Selling newspapers is a technology.

Selling romantic tabloids is a profound technique.

Although the profits of the Fengyue tabloid are large enough, it is also difficult to sell.

When a newspaper boy sells newspapers, he relies on shouting from the streets and alleys, but this romantic tabloid cannot be shouted and sold.

For example, when selling newspapers, the newspaper boy shouted: "Boss, please buy a copy of "Sheng" and the latest war."

Whether you buy or not, it sounds like a serious newspaper, reporting serious content. If you buy a copy, it is called caring about national affairs, and if you don’t buy it, it is called stingy.

If any newspaper boy shouted: "Boss, please buy a copy of "Main Fengyue", the story of the young woman Bai."

Even if the boss wants to buy newspapers, he can't bear to face it. After reading the story of the young woman Bai in public, the big girls and young men around him will definitely cast a contemptuous look. They must draw a line with such unhealthy things. Those with better tempers give the newspaper boy a "get out" and kicked him with a bad temper.

But if the newspaper boy doesn’t shout, how can he sell newspapers? Does it rely on eye contact? If he is in the Northeast, he will be cut.

"This Fengyue tabloid cannot be sold, it can only be sold one-on-one." Chen Qiang knew that selling such a somewhat shameful Fengyue tabloid had to take the initiative to find customers.

Who would read such a romantic tabloid? It must be someone in need.

Like a single dog!

People with wives don’t need to see this kind of thing. What’s more, those who marry several concubines have their kidneys hollowed out every day, and the entire box of kidney treasures cannot be replenished, so naturally there is no need to use this kind of romantic tabloid to comfort me.

Old Shanghai was not short of single dogs, such as those who sold labor, such as pulling coachmen, docking feet, cargo handles, and refugees who rushed into Shanghai due to war. Most of them were bachelors. But these people were basically illiterate, could not understand newspapers, and would not become Chen Qiang's customers.

"Or why go to Sima Road to try your luck?" Chen Qiang said in his heart.

Sima Road in old Shanghai is similar to the eight major hutongs in the capital, and is a brothel street, with more than 100 brothels of all sizes.

There are high-end "Study Houses", where the miserable women will sing some songs such as "Sifan" and "Words Turn into Butterflies". Many of them are for the show but not for themselves, of course, it is mainly because the customers don't have enough money.

There is a mid-range "Yangtze River Third", where the fallen women are famous. They can't sing songs, but they can taste tea. This is the so-called "tea circumference". Because it costs three yuan to go out for a trip, it is called "Yangtze River Third";

The lower-end one than "Yangtze Third" is "Yiao Er". Although the fallen women there are not very famous, they will also "list" in the hall because they charge two yuan for a trip, so they are called "Yiao Er".

The most common one is a tobacco restaurant. The word "smoke" in the name is naturally a place where you can smoke big smoke. This kind of place not only sells opium, but also women who fall into trouble will smoke big smoke with their guests.

There are other things like pheasant places, nail sheds, salt water girls, etc. I won’t introduce them in detail. Readers will help you figure it out. It’s time to test your imagination!

Get back to the point.

Chen Qiang felt that people who go to such places probably have physiological needs and may be able to sell some romantic tabloids.

But when you think about it carefully, it is not the case. First of all, the store opening time of these special places on Sima Road is relatively late, and business will take place until dark. Chen Qiang wants to sell newspapers and wait until night. It is dark in the middle of the night. Who can clearly see what is written in this newspaper?

Secondly, people who go to that kind of place must be for practical training. Boss who can afford to pay two or three yuan will not need to buy the 4 cents each Fengyue tabloid. And those who go to the tobacco restaurant, suck opium for a few sips, probably the illusion in their minds is even more exciting than what is written in the Fengyue tabloid.

"No, this four-street tabloid selling romantic news is definitely not possible." Chen Qiang scratched his head. While he was racking his brains, he happened to see a rickshaw passing by, and a boy about fourteen or fifteen years old was sitting in the car, looking like a student.

"There is a way! I've found a buyer! This romantic tabloid is the favorite of adolescent men!"

Chen Qiang still remembers that when he was a professor at the University of Sports, he once went to a sports school to select athletes. At that time, several classmates did not come to participate in the selection test because they violated the discipline and were criticized by teachers. The discipline they violated was that they hid some unhealthy books in the dormitory.

Adolescence is a age when you are curious and ignorant about certain things, and a sports student who has nowhere to vent his energy. This is understandable.

