Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 400, Ming's First Newspaper

Hongzhi twelve years July [-]th.

The entire Ming Morning Post is extremely busy. Here at the printing factory, the printers are working desperately to print each newspaper. They have been busy for two full days and have printed almost [-] newspapers so far.

Tomorrow is the discovery day of the first issue of the Ming Morning Post. Tomorrow morning, these newspapers will appear in everyone's field of vision. For this matter, they have been busy running around these days, working overtime and rushing to work day and night.

"Hurry up, hurry up~"

"These [-] newspapers must be delivered to Tianjin before dawn tomorrow~"

Zhang Xian, who was in charge of managing this matter, was sweating in a hurry.

Just after inspecting the printing of the newspaper here, he immediately came to the Beijing Daming Morning Post without stopping. In the yard, a hundred recruited children were only eleven or twelve years old. Watching with immature eyes, listening carefully to what the person above said.

"Tomorrow morning, each of you will carry a newspaper and deliver newspapers on the street. Each of you has fifty copies of the newspaper. This newspaper is mainly sent to some teahouses, taverns, restaurants and some big families. After delivering fifty copies of the newspaper, you can Come to me to receive the reward, fifteen coins per person!"

"Do you all understand?"

Jiang Chao, who was in charge of this matter, said to these newsboys.

After all, there are still a small number of children who can afford to go to school in this era. Most of the children have no books to read. I heard that the Ming Morning Post has recruited some newsboys. The parents of these children are very excited. Children can also make money. It is very important for the families of ordinary people, because it means that there will be an extra income in the future.

"Understood~"

These children all nodded and replied in unison.

"Okay, then I'll tell you how to sell these newspapers. We gave away the first few issues for free, but after that, our newspapers will be sold."

"We sell this newspaper for five cents, and if you sell more, you can get more money. If you sell two copies, you can get one penny. So from now on, you all have to study hard and listen carefully. That way you can make more money.”

Jiang Chao nodded in satisfaction, and then began to teach these newsboys the skills of selling newspapers. Of course, this was also taught by Liu Jin.

"Tomorrow, when you go to sell newspapers, you must shout loudly. When you walk, you will hold the newspaper and wave it in your hands, and at the same time shout loudly, "Sell newspapers, sell newspapers~"

Jiang Chao took out a newspaper and talked to these newsboys while demonstrating.

"Come on, you all learn~"

"Sell newspaper~sell newspaper~"

Many newsboys also shouted in unison, shaking their hands while raising their hands, learning in a good way, children's learning ability is very powerful.

"Next, you need to memorize some important news. For example, we will release the first issue tomorrow. It has two main news. One is the Tartars who seized customs and invaded Gansu and Shaanxi, and the other is Southwest China. The chieftain rebelled, and the imperial court made great achievements in the mountain camp."

"That's why you should yell like this when you yell."

"Sell the newspaper, sell the newspaper, the Tartars seize the customs, and the soldiers invade Gansu and Shaanxi~"

"Or to put it this way, the newspapers are sold, the newspapers are sold, the chieftains of the Southwest rebelled, and the imperial court mountain camp made great achievements~"

"If you shout like this, everyone will immediately know what news this issue of the newspaper mainly contains, so that everyone can pay for your newspaper."

"Does everyone understand?"

Jiang Chao patiently taught these newspaper boys.

"Understood~"

When the newsboys heard this, they quickly nodded and said.

"Okay, come out and show everyone."

Jiang Chao nodded, then pointed to the newspaper boy at the front and said, this newsboy was a little small and timid, so Jiang Chao called him by name.

He also stood up tremblingly, a little at a loss.

"The newspaper is sold, the newspaper is sold~"

"The Tartars seized the customs, and the soldiers invaded Gansu and Shaanxi~"

It was the first time Wang Tiedan spoke in front of so many people. He seemed very scared and his voice was very low, but he firmly remembered Jiang Chao's words.

"Well, very good, but the voice is too low, please speak louder."

Jiang Chao nodded and said.

Upon hearing this, Wang Tiedan gritted his teeth and let go of his voice to shout.

"That's right, when you sell newspapers tomorrow, you should shout like this. The louder the better, the more people who know the better, so that your newspapers can sell well and you can make more money. , With money, you can buy what you like to eat, and you can also buy what you want to buy.”

"Does everyone understand?"

Jiang Chao was very satisfied with this meeting, and told the newsboys again.

"Understood~"

Everyone hurriedly said in unison.

