Old man Zhou was unwilling to cooperate, and Li Yinguang had no choice but to force him.
"I am planning to expand the operation of the newspaper. I need to purchase another batch of printing and typesetting machinery and equipment, and I also need paper supply. It is not just a short time, once or twice, but a long-term supply."
Li Yinguang took the initiative to shift the topic to newspaper purchasing.
Zhou Shanren squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "This is a good thing for me, but you guys have to think clearly. Do you really want to expand your small newspaper? There are many newspapers opened in Manbach Town these days.
, big and small, everyone seems to have suddenly woken up and are thinking about getting into the newspaper industry. Is there really such a huge profit in it? "
Li Yinguang shook his head: "The profits are definitely not as good as your old grocery store, but the threshold for this industry is low!"
"The threshold is low?" Zhou Shanren repeated the three words and said with a smile: "Not necessarily!"
Li Yinguang shrugged, smiled and said nothing. "The threshold is low" means that printing equipment and other things are easy to purchase. You can find a place, find some people, take a few photos and publish them to the outside world. As long as there are advertisers, it is free anyway.
If you send it, the cost will be borne by the advertising merchant.
Although dozens of newspapers have been added during these days, in the field of paid newspapers, not a few have been added, but several have gone bankrupt, because it is difficult to charge for content, and relatively speaking this is a threshold.
"The amount of paper purchased is huge. If you are interested, you can invest in a 'paper mill' that specializes in paper production. You should be able to make money!" Li Yinguang said with a smile.
Zhou Shanren shook his head: "I'm old and don't like to mess around. Why don't you do such a good thing yourself?"
Li Yinguang's pupils shrank, and then he said with a smile: "If you are not interested in this kind of small business, maybe I will have to build a 'paper mill' by myself. But before that, I have to purchase printed newspapers from you.
of paper.”
"No problem, we will keep the previous price." Zhou Shanren said.
Li Yinguang shook his head and said with a smile: "Your old price will have to be lowered!"
"The price is still low? Two copper bull coins each. You can go around town to find out about this price. Where can you buy it?" When old man Zhou heard that Li Yinguang wanted to lower the price of paper, he immediately blew his beard and stared.
Any small talk is fine, but when it comes to business, friendship is not as simple as it sounds.
Li Yinguang said with a smile: "Don't worry, sir. In the past, small newspapers used a small amount, but this time they use a larger amount!"
Old man Zhou frowned: "No matter how large the dosage is...if you can use 50,000 sheets every day, then the price can be slightly lowered for you!"
Li Yinguang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Isn't it difficult for you to make things difficult for me? Not to mention our small newspaper office, all the newspaper offices in Manbach Town combined consume 50,000 newspapers every day?"
Zhou Shanren said: "The quantity can't be increased, and you still want to lower the price. Are you not sincerely looking for trouble to ruin my job? Do you think the business is so easy to do? We need to smoothen the relationship between the top and bottom, and support a lot of people inside and outside. How can
You don’t need money, you can’t do anything without profit, paper, if you want, it has to be calculated as two copper bull coins each.”
Calculated based on two copper bull coins, the newspaper must sell at least three copper bull coins to avoid losing money. After advertising, ink, labor, and content costs are all added, the cost of each newspaper is at least five copper bull coins, so Man
The price of paid newspapers in Bach Town is basically above ten copper bull coins. Any lower price means you are losing money and making no profit.
Of course, making money by selling newspapers is only the most basic profit. In the end, soft and hard advertising, content promotion and other things are the real profit points.
Even if it is a paid newspaper, it will not completely eliminate advertising. After all, everyone has to eat, right?
If the 'Independent Women's Newspaper' wants everyone to be able to afford it and read it, then its price cannot be set too high. Even if it costs ten copper bull coins, not everyone will be willing to buy it.
"Okay, since you have said so, let's set the price of paper first. Regarding equipment, your boss must give some discounts, right?" Li Yinguang thought for a while and gritted his teeth.
Old man Zhou squinted his eyes, smiled and asked, "What equipment are you going to buy and how many units do you want?"
"We need five cameras!"
"Twenty typewriters are needed!"
"Thirty printing presses are needed!"
