Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 44
"Master, it was His Highness the Second Prince who smashed our bookshop!" the servant shouted loudly.

Second prince? !

Both Lan Yu and Fei Ju were stunned.

Why would a prince like Zhu Yan come to destroy their bookstore? It makes no sense at all.

The servants began to cry there, telling how Qin Yan smashed their bookshop and how he led a group of servants to the engraving room as soon as they entered the bookshop.

Just smash the engravings whenever you see them, regardless of the content.

Lan Yu was so angry that she was shaking all over.

"Bullying, bullying is too much!"

At this time, we have not yet experienced the great victory in fishing, and the sapphire has not yet completely expanded. If it is a later sapphire, refer to Zhu Di, and Zhu Yan may not necessarily take it seriously.

But it was still the end of the third year of Hongwu.

He Lan Yu didn't have the guts to attack a prince directly.

"Did the Second Prince say why he destroyed our bookstore?" Fei Ju asked from the side.

Yes, there must be a reason for smashing the store, and it's not crazy.

"Did any of you offend the second prince by not having good eyesight?" Lan Yu glared at the servant and said in a deep voice.

If these dog slaves do bad things, Lan Yu will make them regret being born in this world.

"How dare we offend the prince?" The servant cried out that he was wronged. He knelt on the ground and stuck out his butt. He was so frightened that tears flowed out. He couldn't stop kowtowing to Lan Yu, saying that there was absolutely no such thing.

Just thinking about Lan Yu's harsh methods of punishing her servants makes me feel scared.

"When they entered the bookstore, they didn't even say anything or hit anyone. They just smashed things they saw."

If someone really offended the second prince, the other party should come directly to him.

Lan Yu couldn't help but feel irritated.

They couldn't even imagine why Qin Yan suddenly had a seizure and came over to smash their bookstore.

"A few days ago, he wasted public funds to build that troublesome road, and then he was involved by the censors. He didn't stop for long. Now he comes out to act like a monster again. We don't care why the second prince did this, but he smashed our bookshop. In fact, we must make him pay the price, and we can’t just let it go." Fei Ju concluded the matter.

He paused, then said: "At least let him make compensation!"

The two brothers put their minds together and finally decided to go find their Huaixi eldest brother Li Shanchang.

Generals like them are not good at this kind of written battle.

Prime Minister.

Li Shanchang sat there, listening quietly to Lan Yu and Fei Ju's eloquent explanation of the matter. He slowly took a sip of tea, put down the cup, and then said, "His Royal Highness the Second Prince has just arrived."

"?!"

Lan Yu and Fei Ju looked confused.

"What is the Second Prince doing here, Mr. Prime Minister?"

When Li Shanchang saw Lan Yu and the two acting like they didn't know anything, he shook his head in his heart, but didn't show anything on his face.

"His Royal Highness the Second Prince reported to me that many bookshops in the capital privately engrave eight categories including printed books, miscellaneous books, class books, rhyme books, classics, histories, and collections, and the imperial eunuchs engraved books." Li Shanchang said directly.

Lan Yu and Fei Ju had extremely shocked expressions on their faces. They opened their mouths, but for a moment they were speechless.

They never thought that Zhu Yan would come to complain first.

As mentioned before, it is not that there was no copyright protection in ancient times, it was just that the interests of private individuals were not protected.

If it involves the court's income, then it is another matter. What awaits will be the court's ruthless and cold iron fist sanctions.

"Second Prince, this is slander! I don't know about other bookstores. Wenlan Bookstore will never do such illegal things!" Lan Yu's first subconscious reaction was to deny it.

He was so excited that he didn't notice Fei Ju who suddenly fell silent beside him. "Really? Can you really guarantee that this kind of situation will never happen in Wenlan Bookstore, Marquis of Pingliang?" Li Shanchang raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Fei Ju, and said.

Although Li Shanchang spoke softly, Fei Ju felt a sense of majesty suddenly approaching his face.

This is the majesty of a country's chief minister.

He was already guilty, and he hesitated when he spoke: "I don't know the specific situation. Although I usually strictly prohibit the bookstore from doing this kind of thing, I can't help but see some money-minded slaves. Doing this kind of thing in private and secretly.”

After listening to Fei Ju's words, Lan Yu turned her head and looked at Fei Ju in disbelief.

You couldn't have said this earlier!
Brother, you didn’t even ask.And this book is the unspoken rule of bookstores everywhere, otherwise how can you make money?

You must know that the best money to make is the money of these scholars.

If you don't sell books to scholars, why don't you sell them to illiterate farmers?

The books engraved by the Imperial Academy officials almost monopolized all these "student textbooks" similar to those of later generations.

They wanted to drink some soup, so naturally they secretly stole the seal.

Li Shanchang ignored the eye contact between Lan Yu and Fei Ju and said, "Fortunately, His Highness the Second Prince, I didn't know that you were the boss behind Wenlan Bookstore."

"Let this matter end here. Otherwise, if we really pursue the case, you will be the first to be sued. By then, let alone compensation, you should think about how to explain to the emperor."

At this point, what else can Lan Yu and Fei Ju do.

The only option is for the mute to eat Coptis chinensis. Not only will their things be smashed in vain, but they will also have to worry about whether Zhu Yan will hold them back.

Although Li Shanchang has promised that the people behind the bookstore will not be involved, the matter stops here, but it is inevitable that he is still a little worried.

Watching Lan Yu and Fei Ju leaving.

The smile on Li Shanchang's face gradually disappeared.

What a bunch of idiots.

I just hope that on the other side, Pan Longyun will not disappoint anyone.

Yangzhou.

The magistrate's office.

"Sir, is this a happy event? You are smiling so happily." As soon as Lu Mingyi entered the government office, he saw Yang Xian smiling there and couldn't help but asked curiously.

"I just learned some interesting things." Yang Xian smiled, put away the letter in his hand, and said.

The letter was sent from the direction of Beijing.

In her reply, Wang Yuemin told Yang Xian in detail how she dealt with pirated printing by those bookshops.

Yang Xian did not expect that Wang Yuemin did not use any of the methods he had written in his mind, but used them all.

Three-pronged approach.

Even if it were him, he couldn't do it any better.

However, Wang Yuemin wrote the matter in a relaxed manner in the letter, but Yang Xian knew the gap between ideal and reality.

Some methods sound good and look good, but in practice they are not so good.

Green-skinned gangsters are easy to find, as long as you have money.

But officially, that step is far from that easy.

Yang Xian knew in his heart that anyone who could set up a bookshop in a place like the capital had an honorable minister standing behind him.

If you don't have enough identity, it's useless for you to report. Don't make it too easy for them to confuse right and wrong.

(End of this chapter)