Chapter 152 Good News (Continued)
On the street, pedestrians coming and going passed by Wang Hu, without affecting his thoughts at all. As a person with high self-esteem, Wang Hu didn't care about the noise around him when he was thinking.
He was invited by Liu Zhuo to come from Chang'an, Guanzhong to Xiyang, Huangzhou, and taught at Huangzhou Prefecture School. After more than two months, he was very knowledgeable about academic matters, and in his spare time, he also began to observe someone.
Huangzhou General Manager, Xiyang Wang Yuwen Wen, is an exaggeration.
This was his initial conclusion and impression. Shortly after he arrived in Xiyang, Wang Jun was invited to attend a banquet at the Xiyang Palace. After that, he met Yuwen Wen from time to time and said a few words. During the conversation, he felt that this person was a bit inappropriate.
As a noble vassal king, the general manager in charge of the country did not pay attention to his identity when he treated people and things. He spoke frivolously and danced with joy. To put it nicely, he was a bit unrestrained, but to put it bluntly, he was so arrogant.
Although I don’t understand classics, I like to talk big, but I love to speak but can’t understand the key points, which often makes the scene very awkward.
Wang Jun felt that if Yuwen Wen was unemployed and had no status as a Wang Hou, he would be free and free when he acted like this on weekdays, traveling around, drinking and chatting together.
But Yuwen Wen is a royal vassal king and a high-ranking official in charge. This is true in public, and he is really "not as good as a monarch"!
Seeing that Yuwen Wenyan was exaggerated, Wang Xu was a little disappointed. The reason for his thoughts was that he had ambitions, avenging his father was one, and making achievements were the second. He was famous for his extensive knowledge, but in fact he had a heart that galloped on the battlefield.
A real man has no other ambitions, so he should follow Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian made great contributions to the foreign land to be granted a title. How could he spend a long time between pen and inkstone?
This is what Ban Gu said when he joined the army. Wang Jun had longed for it and only hoped to have the opportunity to make achievements like Ban Dingyuan. However, after being inspired by his brother and studying hard, he became a bachelor of the Lumen instead of a general in command.
What he wanted to take was a murder knife, not a wolf-shaped pen; he wanted to be awarded titles based on military merits, rather than teaching in the Imperial Academy; he wanted to become a famous general like his father, rather than a famous scholar of classics.
The Wang family had no foundation in Zhou State, and they could only rely on the appreciation of the superiors to make a name for themselves. For Wang Jun, his brother Wang Feng's career was difficult, and he had no hope of becoming an assistant teacher in the Imperial Academy, let alone others.
The Wang family's connections were already very difficult to support Wang Ban's career. Wang Jun decided to find a way to find another way, so he had to join others' command. After thinking about it, he thought that Wang Yuwen of Xiyang had a "prosperity", but was disappointed.
"Mr. Wang, today's look good."
The greetings interrupted Wang Xu's thoughts. When he looked up, it was the shopkeeper of the bookstore who greeted him. He nodded and walked into the bookstore. Looking at the busy store, Wang Xu smiled and said, "Shopkeeper, the business is still booming today."
"Where is it, isn't this a blessing for the state learning?" The shopkeeper asked the guy to bring a book, which was filled with the fragrance of ink, and you could tell at a glance that it was a new book that had just been printed.
"Mr. Wang, the monthly magazine of last month has been published. The shop is thinking of sending someone to send a copy to the mansion. Now Mr. Wang is just passing by, which is really a coincidence."
Wang Jun took the book, led by the shopkeeper, and then went to the seat next to him. Then he looked through it carefully. On the seat next to him, the bookstore was introducing a wide variety of books to the guests, one of which was the book of the same name in his hand.
"Xiyang Monthly" is, as the name suggests, a "publication" published every month. The contents on it are all the contents of the Huangzhou Prefecture Academy Debate (Q&A) meeting the previous month. Once published, it has attracted widespread attention from all parties.
There are now "two Lius" in Huangzhou Prefecture School, namely Liu Zhuo, Liu Xuan, and two other "two Lius", namely Liu Zhen, Liu Ne, and him, Wang Sanlang. Every debate is full.
There are so many famous scholars of the Confucianism held debates (question and answering meetings), and scholars of course need to listen to them, but the venue is limited, and more and more people want to listen to the lectures. What should I do?
It is easy to deal with. The content of the monthly meetings is recorded and published monthly after sorting it out. It is called "Xiyang Monthly". Once this book was released, it was sold out by bookmakers and then sold well everywhere.
The speaker will benefit from every debate (question and answering meeting): there will be a "commission" after the monthly magazine is published. There will be three or five lectures every month, and after the publication next month, the "commission" will come.
I don’t know how many other people’s “commissions” are. Wang’s “commissions” in the previous month were more than 40 cents. Of course, this is the market price after the circulating coupons they earned were converted into copper coins.
More than 40 yuan is enough for his family and his nephew's family to spend a month, and the income from teaching in the state and proofreading books for the bookstore is not included.
Wang Xu carefully read the newly published "Xiyang Monthly" and was very satisfied with the content without any mistakes and the exquisite printing. After putting away the book, he got up and left, crossed the threshold of the bookstore, and saw the schoolhouse opposite him.
"Xiyang Monthly" is a popular book in Huangzhou Bookstores today, bringing a lot of money to publishers, but this has nothing to do with the study club, because Yu Wen Wen, the head of the study club who first proposed the idea of "monthly" gave the opportunity to publish "Xiyang Monthly" to other bookstores.
Outsiders don’t know about this kind of secret. Wang Jun only learned about it after Liu Zhuo talked about it. What does this mean?
It shows that Yuwen Wen has an idea.
Wang Jun only believed in his eyes and ears, so even though he felt that Yu Wen Wen was "exaggerated" at first, he still walked around the city and listened. After two months, what he saw, heard and thoughts made him realize that the one-legged bronze man who seemed to be "being a monkey and a crown" had another hidden side.
Now that Zhou State has used large-scale troops against Chen State, he has heard some "good news" in the tea shop. Wang Wang has a trace of abnormality: the merchants and wealthy families in Huangzhou seem to be very excited about the war, because as long as the King of Xiyang fights, they will be profitable.
If you win a battle, you will be even more excited because there will be more opportunities to make money. Not only that, even ordinary people are very happy because once they fight, they have work to do and wages to get.
When the King of Xiyang fought, he could make money even among Huangzhou, so everyone was looking forward to the war. This incredible situation was based on the government's money to purchase a large amount of military supplies. To be precise, it was based on the King of Xiyang who paid for the money to purchase military supplies.
Where did Yuwen Wen get so much money? What did he want to do if he spends so much money?
The answer is obvious, to buy people's hearts, and this is not a simple bribery, but a bribery through the method of "prospering oneself and prospering oneself". Yuwen Wen's intention is obvious.
‘You have ambitions, so you keep acting and make some people feel like they are not in the climate, right?’
This is good news. Wang Feng felt that the trip to Xiyang is worthwhile. Now he is like a child who has picked up a treasure, humming a song happily. It is a lyrics from a new shadow puppet:
Chapter completed!