At the EdD Auction Meeting.

Huo Yaowen sat in the position with Wu Liande, glanced at the dense peers around him, and said to Wu Lao: "Wu Lao, do you say that our price is the lowest?"

Wu Lao said with certainty: "It must be the lowest, this time the people from the Education Department suddenly made a low-price bid, or let people quote by writing a note, cutting off the opportunity for others to bid a second time, didn't you say that it doesn't matter if the textbook makes money or not? As long as you can win the order." ”

This time, the Education Department adopted the method of anonymous bidding at the lowest price, which caused an uproar among the responsible persons sent by many publishing companies, after all, no one knew what the lowest price was in other people's minds.

The cost of printing, everyone here knows how much, so the lowest price is there, it depends on who is willing to give up the more profits, who can get the order.

It stands to reason that even if there is only a dime of profit, it is a sure deal to win the order of the Education Department for three years, after all, the people of the Education Department have already said that in the future, orders from Hong Kong Island and the New Territories will also give priority to cooperate with the bidder this time.

There are about 200,000 school-age children in Hong Kong, and a person has eight textbooks in a semester, which means that in the future, 1.6 million books will be printed in a semester in Hong Kong, and the profit of a book is 160,000, or 20,000 a year, even if it is a little less, there are more than 200,000.

It doesn't seem like much, but no one will dislike this profitable business.

And this is still the lowest profit price, if someone offers the lowest price is slightly higher than the cost price, the income will not be two or three hundred thousand yuan a year.

Although everyone knows that even if you add a dime to the cost price, you will definitely be able to get this order, but there are still very few people who have the courage to choose, after all, people are greedy, and they all have a fluke in their hearts, hoping that the price given by others is a little higher, and they are just a little less than others.

While the two were chatting, suddenly an old man in his fifties walked over next to him, the man glanced at Wu Liande, and said with surprise and joy: "Old Wu!"

"Shao Jie!" Wu Liande raised his head and noticed the appearance of this person, and exclaimed, "Why are you here?"

"I came to participate in the competition of the Education Department on behalf of President Chen. Shao Jie sat in the vacant seat next to Wu Liande, looking at the seniors he hadn't seen for many years, he said excitedly: "I didn't expect to see Wu Lao, since I was sent to Hong Kong by the people in the club in 60, I have been inquiring about your news, only to hear that you once re-established the Liangyou Pictorial in Hong Kong, and then closed the door because of some things." ”

"Yes, I originally wanted to re-open Liangyou Pictorial in Hong Kong, but then for some reason I closed the newspaper and retired to retire at home. ”

Wu Liande sighed when he saw his old friend, and suddenly thought of Huo Yaowen next to him, and also introduced him: "Yaowen, this is my friend Shao Jie in the mainland, when he opened Liangyou Pictorial in his early years, he was the artist and editor-in-chief of the pictorial. ”

Immediately, Wu Liande introduced to Shao Jie: "This is my current owner, Huo Yaowen, president of the University of Hong Kong Press. ”

Hong Kong University Press?Shao Jie glanced at Huo Yaowen suspiciously, thinking that this person should not be a liar.

"Hello Mr. Shao. Huo Yaowen took the initiative to reach out his hand.

Shao Jie shook hands with him and said, "I didn't expect Mr. Huo to be the president of a publishing house at such a young age, but I heard earlier that the University of Hong Kong Press seems to have closed its doors?"

Huo Yaowen smiled, and was not dissatisfied with Shao Jie's question: "Yes, it was true that the University of Hong Kong Press closed down due to poor management earlier, but I cooperated with the University of Hong Kong and won the right to operate the publishing house. ”

Wu Liande laughed and said, "Yes, I am now under President Huo as an editor-in-chief who eats idle meals." ”

Backstage, Samuel, the head of the Education Department, is busy with several Education Department staff members to screen out the lowest price for the bidding company.

Like many British ghosts who come to Hong Kong, Samuel also has a Chinese name, called "Fu Lushou", a very strange name, but many foreign names are so novel.

Fu Lushou poured out all the notes in the box, and soon more than thirty folded notes appeared on the table, he picked up one of the notes, glanced at the numbers and the name of the publishing house, and wrote it on the blackboard behind him.

Several staff members were also busy sorting out the slips of paper, comparing the prices on the blackboard one by one, removing the high bidder, and rewriting the lower ones on the blackboard.

"How are you doing over there?" Fu Lushou silently squeezed it in his hand after seeing the note with "Zhonghe Publishing Company" written on it, and asked Kang Ning and a few Chinese employees next to him.

