Chapter 191: Dog eats dog
As for these booksellers who came from afar, the local booksellers took good care of them and sold them directly at a price of 450 yuan.
Even if the quantity purchased is large, the price of 400 wen is not something that cannot be considered.
Those booksellers who came from afar all secretly regretted that they had brought less money.
It would be nice if I could bring more and buy all their books.
I heard that they don't have many books, only one or two thousand......
As everyone knows, they said dozens of times less about this amount!
In just a few days, Qinghe Cui's family secretly sold 20,000 or 30,000 books.
Almost half of the quantity was sold.
In fact, they bought it for 500 yuan, sold it for 500 yuan, and even sold it for 450 yuan or even 400 yuan when they were wholesale, and they already had to lose a lot of money.
But in this way, it is better than the price of fifty wen a book in Tianyi Bookstore, and I don't know how many times less.
Now I can sell a little bit is a little bit.
However, the people of the other major families were not stupid, and they soon learned the news and felt that something was wrong.
Aren't the books in the eldest grandson Wuji's Tianyi bookstore already bought by them?
So where are the books in Qinghe County, and who is selling them?
And now it is not limited to Qinghe County, but even the surrounding areas of Qinghe County have begun to be sold.
Don't? Is Qinghe Cui's family secretly selling?
Qinghe Cui's family, has it been bought by the emperor?
But can't you?
Their family and imperial power are inherently on opposite sides, and the Qinghe Cui family is not half beneficial to them if they take refuge in the imperial power?
So, these families came to the door to ask the Cui family, but the Cui family pushed 625 and didn't admit that they did it at all.
And this matter was soon transmitted by the major families to their respective bases in Chang'an City with carrier pigeons.
After all, this matter was initiated in Chang'an.
The major families let their people investigate, what the hell is going on?
Could it be that the eldest grandson Wuji did not follow the agreement and no longer sold the book to them, but secretly sold it?
Soon, the contacts of the major families in Chang'an City received the news.
Then, according to various signs, they began to suspect Cui Zhiji.
However, just as they were about to join forces to ask Cui Zhiji for their crimes, Cui Zhiji was one step ahead and took the initiative to invite the contacts of several other major families.
The contacts of these big families, after arriving at the Cui family, who still has the heart to eat?
directly prepared to ask Cui Zhiji for his guilt.
Unexpectedly, before they could speak, Cui Zhiji spoke first with a bitter face.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I just got bad news from the Lu Guo Mansion."
As soon as Cui Zhiji spoke, everyone was shocked.
Wang Qi couldn't help but ask in a deep voice: "Cui Xian's nephew, then tell me, what is the news?" ”
Cui Zhiji couldn't help but say sadly: "It turns out that the eldest grandson's family has improved papermaking, which directly reduced the cost of paper by ten times!" ”
"What? Ten times? ”
"This, how is this possible?"
"If it's ten times as much, then they sell it to us for 500 wen a copy, and there is indeed a lot of money! No wonder the eldest grandson's family was able to print so many books. ”
When everyone's voices fell slightly, Cui Zhiji said sadly again: "Not only that, but I also found out that the eldest grandson's family has also improved the printing technique. They directly made a mold of Chinese characters, and then directly pieced together Chinese characters for printing! In this way, these molds can be used repeatedly, and the cost of printing is directly reduced by ten times! ”
Rumble!
This news was like a thunderbolt, and the contacts of several major families present were directly stunned.
Now they finally reacted, it turned out that they had all fallen for the eldest grandson Wuji.
In this way, their printing costs have been reduced by a hundredfold!
It turned out that even if they sold it for fifty yuan a copy, they would make a profit.
And the eldest grandson Wuji actually raised the price to 500 wen a copy!
More than 300,000 copies were printed!
These people from the family did not doubt the accuracy of Cui Zhiji's words in the slightest.
Because of movable type printing, before that, no one thought of it.
And when Cui Zhiji said this method, these people from the family could immediately estimate that with this method, they would definitely be able to reduce the cost by ten times!
"The eldest grandson! The old man and you swear to be inseparable! ”
"Old man Eldest Sun, you have lost eight lifetimes of virtue to you!"
"The eldest grandson, the old tortoise, will definitely cut off his children and grandchildren!"
These people from this family couldn't help but be angry and scolded angrily by the eldest grandson Wuji's lack of morality.
And Wang Jue said heavily: "If this is the case, then our family's blockade of culture will be a complete failure!" Could it be that the emperor really wants to exterminate our family? Where are we really going to go? ”
The current Datang and the former Sui are completely two situations.
Even if their families join forces to disrupt Datang and make Datang completely in turmoil, they may not be able to overthrow Datang.
But these few families, I'm afraid they will all have the disaster of extermination.
As a last resort, they are not willing to take such a step.
At this time, Cui Zhiji said slowly: "Everyone, in my opinion, things may not be so bad. If you really use the imperial examination to win scholars, the impact on our family will not be too great. Do you think that with the heritage of our family for hundreds of years, can it still be weaker than those poor and sour? ”
"What's more, half of the officials in the court are from our family. And when they are recruited, they can naturally only admit people from our family, and when they are promoted, the same is true. In this way, our family can still control the government. ”
After listening to Cui Zhiji's words, all the people from the family here couldn't help but show thoughtful expressions on their faces.
Only Wang Qi of the Wang family couldn't help but be furious, pointing at Cui Zhiji and scolding: "Kid of the Cui family, presumably your Cui family has already gotten this news, right?" And then deliberately hide it from all of us, your Cui family secretly sold all the tens of thousands of books in your hands? Is this what your Cui family is doing? ”
The liaison of these major families is not a stupid person.
was said by Wang Jue, where could he not react?
They are all yin by this Cui family!
Lu Yong couldn't help but say with pity: "Okay, you Cui Zhiji, good Cui family, you guys are so beautiful!" ”
Zheng Hao said angrily: "I didn't expect that the dignified Qinghe Cui family would be able to do such a thing!" What a shame on you! Bah! ”
In the face of everyone's duties, Cui Zhiji held his heart in his hand, revealing an extremely sad and indignant expression, as if he could spurt out a mouthful of old blood in the next moment.
"I, Cui Zhiji, finally found out the news, so I will tell you all the news immediately! And what is the reason for your unwarranted insults to me? ”