Zhang Juzheng asked the Son of Heaven to reinstate Lin Yanchao through Chen Ji, the imperial history of the left capital. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This decree has not been issued at the moment, so Lin Yanchao still has no idea that he has been reinstated as an official.

At the moment, he is most concerned about the publication of the merit magazine, which is a big deal for him. If the journal is well run, then the next step can be to promote the distribution of newspapers and times.

In this way, this little butterfly finally saw the hope of setting off a hurricane.

If it doesn't work, it means that Lin Yanchao's cultural and educational strategy is problematic.

The European Renaissance started by movable type printing, and the explosion of knowledge caused by today's Internet. All tell us that no matter how advanced the ideas are, no matter how advanced the inventions are, they are like a seed, and this kind of seed cannot take root and sprout without suitable soil to carry it.

According to Lin Yanchao's calculations, the population of Jingshi Guo Nei and Guo is more than one million, and it is the second largest city in Daming after Jinling in terms of population, and it is also the second largest city in the whole world.

The high concentration of population in large cities is undoubtedly conducive to the spread of ideas, and the clear social division of labor leads to a widening of class disparities. There are so many officials in the Beijing Division, foreign officials, vassal envoys, honorable officials and nobles, people to be examined, prisoners, students who travel to Beijing, and countless merchants.

This means that the number of people who can read and write far exceeds that of other regions.

Before the Renaissance, the literacy rate was less than one percent in Europe, and if you try to run a newspaper, you will definitely cry to death.

According to Lin Yanchao's estimates, the population who can read and write in Beijing can reach more than 100,000. Then the journal of one's own deeds should be published once every seven days, and 800 copies should be counted as one issue, which should be within the allowable range.

As long as one out of two hundred people buys his own ministry journal, then it is enough, so there is soil for success.

However, there are also disadvantages of running a journal in the capital, that is, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, public opinion is relatively not so free. Therefore, why Lin Yanchao pulled the tiger skins of Zhang Juzheng, Shen Shixing, and Zhang Siwei when running the journal was also to prevent someone from looking for it in the future.

However, Lin Yanchao's worries are also due to his usual caution. The Ming Dynasty was not as enlightened as the Qing Dynasty, and the later period was more enlightened than the early stage, and the Wanli Dynasty has been ridiculed by later generations as the pioneer of China's 'anarchism', so the term ideological imprisonment almost did not exist in the Ming Dynasty.

While everyone was anxiously waiting, the results of the first day of publication of the journal were about to come out.

Many disciples were anxiously pacing in the study hall.

Whether or not this meritorious journal can be a hit is related to the future of meritorious learning, and it is also a solidarity with them.

In contrast to the anxiety of the disciples, Lin Yanchao was in the roll shed next to the Xuegong Hall, making tea for himself, tasting it slowly, and then calmly waiting for the result.

Lin Yanchao closed his eyes and opened his eyes after recuperating for a while, the mist on the tea bowl on the table was steaming leisurely, he took the folding fan and shook it gently, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip.

With the fragrance of tea in his mouth, Lin Yanchao leaned back comfortably on the Taishi chair and looked up at the clouds on the horizon outside the window.

If there were no mundane things, it would be a good afternoon.

It only took a moment for this pleasant effort to hear shouting outside the door.

"Sold out!"

"Sold out!"

"It's all sold out in less than half a day!"

The disciples who came outside wiped their sweat and ran to tell each other, and their originally anxious looks were swept away on everyone's faces.

That's great!

The disciples applauded.

The disciples who rushed out of the school hall hugged each other and celebrated.

Xu Huobo, Tao Wangling, He Ziming and others also went out, and learned about the sales situation from the disciples who rushed back from outside.

Then the three of them all had joy on their faces, and they came to the door of the roll shed where Lin Yanchao was, and were about to knock on the door, when Lin Yanchao saw it from the window and smiled: "Come in!" ”

After the three of them entered together, He Ziming said happily: "Sir, except for the 300 free publications, the remaining 700 newspapers and periodicals will be sold out in less than half a day. ”

Tao Wangling said: "In the bookstore outside the Daming Gate, there are shopkeepers such as Shengyaotang, Wenhuitang, and Wuliuju waiting outside, saying that they want to pre-order the next issue of the 'Shigong Journal' with us. ”

When Lin Yanchao heard this, he asked, "How many copies do they want to order?" ”

"Shengyao Hall is the most, saying that it is one hundred and twenty copies, Wenhua Hall, and Wuliuju are fifty and thirty copies."

Lin Yanchao asked He Ziming: "In your opinion, how much should you give them?" ”

He Ziming said: "If there is a bookstore to sell on behalf of us, it will also save us the hard work of hiring journalists, and Shengyaotang is a famous bookstore in the capital, and the channels are very wide. I can give two points and eight cents in Shengyaotang, Wenhuitang, and Wuliuju can give three points. ”

Lin Yanchao nodded and said, "Good." ”

He Ziming said: "Sir, if we look at the moment, we have set 800 copies per issue before, which is too little, and in my opinion, 1,200 copies to 1,500 copies is also made. I asked Craftsman Sun before, with him to make engraving, a print of 2,000 copies will not be soaked in paper and words, no matter how much is not impossible, but the engraving needs to use a good board. ”

Xu Huobo said: "Since it is engraving printing, the more times a set of plates is printed, the lower the cost will be, 800 net profits of 35 taels, 1,200 copies?" How much is 1,500 parts? ”

"I don't think it will be long before everyone can be rich." He Ziming said with a smile.

