Chapter 304: I Never Expected
The eldest grandson, Wuji, swung his club and went into the hole.
This goal made the master very satisfied, and he practiced hard for a long time, and finally his skills improved greatly. He is now confident that he can easily win over Chu Suiliang, Yu Zhining, and Han Ming, but he is still not sure that he will win Li Xiao.
"What has that kid been doing lately?" The eldest grandson, the old yin, held a piece of deerskin and gently wiped his steel staff.
"This kid has been in the limelight lately, and Chang'an has nothing to do for a while." Han Ying wiped his cane with a piece of deerskin like the eldest grandson, and told the eldest grandson, who had been in retreat for a long time, about the little bastard.
angrily scolded Cui Zhiyi, sent Cui Zhiyi back to his hometown and expelled him as a citizen, and even received Cui Zhiyi's two daughters into the house as concubines, one of which was actually Cui Erniang, who was famous in Chang'an. And then recently in the printing of books, although the emperor said that the good 300,000 yuan did not materialize, but people still make a lot of noise, and Lou Guandao has started several printing business, and now just issued a newspaper.
"What is a newspaper?"
The eldest grandson Wuji has no interest in Cui Zhiyi, the so-called five surnames and seven families, and the Guanlong nobles look down on each other. This is the struggle between the new nobles and the old nobles, and if they have the opportunity, the eldest grandson doesn't mind stepping on them a few times.
It can only be said that Li Xiao did what the eldest grandson wanted to do, and he did it very beautifully. He had heard of the reputation of the flower of Chang'an, and the eldest grandson even intended to help one of his sons to marry the second lady of the Cui family, but unfortunately this matter was just revealed a little idea, and was rudely rejected by Cui Zhiyi's arrogant guy.
He didn't know what a newspaper was, but since it was made by Li Xiao's secretary and young eunuch, it was definitely not simple.
Han Ying took out a booklet from his arms, "No, this is Chang'an News, a very innovative thing." β
"Books?"
"It's not a book, it's just a sixteen pages, but the content is varied, mainly 'news', there are also poems and songs, and there is even a serial attached to it, the most peculiar thing is that this Chang'an News is actually a ten-day issue, and each issue will not be repeated."
The eldest grandson Wuji was surprised when he heard this, put down his beloved club, took the newspaper and flipped through it.
Turning the first page, there is a line of bold and enlarged words, the great victory of the Eastern Expeditionary Sailor Baekje. After a closer look at it at a glance, the eldest grandson Wuji really heard this good news for the first time, during this time, he stayed in this Blue Creek Stadium every day to practice, and he really didn't hear anything outside the window.
"Xue Li and Su Lie are good, they first occupied Tamna, then broke Wuzhen, and now they have gone down to Julie and opened up the passage with Silla, and the Eastern Expeditionary Sailor can be regarded as having a firm foothold in Baekje."
Chu Suiliang said on the side, "That's really good news, but this newspaper is also very good at using it as their front page headline, the news is timely, and the content is relatively comprehensive, especially this way of writing, the number of words is not much, but it reports the battle situation on the front line of the Navy Division very clearly." β
The eldest grandson Wuji nodded, the content of this good news is not like the official rhetoric of the imperial court, there is not so much nonsense, it is all very plain vernacular, but it is concise enough to clearly convey the information of the good news.
He was more interested in the newspaper now, and he flipped back to it.
It is another important news published, but it is the matter of the imperial court's construction of the Daming Palace with work for relief, and it is also introduced in a more concise text the details of the work for relief, and what attracts his attention is that several sets of numbers in it are very accurate, such as how many victims have been recruited to repair the palace now, and how the daily construction progress isΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·
There's a lot of content in the whole newspaper, and the text isn't beautiful, but it's concise enough. And there are a lot of various news, basically a page is a news, looking at this newspaper, it is like hearing all kinds of news, or the latest and most accurate.
There is even a special page to introduce the current prices of many important commodities in the eastern and western markets, the latest prices and demand for firewood, rice, oil, salt, cloth, etc.
The most surprising thing is that there are still some strange contents between the various messages in these sections.
"That's an advertisement, and the business can pay the newspaper and put an ad on it. What kind of sale, lease, purchase and other information can be published, you see that the advertisement published in this issue is the advertisement of Louguan Road, Louguan Road Chang'an Sect Shengguan Heavy Money to Seek the Tao Sutra. β
The content of 10,000 words, in fact, I read it quickly, after all, the content of each page is not a lot of words, and the content is straightforward, not a difficult article. After reading it, I found that there was a stack of paper attached to the back, which was not bound with the previous content.
When I picked it up, it was the same with many pages, but it was different from many of the previous page messages.
"God List?"
"This is a serial, about the ancient Shang Zhou Dynasty, about the ancient Shang Zhou Dynasty, about the martial king's war, but mixed with immortals and Taoism in it, it is very interesting to write." Han Ying said with a smile.
