Wu Zhi looked aggrieved and looked at Zhao Yan and the other two with some confusion.

Just now, he clearly saw that Liu Dazhong was very obedient to Zhao Yan's words.

Liu Dazhong said with a cold face: "These two are very noble guests I invited. Just call them Gongzi and Gongzi's wife."

Wu Zhi nodded quickly, and Liu Dazhong gave him everything he wanted, and he never dared to disobey him.

Immediately, Zhao Yan and Lu Nianwei sat on the chair beside them.

The shopkeeper not far away had a very eye-catching look and immediately asked the client to serve a few cups of tea.

After sitting down, Zhao Yan asked, "Tell me, why don't your book shop sell books?"

Wu Zhi sighed and said, "Young Master, uncle, it's not that I don't sell books, but that I don't dare to sell them!"

"On the day Baiwenzhai opened, I specially bought a batch of special books. I thought I could get favorable at a low price first, but I never thought that there was not even a single one to buy books, and even if I gave them free, no one wanted them. In a row, no books in the book shop were sold. I have done research in the book shop around. If you talk about the quality and price of books, Baiwenzhai is definitely good and cheap."

"I investigated it for a few days before I realized that the book shops in Daping County have been monopolized by others. All the book shops here seem to have different names, but they are actually owned by the same person. The scholars here also recognize that person's shop and will not buy my books at all."

"Last month, a few foreigners came here to buy books from us. I was very happy. As soon as I sold two books, a few strong men with gangsters came to the book shop, then chased us and beat us up. After beating us again, I warned us that if we sell a book, we would be beaten up."

"I...I wrote to you the night I was beaten, but you didn't reply, so I had to find a way to solve it myself!"

Liu Dazhong's old face turned red. Since he went to Changdan, he has put all his thoughts on Zhao Yan. The letter was probably sent to Hangzhou, and those people in Hangzhou dared not open Liu Dazhong's letter.

"Then... won't you report to the official?" Liu Dazhong said to Wu Zhi.

"well!"

Wu Zhi sighed again and said, "The day after we were beaten, we reported to the official, and the magistrate of Daping asked us to go back first, and said that we would handle it impartially. But on the third day, a large number of gangsters came to Baiwenzhai again and beat us up, and warned us that we would hit us once when we reported to the official."

"After experiencing this, I thought about selling Baiwenzhai and leaving here. But I never thought that I was bullied by the gangsters again, and told me that the other party would buy Baiwenzhai with 100 taels of silver, otherwise I would not be able to step out of Daping County."

"I had no choice but to stay here, hoping that my uncle could save me when he received the reply. I was extremely upset these days, but I had nothing to do, so I could only go and get drunk."

"Who is the person behind the scenes? Have you found out?" Liu Dazhong asked again.

Wu Zhi mustered up his courage, gritted his teeth, and said, "This person is the county magistrate Xue Huai."

"A small county magistrate actually has such overwhelming power. If the county magistrate of Daping County does not accept this case, you can go to the prefecture to file a lawsuit." Zhao Yan said.

Wu Zhi continued with a bitter face: "The reason why Xue Huai dared to act like this is because his father was Xue Tianyou, the governor of Shantai Prefecture, and his grandfather was Xue Lin, the governor of Shuzhou. In the entire Shuzhou, there was nothing that their Xue family dared not do. That confused county magistrate was just a decoration."

When Zhao Yan heard about Xue Lin, the magistrate of Shuzhou, he couldn't help but think of Xiao Jingye's evaluation of the magistrate: He does not seek merit, but seeks no mistakes. His political achievements are average, and he has never made any mistakes.

Zhao Yan frowned slightly. Such a family force is indeed not easy to deal with.

In addition, Shuzhou is surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on the other side. The people rarely go out. The court knows that it is basically memorials from the ministers of Shuzhou.

Officials have been corrupt since ancient times. If Zhao Yan wanted to clear the officialdom, he would probably only start from here.

Zhao Yan thought for a moment and said, "From tomorrow, we will continue to sell books. Xue Huai is looking for gangsters to make trouble. He obviously does not want to use the power of the government. Since this is the case, we are not afraid of him."

Zhao Yan looked at Liu Dazhong again and said, "Dazhong, summon all the guards on the boat. I will not only not let this book shop go bankrupt, but also make it prosperous."

"Yes." Liu Dazhong bowed and said.

Zhao Yan looked at Heiwa next to him again, and the latter immediately understood and nodded at Zhao Yan.

There were nearly twenty imperial guards following Zhao Yan. These twenty people were all skilled in martial arts and were good at fighting against ten. Zhao Yan was also preparing to pull them to Baiwenzhai as guards.

What he had to do was to make this matter bigger and to see the attitude of the government. If the Xue family had been greedy for three generations, Zhao Yan would take the Xue family as the whetstone for the court's reform.

That evening, Liu Dazhong bought a small courtyard near Baiwenzhai, and Zhao Yan and the other two lived there.

Early the next morning, Zhao Yan came to Baiwenzhai. From today on, he will be the shopkeeper of Baiwenzhai.

He ordered several guards to clean Baiwenzhai again, then set up a book stall at the door of the store, and wrote eight words next to the book stall: Ten texts per book, no deception.

Last night, Zhao Yan learned that the main reason why no one visited Baiwenzhai was that those scholars were afraid that they would not be able to obtain fame and fortune because they offended the Xue family. Therefore, they did not dare to go to the Xue family's book shop, other shops except the Xue family's book shop.

However, the people who don’t go to the exam for fame and fortune don’t mind these things. As long as the books are cheap enough, these people will definitely buy them. The Xue family cannot beat every person who buys books. He will only come to Baiwenzhai for trouble.

Most of the books on the book stalls are commonly used books such as Thousand Characters, the Analects of Confucius, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Book of Rites, and the binding is particularly exquisite.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, the price of books is still relatively expensive, and the price of a book is at least more than 100 texts. If you buy a complete set of books such as the Complete Records of the Grand Historian or the Selected Four Books, it will cost at least one or two cents of money.

Therefore, Zhao Yan banned ten cents each, which was obviously losing money and earning publicity.

Soon, someone came to visit.

A middle-aged man in rag clothes came over and asked in confusion: "Is it really a ten-month book?"

The original shopkeeper of Baiwenzhai smiled and said, "Yes, Shiwen, can you choose any books here?"

The middle-aged man showed an excited smile, then quickly took a copy of "Shangshu" and left quickly.

Immediately afterwards, as more and more people were on the street, book stalls gradually became popular.

Such cheap and excellent books will naturally not be short of buyers. And everyone is also following the mentality of herds. When they see others buying, they naturally line up. Although the Xue family is extremely powerful, it is impossible to punish all the people.
Chapter completed!