Daming: I asked you to supervise the country, Daming is all crazy?

Chapter 94: The Ming Royal First Report! ! !
With the urging of his silly father, Zhu Zhanji didn't delay any longer.

After finishing working on the greenhouse, I immediately threw myself into the preparation of the newspaper.

First, I found out the manuscripts that Zhu Gaochi had sent to him a few days ago.

Then began the second screening, review, and preliminary typesetting and proofreading.

At the same time, on the other side, after seeing that his son finally started to care about the newspaper, Zhu Gaochi also ran around for Zhu Zhanji's greenhouse.

After all, he is the prince, and with the reputation accumulated in the past long-term supervision of the country, when Zhu Gaochi opened his mouth, these relatives were very cooperative.

In addition, the price Zhu Zhanji offered was not low. For these people, since they could sell the face of the prince, they would have nothing to lose, so naturally they would not refuse.

Even some aristocratic families will take the initiative to stand up and send the title deeds of some fields in their hands to Zhu Gaochi for free, but Zhu Zhanji did not agree.

Whoever gave the land deed, the land deed will be accepted, but all the money that should be given will be sent over later, as much as it should be.

The free lunch is not so delicious, let alone these people who are better than monkeys.

If you pick it up today, maybe someone will mess around outside under the name of the prince tomorrow.

I am not short of money, so there is no need to make the layout smaller for the sake of losing some benefits.

After all kinds of land acquisitions came up, Zhu Zhanji was not idle here.

On the one hand, the glass factory stepped up the production speed of glass.

At the same time, Zhou Chen mobilized more craftsmen, including more than 20 craftsmen who originally built a greenhouse for Zhu Zhanji,

In less than a few days, there were hundreds of greenhouses on the outskirts of Yingtianfu.

These greenhouses are all based on the greenhouses built by Zhu Zhanji in the Prince's Mansion. The shady side is an insulation wall. The main body is made of cement, covered with glass, and then fixed with wooden strips.

The upper layer is covered with a grass mat that can be freely retracted and covered to keep warm at night.

The structure is not complicated and it is simple to build.

On the day the construction was completed, Zhu Zhanji directly arranged for all the refugees who had fled from Yingtian Mansion to enter.

This is the first batch of refugees, the number is about five or six thousand.

Although there are not many greenhouses, one shed can accommodate many people.

Having a place to shelter from the wind and rain is better than sleeping in the open.

With the addition of these refugees, more manpower was added to the construction of the greenhouse.

Some of them who are still healthy take the initiative to follow the craftsmen, beat them up, help build walls and so on.

Those who were weaker began to cultivate the greenhouses that had been built.

These are all good things, everything is going on in an orderly manner.

Prince's Mansion,
After two days of proofreading by Zhu Zhanji and various manuscripts provided by Zhu Gaochi, Daming's first newspaper was finally ready.

With the template, Zhu Zhanji hurriedly notified his silly father, and ran to the newspaper office that had been completed before.

This newspaper office is the place Zhu Zhanji had already chosen.

It was originally the yard of a wealthy businessman, and it took up quite a lot of land, about two or three acres.

Zhu Zhanji had someone buy it directly, and then carried out some renovations.

The front yard of the yard directly became the office of the newspaper office, mainly responsible for receiving the contributors, conducting preliminary screening, and later publishing.

At the gate of the courtyard, the signboard of the Royal People's Daily was also hung up early. This sign was written by Zhu Gaochi himself.

At the same time, on both sides of the gate of the courtyard, the couplet written by Zhu Zhanji was also mounted on both sides of the gate after Zhu Zhanji asked Zhu Gaochi to write it again.

The largest backyard was converted into a warehouse, as well as a printing room.

The warehouse is mainly used to store paper and printed newspapers.

The printing room is the core. At this time, in the printing room in the backyard, a large row of type banks for storing movable type has been placed on both sides of the printing room.

These copper movable type blocks are small in size, and they are arranged according to the law. The total number is at least tens of thousands. According to the frequency of use of these characters, the number of each movable type is also different.

The most characters are those commonly used by people in this era, such as "zhi", "hu", "zhe" and "ye", and the number of each word is almost no less than a hundred.

Next to it are some pre-polished wooden blocks the size of copper movable type. These wooden blocks can be temporarily carved and replaced when a certain copper movable type is not enough.

There is a printing table next to each font bank, and on the table is a square font slot one foot seven inches long and one foot two inches wide.

More than a dozen literate printing craftsmen are sitting in front of their respective turntables, copying manuscripts with scrolls, and then placing movable type in the type slots one by one.

After the placement, there will be documents with a higher level of education, carefully check them against the original manuscripts one by one,

The ink will be applied only after it is correct, and then a trial printing will be carried out. In the trial printing, only ten trial drafts will be printed, and then the ten trial drafts will be handed over to ten other clerks for review.

