Chapter 59, Where there is well water, there are newspapers!
For the next two days, Xing Meng stayed at home and did not go out, and on the third day, Miaoyin sent someone to ask him to discuss, and he had already designed the newspaper layout.
Xing Meng took a look at it, and couldn't help but admire Miaoyin's intelligence, the layout design of the newspaper was very simple and generous, which was much better than the newspapers on the earth in the previous life, and even the "masthead" was taken into account.
Xing Meng said some suggestions for detailed processing, and then handed over the drafts of "Journey to the West" and "The Legend of Children's Heroes" to Miaoyin.
With the financial resources of the Zhou family, where Miaoyin is located, as long as the layout, content, and printing speed are more efficient than the fastest bookstore in Hanjiang County, only two days later, Dasheng's first newspaper was successfully born!
At the same time, in the streets and alleys, there are suddenly more simple wooden houses built with wooden planks, and there are also more children walking the streets and alleys shouting for sales.
These are the so-called "newspaper kiosks" and "newsboys".
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The eighteenth year of Dasheng Dingtai, February 24.
The sunlight is evenly sprinkled on Luoshui Street, Nanzhou Fu, and the figures of pedestrians are pulled into a slender shape, and the street is full of traffic and pedestrians, showing a very prosperous scene.
Although the plague is still spreading in the Nanzhou capital and the surrounding state capitals, the people in the state capital, after the initial panic, how to live and how to live.
The business spirit on the street is also very strong.
Suddenly, a cheerful shout rang out in the streets.
"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers!!"
A few newsboys ran around, shouting through the crowd.
"The thirteenth sister's father was killed by the imperial court, and she had nowhere to redress her grievances, wandered the world, learned martial arts, and came to avenge the blood and the sea of revenge! Touching and heartfelt, the students of Qingya Academy wept after reading it, and they were deeply moved......"
"The story of a monk with a group of monsters to save the common people! Whoever looks at it is fascinated, and can't put it down when you see it! Demons and monsters are in charge, and they see the Great Sage of Heaven disturbing the heavenly court! ”
The newsboys shouted very hard, causing the surrounding pedestrians to look sideways and arouse their curiosity.
"Newspapers? What is this? An old gentleman passing by frowned and asked.
"It's a piece of paper with a beautiful story written on it." The newsboy next to him immediately replied.
"How much?" The old gentleman asked, visibly intrigued.
"Two copper coins!" The newsboy replied.
"It's not expensive." The old gentleman bought one, walked to the roadside tea stall and sat down, and began to look through it.
"The spiritual root nurtures the source of pregnancy, and the spiritual cultivation avenue is born!"
Gradually, the old gentleman was attracted by the story inside, the spirit monkey was originally a remnant of Nuwa mending the sky, and was baptized by the essence of the sun and the moon for countless years, and a stone monkey was born! This stone monkey is born with wisdom and intelligence, and he is the king among the monkeys, and when he discovers the Water Curtain Cave, he wants to find the way of immortals and the way of immortality!
This is the opening story of "Journey to the West", and the plot conflict has not yet begun, but this rushing picture has a strong sense of image, majestic and majestic imagination, wanton and wanton spreading, bringing the ultimate reading experience to the old gentleman.
"Hey, why is it gone?" The old gentleman saw the end in one breath and was very disappointed.
I looked closely, but I saw a line written at the end of the newspaper, if you want to know what will happen next, please subscribe to tomorrow's newspaper!
"It seems that we can only wait for tomorrow......" The old gentleman was a little unsatisfied, and took a sip of tea, only to feel that the tea tasted faint and tasteless.
"Old Pu, what's wrong, sighing for a long time?" The owner of the tea stall was very familiar with the old gentleman, and asked when he saw this.
"Huh! It's okay, it's just that looking at this story, it's a little fascinating, I didn't see the following, it's very uncomfortable to break here. The old gentleman smiled and said.
The owner of the tea stall stretched out his head and suddenly smiled: "Old Pu! This is a newspaper, huh? This is the first issue, and the next few issues have already come out, one issue a day, and now it is out of the sixth issue, and there is a date in the masthead. ”
"Huh?" When the old gentleman heard this, his eyes glanced at it, and sure enough, he saw that under the "People's Daily", the date was written prominently, February 18, which was indeed six days ago.
"People's Daily" is the name of the newspaper determined by Xing Meng, because novels, to entertain the public, are to take root in the public of the people, and to connect with the people, so he didn't plan to give any fake name, just called the People's Daily, but down-to-earth.
"It's my clumsiness! I'm going to buy the last five installments! The old gentleman smiled, hurriedly walked to the newspaper kiosk, and bought all the newspapers sold in the past few days.
Then I took a closer look.
The more I look at it, the more I like it.
"Old Pu, didn't you hate this kind of little talk book before, why are you so fascinated now?" Seeing this, the owner of the tea stall deliberately teased.
"Ah......h Ha ha! The old gentleman smiled, didn't answer, flipped through the newspaper, changed the subject, and said, "The story recorded in this newspaper is really good, I have never seen anything like this before." Hey, the author is...... Xing Meng, this name is quite familiar. ”
The old gentleman fell into deep thought.
"Haha, isn't this the author of "The Legend of the West Chamber" and "The Biography of Li Linfu", which were very popular some time ago! Weren't you still very angry at Li Linfu's big traitor? The owner of the tea stall reminded.
"Oh! It's him, I say...... No wonder it's so well written, this Xing Meng is so talented! The old gentleman exclaimed and said.
"Yes, you don't know, two days ago, I listened to the chat of the guests drinking tea, saying that this newspaper was created by Xing Meng, and his talent is very good, and he is still the first place in Hanjiang County!" The tea stall owner said.
"I'll just say, it's so well written, how can it be a lonely and unknown person?" The old gentleman smiled, then picked up the newly purchased issues of the newspaper and began to read intently.
Such a scene is being staged in many places in Nanzhou Capital.
Even, under Miaoyin's arrangement, after the newspaper was released, the Zhou family immediately organized storytellers from major teahouses to express the content of the previous day's newspaper in the form of storytelling.
This move not only did not hinder the sales of the newspaper, but also made many people who were too lazy to read or could not know how to read the charm of these two novels.
With the advancement of the plots of the two books, whether it is "Journey to the West" or "The Legend of Children's Heroes", they all show a magnificent appearance.
Especially the former, the four masters and apprentices have distinct images, and they slay demons all the way, and cool points emerge endlessly.
It can be said that in Dasheng, which is quite lacking in the entertainment industry, this book is the existence of filling the gaps, which makes countless readers want to stop and haunt their dreams!
Under this momentum, it was immediately sold in various parts of Nanzhou Prefecture, and it sold extremely well, selling thousands of copies in just a few days, and it is still growing!
As a result, many people have developed the habit of buying a newspaper and reading it in the morning.
And Xing Meng's reputation gradually became famous in Nanzhou Mansion with the popularity of the newspaper.
Liu Yong, a lyricist of the Northern Song Dynasty, was praised as "where there is well water, there are willow words".
Now, in the entire boundary of the Nanzhou capital, where there is well water, there are newspapers. You can see it!
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