In front of Ji Yunan and Chen Xiaocai were two hundred volumes of Journey to the West volume 1, which they had just obtained.
After Chen Xiaocai came, he bought a bookstore that was about to close down to print Journey to the West. In order to ensure confidentiality, Ji Yunan replaced all the people in the bookstore with his own people.
"Okay, the item is out, and it will be sold at Yunxuan Tea House tomorrow."
Ji Yunan has been thinking about the story of Journey to the West for a few days, so he should already have many supporters.
Many people are eager to know the details of the following story. At this time, if you sell the book, it should be able to sell.
Chen Xiaocai said with some expectation: "I hope we can sell them all."
Ji Yunan said confidently: "It will definitely be possible."
Chen Xiaocai and Ji Yun'an took the books to the teahouse to find Zhao He. When they arrived at the teahouse, they saw Zhao He arguing with a middle-aged man. Zhao He asked someone to drag him out impatiently.
There were quite a few people around the teahouse, and when they saw the middle-aged man being driven out, they laughed at the middle-aged man being ridiculed by everyone, turned into anger from shame, and walked away in despair.
Seeing Ji Yunan and Chen Xiaocai approaching, Zhao He showed a warm smile, "You two are here."
Zhao He has been enjoying himself recently. The story of Monkey King has not only won the love of many common people, but also won the favor of many nobles.
His teahouse belongs to the middle and low-end teahouses, and usually receives some small officials and wealthy businessmen, but these days are different, because this story is only told here, and many noble people come to listen. The private rooms that are usually idle will be full every day.
Zhao He even found a few eunuchs among the audience. The eunuchs came to listen, not necessarily because they wanted to hear it themselves, but after listening to it, they told it to the nobles in the palace.
Zhao He had already inquired clearly that the teahouse Ji Yunan was looking for first was not theirs, but several high-end teahouses in Kyoto. However, the people in those teahouses could not trust Ji Yunan, so they refused. The owner of the tea house seems to regret it.
Knowing this situation, Zhao He became more and more complacent, feeling that he had a discerning eye for elites, and his eyes were as bright as a torch.
"Boss Zhao, who is that!"
Zhao He curled his lips, and said with a low face: "A white-eyed wolf, he was the original storyteller of our store."
This storyteller was originally cultivated by him, and he thought that he treated this guy well. As a result, this guy became famous, so he ran to his opponent, and said what he said without shame. To stay in his shop for the sake of friendship, at his level, staying in his teahouse is a waste of talent.
After spending so much effort, a white-eyed wolf was cultivated. Zhao He became very popular with him, not to mention the income of the store. Because of the fact that the man defected to the enemy, he was often laughed at by others, and many friends ridiculed him for being ignorant of people and unable to control even one of his subordinates.
The teahouse on his side has been full recently, and the business is very good. His opponent's teahouse is miserable. People come to his side. The business of the other's teahouse is naturally poor. His opponent is also a The bad-tempered one, seeing that the business of the teahouse was not good, so he spread his fire on the traitor. The person who had paid a lot of money to poach him, said he didn't want it, so he didn't want it.
The other teahouses also knew about this person's betrayal of the master, so they were unwilling to use him, so that guy actually had the cheek to run back to show his loyalty to him, but how could he use such a person again.
"Is this the first volume?" Knowing that Chen Xiaocai and Ji Yun'an were going to bring books to the teahouse, Zhao He had already been waiting.
Boss Zhao, we are going to start selling books tomorrow, and I hope your storyteller can help to say a few words.
Zhao He flipped through the book and found that most of the stories have already been told, but the following stories have not been told in time. "Naturally."
Zhao He took out four hundred taels of silver, divided them into two parts and handed them over to Chen Xiaocai and Ji Yunan, "Boss Zhao, what are you doing, Young Master Ji, please don't refuse, this is a dividend for Young Master Ji, without your story , My teahouse is not easy to come back to life. Besides, recently my teahouse has many noble people, which is an intangible wealth." Recently his father praised him for his ability.
