On the sixteenth day of the lunar month, a special guest came to Lu's pharmacy, who was Su Shaqi, a big businessman who had broken off business with the printing workshop a few months ago.

Su Shaqi spent more than a year between Nanjing and Fujian dumping goods, in mid-August negotiations with Shenxi broke down, and stayed in Ninghua for three days before he set off for Jianyang, northern Fujian, where printing technology is extremely developed, to prepare to start his own stove.

When he arrived in Jianyang, Su Shaqi immediately recruited a printing master and began to crack the comic books of Lu's workshop. After more than a month of exploration, I finally succeeded in mastering the technique of engraving comic books. Su Shaqi wanted to do a big job, but the engraving comic strips on the market suddenly became scarce, and the Lu family workshop in Ninghua no longer printed comic strips, so that even if he mastered the technology, there was nowhere to pirate.

Su Shaqi was disgraced and had to go south to Ninghua again, wanting to buy the original painting of the comic book "The Legend of Tong Lin" at a high price, but when he arrived at the ground, he knew that Lu Sun's had done business in Changting County, the capital city.

When Su Shaqi arrived in Tingzhou City, he saw people selling colorful New Year paintings all over the street, and after he took a look, he knew that this New Year's painting was from Hui Niang's printing workshop, but it was more exquisite than what he saw a few months ago.

Because it was approaching the end of the year, Su Shaqi wanted to order a batch to be shipped to Nanjing to sell, but it was too late, so for the sake of business, he had to give in and visit in person.

Su Shaqi came alone this time and did not bring his business friends. When he arrived at Lu's pharmacy, he saw that the shop was full of people and business, Su Shaqi sighed, this Lu Sun's family was really powerful, but she didn't expect her to open the pharmacy to Tingzhou Mansion City, and the business would be so good. нéíуапGě.сОМ

Su Shaqi asked the maid who was selling the medicine on the counter, and was told that he could only find someone by going to the main hall of the Chamber of Commerce.

When Su Shaqi arrived at the main hall of the Chamber of Commerce, he learned that hundreds of shops in Tingzhou Mansion had jointly established a Chamber of Commerce, and he was more and more amazed by Lu Sun's generosity. But here in the main hall, I still didn't find Lu Sun's, and after listening to the introduction of the knowers there, Lu Sun's went out, but it was not clear where he went.

Su Shaqi went back and forth several times, feeling a little helpless in his heart, and thought that Lu Sun's might not have any intention of talking about any business with him, so he deliberately avoided it.

In the evening, Hui Niang finally returned to the pharmacy.

Su Shaqi, who got the news, hurriedly covered his face, killed him with a gift, and confessed his guilt as soon as he entered the door, begging for Hui Niang's forgiveness.

“…… Shopkeeper Su is too polite, I said before that the little woman will not dare to go to the printing workshop too much. Nowadays, the Shen family is the shopkeeper on the Fucheng side, but if you want to talk about business, you still talk to the little shopkeeper, what he says, that's what. ”

Hui Niang actually didn't want to show face to Su Shaqi, a big customer, but Shen Xi reminded her that she couldn't give Su Shaqi a good face, otherwise this guy would kick his nose in the face in a short time, and he would have to desperately lower the price. Hui Niang hardened her heart and followed Shen Xi's instructions to show her love and ignorance to Su Shaqi.

At this time, behind the curtain, Zhou opened a gap and looked quietly, and saw that Hui Niang and Su Shaqi were not talking very happily, so he couldn't help but be a little nervous, pulled Shen Xi's collar, and asked in a low voice: "Xiaolang, what if this Su shopkeeper turns his face and leaves?" He used to bring us a lot of business. ”

Shen Xi smiled when he heard this.

Su Shaqi does have an indelible contribution to the development of the printing workshop, he and the merchants he introduced to the printing workshop, brought thousands of taels of silver orders to the printing workshop, and now Su Shaqi came to the door again, no wonder Zhou is so nervous.

"Mother, don't worry, everything is up to me and Aunt Sun...... Take him down this time! Shen Xi said confidently.

