A month later, the free newspaper was delivered, and the final test came.

How many people will order a newspaper?

Xu Yi didn't know.

It stands to reason that at least 10,000 of the 50,000 households will subscribe to the Songjiang Times.

No matter how much, Xu Yi would not dare to guarantee it.

The price of a newspaper is not expensive, only 5 yuan.

Even if all the families in Huating County subscribe to the "Songjiang Mansion Times", they will only make a net profit of 1,000 taels a year, which is not enough for Xu Yi's investment in transforming the printing press.

In fact, Xu Yi didn't want "Songjiang Mansion Times" to make any money at all.

Newspapers are just a few pieces of paper, worth a cost price, but the information medium role of the newspaper is much more important than the newspaper itself, which can make Xu Yi earn countless times the profit of the newspaper itself.

Even one day, newspapers make money as a channel of information, and newspapers can be sent to the public completely free of charge.

This day will come, but not now.

The Songjiang Times is currently playing another role.

Sift.

This is five cents a day, less than two taels of silver a year, which is not a small amount.

You know, in the Ming Dynasty society in 1540.

Two taels of silver a year, and the people who can afford this money are at least "middle class".

Needless to say, it is easy to buy a newspaper.

The middle class, those who could afford newspapers, were basically small businessmen, small landlords, petty bureaucrats and other social backbones.

Although these "middle class" are inconspicuous, they are more useful than these high-ranking "old men".

The old man has a lot of money, what delicacies from the mountains and seas can't be eaten, and what rare and exotic beasts have not been played.

Since they have all played, they can't make much money on the old man.

These "middle class" in the middle are the best "fat sheep"....

Ahem, that's called the best "customer".

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Xu Yi seems to want to make an article in the newspaper and want to make a profit through the newspaper.

But in fact, what Xu Yi wants to do most next is to reform the financial system.

Only after the completion of the reform of the financial system can Xu Yi master the real "killer weapon" and manipulate the direction of the Ming Dynasty through the bloodless financial industry.

But now, the problem is still very big, and this goal is about the same as a fool's dream.

In order to complete the reform of the financial system, it is necessary to eliminate all conservative forces in Songjiang Prefecture.

After all the forces of Xu, Fang, and Guo entrenched in Songjiang Mansion were uprooted, Xu Yi was able to carry out thorough financial reform in Songjiang Mansion.

Only in an environment without the participation of conservative forces can Xu Yi truly carry out the reform of the financial system.

If the reform is successful, Xu Yi can confidently say that his power is greater than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Back to reality.

Xu Yi is now, even the weakest of the three families in Songjiang Mansion can't move, let alone the Fang family and the Guo family, which have stronger backgrounds.

The Fang family has a prefect in charge, and its strength is extremely powerful.

The Guo family has Guo Xun, the Duke of Yiguo, in charge, and it can be said that it is rampant throughout the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Yi dared to go up and move the Guo family, I was afraid that it would be finished immediately.

However, Xu Yi also has the advantage of being a traverser.

Foresight of history.

It is now 1540, the nineteenth year of Jiajing, Guo Xun has just become the Duke of Yiguo, and the power has not been in power for a few years.

In 1541, when Jiajing was twenty years old, Guo Xun would be arrested and taken to Jinyi Weizhao Prison and began to lose power.

In 1542, that is, the year after that, Guo Xun, the Duke of Yiguo, would die in Jinyi Weizhao Prison, and the era of Guo Jiaquan's tilting towards the government and the opposition came to an end.

Historically, the Guo family, which occupies nearly half of the resources of the entire Songjiang Prefecture, will collapse within three years.

Guo Renhe, the old man of the Guo family, don't look at the majesty now.

As long as you wait until the twenty years of Jiajing, from the loss of power of Guo Xun, the Duke of Yiguo, until he dies in Zhao Prison.

In this process, the Guo family has lost power, and someone will naturally come to take away the Guo family's property.

Of course, this person is very likely to be Xu Yi, and of course, before that, Xu Yi also has to complete the task of annexing the Xu family first.

There is such a big gift package waiting in front, and Xu Yi is not in a hurry to do anything now.

waited until Xu Yi annexed the Xu family and ate the Guo family's loss of power.

traded with Li Jingmao again, and used some "floating wealth" to exchange the rights and interests of the Fang family in Songjiang Mansion.

In this way, all the resources of Songjiang Mansion are all controlled by Xu Yi.

Xu Yi will naturally be able to establish a new financial system in Songjiang Mansion.

Through this system, you can control the financial operation of Daming everywhere, and secretly control half of Daming.

The grand blueprint is at your feet.

Xu Yi only needs to do the things in front of him now, whether it is selling newspapers or annexing the Xu family, these must go on step by step.

Back to reality again, the number of people who subscribe to the newspaper in Huating County is about to come out.

This number is still very important to Xu Yi.

If the numbers are low, Xu Yi's newspaper plan may be in vain.

And the key is that the newspaper plan is the first step for Xu Yi to annex the Xu family.

If the first step fails, then the annexation of the Xu family is far away.

If you can't completely annex the Xu family before the fall of the Guo family, you can control all the property of the Xu family.

Then, a large part of the legacy left by the fall of the Guo family will be reabsorbed by the Xu family and the Fang family.

If this kind of thing really happens, after the Xu family absorbs the Guo family's inheritance, its strength will be several times stronger than it is now.

Originally, the game between Xu Yi and the Xu family is still in the number of five or five.

If the Xu family absorbs the Guo family's inheritance, then Xu Yi will have no chance of winning at all.

Xu Liu's family has more hole cards, and they come up with more empty and disgusting things like Xu Jiayixue.

At that time, it was already foreseeable how Xu Liu's family would use money to smash Xu Yi to death little by little.

Therefore, Xu Yi must not let the Xu family go further. If in September of the twentieth year of Jiajing, before Yi Guogong was imprisoned, he could not completely annex the Xu family.

Then, the Xu family will become invincible.

It is now May of the 19th year of Jiajing, and Guo Xun, the Duke of Yiguo, was imprisoned in September of the 20th year of Jiajing.

There is still one year and four months and 4 days to go, and the Xu family must be annexed!

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The number of subscriptions to the Songjiang Times in May was...

35129 copies.

This achievement has far exceeded Xu Yi's estimate of 10,000 copies, and at the same time, the gap between the upper limit of 50,000 copies of households in Huating County is not big.

For this achievement, Xu Yi is still quite satisfied. It seems that the newspaper that combines news and fiction is indeed very much in line with the appetite of this era.

Through this achievement, Xu Yi successfully sent his media channels into the families of 70% of the people in Huating County.

It can be said that this achievement is indeed gratifying.

Xu Yi has foreseen that in the near future.

The Matsue Prefecture Times is bound to play a more powerful role than the newspaper itself.