In Jia Cong's opinion, the reason why printing workshops and bookstores cannot make ends meet is due to the laziness of the clerks and the imperfect reward and punishment mechanism.
In this case, he naturally has to prescribe the right medicine!
In fact, it is very simple. He gives a shipping price that is only a little higher than the cost, and lets the bookstore clerk do the sales. The more he sells, the more benefits he will get.
As for what price they would sell for, Jia Cong didn't care. As long as he could sell the elementary school books in the printing workshop, he had to at least ensure that the printing workshop could operate at a minimum.
Such a stipulation shocked all the young men and bookstore workers, and they couldn't help but feel excited and hurriedly nodded in agreement.
You would be a fool not to agree. This is a free gift.
Even the clerks in the printing workshop would like to participate if Jia Cong didn't allow it. They also have a reward and punishment mechanism.
He was not very willing to deal with the enthusiastic junior students who were full of enthusiasm, but he couldn't stand their enthusiasm. In the end, he had no choice but to make a compromise: "You don't want to participate. If you are familiar with the private school and are confident about selling elementary school books, you can try it."
, right now it’s better to copy books!”
As expected, the elementary school books that were originally extremely unsalable were sold out in just half a month, and the printing workshop began to operate normally.
At this time, Jia Cong, who suddenly came out and even used dishonorable means to seize management rights, was unanimously recognized by the printing workshop and bookstore clerks.
At least, they no longer need to be personally supervised by clan apprentices, they can be full of enthusiasm and busy with their careers, and the main thing is to see tangible benefits.
This left the two stewards, who had been forcibly seized power and could only sit at home and chew on their laurels, feeling unwilling but helpless.
"This is a collection of stories. Let's make the engraving slowly!"
When everything was on track, Jia Cong took out the children's book he had made and handed it over to the printing shop clerk.
Book printing at this time was quite troublesome, and engraving was the main method.
The main reason is that the engraving technology is quite mature, and the books printed with engraving are quite beautiful and elegant, and even have pictures and texts composed of lines, which make them look classy.
In fact, movable type printing technology has also matured, but because the books printed with clay movable type are not neat enough and do not have patterns and patterns, they are naturally not favored by literati.
Ordinary literati have a lot of savings at home and have very strong purchasing power. They are very strict about buying books and are not afraid of spending money at all. They are just afraid that the quality of the books they buy is not up to par, or they are not beautiful enough and will lose people.
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Although Jia Cong didn't take it seriously, he had no intention of going against the trend. It was better to act in accordance with the habits of this era.
At the same time, he also had to think about publicity methods so that the children's book he created would become an instant hit. If it didn't sell out in the blink of an eye, at least he had to make enough profits, otherwise how could he continue?
As for the younger clan students who were brought out to help, he set up a small book club in a cubicle of the bookstore and let them review their homework and copy books quietly.
Of course, Ethnology still had to show up there, and after Mr. Jia Dairu, who was paying less and less attention to teaching, left, he took the snacks provided by Ethnology and left.
The atmosphere of ethnic studies is no longer suitable for them to stay there. It is better to study by themselves in the bookstore and copy books to improve their own level.
For example, Jia Yun, the oldest, was already impatient with ideas, but after arriving at the bookstore, she was able to calm down and learn to copy books by herself.
According to him, at his age, if he cannot make a difference in the imperial examination, he should consider seeking a living outside.
In particular, the increasingly weird atmosphere of ethnic studies made it difficult for him to learn to copy books by himself with peace of mind.
If Jia Cong hadn't created a book club with a peaceful environment, he would probably be preoccupied with finding a suitable job to make a living outside.
"Don't rush to make a living now, wait until next year to go to the examination room and give it a try!"
After hearing this guy's idea, Jia Cong was very dissatisfied and proactively suggested: "If there is any possibility of further advancement in the imperial examination, you will know it as long as you enter the examination room!"
Whether it is an ethnic study or a bookstore, there are collections of children's test questions and standard answers from Beijing and County over the years.
From Jia Cong's point of view, the child test is really not difficult, and it mainly focuses on memorizing and memorizing. As long as you can memorize all the main test books and have appropriate training, there will be no problem in passing the test.
If it had been the time when I had just entered clan school, naturally none of my younger brothers would have been able to pass, they were all a bunch of scumbags.
However, after more than half a year of copying books and supervising each other in self-study, the originally weak foundation has gradually been solidified.
I believe that with another year of accumulation and flexible brains, those of you will be able to go to the examination room and give it a try.
Jia Yun had the most flexible mind and was the most active in copying books. She copied all the four books and five classics.
In addition, I studied hard on my own, so my foundation is pretty good.
That is to say, Mr. Jia Dairu, the master of ethnic studies, herds sheep and does not pay much attention to the affairs of ethnic studies. Otherwise, he would definitely be able to see the progress of Jia Cong's younger brothers.
It's just a pity...
Jia Yun followed the advice and planned to study peacefully for a year and wait until next year to try in the examination room. Anyway, the money he earned from copying books was enough for his family to live a good life.
The situation of the other younger brothers is similar to Jia Yun.
It's just that they don't work as hard as Jia Yun, and they don't have the brains of Jia Yun. According to Jia Cong's estimation, it will take at least two years of accumulation to pass the Tongsheng Examination.
If this spreads out, it will definitely cause an uproar.
How could Jia Cong be so confident that in just over two years, a group of his younger brothers would be able to take part in the childbirth examination?
You know, those gray-haired old boys will appear in the examination room from time to time. That is not a strange thing.
Jia Cong has such confidence!
Privately, he tried to do the county examination, government examination, and academy examination according to the normal imperial examination time, as well as the imperial examination and the general examination of the same session.
Even though he couldn't take it out for review, he thought it was pretty good.
Even if you can't achieve excellent results, you can at least stay in the middle level.
If you have the chance, you can send the test paper he made to Lin Ruhai in Yangzhou and ask him to help comment. I believe you will get good results.
After finishing all this work, I figured out a simple and easy-to-implement publicity plan and assigned additional tasks to my subordinates, and then I completely relaxed.
Unexpectedly, when I just returned home according to the school time, I was blocked by Jia Lian, who I hadn't seen for many days, and was pulled to the pavilion in the small garden to talk.
"Brother Lian, don't you have something big to be busy with?"
Rolling his eyes, Jia Cong said angrily: "I don't have anything left to buy here..."