A long drought is a rainy day.

Readers in Chang'an City have been looking forward to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" for a long time, and finally heard good news.

"Sanwei Book House will start selling the Three Kingdoms tomorrow, let's get up early tomorrow and go buy it, right?"

"Really? I knew I wouldn't copy it by hand, I was almost halfway through it, and my hands were sore. ”

"Write it yourself, and you can buy a book with the money you need to buy paper."

"Yes, that Sanwei Bookstore sells the first part of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", where can I sell the second part."

"Tomorrow I will go to the Three Flavors Book Store and ask, they are the first to sell this book, right? It should be known who the author is and when the second part will come out. ”

"That's right, it seems that you still have to go to Sanwei Bookstore to buy books in the future, and other houses don't have all of them."

……

"Lord Wang, it's not good! Lord, it's not good! ”

Dai Quan ran to Li Kuan in a panic.

"Dai Quan, is something happening in the paper workshop?"

"No, everything is fine in the paper workshop."

"That's something wrong with the printing shop?"

Seeing a lot of things, Li Kuan has slowly developed the ability of Mount Tai to press the top without changing his face and heartbeat.

"The printing workshop is fine, and the second "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is being printed in an orderly manner."

"What's going on?"

Dai Quan's recent responsibilities are basically related to the papermaking workshop and the printing workshop, these two places are fine, Li Kuan can't think of anything "bad".

"Lord Wang, what about the Three Flavors Book House selling our "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and it will start selling tomorrow, isn't this bullying? We haven't even started selling it ourselves. ”

As soon as Dai Quan heard that Sanwei Book House would start selling the Three Kingdoms tomorrow, he was immediately anxious.

In his opinion, the prince has already opened a bookstore, so the Three Kingdoms must give priority to selling it to their own bookstores, and now that the Sanwei Bookstore has jumped out, isn't that picking peaches?

"I know that Xinhua Bookstore will also start selling the Three Kingdoms tomorrow."

Li Kuan didn't know how much Sanwei Bookstore was going to sell "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so he simply waited until they started selling it before setting the price.

Since "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is to impact the sales champion of the Tang Dynasty, so that other bookstores can also sell it, Li Kuan is not a loss.

As for taking this opportunity to lower the price of paper and books, that is another purpose.

"Lord Wang, the first part of the Three Kingdoms has already printed 10,000 copies, why don't we just sell it before the Three Flavors Book House?"

Dai Quan was unwilling to snatch the split of Xinhua Bookstore from Sanwei Bookstore, hoping to redeem it.

"No, don't worry, let them taste the sweetness, we'll start selling it tomorrow afternoon."

……

As the largest cargo distribution center in Datang and even in the world, Xishi has always been full of people coming and going, and it is very lively.

However, in the past, relatively few scholars would appear in the West Market, and most of the people on the road were peddlers, pawns, and merchants from all over the world.

Today, however, the situation seems a little different.

Early in the morning, a group of students from the Guozijian came to the West Market in pairs of threes and threes.

Students from other academies in Chang'an City also appeared on the streets of Xishi.

These people have a clear purpose, and when they arrive in the West Market, they go straight to the Sanwei Library.

"Shopkeeper, there are already more than 100 people queuing up outside, and the line is still growing, it seems that nine times out of ten they are going to our "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Ah San looked at the crowd outside the shop excitedly, and felt that he had finally persuaded the shopkeeper to make an extremely correct decision.

"These three kingdoms are becoming more and more popular in Chang'an City, and I don't know who helped to promote it in front, hehe, this victory fruit, we are disrespectful."

Shopkeeper Zheng saw the flow of people outside, and his worried heart finally let go.

In order to print this book, it cost more than 2,000 yuan for engraving alone, plus the paper invested and the 1,000 books pre-printed, and the money spent went directly to 5,000 yuan.

That's not a small amount of money!

"Originally, I was worried that it would be too expensive for ten yuan to be sold for a copy, and no one would buy it, but now I think I don't have to worry about it."

"The first batch of 1,000 copies, I don't think Chang'an City is enough to sell, or I should immediately notify the printing workshop to print another 3,000...... No, five thousand copies? ”

Ah San felt that such a moment of making money could not be wasted in a quarter of an hour.

"Five thousand? Hmph, if you want to do it, you can do it, print 10,000 copies directly, and then prepare to send it to Luoyang, Taiyuan and other places for sale, I want to make Sanwei Bookstore completely become the largest bookstore in Datang. ”

……

Upstairs of Xinhua Bookstore.

"Lord Wang, according to incomplete statistics from his subordinates, more than 300 copies of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" were sold in Sanwei Bookstore this morning, and the sales are very scary, should we start selling them too?"

Wang Xuanwu is now Li Kuan's personal guard and intelligence chief, and is responsible for Li Kuan's security together with Xi Junmai.

As for those guards, they were basically thrown into the courtyard for special training, and became Xue Li's test subjects.

"Don't worry, there will be more people who come to buy in the afternoon, and then we will start selling when we are about to close the stall."

"Isn't that all the business done by the Three Flavors Library? Lord Wang, although this book is good, if it costs ten times a copy, many people like it, but they can't afford it. If thousands of people go to Sanwei Book House to buy it, there may not be many people who will buy it again in a short time, unless we directly take out the second part and sell it. ”

Those who engage in intelligence must be able to analyze information, which is something that Li Kuan has always reminded Wang Xuanwu.

"Ten times a book, naturally not many people can afford it, but what if it is a consistent money?"

Li Kuan looked at the lively scene on the other side and was not in a hurry at all.

The more it sells now, the more trouble it will be for Sanwei Bookstore at that time!

"Lord Wang, the price of the Three Flavors Book House has been raised. A copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" actually sold for twelve dollars, it's just a money grab, let's start selling it too, right? ”

Before Wang Xuanwu was shocked by Li Kuan's words, Wang Fugui hurriedly went upstairs.

Liangzhou has Ma Zhou watching, everything is on track, and there is no need for Wang Fugui to stay there.

So Li Kuan summoned him back to his side, many times, he was used to solving problems by commercial means, and it was really inconvenient to not have a caring subordinate around him.

"Raised the price? You speculated that the printing cost of Sanwei Shoya was about 4 to 5 yuan, right? Ten yuan is already more than double the profit? ”

Li Kuan really didn't expect Sanwei Book House to be so greedy.

"Lord Wang, that's true." Wang Fugui said solemnly: "Speaking of which, the shopkeeper Zheng of this Sanwei Book House is still well-known in the business district of Chang'an City, and he is very talented in business. ”

"Oh? You think highly of him. ”

"His level is worthy of this evaluation, just this "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", from ten times to twelve times, it actually sells better!"

"Huh? And this kind of thing? ”