Hongwu Survival Guide

The day after the steam engine demonstration, the third day of November.

Solstice.

In this era, there is a saying that "the winter solstice is like a new year". In order to pray for a safe passage of the coldest season of the year, not only the folks have various customs, but the celebrations of the imperial court are even more grand, such as court meetings, banquets, Jiaosi... a busy day is a whole day.

When Lao Zhu left the day before, he specially greeted him. Considering his health, he just rested at home that day. Zhu Yuan still insisted on attending the court meeting and suburban sacrifice.

This is a great gift.

Zhu Yuan insisted not to skip it at will.

I thought it would be fine if I paid attention to it, but after a day of tossing around, perhaps with the fatigue of the previous days, Zhu Yuan felt uncomfortable that night.

Start lying down again.

Lao Zhu sent He Shou, the internal envoy and supervisor, to visit, and conveyed his reprimand and concern.

However, I can't let go.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, Song Lian brought the final draft of "Da Ming Monthly" to visit. This time, drawings were added and some content details were revised.

After discussing for an hour, it was finally decided.

The first issue, the November issue of the first year of Hongwu, was officially launched on the tenth day of the first day of the plan, including front and rear covers, a total of 78 sheets and 156 pages.

Zhu Yuan designed the cover himself.

First of all, use thick paper specially made by people.

It's not the kind of extra-thick certificate paper, about the thickness of two or three pages of ordinary paper. What Zhu Yuan regrets is that there is no coating condition in this era.

The title of the cover is Lao Zhu Mobao, the vigorous and powerful "Daming Monthly" four-character regular script.

Then, according to the magazine cover style of later generations, some abbreviations of article titles were added, as well as the same background pattern. This time, the front and back pages of the cover roughly formed a map silhouette, which marked some important routes of attack and battle nodes.

In fact, it is a schematic diagram of Lao Zhu's conquest of the world in the past ten years.

This is not a random setting, but it echoes the "Zhu's Entrepreneurship Chronicle" in the first article of the "Emperor's Notes" column of this issue.

Lao Zhu is also very satisfied with this design.

Just like back then, when Lao Zhu came to the throne, he deliberately listed the enemies he had defeated over the years in the few hundred words of the memorial essay, this time, it is the same.

Let's talk about the content inside.

The title page of the magazine is a preface written by Lao Zhu himself. It is a standard human style and easy to understand. It roughly states the purpose of creating this magazine, to inform the court of information, and to promote etiquette and enlightenment. Therefore, all officials and people are required to study it carefully.

At the same time, he also said that people all over the world, no matter what their status is, can submit articles to the magazine and speak freely.

The last "draft request" was proposed by Zhu Yuan.

Speak freely!
For the literati of this era, it must be very attractive.

Of course, the so-called "speaking freely" must be speaking freely within certain frameworks.However, referring to the past, Zhu Yuan will try his best to give everyone a beautiful illusion that he can speak freely.

Going further, I discussed it with Song Lian once before, and the final draft has little changes except for the addition of pictures.

In addition, there are two very important ones.

The first is signature.

In addition to the signatures of each article, there is also the signature of the main creator of this magazine.

With Lao Zhu's approval, this time, there were five people in total.

Editor-in-Chief: Zhu Yuan.

Editor-in-Chief: Lian Song.

Editors: Zhan Tong, Qin Yubo, Xiong Ding.

Except for Zhu Yuan, the other four were either Hanlin officials or living officials, all of whom were old Zhu Jinchen.

Next, except for Zhu Yuan, the editor-in-chief, everything else may change.Just like Song Lian, Zhu Yuan initially considered signing the name as "the editor-in-chief of this issue", but after thinking about it, he still didn't bring it up, which is not very kind. Hearing the name, he felt like "the next issue may not be you".

Anyway, whether to add "this issue" or not, when it shouldn't be, it won't be.

The same goes for other editors.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty continued to expand, and officials in charge were needed everywhere. Perhaps at some point, these people would go down to the localities.

In addition to these, when it comes to signatures, of course, Zhu Yuan can't escape the two articles specially added by Zhu Yuan, "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "A Dream of Red Mansions".For the two articles this time, Zhu Yuan provided ideas, and the women around him ghost-written, but there must always be a name.

