After the "rain".

Approaching the sting.

The freezing weather in Jinling City is gradually getting warmer.

The river ice has long since melted, but an underground ice cave in Yuyuan has long been completed.

Chu Tianxiu sent craftsmen early to dig river ice from the river, cut large pieces of ice, a piece of which was the size of a small half zhang, filled the large ice cellar under Yuyuan, and then blocked the ice cellar with a wooden door wrapped in thick brocade silk.

When the summer is hot, you can take it out and enjoy it.

The branches of the Yu Garden of Pingwangfu also sprouted a few new shoots.

Chu Tianxiu was lying on a bamboo chair under the tree, crossing Erlang's legs, humming a little song, while eating the grapes fed by Zu'er, indescribably comfortable and comfortable.

Zu'er saw Chu Tianxiu's comfortable look and said curiously: "Uncle, why are you so happy?!" ”

"Uncle Ben is fishing in Yuyuan, waiting for the fish to take the bait!"

Chu Tianxiu said with a smile.

There has been such a thing as following trends since ancient times.

As soon as he made the faint paper, Shen Fu wanted a piece of the pie.

Shen Wanbao begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother for a long time, but he didn't agree.

It was not until he needed a large amount of money to build a large number of earthen blast furnaces in Danyang County that he agreed to sell the papermaking skills of Duhou paper to Shen Wanbao, the third largest confiscation in Jinling, a "strategic-level alliance".

He has now created the "Great Chu Di Newspaper", and the Great Chu Dynasty has a vision and courage, so he naturally wants to follow this trend.

It's just that if you want to publish a newspaper, how can it be so easy?

Is there a faint paper?

Mastery of movable type printing?

Nothing, and you still want to publish a newspaper?

This is the most critical movable type printing technique, but his unique skill of high secrecy, not with outsiders. Even Xie, Shen, and the crown prince, the three of them had no contact at all.

Hey!

Soon there will be a big wrongdoer, I can't wait, send a large amount of money to the door!

"Uncle fishing?"

Zu'er's face was full of doubts, although Yuyuan has rockeries and lotus ponds, and raised a few small fish, but my uncle is not fishing!

"Zu'er, if someone comes to the door and asks to see you! Let them wait for half an hour first, and then bring them to see Aunt Ben. ”

"Yes, uncle!"

...

The power of the Prime Minister's Office is considerable.

A decree was soon issued.

In order to respond to the call of His Majesty the Emperor to "open up the way of speech" and closely follow the pace of the prince of the East Palace to set up a palace newspaper, the Prime Minister's Office allowed all yamen and people to set up a palace newspaper, and they only need to report to the imperial court.

The three major yamen of the Great Chu Dynasty.

The Prime Minister's Mansion took the lead in setting up the "Prime Minister's Mansion Newspaper", which was intended to be used to publish various government affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion, openly and secretly touting the "Year Lifting System" and maintaining the Great Chu ancestral system.

Seeing this, the Taiwei Mansion and the Yushitai naturally refused to lag behind, and they were both ready to run the "Taiwei Mansion Newspaper" and the "Yushitai Mansion Newspaper" of the Yamen.

The contents of the three newspapers are readily available.

The "Taiwei Mansion Daily" specially publishes military news from all over the world, which is related to military information.

The "Imperial History Taidi Daily" is preparing to publish news on supervising hundreds of officials in the world and severely punishing corruption and bribery, so as to deter officials.

But.

If you don't know if you don't do it, you will be shocked if you do it.

Xie Xu, the chief historian of the Prime Minister's Mansion who was personally responsible for running the "Prime Minister's Mansion Newspaper", touched it and felt numb.

There was only one kind of paper that could be used to issue the newspaper in the entire Great Chu Dynasty, and that was the excellent "Duhou paper".

Old bamboo slips are completely unacceptable, and neither is hemp paper.

If you want to buy faint paper, you can only find the county lord's mansion and the Shen mansion.

The rest of the small hemp paper workshops did not become a climate at all and had long since collapsed.

Di Bao uses up thousands to tens of thousands of sheets a day, so the reserve of purchasing hundreds of thousands of sheets of paper in large quantities is naturally wanted. Otherwise, it won't be long before there is suddenly no paper, wouldn't it be embarrassing.

That's just a month's supply, and if you use it over a long period of time, it can cost a lot.

