Chapter 16                                                             �

Plan A cannot do it, there is also Plan B.

Zhou Mengchen pondered all night. He went out again the next day. Following yesterday's route, he first went to the Bell and Drum Tower, and then went to the Yangjiyuan. He was familiar with the Bell and Drum Tower. Zhou Mengchen checked the Lotus Leak, and there was no problem. As for the Yangjiyuan, the house repairs were still carried out.

Not to mention anything else, the wall has been rebuilt bit by bit.

Just looking from the outside, although the walls are new and old, they all look like it.

Zhou Mengchen had nothing to worry about either.

He did not go outside the city next, but went straight to Qipan Street.

There are many chessboard streets all over the country.

They are all named because of the layout of the street and are similar to a chessboard.

However, Qipan Street in Wuchang City is close to the Confucius Temple in Fuxue, and there are the most scholars nearby. It has the concept of a university town in later generations. After Zhou Mengchen came to Qipan Street, he saw that there were countless scholars walking on the road, and it seemed that the air became gentle.

However, Zhou Mengchen came here not to feel the gentleness here, but to see if the cultural industry is good.

Not bad, just writing novels.

He is not alone at this moment, he is Cao Xueqin, Pu Songling, Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng, Qiong Yao, Yishu, and Sanmao possessed him.

In his opinion, although he needed to provide a long-term livelihood for the Yuanyuan, he needed a quick sum of money to support these people. Otherwise, it would take only one or two months to rely on these fifty taels alone. After all, it was no longer more than one hundred mouths, but four or five hundred mouths.

If you use a quick sum of money.

Zhou Mengchen would have more time to think about something else.

He thought that it seemed that he could make money through the cultural industry.

So he came to the Chess Pan Street, which has the most bookstores in Wuchang City.

Just as soon as he entered the bookstore on Qipan Street, Zhou Mengchen saw a large number of imperial examinations, especially Wang Yang's. It was a sample of students studying for so many years. That feeling was like entering a bookstore, with a wide range of review materials, and non-review materials only occupying a very small place.

It seems that human nature has not changed for many years. This sense of familiarity is the same as in ancient times.

Zhou Mengchen walked around and seemed to find no scripts, and asked, "Shopkeeper, do you have a script?"

"Yes." The shopkeeper greeted and found a lot of words from below.

Generally speaking, there are Tang and Song dynasties, Yingying, Changsheng Palace, Li Wa, Huo Xiaoyu, etc. This is a female frequency. The relic of Sui Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, and the Three Kingdoms. This is a male frequency historical novel. In addition, there are various magical and strange novels and magical novels. Perhaps it is the historical origin of Xianxia novels.

After dozens of books, Zhou Mengchen opened it and frowned slightly, saying, "It seems that they are not from the times? Are there no words from the times?"

"Yes." The shopkeeper took out two books.

Zhou Mengchen took it and saw that one was "Records of King Wu Mu's Loyalty" and the other was "Biographies of Founding Heroes".

The shopkeeper said: "The first book was deleted by famous artists in Jiangnan, and the second book was created by the ancestors of Wuding Hou Simu of this dynasty and repeatedly finalized the book, which was all new books."

Zhou Mengchen saw it and felt a little cold.

He just opened the previous book and found out that this book was probably the predecessor of Yue Fei's birth. The next book was even more famous. In order to put gold on the face of his ancestors, Wuding Hou compiled many other people's contributions to Guo Ying.

Zhou Mengchen said: "Is there no new book?"

The shopkeeper was stunned at first, and then said meaningfully: "It turns out that the young master wants this, yes."

Then I took out a book from some corner, and the white book cover was not written down.

Zhou Mengchen was a little confused. When he opened it, he found that there was a painting. It was a picture album. The page that Zhou Mengchen opened was a tree in front of a house and a swing on the tree. There were two people under the swing, one man and one woman, one on the swing, and one under the swing.

Doing undescribable things.

Zhou Mengchen glanced over and closed it immediately, but I don’t know who painted the painting, so I won’t talk about the house and the tree. The key is people, with their jade body erect, their eyebrows flying, their charming desires flowing, and they look like dew but not dew. They are indeed good painters, no, they are indeed good art.

But this is not what Zhou Mengchen wants.

He suddenly closed the booklet, but heard the shopkeeper say, "This is Tang Bohu's fire protection map, the best in the world."

The fire avoidance picture is the erotic picture.

According to legend, the God of Fire is a lady who is waiting to be a girl. She usually wears yellow clothes, but nothing can happen. Once she is unhappy with red clothes, she will catch a fire.

When she saw the erotic palace map, she would leave shyly. Therefore, she called the erotic palace map a fire avoidance map. It was even hidden in many places, such as in the library.

Zhou Mengchen said: "Shopkeeper, isn't anyone here to provide me?"

