Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

Chapter 21 He is still a child
In the middle of Zhengyang Street, Chen Ce found a bookstore with the initial version of the novel manuscript.

The doctor in the store naturally knew Chen Ce. When Chen Ce gave him the first copy of "Rebirth of the Goddess", he saw at a glance that this book would sell well, so he bought the first copy for ten taels of silver.

Many of his colleagues laughed at him at the time. Ten taels of silver was not a small amount of money. The net income from Chen Ce's ten acres of land in a year was only this much.

The fact that the store owner could spend such a huge sum of money to purchase Chen Ce's books shows how discerning he is.

The facts did not disappoint him. He earned nearly fifty taels of silver in just the first sale of "Rebirth of the Goddess". Now the long-tail effect is still sufficient, and he still has a lot of income every day.

All the colleagues were jealous, but they didn't know who Li Xiachan, the author of "Rebirth of the Phoenix", was or where he lived, so they could only grit their teeth in silence.

"Mr. Chen is here?"

The shop owner of Rongxing Bookstore warmly welcomed Chen Ce and personally served him tea and water. After some greetings, he asked, "But is the second volume out?"

Chen Ce nodded.

The shop owner of Rongxing Bookstore was so excited that he said with emotion: "I have been waiting for you for more than three months, and finally the second volume is out!"

Writing thirty to fifty thousand words in three months is already a very low efficiency. Thanks to Chen Ce's weak body, even if he wants to make money, he needs to put his body first.

The money doesn't have to be a lot, as long as it's enough to live. Who knows how long this broken body can hold on?

"Can you let me take a look at the original first?"

Chen Ce smiled and said, "That's right."

The doctor of Rongxing Bookstore looked at it for a while and became fascinated. He admired it carefully while drinking the tea casually, frowning from time to time and smiling from time to time, and occasionally he would say "this is very interesting".

The love story between Meng Lijun and Huangfu Shaohua is full of twists and turns, which makes people feel extremely distressed.

After he finished reading, he still wanted to flip to the back, but found that there was no more. He sighed deeply and said to Chen Ce: "Mr. Chen... Oh!"

“Why don’t you write more!”

Chen Ce had been waiting for him quietly without saying a word. After he spoke, he smiled helplessly but did not explain.

The shop owner of Rongxing Bookstore did not keep the secret and said, "I have seen Mr. Chen's ability to sell the first volume of the book."

"This volume will surely sell well. How about this? I'll give you twenty taels of silver."

Chen Ce shook his head, put down the teacup, and said, "I want to try a different way of cooperation this time."

"Let's split the profits. You keep a record of how many copies of this book are printed and sold every day. I want 30% of the sales."

He did not consider the cost issue, and even if he assumed that the cost was 10% or 20% of the 70%, the other party still earned more than him in the end.

In business cooperation, you always have to make concessions, otherwise the other party won’t make any profit and the cooperation will come to an end. If you have too big an appetite, you will never end up well in your life.

Chen Ce understood this well.

Rongxing Bookstore had never expected that Chen Ce would change the way of cooperation, and was a little embarrassed for a while. If he bought out the bookstore in one go, he would definitely make more than he does now.

Chen Ce really didn't want to waste time on this trivial matter. If he didn't want to cooperate, he could just switch to another company. He had already given the other party enough profit margin.

He just thought that the owner of Rongxing Bookstore, Dr. Wang, was a nice person, so he wanted to cooperate with him.

Seeing Chen Ce getting up to leave, Dr. Rongxing Bookstore hurriedly stopped Chen Ce and said, "Okay, okay! Let's cooperate like this, I'll listen to you!"

Chen Ce nodded with satisfaction, and left after discussing the details.

From then on, he had a good income every day, and with the income from the ten acres of land, he no longer had to worry about his daily expenses.

……

In the harem of the Forbidden City, Zhu Houzhao was having dinner with Empress Zhang. After dinner, Emperor Hongzhi left with a sigh. Empress Zhang snorted and said to Zhu Houzhao, "Give me some advice!"

Zhu Houzhao: "..."

Once a woman says something like this, there is no need to judge, just side with the Queen Mother!

Zhu Houzhao knew his mother's character too well, but he still pretended to be indignant and snorted, "Divorce!"

"Mother, divorce father! I will live with you!"

Queen Zhang: “…”

Why did I give birth to such an unlucky child like you? I am so tired.

"That's not the case." Empress Zhang said, "I asked you to judge the situation, not to be rude. Behave yourself!"

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Oh, mother, tell me, I am listening, how can father bully you?"

Empress Zhang snorted and said, "It's still the Duke of Changning from the Zhou family. He's already old, but he's still fighting for land with your uncles."

"Half of your feet are in the ground, what do you need the land for?"

"You even shamelessly said that our Zhang family bullies others by taking advantage of their power. You made it seem like our Zhang family is not like royal relatives, but like gangsters. Isn't that infuriating?"

Zhu Houzhao thought to himself, aren’t my two uncles real estate thugs?
You didn't see the majestic fight, but if you had seen it, you would definitely sigh and say "two scoundrels".

Zhu Houzhao ate by himself without saying a word. It was enough for his mother to complain about these things. He couldn't say anything nonsense, otherwise if it got out, people would gossip about him.

"How should the emperor deal with this?"

Empress Zhang gnashed her teeth and said, "Your father asked your uncle and the Earl of Changning to apologize. This is simply outrageous!"

Zhu Houzhao comforted Empress Zhang, saying, "Okay, mother, don't be angry. I'll go to the street and buy you a storybook tomorrow. Read more and you'll be relieved."

Empress Zhang said, "Is this what I am telling you... Never mind."

As soon as the words fell, two loud voices came from outside, crying and shouting, "Sister, sister!"

"We don't want to live anymore. We don't want to live anymore. The Zhang family has no descendants. Please collect our bodies. We want to commit suicide."

Shouning Marquis Zhang Heling and Jianchang Earl Zhang Yanling walked into the hall with snot and tears, howling in grievance: "The emperor asked us brothers to apologize to the Zhang family."

"How can this be justified? Does our Zhang family have no shame?"

"What's the point of living, sister? We are here to see you for the last time."

Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up, and he said to the Zhang brothers, "Uncle, after you die, the money and land will be useless, right?"

"I will let Liu Jin and his men take over your wealth. It just so happens that my East Palace is short of money."

The Zhang brothers were choked and thought to themselves, how can there be a kid like you? You are simply heartless!
What do you mean you will take over our wealth after we die? We are your uncles, dear!

Suddenly I don’t want to die anymore.

Zhu Houzhao said: "It doesn't matter. You will die sooner or later anyway. If you don't commit suicide, your father will do it."

Karma?
The Zhang brothers were stunned for a moment, and looked at Zhu Houzhao nervously, saying, "Nephew, the emperor... the emperor is making such a big deal?"

Seeing the two brothers' faces turned blue with fear, Empress Zhang glared at Zhu Houzhao fiercely before saying, "Don't listen to his nonsense, he is still a child."

Thanks to the monthly ticket of the starry sky and the big brother with the last number 6377. Thank you very much


(End of this chapter)