Became a prodigy in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 248 Wei Zheng will regret it
Cheng Chuli knew that Kong Yingda and Wei Zheng were of the same breed, equally rigid.

To put it bluntly, he is the kind of master who wants face but not money.It is certainly not easy to convince such a person.

Moreover, he has no friendship with Kong Yingda at all, instead they have a feud.He passed by, and people still have to say whether they let him in or not!

But no matter what, Cheng Chuli decided to take this trip.

The next day, Cheng Chuli finished his work and looked at the time, Kong Yingda should also leave his job and go home.They drove to Kong Yingda's house with a group of people.

In other words, Kong Yingda is making tea and reading in the study at the moment.

What I have to say is that the tea leaves came from Wei Zheng!Kong Yingda likes this tea very much!
It's a pity that he has no friendship with Cheng Chuli.They didn't give it to him, but gave it to Wei Zheng box by box, and he could only get some from Wei Zheng to drink.

Every time he drank this tea, he thought of Cheng Chuli, and felt very angry.

You said Cheng Chuli, that little bastard, why did he give tea to Wei Zheng, but not the old man?
The most important thing is that he has no place to buy this thing if he has money!That would make him feel bad if he drank a little more!

At this moment, the butler knocked on the door and came in and said to him, "Master, Zhongguo Gongcheng is here to see you outside the residence."

"Mr. Zhongguo? Why did this little guy come to see the old man? There must be nothing good. Go and tell him, no see."

Kong Yingda said.

No way, when he thinks of this little guy, he thinks of that doggerel with eyes on his ass.

Kong Yingda is different from Wei Zheng.The friendship between him and Cheng Chuli lies in this poem.How could it be possible to wait to see Cheng Chuli.

The housekeeper hurriedly said in a low voice: "Master, Mr. Zhong Guo brought gifts, including a whole box of your favorite tea leaves and a whole box of white paper! Are we really missing?"

"I."

Kong Yingda was speechless, he really wanted to tell the housekeeper very hard, no see.But the words stuck in his throat, and he just couldn't get them out.

A whole box of tea leaves, and a whole box of white paper!

To him, Kong Yingda, these were absolutely alluring things.

There was no other way, if Cheng Chuli brought a box of gold, Kong Yingda would definitely kick him out.But, just taking these two things, it really makes him want to stop!
"Okay! Let him in, the old man wants to see what kind of bad water is in his gourd?"

Have you seen?It's not wrong to say that this old guy is the same as Wei Zheng, right?This speech and tone are all the same.

After agreeing to meet Cheng Chuli, Kong Yingda left the study and came to the living room.But he didn't go out to meet Cheng Chuli, he just sat in the living room and waited.

Cheng Chuli didn't care, he just brought Xue Rengui in, and asked Xue Rengui to put down the gift and then go out and wait at the door.

As soon as he saw Kong Yingda, Cheng Chuli cupped his hands with a smile on his face and said, "Cheng Chuli has met Master."

"Hehe, Duke Zhong, how dare we be a master in front of you? Your Duke Zhong is full of peaches and plums, and you are the master."

Hearing this, Cheng Chuli could only smile wryly in his heart.Today is probably going to be a waste of time.

No, we have to find a way and find another way.

Cheng Chuli quickly said: "Confucius said this, he is slapping the boy in the face."

Kong Yingda said angrily: "Speak up! You came to see the old man, what's the matter?"

Cheng Chuli changed his face in an instant, and said angrily: "Master Kong, to be honest, I get angry when I mention this matter. Wei Zheng's old thing is really not a thing. I will tell you the matter, and you come to judge for me."

"He Wei Zheng took the book to our printing factory to print, and said that he would give me [-] yuan for printing [-] copies."

"At that time, I thought! It's not easy for a scholar to write a book. How can he let others spend money to print a book? This is a blow to the author's enthusiasm!"

"So I told him that I not only printed this book for him, but also sold it for him. In addition, not only did I not charge him a penny for printing the book, but I also gave him another [-] pennies. And the copyright of this book is still his."

"Why do I do this? It is so that readers can create with peace of mind, and the painstaking effort written can get the manuscript fee and fill their stomachs. Only in this way will they have the energy to continue creating, right? If a person can't even eat I’m full, what else can I talk about creating?”

