With Li Ling's return, the news that he passed the provincial examination this year also spread rapidly in Jiangcheng County.

As Xu Cang said, in the next few days, many people who knew or didn't know came to the door and almost cut off the threshold of the Li family. Some of them had a relationship with Li Lingpan, wanted to devote their own land to the name of the juren, some wanted to do business with him, and some wanted to sell themselves to the Li family as slaves...

Faced with these people with different purposes, Li Ling could handle it patiently at first, but later he directly asked Li Moyun to leave the door to thank the guests. Only then did he agree to help with Aunt Jin and Lin Lie, who had been kind to him, did he agree to help. As for the others, no matter what they were saying about them, he did not owe these guys. When his family was in decline and he and his sister were frightened, he did not see these so-called villagers coming forward to help.

After a few days like this, the ears finally became quiet, and time also came to the ninth day of the ninth month and the Double Ninth Festival.

When Double Ninth Festival is in later generations, people are talking more about climbing high and respecting the elderly. But in fact, in ancient times hundreds of years ago, Double Ninth Festival was another extremely important day - the Autumn Day!

Killing is an ominous thing. In order to prevent those guys who have committed evil deeds from coming back to work after death, they must be destroyed in their bodies and spirits. Choosing a pure yang day, killing them with one knife at noon is the best time when the yang energy is the most prosperous. And the one with the most prosperous yang energy is the Double Ninth Festival in a year!

As noon approached, the people of Jiangcheng came to the crossroads in front of the yamen. When it was about noon, there were thousands of people gathered here, which seemed to be almost as good as the market that had been visited several months ago. These people naturally came to see today's execution.

Although Jiangcheng County has not executed death row prisoners in several years, this is not the main reason why so many people put down their work and came to watch it. The real key is that the prisoner who is going to be executed today is not someone else, but the striking figure in the county, the four masters of the county government, and Zhuang Hong, known as Zhuang Master Zhuang.

Whether it is his reputation inside and outside the county town or the evil things he has done over the years, the Qiu Jue against Zhuang Hong has become a major event that has caused a sensation in the county. These people who came to watch the punishment not only included residents in the county town, but also many of them came up from the towns outside the city early, because they were all oppressed and bullied by the banker, and just wanted to see Zhuang Hong full of evil deeds and suffer the consequences!

Li Ling naturally came too, but he did not mingle among the crowd. Instead, he booked a table in the restaurant on the other side of the cross street early, and drank with Gu Yuezi and Wan Lang, who had just come from the capital city, while waiting for the last moment to bring it.

Wan Lang still looked so careless and frivolous. He smiled and slowly savored the taste of the wine, then shook his head: "The wine in Jiangcheng County is still a bit bad. If we want our Wan family to open a restaurant here, maybe we can really grab the business."

"Just spare me and other villagers..." Li Ling smiled bitterly and filled him with another glass of wine, "Why are you thinking about coming to our small place this time?"

"Isn't it just to see you? I heard that Mr. Li, you are so powerful recently. You have passed the imperial examination. Of course, I have to come to celebrate and please me. In this way, you won't refuse if you ask for something in the future." Wan Lang grinned. Obviously, after he came to the county town, he also heard some statements about Li Ling's no love for the countryside.

Li Ling could only smile bitterly again: "It seems that doing business really makes you have a lot of skills. At least it is much better to make people mock people than before."

"There's no way. Who made you two unwilling to help me in the city? If I don't make progress, how can our Zongheng Bookstore develop?" At this point, the three of them looked at each other and laughed loudly. Then, Wan Lang said seriously: "But the deals in our store are really good recently, especially those novels by Mr. Li, you are sought after by many people. Not only ordinary people like to read the book, but even the people in the yamen are quite concerned about it. Two days ago, the official Li Tuan of the yamen went to the store to ask me when the third volume will come out."

"I finally understand. You are urging the manuscript this time." Li Ling smiled again, then took out a stack of paper from his sleeve and went over. "Fortunately, I am prepared. This is the third volume of Bao Gong Case, and the fourth volume is also being written. You should be able to submit the manuscript within this year."

When he saw the manuscript, Wan Lang hurriedly snatched it over: "That's good. I'm really afraid that once you pass the imperial examination, you will feel that you will not be able to write a book, and then you will give up." As he said, he had already started to read the content of the novel.

"How is this possible? Even if you and me have a relationship, I will not stop writing novels suddenly. After all, I am a man." Li Ling smiled. Eunuchs are the most insignificant.

