Newspapers are almost obsolete in later generations, and people rarely read newspapers, and there are various channels to obtain news and information.

But for the current Ming Dynasty, it is not easy to start a newspaper.

There are two problems in running a newspaper, one is paper and the other is printing technology.

Both paper and printed books were available in this era, but they were not suitable for large-scale newspapers.

Paper is very expensive in this era, not ordinary expensive, just a pile of paper costs hundreds of dollars, and it costs a few pennies to calculate the size of a newspaper in later generations.

In addition to the high price, most of the paper, its quality is not good, and the price of good quality paper is even more expensive, like rice paper, its quality is very good, but if you use rice paper to run a newspaper, Liu Jin will lose all the pants.

In addition to the problem of paper, printing technology is also a problem, and this printing technology is not only a problem of printing, but also a problem of ink.

Printing technology on the basis of movable type printing, Liu Jin can also be improved, barely enough, but the ink is not so easy to solve, the ink used for printing and the ink used to write the brush is not the same, the ink for writing the brush is slowly ground out of the ink block with water.

Naturally, this printing cannot be operated in this way, and it must be made of a special printing ink.

"The meal has to be eaten in one bite, and things have to be solved one by one, fortunately I have a gold finger, otherwise I really don't know how to make this newspaper, and I don't have a gold finger to run a newspaper in the middle of it, which is definitely a few nonsense, and it is impossible at all."

List the problems he encountered one by one, Liu Jin is also ready to solve them one by one, there are golden fingers, all kinds of technologies are not a problem, and Liu Jin himself has already raised a lot of skilled craftsmen, with a certain foundation, it is not difficult to get out.

In fact, Liu Jin has almost solved this problem, because when the First Bank of Daming issued silver bills, Liu Jin had already built a paper mill and a printing plant.

Under the guidance of Liu Jin, the paper mill has produced a very good quality paper specially used to print banknotes, and the paper used to print silver bills is a special paper, which is added with cotton and cotton lint, so the quality is good, and it will be fine when it encounters water.

Of course, it is impossible for Liu Jin to use such paper to print newspapers, it is too expensive, and it is more expensive to make such paper than rice paper, but with this foundation, it is not a problem to make some relatively cheap paper at all.

Anyway, running a newspaper, Liu Jin is not ready to make money, as long as he doesn't lose too much.

The problem of ink has also been solved, printing silver tickets can be, used to print a newspaper is naturally not a problem, printing newspapers do not need to be exquisite or anything, just starting newspapers can also not need pictures or something, only need clear handwriting.

If you want to do this, you can easily solve this problem on the basis of the technology of printing silver tickets.

The matter of paper and printing technology, Liu Jin also handed over the matter to his subordinates, but he began to train the editors and reporters of the Ming Morning Post.

Daming Morning Post, this is the name that Liu Jin thought of for the newspaper he ran, which is similar to the morning newspaper in later generations, it comes out in the morning, so that everyone can see it every morning.

Of course, in this era, it is definitely impossible to come out every day at the beginning, and it is almost the same if one issue is released every three days, and when the conditions are ripe, it will slowly come out every day.

In addition to the technical problems of running a newspaper, there is also a big problem, that is, the problem of news materials.

Since it is a newspaper, it reports on a wide variety of news materials, from national events, local anecdotes, economics, military affairs, and so on.

But these news materials will not fly into your hands by themselves, which requires professional news reporters to collect news materials from all over Daming, and the collected news materials need to be reviewed by editors.

Those news materials can be posted, those news materials cannot be published, those are valuable, and those are not, and the editor's review is very important.

If you don't have a huge team of journalists, you might not be able to run a newspaper, let alone one newspaper a day, because you don't know what to print out.

This is one of the biggest difficulties in running a newspaper in this era.

Because of the inconvenience of transportation and communication, the transmission of information is extremely slow, except for the 800-mile express speed made by the official side, the other news transmission is very slow, and often only can be transmitted in a small range.

Without news material, a newspaper simply cannot be run.

Liu Jin put the headquarters of the Ming Morning Post in the capital, and directly spent a lot of money to buy the large courtyard of Sanjin as the office location of the Ming Morning Post.

At this time, in a courtyard of the headquarters of the Ming Morning Post, Liu Jin looked at the hundreds of people in the courtyard, these people were the first batch of editors and reporters of the Ming Morning Post.