"But what do you think of the result? The old man Wei Zheng didn't agree. He said that I insulted him with money. I insulted him. I insulted him. I didn't burn too much money."

"Master Kong, do you think so? He Wei Zheng is rich and powerful? He doesn't need to bow down for the five buckets of rice. But what about those scholars who don't have money? What do they do? Do they have money to print books? What about scholars with high moral character? Do you have money to print?"

"The reason why I do this is to prevent the painstaking efforts of those scholars from being buried."

"I just want to use the example of Wei Zheng to tell everyone that they can write books with peace of mind in the future, and we will do the publishing. Let them get the manuscript fee for the book they have worked so hard to write, and get paid for it."

"The purpose of my doing this is just to support those poor scholars. Is it easy for me?"

"But Wei Zheng, that old man, is simply shameless. For his so-called reputation, he doesn't care about the life and death of scholars in the world. Master Kong, tell me, you come to judge me. Wei Zheng, this old man, deserve to die ?”

"I."

After hearing Cheng Chuli's words, Kong Yingda also felt that Wei Zheng deserved to die.But Wei Zheng is also his friend no matter what, he can't say such words.

"No, Xiao Chuli, can you really print books for us, sell them for us, and give us money back?"

Cheng Chuli said righteously, "That's for sure."

Kong Yingda: "The copyright belongs to our author?"

Cheng Chuli: "This is necessary."

There is another sentence he didn't say, if the author is changed, I don't want it anymore!
To put it bluntly, the books of these people are only valuable because of their authors' names, and the rest are useless.

If the author's name is changed, these books may not be read by others.

Kong Yingda said: "Okay, that's it. If you can also give me [-] coins to print and sell the old man's book, then what you say today will be credible."

What Kong Yingda meant was to speak with facts.

To put it bluntly, he didn't believe what Cheng Chuli said just now.Take your own book to verify it.

Until now, Kong Yingda did not believe that Cheng Chuli would be so noble.

How did he know that the purpose of Cheng Chuli's visit today was to wait for his words.

Cheng Chuli held back the excitement in his heart, and said: "Okay, as long as the book is written by you, Master Kong, and it is complete. Then we can sign the contract now and give you the money immediately."

Then, Kong Yingda was stunned.

I saw Wei Shuyu bringing in a box of Kaiyuan Tongbao.Just put it directly in the living room, and then took out the contract, the two parties signed the contract smoothly and got the money.

After signing the contract, Wei Shuyu took people out.

At this moment, Wei Shuyu was still in a daze.

He knew that Kong Yingda was more rigid than his father.

But why did Cheng Chuli get it done as soon as he stepped out?
But as Wei Zheng's own son, he couldn't handle Wei Zheng.That sounds a bit ironic.

This little prince is really a child prodigy, he can't accept it!

If he knew that Cheng Chuli was using his father as an excuse to settle Kong Yingda so quickly, I don't know if he would still admire Cheng Chuli so much.

Cheng Chuli: "Master Kong, do you believe me now? Boy, what I said is false, this Kaiyuan Tongbao must not be fake, right? You should know who the person who signed the contract with you just now is, he is Wei Zheng's son Wei Shuyu. Wei Shuyu went to him to handle this matter, but he didn't even agree. Master Kong, tell me, is Wei Zheng an old man? Is he going to be cast aside by scholars all over the world?"

Cheng Chuli's goal has been achieved, and now he has nothing to say.

When Kong Yingda heard that he continued to say this, he immediately became impatient.

What is it called?This is too much to say that there is no speculation!

How could Kong Yingda like to accompany him to criticize his old friends?
So, he held up his teacup and said, "Mr. Zhong, I will talk to Wei Zheng about this matter. Look..."

oh!This is the meaning of seeing off guests.

Cheng Chuli didn't want to stay here either, he had nothing to say to this old guy.

"Master Kong, if that's the case, I'll leave that kid first. By the way, I have another merciless request. For the sake of the world's scholars, I hope that Master Confucius will be present on the day the book is sold to those who buy Master Confucius' books." Book signings. In this way, scholars all over the world will be grateful to Master Kong after they know about this matter."

Book signing is not a modern patent.In ancient times, it was something these great Confucians often did.Do not ask me why.

Kong Yingda said: "There is no problem with this, just tell me in advance when the time comes."

