After Zhu Yuanzhang expelled the Tartars and settled the Central Plains, he was actually not welcome by scholars.

Some people are foolish and loyal to the Yuan Dynasty, and they have the mentality of Shouyang Mountain who does not eat Ming Su. Some simply look down on him, thinking that he was from a vulgar background, and treats literati like servants.

Of course, they weren't mistaken. In Lao Zhu's eyes, no matter who you are, you are just a tool man.

There was an incident recorded in the Great Edict, the government recommended Yao Shuyan and Wang Ge as officials, and the two were unwilling to enter Beijing to be officials, so they used some small means in private, and Zhu Yuanzhang immediately cut them down after learning about them.

Coupled with the three major cases in the Hongwu period, no matter who was involved, Lao Zhu never relented, and the one he killed was called a river of blood and a rolling head.

Therefore, being an official was once considered a high-risk profession, which attracted many Jiangnan literati to avoid it.

However, Lao Zhu is still weird, the more you don't come, the more he will recruit you. If it doesn't work once, it will be twice, if it doesn't work twice, it will be many times, and if you don't come many times, you will look down on our Lao Zhu, so you have to slaughter!

"The crown princess, the person recommended by the lower officials, one is Yang Xinlu, the son of Yang Weizhen of Fengqiao, Shaoxing, this person has the reputation of being recruited by his father several times, although his reputation in the court is not obvious, but he has a very high reputation among the people, and the literati in Jiangnan regard him as the leader of the literary world!"

"The other person is Gao Ming, the younger brother of Gao Qi, a famous scholar in Suzhou, when His Majesty slaughtered Gao Qi because of a poem, which caused great dissatisfaction among the literati in Jiangnan, and the world regretted it."

"If the crown princess can recruit Gao Ming for the use of His Royal Highness Yunwen, then the Jiangnan literati will all be convinced!"

"In addition to the two of them, there is another person, Qin Hengbo, the younger brother of Qin Yubo, but this person is good at cultivating mysteries, likes to travel to famous mountains and rivers, and no one knows his traces."

"If the crown princess is lucky enough to recruit this person, she can also add a lot of help to His Royal Highness Yun Wei!"

Lu secretly wrote down the names of several people, then thanked Huang Zicheng for his guidance, and led everyone to rub for a while, and then returned to the prince's mansion, looking at the beams of the main hall in a daze.

Although Huang Zicheng didn't say it explicitly, with Lu's intelligence, how could he not hear its implication.

The so-called death and resurrection, translated into the vernacular, is not it a shrew who cries, makes trouble and hangs herself.

Since she had already said this in front of the Broken Dragon Stone, if she didn't say it, she would definitely be ridiculed by the world, and even that old thing would be disgusted by it.

It's just that hanging is a technical job, and if you don't do it, you will put your own life into it.

The Lu family turned around for half an hour in the place where Zhu Biao's coffin had been placed, and then he made up his mind to hang it for the old thing and the world to see!

But to be on the safe side, she decided to let someone else try it out first to see how good the odds were of success!

"Dongmei, how has this palace treated you all these years?"

As soon as Dongmei heard this, she knew that she had something important to do, and immediately expressed her loyalty to the Lu family.

"Niangniang's kindness to the slave and maid is like a mountain, and the slave and maid are difficult to repay even if they go up the knife mountain and go down to the oil pot!"

"Since you say so, then the palace will give you an important task, you can hang it and show it to the palace!"

"Huh?"

Dongmei was directly frightened, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

"Niangniang spare your life, Dongmei has always been loyal to you and has never ......"

Lu interrupted Dongmei's crying.

"This palace just said to let you hang it, and immediately ordered someone to save you, not to let you really hang yourself!"

When Dongmei heard this, she felt a little better.

Just when the Lu family and the palace maid were hiding in the prince's mansion to practice the hanging stunt, Zhu Yunxi was pulling his dear thirteenth uncle to talk about making money.

"Uncle Thirteen, do you remember the last time we talked about opening a bookstore?"

"What's the matter, you've written a new script?"

"That's right!"

When Zhu Gui heard this, he was also a little excited in his heart.

"Where is it, hurry up and bring it to me to appreciate it!"

"Uncle Thirteen, I hid the draft at home, and I will take you back to get it during the lunch break."

"I'm talking to you about how to open a bookstore!"

Zhu Gui was most afraid of trouble, and said with a frown when he heard this.

"The last time I was in the bookstore, didn't the owner say that you can give the books to them to sell on your behalf, and there is no need to work hard to open a Raushzi bookstore."

Zhu Yunxi continued to flicker.

"Uncle Thirteen, give them the book to sell on your behalf, how much less money do we have to make?"

"If we open our own bookstore and find someone to print and sell our own books, wouldn't it be all upstream and downstream, and let us make all the money!"

As soon as he mentioned making money, Zhu Gui suddenly became interested, and his eyes were red when he was now short of money.

The last time he sent something to Zhu Yunxi for his mother, he secretly looked for three thousand taels of silver. If it weren't for the jade cabbage being too dazzling to shoot, he wouldn't even want to drop that thing.

"That's right!"

"Then tell me, what should we do now!"

"Uncle Thirteen, I think so, let's do it if we want to do it, first find a suitable shop outside the palace, and then hire a group of craftsmen to print books for us!"

"I promise that the books I write will sell well, and when we become famous, we will collect other people's books to make money!"

The more Zhu Gui listened, the more excited he became, and he felt eager to try.

"The shop is not worth much, and it costs a few hundred taels of rent a year."

