Chapter 25: What is a mere taels?
Yun Chuhuan, who was fined another hundred gold, was mentally broken.

He really didn't understand why the rags sent by his fifth sister could be placed on the dragon table by his father, while the night-shining pearl he bought with five thousand taels of silver was only exchanged for a fine of one hundred gold.

That’s right, after his beautiful dream in the imperial study was shattered, he finally noticed the familiar little pottery figurine on his father’s desk.

He saw his fifth sister bargaining with the stall owner for a long time yesterday, and finally successfully bought it with twenty-five copper coins...

Could it be that he had made a mistake, and that the one hundred gold coins he had been fined for and the ten thousand taels of silver that his fifth sister had been rewarded with were purely coincidental?

Does the emperor really care about which leg he takes the first step?
But last time it was clearly the left foot!
Neither left nor right works. Is there some secret hidden here?
No, he has to ask his fifth sister.

The fifth sister has never been punished!

Yun Chuhuan, who couldn't figure it out by himself, immediately changed direction and headed towards Fengyang Palace.

"Fifth sister! I..."

"You came just in time."

When Yun Chuhuan arrived, Yun Shu was just coming out of Fengyang Palace with the people given to her by Emperor Xuanwu.
Seeing another free laborer offering himself up, she grabbed the other person's sleeve and took him away:

"Father said that the newly hired tutor will come to teach tomorrow. Let's go out of the palace again while we are still free today!"

The Sixth Prince, who was five years younger than Yun Shu and had not yet started to grow, was dragged and swung around in a circle. He was stunned for a moment:
"But I don't have any money with me, how about I ..."

"No need. You treated us yesterday, so today it's Fifth Sister's turn!"

The imperial palace is large and has many rules. There are great distances between palaces and people are not allowed to ride horses.

Yun Shu had something to do today that took a little time, so she didn't have time to wait for Yun Chuhuan to slowly go back to get the silver. She patted her sixth brother's shoulder generously, and her promise sounded very reassuring:
“We guarantee you will have a fulfilling and unforgettable day!”

"..."

The inexperienced and only eight-year-old Sixth Prince was tricked by her into sitting in an ordinary carriage of standard specifications.

The Sixth Prince, who had never suffered from poverty, said: "..."

Yun Shu also didn't expect that without Yun Chuhuan's luxurious carriage, and without the silk cushions more than ten centimeters thick underneath, running on the relatively flat bluestone road in the capital would be so uncomfortable: "..."

"Fifth sister."

The Sixth Prince's sad voice sounded like it was about to break amid the bumps of the carriage:
"Where are we going now?"

"Go buy a farm."

Yun Shu glanced at him with a guilty look. To comfort him, she took out the Capital Weekly that she had shown Emperor Xuanwu before:
"You take a look at this first."

"How can we see the carriage when it's so bumpy?"

Yun Chuhuan pouted in disgust, but couldn't help but open the booklet.

"Shocked! A flying person appeared outside Lian Xin Zhai?"

The Sixth Prince, who had only read various serious articles since he was a child, obviously had not experienced the baptism of the shocking department of modern news.

At first glance, he was immediately intrigued by the title.

Even though it was clear from the following content that this was actually what he had witnessed yesterday, Yun Chuhuan still read the article word for word with great interest because Yun Shu's wording was very novel and interesting, and the picture was full of emotion.

"Interesting! The person who wrote this booklet is quite to my liking!"

Nodding with a curious look on his face, Yun Chuhuan wanted to read on, but Yun Shu suddenly remembered something and snatched the booklet back before he could see the title on the second page: "Unveiling the Interior of the Sixth Prince's Luxurious Carriage":
"The carriage is too bumpy. It's bad for your eyes if you look at it for too long."

Yun Chuhuan: “?”

His interest had just been piqued, but now he is not allowed to watch. Is this something a human would do?
Yun Chuhuan was immediately unhappy:

"Then stop the carriage! Wait until I finish looking!" "Are you sure?"

Yun Shu didn't argue with him, and just casually presented the options to him:

"If you stop the car now, you can read the whole book, but there is only this one book.

But if you are willing to come with me and buy the farm, you will have new content to read every few days. It’s your choice.”

"……What's the meaning?"

Yun Chuhuan was stunned for a moment, and finally realized something:
"Fifth sister, you bought the farm because..."

“To print these things.”

She recounted to Yun Chuhuan the plan for the capital weekly newspaper that she had previously told Emperor Xuanwu.
Yun Shu paused for a moment, and suddenly a slightly seductive smile appeared on the corner of his lips:
"Huan Er, do you want to join in?"

"Participate...what?" Yun Chuhuan didn't understand.

"Participating means that you and I will invest together to establish this Beijing Weekly. When Beijing Weekly becomes popular, people will ask who owns it. You can tell them that it is jointly owned by the two of us."

Yun Shu explained patiently:

"In addition, the money earned by the Beijing Weekly will be divided between the two of us according to our shareholding ratio."

"That's it!"

Yun Chuhuan suddenly realized and understood, but not completely.

But it doesn't matter. After all, he doesn't care about money at all.
How much money can you make from just this little booklet?
What he cares more about is that when someone asks him about it in the future, he can tell them loudly that such an interesting thing is his!
Thinking of this, Yun Chuhuan agreed without hesitation:

"How much? I'll pay!"

“In the early stage, because it is only issued in the capital and the target audience is aristocratic families, the number of copies printed in each issue will not be too large, so the investment amount will not be very high for the time being.

But at least we should..."

Yun Shu hesitated for a moment and slowly extended a finger.

"One hundred thousand taels?"

Yun Chuhuan nodded simply:
"Okay, if I return to the palace too late today, I will bring the banknote to you when I go to the study tomorrow!"

Yun Shu: “?”

The words "at least one thousand taels" got stuck in my throat.
Yun Shu, who felt a little guilty, couldn't help but remind him implicitly:
"Are you sure? One hundred thousand taels is not a small amount after all. You..."

"What's uncertain?"

I thought Yunshu was going to regret it and didn't want him to participate in the shares.

Yun Chuhuan agreed more decisively than anyone else:
"What's a mere 100,000 taels? It's just some change!"

Yun Shu: “…”

Okay, her remaining conscience flew away.

This damn gap between the rich and the poor!

She is just making a reasonable contribution to the redistribution of social resources!

Yun Shu nodded modestly:
"Then, let's do it."

(End of this chapter)