Mingshi

Chapter 931
"What's so difficult about it." Another official said: "Just make a mold with some grids on it, fix these lead characters in each, and then you can print."

"Also!" Ma Chunshan also became excited: "These typefaces can be freely exchanged and rearranged in the grid, so that you don't need a page but an engraving block."

The room fell silent immediately, and all the officials looked at Luo Xin with admiration in their eyes.

"This is called movable type printing!" Luo Xin said with a smile: "It can reduce the cost to [-]% off. So now although we sell at [-]% off, we still make money. Only in the past ten days, we have Already earned more than [-] taels."

"My lord, what you said is true?" Everyone became excited.

"Of course it's true!" Luo Xin said cheerfully, "Leave 2 taels for turnover, and divide it into 3 taels. Everyone can take it back and improve their lives."

"Master is wise!"

"My lord is mighty!"

The hall was boiling, and everyone was blushing. For 3 taels of silver, they only have more than two dozen officials, each of whom can distribute more than 1000 taels of silver.When did they have so much money, these hard-working men from Zhan Shifu?

"I've already divided it up, and everyone will take it back later. But, remember, you can go out and say that the bookstore is making money, but you can't tell others about it."

Luo Xin patted the box in front of him.

"Don't say it, we must not say it!" Everyone shook their heads again and again, and finally Ma Chunshan asked: "My lord, why can't we say it?"

"Xu Jie and the others are probably still doubting the authenticity of our money. If they know about this movable type printing, this battle will be over. I want Xu Jie to invest some more money so that he can pay more."

"Hahaha..." Everyone laughed loudly.

An hour later, more than [-] officials, each carrying a burden, sat in their own sedan chairs and went home excitedly.

the next day.
Luo Xin's momentum for making money intensified, and when someone saw the officials of Zhan Shifu taking the whole family to a restaurant, the momentum became even stronger.

this day.

Taibai restaurant.

In a large private room, a group of people were sitting around a huge table. They were the owners of Eighteen Bookstores in Beijing, and Zhang Juzheng who was about to leave for Hangzhou to take up his post.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the box was dull and tense.It was silent.After a while, an old man cupped his hands towards Zhang Juzheng and said:

"My lord Zhang doesn't know that now Mr. Xu Ge is only paying 5 taels of silver, but our eighteen families have already lost 30 taels of silver. Now Mr. Xu Ge is still asking us to lower the price. How can it be?"

Zhang Juzheng said lightly: "Everyone, the matter has come to this point. If you take a step back, your family will be ruined. If you persevere, there is still a glimmer of life."

The old man shook his head and said: "Now we are not far from family ruin and death. Our savings for many years have been exhausted, and there is no money left. Even if Master Luo stops now, we don't know how to live in the future. Master Zhang, I must You also know that these days, we have sold too many books, and the total number can catch up with the number of the previous ten years. In the next three to five years, the market for bookstores will definitely be depressed. What we are thinking about now is whether we can eat in the future Serve the meal. If it is not impossible for us to lower the price, then Mr. Xu Ge needs to continue to invest."

Zhang Juzheng frowned slightly, pondered for a moment and said: "Didn't Mr. Ge promise you? As soon as this matter is over, he will buy a batch of books from you to subsidize your deficit."

There was a trace of sarcasm on the faces of eighteen people, and a middle-aged man cupped his hands and said:

"Master Zhang, we have heard that Lord Luo has already reported to His Majesty, and the court is not allowed to buy books."

Zhang Juzheng's expression was stagnant, and then he said slowly: "That's just a rumor."

"Then...there is a rumor in Fangshi that Mr. Luo has a type of movable type printing that can reduce the cost of books, so although Mr. Luo reduced the book to [-]% off, not only did he not lose money, but he also made a small profit. Is this also a rumor? "

The corner of Zhang Juzheng's mouth twitched and he said: "You are all experts in this field, can you still not tell if it is a rumor? [-]% off, still making money? How is it so easy?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally the old man said: "Master Zhang, you know there are people behind us, and we can't explain if we continue to pay. So, let alone continue to cut prices, if you want to maintain this [-]% discount, you can Elder Ge needs to think of something, we don’t have any more money.”

"Then let the people behind you come out and talk." Zhang Juzheng said in a concentrated voice.

The eighteen bosses immediately became silent like wood carvings.Zhang Juzheng's face turned dark, then he remembered Xu Jie's advice, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice:

"Let's do this today, and wait until I report back to Mr. Ge."

Zhang Juzheng got up and tossed his robe sleeves and left. The eighteen sent Zhang Juzheng to the door, but they didn't leave. They went back to the box. You look at me, I look at you. Finally, a relatively young man said:

"Everyone, what shall we do?"

"We... can't go on like this." As soon as this person spoke, everyone also spoke.

"It's always impossible for Xu Ge to invest another penny, and the previous promise, saying that he asked the court to buy a batch of books afterwards to fill our shortfall, is probably a flower in the water. We have lost a lot this time. .”

"The question now is not that we want to suppress Luo Xin, but whether Luo Xin will let us go. Even if we want to restore the price, if Luo Xin keeps the [-]% discount, our eighteen bookstores will wait Go bankrupt."

"If Luo Xin can really make a small profit under the condition of a [-]% discount, he will definitely keep this price until our eighteen bookstores go bankrupt and monopolize the capital market."

"The key question now is whether Luo Xin has made a profit under the condition of [-]% discount."

"There should be a profit, otherwise His Majesty will not let him go so easily. You must know that His Majesty just dealt with Zhang Shijie. If Luo Xin did not make a profit, but used the previous corruption to squeeze us out, Luo Xin would have been dismissed by His Majesty long ago. And And those officials in Zhan Shifu have all started to eat out."

"In this way, it is true that Mr. Luo is not losing money but making money!"

"It's hard to say! Who knows if it was Luo Xin who set up suspicious formations to damage our morale and make us fall for it? Don't forget that he is the god of war."

"But don't forget that he is still the God of Wealth."

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(End of this chapter)