In the early morning of July 1, 13th year of Yuanping of the Han Empire......

The sun had not yet risen, the sky was dark, the stars in the sky were still hanging high, and in the manor under Longqi Mountain in the south of the imperial capital, four carriages with horse lanterns had already driven out of the gate of the manor.

"Xiao Wu, you must be careful on the road, you must deliver things to the receiving and sending points in the city on time, and you can't delay the shopkeeper's affairs, you know?" Xu Enda was on the first carriage and said to a few people driving in the following cars.

Although Xu Enda's leg injury has not completely healed, but since yesterday, Xu Enda came to the Zhuangzi of Longqi Mountain, began to help, last night a busy person worked until midnight to sleep, and lived in the Zhuangzi, this morning as soon as the hour arrived, everyone got up, packed up the ropes, ate a little belly stuff at will, and rushed to the car, when the gate of the imperial capital city opened, strive for the first batch of people to enter the city, and send the newspapers printed yesterday to the four receiving and sending points in the city, the four receiving and sending points are the four stores in the eastern city, south city, west city and north city of the imperial capital city of Shunyi Bookstore before, and the four shops were collected in the past few days, all the books inside were also sold at a discount, and there was almost no need to renovate, and the four stores became several sending and receiving points of the "Han Imperial Times" in the imperial capital.

"Brother Xu, don't worry, even if we have broken legs, we have to deliver these newspapers to the receiving and sending point on time, besides, Brother Hu, aren't they still following us, and they can't do anything......" Xiao Wu, who was driving the carriage, shouted at Xu Enda from behind.

At this moment, in addition to a few thick stacks of newspapers on each car, there are three or four people, Xu Enda and a few of them are driving the car, and the car is followed by a few friends called by Hu Haihe, those people are all the sergeants of the former Imperial Horse Infantry Division, although they have left the Imperial Horse Infantry Division, but all of them are local snakes in the Imperial Palace, and they are familiar with all aspects of the door, at this moment those people are sitting in the car, with knives hanging on their waists, and the idle thugs in the Imperial Capital City do not dare to provoke at will when they see this posture.

In addition to the car, the escort, there are two literati who write articles for the newspaper in each car, and they have to follow them to the receiving and sending points, responsible for bookkeeping and the distribution of newspapers, these literati can also do work such as bookkeeping and accounting in addition to writing articles, so Fang Beidou also sent this errand to them, thinking that what he wrote would soon appear in various restaurants, teahouses, and streets in the imperial capital, and be seen by thousands of people, and the literati sitting in the carriage were the most excited.

The four carriages left Longqi Mountain and went to the official road, and after a while, the four carriages separated, one headed towards the west gate, one went towards the east gate, and two carriages together to enter from the south gate at the same time, and they would only separate after entering the city.

The carriages that were waiting to enter the imperial capital early in the morning lined up at the gates of the city, and most of those carriages were pulling coal, firewood, rice, and vegetables, like a city like the imperial capital, every day from the beginning of everyone opening their eyelids, it became a giant beast devouring all kinds of living materials, the various materials that the millions of people in the imperial capital city need to consume, is a huge value, that endless supply of various materials, every day from the city gate as soon as it is opened, it will be sent to the imperial capital, and the livelihood of countless people is tied to the goods pulled by the carriages and ox carts。

Mao, for five o'clock in the morning to seven o'clock in the morning, Mao for the shape of opening the door, and through the word, for the sun to come out of the meaning, and because of this hour rabbit out of the nest, run out to eat the dewy grass, so the city gates of the imperial capital, in the time of Mao, open the city gate, so that the carriages and horses queuing outside the city can enter the city.

A few days ago, because of the assassination of important officials in the imperial capital, the city ban in the imperial capital city once became very strict, but these days, the heat of that incident slowly passed, and the soldiers in the imperial capital city worked hard for many days, and the bird feathers were not caught, so everyone was slowly tired, and the city ban slowly returned to its previous appearance.

