My book friend Long Aotian

Chapter 45: You can cheat primary school students’ money, but you can’t rob them!

When Li Bailong heard the news, he was surprised, then suddenly realized.

No wonder subscriptions have increased!

It turned out that it was on the hot search, so the traffic came!
This was unexpected, but also reasonable. After Li Bailong realized it, he had another idea.

Wait a moment.

Of course, the more willpower the better, as it can not only heal Long Aotian's injuries, but also improve Li Bailong's internal strength. Originally, he thought that he could get it by writing and publishing books, but he didn't expect piracy to get in the way. According to Long Aotian's calculations, they had lost at least 30% of their willpower due to rampant piracy.

This made Aozi heartbroken, and he kept shouting that he wanted to get back the loss.

So the question is, how to increase the amount of wish power obtained?

Known vows are the spiritual light that genuine readers experience after reading a book, which is equivalent to a subscription.

If online writers want to increase subscriptions, in addition to working hard on writing and winning the hearts of readers...

——This is still operational!

The hot searches caused by last night's incident were undoubtedly an unconscious marketing campaign, because the social security incident aroused the public's curiosity about "Legend of Huangji War", thereby increasing sales.

As a time traveler from Earth, Li Bailong knows this too well!

And he's not just any writer.

He is a member of the noble warrior class, and is also a role model of collusion between officials and the military. He is a local celebrity with great social influence and capital strength!

It’s too easy to want to do some “high-end operations”.

The Long Aotian in his mind was also dancing wildly in ecstasy.

It’s just that Aozi is stupid and hasn’t thought of this yet.

Li Bailong's mind was full of thoughts, but he ultimately did not voice out his bold idea.

It should be noted that with his social status, position in the martial arts world and martial arts achievements at that time, he had almost the final say in Lin County, and it was not difficult for him to do something like "designating "Legend of Huangji Zhantian" as a required extracurricular reading material for all martial arts schools and martial arts academies."

But as an earthling, he undoubtedly has his own bottom line, which is...

——You can cheat primary school students of their money, but you can’t rob them!
Therefore, there was no need to let Aozi know about this bold idea, so as to avoid him pestering and forcing Li Bailong to do such senseless and beastly things as signing books in schools and selling books to elementary school students.

As soon as he made the decision, he heard Aozi's cry.

"Old Li, I thought of it——"

Long Aotian said excitedly: "There is something wrong with our thinking... Before, we were always thinking about how to write the book better so as to attract more readers. In fact, it seems that it doesn't need to be so troublesome!"

—Shut up! How dare you touch this slide!

Aozi seemed to have discovered a new world, and shouted: "We can cheat, coax, hype, advertise everywhere, and hire a group of people to discuss and hype up the popularity. In this way, even if the book is not good, we can still coax a group of readers to come..."

Damn, I've told him too many boring things about Earth before!
Li Bailong poured cold water on him at the right time: "Well said, but it is meaningless. As long as there is soil for piracy to exist, you can only create a bunch of freeloaders."

"..." Long Aotian turned off his anger and said angrily, "Then spread all the pirated copies first!"

After calming down the restless guy, Li Bailong turned to ask He Xianbing: "Besides Chen's bookstore, are there any other people selling pirated copies of the imperial book on the market? Have you found out?"

"I found out."

He Xianbing was Feng Guozhong's fellow villager and confidant. He was very capable and explained in a clear and logical manner: "It is true. This book has been selling very well in the past few months. Many peddlers have bought it."

When he went there, he asked several peddlers and street vendors and got a clear understanding of the situation.

"They bought the books from several bookstores in Lin County. The conditions offered by those bookstores were generous. They said that if the books could not be sold, they would be allowed to return the books and get a refund at the original price. So they were very willing to buy the books. After all, they would not lose money. Moreover, they said that the book by Tyrant Thief sold very well..."

6.

These pirates are quite knowledgeable.

Li Bailong had an idea and asked someone to find the pirates' confessions - last night, Boss Chen brought the constables to open the boxes one by one, beating and scolding them. Many people could not bear the ultimate humiliation of body and soul, and honestly wrote confessions on the spot, confessing their unscrupulous acts of piracy.

He combined the statements in his confession with the intelligence provided by He Xianbing and understood the cause and effect.

It turned out that these bookstores had initially pirated the emperor's book and were selling it directly in their own stores. This was so blatant that naturally attracted Boss Chen to come and question them, so they could no longer continue.

One reason is to save face. After all, we are in the same industry and it is not good to do something too embarrassing.

The second reason is that Boss Chen’s voice is very pleasant to the ears, but they have both parents and are not lucky enough to enjoy it.

After weighing the pros and cons, a clever person came up with an idea: print but don't sell, and sell the pirated copies directly to retailers.

Since pirated books are of poor quality, the cost is low, so the price is also low, enough to compete with genuine books. They also allow retailers to return unsold books with intact covers, so peddlers vote with their feet and become minions in spreading piracy.

Then things got tricky.

After hearing about this, Boss Chen also rushed to the street in a rage to catch the pirated retailers, but the peddlers were all small businessmen and were street thugs with rich experience in fighting. After being caught by Boss Chen, they fell down before he could listen to the immortal teachings, and rolled on the ground crying.

