As a governor, Governor Zhang received a considerable annual salary, but he did not accept bribes and helped others from time to time, so he was short of money.
Generally speaking, he would give part of his salary to his steward for household expenses, and the rest of the money would always be spent unknowingly.
Six hundred taels of silver was quite a lot for him.
For Li Qingzhi, six hundred taels of silver was not a small amount.
The next night, when he opened the letter sent to him by Jueweizhai, he saw a silver note of six hundred taels from a bank in the provincial capital... Li Qingzhi was stunned.
Governor Zhang is fine, why give him so much money
After reading the letter sent by Governor Zhang, he finally understood what was going on.
This is really a high fee! He can earn 60 taels of silver for writing 6,000 words a day. If he writes for a month, he can earn 1,800 taels!
At this stage, Jueweizhai’s annual profit is only one thousand eight hundred taels!
Li Qingzhi took a deep breath and suppressed the urge to write ten thousand words a day.
If he really had to write 10,000 words a day, he would have no time to chat with people or spend time with his children.
He also didn't have time to go to the new school every day to look after it.
He had a hard time in the last days, and now that he finally got another chance to live, he wants to enjoy life, not write books every day.
So... write 8,000 words, no more.
He didn't do it for the money, he mainly wanted Shen's Bookstore to print the book faster!
Li Qingzhi finally decided to take time out every night to write an extra 2,000 words.
Thinking of this, he lit a lamp and began to write at his desk.
Jin Xiaoye saw that Li Qingzhi was still awake at the appointed time, so she came over to check on him, and then she saw Li Qingzhi writing a book.
"Why are you still writing?" Jin Xiaoye asked, "How long will you continue to write?"
"Write for another hour," Li Qingzhi said, "Xiaoye, I will also write at night in the future, so I may go to bed later."
"You have to write so much? Won't it be too tiring?" Jin Xiaoye was worried that Li Qingzhi would be tired.
Li Qingzhi said, "Xiao Ye, the Shen Family Business Company gave me ten taels of silver for every thousand words of my book. If I write two thousand more words tonight, I can get an extra twenty taels of silver."
Jin Xiaoye was stunned for a moment before she spoke: "If it were me... I would keep writing except for eating and sleeping." She would write until the Shen Family Business could no longer pay her!
Well, that's just thinking about it.
She can't write a book at all, she can't write anything.
Li Qingzhi couldn't help laughing when he heard Jin Xiaoye's words, and then... he continued writing his book.
Li Qingzhi originally planned to write the book "Records of Escape from Famine" with about 150,000 words, which is about the same length as "Records of Injustices".
There is no need to write too long.
But now, Li Qingzhi plans to add 50,000 words to the book.
Of course, what he wrote was not unnecessary... He planned to write down the knowledge he remembered about how to build water conservancy projects, how to deal with floods, how to prevent and control plagues, etc.
Of course, this cannot be counted as part of "Records of Escape from Famine". It is actually a new book, and Li Qingzhi plans to name it "Strategies for Flood Control".
In fact, there were some books related to water control in this era. The original owner’s father, Li Zhao, collected quite a few of them and brought them back for research.
The original owner had also read those books and even had a deep impression of them.