Chapter 977: The Kong Family Goes Business
I have to say that Kong Yingda's actions were very fast, and one by one the children of the Kong family attacked in all directions, and went straight to the major booksellers in Chang'an City.
"The Kong family is crazy! I bought so many books! A merchant was stunned and looked at the children of the Kong family who kept carrying books from the bookstore on the side.
"The Confucian family is a scholarly family, and it is understandable to buy books, but most of the books in the Confucian family are unique books, and I am afraid that these common books on the market do not need to be bought, and they will not be used so much." A bookseller was delighted, but he couldn't help but wonder that the Confucian family was not short of books, even if they needed books, they didn't need to buy twenty copies of each book.
A disciple of the Confucian family shook his head and said, "This is the order of the Lord of the Sacrificial Wine, and we are also acting on orders!" As long as there are engraved books in the bookstore, twenty copies of each book will come. ”
Time is also extremely urgent for Kong Yingda, for the books that already exist on the market, he directly adopts the simplest way, that is, to buy, the books that can be bought on the market are exhausted, then it is enough to save half of the effort, as for the only book in the Confucian collection, that is the book that needs to be printed with movable type.
The bookseller couldn't help but breathe, this is a big business! Once their engraving is printed, they are idle, and printing twenty copies at a time is nothing, but it can't withstand the large amount!
"Please rest assured that the villain will definitely give the Kong family the best price." The bookseller hurriedly said loudly, that is the Confucian Mansion after Confucius, and if it spreads, it will also have a lot of benefits for the reputation of his bookstore.
"And twenty copies of these books!" The children of the Kong family pointed to a row of books and frowned.
The bookseller was suddenly puzzled: "This is a Mohist book!" ”
As we all know, Confucianism and Mohism do not deal with each other, and he does not want to offend the Confucian family because of this.
The children of the Confucian family said heroically: "Not only the books of the Mo family, as long as they are the books of the hundreds of schools, the Confucian Mansion will want them!" ”
"Ahh The bookseller was stunned for a moment, so he had to do so, and put hundreds of books on the carriage of the Kong family.
However, this is just a portrayal of a bookseller in Chang'an City, and then the children of the Confucian family attacked in all directions, almost emptying the inventory of all booksellers in Chang'an City, and at the same time leaving a long list of book orders, and the entire Chang'an City bookseller was in a carnival, and the Confucian family's behavior went viral in Chang'an City.
"Confucius sacrificial wine is the wealth of the whole family to buy books." Someone quietly calculated an account for Kong Yingda, and these books may add up to more than half of the family wealth of the Confucian Mansion, which is a crazy act for anyone.
"What does the Kong family want?" Watching the cartloads of books pulled into the Confucian Mansion, Zheng Chang frowned.
Now that the five surnames and seven wangs are focusing on the Confucian Mansion and the Mo Mansion, Kong Yingda's strange behavior of buying a large number of books naturally attracted his attention.
"I heard that this time the Kong family was in a hurry to go to the doctor, as long as it was a book of the hundred schools of thought, he would not let go. Now the Kong family has bought at least thousands of books. Zheng Bodao, although the price of books has dropped sharply since the birth of engraving printing, thousands of books, each with 20 copies, is close to tens of thousands of copies, which is also a terrifying number.
"It's just a few broken books, and what big waves can they make." Zheng Chang sneered.
"Young master, you must be on guard, and according to the villain's gossip, the Confucian Mansion also bought a large amount of paper ink, as for the use, we still don't know." Zheng Bo said worriedly.
"Xiucai rebelled, and it didn't work out in three years, just a few books and a few pieces of paper are like confronting the five surnames and seven hopes, it's just wishful thinking." Zheng Chang said proudly, he wanted to see what tricks the Kong family played.
It took five days, the Confucian family finally swept away the books that could be bought on the market, looking at the Confucian Mansion, the mountains of books, the entire Confucian Mansion was filled with a strong ink fragrance, Kong Yingda couldn't help but show a knowing smile, the Confucian family is a scholarly family, and has special feelings for the fragrance of books.
