Qin Mo's ability to turn stone into gold made him a hot commodity. When others saw him, it was as if they saw a walking gold ingot.
According to Old Qin, the old man was not the first noble to want to get close to him.
Hou Junji, that gangster, had gone to Old Qin to propose a marriage alliance and betroth his daughter to Qin Mo.
Fortunately, Old Qin refused. That hooligan would rebel in the future. If he married his daughter, he might be implicated.
There were other dignitaries who wanted to make friends with him, but Old Qin had rejected them all.
Old Qin told Qin Mo in private that he had already been reserved by Li Er.
After the soap was invented, Qin Mo gave the formula to Old Qin and asked him to find craftsmen to produce and sell it.
Therefore, Qin Mo had another business under his name. He gave the soap a very resounding name-" Shufujia."
Qin Mo was not very concerned about the production of soap. He was more concerned about the cleaning products for the students of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
"Shufujia" was also given out for free.
At this time in the Great Tang, oil was not as common as it was in the later generations. The common people liked to buy fatty meat to boil oil and stir-fry vegetables.
The poor people could not even afford an iron pot, and pigs were hard to come by in Chang 'an. Naturally, soap was not something that ordinary people could afford.
As the Chinese Academy of Sciences gradually became more formal, the aristocratic families gathered together again.
The location was the Cui residence.
Although in this era, the five surnames and seven Wangs represented wisdom, they naturally couldn't play with Qin Mo a thousand years later.
Over the next ten days, the People's Press had dozens of printing machines and hundreds of craftsmen working on them. They had printed hundreds of thousands of books, all of which were bought by the aristocratic families.
Hundreds of thousands of strings of money all flowed into the hands of Qin Mo and the others.
They thought that the old man was selling at a loss, and Li Er was suppressing the Shandong aristocrats, so they crazily bought the books printed by the People's Press, wanting to make the old man vomit blood.
However, after more than ten days, the People's Press was still strong, and the aristocratic families finally realized that they had made a big mistake.
Cui Min was so angry that he vomited blood.”
They had never thought that the old man and the others were selling at a loss. In the end, Wang Kai acted smart and reminded them, causing them to misunderstand. Now, they realized that Wang Kai was wrong.
The cost of those books might really be less than 300 wen.
Hence, they gathered together again.
Wang Gui reflected on himself." This time, it was my fault. I've caused everyone to suffer heavy losses. Later, the Wang family will compensate everyone.”
Cui Mindao said," The five surnames and seven Wangs are of the same breath and branch. How can they be separated from each other?”
A few hundred thousand strings of strings, each clan had tens of thousands of strings of strings. It was not a huge loss, and they could completely afford it.
However, what was even more terrifying than losing money was that the cost of the books had dropped below 300 copper coins. This was something that made people despair.
"What should we do?" The people of the various aristocratic families were all gloomy. This meant that their authority in education would be affected.
How could they, who had always enjoyed a high status, be willing to fall from the mortal world?
However, unless they could change the dynasty, everything would be in vain.
Without military power, changing dynasties was just a luxury.
However, they were unwilling to surrender.
Cui Mingan said fiercely," That Zhangsun Wuji is too much. We need to show him how powerful we are. Without ink and paper, I want to see how he prints."”
"That's right."
Everyone agreed and discussed using their influence to cut off the calligraphy workshop.
"Can you find out where the bookstore is? I burned it." Someone was even more ruthless.
Wang Gui sighed." The situation is hopeless. What can we do?" So what if they burned down the bookstore? The Wang Clan used their hidden spies and finally found out that Zhangsun Wuji had used a new sealing technique.”
Everyone from the aristocratic families fell silent.
This was a technological advancement, not a man-made factor. Instead, it made them even more afraid.
"We urge our children to study hard.”Wang Kai said," So what if those poor children can study? Even if it's a direct competition, what are we afraid of? The children of aristocratic families like us are born with an advantage. If we can't compete with the children of the poor, what else can we say?”
After some hard work, he realized that it was all in vain, and he couldn't help but lose interest.
"Even so, I won't let Zhangsun Wuji, that old bastard, have it easy.”Someone was unconvinced." We'll sell the books we bought at a lower price, and then we'll work together with the other paper shops to raise the price.”
This time, even Wang Kai did not object.
Everyone's losses had to be paid back.
"A few days ago, Chang 'an suddenly became popular with eating flying shrimps. Do you know about this?”Lu Wang, the person in charge of the Lu family, suddenly said.
"Flying prawns are just lowly things. How can our families eat such things?”Cui Min Gan sneered.
So what if the "flying prawns" were as delicious as prawns? Their family had everything.
The others also nodded, their words filled with contempt for Li Er and the others.
Lu Wang shook his head." It's not that simple. Do you know the principle that locusts are bound to occur in extreme droughts?"”
With his reminder, everyone immediately reacted.
"Are you saying that there might be a locust plague and that His Majesty has noticed it? So he hoped to form this locust eating trend to resolve the locust plague?”Cui Min asked.
"That must be the case."
"Your Majesty is thinking too simply. So what if the locusts are eaten clean?”Cui Min Gan sneered," Without food, the people can't survive and will rebel.”
There weren't enough locusts to eat! The common people could not survive the famine.
The Zheng family member said," No wonder my butler told me that someone was secretly buying food. This must be His Majesty's doing.”
Cui Min Gan laughed coldly," Since that's the case, we can join in the bidding and raise the price.”
"That's not right. If His Majesty finds out about this, we won't be able to get away with it.”Wang Kai stopped him.
Lu Wang smiled and said," This is easy. We can order people to secretly spread the news of the locust plague. At the same time, all the grain stores will stop selling grain. Naturally, we can achieve our goal.”
"It's just that the people of the world are pitiful." Wang Gui still had a little conscience, but the shackles of the clan prevented him from walking out.
The family was in front of the country. Since ancient times, there were only a handful of people who could give up their family for the country.
"Shu Jie, there's no need to take it to heart. We're just letting the people know about this matter so that they can make plans.”Cui Min Gan comforted him," If Your Majesty agrees to close Zhangsun Wuji's book workshop, we can naturally help the court tide over this crisis.”
"That's right. We're also doing this to consolidate the foundation of the country.”In their view, the country was originally made up of them, so how could those poor families and commoners stand side by side with them in the court?
They were planning to use this matter to force Li Er. If Li Er did not compromise, there would probably be officials who would report that Li Er had lost his virtue and caused the locust plague. They would want him to issue an edict to punish himself.
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