Princess, he is rich enough to rival the country

Gu Yanshu has always been a man of his word, and it was only here that shopkeeper Shi announced the decision to print two editions of the daily newspaper in the future. Before leaving the restaurant, he sent someone directly to the newspaper office to tell Wen Qingxiao about the matter, and let him Write an announcement out.

It happened that Wen Qingxiao was at the newspaper office at this time, and after hearing the people sent by Gu Yanshu finish explaining the cause and effect, there was no delay, and he directly wrote a notice and had it posted.

Since the establishment of the Kyoto Daily, every move of the newspaper has attracted the attention of the common people, not to mention that the newspaper has only recently launched the business of selling advertising space, and the number of people paying attention to the newspaper has increased a lot.

The notice here has just been posted, and it has been spread all over the capital.

Along with this announcement that spread throughout the capital, there was also the dispute between Ning Cailiang and Fan Zhiyuan.

Regarding the issue of newspaper printing advertisements, it is true that some students are not very comfortable with it.

However, there is a clear division of labor in the sections of the newspaper, and the boundaries between areas and advertising areas are clear. The appearance of advertisements will not affect the normality, and some advertisements are also extremely innovative, which makes people find it very interesting to read.

So after the initial awkwardness, everyone accepted this.

Therefore, after seeing this announcement, many people felt a little confused at first, and then felt completely incomprehensible:

If you really don't like the advertisements in the daily newspapers, you can just don't buy them. What kind of operation is it if you buy them and scold them at the same time?

Later, after learning the whole content of the dispute between Ning Cailiang and Fan Zhiyuan, he was speechless for a while.

As Fan Zhiyuan said, since the daily newspaper appeared, many poor students have replaced the paper they used to write drafts or practice calligraphy with newspapers.

Although it is not as convenient as brand new rice paper, it can save a lot of money.

Because of this, these poor students don't know how much they are grateful to the newspaper. For the newspaper's advertisement, these people naturally stood up and expressed their support for the first time.

In addition, he also criticized Ning Caihao.

It is said that Ning Cailiang's family is rich, so he doesn't leave a way for their poor students to survive.

Fortunately, Prince Li's Mansion was sympathetic and kept the advertised version, otherwise all daily newspapers would sell for [-] coins in the future, and even if they were frugal, they would not be able to afford it even if they tightened their belts.

Such remarks instantly won the support of the vast number of poor students, and even a considerable number of students from good families.

At this point, if anyone says that newspapers should not publish advertisements, they will immediately get a rebuttal from these people, and add a sentence to it:

"If you don't want to read the advertisement, isn't there a version without the print advertisement? Brother, why don't you just buy it?"

After a few rounds, no one dared to object to the newspaper's printing of advertisements.

For this result, most students are satisfied, but there is one person who is extremely dissatisfied, and that is our First Prince Qin Sheng.

Ning Cailiang would keep spreading the words that "newspapers should not print advertisements to pollute the pure land of students", because he was instructed by the First Prince.

After all, no one else knew how serious the newspaper's loss was before it published the advertisement, but the staff under the First Prince's staff knew it clearly.

Moreover, the eldest prince also knew that although this newspaper was owned by his father, in fact, from its establishment to now, his father had only given a total of 10 taels of silver to Prince Li's residence.

And these days, the loss of the newspaper office has been far more than this amount, and the part of the loss is naturally made up by Prince Li's mansion.

If it is possible, the First Prince naturally hopes that Prince Li's Mansion can continue to lose money like this.

Who knew that not only the failure of the final plan, but also the reputation of Prince Li's Mansion was even improved?

In addition, the First Prince also discovered one thing that made him extremely angry from this incident.

That is, without his knowledge at all, he has gradually lost the right to control the speech of the people in Beijing.

In the past, no matter how big the matter was, as long as the eldest prince thought about it, he could spread it all over the capital overnight.

However, this time he just wanted to add some trouble to the "Kyoto Daily", and it was already so difficult.

Regarding this point, the staff under the First Prince's hands naturally also noticed it.

But they soon discovered to their dismay that they had absolutely no way to change the status quo.

The most popular script in Beijing right now is Guiyuanju, which is the property of Prince Li's Mansion.

