Chapter fifty-eighth(1/2)
The only envoys sent by the Tiantong Sect were not Wang Jujun and Hua Yuanchun. The Tianqi Sect's sphere of influence covered the entire Jingzhou and even the eastern part of Liangzhou. Naturally, those places also had to send envoys.
The people who go out to the Heavenly Artifact Gate naturally need more heavyweight figures.
Moreover, the purpose of these messengers is not to really let the Heavenly Vessel Gate take back the iron coupons, after all, the situation is stronger than that of humans. What we hope now is that the Heavenly Vessel Gate and their affiliated sects can allow their subordinates to accept food coupons and iron coupons.
As long as they accept this condition, Tiantongmen will naturally have the confidence to use commercial means to beat iron coupons to amazement.
At this time, Li Zisheng from Tieshan City returned to Dongcheng. All he had to do was... let his subordinates buy salt. Of course, it was not a pound or two, but a bulk transaction.
Soon, these guys turned back empty-handedly. As for the reason why these people failed to buy salt products from the store, they said that they were temporarily out of stock, but these stores also said that the goods would be included in the store in a few days.
Li Zisheng felt nervous after hearing these rewards. Sure enough, someone was doing something wrong. It seems that some people wanted to take advantage of this opportunity of chaos in the East China Sea to make a big profit.
At this time, of course he didn't know that this was the Tiantongmen Joint Jingnan Grain Association, and wanted to use banned salt to make the Tie family bow their heads.
The boy thought for a while in the carriage and felt that this was nothing big.
It is naturally abominable for merchants to hoard goods, but since they are profit-seeking people who buy low and sell high, it is their duty. If they don’t make any money with this opportunity, what else do they do in this industry?
Although Li Zisheng has the memory and knowledge of another world, he is a human rather than an omniscient god after all, so he has some deviations this time.
The main reason is that the "instructor" in his mind comes from an industrial society, so he naturally doesn't think that salt is a great thing.
You should know that in our world, the Celestial Empire has a population of 1.4 billion, and the annual salt consumption is only 8 million tons, but the annual output is 80 million tons, ranking first in the world. This is not enough to produce at full capacity. So in the subconscious of the boy, he doesn't think that this salt shortage is a big deal.
But he forgot that in an agricultural society like Zhongzhou, many farmers actually only purchase salt goods once or twice a year. Generally, during summer and autumn grains, they also have spare money, and just take advantage of the slack season to enter the city to purchase daily necessities for the past year and two years. Of course, salt goods are a very important one.
And now is the time period for summer grain to go public.
Although Li Zisheng was a revolutionary, he had not yet revolutionized to the point where he even had to take care of money even when profitable merchants made. Of course, he couldn't control it. So he just told his friend to take advantage of the time when the price had not risen today, and then took his younger brother back to Xinyishuntang.
After returning home, the four Li family and the other two uncle Wu Pingtong sat in the hall and had a dinner with each other with a happy dinner. During the meal, Li Zisheng naturally told several elders about the salt.
Li Zhaochang and Wu Pingtong's sense of business are actually not keen, and now the business of lending and accepting debts has occupied all their minds, so they have no time to care about the price increase of salt. So even if they value this Sanyizi, they have only heard of arithmetic.
After dinner, Li Zisheng returned to his room to practice without further details.
I had nothing to say all night and came the next morning.
Li Zisheng led Li Ziren and Shi Gandang to practice physical skills in the yard. After breakfast, he rode his bicycle and took two entourages straight to Tieshan Academy. Now the wealthy young master Li San also equipped his entourage with bicycles, saving them from running away behind him.
The boy naturally went to find the Liu family’s father and daughter and continued to record the “record”.
Normal Liu Dacang is not a real god who is not a worldly fireworks. He naturally would not let go of such an opportunity to make extra money. He really went to find some former students, as well as talisman craftsmen in Tieshan City, and began to purchase large quantities of Liuyin notes and Liuyin jade pendants.
Unintentionally, the boy opened up another emerging industry.
He took the musical notes and Liu Wuxia and rode their bikes to the Xiao Family Bookstore for the second recording.
Of course, this time it is more than the song "A River Waves Wide". Li Zisheng has not been idle these two days and has "written" two more songs.
