Li Shimin

Afterwards, several people's eyes lit up.

"Master, there are only those aristocratic families and merchants in these feudal domains. I send the Tang Dynasty newspapers. Can there be more people buying the newspapers?"

At this moment, Li Chengqian already had an idea in his mind, but he was still a little worried.

Li Xuan smiled lightly, and said: "My Tang Dynasty is a kingdom of heaven. This newspaper not only contains my Tang government decrees, but also articles about Confucianism in my Tang territory, as well as rumors and secrets of officials and families in various states and counties. Wealthy families and dignitaries in the vassal state must prefer to buy newspapers!"

"Master, can you print another [-] copies?"

Li Chengqian said tentatively.

"You might as well be bold!" Li Xuan said.

"Be bolder?"

Li Chengqian was surprised.

"Directly print 70 copies, 50 copies in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and 20 copies equally among the surrounding vassal states, but in these vassal states, each newspaper sells for at least [-] cents!" Li Xuan said.

In fact, according to the best-selling situation of the first newspaper, Li Xuan estimated that the 70 newspapers, distributed to the counties and prefectures of the Tang Dynasty, may also disappear without any splash.

However, human nature is cheap.

The less things you like, the more you like to rush to buy them.And if you see that there are still many things you like, then you will delay day by day, even if you send them to his home, you have to be reserved for a while.

"Yes, Master!"

Li Chengqian, Li Baoding and others responded with some trepidation.

This time, the newspaper was printed directly from 20 sheets to 70 sheets, and an extra 50 words were printed. Even after reporting to Li Shimin, the two of them still kept beating their hearts.

You know, this kind of newspaper can only be sold once, and it is only for a few days.

If it can't be sold out, it will be completely left.

It's better to have a few thousand copies left, they can still bear it.However, if tens of thousands of sheets are left at once, the money for buying paper, printing machine wear and tear, craftsman's expenses, and various capitals will suffer a huge loss.

However, His Majesty agrees with the quantity proposed by the Master.

This matter has been decided, Li Chengqian and Li Baoding can only bite the bullet and start ordering the printing of the second issue of the newspaper.

At this time, the weather in Guanzhong has gradually turned cold.

However, as the truckloads of newspapers were transported to various states and counties in Datang.

As soon as they entered the city gate, the carriages carrying newspapers were stopped by aristocratic families, officials, and merchants from various states and counties.

Fortunately, this time, considering that there are a lot of extra prints of the newspaper, Li Baoding and Li Chengqian agreed that those big families and wealthy businessmen can buy a few more copies, but not more than fifty copies.

Therefore, this time, each family has to buy at least a dozen copies, or even dozens of copies.

As a result, the carriage carrying the newspapers only had more than 100 copies after the newspapers were handed over to the students of the state schools and county schools.

However, for every ten newspapers sold, two cents can be deducted.

Although the profit from selling a hundred newspapers is not much, it is still a decent business and not envied by others.

Moreover, for these students who are still children, they can earn more than a dozen coins a day, which is also a large income.

Yes!

This time, after printing 70 copies of the newspaper, it was only sold for one day before it was sold out.

And those wealthy businessmen and dignitaries who were waiting in the states and counties but did not buy the newspapers, after hearing that the newspapers had been sold out, immediately began to complain one by one.

Some people even wrote letters directly to Chang'an City, put them on the desk of Li Baoding of the newspaper office, and sent them to Huazhou Governor's Mansion, and even the mansions of Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, Wei Zheng and others received them. Letters to various relatives.

The strong resentment directly alarmed Li Shimin.

"Such a newspaper is really so popular?"

Li Shimin, who was playing with the cucumbers, tomatoes and other vegetable seedlings in the glass greenhouse in the back garden, was called to the back of Liangyi Hall by Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others.

Looking at the newspaper on the table case, his face was filled with disbelief.

Changsun Wuji smiled wryly, and explained slowly: "Reporting to Your Majesty, this matter is due to my lack of consideration."

"We can know the things written in these newspapers immediately. Even, for example, the evil deeds of the governor of Anzhou, we can not only know the cause and effect, but also know who the governor of Anzhou is. How to become a governor and what to do in Anzhou every day!

