What Chen Xi needs to do is to eliminate piracy and fully guarantee the profits of the printing workshop. He can serve as a distributor and hand over the power of pricing sales terminals to bookstores and merchants to act as agents.

When the middle-aged merchant heard this, hesitated and thought to himself that if the printing and distribution were not controlled by them, they would be constrained by the publisher everywhere as distributors, and the final selling price was not easy to determine. If it was higher, others would not want to buy it, and if it was lower, the profit was less. It would be better to make a pirated copy and make a profit of 100% profit.

"Does Mrs. Lu agree with the little shopkeeper?" The middle-aged businessman saw that Chen Xi was very difficult to deal with, and wanted to start with Hui Niang.

Originally, everyone thought that this orphan and widowed mother of Yi family should be easy to deal with, but who knew that she would hit hard nails when she came to the door.

Hui Niang nodded with a smile: "The words of the shopkeeper are ours. If you don't want to, then there is no need to talk about it."

Middle-aged businessmen turned around and discussed with others.

These businessmen traveled around the world and made business by buying low and selling high. They made extensive friends. After asking what each company meant, the middle-aged businessmen asked again, "But I don't know how much is this picture book sold to us in batches?"

Chen Xi stretched out his hand and slapped it: "Fifty-Wen."

"Will that be the same as the price of a book shop in the city?" The middle-aged merchant was very dissatisfied.

Chen Xi talked happily: "If this shopkeeper thinks the bookstore is cheap, he can go to the bookstore to buy it, but the bookstore also gets goods from us. We will ship all the comic strips according to fifty documents in the future. We will not provide retail business. At the same time, if the wholesale volume is small, we will also order fifty-five documents or even sixty documents. As for how much you ship to other places to sell, it has nothing to do with us."

The middle-aged businessman sneered: "Are you not afraid that others will not purchase goods and will eventually be rotten in your hands?"

Chen Xi's smile became even brighter: "This shopkeeper was wrong. We sell books, not tea, rice and grain, and other goods that will become moldy during the winter, and there are differences between old and old. As long as they are kept properly, they will not deteriorate for more than ten or even decades. Besides, if no one comes to purchase goods, we can open a shop to sell them by ourselves, or find someone to sell the books elsewhere, and we will earn more at that time."

The middle-aged businessman's face looked very bad. He felt that he had seriously underestimated the management capabilities of the old and young family in front of him. Who would believe Chen Xi's words without careful consideration?

"Then we can return the painting books if we can't sell them?"

"Of course not. The book has been sold to you. If the goods you sell on weekdays are compensated, will you take them back at the original price?"

Chen Xi confronted him, "But we can guarantee that as long as you pay the deposit, there will never be a second company in the same area authorized by us. In the future, even if the area you operates exclusively, the profit will be significant."

Chen Xi proposed the concept of dealers and monopoly management. Although there was no such thing as this era, these people who traveled around the world understood it.

If you can really monopolize the album to make a living in a certain area, you can indeed guarantee profits, but the problem is that others can pirate or imitate too many.

"In the future, our albums will have anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft logos, which means they will print a special pattern. It is very difficult for others to forge them. Once we make the reputation of the album, ordinary people will only recognize that our albums are genuine. Moreover, our technology is advanced, even if others imitate it, it will be impossible to learn how to walk in Handan."

Chen Xi's words were extremely pertinent and also gave these merchants a guide to the way to make money. Although these people were a little reluctant, they still agreed.

The order contract was signed that night. Although there were only more than a dozen merchants in total, more than 20,000 comic strips were booked every time.

According to Chen Xi's requirements, each book must be paid 50% of the deposit as a printing cost and to prevent remorse.

Then these merchants sent people back to get the money. In order to prevent accidents, Hui Niang also invited the workshop master to help.

The silver was delivered, including ready-made official silver ingots and copper coins sent in boxes. Together, it was more than 500 taels of silver. Even Hui Niang, who was used to the world, couldn't help but feel excited when she saw it.

"Everyone, because you booked a picture album with different volumes, I need to remind you that the goods you booked may not be completed within more than a month. However, since we have accepted your order, we will not sell them separately before completing your order. You can rest assured that you can do this."

Chen Xi had the style of a helmman, and said with confidence.

These merchants were angry and were forced to pay the deposit first and accept delayed delivery. It seemed too cowardly, but after all, it was a seller's market. This is the only one who can print comic strips in the world. They have good stories as a model. They are not afraid that comic strips will not be sold at a good price in the future. Under the premise that merchants are pursuing profits, they can only swallow their anger.

After these merchants left, the two families and several printing masters who were summoned to see the pile of silver ingots and feel in a dream.

