After a strange silence, Empress Dowager Da Lu asked Yu Zizhen, "Zizhen, what do you think?"
Yu Zizhen shrugged, "I will definitely promote it to the outside world anyway. As for how the imperial court will do it, that's not something a kid like me can interfere with."
Upon hearing this, Da Lu turned her gaze to the mascot emperor and said, "Since that's the case, why not let the Sinong Temple conduct a test first."
What could the emperor do? Since Lady Lu had spoken, he had no choice but to agree. And so the matter was settled.
However, most of the other nobles and court officials present had made up their minds to find a way to get the booklet immediately and put the new composting method into use as soon as possible.
Yu Zizhen was not opposed to passing the method to them. Anyway, these guys would not really make compost themselves, so they still had to pass the method to tenant farmers and the like, and then these people would naturally spread the method gradually.
Rather than relying on the court to issue orders slowly, which the people below might not take seriously and implement, she felt it would be better to rely on the spontaneous spread of the information among the common people.
Anyway, as long as the food is grown, it will not disappear out of thin air. When she builds up her own team in the future, if she needs more food to relieve the people, these people’s granaries can also be her granaries, right?
Yu Zizhen, who had evil intentions, was now like the innocent boy Shancai. He happily gave his new method of composting to the poor students that Jiang Yunshan had already selected for hand-copying.
Yu Zizhen did not charge a penny for the pamphlets they copied, and let them sell them all directly to those who came to buy them.
Of course, anyone who sells a booklet must follow her pricing while ensuring quality. She cannot be perfunctory just to sell more copies, or randomly quote prices to disrupt the market.
After this wave of activities, the students she hired to copy books in the palace basically earned sixty or seventy taels of silver each.
This seemed quite incredible to them. After all, considering their workload at that time, if they copied books for a bookstore, they could only get four to five taels of silver from the bookstore at most.
They knew very well that this was because Yu Zizhen did not make any profit from it, unlike bookstores, where people would ask them to copy books and then sell them to make a profit.
Everyone was extremely grateful to Yu Zizhen. This money not only solved their urgent needs, but also supported them to go further and more steadily on the road to the imperial examinations. This was very important to them.
Some of them were quick-witted and repeatedly asked Jiang Yunshan before leaving the mansion to remember to contact them if there was any work they could do in the Zhenbei Palace in the future.
Jiang Yunshan agreed with a smile and sent away all the students he had carefully selected, who came from poor families but had good knowledge and character.
No one noticed that during the period when the Zhenbei Palace was as bustling as a vegetable market, most of the Lu family members, who had been transformed by Yu Zizhen using his long-term skill "Disguise", also mixed in with the crowd and left the Zhenbei Palace in batches without a trace.
They took the household registration pass obtained by Yu Zizhen and headed straight for Tongzhou Wharf out of the city.
At the dock, Wen Xiaoman, who had changed into men's clothes, met them smoothly.
After exchanging the secret code, everyone got on the boat and left without stopping for a second.
This time, it will be like a fish swimming in water. The Lu family will no longer have to be monitored, nor will they have to hide in the Zhenbei Palace and dare not go out.
As for Wen Xiaoman, she refused to take the principal from Yu Zizhen, and instead directly used the box of large-denomination silver notes that her grandfather had originally intended to use to thank Yu Zizhen.
Two hundred thousand taels of silver in cash. Although this amount of money would not cause the Wen family to suffer a huge loss, it was already 90% of the cash that the family could come up with.
Yu Zizhen didn't have the nerve to accept such a large sum of money. She couldn't convince the Wen family's grandparents, so she could only ask Jiang Yunshan to make a profit-sharing agreement with her for 60% and Wen Xiaoman for 40%.
Wen Xiaoman originally didn't want it, but Yu Zizhen said that if she continued to refuse, then Yu Zizhen would have to find someone else to do it.
She was firm in her attitude, and Wen Xiaoman signed the agreement with a look of helplessness.
When signing, Wen Xiaoman was still thinking that even if the agreement was signed, the one who would be responsible for the operation in the end would still be her, Wen Xiaoman, and not Yu Zizhen who was far away in the capital. So even if she didn't take her share, Yu Zizhen wouldn't be able to do anything to her, right?
But even if she didn't intend to take the money, she still believed that Yu Zizhen was truly the most approachable, kind-hearted and noble son in the world, and from then on she became more loyal and devoted to Yu Zizhen.
What she didn't know was that Yu Zizhen was actually feeling guilty at that time.
To be honest, after all her hard work for so long, all her family assets added up were still not as much as the thank-you gift from the Wen family. This really hit her hard.
The most important thing is that what she said before about paying out of her own pocket was actually only 50,000 or 60,000 yuan at most. She had other uses for the rest and could not give it all to Wen Xiaoman.
These fifty or sixty thousand were only because Wen Xiaoman had shown a very high favorability towards her on the system character card, otherwise she would not have been willing to hand it over so easily.
Compared with the grandparents of the Wen family, Yu Zizhen deeply felt his own stinginess_(:3」∠)_
But even so, when most of the Lu family left in a group, she still gave them three thousand taels of silver as a precautionary measure, knowing that Wen Xiaoman would be responsible for providing them with food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Putting aside other things, Lu Huaiyi and his son are both important backup forces she placed in the Western Frontier. It is very necessary for her to let the Lu family feel her sincerity like a mountain and warmth like a summer breeze.
Before they left, she not only instructed Wen Xiaoman to take appropriate care of them materially, but also instructed Wen Xiaoman to make the best use of the Lu family.
These are all the wives of officials. They are far better than ordinary people in both literary and military aspects. As the king of kings, Yu Zizhen will certainly not let go of any trustworthy and talented person around him.
After all, she has a big game to play. Not only is she short of money, she is also short of people.
According to her simple plan, Wen Xiaoman would take the people given to her by the head of the Wen family to build a business network in the southeast region, while the Lu family would be responsible for opening an escort agency within Wen Xiaoman's business network.
Of course, these two families would have no connection at the beginning, but it is normal for merchants to deal with bodyguards from the escort agency.
Relying on the business to establish connections, they would interact with each other naturally, pass on information secretly, respond to each other and protect each other at critical moments. This was the general policy that Yu Zizhen formulated for them.
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