An hour later, Luo Xin sent Xu Shixing to the gate. Looking at Xu Shixing's departure back, a smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth. .

"Daqing, is the bookstore ready?"

"Yes, Marquis!" Lu Daqing stood behind Luo Xin and whispered: "The printing workshop already has a large number of books, and we print in lead type, and the cost is extremely low. We are not afraid of them reducing the price."

"Very good! Send people to stare at other bookstores in the capital. As long as they lower the price, we will lower it even lower than them. I think how long will they fight me?"

The second day.

Luo Xin did not go to Zhan Shi Mansion, but sat on a lounge chair beside the pond in the back garden, basking in the sun while fishing. A sound of footsteps came.

"Marty, all the sixteen bookstores in the capital have lowered their prices." Lu Daqing panted.

"How much is it?" Luo Xin said lightly.

"90% off!"

"It's only 10% off!" Luo Xin curled his lips disdainfully and said, "Did you notify Juxian Bookstore?"

"I've notified, we're now at 20% off."

"Try again!" Luo Xin closed his eyes.

"Get orders!" Lu Daqing ran away excitedly.

A gentle footstep sound came to my side and sat on the recliner next to me. After a while, a wet thing touched Luo Xin's lips, and Lu Rudai's gentle voice sounded in his ears:

"General, eat grapes."

Luo Xin opened his eyes and saw Lu Rudai looking at him with a smile. His two white fingers pinched a peeled crystal grape. Luo Xin opened his mouth and swallowed the grapes. His tongue licked Lu Rudai's fingers. Lu Rudai's face turned red and he gently beat him.

Luo Xin reached out and grabbed Lu Rudai's hand, pulled her into his arms, and said softly:

"Where is the son?"

"Sleep!"

"Um!"

The two of them stopped talking and enjoyed the tranquility. After a while, Lu Rudai whispered:

"You and Xu Jie are getting choked again?"

"Haha..." Luo Xin found it funny. Lu Rudai learned a lot of vocabulary from later generations from him.

"Can you pinch him this time?"

"There are those bookstores in the middle, and it's not just me who is directly pinching him, it can only be counted as me who is under him."

"Then... can you pinch him?"

"If he burns his boats and sacrifices his family's industries in the southeast, I can't pinch him. However, with his greedy nature, he will never do this. He will cheat others, even his friends, teachers, and benefactors, but he will never cheat himself. So, he can't pinch me."

"You won't use our property to pinch him, are you?" Lu Rudai raised her head worriedly.

"So good?" Luo Xin smiled and said, "The bookstores in Beijing use wood-shaped carved versions. With the cost of ink, they will start to lose money if they get a 50% discount. Because they still have rent and the salary of their friends. We print lead type, so our cost can be paid 30% discount. Those bookstores are not fools, and they will not do business that lose money unless Xu Jie pays the money."

"Is he really not going to pay?"

Luo Xin thought seriously and said, "It's really hard to say. After all, if he couldn't mess with Juxian Bookstore this time, the people from the Zhanshi Mansion would follow me wholeheartedly, and his plan would have completely failed.

It doesn’t matter if a plan fails. What’s important is that it will be difficult for him to find such an opportunity in the future. So, he might really be able to pay, it depends on how much money he pays and how long he can last, haha…”

"Tengteng..."

Another sound of footsteps came, and the two of them were very familiar with the footsteps. They knew it was Lu Daqing without looking at it. Lu Rudai stood up from Luo Xin's arms and sat on another recliner.

Lu Daqing rushed into the moon gate, and ran and shouted, "Marty, Marquis, the Beijing Bookstore has lowered the price again, and they have received a 30% discount. We have already started to receive a 30% discount."

Luo Xin waved his hand without looking back and said, "Try again."

"Get orders!" Lu Daqing turned around and ran away.

"Puchi..." Lu Rudai couldn't help laughing: "You two are having fun."

"hehe……"

Prince Yu's Mansion.

"You mean, the reason why those bookstores in the capital competed with Mr. Luo's Juxian Bookstore was that Mr. Xu was behind the scenes?"

Yin Shidan and Chen Yiqin, who were sitting in the lower head, nodded and said, "This is no longer a secret. Zhang Juzheng summoned major bookstores in the capital to discuss this matter yesterday."

"This..." King Yu frowned and said, "Master Luo has recommended Xu Shixing and has shown good advice to Master Xu. Why hasn't Master Xu been playing?

Let's talk about it...

This is a business matter, not an officialdom. Is it necessary for Mr. Xu to target Mr. Luo like this?"

"This is not a business matter." Chen Yiqin said: "There is a very deep meaning here."

"What's the meaning?"

"Isn't Luo Xin in Zhan Shi's Mansion now?"

"yes!"

"Your Highness, you know that Your Majesty has not appointed a prince now."

Speaking of this, Chen Yiqin glanced at King Yu, and King Yu's face turned bad. Chen Yiqin continued:

"Because there is no prince, the Zhanshi Mansion is a decoration and the most idle place. I can't live with my salary. So the officials of the Zhanshi Mansion are all looking for things to do outside, big and small, to fill the family's income. Everyone knew what was going on before, so no one said anything. However, since Luo Xin became the left son of the Zhanshi Mansion, things have been made easy. Mr. Xu asked the Ministry of Personnel to go to the Zhanshi Mansion to check the post three times a day, and when he was caught, he was fined his salary. The officials of the Zhanshi Mansion had to give up on the things outside. However, in this way, life could not continue. Mr. Xu's decision was to make those officials unable to live, and then he raised an opposition to Luo Xin and made Luo Xin's reputation bad."

"Master Xu... how could he... be like this?"

"Luo Xin was naturally unwilling to sit and wait for death, so he opened four bookstores, which all had shares of the officials of the Zhanshi Mansion, and those officials took out all their assets. If Juxian Bookstore was squeezed out, those officials would really have to hang them. Of course, they could not hang themselves and go to Luo Xin's mansion to make trouble, and Luo Xin's reputation would be really bad."

Speaking of this, Chen Yiqin and Yin Shidan both showed a look of watching the fun. They had no good impression of Xu Jie and Luo Xin, and they wanted to watch the fun.

"How can this be done? How can Master Xu be like this? Master Luo has recommended Xu Shi and has shown good advice to him. How can he still be like this?"

Chen Yiqin and Yin Shidan both frowned. To be honest, neither of them could see why Luo Xin recommended Xu Shixing, but they were sure that this was definitely not Luo Xin's showing goodwill to Xu Jie, and Luo Xin would never show goodwill to Xu Jie.

"No, I want to find Master Xu." King Yu stood up.

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Chapter completed!