Chapter 385: Newspaper Distribution

It can be said that this newspaper is densely packed, and all of it is dry goods, because the content of the first issue is relatively large, and the content of the first issue of the whole newspaper is probably composed of three newspapers.

"That's good, if you print 100,000 copies, how long will it take? If it is delivered to all major cities in Dahan, how long will it take? And how long would it take to have at least one copy of these newspapers in every village? Have you done any statistics? Huo Gang asked, putting the newspaper aside and asking.

"100,000 copies can be printed in three days, and the printing firm has already assembled three new printing lines and trained enough workers. If it is transported to all the cities of Dahan, we use fast horses to transport it in seven days, and if it is spread to all the villages, this time is about 15 days. ”

"In other words, it takes eighteen days to print and ship?" Huo Gang asked.

"If you print from scratch, it will take about two days to adjust the printing line, a total of 20 days." Yang Wu gave a qualified number.

"Well, there are ten days left to prepare for next month's content, it shouldn't be a big problem, and the newspaper will be handed over to the Ministry of Culture in the future, and you will decide for yourself what content will be released next month.

In addition, the content should be arranged in such a way that some content can be replaced at any time, and if there is an emergency, it can be replaced at any time. ”

"Yes."

"How much does it cost to print and paper such a newspaper?" Huo Gang asked again, this is very important.

"At present, although we use the most common paper, the cost of a piece of paper also reaches 10 cents."

"Hmm...... In this case, the newspaper is sold for 50 cents, and the government subsidizes the newspapers in each village. Huo Gang thought about it and said directly.

"Yes."

The price of 50 cents is not cheap at all, which means that the price of a newspaper is about 12.5 kilograms of grain. The average worker's salary is only 8 cents a day. However, when this newspaper is printed, it is not actually for ordinary people to read.

Ordinary people can only buy a newspaper with six or seven days' salary, and ordinary people are definitely reluctant to buy it, but if the government subsidizes a newspaper in each village, it doesn't matter, because after ordinary people read the content of the newspaper, they just need to know it.

What Huo Gang needs is a channel for the popularization of information, and their main sales targets are naturally some scholars, scholars, merchants, and so on.

There are 800,000 people in the entire Han Dynasty, and these people may be able to sell thousands of copies, and whether the rest of the newspapers can be sold by that time Huo Gang actually doesn't know, but there is no problem with printing according to 100,000 points.

Because he can foresee that this newspaper will be purchased not only in Dahan, but also in the surrounding countries.

As long as someone buys it, Huo Gang will sell it, because this is also an opportunity to promote the big man.

"Yes, my subordinates understand." Yang Wu nodded directly.

"Okay, that's it, the first batch of newspapers will be released directly before the Lantern Festival, and tell Wu Ping that if the matter about the Middle Yuan Era cannot be determined, just determine one at random, and what we record is history." Huo Gang thought about it and explained directly.

"Yes." Yang Wu nodded, he knew about this, if he really didn't know, what they said was what it was.

Yang Wu went back here and quickly found Wu Ping, after knowing Huo Gang's words, Wu Ping and they quickly made a decision after discussing it, they decided to use this year as the Yellow Emperor Era 3625, according to this era, Huo Gang knew that they used the number 2997 BC as the first year of the Yellow Emperor Era.

For this, Huo Gang directly finalized it, because any one can be used.

Now that it is confirmed, then the statement of the Yellow Emperor Era Huo Gang will naturally not use the historical statement, because according to the Han Dynasty, Huo Gang is the incarnation of all the gods in the sky, that is, what Haotian God, Pangu and the like are all him, then this is naturally higher than the Yellow Emperor's forced qualifications.

So after it was determined, there was also a note on the chronology at the bottom of the newspaper.

"According to the order of the chief, from today onwards, the whole Han Dynasty will adopt the Zhongyuan era, the so-called Zhongyuan era is the first year of Chinese civilization as the beginning of the year, that is, the birth date of the first leader emperor sent by God to lead the birth of Chinese civilization in ancient times, which also means the official origin of Chinese civilization."

"It is at this time that Chinese civilization can be officially called Huaxia and China, so this day is the first year of the Middle Yuan Era."

"Now it is the year 3625 of the Middle Yuan Era, and all subsequent historical books will be based on the Middle Yuan Era as the main year, supplemented by the Han Dynasty, so this year is the year of the Middle Yuan Era 3625, and the second year of the Han Dynasty. Governments at all levels are requested to record this as an accurate time. ”

"The successor government will start printing calendars every year as the relevant chronological law."

