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Chapter 91. The Great Bookseller(1/2)

By the way, Liu Wenyang was bored because he was sick and lying on the bed to read the novel of this era...

Look at the first page again, with such a tone engraved: The south gate of the streets and alleys is open, and the beauty is as beautiful as jade, and the young master walked over to him. You can put away the money (Oh, Yihu), hoping that you can do it conveniently. The beauty is moved when she sees the money, squints with her almond eyes and calls her, holding her hand with her little beloved (Oh, Yihu), and following me, the two of them are looking for a secluded place, and the sister takes off her pants (Oh, Yihu).

The content behind was a bit lewd and filthy. Liu Wenyang was not interested in looking at it anymore, but his head began to wander around. What's going on? Do business.

Liu Wenyang has always planned to open a second career, and he can't tell fortunes for his whole life. Although he has enough food and clothing and still has a lot of money, he is not a wealthy person after all. Even if he has a 30,000 yuan base now, it is equivalent to more than 18 million yuan in his previous life. However, no one in this world has ever despised the fact that he has a lot of money. Liu Wenyang is no exception. He has been thinking about investing in a business.

Before, Liu Wenyang shamelessly used Wu Baiwan's ambition to build the tea silk business into the provincial capital and took a share of the tea silk business.

The day before yesterday, he told Chun Shisanniang this matter very politely, and wanted to monopolize the supply of tea silk in Chunfeng Yixiaolou. The result was very ideal. Chun Shisanniang was also happy, but what was even more refreshing was that she also asked to invest in the stock!

Liu Wenyang mistakenly lowered the wisdom of Chun Shisanniang and even lowered her greed. He thought she would not take these small money into consideration, but in the end, he was determined to take it.

In this way, the original business of Liu Wenyang and Wu Baiwan turned into a business of Liu Wenyang, Wu Baiwan and Chun Shisanniang and Chun Shisanniang. Chun Shisanniang said that as long as Liu Wenyang and Wu Baiwan were willing to nod, she would help promote the tea silk business, but according to her intention, she wanted to monopolize the entire county town. This speculation surprised Liu Wenyang. He began to re-estimate Chun Shisanniang's energy. What did she rely on if she dared to say such big words?!

However, what surprised Liu Wenyang even more was that he was afraid that Chun Shisanniang and Wu Baiwan would have a direct contact, and then kicked him, the middleman, away. After all, he only paid 1,000 taels of silver to invest, and he didn't do much effort. He just put a rope in the middle. If Wu Baiwan and Chun Shisanniang hit it off, then he would go cool down!

In order to prevent such "accidents", Liu Wenyang would never let Wu Baiwan and Chun Shisanniang have any connection, but everything is like paper that cannot be kept in the fire, and sooner or later will encounter such a problem. So Liu Wenyang thought about it and found another business to invest in it.

What to invest in?

Liu Wenyang was a little confused before, but now he has found the investment direction. That is - publishing and selling books!!!

Liu Wenyang's ambition tells him that this industry will definitely make huge profits!

First of all, you don’t charge taxes when selling books here!

According to "History of Ming Dynasty", "Ming Hongwu: Excluding the tax on books, land and goods, the private sector is exempted from taxes." You should know that the tax-free things in the past seem to be only agricultural products. Now, as long as you do not collect taxes, you will directly save a large amount of production costs.

Liu Wenyang carefully studied it. A thin booklet like the street that costs three cents a book, at most one cent, which means selling one book will make a profit of two cents. He also observed that when he bought it, there were four or five people choosing it. Then a stall can sell at least fifty books a day. If one hundred stalls are five hundred books, five hundred books can make a profit of one thousand books!

Don’t underestimate this thousand papers, accumulate a lot. If a market earns a thousand papers a day, what about a hundred markets? That’s ten taels of silver!! How many markets are there in the entire Ming Dynasty? Hundreds of thousands or millions?! How much is that?!!

Secondly, if you want to publish, you can publish bestsellers!

