Gujia Bookstore is located in the southeast of the county, although it is not as prosperous as the area around Dongxie Street, it is also one of the several commercial spots in Jiangcheng County. In particular, there are many bookstores and calligraphy and painting shops in this area, and the literary atmosphere is extremely prosperous, and the fragrance of books is on the face.

Li Ling walked while watching, but it was easy to find a bookstore with a small storefront, and went straight in, and someone stepped forward to greet him: "This son wants to buy books." But there is one thing that can be said in the head, if the son only buys a single book, my bookstore does not sell it, you can go to a few nearby bookstores to pick and buy. ”

The so-called bookstore is actually similar to the publishing house of later generations, and it is naturally impossible to buy and sell a single book like a bookstore, which is also the rule of this industry. Li Ling didn't think he was angry when he heard this, and replied with a smile: "I naturally came to the bookstore in the next place, of course, I plan to make a bigger deal with you. To tell you the truth, I also run a bookstore in this county, and there are many books missing in the store recently, especially the book "Jizi Jie Chunqiu", I wonder if you have any stock? ”

Hearing him say this, the shopkeeper smiled apologetically: "I see, that's easy to say." As he spoke, he looked Li Ling up and down again: "Dare to ask Gongzi's surname, which bookstore did he open?" Why haven't I seen you before? ”

"Oh, my name is Li Ling, and I am from the Li Family Bookstore on Dongxie Street, because it has only been reopened for a short time, and I have not yet entered the books, so I have never met you."

"The Li Family Bookstore? You're the ...... A bookstore owner who rents out books to county bachelors? The shopkeeper's face changed suddenly, and his face was full of curiosity. Seeing Li Ling nodding, he got up directly: "Childe, please wait a while, I'll come when I go." ”

This is a big surprise for Li Ling, what is this? Didn't he rent books from others and commit their taboos, this one ran to find someone to deal with himself? To be honest, Li Ling really didn't dare to guarantee that he hadn't made any mistakes, and he was really a little uneasy to stay in this somewhat empty hall.

After a while, the shopkeeper turned back again, and there were really people behind him, but not a group, but one. This one is older, dressed more decently, with a beard on his face, and looks quite imposing, it seems that his identity should be above the shopkeeper, isn't he the boss of this bookstore?

Just as Li Ling was guessing the identity of the visitor, the shopkeeper had already introduced him: "Li Gongzi, this is Gu Yuezi, the owner of my Gujia Bookstore." The owner, this is the owner of the Li Family Bookstore......"

"Li Ling has seen Boss Gu." Li Ling immediately clenched his fists and said, "I don't know why Boss Gu is interested in the next meeting?" Just because I rent books in the store? ”

"Li Gongzi is really a happy person, a fast person. It's not good for that contemptible person to go around in circles with you, yes, it is precisely because I heard that your Li family bookstore suddenly started a business of renting books, and it also attracted many children of the Han family to rent books in your store, that the contemptible people will be interested in you, and specially instructed Lao Zhao, if someone from your Li family bookstore comes to enter the book, you must report it to me, so that I can meet you. ”

Speaking of this, he looked Li Ling up and down again, and said with some surprise: "I can't see that Li Gongzi has such a talent for business, but he is only a young man who is not a weak crown, it is really disrespectful." By the way, did you know that because of your strategy, many bookstores in the neighborhood have lost their business by two or three percent. ”

Li Ling smiled a little embarrassedly: "There is such a thing? How can I feel that business is not as good as I imagined, and it can affect other bookstores. ”

"You don't know this, if you buy a book yourself, you may still treasure it, but if you borrow it differently, they will pass it on to others, or even share a few books with several people, and then copy them down. In this way, you may seem to only rent out one set, but the real impact on people is several times greater. In this way, the bookstores in the city will naturally be greatly affected. ”

Li Ling also felt some truth when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Could it be that because of this, it has also affected Boss Gu's business, so you want to sell the book with you?" ”

"Not really. Books are meant to be read by others, especially those sage books and mutual concerns, which are what every reader must read, so the contemptible people have been advocating to push down the price of books, but unfortunately no one has responded. But Li Gongzi, you came out with this hand, so those bookstores have to consider lowering the price a little. So if you really want to talk about it, I still admire you, so I want to meet you in person. ”

So that's the case, Li Ling finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this: "Boss Gu has an overreputation, and he is only forced to make a living, so he has to do this strategy." ”

"Well, I've also inquired about your bookstore, and it's exactly what you said. It's just that you still don't understand one thing, aren't you afraid that other bookstores will learn your method and then steal your business with more of your own books? ”

"No, they can't. Most of the books in my store are old books from decades ago, so I don't have to worry about borrowing them without fear of getting a little damaged. But other bookstores can't learn from me, all they have are new books, and if they really rent them out, I'm afraid that the gains outweigh the losses.

