Chapter 48
Chen's pawn shop.
Facing Zhao Cheng who soon returned 100 yuan, Old Chen, who had been claiming to be facial paralysis, actually twitched a few times. It seemed that he wanted to express his surprise, but his facial muscles did not cooperate because he had not understood the loss of function for too long.
Zhao Cheng felt that this old man had a bunker.
"Brother Zhao, how much did you make money from the listing of the hardcover book? I heard that it was shorted on the first day."
The big-shoulder with round waist asked with interest.
"Not much, no more, about seventy cents."
Zhao Cheng waved his hand one hundred times, and conciliated all the procedures handed over by Lao Chen, and paid off all the owed money.
Now it is equivalent to Zhao Cheng himself owning a "huge sum of money" of more than 130 chunks.
After completing the procedures, Old Chen raised his book and ignored him. After a while, he saw Zhao Cheng sticking around and not leaving. Old Chen put down the book and looked at Zhao Cheng with an expressionless face.
Zhao Cheng looked like a prodigal son and said: "Old Chen, how much money would you like to buy out the subsequent publication and operation rights of the hardcover book of "Lan Ruo Temple"?"
Old Chen and the thugs looked at each other.
The thug immediately said with malicious intentions: "We will not know before the listing of the hardcover book. I personally think it will affect the serial income of the tea shop you sold to us. How do you explain this?"
Zhao Cheng said: "You can pull it off. You know more than me what group is serialized by Heshun Tea House. You know more about what group is buying hardcover books. These two groups do not intersect. Those who have bought books will definitely not have the time and energy to tell stories orally to the poor. This is certain."
Seeing that Old Chen nodded slightly, he agreed with this statement. The thug stopped talking.
Next, after Lao Chen started to tick the abacus, he almost gestured to Zhao Cheng.
The thug answered on his behalf: "Each episode is 100 coins, and the subsequent publication income of the hardcover book of "Lan Ruo Temple" is bought out? One episode is given to one episode, and the contract will be automatically ended after the story is completed?"
Zhao Cheng nodded decisively.
Big customer, absolutely big customer!
Although Lao Chen had no expression on his face, he felt that Xiao Zhao was not a cover-up, and he was indeed a straightforward high-quality customer.
Another agreement was taken on the counter. Khan, this old guy had almost any agreement, or he was good at calculating and knew that Zhao Cheng would sell the business, so he prepared the agreement in advance.
Zhao Cheng looked at it and said, "Old Chen, if you have a episode of 100 per cent, you will definitely be punished by God. Do you know this?"
Old Chen rolled his eyes and took back the agreement, ignoring Zhao Cheng.
Zhao Cheng said: "Okay, you're ruthless... You will certainly lose money when you buy out this price. For example, if you have four chunks of money per month, you will also lose money when you write a storyteller. You just say that you have the resources and channels to operate in other nearby counties, but I don't, right?"
The big-shoulder with round waist frowned and said, "Do you sell it or not?"
"Selling is to sell, and it is impossible not to be a prodigal son in this life. Speaking of which, my interests have been basically maximized, and the remaining interests are not something I can eat, so of course I have to give way."
Zhao Cheng made a complaint while pressing his handprint and completed the sale agreement on the publication income of the physical book "Lan Ruo Temple".
Old Chen looked at the thug again. This guy complained almost every time. What’s interesting is that he is indeed a good player in his spendthrift.
Zhao Cheng still refused to leave and said, "Now I have paid off all your debts and owned 130 trump cards. In addition, I have two sales contracts about "Lanruo Temple". How much can you lend me a loan?"
Old Chen started to tick the abacus again, dazzled by the sight.
After a while, Old Chen gestured four fingers.
"Four hundred stakes."
At the same time, Lao Chen took out a loan agreement and handed over a brush.
Zhao Cheng looked at the interest rate and lowered.
The thug explained: "After many cooperations, you are considered a high-quality customer of my business. While you have accumulated character, it means that the operating risks of my Chen business in you are reduced, so the interest rate is reduced to two points."
Zhao Cheng looked at it for no problem and pressed his handprint decisively. So now, the cash flow in his hand has expanded to more than 500 columns...
For Zhao Cheng, "Lanruo Temple" is just a test of the waters. Interest is not the purpose. It is the original intention to create a gimmick and create a fame.
The real benefit is to use the current greater cash flow to operate the next script "Happy Three Kingdoms" that was brewing long ago.
Zhao Cheng had long discovered that these novices prefer the Three Kingdoms stories, and also discovered that almost all tea shops in this era were popular with the Three Kingdoms storytelling scripts, with a large audience, but there were hundreds of versions of the story, but they were all bad without exception.
The benefits of the Happy Three Kingdoms depend largely on the popularity of "Lanruo Temple".
Zhao Cheng himself cannot operate to the current level of popularity. Only when Lao Chen, the unscrupulous businessman, has such resources and channels, can he do his best to operate.
Then the more money he makes, the greater the expected profit of "Happy Three Kingdoms" that Zhao Cheng is planning.
The reason is similar to later generations. At its peak, Tomato Chengdong's new book was still missing, so Games Merchants bought the adaptation rights tens of millions of dollars in advance. The price was determined by the popularity of their old books, and at the same time, there was also the premium effect caused by the influx of capital.
It’s not that Zhao Cheng has to work in this industry to make money, but Zhao Cheng’s ultimate goal is not money.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, which was the most important literary era, did there be books about how many people know you and how many fans you have? There are so many important things in other dynasties, and it is no longer a problem of economic interests at all.
This is also a card to avoid death to a certain extent. After Dawenke, who wrote books, gained a considerable reputation and audience, he would basically not die in the Northern Song Dynasty.
This is the Song Dynasty.
The vast capital is most likely to trigger industrialization. In a feudal society, unlike the feudal society, the root cause is that it is too pathological tolerant of scholars. As long as the old Confucius believers have the right to speak for one day, it will always be difficult to cross the last threshold of industrialization.
Under the guidance of the idea of "those with machines must have scheming", the farming civilization is difficult to avoid being raped by the Hu people under the restrictions of the corrupt scholars of the weak Song Dynasty. If it is at other times, then I will not care about it. In fact, I will not die if I get beaten a few times a day, but this year is basically terminally ill, and the Jurchen wolf pack will be able to enter Tokyo in a few years.
Industrialization is not simply a matter of reducing the price of basic raw materials and training farmers on a large scale to workers. It is true that these two points can be called industrialization, but it is nonsense. Someone must listen to you and someone must believe you.
To let them listen to Zhao Cheng, they must first let them know Zhao Cheng, and then slowly accept it, and then like Zhao Cheng. Otherwise, it will be a whole.
This is why Liu Dutou couldn't manage the group of civilians who served even if he had a knife. They didn't listen to him or believe him. However, they later gradually believed Zhao Cheng, and this was the difference.
In that small scene of the river project, Zhao Cheng was the industrial model and Lao Liu was the feudal model.
The reason for changing the model lies in thought. So I returned to the literati who mastered the pen. In fact, this is what literati should do.
There are two types of struggles. One is asymmetry, that is, not to whine the scholars, and send a soldier to beat the scholars' mouths in a crooked manner. But obviously there was no such soil in the Northern Song Dynasty, so there was only another mouth-to-mouth left, which was manifested as the party struggle between literati in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Zhuangzi and Huizi's two verbal tricks will never win or lose, and no one can convince anyone in the end. The difference lies in their influence. Simply put, how many people listen to you and how many reading bases are there.
Chapter completed!