After Su Shaqi made amends, he heard Hui Niang's words and bowed: "Can you bother Mrs. Lu to ask the little shopkeeper to come out and talk?" ”

Hui Niang nodded, turned around and lifted the curtain to the backyard, and quickly "invited" Shen Xi and Zhou out.

Seeing Shen Xi again, Su Shaqi had an extremely complicated expression on his face.

After a boring Mid-Autumn Festival in Ninghua, he walked away with a black face, at that time he thought that Lu Sun's would definitely regret it, but now it seems that without his order, the printing workshop not only did not go out of business, but the business is getting bigger and bigger, and now Hui Niang has become the big boss of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, which should not be underestimated.

"If the contemptible people came for a while and saw the New Year's paintings that can be seen everywhere in the capital city of Tingzhou, they would inevitably place a large number of orders and ship them to the Jiangnan and Central Plains regions for sale, but now that they are approaching the New Year's Pass, they will not be able to do this business...... Alas, it's no wonder that the contemptible people were too blind to anyone before, and they didn't know that this small workshop was actually the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. First there are comic books, and then there are such delicate color New Year paintings, which are ashamed of themselves. ”

Su Shaqi saluted with emotion again.

Shen Xi waved his hand: "Shopkeeper Su is polite, he is a guest from afar, you now know that we have New Year's paintings, even if it is the New Year, you can also book a batch to sell back, I believe that people who like it will still buy it." ”

Su Shaqi smiled and said, "After all, it's the New Year, and it won't sell as well as it did years ago." Of course, this New Year's painting, the contemptible people do want to buy a batch, so that the people in Jiangnan can know that there are such exquisite things in Tingzhou Mansion. But the main purpose of the despicable people coming this time is to ...... I will negotiate with you to buy the master art of the comic book, and the price is not a problem. ”

Only then did Shen Xi figure out why Su Shaqi was so uncharacteristically polite, and his feelings were asking for something, and the things he asked for were very "excessive".

Su Shaqi refused to negotiate with the printing workshop to continue ordering comic books, because he felt that the technology could be cracked, and there was no need to spend a lot of money to buy the printed finished products from the printing workshop, as long as the printing workshop printed new content, he took the ready-made comic strips and found someone to engrave and print the pirated copies.

But after that, Ninghua's printing workshop mainly engaged in color New Year paintings, and the engraving comic strips of "The Legend of Tong Lin" were no longer printed since the ninth volume, and Su Shaqi had no place to pirate even if he mastered the technology. At the beginning, Su Shaqi also tried to find someone to draw the original picture of the comic book and make up the story, but after the goods were sent to Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, the market reaction was extremely flat, and it did not make any waves at all...... Shen Xi's control of the content and story of the comic strip is very unique, and others can't imitate it at all.

"Forgive me, Shopkeeper Su, we don't plan to give you the original picture of the comic book, because we have to wait for the next year to print it ourselves." Shen Xi smiled and said the business direction of the printing workshop after the year.

New Year's pictures are printed before the year, and comic books are printed after the year, each with its own emphasis.

Su Shaqi had a slight smug smile on his face: "You guys printed it yourself?" I'm afraid I won't make too much money, so I might as well sell me the original master painting, and I'll make a profit......."

"Oh?"

Shen Xi pretended to be surprised, "But Shopkeeper Su thinks that there are skilled craftsmen under him, after we print it, you can follow the seal, divide the market for us, and then deliberately lower our price, so that our comic books can't be sold?" ”

The smile on Su Shaqi's face faded, and Shen Xi said what was on his mind, as if his conspiracy had been exposed to his face, and his old face was a little unbearable.

But in fact, even if he can pirate, the quality is still inferior after all.

"So what?" Su Shaqi said coldly, "You can print, we will also print, and when the time comes, we will see who prints it more inexpensively." ”

Shen Xi shook his head: "It seems that the shopkeeper Su still lacks sincerity, saying that he is here to ask for guilt, but in fact, he is bullying others." ”

"Don't hide it from the shopkeeper Su, the comic strip we want to print after the year is not the original monotonous black and white, but the color comic strip, I believe that the shopkeeper Su has seen our ability to print color New Year's pictures, color comic books or not as exquisite as color New Year pictures, but much better than the original comic books. After we print it, we will ask Shopkeeper Su to correct it more. ”

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