Chapter 80 Security Daily
A copy of the small advertisement will be sent to Zhang Chu in each issue, Zhang Chu felt that he was a little self-degrading as a handsome man to watch the small advertisement, so he decided to raise the level of the small advertisement.
Zhang Chu directly inscribed a name on the small advertisement: "Security Daily". The Bureau of Statistics is required to publish an issue every day, and the eye-catching name allows people to know at a glance what it is running by whom, and as for the daily newspaper, it is a daily newspaper, and in a dozen years, the Germans will publish a daily newspaper, and they will have to snatch the world's number one newspaper.
If you call a daily newspaper, you have to have a decent newspaper. To this end, a security newspaper was established, and Zhang Chu specially sent two talented literati to the past, who were responsible for the compilation and review of manuscripts, and solicited manuscripts from the society.
There is one more entertainment activity in the boring life of the Ming people, the scholars in Shanxi and Shaanxi have one more amateur fun, the pedestrians have one more conversation, and although the newspaper cannot be guaranteed to be delivered on the same day, several copies received together have also increased the amount of information.
Some nimble readers wrote articles under pen names and submitted them to the newspaper, and after they were published in the newspaper, they really got the money to polish the pen, and some people did not dare to belong to their real names, but they were secretly proud to see their articles being disseminated.
As the influence of the newspaper grew, newspaper offices were set up in the county towns controlled by the security forces, which were not only posted everywhere, but also sold in taverns, teahouses, and shops for a penny each.
Zhang Chu decided to be a good person and give a little welfare to the literati in the areas controlled by the security army, and the yamen in each county mobilized to carry out the "advancing security army" vernacular novel essay contest, as long as a complete story is written, the required number of words can be polished. The people in the yamen were equivalent to each person receiving a bonus, and some people who did not read much did not waste this opportunity to ask someone to write on their behalf, and the newspaper rated the best 100 works and gave the author an additional reward.
The two of the best writers were hired to work in the security newspaper with a lot of money, and the two recruited people with the support of Zhang Chu to form the "Daming Security Biography" writing team, and compiled the articles obtained from the essay into chapters and novels, and "Daming Security Biography" was serialized in the supplement of the daily newspaper and attracted the people to read it.
Mr. Liu, a storyteller in the Yanchang County Teahouse, has been particularly hard working when he has been giving lectures recently, and he has opened a new book "The Biography of Daming Security", which is said to have been compiled by the literati Xiucai, and is much better than the things that have been passed down from generation to generation by storytellers. The book is familiar with the play, this listening to the story is to listen to a fresh, and the content of the book is related to the extension, which attracts a lot of listeners.
Mr. Liu's book was full of emotion and passion, and when it was said that the commander of the security army had devised a clever plan to kill the bandits and save the people who were about to starve to death, the audience couldn't help but shout loudly.
Mr. Liu's book stopped, leaving a suspense for the listener to come back tomorrow.
Mr. Liu walked to the table and sat down to drink tea and rest, the old man became more and more satisfied with his life, now there are more people listening to books, his income has increased greatly, and there is a new way to make money, selling "Security Daily".
The people of the "Baoan Daily" gave the storyteller a special book shelf, on a wooden tray with change, and below the newspaper, marked with a penny for a penny, and the person who wanted to buy the newspaper put a penny change on the tray and took away a newspaper, Mr. Liu did not move his hand, and each newspaper had half a penny income, and the remaining newspapers could be returned to the company on the same day, and they would definitely not lose money.
When opening a new book "The Biography of Daming Security", Mr. Liu also got an unexpected income, and the people of the newspaper not only gave him a book for commenting on the book, but also gave him a deposit of one or two silver, saying that it was a rule set up by the handsome to support the storyteller, as long as the storyteller continued to tell the story for a month, he could get another one or two silver at the end of the month, and the handsome called it a subsistence allowance.