"That's fine, you guys should practice and practice here first, don't scare everyone to pee their pants when you sell newspapers on the street tomorrow, or you will be laughed at."

Jiang Chao smiled and left after leaving a word. He is also very busy and needs to be busy with many things.

.....
"My lord, this is the first issue of the Ming Morning Post that we just printed~ Please have a look."

Zhang Xian, Bao Jiwen, Ou Yangguang and others came to visit Liu Jin together, and respectfully showed Liu Jin the Ming Morning Post that was just printed today.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, let me know, everyone's moon ringing will double this month."

Liu Jin took the newspaper and looked at their red eyes.

In the past few days, each of them has been very busy, busy going around. It is much more difficult to publish newspapers in this era than in later generations, and they have encountered various difficulties.

Just the typesetting and printing of this newspaper has encountered a lot of things. For these things, these people have been busy for several days, and only then did the first newspaper come out.

"Thank you son~"

When everyone heard it, they were overjoyed. Everyone's moon sound was already very high, but now it doubled, and they immediately felt that the hard work and sweat these days were worth it.

"Hmm~"

Liu Jin nodded. Liu Jin did not intend to make money by opening this Mingming Morning Post. Now, he is spending a lot of money. If he can publish advertisements in the future, it will be fine if he can maintain his daily expenses.

This newspaper sells for five cents, and now [-] copies have been found in the first issue. Even if they are all sold, it is only fifty thousand cents, which is a matter of tens of li of silver. Liu Jin will definitely make money from this. It is to the grandma's house.

Liu Jin picked up the newspaper and read it carefully.

There are only two newspapers, compared with four, five, or even seven or eight newspapers in later generations, it is still very small. The main reason is that it is too difficult to collect news materials in this era, with inconvenient transportation and communication. , Liu Jin felt that he still had to work hard. He had to spend real money in it to cultivate a huge team of journalists, and then let them go deep into every corner of Ming Dynasty to collect news materials.

Otherwise, the Great Ming Morning Post might become a weekly, monthly or something like that, because there is no news for you to publish a newspaper every day.

In addition to the relatively small space, the characters on this newspaper are also printed very large. If the newspapers of later generations are printed in size [-], then the characters on this newspaper are basically size [-], and the characters are relatively large. It is also mainly for printing considerations, and the printing technology is immature.

There is definitely no way to make the printed characters too small. More importantly, the characters at this time are still traditional characters. If they are too small, there is no way to print them. We can only make the characters bigger so that they can be printed more clearly. come out.

Typesetting and art are far from comparable to those of later generations. The lines on the newspaper are all straight lines, and there are no patterns or patterns. As for the pictures, there are no pictures at all. This is too much trouble and the cost is too high It's not realistic at all, so it's all words,

As for some headlines and the like, the important news is the same as the later generations. All of them are placed in a prominent position, and they are also printed in larger characters, so that people can focus on them when they read them. Attract attention.

The font is block letters. Block letters are the most convenient for printing and easy to read. The ranks are the same as those of later generations, from left to right and from top to bottom. This is different from the habits of this era.

The writing habit of this era is to write from right to left, column by column, and there are no punctuation marks, etc. When reading a book, you must first get used to sentence reading, otherwise it will seem very difficult.

But this newspaper is different. A lot of vernacular and punctuation marks are used. Even people who cannot read sentences will not hinder reading. They can read the newspaper smoothly and clearly understand all the news conveyed in the newspaper.

Newspapers are a little different from the newspapers of later generations. This is due to the printing technology, and of course the paper. In order to reduce costs, the quality of the paper used in newspapers is relatively poor. If the printing technology and ink are not up to standard, there is no way to do it. Printed on both sides, so there is only one side.

A newspaper only has content on the front side, and the north side is blank without any content.

Generally speaking, there is still a big difference between this newspaper and the newspapers of later generations, but it is very good to be able to produce such a newspaper in this era.

And this is just the beginning, and it can be continuously improved and improved in the future.

"Good, good~"

After reading it carefully from beginning to end, Liu Jin also nodded in satisfaction.

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhang Xian, Bao Jiwen, Ou Yangguang and others also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, there is nothing wrong with Liu Jin, otherwise, if they change it again, they will not be able to rest tonight. .

"Go and get busy. Tomorrow is the day when the first issue of our Daming Morning Post will be published. Everyone do their jobs well and don't make any trouble. Everything is difficult at the beginning, but it will become easier in the future."

"Yes~"

　The newspaper is sold~The newspaper is sold~The starting point authors collectively cut jiji~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)