There were about a hundred engravers in the imperial court, and there were even more than three hundred apprentices, so it was not complicated to engrave individual words.
Many refugees outside the city made some money after harvesting ice and returned to their places of origin. Others felt that there were more opportunities in Chang'an, so they chose to stay.
These people were all agreed to stay by Li Shimin and then re-registered their household registrations.
Because he knew that Chang'an's labor demand would become larger and larger, and naturally it would need more and more people.
This time we found many people to dig clay.
The excavated clay is poured into the wooden mold, and when pressed hard, it turns into small clods, which are the character molds.
Then the engraver and the apprentice each divided a number of characters, engraved them in a convex reverse style, and then sent them to be burned with fire.
The person who assists in typesetting puts a layer of rosin, wax and paper dust on an iron plate with a frame on all sides, and then arranges iron bars on the iron frame.
The movable type is inserted between the two iron bars. After the lines are filled, bake the iron plate with fire to melt the rosin. Fix the type molds on the iron plate and use a flat surface to flatten the side of the type mold with the characters. This version is considered It's arranged.
Because of Tang Ping's Pinyin notation method, these character models only need to be arranged in the order of Pinyin, making them easy to find.
After the first version is printed, it is baked over fire to allow the rosin to melt, and then the character molds will fall off and can be used repeatedly.
Only three days after the establishment of the Printing Bureau, the first engraving was completed. Li Chengqian and his men looked at the pages of paper with the contents of "The Thousand Character Classic" printed on them, and said with some excitement: "It's done!"
"Congratulations to Your Highness, the Crown Prince. The prosperity of culture and education is the result of a thousand years of work!"
The subordinates below are naturally flattering. Although this thing was invented by Tang Ping, it is the crown prince's credit for making it. Of course, they will flatter the crown prince severely at this meeting.
Unfortunately, Li Chengqian was still able to figure out who made it, and said with a smile: "Yin Shanhou has the greatest credit for this, thanks to him for being able to invent such a convenient printing method."
After finishing speaking, he looked at Changsun Chong beside him and asked: "Cousin, how is the content of Datang Weekly arranged?"
Changsun Chong said with some embarrassment: "The content is almost arranged, but that...the investment has not been secured yet."
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Because this is the first issue of Datang Weekly, a lot of the content on it is actually easy to find. For example, the first and second pages are some of Datang’s new initiatives this year, and the following pages are also, as Tang Ping said, Corrupt officials were punished, those who spread rumors were arrested, and those who acted bravely were rewarded.
Anyway, the main purpose is to promote positive energy in society and deter criminals. It is not difficult to find out these things in Chang'an, now the largest city in the world.
The page at the back where new articles are published has a call for articles.
All kinds of articles are collected from the entire Tang Dynasty. Once adopted, there will be a certain amount of royalties and so on.
According to Tang Ping, the Datang Weekly is not only the mouthpiece of the Tang Dynasty, but also wants more people to participate. This page even collects children's songs, and children who have compiled good songs can be submitted.
Then the last page was to promote new technologies. This time, Datang Weekly directly printed the detailed technical points of movable type printing on it.
Businessmen pursue profit. As long as they learn this technology and find it profitable, they will spontaneously set up private bookstores and start printing books without any laws.
There are also some anecdotes, and the street news is easy to find. The only trouble is the advertising page.
If you ask Changsun Chong to collect the money with the government documents, he will have no problem.
But now it would be a bit difficult for him to negotiate with the merchants and get them to take the initiative to give money.
After all, he had never looked at those merchants seriously in the past.
Except for the fact that Li Shimin asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate some start-up funds at the beginning, the printing press asked them to be responsible for their own profits and losses. This was actually a test.
Now that Li Shimin has more contact with Tang Ping, he also understands that whether an emperor can make money is also an important ability.
Only when a country is rich can its people be strong and its military might be powerful.
Li Shimin also found this a bit tricky. After all, no one had ever done anything like soliciting sponsorship.
However, in order to train them, Li Shimin did not tell them Tang Ping's method of collecting money using shopkeeper Liu's metaphor.
So they went to a few merchants they frequented and offered sponsorship. The merchants said they were willing to support, but the money they gave was far from enough to run the newspaper.
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Of course Li Chengqian could ask Tang Ping directly about this, but he also knew that this was a test, so he endured it.
Thinking of Tang Ping, he had an idea and said: "Back then, the Yinshan Hou MSG was auctioned in the entire Chang'an restaurant industry, and the highest bidder got it. Why don't we also have an auction like this? Auction the advertising space?"
"But how do we get those merchants to pay?"
Most of today's transactions are still based on the idea that you get what you pay for, that is, if I give you the money, I have to receive the goods back.
Selling advertisements to attract sponsorships is indeed a bit ahead of its time, not to mention that Changsun Chong and the others didn't understand it at first, and something went wrong during the introduction, so they haven't gotten a few sponsorships yet.
Li Chengqian thought of the grand occasion when Tang Ping opened Xihe Building, and vaguely remembered that Tang Ping had introduced some advertising concepts at that time.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Just say the one with the highest price, and I will be responsible for inscribing them and promoting them."
He didn't know if this method would work, but with his knowledge now, he really couldn't think of a better way.
It's just that he didn't expect that his method was actually the right one by some mistake.
Soon the two of them posted posts everywhere, inviting the wealthy businessmen of Chang'an to see them.
After all, it was the prince who posted the post, so he had to give him face, and soon these wealthy businessmen gathered together.
But they didn't expect that Tang Ping would also come.
Li Chengqian didn't say much. As the host, Li Chengqian just said the purpose of inviting everyone here today. The first thing is to sell half of the advertising space of Datang Weekly for a month.
When Li Chengqian finished speaking, the businessmen below all looked at each other, but no one said anything. Li Chengqian didn't explain this clearly. He just said that if everyone paid, they could publicize it in the newspaper.
But because the first issue of the newspaper has not yet come out, these businessmen don't quite understand what the so-called newspaper is.
They are all owners who don't let the hawk see the rabbit before they see the rabbit. This will require everyone to pay, which is naturally not that easy.
At this moment, Tang Ping shouted loudly:
Guan, I want this page! "
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