If you want to say who is the busiest among Zhu Cijiong's cronies, it is not Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang, Sun Yuanhua and other bigwigs in the civil servants, nor Qin Liangyu, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and other military generals, but the little-known general political envoy Si Zuo Tongzheng Wu Meicun.

Since listening to the emperor's ideas and soliciting manuscripts in various yamen, he has not had a day of leisure, and there are always endless articles waiting for him every day. Now he is standing and watching, sitting and watching, walking and watching, eating, and even watching when he is lying in bed, and he gets up the next day to continue watching!

There is no way, more and more people are submitting, and according to the people below, more than 5,000 manuscripts are now received every day! Everyone should be surprised, the officials in the capital are all in their early 2,000s at most, how can there be more than 5,000 manuscripts?

I wrote a few copies one day, but there are not many such people, after all, they are all officials in the yamen, and no matter how idle they are, they will not be idle until they have nothing to do all day long. So how did so many manuscripts come about? Most people are voting for their friends and family!

The key issue is this reputation, if anyone's article can be fortunate enough to be selected by Wu Meicun Wu to be featured in the "Beijing News", then he will become famous, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is famous all over the country, because the "Beijing News" was originally distributed throughout the country.

I'm afraid no one can imagine how much the sales of the "Beijing News" will be now, indeed, even Zhu Cijiong didn't expect this number, and the sales of "The Beijing News" have reached a terrifying five million copies! And this is not the credit of Zhu Cijiong, it was the idea that Wu Meicun, an ancient, came up with, which made the sales of "The Beijing News" skyrocket!

In fact, this idea is not complicated at all, but ordinary people will not think about it in this way, and the key to this idea is to capture the largest readership of the Beijing News.

Who is the largest readership of The Beijing News? First of all, it is certain that it is not a jinshi, after all, there are only 300 jinshi in three years, an average of 100 a year, only 1,000 in 100 years, and only 10,000 in a hundred years, and a few can live to be 100 years old and not die, so the total number of jinshi in the whole country of Daming is not 10,000; It's not about lifting people and showing talents, these people are also the best among tens of millions of readers, there are so many places in a province, and the number will not be too much, otherwise Fan Jin will not go crazy because of the middle lifter.

The largest readership of the Beijing News is actually those children who have no fame, not that they are young, but that they have not passed the county, government and hospital examinations, have not been admitted to the students, and have not achieved fame. Shengren is generally called Xiucai among the people, and Tongsheng, they also have a popular name, called Reader.

How many people are there in the Ming Dynasty? This is really no one has counted, but "everything is inferior, only reading is high", in the Ming Dynasty, the dynasty that attaches the most importance to the imperial examination, there should be no fewer readers, not to mention that the whole people read so exaggerated, there should be such a person who reads more than a dozen people, according to the Ming Dynasty's hundreds of millions of people, then there are almost 10 million people in the Ming Dynasty!

With such a huge readership, how can they buy newspapers? It's very simple, just figure out what the purpose of their reading is, don't say anything about reading for the rise of the Ming Dynasty, people at that time didn't have such a high consciousness; Don't say anything in order to cultivate sentiment and increase knowledge, no one in ancient times would be so idle. Since the existence of the imperial examination system, the vast majority of scholars have only one purpose, that is, the title of the gold list.

There are two major events in life, the candle night in the cave room, and the title of the gold list. How can I get the title of the gold list? I am afraid that this question is what the vast majority of readers want to know, and Wu Meicun has grasped this point, starting from the fourth issue of the "Beijing News", he has opened a column, and the title of the column is called "On the Title of the Gold List".

If you want to ask who is most qualified to talk about the title of the gold list, it is naturally the first champion of the gold list, and Wu Meicun happens to be the champion of the new department, so the first article of the column, he personally wrote his experience in writing Bagu Wen, as well as his personal experience from the county examination, the government examination, the hospital examination to the township examination, the meeting examination, and the palace examination. Then, he went to the previous champions, licked his face and begged them to write about their experiences and experiences.

Shi Kefa, the champion of the previous section, said that everyone was a close confidant of the emperor, and he wrote the article and sent it over the next day. The other champions are not very easy to talk to, the champion is the leader among tens of millions of readers, who is not a little arrogant, and as long as he does not make mistakes after the general high school champion, the official career is relatively smooth, and there are many people who are older than him Wumei Village officials, you count that green onion, let me write I'll write?

Wu Meicun is also more terrifying than the truth, in order to make the emperor happy and increase the sales of "The Beijing News", he didn't want to show his face, and used coercion and temptation. Do you give me face? You give me face, I give you silver, one hundred taels for an article, hello, I'm good, everyone's good; If you don't give me face, I can go to the emperor to sue you, and when the emperor initiates a storm, don't blame me!

