0386 Buying and selling at a loss
Jiang Luan didn't know that he was disliked by Emperor Yong'an.
As her belly grows, she has been feeling more and more uncomfortable lately, and she is very easily irritated, she feels uncomfortable looking at everything, and she has no appetite for food.
If it weren't for the grandson in her belly, she wouldn't have been able to eat it at all.
Because of this, she was angry at the people who were waiting around her, and she didn't even know how many plates she had smashed.
The more irritable Jiang Luan was, the more he missed his family.
But even if she is the crown princess, she doesn't dare to be presumptuous, and casually recruits her family into the palace to talk with her, and can only wait for the day when they enter the palace to ask for peace.
While waiting, she also paid attention to the news outside the palace.
Now she can only lie in bed in order to have a safe baby, and she is very bored every day. So in order to pass the time, she paid special attention to the news outside the palace.
Before, Zhuangyuan Shulou launched a newspaper and held a vote, but she was very angry.
Fortunately, some gossip newspapers came out later, praising her brother, and she felt better.
However, the wind of this gossip in the capital doesn't seem to be very good, and I don't know how the family copes with it.
At this moment, Sun Xi walked in quickly, "Your Highness, the slave maid has inquired!" The old lady decided to run a newspaper and promote the doctrine of sages! ”
Jiang Luan was overjoyed when he heard this: "Is this serious? ”
Sun Xi nodded, "The old lady said it personally, there will definitely be no fake!" ”
Jiang Luan was even more excited: "That's great!" With the help of this newspaper, the Zhuangyuan Bookstore has not lost its reputation. Their newspaper actually published scripts and businessmen and the like, which is really unsightly!
His grandfather was the head of Bailu Academy, and he was a famous Confucian in the world. When he runs a newspaper, he will definitely be respected by the world. When the time comes, this palace will want to see how proud the Su family is!
It's just a wooden shelf, and it's not as good as a ploughing ox, but it makes her tail go up to the sky! ”
Jiang Luan didn't know about glass and deep ploughing at this time, and his mind was still full of newspapers and cultivators, so he was eager to kill Su Jinli's majesty.
Sun Xi didn't know either.
Before, because of the matter between the palace maid Chunlan and Mama Zhou, the palace was very turbulent, where did he dare to inquire about the news from the Qinzheng Palace?
Hearing Jiang Luan's words, he immediately complimented, "What His Highness said is extremely true, the Beijing Daily of the Zhuangyuan Bookstore is indeed insulting. But thanks to them, there is no one in the capital who does not know about the newspaper. When the old lady runs a newspaper, he will definitely be able to spread it all over the world. ”
Jiang Luan smiled proudly, she thought so too.
Although the gossip newspaper is aimed at their Jiang family, it is too cheesy, and even excessive. Even if it has been against the Beijing Daily, it will affect the reputation of the Jiang family, which is inappropriate.
Therefore, the Jiang family must have their own newspaper.
Now the people in the capital already know about the newspaper, and when the Jiang family's newspaper is launched, it can just take advantage of this shareholder style to become famous all over the world.
At that time, not only will the reputation of the Yu Jiang family be beneficial, but they will no longer have to be constrained by the Beijing Daily, and watch the Beijing Daily talk nonsense.
Jiang Luan smiled proudly, "Grandfather is erudite, and the newspaper he runs is naturally the best." ”
When Sun Xi heard this, he quickly slapped a lot of sycophants, which made Jiang Luan smile happily, and even his appetite improved a lot.
At the same time, the Jiang family was trying to run a newspaper.
The Jiang family had their own study, but when it came to running a newspaper, they still encountered a problem.
When movable type printing was introduced, they actually scoffed at it and did not put any effort into producing movable type.
They prefer engraving printing to movable type printing.
The Jiang family's bookstore has been in business for many years and has accumulated a lot of printing and engraving. Except for the new books, they don't need to engrave them at all, and they can print them directly with the previous engravings.
In this way, where is the need to expend effort to produce a large number of movable type?
It wasn't until this time that the people of the Jiang Family Bookstore discovered the shortcomings of engraving.
The content of this newspaper should be updated frequently, if it has to be engraved every time, where will it be time?
The Beijing Daily will be updated every day, and if they want to compare the Beijing Daily, even if they can't update it every day, they have to update it every three days, right?
But even if it's a three-day update, the frequency of this update is too fast, and the engraving is too late!
In comparison, movable type printing is significantly more suitable.
The manager of the bookstore had to meet Jiang Xuehai in person, raised the shortcomings of engraving printing, and proposed to make movable type.
Jiang Xuehai, as a great Confucian in the world, is indeed a rich man.
After listening to the steward's words, he immediately realized that newspapers were more suitable for movable type printing, so he resolutely agreed.
However, the problem arises again.
The steward has secretly sent someone to inquire, and the Zhuangyuan Book Building now uses lead type, which is metal type, which is stronger than clay type and wooden type, less easy to wear, and can make the word smaller.
The problem is that lead is a metal like clay and wood, which is much more expensive.
However, there are so many words to be used, and if you want to print, you must make several more sets of some commonly used words.
In this way, the cost is not small.
Although the bookstore makes money, the profit is not particularly large, and he has to hand over the majority of the money to the Jiang family every month, and use the rest to operate.
Now if they want to make lead movable type, the money in their accounts is not enough at all, and they have to be paid by the Jiang family.
As a great Confucian, Jiang Xuehai himself is quite high-minded, he doesn't like businessmen, and he never cares about how much money is in the account.
So as soon as he heard that the steward asked for money, he directly agreed and asked the steward to go to the account room to withdraw the money.
The steward went directly, but he didn't dare to withdraw too much.
He planned to start by making movable type based on the content of the newspaper, which would not only be faster but also less expensive.
For the rest, when the newspaper is sold, they will naturally be able to recoup a lot of money.
However, when he finally printed a thousand copies of the newspaper, the steward was dumbfounded.
The cost of printing this newspaper is too high!
If you take into account the cost of making movable lead type, plus the cost of labor and paper and ink, the cost of a newspaper actually reaches fifty wen!
This is because the articles in the newspaper are all written by the Jiang family, so the pen fee for those articles is not counted!
If you add the pen fee, the cost will be even higher!
With such a high cost, can it still be sold?
A newspaper in the Zhuangyuan Bookstore only sells for two big dollars, that is, two pennies, and it sells a lot.
Could it be that the champion library is making money at a loss?
But if it is really a loss, wouldn't the Zhuangyuan Book Building have to lose hundreds or even hundreds of taels of silver every day?
It's absolutely impossible!
Even if you really lose money, you shouldn't lose so much.
Something must have gone wrong!
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