Shen Yuan didn't stay overnight after dinner, and insisted on going back to the school, but Zhou couldn't keep it, so he had to ask Xiu'er, who went to the new pharmacy to keep vigil, to send Shen Yuan, for fear that he would get lost on the road.

When the others left, Zhou sighed: "Liulang, this kid studies hard, and he will definitely have a future in the future." ”

Hui Niang asked with a smile: "Then if only one of the Shen family's nephews can get ahead in the future, who do you hope to be?" ”

"Needless to say? It must be the stinky boy of the family...... But you can't be too selfish, you want to keep the benefits to yourself! In fact, in the Shen family, we were closer to Liulang's father, but in the first year, they wanted Liulang to live in the house, but I didn't agree, which offended them. ”

Hui Niang shook her head slightly and did not comment.

These are all family affairs of the Shen family, and she is not good at interjecting. After the accounts were settled, Hui Niang took the account books over, and at the same time called the literate Shen Xi and Xiaoyu over:

"Sister, the accounts for August have been calculated, the printing workshop has less than the big orders of the Su shopkeeper, and the profit is not as good as in the previous months, only more than fifty taels of silver, and the pharmacies on both sides add up to more than thirty taels, which adds up to less than one hundred taels. Sister asked Xiaolang to do a good calculation? ”

Zhou hurriedly shook his hands: "Where is the use, I still can't trust the stinky boy." But our income has suddenly become so small, and it is really time to think of a way. ”

The two women were silent, mainly for the future of the printing workshop, after all, the income of the pharmacy was basically stable, at the beginning of the year, when the business was good, the two pharmacy together could receive sixty or seventy taels of silver per month, and the income of the following month fluctuated between twenty taels and more than thirty taels of silver.

"Mother, Aunt Sun, do you want to ask me first? It seems that I have more say in the printing workshop......" Shen Xi looked at the two women who were looking at each other in a daze, and couldn't help but interject.

Hui Niang was stunned at first, then reacted and looked at Shen Xi, and smiled dumbly: "Sin, sin, I forgot our little shopkeeper...... Sister, let's not think about it too much, I can't figure it out, why don't we ask Xiaolang directly? ”

Zhou scolded: "It's this stinky boy who offended Shopkeeper Su, otherwise we would only make so much money after receiving Shopkeeper Su's order?" ”

Shen Xi stuck out his tongue and protested: "Mother is really good at relying on people, the price set by Shopkeeper Su for our comic book is twenty-five yuan, and each book only earns more than ten yuan, and those who work hard every month only earn dozens of taels of silver...... What's more, with this time, it will not necessarily be lowered to 20 or 15 yuan in the future, and it will be very hard to make money, so why bother? ”

"Now the work is easy, the printing masters and workers in the workshop have stabilized, and there are still dozens of taels of income every month, isn't it good? The key is that we have not been suppressed by the momentum of the shopkeeper Su, and we will not fall behind in doing business in the future, which is clearly a profit, not a loss. ”

"Go and go, if you have more money, you will earn, and if you have less money, you will lose, where do you have so many crooked truths? Believe it or not, I hit you? ”

Zhou raised his hand to make a gesture of wanting to hit someone, and Shen Xi was about to dodge it, when he suddenly remembered that he couldn't remember how long it had been since he had been really beaten by Zhou.

In the past, Zhou raised his hand, either to really fight, or to chase him out for a long distance until he escaped, but now Zhou raised his hand to scare at most, even if he was in front of him, it would not really fall on him.

Hui Niang smiled and persuaded: "Sister, don't be angry, Xiaolang is the hero of the printing workshop, and what he does can't be done by you and me...... Let's listen to Xiaolang's plan. ”

"I don't have any plans, so I will continue to print books and comic books, and wait for me to get the color New Year pictures done well, and see if I can find a good agent." Shen Xi said with a grin.

Hui Niang nodded: "With the current operation of the workshop, it is good, let's maintain and renovate those tools again, and then give some bonuses to the guys below, so that they will be more motivated." ”

Shen Xi had to admit that Hui Niang was very good at winning people's hearts, whether it was the Zhou family, or the maids she bought, as well as the masters and men in the printing workshop, Hui Niang was willing to spend money, because she knew that as a woman, she was still a widow with a bad reputation, and she had to rely on interests to win people over.

Hui Niang has never invested too much in dressing up and home furnishings, and now she is in and out of Jingchai cloth clothes, and she is reluctant to buy even a box of rouge.

Shen Xi shook his head and also fell into deep thought.

In fact, he has almost studied the technology of printing color New Year pictures, but in order to keep it secret, he must hide the core technology so as not to be stolen.

