Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1601 Selling millions

  Ordinary farmers, although no one taught them to read and write.

   But in fact, sometimes it is unavoidable to see the text.

  For example, the archway of the gentry’s house, when you pass by, you can see the big red paint characters when you look up.

  It’s like the Spring Festival couplets in front of the door...

  These inevitable words will always appear in their eyes.

   But anyone who has a little heart will recognize dozens or hundreds of simple characters when they are adults.

  Of course... This is completely two concepts from real literacy and hyphenation. The written words of this era, in other words, require systematic study to understand meaning.

  What's more, if you don't know how to sentence sentences, it's like reading a bible.

  But the book in his hand...in Chen Shisan's eyes, it is completely different!

  There is nothing in it, not even uncommon words, but try to use more repetitive and concise common words.

  He looked at it hard, but couldn't help but read: "The sow is XX after giving birth, and needs to be reminded of X. To remind X, choose X and use more X red X, beet leaves, etc..."

   Difficult to read.

  But... as the name suggests, there is nothing awkward in it.

  And...Although there are many characters that I don’t know, but I can barely understand the words before and after it.

  Chen Shisan thought to himself, after giving birth, the most important thing is to promote lactation... This must be the meaning of lactation, to feed beet leaves, and what is this red...sweet potato?

  Oh, it turns out that this is the word for sweet potato, and this word...is milk...

   It's just... does this really work?

  He was both curious and suspicious!

  One thing suddenly came to my mind. In the clan brother’s house next door, there seemed to be a sow with little milk after giving birth, and the piglet squealed hungry.

  So, Chen Shisan wanted to give it a try.

  …

   After a few days...

  Chen Liu came to Chen Shisan's house with pastries wrapped in lotus leaves.

   "Old Thirteen..." Chen Liu stood outside the door and shouted gratefully.

   But at this time, his little brother was taking a break from his busy schedule today, and was still reading a book, thinking.

  Chen Shisan's daughter-in-law opened the door and welcomed the six brothers in. She said, "You're all here, why do you bring something..." She took the pastries and turned to the back kitchen to boil water.

   "My pig, fed potato leaves and beetroots, for the past two days... has enough milk... Where did you learn this from?"

  Chen Shisan heard this, and then suddenly realized.

  He looked at his sixth brother, who was already in full bloom.

   This is actually understandable.

  In this era, a family with pigs is considered rich.

  Of course, the past few years have been better.

   After all, in this era, raising pigs is an extremely luxurious thing.

   This is the hope of Lao Liu's family.

   Finally waited for the sow to give birth, but because of insufficient RU water, the whole family was in a hurry.

  In such a closed village, the knowledge that people can absorb is limited after all. Even if there is a Tuntian guard in the county town, it is still far away in the sky for the people in the village.

   Now according to the method of the old thirteen, he actually urged RU, why is this Chen Liu so unhappy that he danced around.

  Chen Shisan listened, but at this moment, his heart was startled.

  This method actually worked, this book... is really amazing.

  In this way, everything written in the book...is useful.

  He remembered that there were ways to deal with trauma, some things about growing wheat, how to get rid of insects when planting fruit trees, the almanac, some precautions for pregnant women, and solar terms in different seasons...

   These things were originally passed on by word of mouth from the old people in the village.

   But in fact, word of mouth is often unreliable, so it is not very accurate, and even... some are simply wrong.

   "This book... this book..."

   "What book..."

  …

  In the entire village with the surname Chen, a Chen "Xiucai" suddenly appeared. In the eyes of everyone, Chen "Xiucai" knew astronomy from the top and geography from the bottom.

  Therefore...many people encountered problems and began to seek advice from Chen Shisanlai.

  Of course... People gradually began to realize that all the knowledge of Chen 'Xiu Cai' came from that 'Ming Ode'.

  Chen Xiucai can even guess and understand, so...if you want to...others can understand it too.

  In the past, knowledge was acquired by the gentry in the village.

  All the families are staring at the gentry family. The gentry family feels that the solar terms are up and they can farm. Seeing their fields start to be plowed in spring, everyone follows suit.

   But... now it's different.

  With Chen Xiucai...Next...Chen Liu also began to ask clients everywhere, going to buy a copy of 'Ming Song'.

   Not only that...Chen Shisan relied on guesswork, and sometimes he would ask people for advice when he really didn't know the characters.

  After all... this book is too important, no matter what day it is today, even if it is a few days later whether it is suitable to go out, you need to read this Ming Song before you feel at ease.

   Because of this, Chen Shisan took extra care.

   Soon, from village to village, rumors began to spread about the magic of this Ming Song.

  At the beginning...it was just a rumor, and soon...some merchants finally found business opportunities through some news.

