in2ebook Chapter 257 Influence
Chapter 257 Influence
After Liu Changhe issued the order, patrol teams composed of officers and soldiers patrolled the streets of Lanzhou every day.
If a theft or robbery occurred, the store owner could immediately send someone to report the case, and the government would handle it as quickly as possible. After catching a few petty thieves and punishing them severely to serve as a warning to others, the atmosphere in Lanzhou City changed drastically.
Even if their own improved recipes were stolen, each store would get a different improved recipe. After they put up the banner of having their own improved recipes, everyone would believe that the dishes of this store were authentic.
Of course, thieves wouldn't be stupid enough to set up a ring opposite someone's shop. Wouldn't that be asking for a beating? If you want to do the same business, you have to stay far away from that shop, and if you are far away, you won't hinder the business of that shop.
The Rabbit God incident triggered a series of chain reactions, but the final result was good. Customers ate well, the store owners made money, the people sold their goods, the number of foreign merchants in Lanzhou increased, and the reputation of Lanzhou city spread.
Lin Chuyi's mission to muddy the waters was successfully completed.
When she returned to Lanzhou City, it was already two months later. By then, Yuan Qizi had already completed the preliminary preparations for the ten thousand volumes of books.
Wanjuanshu’s first store is a stand-alone building, just like Yipinguo. In terms of area, Wanjuanshu’s store area is larger than Yipinguo’s.
The first floor of Wanjuanshu is divided into four major areas. The cashier area is located near the door. There is a cashier counter in the cashier area, where a cashier sits. He is responsible for registering the sale of books, the registration records of borrowed books, and collecting and giving change.
Behind the cashier is a whole large bookshelf, which is filled with Wanjuanshu’s newly published professional books and various storybooks, as well as a special area for storing weekly reports.
Anyone who walks into Wanjuanshu, whether to buy books or borrow books, needs to pass through the checkout area, and will inevitably see the books displayed on this bookshelf, which is equivalent to a large free advertising space.
The books on this bookshelf are not available for borrowing. If you want to read the books on this bookshelf, you can only buy them.
Corresponding to the cashier area is the submission area, which is specifically for accepting submissions from the public. This is because the level of cultural literacy in today's society is not high and only a few people are literate. Wanjuanshu accepts written submissions, which is inconsistent with the current social environment.
In order to expand the scope of news reception, Yuan Qizi specially set up such a submission area and hired a recorder who could write and read, to record real-time news according to the descriptions of the masses and provide new materials for the weekly newspaper.
In addition to the cashiers and record clerks, there are two librarians on the first floor who are responsible for managing all the books in the book area.
There are six large bookshelves in the book area, all of which are filled with borrowable books. They contain common books and each book is in duplicate. If both copies of a book are borrowed and someone else wants to borrow it, they can only wait for the borrower to return it before it can be borrowed again.
In addition to the above three areas, there is also a reading area on the first floor, which is equipped with many long tables for guests to read.
Guests only need to pay ten copper coins to read the borrowable books in the reading area for one hour. When the time is up, if they want to continue reading, they can pay extra to renew the lease.
If you want to borrow books to read at home, that's fine, but each person can only borrow one book at a time, and must pay the full cost of the book, plus half of the cost of the borrowed book as a deposit, and sign the corresponding borrowing terms.
If the borrower returns the book on time and the book is intact, the purchase fee of the book will be refunded, and the remaining deposit will be returned after deducting a borrowing fee of 20 coins per day based on the borrowing time.
If the borrower returns the books on time, but the books are damaged, dirty, etc., the remaining money must be returned after deducting the corresponding fees according to the borrowing details of Wanjuanshu, depending on the severity of the situation.
If the borrower returns the book overdue, it will be deemed that the other party has purchased the book and no fees will be refunded.
Not only did the store's sales clerks know these regulations by heart and would explain them clearly to customers when they asked to borrow books, but Yuan Qizi also had someone write the details of the regulations directly on paper and post them on a bulletin board for display.
Explicit regulations plus oral statements serve as a double safeguard and can prevent disputes to the greatest extent possible.
Unlike the first floor, the second floor of Wanjuanshu does not have a reading area. It is all book area. The books on the second floor are not available for borrowing. The books are divided into categories. There are the Four Books and Five Classics used for the imperial examinations, professional books on various industries, copied works of ancient sages, and two large bookshelves filled with storybooks.
At present, Wanjuan Bookstore has not yet opened for business and has not started to commission works from outside, so naturally there are not many new and interesting scripts. Currently, all the books in Wanjuan Bookstore were provided by Lin Chu alone.
Most of these books were produced in batches by Lin Chuyi after he bought samples from outside and gave them to the printing factory in the game space, but a small part was written by Lin Chuyi himself.
She gave herself a pen name "Sai Shennong" and published three books under this pen name, namely "Illustrated Medicinal Materials", "Illustrated Crops", and "Illustrated Common Plants". She used pictures and texts to vividly depict the living habits, appearance characteristics, value and functions of various plants.
In addition, she has published several novels of different genres under three different pen names.
Lin Chuyi was not worried at all about whether the contents of professional books would be criticized, because what she wrote were all what she learned in the learning space, and were the essence of the professional field that had been proven over time. She did not have to worry about anyone finding fault with the contents of these books.
Moreover, the contents of the three books she has shown so far are only the most superficial parts of the field that are most in line with current technological development. She has not yet shown more in-depth things. Learning is like eating. You cannot become a fat man in one breath. Knowledge accumulation must be done step by step.
For the plant illustrations, Lin Chuyi plans to publish a series of books under the pen name "Sai Shennong". The remaining seven books have been completed and are currently undergoing content review by reviewers.
Lin Chuyi was confident in the content she wrote, but in order to prevent any minor mistakes, she hired two reviewers in the space mall to specifically review this content.