After sending away his future father-in-law and fiancée, Shen Yi's life returned to normal. On weekdays, he usually went to work at the Di newspaper office in the morning. In the afternoon, if there was nothing to do, he would run away early or go to see Gu. The husband would eat and drink, or go to Liquan Tower to read books. Occasionally he would go to see the business of Xu Fu and others.
Because of the Di newspaper, Xu Fu's business in Huangshizhai was booming.
However, just because the business was booming, it also brought some troubles. The family surnamed Zhou originally ran Huangshizhai. It has been running Huangshizhai in Bitong Lane for nearly a hundred years. It has been passed down to four or five generations. It was not good at management. After selling the shop, who would have known that the business started to boom just after the shop was sold.
This week, the father and son of the Zhou family came to make a fuss, wanting to buy back the shop at the original price, but Xu Fu refused. They even found some local gangsters from Jiankang, and got entangled with some local businessmen from Jiankang, saying that people from Jiangdu came to Jiankang. Bullying Jiankang people and other such things caused a lot of trouble in Huangshizhai, and even the inkstone in the shop was smashed.
Xu Fu naturally couldn't cope with this kind of situation.
Ever since, the matter reached Jiankang Mansion.
Although Shen Yi did not come forward in person, he secretly had a drink with Li Mu, the eldest son of the Jin Dynasty. As a result, the father and son named Zhou, together with the troublemaking scoundrels, were all taken into the prison of Jiankang Mansion and have not been released yet.
Several inkstones lost by Huang Shizhai were also compensated by the Zhou family and his son at the "original price".
As Huangshizhai and Xuji Chuanchuan Incense became famous, many Jiankang businessmen saw business opportunities.
People who can do business in Jiankang, especially those who make the business big, have more or less backgrounds. Therefore, many people from the officialdom or the powerful class found Shen Yi through various channels.
In just two months, the "Jiankang Famous Shop" section of the Di News Division recorded nearly ten thousand taels of silver.
Of course, this is because commercial products such as advertising have just come out and have outstanding results. In addition, the people who seek advertising from newspaper companies are in high-consumption industries, and newspaper companies have a monopoly in the industry, so they can compete in both industries. Earn so much in one month.
This kind of huge profit will gradually decline until it falls to a reasonable price.
Just as the Jiankang business segment was slowly maturing, Shen Yi's eyes were not just on Jiankang. He used the money he earned from Di Newspaper Company in the past two months to quickly establish branches in other big cities in Dachen.
The first to establish branches was Jiangdu, then Suzhou and other cities with a large enough population and large enough scale.
The purpose of establishing these Di Di newspaper branches is not to engage in intelligence for the time being, but to expand advertising business in these cities.
The quantity of each issue of Dibao is not large, and it does not require a lot of cost. It only requires one or two printing workshops to add some special content to these Dibao.
Jiankang's Dibao has a Jiankang Famous Stores section, so naturally Suzhou can have a Gusu Famous Stores section, and Jiangdu can naturally follow the law.
As long as the advertising business expands to major cities in Dachen and even all cities, Mr. Shen can collect money with his eyes closed.
However, while expanding the advertising business, the intelligence business in various places must also keep up. The reason why intelligence personnel are deployed is not to rush to expand the intelligence business, but to fear that those newspaper staff who go to various places to engage in advertising business will be corrupted...
After all, these people are equivalent to the "general agents" of the "Advertising Department" of the Di News Department. They must be strictly supervised, otherwise Mr. Shen's money will be wiped out by these people.
Just when Shen Si was ambitiously building a nationwide chain of Di Newspapers, the elusive eunuch Gao Ming came to Di News again.
Naturally, Shen Yi did not dare to neglect the arrival of such a big secret. He personally went to the door of Di's Reporting Department and welcomed Gao Ming into his study.
After entering the study, Eunuch Gao took a sip of the tea poured by Shen Yi, and without talking nonsense, he took out some materials from his sleeves, put them on Shen Yi's table, and said: "This is the material collected by the inner guards, Chief Shen. Just remember to write it in the next issue of Di Di News."
Shen Yi rolled his eyes.
It is very common for the palace to send materials to the palace, but the materials are usually delivered through Sun Jin, or they are sent by a young eunuch. Today, the great eunuch Gao Ming came to deliver them in person, which shows...
not simple.
Shen Yi flipped through it casually a few times.
Most of it contains dirty information about Pei Yuan, a doctor in the Ministry of Etiquette. Although this Pei Yuan is not a big culprit, he has been an official for many years. Mention, this person also has bad personal ethics and has done a lot of scandalous things in private.
