Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 182
The next day was the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, and it was the day to pay dividends with Guan Jiaze and others.After Du Jinning had breakfast, he was about to go to Boyue Teahouse in the east of the city, when someone outside the courtyard asked, "Is Young Master Du at home?"

When she went out to take a look, she saw Zhuang Yue standing at the door.

"Shopkeeper Zhuang, what's the matter?" She hurriedly walked over and asked, then let the man back into the room, "Come in and talk."

Zhuang Yue followed her into the main room, took their seats, and then said: "Yesterday, the shopkeeper of Shuxiangke Bookstore came to me and told me that he wanted to buy your "Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Dragon Babu" Ben, at the price of six taels of silver a copy; this morning, the shopkeeper of Boya Pavilion also came to me and told me to buy your "Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Dragon Babu" for eight taels of silver a copy."

"Oh?" Du Jinning looked at Zhuang Yue, blinked, raised his hand and arched at him: "Thank you, shopkeeper Zhuang, for taking such a long way on purpose, please tell me in advance, I accept the favor of shopkeeper Zhuang."

Zhuang Yue laughed and raised his hand in return: "Young Master Du, you are welcome. Zhuang Yue was supported by his grandfather who was once a big shopkeeper in the capital. After 12 years, he became the third shopkeeper of the silk and satin shop in Lishui County. In that position After staying for five full years, it can be regarded as the head. If the seventh young master and young master Du did not jointly open a teahouse, after opening two branch restaurants, young master Du strongly recommended his subordinates to be the big shopkeeper, and thanks to the blessing of young master Du's script Let the business of the teahouse flourish, and Zhuang Yue will never have such a scene in his life. Zhuang Yue can have today, thanks to the support of Young Master Du, some trivial matters, why worry about them?"

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Smart people are like this, needless to say, everything is said.

Originally, Zhuang Yue could wait for Du Jinning to go to the teahouse to talk about the story, but he came here in person in advance and told Du Jinning about it, just to sell Du Jinning a favor.

Although these words were originally written by Du Jinning, whether to sell them or not, and to whom, are all Du Jinning's own business, and have nothing to do with Guan Jiaze, Qi Muyuan and Zhang Hongwen.But the teahouse still has a copy of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", which the teahouse bought for two taels of silver.

Although Du Jinning had already stated that other copyrights would remain in his own hands when he sold the storybook to the teahouse, the word "copyright" did not even exist in this era, and everyone had no idea about the meaning and division of copyright.So copyright or something, everyone probably doesn't take it seriously at all.

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has about 120 million words, and "Dragon Ba Bu" has about 150 million words.Currently, Du Jinning sells a booklet of words, because the writing brush is relatively large, and a thick book of words is only about 900 words.Calculated in this way, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" can be divided into about fifty volumes, and "Tianlong Ba Bu" is sixty volumes.Calculated by eight taels of silver, it is almost [-] taels of silver.

Money touches people's hearts. Perhaps for Guan Jiaze and Qi Muyuan, who are from a wealthy family, this little money is not enough to make them abandon their conscience and betray their friendship. Zhang Hongwen dare not disagree because of his low status, but what if?The human heart is the thing that cannot stand the test.Besides, it is not up to them whether they want these properties or not. They have family members and clan members.

Therefore, it would be great if this matter could be discussed on the table as a business matter in front of all the owners of the teahouse.

Dealing with it in private, even if Guan Jiaze and others know about it, subconsciously feel that it is Du Jinning's own private matter, and it does not involve the issue of how much money he has earned. Don't take it seriously, maybe it will be over, it won't affect the relationship between them.

Zhuang Yue was able to sell such a favor behind his serious master Guan Jiaze's back, so Du Jinning naturally wouldn't hide his plan from him.

She said: "I don't intend to sell this story."

Zhuang Yue was surprised: "Master..." He knew the family background of the Du family.Although I don't know how long those two story books are and how much they can sell for, wouldn't you be a fool if you don't make any money at the moment?
"Young master, to tell you the truth, although there are no copies of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" on the market, that is because we are stricter in this aspect, and we would rather not make so much money. , and don’t let the storyteller repeat the content of the story too much; and every storyteller has signed a red contract with us and set a high compensation; , don’t let them start writing while listening to the book. Otherwise, the bookstores would already have these two scripts, and they wouldn’t be able to spend a lot of money to buy them from us.”

Zhuang Yue persuaded earnestly: "But it's only temporary. They don't care if the script has a beginning or a tail if they have money to make. They will definitely let those with better memories memorize the plot, and then write a similar one. Get it and sell it on the market. Instead of letting others memorize it and find ways to exploit loopholes, it’s better for you to earn the money.”

"Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet." Du Jinning said with a smile, "I'm not going to sell it, but I plan to open a bookstore and print my words for sale."

"Ah, so that's how it is." Zhuang Yue breathed a sigh of relief, and he also agreed with Du Jinning's approach, "Although I don't work in the bookstore business, I don't know the profits, but since the two bookstores can sell to Eight taels of silver for a copy, and the income in it is quite considerable. With their virtue, they can buy your book for eight taels of silver. When the time comes, after excluding printing costs and sales proceeds, they will definitely earn five dollars. 60 taels may be more profit. Instead of letting them earn this money, why don’t you open a bookstore and earn this layer of income.”

Du Jinning didn't answer this question, but brought up another topic: "The grandfather of the shopkeeper Zhuang is the big shopkeeper of the Guan family. I think your family is all in the Guan family, right?"

Zhuang Yue was silent, nodded and said: "Yes." He is a smart person, and he knows what Du Jinning is going to say without going any further.

Then I heard Du Jinning say: "It would be great if shopkeeper Zhuang was free. I will use shopkeeper Zhuang as my big shopkeeper to operate all my business."

This is Du Jinning's sincere words.

Zhuang Yue is a man who works steadily, has a shrewd mind, and has excellent vision. The most important thing is that he has a good heart, and he has a faint admiration for her.If she has such a big shopkeeper to help her with things, it will be much more convenient in the future, and she won't have to rely on the Guan family and the Qi family all the time due to lack of manpower.

While relying on others, nature is also controlled by others.In the future, if there is any disagreement with the Guan and Qi families due to interests or other matters, as long as they draw their salaries from the bottom of the pot, the business tower that she has worked so hard to build will collapse completely, which she cannot tolerate.

(End of this chapter)