Chapter 12 Remuneration
Li Zhe came out of the Mengzhou Daily office sweating profusely, still a little uneasy in his heart, he never thought that just publishing a novel to earn some manuscript fees, he could make such a big trouble, and he could get together with these people.
To tell the truth, Li Zhe really admires people like Fang Jueyuan, and the so-called avant-garde revolutionaries in later generations are estimated to be this kind of people.
The current situation of the society of the Great Song Dynasty looks like a bloom on the surface, but in fact it is also an undercurrent, which is a natural law, and it is not without reason that the Age of Exploration can be opened up in the hands of the court of the Great Song Dynasty.
At that time, under the strong pressure of the Meng Yuan, the Great Song Dynasty had to carry out a considerable degree of reform, liberate the productive forces, and establish a loose political system that could adapt to the Age of Discovery. The bourgeoisie, mainly maritime merchants, and the feudal lords, represented by the lords of large estates, formed the main strata of the empire.
In the Great Song Dynasty, the sea merchants were angry at the handicraft owners, the handicraft owners were angry at the manor owners, and the manor owners were against those maritime merchants, and there was no stop all day long, and there were always various struggles in the court, and the party struggle between the government and the opposition continued, which almost became the characteristics of the Song Dynasty.
This Song Dynasty is probably the most unspeakable dynasty in all Chinese dynasties, and the literati of the Great Song Dynasty are all frightened to the extent that they are frightened, and the sense of responsibility in each era is bursting, and everyone wants to ask for the people's lives! This Fang Jueyuan is also like this, he has made a lot of publicity under King An's nose, pulling gangs and inviting gangs, and engaging in any kind of hypocrisy reform, everyone treats himself as a saint in the world, and he wants to pursue the so-called prosperous era of Datong.
Do you really think that the sword in the hand of King Naan does not kill?
Compared with such a Song people, Li Zheke is much more cowardly, and the experience of later generations tells him that the revolution of any era is extremely dangerous, and it is impossible to be as harmonious as imagined.
Too naΓ―ve!
The so-called revolution is bound to bleed!
Moreover, in this life, he himself was a nobleman, and had nothing to do with those early capitalists and maritime merchants, and according to the words of later generations, he himself was also a member of the bourgeois revolution that was about to be revolutionized, and he was full of food to carry out some revolution. Therefore, no matter how much Ren Fang Jueyuan coerced and lured, he couldn't make Li Zhe change his words.
But that's it, under Fang Jueyuan's repeated invitations, the legend of the Condor Heroes of Jin Daxia was also published in Mengzhou Daily, the so-called novel, there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, Fang Jueyuan thinks that the Legend of the Condor Heroes is to promote the idea of non-monarchs, but in the eyes of others, it is not necessarily seen as such.
The Great Song Dynasty still has a good reputation on the road of wide open speech, not to scold people with words, that is the ancestral precept set by Emperor Taizu Taizong back then, that is, hundreds of years ago, there were few sinners because of this, and in this era, the social openness has reached a considerable level, and there is a hundred schools of thought. This is a masterpiece, isn't it so harmonious!
Li Zhe thought a little lucky, but when he copied it later, he would change some over-the-top places a little.
In short, the Legend of the Condor Heroes has finally been successfully released. Fang Jueyuan gave Li Zhe a high price of 1,000 words and 10 yuan, the Great Song Dynasty has always had a tradition of emphasizing texts, and the market for this pen fee is not low. However, even so, the price given by Fang Jueyuan is far higher than that of the performers, and it is completely based on the price of a famous writer, and Li Zhe is not regarded as a newcomer at all.
This price, of course, satisfies Li Zhe, Li Zhe gave Fang Jueyuan 500 yuan for the first draft, of which 320 yuan is the manuscript fee for the front, and the last 180 yuan is the deposit for the later manuscript.
Just last night, he made such three hundred and twenty yuan, which is almost equivalent to a quarter of the annual output of his family's fiefdom, how can he not be satisfied, or how to say it, it is better to copy books to make money quickly!
Li Zhe returned home with the 500 yuan treasure note given by Fang Jueyuan, this treasure banknote, said to be money, is actually just a voucher given by a large money bank, just like a check for later generations. The five hundred treasure banknotes given by Fang Jueyuan were printed and distributed in the money bank opened by King An's family, which is basically equivalent to the central bank of Tianzhuzhou, and the credibility is of course excellent.
When Li Zhe returned home, he called Uncle Jiu,
"Here, this is a hundred yuan, you take it to your home first, and I will use the rest to deal with the yamen."
Uncle Nine looked at the money in Li Zhe's hand,
"Where did this money come from?"
"Uncle Jiu, you have forgotten, isn't this my money from selling manuscripts?"
"That's it, that's it, my lord, your novel is out, so fast! With so much money? β
So you can make so much money writing books? Uncle Nine couldn't believe his eyes.
"Huh! It's out, it's about to happen, and I'll be able to see the newspaper tomorrow, and Uncle Nine might as well take a look at it then! β
"Look, look!"
Li Zhe put such a large sum of money here, it is impossible for Uncle Nine to believe it or not, so much money, all problems have been solved at once. The novel that can make so much money, that emotion is the legendary one-word daughter! Why does Uncle Nine have to take a look at it for himself, what is the difference between this book and the Buddhist scriptures framed in gold characters?
Uncle Nine moved his own mind, Li Zhe didn't know what he was thinking, but he explained again:
"Also, Uncle Nine, how about I let you get a blacksmith shop in the manor outside the city."
Li Zhe's family is also an old aristocrat anyway, and there is also a manor with a large area outside the city, which is still the property that the old Li family does not know which generation of ancestors bought outside the city, and it has been many years. Li Zhe usually raises a few horses there and grows some vegetables, and when he gets tired of living in the city, he goes to the outside of the city to ride a horse to hunt and relax.
Previously, as soon as Li Zhe came through, he hit the idea on this Zhuangzi, planning to build a blacksmith shop in the Zhuangzi, and usually engage in more experiments on inventions and creations in later generations, maybe one day he can make a fortune if he can make a useful one. It's just that there has been a lack of money, but this is a lack of joint manpower, and now everything is picking up.
Uncle Nine replied,
"All those blacksmith shop tools and stuff have been made, but no one is there."
Li Zhe said with a smile,
"Then it's not like there will be someone soon, is the apprentice I sent to Master Zhang as I told Master Zhang yesterday to come?"
"Here we are."
"Whoa! Isn't this it, that is, the master I got for our blacksmith shop, send him to the Zhuangzi first, match him with a few hands, and let him try to make a fire gun first. β
"Yes, sir!"
Uncle Nine muttered in his mouth and agreed to the arrangement.
Li Zhe finished the chores in the house in a few words. Then Hu Shi, the companion next to him, stepped forward when he saw the opportunity,
"Master, will there be a poetry meeting in the North Street Mansion in a few days?"
"Go, must go,"
Li Zhe patted the treasure money in his hand, damn, this time Lao Tzu is going to raise his eyebrows, he didn't dare to go out for many days in a row, all because he had no money in his waist and no confidence, but now that he has money, he has to go out and show his face. By the way, I also pretend to be forced.
Needless to say, this Beijing Street Poetry Club, all these students who graduated from state schools participated in the poetry meeting for that person, and that person was the person who was most worthy of Li Zheba's knot in Mengzhou State School.