I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

The biggest reason why Zhang Nuo's books can be sold so cheaply is the cost of the paper. After all, the cost of printing a book is fixed, and the cost of a book with cheap paper will naturally be lower.

Now Zhang Nuo's book printing shop is very famous, especially since the "Zhang Nuo Poetry Collection" published by the book company has become more and more popular.

After all, apart from selling Zhang Nuo's own works, the bookstore has all kinds of classic books. The most expensive one is only [-] yuan a piece, which is extremely cheap compared to other places.

Many people think that this is Mr. Zhang doing good deeds for the students.Therefore, more and more people are famous for him.

Now that the papermaking workshop is ready, the output of paper will be further increased. In the future, not to mention more books will be printed, and paper can be sold. If you have time, you can even consider newspapers!

In a steel structure workshop closest to Zhuangzi, a large row of tables and chairs are neatly arranged.

This is Zhang Nuo's cafeteria, the front hall and the back kitchen. Except for the house provided by Zhang Nuo, everything is locally produced in Datang.

The stove is an ordinary wood-fired stove, twelve in a row, and the row is extraordinarily imposing!

The tables, chairs and benches are also made by local craftsmen in Datang. There is nothing fancy, but solid wood is solid and durable.

In this day and age, when wood is not valuable and craftsmen are not valuable, the convenient dining table here that can accommodate 1000 people dining at the same time really doesn't cost much.

Zhang Nuo has prepared a total of twenty people in the entire cafeteria, all of which are placed in the back kitchen, so as to meet the dining needs of thousands of people in the entire workshop area in the future.

Fortunately, only craftsmen and sergeants eat less than a thousand people, and they will be the real big heads in the future.

The sergeants and craftsmen were extremely happy about the opening of the canteen.

I thought it would be nice to have pancakes and hot soup in winter, but when I went to the cafeteria for dinner on the first day, these idiots almost took away the pot.

The person in charge of the cafeteria is Zhang Erniang, who came from a poor background, and after receiving Zhang Nuo's highest instruction to eat enough and not to waste, she directed a group of people around.

The white flour steamed buns steamed in a large steamer made nearly [-] in one go, and then there were hot soup and side dishes. Although they were not worth much, the white flour steamed buns alone made all the people who came to the cafeteria for the first time go crazy. up.

Why is the second head of the family so rich that he can even eat white noodles?

This was indeed what Zhang Nuo meant. The flour he purchased directly from the system was really cheap. He planned to get through this period of time, and let the cafeteria purchase things by itself when the cafeteria got on the right track.

The grand scene of that day is still vivid in Zhang Nuo's memory. The sergeants and craftsmen who were pushed and kicked by Qin Er and him to wash their hands and lined up took turns to walk to the window, and then behind the window sill. The staff skillfully handed over five steamed buns, then a meatloaf, a large bowl of soup and a plate of side dishes.

The next few items are quantitative, but if you don’t have enough steamed buns, you can still get more!

Hearing this news, the entire cafeteria exploded, and everyone stuffed them into their mouths like starving ghosts reincarnated!

Chapter 134 The Current Situation of the Bookstore

For Zhang Nuo, this cafeteria is his bad taste on the one hand, but on the other hand it increases the cohesion of the entire workshop area.

For people in this era, eating food from your hands proves that it has something to do with your family.

Over time, after getting used to all this, whoever breaks all this is their enemy!

Seeing everything gradually taking shape in front of him, Zhang Nuo was filled with emotion. He really created the lowest and most primitive industrial zone in the Tang Dynasty.

This can be regarded as promoting the technological progress of Datang!

No matter how many there are, maybe it won't take many years to see the scene of chimneys and people coming and going in this Zhuangzi in later generations.

Zhang Nuo strolled towards home, saying hello to the passing sergeants and craftsmen along the way.

All the craftsmen who came here have been told that in this land, they have to listen to Master Zhang. Except for a few people whose identities cannot be revealed, everything else is decided by Master Zhang.

