Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 59 Zhu Gui broke the defense...

Hearing this, Zhu Gui felt a little sour in his heart.

"In your grandpa's eyes, apart from your father, how can you care about us 'other' princes."

"Even if I poke a hole in the sky, your grandpa won't bother me..."

Fortunately, Zhu Gui is just a little bit nimble, and still likes Zhu Yunxie, his eldest nephew.

"By the way, if you are interested, when your third uncle comes back, the two of us will go and beg him to let him take us to open a casino!"

Zhu Yunxi has always been at odds with gambling and drugs, and directly vetoed Zhu Gui's proposal.

"I'm not interested in casinos, I'm still thinking about something else."

Zhu Gui pursed his lips disdainfully when he heard the words.

"cut!"

"I don't believe you kid, you can think of a way to make more money than opening a casino!"

Facing Zhu Gui's ridicule, Zhu Yunxi didn't explain, but just looked around aimlessly on the street.

Suddenly, he saw a bookstore next to Qin Yuelou, and his eyes lit up.

"Yes, I can open a bookstore and write novels to make money!"

After Zhu Yunxi finished speaking, he went straight to the bookstore.Seeing this, Zhu Gui hurriedly followed, but couldn't help complaining while walking.

"Aren't you stupid, kid? Instead of doing such a profitable business as a gambling house, you have to open Lao Shizi's bookstore!"

"The bookstore earns a few pennies, but it's not enough to rent a storefront, and what's the cost of hiring a buddy!"

"Uncle Thirteen, I don't know if I'm making money now, but it will really make money in a few hundred years. I know a man named Dou Shen who makes hundreds of millions a year!"

"How much is a few hundred million?"

Zhu Yunxi is no longer in the mood to talk to Zhu Gui, and is full of thoughts on how to use his dreaming ability to write books to make money.

He plunged into the bookstore, and saw that the bookshelves on the surrounding walls were full of books.

However, the most common ones are the Four Books and Five Classics, as well as various model texts, anthologies of poetry and prose.

In addition, there are some things like the Four Treasures of the Study, but most of them are decorations. At first glance, they don't use them as a business, but just sell them along the way.

Seeing that the two were well dressed, the waiter in the shop immediately stepped forward and greeted them warmly.

"The two sons want to buy some anthologies of Cheng Wen?"

Zhu Yunxi shook his head and said.

"Neither of us is the material for reading. I want to ask if there are any books that have nothing to do with the imperial examination. They are the kind that make people entertain themselves."

When the waiter in the shop heard this, he immediately showed an ambiguous smile.

"understood!"

"The two guest officers want to buy a storybook!"

"I don't know if the two guest officials want something meaty or vegetarian?"

Hearing this, Zhu Yunxi was stupefied.

"What do you mean?"

Seeing that Zhu Yunxi didn't even understand this, Zhu Gui wanted to open a bookstore to make money, and explained very disdainfully.

"The meaty ones are storybooks with illustrations, and the plain ones are biographies of characters, historical storybooks, etc. It's not interesting."

Seeing what Zhu Gui said, the waiter in the shop immediately sent a rainbow fart.

"This guest officer is an expert!"

"If the two guest officers are interested, you might as well go upstairs and have a look. There are many new scripts in the store, which I guarantee are the ones the two guest officers haven't read before."

Zhu Yunxi followed the waiter to the second floor, and after seeing the dazzling collection of story books, he called out that Ming Dynasty's literary style was at its peak!
The entire second floor is full of books of various colors as far as the eye can see, and is divided into several areas according to types and ages.

The more serious ones include the Three Kingdoms and the Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties area, the more glamorous ones include court affairs, famous prostitutes and so on, and there is also a category of Jianghu Heroes that caters to middle and second-year youths.

Zhu Yunxi took out a book casually, and just glanced at the cover, and his face turned red and his heart beat.

On the cover, there was a plump woman in very cool clothes, lying lazily on her side on the bed, exposing a large snow-white chest.

