In Liu Jin's house in the capital, Liu Jin was very leisurely crossing his legs in his study, reading the newspaper, and enjoying the rare leisure time.
"I didn't expect that someone would start to publish this kind of novel-type newspaper just like the magazines of later generations."
"Once you like this series of novels and stories, if you follow it from issue to issue, the sales volume will definitely be quite good."
Liu Jin put down the newspaper in his hand, feeling itchy in his heart. He really wanted to read the next content. However, he had already read the content published in the newspaper and stopped abruptly when he reached the top. It was really worse than some online novel writers in later generations.
Still awesome.
Along with the vigorous development of newspapers, various newspapers were born, such as the Ming Morning Post, the Ming Business News, the Ming Confucian News, etc., all kinds of newspapers sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
Among them, a newspaper that specializes in serializing various novels and stories has recently emerged. The serialized contents are all kinds of novels, stories and the like.
The writing is also written in vernacular, simple and popular, easy to understand, and the stories he has seen. Although the novel is quite ordinary in the eyes of Liu Jin, a time traveler, it is far inferior to the huge novels that belong to millions in later generations.
imagination.
But for this era, it's still pretty good.
Especially for the Ming Dynasty people who lacked entertainment items, this kind of serial novels and stories quickly became popular as soon as they were published in newspapers.
It is said that in less than two months, the sales volume of "The Story of Ming Dynasty" has exceeded 200,000 copies. This is a terrifying figure.
Each issue sells 200,000 copies, which is already greater than the sales volume of most newspapers. That is, the sales volume of a few newspapers such as the Ming Dynasty Morning Post and the Ming Dynasty Business Daily is higher than this.
"Issuing one issue a week is really slow~"
"It's better to be in later generations. The online novels in later generations are updated every day. If you can't read it every day, you can still scold the author. This Ming Dynasty story is published once a week. It's really fucked up."
Liu Jin sighed helplessly. He was really unhappy when it was cut off when he saw the exciting part. The key is that he still has to wait for a week.
This made Liu Jin, who was accustomed to the updating of online articles in later generations, unable to help but want to buy the newspaper directly. This update speed would have been drowned in spit by later generations.
"It seems that three of the four great classics in history were written during the Ming Dynasty. In this way, during the Ming Dynasty, novels and stories had already developed to a certain extent."
"It's not surprising that someone came up with this newspaper specifically. It just caters to the needs of the market."
I recall several famous works from later generations. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, novels seemed to have become popular, and there were several famous works. In addition, there were also some controversial books that were very famous, such as Lanling.
Works by Xiaoxiaosheng.
Generally speaking, the Ming Dynasty was different from the Tang and Song Dynasties.
No one has appeared in poetry and poetry. There are no outstanding poets and lyricists like the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, and there are no classic masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.
This is a very strange phenomenon.
Logically speaking, if this lineage continues, there should be a large number of excellent poets and lyricists emerging, and there should also be a large number of excellent poems.
But there are very few, very few, and even if there are, they are far inferior to the poets and poems of the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Scholars of later generations also conducted some research on this, and later came to the conclusion that the poets of the Tang and Song Dynasties were so good at poetry that it was difficult for future generations to surpass them in the field of poetry. Therefore, even if there are excellent poets
, the poet, has excellent works, but compared with those in the Tang and Song Dynasties, they still look lackluster.
Since poetry was not good enough, stories, novels and the like had a chance to develop. Some frustrated scholars turned to collecting folk stories, and then organized and improved them, and slowly produced some important works.
However, under the dominance of Confucianism, these things were not widely spread and circulated. Luo Guanzhong, Shi Naian, and Wu Chengen, who were famous in later generations, were actually not very famous during the Ming Dynasty.
It was only in later generations that their names became widely known, and the books they wrote spread widely, and almost everyone knew them.
The emergence of newspapers gave those who wrote stories and novels a new outlet.
This is somewhat similar to that of Jin Yong in later generations. His novels were first published in the newspaper "Ming Pao" and relied on this to support them and eventually developed slowly.
However, the current situation is somewhat different. In an era lacking in entertainment and leisure, the emergence of newspapers has made the intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty ecstatic, and they must read them almost every day.
As soon as this professional newspaper that specializes in writing stories and novels came out, the treatment was completely different. It quickly became popular and sold 200,000 copies in a short period of time. This has to make people sigh, this Ming Dynasty
If the pond is big, you can easily raise a large fish.
