Chapter 45: The imperial edict arrives and the knighthood is granted
In the blink of an eye, it’s the sixth day of March.
After several days of preparation, Nanping Academy of Literature has printed 2,000 volumes of "The Thousand Character Essay", which is officially on sale to the entire Nanping Prefecture.
Early in the morning, many scholars gathered at the gate of the Literary Academy to buy the first edition of "The Thousand Character Essay" annotated by the great scholar Ye Jinghong. The price was 20 copper coins.
Excluding the cost price, the profit per volume is ten copper coins.
The price is not high, but because of Ye Jinghong’s annotations, there is a lot of content in it.
With the blessing of Ye Jinghong's literary name, more scholars came to buy it, and many scholars bought it directly because of Ye Jinghong's literary name.
In the past few days, Nanping Literature Academy has sold an average of more than 300 copies every day.
The sales of "The Thousand Character Essay" were booming, so the publishing rights and distribution rights were assigned to the county literary academies under the jurisdiction of Nanping Prefecture, so that the county literary academies in various places could publish and sell it together and make money together.
What was signed was also a share-sharing document. The county liberal arts colleges in various places were required to pay half of the profits from the sale of "The Thousand-Character Classic" to the Nanping Liberal Arts College, and then the Nanping Liberal Arts College would split the profits equally with Du Ning.
The "Thousand Character Essay" published by the County Literary Academy is priced at 18 copper coins, the printing cost is 10 copper coins, and the profit is 8 copper coins.
Then the County Literary Academy will pay half of the profit, which is four copper coins per book, to Nanping Literary Academy, and Nanping Literary Academy will split it equally with Du Ning, so the profit will be only two copper coins in Du Ning's hands.
Although the profit allocated to a single volume in the county is small, nine county liberal arts colleges are publishing and selling it at the same time. Assuming that one county liberal arts college sells an average of 1,000 copies per month, the total sales volume is 9,000 copies per month, then
The additional share Du Ning received was eighteen thousand copper coins, a full one hundred and eighty taels of silver!
This is just a more conservative estimate.
"The Thousand-Character Essay" was annotated by Ye Jinghong, and Du Ning had a student status at the Suzhou Literary Academy. Therefore, Ye Jinghong of the Suzhou Literary Academy directly asked Du Ning for the right to sell it, and it was released at the same time as the Nanping Prefecture Literary Academy. Suzhou Literary Academy published 10,000 copies of "The Thousand Character Essay" in one go. After its release, the average daily sales volume was more than 500 copies. Moreover, Suzhou Literary Academy sold a copy for 30 copper coins, so the profit margin was even higher!<
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"The Thousand-Character Essay" is not only a big hit in Suzhou, it is also very popular in newspapers and newspapers in various states, prefectures and even counties.
Countless well-respected Hanlin scholars and academicians have published articles to comment on it. Recently, newspapers and magazines from all over the country have been discussing the Thousand-Character Essay.
"The Thousand Character Essay" is not only well written, but also an excellent enlightenment book for children, so it is widely praised.
After discussion, the Guoxue Palace decided to incorporate "The Thousand-Character Classic" into enlightenment textbooks, which will be implemented in liberal arts academies across the country starting from the second half of the year.
This shocked scholars everywhere. The article he wrote was included in the textbooks of the liberal arts academy. This is not only an educational achievement for scholars, but also a great honor!
Shortly after the Guoxuegong announcement, the liberal arts academies of various states, prefectures, and counties across the country also announced that they would start publishing "The Thousand-Character Essay" and would put it on sale next month.
The literary world is shocked!
A "Thousand-Character Essay" actually caused literary academies across the country to rush to publish and sell it.
With this sales impact, Du Ning doesn’t know how much money he will make!
To evaluate "The Thousand Character Essay" using words from the literary world, that would be——
One book can confer godhood!
With just one book, you can live and eat until you are old.
March 12.
Du Ning is teaching in Hanyi Club’s school.
"The imperial edict has arrived!"
"Du Ning, the leader of Yulin County's gold list, accepted the order!"
A loud voice sounded.
"Imperial edict! Did I hear it correctly?"
"It's the prefect Wang Yang!"
"Since the prefect is here, it must be true!"
In the classroom, Du Ning looked out the window and immediately saw a man in official uniform coming to the courtyard. He was holding a bright yellow dragon-embroidered cloth roll in his hand and wearing a red silk hat. He was followed by several people.
Officials from famous government offices came with gift boxes.
Seeing this scene, Du Ning asked the students to be quiet for the time being and came outside the hospital.
At the same time, Li Changsheng and the scholars from Hanyi Club also walked out together.
"I've met the prefect."
Everyone bowed respectfully and did not dare to neglect.
This is a Confucian, Taoist and Hanlin scholar, a fifth-rank magistrate.
"Excuse me, Mr. Du Ning, is Mr. Du here?"
Wang Yang spoke slowly, looking at everyone as if he was condescending.
"Student Du Ning is here." Du Ning stepped forward and answered.
"Du Ning accepted the order."
Wang Yang held up the imperial edict, and his official authority appeared.
Everyone immediately saluted in front of the imperial edict, those without meritorious status knelt on the ground, while those with meritorious status bent down and bowed.
Everyone present was excited. They have grown up and read books for so many years. They have only heard about the imperial edict from other people's mouths and have never seen it with their own eyes.
It is a great honor to have the honor to meet him today.
In the future, if you tell others that you have seen the imperial edict, it will be enough to make people extremely envious.
