Zhao Ji was wearing regular clothes in the pavilion while painting, while playing with the two concubines, heard Zhang San coming, let the two concubines avoid, after Zhang San came in, bowed, Zhao Ji said: "Aiqing is flat, is the newspaper ready?" ”

Zhang San immediately handed the newspaper in his hand to the eunuch on the side, the eunuch checked that there was no problem, and handed it to Huizong, Zhao Ji first browsed it roughly, and took a closer look at what he wanted to see, Zhang San stood there and watched Huizong read the newspaper.

Zhao Ji read the newspaper again, and he blushed a little when he looked at some sycophant articles, but he said quietly: "Well, you did a good job, you sent people to the palace every day for this newspaper, and I also know about the major affairs of the people." ”

Zhang San complained, Lao Tzu's legs are sore when he stands here, you don't even know how to get me a stool, and you also know the major affairs of the people, you are an emperor of Qinglou, and you have to leave the palace rarely? Could it be that you left the palace purely to visit the Qinglou?

Zhang San complained in his heart and said: "It's all up to the Holy Lord's ruling on the Imperial Review, the minister thinks so, every day the newspaper will be handed over to His Majesty's Imperial Review, and then if there is no problem, it will be handed over to the workshop for printing, and if there is a problem, it will be corrected." ”

Zhao Ji asked, "Are you ready?" How much can you print in a day? ”

Zhang San replied: "The workshop has been ordered to increase the printing machinery, this set of machinery can print about 50,000 copies a day, day and night can print 100,000 points, the minister asked the workshop to prepare three sets, and two sets of spare, if necessary, it can be increased." ”

In fact, Zhang San now has ten sets of printing equipment, and has prepared five sets of spare ones. But Zhang San doesn't plan to say that he is working at full strength, and he can print two million copies a day. 500,000 copies of his own Da Song Daily will be used 250,000 to 300,000 copies, and the remaining 200,000 copies will be prepared by Zhang San for other newspapers.

Zhao Ji nodded with satisfaction and asked, "My Great Song Dynasty literate person should have more than one million, is 300,000 enough copies?" ”

Zhang San really replied: "Back to Your Majesty, although there are many literate people in my Great Song Dynasty, most of them are fathers, sons, uncles, and a few members of the family are either literate, or all of them are illiterate, and our newspaper is eight pages that can be divided into two large sheets, and with the increase of reporters in the future, there will be more news, and there may be twelve or even sixteen pages."

Therefore, a family can buy a newspaper to read as a family, and a school can buy two or three newspapers can also take turns to watch, although a newspaper only sells more than ten texts, but for some poor children, they are still willing to borrow from others to reduce this expense. ”

Zhao Ji nodded and said: "Well, what you said makes sense, I heard that some people seem to have different opinions about your newspaper, you just have to do your own thing, I am watching you in the palace." ”

Zhang San felt a little relieved when he heard this, Zhang San thought about it and said: "Your Majesty, the minister wants to ask Your Majesty to inscribe a word for the Great Song Daily, and it will be published all over the world in the future, so there must be a title at the top of the first page of the newspaper, which is the blank space." ”

Zhao Ji was interested when he heard it, turned to the first side of the newspaper, and sure enough, there was a reserved blank, Zhao Ji thought about it, found a piece of paper in the pavilion and wrote the four words of the Great Song Daily, thinking about it, he was not very satisfied.

After all, this is going to be published all over the world, Zhao Ji also has to take it seriously, and he is not very satisfied with even writing it a few times, Zhang San is not in a hurry to wait quietly on the side, Zhao Ji wrote more than a dozen times, and then wrote a satisfactory one, handed it to the eunuch and said to Zhang San: "You take this back." ”

Zhang San hurriedly took it with both hands, held it in his hand and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, the minister will retire." ”

After Zhang San left, looking at Zhao Ji observing a birdcage hanging on the side of the pavilion again, Zhang San shook his head, if this guy used half of his enthusiasm to deal with political affairs, he wouldn't get mixed up like that in the end! There must be something hateful about this wretched man.

When he returned to the house, he immediately ordered someone to make the typeface and began to prepare for typesetting and printing, so that the newspaper could be sold in Tokyo the next day.

The newsboy in the newspaper selling song is really hard, but compared to those who are really hungry and cold and really want to make money but have no way, this is not a kind of happiness, Zhang San decided that Zhang San couldn't control other places, so he used the newsboy to sell newspapers in Tokyo.

Zhang San planned to leave a penny of profit for the newsboy in a newspaper, if he worked hard enough, he should be able to solve a food and clothing problem, Zhang San told the monkey this idea, and the monkey nodded and left.

Zhang San also asked the garment workshop to sew a batch of newspaper blankets, the children are easy to stain the newspaper in their hands, and they can't sell it at that time, so they can't let the children post their own money, and it is easy to identify a blanket.

Zhang San was preparing here, and some well-informed people also knew that the Great Song Dynasty had opened the ban on newspapers and only set up a regulatory agency, but the responsibilities and powers were not clear, and some people who had been engaged in news before began to go out to ask about the situation.

Zhang San has nothing to do with these court officials, Zhang San is now receiving the Holy Grace, and some people who want to use power to suppress him don't have the courage yet, and what's the big deal with newspapers? Can you offend Zhang San for this?

In fact, the so-called news now is just a form of cheat sheet, and the larger ones are just a few hundred copies printed on the engraving, and even if one copy is sold for a hundred yuan, how much money can it make? So I can't get to know any big officials in this kind of business.

Zhou Wenzheng is such a news peddler, and the Zhou family has a distant relative who is in charge of the work of sending and receiving news in the yamen, so Zhou Wenzheng can always get first-hand news, plus a few people inquire about the news in teahouses and other places, so it can be regarded as a mixed bag.

Zhou Wenzheng's news only sent one to two copies in ten years, and invited a part-time engraving master, Zhou Wenzheng is also smart not to talk about the quality, not only the paper is the cheapest to use, but even if the engraving is wrong, it is directly cut off one and made up with wood, so the cost is greatly saved.

In this way, Zhou Wenzheng can sell one or two thousand copies at a price of one or twenty wen every ten years, and he can earn twenty or thirty yuan if he is lucky, and it is also a small hundred yuan in a month, but this business is also a game of the government's side ball, if it is really true, it is illegal.

This time, Zhang San set up this Da Song Daily in the capital, which is naturally not a secret to Zhou Wenzheng, a well-informed person, not to mention that Zhang San did not deliberately keep it a secret.

Zhou Wenzheng originally only planned to continue to wait and see, but the Da Song Daily Agency became more and more popular, and he couldn't help but worry about the business being robbed, especially this Zhang San was still in charge of supervision, and this referee participated in the game, so how could these people not be afraid.

Zhou Wenzheng gritted his teeth and prepared a gift of three hundred yuan, ready to visit the newly appointed Jinjuan Yuanzheng, if he can do it, he will continue to do it, and if he can't do it, he will concentrate on opening his own teahouse. It was a bonus.