"Well, the paper quality of this newspaper is good, better than ours. But what is the cost of such good paper?"

On March 11, Donglin Daily was first published. Wuxi Jinyiwei, who had been following the news of Donglin Academy for a long time, bought ten copies of the newspaper after it came out and delivered it to Zhu Youdong's desk that afternoon.

Then Zhu Youdong summoned Cao Huachun, Zhang Yicheng, Wang Chengen, Zhang Shize, Li Chunzhong, Tian Ergen and others to watch the first issue of Donglin Daily.

This newspaper currently only has two pages and eight pages. It can be seen that Gu Xiancheng and others are quite cautious: they would rather have less pages, but they must make the content solid.

Specifically, the distribution of content in the eight pages is:

The first page covers major domestic events, as well as some trivial matters in Wuxi County. The second page covers the lives of Confucian saints, and the first issue is about Duke Zhou. The third page contains essays, mainly about the opinions of the big guys from Donglin Academy.

Comments on imperial affairs. The fourth edition, textual research on cultural relics, some interesting stories in history. The fifth and sixth editions, novels. This issue contains stories based on the lives of beard guests in the Tang Dynasty, similar to the ambitions.

Strange things. The seventh and eighth editions, special editions for poetry and poetry.

"Your Highness." After flipping through Donglin Daily several times, Zhang Shize raised his head and said, "This newspaper has no advertisements. How much do they need to sell this newspaper for to earn back the money?"

Zhang Shize is now over ten years old this year. In addition to continuing to study with Zhang Yicheng, Xu Guangqi and others, his main focus is to assist Zhang Yicheng in running newspapers. Therefore, although he is young, he is already very experienced in newspaper management.

"Your Majesty, according to reports from my colleagues in Wuxi, this Donglin newspaper costs one copper plate for every three copies."

"Ah? Wouldn't that be a loss? Even if they get the support of many gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, how long can they last if they continue to lose money like this?"

It is not a joke to say that the Jiangnan gentry supports it. In this first issue, Donglin Academy clearly stated: The editor-in-chief of this newspaper is Gao Panlong, and the editor-in-chief is Qian Yiyi and other Donglin gentlemen. In the first issue, Guang Guang

It was to thank the gentry who donated money and sponsors. It took up nearly half of the page to list them one by one. Compared with the first issue of Jinling Daily, which did not thank the sponsors at all, the number of supporters was not ordinary.

"Well, if Donglin continues to do this, there are only three possibilities." Zhu Youdong smiled slightly: "First, if the newspaper is well run, the gentry in Jiangnan feel that they can gain a good reputation through the newspaper, so they are willing to continuously invest money to support it.

Secondly, the support of the gentry could not last long, and finally Donglin began to advertise in his own newspaper. You see, the founding statement did not say that this newspaper will never advertise, right? Thirdly, it can’t be done

After that, I couldn’t afford to advertise in Donglin. Or the sales volume was so poor that even ordinary businessmen were unwilling to advertise in Donglin. In the end, I had to close down..."

"Then does Your Highness think that possibility is greater?"

"Well, I don't know about this either. After all, we have just started."

"Your Highness."

"What's the matter, Mr. Zhang?"

"Have you seen the seventh edition? Donglin is challenging us."

"Huh? There is such a thing. Let me take a look."

On the seventh page of Donglin, Xue Fujiao, the editor-in-chief of the page, stated in his speech that this page welcomes contributions from talented and beautiful people from all walks of life, and there is no limit to the types of poems, lyrics, and poems submitted. Once published, all authors will be given two cents of the remuneration.

silver.

There is nothing wrong with such a speech originally, but the annoying thing is behind it.

Xue Fujiao specifically mentioned in the second half of his speech that in addition to him, a bookworm known as a "bibliophile", as the editor of this edition, the editors who assisted him in his work were all young men who had won the title of scholar before the age of fifteen.

Talent. His thinking is the most agile, and his future is extremely promising - this is an insinuation that the ordinary editors of Jinling Daily are all scumbags who are decades old and cannot win the national examination or even pass the boy examination.

If this is just a covert attack, then Xue Fujiao said next: Literary works should learn from each other. It is best to publish works on the same theme in a certain issue or issues of a newspaper. Ten million

Don't be like the so-called "literary edition" of Jinling Daily. Each issue has no fixed theme. As a result, in the newspaper on the same day, those who praise plum blossoms, those who chant lotuses, those who praise flowers, and those who write about chrysanthemums are all crowded together.

.There is no way to compare or learn from each other. We at Donglin Daily will not make such stupid mistakes... Recently, winter has turned to spring. Friends, if you want to submit articles, you can write about flowers, birds, insects, fish, or scenery and people.

