Chapter 91. Daming booksellers
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It is said that Liu Wenyang was bored because of his illness, lying in bed and reading the novels of this era. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info.
Look at the first page again, engraved with such a tone: The south gate of the streets and alleys is open, the beauty is like jade and loved, the son sees it and walks over, you can put away the money (oops, a hi), I hope you can do it conveniently. The beautiful woman saw Caichun's heart moved, and she called Lang Cai with slanted apricot eyes, holding a little obedient girl (oops, a hi), come with me, the two of them looked for a secluded place, and the sister's pants were taken off (oops, a hi)......
The content behind is a bit obscene~ filthy, and Liu Wenyang is not interested in looking at it anymore, but his head began to spin. What are you going around, doing business?
Liu Wenyang has always planned to open up a second career, and he can't always find a way to tell fortunes and look at his face for the rest of his life, although this is enough to eat and wear, and there is a lot of money to spare, but after all, it does not belong to the rich and expensive, even if he now has 30,000 families, which is converted into more than 18 million in his previous life, but no one in this world has ever disliked having more money. Liu Wenyang is no exception. He has always been thinking about investing in a business.
Before, Liu Wenyang shamelessly took advantage of Wu Million's ambition to enter the provincial capital of the tea silk business, and took a share of the tea silk business.
The day before yesterday, he told Nachun Thirteen Niang about this very tactfully, to monopolize the supply of tea silk in Chunfeng Yixiaolou, the result is very ideal, that Chun Thirteen Niang is also refreshing, but what is even more refreshing is that --- ask to also become a shareholder!
Liu Wenyang mistakenly underestimated the wisdom of the Spring Thirteen Niang, and even looked down on her greed, thinking that she would not take these small amounts of money in her eyes, but the result was that people ate themselves.
As a result, Liu Wenyang and Wu Million were originally doing business together. became Liu Wenyang. Wu Million and the three of Chun Thirteen Niang's business. And Chun Thirteen Niang said. As long as Liu Wenyang and Wu Wanken nodded, she would help promote this tea silk business, but what she meant was to monopolize the entire county. This speculation surprised Liu Wenyang, and he began to estimate the energy of Chun Thirteen Niang from a new perspective, daring to say such big words, what did she rely on? !
However, what surprised Liu Wenyang even more was that he was afraid that Chun Shisanniang would have a direct contact with that Wu Million, and then kick him away, the middleman. After all, he only paid 1,000 taels of silver to buy shares, and he didn't make much effort to calculate it, but he was just pulling a rope in the middle, if Wu Million and Chun Thirteen Niang hit it off when they met, then they would go cool!
In order to prevent this kind of "accident" from happening, Liu Wenyang will never let Wu Million have any contact with Chun Thirteen Niang, but everything is like paper that can't hold fire, and sooner or later there will be such a problem. So Liu Wenyang thought about it and found another business to invest in.
What to invest in?
In the past, Liu Wenyang was still a little confused, but now he has found an investment direction. That is to do -- to engage in publishing and selling books!!
Yoo Wenyang's ambition told him. This line of work is absolutely profitable!
First of all, there is no tax on selling books here!
According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty": "Ming Hongwu: In addition to the tax on books and instruments, the private sector is exempted. "You know, in the previous life, it seemed that the only things that were tax-free were agricultural products. Now, as long as there is no tax, you can directly save a lot of production costs.
Liu Wenyang has carefully studied it, and the cost of a thin booklet like the street for three cents a piece is only one penny at most, which means that selling one book will earn two pennies. He also observed that when he bought it, there were four or five people selecting at the same time, so a stall could sell at least 50 copies a day, and if 100 stalls were 500 copies, 500 copies could earn 1,000 wen!
Don't underestimate this thousand texts, add up to a lot, if a market earns a thousand wen a day, what about a hundred markets? That's ten taels of silver!! How many markets are there in the whole Ming Dynasty? Hundreds of thousands, or millions?! How much is that?!!
Secondly, if you want to publish it, you will have a bestseller!
In Liu Wenyang's view, publishing books is very knowledgeable, and the water is very deep. If you publish some books that are out of the ordinary, dog-like buns, you will lose all your money. For example, if you publish a book "Those Things in Mingjiao" in the Ming Dynasty, it is not only a loss of money, but a suicide! You must know that the old emperor Comrade Zhu Chongba was very sensitive to "Mingjiao", so it is necessary to pay attention to the selection of materials for publication and identify the types of bestsellers in ancient times.