However, for those wealthy businessmen and ordinary people, the envoy of a state is a very big figure, and they may not be able to see each other in their lifetime.

Nowadays, it is possible to know the secrets of these high-ranking figures through newspapers worth five cents.

You can even read articles written by great Confucians..."

"These are the biggest temptations for those wealthy businessmen and dignitaries. The key point is that the value of a newspaper and book has already exceeded five cents. Therefore, anyone with some spare money at home will buy newspapers!"

"What do you mean?"

Li Shimin nodded slightly.

"Your Majesty, I am very pleased to be able to inform the people of the states and counties of the Datang about my series of policies of the Tang Dynasty. Especially in the last issue of the newspaper, the matter of urging marriages and births was very popular in the states and counties. The officials urged, and the elders in the family have spontaneously urged their children who have reached the age to get married and have children!"

Changsun Wuji quickly said: "Your Majesty, every five days, the newspaper office distributes 70 newspapers to the states and counties of the Tang Dynasty. These newspapers did not make much money, but they have already caused the destruction of Chang'an City. Those papers are starting to go up in price!"

"Price increase?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help being surprised.

"How much has it increased?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, there is a shortage of paper in those paper shops now. Therefore, a knife of jute paper is already worth the money!" Changsun Wuji replied.

"It has risen so much?"

Li Shimin's eyes widened, "What about the bamboo paper?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, King Jin's bamboo paper is still five hundred coins a knife. But now newspapers are printed on bamboo paper from King Jin's workshop, and there are not too many bamboo papers in Chang'an City!"

Changsun Wuji replied.

"Do you know how much bamboo paper Xuanba's papermaking workshop can produce in a day?" Li Shimin asked.

Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others shook their heads slowly.

"Your Majesty's forgiveness!"

Li Shimin sighed softly, "In that case, I will go to Li's Village in person!"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but be overjoyed!

……

Chapter 860 The Tang Dynasty can continue to be strong!

Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others' wishes were fulfilled, and they left contentedly.

As the territory of the Tang Dynasty increased, the affairs of these prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty also became more and more complicated.

In particular, in the past few years, cement houses and roads have been built everywhere in various places, and the construction of the Datang Bank has started. They also inspect it every two months.

However, with the paving of cement roads, it is becoming more and more convenient to travel from Chang'an to various counties in Datang.

Lijiazhuang!

When Li Shimin arrived, Li Chengqian and Li Baoding also came to look for Li Xuan.

Moreover, Li Chengqian and Li Baoding also signed a papermaking workshop contract.

Seeing the papermaking workshop contract in the hands of the two of them, Li Shimin knew that he, Fang Xuanling and others were worrying too much.

"Your Majesty came here in such a hurry, but what's the matter?"

For Li Shimin, Li Xuan always asked this question.

"After I heard that the newspaper was selling well, I was worried about any adverse effects, so I came to inquire about it!"

Li Shimin said with a sneer.

"Your Majesty is worried that newspapers will increase the price of paper in Chang'an City!" Li Xuan directly pointed out.

Li Shimin's face froze, "Xuan Ba ​​misunderstood! I'm just worried, the more newspapers are sold, the more losses the newspaper office will have!"

Li Xuan glanced at Li Chengqian at the side, and then looked at Li Shimin again, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, this time only the 20 newspapers sold to the surrounding vassal states have already received 50. For the shops that advertise prices, the publicity fee is [-] guan for each shop, which is another [-] guan. And the [-] newspapers in the Tang Dynasty cost five cents each, which is [-] guan.

In this way, each issue of the newspaper can recover 70 guan.And [-] newspapers only need [-] guan at most.The remaining [-] pens are enough for the various costs of publishing and discovering newspapers! "

Li Shimin: "..."

This time, he ignored it.

Since the newspaper was proposed by Xuan Ba, the God of Wealth recognized by the Tang Dynasty, it would never lose money.

Li Xuan said again: "Your Majesty, in addition, in view of the fact that the 70 newspapers will be sold out in just one day, an additional 30 newspapers will be printed in the next issue, 20 will be distributed to the counties of the Tang Dynasty, and [-] will be distributed to the surrounding vassal states. !"

This time, Li Shimin did not object, but nodded slightly.

