Jiang Xingchen's move was too ruthless and almost made everyone play. The pirated merchants and nobles lost all their money, while the lords who wanted to run monthly magazines were even more ruthless.
They are different from pirated merchants, just find a few shops to sell. If their monthly magazines are to be run, they have to sell them larger and sell more points. The cost of contacting merchants for this is a considerable expense.
In addition, the white silk, personnel, and transportation were all added together... They can be said to have invested a lot of money.
I thought Jiang Xingchen would be overwhelmed by this piracy storm, and monthly magazine sales would also decline, so they just took advantage of the situation to rise.
But who would have thought... Now that Jiang Xingchen made paper, all their previous preparations and expenses were almost gone. The news about Xingchen was already more attractive than other territories. Paper has an absolute advantage in terms of price and quality. The stall is also so big, who would buy their monthly magazines?
These lords sent people to buy a book, and cursed while reading it: "Jiang Xingchen, you Wang Badan, are so sinister. Even if the cost of paper is low, you can still sell it at a higher price than white silk. If you do this, you are planning to play with people to death..."
Thinking of his exhausted actions, he devoted himself to nothing, all his money was lost, all the lords were bleeding in their hearts, as if they had been cut hard.
Everyone knows that Qian Liang was plotted by Jiang Xingchen several times in Hongyuan City and almost broke the bank. At that time, they were laughing at others. Now they have felt it personally.
First there was the kite garden, this time it was a pirated storm. Jiang Xingchen is simply not a human! Both gliding and paper can be invented... They can see that this storm was deliberately provoked by Jiang Xingchen.
Now they regretted so much that they wanted to slap themselves hard. If something goes wrong, there will be monsters. Everyone knows that Jiang Xingchen is not a fuel-efficient lamp, so how could he use such a foolish move? But a group of people were blinded by interests and jumped into the trap like a pen.
When those lords cursed Jiang Xingchen and regretted it, on the seven-story treasure ship far away by the sea, the prince of the An family and the sect leader were also stunned by the news from the Qiankun Empire.
"Paper... tough, elastic, portable, convenient... Jiang Xingchen actually made such a thing..." The prince of the An family murmured in disbelief, with a gloomy expression.
If we really count it, they are the largest pirates. The investment is not small than those lords who are preparing monthly magazines. Moreover, they move faster, and a large amount of money is poured in, and there is already a lot of inventory.
But now, those inventory is in trouble without asking. There is no other purpose except waiting for the insects to get moldy.
An Jia family has a great career, and even if you lose this money, it doesn't matter. But after being played twice in a row, this deep sense of frustration made the son of the An Jia family feel uncomfortable. Jiang Xingchen snatched the enemy of his booking woman, and both invisible battles failed. How could the son of the An Jia family to endure it?
"Jiang Xingchen's methods are getting more and more powerful. His trick has made everyone play with him. It's amazing!" The sect leader sighed softly.
"Hmph!" The prince of the An family snorted heavily, swayed his sleeves and stood up. He ignored the sect leader and turned around and left the door.
The sect leader looked at the back of the prince of the An family and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "No matter how outstanding he is, he is still a young man... I guess he will increase the production of sheep intestinal yarn and continue to impact Zhao Family Pharmaceutical..."
In the Qiankun Empire, everything was as Jiang Xingchen expected. Using this piracy storm, paper became popular throughout the empire in just two days.
Lightweight, portable, easy to write and easy to preserve. Its many advantages immediately replaced the status of white silk in people's hearts.
Two hundred thousand books were sold out in less than a day, and the profit was 15 million yuan after all costs! Grandpa Fu was excited and sighed while complaining that Jiang Xingchen had priced the books too low. Even if the five hundred yellow crystal coins are cheaper than white silk, you only priced them by 100.
Jiang Xingchen smiled but said nothing. When his price was high, the subsequent benefits would be gone. After all, the paper was cheap, and if it was used as publicity in the future, it would be for the general public to see. What he wanted was popularization. Compared with the popularization of Star Monthly magazine, it would be a bit more costly to set such a high profit now.
His goal is to make Xingchenling the world's wind bar, to build a super city, facing not only the nobles, but also the vast number of civilians...
Then, the paper from Xingchenling began to be put on the market. However, with Xingchenling's current production capacity, it cannot meet too much market demand, and now it still needs to support its own use.
In this situation, some people are happy and some are worried. Some lords who are familiar with Jiang Xingchen are happy because they have paper sales points here. But those lords who are preparing for the bimonthly magazine once again scolded Jiang Xingchen and wanted to catch this kid and bite him to death. Why don't they sell it here?
The release of paper has caused another crazy grab. One yellow crystal coin can buy ten pieces, but the cheap ones cannot be cheaper. Even some civilians with relatively loose economic conditions have bought a few pieces.
When the buyer writes on paper, he feels so comfortable. It is indeed much easier to use than soft white silk...