After Cheng Chuli left, Kong Yingda asked the housekeeper to open the box full of Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Looking at the Kaiyuan Tongbao inside, it feels so unreal.

At this moment, there is only one thought in his mind, the real spring of scholars is coming.

In the car, Wei Shuyu asked Cheng Chuli: "Little Duke, how did you convince Master Kong?"

This one.

Cheng Chuli was speechless, and changed the topic: "Five days, five days later, I will officially sell the books of the Supreme Emperor and Master Kong in our largest bookstore, can it be done?"

Wei Shuyu said: "The Taishanghuang and Master Confucius have about [-] books each, no problem."

"Okay. Then I'll leave this matter to you. At that time, I will invite Master Kong to come in person and sign books. At the same time, the advertisement must keep up. Within five days, I will let the whole city know, In five days, we will sell the new books of the Supreme Emperor and Master Kong."

Wei Shuyu said: "There is no problem with this, but there is another question I want to ask you, Xiao Guogong. What about the old books in our bookstore? Those books are all Yin editions. Since our Yang edition books came out, those Yin editions It’s hard to sell books that don’t come out of print.”

Most of Tang's books are negative editions.That is, the hand-copied version and the backward printing technology of the past.

Let's talk about the hand-copied version first. Some people write larger characters, and some people write smaller characters.

So, every book is different.There may even be errors and omissions.

And those books printed by backward technology are even more unbearable, and some are even so confused that they can't even read clearly.

There is another problem with this kind of book, that is, the paper quality is too poor.

Since Cheng Chuli invented movable type printing, the printed books are not comparable to their books.

In terms of paper quality, it is more than a little better than these books.

This bookstore in their printing house was bought from someone else.At that time, I must have bought those books together.

After this kind of positive edition book comes out, the price is even cheaper than those books.Those books would not sell at all.

In this way, these books are completely reduced to tasteless, it is really tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to discard them.

Hearing what he said, Cheng Chuli thought for a while and said, "Let's do this! You stated in the advertisement that all customers who come to our bookstore to buy books will be able to give away a negative edition book for free. Of course, if it is a single copy, Do you want to stay here?"

Wei Shuyu nodded and said, "Okay, I understand. I will notify the bookstore when the time comes."

Two days later, the entire streets and alleys of Chang'an City were covered with advertisements for Wannian Bookstore.

Each of these advertisements made those readers very excited.

Five days later, the Wannian Bookstore will sell the books of the Supreme Emperor and Kong Yingda.And when the time comes, Kong Yingda will also go to the scene to sign books.Books are also provided for free.

Fans of Kong Yingda must not miss this kind of event.

Who is Kong Yingda's fan?Almost every scholar in Datang is a fan of Kong Yingda!
There is also an advertisement that particularly attracts the attention of those readers.

That is, except for Wei Zheng, no matter who wrote the book, as long as it is of good quality and printed by Wannian Printing Factory, they can get a certain amount of manuscript fee.

Even if you can't get the manuscript fee, you can still take a [-]-[-] split.And this division method is still ten years old.

In other words, as long as he takes the book to Wannian Printing Factory to print it, he can get a certain amount of manuscript fee no matter how much it is in the next ten years.

It wasn't the ad itself that caught their attention more.

What's particularly eye-catching about this ad is that it states at the beginning that apart from Wei Zheng, this ad is too fucking bad.

Why can anyone write and print it, except Wei Zheng?

It seems that the general manager of this printing factory is Wei Zheng's son!
Seeing this advertisement, the fires of those scholars are burning like crazy!
At this moment, Wei Zheng was making tea and reading a book in the study as usual.Suddenly the butler knocked on the door and came in, and said to him, "Master, I think you should take a look at this."

Wei Zheng was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What is it?"

The housekeeper said: "Master, you should see for yourself!"

Wei Zheng took the advertisement in doubt, and read it carefully.

"Hey, this old Kong! He must have been tricked by Cheng Chuli."

"Hey, the Supreme Emperor is also going crazy with Cheng Chuli? This kid, wouldn't he even dare to deceive the Supreme Emperor?"

Wei Zheng was watching and talking with a smile.

Suddenly, his eyes suddenly widened several times.It's like seeing something incredible.

(End of this chapter)