This announcement was also printed directly on the newspaper, and of course the newspaper also had a specific time.

And the reason why the last sentence was printed is because after determining the specific calendar time, the reward of the spirit of the jade gate was actually triggered, and this time the reward was not a complicated thing, but a set of perpetual calendars after the fine calculation of later generations, and the printing was still the printing method of later generations.

Mainly...... Although it is said to be a perpetual calendar, of course, there is no 10,000-year perpetual calendar, only a 1,000-year perpetual calendar, but if you use the printing of this era, I am afraid that there will be thousands of copies, and the printing method of small fonts in later generations, so that it does not add up to many copies.

There is only basic calendar information on it, and some other messy information is not, but even if it is, it is already very perverted, at least much more accurate than the calendar of this era.

There are also two sets of calendars, the first is naturally the Gregorian calendar, which is a calendar that will be invented about a thousand years later, and the other is the traditional lunar calendar. With this, it will be easy to print the calendar every year.

This era is estimated by the people themselves, but with a calendar, basically everyone can know, and almost all the reeds in the entire Yanqi country have been harvested this winter, these reeds are enough for next year's papermaking, according to the current papermaking, a calendar is not much money.

The first newspaper was printed very quickly, and when it was completely printed, the first batch of newspapers was naturally the first to be transported to Yumen Pass, and by the time the newspaper was delivered, some of the older children in Yumen Pass had already been concentrated.

These children are the first batch of newspaper boys, their task after school is to deliver newspapers, and they can earn a certain amount of pocket money every day, which is less than that of the workers who work regularly, but for these children, it is already a lot.

They were first gathered together for training for a few days, and then after the newspapers were delivered, newsboys with small green cloth bags appeared on the streets of Yumen Pass.

"Sell the newspaper, sell the newspaper, the first cabinet government of the Han Dynasty officially announced the formation of a cabinet and swore allegiance to the leader!"

"Sell the newspaper, sell the newspaper! I read the newspaper, and the first cabinet government of Dahan was officially ......"

With the continuous shouting of these newsboys, it instantly attracted the attention of countless people, Wei Zheng, who was shopping on the street, was stunned when he heard the voices of these newsboys, how could ordinary children know such a thing.

But he immediately stopped a little child: "Hey, little guy, what do you mean by selling newspapers?" ”

"This old man, the newspaper sold is our newspaper, which contains some information about the Han government." The newsboy immediately spoke in a respectful tone.

"Oh? How do you sell this? Wei Zheng immediately saw the paper contained in the green bag next to the newsboy, and he naturally saw the handwriting on it.

"50 points." The newsboy spoke immediately.

Wei Zheng was stunned for a moment, this price ...... It was much lower than he expected, but he still took out a fifty-cent coin from his body and handed it to the newsboy, who immediately handed a newspaper to Wei Zheng.

After taking this newspaper and opening it, Wei Zheng was a little surprised to find that this newspaper was bigger than he imagined, it was not a book, but a real piece of paper, it was folded, and after opening it, he found that it was full of dense handwriting.

It is still accustomed to the printing method of the Han Dynasty, printing and reading from left to right, and it is horizontally, anyway, now Wei Zheng is used to it, the words on these three pieces of paper, Wei Zheng is a little amazed, if according to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, don't underestimate this is only a small three pieces of paper, but it is full of words, I am afraid that there are thousands of words.

According to the number of words in these words, if it is Datang, I am afraid it will be at least several times, but only 50 points are needed here? That is, it is equivalent to 50 texts of the Tang Dynasty.

However, when he saw the content on it clearly, Wei Zheng took a deep breath, and the content on it was probably worth his careful consideration and study, Wei Zheng simply stopped his steps and said directly to the entourage beside him: "Let's go, let's go back." ”

"Yes!"

After returning to the embassy with his entourage, Wei Zheng directly found a chair to sit there and read it carefully, the content of this newspaper is worthy of his careful study, which is related to the development state of Dahan and the future development direction of Dahan.

Wei Zheng read it very carefully, a newspaper has a total of three pages, and it is also a printed version, Wei Zheng read the whole newspaper after reading it for about an hour, and after reading it, Wei Zheng roughly understood what kind of thing it was.