"It's fake. How could it be? The content in the book is very good?"
Emperor Tianqi looked through the pages in confusion, and Chai Tiannuo pouted again:
"I'm just telling you, how can you buy a genuine product with only two hundred taels of spindles?"
"The genuine edition has a cover made of Huiling purple lambskin, and the inner pages are made of fine Houhe paper. The ink used has more than 50 medicinal ingredients added to it. The font used is Chen Kaikai, and the preface is more
There are talismans painted by my ministers."
"As long as you keep it well, it won't be a problem to pass it on for thousands of years."
"This is an ordinary piece of white tissue paper, ordinary regular script, and there are no extras at all. It's so ugly!"
Emperor Tianqi gasped, and Jia's servant also widened his eyes. Both of them knew the market. Huiling purple lamb skin, Houhe paper, medicinal materials, ink, and talismans. None of them are simple. Together, the price is absolute.
Can't get any lower!
"Hey, with such good materials, the cost is astonishing. How much should an authentic book cost?"
"One thousand taels, I don't want a penny too much, I don't want a penny too little."
Chai Tiannuo said with a grin. Waiter Jia was frightened and took a deep breath, but he choked on the spit and couldn't help coughing loudly. Emperor Tianqi was okay, he roughly calculated the cost, nodded lightly and said:
"The price is not expensive, and it is reasonable after considering the cost and income. But at such a high price, who will buy it?"
"I bought too much. Now it's six editions, each edition has 500 copies. How many copies are there already?"
"...It seems that there are quite a lot of rich people in Dahua."
The corners of Emperor Tianqi's mouth twitched, and he said to his mother, this is three million dollars, Chai Xiaoxiao earns this money so easily!
"Don't look at me like this. I don't have the majority of the harvest. If Qi Shangshu hadn't come to me, I wouldn't want to deal with these frivolous things."
Chai Tiannuo could tell what Emperor Tianqi was thinking as soon as he looked at his face, he couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said.
"It's too much to bully others!"
Emperor Tianqi angrily slapped the book on the table. Seeing Chai Tiannuo's face full of confusion, he said in a dumbfounded voice:
"This copy was presented to me by Qi Pin. Wang Ba Duan even told Gu that he had gone through a lot of effort to get it. It turns out he was just kidding me!"
"If you bully the emperor and ignore your superiors, if you bully the emperor and ignore your superiors, I'll deduct half a year's salary from him and let him talk nonsense again!"
Chai Tiannuo grinned, thinking that Qi Shangshu was really an outstanding person. He could do such things, so he admired him.
After thinking about it, Emperor Tianqi reluctantly picked up the pirated Zizhi Tongjian and said while reading:
"You also know the reason why I called you here. There is trouble coming."
"The troublemaker is Zhang Chenglu from Zhongshushe. You and I have only one order: to eliminate all evil!"
"Your Majesty, what exactly did Zhang Chenglu, the man from the library, do?"
Seeing Emperor Tianqi's face full of disgust, Chai Tiannuo couldn't help but ask curiously.
"I don't want to tell you what kind of things you have done. It will only make you angry. You can see for yourself and find out."
"It's all up to you how to deal with your family, but you must find out the origin of the evil method. Although the country is big, it cannot tolerate those evil spirits that prey on lives!"
"...Here!"
Chai Tiannuo handed over his hand, vaguely guessing that if Emperor Tianqi could say such words, that Zhang Sheren would probably have done something illegal.
We had to prepare for action, and it was too late that night.
At midnight the next day, Chai Tiannuo led a group of secret guards to surround the Zhang family's residence in the west district of Luoyang City.
Kicking the door to pieces, Chai Tiannuo led the people into the courtyard in a swaggering manner. The two people behind him who were also not masked said in great dissatisfaction:
"Master Chai, no matter how big a mistake Zhang made, these two fine bean-shirt doors have nothing to do with it."
"Yes, you will lose thousands of taels of spindles with this step, and the repair costs will be a lot of money!"
The corner of Chaitino's mouth twitched, his left ear went in and his right ear went out, but he didn't hear anything.
I still don’t know what kind of evil Mr. Zhongshu Ling committed. After the court meeting, he had a chat with Emperor Tianqi, and then the Supervisory Office sent two supervisory censors to accompany him.
Boss Chaitino was unwilling to get the news and went directly to the palace to argue with Emperor Tianqi.
As a result, Emperor Tianqi waved his hand helplessly:
"Everyone has said that you can't help but save face with him."
"But what I'm doing today is not what I'm doing openly. Isn't it too awkward to let Liang Er Bao Shen follow me?!"
"...You don't even cover your face. Are you sure you are doing things secretly?"
Emperor Tianqi asked sideways, Chai Tiannuo scratched his belly and grinned:
"Why don't the other brothers cover up? Besides, Master Zhongshu Ling already knows what happened that night. If the news doesn't leak out, the Zhang Sheren will have disappeared, right?"
"Don't worry about this. The boss's integrity is absolutely worry-free. You can endorse it with him. You can act however you want. Just pretend that those two people don't exist."
Entering the courtyard, Chaitino pretended that the two of them did not exist and said loudly:
"Watch both sides. Don't pull anyone down. If anyone resists with weapons, give him a warning and then behead him. Your own safety comes first!"
"Master Chai, what you said is inconsistent with"
"Here!"
The secret guards roared loudly, pretending that these two people were not around.
"you"
As soon as the somewhat lively concierge came out, the secret guard immediately pounced on him, slapped him with a familiar pig's trotter, threw him aside and continued on his way.
In Luoyang City, where there are many high-ranking officials, the fifth-grade Zhongshu Sheren is really not a high-ranking official. Naturally, this house is not big either. The house has two entrances and two exits, and was quickly searched.
There were quite a few people inside, with seventy or eighty people gathered in the atrium.
"Sir, we are all here, seventy-seven of us, not a single one is left behind!"
Secret Guard Qian reported the report, Chai Tiannuo nodded, and handed over his hands to Zhang Chenglu, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground with no trace of shock on his face:
"Master Zhang, you should know why someone is here. Take out what you need to take out so as not to harm your family."
Zhang Chenglu takes good care of himself. He is in his early sixties, but his face has no wrinkles at all. He looks like he is in his forties at most. If his hair were not gray, some people would believe him if he was in his twenties or thirties.
"Master Chai, may I ask what crime I have committed?"
"Since I was a Jinshi at the age of 21 and entered officialdom, I have been conscientious in my work and have not dared to neglect my duties at all. It has been forty years now and I have never been corrupt or derelict in my duties."
"Excuse me, what are you responsible for arresting seventy-seven members of my family here? Does it mean that there is no law in Dahua?!"
These words were so righteous that Chai Tiannuo couldn't help scratching his ears and asked Mr. Qian next to him in a low voice:
"Do you know what crime he committed?"
"Sir, you don't even know, let alone us pawns."
Mr. Qian grinned back, and Chai Tiannuo whispered again:
"Your Majesty said that you will know after looking at it. He is still angry like a boss. His face is full of disgust. He has a bad eye. When you searched the house, did you see anything wrong?"
"...No, it's always normal. We don't know anything about co-writing?"
"But no, His Majesty is also a bad person in doing things, so how should we act?"
Chai Tiannuo and Mr. Qian grinned at the same time, looking at the upright Zhang Sheren and secretly cursing, asking each other, what should they do?
"Sir, I have some clues."
A secret guard came close to the two of them and said softly.