Departing from Dali in early spring. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

When the mission arrived in Lin'an, it was also late spring.

During this period, the mission passed through many places of great drought, saw the picture of the people's poor livelihood, and also saw the feat of opening warehouses and releasing grain.

Even in a certain state capital, Wang Zhiwang and Wu Lan joined forces to force the local inactive governors to open official warehouses to release grain, not to mention, but also let many wealthy families open private warehouses to release grain.

These are not enough to mention.

But there is one thing, Li Fengwu bought a maid by his side.

In the drought, this maid's parents died, so she had to come to a bloody body to bury her parents, Li Fengwu happened to see it, so he thought about simply buying it back and letting her serve Jade Guanyin.

In order to dance the peacock dance, Jade Guanyin never touched his hands with cold water or rough work.

It was because when passing through the drought, because he was busy with disaster relief, the local post house was slightly negligent in taking care of the mission, so there was a situation where no one boiled hot water, and Yu Guanyin had no hot water, so he would rather not wash his face for three days than touch the cold water.

So I bought this maid and asked her to serve Jade Guanyin full-time.

One helped her bury her parents, and the other made it convenient for Jade Guanyin.

After this incident, Li Fengwu deeply felt that the cost of raising a Jade Guanyin was really high, and it felt like raising a pampered aunt - the key is that this aunt is only responsible for dancing, not warming the bed.

Well, it seems that I don't want her to warm the bed, and the bones of my life will hurt all over my body.

The mission returned to Lin'an at the end of March.

Back in Lin'an, the official family was not in a hurry to announce the summons.

After all, the mission has traveled nearly 10,000 miles, no matter how urgent it is, we have to let everyone take a break, and everyone knows the business agreement reached between the mission and Dali, and what we are waiting for is just a piece of national letter.

The huge mission, after returning to Lin'an, immediately dispersed as birds and beasts, and went back to their respective homes to find their own mothers.

Let's say that Wu Lan arrived in Lin'an.

As soon as he arrived, Zhao Yan sent the eunuch Xie Shengtang to come to comfort the veteran general, and said some official words, Xie Shengtang asked: "Old general, if there is no shortage of travel, go to the Vertical Arch Hall to meet the officials?" ”

Wu Lan was deeply favored, and as soon as he arrived in Lin'an, the official family didn't even see the mission, so he saw himself first.

So he changed into court clothes and went to the vertical arch hall to see the driver.

After a detailed discussion between the monarch and the minister, Zhao Yan sighed, and finally agreed to the veteran's resignation, and consulted Wu Lan on the matter of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and Wu Lan also agreed with letting Xiangyang Lu Zhen go to Sichuan and Shaanxi to serve as the commander of the first army.

Laughing that Xiangyang can be kept, this son has a lot of work, has great talent, and is enough to use.

In the end, Zhao Yan said to Wu Lan that the emperor was in Deshou Palace and wanted to meet him.

Wu Lu came to Deshou Palace, saw the emperor Zhao Gou, and before the salute was finished, he was pulled up by Zhao Gou, looking at Wu Lu who was full of old age, Zhao Gou was very emotional, "You and I are also a pair of old monarchs." ”

Wu Lan was also very emotional, "Yes, decades have passed like this." ”

Zhao Gou was very moved, "I have worked hard for you to guard the country of Sichuan and Shaanxi all these years, I heard Yan'er talk about it, you plan to resign and go into hiding, I also agree, you will fight for a lifetime, and it is time to recuperate, if you are not busy in the future, you can come and see me more." ”

Wu Lan is grateful and has tears in his lungs.

The monarch and the minister held their hands, and the years seemed to be still in front of them.

Empress Dowager Wu on the side also secretly wiped her tears.

It was a banquet in Deshou Palace that night, not only Zhao Yan attended, but the three princes were also summoned to meet the old general Wu Lan.

It shows the glory of Wu Lan.

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Li Fengwu took Li Julu, Yu Guanyin and the eleven or twelve-year-old maid who was sold, returned to Wutong Commune, and asked the official Du Zhongqing to arrange the accommodation of Yu Guanyin and the maid.

Listening to the snow courtyard, there was a little silence for a while.

There is no Yelu Maitreya, and there is no Zhu Zhao'er.