What Xu Enda, who was driving the carriage, did not notice that not long after their carriage and horses entered the city, a group of carriages also came to the gate of the city, and the carriages also pulled coal, but the coal pulled on the carriage was different from the coal on other carriages.

"What are you pulling on this cart?" a small flag officer curiously used his hand to check the iron fork of the coal cart and fiddled with the pieces of things on the cart, "Why is this thing round, and there are holes in it......"

"Master, this is coal, lotus root coal......" A man who looked like a steward in the car got out of the car and explained to the sergeant at the city gate.

"Why does coal look like this?"

"This is made of coal, with a special small stove, which is better than ordinary coal, better to use, and saves money!"

"Really?" said the small flag officer, directly smashing one of the pieces of lotus root coal with the iron fork in his hand, and then twisted the cinder inside with his hand, and after seeing that there was no problem, he waved his hand, "Go over......

"Thank you, thank you!" the steward waved his hand, and a string of carriages pulled carts of lotus root coal, and they entered the city, leaving a group of soldiers at the city gate to marvel.

"Brother Niu, this is really strange, I didn't expect a piece of coal to make so many tricks, I just looked at what lotus root coal on the car, and I thought it was a batch of black tiles ordered by a big family in the city, but I didn't expect it to be burned?" said a sergeant guarding the door in front of the small flag officer.

The officer of the small flag had just taken his eyes off the convoy transporting lotus root coal, touched his chin, and was thinking in his heart, if this lotus root coal is really cheap and easy to burn, then he can try it this winter, otherwise it will cost a lot of money to heat and burn coal every winter......

Xu Enda's carriage turned east and west, and came directly to a street a few miles away from the city gate of Nancheng, and stopped in front of a closed shop, Xu Enda immediately got out of the car, took out the key, opened the door lock of a shop on the side of the street, and then the people moved all the newspapers in the car to the shop.

As soon as this matter was done, it was only a short time before four or five eleven or twelve-year-old half-grown children came to the shop, looking curiously at the stacks of newspapers piled up in the shop, and listening to Xu Enda's lecture.

"I understood what I said to you before, this newspaper has six copper plates, each of you takes forty copies first, and sells them in the restaurants and teahouses and streets in the south of the city, and after selling them, you will hand over the money for selling the newspaper, and then get the newspaper behind, remember, you can only hand over the newspaper to people after giving money, and you can't let people return the newspaper after reading a copper plate, you know?"

"Got it!" the teenagers nodded.

"Say a shout, I'll listen to ......"

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers, the Han Imperial Times is freshly released, if you want to know about the big and small things that happened in the imperial capital, hurry up and buy it......"

"No, no, the voice is too quiet, it should be louder, you have to shout so much about doing business at home, where will people come, that's attracting flies......"

Several teenagers were still a little unaccustomed at first, and they couldn't let go of each other, but slowly, they also found a feeling, and their voices became louder and louder, and they could be heard within dozens of meters around.

Seeing that the teenagers were almost there, Xu Enda asked them to put on a special red newspaper selling vest, received the newspaper, and went out one by one.

These children who sell newspapers are all introduced by Xu Enda and Hu Haihe, friends or relatives they know, and there are guarantors, I heard that there is money to be made, at least 20 copper plates a day, and a lunch, the work is not hard, and the half-grown children can also do it, many people with children at home can't help but be moved, and send their own children over to try, to say that the imperial capital is also big, but the half-grown children want to find an errand that can make a living, it is really not an easy thing.

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Just this morning, as soon as many old and young masters in the imperial capital city went to the street, or went to the teahouse and restaurant to sit down, they found that on the street, and even in the restaurant and teahouse, I don't know when, there were a few more teenagers in red vests shouting, "Sell newspapers, sell newspapers, the Han Imperial Times is freshly released, if you want to know about the big and small things that happened in the imperial capital, hurry up and buy it......