The compilation, plate making and printing of review materials and exercises are carried out in an orderly manner with the assistance of schools and factories.

A few days later, through the hard work of the school teachers, the math problem materials were first sorted out, and the next step was plate making. It took three days to make the plate, which was already very tight. It was only after Factory Director Ma found connections and asked someone to work overtime that it was possible to get it done.

Considering the efficiency of the old letterpress printing machine in the factory, Song Yuanchao chose 8-karat paper for printing. This size is the largest size that the letterpress printing machine can print.

The size of 8-page paper is equal to the folded size of a full page of a newspaper, which is commonly known as A3. The summer and winter vacation homework books that everyone distributed when they were children are usually this size.

The letterpress printing machine in the factory is definitely much slower than the automatic letterpress printing machines of later generations. You must know that many of the letterpress printing machines of later generations can reach more than 15,000 prints per hour, and some are even faster than that.

18,000 prints.

The maximum speed of this old letterpress printing machine is only 2,500 prints per hour, excluding the time for adding ink and cleaning, so from this point of view, it can only produce about 50,000 prints in 24 hours.

There are 39 pages of math problem review materials according to the paper size. According to this calculation, the maximum number of volumes that can be produced in one day is about 1,300. However, this is only theoretical because cutting and binding procedures are required. The first day of trial printing only produced 966 volumes.

, judging from this situation, the actual number of volumes published is about 1,200.

Physics and chemistry have fewer pages than mathematics. Preliminary estimates are about 32 pages, and the number of books published per day is about 1,350.

Time is very tight. There are less than two months before the college entrance examination. Song Yuanchao must complete this matter within a month.

When the mathematics review materials came off the printing press and the first bound volume was in hand, Song Yuanchao began non-stop promotion work.

According to the previous arrangement, each was responsible for their own tasks. Qin Zhengguo took the samples and letters of introduction from the schools to contact various middle schools in the city to promote these review materials.

As for Li Daqi and Gu Jie, they were not idle either. They spread the news early and started taking action as soon as they got the samples. Good news came on the same day.

Li Xiaoyun was originally a college entrance examination candidate this year, and many of her classmates and friends took the college entrance examination. When she learned that this was a business between her brother and Song Yuanchao, Li Xiaoyun, who had been thinking about getting involved in Song Yuanchao's business, was especially interested.

Before I came out, I talked to many people about this matter. When I learned that there were formal and reliable review materials, basically all the students were particularly interested in it.

In just one day, Li Xiaoyun helped Song Yuanchao and the others sell more than 30 volumes of materials. Not counting this, Li Xiaoyun excitedly told Song Yuanchao that everyone had read it after getting it, and was very satisfied with the exercise materials inside, and was even more looking forward to what he said before.

Exercise materials for physics and chemistry.

Although the price of this thing is not low, a volume of study materials costs 5 yuan, but can something like this that can improve your college entrance examination scores be measured by simple money? Although 5 yuan is not a decimal, if three

The total cost of door-to-door information is 15 yuan, which is basically one-third of an ordinary person’s monthly salary, but most people are still willing to pay this amount.

In the past, those who were selling clothes hangers wholesaled Song Yuanchao and set a price of 4 yuan, leaving them with a profit margin of 1 yuan.

The profits given out are not low in terms of proportion, but Song Yuanchao doesn't care about this, because the selling price he originally determined is already relatively high. Now because of the tight time, Song Yuanchao must sell as much as he can as quickly as possible in a short period of time.

Count how much.

Everyone was as busy as a chicken blood, and their efforts were rewarded.

Qin Zhengguo spent a few days visiting almost all the middle schools in Shanghai. Although many middle school leaders expressed no interest and refused at first, they could not withstand Qin Zhengguo's deception and negotiated the terms privately.

He sells it to the school at a wholesale price of 4 yuan, and then the school sells it to students at a price of 5 yuan, and the sales channel is completely opened.

Of course, this pricing was not something Qin Zhengguo said casually. Song Yuanchao had already thought of this, so he printed the words "Shanghai No. 2 Middle School's internal college entrance examination review materials" at the bottom of the back page when printing, and also printed it below.

The words "Suggested sales price: RMB 5" are written on it.

People in this era are relatively simple-minded. Although they said the price was high, they did not raise any objection to the selling price. According to most people's opinion, since the price has been printed in black and white, the price

Even if it is approved, it is natural to pay at this price.

On this day, Song Yuanchao came to the workshop early, and now the workshop has been divided into two parts.

Part of it still produces the original products, while the other part is mainly used to arrange printing.

The printing side was so busy that several workers worked three shifts and kept running the machine 24 hours a day. At the beginning, Song Yuanchao performed a trick of "killing chickens and scaring monkeys" based on Li Daqi's suggestion, which made the workers in the factory feel uneasy.

There is no usual disapproval on the printing side.

In addition, Song Yuanchao and Factory Director Ma announced after discussing with each other that they would give part of the bonus and overtime pay to the printing staff, which immediately aroused everyone's enthusiasm. Now all the workers have applied to work at the printing place, and there is no shortage of manpower.

"Where's Gu Jie?" After looking at the printing situation, and then at the cut and bound booklet that had been driven out last night, Song Yuanchao suddenly realized that Gu Jie was not there. Logically speaking, he would have arrived at this time, and he immediately frowned.

brow.

