"Tell me as soon as you hear the news."
"Yes." Tian Meng immediately bent down and saluted.
"By the way, let Zhang Xi's people keep an eye on the inside of Chang'an City. When posting small-character posters every day, they can see if there are any people with ulterior motives who are asking around. Remember these people."
"yes!"
"Also, tell those scholars, just tell them that the current situation in the court is like this, but this is not the end, this is just the beginning of the war! An invisible war has begun! This is the fight between us and them ! The pens in their hands are the most powerful weapons. His Highness is injured and cannot take care of this matter for the time being. It is up to them!" Li Ke said.
"Yes, Your Highness, I understand."
Li Ke's order quickly spread to every corner of Chang'an City, and local snakes all over Chang'an immediately went out and quickly posted the prepared things in every corner.
There were actually quite a few people waiting today, but it wasn't that early today, and as soon as the small-character poster was posted, many people gathered around.
"Is this Lan Ling Xiaoxiaosheng?"
"Yes, yes, here we come, let's see what the boss said today."
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"I won't tell the story today. After analyzing the situation in the court, I feel that there is a high probability that Datang Weekly will be taken back by the state. Most of the civil servants in the court have the shadow of aristocratic families. It is impossible for them to allow such things to speak for the people. Come out, but His Highness the King of Shu is probably not a good person, and he will probably get something back."
"The most important thing is that the appearance of the Datang Weekly and the large-scale sale of cheap paper by His Royal Highness the King of Shu yesterday means that the technology of papermaking has made greater progress. Many poor students in the Tang Dynasty are blessed. There will be more in the future. More cheap books for the average person to read."
"On this point, many ordinary scholars like me should thank His Highness the King of Shu. Maybe one day the court will open up the restrictions on the imperial examination, and we, the children of poor families, can also participate in the imperial examination!"
Today's content is very short, but it has caused a lot of excitement, because many ordinary literati already know that in such a small area, you can see many novel viewpoints, and you can also communicate anonymously with other people in different ways. You can express your opinions boldly here.
And there are many people around who can understand.
As Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng was the first to appear, naturally everyone rushed to watch it, and today's content can be said to have instantly opened the eyes of many people!
"Mr. Lanling's analysis is indeed very thorough. I didn't expect that he is an ordinary student like us."
"In fact, there are many strange people among the people, and there are also powerful people. Look at Han Xin of Han Dynasty, isn't he just an ordinary person?"
"Yes, Mr. Lanling is right, we should thank His Highness the King of Shu."
"It's a pity that Datang Weekly was taken back by these people."
"Hush, be careful! Of course they have to control their own power!"
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After the court went down, what happened in the court quickly spread throughout Chang'an City. Even if someone wanted to hide it, how could Li Ke hide the news.
What Li Ke said in the court hall spread word for word throughout Chang'an City.
"Sure enough! I didn't expect that His Majesty the King of Shu would be punished by His Majesty for this! However, these lines of poems written by His Majesty the King of Shu are really good! If you are proud of your life, you must enjoy it to the fullest. Don't let the golden bottle stand empty against the moon! I am born with talents that will be useful. Even if all your money is gone, you will come back again. Don’t worry about having no friends in the future. No one in the world knows you. Others laugh at me for being crazy, but I laugh at others because they can’t see through it.”
"Yes! This is so heroic! I didn't expect His Highness, King Shu, to be so talented!"
"It's so happy! It's so happy! His Highness the King of Shu scolded everyone in the government and the public! This is what these people should be like, robbing other people's things and still speaking plausibly."
"The poems His Highness the King of Shu used to curse people were too vivid! Their faces are really ugly!"
"I don't know how Mr. Lanling will comment tomorrow."
"What kind of comments can you make? It must be a bit vague, otherwise it will be troublesome if you are caught. Isn't it bad if you don't see the final result of His Highness the King of Shu?"
The Tang Dynasty court, which has always been procrastinating, handed over the relevant information of the Tang Weekly to Li Ke with unprecedented efficiency. In fact, there was nothing to hand over. After the paper and printing were solved, the newspaper had no technical content. The ancients could see it at a glance. clear.
What Li Ke didn't expect was that at the same time as the handover, there was an imperial edict from Li Shimin, which strictly prohibited Li Ke from messing with anything like Datang Daily and Datang Monthly.
Seeing this imperial edict, Li Ke felt a little emotional. Who said the ancients didn't understand? Isn’t this a good way to draw inferences from one instance? The ancients knew how to use this kind of trick, but they were just limited by their vision. Behind the imperial edict must be the result of compromise between Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji and others.
As for Datang Weekly not using Li Ke's printing factory in the future, he didn't care. Printing originally took shape at this time. The reason why it didn't become popular so quickly in history was because some people didn't want it to become popular. Don't think The ancients really didn’t understand anything and couldn’t see through these things.
But now that Li Ke has figured it out, there is no need to cover it up.
Historically, it took nearly four hundred years to improve from woodblock printing to movable type printing. Is it because the technical difficulty is really that high?
No, the main thing is that there are enough craftsmen but not so many printed materials. The aristocratic families control the printing technology. At most, they are circulated internally, or printed for the royal family, and the demand is small. The difficulty of engraving is low, and it is easier to use, which is enough.
Second, there is just no motivation. Why improve these things? There are no rewards, and it will be controlled by others. Of course, no one will improve it. In the Northern Song Dynasty, with the reform of the imperial examination, the number of poor families gradually expanded, the number of printings increased, and movable type naturally came into being.
Nowadays, the printing technology developed by Li Ke is a combination of both. Movable type printing is used to print newspapers and the like that need to change the content frequently, while woodblock printing is used to print books. The content will not change. After carving a plate, it can often be used. .
After the imperial court handed over the Datang Weekly, Changsun Wuji immediately contacted the Zheng family in Xingyang.
"How low can your printing costs be?" Changsun Wuji asked.
"15 Wen is already the limit."
"The paper costs 2 cents, and printing can only charge 3 cents, so a newspaper loses 12 cents." Changsun Wuji said.
"Don't worry, Mr. Lang, money is not a problem. It's only less than 50,000 yuan a year. I have rewarded these craftsmen to improve the printing technology. I believe the cost will drop in the future." The person in charge of the Zheng family in Xingyang is a middle-aged man, Zheng Qiang, although he is not the head of the family, he can represent the head of the family.
"I'm not worried about this, but whether you can handle it if the sales of newspapers increase." Changsun Wuji glanced at the other party and said.
Zheng Qiang laughed when he heard this, and he said: "Before I came, the head of the family told me, don't worry, we will bear all the losses."
"Well, one more thing, if we want to speed up printing in the early stage, how many days can we produce the finished product at the earliest?" Changsun Wuji asked.
"If the content is ready, it will take three days." Zheng Qiang thought for a while and said, "We can continue to expand the scale."
"Expand it, the King of Shu will not give up so easily." Changsun Wuji waved his hand and said, "We will not wait for seven days, but we will publish an issue within three days. The reason is to use the seal after changing the court operation. Here In one issue of the newspaper, we want to praise the King of Shu."
After saying that, Changsun Wuji couldn't help but sneered. They just didn't have these means before, but when it comes to playing with people's hearts, building public opinion, and quarreling with each other, Your Highness, King of Shu, is still a bit immature. Didn’t history teach you? Allusions such as buying bones for a thousand gold and establishing trust in a bare tree all use these methods.
