Chapter 155: Dragon Daily

The small store in Miao Village has not yet been completed, and the branch of the Daqian World East Market on the side of Xiuzhen World Dragon City has already opened for business. Fortunately, the owner of the store is Yuan Juan, he is only the boss of the shares, and he only needs to send the goods over, and Yuan Juan is responsible for the operation and management.

Although it is a branch, whether it is the scale or decoration, the East Market branch is much more luxurious than the main store, and the positioning of the two is also different, the price of the main store is slightly lower, facing the general public and some shops, while the East Market branch is facing high-end customers.

What is even more gratifying is that after a period of development led by Zhao Shuxin, the 'Longteng Electric Power Commercial Cooperation' has achieved initial results, in addition to laying the first power station, it is also the first to invent electric lights!!

It's not the incandescent lamp manufacturing method he instructed, Zhao Shuxin uses a kind of fluorite, which can shine after simple treatment, and can be colorful, which is comparable to the current LED lamp.

The City Lord's Mansion first installed electric lights, as well as Zhao Shuxin's own Dragon and Phoenix Store, as well as the Daqian World East Market Branch, after the lights were turned on, the effect was remarkable, and the shops on Shenlong Street were all installed. Because it is the initial stage, the production cost is high, and the installation cost of Longteng Power can be a lot. Each light bulb costs hundreds of spirit stones, and there are people who regularly come to collect 'electricity bills' every month, and there is no electricity meter at present, but it is fixed at twenty spirit stones per household per month.

But the merchants on Shenlong Street are not bad for money, such a good thing, of course, there are a few more.

Now everyone is just trying to make a novelty, but Wei Ziyang believes that one day, electricity will change the entire Xiuzhen world, and if he controls electricity, he is equivalent to mastering the entire Xiuzhen world. Can the Xiuzhen world be separated from electricity?

There is nothing that can't be done, but now even if the power goes out for half an hour, the phone of the power supply bureau will be blown up! When the people in the Xiuzhen world adapt to electricity, and even when they can't do without it, Wei Ziyang's thirty percent shares will have a huge value.

But it will take time, and there will be no resistance to the impending catastrophe.

The first thing Wei Ziyang had to do now was to build the Tower of Babel in Longshan, and then seize the power of the Lord of Dragon City. The former is easy to say, but the latter is a bit difficult......

Once the information that he is the new master of the Dragon Domain leaks out, there will be many people who want to kill him.

He is an unknown person, and if he wants to fight for power with the Lord of Dragon City, it is not easy to talk about, no one else knows what his name is, and a large world has no influence. So Wei Ziyang thought about it again and again, and finally decided to start a newspaper!

Newspapers are nothing unusual in this day and age, even to the point that no one cares about them. But there is no doubt that before mobile TV, newspapers absolutely monopolized the important position of information dissemination, and controlling newspapers is equivalent to controlling public opinion.

To use an apt word to describe it, a gentle piece of paper plays the role of a mouthpiece.

But this time Wei Ziyang doesn't plan to make newspapers in modern times and send them over, all the procedures can be completed in Dragon City, one is the difference in text, and the current computer can't easily complete such a task, the important thing is that he really doesn't have the effort to continue to turn the two worlds upside down, and even the supply channels of the world He began to plan to complete it in Dragon City.

To run a newspaper, the first task is to solve the problem of paper. Longcheng already has paper, but the process is rough, and the cost is too high, he first has to buy a paper mill, with modern technology, improve the quality of paper and reduce the cost of the problem, it is easy.

Then 'invented' movable type printing.

Longcheng text transmission is manual copying, one is too inefficient, and the other is not regular, it is necessary to choose movable type printing.

In terms of papermaking, Wei Ziyang directly acquired a papermaking workshop that was on the verge of closure, added new technology to improve it slightly, and with the fact that they were all skilled workers, it was easy to make paper that was suitable for use. Newspapers are cheap disposable products, the quality requirements of the paper are not high, the process is slightly improved, and it only takes a few days to make the right newspaper.

Movable type printing is not difficult, it is nothing more than engraving some movable font molds. But this requires a very delicate application, after all, the area that can be printed on a newspaper is not large, and if the movable type is too large, it will not be able to publish a few words on a single page. However, if the movable type is too small, it may not be legible enough.

However, these are not too big a problem for the craftsmen of Dragon City, and the ability of the cultivator to forge can even achieve nano-level accuracy. However, because a large number of movable types need to be forged, the amount of work is too large, even if Wei Ziyang hires more than a dozen skilled craftsmen to rush to make it overnight, it will be difficult to complete it in two weeks.

But at the same time, Wei Ziyang has begun to recruit literati, form an editorial team, and begin to plan the content of the front page. There is not much time left for him, and in order to become an instant hit, the front-page content must have some gold.

The characteristics of the world have been decided, in order to become the focus of national attention, the theme of the first edition must be related to Xiuzhen, after thinking twice, Wei Ziyang decided to come up with a masterpiece of the Chinese nation - "Tao Te Ching"

This is a supreme philosophical work, but it is also a supreme Taoism, ordinary people may only find it catchy when they read it, but cultivators can read some insights from it, in the earth cultivation world, this is an enlightenment book.

Even Wei Ziyang, now that he reads the Tao Te Ching carefully, he has a lot of insights every time.

But Wei Ziyang's positioning of this newspaper is not limited to cultivation, but also has several more sections, such as current affairs, finance, entertainment, jokes, etc.

Although the area of a newspaper is limited, the space that can be played is actually not small, not to mention the text, it is no problem to insert a few advertisements quietly, although Wei Ziyang does not plan to make money, but to control public opinion and increase prestige, but if it can maintain operations, it will be great, so of course the method of product placement advertising must be learned.

One day in reality, five days in the Xiuzhen world, a wooden house of the Miao family has not yet been built, and here the "Dragon Daily" has ushered in the first issue of the release date.

"Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers!"

"Dragon Daily! Two or two broken spirits, first come, first served!"

"Know the affairs of the world, read the books of the saints, and participate in the three thousand ways, all in the Longyu Daily!"

On this day, there were some little Erlang walking around the streets and alleys of Longcheng with black leather bags, holding a dozen thick ink-scented papers in their hands, and shouting words in their mouths.

Everyone thought it was novel, and it was really cheap to add one or two broken spirits, so many people took out the broken spirits and bought one. The paper in Dragon City is very expensive, and there are more than one or two broken spirits in such a piece.

In addition to the sale of the streets, there are also some newspaper sellers who directly deliver newspapers to the shops on the street, as well as large households, or send them directly, but the newspaper seller also made it clear that only this time, the next time you need to pay for a reservation, fifty taels of broken spirits in a month, only the first batch of customers, and the price will increase from next month.