Chapter 34: Selling Magazines!
Since Songtsen Gampo unified Tufan, under the development of the following generations, Tufan's current national strength has been very prosperous, and even the Tang Dynasty is unwilling to fight a decisive battle with them. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Later, because Tufan had been encroaching on the vassal states of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty army united with those vassal states and conducted a decisive battle with Tufan in Dafeichuan, but the result of the decisive battle was shocking that the entire Tang Dynasty 100,000 troops were annihilated!
Since then, the war between the two sides has once again reached a stalemate, looking at the records of historical materials, Lu Chen sighed with emotion. The strength of this Tufan is indeed strong, even the Tang Dynasty, which seems to be prosperous now, has not directly destroyed their strength, not to mention, there are many small countries in the surrounding area, staring at the Tang Dynasty. Although these small countries are usually friendly with Datang, everyone understands that once Datang really declines one day, these small countries will not hesitate to jump out and erode Datang's territory.
And over the years, although the Tang Dynasty and Tufan have been confronting, Tufan has not stopped expanding externally, to the west and south, Tufan has annexed several small countries over the years.
Finally, Lu Chen finished reading the historical materials that introduced Tufan, and finally Lu Chen sighed, from these historical materials, the Tufan shown in front of him was very strong, and because most of those people lived in the plateau area, whether it was adaptability or combat effectiveness, they were much stronger than those living in the Central Plains. It was only because they lacked equipment and they were not good at battlefield skills that they looked weaker than the Tang army.
After having a general understanding of the strength of the entire Tubo, Lu Chen no longer thought about them, but quietly left the Lu Mansion, and then walked towards the newly opened Datang Express.
Enter this small shop. Lu Chen found that there were a lot of people gathered here, and it seemed that business was not bad.
Seeing Lu Chen, who was dressed in black, Song Cai hurriedly introduced him into the back room, and then introduced the sales of the magazine to Lu Chen. People here love this magazine, but because there are so few people who know about it, not many people come to buy it.
Seeing the worry on his face, Lu Chen smiled faintly and said, "You don't have to worry about this, as long as people like it!" As for publicity, I have the means! ”
Then I saw Lu Chen put his black cloak on his head again, and then walked out with a stack of magazines, he walked to the street, found some children begging on the side of the street, and whispered a few words in the ears of these children.
I saw these children, one of them running around with a stack of magazines, this Song Cai looked puzzled, he didn't know what Lu Chen was doing!
However, soon he knew Lu Chen's so-called method, at noon that day, all over Chang'an City, from time to time, he would hear some children shouting, "Sell magazines, all major news is recorded!" ”
Lu Chen told these children that as long as they sold the magazines in their hands, they could get ten taels of silver, and ten taels of silver was already a huge amount of money for these children who begged for a living.
At first, Lu Chen was still a little uneasy, afraid that these children would throw away the magazines in their hands, but after secretly following the distance for a while, he found that these ancient children were really simple-minded, and they were really shouting and selling on the street, and no one made small moves.
In the evening of the same day, these children came to the same place as promised, and seeing that some of these children actually brought back the remaining magazines, Lu Chen sighed in his heart: This ancient child is honest! I knew that I would get less paid than others for the rest of the magazines, but I still didn't get rid of the rest of the magazines.
Lu Chen went over, as promised, each of them gave them ten taels of silver, and after getting the silver, these teenagers immediately ran into the distance happily.
And after this afternoon's publicity, the whole Chang'an City knew that there was a shop called Datang Express in Chang'an City, which sold a kind of thing called 'magazine'.
For a while, many people came to see what this so-called magazine was, but fortunately, Lu Chen had already asked Song Cai to print thousands of copies before, and the people who came over couldn't help but buy a copy when they saw that this kind of thing was so cheap.
More than 1,000 copies of the magazine were sold out in less than a day, and although Song Cai and his more than 20 people had been printing non-stop, they were still in short supply.
Song Cai found Lu Chen and suggested finding some more people, after all, they were the ones who supplied the population of the entire Chang'an City, and they had more than enough heart but not enough strength.
Hearing Song Cai's suggestion, Lu Chen thought about it very seriously, and then said, "Yes, but you have to remember that you can't let outsiders touch our core technology, otherwise we won't be able to maintain our dominant position in the future!" ”
Song Cai nodded very seriously, and then they recruited forty people at one time, and because this shop was too small, Lu Chen rented another shop on another street, and more than sixty people produced magazines, so that they could catch up with people's needs.
However, Lu Chen knew that this was just the beginning, and sure enough, another day passed, and even those people from big families knew about the convenient and cheap things like 'magazines'.
So, even if there were more than sixty people, the number of people seemed a little insufficient again, and at this moment, Lu Chen remembered the children who were begging on the roadside before, so he found these children and told them that he wanted to hire them.
All the children first looked at Lu Chen in disbelief for a while, and then cheered excitedly, and even a few little girls cried with joy.
Lu Chen hired them mainly because of the honesty of these children, and printing magazines can be done even by children. Anyway, the procedures of typesetting and lettering were all completed by Song Cai's subordinates.
However, to Lu Chen's surprise, these children didn't need money, they only needed Lu Chen to take care of their three meals a day, and they didn't even need Lu Chen to worry about where they lived.
In the end, Lu Chen still bought them a yard. Looking at these children, Lu Chen secretly sighed in his heart: If these children go to the era where he lived in his previous life, they will definitely be robbed by major factories, and this kind of person who only works without wages may only be found in this era.
With the addition of these children, plus Song Cai beckoning more than a dozen people, Lu Chen's Datang Express already has more than a hundred people, and it is only at this time that they can supply the needs of the people in Chang'an City.
Seeing the rapid development of Datang Express, some businessmen also smelled the broad prospects of the industry, and began to imitate, and several similar shops soon appeared in Chang'an City, but it was not until they began to make magazines that they found that they used engraving printing to produce this kind of article that had to be changed in a few days, and they couldn't make money with the book, and even lost money because they had to change the template frequently.