The local booksellers took good care of these booksellers who came from afar and sold them directly at a price of 450 yuan.
Even if the purchase quantity is large, the price of 400 yuan is not something that cannot be considered.
Those booksellers who came from far away all secretly regretted that they had brought too little money.
It would be great if I could bring more and buy all their books.
I heard that their collection of books is not many, only one or two thousand...
Little did they know, they underestimated this amount by dozens of times!
In just a few days, the Qinghe Cui family secretly sold 20,000 to 30,000 books.
Almost half of the quantity has been sold.
In fact, they bought for 500 fen and sold for 500 fen. They even sold for 450 or even 400 fen during wholesale, which meant they had to lose a lot of money.
But this way, the price is still many times lower than the price of fifty copies per book at Tianyi Bookstore.
Now every little bit can be sold.
However, people from other major families were not stupid. They quickly learned the news and felt something was wrong.
Haven't they already bought all the books in Changsun Wuji's Tianyi Bookstore?
So where are the books in Qinghe County and who is selling them?
And now it's not just limited to Qinghe County, but is also starting to be sold in the areas surrounding Qinghe County.
Could it be that the Qinghe Cui family is secretly selling it?
Could it be that the Cui family in Qinghe has been bribed by the emperor?
But, it can’t be done?
Their family and the imperial power are naturally at odds with each other. The Qinghe Cui family's surrender to the imperial power does not benefit them at all, right?
So, these aristocratic families came to ask the Cui family one after another, but the Cui family refused to admit that they did it.
And about this matter, the major families quickly used carrier pigeons to deliver the news to their respective strongholds in Chang'an City.
After all, this incident was initiated in Chang'an.
The major aristocratic families asked their people to investigate, what is going on?
Could it be that Changsun Wuji did not comply with the agreement and no longer sold the book to them, but instead sold it secretly?
Soon, the contacts of major aristocratic families in Chang'an City received the news.
Then based on various signs, they began to suspect Cui Zhiji.
However, just when they were preparing to unite to accuse Cui Zhiji, Cui Zhiji took the initiative and took the initiative to entertain contacts from several other major families.
After arriving at the Cui family, among the contacts from these major families, who still has the thought of eating?
He immediately prepared to question Cui Zhiji.
Unexpectedly, before they could speak, Cui Zhiji spoke first with a bitter look on his face.
"Everyone, I just received some bad news from Duke Lu's Mansion."
As soon as Cui Zhiji opened his mouth, everyone was shocked.
Wang Gui couldn't help but asked in a deep voice: "Nephew Cui Xian, tell me, what is the news?"
Cui Zhiji couldn't help but said sadly: "It turns out that the Changsun family improved the papermaking technology, which directly reduced the cost of paper tenfold!"
"What? Ten times?"
"This, how is this possible?"
"If it's ten times the price, then they can still make a profit by selling it to us for five hundred copies each! No wonder the Changsun family can print so many books."
After everyone had finished speaking, Cui Zhiji said sadly again: "Not only that, I also found out that the Changsun family has also improved printing technology. They directly made molds for Chinese characters one by one, and then directly pieced together the Chinese characters for printing! In this way
, these molds can be used repeatedly, directly reducing the cost of printing by ten times!”
boom!
This news was like a thunderbolt, which directly stunned the contacts of several major families present.
They finally realized now that they had all been fooled by Changsun Wuji.
In this way, their printing costs were reduced by a hundred times!
It turns out that even if they sell a copy for fifty cents, they still make a profit.
But Changsun Wuji actually raised the price to 500 yuan per book!
More than 300,000 copies were printed!
People from these aristocratic families did not doubt the accuracy of Cui Zhiji's words at all.
Because of movable type printing, no one thought of this before.
And when Cui Zhiji came up with this method, people from these aristocratic families could immediately estimate that using this method, the cost would definitely be reduced by ten times!
"My eldest grandson! I swear we are incompatible with each other!"
"Old man Changsun, you have been short of virtue for eight lifetimes!"
"The old turtle who has a grandson will definitely cut off his descendants!"
This group of people from aristocratic families couldn't help but get angry at Changsun Wuji's evil spirit, and cursed them angrily.
Wang Gui said seriously: "If this is the case, then our family's blockade of culture has completely failed! Does the emperor really want to kill our family? How far is it really going to go?
Well?"
The current Tang Dynasty is completely different from the former Sui Dynasty.
Even if their family can join forces to disrupt the Tang Dynasty and plunge the Tang Dynasty into complete turmoil, they may not be able to overthrow the Tang Dynasty.
But these families may be in danger of being exterminated.
Unless absolutely necessary, they would not take this step easily.
At this time, Cui Zhiji said slowly: "Everyone, in my opinion, things may not get this bad. The impact on our family will not be too big if we really use the imperial examination to select scholars. Everyone thinks that just by us
Could it be that the heritage passed down by an aristocratic family for hundreds of years can be weaker than that of the poor?"
"What's more, half of the officials in the court come from our family. When selecting officials, they can naturally only recruit people from our family. When promoting, the same principle applies. In this way, our family can still control
affairs of state."
After listening to Cui Zhiji's words, the faces of all the people from the aristocratic families present could not help but look thoughtful.
Only Wang Gui from the Wang family couldn't help but became furious. He pointed at Cui Zhiji and cursed: "Boys from the Cui family, your Cui family must have gotten this news a long time ago, right? Then you deliberately hid it from all of us, your Cui family."
Secretly sell all the tens of thousands of books in your hands? Is this what your Cui family does?"
None of the liaisons among these major families is stupid.
When Wang Gui said this, how could you still not react?
They were all tricked by the Cui family!
Lu Yong couldn't help but said pitifully: "Good for you Cui Zhiji, good for you Cui family, your skills are so beautiful!"
Zheng Hao said angrily: "I didn't expect that the dignified Cui family of Qinghe could actually do such a thing! How shameless! Bah!"
Faced with the responsibilities of everyone, Cui Zhiji held his heart in his hands and showed an expression of extreme grief and anger, as if he would spit out a mouthful of old blood in the next moment.
"I, Cui Zhiji, finally found out the news, so I will tell you all the news immediately! And what is the reason for you to insult me for no reason?"