In Liu Wenyang's opinion, publishing books is very knowledgeable and deep. If you publish some books that are non-spoken, Goubuli buns, you will lose all your money. For example, if you publish a book called "What Things in the Ming Cult" in the Ming Dynasty, it will not only lose all your money, but also seek death! You must know that the old emperor Comrade Zhu Chongba was very sensitive to the "Ming Cult", so you must pay attention to the selection of materials and identify the types of best-selling books in ancient times.

Which books were the best-selling in the Ming Dynasty? 1. Textbooks, civil service examination books; 2. Non-fiction: daily miscellaneous books, medical skills; 3. Fiction: lyrics novels. I just don’t know if there is any spiritual chicken soup at this time.

Finally, find the right sales channel and you can make a fortune!

The sales channels in the Ming Dynasty were nothing more than street markets, township private schools, county schools and other places as markets. In Liu Wenyang's view, the markets of these places are vast and far from saturated. As long as you are willing to do it yourself, you can make a lot of money.

Thinking of this, Liu Wenyang's ambition to dominate the Ming Dynasty's publishing industry became highly exaggerated.

And he was also an impatient person. The strong sense of crisis in Chasi's business turned into ambition to start a business, which made him unable to lie down anymore and called Xiao Tong Mingyue directly: "Hurry and find me a sedan chair, young master, I'm going out!"

Mingyueqi said: "But you want to go out to see the doctor?"

Liu Wenyang: "Just call me over and ask so much, why are you doing?"

While Liu Wenyang was talking, he got out of bed wearing shoes and casually took care of his appearance. Then he looked through the "engraved and printed business name" behind the lyrics, but it was "Buyi Bookstore".

Buyi Bookstore? This name sounds very tasteful, but I don’t know whether it’s big or not. If the scale is good, you can buy it.

In Liu Wenyang's opinion, the things he was thinking about were all about paper talks. If you want to do this business, you must hire people who are knowledgeable to run it. Then what else can be faster than directly purchasing a formed bookstore?!

Liu Wenyang was thinking, but Xiao Tong Mingyue had already called a sedan chair. Liu Wenyang sneezed, but he didn't dare to eat the cold wind outside anymore.

The sedan chair lifted him and swayed, and the leading sedan chairman asked, "I wonder where the boss is going?"

Liu Wenyang casually replied in the sedan chair: "Buyi Bookstore!"

...

This is Liu Wenyang's second trip today. He had been strolling around with Mingyue and bought a lot of things, but this time he traveled with purpose. Therefore, he didn't take much time. He just arrived at an alley.

Liu Wenyang was closing his breath in the sedan chair. He practiced "Tortoise Breath**". Because his nose was not breathable due to a cold, he could only take a breath slowly and exhale. But he felt that the sedan chair stopped. Then the sedan chair owner said, "Boss, the place has arrived, but he can't walk in front, but he wants you to move down and move two steps."

"Why can't you walk? But I'm afraid I don't have money to give it to you?" Liu Wenyang really didn't want to eat the cold breeze.

"Of course not. How can we not make money if we have money? It's just because the road ahead is blocked, and the sedan chair cannot be carried over!"

"Oh. Is that right? Let me come down and take a look!" Liu Wenyang said this, then lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, and the little Tong Mingyue came over and reached out to help him down.

The four sedan chair servants stood aside with bitter faces and wiped their sweat.

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.

"Is the business of this Buyi Bookstore so good? It's even more lively than this young master's house full of people!" Liu Wenyang looked at the scene in front of him, but remembered the magnificent scene when he helped people watch the appearance in Taohua Town.

"Mingyue gives them money, we walked in!" Liu Wenyang said "Ah Yeh", but he felt cold all over.

Mingyue naturally withdrew the money and rewarded the sedan chairmen, then came to Liu Wenyang and said, "Young Master, are you okay? I see that you are very sick, so why not find a doctor!"

Liu Wenyang shook his head and said, "It's important to do serious things. Let's go, you can get the lead!"

With Liu Wenyang's instructions, the little boy Mingyue dressed up as a calf, pressed his head against the bustling crowd in front of him, and called out: "Borrow light, borrow light!" But he forced a passage from this airtight crowd. Liu Wenyang followed Mingyue without much effort and arrived at the door of the "Buyi Bookstore" store.