But it must be spring-themed.

Although it was Hong Guoguo's provocation at this point, Xue Fujiao seemed not to have had enough yet. He made a straightforward statement at the end: When writing spring poems, you must have vitality. Don't think of life as if it were just as decadent as the first time you saw it.

Take out the words - the season is not suitable right now!

"Haha, interesting."

After carefully reading Xue Fujiao's declaration of war, Zhu Youdong thought for a moment, and then said loudly: "Wang Chengen, I will serve you with pen and ink."

After several years of instruction from Zhang Yicheng, Zhu Youdong's calligraphy skills were already very organized. Langhao, who was full of ink, moved the brush on the rice paper like flying, and soon he completed a seven-jue calligraphy poem.

Everyone quickly came forward, and Li Chunzhong simply started reading: Sitting alone in the pond, like a tiger roosting, recuperating under the shade tree. If I don't speak first when spring comes, no insect will dare to make a sound.

"atmosphere!"

"Your Highness, you are so domineering and domineering, you are truly the image of a king!"

"Haha, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed." Zhu Youdong, the literary copywriter, smiled at this moment: The chairman's poems are not domineering, so there is really no domineering one. This poem is the chairman's first seven unique poems, but from here on

It can be seen that in that era, he was the one with the highest ambition and the greatest mind.

Although this is a work written by the chairman when he was 16 years old, the text is simple and there are almost no allusions in it. But Zhu Youdong firmly believes that this poem alone is enough to defeat the so-called geniuses in Donglin.

"Tian Ergeng, I'll leave this matter to you."

"Yes, I must let those rotten scholars at Donglin Academy publish His Highness Taisun's masterpiece in their own newspapers."

"When you go to Donglin, you can tell Gu Xiancheng that our Jinling Daily welcomes Donglin Daily to join the newspaper market. If they have difficulties in newspaper sales channels, our Fangshan grocery stores have spread all over the counties in the four provinces of Jiangnan. They can use

We sell through grocery store channels, collect manuscripts from various places and pay royalties."

"Ah? Your Highness, if you do this, wouldn't it be..."

"Hahaha, you guys." Zhu Youdong stood up: "In my opinion, these nerds in Donglin running newspapers are just hot-headed nonsense. The simplest thing is not to advertise and to raise the price.

Such a low price, making money at a total loss, cannot last forever. Secondly, now that the newspaper has been established, what about the sales channels? I don’t know how much money the Jiangnan gentry gave Donglin, but no matter how much, it needs to be re-laid all over the place.

Sales channels in Jiangnan and even across the country are impossible without hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. And this thing is not only a matter of money, but also requires a lot of time. After all, there is no shop in Daming that can be like our Fangshan Grocery Store.

There are branches in the county. It can be said that without our help, the Donglin Daily will degenerate into a local newspaper in Wuxi in a short time. It will even be the same as the small-scale self-entertainment of Donglin Academy now.

Become the in-house journal for a bunch of nerds.”

"Then why does Your Highness still..."

"I just want to help them. Competition is a good thing. Besides, what if Donglin Daily uses our network to spread to the four provinces of Jiangnan in a short period of time, but the people in the four provinces prefer our newspapers?"

"Hahahaha~~ What Your Highness said is absolutely true. If you want to hurt someone by throwing him, you have to lift him up first!"

"Li Chunzhong, have you ever said that to His Highness? This is called supporting the horse and giving him another ride!"

"Hahaha, Zhang Shize, you are so sinister. Give me a ride? Where?"

After everyone laughed together for a while, Zhu Youdong clapped his hands: "So, it is necessary to help Donglin. However, since there is an additional competitor, we must do our best ourselves. Mr. Zhang, what I mean is,

In the recent newspapers, we should give an extra page to The Condor, and strive to end The Condor within seven days."

"Your Highness, if The Condor Shooting ends, what will our newspaper sales be?"

"Hahaha, The Condor Shooting has already come to an end. Many people have guessed the final ending. This kind of Condor Shooting can't gather more popularity. A new protagonist and a new story must be introduced."

"New protagonist?"

"Yes, the protagonist this time is Yang Kang's son."

I just want to help them. Competition is a good thing. Besides, what if Donglin Daily uses our network to spread to the four provinces of Jiangnan in a short period of time, but the people in the four provinces prefer our newspaper?"

"Hahahaha~~ What Your Highness said is absolutely true. If you want to hurt someone by throwing him, you have to lift him up first!"

"Li Chunzhong, have you ever said that to His Highness? This is called supporting the horse and giving him another ride!"
Chapter completed!