Chapter 31: Datang Daily

When Li Chengqian returned to the East Palace, he immediately found Zhang Xuansu, Yu Zhining, and Kong Yingda, the three princes, and told them that Li Er asked them to be responsible for assisting him in handling the newspaper.

After explaining the role of newspapers and newspapers to the three teachers, Li Chengqian asked them to comment on current affairs in the newspapers.

Kong Yingda and the three agreed on the spot, and they were not only able to publish their own comments on current affairs, but also to publish their own articles in newspapers, and most importantly, to be able to publish their teaching experience on it.

This kind of good thing that can't be found with a lantern, how can the three of them miss it.

"Prince! Will this cause unnecessary trouble by using your own name? Zhang Xuansu asked.

This issue is very important, and some things are not easy to use their own names for fear of provoking criticism, and it is easy to attract right and wrong.

Li Chengqian smiled slightly and said, "Master Zhang doesn't have to worry! The master can take a name, and when he doesn't use his real name in the future, he can just use this name. ”

"This name is also known only to people inside us, and outsiders can't know it."

A name is the equivalent of an author's pen name.

"So good! Very good!" Zhang Xuansu stroked his beard and smiled, Kong Yingda and Yu Zhining also nodded with satisfaction.

"Three masters! The widow still has something to do! There will be no three masters left. Li Chengqian said.

"The old minister retires!" Zhang Xuansu and the three hurriedly saluted and retired.

Li Chengqian went to the Chongxian Pavilion and the Chongwen Pavilion again, and selected a group of straight scholars from them to act as editors, and the guards of the East Palace acted as reporters and were responsible for making some news back.

Li Chengqian divided the newspaper into five pages, the first of which dealt with political matters such as current affairs, new decrees issued by the imperial court, and speeches of ministers of the DPRK and China.

The second page talks about biographies, mainly compiling the glorious deeds of famous ministers and some good people and good deeds, etc., and all those who meet the standards are published here.

The third page is a literary journal related to literature, which mainly publishes some poems and songs.

On the fourth page, there is a weather forecast.

The fifth and final page is the advertising page.

Advertise, advertise, advertise! In the future, advertising space will be the main source of income for newspapers, after all, newspapers also need funds to operate.

If you don't have money, what can you do to run a newspaper, you can't let the imperial court keep it all the time!

After Li Chengqian finished the layout of the newspaper, he also designed a pattern of double dragons playing with pearls in the newspaper.

Everything is ready, just wait for the official release tomorrow to try it out.

After all, this was the first time that a newspaper had been distributed to the broad masses of the people, and before he knew what the effect would be, Li Chengqian decided to try to publish it in Chang'an County and Wannian County first.

Li Chengqian planned to ask His Majesty Li Er to give the newspaper a title before the newspaper was published, and Li Chengqian gave the names of several newspapers and entered the palace for His Majesty Li Er to choose.

Li Chengqian not only had to publish newspapers, but also magazines and weeklies in the future.

"That's the name you want me to give to the newspaper?" Li Er looked at the paper that Li Chengqian handed over, and there were several words written on it that were used to name the newspaper.

Such as Datang half past six, Datang evening news, Datang Morning News, Datang Daily, Datang Evening News, etc.

"These are all carefully selected by the sons, the words are short and concise, and the people will know what they are when they hear it!" Li Chengqian said.

Li Er nodded, feeling that what Li Chengqian said made sense, and Li Er's gaze fell on the paper again.

Li Er picked up the pen and crossed out the Datang at half past six on the paper, what is it at half past six?

Li Er shook his head, crossed out a few more names, and after some screening, Li Er did not hesitate to circle the four characters of Datang Daily, and wrote the four characters of Datang Daily in the newspaper.

"How are you going to publish these newspapers?" Li Er put down the brush and asked.

"I plan to issue the first batch of newspapers in Chang'an County and Wannian County now, and I don't know how the sales will be for the time being, so I will temporarily print 3,000 copies and distribute them once every three days to see how the results are." Li Chengqian said.

When he opened a newspaper in the Tang Dynasty, he didn't know exactly how to operate it, so he could only come up with some first, try the situation and then make plans.

This is also the first step to open up the market.

"Father, in addition to asking you to inscribe the newspaper this time, you also need to report your glorious deeds, so that your image can take root in the hearts of the people, as well as your father's concept of governing the country, and guide Your Majesty in the right direction." Li Chengqian said, this is the main purpose of his visit this time.

How can the political press not be able to govern the imperial leader?

Li Er's eyes lit up after hearing this, if this worked, it would help him better suppress the scholars and concentrate the imperial power.

"Good! It's up to you? Is there anything I need to do? Li Er asked.

"As long as it is to report the deeds of my father's governance of the Tang Dynasty over the years, as well as the guidance of my father on some political policies such as the development direction of the Tang Dynasty in the future." Li Chengqian said.

Li Er thought about it, picked up some representative deeds, and then gave some explanations and guidance on the future development direction of Datang.

The father and son talked about the newspaper again, and Li Chengqian got up to leave.

He needs to go back and have people polish and typeset His Majesty Li Er's glorious deeds and some future development trends, and these must be completed tomorrow.

This glorious and great thing was handed over to Xu Jingzong, the front-page editor and the school's scholar.

Xu Jingzong waved his pen, and he wrote the glorious deeds of His Majesty Li Er, and slapped the leader's ass fiercely, in addition to singing praises to His Majesty Li Er, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Xu Jingzong patted the prince's ass without leaving a trace.

The big leader's sycophant must be filmed, and the small leader's sycophant must also be photographed, not to mention the future big leader.

The newspaper is typeset! He asked the people of the printing team to work overnight and print 3,000 copies of the newspaper before dawn.

"Sell the newspaper! Sell the newspaper! Datang Daily has a copy of three pennies, home travel, life and entertainment, everything, you can know everything about the world without going out......"

Early the next morning, between the various markets in Chang'an, small figures could be seen selling on the streets of each square.

Everyone wondered what this newspaper was! So someone bought the first newspaper out of curiosity.

Seeing that someone is taking the lead, it is natural that more and more people will follow the trend and buy newspapers.

The headlines of the newspaper are naturally the important speeches of the leaders of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the development plan for the future of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the political program, and the release of some political information such as the development policies of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition to these, there is also the weather forecast issued by Qin Tianjian for the last two days to escort travelers.

On the literature section, some poems and songs of famous Confucians were published.