Li Xiao and Yuse rode a horse to Chang'an before dark. As soon as they entered the city, the city gate slowly closed behind them.

"It's late, let's take a night off first."

Li Xiao hates the curfew system in Chang'an City. When it gets dark, Chang'an City will no longer be prosperous, just like a large prison cell. The city gate is closed and the fangmen is closed. Chang'an City is more than a hundred closed fang areas. When it gets dark, you can't go anywhere except at home.

"Then I'll ask you some details about the newspaper operation when I go to your house." Yuse's mind is now full of the idea of ​​the list of gods and the Chang'an News. She was originally a free and easy person, and she was not careful about the details. At this time, she was wearing a Taoist robe, so she didn't think about anything else.

Li Xiao originally wanted to refuse, but the hostess was not in Chang'an Mansion. They were afraid that the impact of staying together at night was not good. It was obvious that Yuse was so free and easy. If he was sceptical, he would be a little stingy, so he had to agree.

It was very regular that night. The two discussed the details of the newspaper until very late, and then they each rested.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, Li Xiao went directly to Zongsheng Temple in Chang'an City.

This is the stronghold of Zhongnan Mountain Tower Temple in Chang'an City. The Taoist temple was very well-built and occupied half of the archway in the south of the city. There are only 120 Taoist priests registered by the court, as well as many small Taoist children, lay Buddhists, and some slaves who work for the Taoist temple.

Li Xiao was led by Yuse, the Taoist nun, but he was not lost in the Zongsheng Temple, so he went straight to find Old Dao Chen.

"Master Chen, we're meeting again. I have a novel here."

Li Xiao was straightforward and took out the 30,000-word list of the Gods written in the first nine chapters yesterday. In addition to the 10,000 he wrote before, he also summoned several accountants last night. Li Xiao thought to the accountants and wrote the bookmakers, and then drove out another 20,000 words.

Mr. Chen is the junior brother of Yin Wencao, the leader of Zongsheng Temple. He has a high status in Zongsheng Temple and the entire Louguan Taoist. He is now responsible for collecting and organizing Taoist scriptures.

The old Taoist took back 10,000 copies of the Tao Te Ching from the Printing Bureau last time, and only spent 1,700 guan. This incident surprised and satisfied the viewer Yin Wencao.

Now that these ten thousand copies of the Tao Te Ching have begun to be distributed, those lay Buddhists who come to the temple to incense can buy a Tao Te Ching book blessed by the Zongsheng Temple in the temple, each book only sold for five hundred yuan.

The printing bureau sold a Tao Te Ching to Zong Shengguan at the average price of 170 yuan, but the other person sold 500 yuan. I have to say that this plan is good.

But Old Taoist Chen said that this Tao Te Ching was blessed by them.

So Li Xiao was not jealous of these old-fashioned masters. He came to find a sponsor today. When he wrote the "Tenkong of the Gods" instead of the Three Kingdoms, he originally liked Lou Guan, a big sponsor.

A manuscript of 30,000 words plus the outline of the novel "Fengshen Bang".

Old Dao Chen was not polite, so he picked up the manuscript and read it carefully. He quickly finished reading the beginning of 30,000 words, and then carefully looked at the outline several times.

The old Taoist looked at it and his eyes lit up.

Although there is not much content in Shinto in the previous few chapters, this book is not simple according to the outline.

Respecting Taoism and suppressing Buddha is the thing Taoism likes to do the most.

Especially during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, both sides came out of their brains and looked for agents from the world. The Taoists looked for Wei Wu and Zhou Wu, and destroyed Buddhism in the country twice, while the monks looked for Northern Qi and forced all the Taoists in Northern Qi to shave their hair into monks.

When we arrived in the Tang Dynasty, although this struggle was not so fierce, the means were not so radical, and the struggle between the two sides still never stopped.

