After Xiao Xuan returned to Nanjing, the original prosperous and leisurely place of the various factions and even the relatives of the emperor in Jiangdong naturally ceased to exist. Although there are many literati in Hangzhou City, there are also many "lower-class outliers" who are not their own people in this profession, and various newspapers and even non-governmental media have brought other ears and eyes to development, compared to Suzhou City, which has become the farthest place from the "control center", not only some projects that are inconvenient to operate at the feet of the Son of Heaven, such as brothels, casinos, etc., but also some third- and fourth-rate reading materials that are not elegant, and even auxiliary teaching materials for the assessment of the Central College are also flourishing.

Of course, because of the prosperity of non-mainstream books, some mainstream reference books have gradually increased, and some decent books on literature, science fiction, etc. have also begun to increase.

"The first volume of "Tiangong Kaiwu Chongzhen Eighth Year Supplemental Edition", do you have it here?" Wang An, who worked in the former military intelligence system, looked like a military upstart who came straight to the surface, and asked casually when he came to a book club.

"Hehe, I'm sorry, the eight-year supplement of "Tiangong" is a popular exam book, not an official book. Most of them were sold out this morning, and there are still some that we have to keep as a foundation. ”

"How much? The price is easy to say! Do you have any half-price books here? Wang An asked tentatively.

The bookseller saw that there was no one left and right, but he still seemed to be a little vigilant and asked: "The news of half-price books has been very tight recently, and it is no longer half price, and it has to be paid according to the full price." And you'll have to follow our guys on a trip tomorrow, maybe ... ”

Hearing this, Wang An said with some caution: "I'm still worried that you will kidnap me to be a slave laborer, no!" That's it. ”

As if remembering something, the bookseller continued, "How many editions do you want?" If it's a batch of more than 100 books, then tomorrow you can come to us with a truck full of old books... ”

"Why is that? Wang An asked a little puzzled... ”

"If something really happens, for example, if you don't pay much attention to faith and report to the official, then we can also say that you are framed, so that everyone is safer. As for the rest, you think too much. We are also well-known figures in the area outside Suzhou, and there are many places to operate, how can we do things that smash our own signboards? ”

In the end, Wang An seemed to hesitate for a long time before agreeing to meet in the way of a bookseller.

A day later, instead of waiting for Wang An and others who came to buy books, or even for people from the Suzhou government, a group of people holding Nanjing Xinjin Yiwei waist cards broke in with the armor of their portable firearms, which looked very sophisticated, and quickly tortured many pirated books through on-site torture.

Soon, through the confessions obtained through torture, at least five book clubs dealing in pirated books in the north of Suzhou were confiscated, and in the next few days, a total of more than 200 people were arrested in the entire Suzhou city, from the local officials to the lowest level of the three religions and nine streams, which made the rumor of cracking down on piracy in the entire city of Suzhou seem to be one step tighter.

Xiao Xuan probably arrived outside Suzhou by boat after a day and night, but when Xiao Xuan learned a lot about this area, he didn't feel any relief.

"The disadvantages of the old government service class are even greater, but after we had to undergo major operations a few years ago, in fact, all prefectures and counties are facing the problem of insufficient catch. . . ." Listen to the advice of some people around you. Xiao Xuan thought about it for a long time, and finally rejected his idea. In the past Hong Kong, in the former North America, how could the sheriff and the detective not be the same character as the boss of the underworld? With the development of industry and commerce and the increase of various interests, even the establishment of a new police mechanism may not significantly improve some of the situation in the current social environment compared with the past. However, it is actually more expensive to use a valuable military intelligence system and a central intelligence system with reliable core personnel to do such things, and it is also easy to breed corruption.

However, as long as there is a heart, there is always a way, although it is likely that there will be an extra burden on the finances, but Xiao Xuan feels that the financial cost of maintaining the dignity of the law is still drawn: "I heard that in the past, there was also a rule that was widely communicated to the outside world: if anyone reports illegal things, the whistleblower can get at least 30% to 50% of the benefits of illegal gains?" But why doesn't it work so much? ”

Wang An, who came to Xiao Xuan's side, also has some understanding of this because he is in charge of public security these days: "After all, pirated private books are not high-profit businesses such as counterfeiting money, operating casinos, smuggling and trading, and even if whistleblowers report awards, they often can't get enough wealth to settle down, but they have to risk the shame of the world." You must know that although there is a saying that righteousness destroys relatives, there is also a saying that relatives hide each other. Naturally, there are not too many people who take this risk for a gain of hundreds or even tens of taels...

Hearing this, Xiao Xuan couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and he was also thinking about how much effort should be spent to rectify this kind of thing. According to Xiao Xuan's understanding, the eighth year of Chongzhen is the year at the beginning of everything. Just the administrative expenses for the dissemination of official books, the rewards for the roadmap project, the improvement of the legal halls and even the prison administration, the expenses in the field of intelligence and the minimum cost of public security and armed forces, there is a cost of converting 100 million stone of grain a year. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, when many projects were rolled out, the cost was even greater. Although there is a steady stream of foreign wealth, the size of the treasury alone has reached fifteen million taels of gold and nearly 300 million taels of silver, but it is not a long-term solution to overdraft at least tens of millions of dollars every year. From treasury bonds to the gold and silver standard currency issuance, Xiao Xuan has done everything to make up for the financial deficit in this Dongfang, which does not seem to be too thick.

However, according to what I have learned, not only the piracy of the book market, but also the counterfeiting of many new trademark systems, counterfeiting and shoddy products that have gradually become popular in various commodity fields, etc., the huge benefits brought by these industries should not be able to disintegrate and form new rules and habits with an annual investment of several million taels of reward for reporting.

Therefore, Xiao Xuan had to think of the fields in the entire Jiangdong area, so he made up his mind, so he asked Wang An: "The central governor's district was originally in the south of the north of Zhejiang, and the medium fields with a perennial yield of about 200 catties of rice per mu, what is the approximate price of the fields?" If it is a private party, one party does not sell too much, and the other party does not spend too much cost to force it, and the year is still normal? ”

(End of chapter)