"You don't have to be so frustrated, our newspaper is a new thing, it can sell 318 copies on the first day today, it's already good, 318, I want to send it, look, this is still an auspicious number, today we sold more than 300 copies, and we may be able to sell 30,000 copies, 100,000 copies...... "In one of the halls of Zhuangzi, Yan Liqiang, who was sitting on the main seat, looked at the crowd with their heads bowed and muffled, and he smiled first, took a sip of tea, and broke the silence.

"This ...... According to the teenagers who went out to sell newspapers, the people on Dijing City Street and the teahouse and restaurant today saw them selling newspapers, and they all felt fresh, and many people came to ask, but not many people bought them in the end, everyone just looked at it, and some people thought that the price of our newspaper was too expensive to cost six copper plates, and many people wanted to bargain......" Xu Enda opened his mouth a little embarrassed.

"Tell the people below that our newspaper doesn't bargain, just six copper plates, and none of them will be sold!" Yan Liqiang shook his head, "The cost of a newspaper just printing ink and paper is almost more than three copper coins, and this does not share other operating costs, if you want to do this thing, you must make money, you can make your own blood, and we don't do it if you make money at a loss, everyone remembers it!"

"Hmm!" everyone nodded.

"Haihe, continue to do what you are responsible for here, don't stop, the news collected in this first issue is very good, and it will be like this in the future, today the newspaper has come out, you will send the bounties of those informants who are responsible for providing the news, there are a lot of them, they have received money, they know our credit, and they will work harder for us in the future!" Yan Liqiang's gaze turned to Hu Haihe and encouraged.

"Got it, I'll send the money tomorrow!" Hu Haihe nodded.

"Also, the guards you found today are very good, our newspaper also needs to set up a guard, which can deter the younger generation, and can help if there is something, the number of people is tentatively ten!" Yan Liqiang touched his chin, and then looked at Fang Beidou, "Shopkeeper Fang will use dim sum to see if he can hire a team of people from the retired Imperial Imperial Front Ma Bu Division, as for the remuneration, it is not less than taking care of those big families in the city!"

"Well, I don't think it has to be completely limited to the people of the Imperial Front Horse Division, now working hard in the imperial capital, there are many people who want to find a bite to eat, as long as they have the ability and can use it, they can do it!"

Just as soon as he made contact with Fang Beidou's eyes, Yan Liqiang knew what Fang Beidou meant, if all the guards of the newspaper office were to find retired people from the Imperial Capital City Mabu Division to serve as the guards, those people would easily form gangs, which was not conducive to management, and it would be much easier to manage if a few outsiders were inserted into it.

"This matter is decided by the shopkeeper, ten guards are only a tentative number, in the future, our newspaper has grown, every time the newspaper is printed in addition to being issued in the imperial capital, it must also be transported to the cities of Sigi in time, we must have branches in each city, we must have manpower, at that time, the number of guards of our newspaper is hundreds of people, and it is possible that when the time comes, maybe each of you will have to bring two guards to follow, and it will be equipped with a frame, at that time, it is not so easy for ordinary people to see you, for example, you Haihe, when the time comes, it is not you who go to find news, but the news that comes to you, and you want to publish some news in our newspaper, If he wants us to give us money, the starting point is at least one hundred taels of silver, and those big merchants who want to see you have to line up, and Enda, you and Xiao Wu are now exercising their experience in managing distribution points, and when the time comes, they will divide a city for you to manage, and they will be the shopkeeper themselves, and their subordinates will only be in charge of the hundred and ten people who sell newspapers, as for the people who write articles, when you have a reputation, I am afraid that there will be people who will use heavy money to poach corners, put piles of gold and silver treasures in front of you, and ask you to go over to write articles for new newspapers, and at that time, you will be the veteran figures of the newspaper industry of the Han Empire, everyone will go out, and they will be full of weightAt that time, it was easy for you to write a book and speak about it......"

Listening to the big cake drawn by Yan Liqiang, the eyes of the somewhat frustrated people slowly appeared again, and they gradually lost their frustration.

In his last life, Yan Liqiang heard a joke that when a top boss in the domestic Internet business circle first started his business, he couldn't pay his salary, and he worked overtime every day, and the big guy called a group of employees together, so that everyone could imagine how to spend the year-end bonus of 5 million yuan in everyone's hand now, and everyone said it one by one, the more they talked, the happier they were, and the more they talked, the more happy they became, and in the end, they didn't have to pay the salary, and everyone worked their own, and then when it was the hardest, the big guy survived like this......