Li Fengwu rested for a while, immediately changed into casual clothes, and went to Qingyun Book Club not far away.

When I walked into the book club, I saw Zhang Guan, Shi Mida, Zhuang Xian, Tan Hui and Wu Ruiyun standing in the courtyard.

Li Fengwu was a little stunned, "Why are you here?" ”

Zhang Guan smiled, "I know that if you can't sit still, you will definitely come to the book club to have a look, so everyone is waiting here, and you will walk around Sanyuan Building at night." ”

Li Fengwu was happy, "Of course it's good, I've been there for a long time, and I miss Lin'an's food and wine very much." ”

Shi Mida patted Li Fengwu's shoulder on the side, "Don't miss your little ladies?" ”

Li Fengwu smiled.

Wu Ruiyun said: "Dali also has amorous girls, with Brother Li's romance, how can you miss it." ”

Li Fengwu suddenly smiled bitterly, "There really isn't." ”

After greetings, everyone rushed to Sanyuan Building, singing and dancing and getting drunk several times, until the beginning of the night, everyone dispersed, leaving only Li Fengwu, Shi Mida and Zhang Guan.

Because there was something to say, Sanyuan Building was not very convenient, so it was moved to West Lake.

Climb aboard the summer flower boat.

Xia Nuanyun, who hadn't seen her for a long time, was pleasantly surprised, took out the wine, and went to the restaurant by the lake to ask for some side dishes to bring back, and the four of them took a shallow reminispension.

Of course, the first thing is to talk about the Qingyun Book Club in the past few months.

Zhang Guan came one by one.

Before Li Fengwu went to Dali, Liaozhai's "Painted Skin" had already been written, and with strong publicity, "Painted Skin" was immediately popular on the streets and alleys of Lin'an once it was published and listed.

Coupled with the cooperation of big booksellers such as Rong Liulang, the sales of "Painted Skin" in the state capitals around Lin'an are also very hot.

A total of 100,000 copies of "Painted Skin" were published.

Among them, Lin'an alone sold 30,000 copies.

Coupled with other surrounding state capitals, the sales volume of painted skins has reached more than 60,000 copies, and the remaining 30,000 copies will be shipped to all parts of the country for sale.

The publication and printing of "Painted Skin" is as high as 700 words because the number of words is more than 30,000 words per book.

The price is the same as the usual one.

This price is extremely expensive, a bit of a luxury.

Excluding various expenses, the net profit is about 200 wen a book.

In other words, the approximate net profit from the sale of "Painted Skin" is about 12,000 guan.

It's already a huge profit.

It could even be said to be a miracle.

It is unthinkable that a novel can be bought at a consistent price, which is simply sky-high, and at this price, it has sold more than 60,000 copies.

This is no longer the capacity that the scholars in Lin'an and the surrounding state capitals can support.

Obviously, among the market, green buildings, and tiles, there are still larger consumer groups.

But after thinking about it, Lin'an alone has a population of hundreds of thousands, among which there are 30,000 or 40,000 literate people, plus some other groups of people, such as those slightly literate female dancers in the Qinglou, and the people of the rich family of the official eunuch, the number of sales of 30,000 can also be reached.

Although the surrounding state capitals are not as good as Lin'an, they are better than in a wide area.

Therefore, the sales of all parts of the country and other places are only more than 30,000 copies.

Of course, this profit is only one or two volumes of "Painted Skin", and there will be follow-ups, so this profit will be endless.

Looking at the account book that Zhang Guan took out, Li Fengwu had to sigh.

In today's Da Song Dynasty, selling is really a huge profit.

However, Shi Mida hit the nail on the head, "In fact, the most important factor is still that order." ”

Li Fengwu suddenly woke up.

That's right, the book itself is a preface made by the official.

What kind of existence did the official family have in the Great Song Dynasty? That is the most dazzling star of the Great Song Dynasty, the preface he made, not to mention the dream of ordinary readers, even the nouveau riche who don't read want to see it.

Think about it, the family has a collection of novels with prefaces made by today's officials, no matter how you look at it, it is a matter of long face.

No wonder sales are so popular.

It seems that for the next novel, you still have to find an official family to do a preface, or - fool the official family and ask him to come forward and ask Zhao Gou to make a preface? (To be continued.) )