Therefore, at the beginning, these sergeants and craftsmen were quite worried, but after a period of contact with these people, they found that the head of the family seemed to be quite easy to talk to.

People get along with each other slowly, if you are easy to talk, other people will naturally be easy to talk too, even the smile is a little bit kinder.

It didn't take long for Zhang Nuo to walk to the gate of his house. Today's Zhang Mansion has changed a lot!

Just entering the door is a big yard, and the front hall, which was originally used to entertain guests, has now become a reception area and a reception room. The general guests here are basically received by the old party.

Only real guests will go through the front hall to the real house behind.

There are two more wing rooms on both sides of the front yard, one is the place where the servants live, and the other is the place where some sundries are temporarily stored and the servants eat.

After all, there are more than a dozen maids serving people here now, and Lao Li's family does not allow maids to eat at the same table as them.

Zhang Nuo watched with a smile as people kept saluting and saying hello to him on the road, and he kept nodding his head, but he kept walking into his house.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Qin Erzheng half lying on the sofa holding a book and slowly reading it.

This is the new "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that the bookstore is preparing to sell. Zhang Nuo intends to use this to test the waters. After all, if the novel sells well, it will really make money.

How much money can be sold for the Analects of Confucius, and the total is only so few words, even if it is the annotated version that Lao Li brought later, it is still a book if it is exhausted.

But "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is different. This kind of novel belongs to the kind that once you read it, you can't bear to let it go.

The key point is that there are many word thieves!

In this day and age, any word size four is nonsense, and you would be ashamed to publish a book if you don’t get a second.

Therefore, the final result is that the entire set of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was typed and printed, and there were 27 copies of the complete set.

When Zhang Nuo got the thick stack, Zhang Nuo was a little confused, what the hell did I do?

But it has to be said that classics are classics, and now not only the father and son of Lao Li's family are fans of this set of books, each of them begged for a set for nothing, even Qin Er couldn't leave the book.

But Zhang Nuo, a traitor, doesn't sell the whole set of books at all. The euphemism is that he writes and prints at the same time, so he puts them on the market one by one.

Of course, since he made it, he shamelessly kicked Luo Guanzhong away, which also made his reputation in the literary world even louder.

Zhang Nuo had already explained to Lao Zhao, the big shopkeeper of the bookstore and the bookstore, that this book must be shown to him, and it could only be published one by one in a little over a month.

No matter who comes to ask, they say that the whole book has not been finished yet, and that it has to be written and printed slowly.

At first, Lao Zhao didn't understand, but later he saw people coming and going in the store asking if the new book had arrived, and finally after seeing the customers who could buy a book and go home even if the book didn't arrive, Lao Zhao immediately admired Zhang Nuo.

This is actually a small trick in the business of later generations. It is to take advantage of people's urgency to be tortured by the cutoff, so that you can only urge the change in this window.

It's like a novel website. When you go to chase your favorite novel, will you just read other novels after refreshing?

The bookstore is even more so, they are all here, even if the new book is not out, it is good to look through other books!

Is it possible to pay for it by flipping through it!

The other is that everyone has a collection habit. Although you can buy it and exchange it with others, will it be particularly uncomfortable when you see 123467 on your bookshelf and there is no five?Will there be a feeling of having to make it together?

So, this book is just to trick readers. By then, your friends will already be discussing new chapters and new plots. If you don’t know anything, should you buy it?

As Zhang Nuo, who has been tortured for many years by an online writer who graduated from various excellent students in chapter-broken classes, it is a matter of grasping for chapters to be followed up.

Zhang Nuokeng's ideas are not limited to broken chapters. You must know, as a bookstore owner who wants to make a fortune from teaching supplementary materials, how can he sell more teaching supplementary materials?

Of course it is by blowing!

After Lao Zhao was confessed by Zhang Nuo, whenever he saw a young scholar, he would tell him mysteriously,

"In the past two years, His Majesty will open the Enke, but according to a certain cousin who works in the Ministry of Officials, His Majesty requires that all Jinshi in the new department be people who understand the law, so the martial arts law must be tested in the coming year, and the young man will remind you when he sees that you are a regular customer. Say Oh!"