"Second uncle, has the site selection of the library been completed?" Kong Yingda looked to the side and Kong Desheng asked.
Kong Desheng took a deep breath and said with a look of enjoyment: "Don't worry, the old man will handle this matter personally, and the site selection bookshelf has already been prepared." ”
The reason why the Confucian Mansion brought the books back to the Confucian Mansion first, in addition to secrecy, is that the shelves of the library have not been completed.
"Good! Now that Chang'an City is boiling, it's not good for my Confucius Mansion to keep them waiting. Kong Yingda said proudly.
Kong Desheng nodded and said: "After tomorrow, the world will know that the largest collection of books in the world is none other than Confucius." ”
"Then there is Second Uncle Lao!" Kong Yingda said solemnly.
Kong Yingda, as the country's priest wine, is naturally inconvenient to run the library, and Kong Desheng is the most suitable person.
With Kong Desheng's order, a cart of books was pulled to the prepared store in the night.
The next day, just after dawn, the major shops on Suzaku Street began to open, but only the door of one shop in the center was closed, and the plaque was covered with red silk.
"This is it?" Zheng Chang stood in front of the unopened shop and frowned.
Uncle Zheng on the side nodded and said, "Back to the young master, the books that the Kong family said they bought last night were sent here overnight." ”
Although the actions of the Confucian Mansion were hidden, they could not hide the Zheng family, who had been staring at the Confucian Mansion, and after learning that the Kong family had any abnormal movements, they came to investigate as soon as possible.
At this moment, the door of the store creaked open, Kong Desheng walked out proudly, commanding the people of the Confucian Mansion to tidy up and down, through the door, Zheng Chang could clearly see the rows of bookshelves.
"Young Master, what should we do?" Zheng Bo asked.
Zheng Chang smiled and said: "The descendants of the dignified Confucius Saint actually do business on the street, such a grand event, I and other juniors naturally want to come forward to offer a congratulatory gift." ”
Zheng Chang was very proud in his heart, he didn't expect that the Confucian Mansion would cut himself off and do business on the street, if this was spread, the Confucian family's thousand-year-old reputation would probably be ruined, and when the time came, the Confucian family wanted to promote the primary school again, and there would be countless people who abandoned the Confucian family without his help.
"The younger generation Zheng Chang visited the seniors of Kong, when the seniors came to Chang'an, they used to stay in the Zheng family, and the younger generations were fortunate to witness the demeanor of the seniors once!" Zheng Chang got out of the carriage and walked head-on to Kong Desheng Road.
"It turned out to be you, the descendant!" Kong Desheng couldn't help frowning when he saw Zheng Chang outside the store, Zheng Chang was the sister-in-law of the Zheng family, and he was following the head of the Zheng family at that time, Kong Desheng had some impressions of him, but Kong Desheng didn't expect that it was him who came to Chang'an City from the Zheng family, I'm afraid that it was Zheng Chang in front of him who was behind the Kong family these days.
"Later, when I heard that my predecessor Kong had purchased an industry on Zhuque Street, how dare I be rude, and I specially sent a congratulatory gift." Zheng Chang said respectfully.
Kong Desheng looked at Zheng Chang, and couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart compared with Mo Jiazi, although Mo Jiazi didn't deal with Confucianism, but he acted brightly and fairly, which made people unable to raise any disgust, and Zheng Chang in front of him had the demeanor of a son of a family, but his actions were extremely vicious and disgusting.
"There is no need for congratulatory gifts, the Kong family does not charge money for this business!" Kong Desheng said lightly.
"Don't charge money? Senior Kong is laughing again, there is no business in the world that does not collect money, Senior Kong can open the eyes of the younger generation! Zheng Chang laughed when he heard this.
Kong Desheng said indifferently: "Since this is the case, then you can wait and see!" ”
Zheng Chang couldn't help sneering, raised his eyebrows slightly, Zheng Bo immediately knew how to leave, and soon, Kong Sheng's business after that quickly spread throughout the entire Vermilion Bird Street, and more and more people poured over.