jdhmnovel Chapter 747 How did you know...
Chapter 747 How did you know...
Tongan County.
Another nice day.
The bookstore and cloth shop had been open for a few days, and the people of Tongan were the quickest to act. Almost on the second day after the cloth shop opened, there were several people in the county wearing cotton clothes.
Some people were slow and hadn't finished making the clothes the next day. As soon as they went out on the street, they were hit in the face by several problems.
——"How do you know my clothes are made of cotton?"
—"How do you know that I not only bought cotton, but also a ready-made garment?"
——"How do you know..."
"That's enough!" The person being asked was jealous and wanted to cry, "Stop showing off! I can wear it tomorrow!"
Another day passed, and as soon as the morning came, he held his head high and joined the army of "How do you know?"
——"Is the weather nice today? Yes, yes, my clothes are made of cotton."
——"Who asked you?"
——"Yes, yes, yes. It's newly made. It's soft and comfortable, and fits me perfectly!"
——"Who are you looking down on? Don't go too far, I tell you!"
——"You mean books? Well, my kid insisted on buying them. He said he used his own salary to buy enlightenment books for me, his mother, and his sister. He said that in the future, our whole family should become bookworms!"
——"Brother, my fist is itching."
——"What? You must have never put on cotton clothes. Hurry up and put them on!"
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Shen Zheng and Liang Fu moved to a new blast furnace room. From the outside, although the blast furnace room occupied a large area, its overall appearance was unremarkable. However, it was a different world inside.
Sanhe land and Sanhe earth walls are both resistant to high temperatures and moisture-proof and breathable.
The blast furnace room is divided into five rooms in total.
One firing room, which occupies the largest area and has the most windows. One glass production room, which is the cleanest and has the best lighting. There is also a large warehouse, which is full of shelves, one side is used to store raw materials, and the other side is used to store glass finished products. There is also a small rest room, which has tables, chairs, tea and a small couch. Shen Zheng would come here to rest when she was tired, and she was too lazy to run back and forth between the printing house and the county government office.
The last room is still empty, and Shen Zheng hasn't decided what to use it for yet.
In the rest room, Xu Zhubu was holding the account books of the cloth shop and the bookstore, reporting the business results to Shen Zheng.
"The books in the prefectural school bookstore were selling very well. There are not many books left in the bookstore now. Of the books that have been sold, 80% were purchased by students of the prefectural school, 10% were purchased by students and teachers of private schools, and the remaining 10% were purchased by individual customers."
Shen Zheng chewed raisins and asked, "Who are the individual tourists?"
Xu Zhubu thought for a moment, "Most of the scholars who changed their professions and worked in the government, the merchants in the government, the adults in the government office, and some families who wanted their children to learn to read and write but could not send their children to the government school or private schools due to financial constraints, bought enlightenment books."
After he finished speaking, he pondered for a while, "By the way, sir, there are many medical and agricultural books left. Should the printing house reduce the printing?"
The fifth one has already prepared shops in various places, and as long as the bookstores finish printing, the books from the printing house will flow to various parts of Da Zhou.
However, compared with imperial examination books and enlightenment books, agricultural technology books and medical books have a smaller audience, and most of the books left in bookstores today are of these two types.
Shen Zheng pushed the raisins to Xu Zhubu and thought, "It won't decrease for now. Agricultural books actually have the largest audience, but how many farmers can read? I can only say... the overall quality of our Great Zhou and the national economic conditions have not caught up yet. You and I have read that agricultural technology book. It not only contains simple agricultural tools and farmyard manure production, but also covers the planting process and pest control of most known crops. It is also divided into different regions and climate conditions, which is applicable to all parts of our country."
Xu Zhubu nodded, and Shen Zheng continued, "We have improved the book. Even illiterate people can understand about 30% to 40% by following the pictures. If someone is interested, they can even recognize the words by following the pictures."
It's normal that this book doesn't sell well immediately, after all, no one knows how good it is yet.
Farmers would definitely feel bad if they had to spend a hundred coins to buy books.
So the rest... depends on how the local governments and villages will implement it. Shen Zheng hopes that those "parent officials" will be more understanding in the future.
"As for the medical book..." Shen Zheng said with a smile: "Wait until the National Medical Bureau is officially established. Do you think it will be sold well? It's just a matter of time."
By then, each prefecture will have a branch office, and each county will have a "sub-branch office". The demand for and training of doctors in the Great Zhou will definitely increase sharply.
By then, medical books...will be easy to sell.
Xu Zhubu thought for a while and said, "Your Excellency is thinking long-term."
Shen Zheng waved her hands, "Don't brag, don't brag. Where are the scalpers? How many have you caught?"
Chief Xu twirled his fingers and said, "There are two or three almost every day. Zhou Xuezheng has already told the students to be more careful about scalpers and not to buy on their behalf. A notice has also been posted at the door of the bookstore, saying that books will be continuously supplied and the price will not increase, so those people had better give up."
Shen Zheng said, "It's a day's work, let's speed up the process, and they won't have anything to do. What about the Fucheng Cloth Shop? How's the situation?"
Xu Zhubu felt that she had been more resolute and efficient recently, so he immediately took out the cloth shop account book and handed it to her.
"Because of the door-to-door delivery service, the people are full of praise for it and the response is very good. Especially the ready-made clothes, because of the novel styles and unique tailoring, they are almost in short supply every day, and the clothing department is too busy to handle it. Sir, does the cloth workshop want to recruit more garment workers?"
"Recruit people." Shen Zheng said, "The people are very receptive to ready-made clothes. When the cloth shop opens to other places in the future, the situation will probably be the same. You are responsible for recruiting people. As for the skills... Hehua will be in charge, and Nanshu will assist."
Although Nan Shu is responsible for drawing clothing samples, drawing clothes and actually making clothes are inseparable. It is best if the thoughts and aesthetics of the people who draw clothes and those who make clothes are in harmony.
While Shen Zheng was thinking about whether there was anything that needed to be improved in the cloth shop, she asked, "How are the cloth shop employees performing? Are there any outstanding ones?"
Wang Guangjin and Mo Qingwan have heavy responsibilities, and it is impossible for them to stay in the cloth shop all the time.
As more and more cloth shops and printing houses opened, most of the "trainee" shop owners would first stay in a store in Tongan County or Liuyang Prefecture for a while before rushing to other places.
"Yes." Xu Zhubu smiled and said, "There is a clerk who has a unique vision and can always choose the right clothes and fabrics for customers. Therefore, customers have a high opinion of her, and many customers specifically ask her to help them choose clothes."
Shen Zheng had no deep impression of the "trainee shopkeepers" and had no idea who they were, so she could only ask directly, "Who is it?"