Taoism has temporarily gained the upper hand, but Lou Guandao did not dare to underestimate the enemy. If there was a chance, they would step on the bald donkeys.

For example, the golden pillow case between Princess Gaoyang and Monk Bian Ji, they often made trouble in it. After all, Bian Ji was a famous monk in Chang'an City and a future monk. He was a disciple of a generation of monk Xuanzang. When Bian Ji was engaged, he not only wanted to break a future master of the bald donkey world, but also used this to attack Xuanzang and the entire bald donkey world.

That incident was indeed very big later. Gao Yang was imprisoned by Emperor Taizong and thought about his mistakes in his mansion, and Bianji was also beheaded in half. The bald donkeys in Chang'an City were all severely warned by the royal family.

"Sanlang, please wait, I will take you to see Senior Brother Yin." Chen Laodao believed that Yin Wencao would like this novel. Senior Brother Yin is doing great things now. He wants to unify all Taoist schools, unify Taoist thoughts, and complete the unification in Lou Guandao's hands, just like Emperor Wen of Sui unified the world that split.

Yin Wencao is now collecting various Taoist scriptures everywhere, intending to compile a Taoist collection, in order to prepare for unifying the Taoist sects.

While unifying Taoism, of course, we must also attack foreign bald donkeys. As local Taoism, it is born to be disliked by foreign bald donkeys.

Therefore, Lou Guandao not only regards the Tao Te Scripture as the Bible of this religion, but also attaches great importance to the scriptures such as Lao Tzu's Hu Sutra, which worships Taoism and suppresses Buddha. He often hires people to copy and then preach them everywhere.

Now this list of Gods is quite amazing, even more awesome than Laozi's transformation into Hu Jing. People directly gave a preface to the gods and immortals in myths and legends since ancient times.

What does this mean?

It is equivalent to the thing that the great scholars of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties like to do the most, and the compilation of genealogy. The Wei and Jin Dynasties were the era of the gentry, and the gentry was the most important family, so there must be a genealogy preface to the family, otherwise how can we talk about the Qing Dynasty?

Now this list of Gods is equivalent to cultivating a genealogy for the Taoists and listing the genealogy for them. This is to shape the Taoist dynasty.

Yin Wencao is a very energetic old Taoist priest, with a bit of fairy-like spirit.

He is an old man with a long white beard.

Chen Laodao introduced to both parties, Li Xiao hurriedly gave a tribute. Regardless of Taoism, the old man had a high status. He was a third-grade big shot who could wear purple gold in the court. Although he was a rank of a scattered rank, it also represented a very high status. At least the bald donkeys could not enjoy this third-grade treatment of purple gold.

"This is the list of the Gods written by Sanlang." Chen Laodao handed the manuscript to Yin Wencao.

Old Dao Yin took it and started to look carefully.

After seeing it, the old Taoist breathed poorly and was obviously still in shock.

I really want to fall asleep, so I come to the pillow. This is simply a treasure that unified Taoism and attacked Buddhism!

"The Book of the Gods, this book is well-known. What are the plans of Sanlang?" asked the old Taoist.

Li Xiao smiled and explained his purpose, introduced the Chang'an Newspaper to be released, and then said that he planned to leave a page in the Newspaper to publish the serialized book of the Gods.

"Okay, how much does it take to run the first issue?"

"A chapter is about three thousand words."

"It's a little less. The master of the 30,000 words will be finished in a short time."

“The layout is limited and it is impossible to serialize too much content.”

"It's necessary to serialize about ten thousand words at a time, right?" Old Master Yin was interested in the influence of this book, and hoped that the sooner it could be serialized, the better.

"We can also change the serialization method, such as printing 10,000 words each time and sandwiching it into the news newspaper, so that it will not occupy the page and content of the news newspaper." Li Xiao gave a solution, and every ten thousand words are serialized every ten thousand words, and an average of thousands of words a day is available.

One ten thousand words, one month is collected into one copy for printing and distribution.