In fact, "plagiarism" is also the same technical job. It really cannot be followed by nature. Li Zisheng now writes revolutionary songs such as "Internationale", "Katyusha", and "Unbreakable Alliance", which is not as good as the indigenous people here in Central China.
We should proceed step by step and write some fresh works based on the audience's taste.
The boy picked and chose two songs in his memory, one? It was "Sweet Honey". When he thought of his junior sister Liu, he felt a little sweet in his heart, so he wrote this song out by chance.
However, after writing, Li Zisheng found that the song "Sweet Honey" was too straightforward and not so "elegant", so he wrote another song "When will the bright moon come to you?" Compared to "Sweet Honey", this song seems much more high-end, elegant and elegant, and the lyrics and music are relatively simple and elegant, suitable for the tastes of people at that time.
They came to Xiao’s bookstore with a chat and laughter along the way. Young Master Xiao had already arranged the female musicians and the venue to wait for them.
Perhaps it is genetics. Xiao Jiaqi is still very literary and young, and now he has more things he loves besides novels. So this little literary youth is destined to embark on a revolutionary path that promotes new culture. Of course, because of the particularity of this revolutionary path, Master Xiao has gone very unevenly along the way...
Is the reason for this? A woman with a flat figure is a little less attractive to Xiao Jiaqi when she grows up.
While Liu Wuxia was recording in the attic, the two discussed how to sell these "records". Soon, President Li Da and Editor-in-Chief Xiao reached an agreement. In fact, it was just the old method, first popularize for free, and then charge for the fee.
So at noon, when Wang Jujun and Hanahara Jun got off the boat at Dongcheng Wharf, what drifted into their ears was "When will the bright moon have it?"
Ask the sky with wine
Don't know the palace in heaven
What year has it been
I want to go back by the wind
I'm afraid of the jade building and jade building
It's cold at high places
Dance and make clear shadows
How about being in the world..."
These two people didn't want to make a statement, and even the eldest son of Hanahara Chunhua changed into a blue dress and covered his handsome face with a wide-brimmed hat. So he didn't let the Jingnan Grain Association or the Tie Family greet him, but was preparing to go to the Tieshan semi-colon of Tiantongmen to learn about the situation first.
They originally thought that someone invited a music troupe to sing music on the pier, but they were still wondering, where did the silly people come from listening to music on the pier? And it was such an elegant song.
Both of them are rich young men, so going to brothels to socialize is an indispensable "homework". Although they didn't deliberately spend much effort on lyrics and music, their appreciation level is not low.
As soon as this "When will the Moon Come" hit them, they were surprised. Did everyone from the brothel who came to sing live on this noisy pier?
However, then they found that the music came from... a group of teenagers riding a strange two-wheeled bike. There was a jade pendant hanging on the front of their bikes. It was supposed to be a Liuyin jade pendant. Because the jade pendant was playing this song.
In front of the jade pendant, there is a thick paper tube with a large end and a small end. The big head is a paper speaker used as a speaker.
This quiet and elegant song with a fairy-like appearance, just finished playing, and before everyone present, including Hua, woke up from the artistic conception of "I don't know what year it will be tonight in the sky."
The next song was sung by the same female singer. However, this time she sang a sweet love song. The lyrics and songs of this song all contain the shyness of a girl's love first, which makes people smile knowingly after listening to it, and reminisce about the youthful feeling of her youth.
The third song is a bit strange. It is neither a fairy song like the first song nor a slang song as close to the second song. It is a song with inexplicable meaning.
The beautiful song has a bit of excitement, and the plain lyrics are such a strange sentence such as "When friends come, they have good wine, and when jackals come, they have swords and guns."
This style of music was the first time in his life that these two young masters who often went to brothels to listen to music.
After these three songs were finished, they heard the teenagers shouting loudly:
"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers! "Pioneer News" News: The East Sea Monster Calamity, the salt price is rising."
"This issue of "Story Meeting" is full of excitement: Wukong fights with the Bull Demon King, and Han Li got the foundation-building pill. The flower fairy sells stinky tofu, and the third young master kills the Taiping demon."
"As long as the new Southern Daily is in hand, I have Tieshan Huaxun. There is a portrait of a popular girl from Zuiwanlou for military collection."