After Shen Yi took a brief look, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
As expected of an internal security guard, he is much more professional than the current newspaper department.
After sighing with emotion, he looked at Gao Ming with a grimace and complained: "Eunuch Gao, when I submitted articles to the Di newspaper office, I had already offended the Yang family and the Zhao family, and even had people in Jiji because of this matter. Ming Si was beaten, and now things have calmed down a bit easily, and the palace asked the lower officials to offend Prime Minister Yang's students again..."
"This errand..."
Shen Sizheng smiled bitterly and said, "I really can't do this job anymore."
He glanced at Gao Ming, and when he saw that Gao Ming was silent, he said cautiously: "Eunuch Gao, why don't we transfer these things to Yushitai or Dali Temple and let them check them directly?"
Eunuch Gao was originally closing his eyes to rest, but when he heard this, he opened his eyes and said in a muffled voice: "If I can send Sanfa Si, I won't send him to you."
Pei Yuan was a civil servant, and to the civil servant class, he had just made meritorious service.
His contribution to the Northern Qi Dynasty.
If the emperor touches him directly at this time, it will cause dissatisfaction among the civil servants, and even several prime ministers in Zhongshu will feel uncomfortable.
But the emperor was unhappy with this man, so he could only attack his personal ethics through public opinion, and asked him to resign and go home.
Shen Yi took a few more glances at the materials in his hand and simply gave up his choice: "Eunuch Gao, could you please tell Your Majesty that I am going to go to the Hanlin Academy to work as a concubine. The part-time job of this newspaper office is really great." If you can’t do it, your Majesty, please choose another capable person..."
"Can't do it?"
Gao Ming stood up from his chair, glanced at Shen Yi faintly, half-smiling but not smiling: "When Mr. Shen published his own business in the Di Newspaper Company and used public money to enrich himself, he didn't say he couldn't do it."
Hearing this sentence, Shen Yi's expression froze.
It's bad, I was doing Huang Shizhai's business, and the palace found out...
But it's not surprising when you think about it. He didn't want to hide it from everyone.
Mr. Shen coughed unnaturally and said with a smile: "Eunuch Gao misunderstood. At that time, the official wanted to open a new section in Di Bao, so he always wanted to find a shop to try. He really couldn't find anything suitable, so he I can only try it at a friend's shop..."
Gao Ming looked calm.
"Our family doesn't want to hear about Shen Sizheng's personal affairs."
"But the official affairs entrusted by His Majesty must be handled by the Diji News Agency."
Shen Yi sighed: "I am loyal to you and patriotic. I will do the things that your majesty has asked me to do, no matter how difficult it is. I am afraid that one day my body will be found dead in the street for no reason, and I will no longer be able to do errands for your majesty."
"Don't worry, Chief Shen, you won't die."
Eunuch Gao raised his hands high, bowed his head toward the palace, and said, "Your Majesty will naturally take care of you."
Shen Yi was silent for a while and sighed: "I'm afraid that sometimes, your Majesty won't be willing to protect your subordinates anymore."
"That is your Majesty's business."
Eunuch Gao said calmly: "Your Majesty has said that the future payment of the Di Reporting Department will be increased to ten thousand taels of silver per month."
Shen Si was delighted: "Father, can the Ministry of Household Affairs approve it?"
Gao Ming glanced at Shen Yi.
"This money comes from the palace's internal funds."
After he said this, before Shen Yi could speak, he continued: "However, half of the future income of the Di News Department must be paid into internal funds."
Good guy, this is tantamount to the royal family becoming a shareholder in the Di newspaper company!
Shen Yi's smiling face immediately froze.
His national chain store has just been launched, and he is about to make a lot of money...
Seeing Shen Yi's ugly face, Eunuch Gao had a smile on his face.
He reached out and patted Shen Yi's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't get it for nothing."
"Aren't you going to check the Fan family?"
Eunuch Gao looked calm: "The internal guards can help you check, how about that?"
Shen Si was exhaling a breath with difficulty. He looked up at Gao Ming and asked, "After the internal guards investigate, can we do anything?"
Gao Ming said expressionlessly: "That depends on Your Majesty. Neither you nor I have any room to comment."
Shen Yi stood there and thought for a long time, and finally nodded with difficulty and agreed to the deal.
In fact, there is nothing you can do if you disagree.
There is no room for bargaining with the big boss.
"Your Majesty..."
Shen Sizheng lowered his head slightly: "I will obey the holy edict."