When he saw the serialization of the Fengshen List for the first time, he was also very surprised, it was very popular and vernacular, but after reading it once, he wanted to continue to look back, and he had a very refreshing feeling.
"You can't even imagine who wrote this book."
The eldest grandson Wuji looked at it, and when he first looked at the beginning, he felt that this level was extremely ordinary, and it was a big vernacular, but the more he read it, the more he felt that it was unusual, as if he was telling a very interesting story, with ups and downs in the plot, and it was connected.
The content of 10,000 words is actually only three chapters, but the three chapters have already paved a small climax. Shang inscription obscene poems angered Nuwa, Nuwa attracted three demons, among which there are Fuxi Yan Emperor Xuanyuan Three Sages, very exciting, the background is very clear, the story of the ancient Yin Shang period, the characters are also portrayed well, a faint tyrant Shang Wang, this kind of faint monarch wants to be scolded at a glance.
And as soon as the three goblins come out, it makes people think that the story will be more exciting later.
"What about the back?" The eldest grandson Wuji asked.
After retiring, there was nothing to do all day, although he was still a teacher, and he was awarded such important positions as Dongdu Yin and Luoyang, but in fact, it was just a false title, and he couldn't manage that at all, and he couldn't even leave Chang'an easily, otherwise it would be easy to cause unnecessary suspicion.
"This Chang'an News is run by Li Xiao, he is the president and editor-in-chief, and then he wrote this god list."
"Li Asan?" The eldest grandson Wuji was really surprised, he had never heard that this Li Asan still had this ability. Who doesn't know that Li Asan was born as a small landlord, what does he rely on to get into the office? Offering auspicious corn, although Li Xiao also offered Pingliao policy, but that is just a strategy, not a talent like writing.
"Yes, when the old man first read this newspaper, he was also surprised that this was actually from Li Xiao."
The eldest grandson Wuji put down the very thin newspaper in his hand, the paper was very poor, and the font was printed, which was dull compared to the handwriting, and in some places it was not even clear. But it's such an obviously shoddy thing, but people can't help but marvel, rough to rough, but very effective in delivering a lot of news.
"This thing is published every ten years, and the content of each issue is different?" The eldest grandson asked.
"Yes, that's what I said, now there are a lot of newspaper kiosks in Chang'an, and there are even a few city gates, which are quite small, and some are located next to the newly built public toilets everywhere. Chu Suiliang said with a smile.
"The public toilets have been repaired? So fast? β
"Recently, Gyeonggi has been full of disaster victims, and Li Xiaoxue has learned that the imperial court has worked for relief, and if he takes some food, he can recruit a large number of people to come and work, and the toilets he repairs are quite simple."
After recruiting a large number of cheap victims to work, Li Xiao has successfully built 480 public toilets throughout Chang'an, covering 108 squares in Chang'an, as well as the eastern and western cities and the streets and city gates of Chang'an.
Li Xiao repaired a public toilet according to the ratio of one public toilet for 1,000 people, and Chang'an had a population of 480,000, so he repaired 480 public toilets, which is not much.
The public toilet is completely free, and even provides free toilet chips, and then the public toilet has a special person responsible for cleaning, which is very clean and hygienic, and there is no scene of feces and urine at all.
Li Xiao now publishes the Chang'an News, and has built a small newsstand next to a public toilet in some high-traffic locations, selling both newspapers and books, and even renting books.
"Such a Chang'an News, can you guess how much it will be sold for?"
The eldest grandson Wuji looked at the newspaper in his hand, and the newspaper and the sum were more than 30 pages, more than 20,000 words, if it was the price of a general book, it must be worth a lot of money, but the paper was relatively poor, the printing was relatively rough, and the content was not as important as the scriptures.
So he thought for a while and said, "If we are together, it is estimated that it will cost two or three dollars!" β
Chu Suiliang stretched out a slap.
"Do you want to go five?" The eldest grandson Wuji asked with a smile, "It's not worth it." β
"It's not worth it, so Li Xiao sells fifty wen a copy, including the serial that comes with it later."
Over there, Han Ying said with a smile, "Fifty wen a copy is retail bulk sale, as far as I know, this newspaper can also be ordered, if you order a month at a time, then it is a nine-percent discount, if you order a year's at a time, it is only eighty-fold, and the monthly or annual customers who book are also responsible for delivering the newspaper to the door." β
Now the eldest grandson Wuji was really surprised. The monthly package is nine folds, which is only forty-five cents, and the annual eightfold fold is only forty cents.
That's more than 30 pages and more than 20,000 words. It's only forty or fifty dollars, can paper and ink money be returned?
Not to mention the engraving.
"I'm worried about the auxiliary machine, do you know how many copies of Li Xiao's newspaper are printed at one time?" Chu Suiliang stretched out a finger as he spoke.
"A hundred?"
"It's a thousand copies, and this newspaper was issued yesterday, and the 1,000 copies were sold out quickly, and then it was reprinted twice in a row, and it is estimated that it is almost sold out."
"Three thousand?" Eldest Sun Wuji's eyes widened, which he never expected.