Chapter 212 The inaugural issue of Bosom Friend Bookstore
The biting cold wind hunts, and the sun on the sun does not bring a trace of warmth in winter.
In such a season, if there is nothing to do, no one will come out and run around, but it is better to stay at home and bake charcoals.
It's just that today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, so I have to come out.
As soon as the drums of the opening of the east and west cities of Chang'an City sounded, the people who had been waiting outside the gate for a long time poured in, and there were also strangers in strange costumes during the period, and the two cities were instantly overcrowded.
Today, whether they are rich or not, whether they are ordinary people, dignitaries, or foreigners, in addition to purchasing or purchasing.
It's the New Year, isn't it just spending money to buy, buy, buy?
Ordinary people in poor families buy some cheap New Year's goods, and then spend a penny or two to buy some toys such as windmills and rattles for their children, or buy a string of rock sugar gourds for their greedy sons and daughters.
People from well-to-do families buy some pastries, buy some silk cloth, and make some new clothes for the New Year.
Just when the people of Chang'an were buying in the east and west markets, a newly opened shop in the east market was quiet, because this shop was a newly opened bookstore.
In a place like a bookstore, only readers or dignitaries will visit, but today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, and people who come to visit the east and west cities, who are not buying New Year goods?
As a result, this newly opened bookstore named "Bosom Friend" is cleaner than usual, and it seems to be ready to go.
During the Chinese New Year, no one took care of the bosom friend bookstore, even when the bosom friend bookstore opened, it was quiet, and even the shopkeeper in the east market didn't remember when the bosom friend bookstore opened.
Quiet and unheard is the true portrayal of the bosom friend bookstore.
It's just that when the east and west markets opened today, several small servants poured out of the bosom friend's study, and these little girls were carrying a package with a thick stack of pages in the package.
There is nothing strange about this book, well-informed people know that this bookstore called Bosom Friend has a kind of printing technology, which undertakes the printing of government documents and decrees, and can maintain its business even if the business is cold.
These little guys carrying the pages on their backs, if nothing outsiders expected, must have sent the government to entrust the printing of the decree.
It's just that these little guys have left the bosom friend bookstore, and the next thing is much more than outsiders expected.
I saw these little guys out of the bosom friend bookstore, scattered from the alleys of the market, and shouted to the people around them while walking.
"Sell the newspaper, sell the newspaper...... Chang'an Weekly only costs two pennies a copy......"
Chang'an Weekly, what the hell is this?
"This week's current affairs, my Tang Lion has won a victory in the crusade against the Western Turkic Helu; Silla sent Tang beggars to attack and invade Goguryeo and Baekje to ensure the safety of Silla......"
Well?
There is actually news of the Tang Lion, which is a bit interesting.
“…… Jin Yong's new work "Journey to the West" tells about immortals, demons, gods and Buddhas, and the ...... of Western Bliss"
This "Chang'an Weekly", which only costs two pennies, actually has such content on it, which is really interesting!
As soon as these little guys shouted, they immediately aroused the interest of the pedestrians around them, not to mention that two pennies are not much, and it costs sixty or seventy yuan to buy a thin book printed by engraving.
So the people who knew the words and dignitaries came forward to buy a copy, after all, they were curious, and the two pennies were not much, so it didn't hurt to look at the strangeness and see what this Chang'an Weekly News was.
Several small servants carried hundreds of copies of the Chang'an Weekly News, and in less than half an hour, they were sold out.
Mainly the people of Chang'an City are very curious about this novelty called the newspaper, and the hundreds of copies of Chang'an Weekly are sold out of ninety percent because of curiosity.
Li Mingyue's face changed slightly when she got the news, it was sold out so quickly, and it seems that the demand for Chang'an Weekly is far more than a few hundred copies of an issue.
"Quickly ask the craftsman to print another thousand copies of the first newspaper...... No, two thousand copies! Li Mingyue found a business opportunity from it, and with the novelty of newspapers, there should be many people in Chang'an City who bought them.
There are many nobles, clansmen, and eunuchs in Chang'an City, most of these people are literate, and Chang'an City also has Taixue and Guozi, and there are even more people who read like a cow's hair, plus Fanbang to make it, so that more than 2,000 newspapers can still be digested.
What's more, Li Mingyue still has to prepare several Chang'an weekly reports to send to the palace, so that more than 2,000 copies are barely enough.
It's just that Li Mingyue doesn't want to take this risk, the newspaper is a novelty after all, and she has no bottom in her heart, so she has not launched the Chang'an Weekly for a long time.
Unexpectedly, 600 copies of Chang'an Weekly had been sold out in half an hour, and she knew that she had indeed underestimated the sales of Chang'an Weekly.
The craftsmen in the Zhiyin Bookstore are working overtime to print the Chang'an Weekly Newspaper regardless of the time spent on purchasing New Year's goods in Chinese New Year's Eve, and the contents of the newspaper have been published, as long as they are printed and dried, they can be sold out.
It's just that Li Mingyue and everyone in the bosom friend bookstore didn't expect the influence that Chang'an Weekly would bring.
"I didn't expect that my Tang Dynasty Lion was so good, and the Western Turk Helu, who had forgotten his roots, was defeated and retreated, and he beheaded the Western Turks at the level of 400."
"This Silla is also unlucky, let Goguryeo and Baekje join forces to invade, but it is my Tang Iron Army, there is no benefit, how can I easily send troops for a subject country?"
"Lang Jun's words are wrong, Goguryeo and Baekje don't listen to the persuasion of my Tang Dynasty Heavenly Kingdom, and they actually invade Silla, my Tang Dynasty soldiers don't teach me a lesson, how can they deter the surrounding Xiaoxiao people and obey my Heavenly Dynasty's orders?"
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At this moment, the students of Taixue and Guozi who read the newspaper began to discuss fiercely, and everyone was red-faced.
These students' homes are hundreds of miles away from Chang'an, thousands of miles away, thousands of miles, and in this era of traveling on their feet, they will not go home easily, so they can only stay in Chang'an for the New Year.
Pingkang Fang is a meeting place for students from both schools, and it has become a good place for them to meet.
This controversy, people in Pingkang have known the novelty of Chang'an Weekly.
There are also some readers who don't care about national affairs, but care about the story of "Journey to the West" published in the third and fourth editions, and they are fascinated by the bizarre world of ghosts and gods in the text.
What's more, after reading the story, I was still unsatisfied, patting my thigh and shouting pity.
"Although the text of "Journey to the West" is short, it can shape such a wonderful world, and the author of Jin Yong can also be called a strange person in the world."
"It's a pity that there is only one chapter in this story, which makes people unsatisfied, this stone monkey makes people worry about their future situation, I really want to read it together!"
"Why don't I go to the Bosom Friend Bookstore, meet this Jin Yongqi person, and ask him how he can come up with such a magical mythical world."
"Yes, yes, I went to the Bosom Friend Bookstore together, but I wanted to meet Jin Yong, the editor-in-chief of the "Chang'an Weekly", who is really a model for me to be backward."
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