Zhang Zhong Mansion on King Tofu Street in Beicheng.

Today's Zhang Zhong's house has changed greatly, not only the sign of the Shangjing Daily is hung in front of the courtyard, but also the signs of various departments of the newspaper are hung from the front yard to the third entrance, in addition, there is also a large printing workshop near the courtyard wall on the west side.

The hall in the upper room of the front yard is now the president's office and shareholders' meeting hall, and the time is exactly the hour (seven o'clock in the morning) has passed, Zhang Zhong, Lu Xing, Chen Wei, Qian Dongming, Wang Jin and Ji Qian, these shareholders, gathered in the meeting hall to deliberate.

"Hehe, tomorrow is the auspicious day for me to go to Beijing Daily, and I'm looking forward to it these days......"

"As soon as I go to Beijing Daily tomorrow, it won't be the Yanjing Morning News that monopolizes the market, so I have to give us a piece of the pie."

"Hey, Yanjing Morning News, our newspaper has also learned everything, and it is difficult to say who will account for the majority of the market in the future!"

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Before the discussion, everyone chatted casually, but Ji Qian didn't speak, hooked the corners of his mouth, and waved a folding fan reservedly.

Speaking of which, tomorrow when the Beijing Daily is officially launched, he is even more excited than everyone present.

Last year, the Tongshan Poetry Club began, he was constantly hit by Jia Wei, after the banquet of the Guozijian, he was even more shameless, and had to temporarily leave Beijing to study, which can be said to have saved a belly of anger, and now it is a wonderful counterattack, imagining the Beijing Daily and Yanjing Morning News competing for readers, Jia Wei was depressed and annoyed, and his heart couldn't help but burst with happiness.

"Alright, everyone, let's get ...... discussion."

After a while, President Zhang Zhong said with a smile on his face.

As the leader of the preparation for the establishment of a new newspaper, he has put more effort into this in the past few months than several other shareholders, and now that the Beijing Daily is about to be published, he is not only happy, but also has a sense of relief.

In mid-March, he had heard that the Yanjing Morning News had completed Qingyunxuan's advertising business.

The advertising cost of nearly 4,000 taels shocked him and made him envious.

Although he had heard of the advertising cost of the temple and Taoist temple in the Yanjing Morning News as early as before, after all, the number was not large, and he had never given him a similar feeling.

This difference, such a considerable amount, suddenly opened up a new style of newspaper bright prospects, a single commercial advertising cost is already a huge profit, if it is ten, hundred, what?

These shareholders, who used to operate the newspaper, made a profit of only two or three hundred taels to five or six hundred taels a year, which was simply beyond the reach of this new-style newspaper.

It seems that the path of preparing for a new-style newspaper is on the right track.

The deliberations lasted only half an hour, and then they were concluded.

The issuance is imminent, and the previous discussion of the proposal has almost been discussed, and today is only a discussion of the duty of tonight's newspaper office and the celebration of tomorrow's issue.

At the end of the discussion, Zhang Zhong looked at Ji Qian beside him, and then said with a smile, "Master Ji, what else do you have to say?" This is a sentence that he must mention at the end of every shareholder meeting, among the several shareholders present, Ji Qian's identity is different, and the report of the Beijing Daily is completely attributed to the other party, so it is necessary to be extraordinarily courteous and respectful.

"President Zhang is polite."

In the past, Ji Qian usually just waved his hand and excused himself, but today he couldn't help but say a few words, at this time, he was a little polite, and then said, "Everyone, tomorrow I will go to Beijing Daily to be published...... Although I said that the Beijing Daily is the second new-style newspaper in Beijing, and the number of copies that will be issued is only 3,000 copies, but there is a way that the latter will come first, and the latter will be the last, and a colleague will say well, 'It is difficult to say who will account for the majority of the market in the future', I mean, not only that, but I can also think further, that is, to squeeze the Yanjing Morning News......"