"I don't know. Could it be that I came back too late yesterday and couldn't get up?" Li Daqi left early yesterday, and Gu Jie was still there when he left.

"What time did he go back last night?" Song Yuanchao asked.

Li Daqi shook his head and was about to say something when his eyes suddenly lit up: "Here we come, Gu Jie is here!"

Turning back, I looked towards the workshop door, and sure enough I saw Gu Jie's figure appearing, walking hurriedly towards them.

"Brother Song, I have something to ask you." When he arrived in front of Song Yuanchao, Gu Jie's face turned red and he was breathing heavily. It seemed that he had come all the way here.

Gu Jie whispered to Song Yuanchao, then nodded to Li Daqi, turned around and walked out.

Not understanding what Gu Jie wanted to tell him or what was going on, Song Yuanchao gave Li Daqi a calm look, and then followed Gu Jie out of the workshop.

After arriving outside and finding a secluded corner, Gu Jie said: "I was about to go out today and ran into Zhang Yong. He asked me to talk about something, so I was late."

Gu Jie first explained the reason for being late, and then said: "Zhang Yong also made clothes hangers before, but this was after you transferred the business to me, so Brother Song, you have never met him."

"He is my sister's classmate, three years older than me. He was an educated youth in the southwest and came back last year..." Gu Jie introduced Zhang Yong's situation to Song Yuanchao in detail. Zhang Yong is 26 years old this year.

, three years older than Gu Jie, two years older than Song Yuanchao, and became an educated youth around the same time as Song Yuanchao, except that Song Yuanchao went to the northwest, while Zhang Yong went to the southwest.

Zhang Yong was a very competitive person since he was a child, and he was the child king of the school. He was not at peace in the southwest, and he was somewhat famous among the educated youth in Shanghai.

Zhang Yong's home is not too far away from Gu Jie's house. After returning to Shanghai, Zhang Yong also had no job and had been wandering around the house and society doing nothing.

Some time ago, Song Yuanchao was doing a clothes hanger business, and Zhang Yong didn't know where he got the news. However, when he learned the news, Song Yuanchao had basically transferred the business to Gu Jie, and the original team had also been disbanded.

Zhang Yong was smart and found a member of the team who had worked with Song Yuanchao before. After learning how to tinker, he quickly learned how to make clothes hangers, and then he recruited several people to start the business.

At first, Zhang Yong and the others made some money from this business, but it didn't last long. Later, because of Zhang Bin and Wang Jianjun's incident, the police station took action and the hanger business was wiped out. Zhang Yong also had no business.

Entered.

These days, Zhang Yongzheng and a few of his friends are engaged in egg reselling, that is, collecting scattered eggs from farmers in the suburbs and selling them in the vegetable market. Although this purchase is not as good as the original clothes hanger business, it is still profitable after all.

Some hard earned money.

At this time, Zhang Yong didn't know where he heard that Gu Jie was engaged in selling college entrance examination review materials. He asked someone about it, and after getting a definite answer, he decided to come to Gu Jie to discuss business.

Zhang Yong is a classmate of Gu Jie's sister. Of course he has known Gu Jie since he was a child. He came to block the door early this morning and held Gu Jie in conversation for a long time. The meaning was simply that he had someone with channels and asked Gu Jie to take care of this matter.

Part of the transaction was given to him. As long as Gu Jie agreed, Gu Jie would be Zhang Yong's brother from now on. Whenever he had something to say, Zhang Yong would promise to help him as long as he could.

How could Gu Jie be in charge of such a big thing, not to mention Zhang Yong's appetite. Gu Jie originally planned to send him out in batches of ten volumes as Song Yuanchao said, but he didn't expect that Zhang Yong felt that this quantity was too small.

If he wants to do it, he either doesn't do it, or if he wants to do it, he does it in a big way.

"Go big? How many does he want?"

"He said it would be at least a thousand copies, and the price would be lowered," Gu Jie said.

"This guy has a big appetite!" Song Yuanchao suddenly laughed. Gu Jie's words made Song Yuanchao immediately become very interested in Zhang Yong.

Gu Jie nodded and said to Song Yuanchao: "Brother Song, you don't know. This Zhang Yong has been a crab since he was a child. He is very arrogant. I don't dare to directly say no to what he said, just in case this kid gets angry and does something bad.

When trouble comes, everything will be ruined, so I can only calm him down first, saying that I don’t have the final say in this transaction, and I need to find someone who can have the final say. But whoever thinks he has the final say will confront him.

He asked me to spread this message for him, so I had no choice but to agree..."

As he said this, Gu Jie lowered his head with a look of shame on his face.

"You did a good job!" Song Yuanchao patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "Being friendly makes you rich. Try not to offend others as much as possible. It's better to do less than to do more. Besides, you're right."

"Brother Song, don't you blame me?"

"Hahaha, why are you blaming me? This is a fact." Song Yuanchao smiled and shook his head, and then sighed: "Zhang Yong seems to be a person, okay! Since he wants to see me, then meet me, you

Go back to him early in the afternoon and make an appointment to meet him. As for the place..." Song Yuanchao thought for a while and decided that the air-raid shelter where clothes hangers were used before would be more suitable. Although the place had been cleaned, the tables and chairs were still there, and there were no people there.
Chapter completed!