Datang: Inheriting the system legacy at the beginning

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers!"

"The freshly released "Datang Times" contains the latest policies of the Tang Dynasty, as well as good-looking novels!"

"La la la! I'm a little expert in selling newspapers..."

Three days later, all the little beggars in the various squares and cities in Chang'an City have turned into small newspaper sellers, shouting and singing songs, walking around the streets and alleys to promote the newly released newspapers.

After Li Yin and the others left the palace and returned to Wannian County that day, they moved quickly.

The production of paper is very simple. After handing over the drawings and production process to Pumpkin, qualified paper was produced in less than two days.

Then the leaders of the Red Blood Guards have long been waiting for Li Yin's return in Wannian County. According to Li Yin's arrangement, the Red Blood Guards in the entire Tang Dynasty have also turned into reporters of the Datang Times on the bright side. up.

This is equivalent to giving them an aboveboard official status, freeing them from the dark underground.

On behalf of all the Red Blood Guards, several major commanders swore their complete allegiance to Li Yin, and then left with a mission.

As for movable type printing, this thing is too important in this era, Li Shimin directly sent a team of 1500 people from the Xuanjia Army to guard it.

Wei Zheng became the first chief writer and editor of the Datang Times from a dignified admonishing doctor. Originally, this old man was extremely unwilling, but Li Yin told him that the articles he would write in the future could make the people of the entire Tang Dynasty happy. See.

The ten-thousand-year-old sprayer became interested in an instant, and with the hope of being able to spray out the world's injustices in the future, Mr. Wei readily took up the post.

Don't tell me, Wei Zheng's troll belongs to the troll!
But he is still very fair, and the articles he writes hardly have any bias. Of course, they are articles written by him. As for the articles that are published, they have to go through the retirement of Li Yuan, who became the president of Datang Times. Reviewed and revised by the old man.

Therefore, the articles that can be published on the "Datang Times" all have a strong will of the Li family. As for the articles written by Wei Zheng that criticize Li Shimin or Li Yin, none of them will be published.

Since Li Yuan resumed his post, it seemed like he had rejuvenated himself. Every morning when he got up early, he would sit in the study and review the manuscripts, carefully revising every word.

"Child, how much do you sell this thing for?" A wealthy man with the appearance of a rich businessman stopped a newsboy in Chang'an City.

The newsboys were all specially trained by Li Yin. When he saw this man, he immediately put on a smiling face and said, "My lord, I am selling the "Datang Times", which records the latest current events in the Tang Dynasty. and policies, as well as the novelist's latest novel "The Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties"!"

Speaking of this, the child wiped his nose with his sleeve, continued to smile and said: "10 coins a piece, do you need it, sir?"

When the wealthy businessman heard that there were not only the latest novels by novelists, but also the latest current events and policies of the Tang Dynasty, his eyes were shining brightly.

What do businessmen need most?
Of course it is information!
What merchants earn from trading north and south is the price difference between regions. If there is not enough information, what money can they make?

There is also policy. You must know that one of the latest policies of the country may affect the life and death of businessmen like them.

In the past, they only had two ways to know this information, one was to buy it from those dignitaries at a high price, and the other was to spend money to inquire in Baiyun Tower.

Buying from high-ranking officials, the news is divided into grades, the general news may be bought consistently, but the news that can affect their life and death is more expensive, not hundreds or thousands of words. told you.

As for the news obtained by Baiyun Tower, it is even more deceitful!
Although there are enough news here, and sometimes even important news can be obtained, most of the news here are rumors.

If they want to get the information they want, they have to use their minds to distinguish it. After distinguishing the information they need from countless information, they have to find ways to find more similar information to prove and restore the truth of the matter.

Sometimes the price spent is really not as cheap as buying from those dignitaries.

"Give me one!"

"Okay, please put it away, my lord, I wish you a prosperous business!" The little newsboy took out a copy of "Datang Times" from the messenger bag uniformly made by Datang Daily and handed it to the rich businessman.

Then he turned around and continued to sell on the street. Not long after, all the newspapers in his messenger bag were snatched away.

The little newsboy shook his empty messenger bag, and with a satisfied smile on his snot-nosed little face, he walked quickly towards the Datang Library in Chongyifang.

They can get a copper plate for every newspaper sold. This is his second trip today, and he has sold more than 100 copies of "Datang Times". This is a huge sum he has never seen before. payment.

But the little newsboy was still not satisfied. He saw the disappointment on the faces of those who didn't buy the newspaper, so he planned to go back there again and sell it here again.

Oh!correct!

The "Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" mentioned by the tabloid boy just now was actually taken out of the space by Li Yin, but this version is very different from the original novel.

