With two lifetime experience, it is not difficult to earn some money in Yuezhou City. For example, if you go to the roadside to set up a snack stall, it is easy to survive in Yuezhou City. However, even if the food stall is delicious, it will take some time to accumulate reputation and will not bring Lin Zhao particularly great benefits in a short period of time.

Even under ideal conditions, Lin Zhao's snack stall business is booming, and he alone can't make many portions of food. He can make money by making money, but it is just a small amount of money that is not eye-catching.

More importantly, Lin Zhao has never been exposed to this industry in his past and present life. He has only eaten and made many snacks. Even if he follows the same example, it is difficult to make a huge meal in the whole city in a short period of time.

So, after careful consideration, Lin Zhao decisively gave up the idea of ​​setting up a stall.

With Lin Zhao's thirteen years old now, there are not many other options in addition to making snack stalls. After the young man got up early in the morning, he sat in his nest and thought for half an hour, but he still didn't think of any suitable business. So he decided to go out and go around Yuezhou City to do market research.

Yuezhou Prefecture is a typical Jiangnan city. Each street has a river parallel. Walking on the streets of Yuezhou Prefecture, you can see the small bridges and flowing water all over the city, which is very pleasing to the eye.

However, Lin Zhao has no time to watch these scenery now. He walked in Yuezhou City for most of the day, from the South Street in the south to Sanda Street in the north of the city, and was watching the people's livelihoods along the street.

This is a relatively complete city, with basically complete industries and Lin Zhao’s business of making money. In the afternoon, the young man bought a big cake on the side of the road, sat on the side of the road while gnawing on the big cake while thinking secretly.

At present, it is obviously not realistic to accumulate capital in Yuezhou City and compete with these existing industries. The best way is to find loopholes in some industries, or simply create a business out of thin air so that you can make money as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, the young man ate the big cake in his hand in a few bites, then looked around on the street, and suddenly saw a book shop. His eyes suddenly lit up, remembered something, and walked towards the book shop.

Jiangnan has always been a place where people are gentle and virtuous, and Yuezhou Prefecture has a very literary style. Therefore, there are many book shops in Yuezhou City, and there are one or two on almost every street. These book shops are big and small. The book shop that Lin Zhao walked into is called Sanyuan Book Shop, which can be regarded as a medium and large book shop, with three or four houses on the storefront.

After entering the book shop, Lin Zhao first casually flipped through the books on the bookshelf, then looked at the pricing, and he knew it basically.

First of all, it is certain that there has been printing technology in this era. The most prominent books in the book shop are several rows of printed books that are clearly printed. Most of these books are books used for examinations, such as "textbooks" such as the Four Books and Five Classics, and "teaching aids" that annotate the Four Books and Five Classics.

Furthermore, there are printed books written by famous figures in the court, as well as some popular books nowadays.

In addition to these printed books, there are many handwritten copies.

Handwritten books are relatively unpopular and niche. Of course, there are also some handwritten Four Books and Five Classics that are reserved for wealthy families for collection.

Compared with printed books, the price of handwritten copies is much more expensive, and sometimes the price is even more than ten times. A printed book usually ranges from twenty or thirty to one hundred yuan, while some handwritten copies may even be sold for more than one usual amount!

Even if the consumption level of Yuezhou Prefecture is always a big figure. Take Lin Zhao’s father Lin Qingyuan for example. He is a master in the neighboring mansion and his annual income is only about 60 knots. Excluding half of the expenses, it is already very good.

Lin Erniang makes embroidery every day and saves for so many years. It is estimated that the remaining money will not exceed five stagnant!

After roughly knowing it, Lin Zhao began to look at the shopkeeper of the bookstore. The shopkeeper looked less than forty years old, with a fair face and a long beard left under his jaw. He looked quite graceful. Compared to Mr. Qin from the Lin family, he looked more like a scholar.

Lin Zhao took a deep breath, walked over, lowered his head slightly to the middle-aged man, and said, "Shopkeeper, are you recruiting apprentices here?"

The shopkeeper's surname is Xie, and his name is Xie Sanyuan. He was also a scholar in his early years, but he failed the exam for a long time and did not even get a scholar's reputation. In desperation, he had to build a shop and started a book shop. More than ten years have passed, and his Sanyuan book shop has become a little famous in Yuezhou City and is not worth mentioning of being rich and powerful. However, with this book shop, he has already bought a real estate in Yuezhou Prefecture and has done a very good job.

He was looking through a newly arrived book. After hearing the sound, he looked up and found that it was a handsome young man, who looked only twelve or thirteen years old. Xie Sanyuan smiled slightly: "Young man, I already have someone working here, and there is no shortage of people. You can go to another house to take a look."

Small book shops usually buy and sell, making a difference in the change of selling. Larger book shops usually print their own, such as Sanyuan Book Shop, which has its own printing workshop.

As soon as Lin Zhao entered the door, he saw that the shopkeeper had ink marks on both hands, and the kind of ink marks that could not be washed off, so he spoke to Xie Sanyuan.

When Lin Zhao heard Xie Sanyuan refuse, he was not discouraged, but just smiled at Xie Sanyuan: "Shopkeeper, my wages are cheap, only 200 yuan a month, so you don't want to control it. Just take care of two meals."

At this time, Lin Zhao had already determined the printing level of this world and stopped at the carving board. At least the mainstream was carving board, but he knew nothing about this industry. Therefore, he needed to work in this bookstore for a while, while understanding the level of printing level in this world, he also had to learn how to print things.

Of course, more importantly, look at the character of this shopkeeper and whether it is worth working on.

He is a poor boy. Even if he prints movable type, he will not be able to do his own career. He must find someone to work with him.

At this time, the wages in Yuezhou Prefecture were about 400 to 600 yuan a month, and they were all responsible for food and accommodation. The 200 yuan proposed by Lin Zhao was far lower than the "ordinary wage".

He rented a house for four hundred yuan a month, and the salary of two hundred yuan was not enough for the rent.

Xie Sanyuan frowned first, then looked at Lin Zhao up and down, and then sighed: "Forget it, you, as a young man, have encountered difficulties, otherwise you wouldn't say this. Please help me. As for the wages, I won't give you four hundred dollars a month."

Lin Zhao quickly lowered his head and bowed to Xie Sanyuan and said, "Lin Zhao thanks for the boss for taking in."

The two words "Owner and the shopkeeper" have a very different secret meaning. Xie Sanyuan is indeed the owner of this shop. Hearing the smile on his face a little more, he reached out and patted Lin Zhao on the shoulder.

"My surname is Xie, Xie Sanyuan."
Chapter completed!