Li Kuan has a great support for Wang Youcai’s new book.

Originally, Wang Youcai thought that it would be good to be able to print a thousand copies and sell them first.

After all, most books have limited sales these days.

In addition to books such as "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the Four Books and Five Classics, such as "The Analects of Confucius", are sold better.

A professional book like "The Wealth of Nations" can sell a thousand copies, which is considered good.

However, Li Kuan asked the printing workshop to print 50,000 copies in one go.

This scared Wang Youcai.

"Uncle II, do you think I'll suggest to His Highness the King of Chu that printing 10,000 copies is enough. If 50,000 copies are not sold, I will feel very stressed at that time."

Wang Youcai came to Wang Fugui with some concerns about gains and losses.

The book "The Wealth of Nations" has more than 300 pages, which is considered a relatively large work.

The most important thing is that Li Kuanrang Workshop City printed the "The Wealth of Nations" according to the specifications of fine-coated printing.

This means that the printing cost and selling price of "The Wealth of Nations" will be relatively high.

If only one or two thousand copies are sold at that time, the printing cost alone will lose tens of thousands of coins.

"You are stupid. Your Highness, Your Highness, is so confident in your new book. Why do you have no confidence and have to take the initiative to reduce the number of printings?

By then, so many books will be printed, Xinhua Bookstore will definitely find a way to do marketing. Even if it cannot be sold quickly, it will be able to sell a lot more than you thought before."

Wang Fugui was speechless when he saw his nephew so honest.

It wasn't that he himself took the initiative to propose that so many were printed, so there was no problem of deliberately wasting money from the Chu Prince's Mansion.

Li Kuan has never made a wrong judgment for so many years. Why is he doing so much trouble here?

"That's right, but I'm a professional book, not written for ordinary people. It's impossible to sell as well as novels like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

The number of 50,000 copies is a sales volume that has never been achieved in recent years."

In Wang Youcai's understanding, among the first editions of medical, math, or physiology-related professional books sold by Guanshishan Academy in recent years, the best ones sold are not more than 10,000.

Now, although he feels that he has put in a lot of effort in his "The Wealth of Nations", it is a good book.

But he really didn't have the confidence to think that this book could sell for 50,000 copies.

Not to mention 50,000 copies, even if he could sell 5,000 copies, it was far beyond his imagination.

"There are still differences between professional books and professional books. Books like "The Wealth of Nations" are not as professional as medicine and mathematics. To a large extent, anyone who knows the text and snippets may be potential readers of "The Wealth of Nations".

I have read your manuscript, and I think it is very well written. It is absolutely necessary for merchants in Chang'an City to have a copy and take a good look."

Wang Fugui was speechless when he saw that his nephew had not turned around.

"You are right, but it's mainly because of the fact that 50,000 volumes are too many!"

Wang Fugui:...

He doesn't want to speak anymore.

Anyway, Li Kuan has arranged for the printing workshop to prepare. As long as there is no new instructions, the printing workshop will definitely start printing as quickly as possible.

...

"Shopkeeper Zheng, I heard that the Xinhua Bookstore opposite has made another big move recently."

In Sanwei Bookstore, Tian Jing came to Manager Zheng mysteriously.

Tian Jing, who was once a thug, has now found his way to survive in Chang'an City.

At the beginning, he cooperated with Wenqu Bookstore. Gradually, not only Wenqu Bookstore, Xinhua Bookstore and Sanwei Bookstore, but also other bookstores such as him.

In fact, what Tian Jing does is a bit like an intelligence dealer.

It specializes in collecting the movements of various printing workshops and book shops, and then exchanges some useful information with some book shops to get a certain amount of money and rewards.

Although Manager Zheng and the others also knew that Tian Jing had cooperation with other bookstores, they did not reject Tian Jing for this reason.

There is no way, he is just a shopkeeper, and the most important thing to avoid is to be fussed by the actions of other book shops.

So it is obviously worth spending some money and getting some information in time.

The ideas of other book shops are similar.

"What big moves are there? Has His Highness the King of Chu released a new work? Have you never heard of this? "

Manager Zheng frowned.

What they fear most is that Li Kuan has created popular novels such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Dream of the Red Chamber" or "Ximen Chong".

Because once Xinhua Bookstore launches such a popular novel, other bookstores will not have the power to fight back.

All customers will be attracted to Xinhua Bookstore.

Even customers who want to buy other books will give priority to going to Xinhua Bookstore.

In this way, everyone's turnover will drop significantly.

The data is ugly.

"His Royal Highness of Chu is busy going to the Steam Engine Research Institute and various workshops to guide the improvement of equipment, so no new works should have been released.

Judging from the past few times, if His Royal Highness King Chu has a new work, then some stories will usually be spread in a small range first, but this time I did not hear any movement.

Judging from the news I found out with some craftsmen, it should be that anyone else in the Chu Palace has released their works.”

Tian Jing is quite confident in his ability to inquire about his news.

"As long as it is not the work of His Highness the King of Chu, there is nothing else to worry about. But I think it's a bit strange. You mean that Xinhua Bookstore has made a big move. Who else has the work of the King of Chu's Mansion worthy of what big moves Xinhua Bookstore has made?"

Manager Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as Li Kuan didn't take action personally, he would not have any pressure.

"I'm not particularly sure about the specific situation, but their printing workshop has been working overtime to print books these days, which is definitely certain."

"If it's just such news, it's worth only one hundred Tang Yuan. If you can find out the specific name of the printed book, you can get a consistent amount of money."

Seeing that the news brought by Tian Jing was just like this, Manager Zheng didn't want to pay any big price.

Who knows which bookstores will Tian Jing take this news to sell?

If each bookstore gave him one hundred Tang Yuan, it would actually be a big deal.

After all, even if the wages have been rising in the past few years, ordinary craftsmen only earn hundreds of Tang yuan a month.

Those who always spend a few chunks of money a month are craftsmen of a certain level.

"Then... OK, I'll report to you if there is new news!"

Tian Jing responded helplessly.
Chapter completed!