"Thankfully, I listened to Mr. Su. The cost of paper is less, the characters are smaller, and they are not as thick as books. Although it is not easy to carve wood, it saves paper and ink."
"The cost of printing is too high!" Su Yizhao sighed and said helplessly.
When Qin Shang heard this, his expression was worried, "Young master, you can't trust me?"
Su Yizhao waved his hand quickly, "Don't misunderstand me, Shopkeeper Qin. It's not that I can't trust you. I know that printing books is expensive. I'm just sighing! I thought that such a large book could save a lot of costs, but I didn't expect that it would still cost more."
so much."
Qin Shang's expression softened after hearing this, and he also sighed.
"Alas! That's why studying is not easy. Books are so expensive. How can poor people afford to study?"
"The final profit was six hundred thirty-eight taels and seven hundred and thirty-one cents."
Qin Shang pointed to the profit he had calculated and felt excited. In just over half a month, he had made so much.
If he had done this before, he wouldn't have dared to think about it.
Seeing Su Yizhao nodding again, Qin Shang said: "This will give you five hundred and ninety-five taels and nine hundred and eighty-five yuan."
"If you do the math again, have I made any mistakes?" Qin Shang asked.
"That's right! It's exactly right. Shopkeeper Qin's arithmetic is also excellent!"
After the two of them exchanged some polite words, shopkeeper Qin asked his mother-in-law to look at the bookstore and led Su Yizhao to the backyard.
"I'm afraid that it will be inconvenient for you to hold it, so I have already exchanged it for you with silver notes. I will give you one tael of silver for the remaining nine hundred and eighty-five coins."
In fact, shopkeeper Qin felt very sad, but these were all the profits brought by Su Yizhao. If Su Yizhao left one day, he would no longer have a job making money.
Although he earns less, the money keeps flowing!
"Where else can I take advantage of you?"
Su Yizhao took the banknote and counted it. After confirming that the number was correct, he took out a 100-tael banknote and handed it over.
"According to what I said before, I am 80%, but things are different now. Shopkeeper Qin has spent a lot of time on opening up sales and printing. How can I feel at ease with so much? I hope the shopkeeper will give me this hundred taels of silver.
Take it."
Shopkeeper Qin was very surprised and quickly shied away, "What? How can I get you a hundred taels of silver?"
"Take it! You will have to worry about this business in the future. I believe the shopkeeper has guessed it, so let's open the skylight and speak frankly!"
The storybook was made by Su Yizhao. This could not be hidden from shopkeeper Qin. I believe shopkeeper Qin would have noticed it a long time ago.
Shopkeeper Qin accepted the money and was very happy, then he cupped his hands and said, "Young Master is so talented!"
"I'm afraid I won't be able to make a living just like this for a long time. In the future, I might only earn this much in one month, or maybe two months. But we still try our best to earn more, and make money in front of them, and let them eat our leftovers.
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Su Yizhao's words made shopkeeper Qin a little confused at first, but after he thought about it, it was indeed the case!
"Oh! You can make money only for a while!"
"When this business declines, shopkeeper Qin still has to find a business to make money. We have already saved a lot of money by then, and the shopkeeper is still worried about not having a good living?"
This was Su Yizhao's advice to Shopkeeper Qin. Although Shopkeeper Qin looked like a philistine, when they started working together, he discovered that he was still a very principled person.
He was afraid that shopkeeper Qin would be blinded by the profit in front of him, so he thought of giving some advice.
"These are the recently produced copies. The shopkeeper has hired more printers and rushed them out overnight. We have to get ahead of them."
Su Yizhao took out a few villain books from his book bag, which should lead to a peak period of profit, but it will not take long for it to decline.
Fast money is easy to come and easy to go!
In the future, most of them will only be able to earn some pocket money. Whether it is in the future or now, Su Yizhao will never be interested in that small amount of money.
It's better to waste so much energy and do something else.
"I will only take 50% of the future share. I will still not interfere with anything else and will only write books. Do you think it will work?"
A look of surprise suddenly appeared on Shopkeeper Qin's face, "Young Master is righteous! That's enough!"
Afraid of the lack of popular support, many scholars should have come to Shopkeeper Qin to sell their own scripts in the past few days.
What Su Yizhao did was just to make shopkeeper Qin focus on her and work harder to sell the little book.
With more than four hundred taels of silver in his pocket, Su Yizhao walked out of the bookstore, leaving only shopkeeper Qin with a glowing face and longing for the future.
"Sir! It's so easy for you to make money. I've never seen so much money before! A scholar is smart enough to make a lot of money."
The money Su Yizhao sold before was not revealed to the waiter. He only said that he got a few hundred taels from selling medicinal materials.
Just like this, the waiter was envious.
Originally she didn't even want to reveal these hundreds of taels, but Shi Fang followed her every day, how could it be so easy to hide it from him?
In the past few days, she has asked Yue Qiu to investigate the affairs of Shi Fang's family. If Shi Fang is unreliable, she cannot be blamed for being cruel.
"You saw that it was easy for me to get money, but you didn't see that I burned the midnight oil and worked hard at night. With these few books, I forgot all about eating and sleeping, racking my brains!"
Su Yizhao sighed and recounted his difficulties.
In fact, Su Yizhao only spent half an hour writing every day, and fell asleep after finishing writing.
When the waiter heard this, he felt that the young master was right.
Recently, the young master asked himself to read more, even if he could learn some words. But he felt like dozing off as soon as he read, and couldn't calm down at all.
"What you are saying is that there are so many scholars, but none of them earns so much money. I heard from my mother that there are many scholars whose families are poor and have to rely on family support!"
As the waiter spoke, he thought of his father.
Last time, his father said that the young master is a shrewd man and that he will never suffer any loss if he follows the young master.
He also told his young master that no one should reveal it, not even his father.
Perhaps, dad has already seen that the young master is not an ordinary person?
"I believe you also know how difficult it is for our fourth family in the house. If I don't plan ahead, life will only become more difficult. My brother is ill, and I am responsible for the revitalization of our fourth family."
Su Yizhao said a few words clearly, but they were somewhat high-sounding.
However, Shi Fang was simple-minded. Hearing this, he felt that it was really pitiful for his young master to worry about the livelihood of his fourth family at such a young age.
He is three years older than the young master. When he was nine years old, he just followed his father around in the outer courtyard.
Later, my father was transferred to the big kitchen and worked as a small steward, not to mention his life.
In addition to the daily chores, after finishing the work, I have friends to play with every day. I am relaxed and comfortable, and I have food and drink.
His father also said at the time that he was like a mouse that fell into a vat of rice, and it was time for him to catch up.
Su Yizhao's mind was elsewhere at the moment. She thought of Wen Yu's last words before his death.
Judging from Wen Yu's upbringing and every move, Su Yizhao guessed that her life experience must not be simple.