The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 531 Express Release
"Chaowen Express" eventually became twelve pages. For the advertisements in the first issue, in addition to the merchants brought by Song Qingyue from Shanxi, they tentatively spent 20 taels of silver to buy a small page the size of a tofu cube.

In addition, the rich and powerful Royal Maritime Trading Company bought 300 taels of silver and bought an entire page. In relatively simple language, they introduced the twenty large cargo ships with [-] materials that they had just arrived at the port. What kind of foreign goods are there? Welcome everyone to come to buy and purchase. In addition, in May, they plan to send another [-] cargo ships to the Southeast Asian countries. If there are northern merchants who want to sell their goods overseas, they can come to Tianjin to discuss matters. .

The so-called material is a unit of ship load capacity. Each material is converted into modern weight, which is about fifty kilograms. A [-]-material cargo ship can carry about thirty tons of cargo.This kind of ultra-large cargo ship can only be owned by the Royal Sea Trading Company, because the maximum load capacity of the privately owned cargo ship allowed by the imperial court is [-] tons.

Finally, there are advertisements that the Morning News itself accepts from submissions.Submission channels include sending letters to the Royal Bookstore and sending telegrams.The Express editorial department has employees go to the telegraph shop to pick up the items every day, so contributors do not need to pay delivery fees.

The manuscript fee will be determined based on the quality of the manuscript and the number of words. The letter writer needs to write down his or her name, hometown address, and bank account number. The Royal Bookstore will deposit the manuscript fee directly into the writer's bank account through the bank.

In addition to two pages of commercial advertisements, various recruitment information took up an entire page.

These recruitment information are not only from the capital, but also from Taiyuan Prefecture, Tianjin Port and other places, and this time many recruitment merchants have stated that they hope that applicants will have a diploma from Zhaoyue Primary School.

Those smart businessmen seem to have discovered the fact that graduates from Zhaoyue Primary School are very useful.For example, some luxury restaurants and elegant teahouses in the capital particularly like to hire female students who graduated from Zhaoyue Elementary School. Although they only do some work of serving tea and pouring water, those girls seem to be particularly energetic. , who speak neither arrogantly nor arrogantly, and are more organized in their work. Hiring them will elevate the image of your restaurant or tea house to a higher level.

The recruitment information for the first issue was collected by editors or news specialists from other places who traveled all over Beijing, Tianjin and Taiyuan, so no fees were charged to the merchants for the time being.

The purpose is to serve the public and provide information to the people.In the lower right corner of the page, it is also written that merchants who need to recruit workers can send letters to the newspaper office, and Express will publish recruitment information for everyone for free!
In addition, the "Chaowen Express" project team also needs to recruit [-] more editors, and it is also specified that there is no restriction on men and women.

The monthly salary is thirty taels of silver and the probation period is three months.

There are really not enough manpower. One session every five days can make people vomit blood.

The last page published two long story-telling Chapter 1s. One was an original love story written by Qian Zhongmin. It was said to be based on the prince and the princess. But Song Qingyue took a look and felt that she was the same as herself. Li Zhao has absolutely nothing to do with him, it's just a figment of the little girl's imagination.

Just say that the gentle man in the article, who is as bright as the moonlight, cannot be Li Zhao!Moreover, this article turns the first meeting between the two into some kind of Mid-Autumn Festival banquet at the home of the Chief Envoy of Guangdong.The Crown Princess was very talented in poetry at a young age, and she immediately attracted the attention of His Royal Highness, who was still the Crown Prince, and she has been keeping her in mind ever since.

Song Qingyue just wanted to sneer after seeing it. If she told this little girl Qian Zhongmin that she was targeted by that wolf bastard Li Zhao because she was kidnapped by that nasty guy pretending to be a bandit and locked up in the woodshed and starved for a long time just to make her cry. Do you, the little girl Minmin, feel like the star you follow suddenly collapses?

The other article is an original story "Liu Xian Becomes an Official" written by a scholar named Tang Xianliang from the Taiyuan Comic Studio. It tells the story of a down-and-out scholar who rose through the ranks and became a senior official in the Audit Department after winning a prize in a mathematics competition. , a cool story about fighting wits and courage against corrupt officials, and bringing to justice all the enemies who once oppressed and bullied one.

This story was selected by Song Qingyue from more than 30 stories.

