"What is piracy? What are fake fans?"
Xu Zhiqian looked at Zhang Fei with curiosity.
Zhang Fei explained: “Piracy means that the poetry collections you bought were all printed into books without Mr. Su’s permission, and then sold to others to make direct or related profits.
As for the fake fans, it is people like you who make piracy profitable, and Mr. Su's interests and reputation suffer. "
Xu Zhiqian argued: "Although what you said makes some sense, Mr. Su's reputation and interests have not been damaged!"
Zhang Fei snorted, "How can there be none? Let me ask you, in the poetry collection you bought, are there any poems that were not written by Mr. Su?"
Xu Zhiqian nodded and said, "There will be a few that don't look like what Mr. Su wrote."
“That’s called flooding.”
Zhang Fei further explained: "Those who are knowledgeable will naturally know that this is not written by Mr. Su, but those who are not will think that those clumsy poems are also written by Mr. Su, which will damage Mr. Su's reputation, right
As for the interests, Mr. Su's poems were sold by others for money, but Mr. Su did not get a penny. If this is not an infringement of Mr. Su's interests, what is it? You are accomplices."
Xu Zhiqian felt more and more embarrassed as she listened, as if she really felt that she was wrong, her cheeks slightly flushed, "I... I don't want to either, but... but Mr. Su doesn't sell poetry collections himself, he doesn't just buy... buy the pirated copies you mentioned."
"That's the problem." Zhang Fei said, "This requires an upright and kind businessman to help great talents like Mr. Su sell their poetry collections and give part of the profits to Mr. Su and his people."
Xu Zhiqian asked: "An honest, kind-hearted... businessman?"
"What kind of look is that? That's not an antonym."
“Puff!”
Xu Zhiqian smiled, "Although it's not antonym, it's almost the same. There is no such businessman."
Who prints books and gives money to the authors? Isn't that stupid
If we want to share the money, it means the cost will increase, and the selling price will also have to be increased. It should be at least much higher than those pirated products. How can we sell this
"Isn't it right in front of you?"
"you?"
"Yes! Am I not honest and kind enough?" Zhang Fei shrugged and said with a smile: "Look at the lawsuits I have filed."
Xu Zhiqian was surprised and asked, "You want to do this business?"
"I do have this idea." Zhang Fei nodded.
Xu Zhiqian asked: "Are you going to change your career?"
"Of course not." Zhang Fei shook his head unhappily, and then said, "Didn't we mention the issue of public opinion when we were fighting the Shi family before? If I don't break their absolute monopoly on public opinion, it will be very disadvantageous to our future. If we are not careful, they may sue us in return."
Xu Zhiqian's eyes lit up, "You want to use printing to interrupt their control over public opinion."
Zhang Fei nodded.
Xu Zhiqian hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "This is unlikely."
"Why?" Zhang Fei asked.
Xu Zhiqian said: "Because the imperial court can exercise control, for example, books on astronomy and geography are prohibited from being printed by the public, and books on military tactics are also not allowed to be printed. You want to use this to break their monopoly on public opinion, but how can they let you succeed?"
Zhang Fei asked curiously: "Why are these books banned from printing?"
Xu Zhiqian said: "Because these books may endanger the safety of the country. For example, astronomy books are about celestial phenomena, how can they be easily peeped into? As for geography, if they are sold to Liao and Xixia, the consequences will be disastrous. There is no need to say more about the books of military strategy."
"I see."
Zhang Fei nodded slightly.
Xu Zhiqian added: "Too much talk will lead to mistakes, let alone writing it on paper, which is even more irrefutable evidence. If you plan to control public opinion by printing books, it will be easy for them to frame you."
Zhang Fei smiled and said, "So I have no plans to change my career. I must provide legal protection for my printed books."
Xu Zhiqian shook her head and said, "I'm afraid this is also difficult."
Speech crime is essentially a pocket crime. The key is that the validity of speech is permanent. Just because it is not illegal at this moment does not mean it will not be illegal ten years later. If the situation changes, the opponent can bring up the past.
"No matter how difficult it is, we have to try. After all, we only have one mouth. No matter how eloquent we are, we can't beat them with so many mouths."
As he spoke, Zhang Fei held up the pirated collection of poems and said, "Let's start with this collection of poems and poems. If I can ensure that their collection of poems and poems is not pirated, then we can also try to protect my reading materials from being illegal."
In fact, he had long thought about using printing to break the scholar-officials' monopoly on public opinion, but he was also a little worried about this, after all, this was a feudal era.
If you are not careful, you will end up burning yourself.
Zhang Fei was also very cautious and tried it step by step.
Xu Zhiqian asked in surprise: "How can you guarantee that?"
"Of course it's a lawsuit!"
As he spoke, Zhang Fei took out the contract signed with Su Shi and handed it to Xu Zhiqian.
After Xu Zhiqian took it, she looked at it for a while and suddenly said excitedly: "It's Mr. Su's handwriting."
Zhang Fei was surprised and asked, "You know the handwriting?"
Xu Zhiqian glanced at him and said, "What's so strange about this? Besides... Mr. Su's handwriting is easy to recognize."
