"Bai Gongzi, the books are sold out......"

"Books sold out? Isn't that a good thing? Why is the Oriental girl so sad? ”

Dongfang Bai rubbed the corners of his eyes, like a child who made a mistake, and said softly: "Miss Chen has made a despicable trick, I didn't notice it for a while, and I fell in love with her." ”

Bai Song gradually sobered up, feeling that something was wrong, no matter how much the book was sold, it wouldn't be sold out in a sleep, right?

"What the hell is going on?"

Dongfang Bai continued: "The book club next door is ten wen cheaper than us to sell books, and I am unwilling, and then it is reduced to eighty wen per volume. The next door dropped to seventy in an instant. I went to reason with them, but the Chen family lady said that their books would sell as much as they liked. After the theory failed, I changed the price to 60 wen per volume. Next door became fifty wen again. And so on, they are always cheaper than ours. In just one hour, the price of books has dropped to ten cents a book. The cost of our books is more than a dozen dollars per book, and I think the price next door will not be lowered anymore. As a result, a group of customers suddenly came, and directly bought our books out at one time...... And then...... Then the books next door have risen to 200 wen a copy, and we don't have any books to sell now. ”

"Huh?!"

Bai Song was shocked, isn't this a design to copy the bottom?

Seeing that Bai Song's face changed greatly, Dongfang Bai was even more convinced that he had made a big mistake, his face became more and more ugly, he bowed his head and was silent, and he blamed himself very much.

"Bai Gongzi, it's the little girl who made a mistake, I'm sorry ......"

"It's already happening, and you don't want that."

"Bai Gongzi, isn't the little girl stupid? It should have been at home, but when he came, he also caused chaos for his son. ”

"It's okay, business always has profits and losses, and it's also my carelessness, I didn't expect a girl from the Chen family to have some means, let me think about it for a few days, there is always a way to deal with him."

"......" Dongfang Bai was still frowning, and he didn't know if Bai Gongzi was comforting himself or really had a way, so he asked timidly, "Now the booksellers are all buying books next door, even if it is two hundred texts a volume, there are constant customers, looking at it makes people so anxious, I don't know how long it will take us to sell books?" ”

Bai Song also frowned, no one thought that the inventory would be emptied so quickly, and the new batch of books had not yet started to be printed, and it would take three days to wait until the new batch of books arrived.

What's more, if you simply fight a price war with Miss Chen, your own books will not have any advantage.

The Chen family is backed by Shangxian Publishing House, and the printing scale of Shangxian Publishing House is far larger than the paper mill temporarily rebuilt by the Lin Family Paper Mill, and from the perspective of efficiency and cost, it is obvious that the other party has more advantages.

If movable type printing had not been taught to the Shangxian Publishing House, Bai Song could have used movable type printing to turn the situation around.

But I didn't expect such a situation before, Shangxian Books has mastered movable type printing, and there is no technical advantage on its side.

Bai Song walked out of the restaurant and saw the endless stream of booksellers from the bookstore next door, so he stopped to ponder.

The young lady of the Chen family came out again and came to Bai Song with a smile: "Bai Gongzi, thank you for your help, if you hadn't repeatedly lowered the price, it would have been difficult for my small shop to make money." ”

"Miss Chen, it is really impressive to know how to copy the bottom at such a young age."

"Bottom-up?" Chen Xirong didn't understand, and after a little doubt, he immediately became proud again, "No matter what nonsense Bai Gongzi said, and no matter what means Bai Gongzi used to grab Shangyuan Restaurant from my brother at such a low price, but the little woman has always had revenge." And the little woman also wants to see what other means Bai Gongzi has? ”

"So you want to see my methods? I'm afraid that the girl will not be able to bear it then. ”

Leaving a word, Bai Song left the restaurant.

Chen Xirong watched Bai Song leave and called a subordinate: "Follow him, his every move must be reported in time." ”

Bai Song went home first, explained to Xiang'er, and rode Xiao Hei straight to Pi County.

When he arrived at the Lin Mansion, Bai Song first visited his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and chattered a few words in the mansion.

Lin Fu and Lin Mu were all concerned about how Xiang'er was doing in Jixian County, and Bai Song told him truthfully.

Under the leadership of Bai Song, the paper factory in Linfu transformed into printing and made a small fortune by selling books.

Recently, life has obviously improved, and even the life with the Lin family's side clan relatives has been much better.

But with the launch of the book ban campaign in Jixian County, the Lin family paper mill has not started for a long time, and Lin Tingzheng is somewhat worried.

Today, the son-in-law came, and after talking about family life, it was natural to ask when the work would start.

"I've been busy printing books lately."

"Not busy printing?" Lin Tingzheng frowned when he listened, "Could it be that the matter in Jixian County has not been resolved?" But the people of the Lin family are still counting on books......"

"If my father-in-law believes me, he will do as I say."

"What's the best idea for a virtuous son-in-law?"

"From today on, the bark, hay, and water pulp used in papermaking will be collected as much as you want, no matter the price, there will be nowhere to collect it in the entire Youzhou."

"Huh?" Lin Tingzheng frowned, "Virtuous son-in-law, why is this?" There are many raw materials for papermaking in the paper mill, which is enough to be used for a while. ”

"Even if you receive it, you can make sure that the Lin family can make enough money."

