The headquarters building of Daming Daily in Daming Capital is located in Xincheng, South District of Beijing. Everyone is busy preparing for the daily publication of Daming Daily.
The telegraph room was newly built recently. There is an entire building used for receiving and sending telegrams. At the top of the building, you can see tall poles with circles on top.
Copper coils are specially used to receive and transmit electromagnetic signals.
In each room of the telegraph room building, the first batch of telegraph operators in the Ming Dynasty were busy. The voices of Didi came and went. Each of them wore special earphones, listened carefully to the information transmitted by the electromagnetic signal, and then quickly translated it.
come out.
"Didi~Didi~"
"News came from South Zhili that heavy rains continued in the south of the Yangtze River, and the precipitation far exceeded previous years. Floods have occurred in many areas, among which Suzhou and Yangzhou are the most serious. The water in Suzhou City is already half a person's height."
"Didi, didi~"
"There is news from Henan that a severe drought has continued in Henan. The riverbed has dried up and the grain harvest has stopped. This is the most serious drought in the past ten years. However, Henan has not seen the scene of starvation in previous years of famine. A large number of businessmen have seen business opportunities.
Sell a large amount of grain to Henan and keep grain prices stable!"
"Didi, didi~"
"News came from Sichuan that there was an earthquake in Sichuan and Chongqing. The earth dragon turned over and the earthquake was strong. A large number of houses collapsed in the Luzhou area!"
"Didi, didi~"
"News came from Wenzhou, Zhejiang, that fishermen went out to sea to capture a giant whale, which was a hundred meters long!"
"There is news from Nanyang that Nanyang sugarcane will have another bumper harvest this year, but the purchase price of sugarcane continues to fall, and a large number of planters are planting fruits and rubber."
"News came from across the ocean from Huanghuangzhou that the expedition team successfully found a large gold mine in the Rocky Mountains of Huanghuangzhou. The yield was extremely high, and the expedition team became rich overnight."
"The grassland tribes in the grassland province held the Naadam Conference, with thousands of horses galloping, showing the heroic spirit of the grassland tribes!"
"A pregnant woman in Huguang gave birth to quadruplets at one time, two pairs of dragons and phoenixes. The fetuses are healthy and the twins are happy!"
In each room, telegraph operators continued to receive telegrams from all over the Ming Dynasty and quickly translated various messages.
As Liu Jin's Ming Telegraph Trading Company began to build and build in the various capitals of Ming Dynasty, its huge role began to be quickly revealed.
Through the telegraph network covering the entire Ming Dynasty, almost everything that happened in the entire Ming Dynasty could be transmitted to the capital in the first time.
As a newspaper that mainly reports on current affairs, Daming Daily naturally makes the most money.
In the past, Daming Daily couldn't even be called Daming Daily, because even if it sent many reporters to various places to collect news materials, there was no way to deliver them back quickly on the same day.
Therefore, Daming Daily is often published once every few days. At first, it was once every seven days, and later it was gradually published once every three days.
There is not much news material to report, which is the main constraint that prevents Ming Daily from publishing every day.
But now, as the Ming Dynasty Telegraph Company was being laid and constructed in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty Daily also seized the opportunity and sent a large number of reporters to various parts of the country to collect news materials, and then quickly sent them back to the capital through telegrams.
This allows the headquarters of the Ming Dynasty Daily in Beijing to receive all the news at the first time, and then search for the required news materials for layout, and determine the news news reported by the Ming Dynasty Daily in the new day.
"Haha, now I don't have to worry about having no news material to report!"
The directors of Daming Daily, Bao Jiwen, Ou Yangguang, Wu Zhang, Liu Zili, and Zhou Zhi looked at the piles of news materials on their desks, all with smiles on their faces.
In the past, the most worrying thing every day was thinking about what kind of news would be reported in tomorrow's Morning Post. Without sufficiently advanced communication technology, the transmission of information was too slow.
