When Su Shaqi heard Shen Xi's words, he immediately became discouraged, his face was black with a bruise, and he stared at Shen Xi with mixed emotions in his eyes.

With his more than 20 years of business experience, he thought that he could be invincible in the shopping mall, but he was repeatedly deflated in front of a weak woman like Hui Niang.

If Shen Xi's words are true, then he spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources to study the technology of engraving comic strips, and hired so many workers, but in the end, the bamboo basket was empty...... When the color comic strips were introduced, his black-and-white comic strips would soon become unpopular.

Su Shaqi still refused to admit defeat, and almost gritted his teeth and said: "With your skills in printing New Year's pictures, to print comic books, and find someone to fill in the coloring, the cost will cost dozens of dollars, and the price must be extremely high...... Even if it is launched on the market, no one will buy it! ”

Shen Xi said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Su said this well, the cost of printing color comics is indeed very high, but we have to see who we are facing...... If you are willing to buy a comic strip, there is definitely no shortage of money at home, and the same comic strip, one is black and white, and the other is color, which is more attractive? ”

"Besides, our color comic book only sells for sixty wen, and we are looking for small profits but quick turnover, shopkeeper Su, do you think anyone is willing to come and buy at this price?"

"Sixty cents? Sorry for you! At this time, Su Shaqi's emotions were a little out of control, "I don't believe it, you can continue to operate for a long time!" ”

Shen Xi said with a smile: "Otherwise, Shopkeeper Su, we will sell you a copy of the color comic book sixty texts, what do you think?" ”

Although Su Shaqi's enthusiasm was surging, when he heard the specific business details, his mind calmed down a little, and he repeatedly considered whether there was really a market for the color comic books after they were bought.

"If you haven't seen the finished product, who knows what your color comic book looks like?" Su Shaqi was suspicious in his heart, he only knew that there was such a thing as a color comic book, but he didn't know how to do it in his heart.

Shen Xi smiled slightly, and asked Xiu'er to go to his laboratory in the printing workshop, bring the color version of the first few comic books of "The Legend of Tong Lin", and hand them to Su Shaqi.

Su Shaqi just flipped through a few pages, and kept swallowing saliva, when he saw the vivid and exquisite pictures of color comics, as well as the paper that could not be erased, he clearly had a premonition of how big the market for color comic books was. In comparison, his black-and-white comic strips are as worthless as a pile of broken paper.

"Now I ordered your comic book in 60 went, and gave you the order silver, what if you can't hand it over when you turn it over?" Su Shaqi looked up at Shen Xi, and then looked at Hui Niang, because he always thought that the owner of the printing workshop was the unfathomable Lu Sun clan in front of him.

Hui Niang shook her head with a smile, her eyes fell on Shen Xi, meaning that Shen Xi was in charge of everything.

"Shopkeeper Su wants to cooperate with us, and it is expected that he has doubts, as a partner in the business field, we have the obligation to tell Shopkeeper Su some specific things."

Shen Xi is calm and calm, with a style that is accustomed to seeing scenes, "Our color comic strips are printed on copper plates, and the quality is far better than that of other printing plates on the market, and a printing plate can be used for several years. And our color is printed directly instead of finding someone to fill in the color, which is very efficient, and the shopkeeper Su can afford to place an order, and we can print it on time. ”

"Really?"

Shopkeeper Su thought twice, it would be a pity if such a good deal was lost.

In the past, in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang and other places, there was a wave of comic books, but after that, no new original paintings came out, which made comic books unsustainable, and the trend gradually faded. If the color comic strips are launched this time, the quality is higher and the price is not much higher than the original, then he can make a lot of money in this business.

Shen Xi sighed: "It seems that Shopkeeper Su still doesn't believe in us...... If the shopkeeper Su gives up, we will print a color comic book after the year, and we can only find someone else as an agent, which is really a pity......"

Su Shaqi hurriedly waved his hand: "No need, if you offend the contemptible person before, you can take it back for the time being." If you can, the despicable will be willing to ...... with you If we cooperate again, we will use 60 copies per book, 5,000 copies each, and how about ordering 40,000 copies first? ”

When Hui Niang and Zhou heard this number, they pondered in their hearts for a while, and their hearts suddenly pounded.

40,000 copies is 2,400 taels of silver, Shen Xi had calculated the cost for them before, a volume of color comics, nothing more than the cost of printing plates and color ink, but in fact, including labor, rent, etc., the ex-factory price is still maintained within 20 yuan.

In this way, the first 40,000 color comic books can earn 1,600 taels of silver, which is much more than making money from a pharmacy.

