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Chapter 332 0329 [Are they available? 】

tokyo city.

In an alley on West Street.

A thin wild dog wandered at the entrance of the alley, trying to find any food it could eat.

Suddenly, a burst of rapid footsteps sounded.

The frightened wild dog immediately ran away alertly.

A man dressed as a servant walked quickly into the alley.

After walking more than ten steps along the alley, he came to a door. The servant looked around cautiously and saw no one was around, so he stretched out his hand and knocked on the door.

After two long and two short knocks, the wooden door was opened from the inside.

The person who opened the door was a young man dressed as a servant, who looked smart.

The servant lowered his voice and asked, "Are the goods available today?"

"Have!"

The young man nodded: "I just arrived yesterday evening, please keep it new and authentic!"

Hearing this, the servant's eyes lit up and he hurriedly urged: "Quick, give me three...five portions!"

With that said, the servant took out fifty coins from his pocket and handed it over.

After taking the copper coins, the young man quickly counted them, then took out a thick stack of newspapers from his bag and handed them over.

I saw four big characters printed on the cover of the newspaper.

Qingzhou Daily!

After the servant took it, he immediately hid it in his arms and left in a hurry.

Not long after, the knock on the door sounded again.

"Is it available?"

"Have!"

"I want twenty portions!"

"..."

……

But he said that after the servant left the alley, he went straight to a tea shop across the street.

After going up to the second floor, he opened the door and walked into the private room. Before he could sit down, two people asked anxiously: "What's going on? Can you buy it?"

The two men were dressed in silk and satin, and were dressed in rich and noble clothing. It was obvious at a glance that they were either rich or noble.

"Alang, I bought it."

The servant nodded, closed the door behind him, sat down at the table, and then took a stack of paper from his arms.

When they saw the newspaper, their eyes lit up. They immediately reached out to grab a copy and read it leisurely while sipping tea.

At the beginning of the year, Song Huizong ordered a ban on tabloids.

But there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.

A person who is used to reading tabloids is suddenly told to stop reading. How can he bear it?

The poor people themselves cannot afford to visit Washizi, let alone gold-selling dens such as brothels and gambling houses. Raising money to buy a tabloid is a rare entertainment activity for them in the day, and it is also their only channel for contacting outside information.

As for businessmen and scholars, they are even more inseparable.

Ordinary people may read tabloids just for fun, but businessmen can find business opportunities from clues.

Scholars originally read tabloids just to kill time, but since the Qingzhou Daily came out, it has become an indispensable daily routine for scholars in Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Just because Qingzhou Daily specially opened a column to publish articles from various schools of thought.

Regardless of whether you are a scholar or a great scholar, as long as your article is innovative and sharp enough, you will have the opportunity to be published. Once successfully published, you will receive a royalties.

This is equivalent to giving scholars from all over the world a platform for communication across the air.

As soon as this column came out, it immediately caused a stir among scholars all over the world.

For a time, there were countless submissions from all over the place.

Some people want to use this to make a name for themselves, others simply want to refute the previous article.

To this end, Jinzou Academy has specially set up a review department to review articles submitted from various prefectures and counties.

Sometimes the review team could not make up its mind and would go to Xie Ding, Xu Cun, Liu Mianzhi and other great scholars to review the manuscript.

Originally, there were many tabloids in various places, and there were twenty or thirty types of tabloids in Tokyo alone.

Counting tabloids from other state capitals, there are no less than a hundred.

But now, these tabloids have almost disappeared, and the market has been completely occupied by Qingzhou Daily.

There is nothing I can do. Qingzhou Daily is of good quality, with beautiful layout and richer content.

Why buy other tabloids for the same money?

In addition, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty issued an order to ban tabloids, which indirectly helped Qingzhou Daily.

After the tabloids were cracked down, their sales dropped sharply. In addition, the market share was squeezed out by Qingzhou Daily, and many tabloids closed down one after another.

The tabloid itself is just a money-making tool created by important officials in the government. Now that it can no longer make money, it will naturally stop and turn to other profitable businesses.

As for Qingzhou Daily, it has Han Zhen's strong financial support. It doesn't matter whether it makes money or not. In the first half of the year, it lost tens of thousands of dollars every month.

As a result, Zhao Song's tabloid market was almost monopolized by Qingzhou Daily.

After seizing the market, Mayundi began to think of ways to make money.

The first is the price increase, from the initial seven cents to ten cents.

At the same time, advertising fees have also increased by [-]%.

Today, Jinzouyuan has gone from losing tens of thousands of dollars a month to making profits of tens of thousands of dollars.

……

There were two people in the private room, one of whom was named Lu Dafu. He was a well-known wealthy businessman in Tokyo, running the fur and Dongzhu business.

The three caravans in his hands traveled to and from the Liao Kingdom twice a year, making a profit of more than one million yuan. But since the Jin people launched a large-scale attack on Liao two years ago, the business has stopped and plummeted.

Although commerce and trade recovered for a while at the beginning of the year, as the Jin people boldly sent troops to capture Ying and Wei states, the relationship between Song and Jin became extremely tense, and business routes were naturally cut off.

Moreover, anyone with a discerning eye can see that there will definitely be a war between Song and Jin, and the situation will only get worse.

Therefore, Lu Dafu was already thinking about changing his career.

