The years flew by, and soon another year passed.

In the past year, several major events have occurred in the capital one after another.

First of all, the illegal salt case that shocked the government and the opposition, followed by the incident of Fu Wangqiang buying a literary newspaper, and then the impressive Wuxiang case.

A series of major events really made many ordinary people see the excitement.

In addition to the bad things, there are also good things that happen.

That is, the famous Zhenguo Mansion has married two daughters one after another, these two are the daughters of Zhenguo Gong, and when each of them is married, they can be described as ten miles of red makeup, envy of others.

The eldest lady of the Guogong Mansion is married to Qiu Yuchen, the second son of the eldest princess of Qingping, a typical child of a family.

The person married by the second lady of the Guogong Mansion is not a child of a family or an official family, but a person who no one can imagine.

That person turned out to be Mr. Chi Fei, a popular writer known to everyone, that is, Su Zhen, the owner of the Literary Newspaper.

After learning the news, many people, especially Mr. Chi Fei's book fans, were shocked and wrote to ask if the news was true or false.

Mr. Chi Fei admitted the news for the first time in the literary newspaper, and said that the incident did not affect his writing, and he would continue to serialize the story in the literary newspaper.

It's just that for many female readers who love Mr. Chi Fei, this news makes them very uncomfortable, and it feels like a bolt from the blue.

Of course, most book lovers are still very rational and tolerant, and they have written to congratulate Mr. Chi Fei on marrying a beautiful woman.

Mr. Chi Fei also expressed his gratitude to the book lovers for their congratulations in the literary newspaper.

This back and forth, many readers have slowly accepted this matter. After all, men should get married, women should get married, and it is normal for Mr. Chi Fei to marry a wife.

Although the status of the woman is a little higher, but a great writer like Mr. Chi Fei, there is no woman he is not worthy!

Many small and medium-sized businesses who realized it later began to be tempted after learning the news.

Although they also knew the grievances between King Fu and Mr. Chi Fei, King Fu was an idle prince with no duties and no power after all.

And Mr. Chi Fei's father-in-law, Zhen Guogong, is a high-powered military general, with him as a backer, the literary newspaper is as stable as Mount Tai.

For a time, more and more businesses went to the literary newspaper to negotiate, wanting to publish commercial advertisements in the literary newspaper again. On the other hand, there are more bookstore owners who want to resell literary newspapers in their stores.

In the sales map of the entire Beijing newspaper industry, the sales volume of literary newspapers has stabilized at an average of about 30,000 copies per issue; The Beijing News, which ranks second, has an average of about 26,000 copies per issue; In third place is the Zhenzhi Bao, which is the last, with an average of about 20,000 copies per issue.

These three newspapers basically share more than ninety percent of the readership in Beijing. Because of the variety, many people subscribe to three newspapers together.

This is still the sales volume in the capital, and the three newspapers have begun to sell it abroad.

Or it should be said that after the Beijing News and Zhenzhi Daily saw that the literary newspaper had made a Jiangnan edition of literature reimbursement to various places in the Jiangnan area, they also began to follow the example and sell their own newspapers to other places to increase overall sales.

Among them, of course, the first literary newspaper to do so did the best, selling an average of more than 70,000 copies per issue, more than double the Beijing edition of the literary newspaper.

However, it is also easy to understand that the Jiangnan area is vast and there are more literate people, so it is normal to sell better.

In the face of such a huge market, the original printing machines alone can no longer meet the needs, and Chi Fei can only continue to introduce new machines to expand production.

Today, there are twelve printing presses in operation in his printing shop. The workers in charge of printing and picking out the characters are all the children of the homeless people, and they are basically all up to scratch.

Chi Fei is not a stingy boss either, he pays these children according to their output.

The more you do, the more you get paid, and the more you work, the more you get, which is very fair.

Based on the current output, on average, each skilled child can get about ten taels of wages per month, and even if his hands and feet are slower, he can get about eight taels.

Even the four girls who were in charge of typesetting, Chi Fei also gave each of them a fixed salary of seven taels of silver per month.

Such a high salary makes it an absolutely unimaginable amount of money for these children who were still begging on the streets a year ago, struggling to make ends meet.

And the most important thing is not a lump sum, but every month, which makes them completely unbelievable that it is true.

Therefore, everyone worked hard like a chicken, and they didn't want to stop for a moment.

Chi Fei didn't want them to be tired at a young age, so he installed a gong in the factory. Tell Zhang Xiao'e to ring this gong every other hour, forcing everyone to stop and rest for a pillar of incense before they can continue to work.

At night, because of the poor lighting, overtime is minimized.

Because of the money in their hands, the children have become generous, and they have begun to buy themselves their favorite food or new clothes, and their lives are happy.

Chi Fei was afraid that they would be too young to be targeted by the gangsters outside, so he didn't dare to let them go out alone, and every time they went out in groups.

Although everyone's wages alone cost hundreds of taels of silver per month, it is only a drop in the bucket for Chi Fei, who is making money today.

The monthly revenue of a newspaper as large as the Literary Newspaper can indeed be said to be profitable, and even a profiteering product like soap cannot be compared.

What's more, after a year of market adjustment, the price of soap has finally inevitably fallen, and it has gradually fallen to the current price of one and a half taels per piece, and it is estimated that it will become a common daily necessities that ordinary people can afford in another year or two.

After marrying Ning Yazhi, Chi Fei naturally had to move from his small courtyard house to the new home in Sijin.

Although the house is not lived, this small courtyard house is the first property he bought, which is of great significance, so he does not plan to sell it, but only let Zhang Xiao'e and Da Niu come over regularly every month to clean and do some daily maintenance work.

Chi Fei also planned that if Zhang Xiao'e got married in the future, he would give her this small courtyard house as a dowry.

For this loyal and honest girl, Chi Fei will always take special care of her.

Chi Fei once asked Zhang Xiao'e and Da Niu if they wanted to stay, but they were all nervous that they would follow him, as if they were afraid that he would leave them behind.

Seeing that they really wanted to follow him, Chi Fei took them to his new home. It's just that the two of them usually come to the newspaper to help, mainly on the newspaper's side.

Recently, Chi Fei obviously felt that his father-in-law was very busy, often absent from the Guogong Mansion, and the atmosphere around him was also a little tense, and he could hear some unusual news about the border Hu people from time to time.

Perhaps, as my father-in-law said before, there may be another war in the northwest in the near future.

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