The lion of the Shen Mansion opened his mouth, and one piece was twenty copper coins. If you buy 100,000 pieces at a time, it will cost you 2,000 taels of silver.

Xie Xu had no choice but to go to the Pingwang Mansion, and waited for a long time before he saw Xiao Duhou in Yu Garden, but it was cheaper, only nineteen copper coins per piece.

The two are picky, and there is always one that is suitable.

Xie Xu was bitter in his heart.

A copy of "Da Chu Di Daily" only sells for 20 copper coins.

The price of the paper alone costs 20 yuan. This is not counting other carving, printing, and labor money, the "Prime Minister's Mansion Newspaper" is much more expensive than the "Da Chu Mansion Newspaper"!

Xie Xu's long history can only be reported to the Prime Minister.

When Prime Minister Xie Huyong learned about it, he couldn't help but scold.

"Profiteers, two big profiteers! This paper is made of tree bark, and the cost must be extremely low, and I am afraid that it does not cost a few copper coins. ”

"Xiao Duhou and Shen Wanbao, they must have colluded to raise the market price and sell it so expensive! This is the money of the pit court! ”

Xie Xu cautiously proposed, and said: "Prime minister, this papermaking technique is a sharp weapon of the country, but it has been monopolized by the Shen Mansion and the County Lord's Mansion. ... Or, please ask the emperor to let the two families make papermaking technology public?! ”

"Don't mention it, Xiao Duhou, he has always only robbed other people's benefits, when has he ever suffered a loss, and there is also the Ping Wangfu to support him. The papermaking workshop is guarded by the soldiers of the Ping Wangfu, and with the relationship between the emperor and the king of peace, can the king be forced to hand over papermaking? !

As for the Shen family, this meat that has eaten the Shen family's mouth, is he willing to spit it out? Shen Dafu is definitely going to the Empress Dowager Shen to cry... Isn't this asking for trouble! ”

Xie Huyong shook his head in annoyance.

Empress Dowager Shen seems to be kind and kind, and she is very talkative, but she is the queen mother who has been boiled out of the commoners after several dynasties of strong winds and waves.

Shen Dafu's business qualifications are mediocre, how could Shen Mansion, the No. 1 silk tycoon in the south of the Yangtze River, fall from the sky?

The Shen family eats more meat than the top ten gates in Jinling.

The princes and grandsons of the Xiang family, as well as the princes and kings, did not dare to rob the Shen family's silk business.

Xiao Duhou pit the Shen family with a large sum of silver, and he didn't pay it back... That's a unique exception. Empress Dowager Shen favored Li Yu, so she turned a blind eye.

If it were someone else, it would have been peeled a long time ago.

Let the Shen family hand over the papermaking technique, that is a vain thought.

The only people in the Great Chu Dynasty who can decide the major affairs of the country are Emperor Xiang Yanran and Empress Dowager Shen. But one is the royal brother of King Ping, and the other is the aunt of Shen Mansion.

It's no fun to find them.

What can I do?

There was no way, so the Prime Minister's Mansion could only allocate a sum of money every month to buy paper from the two families.

Not only does the Prime Minister's Mansion need to buy paper at a high price, but the Yushitai and Taiwei Mansion also have to buy from the two families.

Any other gate lord or nobleman who wants to run a newspaper by himself has to go to the two governments to buy paper.

...

However, I want to make a newspaper.

But there's more to it than just paper.

Xie Xu Changshi bought back a large amount of dim paper, so he began to draw gourds according to the scoop, and gathered a group of skilled craftsmen to carve wooden printing plates.

The craftsman said that the fastest speed is to carve 500 words a day, even if several craftsmen are reincarnated, day and night.... The carving of tens of thousands of words on the wooden board takes at least ten days to carve.

If you make a mistake in the middle of the carving.... Let's do it all over again.

Regarding this problem, the officials in charge of running the residence newspaper in various yamen in Jinling City all have a headache.

It took so long, and when the report came out, it was already half a month later. Where there is any news, it is clearly old news.

How did Xiao Duhou easily carve out tens of thousands of words of "Da Chu Di Bao" in one day?

...

Chu Tianxiu never expected that the first person to come to the door for help was actually his father-in-law Li Rong.

It was completely impossible to give movable type printing to my father-in-law.

This is his big killer.

