Huang Zunsu, a member of the Donglin Party, is now working with Zhou Yanru, Qian Qianyi and others to assist in government affairs in the Government Affairs Yuan, mainly in charge of the affairs of the pre-government department, that is, to select valuable reports from the reports from various places, and then put forward a foresight plan. Huang Zun has four brothers, and he himself has given birth to five sons, all of whom are extraordinary, which shows that he and his father have the same attitude towards their sons, that is, they are carefully cultivated and will never let them go. It costs a lot of money to raise some flowers and plants, and if you want to raise four or five sons well, you need more money, and even the landlord will become a poor peasant.

Huang Zunsu has not become a poor peasant, it can be seen that his family is still very wealthy, either ancestral blessings or his own wealth, such a person will be a little strange to have a lot of money. Unless it is a strange type of person, this kind of person is usually not very valued, and it is inevitable that he will feel a little lost, and he will come out to make some noises to prove his existence when he encounters something that is not pleasing to the eye. Huang Zunsu is one of the three masters of King Xin, and it is said that he will not be dissatisfied with the affairs of the Government Council, so he will find some fault in other matters to show his existence.

After listening to Gao Panlong's words, Tianqi asked: "At first, you Gao felt that he made a lot of money, and now I heard you say that Huang Zunsu also thinks that he makes a lot of money by running a newspaper, what is going on with the two of you?" Have you really reached the point where you treat money like dung? I always thought that such people only existed in legends, it turned out that I really had such a person in the Ming Dynasty, and it was the appearance of two or two as soon as it came out, which was really the blessing of my Ming Dynasty! Can you tell us what you think? ”

Gao Panlong said with a little embarrassment: "After reading Lord Huang Zunsu's letter, I feel that he has a point, King Xin and Lord Liu Zongzhou and Lord Liu are looking at how to reply to Lord Huang, and it is estimated that the results will be reported to the emperor in two days." Because the minister had just received the silver ticket from the big iron company, he didn't dare to delay too much, so he immediately came to see the emperor and asked the emperor to have an idea. First, the emperor is the major shareholder of the big iron company, and if you really want to reduce the profits of running a newspaper, the emperor will lose the most, and second, many people in the newspaper are people who only read the books of sages and sages, although they do not regard money as dung as the emperor said, but they still look down on money very lightly. ”

Apocalypse snorted and said, "Do you still know that I am the largest shareholder?" Although I don't treat money like dung, I'm not a money junkie who only thinks about money. I think that the imperial court had no money to repair the border walls, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were all rich but helpless, and in the end I came to be a villain, and copied many people's homes and deceived many people of their money to form a big iron company. Tell me about it, Mr. Gao, when the imperial court was short of money in the past few years, did the big iron company help a lot? Wouldn't it be better to keep the company running and thriving than to let it fade away? Will I run out of money in the future and let me go and be a wicked person to make a fortune? ”

Gao Panlong hurriedly said: "The minister doesn't dare, the minister means that the big iron company has used many people from all over the country this time, and the fifty-fifty share is indeed a loss, and the Donglin newspaper only needs some costs, and the emperor will take back the excess." ”

In this world, many partners in business will have conflicts in the end, which is what people often say that partnership business cannot do, the reason is that in the end, the money is uneven, and they all think that they do more and share less. Now Gao Panlong also feels that there is no equalization, but he doesn't think that they have less but that they have more, which is really strange and unreasonable.

Tianqi carefully examined Gao Panlong's eyes, and found that there was no false look in his eyes, only a holy light, and he sighed in his heart and said, "Does Lord Gao want the big iron company to become bigger and bigger?" ”

Gao Panlong said: "Of course the minister hopes so, if that is the case, not only will the emperor be happy, but the people of the various ministries will also be very happy, not only will they be able to borrow money if they have something to do in the future, but the officials of the various ministries will also be shareholders of the big iron company." ”

Tianqi nodded and said, "Then Lord Gao didn't think about making Donglin Newspaper bigger and stronger?" ”

"Make Donglin Newspaper bigger and stronger?" Gao Panlong was a little confused, and he asked, "What does the emperor mean that we want to become bigger and stronger?" Is it to make the newspaper go from one issue a month to several issues a month? ”

Tianqi shook his head and said: "Even if there are ten issues a month in Beijing, it is not as good as running a branch newspaper in various places. What I mean is that you can run newspapers all over the country, and what you need to run a newspaper in the whole country is not a small amount, but a large part of silver. In terms of the profit of this issue of the newspaper, it is not too much but too little, and do you pay the people who write the manuscripts for the manuscripts you publish? ”

"Manuscript fee?" Gao Panlong was puzzled again, he said: "Most of the articles published by Donglin Newspaper are written by officials of the DPRK and China, and they have already taken the money given to them by the imperial court, how can they still give them manuscript fees?" Besides, at the end of each manuscript, it is indicated who the author is, and writing it in the newspaper is to give them a name, which is a good thing, no one will disagree, how can there be a manuscript fee? ”