"Young Master, you are lying on the bed and want to buy books. You just need to tell me to choose, so why should you come here in person?" Xiao Tong Mingyue didn't quite understand why her young master had to come here so much. Isn't it just a bookstore? What's new?

Liu Wenyang couldn't tell him clearly for a while, so he squeezed into the shop, but saw that it was also full of people.

Liu Wenyang sighed again that the business here is so good, but why do these people come to buy books and carry a sickle and hold a sickle?! Could it be that too many books I buy have to be carried with a shoulder pole, and the books I buy have to be cut with a sickle?!

But soon he realized that he was wrong, just because those people shouted in their mouths: "Repay the money! Fuck it back!"

Damn, it turns out that he is asking for the account!

Looking at the extremely vicious group of people, some even waving sickles and shoulder poles, Liu Wenyang absolutely believed that if they didn't give them money, a bloody incident might happen.

The white-bearded old man guarding the shop said with a bitter face: "You go, our boss has no money to give it to you!"

"If you don't pay back the money, you will repay your life!"

"Let's rush in and kill the armor without leaving any left!"

...

This situation is about...a war?!

The old man was almost crying, not sure what to do.

At this time, a voice comforted him: "Don't be anxious, sir, everything has a solution!"

The old man wiped his tears, looked at the young young man who appeared in front of him at some point, and said, "Who are you?"

Liu Wenyang shook his clothes and said solemnly: "Go and say, I'm here to save you!"

Old man: "Ah?!"

...

The most typical feature of bookstores in the Ming Dynasty was the front store and the back factory, the bookstore was the editorial department, and the bookstore was the printing factory. In terms of the popular words nowadays, it is vertical integration.

At this time, under the leadership of the old man, Liu Wenyang went through a lot of hardships to enter the workshop behind the shop.

The workshop is large and spacious, with wood for engraving, stereotypes that have been formed, as well as large tanks of ink, as well as white paper hanging on bamboo poles and other items.

There are a lot of things, but no one is seen.

There is not even a dog.

A gust of wind blew, and the white paper roared and the ground was desolate.

Liu Wenyang stood in the middle of the workshop, looking left and right, but still couldn't see anyone.

So Liu Wenyang turned around and asked the old man, "Lucky, I have arrived here, why can't I see your boss?"

The old man held his hands in his arms, cried, and pointed at one point with his hand and said, "Look. Isn't that?"

Liu Wenyang looked at it and saw a man riding on the wall not far away. To be precise, he was riding a little fat man. The little fat man looked funny and seemed to want to climb over the wall to escape, but because the wall was too high and stuck on it, it was not up or down.

"That friend, is the scenery on the top of it good?" Liu Wenyang asked below.

The little fat man was shocked and hurriedly said, "I am a passing by, but I am not the owner of this bookstore!"

Liu Wenyang smiled and said, "I didn't ask you, why are you doing so nervous?"

"Where am I nervous?" The little fat man wiped the cold sweat on his forehead. "Who are you? Are you here to chase the tent?"

Liu Wenyang absolutely believed that as long as he answered "yes", the fat man would jump from the wall regardless of everything, so he said, "You don't owe me your debt, why should I chase after me?"

Little fat man: "That's right! No wonder he was very angry!"

Liu Wenyang: "You haven't come down yet?"

Little fat man: "Are you helping me?"

Liu Wenyang: "What do you mean?"

Little fat man: "They hired me to trick me down?"

Liu Wenyang wiped his nose: "Do you think I look like?"

The fat guy looked at Liu Wenyang carefully, dressed in gorgeous and expensive clothes and had a good temperament, and said, "But he doesn't look like him either!"

Liu Wenyang: "You have some eyesight! Why don't you come down quickly!"

The little fat man said, "You praise me for having eyesight, but you don't have the eyesight... Isn't it okay to not see me stuck here?"

Liu Wenyang: "What should I do?"

Little fat man: "Let's go and move a ladder!"
To be continued...
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