Rampage through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 225 Newspapers
"Trash! A bunch of trash!" Yuan Shu pointed at his generals and shouted angrily.

Three days ago, Yuan Shu's army arrived in Xu County, and Li Rou in Xu County ordered Zhao Yun to go out of the city to challenge.

Seeing that Zhao Yun was young, Lieutenant General Yuan Shu thought he was a bully, so he rushed up to challenge Zhao Yun, but none of them could survive three rounds.

On the second day, Yuan Shu sent several generals under his command to fight, but in the end Zhao Yun's prestige was achieved in vain.Yuan Shu was furious, and ordered more than a dozen of his generals to kill him, trying to save face by bullying more than he could, but Zhao Yun stabbed and hacked him, and only three of them escaped with wounds.

Yuan Shu felt that his face was really lost this time.He claims to have 50 soldiers (actually not that many), and thousands of generals, but he can't even beat a little-known Zhao Yun, and he was beaten back by others when he went up to fight in groups.

On the third day, Zhao Yun went to challenge Yuan Shu again. This time, no one in Yuan Shu's army dared to go out to fight, which made Yuan Shu very annoyed.

I saw Yuan Shu pointing at Ji Ling, Zhang Xun and others, and shouted: "You, you, and you, don't you usually say that Wanjun goes from here to the head of a general? What happened today? I have a majestic 20 army Being forced to leave the house alone, what use is it for me to support you bastards!"

All the generals lowered their heads, not daring to speak.I'm afraid that Yuan Shu will be annoyed at this time.

Generally speaking, the more capable people are, the more tempered they are. Those who are incapable are not without temper, but they are not qualified to have temper.However, most of Yuan Shu's generals were not very capable, so the bloody sprinklers scolded by Yuan Shu didn't even dare to fart.

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After discussing the alliance, Zhang De returned to Beihai.

The printing technology has basically matured. For this reason, Zhang De specially trained a group of craftsmen who are good at engraving reverse characters. Now these people are able to skillfully engrave reverse characters.

Woodblock printing already existed in the Jin Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty, more than 600 years later, invented movable type printing in his lifetime.

Compared with engraving printing, movable type printing is much more advanced, and Zhang De invented printing at that time, of course, the purpose was not just to print two books.Citing books is only the first step, but now Zhang De is ready to start the second step.

Newspapers appeared in China very early. In the early Western Han Dynasty, the imperial court issued something called "dibao", which was used to regularly communicate official documents such as edicts, edicts, ministers' memorials, and court affairs to officials at all levels.

However, this kind of "dibao" is hand-copied, and now, Zhang De is planning to use printing on newspapers.

Of course, Zhang De did not run the newspaper for profit. For something like a newspaper, the greater the circulation, the greater the profit.In today's troubled times, ordinary people are thankful that they can eat a mouthful of hot food, and how can they have money to buy newspapers.

But now the world is in chaos, and princes are everywhere. There is a saying that heroes come out of troubled times. In an era full of talents like the Three Kingdoms, I am afraid that only the late Sui and Qing Dynasties in China can compare.

If Zhang De wants more talents to join him, he must first make a name for himself, so the newspaper has become Zhang De's most favorable tool for public opinion.In other words, Zhang De runs the newspaper entirely to make a name for himself.

Zhang De's first newspaper was more like a leaflet than a newspaper.After all, Zhang De's movable type can't reach the level of small print in today's newspapers. Each character is bigger than a human fingernail, and the paper is full, but there are not many characters.It seems that every word is clear.

Zhang De looked at the newspaper handed over by the servant, and sighed, it was far from the newspaper in his mind.But something is better than nothing, so just let it go.

The first [-] copies of the newspaper were distributed free of charge. There were quite a few great scholars in Beihai Academy, and Zhang De sent a copy to each of them.And the shops in Beihai city were also delivered.There are also free gifts in the county hall of Beihai.

The appearance of the first newspaper did not cause much sensation, and most people regarded it as a commotion.

When it came to the second copy, the [-] copies were quickly gone.Firstly, it’s free anyway, and it doesn’t cost a single cent; secondly, everyone is looking for fun; thirdly, many people come to praise Zhang De. After all, many people want to curry favor with Zhang De but can’t. Then this opportunity to curry favor.

Zhang De was very happy when he heard that the second newspaper was quickly distributed.From Zhang De's point of view, he only spent [-] sheets of paper and some ink. In the eyes of the wealthy Zhang De, these things are just a drop in the bucket, and Zhang De didn't expect the newspaper to make money.

At this time, a servant came over with a book and said, "My lord, this is the just published "Mencius Guan Shuo". Mr. Guan Ning has sent a copy to Mr. Guan Ning. Mr. Guan Ning is very satisfied! The first batch of five Hundreds of copies have been printed!"

Zhang De flipped through Guan Ning's book at random, and thought to himself, this Guan Ning, who claims to be a hermit all day long, said that Xiao Yin hides in the world, and he couldn't invite him many times.

I thought Guan Ning was really a hermit, but I didn't expect that after printing a few books for Zheng Xuan, Guan Ning couldn't sit still anymore.He took the initiative to send a few copies of his own works for Zhang De to print.

Fame is something that few people have been able to escape since ancient times.Especially scholars, everyone wants to be famous forever, and writing books and establishing stories is undoubtedly the best way to be famous forever.

Thinking of this, Zhang De casually ordered: "In tomorrow's newspaper, find a place to write that Mr. Guan's big book has been published, and if you want to buy it, go to Mi's store to have a look..."

Ever since, in a corner of the newspaper the next day, the first advertisement in the history of the world appeared...

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In September of the first year of Jian'an, Gongsun Zan finally couldn't resist Yuan Shao's attack and was defeated back to his old nest, Beiping City.Immediately afterwards, Yuan Shaobing surrounded Beiping City.

When Gongsun Zan was fighting Liu Yu, all the grain and grass were consumed, and Youzhou was not a place to produce grain. In addition, Yuan Shao's attack in June delayed the autumn harvest. Now there is not much grain and grass in Beiping.

In fact, there are still a lot of grain and grass in Jicheng.Liu Yu was doing well in Youzhou, so there was still a lot of food in Jicheng. Unfortunately, Gongsun Zan returned to Beiping, and there was not much food in Beiping.

Gongsun Zan had quite a few cavalry under his command, and both men and horses had to eat, and it didn't take long for the city to run out of food.No way, the soldiers in the city had to start killing horses.

Gongsun Zan had always loved horses, but now he lived by killing horses. Seeing a battle horse being killed, Gongsun Zan's heart was bleeding.

No, going on like this is not an option, we must try to break through!Gongsun Zan thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)