Chapter Fifty-two: Explosive Fire

  Yang Yunqiu put the doll on the table and took out a photo of Wen Shan.

  This guy had already explored the surrounding geographical environment before he came, and took pictures of every place, equivalent to aerial photography, the photos are very clear.

  After studying carefully for half a day, I finally found a small place with signs of human habitation in the valley south of Wēn Mountain. It seems to have hidden medicinal fields and possibly even a divine doctor living in seclusion.

  He thought for a moment and drew a circle on a more distant and secluded hilltop from that valley.

  "That's all."

  The doll also agreed, turned her head and went to explore the design drawings of the base. If it was just building a house, if there were local minerals, Yang Yunqiu would exhaust her spiritual power, and it would be almost done in one night. However, after the base is built, it can't be empty inside. Living supplies are relatively cheap, but he still needs to bring a batch of spiritual objects over and manage them well.

  Wang Yi and his group arrived early, Yang Yunqiu and the three of them discussed how to get the money quickly.

  Liu Sheng directly shouted, "If teachers can produce medicine, selling it to people for treatment is the fastest way to make money."

  Quanzhou has many wealthy merchants, he knows that several young masters have contracted venereal diseases and can only suffocate in their villas waiting for death, the family's reputation is almost completely lost because of them. If this disease can be cured, those people would be willing to spend any amount of money, even if it means bankruptcy.

  In this era, some terminal illnesses like tuberculosis are extremely easy to cure. Liu Sheng came here to study traditional Chinese medicine techniques seriously, not for the sake of making money. Otherwise, it wouldn't be difficult for them to make a fortune.

  Yang Yunqiu nodded, he was not familiar with refining medicine, but went to the pharmaceutical factory in later generations for a visit, and established a pharmaceutical factory in the Shang Dynasty by drawing a tiger from a cat. There were no problems at all. When he first handmade a car, it didn't take him long either.

  However, making medicine also requires money, even if all equipment is self-made, and raw materials cost money too.

  Wang Yi suggested writing and selling books. The people of Quanzhou loved to read, and the books sold in bookstores were very expensive. If they plagiarized some storytelling books or something like that, they would definitely make a profit.

  As for Gao Ming, he's a simpleton who can only think about eating. He says that if there was refined salt it would be great, but now the salt he eats is yellow and very bitter, it's so uncomfortable to eat that it's torturous.

  Foodie's idea can be implemented, Quanzhou coastal area, set up a salt farm, still simple.

  Yang Yunqiu suddenly got a bunch of reliable or unreliable ideas, and Gao Ming also suggested opening a grocery store to sell some goods that are commonly found in supermarkets nowadays.

  Although there are difficulties now, they are all divine consciousness crossing over and cannot bring things with them. However, after a while, the base is built, this lower-level plane stabilizes, and truly opening the space-time door is not difficult either.

  These ideas are all good, but the reason why it's called the first pot of gold is that Yang Yunqiu now has a little money in his hands and no difference, and Wang Yi's idea of writing books is also cost-free.

  But even if plagiarized, it can't be blindly plagiarized, and it must conform to the taste of Yin Dynasty readers.

  Yang Yunqiu himself didn't have much literary talent, but his learning ability was absolutely top-notch. He would first go to the bookstore, let the salesgirl scan down all the currently most popular books and whatnot, and then study them seriously.

  After watching for half a day, I couldn't bear to continue. The romance novels of this era are really meaningless, most of them are just deceiving young girls with sentimental love stories.

  The content is too cliché, anyway, a bookworm emerges, must be elegant and refined, with great talent, but from a poor family that can't even afford to cook (who knows if they're really that poor, how did they manage to study and become so talented, considering the current value of books, at least a relatively well-off family is needed to afford them, not to mention the cost of brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones for practicing calligraphy).

  A poor scholar accidentally meets a rich young lady, picks up the young lady's golden hairpin (or possibly jade pendant, bracelet, etc.), and in order to return it, the two people fall deeply in love at first sight. The young lady's parents do not allow her to marry the poor scholar, so she must elope with him. The scholar immediately vows to study hard, make a name for himself, and then let the young lady return home with honor to see her parents.

  Yang Yunqiu flipped through a dozen or so books, most of which were just rehashing the same old thing, with some slightly deeper descriptions of stories about filial sons and virtuous daughters-in-law, benevolent and kind seniors, etc., with very elaborate language, but the stories themselves were dull and uninteresting.

  After some thought, I haven't seen any detective or martial arts themed books in here. There is a "Wash Wrong Record", which is purely a dry description of a county official breaking a case, called a "talk book", but it's more like an expository text. It sells particularly well, with extremely high sales over the past decade or so, although not the highest, its vitality is the strongest, and there have been many reprints.

  There are various versions of it, and some even have illustrations. It seems that people from the Shang Dynasty should like detective stories.

  Yang Yunqiu wrote "The Legendary Detective Di Renjie".

  He took the cases of Judge Bao, Judge Dee and other detective TV dramas he had watched before, adapted them, organized them clearly, set the protagonist as a Holmes-like eccentric county official with handsome looks, several red-skinned beauties, several martial arts masters, and of course, also added wise emperors, virtuous ministers and treacherous ministers.

