Writing in the Republic of China (10)

Sometimes reputation can be a blessing in both directions.

For example, this time, Mr. Shenze's books were sold well in their city before, so people from the newspaper office used them to promote them. Now that they are selling well outside, people from the newspaper office began to publicize them again.

Now people on both sides feel that Mr. Shenze's books are very popular everywhere, and naturally the sales are even better than before.

Ji Changze doesn't care much about the sales of his books now. The money now is enough for his family to live well for a hundred years without working. Of course, if the money can still be used a hundred years later.

Now his daily life is to write a book, then visit his younger brother, and finally go there to listen to Jifu's great cause of rejuvenation.

Yes, now that he has capital in hand, Ji's father plans to regroup.

He never hid anything from Ji Changze and told his eldest son everything. Ji's father's plan was really perfect. Even Ji Changze couldn't find any loopholes. Knowing that Ji's father was not a pig teammate but a god teammate, he felt relieved. He no longer paid attention to these books. Sometimes when Jifu was having meetings with his business partners, he would write and draw.

Ji's father didn't know that Ji Changze was not interested because he knew everything. He thought his eldest son was not interested in business. He had some regrets, but because of Ji Changze's talent in writing novels, these regrets were alleviated.

Anyway, this time his eldest son did give him a big surprise.

When the Ji family fell, he thought a lot, but he never thought that the person who saved the Ji family in the end would be his eldest son.

Before, some people thought he was stupid for raising children for his eldest brother, but now, Nagasawa's performance can slap them in the face perfectly.

That is to say, they still don't know who Mr. Shenze is. If they knew, hehe, they would be surprised.

After experiencing this serious illness, Ji's father still maintained his composure on the surface, but he was a little more childlike in his heart than before. Of course, it may also be because some people in the family were seriously ill before and made him unhappy. He was very urgent. I want to see these people know that the Ji family has risen again.

Ji's father did not hide these things from anyone, and soon people in the city knew that he was ready to reorganize the family business.

People who have a good relationship with Ji's father are happy, but those who have a bad relationship with him are unhappy.

The most unhappy person was naturally Mr. Ji who had set up a trap with others and brought down his own brother.

He had been very proud before, but before he could be happy for a while, his reputation was damaged because of Ji Changze's actions. No matter how he explained that he thought Ji Changze wanted to come back and recognize his family, he would be considered to be deliberately quibbling.

Even if some people believed what he said, they began to think that he was too cold-blooded.

After all, they are his biological children and biological brothers. Now that they are in trouble, Mr. Ji is not even willing to reach out.

And the most despicable thing is that even if he did such a thing himself, he actually cruelly pushed all the blame on his own son, letting this young man who was only 18 years old bear the infamy for him.

Cruel!

Mr. Ji wanted to rescue him, otherwise he wouldn't have sent someone to deliver the money. However, after learning that Ji Changze not only refused sternly but also beat him up, he decided not to rescue him.

Anyway, his reputation is already like this, no matter how bad it is, how bad can it be.

In that situation, Mr. Ji could still save them. He said that sending money would make them targeted, so he could just send someone to watch, but he didn't want to do that.

Obviously he was giving money to relieve this good brother's worries, but now it seemed like he was begging them. He couldn't bear the grievance.

Okay, isn’t that noble? Doesn’t it cost money?

Then don't do it. He won't send money, but let them feel the pain of not having enough to eat and being sick without money for medical treatment. Then they will recall that he was the kind-hearted Ji Da It must be a sour feeling when the master brings money but they push it away with his own hands.

Mr. Ji waited and waited and waited with such a mood.

As a result, after waiting for such a long time, instead of waiting for poverty there, I waited for the news of my younger brother's comeback.

Just kidding.

A comeback? ?

Where did he get the capital?

If there is no money, no one is willing to cooperate with him.

Aren't all his students in other places? Liu Qingru, the only one who stayed in the local area, still had little money. Where did the Ji family get the money? ?

Mr. Ji was angry and annoyed. He sent people out to investigate but couldn't find anything. He only knew that Ji's father had indeed used money to impress the boss he had worked with in the past, and he had started working in full swing recently.

Mr. Ji was angry but could not do anything. That opportunity did not come every day. Now the two brothers of the Ji family were at odds. Mr. Ji even slandered his own son. This incident caused uproar in the city. Countless pairs of eyes are staring at him. If he takes action at this time, there is a high probability that he will overturn.

But after being annoyed for a while, he was no longer in a hurry.

Father Ji has been silent for such a long time, and his business is for the public. Even if the business starts, who will buy it?

In the past, when he was doing business, he only had accumulated old customers. Now that he has been out of business for such a long time, who still knows about him.

Thinking of this, Master Ji began to calm down again, smoking a pipe and humming a song, and arranged his subordinates to pay attention. When Ji's father opened the door, he must tell him what the situation was at that time and how depressed the business was.

After waiting for a while, the subordinate came hesitantly.

