When the meal was finished, there was the sound of cars and horses outside the door, and a man in a green coat and a small hat carefully walked into the yard and met his mother first, "My owner invites the four owners to go to the shop and let me catch the car." ”

Mao Yulong rinsed his mouth and vaguely agreed. Although these cars and horses belong to other people, it does not prevent them from entering and exiting in and out, and when they enter and exit by car, there are envious eyes among the neighbors, as well as the jealous eyes of the clansmen.

When Mao Yulong climbed into the car, San'er came out with a whistle stick, ready to protect Mao Yulong. Mao Yulong stopped him with a smile, "There are a lot of things in your father's barracks, you should give your father a hand, and you will become an official in the future." Besides, this is bright and clear in broad daylight, the world is too peaceful, and there is no need for protection at all, and you follow me, which not only attracts people's attention, but also makes me feel uncomfortable. ”

It has been many days since he protected this little brother, and San'er was very aggrieved, but he could only watch Mao Yulong's carriage and horses go away, and finally put the whistle stick on the edge of the yard in frustration, and then went to the barracks to help his father tidy up.

After the last mutiny, Hangzhou no longer dared to deduct the soldiers' money and food, although it could not be distributed in full, but there was also a share of money and food.

Father Zhao directly became a garrison, although he didn't drink the blood of the soldiers, but the money and food could still support his family. made up the identity of a general flag for his son, which can be regarded as filling the family.

Father Zhao's days are booming, and Mao Yulong's days are also thriving, right here, the second brother is reporting to Mao Yulong.

"First of all, according to the lead alloy method proposed by my brother, I went through three days and nights of non-stop comparison, and finally found the best formula, and then I quietly refined a lot, and now we use the lead font can be used 10,000 times and is no longer deformed, which saves us a lot of labor costs for printing things, brother, you are indispensable."

Drinking tea and looking at the manuscripts of the next batch of newspapers, Mao Yulong smiled indifferently.

Sometimes it's a very mysterious thing, but it's just across a window paper, the lead word prolongs the service life, the most fundamental thing is to know the ingredients, since you know that the lead is added to a certain proportion of antimony and dilution, but it's just a matter of proportion, and doing it a few times will naturally be close to the most correct configuration, which is not unusual. I want to keep the most fundamental secret of lead movable type printing, as long as I keep the remaining two ingredients. Just like gunpowder, the three most fundamental gunpowder of the Ming Dynasty have long been known to everyone, but why did it not achieve the effect of black powder later, the first is the problem of purification, and the second is the people of this era, before there is no most appropriate formula ratio, in order to improve the power of explosives, but to add gibberish things to it, such as croton arsenic, but to reduce the power of black powder, of course, this idea is a bit far.

"We printed only 5,000 copies of the first newspaper, and then we hired a group of newsboys to sell it on the streets, but it was sold out in just three hours. A day later, we boldly printed 10,000 copies of the second batch of newspapers, and in three hours, our newsboys sold them out. In today's third batch, we printed 20,000 copies, but it was still three hours before the newsboys came back to report the victory. Of course, the newsboy also doubled and ran farther. It seems that we need to continue to increase the number of copies printed. ”

Mao Yulong closed the messy manuscript in front of him, instructed the man to send it to the house of the eunuch on duty opposite, and then told him, "Go to the street and buy some fine fruits to send over, but you can't wait for this father-in-law." Then he turned to the excited brother and said, "Now our number of issuances has skyrocketed, there are two reasons here, the first is that we have changed the way, one move ahead of many peers, for us to earn a huge space, and the other is that this Jiangnan humanities gather, literate people, coupled with Xu Jie's brother's method, opened the market for us to open up the businessman's market, so that we have today's sales scale and income, but the market is always saturated, too much, there will be a backlog of waste, this has to be checked." ”

Wang Zuoren nodded in agreement with this opinion, "Fourth brother, you are right, but in the past few days, I have also sent people to the street to investigate, and there is still room for development in the market." The entire city of Hangzhou and its surroundings, as well as the foreign floating population, can accommodate up to 50,000 copies, this is a very huge market, 50,000 copies per day, you can recover 500,000 money, deduct ink paper and publisher labor, at least 300,000 yuan of profit, converted into silver, according to the market copper money 1200 Wen exchange for a tael, you can get 250 taels of silver income, this is pure profit, this is indeed a day into the gold.

250 taels of silver a day, his own income is 25 taels, and his family's life can indeed be rich and stable.

"The account is this algorithm, but my brother has thought about it, if every day, each copy is 10 yuan, a normal person who reads the newspaper will consume 300 yuan a month, and this kind of cost is not small."

Wang Zuoren laughed, "Of course, this must be taken into account, so I am going to find your two brothers to come over and discuss it in a while, and reduce the price of our newspaper, which is not only more conducive to competition, but also bearable to everyone." Although the price has come down and the profit per serving has decreased, over time, our profit has not decreased, but has increased. ”

For business, Mao Yulong actually has no say in front of the three people, and what he mentioned is just common sense. Now that the brothers already know this drawback, and have a solution, there is no need to point fingers at themselves, in fact, the income of 25 taels and ten taels a day is not much different from Mao Yulong, who is in the current situation.

Then look at the sky, "Today's vegetable market is on a red business, I want to go and see, business matters, just the three brothers are hard, there is no need to report to me." ”

Wang Zuoren understood, "Today's red difference is your original enemy, so it will also relieve you of your worries, just take a look." ”

Mao Yulong smiled indifferently and didn't comment, when he kicked in and out of the door, he asked seemingly unintentionally, "Mine is quite attractive." ”

Wang Zuoren hurriedly said, "Because of the depth of your story, you already have a group of book fans, which is very popular with a group of young ladies. ”

"Someone has come to inquire about me"

Wang Zuoren said, "There are not a few people who inquire about your news, but they are all scholars and literati, I hope to meet with you and ask for the tricks here, and I also want to use this method in the future to publish some serials in our newspapers and earn a little pen fee." ”。

Mao Yulong was a little disappointed, what is the point of being with a group of stinky old men, it seems that his purpose has not been achieved. His expression couldn't help but fall silent, sighed in his heart, and shook his head gently.

Fate, the reason why it is called fate, it really needs a kind of encounter destined by God, God left himself here, it is to let himself do great things, this kind of trivial thing is not in God's plan at all, it can only be taken step by step.