What book was the best-selling in the Ming Dynasty? 1. Textbooks and books for civil service examinations; 2. Non-fiction: daily miscellaneous books, medical skills; 3. Fiction: Lyrics and novels. I just don't know if there is chicken soup for the soul at this time.
Finally, find the right sales channel, you can make a profit!
The sales channels of the Ming Dynasty were nothing more than street markets, township private schools, and county schools and other places as markets, in Liu Wenyang's view, the market in these places is vast, far from saturated, as long as you are willing to do it, you can already make a lot of money.
Thinking of this, Liu Wenyang's ambition to dominate the Ming publishing industry was highly inflated.
And he is the kind of person who is anxious, the strong sense of crisis in the tea silk business has been transformed into the pride and ambition to start a business, so that he can no longer lie down, and directly called Xiao Tong Mingyue: "You quickly find me a sedan chair, young master, I want to go out!" ”
Mingyueqi said: "But you want to go out to see the doctor?" ”
Liu Wenyang: "Just call over and ask so much, what are you doing?" ”
Liu Wenyang said as he got out of bed with his shoes on, took care of his appearance casually, and then looked at the "engraving firm" behind the lyrics, but it was "Buyi Bookstore".
Cloth Book Company? The name sounds tasteful, but I don't know if it's big or big, but if the scale is good, you can buy it.
In Liu Wenyang's view, the things he just pondered are all on paper, if you want to really do this business, you must hire someone who knows how to run it, so what is faster than directly buying a formed bookstore?!
Liu Wenyang was thinking about it, but Tong Mingyue had already summoned a sedan chair here. Liu Wenyang sneezed, but he didn't dare to eat the cold wind outside.
The sedan chair carried him and swayed, and the leader of the sedan chair asked, "I wonder where the boss is going?" ”
Liu Wenyang replied casually in the sedan chair: "Buyi Bookstore!" ”
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This is Liu Wenyang's second time going out today, and he walked around with Mingyue before and bought a lot of things, but this time he did it with a purpose. So it doesn't take much time. I turned around and came to the mouth of an alley.
Liu Wenyang was holding his breath in the sedan chair. Practice "Turtle Breath**", just because the nose is not breathable because of a cold, you can only inhale slowly and then exhale. But I felt that the sedan chair had stopped. Then the palanquin man said, "Boss, the place has arrived, but you can't walk in front, so I want you to come down and move two steps." ”
"Why can't you walk? But I'm afraid I won't have any money for you? Liu Wenyang really didn't want to eat the cold breeze.
"Of course not, how can we not make money if we have it? It's just that the road is blocked in front of it, and this sedan chair can't be lifted! ”
"Oh. yes, let me come down and take a look! When Liu Wenyang said this, he opened the curtain of the sedan chair, and the little boy Mingyue came over and stretched out his hand to help him down.
The four palanquin bearers stood aside, their faces bitter and their sweat wiped.
Liu Wenyang looked forward, but saw that the alley was really crowded with people, not to mention such a large sedan chair, even a basket could not be carried in.
"Could it be that the business of this cloth bookstore is so good? It's even more lively than Young Master Ben's overcrowded Liufu! Liu Wenyang looked at the scene in front of him, but he remembered the magnificent scene when he was helping people watch the face in Peach Blossom Town.
"Mingyue gave them money, and we walked in!" Liu Wenyang said "Ahh But I felt cold.
Mingyue took the money and rewarded those palanquin drivers, and then came to Liu Wenyang's side and said, "Young master." Are you alright? I see that you are not lightly ill, so you might as well find a doctor! ”
Liu Wenyang shook his head and said: "It's important to do the right thing, go, you go first!" ”
With Liu Wenyang's instructions, the little boy Mingyue dressed up as a calf, put her head against the bustling crowd in front of her, and called out: "Borrow light, borrow light!" But it was forced to cut a passage out of this impenetrable crowd of people. Liu Wenyang followed behind Mingyue and arrived at the door of the store of the "Buyi Bookstore" without much effort.
"Young master, you are lying in bed lonely and want to buy books to read, you just ordered me to come and choose, why do you want to come here in person?" Xiao Tong Mingyue didn't quite understand why his young master had made so much effort to come here, wasn't it just a bookstore, what was new.
