Chapter Ninety-Three: Jingcheng Bookstore
Although Liu Fan's words were for the people at this table, Ling Han felt that Brother Liu's words were another confession to himself, before Brother Liu had already said that he was the only one in his life, and now that he heard it again, he still felt overjoyed, but the corner of his eyes unintentionally swept over Li Min's pale face next to him, and immediately reacted that Sister Xiao Min would be even more sad when she heard Brother Liu's words.
Slowly holding Li Min's hand, looking firmly into the other party's eyes, and said softly in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Sister Xiaomin, don't worry, I know your intentions, I'll tell Brother Liu, he will agree." ”
Li Min instantly understood the meaning of Ling Han's words, and immediately clenched Ling Han's hand, and said hurriedly, "Good sister, you are not allowed to talk nonsense, then my sister will not be able to see anyone again!" ”
"Sister Xiaomin, I will find an appropriate opportunity to say, I will definitely not make my sister uncomfortable, you just need to calm down and wait patiently."
Liu Fan didn't know that Ling Han and Li Min had reached an agreement on a united front with the outside world, because there were not many days left in the Spring Festival of the sixth year of Zhihe, and the team that went to the capital to practice martial arts in the northwest camp around December 15 was about to set off, and he had to hurry up to deal with some of the things in hand in the past few days, after all, the time spent on the way to the capital was estimated to be at least two months.
Because Wang Kai has been busy preparing for the wedding recently, he can't take care of the second stage of training, Wang Kai is not there, if Liu Fan is still a little too much to say if he fishes for three days and two days of drying nets like before, and still gives the training to Li Min alone, so Liu Fan basically supervised the training in the big school field during the day, and rushed to the small courtyard with Uncle Su, Dong Zi and Li Min and others at night, plus Ling Han and his uncle, Hui'er, Jin'er and others, this group of people after five or six nights of hard work, Finally, the precise development of his own planning was basically completed.
Wang Kai and A Xia's marriage was scheduled for December 10, only two days later than Dong Zi's wedding, mainly Wang Kai, Dong Zi, Uncle Su and others had to follow the camp to the capital for a military parade.
The wedding of the two families was held in a grand manner, although Liu Fan asked Qi Boyuan to be a witness at Dong Zi's wedding, but in the two days of marriage, Guo Huaide and Li Shouyi stayed at Liu Fan's house almost from beginning to end, and participated in and witnessed the entire wedding process, and Ma Youlai, Zhang Ting, Geng Dawei and Xie Hao, who were good friends with Liu Fan, were even more busy, and Liu Fan, who was the eldest brother, did not have much to do.
And Wang Kai's wedding is even more lively, because Wang Kai and A Xia have no elders and relatives in Liangzhou, Wang Kai went to Liu Fan's house to ask his godfather and godmother to be the main marriage after obtaining Ah Xia's consent, and the witness invited the general manager of the camp Guo to personally bear it.
Although Wang Kai has no relatives in Liangzhou, he has many friends, from the head of the camp to the chief of the army, the new house in the third courtyard is full of guests who come to congratulate him, and this alone has earned enough face in front of the bride A Xia.
Although the marriage between Wang Kai and Dong Zi can be regarded as a lively event in the army, it did not cause many ripples in Liangzhou in December of the fifth year of Zhihe, like a small pebble thrown into a vast water, because General Wang married or General Liu got married, and it didn't even have a penny to the common people.
However, what really caused heated discussions among the people of the city was something similar to the imperial court newspaper, although the size was similar to the palace newspaper, but it was very different from the palace newspaper in terms of content and production.
The content of this kind of tabloid, which is called ancient and modern legends, is mostly all kinds of legendary stories that the common people like to see, and sometimes mixed with things like "Yihong Courtyard launched the middle eight dishes, the quality is almost the same as the eight plates, and the price is only less than half of the eight plates; Yangzhou incense powder shop into a new kind of jade girl peach blossom powder, fifty old lady with the back of the look comparable to twenty-eight girls" and other types of propaganda business.
And the font of this tabloid is not copied by literati one by one like the ancient Di Bao, but printed with ink, how much does it cost?