Ji Yun'an was indeed short of money, and he was not polite to Zhao He. Originally, their agreement included the item of dividends.
Ji Yun'an discussed with Zhao He, and the first volume of Journey to the West was sold for one tael per book.
This book was sold out within an hour. Many people bought dozens or twenty copies at a time. Chen Xiaocai was originally worried that there would be too many copies. Seeing the situation, he decided to print another batch.
At Zhao He's invitation, Chen Xiaocai and Ji Yun'an sat in the teahouse for a while.
Hearing the cheers from the people below, Chen Xiaocai couldn't help being a little excited.
"This story is really popular." Ji Yunan said.
Chen Xiaocai nodded, and thought to himself: There are still a lot of people in Kyoto who are full and have nothing to do. If it were in Sha County, no one would be bored, squatting in teahouses and listening to stories every day.
Chen Xiaocai murmured: "Brother Lin said that business in the capital is easy to do." Brother Lin is indeed very foresighted!
When he was selling books in the teahouse just now, a bunch of people rushed over to grab them, but Chen Xiaocai was taken aback.
"You two little brothers, what a coincidence!" Ji Yunan and Chen Xiaocai were walking on the road, when a man in Chinese clothes stopped them.
Chen Xiaocai recognized him. This person is the shopkeeper of Yunhu Teahouse. A few days ago, when they were looking for this person, they were kicked out. Nice to hear.
Now that this person stopped in front, he probably regretted it. In fact, this is not the first time they have been stopped in the past two days. The purpose of several teahouse shopkeepers is similar, but both of them refused.
Ji Yunan stepped forward and negotiated with the restaurant owner. Compared with Chen Xiaocai, Ji Yun'an had more experience in dealing with these people, because he had spoken to Boss Zhao first, and Ji Yun'an still refused the boss' request.
Chen Mai's eyes were bright as he ate the cakes. The several cakes in front of Chen Mai were bought by Ji Yun'an from the street.
"Second brother, there are really a lot of delicious food in this capital." Chen Maimai said.
Chen Xiaocai nodded, "There are a lot of delicious food in Kyoto, and there are even a lot of rich people."
"Mai, how much did these pastries cost!" Chen Xiaocai asked casually.
"This box of one tael of silver, I heard from the boy at home." Chen Xiaomai said.
Chen Xiaocai twitched, and said, "Steal money!"
Chen Maimai said sullenly: "It's a bit expensive, but Brother Ji said that the prices in Kyoto are like this."
Chen Maimai sighed. Although he made a lot of money, he still couldn't change his concept for a while. It's no wonder that the rich men in Kyoto thought he was a bumpkin and lacked background. Anyway, the business in Kyoto is really good. It's easy to do, no wonder Lu Lin asked him to come to the capital to make a fortune. It really is a good way to make a fortune. The book for two silver coins sold out all at once.
"It's still cheaper in our Sha County." Chen Xiaocai said.
Chen Xiaomai nodded and said, "Actually, this pastry is not as delicious as what I made." Chen Xiaomai ate up the pastry while talking.
Chen Xiaocai looked at Chen Maimai's bulging cheeks and thought to himself: spend it, spend it, as long as you earn more than you spend.
Chen Xiaocai wrung his fingers and calculated how much money he could earn when he was due. After doing the calculations, he felt that the future was bright.
Chen Xiaocai made a rough estimate, and thought that he should be able to bring back a thousand taels of silver this trip, and Shen Chi would definitely be taken aback by then.
Chen Xiaocai suddenly remembered a sentence that Lu Lin just put in his mouth, don't be limited by poverty, Chen Xiaocai sometimes feels that Lu Lin is a little nervous, and often utters some words that he doesn't understand at all, but this time, Chen Xiaocai However, Xiaocai seemed to have some understanding, Chen Xiaocai suddenly felt that Lu Lin was indeed very powerful!
