Chapter 115: The Whole City Talks
"Bastard, what do you want to do?"
In the study room in the front yard of a certain important minister's mansion in the capital, a certain important minister in the court who holds a lot of power is full of anger, and he looks like he gritted his teeth and wants to choose someone to devour.
Obviously, he was really angry.
And on the desk next to him is the latest issue of the Huiyou Bookstore Review Book, and the page turned is the latest chapter of "The Richest Man in the World".
The title of the four-character chapter is very conspicuous: "Together"!
The content is very simple, it is the section where Liu Dafu, a pig's foot, colluded with the middle and lower-level officials of the salt merchant yamen and made a fortune lying down!
The point is, it's pretty informative!
The angry court officials are from the Jiangnan family, and they don't know everything about the doorways in the official salt business, but they also know quite well.
In his opinion, the content of the novel is simply a true portrayal of some of the methods of Yangzhou salt merchants, which is almost like witnessing it with his own eyes.
What makes this important minister angry is not the plot in the novel, but the trouble that the plot of the novel may cause.
He has heard that both the present and the emperor have recently become interested in the novel "The Richest Man in the World", not to mention that they must read every issue, but also to read it from time to time.
This is very frightening, especially the important ministers of the court who have a close relationship between the family and the salt merchants in Yangzhou, and there is a kind of anxiety that it is difficult to sleep and eat.
"Boss, Wang Ziteng, we can't solve it for a while, so we can only find a way to tell him to get out of the capital as soon as possible!"
The officials sitting next to him are all henchmen of the owner of the mansion, and they also have unusual connections with Yangzhou salt merchants, at least the annual gold and silver filial piety is not a small number.
Once the salt merchants of Yangzhou are affected by the plot of the novel, they will all lose a lot, and it is impossible not to care.
"Yes, Wang Ziteng's return to Beijing is in the name of debriefing, and it should be about the same, let's force him to leave Beijing!"
"I don't think it's easy, since Wang Ziteng dares to get involved in Yangzhou Salt Administration, even if he leaves Beijing, he can still intervene, can we continue to impeach?"
"We can't impeach anymore, our actions are a bit explicit, which has attracted a lot of jokes, and at the same time attracted the attention of many important ministers, don't drive the wolf at the front door and enter the tiger at the back door, it's not beautiful!"
"Don't care so much for now, let's drive Wang Ziteng away. This guy is in the capital, and many of our methods can't be used at will, so it will be much easier to do when he leaves Beijing! ”
"And the bookstore of the Members, we have to find a way to control it, or destroy it directly, otherwise we will only be more passive if we let that novel continue to be published!"
"How to get it, that little boy is behind the Rongguo Mansion, and if you are not careful, it may cause a collective counterattack of the Xungui Group, then the situation will be terrible!"
"As far as I know, the prince of Chu is also involved, it's not easy to do!"
"If it's not easy to do, you have to do it, if you can't do it, you can only use some unseemly means, I don't believe that a mere child can withstand it!"
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Not only are the stakeholders of Yangzhou salt merchants anxious, but they are also angry with the content of the novel "The Richest Man in the World", and all readers who care about this novel, whether they are princes and nobles or peddlers and pawns, are also very lively about the increasingly exciting plot discussions.
In a high-end restaurant in Dongcheng, Mr. Storyteller just finished talking about the plot of a chapter of "The Richest Man in the World", and the whole restaurant started to talk about it.
"I really didn't expect that there are so many doorways for salt merchants!"
"Hehe, if I have the opportunity, I will also participate in it, and it will be too easy for the Nima salt merchant to make money!"
"Yes, it is said that the salt merchants in Yangzhou are rich and rival the country, who knew that they were all so rich, and I could become a huge rich man if I changed them!"
"Don't dream, just your temperament that loves to drill the horns, the officials who can level the Yanzheng Yamen, and all kinds of checkpoints?"
"That's right, just think about these inconspicuous officials and Carmen Dao, they can have a good income casually, it's really greedy!"
"Hehe, if the plot of the novel is true, I'm afraid that things are going to make a big fuss, and the old man of our family really has a chance to participate!"
"That's right, if you want to say that those salt merchants are also arrogant enough, instead of wasting the silver on those little officials and checkpoints, it is better to be filial to us!"
“……”
In a small wine shop in Nancheng, a few acquaintances at the bottom were busy all day, and finally got together to chat and pass the time.
A plate of broad beans, a pour of bad wine, three or four acquaintances can pass the night.
"Have you listened to the recent commentary, is that what is "The Richest Man in the World"?"
"Of course I listened, such a novel story is much more interesting than Raush's talented and beautiful woman, I will listen to a few chapters whenever I have the opportunity!"
"Yes, I want to be rich in the book, but poor people like us don't want to be able to achieve a career through hard work, how interesting!"
"Especially the previous plot, I feel quite empathetic, and I feel that if I were replaced, I could do it!"
"Don't brag, if you had Liu Dafu's ruthlessness, you would have gone to smuggle smuggled salt, or extort and extort, how could you drink a plate of broad beans with a few of us in this small wine shop?"
"I used Liu Dafu as a role model before, but unfortunately the recent plot is completely black-hearted, no different from those old men who do evil, it's almost like the rich wolf, tiger and leopard in the play, I really didn't expect it."
"Isn't it like this when you have money, Liu Dafu is quite powerful, and after suffering a few losses, he reacted to the climate, but he didn't want the salt to be so rich!"
"Not only rich, as long as you don't have to worry about eating and drinking after a little bit of edge, you can also hold a considerable family business, but it's a pity that there is no such good business in the capital, otherwise I will gamble even if I am desperately risky!"
"Don't say it's you, I'm afraid that after listening to the joke of "The Richest Man in the World", you all have this idea, the rich and powerful want to make a big head, and the rich and powerful want to make a small head!"
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A wave of discussion against Yangzhou salt merchants, as well as the salt government yamen, as well as stakeholders, is slowly taking shape.
Those who know how to watch the doorway, and those who don't understand look at the excitement!
In any case, the novel "The Richest Man in the World" has set off a huge storm of public opinion in the capital, and it is not something that can be easily extinguished if an existence wants to.
Affected by this, the business of the Huiyou Bookstore began to gradually boom, and gradually became seventy or eighty percent of the popularity of the original 'Three Kingdoms Fever'.
Not only that, the number of book reviews received by the bookstore's editorial department is increasing every day, and several editors are busy every day, and the review pages of the book review edition are all scheduled after five or six issues, which is simply not too popular.
Jia Cong and the prince of Chu spend most of their day in the bookstore, dealing with emergencies that may arise while sitting in charge......