In the last month of the first year, except for Zhang Gongchen, there was no major event.

Zhu Youxiao lived a relaxed life, except for hunting deer in Nanhaizi, he always ran to Kunning Palace when he had nothing to do, and took good care of his mother and son.

For him, it's nice to have fewer annoying chapters every day.

The palace people of the prisons and bureaus of the inner court are all spreading by word of mouth, and this Apocalypse Dynasty is about to have the first prince!

After some politics, the Donglin Party has disappeared from the court, at least on the surface.

It's strange to say, after these self-proclaimed sages were honest, the chaos in the court seemed to have disappeared, and it had been more than a month, and there had been no major movement.

This is the case in the court, but it is a different scene for the people.

The first day of the second year of the Apocalypse was a good day, and many farmers who went out to farm simply did not go out, just waiting for news at home.

A short time later, an official began shouting along the street:

"The Beijing News has opened!"

Upon hearing the news, the people in several streets and alleys all started to move at once and began to rush to the nearest newspaper office.

Along the way, there are occasionally slightly narrower streets and alleys, which are crowded with people, and everyone is afraid that they will not be able to get it if they go late.

In fact, this small people's lively nature has not changed since ancient times!

When I heard that I got it for free, I was all anxious...

Whether you look at it or not, even if you take it, you don't have to spend your own money!

Zhu Youxiao mentioned the matter of Beijing News to Wang Tiqian as early as that time of deer hunting, and also set the content of the restructuring, but why did it still drag on until the second year of the Apocalypse?

First of all, Zhu Youxiao continued the style of the national newspaper since the Tang Dynasty.

However, what is different and progressive is that the imperial court now separates the right to print from the right to publish, and adds a link of supervision.

The separation of printing rights and publishing rights can greatly promote the rapid development of a series of industries such as newspaper houses, and promote the industrial and commercial economy.

As for the power of supervision, it is to ensure that newspaper offices in various localities can print newspapers according to their own wishes and grasp public opinion in their hands.

In this day and age, with public opinion, you have everything!

The imperial court would stipulate the content of each issue of the newspaper, and the right to print it would be handed over to the local newspaper offices, and the yamen of the Metropolitan Prison Office would be responsible for publishing it.

The whole process of printing and publishing is supervised by the local superintendent and the yamen, and once it is found that the newspaper is printed and does not conform to the regulations of the imperial court.

At the very least, the right to print was revoked, and at the worst, the national branch of the newspaper office was directly seized, and the people involved in the newspaper room were arrested and imprisoned, and their homes were raided.

In the forty-eighth year of Wanli, the imperial court was bankrupt and owed millions of taels of silver, and Zhu Youxiao decided to increase the tariff by 30% on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal after consulting with the cabinet.

In this regard, a new superintendent was added to deal with this matter.

The canal tariff increased, and the cost of reselling silk and tea increased by maritime merchants, causing a lot of commotion, and even Wei Liangqing, the nephew of the factory minister, and more than a dozen fans died in Suzhou.

Later, it was found out that it was said that Li Dan, the head of the maritime merchants of the island country, was behind the scenes.

Wei Zhongxian naturally wanted to avenge his nephew, that is, he sent Fanzi to Suzhou to arrest Li Dan and his family and send them to prison in Beijing.

But Li Dan has lived in the island country for a long time, and even his family let him take them all, and the fans waited in Suzhou for more than three months, looking at the river and sighing, they didn't see anyone at all, so they had to return.

There's no way, no matter how good you are in Dongchang, you can't cross the sea across the country and go to Japan to arrest Li Dan's whole family, right?

And that's not the end of it...

Since the death of Wei Liangqing, the newly raised supervision department yamen in various places have all been handed over to the Fusi yamen of Jingshi South Town, and they are under the control of Jinyiwei.

When Liu Qiao was in office, there were no means of expropriation, but since Xu Xianchun became the commander, he quickly replaced a group of ruthless people.

As soon as these people took office, the supervision and collection efforts of the supervision and supervision departments in various localities have been greatly enhanced.

