There are two most difficult points for the transportation, communication technology, and printing technology of this era for a newspaper that is distributed all over the world, one is transportation and the other is printing.

Needless to say, it is impossible to send printed newspapers directly to the whole country, in that case, Li Xuan has to establish a logistics enterprise composed of hundreds of thousands, develop airplanes, trains, automobiles, and build a three-in-one transportation network.

But there can be no local newspaper, local printing, because in this case, the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Li Xuan himself, can not control the content of the newspaper, as a means of propaganda to the public, every article on it must be strictly reviewed, otherwise, the newspaper is not a propaganda tool of the Tang Dynasty, but may become a sharp blade against the Tang Dynasty itself.

So from the very beginning, Li Xuan decided that this was a weekly newspaper that was only issued once every five days, and each newspaper must be strict and profound before it was issued.

Therefore, the transportation was carried out in a compromise way, with the Ministry of Rites directly issuing the sample periodicals, and then transferring the sample periodicals to local printing houses through the military's post station system, and then printing them locally and then distributing them.

In order to establish channels for transportation, printing, and distribution, the Ministry of Rites has been working hard for a long time, and has repeatedly issued official documents to various localities to ask for cooperation, and the local yamen also knew that this court newspaper was personally ordered by Li Xuan, and they did not dare to slack off.

The transportation of the post station is the simplest, because the post station belongs to the military, and the military management is adopted, and the management personnel of the post station are actually active soldiers, so they only need a military order to undertake the transportation task of the newspaper.

Well, naturally, the military will not forget to collect money from the Ministry of Rites!

Although the core purpose of the post station is to transmit war reports, it is also to undertake all kinds of official official submissions, food and lodging for officials, etc., and in addition to the military's own letters, emergency supplies and express transportation are free of charge, even if the cabinet uses the post station, it is necessary to collect money, and officials are charged for food and lodging.

In addition, it is also to undertake the ordinary mail mailing of private letters, letters, and the expedited transportation of small items, and these are charged, and the charges are not cheap, and even expensive.

Because if it is an ordinary mail transportation, the post station will not add much additional cost to the step-by-step transportation, and this method is also the transportation method of ordinary documents, letters, and small items.

And urgent letters, war reports, and urgent special small items, usually use the mode of immediate delivery, there are three hundred miles of expedited, five hundred miles of expedited two modes, three hundred miles of expedited better, that is, along the way of the post staff and horses tired, but if it is five hundred miles of urgency, it will run dead horses.

Of course, if it is not a heavy matter, it will not use the five-hundred-mile expedited, because the cost of such a transmission is too high, since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the number of times that the five-hundred-mile expedited has not been used, and every time it is a major battle report.

If there are tasks such as urgent documents and war reports along the way, then they will be brought with them, anyway, the sample is just a few pieces of paper, and it will not affect the normal operation of the post station, if not, it will be transported together with ordinary official documents, and the timeliness will naturally be much slower.

However, today's Tang Dynasty attaches great importance to the timeliness of official documents, and many important official documents are often used in the three-hundred-mile expedited mode, and the post station system established by the military is a post station at an interval of ten kilometers.

However, the five-hundred-mile expedited is still very rare, and it is basically a treatment that can only be obtained by an emergency military report!

And if the folk letter also uses the three-hundred-mile expedited, it is also possible, but the price is not generally expensive, but even if it is extremely expensive, but there will still be people who choose to use it, the reason is very simple, time is money, if the situation is urgent, it is nothing to spend some money.

Of course, the bulk of the income of the post station is the income from food and lodging brought by officials and even ordinary merchants, and the mailing of ordinary letters and official documents is also quite profitable.

The Tang Dynasty military will not be wronged, and every year it takes out so much money in vain to set up a post station!

The Datang post station system under the charging system, although the military still needs to subsidize a lot of silver, but most of the operating expenses still come from fees, and in the future, it is possible to rely on operating income to maintain.

The transportation of newspapers in the Tang Dynasty is quite easy to solve, and printing is more troublesome, and it is not realistic to set up a printing house by yourself, but to adopt the mode of cooperation with private printing workshops.

To this end, the Ministry of Rites has selected more than a dozen printing workshops in the ruling area that are capable of large-scale printing for cooperation.

Therefore, the distribution model of the Tang Dynasty newspaper is as follows:

First of all, the article passed through the Ministry of Rites, submitted to Li Xuan for review, and after Li Xuan's approval, the Ministry of Rites and Newspapers Department would typeset and print samples, and then forwarded the sample periodicals to the printing workshops in various regions under the provinces through the military post stations for follow-up large-scale printing, and printing is not possible to print in every state capital, but to choose a fixed number of state capitals, especially the state capitals with convenient transportation, for large-scale printing.