This unrestrained painting style and exquisite printing, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that Daming's dialect was so good.

"Boss, how much is this book?"

"Returning Guest Officer, what you are taking is an overprinted color hardcover book, and you must ask for two taels of silver."

"How many?"

"Two taels of silver is not expensive. If you go to other stores, at least two taels of silver are worth a book."

"This kind of overprinted color illustration is the most labor-intensive. A set of engraving blocks has to be scrapped and re-engraved before hundreds of copies can be printed, otherwise the picture will be blurred..."

"That's too expensive, isn't it?"

When Zhu Yunxi was shopping just now, he had inquired that a white flour steamed bun on the side of the road was only a penny each, and this color-printed storybook actually sold for two thousand steamed buns, which was somewhat outrageously expensive.

Hearing the words, the waiter in the shop couldn't help but look at the two of them again, and couldn't help muttering in his heart, looking at the clothes of the two, they don't look like they have no money, why are they so fussy about the price?

The shop clerk was slanderous in his heart, still with a decent smile on his face, and led the two of them to Pingjia District.

"Guest officer, if you think the ones over there are expensive, there are also cheaper ones here, with a copy of two or three hundred cash."

Zhu Yunxi picked up a book casually, and just looked at the cover, and felt a rough feeling rushing over his face.

Although the painting style is still bold and unrestrained, what beautiful scenery can be seen in pure black and white stick figures?

However, when he thought that he could still sell two or three hundred articles, Zhu Yunxi became more determined in his mind to write books to make money.

"Boss, let me ask, if I write a book and sell it in your store, how will the money be divided?"

When the waiter heard this, he looked at Zhu Yunxi quite unexpectedly.

"Oh?"

"This little gentleman can still write scripts?"

Zhu Gui also looked at Zhu Yunxi in surprise, thinking that this kid still has the ability to write scripts?

Seeing the two people looking at him in surprise, Zhu Yunxi hurriedly waved his hands and explained.

"I'm just asking casually, maybe someday I'll write a few books for fun when I'm free."

The waiter was just curious when he saw him, so he explained with a smile.

"If Mr. Xiao has this talent, he can try writing it."

"Our store generally has two kinds of profit sharing. One is to give a buy-it-yourself price based on the quality of the book, and the other is to pay to find someone to print. After deducting the cost of the sales, we will split the account with the gentleman who wrote the book. .”

"Isn't this just buying out and sharing?"

When the waiter heard this, his eyes lit up.

"Mr. Xiao summed it up brilliantly. It can't be more appropriate to describe it in terms of buyout and sharing."

"However, besides these two, there is another kind. That is, Mister Xiao himself contacts the craftsman who printed the book, and after the book is printed, it is placed in the store for consignment. We only charge [-]% of the fee, and the rest goes to the gentleman who wrote the book." .”

Zhu Yunxi immediately became interested when he heard this.

"Dare to ask, how much silver taels does the gentleman who cooperates with your store usually earn in a month?"

The waiter was a little hesitant when he heard this, because it already involved commercial secrets.But seeing that the other party was still a teenager, he might just ask out of curiosity, so he didn't think much about it.

"It's hard to say, sometimes it's more, sometimes it's less. Last year, there was a big-selling "Biography of the Zhao Sisters", and that gentleman earned 5000 taels of silver in our store in one month."

"This is just our store. It is said that other bookstores in the capital also sell it. If you count them all, it will cost tens of thousands of taels a month."

When Zhu Gui heard this, he immediately broke his defenses. His annual salary of the King of Qin was only [-] guan, which was not cash, but part of the grain and part of the precious banknotes.

A gentleman who writes story books can earn so much money in a month, which is a bit unacceptable to him.

If writing books can make so much money, why would I open a casino, kidnap a few scholars back home, whip them with a whip and dip them in cold water every day, and let them write scripts for me every day to sell for a fortune!
"Shopkeeper, you don't think my nephew is young, so you deliberately tricked him with lies?"

(End of this chapter)