Chapter 6, Provincial Capital
The next day, the two divided their work and cooperated.
Yang Hua went to the bank to get a loan from an acquaintance, and Lin Yi went to find a carpenter.
According to Lin Yi's plan, the hair salon is not prepared for major surgery. First, the money is not enough, and the decoration of the hair salon itself is OK.
Second, there is no time.
Just make the exterior walls a little more modern.
As for the inside, it is conceivable to use rows of exquisite simple bookcases to put together, which should be effective, and it will be convenient even if you want to redecorate it in the future.
Nowadays, as long as you have money, there are still quite a lot of carpenters.
They called the four more famous people at once and gave some simple bookcase drawings. In conjunction with Lin Yi's explanation, they quickly began to knock and beat.
On the other side, the banking system is in our great dynasty that people can do things easily. In a few days, Brother Hua also got everything done.
"Is your drawing okay?" Yang Hua rushed back from the bank and drank a small spoonful of water. After reading the drawings Lin Yi gave to the carpenter, he was a little confused.
"Okay, sure." Lin Yi was hard to say anything else, but he still had this confidence. After all, he was a reborn person. Not to mention accurately creating an overly modern bookcase, it is not difficult to simply imitate it.
"Okay, as long as you have confidence, when will you set out to the provincial capital?"
“When is it now?”
"It's past two o'clock in the afternoon." Yang Hua glanced at the watch on his wrist.
"This place is on track, and we can't help anymore, why don't we set out now." Lin Yi looked at the busy people and shouted to one of them, "Master Zheng, please spend more time with the masters, if you don't understand, wait for me to come back to discuss."
"If you want, if you want, Xiaoyi, go and do it." Master Zheng is an acquaintance in Zou Yanxia and the others' village, and is a very responsible person.
The two of them took a train to the provincial capital and took more than two hours to arrive.
"It's too hot, there are too many people. You have to buy a car when you have money. This is a pain." As soon as you got off the train, you were hit by the crowded crowd and slanted eastwards. Yang Hua was complaining.
The railway stations in the past are far from the bright and clean windows of later generations. They are not only not large in size, but also a bit dirty and messy.
Especially in this dog days of fire, various local accents are mixed with different body odors, and no matter where the head is placed, it is coming from the nose.
Before walking thirty meters, the two of them were greeted by various buckets and sacks many times.
Compared with Yang Hua who unbuttoned his shirt, Lin Yi not only did not complain, but was a little novel. He looked a bit reformed and opened up, and he felt that this was similar to what he imagined.
With urbanization, a batch of idle migrant workers began to pour into cities and began to take off the infrastructure of the motherland.
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"How is this hotel?" After finally stopping a taxi. When he arrived at the destination, Lin Yi pointed to the "Fulai Hotel" in front of the left.
"It looks good, just go in and take a look." Yang Hua glanced around and found that the exterior decoration of the hotel was pretty good in this street.
The accommodation fee is a bit expensive, but fortunately the sheets inside are quite clean and the air conditioners are not very good. What is commendable is that there is a separate bathroom, which makes the two more satisfied.
Of course, Lin Yi's satisfaction must be based on local customs and a tall man among the short men. After all, there is no choice in this era and there is no way to demand it.
After resting for one night, the next day, the two of them started a non-stop journey.
The printing factory that Lin Yi, who has met the requirements of Lin Yi, is difficult to find. The two of them traveled in the provincial capital for three days in a row. The middle of the journey was thanks to the taxi driver who was quite familiar with the geographical location of the city, so they avoided many detours.
But that's it. When they were looking for a needle in a haystack to choose a target, the two men were exhausted with sweat stains on their bodies.
"You are a bit too many, just printing sheets is a big expense."
In the hotel, the two tired and paralyzed two people had just washed their hair and showered, and they got together to discuss the next details.
"There is no way. If you want to make a great advertising effect, there must be many types of books and complete ones." Lin Yi pointed to the list of books he listed, "This Huanggang series is indispensable..."
"I have read this "complete interpretation of the new textbook". I have read the bookstore in front of No. 1 Middle School, but there is no."
"What is very popular among our students is that the piracy at the gate of our school is a bit too irresponsible."
"Hey, you keep saying that others pirated the copies, but you don't pirated the copies as well." Yang Hua teased.
"This is what you don't understand. Which bookstore is all genuine? The cost is so high.
Look, the purchase price of genuine books requires 50% to 70% of the selling price marked on the book. I also have to discount, pay taxes, and have to manually spend various expenses. What profits can you make if that is profitable?" Lin Yishui pointed at him and settled the score.
"Besides, if you want to connect the teacher's relationship and marketing, it's a few more percentage points. Brother, can you not stand and speak without hurting your back?"
Lin Yi knew that even the Zhengtong National No. 1 bookstore, high-quality imitations are everywhere.
Isn’t there any rumors that the book Ma Xiaoyun signed for Mr. Jin Yong for the first time was fake? I heard that it was even treated coldly because of this.
That was bought from the real National No. 1 store.
"Then can you guarantee this pirated copy?"
