Chapter 277: The Emperor is coming
Huang Sheng miscalculated, the printing cost in this era was too high, the cost price of a comic book was 400 wen, and the Huang family supplied the Jingshi bookseller at the cost price, and the selling price was limited to 500 wen. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Because I didn't know how much I could sell, I didn't print more, only 30,000 copies, 10,000 copies were left for free, and 20,000 copies were sold out in three days in major bookstores in Beijing.
Although it doesn't make money, it won't lose money if it's reprinted, and you can still earn a little labor fee, the key is that this is spiritual food, and it's a weapon against Jiannu, and you have to do it at a loss! Therefore, Huang Sheng still notified Huangjiawan Island to print at full capacity.
Huang Sheng is not afraid of piracy, because there is no profit here, and his team is careful to budget or mass production, and it is barely possible to maintain a small profit.
Do piracy? Don't they want to be rigid? They don't have the Huang family's movable type printing technology, the cost is higher, and they don't have the Huang family's all-wood pulp paper, and the quality cannot be guaranteed.
In the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, entered the palace to visit the imperial brother, Zhu Youxiao felt that his body could still hold on today, and took the initiative to ask about the plot of the 'Blood and Fire Liaodong' drama.
Of course, King Xin likes to tell stories to the emperor's brother, this story is so attractive that the emperor can't help it, and finally the two brothers decide to go to the Wang Gongchang Grand Theater to watch a play together.
The nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian, who has been serving in front of the emperor, also supports it, anyway, in the inner city, it is harmless, and it is estimated that Yanguan Yushi will also shut up, because this drama is a positive work that inspires thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty to fight against Jiannu, and it is not a plaything.
At this time, Lord Gao Di personally sent a recital, and there were actually many imperial histories and six branches to give the middle of the matter, and everyone suggested that the Holy Son of Heaven go to watch the 'Blood and Fire Liaodong' drama.
Pavilion Elder Gao Di saw that it was a transcript that was beneficial to his own person, Lord Huang Sheng, and of course he refused to delay for a moment, and let it appear in the Dragon Book case as soon as possible.
It turns out that the grades of these imperial histories and things are too low, and it was their turn to watch the play in vain just yesterday. Their duty is to be the official of admonition and the official of picketing, and this kind of good show is better than the 10,000-word admonition signed by hundreds of officials!
The Son of Heaven watched the play and was educated, maybe he didn't know if he would change his mind and make great efforts!
Emperor Apocalypse rarely felt happy, he had never wanted to do something to be widely supported by civil and military officials, and today he wanted to watch a play, and the ministers actually came first to suggest him go, it was so interesting.
King Xin immediately ran errands to find a talented man to arrange the pick-up matter, originally he thought that Lord Huang would be flattered and disperse the idle people to receive the royal brother.
Who knew that this talented man welcomed him very warmly, and proposed to invite His Majesty the Emperor to have fun with the people, it is best to follow lightly, and the best boxes of the Grand Theater are all reserved for the royal family, as for how to arrange it, please ask the emperor to watch it.
Wang Chengen Khan, who followed, all came down, and he already liked this Lord Huang who respected him very much, and he was afraid that he would lose his monarch's heart when he treated the emperor's favor like this.
Huang Sheng saw that Zhu Youzhen was unhappy, and still smiled and said: "King Xin doesn't know, watching a play pays attention to the atmosphere, and the atmosphere will infect each other, since the saint chooses to come to the Grand Theater to watch the play, as a courtier, he should give the saint the best interpretation and create the best atmosphere." ”
Zhu Youzhen did not say whether he was thinking about it. Huang Sheng said again: "King Xin doesn't need to be embarrassed, you can go back and ask for the Shengshang to make a decision, the Huang family can arrange to perform for the Shengshang alone in the afternoon, and the Shengshang can also come to watch with the people in the evening." ”
The scheming Zhu Youzhen was really stunned, and he decided to go back and inform the imperial brother to listen to his arrangement.
After listening to the music with the people, the Emperor of the Apocalypse immediately said that he didn't need to perform specifically for himself, and he wanted to see with his own eyes whether it was true that the audience who watched the play cried bitterly.
Lord Huang Sheng doesn't have the consciousness of a monarch and a minister, the tickets for the night are sold out, and the emperor can't be chartered anyway, why should he?
Lao Tzu doesn't owe him the Zhu family! He didn't spend money on movie tickets. How can you lose your trust in others, then everyone who spends money to buy a movie ticket should be respected, they are customers and financiers, how can they casually let them go home.
Therefore, Huang Sheng was only willing to promise King Xin to give three boxes in the evening, and it was okay to charter the venue, and open a special one in the afternoon for the emperor to pack.
If the Emperor of the Apocalypse chooses to come to the box to watch the play at night, Huang Sheng will deal with it relatively simply, because the officials who have been arranged in the three boxes are all entertainers, and everyone has a record.
As long as you go to say hello in advance and inform them that the Grand Theater is not convenient to receive today, the Huang family will use these three boxes to receive King Xin, and invite them on another day.
It is estimated that there is no one who does not understand and dares to fight with King Xin, and the Huang family has no obligation to invite them, and now it is not that they are not invited to watch the play, but they are just invited to another day, and no one should be embarrassed.
King Xin returned, and he told Huang Sheng that the imperial brother had decided to come to the box to watch the play from the evening with the people, and had notified the British public to arrange a vigilance.
Gonggong Wei also notified Dongchang and Jinyiwei to start an open investigation and covert visits to the idle people in the new area of Wanggongchang.
Huang Sheng was not afraid that the emperor would have an accident on his own territory, the three boxes were designed to receive distinguished guests, as long as the special entrance on the second floor was guarded, no one could rush in.
Seeing that King Xin was very serious, Huang Sheng had no choice but to take him to take a good look at the terrain, and explained the structure here, telling King Xin that as long as he arranged the guards to guard which positions, he could unconsciously arrange a net of heaven and earth.
Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied, and went back to the palace to resume his life, and in the evening he personally accompanied the imperial brother to come, leaving Wang Chengen and his personal guards to participate in the security work.
Huang Sheng saw that it was still early, it was only afternoon, and there were still more than two hours before he left the performance, so he invited Wang Chengen and all the guards to drink, of course, the wine was limited in supply, and there was a task to protect the emperor at night and no one was allowed to drink high.
Huang Sheng also quickly called Zhang Zhiji, Gao Zhimou and Sun Yuanhua to accompany the little eunuch Wang Chengen to drink, and all the guards naturally had Liu Guozheng and his own soldiers to greet him.
There are no outsiders, they are all good friends, Huang Sheng was very open at the banquet, he was talking nonsense, he didn't treat Wang Chengen as an outsider, he was very polite to the little eunuch, and he talked and laughed with him very equally.
Zhang Zhiji, Sun Yuanhua looked at them very close, it seemed that Huang Sheng really liked this little eunuch, could he be as good as Long Yang?
Gao Zhimou was a Beijing official in the Beijing Division, and he knew that today's eunuchs could not be offended, so he joked casually: "Lord Huang likes Wang Xiaogonggong so much, how about thinking of him as a younger brother?" ”
This obviously touched the heartstrings of the great talent, and Huang Sheng took a big sip of wine and suddenly felt sad.
Yang Tian sighed: "Alas! I think that dozens of members of my Huang family died under the iron hooves of Jiannu, and my little sister died of illness on the way to escape, if she was alive, she would be ten years old. ”