Bring The System To Datang

"It's a newspaper, it's a newspaper, three dollars a day's newspaper, it's a newspaper, it's a newspaper."

On the morning of the eighth day of May, a large group of children appeared in the city of Chang'an, carrying canvas satchels, waving a newspaper in their hands, and jumping around in the streets.

They are the children whose family is in bad condition, or the children of Beitianfang who have lost their relatives.

Li Yi said he would let them help sell the newspaper, and now the time has come.

Fifty newspapers per child, 400 children, 21,000 copies per day in Changan, not much printing.

The other 300,000 copies were delivered by the farmers to the entrance of Honghe Temple, waiting for the Fans to buy them.

By the way, give a thousand copies of the newspaper to the people in the imperial city to bring in.

Chang'an people, no, this is the first time that people in Datang have seen a newsboy.

They are more interested in children selling newspapers than newspapers.

"I'll buy a copy." The shopkeeper of an inn stood at the door and saw the child running past one. It was strange that another one came after a while.

"Three coins." The seven or eight-year-old girl, wearing a new dress, stood in front of the shopkeeper, handing out a newspaper and reaching out.

"Let me take a look, if it is written well, I will buy it, if it is not well written, I will not buy it." The shopkeeper joked.

The little girl was stunned, tears bursting into her eyes: "No, no, I, I want to tell, tell Li Family Zhuangzi."

"Don't, I buy, don't cry, I'm laughing, don't tell me." The shopkeeper almost cried afterwards.

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he ran in and out at the fastest speed, took the little girl's hand, and directly patted five copper coins.

"Here, five dollars, two more dollars are given to you." The shopkeeper is saving himself.

"Thank you." The little girl wiped her tears, then smiled suddenly, put three copper coins in the grid of a shoulder bag, and the other two separately.

Turning around, she jumped and shouted to sell newspapers to find the next person to buy a newspaper.

A little boy selling newspapers was stopped.

"How much does it cost you to sell a copy?" The restaurant steward who stopped him was curious.

"Sell fifty newspapers, pay fifteen dollars, and take care of one lunch." The boy handed over the newspaper.

The steward gave the child three Kaiyuan Tongbao and stuffed another bun: "Is the clothes from Lijiazhuang?"

"Yes, or we don't have much clothes to wear." The boy smiled embarrassedly.

"Okay, it's good to make money by yourself." The shopkeeper said again, shaking his head and going in.

The people in Chang'an soon discovered that Li's Zhuangzi had done good deeds again.

In their view, the children's labor is Lijiazhuangzi helping the children.

"Look at it, the newspaper says that Lijiazhuangzi continues to purchase large quantities of wormwood. Five catties of wormwood can be exchanged for a plate of mosquito and flies, ten."

People who read the newspaper found the advertisement again, saying that Haozi replaced mosquito coils.

"There is one more item below, buying elm skins at a large price. What is the use of elm skins?"

Another person expands the own newspaper and finds the location of the advertisement.

There is no newspaper next to it, and a forty-year-old who is waiting for others to read it out said: "Elm peel powder is used to make incense, otherwise you have to use honey, otherwise the incense will not take shape."

"In this way, ordinary people can also use incense."

"It is different from the incense used in temples, temples, and temples."

"It's no different, that is, the price is different, five catties of wormwood can be exchanged for ten pans of incense."

The common people found good things again, and for the first time they heard the smell of mosquitoes and flies.

"Print out the use of mosquito coils I wrote, and put one in one copy." Zhuang Zizhong Li Yi went to the printing workshop and gave out a piece of paper.

The paper says not to put the mosquito coil next to your head. There are babies in your home. It is best to light the incense in the evening and close the doors and windows in the house.

Go in two quarters later, open the doors and windows, you can squeeze the incense out. Be careful not to have any fire-prone objects around the mosquito coil.

These words can be printed on a small piece of paper, and Li Yi is very afraid that someone will get sick.

There are only wormwood and elm bark powder in the pan incense, which looks natural, but as long as it burns, there will be smoke.

Whoever has a baby has a problem with Xun, Li Yi thinks this...

At noon, a businessman called Yang Xin, a businessman who transported elm peel powder from other places to Chang'an to sell.

He is preparing to contact other incense shops and temples to discuss a price, and while waiting at the pier, he will get a newspaper.

Seeing that Lijiazhuang's price is high, and the main bridge is Bashui Wharf, I ran over to ask.

Song De didn't even go, and sent a small steward to the other side of Baqiao to discuss with the merchant.

The two sides negotiated a good price, which is less than half of the price and cheaper than selling it to temples and other places. It is not a high price at all.

However, he collected all 10,000 catties of elm peel powder at a time, so Yang Xin saved a lot of time.

He can buy the goods in Chang'an and load them back on the ship, so he can take the time to ship the elm peel powder to sell once more.

Elm bark powder is a powder made from the bark of the elm tree and used as a binder.

When fetching materials, the branches of the elm trees are usually cut off, and there are also small elm trees that are specially planted in a large mountain area.

Peel the bark of a big tree, and it will die after one peeling. The elm bark on the branches is enough to cut this year, and it will grow again next year.

The leaves and flowers of the elm tree can be eaten. They are called elm money. There are rice and cakes made with elm money.

Xiao Guan Shi and Yang Xin negotiated the price and quantity of the purchase. Yang Xin made a new request. Xiao Guan was unable to decide the matter and ran back to ask Li Yi.

"The proprietor, he said that next time he comes to bring other goods, he wants to leave a place in our newspaper to help him talk about it."

Small manager reports on the situation.

Li Yi figured it out: "Tell him yes, but only the Jingzhaofu newspapers are printed on each word, and punctuation is not counted as money."

Xiao Guan Shi turned around and ran, and went to talk to Yang Xin.

There are punctuation marks now, but some people don’t write them, and everyone writes them in different ways.

The newspaper is typeset horizontally, not vertically, and read from left to right at the same time.

Li Yi follows his own habits, and writes articles from right to left, always using the other hand sleeve, unless he is left-handed.

People who read newspapers can adapt easily. It's amazing. At the same time, they can understand the standard punctuation.

Commas and periods are now used by people. Quotation marks, dashes, book title marks, exclamation marks, etc., others have seen, think about it a little, and understand.

The steward over there told Yang Xin the price, but Yang Xin didn't say yes or no, he just said to see when he came next time.

Yang Xin discovered the secret in the newspaper, and other businessmen were not stupid.

They found that this newspaper was very useful for propaganda, at least the entire Jingzhao Mansion could know about it.

The little manager came back, looking very sorry, he wanted to finalize the matter: "Proprietor, it is estimated that the price is too high."

"It's okay, just wait for me to make a set of color printing, the place of the advertisement can be more conspicuous, and the ink should be adjusted."

Li Yi comforts little manager, he has a way.

The newspapers are now black words. If you want to print colored words, you can typeset one more color if you add one more color.

The first page is printed out first, and the space for the colored words is left blank.

The other edition has characters in the empty space, brushed with colorful ink, and brought the newspaper that was printed once, aligned the molds, and printed it again.

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