In June, the first batch of scheduled comic strips printed by the printing workshop were delivered, and more than 20,000 comic strips were equivalent to being launched on the market at the same time.

These more than 20,000 comic strips are the first and second episodes of Tong Lin's Biography. There are not many contents, but because of the novel form, many people have long wanted to buy and watch it.

However, according to the agreement, these merchants cannot sell this batch of comic strips in Ninghua, but can only be transported to Tingzhou Prefecture City and surrounding prefectures, and further away, they must be transported to the provincial capital Fuzhou and even Nanjing for sale.

Although the large number of comic strips were launched on the market, there were still only the 100 books that were originally put on in Ninghua County. Some people were willing to collect them privately. The price had increased from the original fifty cents to four or five hundred cents, and it was still priceless.

The first batch of comic strips was rushed to be produced, and the final payment was collected, and the profit was about 800 taels. However, due to the expansion of the workshop and the hiring of new employees, the real profit was only about 600 taels, but this still far exceeded Hui Niang and Zhou's expectations.

After only less than two months of doing it, I achieved such good results, which is more profitable than the drugstore.

After taking back the money, Zhou smiled from ear to ear every day. She was the major shareholder of the printing workshop and could share 60% of the profit. In the past month, her family had more than 300 taels of silver, which made her feel aloof, but she was afraid that the money would be coveted by others at home.

She did the matter without telling her husband, and she felt up and down. After being happy, she felt at a loss, so she had to go to Hui Niang to discuss it.

There is a hardship of not having money, and there is a worry of being rich. Zhou is just an ordinary woman. She used to pay a lot of dividends in the pharmacy shop, but most of them were handed over to the old lady. Now she has made a lot of money, but she hides it from her family and doesn't know how to deal with it.

"Sister, why don't we share dividends for the time being, keep the money and continue to expand the scale of the workshop so that we can make more money. What do you think?"

Hui Niang is a strong woman with expansion ambitions. She has no place to put her life in daily life, so she can only focus on business. After making money, her idea is not to buy land and land, but to expand production. Since she used to run a pharmacy shop, Shen Xi has seen Hui Niang's excellent characteristics.

Zhou didn't know how to answer, but Shen Xi expressed his opinion: "Aunt Sun, the business of our printing workshop is very good now, but we cannot expand blindly. Now that Aunt Sun and Mother have made money, the most important thing is to buy the storefront of the medicine shop and the printing workshop site. We have to lay a solid foundation to continue expanding. If even the place belongs to someone else, it is easy to get stumbling behind people."

Hui Niang fell into deep thought, and she had thought about this question earlier.

The shops along the streets of Ninghua County are not expensive, but the decent and spacious store is worth at least 100 taels of silver. Although the site of the printing workshop is not facing the street, it covers a large area after several expansions, and it must be 100 taels of silver. Hui Niang originally wanted to rent a place to do business, so that she would have more working capital at hand, but when she heard Shen Xi's words, her business philosophy was shaken.

"Okay, anyway, this time the profit is quite good. Even if you buy the place, you will have capital turnover."

Hui Niang nodded and looked at Shen Xi with loving eyes. It is not scary for yi to make money personally. What is scary is that she knows how to do every step after making money, and will not overturn the building because of her blindness. In her opinion, it is very rare for Shen Xi to have such a vision at a young age.

Chen Xi smiled at her: "Auntie, the funds will only become more and more abundant in the future. Look at the workshop now, I print books every day and sell comic strips. Some money is profitable. Let's clear the hidden dangers first, so that we will not be careless and be stubborn when it develops."

Zhou said with some concern, "Sister, this money is a big deal. If you don't say anything to the unscrupulous one at home, you always feel sorry for him, but if you tell him, he will definitely use the money to fill the teahouse's deficit. Let's leave the money on the account, use it if you can, and just tell me about it."

Hui Niang quickly refused: "What are the words of sister? This is what my sister earned with hard work."

