After sending away his future father-in-law and fiancée, Shen Yi's life returned to normal. On weekdays, he usually went to work at the Di newspaper office in the morning. In the afternoon, if there was nothing to do, he would leave early or go to see Gu. The husband would eat and drink, or go to Liquan Tower to read books. Occasionally he would go to see the business of Xu Fu and others.
Because of the Di newspaper, Xu Fu's Huangshizhai business was booming.
However, just because the business was booming, it also brought some troubles. The family surnamed Zhou originally ran Huangshizhai. It has been running Huangshizhai in Bitong Lane for nearly a hundred years. It has been passed down to four or five generations. It was not good at management. After selling the shop, who knew that the business would start to boom just after the shop was sold.
This week, the father and son of the Zhou family came to make a fuss, wanting to buy back the shop at the original price, but Xu Fu refused. They even found some local gangsters from Jiankang, and got entangled with some local businessmen from Jiankang, saying that people from Jiangdu came to Jiankang. Bullying Jiankang people and other such things caused a lot of trouble in Huangshizhai, and even the inkstone in the shop was smashed.
Xu Fu naturally couldn't cope with this kind of situation.
Ever since, the matter has reached Jiankang Mansion.
Although Shen Yi did not come forward in person, he secretly had a drink with Li Mu, the eldest son of the Jin Dynasty. As a result, the father and son named Zhou, together with the troublemaking scoundrels, were all taken into the prison of Jiankang Mansion and have not been released yet.
The Zhou family and his son also compensated Huang Shizhai at the "original price" for the several inkstones he lost.
As Huang Shizhai and Xu Ji Chuan Chuan Incense became famous, many Jiankang businessmen saw business opportunities.
People who can do business in Jiankang, especially those who make the business big, have more or less backgrounds. Therefore, many people from the officialdom or the powerful class have found Shen Yi through various channels.
In just two months, the "Jiankang Famous Shop" section of the Di News Department received nearly ten thousand taels of silver.
Of course, this is because commercial products such as advertising have just come out and have outstanding results. In addition, the people who seek advertising from Di Newspaper Company are in high-consumption industries, and Di Newspaper Company has a monopoly in the industry, so it can compete in both industries. Earn so much in a month.
This kind of huge profit will gradually decline until it falls to a reasonable price.
Just as the Jiankang business segment was slowly maturing, Shen Yi's eyes were not just on Jiankang. He used the money he earned from Di Newspaper Company in the past two months to quickly establish branches in other big cities in Dachen.
The first branch was established in Jiangdu, and then in cities with a large enough population and large enough scale, such as Suzhou.
The purpose of establishing these Di Di newspaper branches is not to engage in intelligence for the time being, but to expand advertising business in these cities.
The quantity of each issue of Dibao is not large, and it does not require a lot of cost. It only requires one or two printing workshops to add some special content to these Dibao.
Jiankang's Dibao has a Jiankang Famous Stores section, so naturally Suzhou can have a Gusu Famous Stores section, and Jiangdu can naturally follow the law.
As long as the advertising business expands to major cities in Dachen and even all cities, Mr. Shen can collect money with his eyes closed.
However, while expanding the advertising business, the intelligence business in various places must also keep up. The reason why intelligence personnel are deployed is not to rush to expand the intelligence business, but to fear that those newspaper staff who go to various places to engage in advertising business will be corrupted...
After all, these people are equivalent to the "general agents" of the "Advertising Department" of the Di News Department. They must be strictly supervised, otherwise the money in Mr. Shen's hands will be wiped out by these people.
Just when Shen Si was ambitiously building a nationwide chain of Di Newspaper Division, the elusive eunuch Gao Ming came to Di Newspaper Division again.
When such a big secret arrived, Shen Yi naturally did not dare to neglect it. He personally went to the door of the Di Reporting Department and welcomed Gao Ming into his study.
After entering the study room, Eunuch Gao took a sip of the tea poured by Shen Yi, and without talking nonsense, he took out a few materials from his sleeves, placed them on Shen Yi's table, and said, "This is the material collected by the inner guards, Mr. Shen." Just remember to write it in the next issue of the Di newspaper."
Shen Yi rolled his eyes.
It is very common for the palace to send materials to the palace, but the materials are usually delivered through Sun Jin, or a young eunuch is sent to them. Today, the eunuch Gao Ming came to deliver them in person, which shows...
not simple.
Shen Yi flipped through it casually a few times.
Most of it is dirty information about Pei Yuan, a doctor in the Ministry of Etiquette. Although this Pei Yuan is not a treacherous person, he has been an official for many years and has not been greedy for a penny less. Even if he puts aside his poor professional ethics as an official. Mention, this person also has bad personal ethics and has done a lot of scandalous things in private.
