Idle courtiers

Chapter 227 Technical Discussion

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Zhu Cong took a deep breath, and the hair on the back of his neck stood on end.

Ji'er slapped his thigh excitedly, and shouted: "One word awakened the dreamer, but I forgot about it. It's just that Jiu Gongzi spends all day dressing up as a man, and I can't think of anything to do. I'll go back and ask the craftsman to engrave the book." .”

The Ninth Young Master asked curiously: "Zhu Congji, you refused to do anything at first, but now you are so forthright. What's the reason?"

Zhu Congchi explained that if the dry bookstore industry wants to make money, the key is to get good manuscripts.For example, Zhou Nan's mentor Wang Shizhen's Fengyue novel is a walking money string, which will not accompany you if you make a steady profit.

But good manuscripts are not so easy to get. In addition to paying a large amount of manuscript fees, you also have to have a good friendship with the author.Otherwise, if you rush to the door, you will be kicked out of the door directly.

Moreover, an author's energy is limited, and sometimes only one book is published in one or two years.Some people even spend their entire lives writing such a masterpiece.

In fact, there are not many really good books in the market.As far as the Ming Dynasty is concerned, there are only three best-selling books, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", and "Journey to the West", and everyone has one edition, two editions and three editions... Thirty editions are published non-stop.

As for other books, if there is a story that can keep readers entertained, as long as the quality is decent, no one is better than another to see where to go.

When an ordinary novel comes out, if you want to sell well, it depends on your marketing methods.

Therefore, merchants will make many gimmicks when publishing new books, such as: Ming Dynasty's first fast gun, with a monthly output of [-] characters, readers can rest assured to read, and will never stop updating.

The embroidered portraits in this book come from famous artists, and the packaging is exquisite, which can be read or stored, and passed on to future generations.

Or, directly push the author to the foreground: The author of this book is a master of Fengyue novels in the Ming Dynasty. All the stories in this book come from practice, not fiction, and can be tested according to the book.

In a word, it is a very practical operation manual, buy it back and learn with an open mind.

Zhou Nan's words meant that Zhu Congjin would use the fact that the author of the book was a woman and a beautiful woman as a selling point.

This gimmick is enough, strong enough, enough to arouse readers' curiosity.

……

What a brilliant idea!
Get rich, get rich.These poems are engraved into a collection, one copy is two taels of silver, and another two or three thousand copies are printed.Calculated based on the profit of one tael per book, that is thousands of taels.

No, where one edition is enough, three or five editions should be engraved anyway.

Well, when I have money, the yellow-faced lady at home is probably much gentler to me.In addition, we have to keep our eyes open and secretly save some private money.It's outrageous for a man to socialize outside without money.

Think about the romantic poetry and wine in the future, spend a lot of money in the Chu Pavilion, and keep the brothel's reputation, what kind of happiness is that?

Thinking of this, Zhu Cong's face blushed with happiness.

He has also been unlucky these years, the court's salary has been delayed again and again, the family has a large population, and the clan's expenses are also high, and he is already very poor.In order to improve his personal financial situation, the family secretly set up a bookstore, engraved some novels and sold them for money.

It is a pity that due to poor management, it is losing money every year and is already on the verge of bankruptcy.

Now I finally saw an opportunity to stand up, how could I miss it.

I have to admit in my heart that Zhou Zimu is really good this time, even thinking of this kind of idea, no wonder my business can't go on, I really can't compare with others!

After a while, wait for the excitement to pass.Zhu Congchi suddenly remembered something, and said: "Zimu, there are only a dozen or so poems, is it a little less, no matter what, I can't make a book."

The books in the Ming Dynasty had few words, but there were only a few hundred words in more than a dozen poems, which was too small.

Take the publications in the market as an example, "The Analects of Confucius" has more than 5000 characters, a storybook romance book, twelve or thirteen stories, about [-] characters.The one with the least number of words is the anthology of stereotyped essays, a collection of ten or so essays, each ranging from [-] to [-] words, for a total of [-] to [-] words.

The dozen or so words given by Zhou Zimu were printed in a few pages. How to publish the book?

Zhou Nan smiled: "Brother Zhu, it seems that it makes sense for your bookstore to lose money every year. You don't have enough brains to do anything. You mean to sell books?" In fact, what we sell is beauty and fantasy , This is the so-called beauty economy in later generations.

"Brother Zhu, does a book have to have a preface and an epilogue? In this way, there are one or two thousand words. Does the end have to have an afterword, and there are thousands of words? In addition, under each poem, you can Find a literati to write a comment, so that a book with thousands of words will be assembled."

"Wonderful, wonderful!" Zhu Congchi exclaimed loudly: "We are a bookstore, and we also know many celebrities and scholars on weekdays. It's easy to ask them to help write something. It's just a matter of favor and money. , it doesn’t cost much.”

Zhou Nan finally pointed out: "In addition to praising the well-written poems, those comments must also highlight Jiu Gongzi."

"How do you stand out?"

Zhou Nan: "You just let them write, the ninth son is beautiful, he is as beautiful as a fairy, he is knowledgeable about books, and he comes from a famous family. Such a beautiful person can write such good poems, isn't it worth everyone's money to buy books?" ?”

Obviously you can rely on beauty and family background, but you must rely on talent.

Hearing what he said, Jiu Gongzi was overjoyed: "Yes, yes, let everyone praise me hard."

Zhou Nan: "Anyway, what is the heroine in other novels, let everyone write what they are, and build up this momentum."

Zhu Congchen murmured: "The heroine in the novel...isn't that good?"

That's right, the ladies in ancient YY novels usually have a tryst with the male protagonist at the instigation of the maid and matchmaker, and then elope.With such writing, the reputation of the Ninth Young Master will be completely ruined!

Zhou Nan said solemnly: "Once the name of the Ninth Young Master is established, the Yan family will naturally not marry her. However, Xu Xiang's reputation will be ruined, and the Ninth Young Master will also be wronged."

The ninth son gritted his teeth: "As long as you don't have to be a concubine for the grandson of the Yan family, some fame is nothing. As for my family...they treat me unkindly, don't blame me for being unrighteous. Zhu Congjin, just do it, I don't blame you."

Zhu Cong jumped up, and quickly copied more than a dozen Nalan poems on paper based on his memory, and then he was about to leave.

"Wait a minute." The Ninth Young Master stopped him: "Shall we talk about polishing the pen?"

Zhu Congchen: "Enriching the pen, what embellishing the pen."

"Don't be stupid."

Zhou Nan also interjected: "I can't lose my share."

"You two, I'm not anxious to help others, but talking about money hurts feelings."

Zhou Nan: "Talking about feelings hurts money, and talking about business is about business. In this way, let's buy shares and divide it! The ninth son and I each contributed a sum of money as the capital, and brother Zhu is responsible for engraving and selling. Brother Zhu holds [-]% of the shares, and me and Mr. The nine sons each hold [-]% of the shares."

Zhu Cong thought about it and said yes.

The ninth son added: "Zhou Nan, you pay my capital, and it will be deducted from the 200 taels of arrears."

Zhou Nan rushed up angrily: "I'm helping you. If I knew it earlier, I would have made you Xiaoyan's concubine, and you will live and die if you have a child."

(End of this chapter)