Wait until it is confirmed that there is no mistake, and after so many times, the printed template is officially determined.

Although troublesome, this is also the safest way in this era.

After all, the Royal People's Daily represents the royal family. If there is a typo, Zhu Zhanji will not be able to explain it to his grandfather.

So no matter how troublesome it is, the mistakes that should be avoided should naturally be avoided.

It is very simple to print, after all, the printing technology of this era can be regarded as very mature.

Whether it's ink or paper, Zhu Zhanji doesn't need to worry about it.

Moreover, these craftsmen are all skilled printing craftsmen, and they are very familiar with the operations here.

When Zhu Gaochi came, Zhu Zhanji had already handed over the manuscripts he had proofread to the craftsmen.

The three preliminary audits have also been completed.

In the word slot in front of each craftsman, the preliminary style of the newspaper has been completely determined.

"son!"

Seeing that Zhu Zhanji was sitting in the main seat and drinking tea leisurely, Zhu Gaochi immediately shouted.

Seeing the silly father, Zhu Zhanji got up with a smile and walked over, saying hello, "Dad, are you here?"

Hearing Zhu Zhanji's shout, the craftsmen knew that the prince was in front of them, and they were about to salute immediately. Zhu Gaochi waved his hand and interrupted directly, smiling and saying:

"You are busy with your work, don't worry about me!"

While talking, Zhu Gaochi pulled his son aside and asked in a low voice, "How is it? Can we start printing now?"

Seeing that his silly father was still a little worried, Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "It has been prepared for a long time, and I will wait for your editor-in-chief to give an order!"

When Zhu Gaochi heard his son asking him to give the order, he couldn't help showing a smile like Maitreya Buddha on his chubby face. He was very happy in his heart, hesitated for a while, and then said: "If that's the case, then start printing?"

"Got it!"

Zhu Zhanji responded with a smile, then turned around and looked at all the craftsmen in the printing room, and said loudly:
"Start printing!"

"You child!"

Hearing Zhu Zhanji's somewhat funny tone, Zhu Gaochi shook his head amusedly.

But he didn't say much, he was actually very excited. Although the newspaper was proposed by his son, he personally participated in it.

This is different from scolding Fang Qiu in the court. When Zhu Gaochi saw the newspaper, he felt as if he saw that the child he made was about to be born.

Zhu Zhanji was much calmer. Unlike his silly father, he valued the influence of newspapers more.

This thing, which is almost several centuries in advance, once it appears, will have an impact on this era.

There are more than ten printing stations, and each printing station has three craftsmen in charge, one is responsible for ink on the font, one is responsible for correcting the position of the paper, and the last one is holding a brush, and brushing it back and forth quickly after the paper position is corrected, making the printing The ink spreads evenly on the paper.

The printed side of the newspaper is immediately removed and baked to dry the ink quickly before the other side is printed.

After some operations, although it takes about half a minute to make a newspaper, because it is an assembly line operation, the actual time is far lower than this figure.

As the first finished newspaper was printed, the second and third also appeared rapidly, and the speed was getting faster and faster.

"Quick, show me one!"

After Zhu Gaochi saw the first finished newspaper, he immediately gave Zhu Zhanji instructions.

Zhu Zhanji waved his hand, and soon a clerk took the first printed newspaper and brought it over.

The size of this newspaper is about the same as the letter slots of movable type printing, with a height of one foot and seven inches and a width of one foot and two inches.

Converted into centimeters, it is 54, and 39. The basic size is the same as that of later generations of newspapers.

The paper is also made of the most practical hemp paper, which has strong ink absorption.

The first thing you see in the center of the header of the newspaper are the eight big characters in flying and phoenix dances:
【Daming Royal People's Daily】

Zhu Zhanji specially asked Zhu Zhanji to ask for this word from Zhu Di of the Northern Expedition Army from thousands of miles away.

Although my grandfather is somewhat similar to my great-grandfather, he didn't read much when he was a child, but after ascending to the throne, he is an example of shame and courage.

Although the handwriting is not very good, but it also has an upright momentum, which is very oppressive.

These eight characters look up and are bolded and enlarged.

The rest is to use some slightly larger and bolder fonts than the main text on each subheading.

For the sake of beauty and convenience for some people to read, simple line borders are drawn around each small section and the large sections of the entire newspaper.

In comparison, the only element missing in this first newspaper compared to later newspapers may be the pattern.

Zhu Zhanji originally thought about adding some stick figures and then let craftsmen carve them, but the first newspaper did not come in a hurry due to time constraints.

After Zhu Gaochi took the newspaper, his eyes stopped for a while on the eight characters on the head, nodded involuntarily, and began to browse impatiently.

(End of this chapter)