Chapter 17 Future Plans
It is not easy to live in the capital!
Regardless of the era, the cost of living in the capital is much higher than the average in the world.
The Jia family in the capital has eight rooms, all of which live in Ningrong Street, with Ningrong Erfu as the core and dependent on Ningrong Erfu to survive.
There are those who mix well, and there are naturally those who mix poorly.
Although the Jia clan can get the same treatment regardless of family conditions, and being able to eat and eat snacks for free in the family can do nothing to improve the family predicament.
If you are a little angry, and compare with your classmates, it is difficult to study with peace of mind.
Besides, the Jia clan's academic style and discipline are corrupt, and it is not a good place to study.
A half-grown son like Jia Yun has begun to consider leaving his family studies and going out to make a living.
At present, Jia Cong's casual actions are giving self-motivated students like Jia Yun a chance to make money and improve their lives by relying on what they have learned.
Copy books and sell them for money!
This is a major way for many poor scholars to make money through reading.
Jia Cong found this way for his classmates, but he made more money, as long as he was careful and careful, he could earn at least one or two taels of silver a month.
One or two pieces of silver is enough for the family behind Jia Yun, and they can live a little comfortably, at least they don't have to worry about their livelihood.
And Jia Yun, by copying books and selling them for money, does not have to worry about survival, and can continue to stay in the clan to study and make progress with peace of mind, at least she should be a lot more active in reading.
Even if Mr. Jia Dairu has no intention of teaching, Jia Cong has a way to help Jia Yun and other motivated classmates to pass the Tongsheng and even Xiucai test.
Once they have fame, even if they are only the lowest-level children, it is enough to ensure that they can obtain enough sources of livelihood, and they may even mix quite well.
At this time, Ning Rong's second mansion was still very bluffing, even if it was just pulling the banner of the tiger bark tree, it might help the clansmen with meritorious names to enter the officialdom smoothly.
To do all this, Jia Cong just did it easily, the key is to rely on Jia Yun and others to be consciously motivated and seize the opportunity, otherwise he will be too lazy to waste his spirit.
Fortunately, Jia Yun and other self-motivated classmates did not disappoint his help, and they worked hard one by one, and Jia Cong naturally didn't mind letting them feel at ease.
The middle-aged shopkeeper of Yawen Bookstore didn't have any moths.
After carefully checking the manuscripts of Jia Yun and others, he found no obvious problems, paid the money quickly, and agreed on follow-up cooperation.
There are those who have the money to buy books, and some people like to buy manuscripts, which are sold very expensive, and the market is not small.
As far as Jia Cong knows, the engraving printing technology is quite mature, and it is also the mainstream of printing books at this time, but it cannot be copied in large quantities because of wear and tear.
Of course, movable type printing technology has also appeared, but because the font board is positive, there is no graphic and text attached to engraving printing, and the result is not accepted by the mainstream of Shilin.
Jia Yun and the others got the silver, full of excitement and needless to mention, Jia Cong didn't pay much attention to the enthusiasm of the middle-aged shopkeeper of Yawen Bookstore, and said hello a few times and left directly.
Obviously, the middle-aged shopkeeper of Yawen Bookstore already knows his identity, so he naturally doesn't want to be exploited.
Although no one in the mansion took his big house seriously, he couldn't squander the prestige of the Rongguo Mansion indiscriminately.
Good steel should be used on the blade, at least at this time, he has not had to be Yawen Bookstore.
Or use the fame of Rongguo Mansion to fight for their own benefits, there are only one or two opportunities, and they can't be easily wasted.
Now that he came out, Jia Huan beside him 'begged' again, Jia Cong did not plan to go back to the house directly, but with Jia Huan and the two little guys, he sneaked directly to the real street and experienced the market style of the capital.
Sure enough, this place is much more prosperous and noisy than the street market spontaneously formed on Ning Rong Street.
It is understandable that Ningrong Street is a gathering place for the powerful after all, and there are no restaurants, teahouses, brothels and gambling houses.
Walking all the way, the street stalls and the storefront shops complement each other, all kinds of people are endless, and the lives of the people of the capital and the official merchants are all in it.
Jia Cong is naturally not without purpose, every time he goes to a bookstore, he takes the initiative to enter the door to look, and at the same time inquire about the guy or the shopkeeper, and the plan in his heart is gradually improved in this process.
Before, he had the idea of writing a children's enlightenment storybook, which was used as the main way to get money, and he could get a good harvest without being eye-catching, which was exactly what he needed now.
At his early seven-year-old age, although he is much taller than when he first came because of his excellent exercise effect and nutrition, he is still a young boy who has no voice and is not taken seriously.
Even if he was full of business experience and all kinds of practical inventions that made money quickly, he had experienced the flower dew, which made him understand the embarrassing fact that he couldn't control his private wealth at all.
It's better to write books honestly and make money, at least even if Mrs. Xing and the big guy in the house know, as long as it's not a thing like a talented and beautiful woman who writes, you don't have to worry about being greedy, they still want this face.
The bookstores I visited before also showed that children's books suitable for this era are still quite marketable.
The point is that in the Daqing Dynasty in the feudal era, even the entertainment for adults was quite scarce, let alone for children.
Jia Cong believes that as long as he writes funny and humorous children's books, it is not difficult to make money, and even gathering some popularity is not a problem.
Popularity is also a kind of luck, and when it accumulates to a certain extent, it can also become real luck, which is not a small attraction to Jia Cong.
In the past, I was still thinking about how to get luck, writing books can not only make money, but also try to absorb popularity and accumulate luck, but I can give it a try.
However, just in case, he had to carefully consider and make a good selection, and he couldn't take out all the stories, and the background and allusions of some stories obviously did not match the knowledge he could master, and it was easy to make people suspicious when they were written.
This is also the main reason why he is a little hesitant, he is too young to learn limited knowledge, and a bad one may lead to suspicion.
He just wants to accumulate enough luck in peace, and at the same time put the theory of martial arts into practice, and he doesn't want to get involved too much with the others.
Of course, if you can, helping Rongguo Mansion avoid complete decline can also be regarded as a kind of repayment for occupying the original owner's body, provided that you don't get yourself into trouble.
"It's not early, I'm back!"
Seeing that the sun was setting in the west, Jia Cong, who came out of a certain bookstore, greeted him and returned home with a reluctant Jia Huan, without arousing any suspicion.
"Second brother, are you here to see the master?"
At the door of the main hall, he actually met the second master of the chain, Jia Cong stepped forward to salute and asked curiously.
"It's the third brother!"
Jia Lian didn't care and said: "The Xue family is going to Beijing recently, so I will say hello to the master in advance!" ”