The one with the largest and deepest influence is the "Kingdu Daily". Although it is the emperor's property, it is within the control of Prince Li's Mansion.

In terms of the script, the Great Prince's Mansion thought of a way when "A Generation of Famous Persons" was born, but ultimately failed.

So if you want to get back the right to speak in Beijing, there is only one way to go, and that is to grab the "Kyoto Daily".

However, the emperor is obviously very satisfied with everything about the newspaper, and will never change easily.

Taking a ten thousand step back, even if the emperor gave the newspaper to the First Prince's Mansion, now the newspaper is full of people from Prince Li's Mansion.

Especially the general manager of the newspaper, Wen Qingxiao, has an extremely close relationship with Princess Li. If the eldest prince wants to completely control the newspaper, how easy is it?

In the end, everyone could only unanimously decide to avoid his edge for the time being, give up the right to speak in Beijing, and discuss it later.

Regarding this point, the First Prince disagreed at first, but in the end, he could only accept this reality.

For giving up some of the rights he is most proud of, the eldest prince will definitely find it in other places to make up for it.

The first one is Changle Casino.

Nearly half a year has passed since the gambling shop closed, far exceeding the original expectations of the First Prince's Mansion.

It's just that the eldest prince left Beijing halfway because of the snow disaster in Shaocheng, so he couldn't think of it for a while.

Now that the eldest prince is back, he is naturally looking for an opportunity to recall Zhao Ergou to the capital and rebuild the Changle gambling house.

One must know that although the Great Prince's Mansion is not yet at the end of its rope, it is not far from it.

Not to mention that in the process of disaster relief in Shaocheng this time, the eldest prince hardly got a little bit of money.

you ask why?

The eldest prince said that he also wanted to!

But the current household department is no longer the previous household department. Since Wen Qingyan entered the household department, the First Prince's Mansion has become a lot more restrained in order to let the household department do something.

Under such circumstances, the eldest prince said that he was not so courageous in thinking about disaster relief money!

Speaking of Wen Qingyan, the First Prince's face immediately turned ugly, and he looked at the staff in the room with an unfriendly expression:

"No matter what method you use in this hall, within half a month, that person named Wen must be taken away from the household department!"

"Subordinates obey!"

The faces of the staff members suddenly turned ugly.

The Wen family is notoriously difficult to deal with, not to mention that Wen Qingyan is the most outstanding junior in the Wen family besides Wen Liu.

How easy is it to squeeze him out of the household department?

But the aides also knew that since Wen Qingyan entered the Ministry of Household Affairs, it was difficult for the eldest prince to do anything, so there was no room for negotiation on this matter.

However, the First Prince's talent here had just started to make arrangements, and was about to set Wen Qingyan up, when Prince Li's Mansion did something, which caught them off guard.

The imperial palace, the royal study——

The emperor was sitting at the desk reviewing the memorial as usual, and the prince came in from the door at this time:

"Your Majesty, His Highness Li Wang is asking to see you."

"Oh?" Qin Yuan's writing hand paused, and his tone rose, "Why is he free to come to see me today?"

Ever since Gu Yanshu's speed of inventing and creating slowed down, Qin Lu rarely came to see Qin Yuan alone, and this was the first time in nearly half a month.

Even Qin Yuan didn't know the reason, so it was impossible for Wang Gonggong to know either.

Fortunately, Qin Yuan didn't necessarily want to get the answer from Wang Gonggong, so he continued with the action in his hand and left a "quasi" on the memorial:

"Let him in."

"Yes." Wang Gonggong leaned over and quietly retreated from the house.

Not long after, Qin Lu walked in behind Eunuch Wang.

Hearing the movement, Qin Yuan lifted his eyelids slightly to look, and found that Qin Lu was actually holding a mirror case in his hand this time.

Dang even put down the brush in his hand calmly, looked up inadvertently, and happened to see Qin Lu preparing to salute, so he simply spoke first:

"Wai Li, what is there to come to me this time?"

There were disgusting words on his mouth, but his tone was full of impatience.

Falling into the ears of people who knew Qin Yuan well, such as Wang Gonggong, this sentence was like "What good things did you bring in again? Show me quickly!".

Of course, Wang Gonggong will never expose Qin Yuan. What he has to do is to watch his nose and nose, and his nose to watch his heart, as if he doesn't know what to do.

