Chapter 208: Yuan Wei's Decision

It can be said that this tea has already gained a great reputation before it came out.

There is no way, people in the palace admire it, and people outside will naturally follow suit, not to mention that the tea is really good.

Some people who got tea want to buy this new tea.

Zhang Yu watched all this quietly in his yard.

Guo Jia walked in, smiled and said to Zhang Yu: "Master, our plan has succeeded, can the books be put on sale?"

Zhang Yu tapped the table lightly with his fingers and said, "Well, the sale will start tomorrow afternoon, and the news will be released in the morning."

Guo Jia sat under Zhang Yu, stroked the mustache on his chin, and said, "Master, when our store starts selling books, it will definitely surprise those aristocratic families. They will be caught off guard, and they don't know how much the master intends to sell. money?"

Zhang Yu sneered and said, "The big reward for the first three days is 1,000 yuan for each book."

After books are produced on a large scale, the price is very cheap. It takes a year to make a bamboo slip, and it costs tens of thousands of dollars.

At this time, the price of paper books sold by Zhang Yu is directly one tenth of that of bamboo slips, and they are easy to carry and store.

With all these advantages, everyone knows that bamboo slips will soon be replaced by paper books.

Guo Jia asked again: "Then how much is the master going to sell for a copy in three days?"

Zhang Yu said proudly, "In three days, one book will sell for a hundred bucks."

"Pfft~"

Guo Jia burst out laughing on the spot.

Three days of big rewards, a book of one thousand dollars, three days later, a book of one hundred dollars.

"My lord, you are trying to kill those aristocratic families." Guo Jia said with a smile.

"They have money, so don't cheat them." Zhang Yu said.

Zhang Yu's idea is very simple. These aristocratic families are rich and want to control knowledge. When cheap books appear, they will inevitably think of buying them all so that others cannot buy them and monopolize them.

In order to monopolize knowledge, these aristocratic families will go crazy.

So Zhang Yu deliberately sold the price so high.

A thousand dollars is ten times more expensive than a hundred dollars, and I don't know how many aristocratic families will vomit blood.

Zhang Yu didn't care about this, the next morning, there were rumors in Luoyang City that more than a dozen of Zhang Yu's shops were about to open.

Early in the morning, the clerk arranged by Zhang Yu also entered the shop to start preparations, and there were ten soldiers with weapons at the door.

And the entrances of more than a dozen shops were already crowded with people. They were all servants of the aristocratic family, and they went in to buy things when they waited for the doors to open.

At noon, the shop was still closed, but the outside was already full of people.

After an hour, the door finally opened, and more than a dozen shops opened their doors together.

Zhang Yu's shop finally revealed its true colors.

"Shopkeeper, how do you sell the tea?"

"Is there any fairy wine here that can be sold?"

"Shopkeeper, we have all the tea from the Li family."

"Get out of the way, I'm from the Zhang family."

As soon as the door opened, the housekeepers, who were afraid that they would not be able to complete their errands, started rushing in, and then shouted for shopping.

But these people who were going to rush in were stopped by several soldiers.

"Why not let in, our Patriarch is still waiting."

"Get out of the way, don't delay our master's tea."

"Hey, is this business still possible?"

Those people were stopped and began to mutter.

At this time, the shopkeeper came out from the inside and pressed his hands to quiet the place.

"This store opened today, and all the books it sells are paper books. We have more than 30 classics, such as Analects, Spring and Autumn Annals, Book of Changes, and Mencius, and there will be more books in the future."

"This store has just opened, and there will be a big bargain for three days. Each book only costs 1,000 yuan. If you want to buy it, hurry up. After these three days, the price will not be the same."

Almost at the same time, more than a dozen shopkeepers came out at the same time and took out a paper book to show everyone.

"Why don't you sell tea? We only want tea."

"Where's the tea?"

"How can I explain to the Patriarch this time.

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"It's over, hurry up and go to another store to see if they sell tea."

"Go, go, go."

When the shopkeeper brought out books instead of tea leaves, everyone exploded.

These people are all following orders, and if things are not done well, it will be difficult to explain when they go back.

A group of people made a fuss and cursed at these stores, but had to rush to other stores.

When they ran around and found that all the shops did not sell tea at all, then they realized that things were serious.

So a group of people hurried back to report.

Yuan Mansion.

"Uncle, uncle." Yuan Shao shouted while running.

Yuan Kui was sitting quietly in the gazebo in the yard making tea and studying the new tea.

Yuan Kai knew that Yuan Shao had always been prudent, so he was so flustered today, something must have happened, but Yuan Wei knew that he couldn't panic.

"Don't worry, speak slowly." Yuan Kai said as usual.

Yuan Shao calmed down when he saw Yuan Kai's composure, and then said to Yuan Kai, "Uncle, Zhang Yu's dozens of shops don't sell tea at all, and we were all deceived by his blindfold."

After hearing this, Yuan Kai shook his hands, knowing that Zhang Yu was planning such a big detour, and he must have planned something big, so he asked, "What are you selling?"

"Books, paper books."

"Boom~"

What he was most afraid of would come, Yuan Kai didn't hold the cup firmly, and the cup fell to the ground.

Yuan Kai breathed heavily, knowing that Zhang Yu had played tricks again this time.

"What's the price? What's the quantity?" Yuan Wei tried to calm down, and then asked something very crucial.

"Each classic is a thousand dollars. As for the quantity, it should be quite a lot. If Zhang Yu's convoy transported all books this time, there would be at least 100,000 copies. My nephew has ordered someone to buy them, and I will buy a few copies soon. "Yuan Shao quickly told what he knew.

Yuan Kai closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Damn it, this time Zhang Yu was completely played by him. What he sold was books. This is revenge, revenge." Yuan Kai said angrily.

"Uncle, a bamboo book usually costs more than 10,000 yuan. This chapter feather is sold so cheaply, and the quantity is huge. I'm afraid books will become popular by then." Yuan Shao said.

"Don't worry, those mud-legged people still can't afford to read books for a thousand bucks. It's just that some small aristocratic families can only rely on our big aristocratic families. If they have their own books, after one or two generations, they will gradually be able to read books." Get rid of the dependence of our big families and develop."

Many small aristocratic families still cannot afford books, or can only buy a small amount of books, so they still have to rely on the big aristocratic families to send their children to study in the private schools of the big aristocratic families, but if they have a lot of books, they may not need them by then. These big families are gone.

"Uncle, what should we do then?" Yuan Shao asked.

"Mobilize all the big aristocratic families to buy the books in Zhang Yu's hands, and then find a way to control or destroy Zhang Yu's book-making technology, so as to prevent books from appearing on a large scale." Yuan Wei said coldly.