"Ms. Gu, someone is coming to visit our workshop again."

The old lady Gu immediately came out happily: "There are people here again? Then leave it to my old lady, and I will take them to visit."

She is the oldest and has no problem receiving male guests, so she excitedly went out to receive the second wave of guests. The first wave was a businessman surnamed Jin. After the visit, she went straight to the Ministry of Industry. .

"Does this master also want to see the machines of our Ruyi Workshop? Then come with my wife."

"What's the old sister-in-law's name?"

"My husband's family name is Gu, you can call me Aunt Gu and Sister-in-Law Gu."

"Then let me call you sister-in-law Gu. Is the Ruyi workshop mentioned in the Beijing News your home? Oh, by the way, my surname is Qian, and my sister-in-law can call me Brother Qian."

"So it's Brother Qian. What you're talking about is the Beijing News. Of course it's our Ruyi Workshop. It was written by my son." Mrs. Gu said triumphantly.

"So the old sister-in-law is actually Tan Hualang's adoptive mother? Disrespectful, I should call the old sister-in-law an old lady." This person was ordered by the court, and this old lady Qian immediately valued the elderly woman in front of him. a bit.

Old Madam Gu was so happy that she couldn't stop talking from ear to ear, but no matter she was outside or at home, she didn't like to put on airs of an old lady, and people called her old sister-in-law to be kind. Zhaoer told them that someone wanted to visit Ruyi Workshop, Even if you let them come, you are not afraid that they will buy the same machine for spinning and weaving, because there are so many people in the world, and it is impossible for Ruyi Workshop to complete all the business even if it expands. stay home.

Because Gu Zhao said these words in advance, the managers of Ruyi Workshop cooperated very well.

Mr. Qian accompanied Mrs. Gu to look around, and was shocked. According to his observation, the articles written in the Beijing News were not exaggerated, but very truthful. These machines are really inferior to the best machines in Jiangnan. It was a good time, so after leaving the Ruyi workshop, I went straight to the Ministry of Industry. Only the Ministry of Industry has this machine.

Mr. Zhao thought that the manufactured machine would fall into ashes. Unexpectedly, a businessman suddenly found a way to come to the Ministry of Industry to inquire, and someone brought the businessman in front of him.

"The machines used by Ruyi Workshop are indeed made by our Ministry of Industry. How does this master Jin know?"

"It's all written in the Beijing newspaper, and it was written by Mr. Gu, Tanhualang. I heard that Mr. Gu also entered the Ministry of Industry?" Master Jin took out one of the Beijing newspapers and handed it to Mr. Zhao.

Beijing News?As if it sounded familiar, Mr. Zhao took the newspaper and looked in the direction of Master Jin's finger, and saw the article written by Gu Zhao introducing Ruyi Workshop.

Mr. Zhao suddenly realized something, and hurried to one corner to get something. Sure enough, there were two big characters of Beijing News on it. He also found an article written by Gu Zhao in the same corner, and quickly asked people to call Gu Zhao. come over.

After Gu Zhao came over, he got Master Jin's intention and acted very calmly. He asked Master Jin to look at the machines placed in the warehouse, and then negotiated a business very smoothly. He reached an order agreement with Master Jin for [-] machines. It also includes training maintenance personnel for Mr. Jin. If the person is out of town, it is impossible to send the machine to Beijing for maintenance if it breaks down. Therefore, the service of the Ministry of Industry is very considerate.

Master Zhao was still in a daze after sending it to Mr. Jin, so he caught Gu Zhao and asked, "Twenty machines have been sold?"

"Yes, [-] units. This is still the beginning, and there will be a second batch and a third batch. Our machines are good, and there will always be people who know the goods and come to buy them."

"Did Mr. Gu write this article specifically for these machines? Did Mr. Gu think of it then? But Mr. Gu hadn't come to our Ministry of Industry at that time, did he? Could it be that Mr. Gu had expected to enter the Ministry of Industry?"

Gu Zhao laughed: "Although I have intentions, this matter is not up to me. I just wanted to make an advertisement for Ruyi Workshop and these machines."

"Advertising? Advertise widely? Mr. Gu's move is really unique. I really shouldn't. I didn't take this Beijing News seriously. It seems that the Beijing News of the Imperial Academy is doing well. Our Ministry of Industry is the first A benefit."

In the blink of an eye and half a month later, the second issue of the Beijing News has been released, and the popularity remains high. The first issue of the Beijing News has also been collected by many fans, and more people are familiar with the Ruyi Workshop on the Beijing News.

These days Master Zhao is so happy that he can't close his mouth from ear to ear all day. Anyone with long eyes can see the joy that radiates from his body when he goes out and comes in. Can he be unhappy? Not only the dozens of machines that were backlogged in the warehouse have been sold out , and the craftsmen still need to rush to complete the order. These machines alone have increased their department's income.

