Chapter 279: A Thriving Newspaper Industry!
Seeing that this crackdown on bandits is a complete victory, and there is an extra good income. Zhu Zilong naturally did not treat his own people badly, and at the moment he gave a reward of three times to all the logistics personnel involved in it.
And for those combatants, each of them was rewarded with ten pieces of money, and there were additional rewards for those who performed well in battle.
Everyone ate, drank, and rewarded silver, and there were almost zero casualties. It's a great joy!
Moreover, Zhu Zilong also notified. For those who have clearly killed some important criminals wanted by the government during the battle, if the government's bounty is distributed, there will also be a dividend. Such a good thing has led some combatants who have not beheaded the main culprit, and at the same time, they are very angry at those who have made meritorious contributions, and at the same time, they also secretly cheer themselves up.
I thought to myself, if there is a next time, I must fight bravely to kill the enemy and make more meritorious contributions.
Soon, the logistics staff led by Jin Zheng counted out the other materials except gold, silver and jewelry. More than 100 weapons were captured, but of course most of them were too much to use. It can only be used to deal with ordinary people, and only a few are good products.
At the same time, there are more than 50 women who were rescued by bandits, in line with the law of the Great Song Dynasty, and there is less idea of letting people be truthful. Zhu Zilong decided to hand them over to the government for placement!
Of course, this is not to say that Zhu Zilong's side doesn't care about it at all.
However, the women were likely to send them back to the government, find out where they were from, and send them back. Surprisingly, eighty or ninety percent of people in Jingran said they were reluctant to return to their hometowns!
"Familiar circumstances, familiar endings. They are all hard-working women! Zhu Zilong looked at these women, and felt as if the shadows of Li Sanniang's shop, Xiaomei, Xiaofeng, Liu Yuemei and others appeared in front of him.
Patriarchy has existed since ancient times, but even more so in ancient times!
In addition to the issue of patriarchy and chastity, there are two mountains that oppress women, and there is also a mountain that is even more virtuous.
"Three obedience and four virtues" is a kind of ancient Chinese women's moral norms, which is to meet the needs of family stability and maintain the interests of patriarchal-patriarchal families (clans), according to the principles of "internal and external differences" and "male superiority and female inferiority", and the Confucian etiquette and religion are the normative requirements for women's life in morality, behavior and cultivation.
Throughout the last 5,000 years of Chinese history, only the Tang Dynasty and the 21st century New China have allowed women to live more freely.
These poor women rescued from Maohu Mountain are basically disgraced in the eyes of outsiders. If you go back to your hometown, you will either die or have to choose one of the two endings of being a nun, and everyone will feel hopeless, right?
Just like the dozens of girls in Li Sanniang's shop, now that a year has passed, the government has already notified their families. Have you ever seen a family member looking for you? In these years, there are many boys and girls, and it is not easy to find a pick-up man!
Of course, those girls will not be willing to go back to their hometowns. It can be found in Li Sanniang's store, and it is in the largest city in the Song Dynasty, in Kaifeng store. The income is also good, there are sisters around, and the food in the store is also kind, which is also a pleasure.
Thinking of this, Zhu Zilong asked Jin Zheng to inform him, meaning to explain to these women what he had done in Kaifeng.
If they are placed in the government, if there are any people who are unwilling to return to their hometowns afterwards, as long as they say a word, they will take them to live in the store. Recently, there have been a lot of branches and franchise stores, and a lot of manpower is needed.
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After returning to Kaifeng, Zhu Zilong went straight to the newspaper office to prepare for the operation of the next series of cases. As for the next bandit den cleared by the firearms team, it has been decided that Jin Zheng and Lin Qiang will lead the team, and there is no need to go out in person.
Today's Song Weekly is old, with a circulation far exceeding all other miscellaneous tabloids, almost on par with the official newspapers.
The circulation of the official newspaper is large, and that is because officials and related businesses, as well as the families of officials, must be read on a mandatory basis in all yamen. There are also some official duties that must be used, and even if there is not much reading content, everyone can only buy it head-on.
And Zhu Zilong's Great Song Weekly is not.
Not to mention the above serialization, and the fact that everyone can contribute together with a variety of people, it is particularly novel and attractive. The almost 99% accurate weather forecast above alone can be said to make the people in the whole city, as well as the people who farm, even if they buy in groups, buy one every week.
If it weren't for this weather forecast, it could only predict the weather within thousands of miles with Kaifeng as the center. It is estimated that there will be countless times more people who just need to buy. But even so, because of the other content above, it has slowly affected more distant regions.
The number of foreign purchasers began to increase gradually.
At present, the Da Song Weekly newspaper has not only balanced its expenditures for a long time, but also has a gratifying momentum of revenue and expenditure. Although it is not as good as Zhu Zilong's other industrial income, it is a great success to be able to make money while also grasping the higher and higher right to speak. And it's a hard-to-win success!
The area of the newspaper has also expanded again and again, and now it has recruited several hundred long-term editors and about 1,000 part-time editors. Big and small newsboys, newspaper delivery workers, logistics personnel. The success of a newspaper can be described as the success of a printing workshop, which has made the livelihood of only tens of thousands of people settled, and the number of people affected is countless.
However, to Zhu Zilong's surprise, among the proportion of rigid needs of this newspaper, the largest fixed and stable customers are Qinglou and other prosperous places. That's a surprise!
Shangguan Shishi understood Zhu Zilong's suspicions, and when he saw that he was puzzled when he reconciled the accounts, he hurriedly stepped forward to explain.
It turned out that because more and more literati were submitting. Especially when talented people also began to be proud of showing their faces on it, this land of wind and moon played this kind of cultural style, used to attract scholars and rich people.
For the sake of business, the demand for newspapers in Fengyue is definitely a fighter in demand.
Think about it, those talented and well-read, once their best works appeared in the newspapers. At the prostitute and his friend, he said proudly: "Clumsy! ”
This is a lot of face, and those talented women, and famous prostitutes also began to contribute. You can also increase your worth, this routine used to only rely on word of mouth, and now it is traffic. The king of traffic is the Great Song Weekly, you don't even have a copy of the Great Song Weekly in your hand, and you are embarrassed to talk when you go out?
Coupled with the things serialized in the Great Song Weekly, there are indeed dry goods. In the same newspaper, it is definitely the only one, which can be used not only for practicality, but also for comparison. I'm embarrassed not to buy one!
After all, a newspaper is only two or three cents, but the price of a big bun. Even if there is a hardcover style, it is only a dozen dollars a piece.
"Well, yes, I asked for the advertising to be retained, and finally other businesses began to compete for advertising, is this decent? There is no newspaper that does not advertise! "Zhu Zilong's focus is clearly different from everyone else's.
In those days, there were very few advertisements in newspapers, and all kinds of tabloids were bought with lace news. If it weren't for Zhu Zilong's mandatory requirement to keep a special newspaper advertising surface, Shangguan Shishi and the others probably wouldn't have done this.
There were almost no people who advertised on it at the beginning, so every time it was an advertisement for Zhu Zilong's own store and products. But now it's different, in addition to his store and products, there must be an advertising interface. On other advertising interfaces, many Kaifeng merchants began to follow suit and promote their stores and products!
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