Princess, he is rich enough to rival the country

After the man finished asking, Gu Yanshu heard a slightly deep voice that sounded very comfortable the next moment:

"I really cannot agree with your opinions."

The man paused slightly, as if he had stopped to take a sip of water, and then he didn't even give the others the slightest chance to refute, so he output:

"You keep saying that the advertisements published in the daily newspaper are tainted with businessman's breath and smell like money, but have you forgotten that a newspaper is only five cents?"

"All of you here are scholars, and you should be well aware of the price of rice paper. Even the cheapest and roughest rice paper will cost 25 Wen if you want to buy a daily newspaper."

"Brother Liang, I remember that Lingtang's natal family is in the paper business, right? Why? Lingtang didn't tell you how much the familiar propaganda used for a daily newspaper costs?"

"Even if you don't know how much it costs, you should have seen many cash-strapped students use newspapers to make drafts in school these days, just to save the tens of pennies to buy rice paper, right?"

"Except for the ink used for printing, the ink used for printing, the wages of craftsmen, the maintenance costs required for the shop, and even the pen and ink manuscript fees for adults... don't you need money?"

"I was thinking about seeing everyone's righteous indignation, and I thought that a newspaper in the newspaper office is not five cents, but fifty cents."

"What? What do you guys mean now, if the newspaper has a loss, it must continue to lose money like this, and can't find a way to recover this part of the loss from other places?"

……

The more he spoke, the higher the voice of Mr. Fan became. It could be heard that this was just like the person who started the topic at the beginning, and he deliberately said it for the audience outside the box.

The spectators who were drinking wine in the restaurant and watching the play felt that what those people said just now was quite reasonable, that the newspaper office really shouldn't publish advertisements in the newspaper, and their mentality changed slightly at this time:

That's right, the low price of newspapers is a well-known fact in Beijing and China.

Don’t you see that there is something missing on the wall of someone’s house and needs to be pasted up? Even when street vendors need to use rice paper for packaging, they should use newspapers.

When asked why, the answer was "cheap".

But before this, no one had ever thought about how much loss the newspaper office was hiding behind the word "cheap".

Now that they were pointed out, they realized that there were some things that they had taken for granted.

At this time, another voice came from that box:

"Mr. Fan, you see, we are just joking. Why are you so serious? Mr. Ning's intention is also good, but it's just that you didn't think carefully. You just..."

However, before this person could finish his words of persuasion, he was interrupted by Mr. Fan just now:

"I see that Mr. Ning is not thoughtful, but he is too thoughtful, right? Since Mr. Ning has no dust in his eyes, he can't see the newspaper office acting like a businessman. Why don't Mr. Ning pay every day of the newspaper office out of his own pocket in the future?" Make up for the shortfall of the day?"

"I believe that if Mr. Ning is willing, the newspaper office will definitely be willing to follow Mr. Ning's wishes and return Mr. Ning to a piece of pure land."

"Farewell!"

Then, there was a sound, and Gu Yanshu lowered his head, just in time to see a man in a moonlight brocade robe coming down the stairs.

Seeing the hurrying appearance, it should be Mr. Fan who was madly exporting in the box just now.

Looking at Mr. Fan's clothes, he is also a man with a lot of money. How can he be so comprehensive when it comes to this business?

Not long after, Gu Yanshu knew the answer.

Because Zhi Ge, who didn't know when he left just now, happened to walk in from outside the door, lowered his head and told Gu Yanshu and Qin Lu about the situation in the box.

The one who started the topic was Ning Cailiang, the second young master from a side branch of Ningguo Duke's mansion.

Although it bears the name of Ningguo Duke's Mansion, it is a side branch and a concubine. This relationship is actually far away from Ningguo Duke's Mansion.

It is also because of this that this Ning Cailiang tried every means to establish a relationship with Duke Ning's government, and now he is working wholeheartedly for the First Prince.

The few people who echoed at the beginning were basically people who were on good terms with Ning Cailiang.

And judging from the investigation by Zhi Ge, these people have said these things in public since the Kyoto Daily began to publish advertisements.

In this regard, Gu Yanshu was not surprised at all.

After all, from the moment Ning Cailiang uttered his words, the direction in his words was very obvious. It would be a bit unreasonable to say that there was no conflict of interest.

However, Gu Yanshu was more interested in the young master Fan who spoke last.

Although the time was short, Zhi Ge finally found out the identity of that person.

This Mr. Fan was named Fan Zhiyuan, he came from another place, he was born in a merchant, and his relationship with Ning Cailiang was not far or close.

Although the ban on merchants from becoming an official has been abolished after ascending the throne today, but in the eyes of most people, merchants and merchants have the status of low-ranking.

It was also because of this level that Ning Cailiang and the others actually didn't think much of Fan Zhiyuan.

But because of Fan Zhiyuan's status, he could be regarded as the most generous person among them, so even though they looked down on Fan Zhiyuan, Ning Cailiang and others would bring Fan Zhiyuan to play together.

Then Zhi Ge told Gu Yanshu an extremely interesting thing.

That is, although Fan Zhiyuan was born in a merchant and had not been in the capital for a long time, his talent and knowledge were extraordinary.

The article's policy theory even became the best among the colleges, and was praised by the masters, and was called one of the candidates most likely to win the championship by the masters.

If it wasn't for his status as a hindrance, he might have already become famous in Beijing by this time.

From what Fan Zhiyuan said just now, it can be heard that this person really sees things very thoroughly.

That being the case, it was impossible for him not to see what Ning Cailiang and the others were thinking, so why did he hang out with them again, and why did he choose to tear himself apart with this group of people at this time?

Rao Gu Yanshu couldn't figure out the reason for this at this time.

