Chapter 138: Black-hearted Wuzhi

[Ran^ζ–‡^Library][]. []. [com] On the second day of the Qingzhou Daily's release, Liu An couldn't sit still. 【Ran Library (7764)】

After the printing house bought by Da Wuzhi and handed it over to Jin Dajian to take care of, everything was still operating according to the previous rules, and the printing house used Liu An's paper before, and Jin Dajian still purchased paper from Liu An's firm, including the paper that was pre-printed before.

But on the day of the fight, after Wu Zhi learned that the person who was so arrogant and sarcastic and insulting to himself in the guild hall was actually the paper merchant Liu An, Wu Zhi went back and immediately called someone to inform Jin Dajian not to buy Liu An's paper in the future.

Liu An is also worthy of being a businessman, for this reason, he has sent people to visit Jin Dajian with various gifts many times, and he also said very sincerely that the purchase price of paper can be reduced a little more in the future, after all, although the printing house managed by Jin Dajian has not yet begun to print a large number of newspapers, it is also the largest printing house in Qingzhou, and they never want to lose this big customer.

But no matter how many people Liu An sent to bring gifts, Jin Dajian only had one sentence: Don't use your paper, there is no why!

Although Liu An was very puzzled about this, he didn't care too much about it, losing an order from a printing house, which was nothing to the largest paper merchant in Qingzhou, and it was not enough for him to come forward in person.

But when he learned that Jin Dajian's printing house was the place where newspapers were printed, and at least 300,000 copies were printed every day, Liu An was completely panicked and heartbroken, and he regretted that if he had come forward to publicize Jin Dajian earlier, maybe the hundreds of thousands of copies of paper used to print newspapers in the printing house would have been purchased from his own home, which was a big order!

In line with the mentality that it is not too late to make amends, on the second day of the release of Qingzhou Daily, Liu An personally went to the printing floor with a generous gift to ask to see Jin Dajian.

This time, Kim Dajian replied more directly: No!

Just kidding, you owe it, you offended the big boss behind our printing house, what else do I have to say to you? - Kim Dae-jian thought.

Seeing that Jin Dajian turned himself away, he gave full play to the spirit of dead skin and face, and kept grinding hard at the door of the printing house, so that Wu Zhi had no chance to enter the printing house secretly several times......

In the end, Jin Dajian had no choice but to see him, and Liu An immediately pounced on Jin Dajian as soon as he saw him, and enthusiastically pounced on Jin Dajian's thighs.

"The Golden Shopkeeper! I've finally seen you! Our Liujia paper shop is willing to supply you with paper at the lowest price, you know that the whole Qingzhou is the best paper in our house, no matter how much other people bid, we are cheaper, what do you think? Liu An said to Jin Dajian with a flattering face.

This Liu An is also considered, the amount of paper used in the printing field to print newspapers every day is extraordinary, as long as there is a profit, even if it is not afraid to make a little, and the most important thing is that whoever grabs the order of Jin Dajian Printing House can become the largest paper merchant in Qingzhou, so that in the Chamber of Commerce he has the greatest resources related to the paper industry and the final right to speak, he would rather not make money than hand over the position of branch president to others.

"You don't have to say more to me, it's not up to me to decide whose paper our printing house uses, but to the boss behind the scenes." Jin Dajian said coldly.

"And who's the boss behind you? I'm going to beg him! ”

"This our boss is low-key and doesn't like publicity, so I can't tell you my identity!"

"Ouch! I beg you! What's so bad about our Liu family's paper? Please tell me who your boss is, and I'll go and beg him personally, and he might give me a face!" ”

Jin Dajian glanced at Liu An coldly and did not speak.

Seeing that Jin Dajian didn't speak, Liu An's eyes rolled, and he immediately presented the heavy gift with both hands, and said: "This is a little bit of caution in the next place, don't refuse the gold shopkeeper!" ”

Jin Dajian opened the gift box and saw that there were some jade agate and pearl necklaces and other objects, which were worth a few hundred taels of silver.

Sure enough, Jin Dajian took the box in his hand and weighed it a few times, and said: "For the sake of Boss Liu's sincerity, I will point you out, our boss behind the scenes...... Come back in two days and I'll tell you later! ”

Liu An's head is blocked, but it doesn't hurt to wait for two days, as long as he prepares another heavy gift and curry favor with the big boss behind the scenes, then the order of this printing house will be able to be won, of course he will not be stupid enough to sell paper without profit, and these gifts will be earned back in a few days.

After Liu An left, Jin Dajian sneered, he was a real person, he wouldn't play any tricks, let alone take bribes, he did all according to Wu Zhi's instructions, two days later, the tea party had ended, Wu Zhi had already planned to disclose his identity after the tea party, and now accepting Liu An's gift is not a lie to him.

When Liu An found that Jin Dajian, who was desperately pleasing him, was just one of Wu Zhi's subordinates who he looked down on the most, he didn't know how he would feel.

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When the newspaper began to charge on the third day of its release, the first sales were so good that Wu Zhi couldn't believe it!

Originally, he only had the idea that half of the 300,000 copies could be sold, after all, the first two days were free, and the sudden charge was inevitably unacceptable, and the newspaper sold three copper plates per copy, which seemed to be cheap, but in fact, it was very expensive for the newspaper, after all, the cost of the newspaper was extremely low, so it was already a huge profit.

