Yu Wenwen asked, Zhang Hua naturally has the answer, the most direct answer is the cost, the study club is the same as other bookstores in Xiyang City, there is enough cheap paper, this alone is better than other places. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chen Guojing is a teacher of Jiankang, a hundred pieces of ordinary white paper are about 80 yuan, this is still the capital where there are many shops bidding for each other, and there are only more expensive places else, while in Xiyang, the quality of paper is better, and the price of 100 pieces is 60 yuan.

This is still the average price, Zhang Hua knows that Yuwenwen also has a papermaking workshop, and the lowest price is one hundred pieces of paper and fifty-three Wen, which is still the most ordinary paper.

There are so many bookstores in Xiyang City, countless books are published every day, and the accumulated price advantage is obvious, and the booksellers of Jiankang come to Xiyang to buy goods and then go back to sell, and their prices are cheaper than the same kind of books printed by local engraving.

Not to mention that the books in the Huangzhou bookstore are all "line-bound books", which are better stored than the previous volumes, and the contents of the paper are printed on both sides of the book in a book, and the paper required for the same content of the Huangzhou book is nearly half less.

The price is significantly cheaper, the quality of the paper is not bad, the books bound with thread are more reliable, and the cover is protected from wear and tear, in short, it is very affordable.

Books are divided into softcover, hardcover, people with poor families can buy softcover, wealthy families can buy hardcover, no matter which is very easy to sell, not to mention other bookstores, Zhang Hua knew that the books of the school club were swept away as soon as a batch was made.

The price of paper is cheap, because the cost of papermaking is low, the raw material used in the Huangzhou papermaking workshop is bamboo, and the paper made is called bamboo paper.

But the cost is not low, the cut bamboo to soak in water for more than 100 days is to "finish", after the completion of the next step of processing, and the process of Huangzhou paper workshop is very time-saving: the bamboo is treated with medicine, and it does not need to be soaked for so long.

The water-powered mallet breaks the bamboo, which runs around the clock, so it can save a lot of manpower, and with the improvement of other processes, it can make better quality paper at a lower cost.

"Paper is one of them, but there are other factors, such as the wood used in this engraving, which is very particular."

Yu Wenwen added that Zhang Hua only knows the price of paper, and as a "big boss behind the scenes", he knows all the inside stories, such as this plank, which is also a very important reason.

The wood is exquisite, not only to facilitate carving but also to ensure hardness, not too easy to damage, the surface of the board to be smooth, of course, if the quantity is small, it doesn't matter, but the key is how to ensure the quality of mass production.

Yu Wenwen's workshop made wooden planks and used water-powered woodworking lathes, although very simple compared to their later counterparts, but in this era they were a sharp weapon: saving time and effort to ensure quality.

Dabie Mountain is on the boundary of the Huangzhou Governor's Office, so there is no shortage of wood, and the hydraulic carpentry lathe is constantly making cheap and high-quality wooden boards for the use of various bookstores in Xiyang City, which is also one of the costs.

There is also a thread for binding books, which looks worthless, but once the price difference is large, it is also a cost, and the thread made by the water-driven spinning machine is really cheap and sufficient, and the quality is not bad, and the price is forty percent cheaper than the same kind of hand-spun thread.

Mechanical power (hydraulic) against manpower, that's the advantage.

Not only that, but also collective advantages, Huangzhou's "publishing industry" is promoted by Yuwenwen, each bookstore division of labor, each has its own main books, and then exchange whether there is a low-cost supply, which further reduces costs.

Engraving printing, Yu Wenwen took out and shared with several other owners, forming a price alliance, in line with the purpose of small profits and quick turnover, to seize the market, even if there is engraving printing elsewhere, the price of books is not competitive.

The growing "publishing industry" led to the prosperity of the paper industry, which quickly recouped costs and also reduced the cost of publishing books by adopting the strategy of small profits and quick turnover.

"This is not something that a bookstore can do, although there are many bookstores in Jiankang, there is no leader, no one has the courage and ability to organize everyone to reduce costs and compete with bookstores in Huangzhou."

"Where is the cost, instead of working hard to make and print books and still can't sell them, it's better to come to Huangzhou to buy and sell them back to Jiankang, even if you get the book after a few hands, it's cheaper to sell it than to print it yourself, what fool do you say will do it?"

"This is what Guogong calls the scale effect..."

Zhang Hua can understand what Yu Wenwen said, he has been a affairs officer and knows many civil things, this strategy of small profits and quick sales is indeed a headache for booksellers elsewhere, no wonder Yu Wenwen does not keep the woodblock printing technology secret, and other bookstores do not hide it.

What if you got it? This is Yangmou!

There are a lot of affairs in the school, Zhang Hua quickly retired and was busy with other things, Yu Wenwen watched the craftsmen print, and only felt that all they printed were banknotes, of course, there were no banknotes in this era.

The price of paper is not very close to the people in this era, so if you want to make a fortune, you can find huge business opportunities from it, and with the publication of books, it has now become another source of wealth for Yuwenwen.

I bought a few cooking cakes at a roadside stall and wrapped them in a piece of paper to eat at home...****You! Isn't it a waste of money to wrap things in paper that is more expensive than cooking cakes?

Don't say whether there is kraft paper, even if you go to the toilet this year, there is no toilet paper, because the paper is not cheap and can not withstand the toss, of course, the rich and noble people use it, the vast majority of people will not be so luxurious, everyone uses the toilet chip.

Toilet chips, also known as toilet sticks and stirring sticks, are simply wooden or bamboo strips used to wipe dirt after defecation. This type of toilet was still used in many rural villages in the twentieth century, let alone in the sixth century.

When he first came to this era, he was extremely uncomfortable, and every time he used that thing, he always felt that the chrysanthemum was tight, and he was afraid that he would accidentally sing the chrysanthemum residue, so he wrapped food in paper and knew how to lose.

It can be seen that paper is not cheap, so to reduce the cost of books, you have to improve papermaking, there are many bamboos on both sides of the Yangtze River, and the growth rate of bamboo forests is very fast, so Yuwenwen chose to light up the "bamboo paper" science and technology tree.

As a result, it took a few years to light up, and the secret is how to quickly finish the bamboo materials, which can save time and deal with the bamboo materials well.

Naturally, the recipe cannot be disclosed, but it is also cheap to buy, so papermaking workshops have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

There is more paper to consume, and the secret of consumption is engraving printing, which appeared in the Sui and Tang dynasties in history, and at this time there was already a prototype in various places, so Yuwenwen did not intend to keep it secret.

Quickly cultivated a number of bookstores, together with paper-making workshops, everyone made money together, seized the market with low prices, and strangled booksellers from all over the country who might use engraving printing.

Make money quickly to recoup the cost, and then make pure money, and then continue to reduce the price, so that booksellers elsewhere feel that "it is better to buy than to build", Yu Wenwen's idea is like this, and the actual situation is at least for now.

For books of the same quality, the prices of books published in Huangzhou are significantly cheaper; For the same price, the books published in Huangzhou are of better quality; Yu Wenwen has collected books everywhere in recent years, so the types of books are relatively complete.

This is the capital of Huangzhou bookstores, so each bookstore makes a lot of money.

Felling wood to make planks, cutting bamboo and paper, spinning, ink, plate making, printing, binding books, a one-stop industrial chain Huangzhou has employed, employing a large number of employees, the effect of scale is that the cost is greatly reduced, and other bookstores have this ability?

A small bookstore in a certain place single-handedly, if you fight a price war, it will definitely not work, and it is not as good as the criminal gang headed by the school club.... The Bookstore Gang!! (To be continued.) )