The second year of Xianheng came to an end, and the people of Chang'an were busy preparing for the New Year's goods and festival celebrations. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

As the only comprehensive shopping mall, Xinxiangdian has undoubtedly become the most popular commercial place in Chang'an. The daily flow of people in the palace is endless, and the shops stationed in the mall receive money softly, and they don't have to worry about the evil officials and ruffians to extort, and the shopkeepers of the various businesses can't help but sigh that the business has never been as good as it is today.

Many people who shop from Xinxiangdian will choose the latest issue of their favorite newspaper published by their favorite newspaper at the newsstand at the entrance of the palace, or read it while walking, or take it home to read, and the Royal Weekly is a must for most newspaper buyers.

This is because Royal Weekly is the most authentic and worthwhile newspaper of all publications covering current affairs.

Since the opening of the Royal Weekly at the beginning of the year, there have been many newspapers in Chang'an City that have followed the trend and run newspapers.

However, it has only been less than a year since the emergence of a new thing like newspapers, and it is inevitable that there will be a lot of chaos in so many newspapers all of a sudden.

Except for newspapers and periodicals such as "Taoism, Ascending Immortals, and Buddha Light" founded by Taoists and Buddhists, which propagate religious doctrines and publish poetic works, most of the other newspapers and periodicals that publish current affairs report untruths, catch wind and shadows, and even headline the party, and advertisements are overflowing, just to attract readers' attention and increase sales.

Although the Royal Weekly was founded by Li Yu and several brothers and younger sisters, they basically did not care about their business, and wrote articles and poems for publication in person or by others when necessary. For example, when the crown prince was in charge of the country, any decrees involving the people were published in the royal weekly.

It is precisely because the Royal Weekly represents the mouthpiece of the royal family, and Li Yu strictly ordered not to publish content that does not match the truth, that the Royal Weekly has the reputation it has today.

With a good reputation, the content published will be more believed, which will naturally attract many readers to buy it, making Royal Weekly a big brother in the newspaper industry that has just emerged in Datang.

With the help of newsstands, many newspaper companies that followed the trend had to rely on the snort of Royal Weekly to survive in order to have a wider range of sales channels for their newspapers.

It's just that today, when the people in Chang'an City go to the newsstand to buy the latest issue of the newspaper as usual, they find a different newspaper among the many newspapers placed in the newsstand.

It is indeed not called a newspaper, because it is only half the size of a newspaper, but it is thicker than a newspaper, with ten pages, more like a thin-bound book.

The cover is still a blue-colored view of the sea and sky, and a small green island stands in the middle of the sea and sky. Five large purple characters "Overseas Strange Stories" are impressively arranged in the upper middle of the cover, and the small characters in the lower right corner note Datang's first magazine "Overseas Strange Stories" are officially on sale.

Whether it is the previous books or the thread-bound books and newspapers made by Yanwangfu now, they are all black on a white background, but the cover and font of this magazine "Overseas Strange Stories" are colored, and it is undoubtedly eye-catching in a pile of newspapers with black and white letters.

Many customers who bought the newspaper curiously picked up a copy of "Overseas Odd Stories" and flipped through it, and they were amazed that not only the cover of this magazine was in color, but even the words printed on the page numbers inside were in color. It looks extremely novel, and the colorful handwriting stimulates the reader's vision, arouses the reader's interest in flipping through it, and does not appear visual fatigue after reading for a long time.

Of course, what makes it even more appealing to readers is the content it publishes.

Regardless of the era, people are generally curious about the outside world that they do not know, and if someone conveys this information to them, it will attract people to stop and listen.

Now "Overseas Gonzo" has undoubtedly served as a medium for the people of Chang'an to understand overseas affairs, attracting a lot of attention.

If the content of the publication is related to people's pursuit of a better life, it will undoubtedly have a great impact.

The general public, what do they care about most? State affairs? What are you doing overseas?

NO！ What they are most concerned about is whether their lives are good or not, and what good ways to make their lives better.

