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Chapter 327 It seems that no one has stopped you from going to heaven (second update)
Chapter 325

No wonder someone once said that the money-making machines of media magazines can make money faster than money-printing machines.

Because at that time they not only sold newspapers to get returns from customers, but more importantly, advertisements, a large number of advertisements, also brought great and extremely rich returns to these newspapers and magazines, and this was the most important thing.

"But there are not many people who can afford tabloids in Bianliang, Tokyo, right? You know, such a tabloid costs about [-] yuan. Occasionally, it burns your brain. It's okay to buy one or two copies. Who has so many? Spare money to see these things?" Liu Yiyi looked at Wang Yang with a headache, and explained helplessly.

"Twenty cents?" Wang Yang glanced down at the tabloids in his hands, shaking with disgust. "You still need twenty dollars for this kind of crap?"

"What do you think? Such a piece of paper, added together, has about four or five hundred characters. It costs about ten yuan to copy a sheet, and a person can copy at most ten copies of such tabloids a day. If this price If it's not high, who would want to do such hard work?" Liu Yiyi pouted.

"And those who want to get news have to give money to those insiders. These are also costs. So, for a tabloid, the boss can only earn three to five cents. Sometimes some The tabloids even sold for thirty cents."

"These tabloids can only sell three to five thousand copies in one issue. If there is any really big news, maybe seven or eight thousand copies will be sold..."

A scholar, if he copies ten copies a day, he will get four to five thousand characters, and don't forget that this is a calligraphy, four to five thousand words a day... Tsk tsk tsk, this is like breaking your wrist Rhythm.

And after a day, it seems like you can only get a hundred dollars. No wonder Liu Yiyi's teacher quit after working for a while. You can only get a hundred dollars a day for copying, and it's only three dollars a month. If this was Mr. Wang who was lively and active, he would have quit his mother's job a long time ago.

Wang Yang looked at the paper, which was thinner and worse in quality than rice paper. In terms of paper alone, it saved a lot of money, but there was no way to save money on pens and ink. As for giving those The wages of the scribes are naturally indispensable.

Wang Yang can be regarded as a literary youth at any rate. During this period of time, he has used a lot of pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and he has opened a printing workshop. Naturally, he knows the price of this aspect very well.

Thanks to the emphasis on culture in the Song Dynasty, the paper industry was very prosperous. Taking paper as an example, Daqing white paper was used as the cover of books. This kind of paper costs 750 yuan per hundred sheets, and the length of each piece of Daqing white paper About six feet, about three feet wide.

The same is true for the large paper length and width format required for printing content, but the price is extremely low, eleven and a half cents per hundred sheets.A sheet of paper is only one-tenth of a penny, and such a large sheet of paper cut into four quarto-format newspapers is completely sufficient.

That is to say, the cost of paper for running such a newspaper is extremely low, and after adding printing ink and labor costs, the cost of ink consumed by each newspaper is also very small. Wang Yang has previously calculated that, A set of three volumes of "The Analects of Confucius" consumes only more than [-] yuan for brown, ink, plaster, and craftsman's labor.

For a thing like a newspaper that has only two sides, except for the slightly troublesome typesetting, it is not too easy to print [-] copies a day with a hydraulic printing machine.Calculated, the cost is less than one penny per sheet.

In addition to the distribution channel, um... Now there are ghost distribution channels, so if it is published manually, if a tabloid is calculated at three pennies.

Every time a newsboy sells a newspaper, he can get a penny rebate, tsk tsk tsk, I believe there will be many people who will like this job very much.

Even if he only sells [-] newspapers a day, he can earn [-]% in a month. If [-] copies, he can earn [-]% a month. For an ordinary person in Bianliang, Tokyo , Enough for a family to live for a month.

After all, in Bianliang, Tokyo, where the price is the highest, a piece of cooking cake costs only two pennies, a bowl of tea costs only one penny, and a plate of more delicate dishes costs about ten penny, which is much cheaper in other places.

And even if Wang Yang priced the newspaper at three pennies, one penny would count as cost, one penny would be a profit for the newsboy, and the other one would be pure profit.

Compared with the twenty-character tabloids in the past, it is extremely cheap. I believe that with the living standards of the people in the Song Dynasty, anyone who can read can read so much content for three dollars a day. It must be very happy.

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"Do you really want to do it?" After getting out of the car and returning to the mansion, Liu Yiyi couldn't help asking when she saw Wang Yang holding those tabloids and muttering in disbelief. .

"You said, if each newspaper only sold for three pennies, would anyone buy it?" Wang Yang asked without raising his head, rubbing his chin.

Just sitting down, Liu Yiyi, who was about to pour tea into Wang Yang's cup when she lifted the teapot, couldn't help laughing out loud. "Brother Wang, are you kidding me? Can you earn three pennies?"

"Of course I can earn it back." Wang Yang looked up at Liu Yiyi and said seriously. "I have just calculated the cost. The cost of each newspaper is less than one penny. At that time, it will be handed over to someone else to sell. Every time the other party sells a newspaper, he will be able to earn one penny, and the remaining Of course, we earned it ourselves."

"...How could it be so low?" Both Liu Yiyi and Li Shishi widened their eyes in surprise.

"Because I don't need others to copy, I just need to print." Wang Yang blinked proudly. "Invisibly, the cost of copying is gone. This item alone saves the cost of ten coins per sheet."

"Besides, I don't look for any provincial or internal investigators. What I compile are the kind of things that literati and ordinary people like to read, or that women like to appreciate..." Uncle Wang spit and stared. He talked non-stop there.

"...It seems that no one can stop you." After Liu Yiyi and Li Shishi looked at each other, they rolled their eyes helplessly and smiled bitterly.The rhythm of this guy who is about to go to heaven is really speechless.

"And I plan to issue [-] copies of the first issue of the newspaper, and in order to create momentum, I decided that the first five issues will not be paid. If it is popular, then each issue will be reprinted, and I will strive to increase to Thirty thousand copies." Wang Yang slapped the table with pride, raised his eyebrows at Liu Yiyi and said.

"Five thousand copies... Huh? Even if the price is based on the price of five thousand copies, it's only 75 pennies? Five installments, it's only [-] pennies..." Liu Yiyi couldn't help but gasped, and her eyes fell on on Wang Yang's body.

"Even if it's [-] copies, that's only [-]. My dear...you are so good, master." Li Shishi is also very good at mental arithmetic. When he thinks that if [-] newspapers are stacked together, they will be taller than a house. .

"Your Yuanyou printing technology is really a good invention to save money. If other tabloids are calculated on the basis of [-] characters, [-] copies will be [-] copies, and if there are five issues, [-] copies will be enough. Gone……"

(End of this chapter)