"In addition, those bookstores each have a certain identity, and they will definitely not be able to learn my low-level gameplay. So I feel sure that even if they really want to learn and do learn, they will only end up failing in the end, and it will not affect my Li Family Bookstore at all. ”

Looking at Li Ling's confident appearance, Gu Yuezi was stunned at first, and then laughed: "That's why I said that Li Gongzi is indeed a great talent in business, seeing that things are really far-reaching and thorough enough, and people admire them." I took over your deal, and I sold it to you at a discount of 20% of the market price, which can be regarded as my Gujia Bookstore's efforts for the poor children of this county. ”

Li Ling naturally didn't shirk it, and immediately thanked him with a smile: "So thank you Boss Gu for your help." By the way, the book I want to purchase today is the five volumes of "Ji Zi Xie Spring and Autumn......"

After listening to the series of titles and quantities of books reported by Li Ling, Gu Yuezi nodded with a smile, answered, and then asked the shopkeeper to calculate the specific price of all the books.

I was busy here, and I saw a young man dressed as a scholar come in again, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, but his face was a little pale, as if his body had been hollowed out by wine. He also sandwiched a stack of papers under his ribs, and after seeing Gu Yuezi, he stepped forward happily: "Boss Gu, this is a new novel written by Xiaosheng this time, and please ask Boss Gu to correct it." ”

"It turned out to be Mr. Dai, you have another masterpiece coming out, it's really gratifying." Gu Yuezi also hurriedly stepped forward to receive him, and took the stack of papers full of words from the other party with a smile, and Li Ling knew that the scholar was here to sell books and hand over manuscripts.

In this era of lagging information and inconvenient transportation, people's entertainment methods are naturally very primitive, listening to dramas and reading books is already one of the few entertainments, and there are many authors who write novels in every county. Like the old books and novels stored in Li Ling's store, many of them were written by the scholars in the county themselves, and then they never flowed out of the Hengzhou Mansion.

Seeing that Gu Yuezi had serious things to do, and he had already settled the accounts here, Li Ling didn't bother much, and only agreed with the shopkeeper that they would deliver the dozens of books to his store the next day, and then pay off the money and want to leave. But when he walked to the door, he heard Gu Yuezi's tone a little embarrassed: "Mr. Dai, your jade hairpin looks not much different from the previous books......

Mr. Dai's face changed slightly, but he still defended: "Of course, this story is different. You see, Wang Sheng and Miss Chai met in a temple fair, and then there were many twists and turns between them, and they experienced all kinds of twists and turns when the Chai family was wronged by the imperial court......"

"I'm not talking about these details, but the core of the whole story, to put it bluntly, the lingering love between talented and beautiful people, it's really not much different from the three or four books you've written in the past few years."

"This ......" Mr. Dai's expression was gloomy again, and it was really difficult to justify, because even he himself knew that the five or six books he had written were all the same kernel, and it could be said that he had changed the soup but not the medicine.

Seeing this, Gu Yuezi said again: "In addition, you also know that recently, all parts of our Hengzhou Mansion have been tired of such stories of talented and beautiful women, but the stories such as asking for immortals and asking questions are quite popular. If Mr. Dai can write such a story, of course, the price is easy to say. ”

"Why don't I go back and try?" Mr. Dai was also a little moved, but he didn't want his hard work to stop, so he looked at Gu Yuezi again: "Then my book?" ”

"In this way, the price of this book will be pressed, one volume is only fifteen taels, and three volumes are forty-five taels, I will make up for you the fraction, even if you are fifty taels?"

"But I could buy a set of eighty taels of ...... for my previous books."

"As long as you can write a novel that asks for immortals, you can use the original price, and if it can be better, the price can be increased. How is it? ”

"That'...... Then it depends on the ancient boss. Mr. Dai also knew that the other party was the one who took the initiative, so he could only agree, otherwise he really couldn't find a better place to publish this book.

Li Ling on the side was a little dazed, he really didn't expect that writing books in this era would be so profitable. Don't look at the other party who brought a thick stack of papers, but after all, it was written with a brush, even if it was a small letter, three volumes of books would be 200,000 words, which could be sold for fifty taels of silver?

In comparison, if you are busy for ten days, your net profit is less than three taels of silver, so the gap is too big, right? At the same time, Li Ling was also moved, since he could make money by writing books, he could naturally give it a try. After all, as a time-traveler, in addition to his huge advantages in accounting and mathematics, he also has knowledge and story reserves far beyond those of the ancients. Especially when he read a lot of novels, martial arts, science fiction, romance, horror, what do you really want......