Seeing Huang Shun leave, Li Ling still had a guest smile on his face, but Xu Cang, who was beside him, could no longer hold back and said anxiously: "Wen Zhong, how could you... be able to agree to him so easily? Haven't you seen me winked at you several times, telling you not to respond to him? This is OK, what should I do..." As he said that, he sighed again, obviously because he was extremely worried.

Li Ling's eyes flashed and he continued to smile: "Zhuo Wu, what are you saying? Isn't he your friend?"

"I have some friendship with him, but this time I really don't know that he came to see you for such a purpose. Before, he only said that he had been relying on your name as Tanhua for a long time before he got to know me." Xu Cang quickly explained, "Who thought he asked you to take the risk of checking what accounts? Why didn't you refuse?"

"Come on, let's sit down and talk slowly." Li Ling's smile gradually disappeared, but his expression still calmed down. "It seems that you can also see that Lord Huang has a bad intention?"

"Of course, this kind of thing is not so easy to do. He is clearly using you. The previous words are just for a comment..." Speaking of this, looking at Li Ling's smiling expression, Xu Cang immediately understood, "Have you seen it long ago?"

"How can you hide the little tricks that you can even see through at a glance?"

"That's right, you're much more than me in terms of heart. That's right. Since that's the case, you should refuse. Why did you agree to him instead?"

"If you really refuse immediately as you said, you will offend the person completely." Li Ling sighed and said, "Of course, I may not be afraid of him, Huang Shun, but behind him is the prince's party. Once he really becomes an enemy with them, I am afraid that there will be endless troubles."

"This is not the case..." Xu Cang said in disbelief, "Just because you refuse to help them, they will treat you as an enemy?"

"The party struggles in the court have always been like this, either this or that, either a friend or an enemy. Unless you have absolute power to prevent them from touching you, as long as they realize that you are not one of them, they must try their best to eradicate you. Especially for those who already know what they will do next, once they are concerned about it, this official will not be able to be a long time."

"That's why you promised them? But in this way, you are not as dangerous?" Xu Cang said with concern, "You are just a magistrate of the Ministry of Revenue. If you take the risk to check any important accounts, once you are noticed, you will be afraid that the consequences will be more serious."

Li Lingha smiled: "So I never thought about taking the risk for them to check what accounts."

"ah……"

Seeing Xu Cang's face was surprised, Li Ling smiled even more happily: "Don't you understand? It's one thing to promise them, and whether to do it or not is another thing. Or in other words, they agree that they are called attitude issues, and whether they can do things well is a problem of ability. I have never promised him that I will find out the accounts. A drag-on technique is enough to deal with them."

Xu Cang lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then he realized: "So you are just perfunctory to him? But aren't you afraid that you will still offend the prince's party in this way?"

"That will happen a few months later, or even next year." Li Ling said disrespectfully, "At that time, I will no longer be a soft persimmon that they can handle, but just an inconspicuous Ministry of Revenue Administration."

Speaking of this, Li Ling suddenly felt a little funny. The prince's person is really a representative of nerds. He actually thought that relying on so-called country and other words to make people work hard for them, which is much worse than the sincerity of King Yong.

At least when the Yongwang side wins over him, he still has a wish to be appointed as an official, and it will soon be seen that there are real benefits. But the prince's people refused to even open a blank check. In this way, those who really do things for him are only nerds who are determined to be orderly in their old age.

Immediately, Li Ling looked at his friend with some concern: "Zhuowu, you were not pulled by them to the side of the prince, are you?"

Xu Cang quickly shook his head: "No, otherwise I wouldn't talk to you like this. In fact, Huang Shun had slandered several times before, but I avoided it. So he didn't mention it much these days. Perhaps it has something to do with me now being just an editor of the Hanlin Academy and having almost no real power."

Li Ling finally felt relieved, but then he said curiously: "When did you become so smart, can you see their sinister intentions?"

Xu Cang smiled bitterly: "It's not that I'm so smart, I really can't accept their words. Now that your Majesty is in full swing, we ministers should be loyal to Your Majesty. What's the matter with us, what's the prince Yong? Also, it's because of the teacher."

When Li Ling heard what he said, he felt at ease, and he felt a little nervous about his keys. He then focused on his next sentence: "What does this have to do with Confucian scholars?"