Not only did he describe Li Xuanba and himself as the reincarnation of gods in the novel, it was a counterattack to the family spreading rumors that he and Li Xuanba were the reincarnation of the ancient demon king.

At the same time, he even described the Taiyuan Wang family, Xingyang Zheng family, Fanyang Lu family, and Boling Cui family as conspirators who did all kinds of evil and wanted to conspire against the people of the Sui Dynasty by spreading rumors and agitating the people all over the world.

Of course, in the end Yang Guang became a tragic emperor who possessed great talent but was plotted and murdered by the family.

The novel is published in serial mode, and the previous part, even those from aristocratic families, at most seems to be Li Yin who wants to use the novel's dissemination strength to whitewash Yang Guang.

But what they didn't know was that this was originally Li Yin's calculation. The current production capacity of paper can't keep up with the consumption, so it can only be sold in Chang'an City and its surrounding areas for the time being, so the aristocratic family can't be aware of anything wrong in the early stage.

After he expanded the paper mill to a sufficient scale, the plot of the novel almost reached its climax at that time.

At that time, all the people had already cultivated the habit of reading newspapers, and if they wanted to stop it, it might be too late.

His intentions are extremely sinister. As long as this novel spreads throughout the Tang Dynasty through the "Datang Times" in the future, it may be difficult for the aristocratic family to turn around.

But these are not enough. Li Yin is well aware that the illiteracy rate among ordinary people in this era is so high that it can almost be said to be inversely proportional to the illiterate people in later generations.

So he not only sold newspapers, but also asked the Red Blood Guards to gather all the storytellers, and let them read and explain the "Datang Times" to the people every day in various places where people gathered.

I believe that with these means together, even if the five surnames and Qiwang join forces again, they will not be able to prevent the Li and Tang royal family from controlling the general trend of public opinion in the world.

It's like in a tea house in Chang'an City at this time, there is a storyteller sitting on a high platform, reading the information in the newspaper to the people below.

"Today His Majesty announced a major decision, and the Tang Dynasty will never add any gifts from now on..."

A long series of crackling official language was spoken from the mouth of the storyteller, but it sounded not at all disobedient to the ears of the common people.

Storytellers don't tell stories, which has become a feature of all teahouses in Chang'an.

"What, never pay?"

"His Majesty finally came up with a policy that benefits the people of the world!"

"Your Majesty is holy! There is hope in the days to come..."

"Hey! Did you hear what the gentleman said just now? It's not that His Majesty has not issued policies that are beneficial to us before, but those policies have been violated by those hateful families and corrupt officials."

"That's right, that's right! Those aristocratic families and corrupt officials deserve to die. God is so unfair. Your Majesty treats the people of Tang Dynasty so sincerely, but he will be threatened by the aristocratic family..."

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All of a sudden, in the entire Tang Dynasty, where there was a lot of mortal traffic, countless people gathered together to discuss the policies described in the "Datang Times".

Of course, some people are discussing the development of the subsequent plot of the novel "The Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties".

The policy of never adding taxes is Li Yin's idea for Li Shimin!

Didn't Kang Mazi of later generations win the hearts of the people all over the world by relying on this trick?
You must know that in ancient times, taxes and taxes were separated!
Take Kang Mazi’s dynasty as an example. He said that he would never increase taxes, but it didn’t mean that he didn’t increase taxes like ordinary people, but just didn’t increase land taxes!

To use an analogy, that is, your original land rent is [-]% of the land tax paid by the imperial court, and you will always pay [-]% of it in the future, and there will be no increase for you.

But does the court's taxation depend on talent?
Obviously not, the imperial court's taxation relies on a series of tax items such as per capita tax, land mu tax, commercial tax, etc., which are the important income channels of the imperial court.

Therefore, the Kangxi prosperous age touted by later generations, the never-increasing tax is nothing more than Kang Mazi's policy of sacrificing a small part of his profits to stabilize and win over the people.

But let's not say that the effect of this trick is still very obvious, at least in ancient times it was very effective.

Just like the early Tang Dynasty today, because of the war, many people in those days either hid in the mountains and became fleeing households, or became hermit households attached to the names of aristocratic families.

What are they doing it for?
Avoiding the war is only part of the reason, and the more important reason is to escape the high land tax from the court and the landlord.

Once the policy of never adding taxes is promoted, will those fleeing households and hidden households still be unmoved?
Is there really someone willing to spend their whole life without contact with the outside world, hiding in the mountains and living a life that no one cares about?

How many generations can they pass on without communication, relatives or even other families?
Long-term consanguineous marriages, can they still produce normal offspring?
The reason why Li Yin told Li Shimin about Kang Mazi's move was to increase the population of Datang in a short period of time and quickly win the hearts of the people of the country!