Li Shimin

After thinking it through, Li Chengqian's eyes shone brightly. Newspapers can quickly make an unknown shop famous all over the world.

In this way, as long as a store tastes the sweetness, the newspaper can make a lot of money day by day!

The newspaper not only does not allocate funds to the court, but also makes money by itself.

Seeing that Li Chengqian understood, Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction.

"However, the benefit of being delivered to your door is not as good as asking for it yourself. In order to allow merchants from all over the world to come to your door in person and beg you to advertise their shops in the newspaper, you can first find a few shops as a pilot. Show businessmen all over the world the ability to read newspaper propaganda."

Li Chengqian asked: "Dare to ask Master, but use my own shop?"

"It's natural!"

Li Xuan said: "However, there must be rules in doing things, even if you use your own shop to promote it in your own newspaper, you still need to pay."

Li Chengqian nodded, "Please rest assured, Master, Chengqian understands!"

"Chengqian decided to put Tianxia Library, Weinan Chamber of Commerce, beef jerky, pickled vegetables, and woolen clothes on the newspaper!"

"can!"

Although there were more suitable shops in his mind, Li Xuan nodded directly to Li Chengqian's suggestion.

The left and right are just some merchants' shops. Now that the newspaper has been handed over to Li Chengqian, he is unwilling to change Li Chengqian's wishes too much.

With Li Xuan's acknowledgment, Li Chengqian was even more excited.

"Master, how many grades are the chief officials of this newspaper?"

"I think the first official of the newspaper is either His Majesty or you! Besides, it can be the King of Hejian County, or the Duke of Wei and Duke of Qi. Only by doing this can we deter dissatisfaction with him. officials!"

"Chengqian understands!"

"In addition, the supervisory censor often travels to the states and counties of the Tang Dynasty to monitor the world, and he is the clearest about some rumors and trivial matters among the officials, great Confucians, and dignitaries in the states and counties of the Tang Dynasty.

Some distant newspapers, or rumors among some officials, can be invited to provide you, and every rumor or Confucian literature can be given some royalties as appropriate! "

"Thank you for your advice, Master!"

Li Chengqian's eyes lit up, and he nodded quickly in response.

"In addition, the sales of newspapers in various states and counties can be handed over to those children in each state and county, and give these children a way to make some money!"

"Master is kind, Chengqian will definitely arrange this matter properly!"

"..."

For the first time, Li Chengqian created a novel object by himself, and he also needed to deploy Tang officials.

Therefore, Li Chengqian brought Li Baoding, Wang Xuance and others back and forth to Lijiazhuang for five days.

After all the matters of the newspaper were settled, the establishment of a newspaper in Datang was also successfully approved by Li Shimin and all the ministers in the court.

Datang Newspaper!

And the reason it went so smoothly was also because the newspaper office only needed to set up one chief officer, who was the fourth rank!There are also two newspaper doctors who are fifth grade.

The rest, that is, about ten seventh-rank and eighth-rank officials, will not bring much impact to the Tang Dynasty.

However, Li Xuan did not expect that the first chief officer of the newspaper was Li Baoding.

However, letting a county king of the Tang Dynasty serve as the head of the newspaper office is enough to deter the civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty, and it can also let the newspaper office be controlled by Li Chengqian!

Happy to everyone!

Therefore, after the Datang Newspaper was established, some officials and forces just checked it out of curiosity, and did not attract much attention!

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Chapter 859

Regarding this, Li Baoding, Li Chengqian and the others were very happy.

While Li Chengqian was busy learning from Weinan's policies, he began to promote them throughout Huazhou.

In addition, it was time to run back and forth between Weinan County and Chang'an City.

Regarding the newspaper matter, Li Chengqian had great expectations.

After two months of busy work, the newspaper finally began to be distributed in all states and counties of Datang.

The reason why it took so long is that Li Chengqian, Li Baoding and others spent a lot of effort on the selection of Tang policies and Confucianism articles, current events in Tang states, and gossip that were published in newspapers.

In addition, there is another reason, because if you want to print 20 newspapers, you need hundreds of printing machines and hundreds of skilled craftsmen. It will take several days for so many craftsmen and machines to print day and night. merit.

Then, in each state and county, it is easy to find two or three children from poor families who can also read numbers. The county schools in each state and county have them.

After 20 newspapers were distributed to each state and county by count, two children who knew how to count immediately took more than a dozen newspapers from the person in charge of selling newspapers in each state and county, and then began to sell them on the street. Yelling for sale.

In this era, written books are still expensive and noble rarities, and ordinary people will not own them.

Because the newspaper is the official property of the Tang Dynasty, and students from the county and prefectures sell it themselves.

Therefore, many people on the street coveted the newspapers full of words in the hands of the students, but no one dared to snatch them.

Until a rich businessman with a big belly saw a student with a stack of newspapers in his hand when passing by, and stopped to ask.

"This Xiaolang, what he is holding in his hand is a newspaper founded by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

Seeing someone asking, the student stopped and quickly replied, "Exactly!"

The wealthy businessman's eyes lit up. He had heard from a friend from Chang'an City that the prince was going to create a newspaper. The newspaper would write the policies of the Tang Dynasty and the secrets of various dignitaries.

Unexpectedly, when he came out today, he happened to meet a newspaper, and asked quickly, "How much is a newspaper?"

"Five words!"

A glint of anticipation flashed in the eyes of the newspaper seller.

The five cents was later raised by Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji and others who felt that a newspaper only sold for two cents, which was an insult to the paper, and even more to the newspaper, so they asked Li Chengqian to raise it!

