Liang Yuesong was stopped by the middle-aged man, and after several setbacks, he had no self-confidence. He asked the middle-aged man rhetorically: "How do you think the price is right?" ”

The middle-aged man said: "With such a wonderful story in the book, these manuscripts are printed into books, and it is not much to sell for one tael of silver." ”

Liang Yuesong heard that he could sell it for one or two silver, which was far beyond his expectations, and his heart suddenly blossomed. Then he began to calculate how much silver he would get.

At this time, the middle-aged man began to ask: "The contemptible Xin Benzhang is the owner of this bookstore. Dare to ask Childe's name? Where do you live? ”

"My surname is Liang Yuesong, the word is Chaozhi, and the current Zhizhou is my father." Liang Yuesong saw that there was a drama in this business, so he no longer hid it.

Xin Benzhang was surprised when he heard that this person was the son of the current Zhizhou family: "Oh, the villain doesn't know that your son is the son of Lord Zhizhou." Disrespectful, disrespectful! ”

Xin Benzhang was even more attentive at this time, and hurriedly invited Liang Yuesong to the back house to sit down and talk in detail. After the guests and hosts sat down, Xin Benzhang offered a plan: "Small talk books are generally 100 pages into a volume, one volume has 20,000 words, I think Liang Gongzi's manuscript is about 100,000 words, which can be bound into five volumes. Each volume is priced at three cents, which is guaranteed to sell well. ”

"Okay, just listen to Boss Xin." Liang Yuesong said briskly: "However, I can't sign my real name, and you can't reveal the real author of this book." ”

"Okay, that's fine. Since ancient times, most of the literati have been like this, and they have signed it as February Song. But the villain also has a request, can I print and publish this book exclusively? You don't want to find a second company to work with, can you? Xin Benzhang cautiously probed.

"Do you want to print it exclusively? I want this book to be sold by Quan Daming? Liang Yuesong said with some contempt.

"Liang Gongzi can rest assured, our industry has its own way of doing this. In less than two months, I guarantee that both the north and the south will know about this book and can buy it. Xin Benzhang said in a confident tone, for fear that the other party would not agree, and then said: "According to what you said, the profit is three or seven points, you are seven and I are three, and I will send the silver ticket to the door every month." Liang Gongzi writes 100,000 words of manuscripts every month, and we can easily publish them on time. ”

"Okay, that's it, let's sign a contract." Liang Yuesong said happily.

An hour later, Liang Yuesong happily returned home with the contract and the scholar. When he arrived, he repeatedly instructed Qin Bao: "I can't say anything about my writing of a book, including the old lady." Got it? ”

"Yes, yes! The little one doesn't say anything. Qin Bao agreed.

Liang Yuesong was still not at ease, so he threatened: "If I let me know the news leaked from you, I will sell you to Qinglou as a turtle father!" ”

"Don't, the little one has followed the young master since twelve, and it's been three or four years. Young master, are you willing to do it? Qin Bao said a little haughtily. Qin Bao is two or three years younger than him, he has followed him since he was a child, specially serving Liang Yuesong to study, and has been getting along very well until now. The young master has been helping him hide the book for so many days.

"If you say it, you see that Young Master Ben is reluctant!" As he spoke, Liang Yuesong was about to raise his hand to hit him.

Qin Bao hurriedly ran into the gate of the state government, and the two entered the back hall in such a fight, and Mrs. Liang saw the two of them coming back happily, so she asked Liang Yuesong: "Are you back so early?" Where did it go? ”

Liang Yuesong heard her mother say this, and thought to herself, Mom still thinks I'm coming back early? I knew I would play more outside. It seems that as long as I stay in the study honestly, my parents will not be so strict.

So he said obediently again: "Mother, we didn't go anywhere, so we went to a few bookstores and bought two books. ”

After speaking, he took out the two books he had prepared in advance and raised them. Then he went into his study.

Mrs. Liang looked at his back and smiled with satisfaction.

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At the same time, Zhuang Wenxuan came to the state yanei hall by appointment, and Liang Wensheng took an official document and said with a smile: "Wenxuan, the approval of the ministry is here." Zhang Tongzhi Zhishi, the position of Tongzhi will be taken over by you. You see, this is your letter of appointment. ”

Zhuang Wenxuan happily took the letter of appointment, a stone fell to the ground in his heart, so many years of hard work was not in vain, and finally promoted five levels in a row, from a nine-rank official to a sixth-grade Tongzhi, this is simply a step to the sky. He thanked Liang Wensheng again: "Thank you for your cultivation, and your lower officials will do their best to repay your kindness." ”

Liang Wensheng smiled and said to Zhuang Wenxuan: "Needless to say, I don't need to say thank you, your smooth promotion this time is also the result of your efforts over the years." I asked you to come here today because I have something to discuss with you. ”

"Your Excellency, please speak." Zhuang Wenxuan said respectfully.

