Chapter 761: Betrothed (I)

Gao Yuan stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around Lin Wenchun's slender waist and said, "Okay, is there anything to find me?" Is it related to Huan'er?"

Lin Wenqing leaned on Gao Yuan's arms, nodded, and said, "Yes, it's Huan'er's business." ”

Gao Yuan said: "If you are not worried about Huan'er's safety, then this time I will not let Huan'er go, and I will stay with you in Daijun." After a pause, he said: "Don't worry, I won't let Huan'er go to the battlefield in the future, just let him engage in civilian affairs, which is also a way out." ”

Lin Wenqing hurriedly said: "Husband misunderstood, I'm not worried about Huan'er going to the battlefield, and I have no objection to him going to war this time, but there are other things." ”

Takahara laughed, "Oh, what's that. ”

Lin Wenqing said: "Husband, in October this year, Huan'er will be eighteen years old, which is considered an official adult, but he still lives in the mansion, and there are many inconveniences, and Mingxia is almost twenty years old, and the affairs of the two of them should not be delayed any longer, so the concubine wants to let them get married earlier, and then let Huan'er move out of the house, so as to stand on her own." ”

It turned out that Lin Wenqing understood in his heart that although the plateau regarded Luo Huan as his own, Luo Huan was only raising children after all, because Luo Huan was young in the past, and there were no daughters on the plateau, so Luo Huan lived in the mansion of the plateau, and it didn't matter. But now Luo Huan is almost an adult, and more importantly, the relocation of the capital of Daijun is imminent, although the plateau has not yet officially announced that after moving the capital to Lingshou, the news that he will be officially crowned king has been spread in Daijun, and Lin Wenqing naturally heard a lot of rumors.

Although in the eyes of the plateau, the difference between being called the king or not is not big, but it is just a change of vest, but in Lin Wenqing's heart, it is completely different, once the plateau is called the king, it is absolutely different from the current Wu Anjun, the place where he lives can be called the palace, not the mansion, and all kinds of etiquette, rank, and system must be according to the standards of the king, but it is much stricter than the previous Wu Anjun. Therefore, Luo Huan lives in Wu'anjun's mansion, and it doesn't matter yet, but if he lives in the palace, there will inevitably be discussions.

Now that the plateau has no heirs, it will be thought that he is peeping at the position of the plateau, and intends to make Luo Huan the heir of the plateau, and if the plateau has an heir in the future, it will be even more terrible, Luo Huan is still in the palace, is it difficult to compete with the heirs of the plateau for the throne?

Among the wives and concubines on the plateau, Lin Wenqing is the oldest, plus he has been in business for many years, and he has the most experience and knowledge, knowing that among the nations, the struggle between him as the heir to the throne is the most intense, and when the throne is alternated, there are many troubles, and it is not uncommon for brothers to kill each other and fight between fathers and children. Moreover, many years of business experience have also made Lin Wenqing deeply understand the way to make trade-offs, and know how to advance and retreat. Therefore, Lin Wenqing thinks that it is better to keep Luo Huan away. Just under the pretext that Luo Huan is an adult and should get married and start a family as soon as possible, let Luo Huan stand on his own, move out to live, and don't get involved in these things. Although Li Yinghong is Li Mu's adopted daughter, her sensitivity in this regard is far lower than that of Lin Wenqing.

Gao Yuan also knows six or seven points about Lin Wenqing's heart, but this kind of thing is really difficult to explain, although Gao Yuan has the intention of establishing Luo Huan as his heir, but this is based on the premise that he has no heirs, if he has an heir, he really can't make Luo Huan his heir. This is not to say that Gao Yuan must pass on his own inheritance to his own biological heirs, but because in this era, blood relationship is the primary condition for inheritance. If you have a biological heir, and you have to pass on the position to your adopted son, even if there is no chaos, you have to be in chaos.

Lin Wenqing's arrangement is also well-intentioned, allowing Luo Huan to go out of the house to set up his own door, indicating that Luo Huan has given up the heir of the plateau and will not pose a threat to the future heirs of the plateau, of course, if the plateau really has no heirs in the future, Luo Huan can be recruited back.

Therefore, Gao Yuan also nodded and said, "That's okay, when I'm free tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I will go to Brother Jiang's house with you to propose marriage and finalize the marriage between Huan'er and Mingxia." However, the matter of marriage should be talked about until we move to Lingshou, at least we can choose a good house for them to live close to us, so that they can't live too far away, and it is convenient for them to come to see you. ”

Lin Wenqing listened to it and had no objections, and at the same time thanked Gao Yuan for being thoughtful, and said, "Just do it according to your husband's opinion." After a pause, Lin Wenqing said again: "Anyway, there is nothing to do, so it is better to tell your husband about the business situation in the past few months, does your husband know the income of papermaking and printing in the past few months?" ”

Gao Yuan also nodded, and said casually: "How much has you earned in the past few months?" ”

Lin Wenqing said: "In the past three months, the income of Daijun Paper and Daijun Shu has been above two hundred Eridium gold, and the concubine estimates that next month's income should be close to three hundred Eridium gold." ”

Gao Yuan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but say, "So much?" ”

Because Daigun's land is vast and sparsely populated, after Takahara became the lord of Daigun, he has been vigorously developing commercial operations, and has manufactured Daigun's paper and printing technology as a unique commodity of Daigun, coupled with Daigun's own specialties, animal skins, Daigun's commercial business has developed quite rapidly, and now commercial income has accounted for nearly half of the financial revenue.