"Five words?"

The rich businessman's face was full of surprise.

All the people who watched the fun together on the side also let out a burst of exclamation.

"Such a large newspaper is full of words, but it only costs five cents?"

"Really? Five cents can't even buy such a big piece of paper?"

"Of course it's true. The newspaper started to be created by the crown prince. Who would dare to lie about it?..."

As they said that, a group of people looked at the student in the crowd, and a strange light appeared in their eyes.

"Give me one!"

And the wealthy businessman had already taken out five Wen and handed it to the student.

The student hastily and carefully took out a newspaper and handed it to the wealthy businessman.

Just glanced at the newspaper, the rich businessman's eyes lit up, not to mention the shocking articles written on it, this piece of paper alone is worth five cents!

"Are the words written in these newspapers all the same?

"it's the same!"

The student subconsciously hugged the newspaper in his hand tightly.

"Sell another five copies to the old man!"

said the rich businessman.

"No, each person can only buy one!" The student refused without hesitation.

Hearing this, although the rich businessman felt a little regretful, he did not force the purchase.

However, a group of spectators at the side also came to their senses, and took out five cents to buy from the students.

Soon, the newspapers in the hands of the students were sold out.

The crowd of spectators ignored the students selling newspapers, and leaned against the wall beside them, and began to look carefully.

"In the ninth year of Zhenguan, Duke Ying of the Tang Dynasty took my 2000 sons of the Tang Dynasty to the west for tens of thousands of miles to conquer the army of big food thieves who dared to rob our caravans of the Tang Dynasty! And fought all the way to the city of the big food thief country , plundered a big food barbarian city, robbed more than [-] carts of rare treasures, and returned triumphantly within a few months!"

"Hiss, how much is the rare treasure of two thousand carts?"

"The Great Tang is mighty, Your Majesty is mighty, if the Great Thief Country dares to rob our Datang caravan, it should capture the barbarian king of the Great Tang Dynasty and make an apology to my Datang caravan!"

"... Huaiyuan now has tens of thousands of farm cattle, but are they all young and strong cattle? Are they available for wealthy merchants from all states and counties in the Tang Dynasty to buy?"

"..."

"Xuanzhou Inspector Zhong Bingjie actually cooperated with the local prominent family to embezzle tax money, and his whole family was confiscated! Several Xuanzhou officials were also implicated!"

"..."

"My Qingzhou navy of the Tang Dynasty found a large island comparable to the territory of the Tang Dynasty outside the sea. The land on the island is fertile and there are various gold and iron mines! The most important thing is that on this treasure island, There are no natives?"

"Hiss, God bless me, Datang!"

"..."

"Your Majesty and the princes in the court encourage all the people in the Tang Dynasty to marry and have babies as soon as possible. Every time a baby is born, they can get at least two yuan of subsidies!"

"Even if you give birth to a girl, can you still get a subsidy of the usual money?"

"...What are you doing with Your Majesty?"

"Nonsense, the current territory of my Tang Dynasty is so large, if I don't have more cubs, how can I occupy these territories?"

"Extremely, extremely, it is necessary to have more cubs! My Tang Dynasty has not experienced famine for three years now, even if I have a few more cubs, I am not afraid..."

"..."

"Hiss... this is Mr. Li Shi's article?"

"It's a waste of money. This kind of shocking article is worth a thousand dollars. How can it be put in a newspaper and sold to ordinary people in the world for five cents?"

"..."

"In Weinan County, which is governed by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, there is a farming cattle workshop, which is raised by itself on weekdays, and rented out to the people of Weinan County during farming hours. It only costs five yuan per acre, and can it still make money?"

"Every household in Weinan County has planted one acre of sweet potatoes this year and harvested twelve stones, one acre of potatoes for seven stones, two acres of corn for thirteen stones, and one mu of peppers for five guinea!"

"There are farms in Weinan County, and now they have bred [-] chickens and ducks, and [-] hogs. Next year, ordinary people in Weinan County will be able to buy cheap chicken, duck, and hog meat every day?"

"Hiss...the people of Weinan County live in such a prosperous life, why is His Royal Highness the magistrate of our county?"

"Weinan County also has a team of specialized craftsmen who can build concrete houses for wealthy households in various states and counties!"

"The books in Tianxia Library are so cheap?"

"Dried beef? Dried pickles?"

"Also, in the workshop of His Royal Highness King Jin, there are woolen clothes with a new look?"

"..."

In just a few days, all the wealthy businessmen and family officials in the states and counties of the Tang Dynasty all saw what was written in the newspaper.

Some people were deeply moved, some were ecstatic, and some were full of anger and heartache. As for the merchants, they focused on the product content introduced in the last small section of the newspaper!

As for more people, they were anxious because they didn't buy the newspaper.

……

"Master, the effect of the newspaper release has come out!"

After counting the effects of each state and county, Li Baoding, Li Chengqian and others came to Lijiazhuang.

"how?"

Li Xuan asked curiously.

"Master, a total of 20 newspapers, an average of [-] in each state and county, were sold out in less than a day!" Li Baoding said with a happy face.

Li Chengqian said: "Master, I want to directly double the number of newspapers for the next issue!"

"40?"

After pondering for a moment, Li Xuan said, "So, have you thought about selling newspapers to places like Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, and Tuyuhun?"

"Sell newspapers to these vassal states?"

Hearing this, both Li Chengqian and Li Baoding couldn't help being taken aback.