Mingshi

Chapter 929
James House.

There was a sound of footsteps, and everyone in the lobby turned their eyes to the door, and then their eyelids twitched, and Lu Daqing appeared at the door.

"Teng!"

Dozens of officials stood up, clasped their hands to Lu Daqing one by one, and said, "Little brother, what orders does Master Luo have?"

Lu Daqing returned the gift with a smile: "My Lord Hou, please go to the mansion after you are on duty today."

"oh oh……"

"The little man bid farewell!"

It wasn't until Lu Daqing left for a long time that these people came to their senses and started discussing with a bang.

"What did Master Luo call us to do?"

"Could it be that the bookstore is declared closed?"

"Then... what shall we do?"

"Are we going to lose everything?"

"No way? Should the capital be returned to us?"

"Yes, Mr. Luo has a great career!"

"Not necessarily! Lord Luo and Xu Ge have been fighting for so long, I am afraid that Lord Luo has already invested his family's money in it. How can there be any money for us?"

"This this this..."

"Anyway, we'll find out when we go."

"Ugh……"

There was a sigh in the lobby, each and every one of them looked like frost-beaten eggplants, wilting.

"boom!"

A paperweight was thrown on the ground, Emperor Jiajing closed his eyes, and standing opposite him was Xu Jie, with his head down, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Xuan Luoxin." Emperor Jiajing said with his eyes closed.

Soon, a eunuch came to Luo Xin's home.Hearing the eunuch's decree, Luo Xin picked up a box on the table and followed the eunuch out of the house.

Entering Yuxi Palace, Luo Xin saw Xu Jie who was looking at him with a sneer, and quickly glanced at Emperor Jiajing, and saw that Emperor Jiajing was still sitting there with his eyes closed.He knelt down on the ground, put the wooden box aside and said:

"Chen, Luo Xin, pay homage to Your Majesty!"

There was no sound from above, so Luo Xin could only kneel there.After a while, Emperor Jiajing's cold voice came from above:
"Luo Xin, are you convicted?"

"I don't know!"

Emperor Jiajing suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were cold, he sneered twice and said: "Is Juxuan Bookstore yours?"

"Yes!"

"You fought fiercely with the major bookstores in the capital!"

"Your Majesty, I didn't provoke you." Luo Xin's tone was full of grievances.

"The major bookstores in the capital have lost several 10 taels of silver, and you didn't underpay, did you?"

"Hey..." Luo Xin straightened his waist and smiled twice: "Thanks to His Majesty, I really didn't lose money, and even made a small profit."

"Ok?"

Emperor Jiajing's cold eyes showed a hint of surprise. Xu Jie attacked Luo Xin today, and he did not say that Luo Xin provoked malicious competition. He knew what happened in the capital. Emperor Jiajing must have known about it through Jin Yiwei. clearly.Therefore, he just said that the major bookstores in the capital city were robbed of a large number of shares by Juxuan Bookstore because of their business, so the alliance wanted to squeeze Juxian Bookstore down.However, Luo Xin started a price war with the major bookstores in the capital. Now the price has been reduced to 10,000% off. This price has caused the major bookstores in the capital to lose 10+ taels. I question how much Luo Xin has paid?Where did Luo Xin get the [-] taels of silver?
Only one can!
That is, Luo Xin, as the prefect of Hangzhou and the emissary of the Shibo Secretary in the southeast, was greedy for ink.

Zhang Shijie has already been reduced to a commoner because of corruption in ink, how can a corrupt official like Luo Xin get away with it?

After thinking about it carefully, Emperor Jiajing agreed with Xu Jie's speculation.

The royal also has a printing workshop, knowing the cost.

20% discount, that is definitely a loss of money.Moreover, booksellers from various prefectures came to the capital to buy a large number of books, and Jin Yiwei had already reported it to Emperor Jiajing.Just a little calculation, Luo Xin will pay at least [-] taels for the books purchased these days.This could not help but make Emperor Jiajing furious.

but……

Now I heard Luo Sheng say that he didn't lose money, but made a small profit instead.After Emperor Jiajing was surprised, his eyes showed sarcasm and said:

"[-]% off, you still have a small profit? Lord Luo is worthy of being Daming's God of Wealth, can you tell me how you made it?"

"This!" Luo Xin glanced at Xu Jie, then looked at Emperor Jiajing and said, "Your Majesty, this is my secret and my magic weapon!"

Emperor Jiajing's expression turned cold: "In that case, I can't know?"

"No! Your Majesty will not compete with your ministers for profit. It's just...some people are different!" Having said this, Luo Xin glanced sideways at Xu Jie.

Xu Jie's face turned black, and Emperor Jiajing's heart was also filled with curiosity at this time, so he said to Xu Jie:
"Xu Qing step back first!"

"I retire!"

Xu Jie gave Luo Xin a hard look, and retreated towards the door.Luo Xin said to Emperor Jiajing:

"Your Majesty, Xu Ge always stares at me!"

Xu Jie's feet swayed, almost fell, Emperor Jiajing stared at Luo Xin dumbfounded, but the anger in his heart was much less.Based on his understanding of Luo Xin, if Luo Xin was not confident, he would never be so arrogant.After Xu Jie withdrew, Emperor Jiajing said lightly:
"Tell me!"

Luo Xin held the box and stood up, walked towards Emperor Jiajing and said, "Your Majesty, I have invented a treasure. Oh..."

Seeing Huang Jin standing in front of him and giving him winks, Luo Xin stopped in his tracks, looked at Emperor Jiajing in embarrassment and said, "Your negligence."

Then he handed the box to Huang Jin.Huang Jin took the box, first opened it for a look, then walked up to Emperor Jiajing, and put the box on the imperial book table.

Emperor Jiajing's eyes fell on the box, and his eyes lit up. He reached out and took out a type. After looking at it for a while, he frowned slightly and said:

"What does that mean?"

"Your Majesty, now my Ming Dynasty is all woodblock printing. Every page of a book is a block. Such a block can only print one page of a book. Moreover, the woodblock is easy to wear, and if you don't print much, the handwriting will be blurred. If you want to continue printing , they have to continue engraving. That’s why the cost of books is very high.”

"That's right!" Emperor Jiajing nodded, then pointed to the printed characters and said, "You can solve the problem?"

"Yes, Your Majesty! That... can Rong Chen demonstrate for His Majesty?"

"Come here!" Emperor Jiajing said lightly.

Luo Xin then came to the imperial book case, took out a lead type from the box and said, "Your Majesty, this is called a lead type, and its advantage is that it is resistant to wear and tear. It will save a lot of cost in this regard."

After finishing the words, he took out more than a dozen printed characters from the box, lined them up on the imperial book table and said:

"Your Majesty, we can make a grid, which is filled with characters of the same size as these typefaces. At that time, we will insert these typefaces into the grid according to the order of writing in the book, so that it can be printed. When printing the second page Then, rearrange according to the handwriting on the second page."

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(End of this chapter)