In this era, three dollars were equivalent to three yuan in later generations, and later newspapers only sold for two yuan a day at most for so many pages......

However, it is obvious that Wu Zhi underestimated the purchasing power of the people of Qingzhou, or underestimated the love of the people of Qingzhou for newspapers, early in the morning, not only 300,000 copies of the newspaper were sold out, but the printing house rushed to produce 100,000 copies to meet the needs of the entire Qingzhou!

That's only two-thirds of the city's population...... However, it is also the limit of what the newspaper can sell, and it seems that the people of Qingzhou are very supportive of the newspaper collecting money!

Just one morning, Wu Zhi's income from selling newspapers reached 1.2 million copper coins! It is equivalent to 1,200 pieces of money, 1,200 taels of silver!

Excluding the cost, this is equivalent to the profit of two days of the proud building, and this is only the net sale of the newspaper's money, you must know that the newspaper has never relied on the paper itself to make money, the most profitable thing for the newspaper is advertising profits, and Wu Zhi has not yet started to run the advertising business has already made a lot of money!

The newspapers were organized to go to Qingzhou City to sell everywhere, and these newsboys were all children of poor and poor families, after all, the parents of children from rich families were reluctant to let them come out to sell newspapers before dawn.

Although the people of the Great Song Dynasty lived a generally prosperous life, there were still many, many poor families, and there were still countless poor families who were so developed in later generations, not to mention the current era? In this era, people's resistance to natural disasters and various diseases is weaker, and once they are unfortunate, then a rich and well-off family is enough to be dragged down......

And Wu Zhi deliberately selected those children from poor families to sell newspapers for him, firstly, because the handicraft industry in the Great Song Dynasty was developed, and in the peaceful areas of the Central Plains, almost all the people who had hands and feet had their own jobs, and the idle people were either lazy people or some rich children. Second, there are a large number of children, and they are flexible and love to run around the city, and they are familiar with all parts of Qingzhou. Thirdly, it is more to help the children's families.

There are a total of hundreds of poor children to help Wu Zhi sell newspapers, Jin Dajian will be divided into batches of reasonable planning to the four major urban areas of Qingzhou City to sell newspapers, to ensure that each child can sell a thousand newspapers a day, children can earn a copper plate for every two newspapers sold, so that after they sell a thousand copies a day, they can earn 500 copper plates, a month is 15,000, which is equivalent to the salary level of senior staff in later generations, enough to greatly improve their family situation.

Wu Zhi's profits to the newspaper boys are undoubtedly very high, the key is that Wu Zhi has no competitors, so naturally there is no need to think too much about reducing costs, the cost of a newspaper is very low, newspaper fees, labor costs, printing costs...... It is less than a penny after a full count, and Wu Zhi's net profit alone is hundreds of thousands a day, and he doesn't care about the newsboy.

The paperboys had to get up early at four o'clock in the morning to get the newspapers, and a thousand newspapers were stacked taller than their size...... Some of the newsboys wore out their shoulders, their shoes were broken, and their young hands were covered with bloody calluses...... Although I make a lot of money, it is all hard-earned money.

But children, from snacks to develop a hard-working temperament, it will be of great benefit to the future! Their hardships will make their families better, and it's worth it. What's more, some literate children can also learn cultural knowledge in the newspaper, making money and learning at the same time!

- Wu Zhi comforted his black conscience like this.

But to be honest, the newspaper media industry is simply too profitable, so that Wu Zhi has no intention of running the catering industry, due to the backward means of transportation and the restriction of poor information transmission, Wu Zhi's proud building in Shandong, the expansion has been very slow, for their own catering industry, Wu Zhi's next plan is to change from comprehensive expansion to key expansion.

It is not to engage in dragnet tiling, and to set up branches and oil mills in the most prosperous states of the Great Song Dynasty!

But before that, the most important thing is to open a branch in Bianjing, the heart of the Great Song Dynasty!

It's time to open a branch in Bianjing! It is said that there are already several big restaurants in Bianjing that have already begun to launch stir-fried vegetables and proud wine, and the business is still very hot, so naturally they learned the skills and bought wine from Wuzhi Proud Building. But these Wu Zhi is no longer worried, now the proud building has formed a high-end brand, who does not know that the proud building is the most authentic stir-fry and the birthplace of liquor, as long as the proud building settles in the capital of Bianjing, it must still be the first restaurant in Tianzi!

Maybe the emperor will come in disguise!

This Wu Zhi has already asked Brother Yun to go to Zhangluo, at this time, I am afraid that Brother Yun has arrived in the prosperous Bianjing, which is like a dream, and I don't know if Bianjing is as lively as depicted in the famous painting Qingming Shanghe picture.

Naturally, you can't just open one proud building in the capital, this time Wu Zhi let Brother Yun bring enough gold bars, let's open two proud buildings! In order to facilitate the people of the imperial capital, Wu Zhi asked Brother Yun to open an oil mill in the east, west, south and north of Bianjing, a total of four.

I'm afraid that Brother Yun won't be able to return to Qingzhou for a long time, Wu Zhi knows that Bianjing throws a stick into the sky casually, and if it falls, it can hit the officials and nobles, these people Wu Zhi They can't afford to provoke, I hope that Brother Yun can stably exert his ability to meet the source of the left and right and successfully complete the task.

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