Hui Niang exclaimed: "This printing workshop was originally a small-scale fight, but I didn't expect that I would have collected so much money."

Chen Xidao: "Aunt Sun, this money is mainly used to expand business, and in addition, it is to reward the book press more so that everyone can be motivated to do things."

Hui Niang saw that several printing masters had their eyes shining when they saw the silver, and some even drooled around their mouths. She immediately understood what was going on and nodded, "Xiao Lang is right. We can't treat the master and the workers badly. Master Lu, you can take the money back and share it with everyone. Starting tomorrow, we will work overtime and start working, and the wages will also increase."

Several of the book-printers thanked each other very much and received the money back and paid the money.

Chen Xi was worried. After all, he was too young to practice some of his skills himself, so he could only teach these book-printers. If they turned to those businessmen for profit, their previous actions would be in vain, so it is urgent to win over these technicians.

After Chen Xi told Hui Niang about his worries, Hui Niang's face was filled with worry. But now she could only give those masters more money to win over them, and there was nothing else to do.

"Xiaolang, don't worry too much. Those book-printers are at risk of being attracted to others, but don't forget that you painted the paintings. If you print comic strips, don't you still need to draw the original painting? As long as you, the shopkeeper, don't you turn against the water, our shop will still be prosperous after these people leave."

Hui Niang smiled and pointed Chen Xi's forehead with her index finger, and said with a little doting.

Chen Xi patted his chest: "Oh, Aunt Sun said so much that I was a little moved. Otherwise, I will discuss it with them and just buy me."

Zhou laughed and scolded: "You little brat, you will have to go to the house to remove the tiles if you don't care for three days. If you have the courage, you can try it!"

After talking about the transaction, the rest is to sit down and calculate the cost and how to complete the order. With this order, the scale of the printing workshop will definitely be increased next.

Chen Xi analyzed: "According to the printing of thousands of copies per volume, based on the current price of paper and ink, the labor of carving and printing and the monthly rent of workshop yards is about six to seven cents. If the number of printing is too much, our cost will be reduced. We sell 50 cents and make a lot of profit, but it is a bit difficult to increase the manpower."

If you can make a profit twice, you will be considered a lot of money. The printing workshop Chen Xi proposed to build actually made seven or eight times the profit. Hui Niang and Zhou Shi were all incredible surprise and joy after hearing this.

Even though he was excited, Hui Niang remained calm enough. She thought for a while and said, "How about this, the shopkeeper Li from the Great Pharmacy Store in the West City will go to the Fucheng City tomorrow and ask him to help us take a look?"

Chen Xi shook his head: "No, if it is promoted, others will know that we are short of workers and will take the opportunity to send an undercover agent to sneak in."

Zhou asked in confusion: "What is an undercover agent?"

"It's the people who come to learn our skills secretly. They work here for a few days. After learning the skills, they will do things for those unscrupulous businessmen, and we won't have to make any money."

Zhou was very anxious: "We just made this little money. If there is really such a person, how should we prevent it?"

Hui Niang said seriously: "Sister, please listen to Xiaolang's idea."

Chen Xi smiled and said, "Aunt Sun believes me, I think that we don't have to find experts to do it. We can train technical workers by ourselves, and we just look for the honest people around our county. They are all from the hometown. As long as we don't treat them badly, they will be in a good mood. If anyone betrays us, then he will not be thrust by the neighbors?"

Hui Niang slapped her knees: "Xiao Lang is right, what do you think of my sister?"

Zhou smiled bitterly and said, "My sister also said I'll be the boss, but I don't know anything. Forget it, just decide."

With Chen Xi's wisdom and Hui Niang's strong support, the printing workshop began to expand the next day. First, he asked a carpenter to make printing tools, and then Hui Niang took the initiative to ask someone.

Hui Niang attaches great importance to the printing workshop, and even leaves the pharmacy to Xiaoyu and the others to take care of.

When someone invited me back, I bought ink and paper in large quantities.

Among all the supplies purchased, ink is the most important thing. After all, there are many people selling paper and wooden boards, so people will not deliberately raise prices.

Inks are different and need to be prepared by those who know how to know the arts. The quality of inks is not even in order. Chen Xi means that since you want to do this business, you cannot restrain others in the raw materials and cannot mix ink by yourself in a short period of time. First, buy batches at a low price. The specific ink configuration will be supplied by your own ink workshop.

With the popularity of printing books in Ninghua and surrounding prefectures, the price of ink has risen, and paper is also 20% more expensive than before.

Fortunately, there are many paper suppliers, so the price increase of paper here soon came with a large number of goods, which quickly stabilized prices.

However, before the price increase, Chen Xi had already judged the price trend in advance and had bought back what he should have bought, which did not affect the daily operation of the workshop.

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