While rolling on the ground, he shouted nonsense like "The manager of Chen's Bookstore is beating people. This is going to kill my family. My mother is still waiting for the rice to cook" and "I don't want to sell my daughter, please".

As a result, Boss Chen, the victim of piracy, became a villain who was rich and unkind and competed with the people for profits. He fell directly from the moral high ground and had to flee in embarrassment under the pointing and criticizing of the onlookers.

He went to the county magistrate to complain, but was also scolded.

"I see."

After reading it, Li Bailong understood the cause and effect.

The increase in pirated readers this morning was due to hearing the big news last night and rushing to buy books out of curiosity. Although the piracy dens were raided, the stocks of retailers were not confiscated, so the pirated books can still be sold normally... After all, only the source was cut off, the water flow will not dry up for the time being.

This phenomenon must, of course, be ruthlessly eradicated.

After all, under the current circumstances, for every pirated book sold, the amount of wish power received will be reduced by one point.

Aozi shouted, "Get some detectives to go out on the streets, search every peddler one by one, and order them to hand over all their pirated stock. Then warn them that if anyone dares to sell pirated goods again, their stall will be overturned!"

Li Bailong frowned and said, "It's okay for pirates, but these small vendors are doing small business. If all the goods they bought with money are confiscated, it's equivalent to losing half of their capital. This will cost lives."

Lao Long didn't care: "What does it have to do with us? If they sell this, they should be prepared to take risks!"

"That being said, after they lose money, they will be gloomy and sigh all day long, and they may even sell their children, their blood and sweat, and the noise of crying and shouting will be very loud." Li Bailong said calmly, "I am kind-hearted, and I cannot bear to hear such noise."

"..." Long Aotian snorted. He had been with Li Bailong for a long time. When he heard this, he knew that the other party had made up his mind. He just said angrily, "Then let them sell all the goods on hand?"

"It's not necessary."

Li Bailong thought for a moment and came up with an idea: "I will issue a notice in the name of the county lieutenant's office, requiring them to hand over the pirated stock in their hands to the county government within three days. The county government will buy them at a price 10% higher than the purchase price. The money will of course come from the pirates. This way, they will not lose money, but can even make a little money."

After telling Feng Guozhong about this decision, Old Feng had no objection and let Li Bailong do what he wanted.

This habit was carried over from the battlefield. He habitually obeyed all of Li Bailong's decisions and never asked why, because to him, obeying all of Yunqiwei's orders meant two things - one, being able to survive on the battlefield where life and death were at stake, and two, being able to make achievements.

So Li Bailong came here early in the morning and was very enthusiastic about cracking down on piracy. To outsiders, it might seem like a waste of time, but Feng Guozhong did not suspect anything. After all, Li Bailong always had his own plans.

After discussing the details of the plan, Li Bailong called over the soldiers from He County and sent them to carry out the plan.

"three things."

Analyze each item in detail and send them out one by one.

"The first thing to do is to find the clerk of the Household Affairs Office and have him notify the several market supervisors in this county, and inform all the peddlers and vendors as quickly as possible, ordering them to stop selling the imperial book and sell the pirated stock to the government within three days. If they sell it again after three days, it will be illegal and their illegal gains will be confiscated directly."

"It's easy. The people in the household department were just caught by Yunqiwei last night. We are not afraid that they will not obey." Lao He thought for a moment and readily agreed. He then asked, "Since we have asked them to stop selling, if they continue to sell secretly in the next three days, how should they be punished? Yunqiwei must know that these people like to take advantage of loopholes."

Li Bailong smiled slightly: "I have my own way, you listen to the second one first."

"Yes."

"Find your friends in the market and spread rumors, saying that the government is discussing whether to ban "Legend of the Imperial Battle Heaven"..." Li Bailong lowered his voice and reminded, "As for the reason, of course it's because it's pornographic! Very pornographic and violent! It makes people want to tear down the flag after reading it! Of course, you can add some specific content from the book, I haven't read it, so I don't know, you can add some eye-catching content yourself!"

When He Xianbing heard this, he nodded in agreement and quickly agreed.

"The third one is about the actual operation, which is quite troublesome to explain..."

Li Bailong smiled sinisterly: "Come with me, let's go to the street and demonstrate it."

After thinking about it, I decided to say it.

The tone set at the beginning of this book is "prefer slow to fast", so the stage is set up relatively slowly. In addition, the tone of the world view and the main line is still rather cold and severe. These will be told slowly, and the cheerful style at the beginning is just deceiving... I am gently inviting everyone to come in and watch, because there will be times in the future when you don't want to laugh.

In addition, the main plot of this book is certainly not to write and publish a book, which is too boring. Writing a book is just one of the long lines, a wedge used to cut into this world. There will be many heartwarming stories in the future, so stay tuned.

I'll take a look at the length. I should get to the point in a few chapters. There is also a two-week free period before it goes on sale, which should be enough for everyone to see the tip of the iceberg of this world. In short, please be patient and let me write more steadily.

In addition, please vote and read more!

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