Inside the Huiyou Bookstore is the Tang Book Club, which is where Jia Cong and his clan brothers learn to copy books by themselves and discuss matters.
It was a crisp autumn day and the weather was quite pleasant.
After school, Jia Cong called a group of younger brothers to meet here, intending to summarize the affairs of the past month or so and hand out the rewards for book sales.
More than 150 copies of "Young Heroes" were sold in one month, and the bookstore is still selling several copies every day.
After deducting the cost of labor and materials for engraving, as well as the cost of paper and printing, the total profit was eighty taels of silver.
No matter what era, the added value of cultural products is quite amazing.
"Everyone has worked hard this month!"
Jia Cong was not polite and took out twenty taels of silver, distributed them according to the contribution of the younger brothers, and distributed them on the spot, which immediately caused a burst of cheers.
There are five or six half-sized men, and the least one can get two taels. This is not a small amount.
Jia Yun, who had made the greatest contribution, was rewarded with five taels of silver at once. She was beaming with joy, and she was so excited that she wished she could be like this every month.
Five taels of silver was enough for him and his mother to live a well-off life with meat and eggs. Of course, it could only last for a month or two, and he would not waste it like this.
"Boss, we won't have to copy books from now on, right?"
After the excitement passed, Jia Yun said directly: "The money for copying books is not much, and it takes a lot of time and energy!"
The rest of the younger brothers were in high spirits and all looked at the boss, Jia Cong.
If there is an easier way to make money, they will naturally look down on the time-consuming and laborious mode of copying books. This is human nature.
"Stop dreaming!"
Jia Cong laughed and scolded, directly interrupting the sweet dreams of the younger brothers: "The matter of "Young Heroes" has come to an end. There is no need to spend all the effort to promote it. The future shipments will be stable for a period of time, and then slowly decline!"
Having said this, he glanced at the younger brothers and said with a smile: "Before the new book comes out, you don't have much to do, so you should just make money by copying books. At least that kind of work will bring you stable money, and it can also consolidate your memory of the Four Books and Five Classics!"
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The younger brothers sighed for a while, but Jia Yun did not join in the fuss and asked directly: "Boss, when will your next book be published?"
As soon as this statement came out, it attracted everyone's attention. Not only the brothers, but also the clerks at Huiyou Bookstore couldn't help but prick up their ears.
It's not that they suddenly changed their temper, it's that the benefits are moving people's hearts.
The story book "Young Heroes" had a good start this time, and Jia Cong also gave a total of ten taels of silver to the clerks in the bookstore and printing workshop, which was quite a lot.
"The story is already there, there's no need to be too impatient, just take your time!"
Jia Cong smiled and said: "We can't delay your studies!"
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Although there was quite a show of force outside, Jia Cong remained as low-key as ever in the General's Mansion and did not cause the slightest disturbance.
By the way, the servants of Rongguo Mansion are also weird.
They form a unified system behind closed doors and are very slow to respond to news from the outside world.
However, they were very interested in gossiping about the gossip in the mansion, and it didn't take long for it to spread outside the mansion and become the talk of the residents in Ningrong Street after dinner.
Not only did everyone in the Rongguo Mansion not have any bad thoughts, they were even delighted with it.
Jia Cong sometimes feels ridiculous. Haven't the old lady and the others heard the saying, "If a ruler is not secretive, he will lose his ministers, and if a minister is not secretive, he will lose himself"?
Fortunately, Rongguo Mansion has gradually fallen out of the circle of top dignitaries, and its influence on the imperial court has declined sharply. Otherwise, the big mouths of the servants in the mansion would have destroyed Rongguo Mansion.
This is a good thing for Jia Cong.
The servants in the mansion viewed him as always, as a humble concubine of General Dafang's mansion, and he was not worthy of their attention at all.
Even though Jia Cong has now become a familiar face in the main courtyard of the General's Mansion, it has not improved his impression among the people in the mansion.
Jia Cong naturally enjoyed his leisure time, swaggering around eating and drinking, and was constantly exercising his body through the art of breathing and exhaling, transporting qi and blood.
Compared to a few months ago, he had grown taller now, almost reaching the height of Huan San, which made the boy very depressed.
With his size and physical fitness at this time, he is even better than a boy of twelve or thirteen years old from a farm family.
In order to avoid being too shocking, he did not use the internal martial arts training method of the main world to enhance the fighting power of his fists and feet. It is also impossible to play the external martial arts and become muscle lumps. He just moves his joints and muscles in ordinary ways, all hidden in ordinary life.
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But even so, his strength and physical qualities at this time are quite astonishing.
At the age of eight, he was quite satisfied with such an achievement.
Besides, the Dafang General's Mansion has rarely had peace in the past six months.
The eldest man is still drunk and dreaming. Every day he is either hanging out in the little wife's yard or on the way to the little wife's boudoir.
His temper was as irritable as ever, and he always yelled "You little beast" when he met someone on the way, as if not doing so was not enough to demonstrate his authority.
Mrs. Xing also did not get any benefits from the eldest master. From time to time, the favored concubine would take the initiative to make provocations. In the past, she would always make a little noise and become the laughing stock of the entire Rongguo Mansion.
But the situation has suddenly changed in the past six months. In the past, when she encountered such a thing, she would definitely be depressed for a long time, and then the servants and women would be in trouble.
At that time, if Jia Cong dared to take the initiative to wander around, he would definitely be scolded in an extremely unpleasant way, and eventually he would be grounded.
But the situation is different now. Mrs. Xing, who has always been greedy for money, is busy making toilet water to make money, and has no mind to pay attention to the trivial things in the general's mansion.
Even if the favored eldest master's concubine took the initiative to provoke him, he would just scold him and get over it, without even bothering to respond.
When the elder wanted to vent his dissatisfaction to her, Mrs.
If it had been in the past, Mrs. Xing would have definitely thought that the sky was going to fall.
At the moment, she is obsessed with making money. She is constantly urging her cousin Xing Zhong who came from Jinling to increase the production of flower dew so that she can sell it to Jiangnan through Lin Ruhai's relationship. How can she care about anything else?
Just as Jia Cong had predicted before, the secret of making floral dew was exposed. In a short period of time, there were many more workshops making floral dew in the capital, and the price of floral dew on the market was dropping at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Madam Xing was depressed and anxious at the same time. She was determined to expand production and scale frantically. She didn't care that the method of making flower dew might be leaked on a large scale, and she was determined to push the profit of this hammer transaction to the highest point.
In this way, without her as an 'unstable factor', the general's mansion was naturally very peaceful. However, it aroused the curiosity of the second room and the old lady. I heard that there were many attempts and provocations when they were in Rongqing Hall...