Langya Paper quickly swept through Great Song via viral advertising, and its traces even spread into Saibei.
Unfortunately, Langya Paper's output was low, and now a single sheet was hard to come by. One sheet could even sell for over a hundred taels of silver.
Lu Xingshi could only lament that these merchants were truly ruthless, while these scholars were truly rich.
As a result, people came to Langya Pavilion every day to press for more production. Fortunately, it did not affect the publication of the Wind and Splendor Report.
If Langya Paper was a light luxury good, then the Wind and Splendor Report and the corresponding Langya Books—books bound with Langya Paper—were genuine luxury goods.
Anyone who could afford the Wind and Splendor Report and Langya Books was, without exception, a person of high status. Without sufficient power and influence, one simply could not get one's hands on them.
This also caused more and more people to covet Langya Paper.
Naturally, Lu Xingshi hired quite a few martial artists as guards. Although many people with ulterior motives had infiltrated their ranks, Lu Xingshi paid so much that they began to wonder whether they should keep at it.
Then there was Lu Xingshi's reputation. Not just anyone dared provoke the Golden Crow Divine General.
Anyone who dared come and was caught by him was beaten to death on the spot.
Their corpses were then left exposed as a warning.
At the same time, the peace negotiations between Great Song and Liao North began with great fanfare.
The commotion was considerable. Many martial artists planned to stop this humiliating act of reconciliation, but every one of them failed.
In the end, Great Song agreed to provide Liao North with an annual grant of one million, paid in food, ironware, cloth, and