Anyway, with the [-] newspapers in the surrounding vassal states, it is enough to keep the newspapers from losing money.

Li Xuan continued: "In addition, due to the promotion of these two issues of the newspaper, dozens of merchants have come to buy the newly opened wool clothing workshop in the past few days.

In addition, the number of aristocratic families and merchants who came to buy Tianxia Library, Weinan Chamber of Commerce, beef jerky, and pickled vegetables in the past few days is also several times more than before! "

Li Shimin was overjoyed, "In this way, wouldn't it be possible to earn back the two thousand pens that were handed over to the newspaper?"

"At least I made a few extra [-] guan!" Li Xuan said calmly.

Thinking of something, Li Shimin asked curiously: "In the past few days, have other merchants come to the newspaper office, wanting to put their shops on the newspaper?"

"The crowd is like a market!" Li Xuan said calmly.

"Excellent!"

……

As the newspaper began to expand, Datang also added more than a dozen papermaking workshops and thousands of papermakers.

The resulting impact is that Datang seems to have entered a new era of information bombing.

A few days ago, the interesting events that happened in the northern border of the Tang Dynasty spread throughout the southern part of the Tang Dynasty after half a month, and even the interesting events that happened in the surrounding vassal states spread throughout the entire Tang Dynasty within a month. County and other vassal states.

In this regard, many things are not a secret.

For example, Li Chongyi, the eldest son of the Hejian County King of the Tang Dynasty, and Cheng Chusi, the eldest son of the Suguo Duke of the Tang Dynasty, led an army of [-] thunderbolts to Luzon Island to open mountains and crack rocks to suppress the indigenous people!

Then, by the way, inspect my Datang sea area!

Another example, the King Jin of the Tang Dynasty, who had never taken a concubine after ten years of marriage, unexpectedly took three concubines at once, and it was said that they were all three stunning sisters!

In the states and counties of Datang, it caused a lot of talk!

For another example, His Royal Highness King Jin was furious again, and directly led a group of personal guards to beat up a few gentlemen surnamed Wu!

Another example, His Majesty brought Wei Wang Li Tai and Yan Wang Li Zhi, and wanted these two princes to worship Jin Wang, but Jin Jin refused without hesitation!As a result, after a few days, His Royal Highness King Jin took his eldest son Li Chenglu to Bingzhou. After inspecting the fiefdom, he punished several evil slaves and officials, and accepted a young man from the Di family in Taiyuan as his disciple!

For this reason, His Majesty was furious, and had a big fight with King Jin!

Another example is that the Housing Construction Department built 11 cement houses in the 12th year of Zhenguan, and directly built [-] cement houses in the [-]th year of Zhenguan;

Which concrete avenue will the Road Construction Department build, and now ten concrete avenues have been built in the entire Tang Dynasty?

In the 11th year of Zhenguan, Qingzhou Shipyard built another eight steel giant ships, and in the 12th year of Zhenguan, it forged twelve steel giant ships!

There are also various rumors that are [-]% true!

For example: In order to command the fleet to go out to sea and inspect the sea area of ​​the Tang Dynasty, the generals of the Twelve Guards of the Tang Dynasty and the king of Hejian County had a big fight in the Hall of Liangyi!

On that day, half of the doctors in the Imperial Medical Office went to the Liangyi Hall!

Another example, a certain servant in Chang'an City enters the Goulan at night, and ends up competing with a dude for a certain beautiful prostitute, and then they fight!

Another example, a certain great Confucian wants to give lectures publicly and accepts two disciples!

In another example, a cult appeared in a certain state and county, and dozens of people were killed or injured, and then they were completely wiped out by Zhechong Mansion soldiers!

Another example is that a certain prefecture and county learned from Weinan County to buy farm cattle, learned how to rent and sell farm cattle to make a living, and the effect was excellent!

In a certain county, Weinan County established a breeding farm, and the assets of the two rich merchants directly doubled!

……

Anyway, in just a few years, newspapers have become a must-read for wealthy businessmen and dignitaries in Datang.

And the number of newspapers has also changed from 11 copies per issue in Zhenguan 70 years to 150 million copies per issue.As for the number of newspapers in the surrounding vassal states, it also ranged from 30 free prints per issue to 60.