Qin Lu's ability to control facial expressions has always been outstanding. Even though he could hear the emperor's implication, the expression on his face did not change at all:

"Reporting to Father, the main purpose of this son's entry into the palace is to send money to Father."

"Send money?" The answer was really beyond Qin Yuan's expectations, "What kind of money?"

"Reporting to Father, the newspaper office has been profitable since half a month ago. It coincides with today's first day of the lunar new year. The princess asked my son to send this part of the money to Father first."

Qin Lu said, and put the brocade box in his hand in front of the emperor.

After looking down at the brocade box in front of him for a moment, the emperor stretched out his hand to open it.

It was found that the top one was an account book. After taking out the account book, the bank notes were placed below.

At this time, Qin Lu spoke again:

"In the past half a month, the newspaper has made a total of 14 taels of profit. According to the June 4000th split, a total of [-] taels should be given to Father Huang."

The June [-]th share was a condition that Qin Lu had negotiated with Qin Yuan before the newspaper office.

Prince Li's mansion occupied four, and the emperor occupied six. At that time, the emperor didn't think that the daily newspaper could make much money.

Who knew that the result was so unexpected to him now:

"Half a month, 14 taels?"

Rao Qin Yuan was also shocked by this number at this time.

Half a month is 14 taels, and almost every day there is a profit of 1 taels. If you do the math again, it is more than 300 million taels a year!

More than 300 million taels, almost catching up with the national treasury's income for a whole year!

Thinking of this, Qin Yuan didn't care about his lack of image, so he picked up the ledger and flipped through it quickly.

But it didn't take long for Qin Yuan to discover to his disappointment that the profit of 14 taels for half a month was not pure profit.

It did not deduct the various costs and expenses of the newspaper.

At this time, Qin Lu also gave an explanation:

"The concubine said that this 14 taels is the first return money that the newspaper has seen since its establishment, and the cost has not been deducted. , the cost will be deducted.”

Gu Yanshu's speech has always made people feel comfortable, and it's the same this time.

After hearing these words, Qin Yuan also calmed down a little, looked at the books carefully, and found that even after deducting the costs, the annual profit of the newspaper office was almost 200 million taels.

Although it is less than 300 million taels, it is still a lot of money.

But soon, the emperor discovered another inappropriate place:

"You boy, did you already know that newspapers can make money?"

Otherwise, why did you insist on making the June [-]th split?

"Father Huang Mingjian, there are many uncertain factors in this, and my son is not completely sure about this matter. It was only after this month's implementation that the effect was far beyond expectations!"

Qin Lu lowered his eyes slightly, and carried out the advice given by his princess, and refused to admit it!

Fortunately, the emperor had just received more than [-] taels, and when he thought of the additional income of more than one million taels every year, he was also happy and did not delve into the matter.

Seeing Qin Lu pretending to be stupid, he didn't want to say more, so he waved his hand directly:

"Look, I believe it or not! Now I'm getting more and more capable of pretending to be stupid, so get out if there's nothing wrong!"

"Yes, Erchen retire."

Qin Lu leaned over slightly, then backed away.

However, before he took two steps back, he heard Qin Yuan's voice again:

"and many more!"

"My son is here!" Qin Lu paused slightly.

"How did I hear that there is a new restaurant opened in Beijing recently, it seems to be called...Ten Days Drunk?"

As soon as Qin Lu heard this, he knew what the emperor wanted to ask, and he didn't hide it:

"Go back to father, that's the restaurant that Wang Hao opened when she has nothing to do."

"Then I also heard that there are four wines in this restaurant, each of which is far better than Xiyue wine?"

The emperor narrowed his eyes slightly, his expression a little unhappy.

This third child is becoming more and more ignorant, he knew to send a copy to the palace first when he got a good thing before, what's going on now?

"Father, it is true."

Qin Lu immediately understood what the emperor was thinking. Fortunately, he was also prepared for this point, and responded calmly:

"Originally, I also wanted to give some to my father, but thinking that my father doesn't like drinking alcohol, and the princess has discovered another important use of spirits, but I'm not sure yet, so I thought about waiting until After verifying it, report it to Emperor Father together with the wine."

