Gujia Bookstore is located in the southeast of the county town. Although it is not as prosperous as the Dongxie Street area, it is also one of the several commercial sites in Jiangcheng County. In particular, there are many bookstores and calligraphy and painting shops in this area, which are extremely literary and fragrant.

Li Ling looked and walked, but it was easy to find a bookstore with a large store, and walked straight in. Someone came forward to greet him: "This young master wants to buy books. But there is one thing that needs to be said in the head. If the young master just buys a single book, my bookstore will not sell it. You can go to several nearby bookstores to buy it."

The so-called bookstore is actually similar to the publishing houses in later generations. Naturally, it is impossible to do single-book transactions like bookstores. This is also the rule of this industry. Li Ling didn't think it was offended after hearing this, and replied with a smile: "I came to the bookstore naturally, of course, to be honest, I also opened a bookstore in this county. Recently, there are many booklets in the store, especially the book "Ji Zi Jie Chunqiu". I wonder if you have any stocks?"

After hearing what he said, the shopkeeper smiled apologetically: "So that's it, that's all right." As he said that, he looked at Li Ling up and down: "Dare you ask the name of Mr. Zun, which bookstore is opened? Why have you never seen you before?"

"Oh, my name is Li Ling. I am from the Li Family Bookstore on Dongxie Street. Because it has just reopened and I have been in the book list in the future, I have never met you."

"Li Family Bookstore? Are you the bookstore owner who rented books to the county scholastics?" The shopkeeper's face suddenly changed, and he looked curious. Seeing Li Ling nodding, he even stood up directly: "Young master, please come later, I'll go."

This surprised Li Ling. What is this? Could it be that he had committed their taboos when renting books with others? He went to find someone to deal with him? To be honest, Li Ling really couldn't guarantee that he had not made any mistakes. It was really uneasy to stay in this somewhat empty hall.

After a while, the shopkeeper turned back, and there was a person behind him, but not a group, but one. This person was older and dressed more decently. He had a beard on his face, and he looked quite imposing. It seemed that his identity should be above the shopkeeper. Could it be that the boss of this bookstore?

Just when Li Ling guessed the identity of the visitor, the shopkeeper had already introduced it on his behalf: "Mr. Li, this is Gu Yuezi, the boss of my Gu Family Bookstore. The boss of my Gu Family Bookstore, this is the owner of the Li Family Bookstore..."

"Li Ling has met Boss Gu." Li Ling immediately clasped his fists and said, "I wonder why Boss Gu is interested in me? It's because I rented books in my store?"

"Mr. Li is really a happy person, quick talk. I can't go around with you. It's not bad. It's because I heard that your Li Family Bookstore suddenly started a book rental business, which attracted many Han family members to rent books in your store. I will become interested in you and specifically instruct Lao Zhao that if someone from your Li Family Bookstore comes to get a book, I will report it to me so that I can see you."

Speaking of this, he looked up and down at Li Ling, and said in a bit amazed: "You can't see that Mr. Li has such a talent for doing business but is still a young man who is less than a young man. I'm really disrespectful. By the way, do you know that because of your strategy, the business of many nearby bookstores has been reduced by 20% or 30%."

Li Ling smiled awkwardly: "There is such a thing? Why do I feel that the business is not as good as I imagined, and it can also affect other bookstores."

"You don't know anything about this. If you bought the books yourself, you might still treasure them, but if you borrow them, it would be different. They would pass on them to borrow them, or even rent a few books together, and then copy them down. In this way, you seem to be renting out one set, but the people you really affect are several times. In this way, the bookstores in the city will naturally be greatly affected."

Li Ling felt something was right after hearing this and smiled and said, "Is it because of this that has also affected Boss Gu's business, so do you want to sell the books?"

"That's not. Books are just for people to read, especially those books of sages and related annotations, which every scholar must read. So I have always advocated lowering the price of books, but unfortunately I haven't seen anyone respond to it. However, Mr. Li, you made this move, which forced those bookstores to consider lowering the price slightly. So if you really want to talk about it, I still admire you quite a lot, so I want to meet you in person."

So that's it. After hearing this, Li Ling finally breathed a little relieved: "Boss Gu is too good, and he is forced to implement this strategy because of his livelihood."

"Well, I've also gone to inquire about your bookstore, as you said. But there is one thing you still don't understand. Are you not afraid that other bookstores will learn your methods and then use more books to snatch your business?"