Tianqi laughed and said: "It seems that Lord Gao still doesn't understand it, fame is false, no matter how much it is promoted, it has no practical significance, what scholars really need is not fame but fame and fortune, don't Lord Gao know this truth?" Do you think that the article published this time was indeed written by the minister of the DPRK and China, but not all of them wrote it, and what was written and what was not written was the same, and that was unfair to those who worked hard to write the article, and in the long run, I am afraid that no one will write articles for the newspaper in the future, so how can the newspaper become bigger and stronger? ”

In fact, Gao Panlong also knew that the article was to pay for the pen, but it was only in private and not above the court, thinking that when those officials wrote tombstone inscriptions in the Song Dynasty, the family of the deceased had to give a large sum of money or cloth to thank them, and the situation in the Ming Dynasty was similar to that of paid services. Now that Tianqi has said it so clearly, Gao Panlong is embarrassed to continue to insist, after a few days of careful calculation, he also knows that the quality of the articles in the newspaper must keep up, otherwise no one will pay attention to it. This quality is inevitable and indispensable if it is to keep up with the reward, that is, as the apocalypse began to say, it is necessary to make people gain fame and fortune.

Gao Panlong said: "The emperor's meaning is understood, how should the emperor's remuneration be determined?" Is it given according to the rank of the official or according to the quality of the article? Or is it given by the number of words in the article? Although the minister has never done much business, he knows that everything is easy to say, and the only thing that is not easy to say is to divide the money, and whoever shares more and who shares less may cause disputes, which is why the minister was reluctant to pay the manuscript fee at the beginning. ”

Tianqi said: "How to give it is a matter of your newspaper, you go back and discuss it, I mean to keep a part of the money first, according to the number of words, to give people the manuscript fee so that no one says anything, and when the division is finished, I will ask for opinions in private and slowly correct it." Leaving a part of the money first means leaving room for money, even if there is something that is not done properly, there is money to make up for it, and you can also accumulate funds to set up branches across the country later. ”

Gao Panlong means to divide it all at once, as the saying goes, cut down the tree so as not to cry the eagle, and now when I heard the apocalypse say that I want to keep a part, I hurriedly excused myself and said: "The emperor must not be like this, as long as there is a reservation, there will be a problem, and when the time comes, something will go wrong, and the minister is full of mouths and can't tell, and ask the emperor to find another way." ”

Tianqi shook his head and smiled: "Master Gao is too careful, as long as you have a clear conscience, what are you afraid of what others say?" Well, then let Tan Jing keep it for you for the time being. ”

Gao Panlong was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately handed over all the silver tickets in his hand to Tan Jing, who came forward, and said: "This is a total of 22,000 taels given to me by my father-in-law yesterday, and now I will hand over a lot of money to my father-in-law, and when I will use it one day, I will call someone to pick it up." My father-in-law also worked hard for us to keep it, and we could charge a certain amount of storage fee as a reward at that time. ”

At the beginning, the big iron company was used by people from other places, such as Jinyiwei, Neiwei and people sent by shareholders from all over the country. Later, the business of the big iron company became more and more, even if only someone kept the accounts and reconciled the accounts was a laborious and annoying matter, so the apocalypse found a group of honest people in the Bo College to help calculate the accounts, and it was also a group of older regular employees of the big iron company. Even so, everything is still under the management of Tan Jing, but there are not as many small things as before.

Tan Jing secretly laughed in his heart that these scholars were fools, but he maintained a humble expression on his face, and said to Gao Panlong with a pair of big eyes that were not very clear: "Lord Gao is polite, I admire you adults are the pillars of the Ming Dynasty, and I will never dare to charge a penny for the storage fee." It's just that if you want to spend money, you have to talk about it a day in advance, and if you say it on the same day, I'm afraid I won't have time to pay you. ”

Gao Panlong felt good when he unloaded his burden, and hurriedly said: "I will definitely notify you in advance, and I will definitely not catch my father-in-law off guard." ”

After Gao Panlong left, Tan Jin opened his mouth to Tianqi but closed it again, and Tianqi asked: "If you have anything to say, there are no outsiders now." ”

Tan Jing said: "Your Majesty, do you think this scholar will become stupid if he reads too many books?" There is a money bank outside, why don't you know that it is stored in the money bank? More than 20,000 taels, even if the lowest profit is more than 200 taels a year, why didn't they think of this? ”

Tianqi shook his head and said, "You don't know, they are not stupid but cherish their reputation, if Master Gao really goes to save the silver in the bank, what is the difference between it and his own keeping?" You didn't hear him say that he would bring someone with him when he needed it, that is, he had to keep his distance from money. ”

Tan Jing said blankly: "Do they think this money is poisonous?" ”

Apocalypse said: "That's to cherish his reputation to prevent people from saying that he is greedy for money, if it is all his own, they will not save money slower than you." ”^-^^-^