Gu Yanshu couldn't figure out what Fan Zhiyuan was thinking. On the other hand, Ning Cailiang was utterly pissed off by Fan Zhiyuan's sudden attack.

If it hadn't been for others to stop him, he might have fought Fan Zhiyuan just now.

After Fan Zhiyuan left, it took a long time for Ning Cailiang to come back to his senses, and asked with a low growl:

"Who called him here today?"

"Didn't you say that you spent too much recently and asked someone to pay the bill?"

After a while, an unkind answer sounded in the room.

Although the speaker's family background was not as good as that of Duke Ning's, he was indeed the eldest son of the family. Seriously speaking, he was almost the same as Lin Cailiang, so he was not afraid of him at all.

He was named by Fan Zhiyuan just now, and his mother's natal family was the one who was in the rice paper business.

After being scolded by pointing his nose like this, his face was not good-looking, and he naturally lost his face towards Ning Cailiang who provoked the topic.

Ning Cailiang glared at the man, his face was also not good-looking:

"If you want someone to pay the bill, you must find him?"

"Who else can spend so much money at once?"

That's true.

Since Ten Days Drunk invited many retired imperial chefs and reserve chefs to cook, the price of the food is naturally not cheap.

Coupled with those spirits that are even better than Xiyue Liquor, the price is even more expensive, not something that ordinary people can easily afford.

Although these people come from good backgrounds, they are still being disciplined by their parents at home, and they have a fixed number of pocket money every month.

Not to mention that Ning Cailiang likes to invite friends every time he goes out. A group of people don't know how to save money.

However, Fan Zhiyuan was different.

According to the information these people knew, although Fan Zhiyuan was young, he had already started to be the master of the Fan family, and his daily expenses could be taken from the official accounts.

So everyone likes to bring Fan Zhiyuan and let him pay the bill when the monthly pocket money is used up.

Although Fan Zhiyuan may only agree two or three times out of ten times, Fan Zhiyuan can't hold back Fan Zhiyuan's extravagant spending!

Now Ning Cailiang was completely speechless.

But thinking of what Fan Zhiyuan said just now, he still felt unable to hold back his face, and there was a wave of anger burning wantonly in his heart.

However, before Ning Cailiang could find the reason for venting his anger, he heard the voice of shopkeeper Shi outside the window:

"I'm very sorry, I have a few words to say, and I need to delay you for a while. Later, I will ask someone to offer a pot of half-day leisure to each table as an apology."

Hearing that there would be free drinks, everyone was not dissatisfied in their hearts, so they nodded and agreed:

"It's just a few words. Shopkeeper Shi just speak up when he has something to say!"

Shopkeeper Shi was not polite either, and said with a smile:

"I believe that many people have heard it just now. Several guests had a dispute because of the advertisement in the daily newspaper."

Hearing shopkeeper Shi mentioning this matter, many people felt a little puzzled.

Since the opening of this restaurant, it can be said that there have been countless disputes. Why did shopkeeper Shi only mention this matter?

But soon, the doubts in their hearts were answered:

"It stands to reason that this has nothing to do with me, but you all know that my boss is in charge of the newspaper office Prince Li's Mansion."

"It's just a very unfortunate coincidence that when the guests were arguing just now, Her Royal Highness Wang Hao was inspecting the restaurant. After knowing this situation, she asked me to come down and say a few words."

Hearing this, Ning Cailiang, who was still arrogant just now, turned a little ugly.

The close relationship between Princess Li and King Li is almost an open secret in Tianqi capital.

What he said here today was heard by Princess Li, if Princess Li went back to speak to His Highness Prince Li, how could he still have a way out?

However, what Ning Cailiang didn't expect was that it wasn't just this incident that made him uncomfortable.

There is also the following words from shopkeeper Shi:

"Her Royal Highness said that the purpose of publishing the advertisement in the newspaper, as Mr. Fan said, was to make up for the loss of the daily newspaper, but Her Highness did not expect that some customers would be so unhappy."

"Her Royal Highness is very sorry for this. In line with the principle of customer first, starting tomorrow, the daily newspaper will be printed in two editions. One edition, in order to meet the needs of some customers, will no longer print advertisements."

"However, in order to prevent the newspaper from continuing to lose money, the version without advertisements is priced at [-] copies. At that time, those who are interested can choose to buy according to their own preferences!"

"The newspaper office will issue an announcement about this later. In order not to waste everyone's time, if you want to know more information, you can go to the newspaper office for details."

"Xiao Er, bring wine to all the guests!"

I don't know whether I think shopkeeper Shi's words are reasonable, or because of the half-day idleness of the pot, the people in the restaurant nodded after hearing that:

Mr. Fan also said just now that this newspaper has a lot of losses every day, and it is really helpless to make up for the losses with advertisements.

Now Princess Li is actually willing to release a version without ads for those who don’t want to see the ads, which is already very considerate!

Although the price is a bit expensive, it is also reasonable!

Immediately, some people began to praise Prince Li's mansion for its kindness, and even raised their volume, saying something pointedly:

"The son who just said that the daily newspaper should not print advertisements should be extremely satisfied now!"

Ning Cailiang, who was in the private room on the second floor, was ashen-faced when he heard that, but he couldn't speak out when he was angry:

Extremely satisfied?

He is satisfied!

If the version without advertisements is actually printed tomorrow, which version will he buy?

Buy the ones with advertisements, these days he has been advocating that newspapers should not publish advertisements!

Buy the one without advertisements. A newspaper that can usually be bought for five cents now costs five hundred cents. Even a wealthy family can’t afford such an expense, let alone his pocket money.

Now it's all right, it's a dilemma!Thinking of this, Ning Cailiang's face turned ugly again.

Gu Yanshu, who caused this situation, smiled slightly, and raised his hand to pour a glass of leisure for Qin Lu who was sitting opposite him:

"My lord, drink."