In the courtyard of the Ma family's house, the housekeeper listened to the report of the external shopkeeper, hesitated for a moment, and decided that it would be better to talk back to the master and let them make a decision. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But only Ma Jinjun was there.

"Second Miss."

"Wait!"

Ma Jinjun saw him coming in a hurry, and saw that she was the only one in the study, so he was about to leave after only saluting, and stopped him.

"What's the matter with the butler?"

The housekeeper rubbed his hands and said, "The shopkeeper of the printing workshop outside has said something, and I think I have to tell the master, since I am not here, then I will retreat."

"Why do you have to find my father and brother, I'm not the master of the Ma family?"

Ma Jinjun was a little angry, her father and brother had already asked her to start learning to take care of the Ma family's business, otherwise how could she sit in the study? My brother is a scholar, and it is inconvenient to deal with businessmen, so she is left in the family as a woman, and her father is open-minded, and she spoils her baby daughter, and the business will be passed on to her in the future.

But these subordinate minions don't take her second lady seriously, and even the partners in the business don't regard her as the real master.

"That's not what I meant......"

The housekeeper didn't bother to explain that the girl's family, who was going to marry in the future, was somewhat despised, not because she looked down on the ability of the second lady.

On the contrary, after the Ma family got the printing right of "Poetry Newspaper", it was Ma Jinjun's idea to suppress other printing workshops in Lin'an.

The old man hesitated at first, after all, he was eager for quick success, not to mention that it was a taboo for businessmen to commit public anger, but the Ma family was like the Taishan Beidou of Lin'an, if he did it well, the profits would be huge, and it would not hurt to offend some people, so he finally decided to go with the second lady.

"Since the master has handed over the bookstore of the printing workshop to me to take care of, I have the final say on everything."

"Yes, yes, yes." The housekeeper bowed his head and said, "It's the previous Chengfang Printing Workshop, which was originally closed, and the books have been printed and sold again in the past two days." ”

Ma Jinjun chuckled and said, "Just for this?" The more he prints, the more he loses, and he won't be able to sell it anyway, so those bookstores do what we say, right? ”

"Yes."

The butler paused for a moment and then said, "But this time they printed a different book."

"Did they get the right to print which famous artist? Unless it is the work of everyone like Shulao and Shijun, they can bring them back to life, but in a small workshop in a sesame place like Lin'an, the book will not even look at it. ”

"You...... Let's see for yourself. ”

The housekeeper handed the book over, and Ma Jinjun took it and flipped through it casually.

"That's it? Novel? Ma Jinjun threw it on the table and said, "They still have time to carve the engraving of the novel, it's really a panic, aren't they doing a loss-making deal this time?" What bookstore would dare to sell it? ”

"There aren't a few bookstores that buy them, but they hire a group of schoolchildren to sell them on the streets, and it seems to be quite prosperous."

"Hawking along the street? Hahaha. Ma Jinjun said disdainfully, "What's the difference between that and the vegetable vendors at the entrance of the vegetable market, how many copies can be sold?" ”

The housekeeper wanted to say, but it was not yet morning, and those schoolchildren said that they were sold out one by one.

"The shopkeeper of the bookstore outside said that there were a lot of readers here, all of whom were asking about "A Chinese Ghost Story", and most of them came to the name of Mei Maocai."

Ma Jinjun noticed that the signature on the page was Mei Xueyan, she was very disgusted with this name, and she stole a lot of limelight from her brother, and later intended to marry Lin Fu, but was told that Lin Sanlang was going to marry her!

Of course, Ma Jinjun doesn't want to marry the Lin family, but she doesn't want to, not that outsiders rumored that people look down on her! Ma Jinjun was so angry when she heard these discussions that she smashed several teacups, she is the second lady of the Ma family, which onion is Mei Xueyan? Comparing them to each other is too depreciating.

What's more, at that Japanese meeting, she talked and laughed with Song Jiexi, which had already upset her.

"Hmph, the road to the bookstore has been cut off, and they have added a lot of costs to hiring schoolchildren, so don't they pay for their coffins?"

Ma Jinjun was nurtured by his father and brother, and he was not the kind of small jasper raised in the boudoir, but an idea.

The printing workshop and bookstore were the first business that her father gave her, and she was naturally very attentive, so she knew a lot about them.

Mei Xueyan's book couldn't sell a single one, so she was relieved.

"But...... I heard that the study was already on sale. ”

"Mingde Study?" Ma Jinjun said decisively, "Tell the printing workshop not to supply this bookstore anymore!" I think he can hold on, even if he comes to beg us, he won't see him! ”

The housekeeper sighed, the second lady is more than clever and ruthless, but her patience is insufficient, she may be able to achieve results in a short time, but after a long time, the disadvantages will be exposed.

"Yes."

The housekeeper can only take orders, in the end, he is just a handmaker, and he is not qualified to put his beak on the decision made by the master.

"Is there anything else you can do?"

The housekeeper thought for a while and said, "Several bookstore shopkeepers have come, saying that there are some readers who have bought inferior books and made trouble in their bookstores, and the cause is the Ma Family Printing Workshop, and they said let's give an explanation."

"Confess? What is there to explain, these people are dog skin plasters, I came to return them before, hum, Lin'an is now a printing workshop in the Ma family, return our goods, what do they sell? ”

Ma Jinjun was a little anxious for a while.

"These readers are really, left and right are books, can they still be heirlooms like gold and silver?"

The butler was furious and did not answer.

The heart said that literati read, of course, they read it over and over again, and if it is easy to rot, of course they feel that they have suffered a loss.

"But Second Miss, you can't just keep forcibly suppressing it like this, I said at that time that reducing costs is not a long-term solution."

Ma Jinjun suddenly thought of something and asked, "Then Chengfang Printing Workshop actually dares to print novels, won't they lose money?"

The housekeeper didn't know that he was not the shopkeeper of the printing workshop.

"That's it, anyway, Chengfang is still supporting the printing workshop in Lin'an, it's time to raise the price back, you ask the shopkeeper of the printing workshop to inform the bookstores, if you want high-quality books, you can, but the price is added fifteen Wen."

"Fifteen?" The butler was surprised, "Isn't that even higher than before?" ”

"That's right, the profits we made before must be recovered! What's more, the bookstore in Lin'an, the matter of the printing workshop is almost settled, and it is time to start with the bookstore. ”

"You're in a hurry, aren't you?"

The housekeeper couldn't help muttering, it was effective to squeeze down the printing workshop, but the Ma family did not gain a firm foothold, and wanted to annex the bookstore so quickly, if the master knew, he would never agree.

"Just do as I say."

Ma Jinjun wants to make meritorious contributions as soon as possible to prove that she is capable of taking over the Ma family's business. She had already tasted the sweetness of the printing house, and it was time for her ambition to grow.

"Also, don't tell your father and brother about this, everything is up to me!"

Ma Jinjun instructed and went out to attend the small gathering of Miss Lin'an's wife.