Then the young scholar would bow respectfully and salute, and then pick up a newly edited and edited version of "Wu De Law" from the shelf, put it on the counter as a duty, and pay the money and leave.

It is such a very simple little trick that made "Wu De Law" the best-selling book in the store after the Analects of Confucius.

Of course, there are also those who are tough and naive, who don't believe that they will be admitted to Enke next year and will take the law exam. Lao Zhao has a way to deal with it. After all, Zhang Nuo has more than one set of words.

"Xiao Lang-jun looks imposing and talented at first glance. In the future, he will definitely be named on the gold list, and he will be a county parent official. If you don't study the "Wu De Law" in advance, you will not make Xiao Lang-jun's official reputation in the future. ?”

Then, under this flattery, a certain scholar who looked tough and simple, confidently paid for the "Wu De Law" that he would never use in the future.

After all, Hanhan, who has to gossip for a long time even to buy the supplementary materials, is doomed to either fail the exam, or be played to death by the old fritters in the court, and basically never see the day when it will be released.

Chapter 135 Other Changes

The current situation of the bookstore is due to the high-quality and low-price strategy. After all, these days, except for Zhang Nuo’s bookstore, you can’t buy books that are printed so clearly and so cheap.

On the other hand, it came from Li Shimin's secret protection!

It's not that the aristocratic family didn't see the crisis from inside. How could this group of people not know that the emergence of such cheap books would cause their status to decline?

But it is useless to send people to buy in large quantities. The bookstore will kill people with a single purchase limit.

It's useless to set fire to the bookstore. Several batches of people were sent in a row, but it's like a meat bun beating a dog without return.

There are also aristocratic families who use their own children and officials among the disciples to make things difficult, but as soon as they leave, supervisors come to hold them accountable.

Li Shimin even took the matter directly to the court and praised it, praising Zhang's bookstore for being innocent, and selling books at low prices is an act of conscience and a blessing for the country!

Now it's all right. Before, there were high-quality and low-priced books constantly occupying the market, and later, Li Shimin's golden words and eloquent words escorted the country's blessings. The business of this bookstore is really hard to think about.

But having said that, with the saturation of the market for textbooks such as Analects of Confucius and Wu Delu, if you want to make money, you really have to rely on teaching supplementary materials and other miscellaneous books.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can be regarded as Zhang Nuo's throwing stones in the miscellaneous book market. As long as this book is successful, there will be a steady stream of similar books appearing in the future!

The bookstore will post a notice after a while, and welcome all great scholars and those who are confident in their writing skills to come up with their own precious books.

At that time, as long as it passes the review and is indeed valuable, then find a way to get it published, and the author can get a certain amount of remuneration.

In this era when publishing a book is still for the sake of fame and money, as long as such a notice is posted, one can imagine what kind of sensation it will have.

Of course, Zhang Nuo also knows that as long as the scale of publishing is expanded, the quality of books will definitely decline in the end, but what does that matter? These days, what people worry about is that they have no money to buy books, and if they have money, they can't buy books, not the poor quality of books. it is good.

As long as you are willing to do it, you can always produce a few good books. During this period of time, Zhang Nuo has been urging Lao Sun to write the manuscript every day, asking Lao Sun to write his "A Thousand Gold Prescriptions" quickly.

Zhang Nuo even promised that as long as Lao Sun wrote this medical book as soon as possible, he would give him several medical books that Lao Sun had never seen before.

On the one hand, Lao Sun was envious of the new medical books, but on the other hand, due to the complexity of medical skills, the speed of coding was really too fast, and Zhang Nuo urged him so much that he couldn't stand it anymore.

Simply, I built a small house on the Zhuangzi, moved out by myself, and stopped wandering in front of Zhang Nuo, and finally calmed down a bit.

