Chapter 160 Wu Qi is in action
The Lushan Price Bookstore was launched in Anding City.
Every day, there are many customers and the business is booming.
The Zhou and Wu families were not weak, and no one dared to make trouble.
Anding County was originally a home of cultural heritage and many scholars were studied.
The Midsummer Poetry Festival at Jinxiu Tower every year attracts talented men and beautiful women from all over the North.
This also makes all the people of Standalone feel proud.
Even the poorest families hope that their children can read and read.
In the past, I couldn’t afford to buy books, and I couldn’t even afford to practice the clan’s education.
Now, you can buy several copies for fifty cents, and the paper is even cheaper.
It doesn't matter if you can't afford to go to school.
With books and paper, you can learn by yourself.
The people are optimistic and even encourage their children to go to the clan to learn eavesdrop.
They are all from the villagers.
Could it be that the old master is willing to drive away the children who love to study?
In this way, the books and paper sold by Lushuibao Bookstore every day.
It actually reached tens of thousands of kilograms.
Remember, it's pound, not calculated by this.
People from all over the countryside flocked to buy.
Rich families are not willing to fall behind.
They don’t lack books, but paper is always a consumable, right?
Who knows if there will be any paper that is priced at a bargain in the future?
I didn't say anything, buy it.
Let's reserve it first.
So, Wu Qi opened several branches in other counties.
The main force in sales is still in Anding County.
These days, he found that there were always a dozen poor-dressed scholars wandering around the store.
They bought a few kilograms of books and went back as soon as possible.
But there are more and more types of printing that cannot stand Chen Lin.
What classic meanings, literature, novels, historical travel notes, laws, dictionaries...
As long as you can find the original one, no matter if anyone buys it.
Chen Lin made all of them to type and print.
Why?
He intends to build a library.
What are hundreds of books?
He wanted to search and copy all the books collected by the Shen family's main thread.
These diverse books are fatal to the temptation of readers.
Unfortunately, many people can't afford it.
So what if it’s cheaper? People have to eat, right?
Fortunately, the bookstore is large enough.
These people come to read books and take the initiative to help maintain order from time to time.
The staff in the store will not drive them away.
"Yuan Xiucai, Liao Xiucai, Lao Cheng, Lao Zhang!"
In the afternoon, Wu Qi waved.
He brought four poor scholars who read books to the cloth shop next door.
This place is much more deserted.
"Come on, Master Qi invites you to a meal."
"It's very simple, don't mind."
The four scholars were blushing and embarrassed.
If we read books, we will be thick-faced.
How can I have the nerve to eat your meal?
Besides, your family’s food is at least two meats and three vegetable markets.
All of us are very poor at home.
One month, I can’t bear to buy two meats to eat.
Yuan Shijie quickly waved his hand and refused.
"Master Qi, I've been disturbed these days, why are you embarrassed to invite you to dinner?"
"I'm upset, we'll leave right away."
Another thin young man named Liao Mingxiu, he said in a hurry.
"That's right, Master Qi, it's good if you can let us read for free."
"We can't eat this rice!"
While he was talking, he swallowed, but his stomach was not strong enough and it sounded.
Wu Qi's face was stern.
"Don't you give face?"
"Seventh Master is doing a good business, and you still don't want to eat in one bite?"
When the four of them heard this, it was really hard to refuse.
The other two, Chen Ziwen and Zhang Deshang, are both over thirty years old.
They are not as flirted as young people, and they know more about human nature and worldly style.
They sat down with their hands, and they wanted to hear what else to say about Qi Master?
Wu Qi was not in a hurry to say it.
A meal was very fast.
The four of them were very nervous.
I was embarrassed to ask, but I didn't taste the food.
The shopkeeper of the cloth shop brought a few cups of tea.
Of course, he should be more attentive when his boss treats him.
Wu Qi took a sip of tea and asked while picking the floss.
"Xiao Yuan, Xiao Liao, the private school you two teach is closed?"
Both of them looked heavy and nodded.
It's been closed for a month.
Scholars can’t do anything, and their family is getting more and more difficult.
I don't know what to do in the future?
Liao Mingxiu said: "The situation is not good, the businessman who donated money to run the school has returned to the south."
Chen Ziwen suddenly sighed.
"For some reason, everyone seems to be unwilling to be at peace with us."
"Oh, our Yucai Private School is not far from closing."
"Although the boss is a local big player."
"But, I stocked up on cotton in the first half of the year, but now I can't sell it and I have no money."
Wu Qi knew this very well.
Chen Zhongru provoked the price of cotton to increase the price, and other local businesses and landlords followed suit.
The seed cotton that originally cost three cents per pound was fryed by these people for seven or eight cents.
In fact, there is no profit margin for ordinary weaving workshops and seed cotton of five-cent paper.
Every year, I come to Anping, and see the Southern cotton merchants who buy goods in bulk.
I was suddenly furious.
You are too stable and you are simply a skilled person!
Is there no other cotton production area in Dazhou?
Of course there is.
Continue to move west along Huanglong River, Shaanxi and Hetao.
So, all the big cotton merchants ran away.
The Anding Cotton Merchants were completely trapped.
Not every family has a great family like Chen Zhongru.
He doesn't care about a mere 30,000 to 50,000 taels of silver.
At worst, you won’t plant cotton next year, so you can change to plant wheat.
Other businesses, even if they have to put up thousands or tens of thousands of taels of silver.
It's also considered a trauma.
Wu Qi laughed.
"Those guys deserve it."
"Now, you can't find a buyer if you sell at a lower price, hahaha!"
The price reduction is limited and still fluctuates between four or five months.
It’s not the time when Chen Lin eats.
He still held his troops and was not in a hurry at all.
I just need to buy a hundred dozen dan occasionally to maintain Wu Qi’s fine colored cloth sales.
Zhang Deshang was amused and crying.
"Seventh Master, this is the reason."
"But we scholars who have no hope of imperial examinations will even lose their jobs in teaching."
"I see that I have no food and clothing, so I'm waiting for the rice to be put into the pot at home!"
"Isn't this hurting the innocent?"
Wu Qi asked curiously.
"How many are there in the county? You are a scholar-child student?"
"Seventh Master, I mean, how many people are already unemployed or have a uncertain future?"
The four scholars communicated briefly.
Yuan Shijie, who had a vast friendship, pondered.
"I'm afraid there are two or three hundred? The towns below cannot count them."
"Maybe more, but their family has a few acres of thin fields."
"It's not like us, if we don't have to go hungry if we don't have an entry."
Wu Qi's eyes lit up, and Brother Lin'er's explanation was full of clues.
"You all know that Lushui in the west of the Shen family has built an iron city?"
Liao Mingxiu nodded.
"I know, it's our great talent. Chen Lin abandoned literature and followed the martial arts, so he started it!"
"Everyone is very sorry."
"It's a pity for a person like him to not continue the imperial examination road!"
The other people also looked sad.
This chapter has been completed!