Chapter 266

In the afternoon, outside Sun Ji's bookstore in the east of Chang'an City, Li forgot to worry and looked depressed.

He came to Chang'an today to see the sales situation of the three countries he had worked hard to copy, but he didn't expect that the lively rush buying picture was completely different from his imagination.

Sun Ji bookstore is not small in Dongshi.

The three gatehouses sell all kinds of manually transcribed books, rubbings of inscriptions, consigned calligraphy and paintings, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, as well as seal cutting.

Business is pretty good.

There are many scholars in and out of the bookstore dressed up as scholars. After observing for a moment, Li forgot to worry and saw that several businesses had been done in the bookstore.

However, the volume of two copper coins was purchased, while the romance of the Three Kingdoms, which costs 500 Wen, was rarely paid attention to.

The romance of the Three Kingdoms, printed by engraving and thread bound, was quietly placed on the counter in the bookstore.

There was no advertising, no publicity, and no store staff worked hard to shout publicity.

Occasionally, a scholar was curious. He picked up the book and looked through it a few times. When he saw that it was a novel in Chapter style, he put it back.

After reading carefully, some scholars took out copper money and bought books.

But before Li forgot to worry and smiled, he saw the scholar who bought the book, but he immediately took the book into his arms and hid it for fear of being seen by others.

This scene made Li's temples jump suddenly. Lao Tzu wrote four famous works, not romantic novels like Jin Ping Mei. What's the meaning of your picture of buying wool on the street?

Seeing the gnashing of teeth of his little teacher, Ma Zhou and Yan Liben, who accompanied him to the bookstore, offered comfort.

"Teacher, this scholar is also afraid of people. After seeing him buy a novel, he was scolded as not doing his job and lacking in his studies."

"Yes, sir, although we know that your novel is magnificent and not a game text, it is difficult to be elegant in the eyes of the people."

Being comforted by Ma Zhou and Yan Liben, Li forgets worry and becomes more and more depressed.

This is the same as the painting style I imagined. Shouldn't the romance of the Three Kingdoms be warmly welcomed and snapped up by people from all walks of life in the capital of the Tang Dynasty as soon as it was listed?

Shouldn't Luoyang be expensive because paper is in short supply and goods are scarce?

It turned out to be such a miserable look

Li Qieyou has the idea of wanting to be a "eunuch". No one cares about the hard copied books. Why does he continue to copy and write?

Several people stopped outside the bookstore to observe, and sun Fang finally saw Li forgetful and others outside the bookstore, and quickly welcomed them out.

With a smile on his face, Master Sun Fang saluted Li forgetful: "Congratulations, Huxian man. The three kingdoms are on sale today. It sells very well. Three copies have been sold in an hour. It's very good."

what? Are you kidding me?

The old man's words made Li forget his worries and dumbfounded. Does the old man have any misunderstanding about the good sales?

In one hour, that is, two hours, only three books were sold, and you came to congratulate me?

Is this a good sell?

When do I have to sell these 1000 copies of the Three Kingdoms?

In fact, in sun Fang's eyes, selling three copies in one hour is really a very good achievement. This is mainly because the price of engraving printing is cheap.

The price of five hundred Wen is very cheap compared with one or two copper coins.

In his bookstore, the copies of "University", "doctrine of the mean", "Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" can only sell one or two volumes a day.

Before the invention of block printing, due to the high price of books, the business of bookstores was somewhat similar to that of later antique stores. They paid attention to not opening for one year and eating for three years.

So in sun Fang's opinion, it's not a good business to be able to sell three copies in one hour.

But Li forgot to worry, but he felt more and more egg pain, which was too far from his imagination.

The East and West markets are not open to business early in the morning.

The rule of the Tang Dynasty is "the sun is the market", that is, the East and West markets can only start trade at noon and end after the evening drum rings in the afternoon.

There are only half a day's business hours every day. If you press today's sales speed, you can't sell ten copies of the romance of the three kingdoms that day.

The first volume of the Three Kingdoms was printed by sun Fang. According to this sales situation, it will take more than three months to sell out?

This is only the first volume of the Three Kingdoms, and then there are 23 volumes. Do you have to sell them to monkey years and horses?

Moreover, Li's goal is not only to sell 1000 copies, but also to buy 10000 copies, or even more.

Although the literacy rate of Datang is not high, there are more than 100000 readers in Datang? In the era of no entertainment activities, is it difficult to write a novel and sell tens of thousands of copies?

But he didn't know that if he could sell a thousand copies of the Three Kingdoms in three months, the old man sun Fang would die laughing.

Among Sun Ji's bookstores, the best-selling volumes were sold in only 40 volumes in a month.

In fact, even Ma Zhou and Yan Liben think it's a big sale to be able to sell three books in one hour.

See several people are such a natural expression, Li forget worry is also speechless, he can only think about how to improve the sales of books.

If the beauty boss knew that the Three Kingdoms he had copied hard would sell three copies in two hours, she would have to laugh to death.

"Brother ziqiao, let's go to the bookstore and have a look. There are some pictures of new books." Li forgetful worry was thinking about it himself, but he heard a voice behind him.

He turned his head and looked contemptuous.

Chang'an city is really small. You can meet these excrement stirring sticks anywhere!

It was Cui Daogu of the Cui family in Qinghe who spoke. Beside him were Qiao, Prince of the Wang family in Taiyuan, Cui Hong of the Cui family in Boling, Lu Siyang of the Lu family in Fan Yang, and others.

Naturally, behind the dandies of the four aristocratic families, they followed a large group of ministry servants, hula, and a large group of people were very lively.

Li forgets worry too lazy to meet these dandies, so he takes Ma Zhou aside and avoids the sight of Wang ziqiao and others.

When these dandies entered Sun Ji's bookstore, the episodes behind them immediately became extremely overbearing and drove out all the guests who bought books and paintings in the bookstore.

The owner of sun Fang could only pretend not to see the behavior of driving away the guests of his shop. He smiled and greeted: "gentlemen, I don't know what to buy?"

"Shopkeeper, do you have any new books?"

"Yes, yes. The novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms was only sold today. It was written by a man from Huxian county. Are you interested?"

Master Sun Fang naturally didn't know the contradiction between Li forgetful worry and these dandies. He also enthusiastically picked up a Book of the Three Kingdoms and handed it respectfully.

"Which Huxian man?" Prince Joe asked in a bad tone.

Master Sun Fang didn't know it. He smiled and said, "Huxian plum is worried, Huxian baron."

As soon as he had finished speaking, he saw Prince Joe angrily shot, stabbed, and tore the Three Kingdoms book in his hand in half