"How does Sanlang need our Zong Sheng Temple to do it?" asked the old Taoist.

Li Xiao smiled and explained the purpose of the book. The outline of the content of this book was for the old Taoist to read. He was clear about the core idea, which was a good thing for Lou Guandao. But writing a book is always a tiring thing. If there is no material support, it will be difficult to continue writing this book.

After all, according to Li Xiao’s outline, this book must be written in a huge compilation of more than one million words.

The old man understands it, but he doesn't quite understand how to operate it.

So Li Xiao told them the copyright that Li Xiao’s list of Gods could be serialized in newspapers, and then Lou Guandao could buy the publishing rights and the copyright was printed into a book for sale.

"How to buy copyright?" asked Mr. Yin. He didn't worry about why he wanted to buy copyright. He read the essence of the problem. This book is useful to him. It is legitimate for him to want it and then pay some money. As for the method, it is actually not important.

Li Xiao thought for a while and said, "I believe the Taoist master understands the quality of this book. What do you think of a thousand words and one hundred?"

"A thousand words and one hundred stakes?" Old Dao Yin asked with a smile.

As soon as he said this, Li Xiao was shocked. A thousand words and one hundred... Guan? Old Dao Yin was really too ruthless, and he didn't dare to ask for such a price.

"Thousands of words and hundreds of words." Li Xiao corrected.

Old Dao Yin shook his head, "That's too low. The copying people invited in our Zongsheng Temple are priced at a price of hundreds of words, so it's just copying books. And you are writing books, how can you be the same?"

"That thousand words are one thousand?" Li Xiao raised the price.

"A thousand words and one thousand are not too much." Old Taoist Yin is not short of money, but it is really not short of money. The Louguan Dao is not only the Zongsheng Temple in Chang'an, but in fact, there are also their Louguan Platform in Zhongnan Mountain, which is the base camp. In addition, many famous mountains and rivers in the world have also been cultivated by Louguan Dao over the years. In addition, with the operation of several generations of Taoist Master Louguan, many Taoist temples from various sects in the world have joined their Louguan Dao Alliance.

As the Taoist temple respected by the imperial court, Taoist temples are spread all over the world, not to mention a thousand, but there are always hundreds of Taoist temples. Each Taoist temple is actually a manor, with mountains, forests, fields, tenants and even slaves. They even run a stakeholder business, that is, mortgage loans and other things.

There is money and people.

One ten thousand words, that ten thousand words is just ten ten thousand coins, and it is not even a drop in a bucket.

Li Xiao thought for a while, "That thousand words should be three thousand. After the book is published, it will be 10%!"

Thousand words and three thousand words are already the price of top platinum in later generations.

Originally, after buying out 3,000 words and 3,000, the publication should not be divided again, but Li Xiao felt that it would be unhappy if he didn't take Yin Laodao.

"Three-part of the 100th." Yin Laodao indeed took the initiative to increase his share.

This three percent is the pure profit sharing after publication. Yin Laodao is the publisher. The book is handed over to the printing office for printing and then sold. After making money, Li Xiao and Lou Guandao divided the 37th share. Of course, the manuscript fee of 3,000 words and 3,000 yuan was obtained before the share.

Li Xiao felt a little embarrassed with such preferential conditions.

But Old Dao Yin didn't care about that little money. What he cared about was Li Xiao's identity. Li Xiao was not only a writer, but also a secretary of the imperial court, a corn prison, and a royal Wang You. He was also a founding county, and was also a favored minister of the emperor, not to mention that he is now in charge of the printing bureau.

Besides, the Investiture of Gods is indeed worth this price.

"By the way, our Chang'an Newspaper is the first newspaper in the Tang Dynasty. Once it is published, it will definitely cause a sensation in the world. We have reserved advertising space in the newspaper. Will Master Yin buy an advertising space?" Li Xiao asked with a smile.
Chapter completed!