Master Ji smoked a pipe; "Just say it when you come in. You are standing there without saying anything. You still want me to give you a seat, right?"

"No, no, no, I dare not, I dare not."

The subordinate hurriedly apologized, carefully raised his eyes to look at Master Ji, and then said carefully: "The second master's business is indeed open, just this morning, I went there early in the morning."

Master Ji urged; "Is there no one? Their faces are green, right?"

The subordinate trembled: "When I went there, many people were there, and it looked... very lively."

At the end, he didn't even dare to raise his head.

Master Ji froze.

"How is it possible? He hasn't shown up for such a long time, how can those people still remember him?"

"Not only the people in the past, now half of the city knows that the second master has opened a business, and they line up to buy things. I almost couldn't squeeze in..."

Master Ji looked at the kneeling servant several times, and after confirming that he was telling the truth, it was his turn to be green.

"What is he doing? What did they do?!!!"

The servant carefully took out a newspaper from his arms and handed it over carefully.

Master Ji snatched it and found that it was the Rouan Daily.

"What? Why did you give me this thing? I fucking asked you to tell me what they did that so many people went to support them!!"

In fact, Ji Changze didn't do anything.

He just used Shen Ze's vest to open another novel called "Merchant".

It mainly tells the story of merchants.

Merchant pursues profit, which is something everyone knows, but merchants are also people. Since there are good people and bad people, there are naturally good merchants and bad merchants.

Ji Changze mainly writes about good businessmen. For example, a businessman worked hard to do business, and when the war broke out, he exchanged all his money for food and sent it to the front line.

For example, when the enemy entered the city, a businessman hid hundreds of people in his tunnel. The enemy pointed a gun at his head and asked him where he hid the people. He gritted his teeth and refused to say anything. In the end, he didn't say a word until he died.

During this period, the enemy did not tempt him with gold and silver. If this money was put in normal times, he would have agreed to anything he was asked to do. But now, he gritted his teeth and said to his death, "I am a Chinese."

When Ji Changze created the image, he portrayed this businessman as stingy, calculating, and loving money. Although he had a big family, he still cared about the little favors from the people. Although his family was rich, he shouted without hesitation when someone joked that he would be given a hundred dollars if he barked a few times.

It was such a businessman who was looked down upon by his peers, despised and discussed by the people, and everyone knew that he loved money like his life, but at the end of his life, he refused gold and silver, resisted torture, and protected more than a hundred people.

Wasn't he stingy? Yes, wasn't he a money-lover? Yes, too.

But he didn't forget that he was a Chinese first.

No matter how much he loved money, no matter how much he wanted money, he would not take a penny from these beasts who invaded Chinese territory, killed the elderly and children, and violated women.

Ji Changze has always been good at sensationalism. With just a few words, people who read newspapers were red-eyed.

In addition, he wrote some business affairs, unspoken rules, and some business tricks in it. These are all real dry goods. This time is not like the era of information flying all over the sky in the future. If people want to do business, they either come up step by step to summarize, or find a master or someone to teach them.

But no one is like Ji Changze, who wrote it down directly and wrote it correctly.

It was the first time for the common people to see this fresh subject, and with all the patriotic sentiments written in it, they naturally couldn't let it go. Those who wanted to be merchants read the knowledge in it, took notes while reading, and at the end they almost wanted to rush to the newspaper office to ask who Mr. Shen Ze was and why he knew so much about merchants.

Merchants also like to read it.

After all, the reputation of merchants has always been not very good. Everyone thinks that they are profit-driven, do everything for money, and have no morality at all. It is common for them to directly harm and stab each other, and there are also some black-hearted goods.

Although these things have happened, and there are quite a few of them, you can't generalize them all. They are all innocent.

Of course, they think they are innocent, but as for whether they are really innocent, only they themselves know.

These merchants were surprised and proud after seeing this story, as if they were the merchants who sacrificed for the sake of national justice and to protect the people. Of course, they are not as stingy as this merchant.

In short, they have a good sense of substitution.

That's right!

We are just like that!

There is no businessman who doesn't love money, but loving money doesn't mean we have no conscience.

At critical moments, we are still very reliable. Those with bad consciences are all rat shit, and we are all soup.

So, this group of people who thought that this newspaper was a true portrayal of their real businessmen happily bought a bunch of newspapers and distributed them to their relatives and friends, so that they could get to know the heroic businessmen in it (themselves--).

The sales of the newspaper broke through again.

Everyone in the newspaper was so happy that the big boss said that he would give them more money.

Sure enough, Mr. Shen Ze was a treasure. Since Mr. Shen Ze came, their newspaper has really changed its luck.

And the reason why the Ji family's business went smoothly was still Ji Changze.

He put an advertisement in the novel he wrote called Merchant.

