God Weird Fairy

Chapter 23: The context of the Twenty-three Ming Dynasties

The next morning, a group of students came to the school building and sat down.

Although the annual exams are over, there is still a break-up class in the school to officially mark the end of this year's classes, where students are required to report their preliminary intentions for next year.

Should he continue studying in the school, give up his studies, or decide that as long as he gets into the top ten, he will study in the county academy.

When it was Nan Yi's turn, he first said that he would go to the county regardless of his ranking, and then said:
"Master Zhu, there is one more thing I need to trouble you with. When the results of the year-end exam come out, I want to choose a new name. I'm afraid I will need Master Zhu to come forward and help the students."

"It's easy to talk about." Zhu Xian immediately held his beard and agreed happily, "As long as you rank first in the annual exam, I will personally come forward and go to the civil affairs office to change your household registration nameplate."

The household registration tag is equivalent to an ID card. If you don't have one, you are a black householder. It is difficult to move around in the local area, and it is difficult to even find odd jobs.

For example, Nan Yi was able to study in a dormitory because his family saved money and lived frugally. He came to the county town two and a half years ago and spent [-] yuan to obtain household registration as a villager. famous brand.

Now, Nan Yi wants to change his name from his original nickname, Nan Yi, to Nan Yi, and needs to change his household registration nameplate at the Yamen Civil Office.

In fact, it is not difficult to change the name.However, after the household registration nameplate was changed, the county civil affairs office still needed to report the matter to the county civil affairs supervisor, so they did not want to handle it easily. They had to ask someone with status in the county to ask for help before they would handle the matter.

Zhu Xian, a lecturer at Nanshan Academy, has been teaching for many years and has many talents in Nanshan, so his status is quite sufficient.But if Nan Yi cannot get first place in the annual examination, it will be difficult to move him.

In this regard, Nan Yi can only say that peace will last for a long time and the administration will become rigid, and everyone knows it.

In addition, there is another thing that is closely related to the household registration nameplate, called "road guide".

Without a road guide, it is impossible to go outside the county.

If Nanyi can get the first place in Nanshan County's annual exam this year, the school will issue a letter of recommendation, which is essentially a guide.

However, the entire Chu County will grade the exams uniformly, and the results will not come out so quickly.

The results of the annual examination will not be officially announced to schools in various places until January [-]th after the new year.

Now that classes are over in the school, Nan Yi rushes to Beihe Residence.

"Uncle Xie, how are the sales of Ming Pao now?"

Arriving at Beiheju, Nan Yi asked and glanced at the layout of the store.

The bookshelf holding "Ming Pao" has been moved from the street outside the store to the entrance of the bookstore. You can still pick it up and pay directly at the counter.

"Nan Lang is here, are you sure you can do well in the annual exam?" Seeing Nan Yi coming, Xie Beihe quickly stood up from the counter and walked out, "The sales volume of "Ming Pao" is quite gratifying. The first batch of one thousand copies was sold out on the same day; The second batch, almost [-] have been sold so far.”

Without considering impressions, the cost of printing a thousand newspapers in batches is only ten copper dollars.Including the cost of the impression, which was 40 copper yuan, Xie Beihe's previous investment of [-] yuan in printing fees was just enough to print a thousand newspapers.

There was a special price of one cent on the first day, and the one thousand cents returned, which was ten yuan, were used to print the second batch of one thousand copies.

Starting from the second batch, even if the price is only ten cents, each newspaper will make a profit of nine cents.And now more than 700 copies have been sold, which means that not only the stamping cost of the first issue of "Ming Pao" has been recovered, but also the printing cost of the second issue has almost been covered.

If you sell it later, it will be pure profit.

Although the market surplus of single-issue newspapers in Nanshan County is no longer large.But in other counties, there are still very large markets.

Even if other counties, unlike Nanshan County, cannot sell directly from Beiheju and have to wholesale to booksellers in other counties at a discount, the profits are still very considerable.

Nan Yi found such huge profits astonishing after just a little mental arithmetic.

Of course, the premise of all this is that someone is willing to buy the newspaper.If no one cares about it, I'm afraid they won't even be able to make back the cost of the impression.It's no wonder that Xie Beihe, after estimating the amazing potential of "The Legend of Two Dragons", decided to start his own business and founded "Ming Pao".

"Nanlang, do you want to pay you more royalties?"

In fact, "Ming Pao" has not really started to make a profit yet, but has just covered the cost of impressions for the first two issues of the newspaper.But as long as the amount is not too outrageous, Xie Beihe doesn't mind advancing the manuscript fee to Nan Yi in advance.

"No need, when I go to the county town after the new year, it won't be too late to come and divide the accounts." Nan Yi shook his head.He had received one silver dollar from the Song Mansion before, and he was not short of money for the time being.

"Okay then." Xie Beihe didn't force it, and instead said, "But Nanlang, before I go back to my hometown, I have to give you some follow-up manuscripts."

"I know, I came here today mainly to discuss with you, Uncle Xie, the follow-up to Ming Pao."

Xie Beihe looked solemn and discussed with Nan Yi in a low voice.

"Ming Pao" has now established a firm foothold in Nanshan County. Apart from printing follow-up content on a regular basis, all that is left is to expand the market.

In this area, on the one hand, Fei Jin, the deacon of the bookstore, is relying on his own connections to contact booksellers and deacons of bookstores in other counties; on the other hand, Xie Beihe is working hard to bring goods to the county.

Including yesterday's annual exam, the three invigilators stayed in the classroom the whole time and did not interact with outsiders.However, their accompanying clerks are responsible for contacting and arranging dinner for candidates and other matters, and will be out and about.

Yesterday, Xie Beihe looked for an opportunity to send several copies of "Ming Pao" to these officials, stuffed some small money, and asked them to choose an opportunity later to submit "Ming Pao" to several invigilators.

In short, there is no need to say more about the various publicity and promotion methods, which are piecemeal.

The main thing is, what will happen to "Ming Pao" when Nan Yi goes to the county town and joins Nantian College.

Xie Beihe had already thought about it and said at this time: "Deacon Fei and I have agreed that the printing matters will still be handled in Nanshan County. Then we will slowly expand the sales network and gradually expand the reputation of "Ming Pao"."

Knowing that Xie Beihe and the others were worried that they might be forcibly purchased by others after following them to the county town, Nan Yi nodded.

"Then I will write to you for my future manuscripts?"

Xie Beihe smiled and said: "I have a nephew who you should also know. His name is Canan and he is studying at Nantian College. You can give the manuscript to Canan and he will send it back. In addition, if you encounter trouble, you can also You can ask Canaan to help you deal with it."

Nan Yi suddenly realized.Xie Jianan was the leader of Nanshan Academy’s annual examination two years ago.

That year, the original Nan Yi had just entered Nanshan Academy to study. Although he was not familiar with Xie Jianan, he knew him.

Seeing that Xie Beihe had already thought about the follow-up arrangements, Nan Yi stopped taking care of it.

Anyway, he only needs to provide the novel manuscript on time with high quality and quantity.

Seeing that everything was settled, Nan Yi turned around and wanted to go back to his dormitory to write Chapter 5 of "The Legend of Two Dragons in the Great Li".

But at this time, a visitor came to the door.

"Boss, buy a copy of Ming Pao." The visitor said, and when he saw Nan Yi, he was slightly surprised and said, "Nan Yi, are you here too?"

This person is none other than classmate Nan Yi, Zhou Qing who dared to take Mo Jing to take the annual exam.

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　Thanks to "Natsume Hiroshi" for the reward 502
　　
　
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