This is a celebrity in front of the emperor, everyone knows this, he said that it was not a joke to sue, choose between one hundred taels and make the emperor angry, as long as he is not a fool, he will choose one hundred taels, will he be a fool if he can be a high school champion? Therefore, Wu Meicun got what he wanted, and all the previous champions obediently wrote about their experiences, and sent away this new champion with a bit abnormal nerves, and the column "On the Title of the Gold List" in the "Beijing News" was able to publish more than a dozen champion articles in a row.

This is terrible, one to ten, ten to hundred, all the world's readers began to frantically buy the "Beijing News", just kidding, who doesn't want the title of the gold list, even if you know that you are not that piece of material, you have to buy the champion article just for the top article. That's the champion Lang, the idol of tens of millions of readers, usually you want to read their articles, ten articles? You don't even want to see a word!

After the first three issues of the "Beijing News" were free of charge, the fourth issue was about to start collecting money, and Wu Meicun printed 1 million copies to test the waters, but news came from various post offices that the newspapers were looted as soon as they arrived. These people are not here for the title of the champion article and the gold list, but mainly because the first three issues are full of enthusiasm, and everyone is hot-headed, and there are many people who want to continue to boil, so the newspaper was robbed.

In the fifth issue, Wu Meicun let two million copies be printed, but they were still robbed, and at this time, the "Beijing News" mentioned that there was a champion article to teach you how to name the gold list, and the matter of the title of the gold list has been slowly spread.

In the sixth issue, Wu Meicun let print 3 million copies, but it was still robbed, and at this time, it was already known that there were champion articles on it, and most of them came to the title of the champion article and the gold list.

In the seventh issue, Wu Meicun printed four million copies, but it was still robbed, no way, the champion article is written well, although most of the champions are to send Wu Meicun this madman, but they also cherish their reputation, this is to be distributed nationwide, do they dare to write nonsense? Therefore, every article is written by them seriously, and it can be the top student in high school, and it is needless to say that the writers all over the world are drunk and obsessed, and they can't stop.

In the eighth issue, Wu Meicun let five million copies be printed, but it was still robbed, reading the "Beijing News" has become a fashion for readers, these days readers are chatting together, and the mouths are: Have you read a certain article written by a certain champion, what is that sentence, if you don't read it, you can't answer, then it's a shame. It's an exaggeration to say that now the readers of the Ming Dynasty don't dare to go out if they don't read the "Beijing News", because when you go out and meet a friend, people will definitely talk to you about the content of the newspaper, haven't you read it? Can't answer? You're embarrassed to say you're a reader!

In the ninth issue, Wu Meicun let six million copies be printed, uh, it wasn't printed, or five million copies, and the bosses of the Beijing papermaking workshop and printing workshop are going crazy these days, and they said that one million copies a day will be good? Don't bring such a playful person!

In the first ten days, they worked overtime to print 30 million copies, then trimmed for two days, and on the third day 1 million copies, everyone was very relaxed, they were ready for a long time, and they didn't need to add to the class.

Two million copies on the fourth day, well, who thinks it's too much money, it's printed overtime, and they all laugh from ear to ear.

Three million servings on the fifth day, come on, come on, let's not think of the money, two shifts, just right, their jaws are about to laugh.

Four million copies on the sixth day, these bosses were in a hurry, frantically looking for someone to print crazy, and finally coped with it.

Five million copies on the seventh day, these bosses are going crazy, all staring at the workshop, don't be lazy, give me a hard print. Dine? Wait, I'll find you a top shifter, and take turns to eat one by one, without stopping; Out of Gong? Line up, go one by one, and hold it for me if you don't have a top shift, and you are not allowed to stop. In short, it was overtime and non-stop, and it was finally printed.

Six million copies on the eighth day, these bosses are really going crazy, Lord Wu, you have bypassed us, you really can't print it! Wu Meicun had to give up, as for finding workshops in other places to print, this point is expressly forbidden by Zhu Cijiong, what kind of jokes, printing everywhere, how many do they print, do you care? When the time comes, you won't be able to sell a single one, and the market will be occupied by pirated goods! He also specially asked Jinyiwei and Dongchang to keep an eye on it, and whoever dared to pirate it would be arrested immediately and all the equipment would be confiscated.

How terrible piracy is as a modern person Zhu Cijiong knows that once piracy is rampant, let alone making money, the manuscript fee must be upside down, and it will be absolutely impossible to lose money to support pirates, and it is absolutely not okay to let pirated goods appear in Daming!

Just when Wu Meicun was busy and dizzy, the emperor issued an edict to let him enter the palace to meet him.

He hurriedly put down the manuscript in his hand and hurried to the palace.

Zhu Cijiong is looking for Wu Meicun mainly to recover Liaodong, the art of war is cloudy: the division must be famous, although the reason for fighting the invaders and recovering the lost territory is already very sufficient, but it went in obscurity, most of the people of the Ming Dynasty did not know, nor did they participate, as if the fight against the invaders was his Chongzheng Emperor's business, and the others were waiting in the rear to see the results, not even a flag waving and shouting, waiting for you to win the whole country boiling, in case you lose the fight and scold, how can this work!

The artillery is ahead, and the reports have to keep up.