"The books are sold out? Isn't this a good thing? Why does the Oriental girl look so embarrassed?"
Dongfang Bai rubbed the corners of his eyes, like a child who made a mistake, and said softly: "Miss Chen used a dirty trick, and I didn't notice it for a moment, and fell into her trap."
Bai Song gradually woke up and felt that something was wrong. No matter how hard he sold the books, they wouldn't be sold out in just one sleep, right?
"What happened?"
Dongfang Bai continued: "The bookstore next door sold books ten cents cheaper than ours. I was unwilling to accept it. Then it was about eighty cents per volume. Next door it dropped to seventy cents in an instant. I went to argue with them, but Miss Chen's
They said they could sell their books as much as they wanted. After the theory failed, I changed the price to 60 cents per volume. The price next door changed to 50 cents. Repeatedly, they were always cheaper than ours. In just one hour
, the book price has been as low as ten cents per volume. The cost of our books is more than ten cents per volume, thinking that the next door will not lower the price anymore. But suddenly a group of customers came and bought our books at once
Empty...then...then the books next door have increased to 200 cents per volume, and now we have no books to sell."
"ah?!"
Bai Song was shocked. Wasn't this someone's plan to buy the bottom?
Seeing Bai Song's expression changed drastically, Dongfang Bai was even more convinced that he had made a big mistake. His face became even more ugly, he lowered his head and said nothing, blaming himself very much.
"Mr. Bai, it's the little girl who made the mistake, I'm sorry..."
"Things have already happened, and you don't want it to be like this."
"Mr. Bai, isn't this little girl stupid? She should have been at home, but here she is just causing trouble to the young man."
"It doesn't matter. There are always profits and losses in business. It's just my carelessness. I didn't expect that a girl from the Chen family actually has some tricks. Let me think about it for a few days and I will find a way to deal with him."
"..." Dongfang Bai was still frowning. He didn't know whether Mr. Bai was comforting him or if he really had a solution. He asked timidly, "Nowadays, book buyers are buying books next door. Even if there are two hundred copies of a volume, there are constant customers. It's so annoying to watch."
I’m so anxious, I wonder how long it will take for us to sell the books?”
Bai Song also frowned. No one expected that the inventory would be cleared out so quickly. The new batch of books had not been printed yet. They had to wait until the new batch of books was delivered, which would be three days at the earliest.
More importantly, if we simply enter into a price war with Miss Chen, our own books will not have any advantage.
The Chen family is backed by Shangxian Publishing House. The printing scale of Shangxian Publishing House is much larger than that of the temporarily converted paper factory of Lin's Paper Factory. From the perspective of efficiency and cost, the other party obviously has an advantage.
If movable type printing had not been taught to Shangxian Publishing House, the Bai Song Dynasty could have used movable type printing to reverse the situation.
But I had never expected such a situation before. Shangxian Publishing House has mastered movable type printing, and there is no technical advantage on its side.
When Bai Song left the restaurant, he saw a steady stream of callers in the bookstore next door, and stopped to think.
The Miss Chen family came out again and came to Bai Song with a smile: "Mr. Bai, thank you for your help. If you hadn't kept lowering the price, it would be difficult for my small shop to make money."
"Ms. Chen, she actually knows how to hunt for bargains at such a young age. It's really impressive."
"Copying the bottom?" Chen Xirong didn't understand. He was confused for a moment and then immediately became proud again, "No matter what nonsense Mr. Bai said, no matter what means Mr. Bai used to snatch Shangyuan Restaurant from my brother at such a low price, but Xiao
Women always have to take revenge. And the little girl also wants to see what Mr. Bai has up his sleeves?"
"You want to see what I can do so much? I'm afraid the girl won't be able to bear it when the time comes."
After leaving a few words, Bai Song left the restaurant.
Chen Xirong watched Bai Song leave and called a subordinate: "Follow him. Every move he makes must be reported in time."
Bai Song went home first, told Xiang'er, and rode Xiao Hei straight to Mang County.
When he arrived at the Lin Mansion, Bai Song first met with his father-in-law and mother-in-law and chatted a few words at the house.
Both Lin Mansion and Lin's mother were concerned about Xiang'er's life in Ji County, and Bai Song told the truth.
Under Bai Song's leadership, Lin Mansion's paper factory was transformed into printing and made a small fortune by selling books.
Life has obviously improved recently, and the life of the Lin family's side clan has also improved a lot.
However, as the book ban movement in Jixian County began, the Lin family paper factory had not started operation for a long time, and Lin Tingzheng was somewhat worried.
The son-in-law came today, and after talking about the household affairs, he naturally asked about when work would start.
"I won't be busy printing books now."
"Aren't you busy printing books?" Lin Ting frowned as he listened, "Has the matter in Jixian County not been resolved yet? But the Lin family is still counting on books..."
"If father-in-law believes in me, then he will do as I say."
"What's the trick for a good son-in-law?"
"From today onwards, we will collect as much bark, hay, and water slurry as we need for papermaking. No matter the price, there will be nowhere to collect it in the entire Youzhou."
"Ah?" Lin Tingzheng frowned, "Son-in-law, why is this? There are still a lot of raw materials for papermaking in the paper mill, which will be enough for a while."