Qin Qiong half-lyed on the sofa while flipping through "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", while taking a sip from the teacup on the coffee table from time to time.

It has been a while since he came to Zhuangzi. When he first came, Zhang Nuo immediately took out the good thing he put in the cup——Ejiao!

Although this stuff has been used as medicine now, it is still rarely used. Few people clearly know that this stuff has miraculous effects on anemia and ischemia.

During this period of time, Qin Qiong was arranged by Zhang Nuo to have specific arrangements for eating and drinking, and he was not even allowed to drink alcohol.

At the beginning, Qin Qiong almost died of discomfort, after all, he drank alcohol for most of his life, and now he is not allowed to drink, it is a lie to say that he is not uncomfortable.

But I couldn't bear it, the shopkeeper Xiaozhang was strict in his management, and his family knew that he had hope of recovery, so they actively cooperated.Therefore, in just one month, Qin Qiong's health has obviously improved.

Not only does my complexion improve a lot, but the biggest benefit should be that I can finally sleep well.

Because of his severe anemia, he had to wake up many times a night. He felt like a ghost was pressing the bed when he was sleeping, and he felt out of breath when he fell asleep.

If Qin Qiong hadn't been concerned about his family at that time, with his temperament, he would have long since been unable to bear to kill himself.

The feeling of waiting to die slowly is really too difficult.

But now he is recovering, his body is gradually recovering, and his spirit is getting stronger, which makes him like to go to Zhang Nuo's house for a meal when he is free.

Most of the patients are like this. At the beginning, they didn't believe it, but after seeing the curative effect, they believe it more than anyone else!

What's more, here in Zhang Nuo's house, not to mention eating well and living well, the rare thing is this wonderful book in his hand. Although Zhang Nuo repeatedly asked that the book can only be read here, Qin Qiong didn't care, and came here almost every day. , Now I'm almost finished reading the book.

Just when he was about to put down the book, he suddenly found that the shopkeeper Zhang was standing at the door in a daze.

This is not the first time he has seen such a scene, and even many people in Zhuangzi have seen the scene of Xiao Zhang's shopkeeper wandering into the sky.

And the sergeants who have seen Zhang Nuo's big hand wave, and the big factory buildings appear out of thin air, and have already firmly believed in the identity of the little shopkeeper Xingjun, will silently guard the side as long as they see this, They speak in a low voice.

They were afraid of disturbing this Xingjun, maybe this Xingjun is still standing here at this time, but his soul has already flown to the north and south of the world.

Otherwise, this can't explain Xingjun's behavior at a young age but with a lot of knowledge, as if he has traveled all over the world for many years.

The most important thing is Datang's simple heart at this time!

For these sergeants, Zhang Nuo actually treats them like his own employees. He doesn't say how good the food is two meals a day, but he will definitely be full, and even if it is not enough, he can take a few home.

In Zhang Nuo's view, it's only a few dollars to eat, and it's all flour. Even the current profit of the winery can't be eaten up.

But if Zhang Nuo's unintentional act was placed on the sergeant, it would be a real favor.

White noodles, the staple food that can only be eaten in the homes of high-ranking officials and nobles, you can eat casually here, and you can even take some home to eat for children and mothers-in-law.

When Zhang Nuo discovered the first sergeant who secretly stuffed steamed buns into his jacket, and Zhang Nuo turned a blind eye to him, Zhang Nuo's position in the army was fixed.

Let's not talk about pulling these people to rebel for the time being, but at least there will be no situation where the command is inactive.

The people of Tang Dynasty are so simple, they can't wait to repay with their lives.

In fact, Zhang Nuo knew this from Qin Er afterwards, but he didn't care, mother, he didn't plan to rebel, wouldn't it be enough for the soldiers to follow orders in the future, what else do they want?

As long as it doesn't go too far, taking some food from the cafeteria back will never be eliminated. When he was a child, he ate the meals his parents brought home from the factory cafeteria for many years. What a fart!

Chapter 136 Old Li's Gift