"Second brother, you said to go out to do business, is the business easy to do? Is it profitable?" Chen Xiaomai asked.
Chen Xiaocai nodded and said, "Well, I made money, I made a lot of money."
Many farmers in Sha County are starving, and want to break a copper coin into two flowers. Kyoto is different. Many people are born with rich clothes and food, and they will not hesitate to spend a few dollars in order to have a spring breeze with the oiran lady.
Looking at the scene where the storybook was looted today, and some people came after the incident, but couldn't buy the book, and beat their chests, Chen Xiaocai couldn't help feeling a little complicated.
The wine and meat of the wealthy family stinks, and the road is frozen to death!
Chen Maimai said excitedly: "Great, second brother, you have made money, buy me more delicious food!" Chen Xiaocai smiled and said, "Okay."
Ji Chengkang looked at Ji Yun'an with a strange expression, and said, "You made up the story about Monkey King?" After Ji Chengkang came back, he was busy all the time, busy contacting Ji Yun'an with the academy, he didn't expect Ji Yun'an to become famous in a blink of an eye .
Ji Chengkang still heard about Ji Yunan from his friends, saying that Ji Yunan was selling storybooks recently, and he must have made a lot of money.
Some people wanted him to help, and wanted to go through the back door and buy the books in the middle and second volumes in advance.
Ji Chengkang originally thought that his friend was too nonsense, but he missed it so much with a story book.
As a result, Ji Chengkang couldn't help being stunned when one after another tried to get through the back door from him.
Ji Chengkang did not expect that the charm of a story could be so great that some usually reserved and self-respecting friends would ask him for it.
Ji Yunan nodded and said, "Yes." Ji Yunan took out three hundred taels of silver and showed it to Ji Chengkang.
Ji Chengkang twitched the corner of his mouth, "So many."
Ji Chengkang thought inwardly: Ji Yunan has only been back for a few days, and he has made hundreds of taels of silver all of a sudden, and the income of a large commercial firm under the name of Ji's family is only more than two hundred taels a year.
Ji Yun'an nodded, and said, "This is the first wave of money. We will sell another wave in a few days."
Ji Chengkang looked at Ji Yunan suspiciously, "Who told you this story, I heard that you wrote it?" Ji Yunan shook his head, and said: "Master Lu told it, I am just responsible for recording, but, Lu The adults said that he didn't think of this story, he also heard it from an old man in the mountains."
"What about the old man?"
"Passed away a few years ago."
Ji Chengkang sighed, "It's a pity how you and Chen Xiaocai got divided."
"Half of me, half of him."
Ji Chengkang said with some embarrassment: "We have taken too much."
Ji Chengkang is not used to taking advantage of others. This story was told by Lu Lin, so they shouldn't take advantage of it.
Ji Yun'an nodded, and said: "I think so too, but I discussed this share with Mr. Lu before the trip. Mr. Lu said that if I don't want it, I can use this money as military funds. He donated it, and they only need half of it."
Ji Chengkang was stunned for a moment, and said, "Are you serving as a military fund? This Lord Lu is really a rare and good official!" Ji Yun'an couldn't help but feel a little weird. This Lu Lin is not a very honest official, but he is not. What corrupt officials, Ji Yunan suddenly thought of what Chen Maimai said before, a good official can lead the people under him to get rich together, fatten himself, and fatten the villagers.
Ji Yun'an originally thought this was nonsense, but now he suddenly felt that it seemed to have some truth.
Looking at the money in front of him, Ji Yunan suddenly felt that Lu Lin had become unfathomable. Money is not everything, and without money, nothing is impossible. Ji Yunan knew that Ji Chengkang wanted to arrange a good academy for him during this time. , After a lot of closed doors, this result has something to do with money.
Ji Yun'an originally thought that Lu Lin's words stink of copper, but now he thinks it makes sense, no matter what, money is always good.