Comprehensive Martial Arts: Start Making Peacock Feathers

Chapter 141 Questions of Principle

Qiu Fengtong shook his head as the flower family wanted to continue to be free: "If that's the case, then I can't let you help in vain, I have to pay for the printing fee.

If according to the previous plan, although the printing cost of 100,000 books is expensive, it is not too expensive to be used by people. The total cost of printing a set of books in the Ming Dynasty is probably no more than three cents per 100 pages on average. This is still the cost of official boutique printing (the author specifically found reference materials for this: "The Cost of Printing Books in the Ming Dynasty", authors: Liu Weiwu, Liu Liang).

According to the calculation of one tael of silver to one thousand pennies (the exchange rate of silver to copper coins in different periods in ancient times was uncertain, but it was generally around one to one thousand), three cents was only thirty pennies, which was the cost of a hundred pages, and a Two pages of paper, one page can write about one hundred and five "eight eighty zero" crosses.

"Lian Shanyi" has slightly more words than "Zhouyi", with a total of more than 7,000 characters in ligatures and hexagrams. When printed in such a set, it takes less than 30 pages of paper, which means that the cost is less than Thirty pennies.

And this cost is only in the case of printing a small number of books, but now Qiu Fengtong has printed hundreds of thousands of books... This cost will be even lower, and the cost of a book will definitely not exceed ten cents.

That is to say, before he printed 100,000 books, the price paid by the florists was only 1,000 taels. This amount of money was just a drizzle for the florists. Qiu Fengtong was very kind to them and accepted their repayment. That's right, he won't have a little psychological burden.

But now that "Lian Shan Yi" has been printed, especially the Hua family has found other workshops, and these workshops will not give Qiu Fengtong free, which means that the Hua family is paying for Qiu Fengtong to print books by themselves.

Even if they print 1 million books, the Hua family will only waste 10,000 taels of silver, and they will still not hurt their fur, but the Hua family prints books for themselves and they pay others to print books for themselves, which makes no sense at all. Same.

Qiu Fengtong naturally would not agree, it is a matter of principle whether the money should be given or not.

Hua Mantang naturally wouldn't agree to Qiu Fengtong's insistence on paying, but when Qiu Fengtong threatened to refuse to continue printing books if he didn't agree, he finally agreed.

After depositing 10,000 taels of silver in advance, Qiu Fengtong asked: "You said just now that there are many large merchants from other places who buy "Lian Shan Yi" in bulk. I'm curious, why don't they buy a small amount and then print it themselves?"

In this era, there is no patent law, and naturally there is no copyright law. Even for many authors, they wish that their own books could be pirated and printed, which means that their books will spread faster, and they The reputation of the company will also be greater, for the sake of own reputation, what is a mere amount of money?

As long as you are famous, are you afraid that you will not have money to earn?

Not to mention, Qiu Fengtong doesn't have the copyright of "Lian Shanyi" yet. The thousands of years old book, where is the copyright, even if there is copyright, it has already expired O(∩_∩)O.

He just owns the book. Now that he has spread the content of the book, others can copy it as they want? Print it as they want?

Why spend a lot of money to give money to others, while only earning a small profit?

For this question, Hua Mantang laughed: "What you said makes sense, but you ignored an important factor, that is time."

Seeing that Qiu Fengtong was still puzzled, he explained in detail: "You have to understand that the popularity of "Lian Shan Yi" can only last for two months at most, and if you do what you said, then they have to send someone first. I came to buy the original copy of "Lian Shan Yi", and then took the time to send it to my lair. Then I had to arrange for craftsmen to type, print, and bind it into a book.

After the binding is completed, it takes time and channels to spread the printed book...

And some businessmen haven't run the printing business, they have to spend money to buy printing workshops or cooperate with printing workshops, and a printing workshop may not be able to meet their needs, which means they have to spend more money and time... …

After all this tossing, they have to waste at least half a month, and what's more serious, maybe they have just finished everything, other businessmen have already sold "Lian Shan Yi" to their site.

If they want to compete with the other party, they can only lower the price, but once the other party also starts bargaining, it means that the two sides will have a price war. It can only stop, even if they win the other side, but once the price drops, it will be difficult to increase it again. Maybe in the end, they may spend a lot of money on the printing workshop, and they will not be able to return the money...... ..59

Seeing Qiu Fengtong's sudden realization, Hua Mantang smiled and said: "So, instead of wasting time and money printing it yourself, it's better to get the goods directly from us, although the price is a little higher, but they can also sell them at a higher price after going back. , still some earn.

Of course, in the end, someone will definitely print it by themselves, but at that time the popularity of "Lian Shan Yi" had already passed, and we had made a lot of money, and we left them with some soup. Yes, but it can only depend on time.

"Good guy."

Qiu Fengtong was amazed, he never thought that there was such a reason.

It's a pity that he was a scientific researcher in his previous life, and he was still researching the highest level of technology. The only concern was when to make things, but he never considered the issue of cost. How could he understand the twists and turns in business?

Thinking of this, Qiu Fengtong couldn't help but feel a little fortunate. Fortunately, he gave up his business plan and positioned himself as a supplier. Otherwise, he might not be able to play with these big businessmen.

Cooperating with the flower family, this may be the most correct decision to make 1.3 since I crossed.

Hua Mantang smiled and said, "Hehe, Young Master Qiu is pure-hearted, and he pursues the Great Dao wholeheartedly. Naturally, he doesn't understand the calculations of us idiots... In fact, I don't like this either, but my qualifications are limited. Martial Dao won't have much success along the way, and he can only join the business and earn a little bit of money.

Speaking of this, Hua Mantang also sighed, if he could become stronger, who wouldn't want to?

He does have a desire to pursue Martial Dao, but his aptitude is really not good. With the peak strength of Innate, he is still relying on the resources of the Hua family. The foundation is unstable and the combat power is limited. If the enemy is fighting, I am afraid that even the experienced Innate early stage may not be able to beat.