A businessman in the story was cheated because he was too kind. He had too little money in his hand and had to replenish the goods to sell. A passerby kindly told him: Go to the Ji family shop to buy, the things sold there are cheap and good, and because it has just opened, you can get as many as you buy, which is very cost-effective. If you buy a lot, you can get the wholesale price.

The address of the Ji family was specially written at the bottom of the newspaper. If the news was true as written in the novel, Ji Changze would have taken a photo and put it on the newspaper if the space was not enough.

Mr. Shen Ze has many die-hard fans, and this novel did not disappoint people. The current sales model of buying a certain amount and getting a certain amount free and wholesale price is very fresh, which naturally attracted a large number of people.

People are all herd-like. When they found that there were so many people queuing up in the newly opened store, most people would curiously come forward to ask what was going on. When they knew that the store was selling so cheaply, they would naturally join the queue.

So this led to more and more people queuing up, and finally it was extremely popular.

Ji Changze did not tell Ji's father when he did this, and Ji's father did not know. When he opened the business, he was in a good mood and thought that it was normal to have a hard time starting over. Fortunately, Changze was still here, so there was no need to worry even if he did not make money at the beginning, etc.

As a result, when the door was opened, the customers who squeezed in almost broke it.

He asked in the noisy crowd for a long time before he knew where these people saw the news. After a busy but happy day, Ji's father finally had time to think about this matter.

Changze could actually come up with such an idea.

This child is really smart and filial.

If he wasn't filial, would he have come up with such an idea to help the family business?

On the way back, Ji's father went to the newspaper office to ask for a newspaper. Why did he say "ask" instead of "buy"? Because the newspaper was sold out again. Even though the newspaper office had recently printed a lot more than usual, it still couldn't resist the enthusiasm of Shen Ze fans.

Fortunately, Liu Qingru was still at the newspaper office. Seeing that the teacher couldn't buy a newspaper, he decisively gave him his copy.

Ji's father walked towards home while reading the newspaper, and he was more and more shocked.

Most people read the story, but he read the business model and various business methods in it.

Even he couldn't write these things, but Changze could.

Is his son really a genius?

Ji's father returned home happily. When asked about this matter, Ji Changze acted very innocent and confused: "Didn't you say these to the uncles?"

Ji's father: "? Did you?"

"Yes, Dad, have you forgotten? Every time you talked to the uncles, I sat beside you and wrote down your words. This novel is written based on your words. Look at this sentence, this is your original words."

It has been so many days, how can Ji's father still remember it clearly, but when Ji Changze pointed it out, he also thought that this sentence was familiar, as if he had really said it.

Ji Changze saw him nod and admit it, and found another sentence: "Dad, look, this is also your original words. I wrote it down when you said it. I also asked you if I could write it in my novel, and you said yes."

This time Ji's father admitted it quickly.

The memory also came back a little bit. Yes, Changze seemed to have asked him, and he thought he needed materials to write a novel at that time, so he agreed casually.

Did he really say all these? Is he so powerful?

Ji's father held the newspaper and read it for a long time. He always felt that these words seemed very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he said them and how he said them.

Ji Changze said that this was normal: "In order to integrate into the plot, I modified some words without changing the original meaning of your words. It's normal that you can't recognize them."

"Dad, think about it, if I hadn't heard you say these words, could I write these things alone?"

Ji's father looked at his son standing in front of him with innocent eyes.

It seems that he couldn't.

His son has never been so powerful since he was a child.

He looked down at the words on the newspaper again, and this time he looked very familiar (it would be strange if he didn't look familiar after reading it so many times), so he was sure in his heart that these words were all said by himself, but Changze did some artistic processing to write the novel, which made him look familiar.

After thinking it through, Ji's father suddenly realized.

My son is not a genius, I am the genius! !

After successfully fooling Ji's father, Ji Changze returned to the room, took the newspaper and read it carefully, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

Master Ji must have known about this by now, but I don’t know what measures he will take.

It would be fun if the method Ji Changze had expected was used. He really wanted to see the scene where Master Ji wanted to pit others but ended up digging a pit for himself.

Master Ji did intend to take action.

He thought about it and felt that it must be the work of his younger brother's student, the one named Liu Qingru.

Liu Qingru was the editor-in-chief. Wouldn't it be easy for him to add an advertisement? He was also Ji's father's student, which made him more motivated.

A small editor-in-chief wanted to save the person he wanted to kill?

Master Ji sneered and put pressure on the newspaper to fire Liu Qingru.

The big boss didn't want to, but it wasn't his style to offend an official for Liu Qingru, so he could only give Liu Qingru a sum of money to let him go.

As a result, the next day, his big golden leg, Mr. Shen Ze, said that since Liu Qingru had left, he would leave too.

Now it was the big boss who was confused.

What's going on? Isn't it just an editor-in-chief who left? Why are you leaving too, Jin Datui? Why are you leaving? Stay and continue to shine and make money for me!!!

Mr. Shen Ze just said that he would be wherever Liu Qingru was.

Now, the big boss directly hated Master Ji.