Most of these people were drawn from Liu Jin's industry, and they were all able to read and write words, and they also had a certain foundation.

There are also some talents hired by Liu Jin at a high price, such as the five people sitting in the front, Bao Jiwen, Ou Yangguang, Wu Zhang, Liu Zili, Zhou Zhi, these five people are all talents, or down-and-out talents, and they are all in their forties, and there is no hope for the imperial examination, so they can only make a living by teaching and writing.

Of course, no matter how down-and-out he is, he is also a showman, and he is also a scholar, and he is very arrogant, Liu Jin also spent a lot of money to recruit, a person is 10 taels of silver a month, plus other benefits, so these five people were recruited to come over as editors and editors-in-chief.

Naturally, the newspaper should be more rigorous, typos and other words should be carefully reviewed, and more importantly, this sentence and the like should also be strictly prohibited, and there should be no big mistakes, otherwise it will make people laugh.

These people who have been trained in their own industry can be literate and hyphenation, arithmetic, etc., but after all, they are not systematically educated from an early age, and they are naturally inferior to the readers of this era in many aspects.

And Xiu is the most powerful reader that Liu Jin can invite, as for lifting people, don't even think about it, lifting people is a person who has really entered the privileged class, and he will not come over to be an editor or editor-in-chief.

"Everyone, thank you very much for your trust and support to me, the reason to join the Ming Morning Post~"

Liu Jin looked at the hundred or so people in front of him and said with a smile on his face.

For Liu Jin's Daming, everyone is naturally already familiar with it, and at this time, everyone looked at Liu Jin and looked carefully at this champion and this son of a master.

Especially the five talents of Bao Jiwen, Ou Yangguang, and Wu Zhang, who are more popular than others, the five of them are all old, and they can't even pass the exam, and Liu Jin in front of him, he is a champion at a young age.

Originally, the five people didn't want to be editors and editors-in-chief, but they were also readers, and they also wanted to save face, teaching and educating people, which was all over the world, not ashamed, and also enjoyed a lot of reputations.

What is this editor and editor-in-chief?

And what is this Ming Morning Post?

They don't know, but the identity of the reader still has to be scrupulous, and they can't do something to lose their identity.

However, I heard that it was the champion Lang Liu Jin who was doing things, and it was for the sake of 10 silver dollars a month, so these five Xiucai were willing to come to Daming Morning Post to do things here.

"The Ming Morning Post, which is mainly used to publicize national events and report strange things in various places, is like this."

Liu Jin shows a newspaper, which is a trial print, about the same size as the newspapers of later generations, and uses top-to-bottom typography instead of the right-to-left typography that is most popular in this era.

As Liu Jin spoke, someone also handed out newspapers to everyone, one for each person, holding the newspaper in their hands, and everyone was suddenly full of doubts.

"Champion Gong, why isn't the words on this newspaper from right to left?"

Bao Jiwen looked at the newspaper carefully and hurriedly asked.

"It's better for printing, and it's easier to read and typeset."

Liu Jin smiled and replied.

"And what are these symbols on this?"

Ou Yangguang pointed to the comma and full stop on it and asked.

"I call it punctuation, and the purpose of punctuation is to distinguish sentences from paragraphs, to make them easier to read and to convey meaning more accurately."

Liu Jin picked up the chalk and wrote and drew on the blackboard behind him, and began to introduce the role of punctuation and the rules of use.

There are two factors in the books and articles of this era, one is that the number of words in ancient books and articles is very small, and the writing of articles and the like is in classical Chinese, which is as concise as possible, and I can't wait to express all the meanings in one word.

The other is sentence reading, everyone learns sentence reading from the beginning, that is, sentence breaking, the effect is similar to punctuation, and you can clearly know that in that place is the end, and that place is the beginning.

But if Liu Jin wants to run a newspaper, Liu Jin will try his best to be on par with the vernacular in terms of language, because in this way, more people can understand it, and it can also convey more accurate information.

If you use classical Chinese to write a newspaper, a newspaper that could have tens of thousands of words can be written in a few hundred words in classical Chinese, and it will also report a ball.

The key is that the classical Chinese is something that only these readers can interpret, and people who have no level can't interpret it at all, there are too few words, and it is not conducive to the accurate dissemination of information, and it is easy to cause ambiguity.