Zhou said with shame: "My sister is clearly making fun of me, an ordinary woman. She doesn't have the strength to do heavy work, so she can only look at the shop. This pharmacy and printing workshop are nothing, but you give me money on both sides, so I feel uneasy. Unfortunately, the tea shop I run is under the control of others, otherwise my sister will be the shopkeeper of the tea shop at least."

Hui Niang smiled with her lips and glanced at Chen Xi with a soft and charming look: "If you want to say the greatest credit, you should remember it on Xiaolang. The medicine shop was half dead at the time. If it weren't for the plague, how could the people remember our good things? Then patronize our business?"

"This time, Xiaolang came up with the idea, and then he was busy with everything and finally achieved his success today. I'm sorry, it should be my sister. I accepted such a big gift from my sister Yi's family for no reason, and I really don't know how to repay it."

Chen Xi curled his lips next to him and thought to himself, "You might as well agree with your body." But this kind of thing is really not something that a child can say."

Zhou was embarrassed: "If our family had not taken in for their sister when they were desperate, we wouldn't have been today. Speaking of which, it was all fate. Maybe God made our two families know each other and stay with each other."

The sisters were grateful to each other, and the scene was extremely warm.

Chen Xi then discussed with Hui Niang and Zhou's issue of distributing comic strips in Ninghua County.

As the ordered comic strips are completed, the printing workshop will print a batch of comic strips for sale at the city bookstore to meet the reading needs of local people.

Chen Xi conducted a survey on the purchasing power of Ninghua people, and believed that the number of comic strips that can be digested in Ninghua counties and surrounding townships is no more than 600. It has been printed 100 books before, but now only 500 more copies are needed, and the market will be basically saturated.

After Chen Xi expressed his thoughts, Zhou took the lead in expressing his dissatisfaction: "Yanwa, we ordered ten thousand copies of every volume before. Now we print it for ourselves, and only five hundred copies are printed every time?"

Chen Xi nodded: "Mom, Ninghua is a small place. If you don't want to lose money, we have to print less. There will be too many things on the market, which will cause the illusion of backlog. Bookstores will lower prices and clear inventory. When the comic strips in Ninghua are lowered, the merchants who bought our comic strips at high prices earlier will feel that they will lose money. When they order us, they will lower the price. Those merchants are the big buyers of our comic strip business. We cannot lose big because of small things."

Zhou frowned: "Since that's the case, you kid is still so aggressive when talking to those people before?"

Hui Niang understood very well: "Sister, don't blame Xiaolang. Xiaolang did a good job. If those people take the initiative, our profits will be very thin. Now we do need foreign merchants to ship to us, but we can't let them know that we have to rely on them."

"This is this"

Originally, Zhou wanted to scold Chen Xi very much. When Hui Niang said this, her face suddenly turned red, "It's better that my sister can do business, so let's print so much first."

Hui Niang smiled slightly, looked at Chen Xi and asked, "Well, how long do you think our industry will last?"

Chen Xi had a little pride on his face: "As long as those merchants shipped the comic strips to other places and sold them well and made money, they would definitely come back to us to print them. Our local shipments in Ninghua remain in short supply and maintain the price stability. When those merchants came back, they would book with us at the original price. Even many people would follow us when they saw this business profitable. At that time, we can increase the price a little."

"What!? Do you want to improve more? We only print a booklet of 60 cents, but you have already collected 50 cents and still not satisfied. Isn't this cheating?"

Although Zhou thought it was a good thing to make more money, he felt that earning too much would cause retribution.

Chen Xi said seriously: "Mom, this is called the seller's market. Only we have comic strips. They like to buy them or not. If no one looks at the prints, they can't sell them, and even if they beg them, they won't pay attention to us. After all, this technology cannot withstand research. Before others can figure it out, we can just make enough money at once."

Zhou was shocked: "You little brat, I really don't know where you learned so many tricks."
Chapter completed!