Many generals of the Northern Tang Army began to prepare intensively to go south, but Zhou Jun, on the other hand, was free and able to enjoy a moment of rest.
Luo Aiqing, the daughter of Luo Anyuan and Xiao Yingluo, now comes to the Prime Minister's residence and attends a private school together with Zhou Xiao, Zhou Shang and Wan Niang.
Although Ai Qing is only six years old, she is naturally beautiful and has good etiquette. The only trouble is that she is a bit timid in character.
Wan Niang is three years younger than Ai Qing. When the two are together, it is Wan Niang who is like a sister most of the time, taking Ai Qing around.
The four children studied and lived together happily in this way.
After Zhou Jun took care of Wan Niang, he took advantage of his free time to return his attention to "Datang Wenbao".
"Datang Wenbao" has published fourteen issues from the beginning until the first month of the third year of Tianyou.
From being unknown at the beginning, to now being sold out every time it comes out in Liangcheng, "Datang Wenbao" has become completely prosperous.
Not only in the Northern Tang Dynasty, but also in Chang'an, Luoyang, and even as far away as Jiangnan and Sichuan, there were newspapers and newspapers of the Tang Dynasty.
In order to buy the newspapers and newspapers of the Tang Dynasty, dignitaries and merchants from other areas would send people to stay in Liangcheng every half a month, waiting for the newspapers and newspapers to be published, and then rush them away through Changxingfang.
Why is this newspaper so popular?
Firstly, court officials can find out about major events happening in the country in newspapers and newspapers; secondly, trading houses can see the latest market trends in newspapers and newspapers; thirdly, ordinary people can learn about the strange things happening in the country from newspapers and newspapers.
But the most important thing is that almost everyone who has read the Tang Dynasty newspapers is waiting for the update of the script of "Nie Yinniang".
Although the Tang Dynasty and the previous dynasties also had scripts, they could only be regarded as short stories at best. The long scripts of the Zhanghui style originated from Pinghua in the Song Dynasty, and it was in the early Yuan Dynasty that the literary form was truly established.
What's more, "Nie Yinniang" combines the characteristics of many later novels, including but not limited to revenge, adventure, martial arts, rivers and lakes, court, suspense and other factors.
This makes the serialized storybook "Nie Yinniang" attract a lot of attention as soon as it was released.
It is precisely because of the popularity of the storybook "Nie Yinniang" that the price of "Datang Wenbao" has skyrocketed, from three yuan per copy to five yuan per copy, and now to ten yuan per copy.
Even though the price was so high, the supply of "Datang Wenbao" in the Northern Tang Dynasty and other areas still exceeded the demand. Many literati could not buy it, so they could only write excerpts from the newspapers and bind them into volumes. In the end, it even led to the high price of paper in Luoyang.
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On this day, Zhou Jun came to the Xuanwen Hall and was discussing with Xie Qin the contents of the fifteenth issue of "Datang Wenbao".
Xie Qin: "Erlang, I want to discuss with you. The number of newspapers and newspapers printed by the printing department is too small. Some people are blocking the door of the Xuanwen Hall every day in order to purchase newspapers and newspapers of the Tang Dynasty. It is not an option to continue like this."
Zhou Jun: "The Xuanwen Museum prints almost 10,000 copies of newspapers every month. Is this still not enough?"
Xie Qin: "Of course it's not enough. I'll do the math for you... In Hexi, Shuofang, and Hebei alone, there are forty-five firms buying newspapers and magazines from the Xuanwen Hall. As for Anxi and Bei
Court, every three months, Changxingfang comes to purchase newspapers and magazines, and each time the order is not less than 50,000 copies. Just counting these, the library has to print out almost 30,000 copies every month, in order to
It can meet the requirements. Not to mention, there are also people from Chang'an, Luoyang, Jiangnan, Shu and other places coming to buy. Based on this calculation, the monthly printing volume will be about 40,000, which is considered stable."
Zhou Jun: "Since we are short of manpower, why not distribute the printing work evenly to other engraving workshops?"
Hearing this proposal, Jie Qin refused without even thinking about it: "Movable type printing is a unique skill, how can it be passed on to other engravings? What if others learn it and use this method to print another ""
"Datang Wenbao", isn't it a disaster?"
Zhou Jun originally did not intend to keep movable type printing private. After all, movable type printing is conducive to the spread of knowledge, and is also very helpful in opening up people's wisdom and improving literacy rates.
However, what Xie Qin said makes sense.
At present, "Datang Wenbao" is a weapon in the public opinion war between the Northern Tang government and other forces. If the movable type printing technology is announced rashly, the Northern Tang Dynasty will not be able to take the lead in public opinion, and may even be at a disadvantage.
