Datang: From exiled prince to eternal tyrant

77 Chapter 077 Difficulties
The people of Shu were surprised to find that the king of Shu recently opened two new factories, which are said to be called paper mills and printing factories.

Papermaking and printing are all money-burning things, and the content produced is exactly the kind of books that rich people will touch.

At the beginning, everyone thought that the two workshops of the King of Shu were built for the rich, and they wanted to collect money from the rich through books to achieve economic performance.

After all, they are now competing with Li Chengqian, and money and food income are also very important under the rule.

And with money, you can do more practical things for the people.

Everyone is not disgusted by this, but there is no hope or expectation.

But who would have thought that when the king of Shu opened this factory, the first thing he did was to print the "San Zi Jing".

When they received the free "Three Character Classic", the people were shocked.

This book is not something ordinary people can afford!
Don't look at the "Three Character Classic" is not thick, and there are not many words, but ordinary people want to buy such a book, at least it will cost a lot of money.This amount of money is simply sky-high for ordinary people.

But the king of Shu unexpectedly... didn't accept a penny, and distributed it to everyone for free.

This is great, children from poor families can also use this "San Zi Jing" to learn Chinese and calligraphy, and gain enlightenment.

Even those illiterate adults were given a copy, and they can also use this book to learn literacy.

Literacy is such a luxury for these poor people!Now with King Shu, everything becomes so simple.

The people were grateful for the benevolence and righteousness of the King of Shu. A few days ago, the King of Shu had built roads everywhere to facilitate people's lives. Now he gave money to the people to print books to increase their knowledge.

So many "Three Character Classics", how much money will it cost?
They naturally don't know that the cost of printing these books for Li Ke is almost zero.

Within two days, the King of Shu came up with another novelty, which is said to be called a newspaper...

Although there is a fee for this newspaper, the price is only two pennies, which is much cheaper than other books.

So as soon as the news came out, the people in Shu area were looking forward to the publication of the newspaper as soon as possible.

On the day when the newspaper was officially released, everyone rushed to the sales point, trying to buy the newspaper this morning.

At first, everyone didn't understand what was published in the newspaper, but after buying it, they found that there were some strange things in it, which looked very interesting.

So the people who bought the newspaper read it aloud, making the people around them envious.

The crowd rushed to buy it, and the newspaper was sold out within an hour after it was released.

Those who bought the newspapers were all beaming, proudly showing off their victories to the people around them.

And those people who did not grab the newspaper could only listen to others telling them the contents of the newspaper.

These gossip and anecdotes are naturally very attractive to the common people.

The more I heard this, the more regretful those people who didn't buy the newspaper became.

Such a wonderful story can only be heard from other people. If I can’t buy a newspaper and read it myself, I’m really at a loss.

Considering that the price of this newspaper is only two cents, these people feel even more sad. They can't buy such a cheap, novel and interesting thing...

In the alleys of the market, people are already asking around, whose newspapers have been read.

Once they found an opportunity, they immediately rushed to buy the newspaper at a price several times the price of the newspaper.

Listening to other people's stories is certainly not as refreshing as it seems to yourself.

As for why this newspaper was printed so little, people have different opinions.

Some people say that His Majesty's newspapers are sold so cheaply that the common people have reading materials to pass the time after dinner, and he printed the books at a premium.

Such an explanation is reasonable. Li Ke has already paid for the printing of the "San Zi Jing", and now he sells newspapers at extremely low prices.

How dare the people ask for more?
But just when they thought that newspapers would have such a circulation in the future, the King of Shu led the people in the printing factory to hurry up and print a large number of newspapers.

Soon, this batch of newspapers went on the market again, and the price was still the astonishing two cents.

At first Li Ke just didn't understand the popularity of the newspaper, so he only printed [-] copies. Now that he knew the newspaper was very popular, of course he had to print more immediately.He wants more people to read newspapers and develop a good habit of reading newspapers.

The people rejoiced and bought newspapers one after another.

Everyone is grateful to Li Ke from the bottom of their hearts. Some people spontaneously read newspapers at the alleys of teahouses, helping those who cannot read and read newspapers to understand the latest information, and at the same time help them learn to read and judge. word skills.

The people's love for the newspaper also inspired Li Ke. He did not expect that the newspaper would be so popular that it would turn out to be a scene of empty streets.

He secretly made up his mind that in the future, he must do a good job of this newspaper and do his best for the education of the people in Shu.

The printing presses started frantically, constantly bringing knowledge and civilization to the people of Shu.

At this time, Li Ke unfolded the scroll, paper and pen, and started the next step of planning.

The content of the newspaper is still too little. Li Ke's plan is to make a daily magazine in the future, or publish it every two or three days. Only in this way can the fastest and freshest information be delivered to the people.

In the current situation where it is published once a week, the content of the newspaper can of course be filled only by those strange legends and celebrity anecdotes.

But if there are additional publications in the future, it is obviously not enough to only have news and strange stories.

He will try to write some serial stories to fill the newspaper content.

Of course Li Ke didn't have creative talent, but he couldn't stand the fact that he had read many stories in his previous life. As long as he copied the memories in his mind, he could write a lot of content.

His first idea was to write the story of "Journey to the West" and publish it in serial form when the newspaper added it later.

The reason why it is "Journey to the West" is that there is no special consideration. It is only because Da Da has read it too many times since he was a child.

Moreover, the content of "Journey to the West" has ups and downs, and the length is not short. As long as it can be written, it will not be a problem to publish it in newspapers for half a year.

This solves the problems of lack of newspaper content and lack of attractiveness.

But "Journey to the West" also has disadvantages. After all, this is a story that happened in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Ke met the protagonist Xuanzang's Buddhist deeds a few days ago.

But this is not a very troublesome trouble, as long as a little modification can be solved.

The background of the story is moved to a completely fictional era, and Li Shimin in the book is replaced by a completely fictional emperor who has nothing to do with him.Master Sanzang also needs to change his appearance and replace it with someone who has nothing to do with Xuan Zang who is currently leading the order to go to sea.

After writing for a whole afternoon, I finally finished the beginning.

Seeing the fruits of his labor, Li Ke was very happy.

But at this time, the spy who went out to inquire about the news rushed in.

"Your Highness, Tang Dynasty is in trouble!"

(End of this chapter)