At this moment, a luxurious carriage was parked in front of the door of Jiming Temple, and the curtain of the carriage was slowly opened, and a prince with a face like a crown of jade walked down.

Zhu Yu looked at them.

Hand over a book manuscript, there was ghostwriting in the Tang and Song dynasties, if you are not too stupid, you know what to do.

"If you write for me, I'll pay you...... Enough for you to stay in the capital. ”

Several other scholars took it and looked at it a few times, and soon showed disdain.

Only Yang Shiqi.

After reading it, Yang Shiqi said: "Dare to ask the nobleman, how much money are you willing to pay?" ”

Several scholars hurriedly stepped forward and stopped Yang Shiqi.

"I'm not even a lifter now, if I can't make a name for myself, I'll have to live in the capital for a while... Even if you achieve fame, you will have to wait for the spring exam next year. ”

"Therefore, we need a livelihood that can earn two silver taels, and writing books is not what we are good at... Although I am writing an idle book, if I can't eat enough, how can I gain a foothold in the capital, I am afraid that in less than four or five days, I will have to repair the book and go home, and ask someone to send some silver taels... My family is really poor. ”

Several scholars listened to Yang Shiqi's words and bowed their heads gloomily.

Yang Shiqi looked at Zhu Rong, "Dare to ask, how much money does the noble person give a day?" ”

Zhu Yu shook his head, "It's not a day, if you sneak fish, won't I lose money...... The pen fee is calculated according to the manuscript, and the money for writing a settlement is divided into three grades, with 20 articles for good works, 10 articles for the second, and 5 articles for the most disabled articles. ”

Zhu Rong calculated this amount.

The second child of Jiangdong Building in the capital, the salary in January is only five dollars of silver, you can't give it too high, give it too high, the price of the capital is soaring, and it will be difficult to hire people in the future...

Yang Shiqi frowned, "Nowadays, the people of the world are hungry, who has the silver to buy these idle books...... Give twenty articles, and I will wait for five people, if one article is given every two days...... I'm afraid the nobles can't bear it. “

When an opportunity comes, it is often unperceived because it is unforeseen.

and so on for the past few years.

If I look back, I will pinch my thighs fiercely, ah, it turns out that it was an opportunity, I knew it earlier...... That's the life of most people.

Yang Shiqi is still young and can't notice it...... It's also normal.

What can be found is by no means ordinary people.

Zhu Yu sneered, "Brother Tai doesn't have to worry about these." ”

Yang Shiqi nodded and bowed: "There is one more thing, can you arrange a place for me to live first... Wait until you earn two silver taels, and then repay the kindness of the nobles. ”

……

Southwest of Beijing,

A dilapidated and simple house, the rubble of the roof was blown off, the courtyard door was kicked and a wooden board was missing, and it was raining and windy, and it was pierced and holed.

It is such a courtyard, which is also priced at fifty taels in the capital.

Zhu Yu stood in the center of the small courtyard, "In the future, you will write books here...... Every three days, I would ask people to pick up the manuscripts. ”

The treasure money of the 300 guan was spent, and 55 guan was spent.

He bought the compound.

After saying this, Zhu Rong got into the carriage.

From beginning to end, I didn't ask the names of these scholars...... The gunner does not need a name.

If you can earn a tael of silver a day, it is also a lot of money, and when there are more readers, the teahouse restaurant in the capital begins to tell stories, earning more than a dozen taels a day, hundreds of taels...

The third-grade master is a month, and he doesn't have so much money.

The courtyard had been uninhabited for a long time, the windowsills and household belongings were covered with dust, and there were five rooms, three of which were wings, and one of the remaining rooms and a study.

Yang Shiqi rolled up his sleeves, and several scholars threw away their burdens one after another and cleaned up the place where they would sleep tonight.

Simply ate steamed cakes.

The five scholars sat down, each opened the package and took out the pen and ink inkstone, and Yang Shiqi took out the manuscript for everyone to see.

A slightly thin scholar: "Now...... The laws of the imperial court are strict, I will write this, and I will not go to the prison cell."

Yang Shiqi shook his head: "I've read it, the imperial court has not drafted such a decree, everyone should be cautious in writing and don't comment on the government...... I have read Mr. Nai'an's writings, but I didn't think that I would write them today. ”

The manuscript was spread out, but only a hundred crosses were written on each piece of paper, but the names were written.

Hitomi Language... Zombie... Bite the ghost... Catch the fox... Snake people... Spiritual Officer ......