Liu Wenyang couldn't tell him for a while, so he squeezed into the shop, but saw that it was also crowded with people.
Liu Wenyang sighed again, the business here is really good, but why are these people still carrying a flat pole and a sickle when they come to buy books? ! Could it be that if you buy too many books, you have to use a flat pole to carry them, and the books you buy are all rough-edged and have to be cut with a sickle?!
But soon he realized that he was wrong, because those people shouted one by one: "Pay back!" pay it back! ”
Nima, it turned out to be a debt collector!
Looking at the gang of people who are extremely vicious, some even wielding sickles and flat shoulders, Liu Wenyang absolutely believes that if they don't give them money, there will be a bloody case.
The man guarding the shop was a white-bearded old man, who said with a bitter face: "Let's go, our boss has no money for you!" ”
"If you don't pay back, you will pay back!"
"Let's rush in and kill a piece of armor!"
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This situation is to ...... Fighting?!
The old man was about to cry, and he didn't know what to do.
At this time, a voice comforted him: "Old gentleman, don't be in a hurry, everything has a solution!" ”
The old man wiped away a handful of old tears, looked at the young offspring who appeared in front of him at some point, and said, "Who are you?" ”
Liu Wenyang shook his shirt and said solemnly: "Go and say, I'm here to rescue you!" ”
Old man: "Huh?!" ”
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The most typical feature of the bookstore in the Ming Dynasty is that the front store is the back factory, the bookstore is the editorial department, the bookstore is the printing house, and in the words that are very popular now, it is vertical integration.
At this time, under the leadership of the old man, Liu Wenyang worked hard to enter the workshop behind the shop.
The workshop was large and bright, with wooden pieces for lettering, carved boards that had been formed, and vats of ink, as well as white paper hanging on bamboo poles to dry.
There are a lot of things, but there are no people.
Not even a dog.
A gust of wind blew, the white paper rattled, and the ground was desolate.
Liu Wenyang stood in the center of the workshop, looking left and right, but still couldn't see anyone.
So Liu Wenyang turned around and asked the old man: "Lao Jia, I have come here, why can't I see your boss yet?" ”
The old man clutched his hands, wept and mourned, and then pointed with his hand to one place, "Look. Isn't that?! ”
Liu Wenyang fixed his eyes. But he saw a man riding on the wall not far away. To be precise, he was riding a little fat man, who looked funny, and seemed to want to escape over the wall, but because the wall was too high, he couldn't get up or down.
"That friend, how is the scenery up there?" Liu Wenyang asked below.
The little fat man was startled and hurriedly said: "I am passing by, but I am not the owner of this bookstore!" ”
Liu Wenyang smiled and said, "I didn't ask you, what are you doing so nervous?" ”
"Where am I nervous?" The little fat man wiped the cold sweat from his head. "Who are you? But you're here to collect the debt? ”
Liu Wenyang is absolutely convinced. As long as he answered "yes", the fat man would jump down from the wall desperately, so he said: "You don't owe me anything, why should I chase it?!" ”
Little Fat Man: "Yes! No wonder the face is very raw! ”
Liu Wenyang: "You still haven't come down?" ”
Little Fat Man: "Are you a helper?" ”
Liu Wenyang: "What do you mean? ”
Little Fat Man: "They hired me to go down?" ”
Liu Wenyang rubbed his nose: "Do you look like me?" ”
The little fat man looked at Liu Wenyang carefully, dressed gorgeously and luxuriously, and had a good temperament, so he said, "But it's not like it!" ”
Liu Wenyang: "You also have some eyesight!" Don't hurry down yet! ”
The little fat man said: "You praise me for having eyesight, but I don't have eyesight...... Don't you see that I'm stuck here? ”
Liu Wenyang: "So what? ”
Little Fat Man: "Let's go and move a ladder!" ”
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Whew, whew, the little fat man climbed down the ladder. While panting, he looked at Liu Wenyang vigilantly. Liu Wenyang didn't have time to talk to him. Instead, he sneezed three times in a row.
"Are you upset to see me?" The little fat man asked.
"What do you mean by that?" Liu Wenyang was surprised.
"As soon as they saw me coming first, they took this sneeze and sprayed me, and they sprayed me in one breath!"