"Don't you know? The Jinqian case where the teacher was dismissed from office before was just an introduction. The real reason was that he was a lecturer in the East Palace and the prince's master. His Majesty dismissed the teacher from office and asked him to return to his hometown in order to hit the prince. But after the Jinqian case, the prince tried his best to clear his relationship with the teacher. Such actions are really cold!"

Li Ling rarely saw Xu Cang being hostile to someone, but this time he saw that he had deep disdain for the prince and sighed unconsciously: "This is the so-called battle between the court. There is not much emotion to talk about. In their eyes, there is only benefit. So if we can not participate now, it is better not to participate. Pay special attention in the Hanlin Academy, don't be used by others."

Xu Cang smiled again on his face and grinned, "Don't worry, although I, Xu Cang, cannot compare to Wen Zhong, you are not stupid enough to be a pawn. Moreover, there are many people in the Hanlin Academy who don't want to get involved in disputes in the court, and they shouldn't just put their minds into me."

"That's good." Li Ling said, looking at the sky and smiled, "It's noon. We haven't had a meal together for a while. Today you'll use the meal here and then follow me to the bookstore. The Zongheng Monthly Report I made before will be released in the second issue, so you can also help you read it. If you have any experience, you can post it to my newspaper, and I will definitely give it enough royalties."

"Did you have read the articles in the Hanlin Academy before? I have also seen people reading them in the Hanlin Academy, but my colleagues disagreed with the articles above and said they were just sensational things..." Xu Cang had no taboos in front of Li Ling, and directly expressed his colleague's comments.

Li Ling smiled unconsciously: "My newspaper was not prepared for you, such as you who read poetry and books, but for entertainment for the common people in the market. Just like the novel I wrote, let everyone have fun after dinner."

Xu Cang nodded, and said nothing, and went directly to the dining room next to Li Ling for dinner. In the afternoon, the two of them took the bus to Zongheng Bookstore and watched the finalization of the second issue of the newspaper.

Compared with the first issue, the most eye-catching content in this issue has changed from the erotic courtesan to the hurtful person. Other news events are also ordinary. However, on the second edition, there are several official officials of the Ministry of Revenue, most of which are the experiences of officials, but I don’t know how many readers will become interested in this.

As for the third and fourth editions, it is still Li Ling's novel base, and the content is more than the first issue. At least for now, it seems that this is the powerful means Li Ling used to promote his own newspapers.

When Wan Lang was busy, he took the newspaper that was still dripping from a craftsman, his brows shrank deeply. As soon as he saw Li Ling coming, he said worriedly: "Dalang, you really decided to sell this issue for money instead of giving it for nothing? Why am I feeling more and more unsure?"

"When did you, Master Wan, become so timid?" Li Ling laughed when he saw this.

"I'm worried that I will die before I can succeed. If I can't sell it now, our newspaper will be completely finished."

"You have to believe in the purchasing ability of those who are literate in Luoyang. Our newspaper is enough to be worth half a book. The price is so cheap. It is cheap enough for entertainment. There will be no fewer people to buy it." As he said, Li Ling patted his shoulder again, "Believe me, this step is always taken. In the last issue, I will set the price in this issue, so that our bookstore can truly start to make a profit!"

"Okay, let's just listen to you, ten cents per bill, which just offsets our cost this time."

"No, our bookstore didn't collect this money by itself." Li Ling shook his head and said at this time.

"What do you mean?" Not only Wan Lang, but everyone else felt a little puzzled and they all looked at Li Ling.

He looked at everyone calmly, and then smiled and said, "You will call the idle men on the street and tell them that we will not send money this time, we will only let them sell newspapers everywhere. Then, each newspaper will be ten words, and they will accept the price of how much it costs to sell it themselves."

"Ah..." Everyone showed shock again. Can they still play like this?

However, Wan Lang quickly understood Li Ling's intention after being stunned. Doing this seemed to be the same as before, but after careful calculation, he found that the bookstore had indeed saved money. What's more important is that this will further promote the enthusiasm of newspaper sellers, because they could not see the benefits when they delivered newspapers before, but then they sold newspapers and got money in the other hand, which is much more intuitive than collecting money later.
Chapter completed!