Sure enough, the emperor was no longer obsessed with the fact that Prince Li's mansion did not take the lead in delivering wine to him, and his attention immediately shifted to another point:

"Vital purpose? What purpose?"

A look of embarrassment appeared on Qin Lu's face:

"This purpose is still being tested in the mansion, and the conclusion has not yet been fully reached. Forgive me, I can't tell you. If there is a result, I will definitely inform Father Huang as soon as possible. I hope Father Emperor will forgive me."

Fortunately, Qin Yuan is not a completely unreasonable person. Seeing what Qin Lu said, he stopped asking questions and only asked:

"When will Moyo have results?"

"The quickest is within three days, and the slowest is within seven days."

Qin Lu almost didn't even think about it, so he gave the answer.

In fact, Yu Liren has already reached a conclusion on the fact that spirits can improve the chance of wound healing by cleaning the wound.

But now there is still the last set of experiments that are not over yet. With a rigorous and serious attitude, Qin Lu didn't say anything to death.

For three to five days, Qin Yuan thought he could wait.

But when he looked up and saw Qin Lu's dead fish face, Qin Yuan was not so happy anymore, so he waved his hand again without thinking:

"Since that's the case, tell me when the results come out, and you can get out if there's nothing wrong!"

"Yes, my son is leaving!"

Qin Lu leaned over slightly, took two steps back slowly, then turned around and walked outside the hall.

This time, Qin Yuan didn't call Qin Lu to stop again.

After Qin Lu left, the emperor didn't hold back, took out the banknotes in the brocade box, and counted them.

As Qin Lu said, 4000 taels, not a penny!

More than [-] taels is not a big number for the emperor, and it is not even as much money as the emperor handed over to Gu Yanshu to start a newspaper.

But the more than [-] taels had a different meaning to the emperor.

This is the first time that the emperor has seen return money, and seeing this money, the emperor will think of the fact that the newspaper will bring him profits every month in the future.

At this time, the emperor finally realized that what Wen Qingyan said back then was not wrong!

Why is Tianqi's treasury always empty?

Why does he, as the lord of a country, have to tighten his belt every day?

It's all because of Hubu's inaction!

Every time something happened, they clamored for throttling!

If the Minister of the Household Department had half the ability to make money as the third daughter-in-law, Tianqi's treasury would not be so poor!

After seeing the benefits of open source, the emperor naturally attached a lot of importance to Wen Qingyan's work.

When it came to the morning court on the second day, the emperor couldn't help but reprimanded the Minister of the Household Department, and ordered him to go home and reflect behind closed doors for half a month, thinking about the stupid things he had done during his tenure.

Immediately afterwards, Wen Qingyan was called out, and after encouraging him in a gentle voice, he was also asked to temporarily act as the deputy of the Minister of the Ministry of Accounting during the half month when the Minister of the Ministry of Hubu was contemplating his mistakes behind closed doors.

This move directly caught the First Prince's side by surprise:

what happened?

They were just about to dig a hole for Wen Qingyan and push him out of the household department. How did this person get the emperor's appreciation for no reason?

This sudden change made the First Prince confused, but at the same time he did not dare to act rashly.

In the following morning court, each of them hurriedly behaved with their tails between their legs, not knowing how cautious they were.

As for the matter of pushing Wen Qingyan out of the household department, it seems impossible to do it now, so the plan can only be postponed and discussed in the long run.

Of course, this early court event was not entirely a bad thing for the First Prince's lineage.

Because when the court was approaching, the emperor seemed to say something very casually:

"A few days ago, Song Aiqing from the Ministry of Rites said that she was getting old, and she told me to return home. I thought that Song Aiqing was almost seventy years old, and it was really not easy, so I agreed."

In a word, it immediately caused a commotion among many people.

What the emperor said at this time was Mr. Song, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites.

Before that, there had been rumors in the court that Mr. Song was going to retire and return home.

In fact, this is indeed reasonable. At Mr. Song's age and position, seeing that there is no hope of promotion, almost all the younger generations have gained a firm foothold in the court.

There is indeed no need to continue to die in the court.

However, because all these are just rumors, everyone is not completely sure.

Now hearing these words from the emperor's mouth, everyone understands that the dust should have settled by now.