"Good news, good news. Today, buy newspapers and get a free new 'single' of the Fairy, don't miss it!"
The business of these teenagers is really good. After just shouting for a few words, they gathered around a group of people. You should know that Dongcheng Wharf is originally a very lively place, and there are a large number of foreign merchants coming and going.
They are still very happy to accept such new things. Guests who come can learn about Tieshan City's business information from these newspapers in recent days. They even include the latest prices for accommodation and meals, and there are entertainment guides like Southern Daily. Guests who walk will naturally choose a few "Story Clubs" to pass the boredom of the journey.
And what "single" are you giving me today? These three songs are really nice. If there is such a good thing, why are you waiting for?
For Wang and Hua, newspapers are not new things. Someone has long delivered newspapers from two companies in Tieshan City to their desks.
Even "little" businessmen like Chengjia Zhu and Jin Yuen Long can understand the energy and business opportunities contained in the newspaper, not to mention the wealthy merchants in Tiantong Gate.
However, the newspaper they run encountered the same problem as the Jingnan Express. Only business people were reading it, and ordinary people were not very interested.
This is also natural. Except for merchants, who have the time to read product price fluctuations and supply and demand information every day.
Of course, although the newspapers you run are not enough to make ends meet, these expenses are not the same for the wealthy Tiantongmen.
Now Zhongzhou can make this newspaper very popular, only Li Zisheng's Pioneer Newspaper and its affiliated publications, and the rest are all lost money and gained publicity. However, they simply completely pirated the small bookshops of Pioneer Newspaper and made some money.
However, when newspapers like Southern Daily become popular, people will inevitably devote themselves to the journalism career that Li Zisheng has started.
"Come here, go and buy two copies each." The eldest son of Wang Jujun ordered with great enthusiasm.
These newspaper boys bought hundreds of newspapers without much time. They rode their bikes and left the dock, so they naturally rushed back to participate in the military training organized by President Li.
Wang Jujun and Hana Yuan Chun boarded the carriage of the Tieshan semicolon together and drove towards the Tiantong Gate semicolon in the city.
Along the way, Wang Jujun kept flipping through the newspapers he bought, and exclaimed from time to time.
He asked Hua Yuanchun, "Brother Hua, do you recognize this third young master of the Li family?"
Master Hua showed a strange expression and nodded.
Wang Jujun said with some anticipation: "Can Brother Hua bring me some advice?"
Hua Yuanchun's expression became even more strange. Suddenly, he glanced at someone out of the corner of his eyes. He turned his head and looked out the window with a smile and pointed out: "Brother Jun, the third young master of the Li family you are talking about is this person!"
Master Wang also turned his head to look out the window, but he was surprised and asked in surprise: "Brother Hua. This child is the third young master of the Li family."
Coincidentally, after Li Zisheng finished recording the sound, he sent Liu Wuxia home, and rode his bicycle to the East City Pioneer Newspaper. He happened to meet the carriage where Hua and Wang and the others were riding.
"Li Zisheng!"
The boy heard someone calling him behind his back, and the sound was a little familiar. He braked the car and turned to look.
Someone stuck out his head to greet him in the window of the carriage that he had just passed by.
He is really an acquaintance, and Junhua Hanahara is an unforgettable character. Since he is an acquaintance or an elder, this child always has to come forward and ask for peace.
He tilted his legs and got out of the carriage, handed the bicycle to the entourage behind him, walked to the carriage window and performed rituals first, and then said, "It turns out it's Uncle Hua. I'm paying you a favor."
Although Chunren Huayuan was not in Tieshan City, how could he not know what this child did, such as killing Fang Tianya three times and striking Taiping Road overnight. His wife Tie Qianjiao's thoughts were even more clear, so he felt a little complicated when he saw this young man who was theoretically his "godson".
This is completely normal. The father-in-law's feelings when he sees his son-in-law and his mother-in-law's son-in-law are completely different.
He coughed and said, "You don't have to be too polite nephew. You and I are all 'family'. I haven't seen each other these days, and I heard that you have done a few more great things?"
Li Zisheng scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "Young nephew, it's actually a little bit of luck, it's nothing. Uncle Hua. Are you here to pick up the third aunt and Xianxian Qiaoqiao?"
To be continued...