In fact, among the novels selected this time, there are more than ten articles about officialdom, but the rest are about becoming an official through the imperial examination. Only this one is about becoming an official through a mathematics competition!

This was in line with Song Qingyue’s political correctness, so he decisively chose this article.

The rest of the scholars who were favored by the second assistant's daughter, who accidentally got the help of the fox fairy in the painting, and thus showed their power in the examination room, were all forked.

If she runs a special gossip tabloid in the future, she might use this kind of novel. The newspaper run by the Royal Bookstore still needs to have a certain style.

Let’s talk about newspaper distribution channels.

This time Master Song sent the 24 editors to talk to various teahouses, wine shops, and inns in Beijing, hoping that this newspaper could be sold at their counters.

In the first phase, the goods will be given first, and then the money will be given. The bosses will always agree.

The Royal Bookstore is willing to sell the new newspapers to them, but it's too late for them to be happy!

"However, the price of newspapers is set by the Royal Bookstore, and you are not allowed to increase the price without permission." The editors told the bosses.

At first, the bosses all agreed, thinking that a newspaper published by the imperial court could earn hundreds of yuan.In this era, the business of selling copies of Di's newspapers was quite easy, and the prices were quite expensive.

But on the first day the newspaper went on sale, they were fooled.

The newspaper is priced at only six cents per copy!Nowadays, a pound of rice in the capital costs seven to eight cents. They looked at the huge [-]-inch by [-]-inch layout and couldn't believe it. The price was only six cents per serving!
Although there are only six pages and twelve sides, the quality of the paper used seems to be very poor. Not only is it thin, some are yellowed, some are grayed. It is not good paper at first glance, but it is big!

The ex-factory price given to them by the bookstore is five cents, which means that they can only earn one cent for every copy sold.

When the clerk from the bookstore delivered the newspaper, he also thoughtfully sent a board with the price marked on it, and specifically warned him several times: Do not increase the price at will!If someone is found to increase prices arbitrarily, their sales qualification will be canceled in the future.

Owners like Liuquanju belong to the prince and the emperor, so they definitely don't dare to act carelessly, and they regard this matter as a task assigned to them by the court, but some small shop owners don't think so.

They all think that only readers can buy newspapers.

Although many scholars are financially disadvantaged, generally speaking, scholars are wealthier than ordinary people.It is simply unreasonable to prevent them from squandering the money of scholars!
The first issue, due to its relatively low popularity, the Royal Book Company conservatively printed only [-] copies.

Originally, these [-] copies were sold in five days, but unexpectedly, on the second day alone, some merchants took the initiative to send their clerks over to say they needed to restock.

Especially those inns with many foreign merchants.Smart businessmen can tell how good this newspaper is just by looking at it. In addition to major events between the DPRK and China, there are also announcements from the Royal Maritime Trading Company!
In addition, the price lists of several major cities in the north also made these merchants’ eyes light up!
You can actually post job information for free, which is great!

The price of six cents a copy didn't require them to find anyone to copy it.

As for the newspapers sold in small tea shops, they were sold out on the third day.

Six Wen is about the current price of a pound of rice. For poor rural people, it is not cheap, but for wealthy urban residents, this price is very low.The above content is really interesting. Each person pays one or two copper coins, and three or six people can buy one share together. It is also very interesting to take turns to take a look.They are all in simplified Chinese, so you can understand them. Not only do you have all kinds of news and articles on them, you can also tell where the cheapest dishes are. If you look closely, there are even various discounts and offers!

When street vendors with no storefronts saw newspapers selling so well, they immediately ran to the Royal Bookstore and asked for help in selling newspapers.

The Royal Bookstore is also a fair place, and those who want to help distribute the books start from [-] copies, and the purchase price is always [-] cents a copy.It's just that traders without fixed stores need to pay and deliver goods.

The bookstore started printing more copies on the second day, and printed an additional [-] copies on the second day of sale. On the third day of sale, sales were still very popular, so an additional [-] copies were printed.

It’s not that they don’t want to print more, it’s that the Royal Bookstore’s printing presses are churning out sparks. However, the current productivity is so high that it is already saturated.

Song Jianming has already placed an order for a new printing press with the Third Arsenal.