…
After hearing about the equipment that Li Yinguang wanted to purchase, Zhou Shanren opened his eyes and exclaimed: "You kid is going to cause trouble!"
With so many facilities, there would be no problem if we opened a small newspaper or expanded it to ten.
Li Yinguang said with a smile: "I calculated that these equipment total about four to five thousand silver ox coins. Mr. Qian doesn't have that much, but I can pay it in installments. It won't take long. I can definitely pay it off before winter. How about that?"
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The wrinkles on Zhou Shanren's forehead were as wrinkled as a wild bee. He kept shaking his head: "What a piece of shit, I can't appoint you. Who knows how long your kid can live? If you mention being killed by someone, I won't have any money."
Is it just a waste of time? No, no, no!"
Li Yinguang turned his eyes and said with a smile: "If you can't pay in installments, what about using items as collateral?"
"Item mortgage?" Old man Zhou's expression softened instantly, he narrowed his eyes and asked with a smile: "What item should be used as collateral!"
"How about two z3-type smelting furnaces?"
"Can!"
Old man Zhou nodded and agreed without even thinking about it.
A cunning fox will definitely not suffer a loss. Credit installment is not possible, but it is feasible to use a hard currency such as a smelting furnace as collateral, let alone a black-hearted grocery store, and go to other places in the town.
"Two Z3-type smelting furnaces, with a mortgage of seven thousand silver cattle coins, part of which will be used to purchase newspaper equipment, and part of which will be used to pay for paper. We will wait until the kid's own 'paper mill' can produce, or before the end of winter, the specific amount will be settled. I don't know.
Question?"
Old man Zhou calculated that the maximum purchase of equipment was more than 4,000 silver cattle coins, and there was still a balance of less than 3,000 silver cattle coins. Even if the paper was opened and used, could it be used up before winter?
"Okay, okay, that's the price of this mortgage..."
Li Yinguang interrupted him and said: "Old man, we are taking a mortgage, not selling the smelting furnace to you. At most, we will redeem the smelting furnace after winter or before spring, so you can't sell our smelting furnace.
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"Haha!" Zhou Shanren squinted his little eyes and smiled without saying a word. This was nominally the reason, but when it came to the things in his hands, how could he handle them while others could still take care of them?
"Z3 type smelting furnace, the price of 3,500 silver ox coins per unit is a bit high, how about 3,200 silver ox coins? I immediately nodded in agreement and sent someone to raise equipment for you!" Zhou Shanren asked tentatively.
Li Yinguang rolled his eyes. The minimum Z3 smelting furnace on the market is four thousand silver ox coins. Recently, there is an 'Zhenbei Ancient Battlefield' near Manbach Town. If nothing else, the price of the smelting furnace should have increased a lot.
, so three thousand five hundred silver ox coins is definitely a bargain price.
"Three thousand and eight!"
Zhou Shanren stared: "What did you say?"
Li Yinguang said with a joking smile: "I said you were deaf and misheard just now. How can the price of a 'z3 type' smelting furnace be 3,500 yuan even if it is a mortgage? The minimum price is 3,800 yuan."
Zhou Shanren laughed awkwardly: "Three thousand and five, let's calculate it as three thousand five hundred silver ox coins per unit, that's all right!"
Li Yinguang shook his head: "The minimum is three thousand eighty. If you don't accept it, then I will just sell it for four thousand two." Before Old Man Zhou could speak, he said sternly: "This price is a mortgage. You, the old man, want to immediately
Good documents, I need to be able to take away these two 'z3 type' smelting furnaces at any time."
Old man Zhou was blowing his beard and staring in anger, but there was nothing he could do. Li Yinguang was now determined to hold on to the price of 3,800 yuan.
In the end, Old Man Zhou had no choice but to compromise first and shook his head with a wry smile: "You kid, you have such a dark heart. From now on, I might as well give you the signboard of this dark-hearted grocery store!"
"It sounds awful, but I don't want it!" Li Yinguang stood up and walked outside.
The reason why the lava furnaces on the Castle were mortgaged was that there were currently an excess of lava furnaces in Ironclad City. Secondly, Li Yinguang was really out of money and needed some loose money for emergencies, and he didn’t want to use up the smelting furnaces.