Datang: My Peerless Talent Has Been Exposed

The businessmen next to them didn't care about Li Shimin's murmurs. After all, the two tables were quite far apart. If their voices weren't loud just now, Li Shimin and Wei Zheng couldn't hear their voices at all.

The fat businessman had already read the whole newspaper quickly, and suddenly smiled and said to the goatee who was still reading the newspaper seriously,

"Dude, look, look at this article, it's about anecdotes in the market, look carefully!"

Goatee followed the little radish finger of the fat businessman and found that it was a column called Miscellaneous Talk in the Market on the second edition, which contained short stories that happened in various parts of the Tang Dynasty.

And the one the fat businessman pointed to was a businessman who had been doing business in other places for a long time. After returning to Chang’an, he had a party with his old friends. Got drunk after two drinks.

This small article laments the rapid changes of Chang'an City, and at the same time laments the mellowness and power of Zhang's fine wine, and kindly advises everyone, although the fine wine is good, don't be greedy.

Goatee looked at this, frowned, and said in confusion,

"What's the matter? It's just a story in Chang'an City. Who hasn't been tricked by Zhang's fine wine at the wine table? Didn't you use this trick to bet with others before?"

The fat businessman shook his head with a smile,

"You, man, are you really not paying attention or are you pretending not to be paying attention? This story seems to be about interesting things in Chang'an City, but why don't you say anything else, but it just talks about Zhang's fine wine and directly puts Zhang's fine wine. Has the name been written?"

Seeing the goatee in front of him lost in thought, the fat man continued,

"I don't know what other people think. The old people in Chang'an City naturally know that Zhang's wine is too mellow and cannot drink too much, but outsiders don't know. If they read this newspaper and this story, would they think about it? How delicious and full-bodied is Zhang's fine wine?"

"You should know that it was mentioned earlier that this newspaper will be published and distributed all over the country. Then, wouldn't the name of Zhang's fine wine be famous all over the country?"

The goatee was taken aback when he heard this, looked at the fat man in front of him, then looked at the newspaper in hand, and said nervously,

"You said that if I entrust someone to send a few hundred guan to Mr. Wei Zheng, can he write an article on my family's lacquerware and put it in this newspaper? I seem to have heard someone say that if Mr. Wei Zheng was asked to write a sacrificial article, Fifty guan is needed, but I don't know if a few hundred guan is enough?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin pricked up his ears, and immediately spit out a mouthful of wine, hahahaha, someone wanted to bribe Wei Zheng, and he, the emperor, found out on the spot, and Mr. Wei, who has always been poor, actually took money from others The thing about writing a memorial service.

Li Shimin looked at Wei Zheng in front of him playfully. Wei Zheng's old face was almost squeezed out of water now, and his neck was thick.

"Unexpectedly, Wei Qing, the price of fifty guan is one of the best in Chang'an City. Seeing how poor you are on weekdays, I really can't think of such a profit!"

Wei Zheng was so run over by Li Shimin that he didn't know what to say. The basis for him to hate the emperor and his colleagues was to stand upright, so the family really didn't have any property, and he didn't do any illegal activities by relying on his official status.

In the past, the family's expenses were mainly saved from the food guards, and then added to the salary of the court, but this money is really not enough in Chang'an City where consumption is becoming more and more popular.

This is also the reason why Wei Zheng always saved money in the past. He always had to save some money for his children to marry a wife.Isn't that a joke.

It was precisely because of this that he began to half-push and half-pick up a few requests for essays that came to his door, and there was no way to refuse them. These businessmen who have accumulated a huge amount of wealth are now pursuing only face.

As long as the entire Tang Dynasty has a well-known Master Wei Zhengwei to write a sacrificial oration, how much face would it be?A little money is nothing!

So, one was willing to fight and the other was willing to suffer, and that was it.

Wei Zhengyuan thought that this was his own small business, although it somewhat tarnished his status as a scholar, but after all, it was a way of earning money without stealing or snatching.

Of course, for the sake of his own reputation, these things were done in secret, not to mention the emperor, even few of his colleagues knew about it.

But now, he was nakedly exposed in front of the emperor. Wei Zheng was so ashamed and angry, he really wanted to go to the kitchen to find a knife and stab the two businessmen to death!

However, even if those two cowards are killed, it seems that I can't keep my secret!

Chapter 342 Shopkeeper Zhang's Secret Hand?

Wei Zheng looked at Li Shimin in front of him, and sighed silently in his heart. It seems that in the future, he should be more careful when criticizing the emperor. Now he has a handle in the hands of the emperor. Although it is not something illegal, it is a bit wrong to say it after all. nice.

After all, most of the articles written by literati are gifts between relatives and friends. Even if someone asks for a lot of money, most of them are poems. Nowadays, Zhang Nuo is the one with the highest price in poetry.

After all, in Zhang Nuo's collection of poems, Zhang Nuo has copied several of the famous works of Guangneng that have been handed down through the ages, not to mention Zhang Nuo's facial features are widely spread.

For such a person who is truly excellent in both poetry and writing, it is natural that someone came to ask for writing with a lot of money, but Zhang Nuo didn't care at all. After all, no matter how much money was spent, it was just like that.

But that price tag is a bit scary for ordinary people, especially after Zhang Nuo rejected it several times, the price tag became higher and higher.

Some people even said convincingly that the shopkeeper Xiao Zhang is a kind-hearted person, and those who are pleasing to the eye will directly send poems and words, and those who are not pleasing to the eye will not be able to get money.

Moreover, in the palace and in the homes of several important ministers, there are actually the treasures of this little shopkeeper, which are treasured in the study room for daily observation!

As soon as such news came out, Zhang Nuo's price was even higher!

Although Wei Zheng can also write poems, compared with Zhang Nuo, who is a badass, it is nothing to say at all.

And when others ask him to write poems, it is more of a sacrificial oration, that is, to praise the deceased old man or something. To be able to write this kind of sacrificial oration, he must be a respected and elegant person, and at the same time he must have a good reputation and good reputation. Literary.

Obviously, these conditions are very suitable for Wei Zheng, who has always paid great attention to his reputation. People can't let Zhang Nuo, a young man who is not as weak as a weak crown, write a sacrificial oration.

But looking at it now, alas, I don't know if this business can be done in the future, and I don't know when I can save enough money for the child to marry a wife.

Li Shimin is not as sentimental as Wei Zheng, just now he was just joking, now he has no interest in listening to the chatting of the two vendors next to him, instead he lowered his voice and approached Wei Zheng seriously,

"Wei Qing, you said that the article in the newspaper said that Zhang's fine wine is good, so naturally it has a good reputation, but if it is said that Zhang's fine wine is not good, it is a fake and inferior product, isn't it considered notorious? "

Wei Zheng was happy when he heard Li Shimin change the subject, but after hearing Li Shimin's words, he suddenly felt cold all over his body.

"Your Majesty, it's not good to do this. If you really do this, wouldn't it be turning black and white!"

Wei Zheng was really startled by Li Shimin's words just now, he just didn't think about it because his mind was too messy, now he turned his head and thought about it.

Is this the effect that Xiao Zhang's public opinion can achieve?

With the endorsement of the royal family and the imperial court, coupled with the astonishing amount of circulation, a random article can cause various repercussions in the Tang Dynasty.

Just like the story about Zhang's Fine Wine in the newspaper today, it seems to be just a story, but even the businessmen next to it can tell that it is a good thing about Zhang's Fine Wine.

But as long as people who have seen it, will they be curious about this thing, buy it and try it?