Chapter 189: Advertising Expenses
"Does Guanyin mean that I will give a princess to Qingquan? Let Qingquan become a colt? Li Er asked with a frown. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"That's right, that's what the concubine means, so that the emperor can rest assured that Qingquan, after all, Qingquan is considered the emperor's person after marrying the princess, even if there is anything, he will definitely weigh the stakes before doing it, and he will not stand on the side of the family without saying hello like today, and secondly, the emperor married the princess in the past, and it is also for other families to push Qingquan away, after all, with the princess, people from other families cannot communicate with Qingquan in everything, and there is only one Cui family left, so does the emperor still need to worry?" Empress Eldest Sun said with a smile.
"Go on." Li Er stroked his beard and motioned for Empress Changsun to continue.
"These three come, Qingquan is always talented, the emperor, look at the policies proposed by Qingquan and the military school built since you recruited Qingquan into your command, all of which make our Tang Dynasty develop in a better way, so if the emperor can let Qingquan and the royal family get involved, for the Tang Dynasty, how will it not suffer, right? Besides, in terms of talent alone, Qingquan also deserves to be a colt. "The eldest grandson queen said.
After Li Er heard what Empress Changsun said, he thought about it, if he married his daughter to Zhang Nan, then Zhang Nan's identity would be even more volatile, and the family would not be as unscrupulous as it is now, and even if Zhang Nan holds more important positions, he is also his son-in-law, no matter how you look at it, it will not be a loss.
"Having said that, but Qingquan also has a wife, if I marry my daughter to him, what should I say, I can't let my daughter be a concubine." Li Er said bitterly, after all, his daughter must not be a concubine, this is a matter related to the royal face.
"That's a problem, too." Empress Eldest Sun also showed a thoughtful expression.
"The emperor can think about this matter slowly, the first thing to solve is the matter of this newspaper, and how to do this newspaper well is a big problem." Empress Eldest Sun reminded. As he was talking, Liu Bing walked in and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Zhang is already waiting outside the door." ”
As soon as Li Eryi heard that Zhang Nan was coming, his face suddenly darkened again, and he said, "Let him come in." ”
It didn't take long for Zhang Nan to appear in front of Li Er and the eldest grandson.
"The minister has seen the emperor, the queen." Zhang Nan hurriedly saluted the two bigwigs.
"Okay, don't be so polite, let's talk about it." Li Er still said with a blank face, it seemed that he was very dissatisfied with the problem of Zhang Nan standing on the same front with the family without saying hello.
"Say? Say what? Zhang Nan looked strange, why did Li Er always like to give himself problems?
"What do you say?" Li Er looked like he was blowing his beard and staring.
"This ...... Please also ask the emperor to make it clear. Zhang Nan really didn't know if Li Er wanted to talk about the newspaper himself or the problem of papermaking.
"Okay, okay, the emperor asked you to talk about this newspaper." Seeing this, Empress Eldest Sun hurriedly said.
"Newspapers? I don't know what else the emperor doesn't understand, so the minister explained it to the emperor. "Is it difficult that your newspaper is not clear enough? This is written quite clearly, I don't know if Li Er has any questions.
"How do you want to implement this "Datang Daily"? You must know that it is not easy for ordinary people to pay for this thing, and if you want me to pay for this thing, then you don't need to say any more, it is impossible for me to pay for it. Li Er looked like he was sacrificing his life and money, and Zhang Nan looked funny.
"The emperor doesn't have to worry, this money will definitely not be let out of the emperor, the emperor only needs to give this newspaper a name, and by the way, it is enough to send a trustworthy person to supervise this thing." Zhang Nan said.
"Oh? Alright then, tell me what you think. Li Erdao.
"We can use this newspaper to advertise, advertise, advertise. We can free up a small page with the names of some of the firms in Chang'an City, and then we can simply write what they sell, so that we can collect money, for example, publish the names of the firms for a month, and the cost is 100 taels or more. Zhang Nan said with a smile.
"This ...... It's a bit too much, would the businessmen be willing? Li Eryi heard that Zhang Nan was one hundred taels as soon as he opened his mouth, and said with some hesitation.
"Whether they want it or not, it's this price, and it's only high or low, the emperor can rest assured, there will definitely be businessmen who are willing, this is a royal thing, it can be related to the imperial court, they can't be happy, the emperor is so difficult to forget the membership card of the bar?" Zhang Nan said.
When Li Er heard this, his frowning brows relaxed, and he said with a smile: "Keep talking." ”
"The minister's idea is that this "Datang Daily" is published every day, and every day the people of Datang can know what new policies the emperor has implemented, and they will start printing every night, of course, all the articles published in the newspaper must be typeset by the emperor first, if the emperor thinks there is anything wrong, then this article must not be able to meet the people." Zhang Nan said with a smile.
"Well, that's pretty much it, but it's impossible to do this every day." Li Erdao.
"Why can't it be done?" Zhang Nan asked strangely.
"Qingquan, look at this newspaper, to say the least, there are almost 40,000 words, this has to be printed with engraving, even if the craftsman is tired to death, it can't be done, these 40,000 words can't be made in a day." Li Erdao.
Zhang Nan listened, engraving printing? Is it difficult that movable type printing has not come out at this time?
This is Zhang Nan's historical blindness, movable type printing was invented in the Northern Song Dynasty, and even if it was engraving printing, it was also invented in the early Tang Dynasty, and it was prevalent in the Middle and Later Tang Dynasty, and before the Tang Dynasty, the methods used were rubbing.
Just like rubbing, the earliest method of rubbing the stele is to soak the paper and paste it on the stele first, brush it several times with a brush, or wrap cotton in a cloth and knock it on it a few times, so that the indented strokes of the inscription appear clearly on the paper, and then ink, so that the orthography can be printed. However, if the number of printed words is too large, this method is not applicable, so it took a long time to develop engraving printing.
And Zhang Nan didn't know this knowledge, so Zhang Nan said casually: "Wouldn't it be good if you don't need engraving printing?" ”
"Oh? Without engraving printing, what method does Qingquan want to use? Li Er asked strangely.
"Movable type printing, take clay to make movable type, and then arrange it in the order you want, and after printing, you can use it again next time you can shuffle the order of the words, isn't it?"
Li Eryi listened: "Is this okay?" ”