Immediately, many people's minds began to come alive:

The position of the Sixth Department can be described as a carrot and a pit. A few days ago, Wen Qingyan was appointed as the left servant of the household department, and the original left servant was transferred away to become Zhan Shifu Zhanshi.

Now that Mr. Song has become an official, a position will naturally be vacated in the Ministry of Rites. Don't they all have hope?

However, before the people in this position could think about how to operate it, they heard the emperor's voice:

"I thought, this year coincides with the selection of the imperial examination hall, and there will be a group of new scholars in September. Before that, there should not be too many changes in the court. It just so happens that the fourth child has also reached the age, so the position of Song Aiqing will be replaced by the old man." Fourth, let's act as an agent for now, next court!"

It has to be said that what the emperor said was indeed reasonable.

Before the scientific examination every three years, there will indeed not be much change in the court, and the fourth prince has indeed reached the age where he can serve in the court.

Although the position of Minister of the Ministry of Rites is important, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites is very capable now, otherwise Mr. Song would not be able to make an inch of progress even if he was very young. With him in front, there would be no big troubles.

What's more, the emperor also said that the fourth prince's position as Minister of Rites is only temporary, and there will be new arrangements after the new Jinshi enters the court.

Thinking of this, everyone did not raise any objections.

Since the emperor reprimanded the Minister of the Household Department, the face of the first prince's ashen complexion has suddenly improved a lot, and there is even a hint of joy on his face:

No one knows the Fourth Highness's ability better than them.

The emperor has now given this opportunity to His Highness the Fourth Highness. Now that His Royal Highness has joined the Ministry of Rites, given time, he will definitely be able to hold the Ministry of Rites in his hands!

On the Hubu side, the emperor just asked Hubu Shangshu to go home to reflect, but did not demote him. He thought there was still room for operation.

At that time, they will control the second of the six parts, how can King Li compete with them?

As for Li Wang's lineage?

This time, even without Gu Yanshu saying it, Qin Lu and the fifth prince already knew that it was his father, the master of Duan Shui, Huang, who started his high-end Duan Shui operation again.

Relaxing Wen Qingyan's right to act in the Ministry of Household Affairs gave the eldest prince the benefit of being part of the Ministry of Rites.

But the fifth prince still doesn't understand:

"Why did the emperor suddenly attack the Minister of the Household Department?"

Isn't it good to start?

Afterwards, the Fifth Prince got the answer from Gu Yanshu:

"It's natural to see the benefits of open source."

Gu Yanshu said that yesterday he reluctantly asked Qin Lu to send the newspaper's gross profit over the past half month to the palace, where he was waiting for the eldest prince and the household department.

Otherwise, why didn't he just follow the most open rules and give away the pure profit?

Apart from being convinced, what else can the Fifth Prince say?

Of course, besides this, the Fifth Prince has another problem:

"Then the third sister-in-law thinks, who won this round?"

The corners of Gu Yanshu's lips raised slightly, and he gave the answer without thinking:

"Of course it's Prince Li's Mansion."

"How to say?" Today's matter, no matter how you look at it, is that the First Prince took advantage of it, right?

No matter how bad it is, the two sides can still draw a tie. How come Gu Yanshu said that Prince Li's Mansion won again?

But Gu Yanshu only gave the Fifth Prince an inscrutable smile:

why?

Do you still need to ask this question?

Originally, it was the best balance for the first prince to control the Ministry of Households and Prince Li's Mansion to control the Ministry of War.

But now the emperor keeps tilting the bowl to the side of Prince Li's Mansion for the treasury to be more relaxed in the future, and then keeps adding water to the side of the First Prince's Mansion to cover up the peace.

Don't look at the fact that the water surface still seems to be level, but it is not as stable as it was at the beginning.

At this time, it only needs a little external force, and the bowl of water will naturally fall into Prince Li's residence.

What's more, with Wen Qingyan's ability, when the Minister of the Household Department came back half a month later, he still had half of the right to speak before, and it was because of his mercy.

Naturally, Prince Li's Mansion won this round.

Gu Yanshu didn't speak, and the fifth prince thought for a while, but still couldn't figure out the reason.

Just about to ask Gu Yanshu again, but was interrupted by Xingren's voice outside the door:

"My lord, my concubine, came over to pass on a message to the doctor, saying that the result has come out, and asked the two highnesses if they would like to go there."