Nanjing, Sanlian Bookstore, this is a business that specializes in printing best-selling storybooks. It was run by a storyteller. It was he who first said that the white-robed young general Liu Ziguang defeated the Manchu Lianma in the Qing Dynasty. Later, he printed novels about the heroic deeds of the marquis of Zhenwu.
He made his fortune by writing albums, and now he is worth more than ten million, and he also controls the distribution rights of all the best-selling storybooks in the Ming Dynasty.\qb5.c0m\\
At the counter, a fat shopkeeper was flipping through a book carelessly. In front of him stood a haggard woman, covering her mouth with a handkerchief from time to time and coughing.
"I said, your book is not harmonious. In the end, the male pig family fell into ruin, and he became a monk. After working for a long time, he did not get any female pigs. Who will read such a book when it is printed? Don't!"
** was anxious and said: "Let's take another look. It took my husband five years to write it. Every word is his hard work."
The shopkeeper laughed and said, "I can write ten of these bad books every minute. If you don't want them, you can find someone else."
**'s eyes dimmed, he wrapped up his books and turned around to leave. As he walked, he said to himself: "My husband is seriously ill again. I have no money to buy medicine and I can't sell my books. What should I do?"
Suddenly someone stopped her, it was several beautiful girls.
"Madam, can you show us the manuscript?"
"Okay, okay, take a look, is this book worth fifty taels of silver?" ** eagerly opened the blue cloth bag and revealed the manuscript inside. The three cursive characters "Dream of Red Mansions" on the cover were all written in beautiful small regular script.
, it seems that the author spent a lot of effort.
The older girls held the books and read for a long time without letting go, which made the woman very puzzled. It took a long time before she dared to speak out: "You two ladies, you..."
"This book is good, let's buy it, let's do it like this, we'll print it for you, and we'll give it a 50-50 split for the money, okay?"
"Really! That's great. The little lady Cao Lin kowtows to you." ** was so excited that she trembled as she spoke.
A month later, "Dream of Red Mansions", with a preface written by Peng Jingrong, the wife of the prisoner, and book reviews written by Dai Wenpei, the chief rudder of the Tiandihui, and Hu Yimin, Rishengchang, was officially published. The first edition was printed for ten
Ten thousand copies sold out that day, and an additional 300,000 copies were printed, but they were still sold out.
Based on the price of twenty-eight yuan per copy, excluding the printing cost, a few discerning and talented women made a lot of money. The author Cao Yin and his wife Lin Daiyu also got rid of poverty and entered the ranks of great writers.
, only the boss of Sanlian Bookstore hit the wall with regret.
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In the second year of Harmony, the Second Roman Empire was established in Italy. Its first emperor, Antony I, went to war with France and Britain after the founding of the country, and Europe fell into war.
In the fourth year of Harmony, the Second Roman Empire was defeated and the emperor took refuge overseas. On the pretext of sending troops for mediation, the Ming Empire and the Song Empire landed in England, parachuted into France, burned Buckingham Palace and Versailles Palace, and robbed a large amount of treasures.
For this reason, Gu Yanwu, the headmaster of Jinling Academy in the Ming Dynasty, wrote a letter of protest to the governor. In this letter of protest, he wrote: "One day, two robbers entered Versailles. One robber looted, and the other robber set fire to...
In the face of history, one of these two robbers will be called the Ming Dynasty, and the other will be called the Song Dynasty..."
In the sixth year of Harmony, the Chinese Alliance was established. Its member states include the Ming Empire, the Song Empire, the Second Roman Empire, the Great Zambia Empire, as well as vassals of the Ming Dynasty, such as Tubo, Japan, Korea, Temasek, Tianzhu, etc., as well as many colonies.
The Ming Dynasty supervised the country, and Prince Liu Ziguang served as the first chairman of the alliance.
In the fifteenth year of Harmony, a young man named Huo Tianchou entered the palace to assassinate His Majesty the Chairman. He was defeated by the Chairman with a powerful Jun Dao killing fist. But the strange thing was that His Majesty the Chairman did not kill this young assassin from Tianshan, but let him
After leaving, Huo Tianchou also discovered that he looked so similar to a prince named Liu Yuanqing, just like twins...
In the sixteenth year of Harmony, on Hongze Lake, a small boat was rippling on the water. A man and a woman were gently shaking the oars. On the shore in the distance, smoke was curling up. A slender girl was casting a net to catch fish in the sunset. After a while, she returned with a full load.
When the man and woman saw this scene, they couldn't help but smile at each other, rowed the boat to the shore, and said to the girl who was cooking a pot: "May I ask if we can sell food here?"
"Sell, small fish in a pot. My mother makes it. It's delicious. I only charge one yuan for each fish." The girl replied crisply, raised her head, wiped her face blackened by smoke, and revealed her beautiful face.
Her appearance, that extremely beautiful face, could not help but remind the man of some past events and some old friends.