According to some people who have seen this kind of tabloid, this kind of newspaper first appeared in Liangzhou Yihong Courtyard and a shop called Yangzhou Xiangfen Shop, and was distributed to customers as gifts.
But what Yihongyuan and Yangzhou Xiangfen Shop didn't expect at all was that after the newspaper was distributed, people came to inquire almost every day whether the second issue of the newspaper had been printed, because the upper left corner of this tabloid clearly wrote the words "first issue", which means that there are two issues ...... the second and third issues later, and there are two stories called Xiaoao Jianghu and Journey to the West with the word serialization at the end, indicating that there are sequels behind these two stories.
And because of this tabloid, the turnover of Yihongyuan and Yangzhou incense powder shop in the past few days has increased by 20% compared to usual, "Oh, this son inquired about the legendary tabloid, please come in and have a cup of tea first, and listen to Xiaoke slowly talk for you." "This young lady inquired about the legendary tabloid, it is estimated that you will be able to get your hands on the second issue the day after tomorrow, but the jade girl peach blossom powder published in the first issue is really good, do you want to try it?"
The people who inquired about the tabloids were not only literati, but also young girls in the boudoir, soldiers who couldn't read much, and even children with drooping hair or horns came to ask, "That Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs are so beautiful, I wonder if there are any other stories?" ”
But what the boys and girls like is a love story called "Chen Yunqi", and I even heard that a few people who were stupid in reading actually went to visit the nunnery on the nearby mountain......
Now, the initiators of this tabloid are Liu Fan, Ling Han, Li Min and others are busy working on the next few issues of the tabloid materials in a newly opened store called Jingcheng Bookstore, and the second issue of the tabloid has been completed, and after being proofread by Ling Han and Li Min, who are the editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief, it has been handed over to two middle-aged uncles introduced by A Xia for movable type printing.
Liu Fan's plan was to prepare fifteen issues of tabloids and issue them every seven days, which would be able to cope with three months, and he and Li Min, Ling Han and others had already returned from the capital.
From the fourth issue onwards, it will no longer be given away, but will be sold on behalf of several stores such as Yihong Courtyard and Yangzhou Incense Powder Shop selected by Liu Fan, with ten wen per copy and five hundred copies per issue.
The specific stories are selected from the strange Tales of Liaozhai, Grimm's fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, Jin Yong's complete works and the four famous works, these stories Liu Fan remembers more comprehensively, as long as the main content is dictated, Ling Han will be slightly polished and then put into print.
In front of Liu Fan in the small courtyard of the brick kiln is used to fire clay type, the trial firing of several kilns before the success, and then by Ling Han according to today's dictionary selected nearly 4,000 words for firing, this matter is a bit of a large workload, and the technical requirements are relatively high, Liu Fan in the small courtyard after the brick kiln, after many visits, hired a skilled carver to carry out carving and kiln, before and after the burning of two batches of clay type, in addition, a batch of clay type is almost used, just hurry up and refine a batch of replacement.
In addition to the two middle-aged uncles who escaped from Hongchiling introduced by Ah Xia who were in charge of ink printing, Liu Fan hired a total of three workers, and had signed a confidentiality agreement with the three before hiring, which clearly stipulated that if the technology was innocently leaked, he would bear huge liability for compensation, and after the bookstore opened, a small amount of shares were distributed to each person.
After the opening of the bookstore, in addition to this legendary tabloid, it also undertakes the printing business of various books, and also sells some commonly used books in the imperial examination, but whether it is printing books or buying books, because of the use of movable type printing, the cost is much lower than woodcut printing books, so the price of books is also cheaper than other bookstores, a few days after the opening, the business has been very hot, the uncle in charge of the operation, Hui'er, Jin'er has been busy with the three of them, sometimes even Chenchen and Lingling both come to help, As for the safety of the bookstore after Liu Fan and the others left, Liu Fan was temporarily handed over to Ah Xia's younger brother Qiu Shan to take care of it.
By the time all these matters had been dealt with, nearly half of the December of the fifth year had passed, and the parade of the three brigades and twelve battalions of the camp would immediately set off for the capital.