Lin Tingzheng didn't understand what Bai Song was going to do, and he seemed very uneasy, but then Bai Song said that he would send the money tomorrow, even if he asked the Lin family to handle the matter on his behalf.

With the silver as a guarantee, Lin Tingzheng didn't ask any more, and only said that he would do it.

After explaining the matter, Bai Song hurriedly returned to Jixian County.

When he arrived in Jixian County, Bai Song first went to Niu Da to explain some things, and gave Niu Da a drawing, asking them not to pick medicine for the time being, and to cut bamboo recently.

Niu Da has nothing to say, Bai Song will do whatever he wants.

When Bai Song returned home to rest, the news reached the ears of Miss Chen as soon as possible.

In order to take revenge on Bai Song, Miss Chen's mind has been on the newly opened bookstore recently, enduring the stench of poultry next door, and staring at the movements of Donglai Restaurant all day long.

At night the next day, Miss Chen was still looking at the accounts in the bookstore, and she was still a little proud after counting.

"I didn't expect this little book to be so profitable, but I made more than a hundred taels of silver in two days. If it weren't for that kid bullying the Chen family, Miss Ben wouldn't have discovered this way to make money. If it's really a blessing and a curse, I don't know what that kid thinks when he learns everything? ”

The little maid beside her listened and echoed: "Hmph, it's the first time I've seen a kid who dares to go against the Chen family, I really don't know how thick the sky is." I don't see that in a few days, the next door will have to sell the building and close down, and when the time comes, not only will he get back the things that belong to the Chen family, but he will also obediently hand over his own restaurant. ”

At this time, a family member came back and whispered: "Miss, the kid next door went to Pi County first, and after leaving, the Lin family began to buy raw materials for papermaking." In one day, the bark of the entire county and the ash of the plants and trees of each family were all bought. The subordinates of the Lin Mansion have been scattered all over Youzhou, and it seems that they have to collect bark and vines in other cities. ”

"Miss, that kid is afraid that he knows that he can't sell books for us, and instead wants to raise the price of paper?"

In front of the table, Chen Xirong dragged her cheeks, pondered for a while, and suddenly smiled softly: "Whimsical!" There are countless raw materials such as bark, and the consumption of paper is not too large, and the raw materials we have are enough, and we don't have to deal with his little carving skills. ”

The family nodded, turned and prepared to leave.

"Wait." Chen Xirong suddenly stopped him, "But the surveillance can't be relaxed, everything has to be reported." ”

"Yes."

……

Two more days passed.

Whether it was Chen Xirong noticing the Lin family's movements.

Even many people in Jixian County noticed the abnormality.

The Lin family's crazy purchase of papermaking raw materials has spread, and the Lin family's procurement has arrived in Jixian County.

The people were very strange and wondered why a noble clan bought these things with such fanfare.

Even if you know that the Lin family has a paper mill, but so many raw materials are enough for the Lin family paper mill to produce for more than ten years, why do you want to buy so much?

Besides, paper raw materials are not valuable, nor are they scarce, and no one can understand the behavior of the Lin family for a while.

Xiang'er also didn't understand, and took advantage of Bai Song's day when she didn't go out, so she pestered Xianggong at home to ask for an understanding.

Bai Song didn't want to talk more, but he couldn't be pestered by his wife, so he could only explain as much as he could.

"Xiang'er, have you ever heard of the sheep's head effect?"

"Sheep's head...... Effect? ”

"That is, the flock will imitate the behavior of the head sheep, and wherever the head sheep goes, the sheep will follow. Although no one can understand the Lin family's actions now, as long as it continues like this, there will always be other people who will follow suit. Eventually, more families will do the same. The family's purchase of raw materials for papermaking should not have any impact on the price of raw materials. However, the purchase of papermaking raw materials by countless people will inevitably lead to a clustering effect, and at that time, even a bubble of will be speculated to sky-high prices. When the time comes, as long as we see the right time to sell the raw materials we collect, we don't need to turn them into paper at all, and we can make a lot of money. ”

Xiang'er heard it in a fog, but seeing that Xianggong was so sure, she no longer doubted it in her heart, after all, she hadn't seen anyone who could make more money than Xianggong.

Bai Song said to Xiang'er simply, but in order to really trigger large-scale imitation by merchants, it is necessary to borrow the east wind of the Chen family.

In recent days, the Chen family has been quite calm, and when they heard the rumors outside, even if there were a few merchants following and learning, Miss Chen was still unmoved.

Two more days passed.

Chen Xirong got the latest news, there are more and more trucks going to and from the Lin Mansion, in addition to the paper raw materials, there seem to be books printed in volumes.

Chen Xirong didn't think about it, and concluded that those books were the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

In the past, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms came out of Linfu and was all shipped to Jixian County.

But this time it was different, the trucks from the Lin Mansion no longer entered Jixian County, but scattered to various small counties in Youzhou.

Hearing this news, Chen Xirong had a bad premonition.

"This Lin family's son-in-law doesn't want to fight with me in Jixian County, but changes direction and prepares to sell books to all counties in Youzhou? However, the income of the county residents in the small counties of Youzhou is not high, and a book can easily cost hundreds of texts, and I am afraid that no one can afford it......