And the second issue has also been postponed, even though the draft has been written,

Originally, Song Jianming wanted the Zhaoyue Printing Factory in Taiyuan to help him print it, but Song Qingyue said that she wanted to run a gossip tabloid. This newspaper was something that her father had to worry about, so she stopped getting involved.

There were really too many things to do and she couldn't handle them all. The most outrageous thing was that the emperor actually asked her to help raise his children!
What did you say that the empress is in poor health and mentally weak, and the new born little prince is also a direct prince, so it is not suitable for him to be raised by a concubine? I gave Song Qingyue this sister-in-law!

Really, Wuyu opened the door for Wuyu. Wuyu is home!
Li Zhao smiled and said, "It's just a good time to be a companion for Heng'er."

Song Qingyue just wanted to roll her eyes at this, and Li Xiaokun was also a little reluctant to call this little boy who had not yet opened his eyes his uncle.But Li Zhao told him that in the future he could teach this little uncle to read and do homework, and if he was disobedient, he could even spank him. This made Li Xiaokun accept this little uncle at once.

Song Qingyue was in a dilemma, scratching her head because of the difficulty!

Before marriage, she had thought that she might help other women raise children in the future, but she never thought that she would raise her own brother-in-law!The emperor is really becoming more and more willful, so willful that it gives people a headache.

"How are you going to raise this...brother-in-law?" She looked at the baby sleeping soundly in the cradle, frowning so hard she could kill mosquitoes.

Li Zhao still smiled calmly: "How else can I raise him? Just keep him alive. Don't worry too much."

Song Qingyue scratched her head: "No, too much partiality will make the child have mental illness! Why don't you just raise it as your own child."

Li Zhao held Ah Heng in his arms and bumped it gently. From time to time, he came closer and bumped noses with the little guy. He pointed at the little baby in the cradle and said, "This is your little uncle, an elder. You can't fight with your little uncle in the future!"

In the palace, the queen was crying and arguing with the emperor because of the child.

"Your Majesty, I beg you! How can I leave my child to my daughter-in-law to raise?"

"A sister-in-law is like a mother, so there's nothing wrong with her." The emperor smiled coldly.

"But...but he was just born. I haven't had a good hug yet." She started to cry pitifully.

The emperor shook his head: "You have already raised Yi'er to be a loser. Do you want to raise my other son to be a loser too?"

"Your Majesty!" Xiao Ning looked up in disbelief at the emperor who was no longer warm. She didn't understand why he became so cold: "You...how can you say that to Yi'er? You, you can't say that to him. !”

"Isn't it? If you are not good at writing or martial arts, your brain is not good, and you have no eyesight, what is the difference between this and a waste? Queen, please tell me what is commendable about that waste? Zhao'er was also raised by you in the past. You have to be arrogant and violent, and don't know the difference between right and wrong. Please tell me, Queen, how can I trust you to raise my child?"

My body is still feverish, with waves of cold and heat. I feel dizzy and my brain is a mess.She looked at the emperor stupidly, not quite understanding why things turned out like this.

"Look at you, your health is not good, how can you have the energy to raise a child? It's better to leave it to the Crown Princess. Just in time, asking Zhao'er to cultivate a brotherly relationship with the child will also be good for the child's future, right, Queen?"

After the emperor said this, he turned to the eunuch and the nun beside the empress and said, "Look at your empress well. Take care of her when she is sick. Don't mess around." Then he strode out of the palace gate.

Ning Yueyao, who was waiting for the patient, knelt beside the bed and began to tremble uncontrollably.In the past few days, the queen had eaten so many garlic balls every day that her whole body was smelling of garlic. Ning Yueyao was so smoked that she could no longer smell the smell of garlic.

The queen is so sick that she is confused, but Ning Yueyao is not stupid!This is obviously because my little aunt has been rejected by the emperor!

She turned her head slightly to look at the Queen's bloodless face, and a feeling called despair surged into her heart.

But she thought, no, with the Ning family here, how could His Majesty dislike my little aunt?
She panicked, tears welled up from her eyes, and suddenly there was a sharp pain in her cheek.

"Snapped!"

Xiao Ning slapped her and said angrily: "Why are you crying? Are you crying for mourning? Don't cry, hold back your tears! I'm not dead yet!"

"Little aunt...I...I'm just a little scared."

"What are you afraid of! Is I dead or deposed? What are you afraid of?! Get out of here!"

(End of this chapter)