No matter how novel things are overseas, it is only to satisfy their own curiosity, and what is the use of not being able to change their current living conditions?

But the overseas events published in the "Overseas Strange Stories" that everyone watched with relish firmly caught the attention of the general public. What people see in the magazine is not an overseas anecdote, but an opportunity to change the current undesirable living situation, an opportunity to get rich and reach the pinnacle of life.

"Pavilion Chief, how much does this "Overseas Strange Stories" cost?"

"Twenty Wen." The pavilion chief stretched out three fingers and said expressionlessly.

"So expensive!" Asking the price, the young man dressed as a poor scholar couldn't help frowning, took out his right hand in his sleeve pocket, took out a handful of Kaiyuan Tongbao, counted twenty copper plates in the palm of his hand, and threw it in front of the pavilion chief, picked up the magazine in his hand and walked away angrily.

More people who flipped through the "Overseas Strange Stories" asked the pavilion chief for the price, but when he heard the high price of 20 Wen, the rich man didn't care about the money, put down the money and picked up the magazine, and walked away in the eyes of the people who were not able to raise money to buy it.

But when they thought of what was published in the magazine, many fundraisers gritted their teeth and bought it, and those who didn't have enough money got together and bought a copy.

When the news of "Overseas Gonzo" magazine came out of the mouths of some buyers, it attracted more people to buy it. Many of them fled the famine and entered the city, and each of them bought a copper plate and then went to the street to find a well-wisher who could read to them.

When the well-wishers read and explained word by word, the eyes of the victims were shining, their chests were rising and falling, and they couldn't stop sighing in their hearts that there was a place overseas that was richer than the Tang Dynasty.

"Big brother, do you think what Brother Yu said in this "Overseas Gonzo" published by Royal Weekly is true?" Li Xianting asked curiously about the eldest brother Li Hong on the side.

Since many newspapers appeared in Chang'an, and there were periodicals published by different newspapers every day, Li Xian gradually developed the habit of reading newspapers.

Serious newspapers are not interested, and they read newspapers and periodicals that report folk anecdotes, family scandals of famous families, and other entertainment, chasing wind and shadows, and novels of strange people, and entertaining themselves. Like a serious royal weekly, Li Xian didn't let the attendants buy it after reading it once or twice, which was boring!

The attendant who had gone to buy the newspaper today came back and said that the Royal Weekly had published a magazine with an extremely original content.

Li Xian was interested when he heard it, and it became boring to read those newspapers and periodicals with strange novels, supernatural events, and folk anecdotes for a long time. When the attendant bought "Overseas Gonzo" back, Li Xian was immediately attracted by the cover of the magazine, and when he opened it, he read it with relish, turned around, and hurriedly ran into the East Palace to ask his eldest brother.

Li Hong also read "Overseas Strange Stories", and felt that the content in it was half-true and half-false, and the overseas news published should have been brought back by the expedition team sent out by Brother Yu. What Brother Yu did in Anton, although the court is not very clear, but it is not a dark eye. It's just that Tubo in the northwest is on the border, and the Tang Dynasty has heavy troops gathered in Longyou and Hexi, and they have no time to take care of Anton.

Judging from the news coming back from Anton this year, Brother Yu's interest in overseas seems to be too much, which makes people scratch their heads.

"Taiwan, Hokkaido, Seiju, and Ryukyu are all reliable news, with a good natural environment and abundant resources, and it is indeed a good place to be reclaimed and operated." Li Hong himself didn't know very well, but he smiled and said seriously.

When Li Xianzhi heard this, his face was overjoyed: "Then I will immediately write a letter to Brother Yu and ask him to leave me a piece of land of 10,000 acres in Taiwan." I had to quickly organize people to go to Taiwan to reclaim the wasteland, plant sugarcane, and dig gold mines. ”

Li Honghe's cheeks were a little stiff, and his serious nonsense seemed to have pitted the third brother, Taiwan, Soochow, and the former Sui had all sent people to visit, and it didn't seem to be a good place. The gold mine seems to be real!