Among the nobles in the capital, only the Liu family was supported by Emperor Jingfeng. On the premise that the Liu family's father and son had no merits, he made Liu Qingli a marquis, and promoted Liu Jingnan all the way to the position of deputy commander of the forbidden army, and personally praised the Liu family as a "nouveau riche".

Emperor Jingfeng's move was to improve the status of Liu Guifei's mother's family, so that the second prince would be "more precious than his mother", and become the one with the highest birth mother among the princes.

However, the "nouveau riche" is the "nouveau riche", and the status has been raised, but the vision and insight have not been raised. The Liu family was arrogant and arrogant, poked out a lot of baskets, lost the face of Liu Guifei's mother and son, and also lost the face of Emperor Jingfeng.

But people's tolerance and patience are limited, ordinary people can't bear to repeat it again and again, let alone the king of a country, Emperor Jingfeng helped them once or twice, but he may not help three or four times. After the court brawl that year, Emperor Jingfeng set up the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince, although his favor for Liu Guifei never decreased, but his attitude towards the Liu family plummeted.

This time, if the father and son of the Liu family took the initiative to confess the gambling debts, it is unknown whether Emperor Jingfeng would help them cover them up as always, or directly dispose of them in anger.

But apart from this road, Liu Qingli really couldn't think of any other way, and when it came to the second prince's entry into the Wenhua Palace, he was also helpless: "No matter whether Your Majesty will help us or not, I'm afraid that the matter of the Second Royal Highness going to the Wenhua Palace to study is hopeless." ”

Liu Jingnan was a little unwilling: "At the beginning, His Royal Highness couldn't study with the prince, he was already one step behind, if the prince was studying in the Wenhua Palace, but he was going to the Guozijian, wouldn't the gap between the two get bigger and bigger?" What will he use to fight with the prince in the future? ”

Liu Qingli suppressed his anger, and his face was ugly: "Wouldn't I understand this truth?" But if we don't tell Your Majesty, what else can we do? After all, this is a misfortune caused by you, but you have come up with a way for me to raise six thousand taels of silver overnight! ”

Liu Jingnan couldn't think of a way, so he honestly shut up.

At this time, the staff member Jiang Yang's eyes rolled twice, and said tentatively: "Master Hou, I have a way to make money, although I won't raise six thousand taels in one night, but it's no problem to raise six thousand taels in a month." ”

Liu Qingli's heart moved: "What method?" ”

Jiang Yang said: "The new imperial examination is imminent, and the scholars from all over the world have gathered in the capital, and there are five or six thousand people who have come to take the examination. Now, if there is any business that is involved in the imperial examination, which one is not making a lot of money? These scholars are rich in their hands, and their brains are stupid, and they are especially willing to spend money on the imperial examination, and the money is very good. ”

"Let's just say that this will test the test questions and teaching aids of the past years, even if it is the worst printed book, it will be sold for seven or eight taels of silver, and even ten taels of silver for a good one, as long as it sells for six or seven hundred copies, six thousand taels of silver will not come out? It just so happens that we have a printing workshop under our name, isn't this a ready-made deal? ”

Liu Qingli frowned, and said angrily: "It's easy to say, printing books doesn't cost anything?" Selling a book for 1,000 taels of silver will only make a net profit of only three or four hundred taels at most, and according to this calculation, we will have to sell at least 2,000 copies to pay off the gambling debts. What's more, we are not the only one in the capital who sells books, so why do people come to us to buy them? Thank goodness if you can sell one or two hundred copies then! ”

Jiang Yang smiled slightly, and his eyes showed a shrewd light: "It's very simple, just increase the price." Others sell a piece of ten taels of silver, but we sell a piece of twenty taels of silver. ”

Liu Jingnan looked at him with incomprehensible eyes: "Mr. Jiang, are you confused?" We can't sell ten taels of silver, but someone can buy twenty taels of silver? It's about people who read books are stupid, but they're not really stupid! Who would pay twice the market price for our mediocre book? ”

"What if there are exam questions for this exam in this book?"

"What?" Hearing this, the father and son of the Liu family were stunned for a moment, almost suspecting that they had heard it wrong, and looked at Jiang Yang in a daze.

Liu Jingnan swallowed his saliva and said with some difficulty: "Mr. Jiang, don't be joking. The imperial examination is very important, and the examination questions are secretly drawn up by the examiner, and they are closely guarded by Feiyuwei before the start of the examination, how do we know? ”

“…… Take 10,000 steps back, even if we get the idea, we don't dare to openly write it in the teaching book and sell it for money, the fraud in the imperial examination will kill the head! ”

Jiang Yang said unhurriedly: "Of course I know this, after all, our purpose is just to make money, and there is no need to take your life." We don't need to get the exam questions, we just need to compile the supplementary books casually, and when we sell them, it is enough to declare that there may be exam questions in them. ”

"Those scholars have repeatedly failed to pass the test, and they dream of being admitted to the Gongshi, but if they have the slightest hope of being admitted, they are willing to give it a try with the idea that they are not afraid of 10,000. Not to mention twenty taels of silver, even if it is two hundred taels, there are many people who buy it. ”

When it comes to the imperial examination, Liu Qingli is very hesitant: "But after all, this is the imperial examination, if the leakage of the examination questions is widely spread, won't it alarm the imperial court?" Even if the imperial court doesn't investigate, Flying Fish will also investigate, do you think we can avoid the pervasive Flying Fish Guard? ”

Jiang Yang obviously took this into account and smiled confidently: "Who said that the exam questions were leaked?" In our textbooks, there is only 'maybe' and 'possibly' that there will be 'information' about the exam questions, as for whether there is any, how many, who knows? ”

"When some merchants sell books, they are known as the 'holy hands of betting', and they will be able to bet on the questions of this year's examination, and compared with them, we have been very restrained. At most, it can only be said that it is just chasing after the wind and shadows, and who can condemn us for illusory things? After all, we didn't really leak the topic. ”

Liu Jingnan was puzzled: "But in this way, the credibility of our news will be reduced, after all, there are so many merchants who claim to bet on the question, and they are tired of hearing it, and they may not necessarily buy our books." ”

Jiang Yang said: "They claim to be on the topic, but they are just 'claiming' and there is no guarantee, so they have no credibility." When the time comes, we can use the name of the first person in the previous imperial examinations to advertise and increase credibility. For example, during the last imperial examination, merchants all over the capital were saying that Gu Yunji, who was 'Lianzhong Sanyuan', used his family's things, did Gu Yunji really use it? It's nothing more than a means to attract customers. ”

"It's just news chasing after the wind, so even if we find out that our propaganda is fake after the exam, those candidates can't do anything. On the one hand, the matter has passed, and there is no way to be held accountable, and on the other hand, it is only a matter of twenty taels of silver, and it is not worth tossing and turning for this. ”

"Even if something goes wrong in the end, we can also put the blame on the people below and choose ourselves cleanly, anyway, the court will not get to the bottom of this little thing."

Seeing that the two of them were still hesitant, Jiang Yang slowly lifted his eyelids and said a word to his heart: "Or Hou Ye and Shizi can think of other ways to raise six thousand taels of silver openly, then there is no need to take any risks." ”

Hearing this, Liu Qingli's crumbling psychological defense line was broken, and after thinking about it again and again, he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, just do it." ”