Awakening ability

Chapter 227 Taiqiu Newspaper

Qi Ying has already paid for Fang Hao's 20-year contract for the Lingshi of Taiqiu Kingdom.

Although this sum of spirit stones will still have to be returned in the future, it is also a huge favor for which Fang Hao is very grateful.

He did not find it difficult to repay this debt.

As long as the industrialization of Taiqiu country starts, it will be no problem at all to use the bugs in the system to collect a fortune of spirit stones.

In the next 20 years, four of Taiqiu's treasury revenues will be owned by Fang Hao.

Even if the treasury income of Taiqiu Kingdom increases several times or even dozens of times in the past 20 years, it still needs to give Fang Hao [-]%.

And the Xuandu faction has already contracted Taiqiu country's tax revenue to him, no matter how high the income is, the Xuandu faction will not be able to share it.

Of course, when the income is low, the Xuandu faction will not subsidize him.

However, he does not think that after the promotion of industrialization, taxation will be lowered.

As long as industrialization reaches a certain scale, the imperial court will definitely formulate corresponding tax laws to increase taxation on industry, and the treasury tax revenue will naturally increase.

If the imperial court does not increase the taxation of industry, the treasury revenue may not increase much, but this is not bad news for Fang Hao.

It is true that he will have less revenue from the treasury, but the industry in this country is controlled by him, and the less tax collected is equal to the extra profit, which he still gets.

He is already considering how to tax industry through a series of new tax laws.

In the past, Taiqiu Kingdom only had handicraft industry, and did not formulate a special tax law. Most of them were not taxed, unless they were taken to enter and exit the customs, they would be taxed.

The bulk of Taiqiu's treasury revenue is agricultural tax and salt and iron wine monopoly.

After the Taiqiu country forms an industrial system, it will definitely formulate new tax laws for industrial products.

Rather than letting someone else lead the formulation of the tax law, let him do it.

He can formulate a relatively favorable tax law while he is still in the position of the national teacher.

Among the reference books he downloaded, there happened to be about taxation. He decided to copy a few copies, and then make changes to make it the new tax law of Taiqiu Kingdom.

Taiqiu Media Group has started operations, and "Taiqiu News" will be officially released to the entire Taiqiu Kingdom on September [-]th.

This is the first newspaper in Xuanling Continent.

The registration inscription was written by Fang Hao.

If Xuanling Continent can have a news history in the future, these inscriptions by Fang Hao will definitely be recorded in the annals of history.

The communication and transportation here are not good. Only relying on Fang Hao Yujian to deliver newspapers and news, it cannot support the model of a daily newspaper, so this newsletter is a ten-day issue.

It took ten days to get a copy out.

In the future, we will gradually turn to daily newspapers, but it is not suitable for now.

Not only does the newspaper office not have that kind of editorial ability, but this society has not yet cultivated that kind of market.

Newspaper is a new thing, and readers need to get used to it slowly.

In this world, don't say that what happened ten days ago can still be news, even if it happened half a year ago, it can still exist as news when it spreads to another province.

Many people receive outdated information.

Even for those who are officials, it will take several months for the latest order of the court to be communicated to all places.

We need to slowly change society's acceptance of news and cultivate a mature market.

Newspapers need to improve themselves, and this market also needs to be cultivated slowly.

Fang Hao's plan is to turn the ten-day "Taiqiu News" into a daily "Taiqiu Daily" in two to three years.

The price of this newspaper is not very high. At the current price of paper on the market, it is like selling a newspaper for a loss.

Not to mention the cost of editing and printing.

After the newspaper went public, many people believed that at this price, the newspaper office would pay as much as it sold, and there was absolutely no possibility of making a profit.

However, they are only making such judgments based on past experience.

In fact, the cost is not as high as they imagined.

Taiqiu Media Group has its own paper mill and printing factory. Both papermaking technology and printing technology are much higher than the original level of Taiqiu Kingdom, which greatly saves costs.

The cost of paper and printing combined is less than one-tenth of what it used to be.

If only paper and printing costs are counted, each newspaper sold can earn three or four pennies.

The cost of editing and editing for newspaper offices is not low, and their existence has increased the cost of newspapers.

Because the sales volume of the early newspapers was not large, it was indeed a loss at the beginning.

It's just not as serious as outsiders imagined.

There are dozens of provinces in Taiqiu country, and each province has a branch of the newspaper, which is responsible for collecting and editing news and selling newspapers.

Every government office in the provincial capital of every province has subscribed to this newspaper, and every prefecture and county has also subscribed.

For them, this is a political task that must be completed.

At the beginning, "Taiqiu News" ate food subscribed by the public, relying on the influence of Fang Hao, the master of the National Teacher.

Government offices all over the country have ordered it.

Anyway, there are more than [-] issues a year, hundreds of pennies, there is no need to offend the national teacher because of this.

However, the bureaucratic system of Taiqiu State only ends at the county level.

The so-called imperial power does not go to the countryside, the village level belongs to the plate of the squires and clans, and the collection of imperial food is done by the squires and clans for the imperial court, and the imperial court has not formed effective management there.

"Taiqiu Newspaper" naturally couldn't be sold there.

Backed by the bureaucratic system of Taiqiu Kingdom, the circulation of "Taiqiu News" was tens of thousands of copies at the beginning.

As a new thing, it is very rare to be able to have such sales during the initial stage.

If Fang Hao's influence is not there, this newspaper can sell hundreds of copies, and you can laugh.

The largest single market is in the capital, where the cultural industry is relatively mature. The density of literate people is the highest in the entire Taiqiu country. They also have certain spending power and are relatively accepting of new things.

The inaugural issue was launched, and in addition to the official subscription, more than [-] copies were sold.

This is simply a great victory, and Fang Hao sees the hope of success.

In addition, there are not so many subscriptions outside the official provinces.

A copy of "Taiqiu Newspaper" is ten cents, and there are four large newspapers. Because it is printed with movable type, the words on it are very small, and there are many densely packed contents. And more.

Just for this paper and word count, the seller already thinks it is worth it.

And the content is also unprecedentedly rich.

There are official news from all over the country, poems and prose of famous literati, some common sense of life, and all kinds of anecdotes, tragic and romantic stories.

Those who are officials, those who study literature, those who live at home, and those who are curious, can all find what they are looking for in this newspaper.

(End of this chapter)