After the printing is completed, it will continue to be delivered to the state capitals and counties in the region through the official official document dispatch channel, and finally distributed!

In Guangdong, for example, there are five printing sites, while Guangxi has six, and there are four in Guizhou, one in Huguang, and one in Jiangxi, for a total of 16.

This is not to say that you don't want to add more printing points, but the printing task of the newspaper is very heavy, and you need to use the technology of movable type printing, and movable type printing in contemporary times, in fact, the strength of the printing workshop is relatively high, not every local folk printing workshop has these movable type.

Therefore, those who can undertake the printing task of the newspaper are all large-scale local printing workshops, and ordinary small workshops cannot undertake the heavy printing work of the newspaper.

In addition to printing and shipping, there are also users!

The first batch of subscribers to the Tang Dynasty Daily, and at the same time, the only group of subscribers supporters, are naturally the yamen and officials at all levels of the Tang Dynasty Mansion, but all the officials of the Tang Dynasty are basically users of the Tang Dynasty Daily, don't ask why they choose to subscribe, because this is a political task, and you have to subscribe if you don't subscribe!

And the subscription from the private sector is zero for the time being!

The first issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper is to adopt a free distribution model for the public, and it is posted at the gate of each yamen, as well as at the gate of the city and other places with a large flow of people.

The current Tang Dynasty newspaper is a new business, and the people need a process of adaptation, so they can't expect the people to come up with money to subscribe immediately.

But does it matter?

Unimportant!

Although the cost is also very important, and the cost is also a troublesome matter, for the Tang Dynasty, the court newspaper is a tool for political propaganda, and the most important thing is the effect, as for the cost, it is secondary.

Besides, now the Tang Dynasty Newspaper has decided to publish commercial advertisements, and in the first issue, the recruitment advertisement of Zhaoqing Arsenal was published.

This advertisement was used to test the waters, to see how the response was, and if the response was good, the Ministry of Rites decided to start publishing more advertisements, and the commercial advertising fees charged were enough to offset a large part of the distribution costs.

As the sample issues of the first issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper were determined, these sample periodicals then entered the post station system, and directly spread to the surroundings in a three-hundred-mile expedited manner together with other expedited official documents!

However, Zhaoqing is an exception, when those sample periodicals were transmitted to the surrounding areas, Zhaoqing had already begun to print on a large scale!

And just in the Zhaoqing area, the number of printed copies of the Tang Dynasty newspaper is more than 3,000 copies, these 3,000 copies!

The reason why there are so many is because Zhaoqing, as the capital of the Tang Dynasty, has many yamen and officials, and they are all subscribers.

After thorough preparation, the city of Zhaoqing became the area where the first issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper was distributed on a large scale!

On the morning of this day, the post station personnel in Zhaoqing City began to send bundled bags of Tang Dynasty newspapers to various yamen, and then these officials became the first batch of public readers in addition to the relevant personnel of the Tang Dynasty newspaper.

Jia Xiaofeng, the director of the Yamen of the Ministry of Commerce and the Geology Section of the Mining Department, just walked into the Yamen, and saw that a group of his subordinates seemed to be discussing something, so he immediately stepped forward and said, "What are you looking at?" ”

Several of the people in it were also officials of the Geological Section of the Mining Department, and they were all subordinates of his Jia Xiaofeng, and their grades were all lower than his Jia Xiaofeng, so someone immediately replied respectfully: "Lord Hui, we are reading the morning newspaper!" ”

"Chaobao? It's been officially released, so give me a copy there! ”

The Tang Dynasty newspaper was in an uproar some time ago, even if they were only middle-level officials, but they had also heard about the relevant affairs of the newspaper, after all, when the newspaper was run, it was a bit big, and the cabinet meetings were held several times, and the participants in the meeting were all big figures such as the ministers and the squire.

"Lord Hui, your newspaper has been scalded and placed on your table!"

Jia Xiaofeng nodded slightly, and then walked into his office, and then saw the newspaper on the table for the first time.

The area of the newspaper placed on the table is not large, but it can be seen that it is a little thick, obviously folded in several layers, and on the left side of the cover of the first page, there are four large block letters 'Da Tang Dynasty Bao' vertically, followed by small dates and other words.

But he wasn't interested in any of that, he was interested in the content, so he quickly moved on!

At this time, Jiao Xiaofeng didn't know that the release of the Tang Dynasty newspaper had already caused a shock to the whole world!