In the afternoon, in the front yard of a house on Wang Tofu Street in Beicheng, there was a round table under the big locust tree, a tea set, and several men who were slightly dressed gathered together to discuss with each other. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

These people include the owner of this house, Zhang Zhong, president of "Shuntian Digest Newspaper", Lu Xing, president of "Yanjing Record", Qian Dongming, president of "Kyoto Report", Wang Jin, president of "Guodu Record", Gu Youde, president of "Shuntian Guangwen", and Chen Wei, president of "Yujing Event".

The newspaper run by these six people was the only six newspapers in Beijing before Jia Wei's Yenching Morning Post was founded.

The profits of these six newspapers were generally not too high, with more than five or six hundred taels of silver a year, and as little as two or three hundred silver a year, so each newspaper actually had a bookstore business, and in addition to selling books, it also undertook all kinds of printing business as another entry.

Of course, in the middle of this, the newspaper's profits are still the largest, ranging from 2,300 taels to 5,600 taels a year, which is nothing compared with the big business in other industries, but it is better than ordinary small business, and it is stable and almost risky.

After many years of newspaper operation, these people have a lot of net worth, a group of wives and concubines, no worries about food and clothing, and a comfortable life.

It can be said that a small wealth is peace, and everything is ignored.

But today, the inaugural issue of the Yanjing Morning Post has an overwhelming momentum, and there are Yanjing Morning Post publishers in all urban areas, shuttling back and forth, soliciting voices.

This new-style newspaper was fresh and public, which shocked them at the same time, but also obviously made them feel uneasy, and they had a strong sense of crisis.

Summoned by Zhang Zhong, they are now gathered here to discuss, hoping to brainstorm and find solutions.

“…… This Yanjing Morning News, since it has been advertised in the three major carriage and horse shops, has been staring at it for a while, and it must be the same for you," at this time, everyone exchanged a few words, Zhang Zhong cut to the chase, picked up a copy of the inaugural issue of Yanjing Morning Post on several cases, and pointed his finger at it, "...... Today's report came out, and it was a huge momentum, and it was done as a big business...... Well, this newspaper is indeed different, there are 16 pages, the content is fresh and diverse, it is undoubtedly a new newspaper, the contemptible people have a skimming at it, it is quite attractive, our newspapers can not be compared...... Moreover, the president of this newspaper is actually Jia Wei, a famous man in Beijing, who wrote Jinse, and now this inaugural issue has written Yongdai, with its fame, the promotion of this newspaper is quite helpful......"

“…… According to the contemptible people, when this newspaper comes out, our few copies of the newspaper will soon be unsold, and the closure of the newspaper office is in sight...... I don't know what you think, but I hope to discuss it and come up with a way to get through the difficulties together......"

President Zhang is right...... When this newspaper comes out, how can anyone still read these excerpts, and needless to say, the newspaper will soon go out of business...... The scale of the Yanjing Morning News is huge, and only when we work together can we survive......" Qian Dongming, director of the "Kyoto Report", who was sitting opposite Zhang Zhong, put down his teacup and said.

The two of them spoke, and the rest of them nodded.

The bulk of everyone's business is pointed at the newspaper, and no one wants to watch the newspaper go out of business.

And to compete with the Yanjing Morning News, there is no other way than for the six newspapers to cooperate with each other, and it is absolutely impossible to rely on one or two alone.

The reality is in front of us, everyone can see it, and it is a basic consensus.

With this consensus as the basis, there were many fewer obstacles, and soon everyone began to discuss word by word, and after a while, they came up with a rough and feasible plan.

This plan is also the plan that will inevitably be chosen in this situation.

The general idea is that each of the six newspapers will take a certain percentage of the shares to jointly establish a new newspaper similar to the Yenching Morning News, and everything from the operation of the newspaper to the content of the newspaper will imitate the Yenjing Morning News, so as to form a competition.

Let them find another way, they can't do it, so this plan is undoubtedly the best, and everyone agrees.

But then, when it came to discussing specific issues, everyone disagreed.

First, the amount of funds, i.e., how much to co-finance, is a matter of contention.

There is undoubtedly a lot of risk in setting up a new newspaper to compete with the Yanjing Morning News, and everyone can imagine that although on the one hand, it has to do it, and on the other hand, it is also trying its best to avoid risks.

The control of the number of funds is the first hurdle to avoid risks, and the large amount of funds is distributed to each person, and the small number of funds is also less apportioned.

Seriously, no one wants the amount of funds to be too large and beyond their ability to bear, but because of their different net worth, their ability to bear is also different, or even far apart.

Among these six, "Shuntian Digest Newspaper", "Yanjing Record Newspaper", "Shuntian Guangwen", and "Yujing Event" are relatively large-scale, with annual profits of more than five or six hundred taels, while "Kyoto Report" and "National Capital Record" are two newspapers with a smaller scale, with an annual profit of only two or three hundred taels.

Therefore, Zhang Zhong, Lu Xing, Gu Youde, and Chen Wei advocated that the amount of funds should be around 20,000 taels, while Qian Dongming and Wang Jin advocated that it should only be about 10,000 taels.

“…… You see, the Yanjing Morning News is printed with copper movable type, and it is printed clearly and exquisitely...... "The obese Lu Xing pointed his finger at the morning newspaper on several cases, and said to Qian Dongming and Wang Jin, "...... The custom price of copper movable type, needless to say, people are willing to pay such a cost, we six together, an extra 10,000 taels of silver, why can't you be reluctant? President Qian and President Wang, think about it again...... What can you do with 10,000 taels of silver, at least 20,000 taels......"

"How can we compare to your fat man, the profit of your newspaper is worth us for two or three years a year, and you are rich and ......rich," Qian Dongming said angrily.

Wang Jin on the side said seriously, "Our newspapers are different from the Yanjing Morning News...... People are from scratch, in a short period of time to get up, the cost required is naturally larger, we are different, we have been running newspapers for many years, many things are ready-made, can save a lot of capital, according to the contemptible people, 10,000 taels of silver carefully calculated, should be enough......"

"President Wang, what you said is confused, what do we have, it is nothing more than some printing utensils, some craftsmen, and some venues, but these are all useless, what we want to do right now is a new-style newspaper, and we are running a new-style newspaper, and the bulk of the funds spent is not on it......" Lu Xing ignored Qian Dongming's complaints, and refuted Wang Jin face-to-face.

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