Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 893 Understanding the World
The first issue of Le Monde has finally arrived.

Early this morning, the street of the Daming Western Company next to the port pier outside London was crowded with civilians who came to pick up newspapers.

Tens of thousands of people, not a few of them, all came, and the whole street was blocked.

There is no way, although the European nobles have a lot of money to burn at the moment, the common people don't have much money.

They can barely get enough food and clothing. Of course, they will not miss this opportunity where the whole family can eat big fish and meat.

Upon hearing the news, the shopkeeper of the Daming Western Company stationed here quickly ordered Baijin Yiwei to pretend to be the waiter of the shop to prepare, and ordered a row of ten shops to open at dawn.

Of course, they didn't open the doors for business, but to distribute newspapers.

Soon, hundreds of Jinyiwei moved everyone out of a small table and lined up in front of the shop.

Immediately afterwards, they put the quill pens, ink, and signed forms that had been prepared on the table, and said loudly: "Line in line, and you can get it after signing."

They still spoke English, and tens of thousands of civilians found their positions in an instant, ran over quickly, and formed a long line.

This is also pre-arranged. Each store waiter is in charge of 100 people. These [-] civilians have even gone through their simple training, how to sign, how to sell newspapers, etc. These have been explained many times by hundreds of civilians. .

Naturally, these civilians knew who their leader was.

Hundreds of Jinyiwei had already carried out bundles of newspapers and piled them next to the table when people were queuing.

Although the civilians who lined up were very anxious, they didn't disturb others' work until they moved out the newspapers and raised their hands and shouted "Start", the first civilian in the line came forward to take the newspaper. Pick up the quill, find your own name, and write your name carefully on the space behind.

The waiter in charge just looked at it for a while and gave him two bundles of newspapers without hesitation.

This bundle is one hundred copies, and they are all wrapped in the white paper used to print newspapers, so there is no need to count them.

The civilians who received the newspaper went happily, and the civilians who lined up behind hurried forward and signed their names.

In less than half an hour, 200 million newspapers had been distributed, and the entire street was empty.

This newspaper has been distributed, can people sell it?
You know, there are only about [-] people in London, and half of them can read and write. Will they each buy ten copies?

This is of course impossible.

Regarding how to sell these newspapers, the Daming Western Company has already figured out a way and taught these civilians.

Simply put, it is sold everywhere in the UK.

Daming Western Company even rented horses for free to these newspaper sellers. If they were within [-] miles, they could just ride the horses over by themselves. They deliver all over the UK.

Anyway, the whole of the UK is so big, and it is not a problem to send people to them in one day.

As for how to sell all the newspapers, the Daming Western Company can only teach them to ask relatives and friends to set up special newspaper outlets, or take the newspapers and sell them along the street.

Anyway, the money from the sale is theirs. I believe they will try their best to sell the newspaper.

Two hundred newspapers, an income of four pounds a month, is more than 1 pounds of grain, which is enough to feed a small family of more than ten or twenty people.

These civilians who sell newspapers are naturally very active, and they have used various methods.

As for the effect, it is also surprisingly good.

To be honest, the first issue of "Le Monde" is really attractive. Just the world map and introductions of the countries on the first page, everyone who sees it can't help but want to buy a copy.

There are also detailed introductions of the Ming Empire, travel notes from around the world, various delicacies of the Ming Dynasty, and various commodities, all of which are quite attractive.

Not all British people at this moment are colonists, but all pirates.

After all, they only recruited 30 soldiers from the whole country. When there was no national conscription before, there were less than 20 people who went out to be colonists or pirates.

At this moment, they are not an empire on which the sun never sets. Even the colonies established in North America with great difficulty have been retaken by the native Indians, and they have even fewer opportunities to go out and see the world.

In other words, among the millions of people in the UK, less than one-tenth of them actually went out to plunder. , they know almost nothing about it.

Moreover, there is no entertainment at the moment.

They seem to have nothing else to do except making babies every day.

The timing of the emergence of the "Le Monde" can be said to be just right, and the European countries have accumulated countless wealth because of the crazy looting for hundreds of years.

Although most of this wealth is concentrated in the hands of the nobles, they still have to spend money, and they spend it like crazy. Naturally, the money they spend will be spread to the common people.

This is also the main reason why the prices in Europe are so high. The common people don't have much money, but the nobles spend money like sprinkling water, and they can make some money in their hands.