The customer group Chen Qiang thought of was those students who were not well-versed in the world. These "curious babies" who were in adolescence would definitely favor Fengyue tabloids.

Besides, this Fengyue tabloid is not really obscene and pornographic publication. At most, it is a game of edge balls to give people some room to imagine, just like the title party now, and the conversation begins: "The plane crashed, three male passengers and a flight attendant were wandering on a deserted island." As for what they will do next, readers will think about it for themselves!

People with pure thoughts will feel that these four people just happened to have a table of mahjong?

Those who think wrongly will probably think about how to divide three men and one woman? Will there be a pair of shit sticks? What an indescribable thing! Wait, shit sticks seem to be not the key!

Adolescent boys have a lot of imagination!

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After determining the target customer, Chen Qiang first went to several places with a lot of people, sold out normal newspapers such as "Shen Bao" and "News News" before going to school to wait for the students to get out of school.

After the May Fourth Movement, middle schools in the Republic of China mainly implemented the Renxu school system, which is the "School System Reform Case" proposed in 1922, which stipulates that primary school years, junior high school years, high school years, and university years (five years of medical science). The poor areas may be shortened, but in old Shanghai, it was generally carried out in accordance with this regulation.

It is now August, and other public or private schools have already started, except for church schools.

There was no summer vacation in ancient schools. The "Yi Xue Rules" formulated during the Jiaqing period specifically wrote: "If you keep growing up and working, you will not stop studying in the summer, and those who are on vacation will be given a lot of money."

The meaning of this passage is that adults cannot stop working in summer, and children cannot stop going to school in summer. If a private school teacher gives students a summer vacation, parents can deduct his salary.

Yan Fansun, an educator of the Republic of China and one of the founders of Nankai University, once said when criticizing old-style education: In the past, schools were not prosperous, and children in our country had no graduation period, no winter and heat break, no experiment methods, and no gymnastics training. In other words, in that era, schools had no graduation years, no scientific experiments, no physical education courses, and no winter and summer vacations.

The Education Law of the Nanjing National Government was drafted in 1928, and the so-called "School Academic Semester and Holiday Date Regulations" was implemented in 1930. Therefore, in 1929, whether the school will have winter and summer vacations depends entirely on the principal's mood.

Church schools established by foreigners will have more holidays, such as winter vacation, which will start before Christmas. Chinese people run their own schools mainly for going home for the New Year, while summer vacation is for the summer vacation. After all, there were no air-conditioning fans in that era, and it was common for them to faint in the classroom in summer.

Get back to the point.

Chen Qiang jogged all the way to Xujiahui, where there were several middle schools, including the Affiliated Middle School of Fudan University.

At that time, the Fudan University Affiliated Middle School was still private. Before 1922, it was still the campus of Fudan University. In April 1922, Fudan University moved to Jiangwan Campus, and the original site of Xujiahui was taught to the middle school department for use.

At this time, Fudan High School was equivalent to a subordinate cabinet of Fudan University, and it was the same leadership team as Fudan University.

When Chen Qiang was at the entrance of Fudan High School, the school had not yet finished school, but there were already many rickshaws gathered at the entrance, and they all came to pick up students from school.

Those who can go to private middle schools must be rich families. They may not be able to afford cars, but hiring a rickshaw is more than enough.

There were also many such professional private charter cars in old Shanghai. The owner gave the coachman some money every month, and the coachman specially served the family. He sent the young master and the lady to school, the husband to work, and then sent his wife to go shopping and play mahjong, and the servants to buy vegetables. Then he picked them up one by one after another when it was time.

The conditions of these private chartered cars are much better, and they generally do not install yellow buns, so as to distinguish them from those rickshaws that are parked on call. They are generally considered private cars today. The rickshaws that are parked on call are equivalent to taxis today.

Not long after, the school bell rang out in the school, and the students walked out one after another. Some got on the bus directly, while others stood at the school gate looking forward, probably because their chartered bus had not arrived yet.

Chen Qiang carefully observed everyone, hoping to find a customer.

Finally, a fat boy entered Chen Qiang's sight.

This young man gave Chen Qiang only three words, that is, "dead fat man"!

He's a fat man, he definitely has no girlfriend.

"Fengyue Taboo must be the favorite of the fat man. I will sell him!" Chen Qiang thought, and walked over.

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Chapter completed!