   Immediately afterwards...bundles of Ming Songs began to appear in this small village, and then the book...the price increased!

   Fifty texts a book, children and old people are not deceived.

  Fifty Wen is not a small amount in the eyes of people in the countryside...

  But compared to the wonderful use of this book, it is not too much.

  Farmers are not stupid.

   They'll settle the score.

  So much knowledge, only fifty articles.

  In the future, it will be very useful for weddings and funerals, planting crops, and even seeking medical advice...all of which are extremely useful.

  The information in it is extremely simple, but as long as you can recognize more than a hundred characters, you can barely understand it.

  I heard that for the sake of easy reading, the text here is expressed in the most commonly used words.

  After all... For farmers, they can ask their neighbors when they encounter problems, but they can't ask people for everything throughout the year.

  It's only fifty coins, but it's affordable.

  These fifty-literal books... unexpectedly arrived in one village, and sixty or seventy copies were sold out in an instant.

  The speed of sales stunned the bookseller.

  Originally they just heard that someone in the country was asking to buy this Ming Song.

  Since this is the case, then simply take a batch of these unsalable books to the countryside, and go from village to village, and they will always be sold out.

  They originally prepared for a few days.

  But how do you know... just arrived at the first village, it was sold out all of a sudden.

   What's even more unexpected is that those who didn't buy it were still in a hurry, looking at the book seller who was walking around the street, and kept telling him that he must come next time, he must...

  In this world, no one is more effective than a merchant's nose.

   This is a business opportunity, a business opportunity that is urgently waiting to be discovered.

   is a big gold mine.

  …

   All of a sudden, the printing workshop in Xishan was surrounded by booksellers.

  Booksellers are frantically looking for purchases.

not only…

  Other workshops also began to desperately contact the Duke of Qi in Xishan.

  I hope that the Duke of Qi will allow the printing of Ming Song.

  In this era, there are no copyright issues.

  Piracy... These workshops often do it without any respect for the author.

   But for Fang Jifan, there is no such problem for the time being.

Without Fang Jifan's permission, no workshop would dare to pirate this book. It's not that the ancients were more ethical than some pirates in later generations, but that, after all, everyone is just seeking money, so they won't stick their heads to their waistbands let's go!

   Obviously, in front of Fang Jifan, everyone's desire to survive is very strong.

   After obtaining Fang Jifan's permission and paying the finishing fee as required, dozens of workshops in Beijing began to operate around the clock.

   Countless Ming Songs were printed one by one, and then... quickly fell into the hands of the bookseller.

  The booksellers quickly organized their manpower to send the carts of books to the various states and counties below.

  In the prefectures and counties... the shopkeepers who had been waiting for a long time carried the burden, happily included the books in the burden, and then... began to walk into the countryside.

  In the exchange, many merchants looked at these booksellers and were a little confused.

  It was only then that they began to realize that there is still such a big market in this world.

  In the past... people's understanding of the market was extremely limited.

  After all...there are not many people with spending power in this era.

   Merchants are targeting... this is the kind of people.

And Mingsong's best-selling...suddenly makes people realize...it turns out that in this world, there is not only a market for millions of people in this area, but also another world that is isolated and separated from the world, that market is ten percent of the current market. times.

  The hot sales of Ming Song also led to the prosperity of paper and ink workshops, so that many people began to look very optimistic about these markets, which was greatly reflected in the trading market.

  The stock prices of several large workshops began to soar. At the same time, with the funds raised, many workshops also began to expand their production.

  And all of this... For the court and most of the officials, it seems to have happened in another world.

  Of course...except for merchants, the one who really paid attention to the phenomenon...is precisely Xishan Academy.

  Some students of Xishan Academy were disappointed with Ming Song at first.

  They thought that their master or ancestor would definitely write some profound knowledge, but who would have thought that...it would be so superficial.

  But now... they seem to have discovered something.

  Some students began to take leave, slipped into the nearby countryside, and began to investigate.

   Soon... some students suddenly began to wake up.

  They seem to have discovered a new continent.

  Master is mighty, it turns out...this is the real teaching by precept and example.

  In less than a month, the good news spread throughout the capital, and the sales volume of Ming Song in January exceeded one million!

  Millions... It's almost a thing of the past.

  ...

Yesterday a lot of people scolded and said that water is good. Tiger hurriedly looked back at some previous chapters and found no water. Every content is essential. If it is missing, the whole story will be incoherent, and many things will be explained. I don’t know, writing a novel is the same as writing stereotypes. You need to start the topic, start the story, start, start, middle, and back, and finally have an end, otherwise it won’t be perfect. You are clearly writing the story with your heart Wronged.

  (end of this chapter)