Several disciples were laughing in unison, and the room was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Lin Yanchao said with a smile: "No, just set a thousand copies." ”

After a pause, Lin Yanchao said: "You also tell the disciples that if a humanistic manuscript is published, it will be paid in 100 words, and from the next publication, each editor in charge can also get a salary." ”

Hearing Lin Yanchao say this, everyone was overjoyed.

After the merit magazine sold well, it became a new student in the school. This is also the words of learning by merit, and always applying what you have learned.

Since then, the school hall has been divided into two places.

A courtyard was carved out from the school hall. This courtyard is an outward entrance to the big mansion of Xuegongtang, but it has been used as an office for the editors of the "Shigong Journal".

The two shops in the outer entrance, as well as the three wings, were requisitioned.

One of the two shops is used for periodicals and the other for booksellers.

As for the three wings, one is the editor-in-chief room of Xu Huobo and Tao Wangling, one is the editorial room of the editors, which is used for editing and proofreading, and the other is the accounting room, which is served by He Ziming and two disciples.

As soon as the publication room was opened, the main entrance of the Xuegong Hall was requisitioned as the main entrance of the 'Shigong Journal', and the disciples who wanted to go to the Xuegong Hall changed to a single door on the other side, and the original main entrance was only for the purpose of entering and exiting the Shigong Journal.

As for the entrance to the school, the gate is still there.

The editors of the journal are disciples during the day, and they are engaged in editing when they are in class.

All the errands in the Gonggong Journal's room are concurrently handled by the disciples of the Xuegong Hall, and no one is hired from outside.

But the merit journal is a beginning, and Lin Yanchao used the merit journal to test whether there is a possibility of publishing a newspaper in the Wanli Dynasty.

The success of the newspaper now means that the implementation of the newspaper has also become possible.

Of course, in this era, the Ming Dynasty has allowed the people to set up newspaper rooms. But this newspaper is different from today's newspapers.

The meaning of the newspaper is the newspaper of the imperial court. At that time, newspapers mostly copied important things in the newspaper, and few of them created their own.

If the Ministry of Officials urgently selects a group of officials, the private newspaper will write down the names, resumes, and new official positions of these officials and publish them immediately, so that those who want to make friends and relationships can be one step faster.

There is also the matter of Kodi, when the scholars are promoted and the scholars are promoted, the private newspaper will immediately publish the situation of the scholars, and so on. Such newspapers are irregular and irregular, and only when major events occur, an issue suddenly appears, and officials and scholars do not have the habit of subscribing all the time.

Lin Yanchao's newspaper is naturally in line with today's standards, collecting news big and small, recording it in the newspaper, and achieving one edition every two days, or even one page a day.

But here's where the next question comes in.

Since it is a newspaper, it pays more attention to timeliness than a merit magazine, which requires a faster printing and publication. Then it means that the engraving printing of one word at a time is no longer suitable for such a new thing as newspapers.

In the Ming Dynasty, the folk newspaper room was still hand-copied or engraving printing, and it was only in the eleventh year of Chongzhen that the first wooden movable type printed newspaper appeared. Engraving printing saves money, but Lin Yanchao's newspaper can only be printed with movable type in order to take care of timeliness, which is the general trend of history.

But the question of what kind of movable type printing to choose is already in front of Lin Yanchao.

Of course, copper movable type is the best choice, but the mold is expensive, a set of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, in addition to the state, private financial resources can not support it at all, so it is not in the scope of consideration.

The copper movable type is discharged, so there is only wooden movable type, and the lead movable type is within the range of Lin Yanchao's choice.

In movable type printing, the technology of wooden movable type is relatively mature at this time, and it can be used immediately, and the price will not be much more expensive than engraving printing.

However, the disadvantages of wooden movable type are also obvious, such as uneven texture, difficult carving, deformation after wetting, and difficult to separate when glued to the medicine. One of the main ones is that wooden characters are more easily damaged than copper characters. Slightly damaged, the printed words are often damaged and mutilated, and after printing, they will not look like them, and they can hardly be seen.

If the mold of the wooden type is too badly damaged, it must be re-engraved immediately.

During the Qing Dynasty, the competition among private newspaper rooms was quite fierce, and several newspaper rooms used wooden movable type printing, most of which were produced in a hurry, but the effect of wooden movable type printing was simply miserable. The reader of the newspaper is almost pinching his nose and reading, and while reading, he is guessing what the badly printed word means, which is no different from filling in the blanks.

The mold in movable type printing lies in reuse, and it can be seen from this point that wooden movable type is really not suitable.

As for lead type, it is the trend of the future, and before modern laser typesetting was introduced, many Chinese newspapers were still printed with lead type.

But the problem is lead printing, which no one seems to know in the Ming Dynasty.

So the problem is in front of Lin Yanchao, will the newspaper in the future use lead type or wooden type?

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