After the marriage, the sick husband lived a long life

Chapter 148 The Su Family Suffers Heavy Losses

Chu Jinxiao leaned back in his chair and sat in the yard with Xu Zhiyan.

Hearing Xu Zhiyan's words, he laughed softly: "Who is a fool for studying to this point? We are all smart people."

Xu Zhiyan nodded in agreement: "You are right. Only the Su family is so powerful that they would treat scholars as fat sheep to be slaughtered. Now the emperor and his family don't need to do anything. The Su family will be retaliated against."

After all, the emperor and his people are already very dissatisfied with the Su family. Once the Royal Bookstore comes out, everything in the Su family will be nothing.

"That's how it should be. They sell ordinary rice paper at such a high price. What do they think of those ordinary scholars?" In recent years, fewer and fewer people are reading, because studying is really too expensive.

Now that the Emperor's Royal Bookstore has come out and books written on rice paper are not that expensive, there will definitely be more people reading.

"Uncle Emperor, there's nothing I can say about this situation right now. Fortunately, they have already made the Xuan paper you gave them." The production of the Xuan paper from the emperor is a good thing for them and all the scholars.

It is also a good thing for those who want their children to go to school.

Sure enough, after the news came out, all the scholars became excited and started telling each other.

The second prince, Xiao Chenjiu, hurried to Su Hui's house and said with a somewhat unpleasant expression, "Grandfather, what is going on? Why did Father suddenly come up with so many things?"

And the price the emperor gave was so low.

He even went to the bookstore opened by the emperor to look at the paper inside, which was much better than what they had here.

It’s good and cheap. Even if they lower the price of their paper in the future, I guess no one will want it.

Unless the price is lower than theirs.

But even if they lowered the price, no one would buy their products.

Even if someone buys it, how much will they buy?

And if the price were any lower, they would lose money.

Although their costs are low, they are not as high as the emperor's.

Their prices here are really too low.

Xiao Chenjiu looked at Su Hui hesitantly and couldn't help asking, "Grandfather, do you think that Father and the others are losing money doing this?"

Su Hui shook his head: "Not really. The emperor is not such a stupid person. He would not do such a thing."

It is possible not to make money by keeping the price low, but it is absolutely impossible to lose money by doing this.

"When did my grandparents make these things?" Xiao Chenjiu frowned and asked Su Hui beside him.

"Do you remember you told me before that Xiao Chensi suddenly became very mysterious and I don't know what he was doing?"

Xiao Chenjiu's expression suddenly changed, and he said gloomily, "Grandfather, are you saying that Xiao Chensi has been doing this during this period of time?"

Su Hui nodded, his face a little ugly, frowned and said irritably: "Only the Jiang family and the prince know about this."

When this news came out, only the prince and the Jiang family did not react, as if they had known about it for a long time.

With his brows slightly furrowed, Xiao Chenjiu's face looked a little ugly. It seemed that the most important person in the emperor's heart was still Xiao Chensi.

"Grandfather, Father didn't tell us about this. Is it because Father doesn't like me or has begun to doubt me?"

Su Hui looked at Xiao Chenjiu's unhappy expression, sighed softly and said helplessly: "Because of our family, the emperor doesn't like you very much, so it's understandable that he didn't tell you this."

Although he said that, Xiao Chenjiu still found it hard to accept.

"I am obviously his son, but he didn't tell me such a thing. Why?"

Su Hui looked at Xiao Chenjiu helplessly: "Based on the relationship between you and us, how could he tell you?"

In response, Su Chenjiu remained silent.

"Grandfather, what should we do about this? It will do us no good to continue like this."

Of course Su Hui knew that it would not be good for them.

Now the few scholars he had mentioned were dissatisfied with him.

Especially one of the children from a poor family.

Before the emperor's Xuan paper came out, he always thought that this paper must be very difficult to make, so it was sold at such a high price.

But now that the emperor's Xuan paper has come out, he realized that Xuan paper can be so cheap.

Books can also be borrowed without spending a lot of money.

This is really suitable for people like them who have no money.

If you borrow a book you like, you can spend a few days copying it down and reading it yourself.

After all, Xuan paper is not that expensive nowadays.

When this news came out, the scholar knew that the Minister of Revenue was just plotting against them.

Not only that, they are also making money from these educated people.

It was because at that time only he had rice paper, and these scholars, if they wanted to practice calligraphy or read, had to buy it from him.

They had to buy it no matter what price he set.

It’s really ridiculous when you think about it.

After knowing all this, he no longer had a good impression of Su Hui's people.

He said it was for the good of the scholars and that their costs were high, and these were all what he said.

Now the scholar’s ​​only thought is to feel thankful.

Fortunately, he did not accept everything the Su family gave him before taking the imperial examination, otherwise he would not be able to get out now even if he wanted to.

"Zhou Sheng, are you still planning to take over the Su family?"

"No."

"The conditions offered by the Su family are so good, are you sure you don't want to agree to them?"

Zhou Sheng glanced at his classmate and said coldly, "No, I just want to study hard now. If I am lucky enough to pass the high school entrance examination, I will definitely be an official who can serve the people."

"And I think it might be better to help the emperor." Zhou Sheng said casually.

The person next to him curled his lips and said, "I said you just don't understand."

"Isn't it better to follow the Su family? After all, the conditions offered by the Su family are better."

"You were thinking about helping the emperor, but why didn't you think about what you would do if the Su family suppressed you and made you fail the exam?"

Facing his classmates' questions, Zhou Sheng said indifferently: "I don't think the Su family can interfere with the imperial examination this time."

Zhou Sheng was so sure because he had seen a lot in Beijing recently.

The sudden big commotion from the emperor's side was a signal.

While Zhou Sheng was thinking about this matter, the emperor also found Mr. Jiang, hoping that Mr. Jiang would supervise this imperial examination.

After receiving this news, Chu Jinxiao was in a very good mood.

Xu Zhiyan found it a little funny: "Are you that happy?"

Hearing this, Chu Jinxiao shook his finger at Xu Zhiyan: "You don't understand."

"Over the years, the Su family has relied on their rice paper business to put pressure on Uncle Huang, resulting in the imperial examinations being controlled by the Su family over the years, and all the people who passed the imperial examinations were related to the Su family."