Two taels of silver is a big income for Mr. Liu, so he insists on opening the book every day without interruption, constantly updating the content of the book every day, and the audience insists on coming to the teahouse every day to listen to the book, and the owner of the teahouse is very happy and more respectful to Mr. Liu.
From time to time, someone took the newspaper from the newspaper rack and put down the change, and Mr. Liu's income was still increasing.
After resting for a while, there is not much newspaper left on the newspaper shelf, it seems that today's income is very good, Mr. Liu is drinking tea and enjoying the happiness of his life, if there is always such an income, he can send his little grandson to school next year.
Someone came up to Mr. Liu and said, "Here's a newspaper." He didn't go to the shelf to get it, but handed Mr. Liu two cents.
Mr. Liu understood, took a newspaper from under the newspaper rack and handed it to the visitor, who glanced at it, put the newspaper in his arms and turned away. Mr. Liu made an extra penny, and the newspaper said that the increased edition of the newspaper was really good to sell, and this kind of newspaper added another page after the supplement, which published the novel "Golden Vase Plum" by the talented Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, which was published once per issue, and it is said that there were 100 times, as long as you insisted on buying it for 100 days, and then bound it together, you got the whole book of this strange book. There are a lot of people who buy this kind of newspaper.
Mr. Liu packed up his things and walked out of the teahouse, and a man who looked like a scholar came over at the corner of the street where no one was carrying anyone, and handed Mr. Liu a manuscript and a number plate, Mr. Liu put it away and took out a number plate and some silver money and handed it to the man, and the man left satisfied. Some literati don't want people to know that they sell articles for a living, so the newspaper has launched an anonymous submission mechanism to take care of their face, and Mr. Liu is responsible for secretly receiving manuscripts, and at the same time issuing license plates, and issuing manuscript fees according to the license plates. Some literati have established long-term relationships with newspapers.
People don't pay much attention to the timeliness of the newspaper, and are eager to see what gossip news is published in the newspaper, and then collect all the serialized stories and bind them into a book to get a storybook, and it is very cheap.
Later, these things also flowed into the officialdom, and some officials asked the servants to buy and watch them, and they would reprimand them while watching, they were really anti-thieves, prostitution and theft, there was not a word of a saint, and the article was written in a very simple way, which was by no means acceptable to a scholar, but some of these things had never been heard of before, and they were still inevitably used to watch secretly in secret.
Zhang Chu's efforts did not change the world in the second year of Chongzhen, and the hard work of Emperor Chongzhen in Beijing did not remove the curse of heaven, and the disasters and famines in various places did not decrease but became more serious.
However, there is one thing that makes the emperor really happy, on February 20 of the second year of Chongzhen, the emperor's eldest son Zhu Cihong was born, although it is not the first time to be a father, the emperor's heart is still full of joy. For this reason, the front page of the "Security Daily" published an article: "Congratulations, the emperor is happy to be a father". It is said that it was an article written by Zhang Chu, the marshal of the security army. Then in this issue, a lot of maternal and child health care knowledge was also published, so that people understood the danger of giving birth, and the matters to be paid attention to if they wanted a healthy child, of course, some people were also very dissatisfied, can the queen's prince talk about it casually, not to mention taking the queen's birth as an example, to be like this and that, it is simply a big rebellion, and the queen has a child is indeed reverie.
On July 24 of this year, the secretary of the military department concurrently served as the right deputy capital Yushi, and Yuan Chonghuan, who supervised Ji Liao, Denglai, and Tianjin military affairs, killed Mao Wenlong, the chief military officer of Pingliao, the governor of the left capital, and Hou Jin's worries were gone.
Emperor Chongzhen's biggest trouble was the lack of money, there was a smart minister Liu Mao to the emperor to abolish the post station, the emperor heard that this was good, he could save money, and he did it immediately, so Li Zicheng was unemployed.
Of course, Zhang Chu was also short of money, but now he had to face another trouble, Guo Xiyuan reported an important matter to Zhang Chu.