Corning shrugged and said, "I haven't found the lowest one yet, I think the price given by the people at Oxford Press should be the lowest, and the price they gave is three pieces, which is the lowest bidding price I've seen at the moment." ”

"Is it a piece of three?" Fu Lushou frowned, pretended to be unwilling, turned around and glanced at the price written on the note in his hand was a piece of four, and couldn't help but groan for a moment and said: "Let's see if there is a lower price, I have some discomfort in my stomach, I want to go to make it easier, you guys are looking at the lowest price here." ”

"Yes. Corning and a few men continued to sort through the prices written on the slips, trying to find a publishing company with a lower price tag.

Fu Lushou walked out of the backstage, looked left and right, and walked in the other direction of the toilet.

Inside the bidding meeting.

Mo Fucheng anxiously waited for the eldest brother to come back, seeing that the people around him were discussing in a low voice, his ears were sharp, and he heard some people say that their bid was a piece of six, which was a dime lower than what he gave, and no one knew how much lower the price was, so he extremely expected the eldest brother Mo Fuming to come back.

Ah Cheng sat down. At this time, Mo Fuming walked over from the corner aisle and sat next to Mo Fucheng.

Seeing the eldest brother coming back, Mo Fucheng asked anxiously, "How is the eldest brother?"

"Huh?" Mo Fuming glared at Mo Fucheng, looked left and right, and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he whispered angrily: "Are you talking so loudly at this time?

Mo Fucheng hurriedly raised his hand to cover his mouth, lowered his head slightly, and said as quietly as possible: "No, no, big brother, I just want to know what's going on?"

"We should be the lowest price. Mo Fuming sat up straight, looked at the few ghosts who gradually appeared on the stage and the bidders talked.

"What's the lowest price?" This answer made Mo Fucheng scratch his head, who knows what the lowest price is.

Mo Fuming glanced at Mo Fucheng and raised a finger.

"One piece!" Mo Fucheng clenched his fists, this price can almost be said to be a very considerable profit, the cost of each book was calculated before about nine cents, if the order is won, let the workers process overnight, but it can be reduced to eight cents and seven, so that the profit of each book can also be one cent and three.

At present, there are only orders for textbooks in Kowloon, which may not be very many, but before the bidding, the person in charge of the Education Department personally said that in the future, orders from Hong Kong Island and the New Territories will be given priority to the winners of this bid.

At that time, the annual profit of Hong Kong will be at least hundreds of thousands.

After chatting with Shao Jie for a few words, Wu Liande couldn't help but ask curiously when he saw a few ghosts walking out of the stage: "Shao Jie, what is your price?"

"One and a half a piece, this is the lowest price we give. The bidding has already been completed, and now waiting for the result, Shao Jie did not hide it and said it directly.

As soon as he heard this figure, Huo Yaowen's heart tightened, he was afraid that someone would give a very low price, so he directly wrote a price that was almost 100% loss, but looking at the current situation, it seems that the price given is a little too low.

"What about you?" Shao Jie glanced at Huo Yaowen, then turned his head to ask Wu Liande.

Wu Liande smiled and didn't speak, just pointed to the people on the stage: "Wait for the announcement." ”

"Ahem......"

At this time, a ghost guy standing on the stage said in very proficient Cantonese to the people of more than 30 publishing companies present: "This bidding is a low-price bidding, and the publishing company with the lowest price can get the order from the Education Department, but I still want to remind you that we will sign a contract with you, once the bid is won, we will not give you the opportunity to bid, we must strictly follow the bidding procedures, if anyone repents, I think we will not have the opportunity to cooperate in the future." ”

The ghost guy seemed to be looking for something, but he only knew a few of the more than 30 people from the publishing company who came, and he couldn't find a bidder, so he could only say into the microphone: "The lowest bidder in this bidding is the University of Hong Kong Press!"

"What is the price you offered?" Shao Jie looked at Wu Liande and Huo Yaowen with surprise on his face when he heard the bid of the University of Hong Kong, you must know that a dime a piece is already a very low price, and no matter how low it is, there is almost no profit to be made.

"It can't be!"

Mo Fucheng stood up with a bang, the price of one dollar, this can almost be said to be the lowest price, in the low, although there is still a profit, but this profit is better than not doing, leaving the printing house to print some advertising sheets for others is more profitable than this.

"The University of Hong Kong Press?

"yes, I remember going out of business a long time ago, why did you do it again?"

"What is the price of this, I have given a piece of two, and I can't bid for it?"

"You don't win one, I don't win one!"

All of a sudden, the heads of various publishing houses who participated in the bidding meeting turned their heads to each other, and they were very curious about the price offered by the University of Hong Kong Press.