"Sell the newspaper, sell the newspaper, three dollars a newspaper for today, sell the newspaper, sell the newspaper."

On the morning of the eighth day of the fifth lunar month, a large group of children appeared in Chang'an City, carrying canvas satchels and waving a newspaper in their hands, and jumped up and down the streets and alleys.

They are the children of the adults in the family who are not in good condition, or the children of the loss of relatives in the sad field.

Li Yi said that he wanted them to help sell the newspaper, and now the time has come.

Fifty newspapers for one child, 400 children, 21,000 copies a day in Chang'an, not much printing.

The other 300,000 copies were sent to the gate of Honglu Temple by the villagers, waiting for the Tibetan people to buy them.

By the way, I handed over a thousand copies of the newspaper to the people of the Imperial City and brought it in.

The people of Chang'an, no, it was the first time that the people of Datang saw the newsboy.

They are more interested in children who sell newspapers than in newspapers.

"I'll buy one." The shopkeeper of an inn stood at the door, and saw a child running past, and was surprised, and a moment later another came running.

"Three bucks." A seven- or eight-year-old girl, dressed in a new dress, stood in front of the shopkeeper and held out her hand for a newspaper.

"I take a look at it, and if it's well written, I'll buy it, and if it's not good, I won't buy it." The shopkeeper's joke.

The little girl was stunned, and tears instantly welled up in her eyes: "No, no, I, I'm going to tell, tell the Li family Zhuangzi." ”

"Don't, I'll buy it, don't cry, I'm laughing, don't say it." The shopkeeper was about to cry.

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he ran in and out as fast as he could, took the little girl's hand, and slapped five copper coins directly.

"Here, five cents, two more cents for you." The shopkeeper is saving himself.

"Thank you." The little girl wiped a handful of tears, suddenly smiled again, and put three copper coins into the compartment of one satchel, and the other two were separated.

Turning around, she jumped up and down again to find the next person to buy the newspaper.

A young boy selling newspapers was stopped.

"How much do you sell a copy for you?" The restaurant manager who stopped him was curious.

"Fifty copies of the newspaper are sold, and fifteen dollars are given for one lunch." The boy handed over the newspaper.

The housekeeper gave the child three Kaiyuan Tongbao and stuffed a bun: "The clothes were given by the Li family Zhuangzi?" ”

"Here, or we don't have any clothes to wear." The boy smiled sheepishly.

"Okay, it's good to make your own money." The shopkeeper said again, shook his head and went in.

The people of Chang'an soon discovered that the Li family Zhuangzi had done good deeds again.

In their view, the children's labor is the Li family Zhuangzi helping the children.

"Look, the newspaper wrote that the Li family Zhuangzi continued to buy a large number of artemisia seeds, and five catties of artemisia seeds can be exchanged for a plate of incense for smoked mosquitoes and flies, and ten copies of it."

People who read the newspaper found the advertisement again, which said that Artemisia was exchanged for mosquito coils.

"There is another one below, a large number of high-priced elm barks, what is the use of this elm bark?"

The other person unfolds his newspaper and finds the place for the advertisement.

There was no newspaper next to him, and a man in his forties, waiting for others to read it and listen, said: "Elm bark powder is used to make incense, otherwise you have to use honey, otherwise the incense will not take shape." ”

"In this way, ordinary people can also use incense."

"It is different from the incense used in temples, temples, and temples."

"It's no different, that is, the price is different, five catties of artemisia can be exchanged for ten plates of incense."

The people once again found something good, and for the first time they heard the incense of smoked mosquitoes and flies, they first went to cut artemisia seeds and tried to change it.

"Print out the mosquito coil usage method I wrote, and put one in one copy." Li Yi went to the printing workshop in the Zhuangzi and gave a piece of paper.

It is written on the paper that do not put mosquito coils next to your head, and if there are babies at home, it is best to light incense in the evening and close the doors and windows in the house.

Go in after two quarters of an hour, open the doors and windows, and you can snuff out the incense. Be careful not to have anything around the mosquito coil that can easily catch fire.

These words can be printed on a small piece of paper, and Li Yi is very afraid that someone will be smoked out of illness.

There are only artemisia seeds and elm bark powder in the incense, which looks natural, but as long as it is burned, there is smoke.

Who has a baby, and there is a problem with the smoke, Li Yi thinks this is ......

At noon, a merchant came running over and called Yang Xin, a merchant who specialized in transporting elm bark powder from other places to Chang'an to sell.

He was about to contact other incense shops and temples to negotiate a price, and while he waited at the dock, he got a newspaper.

Seeing that the above said that the Li family Zhuangzi collected it at a high price, and the main bridge was Bashui Wharf, he ran over to ask.

Song De didn't go, and sent a small steward to the other side of the bridge to negotiate with the merchants.

The two sides negotiated a good price, which was half a percent less than selling to temples and other places, and it was cheaper, and it was not a high price at all.

However, he collected all 10,000 catties of elm bark powder at one time, so Yang Xin saved a lot of time.

He was able to buy goods in Chang'an and load them back on the ship, grab the time, and transport elm bark powder to sell once.

Elm bark powder is a powder made from the bark of the elm tree, which is used as a binder.

When collecting materials, it is usually the branches of the elm tree that are cut off, and there are also small elm trees that are specially planted in a large area of mountainous areas.

Peel the bark of a big tree, peel it once and it will be stripped to death, the elm bark on the branches is enough, cut this year, and grow again next year.

The leaves and flowers of the elm tree can be eaten, and it is called elm money, and there are rice and cakes made from elm money.

The little steward negotiated with Yang Xin about the price and quantity of the purchase, Yang Xin put forward a new request, and the little steward couldn't make the decision, so he ran back to ask Li Yi.

"The proprietor, he said that he would come over next time to bring other goods, and he wanted to leave a place in our newspaper to help him talk about it."

The steward reports the situation.

Li Yi thought about it: "Tell him, but only the newspaper of Jingzhao Mansion is printed, one word at a time, and punctuation marks are not money." ”

The little steward turned around and ran away, going to talk to Yang Xin.

Punctuation is there now, it's just that some people don't write it, and everyone writes it differently.

The newspaper is typeset horizontally, not vertically, and at the same time it is read from left to right.

Li Yi came according to his own habits, and when he wrote articles, he wrote from right to left, always with his other hand on his sleeve, unless he was left-handed.

It is easy for people who read the newspaper to adapt, it is very magical, and at the same time the canonical punctuation is understandable.

Commas and periods are now used, quotation marks, dashes, book titles, exclamation marks, others have seen them, pondered a little, and understood.

The little steward over there told Yang Xin the price, but Yang Xin didn't say whether it would be okay or not, but just said that he would see it next time he came.

Yang Xin discovered the secret in the newspaper, and other businessmen were not stupid.

They found that this newspaper was very useful for helping to publicize, at least the entire Jingzhao Mansion could know about it.

When the little steward came back, he looked very regretful, and he wanted to finalize the matter: "The proprietor, it is estimated that the price is too high." ”

"It's okay, just wait for me to make a set of color printing, the advertising place can be more conspicuous, and the ink should be adjusted."

Li Yi comforted the little steward that he had a way.

Newspapers are now black, and if you want to print colorful words, one more color is one more typesetting.

The first edition was printed first, and the space where the color words needed was left empty.

The other edition is specially written in the empty space, brushed with colored ink, and the newspaper that has been printed once is brought over, the mold is aligned, and it is printed again.

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