Chapter 184: Ready to go
Nowadays, there have been troubles everywhere. The bookshop who cooperated with Taibai, named Wang Fang, was also famous in Ningbo. He is usually stable, but this time, he was making a big bet and collaborating with Taibai Poetry Club, which is indeed of great significance. There is a small printing workshop under him, and most of the eight-legged writings are printed. In this era, only scholars are willing to buy books, but scholars are less likely to read idle books, but more focus on the eight-legged writings. This is similar to the ecology of later generations. No one cares about ordinary novels. Most of the people who actually buy books in bookstores are review materials.
After the provincial examination, according to Wang Fang's prediction, for a long time, his workshop business would probably be cold. After all, after the exam, scholars would not have the intention to buy books anymore. This was not a solution. However, when he learned that the Ningbo Prefecture Provincial Examination was shining, he finally got up to his mind.
He won nine Juren, which was an unprecedented event. The most important thing was that even Jie Yuan had fallen into Ningbo. When he learned that Jie Yuan and three other Juren were from Taibai Poetry Society, the Taibai Poetry Society wanted to find someone to cooperate in printing books. He did not hesitate and contacted Chen Rong.
At first, he just wanted to help print some to deal with the leisurely business in the future, but after understanding it in depth, he suddenly changed his temperament.
In this era, even if it is just a small businessman, it is definitely not as stupid or thoughtless as later generations think. Wang Fang keenly discovered that this little Jie Yuan had nothing to do.
After the negotiations with Chen Rong, he began to get busy.
This time it was not a small fight, but what was going to be involved was a big deal that Wang Fang had never dared to think about before.
He almost never stopped appearing in important prefectures and counties in Zhejiang, and then contacted the bookstore. Because he claimed to be the collection of essays by Duke Jie Yuan, the bookstores seemed to be quite expectant and were willing to pay a deposit to ask Wang Fang to print and get the goods. However, Chen Rong asked the bookstore to hang signs at the door, briefly explaining the relationship between Taibai Poetry Society and Duke Jie Yuan, and also listed some important juren in the poetry society. He also said that in addition to compiling some fine poems and articles in the newly published Taibai Collection, Xiao Jie Yuan Ye Chunqiu will write a lyric, well...**** Poetry...
A thirteen-year-old little Jie Yuan suddenly appeared. Before the limelight had passed, scholars from all over the country were talking endlessly, but now they were in full swing.
Xiao Jieyuan's article is also here, well...it seems worth looking forward to.
Some people who want to buy books seem to have started to have thoughts. Anyway, they buy whatever they buy, so they want to see how good the Xiao Jieyuan is.
They may not just want to learn the articles and poems of this little Jie Yuan. In fact, any article that can be printed into books on the market is a fine product. However, people are curious. Why is this kid a good understanding of Yuan? It's scary. He is only thirteen years old, and a big child can win. It's not a fraud, right? It's time to take a good look and see how good he is.
This was the idea of many people at the beginning.
Wang Fang's strategy was not like this, because he knew that this gimmick was not enough. With this alone, he could only be confident to sell one or two thousand copies, one or two thousand copies. It was already a great number for booksellers of this era. Only Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas can barely have such high sales. It is good to have a few hundred copies of the hottest collection of essays nowadays, but this time, he obviously did not intend to do this.
But when the news of the love between men and women was released, the streets and alleys were in an uproar.
It's fresh, a big child, oh, of course, it's not an ordinary child, but he's the head of the case, but he can even write poems about the love between men and women. He hasn't married yet, he knows the love between men and women, haha... I'm so laughing so hard that I laughed out loud. This Duke Jie Yuan was mostly crazy and was full.
Since Duke Jie Yuan dared to do it, he naturally had a masterpiece to release it. I had a girl who had sex at the age of twelve, and got married at the age of thirteen. Why didn’t I understand the love between men and women?
Two voices emerged, and they were quarreling every day, causing a lot of controversy, so that all news was blocked by such quarrels. Even in the government office, when occasionally hiding in the leisure time, the clerks were also arguing endlessly. Xie Yuangong, thirteen years old, love between men and women, these already fresh words were already attractive enough. If the three came together, it would be messy.
Bookstores everywhere are crazy. Bookstores from all over the world are waiting for Wang Fang to come and ask them to help sell books. After all, the bookstores have influence in the local area and have their own customers. What books are placed on the shelves? What books are there? Students and scholars will buy books. Generally, they don’t know how to pick them. But now many regular customers are asking if Taibai Collection is sold. This is great. So many regular customers are asking about it. Of course, they responded and said that they can be sold after they were published. On the other hand, they were anxious to find Wang Fang. You have to arrive on time. And... you have to add prints, you have to add prints. I have to ask for more books here, twenty books, no, no, fifty...
What's really scary is that the book shop that was originally only a passive book seller, naturally began to become a propagandist of Taibaiji. Almost everyone's doorsteps were posted with notices saying that Taibaiji was about to be launched, and there were advertising slogans such as Xiao Jieyuan's wonderful writing.
This is the spontaneous behavior of booksellers, because only in this way can everyone know that they can arrive on time and retain those who want to buy Taibaiji.
But some people who don’t pay much attention to gossip can’t help but feel suspicious when they see the big notice in front of the door, so the incident was circulating again.
When things got to this point, it was like a carnival. Everyone was arguing and wanted to provide themselves with the sale of the Taibai Collection to provide favorable evidence. Everyone aroused curiosity and wanted to find out what Taibai Collection was and what Taibai Poetry Club was. Everyone was asking the bookseller when the bookstore was on sale. Every bookstore was looking for Wang Fang everywhere, and a lot of deposits flowed into Wang Fang's hands frantically, and Wang Fang was shocked.
The Taibai Collection booked by booksellers from all over the country alone has reached 5,000 volumes, 5,000 volumes. What is this concept? He has been engaged in printing for so many years, and has never seen any single volume that can reach 5,000 volumes.
This is equivalent to, in a blink of an eye, excluding all kinds of expenses, 700 taels of silver was obtained, and well, I can earn a net profit of 200 taels.
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The second is that in the morning, everyone should not go to bed too late. Everyone hopes that the tiger will pay attention to its health, and the tiger will pay attention to its health!
Chapter completed!