Chapter 0113 - A Collection of Crazy Poems
Publication of an anthology of poetry! Suddenly, Luo Yunxiao was actually taken aback by this thought. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoIn this space, all works are written by hand. At that time, Bi Sheng's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather was probably still looking for his grandmother's grandmother's grandmother's grandmother's grandmother to drink milk. People have no idea of the advanced technical concept of printing.
Even if he Luo Yunxiao tidied it out now, he can't figure out how big this market is. Everything is still unknown.
And at this time, most people are still using bamboo slips, and there are not many people who use cloth, let alone paper. He had also sold A4 paper from later generations in the capital. 20 sheets of A4 paper and a pen are sold for 20 taels of silver, which is almost equal to 1 tael of silver for a piece of A4 paper. At that time, 1 tael of silver could buy 2.5 stone of rice, enough for a family to eat for 2 months.
Now I don't have much A4 paper left, and I can't satisfy the share of this printed poetry anthology. And the paper of this era sold outside is really ridiculously expensive, and the expensive one is a bit evil. If you print a large number of products without knowing the market, if you can't sell them, you will lose a lot of money, and there will even be a crisis of bankruptcy!
After thinking about it for several days, Luo Yunxiao thought about it again. In the end, it was decided to print 500 copies of {Selected Poems}, sell them on the market, and test the water temperature. Look at the sales of these poetry collections and make further plans.
Each book of poems requires twenty sheets of paper, plus some ink and other consumption, and roughly calculated, the cost of one volume is about sixteen taels of silver. You must know that the total expenses of a poor family every month are less than two taels of silver. Therefore, the cost price of each {poetry anthology} is already too expensive. Most people will have a feeling of looking forward to poetry.
Then the next question is the custom price. How much silver is appropriate? Luo Huanqi solicited the opinions of Du Deputy Village Master, Seven Hall Masters, Seven Deputy Hall Masters, Four Elders, Wang Guard, Captain Ning and Shi Chong. I was going to combine the prices quoted to him by these people and then compromise them, so I sold them according to the compromise figures, but Xu Jiayun reported an extremely outrageous figure that completely made it yellow. The price of each volume of the others was less than one hundred and twenty taels, but she actually quoted one thousand taels and one copies, and the price figure after the compromise was two hundred and twelve taels and one copies. It's more than ten times the cost price! It's so sadistic!
In Luo Yunxiao's concept, this kind of price is no different from grabbing money. So the second round of quotations was carried out, and the unreliable Xu Jiayun was excluded in this round. The quotations of those 21 people were combined in one place, and then compromised, and the average price obtained was one hundred and eight taels of silver per book, which was also quite high. In the end, Luo Yunxiao made a decision and set the price at eighty-five taels of silver.
All 500 copies of the {Selected Poems} were printed. The most important thing is that the five poems and five words that appear above are all freshly baked. Among them, the poems include Meng Haoran's {Chunxiao} and Wang Wei's {Acacia}, two popular five-character poems, as well as Li Bai's {Chaofa White Emperor City}, Du Mu's {Qingming} and Wang Han's {Liangzhou Ci} and other three classic poems. In addition, the five poems were also debuted for the first time in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Because if you write every poem, it would seem a bit verbose, so I won't show them all here.
This {anthology of poetry} has not yet come out, and it has already caused an unknown sensation internally. Xu Jiayun, Yu Shichang, Zhao Fengshan and a Shi Chong are all people with some cultural background, seeing so many poems and songs all of a sudden, it is like a mouse seeing rice and a dog seeing poop. Oh, that's a bit of an overstatement. But at least a few people like it and refuse to let go. Some people may say that the author is uneducated, so it should be called love. Hehe, I just said that I like it and won't let go, what's wrong? What's wrong? Isn't that a meaning? Want to break the law with a few more words? Ahh If you are not careful, how can you tell the truth?
Luo Yunxiao decided to give a copy to the internal high-level people first, of course, it can't be free. The money was deducted from the monthly pay. Even so, these guys are still happy and can't do it.
Only the book of the great benevolent Shi Chong was given away for free. Who made the family selflessly dedicate so much to the Duxiu cottage. The remaining 478 copies were decided to be sold in five locations at the same time. In Jinyang County, Jiang Wuji is responsible for leading people to sell this point; Fushan Town, Jinyang County, is responsible for leading people to sell; Baihua Town, Jinyang County, Zhu Muxia is responsible for leading people to sell; Qimen County, Du Cangran is responsible for leading people to sell; Ximang County is governed by Luo Yunxiao and Xu Jiayun. Fushan Town is supposed to be Miss Xu Er's hometown, and it should be appropriate for her to go. Due to various considerations, in the end, Elder Yu, who was old and serious, was sent to preside over the overall situation.
Originally, I planned to set up a point in Dongyang County, Jiangzhou County, where Qian Duoduo was located, but later considered that because the distance was too long, it was not very convenient to move, so this point was cancelled.
In the first few days, although each point made a little bit of success every day, the total sales volume of the five points did not exceed 20 copies per day. Luo Yunxiao even felt that the problem must be in the price. But this time he was really wrong. People don't buy it because of the price, but because it appears in the form, which is so novel that people can't get a clue for a while.
This novel printed product is the first time people have seen it, so they can't imagine it for a while, and they can't figure out what it is. There are always a few people who are a little more daring, and after buying it home and secretly admiring it, they are suddenly shocked. They showed off to their relatives and friends, and this undoubtedly unveiled the mystery of the {poetry anthology}.
Then, from the sixth day of the {Poetry Anthology} sale, good news came from all over the country. On this very day, the {poetry anthology} in all five places was sold out almost simultaneously, and all of them were sold out. This is not the end, there are a large number of people who want to increase the price to subscribe, and many people even add to 20021 volumes. This amount of information made Luo Yunxiao a little uncontrollable. This was really unexpected!
Luo Yunxiao did not hesitate and decided to print another 500 copies, raising the price of each volume to 150 taels of silver. As a result, in less than two days, all of them were sold out. So a third reprint was made, and this time 800 copies were printed, raising the price to 200 taels of silver per copy. This price even Luo Fanqi felt a little scary. But something even more terrifying happened.
The 800 copies were sold out in two days, but they attracted buyers from other states and counties, including the super tyrant named Qian Duoduo, who wanted to spend 15,000 taels of gold to buy 300 copies of this {poetry anthology}. In other words, each volume is five hundred taels of gold, which is equivalent to six thousand taels of silver. It's crazy, it's impossible to breathe or think.
In addition to printing 1,000 copies of the original edition, it was sold to the outside world at 240 taels of silver. Specially produced a special edition of 300 {Poetry Anthology} for the rich woman of the super tyrant Qian Duoduo, and five poems and five words were added to this special edition. It's a blessing for her generosity!
It is said that Luoyang paper is expensive, but now I have found out that the paper in Jiaozhou County is even more expensive, and it is outrageously expensive. Luo Yunxiao's poetry collection was printed a total of 5 times, with a total circulation of 3,100 copies, excluding the cost and store rent, a total of 450,000 taels of silver and 20,000 taels of gold were earned.
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