Wang Yang opened the imperial edict and read: "According to the emperor's edict, I heard that Du Ning, a poor student, wrote "The Thousand-Character Essay" and incorporated it into the enlightenment textbook of the liberal arts academy. He has made great achievements in enlightenment. I hereby grant you a set of the four treasures of the study room and a thousand taels of silver.
There are five pieces of brocade, ten altars of royal wine, and the title of 'Seventh Grade Viscount' is hereditary. I admire this."
Everyone looked at Du Ning and cast a very envious look.
Before Du Ning even entered the imperial court, he was given a knighthood!
There are five nobles in the Holy Forest Continent: duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male, all of whom can be hereditary.
Only those who have made meritorious service to the court or the human race will be awarded a title.
Du Ning wrote the "Thousand-Character Essay", which was a great enlightenment not only for the Yun Kingdom, but also for the entire human race.
Therefore, Emperor Jingwen issued an edict to grant him a title.
"Thank you, Emperor, for your grace."
"Long live long live long live."
Du Ning took the imperial edict and saw that the words in it were written by Emperor Jingwen himself. Each stroke had the aura of puffing up clouds, which was very heroic.
At the end of the imperial edict, there is also a large seal of jade seal.
Emperor Jingwen was seriously ill, but he still insisted on going to court every morning, and his imperial edicts are still majestic and awe-inspiring.
This is an imperial edict!
For a humble family, it is simply a matter of honor!
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This imperial edict alone is enough to be regarded as a family heirloom.
Wang Yang handed Du Ning a copper viscount seal. The title was just a title and had no actual power.
However, under special circumstances, Du Ning can be temporarily allowed to become a seventh-rank official and have the same powers as a seventh-rank official.
"Congratulations to Du An for being awarded the title of Viscount for the first time. What a joy."
Wang Yang was smiling but his eyes showed contempt for Du Ning.
The seventh-grade viscount is just a false name, and the fifth-grade prefect is the real power.
"Thank you, Mr. Wang."
Du Ning handed over his hand to thank him. He could tell that Wang Yang's tone was very unhappy with him. It must be because Wang Run was the leader of Jieying Club and he was a member of Hanyi Club.
Hanyi Society and Jieying Society are the confrontation between the poor and the powerful, and they are also the competition for fame and wealth in the literary world.
Before Wang Yang became the prefect, he was also a scholar from Jieying Society.
"Originally the imperial edict was to be sent to Mr. Du's home, but when I came to your house this morning, I found that Mr. Du was not at home. After some inquiries, I found out that Mr. Du was teaching at Hanyi Academy, so I had to come to Hanyi Club.
, Hanyi Club has really benefited from you this time."
Wang Yang spoke very unhappily, complaining that Du Ning was actually teaching in the school, causing him to have to walk a few more steps.
The other officials put down their gifts and looked at Du Ning with unkind eyes.
"Master Wang, thank you for your hard work. If you don't mind, how about I invite you all to sit in the Hanyi Club's living room and have a cup of tea?" Du Ning said with a smile.
"No need, I don't dare to disturb Mr. Du's teaching. I am busy with official duties, so I will take my leave."
Wang Yang refused directly. It was not that he did not want to give Du Ning face, but that he thought Du Ning was not worthy of his face.
That's right, Wang Yang looks down on Du Ning very much.
"Du Zijue, I'll take my leave."
"Welcome to visit the Yamen when you have time."
The other officials also walked away without even looking at Du Ning, let alone Li Changsheng and other Hanyi Club students.
They looked at Li Changsheng and others as if they were looking at a few wild dogs.
Such a condescending attitude made Li Changsheng and others angry, but they did not dare to speak out.
After Wang Yang and others left, the Hanyi Club scholars made dissatisfied sounds.
"Look at this Wang Yang, what's his look like? He has a condescending expression. If you don't know, you might think he's a relative of the emperor!"
"Although we come from poor backgrounds, we are still upright scholars. We are worthy of God and worthy of others. Why does he look down on us so much!"
"On the surface, calling him magistrate is a sign of respect for him, but if you put it in a harsh way, who the hell is he!"
"Although Wang Yang is the prefect, he is often greedy. When many poor people are bullied by the powerful, they often make judgments that favor the powerful."
"Last time, Zhang Tongsheng from Jieying Society beat up a good girl while drunk, and ended up settling the matter for a small sum of money. Bah! What the hell!"
Everyone was very dissatisfied with Wang Yang, but he was the leader of Nanping Mansion, so they could only talk behind his back.
But what everyone didn't know was that Wang Yang and others did not go far, but deliberately paused outside the hospital, just in time to hear people in the hospital saying bad things.
"Presumptuous! Presumptuous! Presumptuous!"
"How dare these Hanyi Club students despise me so much!"
"It's simply unreasonable! It's unreasonable!"
Wang Yang roared in a low voice, with a look of anger on his face.
As the prefect of Nanping Prefecture, it is simply a shame that he is so infamous behind his back.
"Your Excellency, you don't need to be familiar with these humble families. They are just arrogant for a while because of Du Ning's title of Viscount. With Du Ning's title, he is not even worthy of carrying your shoes!"
"Wouldn't it appear that adults are stingy to argue with these villains? These scholars from Hanyi Club will never become great people."
"You are already the prefect. When the Eight Wise Kings become the crown prince, you will at least be able to serve as state shepherds by virtue of your merits in serving the dragon. Now the Eight Wise Kings are participating in the selection of the crown prince. We cannot cause trouble for them, otherwise..."<