On the eighth day of October in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, this is a day that will be remembered, on this day, the Ming Dynasty officially sold newspapers to the people, no matter from which point of view, this newspaper is very in line with the standards of later generations for newspapers.

At about 5 o'clock in the morning, 10,000 newspapers printed by the Ministry of Industry were distributed to all the Jinyi and Wei 100 households in the capital, and then the 100 households were sold.

Originally, the newspaper was to be sold at cost price, but Hongji knew that he could say that he was a two-sleeved breeze, so he ordered to increase the cost price by 2 wen, one for the Jin Yiwei who sold it, and the other for 100 households, so the final price of a newspaper was 5 wen. But this is not much money, you sell 1,200 copies, and the errand runners and the hundred households can only get 1 tael of silver. But this is a task sent by the superiors, and no one dares to disobey it.

At half past five o'clock, the brocade guard will be on sale. Because the upper-class people were well-informed and knew that there was a list of national scholars and corrupt officials, in order to have a glimpse, a large number of people went to the nearby Jinyiwei to buy newspapers. Today's 100 households are particularly lively, because in the past, Jinyiwei went to other people's houses to "work", and it was the first time that a large group of people like today ran to the door of Jinyiwei to "make trouble". The scene was a bit chaotic, there were everyone, there were scholars, there were officials' families, and some low-level military attachés. When the people look at it, they basically know it, they are all "nobles" in their eyes, so lively, let's take a look, so there are more and more people.

The 10,000 copies of the imperial court to test the water were all sold out before the hour (7 o'clock), and there were many people who heard the news but did not buy them at the door of the hundred households, so many people came, and they had any identity, and the small hundred households did not dare to drive people away, so they could only ask them to wait for a while, and the newspapers were still there, and they would come immediately, and ask for help from their superiors.

Today is also a little apprehensive for Hongzhi, after all, if the "Ming Pao" that was made so loudly is not supported, then both the court and Hongzhi himself will lose face. But fortunately, when the time came, I heard from Mu Bin that 10,000 copies of "Ming Pao" had been sold out, and now the second batch of 100,000 copies of the Ministry of Industry had been sent to all 100 households. Hongji relieved himself at this time, and couldn't help but show a smile on his face.

Today is a rare day without going to the morning court, Hongji is in a good mood, and wants to share it with others, the first thing that comes to mind is his two sons, but now he is still in class, so he won't bother them. Then he decided to go to the cabinet to have a look, after all, at the critical moment, these pavilion elders did not disappoint him, so they took the eunuch guards to the pavilion elder's office - Wenhua Palace. As for the harmonious scene of their monarchs and ministers, I won't say much about it.

In other words, the scholars who bought "Ming Pao" will not just watch it on the road, in order to show their bearing, they will either go to the teahouse, or go back to the academy to see it again. In the teahouse, in the academy, there are "shocking" from time to time, "Mr. Jie'an is also well deserved", "I can't imagine that there are such corrupt officials in Lang Lang Qiankun, which can be killed and hateful" "Liu Shangshu's poem has a deep meaning, and it is refreshing to read"

But the most shocking thing is the survey, although we all know that women have to experience life and death when they give birth, but everyone who saw the data in the newspaper was still shocked, and they began to question the popular custom of getting married early and having children. After all, no one wants a corpse or two lives in their home.

This day was spent in everyone's amazement, exclamation, and finally Jinyiwei and the Ministry of Industry calculated that a total of more than 80,000 copies were sold in a day today, because there was no publicity before, but with today's more than 80,000 people by word of mouth, tomorrow's sales will be more.

Such a large sales volume was something that Hongji and several cabinet elders did not expect. Because in the past, there were only thousands of newspapers across the country. In fact, what they didn't know was that after the newspaper was issued, it was printed and sold by merchants in various places, and since the people who bought it were all official eunuchs, they did not lack that money, so they bought it directly from the merchants. The total number of copies nationwide is also about 100,000.

At present, the production and sales process of "Ming Pao" was finalized by the Tongzheng Department of Shuntianfu and sent people to Yingtianfu and Chengdu, Sichuan, at the same time as the printing began. After 3 days of printing, it began to be sold in Suncheonbu, and on the second day, it began to radiate to all parts of Gyeonggi, and on the third day, it reached Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, and Henan. These provinces are the provinces radiated by the printing edition of Beizhili. After 5 days of sale, the sample was sent to Yingtianfu, and then it began to be printed, and on the third day, it began to be on sale, on the fourth day, it began to radiate to Nanzhili, on the 5th day it went to Huguang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and on the sixth day it was Fujian and Guangdong. At this time, the Shuntianfu General Administration Department had already begun to finalize the second issue, and the sample sent to Sichuan had only been printed for a day. But there was no way, there was no wireless telegraph at this time, and it was impossible for carrier pigeons to transmit so many words of newspapers, everything had to be sent out by people on horseback, one station after another, changing people and horses, and reaching the destination day and night. In addition, the difficulty of Shu Road is also famous since ancient times, and even at this time, the traffic problem has not been greatly improved. After being printed from the Chengdu base camp, the first day of sales was directly for the whole of Sichuan, the second day was Guizhou and Yunnan, and the third day was Guangxi.

In the past five days, 300,000 copies of "Ming Pao" in the capital alone have been sold, and the government and the opposition are shocked. It was the first time I knew that the people were so concerned about what was happening in the imperial court, and the sales in other regions had not been counted, but it should not be small. The brocade guards from all over the country have basically participated in this matter, and since then they have radiated new strength.

After dinner that day, Hongzhi told a few family members about the sales, Zhu Houwei thought for a while and said, "Daddy, this "Ming Pao" is the first issue, and everyone is curious, but the sales will decrease in the future, and then tend to stabilize, after all, not everyone is interested in the slightly serious articles in "Ming Pao". Hongji listened, didn't speak, just nodded. After a while, Hongzhi said to Zhu Houwei and the two brothers, "Is your "People's Daily" ready, and it will start to go on sale tomorrow." At this time, Zhu Houzhao took out a copy of the "People's Daily" that had been printed from his arms and handed it to Hongzhi.

For the teaching materials in Zhu's house, Hongzhi has seen it, and in less than half a year after knowing the orphans of Zhufu, he knew these many words, and the pronunciation was changed to the same, Hongzhi was very appreciative in his heart, and he once wanted to start promoting it by the imperial court, but there were too many obstacles to face, and then he gave up, and now it is promoted by a "civil" organization, even if it fails, it will not be much of a loss, and he is very supportive of his son's approach. So he said, "Once this new thing appears, what will you face you should know, if it doesn't work out, you will put aside the relationship, and have a father to deal with the aftermath." Both brothers got up and bowed their hands, "Daddy, but the child will not give up." Seeing the two sons reply in unison, Hongzhi and Empress Zhang, who had been worried, both laughed.

By the time the next day, 20,000 copies of the "People's Daily" were ready to be published.