However, it is okay to ask the Taiwei Mansion to hand over the "Taiwei Mansion Newspaper" to Chu Tianxiu's printing house for printing and charge a printing fee.

Anyway, it was the Taiwei Mansion of the Imperial Court that paid the money, not the Pingwang Mansion. It is his daughter and son-in-law who take advantage.

Li Rong naturally has no opinion on this.

If it weren't for the fact that the "Taiwei Mansion Newspaper" involved the military secrets of the imperial court, he would have wanted to hand over this newspaper to his son-in-law.

"Virtuous son-in-law, this "Taiwei Mansion Newspaper" openly publishes all kinds of military news, and it will definitely be known to the enemy. Isn't this an enemy? Could this be a problem? ”

Li Rong was a little puzzled.

After all, this newspaper is a very new thing, and no one has ever used it before.

He hadn't figured out for a moment how to make the most efficient use of the publicly available newspaper without hurting himself.

"To report this thing, we must first have a lot of real news to win the trust of people. In fact, this news has nothing to do with the overall situation, and it is easy to be heard.

Then you have the opportunity to use eight or nine points of true news to cover one or two points of false news and deceive the enemy.

Of course, this true information can also be only half said and half hidden. Anyway, you're telling the truth, and others can't do anything about you.

The Taiwei Mansion is in charge of the military affairs of Great Chu, and if you want to attack anyone, you can first use some true news to lure the enemy. Then use false news to deceive the enemy.

This routine is unpleasant! ”

Chu Tianxiu said with a smile.

Not to mention that two thousand years ago, when the news was extremely closed, there was one and the other. Even after 2,000 years, this routine is just as tried-and-test.

How many people can check every piece of news?

Even if it can be verified, is there a newspaper for you to say it!

"Oh, I see!"

Li Rong was able to understand it at one point, and he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart.

In the Di newspaper, the public release of news and intelligence can be used to mislead the enemy. True and false, false and real, except for those who spread the news, who can easily tell the difference?!

In this way, from the very beginning, Xiao Duhou planned to use Di Bao to defraud his opponent?

Xiao Duhou invented this newspaper, which is too insidious.

However, as the great master of the Great Chu Army, Li Rong's view of "insidious and cunning" is not derogatory. Soldiers are not tired of cheating, and it is the ability to deceive opponents.

...

Unlike other Di newspapers that are extremely difficult to give birth and have twists and turns, "Da Chu Di Daily" is like a rainbow and is popular in Jinling City.

The population of Jinling Imperial City is one million, and there are many rich people.

Soon, the daily sales soared to more than 10,000 copies, and the number of issuances continued to rise, and they were even taken by merchants to hundreds of counties of the Great Chu Dynasty.

Because of the publication of a lot of current political news, of course, there is no doubt that the intelligence spies lurking in Jinling City were sent to various vassal states in the world, and even to the Western Regions and the surrounding small countries.

The princes and kings of the world, King Xiang Bi of Wu, King of Chu, King Zhao, etc., successively got the "Great Chu Di Newspaper", which was shocking and pleasantly surprised.

They spent a lot of money to train intelligence spies, racking their brains to explore and collect current political and military intelligence of the imperial court of the Great Chu Imperial Capital.

As a result, it was written directly in Xiao Duhou's "Da Chu Di Daily". The arguments of the courtiers in the court, from the emperor to the gate valve, and the lace news of the common people, actually dared to write it.

It's just unbelievable.

But in this way, it is greatly more convenient for them to collect the news of the Jinling Imperial Capital. A copy of "Da Chu Di Daily" is in hand, and at least half of the news has arrived.

It is even possible to reduce the number of spies and reduce expenses.

The Xiongnu envoys stationed in the Great Chu Dynasty, Prince Yi Pheasant received a report from his subordinates, and when he read the "Great Chu Di Newspaper", he was stunned.

The high-level information that he couldn't obtain with all his might actually appeared in front of his eyes like this.

Yi Pheasant couldn't understand how the little faint marquis could do such a stupid thing.

In the middle of the sound, he looked up to the sky and roared, and his excitement was difficult to suppress.

"Collect the daily "Da Chu Di Newspaper", send it to the Xiongnu royal court, and hand it over to the military minister Shan Yu!"

"With the Di newspaper in hand, the news of Da Chu is all in my grasp."

"God help me the Great Huns!"