Chapter 107: New Year's Paintings
Hui Niang did things neatly, and within three days, she completed the expansion of the printing workshop again, and invited more than a dozen carpenters to come back to help just engrave the printing plate.
As for the printing shop, it was open day and night, and according to the calculation of 80,000 copies in a month, the task of 26,700 copies had to be completed every day.
As for the specific work, it is the use of assembly line operations, ink mixing, stereotyping, paper pressing, inking, printing, cutting, proofreading, booking, placement, warehousing have special personnel in charge, each person is only responsible for the same, in order to maximize efficiency.
In the first two days, the three-shift rotation and assembly line operation showed great power, and the production capacity jumped from the previous 1,500 to 2,500 in one fell swoop. Three days later, as the scale of the workshop expanded again, the new guys also became proficient in their respective procedures, and the daily printing volume successfully rushed to 3,000 copies.
In order to rush the work, not only is the printing workshop in full swing and busy, but there is also a shortage of manpower in the pharmacy, after all, Hui Niang is often not in the new pharmacy, and more often goes to the printing workshop to supervise.
Soon the first delivery date arrived, and the number of 10,000 copies in the first phase was up to the standard, and after those merchants got the goods, they immediately transported them out of Ninghua by water and land, basically heading north.
Shen Xi's busyness only lasted less than half a month, and after painting the original painting, he helped to engrave the plate, and when he was done, he left it alone. After all, he is small, and nothing else can help, so he just has a good rest. And Hui Niang and the masters and men of the printing workshop continued to be busy. Tree such as the web address: Нёǐуапge.сОМ Guan Guan Mouth Heart Chapter
With the silver in hand, everyone worked energetically, and finally on July 28, the last batch of 10,000 albums was successfully delivered.
After Su Shaqi and the others inspected the goods, they transported all the books away, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Everyone's worked hard."
Although Hui Niang was very tired, she felt that it was worth it, and she earned two or three thousand taels of silver in less than a month, and there was no business more profitable than this, "Everyone, I will distribute the salary later, and everyone will have additional bonuses to encourage." The big guys have a good rest for two days, and other things will be talked about when they come back from vacation. ”
At this time, Su Shaqi, who had just sent the goods out of the door, folded back and said with a smile: "Mrs. Sun, I just came here with two friends from Guanzhong, and they also want to order a batch, I don't know ......."
Hui Niang just said that she would give the master and workers a holiday, and before the words came out, there was a new business coming to the door, and Hui Niang felt that this happiness came one after another, and she was a little overwhelmed.
"This ...... I'm afraid I have to ask these masters and guys if they are willing. Hui Niang had a look of embarrassment on her face.
Master Lu and the others immediately stood up: "What the shopkeeper said, as long as there is money to be made, we can't wait to be busy every day." ”
Hui Niang nodded: "In that case, then you only need to keep printing books during the day, and two thousand copies a day is about the same...... I wonder if Shopkeeper Su thinks it's less? ”
"A lot, a lot, originally these two merchants in Guanzhong did not order a lot, each volume was ordered 2,000 copies, and if there were six volumes, a total of 12,000 copies. But the Guanzhong area must be handed over to them for exclusive management, otherwise, they may not come to buy goods in the future. ”
Hui Niang smiled slightly. She admired Shen Xi's idea of "agents" more and more, so that these merchants would be in charge of a region and would not compete with each other, so that the comic strips would be a unique business, and the profits would be maintained at a high level.
Merchants seek profits, and when they see that they have money to make, more merchants from all over the world will come to negotiate business.
When Shen Xi came back from school that afternoon, Hui Niang had already signed the order contract, forty-five yuan per book as before, and 12,000 copies was more than 500 taels of silver.
Seeing that Hui Niang and Zhou were happily counting the money, Shen Xi was a little surprised, and after asking about the situation, he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Auntie, you are not doing the right business in this business." ”
"What's wrong? Didn't you do what you said? Forty-five dollars a book, 12,000 copies should be the price. ”
Shen Xi shrugged helplessly: "I said that last time it was a discount given by a large amount, and now it is forty-five Wen for two thousand books per volume, so when they come back to the shopkeeper Su, when they come again, and it is a large purchase of goods, they will definitely have to lower the price with us...... Do you say yes or no? ”
Hui Niang and Zhou were speechless.
Shen Xi said: "In the past, the cost of printing a copy was six or seven yuan, but now the ink is configured by ourselves, and the cost of materials has been slightly reduced, but the wages of workers have risen a lot, and the cost of one is about ** text." If this continues, the profits will be greatly diluted. ”
Zhou said angrily: "Stinky boy, do you need to teach my mother and your aunt a lesson?" ”
"Sister, don't say that, Xiaolang is also planning for a rainy day, planning for the future...... This business was run by Xiao Lang, how can we blame him? ”
Hui Niang persuaded the Zhou family, feeling both ashamed and a little hesitant, looking at Shen Xi, "Xiaolang, tell me quickly, is there any remedy in the future?" ”
Shen Xi shook his head helplessly.
In fact, this time, Su Shaqi brought the merchants of Guanzhong to discuss business, and he was very smart, taking advantage of the fact that the printing workshop had just made money and was in a hurry, and lowered the price of the comic book to 45 Wen, so that a fixed price was formed. Later, if you come to a large order, you can take the opportunity to reduce the price, but according to reason, you have to make a profit.
If he gave in again, he would reveal the fact that the printing workshop relied on these merchants for his profit, and expose his shortcomings to these treacherous merchants.
Zhou was a little annoyed: "Then what do you say?" It's more than five hundred taels of silver here, so can't we still collect the wrong one? ”
Hui Niang blamed herself very much, and said regretfully: "It would be good if we waited for Xiaolang to come back and then talk about business, and when these merchants come over in the future, we should keep an eye on it." ”
"Forget it, since it happened, it's too late to regret it. Besides, whether they like to buy it or not, we still have a killer feature that hasn't been revealed! ”
Shen Xi clenched his fists and said confidently, "We have color comic books, even the masters in the printing workshop don't know about this, if they come to lower the price again, then let's pay tribute to them, and threaten to hand over the agency of color comic books to others, how can we ensure that the wholesale price of the comic books will remain unchanged at forty-five yuan." ”
Hui Niang and Zhou's faces improved at this time, and they were much relieved.
"Xiaolang, you always say that your color comic strips have not been sent to the printing workshop to be printed, I wonder if you can maintain the profits of our printing workshop?"
Hui Niang looked at Shen Xi and wanted to trap him.
"Aunt Sun, are you worried about me?" Shen Xihui smiled.
"No, what are you talking about? I just want to ask you, you always pretend to be mysterious, and even your mother and I have only seen the original color painting you made once. But I don't know how much this thing costs, if it's too expensive, it may not be as good as printing the current black and white comic strips to make money. ”
Shen Xi nodded and said, "That's what I said, but there are good things, you can't always hide them, and the common people still want to see colorful comic books." In the future, as the scale of the workshop expands again, it can also print colorful New Year's pictures, and the market is not only limited to the business of comic books, even if the business with these merchants is cut off, our printing workshop can continue to flourish. ”
Printing New Year's pictures is another idea put forward by Shen Xi, and it is also another way for him to make money for the printing workshop.
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