The queen reluctantly handed Xi'er's manuscript to Wan Niang, and repeatedly told her that she must clearly convey Xi'er's words.

  Then he stared at Zhao Xi with eager eyes, his eyes clearly urging him to hurry up and write on...

  It's another time of suffering voluntarily, and this time it's still a prolonged one.

  Weaving a story is no problem, compared to people of this era, Zhao Xi's mind has too many stories.

  The problem is that Zhao Xi wants to insert private goods in the story... It's indeed quite difficult. He is not satisfied with just letting women look forward to updates, he also hopes that scholars and officials will have expectations for his "Fantasy Country". This makes it even more difficult.

  Zhao Xi imagined that this book of strange tales could involve official governance, military systems, political affairs, family, marriage, love, and even cover geography, customs, social conditions, and public opinion. He wanted to write a book about a world that everyone yearned for.

  To put it bluntly, I want to cut out the later generations and link everything together with a story.

  Not to mention Zhao Xi, I reckon the judges also think it's a wild imagination?

  Fortunately, people in this era don't understand what logic is, and Zhao Xie writes about strange events, so it doesn't need to be too rigorous.

  So I just piled them up casually, not piling up vocabulary, but piling up stories.

  ……

  This time, Cao Jiong didn't dare to slack off again. Having been slapped twice already, the old man really couldn't bear to defy Zhao Xi's orders again. Defy once, lose face once, and if he continued to do so, his reputation would be ruined. Although no one else knew about it, he couldn't deceive himself.

  However, Cao Cong did not act hastily. Since the King of E let him match the local customs and geography with the fantasy country, he really went around to find people familiar with the White Mountain and Black Water of Jurchen, and also coordinated with "Fantasy Country" for publication.

  Things didn't go as imagined.

  Cao Cong felt a strong attraction when he saw "Fantasy Country", even though he was already in his twilight years, he still had expectations for the following text.

  So he arranged for the engraving workshop to print a quantity that was no less than the usual amount of New Year's cards.

  Unfortunately, for the whole day, the first issue of "Report" was not sold out until eleven o'clock.

  This matter must be clearly explained to Nei Yuan. It's not just a matter of money, but mainly because it relates to the clever plan of King Wu of Yue for the first time being thwarted.

  "Xi'er, your uncle's family has sent a message saying that the newspaper has published an article about your strange encounter..."

  Empress Cao thought that starting to retaliate would be a blow to Xi'er, but it turned out to be easy to get through. She didn't expect that what she thought should go smoothly would end up with such a result instead.

  She knew that Xi'er seemed to value Zhi Guai more... The so-called establishment of one's character, virtue and words, this Zhi Guai should be considered as Xi'er's attempt at establishing her words, from which she could gain some new ideas.

  "Mother dear, is it because I'm not selling well?"

  If sales are booming, they definitely won't send a special message. When his mother mentioned it, Zhao Xi thought it was possible.

  "Do you know?"

  "Mother, I don't know. Yesterday, I had something that wasn't settled... The IOU will be reissued and announced to Uncle's family, at the original place where the IOU was sold, it can be picked up for free within three days."

  "Your Ladyship, besides, let the inner court bear the expenses for these three days, don't let your uncle's family suffer losses."

  It's been more than half a month since the suspension, and Bianliang still doesn't have any Cuju matches. Even if there were matches, how many people would brave the cold wind to watch Cuju players frolic?

  So, re-publishing again, for the originally just-for-fun "Cuju Newspaper", naturally no one would buy it.

  I should have thought of it, I was too confident myself, thinking that I had the determination to hold on, and this kind of situation shouldn't have happened.

  Empress Cao was perplexed and couldn't understand the reason behind Xi Er's arrangement. Since Xi Er said so, then let's send it for three days. It won't cost much money anyway.

  Cao Cong was also very puzzled when he heard Cao Xiang's words, and asked him repeatedly. After confirming that the King of E had indeed given such instructions, he arranged for someone to notify him to send all the remaining ones today...

  "General, it can't be like this. My shop is small and narrow, I couldn't accommodate such a large crowd rushing to buy and bargain. Please, General, sell them to me at the original price!"

  Cao Zhuang did not expect that on the second day of free delivery, all the owners of the places where the coupons were sold would come together to his doorstep.

  For no reason, just for Cao's family to make money as soon as possible.

  Cao Zhen was not practical and did not understand what was going on. He also didn't know if the three days mentioned by Prince E could be changed.

  This matter was repeatedly discussed with Nei Yuan, and it seemed that the Cao family couldn't even handle this properly. It's really embarrassing to pass on messages again.

  "Are you making our family lose face? If we said three days, then it's three days. If you don't want to take over the sale, our family can look for another..."

  If you act like this, let Cao Jun say something impressive and convincing.

  What's going on here? This is how you Cao family make money? How did it get dragged into unwilling to sell?

  Who would be willing to give up agency?

  Although reselling doesn't make much money, the key is that buying and reporting back brings popularity to our own store.

  Don't just look at it as selling a few discounted items, over the past half year, they've become regular customers. This has also brought about changes in their own business.

  "Taiwei, we didn't mean it that way. It's just that the shop front is too narrow..."

  Those who are willing to sell on behalf of others will definitely not be those big buyers with a lot of customers. Others look down on the few dollars from selling on behalf of others...

  "Fool! You can put the goods on sale in the market for half a day, and it's still free, why do you need someone to take care of it?"

  Cao Cong handled the matter, saying three days would be three days, and strictly followed the instructions of King E to handle it. He didn't disturb the inner courtyard, but unexpectedly, the inner courtyard sent another message.

  "Zao Xiang, did the King of E really instruct on the fourth day to add three tenths to the printing?"

  "Uncle, the inner guard indeed said so."

  What's going on? Can't understand it. Cao Jun doesn't think that the explosive sales of the first three days are related to selling at original price on the fourth day.

  Kaifeng is not all literate people, and the scramble for newspapers is not just about reading. Even if it's just a newspaper, there will still be a scramble among many people.

  Forget it, since it's what Lord E ordered... I'll take care of everything accordingly.

  Such operations are too common in later generations, and this is not a very novel plan. But at present... there are really few who can understand it.

  Later generations often have try-look and try-use operations, until you feel itchy or reach a certain key node, then they don't send it anymore... It's like the internet too.

  On the fourth day, the goods were sold at their original price. Even the vendors who had been selling them for generations thought that yesterday's boom would not be repeated, and estimated that by late afternoon they would have to return most of the goods to the Cao family.

  "Liu Lao San, can you arrive at the newspaper office today?"

  "Just arrived."

  "Three portions, please..."

  "Has the newspaper arrived?"

  "Arrived..."

  What a rush... Liu Lao San was startled, this...this...this is something that costs money, is it necessary to be so anxious?

  The fair had just opened and the sales counter was already crowded with people.

  Received the newspaper in hand, either hurry back home, or order a cup of soy milk and a pancake, sit down leisurely, then start flipping through...

  "Chu Sheng hadn't contacted his grandfather for three days, I had already guessed that something unexpected had happened..."

  "I also had this guess yesterday."

  Liu Lao San discovered that all those who read the newspaper had a common topic of conversation. Why?