The heavens are kings, starting with Qing Prince Li Chengqian

Chapter 24 The Second Prince

Regarding the issue of profit and loss in the new report, anyone who is interested can basically guess it.

The first five cents of the new newspaper was a loss, plus dozens of taels given out in the lottery, and labor costs all added up, and the loss was at least hundreds of taels.

This is already a considerable sum of money, and it is only the first installment.

Is it worth doing too much?

As I said before, the internal treasury only provides the initial funds for the new newspaper. When the money is used up, without the support of the internal treasury, how far can the new newspaper go if it continues to lose money?
However, even if the problem seems so serious, the sales of the new newspaper are booming, and countless people are eagerly waiting for the second issue, but it is an iron-clad fact.

In the Second Prince's Mansion, Li Chengze was deeply concerned about this matter.

Not long ago, he was silently thankful that Li Chengqian had contracted a secret illness, but he didn't expect such a big commotion to happen after such a long time.

Leaving aside the issue of profit and loss, just judging from the sales of the first issue of Xinbao, once Xinbao develops smoothly, its influence among the people will be immeasurable.

How can it be easy for the prince of a country to grasp such a sharp weapon?

Since he aspires to be the crown prince, it is naturally impossible for him to watch Li Chengqian's new newspaper develop so smoothly.

Moreover, he believed that the so-called profit and loss problem, since his younger brother, the prince, dared to run this new newspaper and only asked the internal treasury for the starting money, there must be a solution.

Therefore, it is almost impossible to wait for the New Paper to collapse on its own.

Looking at the silent counselors under his command, he asked coldly, "I want this new newspaper to disappear within three days. Can you teach me?"

All the counselors look at me, I look at you, and look at each other.

Just as Li Chengqian's recruiting center couldn't recruit any great talents, it's just a joke to be able to be a counselor under a prince like Li Chengze.

Such a character falls under the command of a prince, what is he trying to do?
However, the reason why Li Chengze recruited so many disciples and counselors was that he didn't expect any great talents to emerge from them. It's just that two people counted the short and the third counted the long, and there were many people with multiple ideas.

But looking at the silent posture of the few people in front of him, the slanted bangs on his forehead really couldn't hold back.

"It's all dumb, talk!"

At this moment, his voice was a little irritable, and the expression on his face was also a little serious.

Even trash has value, if these values ​​are not reflected, why should he support these people in vain?
Seeing that Li Chengze seemed to be really angry, several people were panicked. After a while, one of them stepped forward slightly and said, "Your Highness, the Caomin thinks that it might be possible to buy the people in that newspaper office and dismantle it from the inside."

Hearing this, Li Chengze showed no expression on his face.

This method is not impossible, but the effect is too low.

It's not that he hasn't thought about the Fuyao newspaper.

It's just that there are no core people among them, most of them are recruited into the recruiting hall, and the newcomers who have been trained briefly, mostly do basic trivial things, even if he instigated all these people.

The New Paper will not be paralyzed either.

The East Palace can be replaced by a large number of people at any time.

The only one who can be called the core is probably Izumo, who is in charge of the affairs of the new newspaper.

But Izumo is the female official next to the prince, and she grew up with the prince since she was a child, so why should he instigate against him?
Of course, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who wrote the story of the young Qing Dynasty and the mysterious writer who wrote Zhu Xian are also the core, but he does not have the ability to move the former, and the latter seems to be in the East Palace, and his hands cannot be stretched so far.

The most important thing is that once he used such low means to deal with the prince, it was very likely that he would directly tear his face apart, and Emperor Qing might not like him.

The reason why he dared to fight against the crown prince today was because of Emperor Qing's acquiescence and support.

So he would never take such a risk and do some stupid things that don't make much sense.

Seeing that Li Chengze was silent, the counselor had no choice but to retreat in embarrassment.

On the side, another counselor suddenly said confidently: "Your Highness, the new newspaper has opened up the situation now. The prince can establish the Fuyao newspaper, and you can follow suit to build another newspaper. You just need to be Xiao Guicao Then, it may not be impossible to compete with it.”

Hearing this, Li Chengze felt a little moved.

But, soon, he dismissed the idea.

It is not difficult for the new newspaper to counterfeit, but where can he find a great talent who can write such an article as the youth Qingguo said?

I'm afraid that in the entire Qing Kingdom, they will not be able to find one.

Perhaps only Zhuang Mohan, a great literary master in the Northern Qi Dynasty, could write an article comparable to it.

But with the same sentence, why should all the literary masters of the Northern Qi Dynasty serve him as the second prince of Nanqing?
To be honest, he still couldn't believe that Li Chengqian could write such an article.

But Zhu Xian, he thought that he could go to the Red Chamber, which even he had heard of recently, to fight.

He felt that with the literary talent in the Red Chamber, it would be difficult for Zhu Xian to match it.

However, the Red House seems to come from the Fan Mansion.

Fan Jian, the servant of the household department, had always been neutral and only stood with Emperor Qing. He was afraid that it would be difficult for him to get past Fan Jian and let the person who wrote the Red Chamber work for him.

In particular, he recently heard that Fan Sizhe, the legitimate son of the Fan family, joined the recruiting hall run by the prince.

It's hard not to let him think about the meaning of this.

Has the Fan Mansion secretly turned to the prince?
Of course, it is not impossible to start another half of the newspaper, but it must be something that Li Chengqian will consider after the new newspaper run by Li Chengqian develops smoothly.

If he really can't stop the momentum of the new newspaper, even if he can't run a newspaper comparable to the new newspaper, at least he can't let the new newspaper dominate.

However, Li Chengqian's new newspaper was approved by Qing Emperor himself, and if he wanted to run another newspaper, he would also have to avoid Qing Emperor.

He shook his head, and set his eyes on a middle-aged man who looked the calmest among the group of advisers.

Although his disciples and counselors have no great talents, they can choose the best from the bad, and this person who came in to join is the most outstanding.

"Yang Lin, what do you think?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd of disciples couldn't help feeling a bit of jealousy.

Of course, it was not the second prince Li Chengze who hated him, but the middle-aged man he called Yang Lin.

There has never been a distinction among their advisers, but recently, after Yang Lin joined, there was a faint tendency to surpass them.

A series of eyes fell on Yang Lin either directly or implicitly, with ridicule and dissatisfaction.

They don't believe that you, Yang Lin, can do anything to be superior to others!

With all eyes on him, Yang Lin took a step forward, and said calmly: "Caomin thinks that the second prince should not think about how to deal with Xinbao."

As soon as these words came out, it was tantamount to directly denying Li Chengze's ideas.

Li Chengze's eyes narrowed slightly, but he still smiled and said, "What's your opinion, Mister?"

(End of this chapter)