A newspaper is only a quarter of a penny. This price is simply not worth as much as a quarter of a bowl of rice. When I saw it, I was naturally a little moved. In addition, the newspaper seller was fooling around, and even those who were not very literate even I couldn't help but buy it.

You can still read the pictures if you can’t read, right? The pictures in other newspapers are very exquisite. Even if you don’t want to read the pictures, such a big five sheets of paper are worth a quarter of a penny. It doesn't hurt to wipe your ass or anything!
Of course, there is a prerequisite for everyone to buy "Le Monde", that is, don't say where the newspaper is run.

After all, Daming just beat them up, and if ordinary people heard that it was Daming who did it, they would probably be a little bit resistant.

This Ming Western firm has also taught these newspaper sellers carefully.

When selling newspapers, it is enough to introduce the exciting content. If someone asks where the newspaper is published, it is enough to say that they do not know.

After some hard work by a newspaper seller in London, 200 million copies of the newspaper were miraculously sold out.

This time, they are naturally more active.

Every morning before dawn, they would rush to the Daming Western Company to line up. They almost mobilized everyone in the family and even the entire small family to try their best to sell newspapers.

The "Le Monde" has not been out of stock since it was published, and it has been available every day since then, and Europe has basically delivered it in the afternoon of the previous day.

Because Taichang has already made arrangements, there will be a special dragon warship to deliver newspapers to Europe every day, and at the same time pass on various information.

At this moment, Ou Lu is the key point. It can be said that the only enemies of Ming are the European countries. He is naturally quite concerned about the bombing of Ou Lu's public opinion.

As for other places, it doesn't matter much if it is a few days later.

He dispatched almost all the Flying Dragon warships that could be dispatched, several ships every day, several ships every day, and sent them to Europe non-stop. After the first issue passed, it did not stop for a day.

In this way, everyone who can read in Europe is basically used to reading "Le Monde". Even if they don't buy it themselves, they will borrow others to read it.

They also gradually got used to learning about the whole world through Le Monde.

This is the result Taichang wanted.

Because the world recognized by the common people of the European countries through the "Le Monde" is the world described by Ming.

Anyone with a bit of conscience will have some opinions on this wave of colonialism or looting launched by the European nobles, especially those who are not living well and have to borrow newspapers from others. , the estimated opinion is larger.

These colonial robbers robbed so much money and spent it desperately, and they didn't give us any!

Of course, those who have participated in colonization in Europe or benefited from the tide of colonization and plundering will certainly not have any opinion on the nobles who set off this tide of colonization or plundering after seeing this.

As for the European aristocrats, that's not to mention, they may have opinions on Daming who publishes "Le Monde" after seeing these.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that this "World News" is definitely founded by the Ming Empire.

Of course, they dare not do anything if they have opinions.

At least for now they dare not do anything.

The Ming Empire just caught them and beat them up. They provoked the Ming Empire before the first batch of ironclad warships were built, so they wanted to beat them up.

They were quite clear about this, so they didn't dare to make it clear to stop the distribution of "Le Monde". Even if they saw the problem in it, they could only pretend that they didn't see it.

This is also Taichang's reliance on publishing "World News" so unscrupulously.

Who dares to stop the publication of "Le Monde"? Although Da Ming doesn't have enough troops to deal with the European Union, it is more than enough to catch one or two young birds and beat them up.

Anyone who dares to stop the publication of "Le Monde" will be beaten!
The current Ming Empire is such a bull.

One thing that Taichang didn't expect was that the publication of "Le Monde" actually accelerated the process of the currency war.

Because they deliver nearly 1000 million copies of "Le Monde" to Europe every day, and the prices in Europe at the moment are ridiculously high. Nobody takes it seriously.

In other words, "Le Monde" can absorb at least 5000 million copper coins every day.

Even if an average of one thousand copper coins is only one catty, that day is still [-] catties of copper.

Moreover, with the coinage capabilities of the European countries at the moment, it is impossible to mint copper coins equivalent to 5000 million Wen in a day.

It is estimated that they are struggling to make copper coins equivalent to 1000 million Wen every day.

In this way, the copper coins used as the base currency in Europe will gradually be concentrated in the hands of the Daming Bank, and the Daming Bank will stamp them into Daming standard copper coins and release them after receiving these copper coins.

After almost all the copper coins from European countries have been collected, they can only use Daming copper coins.

The currency of Ming Dynasty will also become the common currency of the whole continent.

(End of this chapter)