I'm so hard

Chapter 107
Wu Zhi looked aggrieved, and looked at Zhao Yan and the others with some doubts.

Just now, he clearly saw that Liu Dazhong obeyed Zhao Yan's words very much.

Liu Dazhong said with a cold face: "These two are very distinguished guests I have invited, you can call him Young Master and Young Master's Madam."

Wu Zhi nodded quickly, Liu Dazhong gave him everything he wanted, and he never dared to disobey.

Immediately, Zhao Yan and Lu Nianwei sat on the chairs beside them.

The shopkeeper not far away was very winking, and immediately asked the waiter to bring a few cups of tea.

After Zhao Yan sat down, he asked, "Tell me, why doesn't your bookstore sell books?"

Wu Zhichang sighed and said, "Young master, uncle, it's not that I don't sell books, but I dare not sell them!"

"On the opening day of Baiwenzhai, I specially purchased a batch of special-priced books. I wanted to gain favorability at a low price first. I never thought that there would be no one who bought books, and even if I gave away books for free, no one would want them. For three days in a row, none of the books in the bookstore were sold. I have done research in the surrounding bookstores, and in terms of the quality and price of books, Baiwenzhai is definitely high quality and cheap."

"After several days of private investigation, I realized that the bookstores in Daping County have been monopolized by others. All the bookstores here seem to have different names, but in fact they are all owned by one person. And the scholars here also exclusively recognize that person. The store will never come to buy my book."

"Last month, a few foreigners came here and wanted to buy our books. I was overjoyed. Just after selling two books, a few strong men who looked like gangsters came to the bookstore and chased us. Then they beat us, and after beating us violently, they warned us that if we sell a book, we will be beaten again."

"I... I wrote you a letter the night I was beaten, but you didn't reply, so I had to find a way to solve it myself!"

Liu Dazhong blushed. Since he went to Changdan, he put all his thoughts on Zhao Yan. The letter must have been sent to Hangzhou, and those people in Hangzhou dare not open Liu Dazhong's letter.

"Then...you don't know how to report to an official?" Liu Dazhong looked at Wu Zhi and said.

"Ugh!"

Wu Zhi sighed again, and said, "We reported to the officials the second day after we were beaten. The magistrate of Daping County told us to go back first, and said that he would handle it impartially, but on the third day, a lot of gangsters came again Wen Zhai beat us up and warned us that once we report to the officials, we will be beaten once."

"After this incident, I thought about selling Baiwenzhai and leaving here, but I was bullied by those gangsters again, and told: The other party wants to buy Baiwenzhai with 100 taels of silver, otherwise I will not be able to leave Half a step out of Daping County."

"In desperation, I had no choice but to stay here, hoping that my uncle would save me when he received the reply. These days I've been extremely irritable, but I have nothing to do but go get drunk."

"Who is the instigator behind the scenes, have you found out?" Liu Dazhong asked again.

Wu Zhi plucked up his courage, gritted his teeth, and said, "This person is Xue Huai, the county magistrate."

"A small county magistrate has such monstrous power. If the magistrate of Daping County refuses to accept the case, you can go to the state government to file a complaint." Zhao Yan said.

With a bitter face, Wu Zhi continued: "The reason why Xue Huai dared to act like this is because his father is Xue Tianyou, the prefect of Shantai Prefecture, and his grandfather is Xue Lin, the prefect of Shu Prefecture. In the entire Shu Prefecture, the Xue family would not be without them." Dare to do something. That confused county magistrate is just a display."

Hearing Xue Lin, the magistrate of Shuzhou, Zhao Yan couldn't help but think of Xiao Jingye's evaluation of this magistrate: don't seek meritorious deeds, but seek no faults.The performance is average, and there has never been a mistake.

Zhao Yan frowned slightly, such family power was really not easy to deal with.

Moreover, Shuzhou is surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one side, and the people seldom go out. The court understands this place basically through the memorials of the ministers of Shuzhou.

Officials have been greedy for ink since ancient times. If Zhao Yan wanted to clean up the officialdom, he probably had to start here.

Zhao Yan thought for a while, and said: "From tomorrow onwards, we will continue to sell books, and Xue Huai asked a gangster to make trouble, obviously because he didn't want to use the power of the government. If that's the case, we won't be afraid of him."

Zhao Yan looked at Liu Dazhong again, and said, "Dazhong, call all the guards on board, not only will I not let this bookshop close down, but I will also make it flourish."

"Yes." Liu Dazhong cupped his hands and said.

Zhao Yan looked at Hei Wa at the side again, who immediately understood and nodded towards Zhao Yan.

There are nearly 20 imperial guards following behind Zhao Yan. These 20 people are all highly skilled in martial arts, and they are good at fighting ten with one.Zhao Yan is also going to drag them to Baiwenzhai as guards.

What he has to do is to make this matter a big deal, and to see the attitude of the government. If the three generations of the Xue family are all corrupt, then Zhao Yan will use the Xue family as a sharpening stone for court reform.

That night, Liu Dazhong bought a small courtyard near Baiwenzhai, and Zhao Yan and the three lived there.

Early the next morning, Zhao Yan came to Baiwenzhai. From today onwards, he is the shopkeeper of Baiwenzhai.

He ordered several guards to clean the Baiwenzhai again, and then set up a bookstall directly in front of the store, and wrote eight characters beside the bookstand: ten words for one book, children and old people without deceit.

Last night, Zhao Yan learned that the main reason why no one came to Baiwenzhai was that those scholars were afraid that they would not be able to obtain fame due to offending the Xue family. dare to go.

However, people who don't go to the exam to get fame don't mind these things. As long as the books are cheap enough, these people will still buy them.However, it is impossible for the Xue family to beat up every commoner who bought books, he would only come to trouble Baiwenzhai.

Most of the books on the book stand are commonly used books such as Thousand Characters, The Analects of Confucius, The Doctrine of the Mean, and Book of Rites, and the bindings are particularly exquisite.

In Dazhou, the price of books is relatively expensive, and the price of a book is at least one hundred yuan. If you buy a complete set of books such as the complete works of historical records or the selection of four books, you will spend at least one or two pennies.

Therefore, Zhao Yan hangs out ten papers and one book, which is obviously to lose money and make money.

After a while, someone came to visit.

A middle-aged man in rags came over and asked suspiciously, "Is it really a ten-cent book?"

The original shopkeeper of Baiwenzhai said with a smile: "Yes, Shiwen, can you pick any books here?"

The middle-aged man showed an excited smile, then quickly took a copy of "Shangshu", and left quickly.

Immediately afterwards, as the crowd on the street increased.The bookstall gradually gained popularity.

Such cheap and high-quality books naturally have no shortage of buyers.And everyone also has a herd mentality. When they see others buying, they naturally line up.Although the Xue family is very powerful, it is impossible to punish all the people.

And Zhao Yan was sitting in the book shop, drinking tea while waiting for the people from the Xue family to come and find fault.

　Ask for a recommendation ticket

　　


(End of this chapter)