The other two naturally didn't understand this meme, and Gu Yuezi also smiled and said, "So Brother Li is a believer. With his words, our bookstore business will be fine."

"Of course our Zongheng Bookstore's business is good. Do you know how much we have made since its opening in May to today?" Wan Lang was in a better mood and kept his word.

"How many?" Gu Yuezi asked interestingly.

He immediately spread his five fingers with his right hand and shook his eyes in front of the two of them: "This number is five thousand taels. This is the money we really earn. Although it is not as good as other industries in my family, we only have one store after all, and almost all have snatched more than 70% of the book business in the city. You haven't seen the faces of the guys in the third room recently, and I feel so happy."

"Can this bookstore really make so much?" Even Li Ling felt a little incredible.

"Didn't you ask Brother Li for your blessing? The idea you came up with is indeed good. Now, not only are some well-known people in our city who like to apply for gold cards to drink and buy books in my bookstore, but also some wealthy people from other counties come here often. In addition, I have also tried the practice of making exquisite books and putting them in good wooden boxes to double the price of books. Don't say that the sales are really good, and the profits are even more considerable. In addition, those comic book albums, although the profits are not as good as those two before, they are much better than those two..."

Wan Lang was really proud this time. He couldn't stop as soon as he opened his mouth. In a while, he talked about the booming business in the store, which made Li Ling and the others smile. Finally, he even pulled out a few silver notes and pushed them in front of them: "In addition to urging the manuscript today, we will naturally give you the dividends you deserve. Five thousand taels of profit, I will leave 40% in the store, and we will share the other three thousand taels equally."

Looking at the large silver notes, Gu Yuezi was moved by it. Thinking about a year ago, his bookstore almost closed because of a shortage of 1,000 taels of silver. Now, it is easy for a few months to harvest thousands of taels of silver, which makes him feel embarrassed to accept it. However, Li Ling honestly and unceremoniously reached out and took it: "I will go to the capital after the New Year. I am really short of money, so I will accept it with shame."

"Please accept it, I won't accept it too. We deserve it. We had already agreed before we joined forces to do the business." Wan Lang also noticed Gu Yuezi's hesitation and brought the cup to him, "Lao Gu, come, let's make more money for us in the future. I'll give you a cup."

Gu Yuezi then smiled and raised his glass: "Then I'm not polite. To be honest, before I met you two brothers, Lao Gu really didn't expect that the business would be so happy and prosperous."

Seeing him drinking and accepting the silver notes, Wan Lang smiled even more happily: "This is wherever he went. In the future, I believe that our Zongheng Bookstore will definitely become the largest bookstore in the world! By the way, the silver notes can only be exchanged for silver in various parts of Hengzhou Prefecture and several prefectures in Huaibei. If it is far away, it will be useless."

Li Ling frowned when he heard this: "Then it will be useless for me to go to Luoyang with these silver notes?"

"Well, our Wanjia Money House only has a branch account in Xuzhou, and the capital has no capital to enter. After all, there are many high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen and great businessmen there than our Hengzhou Prefecture. Compared with them, my Wanjia really can't count anything."

"Then can there be any other bank bank bank banknotes that can make their banknotes all over the country?" Li Ling asked thoughtfully. Although he had taken over a lot of banknotes, he had never thought about this question carefully.

Wan Lang immediately shook his head: "No, this is something that no one can do. I have a vast territory, with a territory of thousands of miles, and there are more than a hundred prefectures and counties in various states, prefectures and counties. No bank account can have the ability and connections to open its own semicolons everywhere. Even the largest Wantong bank account in Luoyang City can be enjoyed in all parts of the capital. When we are in Huaibei, we are still suppressed by local bank account in Xuzhou." As a person who has been in charge of his own bank account before, he naturally knows some things in the industry.

Li Ling felt even more moved. He really didn't expect this. Because of the influence of later literary and artistic works, after coming to this era, he ignored the limitations of silver bills and thought silver bills were exactly the same as those of later banknotes. But in fact, the difference between the two is too big, and maybe this will be a good trade route, but with their current identities and energy, it is far from possible to achieve.

Soon, Li Ling put this idea aside and smiled and said to Wan Lang: "Since our Zongheng Bookstore has been completely stable in the city, have you ever thought about moving your business out and opening up a new market?"

"I naturally thought about this, but after Hengzhou Prefecture, it is difficult to do business. Moreover, our bookstore does not have its own bookstore now, so we can only provide printing with the old ancient bookstore. If we are far away, we are afraid that we can't keep up."
Chapter completed!