Anyway, the printing rights of the "Beijing Daily" in the second year of the Apocalypse in Suzhou were grabbed by "Juxingfang".

Juxingfang was originally not large, but it was also a few local newspaper houses in Suzhou, and this time the imperial court was restructured, which made them wait.

Shrewd businessmen know that His Majesty the Emperor wants to use this to grasp public opinion, so the imperial court will inevitably add a number of relevant policies.

The separation of the right to print from the right to publish is also obvious in the eyes of the merchants, which is similar to the blatant solicitation of "imperial merchants".

Cooperate with the imperial court, as long as you are obedient, are you afraid of any benefits?

The sooner you step on this boat, you will have the possibility of making a fortune!

The newspaper who didn't grab the right to cooperate looked at his own door, but the other party's door was so pompous, and his intestines were about to regret it.

"The difference between the original thoughts is now a world of difference." The owner of another newspaper said with hatred:

"I'm afraid Juxingfang is going to crush us!"

Someone said disbelief with a smile on his face:

"In Suzhou, who doesn't know that we are the first in Julong, and he can only be at the back of Juxing, even if he cooperates with the imperial court, what can he do?"

"We can also publish Tang Newspaper, Di Bao and official seal documents!"

"Confused!" The proprietor glanced at him and said, "You can publish these things, and other newspapers can do it!" ”

"But what about the Beijing Daily, there is only one in every place, and since the imperial court publishes it for free, it must have given them other benefits!"

"You think the merchants are stupid?"

Hearing this, the man had nothing to say, and he understood this truth in an instant, and he sighed when he saw that the people on the other side of the street were still far away.

It's deserted here, but the Juxing house on the other side of the street is very busy.

Huang Huatang rubbed his hands, thinking that this single transaction was worth it, he had never seen a newspaper that could attract so many people to grab it before!

This Huang Huatang, like the other businessmen who were chosen, must have two brushes.

Good at doing business, and having some influence in the local chamber of commerce, this is just one of them.

In the forty-eighth year of Wanli, Yang Sichang, the secretary of the salary, once played that the provinces in Huaibei were hungry, and Huang Huatang took people to help the refugees at that time and set up a porridge shed to give porridge.

Even Yang Sichang's recital mentioned his name once, saying that it was a great help to the government's disaster relief.

When the southwest rebelled, Zhu Youxiao personally conscripted, this Huang Huatang personally went to Sichuan and delivered military rations to the officers and soldiers with his own silver.

It didn't take long for the news of the imperial court's restructuring of the Beijing newspaper to come out, and it happened that the Huang family's Juxing house was one of the famous newspaper rooms in Suzhou.

didn't say anything, Huang Huatang personally went to Beijing to negotiate with Wang Tiqian three times and twice, expressing his willingness to do things for the imperial court.

Of course, Wang Tiqian is not a vegetarian either.

These two people talked back and forth a few times, one is an old eunuch in the inner court, and the other is an old fritter in the business world, both of whom have a real purpose, and no one knows who!

"Owner, at this rate, these 3,000 copies will be distributed today..."At this time, a small servant came over, and wiped the hot sweat with his hand.

"Let the newspaper room speed up, and print 300 more copies tonight."

When the little guy heard this, he opened his mouth wide and looked incredulous: "Three hundred? No matter how fast you copy, you can't finish copying! ”

It turned out that because the Beijing newspaper was not valued before, until now, most of the newspaper rooms are still mainly copying.

When Huang Huatang heard this, he pondered for a moment and said, "Go to Zhao Dongjia in Julongfang, and say that I want to buy printing engravings!" ”

Watching the little guy leave, Huang Huatang's face became slightly ugly.

At this rate, it is not possible to copy the Beijing newspaper by hand, and it is still necessary to use engraving printing, but there is no engraving in Suzhou, and it will take several months to make a new engraving at the earliest, and it is too late!

Julongfang is a time-honored brand, but there is an old printing engraving.

It seems that this surnamed Zhao has to be ruthless!