"That's why we came to the provincial capital to find printing factories with better scale and technology. The quality is definitely not comparable to those small workshops that are nested in Shaoci's houses. Don't worry, you should be able to make the fake a real one."
If you dare to say this, the books in private bookstores in later generations were basically high-quality imitations, but they were not professional enough to see them.
"So, these more than ten teaching aid series are indispensable. I have carefully studied the other books."
"The three-year simulation of the college entrance examination in the past five years is indispensable."
"The market for children's teaching aids, elementary school students' teaching aids, villain books, comics, comics, etc. is very large. I have seen some scattered on some streets these days. If I complete them all at once, I will definitely have a huge competitive advantage."
"You spend a lot of money." Yang Hua didn't understand the book industry very much; but it didn't prevent him from having a headache. This little bit and that little bit adds up to a lot.
"I can't bear to bear the child and can't trap the wolf. At this time, you have to believe me. I believe there will be surprises, really..."
Upon hearing this, Yang Hua, who was angry, slapped Lin Yi in the back hand to vent his dissatisfaction and helplessness.
"Actually, I also hope to go to the Southern Special Zone, and get some small recorders, English tapes, music tapes, celebrity stickers and posters, handheld computers, etc.
If these are the case, the bookstore's attractiveness and spread among students will definitely be faster." These are the little secrets that Lin Yi had planned early.
"This really has to be there." Yang Hua agreed with this suggestion, but then he was puzzled, "Part-on-one? Are you sure that the parents who accompany you to buy books will trust you?"
"I plan to put it together with Jin Guwen Liang Huang's novel, a separate compartment, you know." Lin Yi blinked. This was a common routine in later generations.
Don’t underestimate these miscellaneous things. The profit is really not small, and you won’t make less money than those English-Chinese dictionaries and other treasure books.
This afternoon, the two of them chatted for a long time, and then went downstairs to have dinner when they felt hungry.
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Lihua Printing Factory, a listed state-owned enterprise, is like a township private enterprise affiliated with a government license, but it has actually been privatized.
"Who are you looking for?" An old man from the security department stopped the two of them at the gate.
"Uncle, let's talk about business with Section Chief Hu." Lin Yi took out a staff ID from the Provincial Department of Education from his pocket.
"The building on the left is the third room on the second floor." The old man looked at the ID with both hands and quickly let it go.
"This really works." Yang Hua looked at the fake ID and sighed. Although he had heard of these things for a long time, he had been deliberately avoiding them because he was a veteran.
"It's a pediatrician. You should go to the south to take a look. I heard that the fake seals and fake seals have all become large." Lin Yi thought of the awesome figures who were cheating in military uniforms in later generations, and really thought this was nothing.
"Dongdongdongdongdongdong"
On the second floor, Lin Yi, who was standing at the door, knocked three times.
"Come in."
Hearing the sound inside, Lin Yi and the others pushed the door and entered, a man in his thirties crossed their eyes.
"Are you?" Section Chief Hu twisted the pen cover and stood up. While speaking, his left hand gently ironed the hem of the blue Zhongshan suit.
"Hello, Section Chief Hu, my surname is Lin. I'm taking the opportunity to come to the door, I'm really disturbing." Lin Yi smiled and quickly reached out and held the other's right hand with a smile.
"Hello." Section Chief Hu was a little confused when he looked at the strange and enthusiastic two people, but he still shook his hand with a smile. After all, he had seen them more recklessly than these two people in recent years.
"This is my partner, Mr. Yang..." Lin Yi made a joke and quickly ignited the atmosphere.
"Hello, Mr. Yang." After shook hands with Yang Hua, Section Chief Hu finally asked about his purpose, "Are you guys?"
"That's right..." Lin Yi didn't hide it. After all, if you want to cooperate for a long time, you can't hide it.
So Lin Yi explained the purpose of the visit.
"If you can do it, it depends on whether your number can meet the number of printing sheets alone." After hearing the purpose of the visit, Section Chief Hu immediately understood that he now has many such customers.
When they heard that they could do it, the stone in their hearts fell to the ground.
Just say, how can a listed private enterprise not do business?
"Can you tell us about the minimum order quantity of your factory?"
After pouring the two of them a cup of water with a white enamel cup, Section Chief Hu explained their business and finally suggested, "It's like this. According to the requirements of your book list, I suggest using this method."
"The number of books in a single type starts from more than 200,300 yuan, including four prints."
"After the four printing sheets, each additional printing sheet will increase by 50 yuan."
"The price includes all costs of shipping, typesetting, draft review, design editing, proofreading, printing, paper, etc...."
This price actually did not exceed Lin Yi's expectations, but when he was doing business, he finally put the price to 15% of the marked selling price, so Lin Yi was satisfied.
Don’t underestimate this ratio. Lin Yi had a friend in his later generations who was a teacher. The bookstores at the school gate gave him a very high kickback.
For example, for a teaching aid book priced at 28 yuan, the bookstore usually gives teachers a rebate of 10 to 15 yuan, which can be imagined to be low.
Therefore, the cost of high-quality imitation pirated books is generally between 10% and 20% of the price; as for those pirated books with ghosting, the cost is estimated to be less than 7%.
Chapter completed!