This change was not taken seriously by other departments of the Ministry of Industry at first, but people kept coming to the Ministry of Industry to inquire about spinning wheels and looms, and some people paid more attention to it when they saw the machines being carried out of the workshop. Now, I realized that since Gu Zhao wrote an article in the Beijing News, the spinning wheels and looms made by Mr. Zhao and Gu Zhaoxin have been sold out. It seems that the subsidies they have distributed to everyone this month have increased a lot. , It made people from other departments envious, and came to learn from it one after another.

It's that simple?Just because Gu Zhao wrote a short article of a few hundred words in the Beijing News, he can make a big business of several thousand taels?How much money is Gu Zhao worth?If it continues to be sold like this, it really deserves the words "one word is worth a thousand dollars".

They came to the Beijing News one after another to study the situation and see if they could learn anything from it. This matter spread not only in the Ministry of Industry, but also in other yamen. After going around in the six departments, they finally returned to the Imperial Academy In everyone's ears.

Except for Song Ze, everyone came to their senses.

"It turns out that Mr. Gu is the most cunning one among us. No wonder Mr. Gu was able to be a top student in high school. He earned several thousand taels of silver for the Ministry of Industry with a short story. The money has not been earned yet."

"I said that those businessmen went to the Ministry of Industry to buy those machines because they read our Beijing News. Shouldn't our Beijing News take a cut from it?"

"Oh, I heard a word from the Ministry of Industry called advertisement, which means to advertise widely. Do you think this is another purpose of our Beijing News? Gu Zhao has long been interested in this before writing it. That short story."

"Let me just say, Mr. Gu, why did he insist on putting such a short story without literary talent on the Beijing News? It really has another purpose. He must be doing something undercover."

This incident provided these people with a new way of thinking and the direction of running a newspaper. For them, a newspaper worth ten cents would not be able to recoup its cost. If it is a source of income, then they can not only pay back their capital, but also lower the price of the Beijing News, which will make the Beijing News more acceptable to more people.

After figuring this out, all of them immediately cheered up. They also paid special attention to the Ruyi workshop, and found that since the short story in the Beijing News, the cloth woven in the Ruyi workshop can no longer meet the demand. , because many cloth shop owners found Ruyi Workshop because of the article in the Beijing News, and found that the quality of the cloth woven in the workshop was really good, and the price was lower than that of their peers, so they ordered a batch of goods on the spot. Waiting in line for a new batch of fabric to come down.

I heard that the order could not be completed because it could not meet the needs of these merchants, so Ruyi Workshop is discussing whether to order a batch of machines from the Ministry of Industry and expand the scale of the workshop again. Unsurprisingly, this proposal will be approved and the scale will be expanded. It's a matter of time.

All this is also because of the effect of the article in the Beijing News, which is beyond their expectations.

Although Song Ze had expected it, the result still surprised him. He didn't see that his mother was so busy that she would not be home for two days, so she just sent a message back, asking him to have dinner alone at home, and she would not go home. Yes, Song Ze couldn't laugh or cry because of this.

Song Ze foresaw the prospect of advertising, and decided: "In the next issue, we will conduct an experiment and contact a merchant for promotion. If we can make money, we can lower the price of our Beijing News. It’s best if you can buy our newspaper for one or two pennies, and I believe more people will be willing to buy it at that time.”

"Can it be so low? But it's worth a try, and it doesn't matter if you fail."

"Yes, you can give it a try, but you need to be careful when choosing a business. Our Beijing News has just established a foothold in the capital, so we can't destroy the city wall."

"That's right," Song Ze nodded, "Let's search separately first, and then we'll gather together."

When Song Ze came home at this point, he deliberately went to Gu's mansion to find Gu Zhao. Gu Zhao happened to be back, and took him to the study to talk.

Song Ze asked him straight to the point: "Did you foresee the current situation early on? Just want to sell the machine to more people? Are you afraid that there are too many competitors in my mother's workshop?"

Gu Zhao rubbed his chin and said: "There are many competitors, what will be the result in the end? That is, the price of cloth will fall, and the common people will benefit in the end. Don't worry, if the weaving workshop can't make enough profit, those businessmen are not stupid. They will also invest money in it, and they will look for other ways to make money. But if there are more weaving workshops, more women will come to work in the workshops, and if the women workers earn money, some people's ideas will also come true Variety."

Only then did Song Ze understand that this was what Gu Zhao really wanted to achieve. Just like what Ruyi Workshop did, he knew that the fate of many women, including the embroidery class in Qingling Mansion, had been changed. For example, the workshop now Lin Qiufeng, the foreman in the village, was a woman who was abandoned because she had no children, what fate would she end up with?But now not only her elder brother and sister-in-law are coaxing her, but even the matchmaker has come to her to talk about the marriage, so Lin Qiufeng has no intention of remarrying for the time being, otherwise the second marriage may not be worse than the first marriage.

Lin Qiufeng is just an example, and there are many similar situations. If such workshops bloom everywhere, how many women will leave their families and their fate will be changed from then on?

Song Zexin smiled happily: "It's because I'm too small. I came today to ask you, how about we advertise for other businesses in the Beijing News? The word "advertisement" came from your Ministry of Industry, and it has something to do with you, Gu Zhao Yes."

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