"No matter what, I'll definitely make enough money for the Lin family."
Lin Tingzheng didn't understand what Bai Song was going to do and seemed very worried, but then Bai Song said that he would send the money tomorrow, even asking the Lin family to handle the matter on his behalf.
With the money as a guarantee, Lin Tingzheng didn't ask any more questions and just said that he would do it.
After explaining the matter, Bai Song hurriedly returned to Jixian.
When they arrived in Jixian County, Bai Song first went to Niu Da to explain some things, and gave Niu Da a blueprint, asking them not to collect herbs for the time being. Recently, all their thoughts were on cutting bamboo.
Niu Da had nothing to say, so Bai Song let him do whatever he wanted.
When Bai Song returned home to rest, the news reached Miss Chen's ears immediately.
In order to take revenge on Bai Song, Miss Chen's thoughts have recently been focused on the newly opened bookstore. She endured the stench of poultry next door and stared at the Donglai Restaurant all day long.
When night fell the next day, Ms. Chen's family was still in the bookstore looking at the accounts. She felt a little proud after counting them.
"I didn't expect this little book to be so profitable. I made more than a hundred taels of silver in just two days. If it hadn't been for that boy bullying the Chen family, I wouldn't have discovered this way of making money. It's true that good and bad fortunes depend on each other. I don't know how.
What do you think when you learn everything?"
The little maid next to me listened and echoed: "Humph, this is the first time I see a boy who dares to go against the Chen family. He really doesn't know how high the sky is. I don't know how many days it will take for the building next door to be sold and closed down. By then, not only will the property belong to
When the Chen family's belongings are brought back, even his own restaurant must obediently hand them over."
At this time, a servant came back and whispered: "Miss, the boy next door went to Mang County first. After leaving, the Lin family began to buy raw materials for papermaking. In one day, the bark of the entire Mang County and each family's
All the plant ashes and the like have been bought up. The servants of the Lin Mansion have been scattered to various parts of Youzhou, and it seems that they will collect tree bark and vines in other cities."
"Miss, maybe that guy knows that he can't sell books to us, so he's going to raise the price of paper instead?"
At the table, Chen Xirong dragged her cheeks, thought carefully for a while, and suddenly laughed softly: "What a whim! There are countless raw materials such as bark, and the paper consumption is not too large. The raw materials we have are enough. He
We don’t need to pay attention to these trivial tricks.”
The servant nodded and turned to leave.
"Wait a minute." Chen Xirong suddenly stopped him, "But the surveillance cannot be relaxed, everything must be reported."
"yes."
…
Two more days passed.
Regardless, Chen Xirong noticed the Lin family's actions.
Even many people in Ji County noticed something strange.
The Lin family's frantic purchase of papermaking raw materials has spread, and the Lin family's purchases have arrived in Jixian County.
The people were very surprised and didn't know why a noble clan acquired these things with such great fanfare.
Even if you know that the Lin family has a paper mill, there are so many raw materials that are enough for the Lin family paper mill to produce for more than ten years. Why on earth would you buy so much?
Moreover, paper raw materials are neither valuable nor scarce, so no one could understand the Lin family's behavior for a while.
Xiang'er also didn't understand. One day when Bai Song didn't go out, she pestered her husband at home to ask for clarification.
Bai Song didn't want to say more, but his wife was pestering him, so he could only explain as much as possible.
"Xianger, have you heard of the sheep head effect?"
"Sheephead...effect?"
"The sheep will imitate the behavior of the leader sheep. Wherever the leader sheep goes, the sheep will follow. Although no one can understand the actions of the Lin family now, as long as this continues, other people will follow suit. In the end,
More families will follow suit. One family's purchase of paper-making raw materials will not have any impact on the price of raw materials. But countless people purchase paper-making raw materials, which will inevitably lead to a clustering effect. By then, even a piece of shit will be fired.
The price will skyrocket. At that time, as long as we sell the collected raw materials at the right time, we don't need to turn them into paper at all, and we will make a lot of money."
Xiang'er was confused after hearing this, but when she saw that her husband was so sure, she no longer doubted it. After all, she had never seen anyone who could make more money than her husband.
Bai Song told Xiang'er simply, but to really trigger merchants to follow suit on a large scale, they needed to borrow the Chen family's success.
In recent days, the Chen family has been able to keep their composure. They heard rumors outside that it was serious, and even though a few merchants followed and learned from it, Miss Chen's family remained unmoved.
Two more days passed.
Chen Xirong received the latest news. There were more and more trucks going to and from the Lin Mansion. In addition to paper raw materials, there seemed to be books printed in volumes.
Without even thinking about it, Chen Xirong concluded that those books were the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
In the past, all Romance of the Three Kingdoms products from Lin Mansion were shipped to Jixian County.
But this time it was different. The trucks from Lin Mansion no longer entered Jixian County, but dispersed to various small counties in Youzhou.
After hearing the news, Chen Xirong had a bad premonition.
"This Lin family's son-in-law doesn't want to fight with me in Jixian County. Instead, he changes his direction and plans to sell books to various counties in Youzhou? However, the income of county residents in small counties in Youzhou is not high, and a book can easily cost hundreds of words.