Under each heading, there are only a few simple words, but they roughly tell an obsessive anecdote......

Yang Shiqi asked them to pick first, and choose the rest by themselves.

"Don't hesitate any longer, it's a little bit untabled, it's better than fleeing from the famine at the end of the Yuan Dynasty...... You don't want to be evicted and stay on the streets, do you? ”

Yang Shiqi knew what they were thinking.

Several people did not hesitate any longer.

Three days later, Zhu Rong came to this courtyard again, and only received four manuscripts, the handsome scholar, one wrote two, and the remaining two were written by two scholars.

There are also two scholars who are halfway through writing.

The five scholars looked at Zhu Rong worriedly, they couldn't believe it that they could earn silver taels so easily.

Zhu Yu smiled and said: "The language of the pupil and catching the fox are excellent works, which are worth fifty wen, the spirit official is poor, it is worth ten wen, and Jia Er is worse and worth five wen." ”

He took out two strings of copper plates and counted them separately.

The reader's eyes lit up, stretched out his hands, and studied hard for more than ten years in the cold window, without any income every day, where did he personally make money, or dozens of dollars a day.

Yang Shiqi said: "Do you take as much as you want?"

"Hitomi language and fox catching are written by Your Excellency, if they are of such high quality, I will accept a hundred articles..."

Yang Shiqi and the others had a sparkle in their eyes, and immediately returned to the house to write hard, and they didn't care about eating dinner, and three days later, when Zhu Rong came again, he received more than 20 manuscripts.

Zhu Yu nodded with satisfaction, "These are not enough to publish a book, and there are still a few months before the township test... Don't rush to read the scriptures, be quicker. ”

Yang Shiqi and a few people just thought they had met a noble person who was stupid and had a lot of money.

Go back to the house and continue grinding your creations.

Zhu Rong took the manuscripts, got into the carriage, looked down at the manuscripts in his hand, and thought about how to print them.

"Is there a study in the capital?"

West of Chang'an Avenue.

A quiet and narrow study, people who come in and out of the book, the door plaque hangs the Donghai study, there are only three shops, and there are only thirteen bookshelves.

Previously, the imperial examination was not held for a long time.

The imperial court takes the scholars as the supervisor of the country, and he can't earn money by opening a study...... Near the left three main streets, only this decent one can be found.

Zhu Yu walked into the store, "Is the owner there?" ”

Behind the counter, a middle-aged shopkeeper who was napping, a little rich, raised his head, glanced around, and was a little dazed for a while, not knowing who was calling him.

Zhu Yan leaned over twice, "Owner, can you receive the manuscript?" ”

The middle-aged shopkeeper smiled, nodded and said: "Contemptible Wang Chunlai, the rule is to take the manuscript to the contemptible people first, and if it is a first-class masterpiece, then negotiate the price..."

Zhu Rong handed over the manuscript.

The middle-aged shopkeeper took it cautiously, looked at it a few times, and his demeanor became more and more engrossed, "This Wenmo... It's a pity not to take the scientific exam. ”

He smiled and stretched out two fingers: "It can sell twenty wen." ”

The pen polishing fee spent alone is more than 20 yuan.

Zhu Yu resisted the urge to buy the study, "A book sells for six coins of silver, and the owner can print it with movable type...... I would like to print 500 copies in your account. ”

Wang Chunlai's eyes widened, a book was worth six coins of silver, he thought Zhu Yan was crazy.

Ordinary people have never even seen silver.

"Six coins of silver, enough for the people of the capital to live for a month...... With such a high price, how can you sell a book, a book is a good book. ”

Dividends, the reason why they are dividends.

That's because it's the most expensive when it first comes out...... In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, printing technology developed, and the price of novels declined.

For the sake of his father's face, he is already very restrained......

Zhu Yu didn't bother to explain, and said: "In the land south of the Yangtze River, the gentry and scholars, how can there be 100,000 people, five hundred volumes are not much, I heard that the books in the capital are copied and stolen very quickly... If you want a trade name, cover it on the book cover. ”

Wang Chunlai thinks that it is better to engage in opera...... The novel is still too far ahead of its time.

"These miscellaneous books are not copied except the scriptures......"

Nowadays, the laws of the imperial court, let alone plagiarism, no one even dares to engrave fake seals...... Whether to sell or not to sell is a problem.

Wang Chun came to see that Zhu Rong was just blindly worried.