Chapter 108: Suspicious
Huiyou Bookstore has received a bit of a lot of manuscripts recently, most of which are book reviews of the recent content of "The Richest Man in the World".
In order to find high-quality book reviews from dozens or hundreds of fresh book reviews, the bookstore's editorial department had to temporarily recruit a few new members.
In fact, it is also quite a good thing for the ethnology students of the book club to have a stable source of income.
These book reviews, which suddenly increased, were mainly listeners and readers, who were quite dissatisfied with the style of Liu Dafu, the pig's foot of "The Richest Man in the World", so he wrote a book review and sent it to the bookstore in the hope that it could be published.
Naturally, Huiyou Bookstore lived up to the wishes of these attentive listeners and readers, and soon published the selected book reviews and gave the authors appropriate remuneration.
has thoughts, leisure, and energy to send book reviews to bookstores, so naturally there will be no shortage of money, but Jia Cong has long made a rule that all book reviews that bookstores choose to publish and print will not take advantage of the author.
This hand shows that the bookstore has full respect for the author of the book review, and naturally received extremely good feedback.
Not to mention the unique management methods of Huiyou Bookstore, with the gradual increase in book reviews about "The Richest Man in the World", the popularity has gradually increased.
The Xue family's Huibin Building has the latest content every night, and the rest of the restaurants and teahouses are one step behind, but they are only one or two chapters short of the content to follow up, and the boom is surging and has the potential to sweep the capital.
As the number of chapters increased, the content became more and more engaging, the number of listeners also increased, and the sales of booklets in the book review edition, which were devoted to the content of the chapter section, also increased.
The most important thing is that it has attracted a lot of listeners, and naturally there are many discussions about the plot of "The Richest Man in the World", especially the later plots.
With the improvement of the status of Liu Dafu in the gang, he no longer participates in the front-line trafficking of illicit salt, but is responsible for maintaining the smooth upstream network of smuggled salt, more details about smuggling smuggled salt, and many more content that cannot be investigated, and the controversy surrounding pig's feet is getting bigger and more intense.
Mainly in the novel, this guy is too ruthless and ruthless, dealing with the vulnerable groups in the smuggling interest network, there is no humanity at all, everything is in line with interests, and all the existence that damages its interests, no matter who it is, must find a way to kill it, even women and children will not let go.
This kind of plot content naturally causes more and more controversy, and the pig's foot style is very different from the moral concept recognized by the public, and the audience and readers are very uncomfortable, and they need a channel to vent their unhappiness.
The book review page of Huiyou Bookstore happens to be such a public platform, and it is not too strange to receive many letters from book reviews.
The controversy outside is not only about the pig's feet in the novel "The Richest Man in the World", but also the detailed smuggling process of smuggling salt revealed in it, which makes people curious and frightened.
Some voices say that the whole process of illicit salt trafficking in the novel is too detailed, what if some listeners and readers can't help but be curious and imitate it?
Of course, more people don't think so, thinking that although the plot of the novel on the smuggling of salt is written in detail, whoever really imitates the content of the novel is stupid.
Not to mention that the imperial court has always severely cracked down on smuggling of salt, and if one is not good, he will be imprisoned, and the risk is definitely not small.
What's more, if you want to participate in such a thing, not everyone is qualified, and there is a threshold for smuggling salt.
In any case, as the plot of the novel deepens, the popularity is getting higher and higher, and the audience and readers participating in the discussion are also increasing.
Fortunately, the content of the novel at this time did not involve the Yanzheng Yamen, so the discussion of the audience and readers increased, but it did not attract too much attention from some forces.
Of course, it may also be that some forces do not care, or do not take a novel seriously, and do not think that the smuggling of salt in the plot of the novel will affect their own interests.
It's not that there are no reviews in this area, it's just that they are all suppressed by the editors of the Huiyou bookstore. At most, it is to choose the book review publication that is less glaring, the tone is more gentle, and the more objective is also printed, which is the important role of controlling the voice channel.
The role of the bookstore is not only that, but it also uses the publication of book reviews to guide the direction of debate between listeners and readers, and at the same time, it can also understand the specific views of the enthusiastic book lovers who write the book reviews about the plot of the novel.
Especially when the first volume of the novel "The Richest Man in the World" "Rise in the End of Wei" is about to end, and it is about to enter the second volume of "Wealthy Businessmen and Giants", whether it is Jia Cong who is hidden behind the scenes, or the prince of Chu who supports it, they are a little more careful.
The plot of the novel has reached this point, and Liu Dafu, the pig's foot, overturned the boss and the second child of the Salt Gang through conspiracy and trickery, and after he sat in the position of the gang leader, his methods of action have changed a lot.
Mainly as the leader of the salt gang, he no longer needed to deal with specific affairs, but began to slowly establish a good relationship with the middle and low-level officials of the salt merchant yamen, paving the way for smuggling of salt and greater interests.
At this time, it is inevitable that some more explosive content will appear, which can be regarded as violating the bottom line of some forces, and a bad one may lead to a backlash.
Therefore, during this time, Jia Cong's mind was mainly on the bookstore.
Even in order to avoid accidents, he also asked his younger brother Xue Pan to recruit nearly ten thugs from the Xue family as bookstore guards, and no matter what, the bookstore must not have problems.
Not only did Jia Cong pay more attention to the Huiyou Bookstore, but even the prince of Chu almost used the bookstore as a base, 'clocking in' on time every day, and basically didn't leave until it closed.
Since he promised to escort the novel "The Richest Man in the World", it is obvious that he has put his commitment in his heart, especially since he has not relaxed at all recently.
It's just that......
The first volume of the novel, "Rising at the End of the Moon", has ended, and the second volume of "Wealthy Merchants" has begun, as well as its publication and sale, which has caused a great shock among listeners and readers, but has not waited for the imagined strong backlash.
At this time, the plot of the novel is said to have violated the bottom line of some forces, and there should be no movement at all.
"Brother Chunran, why don't you mobilize the power of the palace to help inquire, what's going on?"
With the repeated appearance of the novel's explosive content, the expected blow did not see any clues, Jia Cong felt very inexplicable, and simply asked Si Ding, the prince of the king of Chu, to help inquire about the situation.
"Alright then, I'm waiting a little anxious too!"
In the reading room of the Huiyou Bookstore, Si Ding nodded helplessly, this kind of suspicious day is not comfortable......