As she spoke, she looked at it carefully again.
Zhang Fei smiled secretly, she is indeed a little fangirl. I am ashamed, I don't recognize Li Qingzhao's handwriting at all.
After a while, Xu Zhiqian looked up and said, "So it was Mr. Su who asked you to fight this lawsuit."
Zhang Fei nodded and said, "What do you think?"
Xu Zhiqian hesitated for a moment and said, "I think this lawsuit is quite easy to win. It's easier than any previous lawsuit."
Zhang Fei said, "What do you mean?"
Xu Zhiqian said: "Don't you know that many officials in the court are dissatisfied with this phenomenon and have punished some booksellers for it? If you go and sue, the court officials will support you."
Zhang Fei smiled and said, "That is to say, as long as Mr. Su reports this to the higher-ups, the government will punish this Ji Juxian."
Xu Zhiqian nodded and said, "This kind of thing has happened before."
Zhang Fei asked: "If that's the case, then why did Mr. Su come to see me?"
Xu Zhiqian blinked, "Yes! Why did Mr. Su look for you?"
Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Look carefully at this contract. Mr. Su's request is not as simple as punishing this Ji Juxian, but he hopes that I can put an end to this phenomenon."
Xu Zhiqian took another closer look and said, "This can only be said that those booksellers violated morality, but they did not violate the law. After all, poetry is different from property, and it is difficult to determine whether it is theft. If plagiarizing poetry is illegal, then who would dare to recite other people's poetry in the future
In addition, it is not just these booksellers, but also the literati who copy each other's poetry and lyrics. Is this illegal? If you just want to win this lawsuit, I think it is not difficult, but if you want to stop this kind of thing by law, it is probably difficult, and those literati are unlikely to agree, and then they may also break the law. "
Zhang Fei smiled and said, "We can't give up fairness and justice just because it's difficult. Since doing so is immoral and infringes on the interests of others, the court should legislate on this."
Xu Zhiqian glanced at him and said, "You are just an informant. You can only rely on laws to argue. You don't have the power to legislate."
Zhang Fei hesitated for a moment and said, "I have my own way. Now we have to consider how to fight this lawsuit."
Xu Zhiqian pondered for a while, "The best way is to sue under the theft law. I believe there will be no need to go to court. After all, this also involves Mr. Su."
Zhang Fei said: "That's meaningless. Mr. Su's request is not to kill a chicken to scare the monkey."
Xu Zhiqian said: "But if we don't use the theft law to prosecute, where is the law to prosecute?"
Zhang Fei said: "We have to go back and investigate carefully. If this lawsuit can be won, it will benefit us a lot. Let's go! Let's go back and study it now."
"Now?"
"Yeah! What's up?"
"No, didn't your store just reopen today?"
"So what? There are no customers. Why are you staying here?"
“… … .!”
Xu Zhiqian said: "So you are not in a hurry at all."
"There's nothing to worry about."
Zhang Fei said: "We are still in the tree planting stage. I just need to make sure that I can sit under them and enjoy the coolness in the end. Let's go!"
What else could Xu Zhiqian say? She could only stand up and walk outside with him.
"Sanlang, where are you going?"
When I arrived at the door, I met Fan Li.
Zhang Fei said seriously: "It's a big deal."
"Big eucalyptus?"
Fan Li said in surprise: "But it is related to Mr. Na Su."
"Keep it a secret!"
Zhang Fei made a gesture to silence him, and whispered, "As long as we win this lawsuit, it will be enough for us to live for three years."
Eat for three years? Oh my god. Fan Li nodded happily, "No need to worry! No need to worry! I won't say anything more."
Zhang Fei added: "I'll leave this to you. I'll go back and study the case first."
"Why!"
Fan Li nodded and suddenly said, "Wait a minute, Sanlang, this lawsuit will take us three years to make ends meet, so let's just fight the lawsuit and forget about calculating the tax, since it won't work anyway."
Zhang Fei said: "Take a long-term view. Long-term, understand? Anyway, we won't lose anything if we open it."
Fan Li said awkwardly: "But it's very embarrassing!"
"Can this face be eaten?"
"That's not possible."
"That's all right! I'll go back first."
Having said that, Zhang Fei and Xu Zhiqian left the bookstore together, and then took a carriage to leave Lushi Lane.
On the second floor diagonally opposite, two middle-aged men dressed like scholars watched them leave.
These two people were none other than the Duzhi Judge Shen Huaixiao and the Ministry of Revenue Deputy Envoy Tang Ji.
"Look, that kid left quickly."
Tang Ji smiled proudly.
Chen Huaixiao said: "In two days, you arrange for someone from the Commercial Taxation Bureau to go to their shop and tell them that the Commercial Taxation Bureau also wants to arrange someone to calculate taxes at their bookstore."
Tang Ji said: "Why is that? We can easily kill him now."
Chen Huaixiao said: "Unless we can cut off his tongue, he will always be a hidden danger. What we are afraid of is not his tax calculation business, but his litigation skills. So the best way is to win him over and make him one of our own. Only in this way can we solve the problem once and for all!"