After thinking about this clearly, Liu Jin also laughed.
This story, the emergence of professional novel-type newspapers, is very helpful in promoting the development of vernacular writing, and is conducive to breaking the ideological constraints of the eight-part essay and classical Chinese on thought and literature.
“The updates are just too slow!”
After reading this newspaper, I found that several of the stories and novels written in it are very attractive and the quality is quite good. After all, the level of literati in this period is still acceptable. The only thing is that it lacks imagination and cannot be compared with the mature novels of later generations.
compared to.
A lot of the content of the story still revolves around talented people and beautiful women, which is similar to the content in dramas. It is nothing more than a certain down-and-out scholar who was in trouble and how miserable he was when he was bullied and looked down upon by his relatives.
But there was only one young lady from a rich family who admired the scholar very much. Not only did she secretly support the scholar behind her old father's back, but she also secretly expressed her love for him.
The final result is probably that the scholar studied hard, and once he became the number one scholar, he slapped the relatives, neighbors, etc. who had bullied him in the face, and then he got married to a matchmaker and took the rich girl home in a big sedan chair.
.
This is a very clichéd story, and it is also a story that has long since become rotten.
But there is still a huge market for it, and everyone loves to watch this kind of thing.
This is a bit similar to the plot in later Internet articles, where a pig's feet are bullied, and then they practice hard, their strength greatly increases, and finally they get slapped in the face.
It's just that the pig's trotters are different. The pig's trotters in this period are scholars, while the pig's trotters in later Internet articles are the time-travelers written by a certain writer, the lucky ones.
"I don't know when the kind of martial arts novels written by Jin Daxia will appear in future generations."
After reading too many stories about talented people and beauties like this, Liu Jin almost felt like vomiting.
You can know the ending by reading the beginning of the content, and the talents and beauties are not attractive to Liu Jin at all. It would be better to read the ghost story.
Shaking his head slightly, he stopped thinking about these messy things, and the current important events of the court began to ring in his mind again.
Lately, the morning court has become a quarrel. Almost every day during the morning court, the ministers will quarrel.
The quarrel was not about anything else but the railway.
As more and more people take trains, everyone will be deeply shocked by the power of trains after experiencing them. Naturally, they also understand that this train is extremely important to the transportation and development of a place.
As soon as the five-year plan came out, some people were happy and some were worried. The provinces and regions where the railway passed through were naturally very happy, and they rushed to tell each other, looking forward to the early construction of the railway by the imperial court.
As for provinces and regions without railway planning, they were naturally unwilling and unhappy, and the matter gradually escalated from the private sector to the court.
Officials from various provinces and places also wrote to Emperor Hongzhi one after another, requesting the construction of railways and the like.
In the end, it turned into a quarrel in the court. Officials from various places wanted the court to change the railway line to their hometowns, or to build a railway line passing through their hometowns earlier.
Of course, these are all trivial matters, and quarreling and quarreling is just a matter of arguing over who will practice first and who will practice last, but sooner or later they will all practice it.
What Liu Jin has to think about now is how to reduce the cost of railway construction.
Judging from the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, the cost of building one mile of railway is 50,000 taels of silver. This number is obviously very large.
You must know that most of the areas that the Beijing-Tianjin Railway passes through are plain areas, and the cost is already so high. If it passes through mountainous and hilly areas, and bridges and holes are drilled everywhere, the construction cost will be even higher.
This is very detrimental to Ming Dynasty's railway plan.
The territory of the Ming Dynasty was so huge that any planned railway would be thousands of miles long, which means building any railway would require hundreds of millions of taels of silver.
Although the Ming Dynasty was very wealthy, money was not spent like this. The province still had to save money. If the cost was too high, it would also greatly affect the development of the railway.
“Is it really necessary to imitate the bald eagle and use a large number of slaves to build railways?”
Liu Jin fell into deep thought. The biggest cost of building a railway was labor. If a large number of slaves were used to build the railway, the cost could be greatly reduced.
Later generations of Bald Eagles built large railways that connected the east and west, and Chinese bones were buried under each section of the railway. From this we know that building railways requires a lot of labor without a large amount of construction machinery.
For the Ming Empire, there was no shortage of slaves. There were slave sources for the Ming people all over the world. It was very easy to get hundreds of thousands of slaves.
"Dong dong~"
"Sir, He Yun, the manager of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway Company, would like to see you~"