"No, they can't do it. Most of the books in my store are old books from decades ago, so I have fewer concerns. I don't have to worry about some damage if I borrow it from outside. But other bookstores can't learn from me. All of them are new books. If I really rent it, I'm afraid it won't be worth the money.

"In addition, those bookstores each have certain identities, so they will definitely not be able to learn low-level gameplay like me. So I feel certain, even if they really want to learn and really learn, they will only end up in failure and will not affect my Li Family Bookstore at all."

Looking at Li Ling's confident appearance, Gu Yuezi was stunned at first, and then laughed: "That's why I said that Mr. Li is indeed a great business talent. Seeing that the matter is indeed profound and thorough enough, I admire him. I have taken over your deal, and I will sell it to you at a 20% discount on the market price. It can be regarded as my Gu Family Bookstore doing its best for the poor children of this county."

Li Ling naturally would not refuse, and immediately thanked him with a smile: "I would like to thank Boss Gu for his kind help. By the way, the book I want to purchase today is the five volumes of "Ji Zi Jie Chunqiu"..."

After listening to the series of titles and quantities of books reported by Li Ling, Gu Yuezi nodded with a smile, responded, and asked the shopkeeper to calculate the specific price of all the books.

It was busy here, and when he saw a young man dressed as a scholar coming in outside, with a pretty face, but his face turned a little pale, as if he had been hollowed out by wine. He also had a stack of paper under his ribs. After seeing Gu Yuezi, he happily stepped forward: "Boss Gu, this is a new novel written by Xiaosheng this time. Please correct me."

"It turns out to be Mr. Dai. You have another masterpiece, which is really gratifying." Gu Yuezi hurriedly stepped forward to receive the reception, and smiled and took the stack of paper full of words from the other party. Only then did Li Ling realize that the scholar was here to sell books and hand over the manuscript.

In this era of lagging information and inconvenient transportation, people's entertainment methods are naturally very primitive. Listening to operas and reading books is one of the few entertainments, and there are many authors of novels in every county. For example, among the old books and novels stored in Li Ling's shop, many of them were written by scholars in this county themselves, and they did not leak out of Hengzhou Prefecture. Only the top novels can be spread throughout the country like the Four Books and Five Classics and inherited from later generations.

Seeing that Gu Yuezi had serious things to be busy, he settled the accounts again, and Li Ling did not disturb him much. He only agreed with the shopkeeper that they would send the dozens of books to his store the next day, and then pay the money and wanted to leave. But when he walked to the door, he heard Gu Yuezi's tone feel a little embarrassed: "Mr. Dai, your jade hairpin is not much different from the previous books..."

Mr. Dai's expression changed slightly, but he still defended: "The story is of course different. Look, Wang Sheng and Miss Chai's encounter at a temple fair, and then there were many twists and turns between them, and they experienced the various twists and turns of the Chai's family being wronged by the court..."

"I'm not talking about these details, but the core of the whole story. To put it bluntly, the lingering love between talented men and beautiful women is not much different from the three or four books you have written over the years."

"This..." Mr. Dai's expression was dark again, and it was really hard to justify, because even he himself knew that the five or six books he wrote had the same core, and it was said that he would change the soup and not the medicine.

Seeing this, Gu Yuezi said again: "In addition, you also know that recently, all parts of Hengzhou Prefecture have become tired of the stories of such talented men and beautiful women. However, there are many stories about seeking immortals and asking for Taoism. If Mr. Dai, you can write such a story, the price will be easy to tell."

"Why should I go back and try?" Mr. Dai was also a little moved, but he didn't want his efforts to give up. He looked at Gu Yuezi again: "Then my book?"

"Let's do this, the price of this book is reduced by one volume. One volume is only fifteen taels, and three volumes are forty-five taels. I'll make up for you a fraction, even if you have fifty taels?"

"But I could buy a set of eighty taels of books in my past..."

"As long as you can write a novel about seeking immortality and asking for the truth, you can get the price at the original price. If it can be better, the price can be increased. How about it?"

"Then...then, it's up to Boss Gu." Mr. Dai knew that the other party was the one who took the initiative, so he had to agree, otherwise he wouldn't find a better place to publish the book.

Li Ling next to him was a little dazed. He really didn't expect that writing books in this era would make such money. Although the other party brought a thick stack of paper over, it was written with a brush after all. Even if it was small regular script, three volumes of books were only 200,000 words, which would be sold for fifty taels of silver?
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