When I arrived in Xicang Kingdom, I inquired and found out that there were twenty bookstores in Xicang Kingdom that were specialized stores for the books I bought from Chu State this time, and now, the price of books is two taels of silver a book, because it is much cheaper than the normal price, so there are many people who buy it every day.

What Qin Ming has to do is to find the account books in these twenty bookstores and see how much they have sold, and how much they still have.

If the total number of books in the ledger exceeds 10 million, then the evidence is very obvious, it must be done by Xicangguo.

Xicang Kingdom robbed five million copies, and the thief shouted to catch the thief, so that the target suspect became the Jin Kingdom, and Xicang Kingdom itself bought 10 million copies, so it was difficult to find out if there were five million more copies, so it could also be sold on a large scale.

In this way, it is almost impossible for anyone to suspect Xicang Guo himself.

But in fact, they took a big advantage.

Although Qin Ming doesn't lose anything, it's about face, aside from the task of the system, he, Qin Ming, is also a face-saving person, how can he tolerate Xicang Kingdom to take advantage of such a design?

So, Qin Ming found an inn to live in, and planned to go to these bookstores every night to investigate the situation of the project.

At the same time, he also heard some news, it turned out that the emperor of the Western Cangguo Kingdom and the three major families were really fighting in full swing.

With a large number of books sold cheaply, so that everyone in the world has books to read, and after weakening the family's monopoly on knowledge, the emperor of the Xicang Kingdom has the upper hand, and from time to time he kills some people from the family on some charges or assassinations.

In this regard, at first, the ministers of the court and China were very opposed to the emperor of the Western Cangguo.

But now, a large number of books are circulating among the people, and in the near future, groups of intellectuals will rise, and the emperor is not worried that the court will run out of talents, so he doesn't care about these ministers who are originally very rare and important.

Because once there are more literati, these ministers can be completely replaced!

As a result, these ministers also understood that it was still time for everyone to put themselves in danger.

This is a choice to continue to inherit the love of the family and go against the emperor, and if you don't do it, you won't have to do it in the future.

Therefore, in this case, many ministers still chose to protect themselves, no longer rebelled against the emperor because of the survival of the family, and even stopped helping the family.

There is no way, with a large number of books and a large number of literati, the imperial court will not rely on the family in the future, and the family will not be finished?

Aren't the four great families of the Chu State an example?

Therefore, with the example of Qin Ming of Chu State, most people are already not optimistic about the family, so the family has no support from most of them, which also accelerates its decline.

Of course, all this didn't matter to Qin Ming.

At night, Qin Ming went through the account books one by one according to the location of the eight imperial court bookstores in his memory.

The first one, the account book has been recorded for half a month, echoing the time after the first Chu State was shipped to the Xicang State.

More than 10,000 books are sold every day, and it seems that there are many people in Xicangguo who want to read.

In ten days, a total of 200,000 books were sold.

Then Qin Ming looked for other account books and found that the store still had 300,000 copies in stock.

In other words, the store sold a total of 500,000 copies.

Qin Ming frowned, and after leaving this bookstore, he immediately went to a dozen other bookstores, and waited until dawn before he finished browsing all twenty bookstores.

It's basically the same as the first bookstore, with a difference between the sales and the inventory, but the total sales and inventory of each store are 500,000 copies.

Twenty stores, that is, just 10 million copies.

This is exactly the same as the number of orders in Xicangguo, almost no more, no less.

This made Qin Ming a little suspicious, could it be that there were no thieves in the Xicang Kingdom shouting to catch thieves? Didn't they rob the books?

However, the Jin State obviously didn't have it, otherwise the emperor of the Jin State wouldn't have spoken out in the face of death? Impossible.

The only way is for Qin Ming to continue to wait, wait for the twenty bookstores to continue selling books, and wait for them to sell out, to see if there will be any more printed books.

If there is, then a real hammer.

If not, Qin Ming really can't find it, then he is really confused.

Back at the inn and resting until noon, Qin Ming got up to eat this time.

To be honest, it's much easier to be outside than in the palace.

He doesn't have to worry about state affairs every day outside, and he doesn't have to think too much, as long as he doesn't hear about anything big happening in Chu State, he has nothing to worry about.

You can eat, drink, and rest as you do now.

After dinner, I had nothing to do and walked around the streets, firstly because I was bored, and secondly, I also wanted to see if there was any place in Xicang Country where Chu could study.

Facts have proved that there is nothing worth learning, in terms of the quality of life of the people, because of the development of agriculture, industry and commerce, the quality of life of Chu State has been very high, even more than that of Xicang State.

And for the next nearly half a month, Qin Ming stayed so leisurely, although sometimes he was a little bored, but he was really relaxed.

Half a month later, Qin Ming went to check the account books of twenty bookstores again, and found that their books were basically sold out.

However, what made Qin Ming's brows frown was that in the inventory books, almost all of the twenty stores had about 200,000 more books.

That's nearly five million books.

Nearly 10 million copies have been sold, and now there are nearly 5 million more, and Xicang Kingdom has only bought 10 million copies in Chu State, where did the extra 5 million copies come from?

"The truth, is it finally clear......" Qin Ming's eyes narrowed slightly, with murderous aura in his eyes.

He put away the ledger, these were all evidence, evidence that he questioned the Emperor of the Western Cangguo.

After putting away the twenty ledgers, Qin Ming left the bookstore, returned to the inn, and cleaned up.

Early the next morning, he took the account book and went directly to the palace of Xicang Kingdom.

In the palace of the Western Cangguo, in the early dynasty, the head of the household was in a hurry and said to the emperor of the Western Cangguo:

"Your Majesty, among the twenty bookstores under the name of the Ministry of Households, which are responsible for selling printed books this time, all of them have lost their account books."

Emperor Xicangguo's face changed: "How come?" ”

"Your Majesty, this is definitely not a coincidence, I'm afraid, someone suspected us, so they stole these account books, and we printed five million more books, I'm afraid it has already been known."

After Hubu Shangshu finished speaking, the emperor of Xicang State snorted: "Could it be someone from Chu State?" This Chu State, it's really not easy to fool......"

"So what are we going to do now?" Tobe Shangshu asked.

Emperor Xicang said: "Check, we must arrest the person who stole the account books, and we must not let these account books fall into the hands of Qin Ming, the emperor of Chu State, otherwise, it will be over." ”

However, at this moment, outside the main hall, Qin Ming was surrounded by a group of Praetorian Guards and approached the main hall, and at the same time he spoke loudly:

"It's a pity, Lao Tzu already knows!"

(End of chapter)