The shopkeeper didn't understand a lot.

Zhou Mengchen explained for a while, and the shopkeeper realized it. He smiled and said, "Young Master, you don't understand our profession. The most profitable novels in our books are never novels. These are all for idle people to enjoy. The real money-making is just these eight-legged Cheng Wen."

“These are the most profitable.”

Zhou Mengchen said: "I see if you are printing workshops behind you? Why don't you print some novels? Didn't you buy them?"

The shopkeeper said, "Of course there are. Otherwise, my store wouldn't have these. But we usually choose which ones are widely circulated to print. In this way, even if it's left, we don't have to worry about selling them. Our small business generally does not require new books. Maybe there are ones in Jiangnan, but I have never heard of them in Wuchang."

Zhou Mengchen immediately understood the logic of the bookstore operation.

In this world without copyright, the most profitable thing in bookstores has always been the education industry. Even textbook printing in later generations was a very fat piece of meat. Moreover, the eight-legged textbooks in the Ming Dynasty have not changed for many years, so there is no scruples when printing such books.

Even if you print too much, you can buy it slowly.

The novel book is not much profitable here. Moreover, the trial and error cost of novels is very high. Once some of them are printed and cannot be sold, it will be really a waste of money.

Profits are not high and losses may be large.

Who would print those unknown books?

Therefore, these bookstores like to print novels that are widely circulated. Or people who are already famous in contemporary times are like Tang Bohu.

Zhou Mengchen thought to himself: "Plan B failed."

The shopkeeper didn't understand Zhou Mengchen's loss, so he just asked: "Young Master, do you want this Tang Bohu's words?"

Zhou Mengchen hesitated for a moment and asked, "How much does it cost?"

The shopkeeper said: "The original work of Tang Bohu, one tael of silver."

Zhou Mengchen wanted to enrich his spare time. When he heard the price, he immediately put it down and said, "It was overprinted at first glance, but he actually costs one tael of silver. He was crazy about money." Zhou had reached a natural and uncensored state in his heart. How could he pay for such a book? He shook his sleeves and left.

The erotic palace picture is just a small episode. Zhou Mengchen walked on the street and said to himself: "Even if Mr. Jin Yong was reborn here, he would not be able to make a fortune by writing books in a short time!"

Either it is a widely circulated work or a famous artist.

The former can directly collect various versions from the market, revise and delete them, and then produce their own versions. This is why many ancient times had different versions and the contents were different. Even if the author did not die, he could not make money. The latter, generally the so-called famous artists, are two kinds of famous artists.

One is a person who has written very good novels and has become famous.

Another type is that it is not famous for writing a storybook, but it has a very famous literary name in other aspects, or has a Jinshi status.

These may charge some money.

Zhou Mengchen is not the same either.

Zhou Mengchen frowned, and Zhou Dazhuang followed silently.

The originally gloomy weather was like Zhou Mengchen's mood, and it started to rain.

Zhou Mengchen was still a little far away from his home, so he could only find a restaurant to hide from the rain.

This is not a meal. The restaurant was originally deserted, but because of this rain, it suddenly became lively.

Zhou Mengchen had been away for a long time and was a little hungry, so he ordered some snacks and ordered two cups of hot tea to eat with Zhou Dazhuang.

Zhou Dazhuang is a silencer who speaks a little late and doesn't often speak. Zhou Mengchen listens to the customers in the store. Many of these people are nearby neighbors. They are very familiar with each other, and when they talk about family matters, they are full of interest.

Zhou Mengchen suddenly heard someone say, "When is it now?"

But no one can answer.

Some people say it’s time for Chen, some people say it’s time for Si, and some people even say it’s time for noon.

Chen hour is from 7:00 to 9:00, Si hour means nine:00 to 11:00, and noon is from 11:00 to 1:00. Good guys are one morning apart.

During the day, people judge the time by looking at the sun. Now it is raining heavily and the sky is drizzling. How can we judge the exact time according to our personal impression. Although there is a bell and drum tower in the city, no one really pays attention to the movement of the bell and drum tower at all times on weekdays.

Especially in the sound of rain.

A group of people actually started arguing over this topic and refused to give in to each other.

Zhou Mengchen smiled in his heart: "I'm really idle. If I have a show, this is not a problem." Zhou Mengchen flashed with an inspiration and said in his heart: "Isn't this a suitable business opportunity?"

Although most people do not need precise timing, there are many places that need it, even to cope with this kind of weather. Furthermore, what Zhou Mengchen is most familiar with the Ming Dynasty is the thing in the bell and drum tower. Taking Yan Su's lotus leak as a blueprint, designing a set of leaks that occupy a relatively small area and can be placed at home and more precisely is not a difficult task for Zhou Mengchen.
Chapter completed!