she didn't despise him?

At this time, Kong Yingda came over.

"Dr. Kong? But is there something going on? Wang De saw that he was in a hurry, so he asked.

"It's a major matter related to the world's scholars, and the old man wants to urgently ask to see Your Majesty!" Kong Yingda stood up and said to Wang De.

Kong Yingda usually doesn't come to Ganlu Palace, unless Li Shimin summons him to come over to give a lecture, so now that Wang De heard him say this, he immediately asked Kong Yingda to wait a while, and he went in to report first.

After a while, Wang De came out and said to Kong Yingda: "Dr. Kong, Your Majesty, please go in!" ”

"Good, good!" Kong Yingda said, raised his legs and walked briskly inside.