After a disagreement, Xia Shang turned around and left. Not to mention the little fat man, even Jiang Nan didn't react.
Mr. Xin said that he is usually very amiable, but when he gets to the wine table, he turns his face faster than turning the pages of a book.
Jiangnan didn't think much about it, she just liked Mr. Keguo, who was very energetic and had to go out with Pidianpidian behind her.
Lao Zhu's family is a businessman and a famous rich man!
Calling him a rich businessman is aggrieved, let’s call him a rich man.
It is said that the combined land area of Lao Zhu's family can be as large as the entire city of Yangzhou, making him the largest landowner in the Jiangnan area. Countless businessmen come to fawn over him every day. Wherever Mr. Zhu goes, there is an endless stream of customers.
Perhaps because the family was too wealthy, God forfeited the incense roots of the Zhu family, leaving only a single seedling of Zhu Jindou, who was regarded as the little emperor of the old Zhu family.
I have always been taken by Master Zhu, and I have watched how Master Zhu talks about business since I was a child.
Therefore, Zhu Jindou came into contact with countless businessmen.
What kind of businessman has Zhu Jindou not seen? Except Xia Shang, he has never seen such a no-nonsense approach.
Zhu Jindou approached Xia Shang because he valued the potential of "A Dream of Red Mansions" and wanted to develop his own business.
Although Zhu Jindou was a little fatter and pickier, his ambition was not short. He felt that he had no ability to rely on his father to start a business, and he did not like the life of a landowner like buying land, hiring people, sowing seeds, and harvesting.
It's not easy to find a way to make money now. I just want to do something for my father to take a good look at. How can I let Xia Shang leave so easily?
"Brother Xia, please slow down, even if it's too little, we can still talk!"
Xia Shang still ignored him and was about to go downstairs.
Zhu Jindou was anxious: "At worst, you just have to set conditions!"
Upon hearing this, Xia Shang turned around and smiled at Jiangnan: "Let's go back and have some wine."
Jiang Nan hurriedly followed back, still a little confused, wondering what his husband's plan was.
Returning to the table, Zhu Jindou knew that this man was not easy to mess with, so he asked in a low voice: "Brother Xia, tell me, how can you cooperate with me?"
"It's simple. I'll give you three manuscripts first. I won't take any money from these three manuscripts."
"for free?!"
"However, you have to write in the book that 'you can predict what will happen after you sell 10,000 copies.'"
"If you want to know what's going on, you have to sell 10,000 copies of the book?"
"That's right! Post a notice in your book club and post the total number of sales every day so that book friends can check it."
Zhu Jindou probably understood what Xia Shang meant, but he frowned: "The method is good, but it may be difficult to get these 10,000 copies. Now the bookstore has only sold 4,000 copies. When will these 10,000 copies be sold?"
Can it be sold?"
"Whenever it is sold, the next chapter will be published! Mr. Cao has time to wait, but he is afraid that Yangzhou readers and various book publishers cannot wait. Let's see if they will buy it if they are anxious."
When Zhu Jindou heard this, he secretly thought that this guy is so treacherous. He can come up with such a plan. In the future, those readers won't be so anxious that they won't be able to sleep at night without thinking about food and dinner?
Xia Shang continued: "If you continue to sell like this, ten thousand copies of the book will be sold sooner or later. After ten thousand copies are sold, I will ask Mr. Cao to write three more times, and then three more times. At first, he will sell one
Ten thousand volumes will be published, then 20,000 volumes will be published, then thirty thousand volumes will be published, and so on, the source of wealth will continue!"
This was the first time Zhu Jindou heard about this kind of business. He made a rough estimate and thought it might work, and he was very happy.
Not to mention the rest, just by selling this first batch of 10,000 books, who knows how much money you can make?!
Just as he was thinking about it, Xia Shang suddenly said: "If you want to cooperate with me, I need to account for 80% of the cost price."
puff!
Zhu Jindou was drinking. When he heard this, he spat: "What? Eighty percent? Brother Xia, are you kidding?"
"Do you think I'm joking?"
"No!" Zhu Jindou touched his mouth and was so anxious that his whole body was shaking, "Brother Xia, I don't talk about business like you. I work hard and run a bookstore with paper, calligraphy, labor, space, and machinery.
I'll pay for everything. How can Brother Xia take 80% of it, and it's still the cost price!"
"So you don't want to? Then you and I will meet again."
After saying that, Xia Shang stood up again.
"Brother Xia, don't worry! Let's... let's talk about it again. It's really you who makes it impossible for me to make money, so why not give it five to five?"
"Eighty to eighty percent, there's nothing to say! If you don't want to, I'll find another bookstore. You are not the only one in Yangzhou. But the content of the book is the only one. Have you thought about it clearly?"
"Forty-six! Brother Xia gets 40%!"
"Twenty-eight is twenty-eight! It must be the cost price. If you say there is no profit, I will give it to you. There are three chapters of 20,000 words, and the printing cost is only two taels of silver. The price is five taels per volume, and I get four taels.
, you can earn eight taels of silver. If you sell 10,000 copies, it will be 8,000 taels of silver. And the book has more than a hundred chapters, and you can earn more in the future. If you cooperate with me, I will give you an exclusive license, and you will
If you are authentic, others are stealing. You don’t need to be sneaky to stand out from your peers. If you don’t cooperate, I will find someone else, and then you will be a sideline and will not be able to get on the stage."
"This..." After analyzing it, Zhu Jindou couldn't refute it, "Then let me think about it for two more days."
"Okay, you think about it first, I'm going to find someone else. If someone else cooperates with me first, then I'll have to feel sorry for my little brother."
"Ha? Brother Xia, can't you let me think about it for two days after we met each other?"
"Brother, I give you a few thousand taels a day. What if you don't cooperate after thinking about it for two days? How about the wasted time? It's okay to consider it and give me a deposit."
After saying that, Xia Shang stretched out his hand without red eyes or breath.
Who is Zhu Jindou? Someone who can dig wild dogs out of the water.
There was such a big table today, and the business hadn't been settled yet, but in the end, I still had to get money, which made my cheeks tremble with pain.
But there was nothing he could do. He knew that if the other party cooperated with others, it would have a great impact on him, so he could only cut a piece of flesh off himself first.
"Brother Xia, do you think ten taels of silver are enough?"
Xia Shang shook his head.
"Ten taels of gold."
Xia Shang looked at the fifty-tael gold that Zhu Jindou had taken out earlier and placed it on the table. He knocked on the table and said, "I'm adding another one of that size."
Two are one hundred taels of gold!
This is enough to open several book clubs!
"It seems that I'm a little unwilling, so we won't force it. See you some other time!"
"No, I'll give it... I'll just give it."
Today Zhu Jindou has lost half of his body fat, which is one hundred taels of gold! If it weren't for the sake of making more money, even if he was killed, he wouldn't take it out.
Xia Shang first put the ingot on the table into his pocket, and then waited for a quarter of an hour for the next ingot of fifty taels of gold.
Seeing Zhu Jindou take it out from the money bag, he still couldn't bear to let go.
Xia Shang worked hard and picked at the gaps between his fingernails before snatching it from the little fat man's hand.
"Thank you! Little fat brother, I have thought of a message for my student, and we will discuss it in detail." (To be continued)