Shen Xi nodded and promised: "It's okay to order 40,000 copies, but you need to pay the full amount, and you have to explain to the shopkeeper Su that our colorful comic strips are all based on the wholesale price of more than 70 Wen, because the Shopkeeper Su is an old customer, it will be so cheap, and the order will remain unchanged at 60 Wen in the future." ”

After hearing this, Su Shaqi was immediately relieved. In the past few months, he has groped for ordinary black-and-white engraving comics, a book with manual labor and raw materials, the cost is about 20 yuan, and the quality is not as good as the black and white comic strips printed by Hui Niang's printing workshop. And this kind of color comic book, the cost of which is forty or fifty yuan, and when he turns around, he is ready to sell one hundred and twenty or even one hundred and fifty yuan, and he makes more than double the amount for nothing.

Anyway, those who have the money to buy comic strips, are not worried about food and clothing, there are many rich households in Jiangnan and Huguang, and the heart of comparison is very strong, it is a face-saving thing to have such exquisite comic strips, I believe that it will definitely cause a trend again, and it will be him who makes a lot of money at that time, and there is no need to lower the price at all.

Su Shaqi asked how many copies of "The Biography of Tong Lin" were in the follow-up, and when he learned that there were twenty-two volumes of "The Biography of Tong Lin", and the copper plate had been printed to the twelfth volume, Su Shaqi said impatiently: "Then I will print four more volumes, each volume is still 5,000 copies, so that the total number is 60,000 copies, and you can sign a contract at any time!" ”

The amount was too large, Shen Xi first asked Hui Niang what she meant, and after getting Hui Niang's permission, Hui Niang came forward to sign a contract with Su Shaqi. Shen Xi finally added: "Shopkeeper Su, due to the tight time, we didn't have time to print color comic books a year ago, so the first batch of delivery time is set on the fifteenth day of the first month, and we will divide it into two batches of delivery." ”

Su Shaqi nodded, he was already mentally prepared before deciding to do this business. After the two parties signed the contract, he was not in a hurry to go back, but asked his entourage to go back to the inn under the tower to bring the silver money.

Most of the money sent this time was copper coins, full of four large boxes, plus two boxes of official silver, and it took an hour to count the number of three thousand six hundred taels to be confirmed.

"Then I'll go back and wait for your good news."

Su Shaqi said goodbye, with a little worry in his heart, afraid that Hui Niang would repay the debt after leaving, so he carefully put the contract in his arms and put it away before leaving.

When the people left and closed the door, the two good sisters Hui Niang and Zhou couldn't help but hold hands and look at each other and smile.

After calming down her excitement a little, Hui Niang looked at Shen Xi with a smile: "Xiaolang still has the ability, so after saying a few words, he asked Shopkeeper Su to sign the order, and even the silver has been delivered." It is not easy for others to do printing workshops and collect a little money at a time, how can we collect all the money in advance? ”

Shen Xi said with a strong confidence on his face: "Aunt Sun, we just want to set an industry standard, since our technology is unique, those merchants must pay all the money first if they want to order." ”

"In the future, we can print black and white and color comic books at the same time, taking into account the needs of the wealthy and ordinary people in the upper and middle classes of society...... It's good that ordinary people can have black and white comic strips to see, and we don't sell a copy of it, and we can ship it for 25 yuan, and the merchant will take it and increase the price to 40 yuan, which is basically the same as the pirated price on the market, but we have a crushing advantage in quality, and the people naturally know how to choose. ”

Originally, I was worried about the New Year, but the momentum of hot sales of New Year's pictures passed, and this colorful comic book had no market, and the printing workshop could not continue.

Who wants to receive a big order in a blink of an eye, with the current printing workshop in Ninghua and Fucheng two branches, there is no need to rush work day and night, and 3,000 copies can be printed out in a day.

Sixty thousand copies may seem like a lot, but in fact it can be done in twenty days.

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ps: The first update is delivered!

Yesterday, the management book review was surprised to find that there is a lot of speculation about the relationship between Shen Xi and Hui Niang's mother and daughter, and the Son of Heaven declares that until now, I haven't thought about whether to accept Lu Xi'er or not, let alone Hui Niang. Although Hui Niang is currently only twenty-four or five years old, in this era of strict etiquette, Hui Niang is not only a widow, but also a sister who has intersected with her mother Zhou's peers.

Of course, everyone discussed the plot enthusiastically, which shows that this book has a high degree of attention, and the Son of Heaven is grateful and moved, and everyone is welcome to continue to post and advise.

Finally, this book will be on the shelves on the first of next month, please prepare a guaranteed monthly pass! Boom!