It turns out that sneezing in this Ming Dynasty can't be directed at people, especially not sneezing at people unscrupulously like this, just because as the saying goes, one curse, two hanging, three scolding......
Liu Wenyang didn't expect the fat man to be so sensitive, so he smiled: "I just had a cold, but I'm not scolding you." ”
The little fat man said "oh" suspiciously, and politely arched his hand: "Under the surname Hu Minggua, I don't know the name?" ”
Liu Wenyang said: "Liu Wenyang! ”
Little Fat Man: "Oh, it turned out to be Liu Gongzi...... Just now Fauber said that you can help me, but I don't know how you can help? ”
Fu Bo is the white-bearded old man just now, and now he is going to the store to be a meat shield with a bitter face.
Liu Wenyang smiled slightly and said, "It's very simple, you sell this bookstore to me!" ”
"No, you can't! Absolutely not! The little fat man said righteously, "This cloth bookstore is the ancestral business left to me by my father, and it must not be sold!" ”
Liu Wenyang couldn't help but be stunned, this courgette is still a pumpkin, it's quite filial, and he is still unwilling to buy and sell his ancestral business at this point, so he can't help but be in awe. But before Liu Wen finished saluting, the fat man continued: "But I think the son is sincere enough, if the price is real enough, I may consider one or two!" ”
Liu Wenyang: "......"
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"Young Master Liu, please! Be careful with your step, don't mix and knock ......" The little fat gourd smiled and led Liu Wenyang into the hall of the guests.
The hall was simple and crude, with a table and a few chairs, and the most conspicuous thing was a pot of cucumbers planted next to the wall, and the green and thick fruit grew well. You must know that it is only early spring, and I don't know how this pot of cucumbers is cultivated, and it can grow so strong.
Seeing Liu Wenyang's buttocks sitting down, the little fat man pinched the shopkeeper's shelf, spread his clothes and said, "Fu Bo, serve tea!" Oh yes, Fauber is out, you wait a minute, I'll make you a cup of tea myself! The little fat man owes his ass and makes it look like he wants to get up in person, and he looks very warm and thoughtful.
Liu Wenyang stopped him with his hand and said, "Then don't worry, let's talk about serious things!" ”
The little fat man laughed, sat down again, and said, "Refreshing, I like a refreshing person like Childe, straight to the point, and I don't blame the outside!" As he spoke, he copied the cucumber he had planted, handed one to Liu Wenyang and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't have tea, eat this!" This is a good thing, it is a cucumber that I personally cultivated, fresh and crunchy, eating it not only quenches thirst, but also cures all diseases! When ordinary people come, I don't take it out at all, and I will take it out to entertain a distinguished guest like Childe! ”
Liu Wenyang looked at the coarse cucumber in front of him, and was really embarrassed to refuse, so he took it and wanted to put it aside......
The fat man urged, "Don't put it down, try it, try it!" ”
Liu Wenyang is not a person who has never seen the market, this kind of cucumber was very common in his previous life, and he bought a lot of them in the supermarket, so he handed the cucumber to the little boy Mingyue next to him, and said, "Give it to you, this is also Boss Hu's kindness." ”
Xiao Tong Mingyue was happy, he didn't expect the young master to reward such a precious delicacy, so he hurriedly thanked him, took the coarse cucumber and took a bite, and ate it with relish.
The fat man asked him with a smile: "How is it, does it taste refreshing?" ”
Xiao Tong Mingyue: "Mmmm, it's delicious!" ”
"Of course!" The fat man said proudly, "This cucumber is carefully cultivated by me, especially watered with my accumulated urine and fertilized with dung......
“……?!” Mingyue, who was munching on cucumbers, almost squirted out the contents of her mouth.
Liu Wenyang didn't have time to rub against this fat man, so he said: "Boss Hu, I think we're still talking about business, you bookstore ......"
The little fat gourd took a bite of the cucumber in his hand, and he had long lost the posture of a big shopkeeper, but stepped on the chair with one foot, trembling on one leg, and said: "Speaking of our cloth bookstore, it has a history of hundreds of years!" Since the Song Dynasty, my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather founded this bookstore, and our entire Hu family can be said to be an authentic scholarly family! Since I was a child, I knew how to engrave and print, and how to publish and sell books! Therefore, I have a very emotional relationship with this bookstore! ”
talked about it for a long time, but it was a bitter show. (To be continued.) )。.。