Chapter 70: Exploitation
In the Chengfang Printing Workshop, Cui Xiancheng and Mei Xueyan were drinking tea and chatting, only Steward Zhao was pacing around, walking a few steps before running outside to take a look. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Okay, Steward Zhao, sit down and rest for a while, I'm tired from looking at it." Xue Fang joked to him, "It's like having a child with your wife." ”
Cui Xiancheng and Mei Xueyan laughed happily, and Mr. Bookkeeper shook his head with a smile when he heard it.
"My wife hasn't been so nervous about giving birth." Steward Zhao muttered, "Why hasn't the guy who inquired about the news come back yet?" Mei Maocai, is your method of hiring schoolchildren to 'spread and inform' useful? ”
"It's a matter of people."
Mei Xueyan was also a little worried, it was difficult to move an inch without money, she was not at home, she didn't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt were expensive, and now she had to hurry up and earn some silver so that she could get rid of Lin Sanlang.
As soon as the words fell, the guys outside rushed in, but they were not the ones sent back.
"Owner! Charge! Outside...... A few bookshop keepers came. ”
Steward Zhao glanced back at the three people who were calm and relaxed, and his heart was happy.
"It's coming, it's coming, what are you doing in a panic?"
Steward Zhao pretended to be calm and said, but he couldn't hold back his teeth.
"Boss, then I'll go?"
Cui Xiancheng shook his head and said, "No, please let them in."
There are a total of five shopkeepers, all of whom Cui Xiancheng has visited before, feng shui takes turns, the day before yesterday he went door-to-door to beg, but now it is upside down.
"Brother Cui!"
"Brother Cui!"
The shopkeepers came in, shouting more affectionately than the other, Cui Xiancheng hugged his fists and saluted, but the last one was the shopkeeper Guo of the Zhuangyuan study, no matter how thick-skinned he was, he was still a little embarrassed, who was not the shopkeeper present?
He couldn't put it down, but Mrs. Guo pointed at his nose and said, she had already said that she wanted to enter this batch of books, but the shopkeeper Guo insisted on refusing, and as a result, Mingde Study made a lot of money, and he could only watch.
"Several of them are old friends, why are you so polite? You may be seated, please be seated. ”
Cui Xiancheng felt that his waist was straight, and he spoke louder, the bookstore was the next home of the printing workshop, and he Cui Xiancheng maintained the business relationship in a low voice, inviting this to dinner and inviting that to drink, and he was also honest with each other in business, so as to maintain a good connection.
He thought that with so many years of friendship, these old people would pull him a little bit, but he never thought that they were all falling into the well for him and stammering with the Ma family, Cui Xiancheng only now knows what the world is hot and cold.
Several shopkeepers talked nonsense with Cui Xiancheng, but they didn't say a word about buying books, and Guo's shopkeeper knew that they still wanted to press the printing workshop, so they simply didn't speak.
"These people really don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles, and they all want to squeeze the printing workshop and share more oil and water when they get to this point."
Mei Xueyan sat in the back room and muttered quietly, she had never done business in her previous life or this life, and she talked a lot with Cui Xiancheng and his wife, and felt that there were many mysteries, so she listened and learned from the scriptures.
"Yan Niang also saw it?"
Xue Fang looked at her appreciatively, Mei Xueyan was a layman a few days ago, but she had a very high level of understanding, and if she had only spoken once, she could understand and apply what she had learned, and she often came up with some wonderful ideas.
Originally, Xue Fang thought that everyone who read books looked down on businessmen and copper, but Mei Xueyan did not have these arrogances, but was very interested, and Xue Fang was also willing to teach her.
"When we do business, we will inevitably have to worry about it." Xue Fang explained, "But I think that insatiable greed can only be regarded as a little cleverness, and a long stream of water is the right way, and you can't lose a big one because of a small one." ”
Mei Xueyan agreed: "Yes, you can't become a fat person by eating in one bite, you think about squeezing others all day long, how can there be such a good thing."
"Look, Lao Cui was not a person with a small belly, but he has been angry with them a lot in the past few days, and he still wants to come and pinch us, Lao Cui will definitely not give them good fruits to eat."
In the end, those shopkeepers couldn't sit still, they spent an extra hour, and Mingde Study would get an extra piece of the pie, and if they didn't make money, they lost money!
Shopkeeper Guo couldn't help but speak: "Brother Cui, I like the book you sent that day, and then I thought about it for a while, you are in a difficult situation now, and my brother can't bear to help you."
"Yes, yes, it's a big deal that everyone loses some money, for the sake of our friendship."
The shopkeepers responded one after another, and they were all righteous and awe-inspiring.
"Oh, thank you Shopkeeper Guo." Cui Xiancheng said calmly, "Everyone came here to 'help' me, right?" ”
The shopkeepers' faces did not change, so they rushed to this kindness, Cui Xiancheng dared not give them the lowest price?
"Everyone is a peer, and it is right to help each other." Shopkeeper Guo stroked his beard and said.
Cui Xiancheng said with a smile: "I received everyone's wishes, but unfortunately, I don't plan to sell these books."
"What? Not for sale? Shopkeeper Guo was shocked, "Why?" If there is any difficulty, let's solve it together. ”
"Alas......" Cui Xiancheng sighed, "I made a mistake in my own decision, printing a batch of novels that can't be sold, since it's a loss, I can't put you on it, I pity the shopkeeper of Mingde Study, I took five hundred copies, presumably I didn't sell a single one of them this day......"
I only heard Tong Xinyan's loud voice outside, and he shouted when he entered the door.
"Shopkeeper Cui! Hurry up, send me another thousand copies, they're already sold out! ”
Everyone gasped, Mingde study did not get off the board until noon, it was only four or five hours, and five hundred copies were sold out!
Shopkeeper Guo's eyes are red, this is all money that originally belonged to them!
Tong Xinyan only saw everyone when he came into the house, and instantly knew what was going on, these people didn't have any vision, and the gossip spread quite quickly. Tong Xinyan looked at them face to face, and they felt empty in their hearts.
"It's easy to say, Steward Zhao, you go and send another thousand copies to Shopkeeper Tong."
Cui Xiancheng only felt refreshed, and let out a vicious breath.
"Oops! Brother Cui, you just said that you won't sell it, why did you give it to him again? What about us? ”
Shopkeeper Guo shouted loudly, he couldn't delay it any longer.
"I have signed a contract with Shopkeeper Tong." Cui Xiancheng said as a matter of course, "I also went to you the day before yesterday to discuss, but you all refused. ”
Shopkeeper Guo made a monkey ass face, squeezed a smile and said: "Don't you change your mind, Shopkeeper Cui, you only think about Tong Xinyan for any good thing, we are not your old customers?"
Cui Xiancheng couldn't help but scold, he was really shameless and skinless, he had already been sent to the door before, but they all refused to leave.
"Remember, I said that if you change your mind and come to the door again, the price you will give will not be twenty yuan."
Mei Xueyan listened to them grinding their mouths inside, but she was forced to be ground to forty by Cui Xiancheng, and the shopkeepers could only pinch their noses and admit it in the end.
Despite the heavy bleeding, it is still profitable, and it does not suffer.
"Sister Fang, the printing workshop has been secured, I'll go back to the Lin Mansion first, and there is one more thing for Sister Fang to pay attention to."
"You say."
"Please find me a house, not too big, not too small, it's better to bring a courtyard where you can grow flowers and grass."
Xue Fang was a little strange, but he also agreed.