"Dear guests, what I want to tell you today is called 'Cao Cao cooks wine and talks about heroes, Guan Gong makes money and kills chariots and horses'."

In the middle of Wuhe, Guo Dezhi stood in a conspicuous place with a springy face, facing the guests in the hall, and began today's story telling.

Since Wuheju was the first to talk about the Three Kingdoms in Chang'an City, the restaurant's business has become more and more prosperous, and regular customers often come to visit, just to listen to Guo Dezhi's talk about the Three Kingdoms.

The feeling of reading a book by yourself is different from that of listening to a book with a group of people.

Many of those who come to listen to books, especially those who can afford to spend money to come to Wuheju, have bought "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at home and have read it themselves, but they still like to come and listen to Guo Dezhi.

once.

"Cao pointed his finger at Xuande, then pointed to himself and said: The only hero in the world is your envoy and Cao Er."

I saw that Guo Dezhi was talking so excitedly that he was spitting all over the place. People who were close to him didn't take it seriously and instead cheered him!

"Watch and enjoy!"

"Okay! One more section!"

…

Taking advantage of the booming sales of the Three Kingdoms, Li Kuan also released the third "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

It is said to be the third volume, but in fact one volume is only fifty to sixty thousand words long. Taking the length of the entire text of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is impossible to finish this book without writing a dozen or so volumes.

However, this will cause trouble for other bookstores in Chang'an City.

During this period, people who buy books in Chang'an City will first consider buying Three Kingdoms. Even if they don't buy Three Kingdoms, they will go to Xinhua Bookstore. Unless there is no book they want here, they will go to other books.

shop.

Since it started selling Three Kingdoms, Xinhua Bookstore has also successively launched several traditional books such as "The Analects of Confucius". Although the sales volume cannot be compared with Three Kingdoms, it still sells well because of the favorable price.

"Shopkeeper Zheng, someone has been sent from the printing shop to ask, are our Three Kingdoms still printed?" Ah San stood cautiously next to shopkeeper Zheng, still three or four steps away from him, for fear of accidentally being slapped in the face for no apparent reason.

.

"Is the printing workshop still printing? How many copies have been printed?" Shopkeeper Zheng felt a sigh of relief rising in his chest, "Are you brainless? It costs at least four dollars to print a book. Now Xinhua Bookstore has

This book only sells for 800 copies. Who will you sell it to after you print it? Will they all be sold to you?"

"You didn't say stop, and they didn't dare to stop printing."

Ah San said in a mosquito-like voice, feeling very aggrieved.

"Bang!" Shopkeeper Zheng picked up the teacup on the table and threw it to the ground, "Don't you know you should stop even if I didn't tell you to stop? Why do you want to eat before I let you eat?"

Faced with Shopkeeper Zheng's anger, Ah San did not dare to refute.

"I asked you to inquire about the printing workshop of Prince Chu's Mansion, and asked you to confirm what is different about the paper-making workshop of Prince Chu's Mansion. Have you confirmed it clearly? The price of a pound of white paper in Xinhua Bookstore is only 10% of ours. What do you want our bookstore to do?

Live..."

Shopkeeper Zheng drooled and spat out a cup of tea before he spared Asan.

…

"The beautiful beard traveled a thousand miles alone and rode Han Shouhou on five passes and killed six generals. This "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is really a wonderful book. It was originally a simple story, but it was written vividly and made people read it.

I can’t stop.”

At the Duke Su's residence, Cheng Yaojin was holding a rare book, sitting in the yard enjoying the cool air and reading.

"Grandpa, how many times have you read this chapter? Yesterday you told your daughter the story of riding alone for thousands of miles." Cheng Jingwen looked at her father a little speechlessly.

Cheng Jingwen likes the Three Kingdoms.

However, it is far from reaching the level of obsession like Cheng Yaojin.

When he just got the third volume of Three Kingdoms, Cheng Yaojin didn't even go to work and read it in one sitting at home.

Xinhua Bookstore successively released the first, second and third "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which can be regarded as completely establishing its leading position among bookstores in Chang'an City.

Sanwei Bookstore, this outdated leader, is already depleted!

"Jingwen, I remember you said you went to a paper-making workshop by the Weishui River before?"

"Yes, I went with Sister Xueyan. It is the property of Prince Chu's Mansion."

"There is a printing workshop next to it, which is also owned by the Prince of Chu's palace?"

"Grandpa, how did you know?"

Cheng Yaojin has always appeared in front of the public as Ma Daha, but if you look at history, you will find that he was a rare top military general in the Tang Dynasty who never lost power.

Is this something Ma Daha can do?

The low-priced papers and books recently sold by Xinhua Bookstore have caused a huge response in Chang'an City.

Except for the Zheng family, none of the nobles had any reaction, but Cheng Yaojin seemed to have seen something.

"So, this "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was probably written by someone from the Prince of Chu's palace?"

Cheng Yaojin did not answer his daughter's rhetorical question, but continued talking to himself.

"My daughter thinks it was probably written by His Royal Highness the King of Chu."

After saying this, Cheng Jingwen's face turned slightly red for no reason, which made Cheng Yaojin a little confused.

What Li Kuan wrote is what Li Kuan wrote. Why are you blushing?

"This "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is good, but it is really uncomfortable that all the books are not released and sold together, and one is updated every once in a while. In this way, doesn't your brother also know the King of Chu? Wait

He has returned home, please call him over, I have a task for him."

…

In the Prince of Chu's palace, Li Kuan had nothing to do and was about to go shopping on the street when he heard a report from a servant that Cheng Chumo was looking for him.

"Brother Cheng, you are a rare guest!"

During this period, Li Kuan and Cheng Chumo met several times together, but either at Yihong Tower, Tianxiang Pavilion, or Prince Chu's Mansion. This was really Cheng Chumo's first time here.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu is laughing at me. I came here uninvited. I don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for any reason."

Cheng Chumo was not polite to Li Kuan, he sat down alone, picked up a piece of pastry from the table and ate it.

"Oh, what does Brother Cheng want from me?"

Although Cheng Chumo was eating, his eyes kept staring at him, which made Li Kuan feel a little nervous.

This guy, haven't you heard that he is a manly woman?

"Is "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" the prince's masterpiece?" A surprising sentence suddenly came out of Cheng Chumo's mouth.

During this period, many people in Chang'an City were actually speculating on who the author of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was. After all, no one had heard of Luo Guanzhong written on the title page.

But this book obviously came from Xinhua Bookstore, and this shop is the property of the Prince of Chu's Palace.

Although it is still hard for people to believe that Li Kuan, the most talented person in Chang'an City, wrote a book like "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is still more reliable than Luo Guanzhong, whom no one has ever heard of?

"What if it is, and what if it is not?"

Li Kuan thought for a moment and looked at Cheng Chumo with a smile.

"Hehe, if you say so, that's it. Hurry up and give me a copy of each of the remaining books! My grandpa has spoken. If you don't bring back the new "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" today, he will break my legs.
Chapter completed!