The goods of Daijun were mainly sold to Qi, but before the war of the Qin Dynasty, Yan was destroyed by Qin, which also cut off the trade routes between Dai and Qi, so that the commercial exchanges between Dai and Qi were completely interrupted. Fortunately, it didn't take long for the Dai army to defeat the Qin army and occupy Yandi, so the commercial exchanges between the Dai and Qi dynasties were immediately restored, and by this time, they had recovered to the state before the war.

In the past, the commercial transactions between Daijun and Qi were paid by Lin Wenqing, who traded with the merchants of Qi as a half-official and semi-private person, and the goods were not only paper, books and furs, but also many other commodities, but with the expansion of commercial operations, the merchants of Daijun were also increasing, so under the instruction of Gao Yuan, Lin Wenqing gave up the business of furs and other commodities, and only kept the business of paper and books. However, the production methods of paper and books are provided by the plateau, so it is understandable that the plateau retains the business of paper and books.

The best-selling commodity in Daijun is, of course, Daijun paper and Daijun book, now the monthly paper output has reached nearly one million, and various books have reached more than 5,000 volumes, of which nearly half of the output is sold to Qi State, another three percent are digested locally by Daijun, and the remaining two percent are sold to other countries, mainly to Qin. Although Daijun had just finished fighting with the Qin State, it was a hostile relationship, but the commerce did not stop, and there was a tendency to expand, on the one hand, because of the need for consumption in the Qin State; On the other hand, it was also Gao Yuan's intention, hoping to use commercial contacts to arrange an intelligence network in the Qin State.

However, before the war of Dai Qin, the monthly sales of paper and books were around 100 eridium gold, and the net profit was about sixty or seventy eridium gold, of course, in addition to the taxes payable, all of them became the private line of the plateau, which is of course quite a high income, and can net nearly 1,000 yuan of gold every year. In the past few months, the sales of paper and books have exceeded 200 eridium gold, and this month it can reach about 300 eridium gold, which greatly exceeds the sales before the war, which of course surprised Gao Yuan very much. In this way, the annual income can reach 2,000 eridium gold.

While looking at Lin Wenqing, I saw that there was a smug look between her eyebrows, so she immediately hugged Lin Wenqing in her arms, pinched her plump buttocks, and said, "Tell me quickly, what's going on, otherwise, I'm not welcome." ”

Lin Wenqingxia dyed her cheeks, glanced at Gao Yuan again, and said coquettishly: "Because the concubine has thought of a way to make money, that is, to receive private printing." ”

After Daijun developed printing, although thousands of books were printed every month, they were mainly printed ancient books, like the Jixia School Palace of Qi State, which was like Daijun set more than a thousand ancient books, which have not yet been printed. However, with the development of printing, some scholars wanted to print their own works on paper, either for themselves or for others. Therefore, before the battle of the Qin Dynasty, some people asked the shops set up in the Qi State by Dai County if they could print books for private individuals.

After Lin Wenqing learned about it, he immediately found a business opportunity from it, because Gao Yuan decided to give up fur and other businesses, and he needed to find a new way, and printing books for private was a good choice, but just when Lin Wenqing was preparing to start this new business, Qin sent troops to attack Yan and cut off the trade route between Dai Qi, and Lin Wenqing had to stop.

Later, the Dai army defeated the Qin army, occupied Yandi, and reopened the Dai Qi trade route, and Lin Wenqing had already made preparations and plans, so he immediately started the business of receiving private printing in the Qi State.

Gao Yuan nodded, Lin Wenqing really has business acumen, and it is indeed a new way to make money by taking over the private book printing business, because there is no network in this era, and the communication between scholars can only be carried out orally, and after the general scholar sets up a book, of course, he hopes to send as many people as possible, and expand the spread of his own doctrine, but before there is no printing technology, books can only be copied by hand, which is not only inefficient, but also wastes a lot of time.

Well-known scholars are better, because there are disciples who can help, but after all, such scholars are a minority, and the vast majority of scholars have no disciples, so they can only do it themselves, and it takes several days to copy a large book, and they can't do anything else. Of course, you can also spend money to hire someone to copy, generally scholars who can write books have some family background, and they don't care about the money, but there are very few people who can read and write in this era, but most of these people have a good job, and few people are willing to do the hard work of copying books. Even if there are a few copies of books, the work is full, and one person can't copy a few books, so this is a market with huge potential.

However, Gao Yuan still has some disbelief, although the market for privately printed books is huge, can he nearly double his income all at once? Therefore, he also asked: "Private printing is so profitable." ”