Liang Wensheng continued: "Now the victims have been resettled, the cement workshop has started production smoothly, and the official road from the state city to the cross road has also begun to be built. Our state has a stable food supply and sufficient finances. Everything is on track. Only the three bandits in the territory are still a great problem for the people, and it is necessary to mobilize soldiers to exterminate them. Do you have a good plan for this bandit? ”

"The three bandits in our state, because of the serious disaster this year, many victims took risks and went up the mountain to become bandits in order to survive. Therefore, there is a great tendency to intensify the situation, and now that the state has sufficient money and food, and all government affairs have been properly resolved, it is a good time to solve the problem of banditry. ”

"Xiaguan thinks that it can be easy first and then difficult, first eliminate the dozens of bandits in Longshan, which is closest to the state city, and then clear out the bandits in Dongguan in the north. Zhuang Wenxuan is not good at suppressing bandits, he can only talk in generalities, he knows that since Lord Zhizhou asked, he must have a plan in his heart.

"Well, you're talking about a safe approach. But according to the people I sent out, these three thieves have been in frequent contact lately, and they seem to be planning some kind of action. My fear is that they will all gather on the Maqi Mountain, and it will be difficult to get rid of them at that time. Liang Wensheng regretted a little in his heart that he didn't make a surprise attack just after taking office and exterminate these bandits one by one.

"In this case, the top priority is to prevent them from gathering and send troops to eliminate them as soon as possible." Zhuang Wenxuan was shocked when he heard what Lord Liang said, he thought for a while and said: "The only thing that can be mobilized in our state is the three hundred soldiers of the Inspection Division, but the Inspection Department is only the archers of the local peasants, and they can be of great use against ordinary thieves. ”

Liang Wensheng thought to himself that since he took office, Yao Shouning of the Inspection Department has never taken the initiative to report except for the platoon to report here. I don't know much about this person, and whether it can help him suppress bandits can only be contacted a few times, and it can only be determined after observation.

Sending Zhuang Wenxuan away, he asked the miscellaneous servants to invite the inspection department to inspect Yao Shouning. Yao Shouning is in his thirties, with a slightly fat figure, fair and clean skin, a pair of triangular eyes, and no beard under the chin. No matter how you look at it, you don't look like a person who can lead troops to fight, and you can't help but feel a little disappointed in your heart.

He briefly explained to him the situation of the three bandits, and asked him to gather soldiers and lead them to Longshan as soon as possible to suppress the bandits.

Yao Shouning heard that Lord Zhizhou had sent him to suppress the bandits, and there was a wail in his heart. He has hardly been out of the city in these years, and it is a little difficult to get on the horse. Let him lead the troops to suppress the bandits, to fight those outlaws, he simply does not have the courage. The eyeballs in his small triangular eyes rolled wildly, and he came up with an idea: "My lord, now the troops of the Inspection Department are scattered in various passes and checkpoints, and they also have to guard the safety of all yamen in the city. There are less than 100 troops that can be mobilized, and there are sixty or seventy thieves in Longshan, and there are cottages as obstacles, so I am afraid it will be difficult to clear them. The lord did not ask the provincial capital to send soldiers from the nearby guards to eliminate the bandits in one fell swoop. ”

Liang Wensheng couldn't help but be furious: "Just because there are sixty or seventy bandits, you ask the provincial capital to send troops?" Are you embarrassed to say it? ”

Yao Shouning suddenly resigned, and said again and again: "The lower officials are incompetent, the lower officials are incompetent!" ”

Liang Wensheng looked at his cowardly appearance, and knew that he could no longer be expected to command the bandits, so he could only order: "From today onwards, you will immediately send troops to set up checkpoints on the traffic arteries around Maqi Mountain, strictly check passers-by, and prevent the other two bandits from entering Ma Qi Mountain." ”

Yao Shouning heard that he didn't need to suppress the bandits, but just set up a card to check passers-by, and he was immediately overjoyed, and his face smiled like a bun full of folds. This is a good way to make a fortune, so he hurriedly said: "The lower officials obey the order, and I will immediately send someone to set up a card." ”

After sending Yao Shouning away, Liang Wensheng fell into deep thought, and Yao Shouning was an official who was waiting for death. This kind of person has no enterprising spirit, no sense of responsibility, greedy for life and afraid of death, if you want him to lead troops to suppress bandits, it is better to kill him. However, he has no right to remove him, and if he wants to be replaced, he must be reported to the Ministry of War, and only the Ministry of War has the right to remove him. Now it is impossible to count on the less than 300 soldiers of the Inspection Department to suppress the bandits.

However, the only military unit in the state that has been formed is the inspection department, and other government officials cannot be counted on. Could it be that in order to exterminate the bandits with less than 200 people, they really want to ask the provincial capital and the Yamen to send troops? At that time, the Ministry of Officials sent him to govern Juzhou, just because of his meritorious service in suppressing bandits in Yanjin, and now he has just taken office and asked the Dusi Yamen to send troops, and he can't save face no matter what. He didn't want to, let alone pull down, to ask the Dusi Yamen, which was a great loss to his official reputation. He cherished his feathers very much, and how could he damage his official reputation because of this.

Since you can't ask the Yamen of the Metropolitan Division to send troops, and you can't count on the Inspection Division, the only people left are the officials and the people. Since he took office, he has supervised the approval of 1,000 Ding Zhuang in the military room. But it has only been more than two months now, and it is easy to imagine how the training is, and even some places have not yet been formed.

Liang Wensheng was in a dilemma because of the suppression of bandits, and he pondered for a long time how to get rid of these bandits, but he did not come up with a feasible plan.

In the days when Liang Wensheng was racking his brains to suppress the bandits, several leaders of the three bandits were also plotting for the joint army......