On June 5th, just as people bought all the first batch of papers and asked around to find out when the second batch would come. The third issue of Star Monthly magazine was released in advance again, and the chess and card competition that Star Monthly had been preparing was finally in progress.
This time, the Star Monthly magazine used paper, and the price was only one yellow crystal coin, and 400,000 copies were distributed at one time.
People were shocked. Everyone knew that the stars were short of people. How could they have such a great production capacity?
At this time, people were surprised by the previous 200,000 books. They were all surprised by the release of paper, and ignored another thing. If the 200,000 complete stories were copied...
Everyone can tell that the neat handwriting in the book is definitely not copied, otherwise it would not be exactly the same. How did Jiang Xingchen get these words?
Everyone's doubts did not last long, and they were soon attracted by the content in the Star Monthly.
The above describes the rules and situation of this chess and card competition in detail, and refines the reward system again. It shows that not only the champions have rewards, runner-ups, third-placers, and tenth-placers, all have bonuses.
The champion is still 10,000. The runner-up is 5,000, the third place is 3,000, and the fourth to tenth place are all 1,000. In mahjong, only the top eight are rewarded.
Not only that, the champion will also win the title of King of this category and receive special trophys. The second competition will be directly exempted from the rematch and will directly enter the top ten competition.
The competition will officially start on the 10th, and there are competition locations for major territorial cities.
At the end of the monthly magazine, there is another special news. It is that during this chess and card competition, the Star Monthly will conduct continuous reports, and a supplement will be published every three days, and the competition will be published at any time. The seed players will be booked in the early stage.
The 400,000 monthly magazines were sold out in one day. The ultra-low price made many civilians buy one. When they saw such news, chess and card enthusiasts were immediately excited and rushed to the competition location set up by Xingchen Leader.
Those who were planning to take advantage of the piracy storm and also imitated the chess and card competition were all stunned. The people who participated in their competition were almost gone.
"Look at how well they are prepared for Stars! There are prizes for one to ten!"
"That's what? Didn't you see that there are any special trophys? And there will be a second in the future, and the champion will be directly in the top ten!"
"Tsk! What is money? People said. Choose the seed player first, and the Star Monthly magazine reports continuously! Do you know what this represents? This represents fame. As long as you become a seed player, you will become famous!"
"Don't think about it, you can't even pass the rematch!"
"Don't think you are so powerful, maybe you can't even get a civilian..."
Listening to such remarks and looking at the empty chess and card hall, the owners who imitated the chess and card competition were crying without tears. This is a big gap, why did Xingchen get a greeting and everyone ran away? I am also free of registration fees, I also have a championship bonus...
"They don't have Xingchen Monthly! This is the benefit of public opinion propaganda!" Xingchen led, Jiang Xingchen laughed. Then he shook his head and asked Grandpa Fu: "Are we bullying people a little?"
Grandpa Fu listened, his mouth twitched straight, and he whispered: "400,000 monthly magazines, we didn't make much money except for the cost. Are there anyone who spent so much money to bully people and play?"
Jiang Xingchen laughed and said, "Don't worry, you'll make money later!"
"How to make money?" Grandpa Fu was speechless. The entire chess and card competition was free. Moreover, the contestants who came to Xingchen to participate in the rematch were also responsible for food and accommodation. In the end, there were bonuses and trophys. The only thing left was to lose money, and it was a big profit!
Grandpa Fu was full of resentment, but he couldn't say it. He had to say: "Sir, the paper mill is going to build the former site of Qingshan Village, and the roads need to be built. For Duan's family alone, we will spend nearly 20 million. If the amusement park needs to be expanded, the rapids and rafting projects will increase, the construction difficulty will be extraordinary... I roughly calculated that by the end of this year, our expenditure will be at least 150 million!"
Jiang Xingchen nodded with a smile: "I know, don't we have more than 200 million yuan. And we earn 15 million yuan per book, and Sun Sanqiang also collected the membership fee of the teahouse, which is 20 million yuan... I still have a lot of tea on hand, and I have money from overseas trade and I haven't gotten back the income from the territory..."
"Sir, these are quite a lot! But do you know how much the cost is... There are more than 2,000 people working in our territory now, and more than 1,000 people doing odd jobs in the surrounding villages. The expenses of these people alone..."
"Stop! I guarantee that we can make money in this chess and card competition. This is OK!" Jiang Xingchen is now afraid that Grandpa Fu will talk to him about money. This kind of expenditure income is more brain-intensive than invention.
Finally, Grandpa Fu was persuaded to leave, and Jiang Xingchen immediately found Zhao Danqing. The time was for a full attack! (To be continued...)
ps: Thank you brothers for your support. Garlic has been even less in the past two months. I’m really sorry! There’s no way, I really don’t have enough time! But garlic is guaranteed to be two more a day, and I won’t be less. Thank you brothers again!