Chapter 64: The Future of Wenqu Study
Ouyang Jin has already built a relationship between Wenqu Shuzhai and the local county government in Fengcheng County.
That is, the Fengcheng County Government will only provide the new county examination answer sheets to the Wenqu Study every year, and the Wenqu Study will compile a book and sell it, but the county will occupy a third share of the profits.
In this way, the magistrate of Fengcheng County can be regarded as having its own small treasury.
Yan Heng couldn't control how the Fengcheng magistrate would use the money, he just had to get how to immediately use the relationship established by Ouyang Jin to open the branches of Wenqu Study in these counties.
In Fenyi County alone, a complete set of counseling materials such as "Preparing for the County Examination: Thirty Selected Texts" before the county examination to the breakthrough training manual in the county examination and the "Three-year Government Examination and Five-Year Academy Examination" prepared for the government examination have made Wenqu Study a considerable profit.
Therefore, it is foreseeable that if Wenqu Study monopolizes the latest examination resources in Fengcheng County, it will naturally be able to replicate the sales myth in Fenyi County, but in Fengcheng County, it will pay the government a dividend of 30%, that is to say, plus Ouyang Jin's 20%, Yan Heng can only occupy 50% of the profits of Wenqu Study.
However, there is no way, after all, the relationship in the officialdom was built by Ouyang Jin, and Yan Heng let Ouyang Jin participate, and he was not grateful for the benevolence he showed when he bought his own land at a high price, so he let him make a fortune with him.
Of course, Ouyang Jin's role should not be underestimated, he persuaded the county government to cooperate with Wenqu Digital, and only if Wenqu Shuzhai and the county government have become a community of interests, these officials will spare no effort to protect the orderly trade of Wenqu Shuzhai.
So far, 1,300 copies of "Preparing for the County Exam: Thirty Selected Essays" have been sold, and about 700 of the various breakthrough training manuals have been sold.
The "Three-Year Government Examination and Five-Year Academy Examination", which is as expensive as five taels a whole, has also sold more than 200 copies.
That is to say, at this time, the sales of Wenqu Study, which was only in Fenyi County, have reached an astonishing more than 5,000 taels of silver! And the profit also reached three thousand taels of silver.
Ouyang Jin got six hundred taels, Yan Heng himself got more than two thousand four hundred taels, plus the previous accumulation, the Yan family's disposable cash has reached three thousand taels!
Coupled with the land and real estate, the total wealth of the Yan family has reached more than 4,000 taels.
With such a family business, although the Yan family is not rich and noble, it can be regarded as a well-off and prosperous family, and as long as the Wenqu study has been there, the Yan family can have no worries about food and clothing.
According to Yan Heng's original idea, he can now be a solid little landlord with peace of mind, just waiting for himself to grow up, and then marry his daughter-in-law and take a concubine.
However, Yan Heng now finds that although he has changed the current situation of his family's poverty and backwardness before Xiao Yan Song's career, he is still busy.
Just after the county exam, before he had time to meet Xiong Xiu in the county and prepare for the government exam, he had to be busy expanding the Wenqu study.
Since the branch of Wenqu Study is to be opened in Fengcheng County, it means that more capital investment is needed, and more people need to be recruited to other branches to be responsible for compilation, printing, and binding.
Fortunately, Yan Mi in the account room is a native of Fengcheng, and Yan Heng can see that this old boy is reliable, so he asked him to be the chief treasurer of the Fengcheng branch of Wenqu Study, and he will take a more skilled printing craftsman in each group to Fengcheng to open a branch of Wenqu Study.
Ouyang Jin also sent a housekeeper who he trusted and could represent his Ouyang family in the officialdom to follow Yan Mi to Fengcheng to help Yan Mi contact the government.
From the food and accommodation of these personnel, the site selection and house purchase of the Fengcheng Branch of Wenqu Shuzhai and the recruitment of craftsmen in the local area naturally had to be advanced by Yan Heng, but fortunately, the cost was not large, after all, opening a study is more large-scale than not mining and making salt.
Seeing that he had received six hundred taels of silver in just one month, Ouyang Jin was already so excited that he couldn't sleep at this time, he was now more and more impressed with Yan Heng, he never thought that this Yan Heng would bring him such a good opportunity to make a fortune.
Thinking about it again, once the Wenqu study in Fengcheng County is also a big seller, he will continue to have no less than five hundred taels of silver.
Moreover, every year each county will have more than five hundred taels of silver to earn, if the Wenqu study is opened to all counties in the entire Yuanzhou Mansion and even Nanchang Mansion, Ouyang Jin can't believe how much wealth he will have at that time.
As soon as Ouyang Jin thought of this, he couldn't wait to go to other county offices and walk around for Wenqu's study.
Yan Heng decided to change the house, not only to replace his own house with a larger house, but also to expand the Wenqu study, at least not to let the thirty printing craftsmen continue to sleep in the big shop.
A blacksmith shop and silversmith shop next to Wenqu's study were all sold by Yan Heng at a high price, and even a restaurant behind it was bought by Yan Heng.
And Yan Heng not only bought these shops and restaurants, but also kept the people in these shops.
Many people don't understand why Yan Heng did this, and Yan Heng doesn't know how to explain it, at most he just laughs, after all, he is not good, and the blacksmith shop and silversmith shop can be regarded as the most mechanical manufacturing place in this era.
After all, Yan Heng didn't want Wenqu Study to live only by selling teaching materials.
In his opinion, Wenqu Shuzhai can play more roles, and it can even grow into the largest publishing house in the Ming Dynasty, the last place to create public opinion, and even the center of news dissemination.
It's just that these are based on the improvement of printing technology, from the Song Dynasty Bi Sheng invented movable type printing to the present Ming Dynasty movable type printing technology is considered to have developed for many years, the process continues to improve, and now it is difficult to find a way to improve printing efficiency from the process, and Yan Heng has to do is to use his modern mind to improve the printing equipment from the power side and from the material aspect to find better printing materials.
The most worthwhile power is naturally steam power, and the most worthwhile printing material is naturally to replace the softer copper blocks with lead fonts.
Although Yan Heng just wants to take a step forward in technology.
But this small step was still very difficult for the Ming Dynasty at this time.
After all, although the principle of the steam engine is simple, but the specific manufacture of a steam engine is not simple, perhaps the blacksmith shop can imitate the drawings to make the cylinder and bearing, but can not make the cylinder have good air tightness, so that the bearing has a high precision.
However, everything can be done slowly, even if it cannot be fully mechanized, but it can also be half mechanical and half manual at first.
Perhaps one day in the future, the printing technology of Wenqu Study can be greatly improved due to the increase in power, so as to solve the problem that printing output is limited by manpower, and can reduce printing costs and promote the emergence of newspapers, magazines, weekly magazines and other paper media.
As a result, Wenqu Shuzhai may not only be the largest publishing house but also the largest media group in the future.