Although the Ming Dynasty Morning Post has a large team of reporters, the collection of news materials is still very slow, so that there is often an embarrassing situation where there is no news to report.
Sometimes I have to report some novels, biographies and the like in newspapers to make up the numbers.
But now, looking at the various news materials in my hand, there are all types of news materials.
There are major events in this country and the world, such as floods, droughts, locust plagues in certain places, it is not unusual for the earth dragon to turn over, and there are all kinds of strange news.
A big whale was caught, someone gave birth to four babies at once, etc. These are all news materials. If they are sorted out carefully, they can all be reported.
From national events to oddities, there is no need to worry about running out of news materials.
"From now on, we can publish it every day. This is the real Tomorrow Daily."
Bao Jiwen smiled and nodded.
Daming Daily, the daily newspaper, can finally live up to its name.
"Are the Nanjing, Chengdu, Huguang, Huanghuangzhou, Nanyang, and Western Region branches ready?"
Bao Jiwen then asked about the construction status of branches in various places.
In the past, Daming Daily only had branches in Beijing and Tianjin, so only Tianjin and Beijing could see the latest edition of Daming Daily at the first time.
As for other areas, depending on the distance from the Beijing-Tianjin area and the traffic situation, there will be a lag. For places far away, it may even take more than a month to see the mailed items from the Beijing-Tianjin area.
newspaper.
But even so, the circulation of Ming Daily is still very popular. Not only people in various parts of Ming Dynasty, but also in the Ottoman Empire, Persia, Egypt and other regions like to read Ming newspapers. As for Ming vassals, colonies, etc.,
Not to mention that.
Now that there is a telegraph, the Ming Dynasty Morning Post can be distributed uniformly throughout the Ming Dynasty.
News from all over the world converges in the capital, where it is typed and arranged at the headquarters in the capital, and then transmitted via telegraph to branches located in various places for printing and distribution. In this way, the latest Daming Daily can be seen in real time in all parts of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, this is not just for everyone to see the real-time Daming Daily, it also has huge economic value.
The Ming Dynasty Morning Post is currently the newspaper with the largest circulation, selling millions of copies each time it is issued.
This is a very scary number.
On the one hand, it shows the lack of relevant entertainment and the lack of news in this era. People like the Ming Dynasty Morning News very much, because it not only allows you to pass the time and entertainment, but also allows you to obtain current affairs news from various parts of the Ming Dynasty.
With the latest news, you can know the major events in the world without leaving your home.
Another aspect also shows that newspapers have great potential in this era. In later generations, various communications were extremely developed, and few people read newspapers at all.
It is difficult for everyone to imagine the powerful charm that newspapers have in a specific period of time.
In order to meet the needs of the Ming Dynasty Morning Post, Liu Jin built a large printing factory and developed new printing and papermaking technologies. Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would not be able to keep up with such a huge paper consumption.
The circulation quantity of the Ming Dynasty Morning Post is very large, but it is still subject to some restrictions, mainly due to poor information. If it can be published in real time in all parts of the Ming Dynasty at the same time.
The circulation of the Tomorrow Morning Post will surge. Although this newspaper only costs a few pennies, it seems that it is not making any money, and may even be losing money.
But the advertisements in the Tomorrow Morning Post are very profitable. The cost of publishing an advertisement casually is very expensive. The larger the circulation, the more expensive the advertising fee, and the money flowing in it is real money.
"Everything is ready and can be released simultaneously with us in Beijing at any time."
Ouyang Yang replied quickly.
"That's good~ Now our headache is which news should be selected for reporting."
"Yes, yes, I think news about disasters in various places must be published, and other strange and strange things must also be published."
"Don't worry about the news about quadruplets being born in Huguang."
"I think it should be published. This illustrates the prosperity of our Ming Dynasty and the progress of our Ming Dynasty's medical technology. In the past, it would have been difficult to give birth to these quadruplets, let alone raise them into adults."
"Yes, yes, I also think this should be reported. The news about the large whale caught in Zhejiang, I think it doesn't need to be published."
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