Zhumen Hangui

Chapter 123 The villain book

It was said that Li Shouzhi was going back to the academy, but the transportation was inconvenient in ancient times, and it took a lot of time on the road.

Calculated in this way, half a month has passed, and it will be here in about a few days.

"Master! Hong Lin Shusi has arrived!"

The servant sitting on the shaft yelled towards the inside, and then jumped out of the carriage.

The coachman watched coldly, and the old lady told him to keep an eye on the seventh young master and not allow him to copy books in the library.

But recently, the Seventh Young Master is only reading in the bookstore, how can he manage it as a servant?

"Seventh Young Master! When will the villain come to pick you up?" asked the coachman Su Quan.

"You don't need to pick me up today, I'll find a carriage to go back home later! Don't worry, I will go back before You Shizheng."

Then Su Yizhao winked at the waiter, who immediately understood, and stepped forward to stuff a handful of copper coins.

The coachman weighed it, his eyes lit up from the heavy feel, and he immediately smiled.

"It's the villain's duty to come to pick you up, but if it's inconvenient for you, it's okay for the villain to wait outside the house."

"Then it's time to work!" Su Yizhao nodded in response.

Money can turn ghosts around, and the coachman doesn't have much money on weekdays. Su Yizhao rewards him from time to time, which makes him taste the sweetness, so he is naturally happy to help her hide it.

After the coachman left, the waiter said dissatisfiedly: "This Su Quan's appetite is getting bigger and bigger. He was so happy from ear to ear when you gave him [-] Wen. He dared to dislike it when you gave him [-] Wen." Less. Thirty today, and I don’t know how much it will increase tomorrow, I’m afraid that the appetite will grow bigger.”

Su Yizhao smiled indifferently, "It's only been a few days, and he's not so courageous yet. After he swells up, I'll have a way to deal with him."

After entering the bookstore, the old man behind the counter saw Su Yizhao coming, and his face was full of smiles.

"I haven't been here for two days. I thought there was something wrong with your house. Did you bring the new book this time? Several scholars have come to urge you, or you have a way. The serialized book really makes them tasteless. Can't sleep at night!"

Qin Shang came out of the counter, grabbed Su Yizhao, and asked excitedly.

"What's the hurry? I'm here to pay the bill today. It's been ten days. Where's the account book?"

Su Yizhao didn't spend more than five days' money before. At that time, the story book hadn't been widely spread, and the business was a bit bleak, but only five hundred coins were allocated.

It was only later that she secretly asked Zhu San to find some scholars to publicize it for her, and the business improved.

Speaking of the ledger, Qin Shang rubbed his hands.

He looked excited, "If you know how much money you have earned, you must be surprised."

Su Yizhao took the account book and turned to the page where the account was not settled. It was a few days' profit at first, and the first day was the day when she asked someone to promote it. The business was much better than before, a total of two or three.

The second day was six taels, and the third day increased to 18 taels.

"Oh! The profit is good!" Su Yizhao raised his eyebrows too much, his method is very effective!

"Look down!" Qin Shang said with a smug smile on his face.

Then there was a pirated version. On the fourth day, the business was bleak, but it was only five taels of silver.

On the fifth day, she took the new book and the business picked up a lot, 23 taels.

Looking at the sixth day, it was the day after Qin Shang worked overtime to print at night.

The story book has been reduced from the original [-] texts to [-] texts. This is because Su Yizhao added character sketches to the story book. Otherwise, the price would be lower if it were all written descriptions.

Because of the printing technology, after the mass production of the book, the profit was cut by more than half.

In the next few days, the number of book sales increased suddenly, dozens of times higher than the previous daily sales.

On the seventh day, more than 40 copies were sold. Su Yizhao continued to look down, but found that in the next few days, the daily quantity was several hundred copies.

"So much demand?" Su Yizhao asked in disbelief.

Qin Shang nodded triumphantly, "But don't think that these are all bought by scholars in the capital, look! More than 900 copies were sold yesterday, how many scholars are there in the capital?"

Su Yizhao had a flash of light in his mind, "Could it be that some merchants from other places came to purchase the goods?"

Qin Shang nodded approvingly when he heard the words, "That's right! There are indeed out-of-town merchants, but they are just incidental, and the quantity is not large. Although the book is small and easy to carry, it is a book after all, and it will be heavy if there are too many."

In order to save costs, Su Yizhao cut the script into the size of a palm.

Originally, Qin Shang thought that Su Yizhao was stingy, but Su Yizhao said that this is called a comic book, as long as the binding is exquisite, it will sell well.

Sure enough, after seeing such exquisite books, not only scholars like to buy them, but even boudoir girls from rich families will secretly ask girls to buy them.

"It seems that our book is already well-known in the capital, and even merchants from other places have come over!"

Su Yizhao felt excited, but this was just the beginning, and the dealer in the back would definitely find someone to copy the book, even if the sketches were not as good as they were, it would not affect the reading.

Looking at the total profit below, after deducting the five-day profit she had taken before, there are still [-] days left to pay.

"In the first few days, there was no printing, so let's calculate according to the previous share, a total of 55 taels. After the calculation, I got 44 taels."

Su Yizhao thought that there would not be much income, but he didn't expect to have such a profit in just a few days, which is not surprising.

Of course, there will be no such good things in the future.After this craze passes, I'm afraid they won't even be able to sell a copy of two hundred coins.

Qin Shang was a little surprised, "Hey! Mr. Su's mental arithmetic is good! You don't even need an abacus."

It was only then that Su Yizhao realized that even though they had the nine-nine formula, they didn't know how to multiply decimals together!

"In the next eight days, I just checked. The number of copies sold is about 850 copies. Because some of them are at the purchase price, you have made a lot of profit."

Qin Shang gave another thumbs up when he heard the words, "Young Master Su is really good at mental arithmetic!"

"It's not that complicated!" Su Yizhao shook her head, at this moment she had already calculated how much money it was in her mind.

"Equivalent to silver coins, sold for a total of 920 taels and 880 three cash."

Qin Shang nodded, "Young Master, it's good that you don't think the account books are wrong!"

"Of course I believe you."

"My printing also consumes a lot of materials and energy. First of all, the printed template, because of the variety of engravings, has the illustrations you mentioned after all. Even if I asked a familiar carpenter to help, it still cost 30 taels of silver."

Seeing Su Yizhao nodding, Qin Shang continued: "Secondly, we have to calculate the ink, paper and wages. I have drawn up another account book for Mr. Su to see!"

After Su Yizhao took another account book, she frowned suddenly.

I can't help but sigh that the printing cost of this Dayun Dynasty is really high, no wonder the books are so expensive.

Qin Shang sincerely cooperated with her, and no money was confiscated for the ready-made items in the printing workshop.

Just like that, Su Yizhao made the final calculation and spent 280 taels of silver.

(End of this chapter)