It's just that they are separated by mountains, and if they run other businesses rashly, they will definitely touch the interests of other people, so Lu Dafu is very cautious.

To put it bluntly, in today's world, which big businessman doesn't have some background?

Bao Buqi is the white gloves of a certain husband in the court.

Opening the Qingzhou Daily, Lu Dafu's eyes first fell on the advertising column.

【Nanshan Juyufang】

Under the large and eye-catching store name is a soft article.

How long the history of the store is, how superb the skills of the craftsmen are, and how exquisite the selection of jade materials is...

"Tsk!"

Lu Dafu clicked his tongue and said in wonder: "Nanshanju is really a generous person. It published eight issues of recruitment in a row, and the cost is probably no less than [-] yuan."

As Qingzhou Daily's reputation grows, advertising fees also rise.

Advertising fees are charged according to the size of the page, with a base of [-] guan and a maximum of [-] guan.

Hearing this, the wealthy businessman sitting opposite smiled and said: "This money is well spent. I have been recruiting for eight consecutive times. Everyone in Zhao and Song Dynasty knows about it."

This man's name is Yan Yucai, and he is mainly engaged in the medicinal materials business. Although the profit is not as big as that of Fur and Dongzhu, his stall is very large. The entire Gyeonggi Road, including the medical clinics in Jingdong and Jingxi, are supplied by him, and the profit is small. pin.

Picking up the tea and taking a sip, Yan Yucai continued to look at the pages of Shiwen and said at the same time: "This Korean thief is really interesting. He has created some kind of highway. It is said that once it is completed, it can be reached by horse-drawn carriage in half a day. I don't know. It’s true or false.”

In today's world, a carriage traveling fifty miles a day is pretty good.

A hundred miles a day, a full improvement doubled.

Lu Dafu said: "It may be an exaggeration, but it should be faster than the official road, otherwise it would be a waste of the word highway."

"Brother Lu is right."

Yan Yucai nodded in agreement, and then took a deep breath: "Hai Cuo really has an aphrodisiac effect?"

Lu Dafu shook his head and laughed: "This... I don't know."

Suddenly, his expression froze, and several pieces of information quickly flashed through his mind.

Jimo, Jiaozhou Bay, highway, Haicuo...

Putting this information together, Lu Dafu immediately understood Han Zhen's intentions and new business opportunities.

Mistaken business!

The miscellaneous talk column of Qingzhou Daily has always been a benchmark for Shandong.

Whether you can understand it or not depends entirely on personal understanding.

For example, the recent opening of the sea and the reconstruction of Jiaozhou Bay have created a lot of business opportunities.

To open the sea, we need to rebuild docks and build merchant and cargo ships, which requires a lot of wood.

At this time, you can definitely make a lot of money by transporting a batch of high-quality wood to Jimo.

Timber is just one of many business opportunities.

Unfortunately, when he learned about it, it was already too late. Shandong's wealthy businessmen had already seized all the business that Jimo County could do.

At this moment, Qingzhou Daily suddenly began to brag about Hai Tso, and even the descendants of Hua Tuo and Sun Simiao came out, which was actually revealing a message.

Haicuo business is about to pick up.

With the current sales volume of Qingzhou Daily, it won’t be long before people throughout the Song Dynasty will know that Haicuo is delicious and has the effect of aphrodisiac and beauty.

No matter whether it is true or not, as long as the words aphrodisiac are displayed, a lot of people will rush to buy it.

Three people become tigers. After a few years, whenever aphrodisiac is mentioned, people will instinctively think of Haicuo.

This is the power of public opinion propaganda.

Thinking of the highway just now, Lu Dafu made silent calculations in his heart.

Obviously, the highway will not only be built on this section.

In the future, after Yidu has been repaired to Licheng, at a speed of hundreds of miles a day, the Haicuo produced in Laizhou Bay can be delivered to Licheng in only two days, and then directly to Kaifeng Prefecture by economical water. It only takes five days.

If it is kept in sea water for five days, it will most likely not die.

Once you reach Tokyo City alive, the price of Haicuo will immediately increase tenfold.

The most important thing is that almost no one is doing the Haicuo business at present. It is a completely blank market, and there is no need to worry about offending anyone.

Thinking of this, Lu Dafu stood up and said, "Brother Yan, please sit down. I suddenly remembered that there are important things at home."

"Ok?"

Yan Yucai was stunned.

But soon, he came to his senses and said with a faint smile: "Did Brother Lu find some way to make money?"

Seeing that his little idea was exposed, Lu Dafu laughed and said, "Brother Yan is overthinking."

After leaving the tea shop, Yan Yucai returned home. After making some preparations, he immediately hurried to Jishui Ferry in the outer city and took a boat to Shandong.

For businessmen, time is money.

Slowly and leisurely, I'm afraid even if you eat shit, you won't be able to keep up with the heat.

Just when Lu Dafu left for Shandong, many local wealthy businessmen in Shandong had already rushed to various seaports to make arrangements in advance to negotiate purchase prices with local fishermen.

If you don’t start now, when will you wait?

By the time the highway is repaired, it will be too late to start negotiations.

The happiest people are undoubtedly the fishermen. Haicuo, which was originally unnoticed, suddenly became a hot commodity.

A group of merchants just came here and said they would buy it for five cents per catty, and the next group of merchants said they would pay seven cents.

(End of this chapter)