Seeing that everyone had regained their fighting spirit and vigor, Yan Liqiang smiled, "Okay, everyone has worked hard today, just go to rest early, tomorrow everything will be business as usual, everyone can do whatever they want, just do what they do in their own hands, this first issue of the newspaper will be six days, and when the second issue comes out, all the newspapers in this issue will be withdrawn." ”

After everyone left the hall, Fang Beidou frowned slightly and said to Yan Liqiang, "It's not a way to go on like this, if we only sell so little every day, our newspaper will lose money every day, and we won't last long, according to what you said...... What is the break-even point, our newspaper must sell at least 5,000 copies per issue, in order to barely lose money, we have to find a way......"

Yan Liqiang smiled confidently, and suddenly asked Fang Beidou a question, "What do you think of the people in Imperial Capital who have heard of books?"

"Of course, there are many, otherwise how could there be so many teahouses and restaurants in the imperial capital and storytellers? As you said, in this Han Empire, there is no other entertainment except storytelling and listening to dramas!"

"Well, then you can collect the information of those storytellers in the Imperial Capital in the next few days, and contact ...... first."

"Do what?"

"I'll give you something in two days, and you'll know!"

"Does this storyteller have anything to do with our newspaper?"

"Haha, of course it matters, but wait for me to sell it first, and when this matter is done, this storyteller in the whole imperial capital is a volunteer speaker of our newspaper, and if we want to sell newspapers, we won't have to worry......"

Fang Beidou just looked at Yan Liqiang with puzzled eyes, and he didn't know what kind of medicine Yan Liqiang's gourd was selling, "Can't you say it now?"

"This, I can't say it now, it's useless to say it dry with my mouth, let me prepare it first, anyway, you'll know when the time comes!" Yan Liqiang said, and stood up, "I'll come to you in the evening two days later, and I'm going to go to Dijing City again tonight to have some business, and the matter of the newspaper office will be handed over to you in the next few days, so I'll leave first!"

Fang Beidou has been sending Yan Liqiang out of the gate of the newspaper Zhuangzi, looking at Yan Liqiang's back, his heart is blazing, and he can't guess what other means Yan Liqiang can use to boost the sales of the newspaper, and this method is actually related to the storyteller in the city.

Is it to pay the storytellers to shout for the newspaper?

Fang Beidou had such an idea in his head, and he was immediately denied by himself, those storytellers are also literati, all of them have a high temper, collect money to brag about this kind of thing, and the storytellers who are a little famous will not do it, for fear of smashing their own signboards, so even if Yan Liqiang wants to get it, it can't work, but why is Yan Liqiang so confident, and he thinks that he must let those storytellers obey?

......

Yan Liqiang left the newspaper office at the foot of Longqi Mountain, walking like flying, not slower than the carriage that caught up, and after a while, he came to the south gate of the imperial capital, and then entered the city and came to the Ganzhou Hall.

This time, Yan Liqiang was not blocked out of the hall again, but unfortunately, Lu Peien was not in the hall, and only a steward of the Lu family who followed Lu Peien to the imperial capital was left in the hall, and the steward said that Lu Peien had some entertainment tonight, and he didn't know when Lu Peien would come back, so Yan Liqiang asked the steward to bring a message to Lu Peien, and made an appointment to meet in the evening two days later, and then left the Ganzhou Hall.

......

Less than ten minutes after leaving the Ganzhou Hall, Yan Liqiang, who was walking on the street and preparing to return to Luyuan, passed by a restaurant, and a group of people also walked out of the restaurant at the same time, and the two sides met at the door of the restaurant at once.

It was Xu Lang and others who came out of the restaurant, and several of them had seen Yan Liqiang.

Xu Lang and the others didn't expect to meet Yan Liqiang as soon as they came out of the door of the restaurant, and Yan Liqiang naturally didn't expect to meet Xu Lang and a few people here, and when the two sides looked at each other, they were slightly stunned.

However, Yan Liqiang didn't think about any intersection and entanglement with Xu Lang and them here, he glanced at Xu Lang and the others, didn't speak, and left directly.

It's just that Xu Lang and the others don't seem to intend to let Yan Liqiang leave like this.

"Hey, boy, stop ......" Xu Lang, who was picking his teeth, narrowed his eyes and shouted at Yan Liqiang.

Yan Liqiang turned a deaf ear and continued to walk forward......

Xu Lang's face sank suddenly, he looked at a follower next to him, Kong Wuli glanced at a strong man who was almost two meters tall, the strong man immediately understood, and strode towards Yan Liqiang, stretched out his hand to grab Yan Liqiang's shoulder, and roared scoldingly, "Boy, you are deaf, Brother Xu called you, did you fucking ......hear it?"

The big man's hand naturally didn't grab Yan Liqiang's shoulder, just when his hand was about to touch Yan Liqiang's shoulder, Yan Liqiang was like having eyes behind him, just turned slightly sideways, and got out of the way, and at the same time grabbed his backhand, his five fingers were like claws, and he grabbed the strong man's wrist at once......

Yan Liqiang looked at the strong man, "Keep your mouth clean, and besides, we don't know each other, don't move your hands and feet......"