With his current small body, in order to achieve the need for technical secrecy, it is obviously not possible to print in person, and the best way to ensure that the technology is not leaked is to make a fuss about the printing process.

In these years, craftsmen generally have a shortcoming, that is, they sweep the snow in front of the door, carpenters do not know how to print, only do carpentry, and printing craftsmen only know how to typeset and print, and do not know how to make printing tools. Shen Xi wants to print color New Year paintings, and the most important thing is to separate several core technologies.

His idea was not complicated, which was to open another workshop and operate separately from the original printing workshop. The printing workshop is responsible for printing the semi-finished products of the color New Year's paintings, and then the semi-finished products are taken to the new workshop for secondary processing, not only the technology on both sides is kept secret from each other, but the people in the new workshop should have nothing to do with the masters and workers of the old workshop.

However, if both workshops are located in Ninghua County, it will be difficult to sever the connection between the two sides.

Shen Xi believes that it is best to come to a different place for processing, divided into two workshops in the early stage, and even set up a workshop for each process in the later stage, which is only responsible for one item between each other and does not interfere with each other.

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In the blink of an eye, at the beginning of September, the autumn came, and the Shen family was still incompatible.

The eldest Shen Mingwen and his wife and children regard the inn as their home, so naturally they will not go back to the countryside to help, and the eldest Shen Mingjun and Zhou's are also busy with things, and they can't get out, even Shen Mingyou and the old lady don't go back, and all the fields in Peach Blossom Village are handed over to the people in the third and fourth rooms.

Since the old lady took Shen Mingyou to the courtyard in the back alley of the pharmacy last time and discussed letting Zhou go to the tea shop as a shopkeeper and was refused, she has never set foot on the threshold of the house, and the old lady is obviously angry with Zhou's daughter-in-law.

Later, when the booming news of Hui Niang's printing workshop reached the ears of the old lady, she naturally would not have thought that this printing workshop was nominally Hui Niang's, but in fact, the major shareholder behind the scenes was Zhou's.

The business of the tea shop is still light, and it is barely maintained after laying off the guys and reducing the wages of Han Wuye and others.

During this time, the pharmacy and the printing workshop were also quiet, there were no waves, and a lot of money was made, but there was no longer the huge profit that was when the comic books were first printed.

At this moment, a letter from Fucheng broke the silence.

The letter was sent directly to the pharmacy to Zhou, who was illiterate, so he had to wait for Shen Xi to come back from school in the afternoon and give it to him.

After Shen Xi read the letter, he felt that the significance of this letter was extraordinary.

In fact, this is a "letter for help".

The letter came from Shen Xi's aunt and the mother of his playmate Yang Wenzhao.

This is the second time that the Yang family has written to the Zhou family in the name of Yang Shen, the first time is to find a chance to get close, after all, they are in the same pharmacy business, and they also take care of each other after getting acquainted.

It's good to think about it, but the two sides themselves have no business dealings, and the shopkeeper of the pharmacy here, Hui Niang, is a woman and can't go around, so this matter will be shelved.

In this letter, Shen Xi's aunt told him that the Yang family pharmacy was not operating well and was facing closure. The Yang family owed a lot of foreign debts, and even the basic medicinal materials could not be supplied, and when there was no way out, they thought that the Shen family still had someone who was the shopkeeper of the pharmacy in Ninghua County, so they wrote a letter asking for help.

In the letter, Yang Shen did not say too many details about the pharmacy, but just wanted Zhou to go to Fucheng in person to discuss, and Shen Xi could feel between the lines that the Yang family's pharmacy was already very critical and had to get foreign funds to solve the problem.

The reason why the Yang family did not come to Ninghua County in person was because they were worried that the Zhou family did not have much share in the pharmacy and had no right to speak, and they did not know whether Hui Niang, the owner of the pharmacy, was interested in cooperating with them.

What Shen Xi saw in the letter was not the helplessness of the Yang family, but the direction of future expansion.

Nowadays, whether it is a pharmacy or a printing workshop, the operation has fallen into a bottleneck. In the land of Ninghua projectile, the market has become saturated, if you continue to develop in Ninghua County, even if you continue to make profits, it will be a small profit, and if you lack a powerful businessman like Su Shaqi, you will be constrained by the market because the market is too small.

But if the business is done in Tingzhou, it will be different.

Although compared with Fuzhou and Quanzhou, Tingzhou is not very large, but the market size is several times larger than that of Ninghua. Tingzhou Fucheng is located on the main official road to Ganzhou, Jiangxi, and there are obviously many more merchants from the south to the north than Ninghua, and it is easier to find partners to do business there.

Shen Xi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly asked Hong'er to invite Hui Niang back.

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