"It's not difficult to print books, I'm familiar with Ambassador Zheng of the Silver Bureau, just give them some reward silver and help us print it!"

Zhu Yunxi's eyes lit up when he heard this, he didn't expect that there would be a place to print books in the palace, so he could save a lot of money.

"Why don't we take a leave of absence from Mr. and go to the silver bureau first?"

"Okay!"

The two of them had made a decision, and then one urinated and the other feces, and disappeared into the main hall.

Qi Tai completely pretended not to see through the trick of the two, and still read the book by himself.

He has always been lenient with his students, as long as he can complete his homework, he is never demanding on some disciplinary matters.

The so-called silver bureau is not in the palace, but on the edge of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, which is a branch divided from the original Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau.

After all, this thing is smoky and burning all day long, and it is easy to cause a fire, so Lao Zhu may have built it in the palace.

When the two arrived, a large order had just been received inside and outside the silver bureau, and everyone was busy with stereotyping and proofreading, only the ambassador Zheng Yuanchang was an idler, and he came up.

"His Royal Highness King Yu, what good things do you want to make this time?"

Zhu Gui's face turned red with embarrassment when he heard this, half of the three thousand taels of silver he had found last time had been sent here to be cast into silver leaves for one cent of silver, so that he could spend them.

Now that the bitter master was standing on his side, he was a little embarrassed in his heart.

"Ahem...... We want to print some books this time, I don't know if Ambassador Zheng is free here? ”

"Printing books......"

As soon as Zheng Yuanchang heard about the printing of books, he was not interested in it.

The main thing is that this thing is time-consuming and laborious, not to mention, there is not much money left.

Relatively speaking, it is much better to make gold and silver utensils and jewelry, and the last time he made 1,500 taels of silver leaves for King Yu, he earned 300 taels for this alone!

"His Royal Highness King Yu, it's not that the lower officials shirk you, it's really Your Majesty who asked us to print 10,000 sets of Diamond Sutras in order to pray for Prince Yiwen."

"When you first came in, you also saw that the silver bureau was so busy that I really couldn't spare anyone to help you print the book!"

As soon as Zhu Gui heard that it was to pray for the eldest brother of the prince to print scriptures, he immediately shut up and planned to go to the palace to spend a lot of money to find a printing house.

However, before he could speak, he heard Zhu Yunxi say something.

"We don't seal in vain, we spend money!"

As soon as Zheng Yuanchang heard that the other party was willing to spend money, he was not so resistant in his heart.

"I wonder how many sets Your Highness wants to print, and how much is the estimated cost of each set?"

"For the time being, 10,000 sets will be printed first, and there may be more in the future!"

"The cost is ......"

"You quote a price first, we don't have to use you, if the price you quote is too high, we might as well go to the palace to find someone else to print!"

When Zheng Yuanchang heard this, he was secretly taken aback.

When did His Royal Highness the Three Emperors and Sun become so shrewd and know how to bargain?

You must know that the nobles in the palace had better coax, basically how can they say that they believe it.

"Your Highness, do you want to give you a 20% discount on the market price?"

Zhu Yunxi shook his head to express his displeasure, and Zheng Yuanchang continued to reduce the price.

"Then it's seven percent off, you have to let us earn some money, if it's too little, the lower officials and the craftsmen under them can't explain!"

"Then it's seven folds, you are not allowed to coax me, I will send someone to inquire outside the palace, if someone is cheaper than you, I will not hand over this job to you!"

"Please rest assured Your Highness about this, our silver bureau is definitely the cheapest in the entire capital, and we will never dare to charge you a penny more!"

Zheng Yuanchang said this, and he really thought proudly in his heart, how to report more losses to the upper side and save paper money and ink money.

The biggest cost of printing books is these two items, and labor is relatively secondary.

The reason why he dared to offer such a low price was because of the idea that the wool came out of the pigs, and he didn't plan to spend money on the material at all, but planned to save it from Lao Zhu's project and then sell it to Xiao Xiaozhu.

"Your Highness, how many words does your book have?"

"The number of words is not the same, and the price of a single book is not the same."

"The first one should be printed with 30,000 words."

"How much?"

"30,000 words, this is just the beginning, and there are nearly 5 million words to follow!"

Zheng Yuanchang was directly frightened by this number of words, he thought that Zhu Yunxi was just printing a poem or something, and he died of two or three thousand words, but he never expected it to be such a huge work.

In this way, I am afraid that I will not be able to cope with it just by deducting His Majesty's paper and ink.

"No, you printed too many words, you have to add money......"

After half an hour of bargaining, the two finally sold the deal at the price of a single copy of 100 Wen.

However, Zhu Yunxi, as Party A, had to pay the full amount of the printing first, and Party B expressed his willingness to work.

Zhu Yunxi didn't want to pay this money, firstly, he didn't have any money in his hand, and most of the gifts he received last time were jewelry, ornaments, etc., which could not be used directly as money. The second is that he is not sure that the Ming people can like the novel "Dou Po", which is hundreds of years ahead, what if he accidentally loses it?

"Uncle Thirteen, since it is a partnership business, you can see this money......

"I paid for this thousand taels, but if I make money in the future, I will score half of it!"

"No problem!"

Now that the price has been negotiated, the next step is to pay Zi to print. The two immediately rushed back to the prince's mansion to pick up the draft, but when they passed by the main hall, Zhu Yunxi suddenly stopped.

"Isn't that the princess's personal maidservant, what is she doing sneakily at the door of the front hall?"