Soon after Zhirong Bookstore closed down, various bookstores began to launch color-printed books and illustrated paper. Color-printed products with slogans such as "authentic color printing", "origin of color printing", "ancient color printing", "hiring Concubine Cui as the painter", and "direct descendant of Concubine Cui" were crowded onto the market.
Some of these books were printed with outlines and colors, some were line drawings and colored in pieces, and some were multi-color printing... fully reflecting the copycat skills and imagination of the Ming Dynasty craftsmen. When Cui Jian, Lian Fang Lu, and Three Kingdoms were hot sellers in the market, the quality of these books was very different from them. Occasionally, there were color-printed books on the market, but readers would rather save money and buy those books. But when Zhirong Bookstore went bankrupt, some people were willing to buy these books.
Just like when the iPhone was released, mobile phones could no longer return to the keyboard era. After the color-printed novels were published, the single-ink novels, story books, and drama scripts were not selling well. Even if the color pictures in the book were printed roughly, they were still colored, which was more comfortable to look at than the ink version, and it was also more prestigious to show it out.
The servants that Madam Xu sent out to find a way to take over the technology of Cui's bookstore were confused by these shops: today there was a genuine one, tomorrow there was an orthodox one, and there were also many talented women who claimed to be Lady Cui and her sisters, aunts and nieces. A lot of money was spent, but in the end nothing was found.
Even the person who bought the bookshop was in no hurry to open it, and he was doing some repairs inside the shop. When the servants of the Cui family approached to inquire, the patrol officers came to drive them away.
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