Zhu Yuan thought about 'Anonymous'.

When I was very young, I often saw the person "Anonymous" in various newspapers and magazines. I thought it was very powerful. I actually wrote so many articles. I only realized it when I grew up... This is because I didn't find the creator, so I can only "Anonymous" '.

However, we can find someone this time, whether it is the 'original author' or the 'adapted author', and 'anonymous' is not appropriate.

Think it over and decide to feel it.

Original signed.

Here comes the problem again, the inexplicable two people are too weird, who is Pu Songling, and who is Cao Xueqin?Besides, it's not the original after all.So a little adjustment, the former 'Liuquan Layman', the latter 'Mourning the Lord of the Red House'.

It's a pseudonym.

When it comes to pen names, I think of a super famous one. This time it is not 'Lu Xun', but 'Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng', who wrote a book and created the most prostitute Pan Jinlian in ancient and modern times.

That classic!
Ok……

Sister Pan: Where are the rogues who have settled down and are still talking about their old lady? !
Feeling being scolded again, I quickly took it away.

wrong.

Why do you have to say 'again'?
Slightly slightly.

Then there's remuneration, print runs, and pricing.

Regarding the remuneration, both Lao Zhu and Song Lian felt it was unnecessary at first.It is a great honor to publish an article in this official magazine. Do you still want money?
Zhu Yuan insisted.

Very, very necessary.

Lao Zhu didn't insist either.

The fixed remuneration is calculated on a page-by-page basis, which is consistent, simple and clear.

Old Zhu felt that it was too much, but Zhu Yuan insisted.

Lao Zhu didn't insist.

So, this time... except for the person who wrote the preface, there is no remuneration, and there are others. There are more than 150 words in total, and the various tofu blocks that are less than one page are distributed according to the number of words.

Let's talk about printing.

Lao Zhu specially instructed to mobilize hundreds of engraving craftsmen. After the final draft was finalized on the fifth day of the lunar new year, each person on average could engrave a little more than one piece. In just two days, the engraving was quickly completed.

The original plan was to print [-] copies. After detailed inquiry, Zhu Yuan learned that a set of engraving blocks, of course, is the best here, and it can even print [-] to [-] copies at most.That is to say, if only [-] copies are printed, the remaining engraving 'durability' is wasted.

After deliberation, decided to reprint.

Zhu Yuan hopes that the first issue of the first issue will have as many issues as possible, so that even after many, many years, there will be some leftovers.

As long as there is retention, it will become a right to speak.

Zhu Yuan hoped that after thousands of years, even if it is inevitable to change the dynasty again, this period of history can be remembered by people and cannot be distorted and tampered with at will.

However, for additional printing, you can’t use all the good rice paper, you can only use ordinary leather paper or bamboo paper, the cost is reduced to only one-third of the rice paper, and the plan is to print until the engraving can no longer be used. .

As for pricing.

Zhu Yuan didn't intend to make money, but just like the remuneration, he still insisted on adding a price.The result approved by Lao Zhu is the hardcover edition, 300 articles.Paperback edition, 100 texts.

The '299 text' and '99 text' proposed by someone were rejected.

There is no need to play tricks!
Of course, although the price is set, it is printed and distributed mainly to the provinces, states and counties for free.

At present, the number of "counties" owned by Daming has exceeded a thousand. Therefore, even if [-] copies are printed, each county can only distribute [-] copies on average.

Of course not.

Zhu Yuan only plans to distribute 10 copies per county on average, which is the hardcover part.

Excess, depends on the situation.

For example, since the price is set, of course it will be sold publicly, allowing booksellers from all over the country to wholesale and sell it to various places.

Zhu Yuan also made a living for his family's "Zhiyongzhai" near the water tower.

Selling books can still improve the style.

In short, no matter what, in this day and age, if you don't seek profit, there will be no such thing as a backlog of books.

So until the tenth day of the winter month.

At the same time as the review of the imperial examination papers in the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty was completed, the "Daming Monthly", which was continuously printed, was officially transmitted to the world through the official post system under the personal order of Lao Zhu.