—————— the author Oriental Jade Bird reminds that please go to the first website and read. There are many errors and omissions in the content of the non-first website, and the update time is not timely. In addition, the first volume of this book has been revised to a large extent, and the rest of the volumes are also polished, and the non-first website has not been revised and polished accordingly, so it is not only the best choice to read it on the first website, but also directly supports the author (the author of the non-first website does not have any income)—————————————

Ning Rong Street, Jia Ji raw silk shop.

Jia Yun held the armrest of the cedar chair with one hand, and kept wiping the beads of sweat on her forehead with the other.

In front of him, Jia Lu, the only guy in the store, was reporting to him, "...... Boss, the little one ran to all the districts according to your instructions, the price of raw silk has dropped a little bit compared with yesterday, and now the price is roughly one catty, three dollars and two cents of silver, and some shops are even lower, it is estimated that by tomorrow, the price will have to be reduced......"

"I know, don't say it......" Jia Yun waved her hand weakly to stop Jia Lu's words.

Since the opening of his raw silk shop in April last year, he has been making steady profits, but now that it is the peak season, the price of raw silk in Beijing has plummeted, which is unexpected.

The price of raw silk plummeted this time, completely due to Japan's Kanhe trade, as many as tens of thousands of catties of Japanese raw silk in just ten days at a price far lower than the price of raw silk in the capital dumped out, forcing the price of raw silk in Beijing to plummet, and many raw silk stores are on the verge of closure.

Jia Yun's shop is not much better, even worse than most of his peers.

At the beginning of last month, he had just wholesaled 4,300 catties of raw silk from a wholesaler in Huzhou, Zhejiang.

4,300 catties of raw silk, the wholesale price is 4 coins of silver per catty, and the total price is as high as 1,720 taels of silver.

Jia Yun couldn't take out this money, not only used all his savings, but also used Xiaohong's private house, making up a total of more than 900 taels, and the remaining gap of about 800 taels was the account owed by the Huzhou wholesale merchant for the sake of business contacts and some personal relations with each other in the past year.

He bought this large amount of raw silk in one go, in order to make a lot of money in the peak season of raw silk at the turn of spring and summer, in March last year, his raw silk shop has not yet opened, and there is not much capital, missed the opportunity, how can he miss it this year?

I don't think that this widow who has suffered a thousand knives actually came to dump raw silk sooner or later, and now not only can not make money, but will lose a lot of money!

Faced with the current situation, Jia Yun can be described as confused.

At present, even if it is sold at the same price as other raw silk shops, it is not possible to operate at a loss, and the raw silk in the capital is already saturated, unless it is sold at a lower price, in fact, some raw silk shops have already done this, which means that they will lose more money.

Temporarily closing the shop and waiting for the price to pick up will not work.

Not to mention the loss of rent for the shop, nor the fact that after the peak season at the turn of spring and summer, the price of raw silk will drop slightly, both of which are nothing, and the key is that the Kanhe trade between Japan and the Great Xia Dynasty will continue to continue.

According to rumors in Fang City, the next batch of Japanese goods, including raw silk, will arrive in Beijing in two or three months.

In this way, in the Beijing raw silk market, which has been in sufficient supply or even saturated, the price of raw silk will never rise, and it will even force Jiangnan raw silk to withdraw from the Beijing market.

After all, the quality of Japan's national raw silk is not inferior to Jiangnan raw silk, and the price is extremely advantageous, and Jiangnan raw silk can't compete no matter what.

Therefore, there is actually only one way in front of him, and he will make a big loss immediately, and after that, he will close the shop and no longer run the raw silk business.

When he decided to open this raw silk shop, he saw that the raw silk market in the capital was far from saturated and profitable, but the next raw silk market in Beijing was completely different.

What's more, the sale of the inventory of raw silk is only enough to pay off the accounts of the wholesalers in Huzhou, and at that time, with his poor net worth, not to mention continuing to operate a raw silk shop, even a grocery store that does not require much principal, I am afraid it will not be able to operate.