After Yan Heng left Ouyang Mansion, he first went to his Wenqu study.

However, what Yan Heng didn't expect was that there was also a bookstore opposite Wenqu Study, called Wuren Bookstore.

Moreover, this bookstore is also blatantly selling "Preparing for the County Exam: Thirty Selected Current Texts", and the price is even five dollars lower than the genuine version of Wenqu Study.

In other words, this Wuren bookstore not only pirated the books of its own Wenqu study, but also deliberately lowered the price, and even opened it opposite its own Wenqu study to seize the flow of people in its study.

There is no doubt that this is simply vicious competition!

"Childe, you can't let this Wuren bookstore go on like this, it's only been a few days, and the number of books sold in our study every day has dropped by half, if it goes on like this, the study can only be closed temporarily."

Even Xu Deming was a little anxious, he was now the shopkeeper of Wenqu Study, and he had a commission in addition to the honorarium a month, so he hated these disgusting and competitive bookstores more than Yan Heng.

However, Yan Heng said to Xu Deming without hurry: "Don't worry, you take my post to the torture room to meet with Scribe Lu, and tell him about the Wuren Bookstore, and the money earned by the Wuren Bookstore will go to us soon." ”

Xu Deming had no choice but to comply, and at the same time muttered in his heart that Gongzi was just a Confucian boy, could he command the people of the county government?

"This shopkeeper, dare to ask how much your house sold today?"

Yan Heng took the initiative to come to this Wuren bookstore, and saw a gorgeously dressed middle-aged man fiddling with his abacus in the shop, so he guessed that this person should be the boss, so he took the initiative to ask.

"It's not much, it's only one hundred and thirty taels," the boss said casually.

Yan Heng couldn't help but smack his tongue and said: "More than one hundred and twenty taels, then you are finished, if you are hanged one day, don't blame me if you go to the underworld!" ”

The boss couldn't help but be furious when he heard Yan Heng say this, but because Yan Heng rarely appeared in front of Wenqu Study, when he looked up, he thought that this outrageous Yan Heng was here to buy books, so he hurriedly asked: "This son wants to buy 30 articles of "Preparing for the County Test: Selected Times" in this store?" ”

"I'd better go and buy it on the other side", Yan Heng said tentatively and was about to turn around and walk away, but the boss grabbed him:

"This boy doesn't have to go to their house to buy it, because what we sell is the same as what they sell, and ours is five cents cheaper," said the proprietor with a sinister eyebrow.

"In addition, I'll give you an explanation, this store is about to be forced by me to be unable to open, you go to buy the opposite one now, I'm afraid that when the time comes, I won't find anyone to complain if the content is wrong."

As the man was talking, a group of officials rushed over, and one by one appeared in front of the boss with knives: "Who is Boss Ye!" ”

Yan Heng directly mended the knife and pointed at Boss Ye who was trying to escape: "He is." ”

"Take it", after the head of the first official shouted, two officials came up and handcuffed Boss Ye.

Boss Ye was stunned, but saw that other officials had already rushed in, and opened to confiscate the assets of his bookstore, and finally put a seal.

At this time, Boss Ye knew that his bookstore was banned because he was suspected of embezzling the copyright of Wenqu Study, and he himself would be punished for theft.

Because Xiong Xiu, the magistrate of the county, had already made it clear that stealing and selling the compiler's book was a crime of theft, so this Boss Ye was quickly sentenced to hanging.

The officers and soldiers of the county government were also active, not only copying Wuren Bookstore, but also copying several other bookstores that pirated Wenqu Study.

The owners of these bookstores cried out for their injustice, because they never realized that this would anger the government.

Some booksellers who simply changed the title of the book, but the content was almost the same, couldn't help but be secretly glad that they had escaped.

As a result, booksellers in Fenyi County began to tacitly stop compiling the same books directly with the titles of other books.

Daming's copyright protection has finally taken the first step.

Zhixian Xiong Xiu is a very reasonable and good official, in addition to collecting part of the silver taels obtained from the seizure as fire consumption, most of the raids totaling more than 300 taels were given to the Wenqu study, as a compensation for the Wenqu study.

As a result, Yan Heng found that his Yan family's silver deposit had reached 1,000 taels of silver, and his family's land had also been redeemed.

Today, the total assets of the whole family have reached more than 2,000 taels, and with the purchasing power of this era, owning this wealth in modern times is equivalent to a millionaire, and the whole family can live a comfortable life.

But in Yan Heng's view, he naturally wants his Yan family and himself to gain more wealth and live the most corrupt life.

Therefore, Yan Heng felt that it was better to earn more money by relying on Wenqu Study or even more ways.

Yan Heng also persuaded his father to insist on teaching in social studies, after all, he could be regarded as having a little income and could cultivate one or two geniuses who had a teacher-student relationship with him.

But his father has been complaining about back pain these days, and Yan Heng can't force Yan Zhun to go to social studies, after all, Yan Zhun is his father.

With the gradual strengthening of the crackdown on copyright theft, the traffic of Wenqu Study has increased again, and the sales of "Preparing for the County Test: Thirty Selected Essays" have also rebounded.

However, Yan Heng did not want Wenqu Study to make money only by selling "Preparing for the County Exam: Thirty Selected Times Texts", because he also knew that this kind of teaching and auxiliary materials could only make quick money for a while, and Wenqu Study had to make guests who entered the store feel surprised and couldn't help but want to buy it at any time.

In order to attract readers to pay money willingly, Yan Heng specially edited many book collections, including ten must-read classics for Mengtong, ten must-have selected books for the imperial examination, and so on.

The Four Books and the Five Classics, as well as other subsets of scriptures and histories, which were originally public copyrights, were also compiled into volumes by Yan Heng.

In this way, it stimulates the readers to consume, after all, they will naturally want to memorize these books and indeed become talents.

For example, books such as "Xie Yuanlang's Recommended Examination Book List of Five Books" have also been widely disseminated.

Ouyang Jin has already gone to Guixi, Xinyu, Yichun and other places, although Xiong Xiu, the magistrate of Fenyi County, refused to cooperate with Wenqu Shuzhai and formed a monopoly on exam tutoring, but it does not mean that the government in other places will not see the money.

During this period, Yan Heng decided to expand the team of Wenqu Study.

After all, once Ouyang Jin asked Wenqu Shuzhai to establish cooperation with the officials of these county governments, Wenqu Shuzhai would have to go to these places to open sub-bureaus, and to open sub-bureaus, more capable people would have to be recruited to take charge of sub-bureaus.

Not only does it take more people to open a branch, but even the current Wenqu Study itself is still poor, after all, the printing volume of Wenqu Study is limited, and more people are urgently needed to improve productivity, in addition, Yan Heng feels that he still lacks a bookkeeper, after all, he can't manage these accounts in detail.