After Shen Yi took a brief look, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
As expected of an internal guard, he was much more professional than the current Di newspaper department.
After sighing with emotion, he looked at Gao Ming with a grimace and complained endlessly: "Eunuch Gao, when I submitted articles to the Di Newspaper Department, I have offended the Yang family and the Zhao family, and even because of this matter, I was in Jiji. Ming Si was beaten, and now things have calmed down a bit easily, and the palace asked the lower officials to offend Prime Minister Yang’s students again..."
"This errand..."
Shen Sizheng smiled bitterly and said, "I really can't do this job anymore."
He glanced at Gao Ming, and when he saw that Gao Ming was silent, he said cautiously: "Eunuch Gao, why don't we transfer these things to Yushitai or Dali Temple and let them check them directly?"
Eunuch Gao was originally closing his eyes to rest, but when he heard this, he opened his eyes and said in a muffled voice: "If I can send Sanfa Si, I won't send him to you."
Pei Yuan was a civil servant, and to the civil servant class, he had just made meritorious service.
His contribution to the Northern Qi Dynasty.
If the emperor touches him directly at this time, it will cause dissatisfaction among the civil servants, and even several prime ministers in Zhongshu will feel uncomfortable.
But the emperor was unhappy with this man, so he could only attack his personal ethics through public opinion and ask him to resign and go home.
Shen Yi looked at the materials in his hand for a few more times and simply gave up his choice: "Eunuch Gao, could you please tell Your Majesty that I am going to go to the Hanlin Academy to work as a concubine. The part-time job of this newspaper office is really hard." If you can’t do it, your majesty, please choose another capable person..."
"Can't do it?"
Gao Ming stood up from his chair, glanced at Shen Yi indifferently, and said with a half-smile: "When Mr. Shen published his own business in the Di Newspaper Company and used public money to enrich himself, he didn't say he couldn't do it."
Hearing these words, Shen Yi's expression froze.
It's bad, I was doing Huang Shizhai's business, and the palace found out...
But it's not surprising when you think about it. He didn't want to hide it from everyone.
Mr. Shen coughed unnaturally and said with a smile: "Eunuch Gao misunderstood. At that time, I wanted to open a new section in Di Bao, so I had to find a shop to try. I really couldn't find anything suitable, so I I can only try it at a friend's shop..."
Gao Ming looked calm.
"Our family doesn't want to hear about Shen Sizheng's personal affairs."
"But the official affairs entrusted by His Majesty must be handled by the Diji News Department."
Shen Yi sighed: "I am loyal to you and patriotic. No matter how difficult it is, I will do what your majesty has asked me to do. I am afraid that one day my body will be found inexplicably on the street, and I will no longer be able to do errands for your majesty."
"Don't worry, Chief Shen, you won't die."
The high eunuch raised his hands high, bowed his head toward the palace, and said, "Your Majesty will naturally take care of you."
Shen Yi was silent for a while and sighed: "I'm afraid that sometimes, your Majesty won't be willing to protect your subordinates anymore."
"That is your Majesty's business."
Eunuch Gao said calmly: "Your Majesty said that the future payment of the Di Reporting Department will be increased to ten thousand taels of silver per month."
Shen Sizheng was delighted: "Father, can the Ministry of Household Affairs approve it?"
Gao Ming glanced at Shen Yi.
"This money comes from the palace's internal funds."
After he said this, before Shen Yi could speak, he continued: "However, half of the future income of the Di News Department must be paid into internal funds."
Good guy, this is equivalent to the royal family becoming a shareholder in the Di News Agency!
Shen Yi's smiling face immediately froze.
His national chain store has just been launched and he is about to make a lot of money...
Seeing Shen Yi's ugly face, Eunuch Gao had a smile on his face.
He reached out and patted Shen Yi's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't get it for nothing."
"Aren't you going to check the Fan family?"
Eunuch Gao looked calm: "The internal guards can help you check, how about that?"
Shen Si was exhaling a breath with difficulty. He looked up at Gao Ming and asked, "After the internal guards investigate, can we do anything?"
Gao Ming was expressionless: "That depends on Your Majesty. Neither you nor I have any room to comment."
Shen Yi stood there and thought for a long time, and finally nodded with difficulty and agreed to the deal.
In fact, there is nothing you can do if you disagree.
There is no room for bargaining with the big boss.
"Your Majesty..."
Shen Sizheng lowered his head slightly: "I will obey the holy edict."