Thinking of this, Zhou Jun asked Xie Qin: "How many people are currently responsible for the compilation and printing of newspapers and magazines in the Xuanwen Hall?"
Xie Qin: "Including writing, proofreading, printing, tracing, printing, etc., the Xuanwen Hall currently has more than 220 people, who are responsible for the compilation and printing of newspapers and newspapers. Those musicians and musicians in Liyuan,
As long as they know how to write and are smart and diligent, I will recruit them all to do the work. Even so, there is still a serious shortage of manpower."
Zhou Jun: "Not only does the Xuanwen Hall need to recruit more staff, but the building also needs to be expanded. Originally, the Liyuan official residence had two entrances and two exits, and only seventeen wing rooms. I plan to expand this place into a villa with three entrances and three exits.
The number of wing rooms has also been increased to fifty."
Hearing this, Xie Qin hesitated: "Would this make it more ostentatious?"
Zhou Jun: "Because of "Datang Wenbao", the Xuanwen Museum is already very famous, so what's the harm in being more ostentatious?"
Xie Qin: "That's good...many of the artists at Huaqionglou Theater were trained by me. I plan to select some of them and enter them into the Xuanwen Hall to help them win official positions. This will also make it easy to win over them."
Live in people’s hearts.”
Zhou Jun: "What about the funds for the expansion of the Xuanwen Hall? Does it need to be allocated by the imperial court?"
Xie Qin shook his head and said: "A Tang Dynasty newspaper can be sold for ten yuan. Twenty thousand copies a month is two hundred thousand yuan. The remaining goods in the museum are enough to pay for the expansion and recruitment of people."
Zhou Jun: "That's good."
Xie Qin patted his forehead: "I was so busy talking about literary and newspaper matters that I almost forgot about the real thing."
Zhou Jun: "Business?"
Jie Qin opened her eyes wide and said to Zhou Jun: "The storybook of "Nie Yinniang", I am waiting for this article in the new issue of the newspaper."
Zhou Jun nodded, took out a stack of paper from his arms, handed it to Xie Qin and said: "The court has been busy recently. For this chapter "Nie Yinniang", I dictated the outline, and Ruo'e helped polish it, but the length may still be a little short.
, let’s just climb up first.”
Xie Qin ignored Zhou Jun, picked up the storybook of "Nie Yinniang", and started reading it by herself.
Zhou Jun also knew Jie Qin's personality well, and it would take him a while before he could speak.
About a quarter of an hour later, Jie Qin finished reading the whole article. He sighed first and then said: "Nie Yinniang had practiced magical skills before and went to seek revenge on the enemies who framed her father. She first repelled a wave of assassins in the world,
Then I went to the county government office and found the county magistrate who forged the records of the relief warehouse. Unexpectedly, the magistrate had been strangled to death with white silk, and the scene was faked to commit suicide out of fear of crime."
"Nie Yinniang continued to follow the clues and discovered that the corruption case was actually related to a local wealthy family. She disguised herself and broke into the family's fort at night. Unexpectedly, the other party was already on guard. Nie Yinniang not only fell into a trap
, and was poisoned, but fortunately, with the help of an old man with superb martial arts skills, I managed to escape from the devil's cave."
"Nie Yinniang followed the old man and continued to practice martial arts while starting to sort out the clues. Soon, the clues of the prisoners involved in the case began to emerge. Among them were not only the county magistrate, but also the nobles and even the emperor.
Relatives."
Xie Qin lowered his head and read out the original words of the villain in the storybook: "This day has never been the sky for the common people. Some lowly households are destined to live in the mud, and they must use their flesh and blood honestly.
To nourish the nobles in the clouds. This has been a rule for thousands of years, and it is an eternal truth."
After reading this, Xie Qin asked Zhou Jun: "Write it like this? Is it really good?"
Zhou Jun: "Just publish it in the newspaper like this, without changing a word."
Xie Qin turned her attention to the storybook again: "At the end of this chapter, it talks about the severe drought in Guanzhong. I guess that the next step is a great famine in the world, right?"
Zhou Jun nodded slightly.
Xie Qin: "I didn't understand earlier. Erlang said that he wanted to use the script as a weapon to fight a literary battle with the world's elites. Now that I read "Nie Yinniang", I understand."
Zhou Jun: "Du Fu has already written a document about the floods, droughts, and starvation that killed thousands of miles in that year, and handed it to the court. In the next issue of "Datang Wenbao", in addition to the serialization of "Nie Yinniang", the remaining
Remember to save the page below to publish the great disaster that occurred in the 12th year of Tianbao."
Hearing this, Xie Qin nodded slightly.
Zhou Jun let out a long breath: "The next issue of "Datang Wenbao" will sound the clarion call for public opinion attack and defense between the Northern Tang Dynasty and the world."
This chapter has been completed!