  Yang Yunqiu started writing and couldn't stop for a while, only to discover that after all the fuss, he was still an enthusiast of writing. Previously, he had put all his thoughts on science and technology, which made this attribute automatically hidden.

  The second daughter found that the young master at home was cooped up in his room all day, desperately writing something, and thought he was studying hard, so she was very happy, and went to the kitchen every day to make delicious food for him.

  Even Lian Chen thought her son had awakened, and even considered whether to invite a teacher to enlighten him. Although her son was already twelve years old, which was a bit late for enlightenment, if he truly had talent, she was willing to put in extra effort.

  Just thinking about it carefully, Chen Jiu Niang felt that this matter should be put on hold for the time being. Recently, the young master of the Sun family, Sun Zhao Yang, was planning to propose a marriage, and the woman from the Yu family had set her sights on the emperor's only princess. At this time, the Sun family did not dare to tarnish their reputation in any way. Even if they wanted to find a teacher for Ming Ge to start his education, it would be difficult to find a good one. The old master would not let Ming Ge draw too much attention to himself, lest he damage the Sun family's reputation.

  Keeping a concubine is nothing new in the Shang Dynasty, but whether it's good or bad to do so, it's not suitable to discuss openly.

  Chen Jiu Niang didn't want to displease her 'food and clothing parents', but she could properly say some good things about her son. Previously, she thought her son was dull and worried that the old master would have a bad impression of him, which would affect herself. She had been intentionally letting the old master forget about her son, until now, Sun Zhao Ming in Sun Zhi Fu's heart, only knew that he had an illegitimate child, but as for what kind of temperament the illegitimate child was, whether clever or foolish, he didn't know at all. This wasn't strange, after all, they already had a famous young son with excellent writing skills.

  Writing with a brush suspended from his wrist, the speed was really too slow. Yang Yunqiu was considered to have made enough effort and spent ten whole days writing a volume of content. He took the outline and part of the manuscript and went out to ask around, finding the largest bookstore.

  The shopkeeper read Yang Yunqiu's manuscript and didn't know whether to accept it or not. If he accepted it, Yang Yunqiu asked for a high price, unexpectedly not wanting cash, but instead wanting 50% of the profits. This type of book had never appeared before, so he wasn't sure if it could be sold or how well it would do. But if he didn't accept it, this book was written really well and he couldn't help but want to read on, his heart aching with desire to see the next part. He even felt that just to see the rest of the story himself, he was willing to lose money to take it in.

  After hesitating for half a day and haggling over the price for a long time, the shopkeeper finally agreed to Yang Yunqiu's terms and signed a contract. If the book didn't sell 100,000 copies in its first sale, they would split the profits 50/50; but if it sold more than 100,000 copies, they would split them 40/60, with Yang Yunqiu taking 60%.

  Quanzhou is a big city with many people, and there are also many bookworms. However, if you want to sell 100,000 copies, the shopkeeper will absolutely not believe it. Not to mention an unknown newcomer, even famous authors can't sell that many at first. Nowadays, books are expensive, ordinary families really can't afford to buy one, and wealthy book lovers would rather spend their money on authentic Confucian classics useful for imperial examinations.

  The shopkeeper's movements were swift, and in just a few days, the case files with black covers, "Di Renjie's Legendary Cases", were placed on the counter. The name was quite common, but the words on it were written with bold strokes, elegant and refined, novel and beautiful. Passersby, even ordinary vendors and travelers, couldn't help but take a few more glances.

  Just for this book, written by a nobody without fame, it's not a detective novel for young girls. On the first day of sales, it sold quite well, and some people who originally wanted to buy other books also bought an extra copy.

  The shopkeeper finally breathed a sigh of relief.

  Yang Yunqiu instead had him prepare ten deluxe editions to be sent to various large restaurants as gifts for the most honored guests.

  Quanzhou has many wealthy families, and this kind of book was originally meant for the young masters of these wealthy families to pass the time, so giving it to them as a promotional gift is perfect.

  The boss was in agony, but Yang Yunqiu insisted, and he had no choice but to reluctantly follow through, selecting the top ten most famous restaurants in Quanzhou, with one restaurant sending over a copy.

  After sending it out, the shopkeeper couldn't sleep all night, sighing and making his wife want to drive him to the study to sleep. Unexpectedly, in just one day, "The Legend of Di Renjie's Cases" in the bookstore suddenly became a hit, as if overnight, everyone in Quanzhou was talking about Di Renjie, regardless of age or sex.

  The shopkeeper didn't know what was going on, and in a daze, the goods were sold out within three days. The printing speed couldn't keep up with the sales speed. His apprentices, due to continuous work, printed books day and night, and their arms were too tired to lift.

  It wasn't until later that I heard, originally Duke Dingyuan of Zhao, Lord Xiaohou, unintentionally saw "Di Renjie" and greatly liked it. He told the story to Zhuangzi, the number one courtesan in Quanzhou, and unexpectedly won her favor, becoming a honored guest. You should know, Zhuangzi is now a big shot, and doesn't easily serve tea to guests.

  Suddenly, "Detective Dee" was on everyone's lips and became a hit.