Chapter 410 Newsboy Selling Color Printing

"We're selling newspapers, we're selling newspapers, today's newspaper is three cents, we're selling newspapers, we're selling newspapers."

On the morning of the eighth day of May, a large group of children appeared in Chang'an City. They were carrying canvas satchels and waving newspapers in their hands, running up and down the streets and alleys.

They are children whose parents are in bad condition, or children who have lost a loved one in Tianfang.

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

Fifty newspapers for one child, 400 children, 21,000 newspapers per day in Chang'an, not much printing.

The other 300,000 copies were delivered to the gate of Honglu Temple by the villagers, waiting for the Tibetan people to buy them.

By the way, give a thousand copies of newspapers to the people in the imperial city to take inside.

The people of Chang'an, no, it was the people of Tang Dynasty who saw the newsboy for the first time.

They were more interested in the children selling newspapers than in the newspapers.

"I'll buy one." An innkeeper stood at the door. He was surprised when he saw a child running over. A moment later, another one ran over.

"Three cents." A girl of seven or eight years old, wearing a new dress, stood in front of the shopkeeper, holding out a newspaper.

"I'll take a look. If the writing is good, I will buy it. If the writing is not good, I won't buy it." The shopkeeper joked.

The little girl was stunned, and tears instantly burst into her eyes: "No, no, I, I want to tell, tell Li Jia Zhuangzi."

"No, I'll buy it. Don't cry. I was joking. Don't tell anyone." The shopkeeper was about to cry.

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he ran in and out as fast as he could, took the little girl's hand, and slapped five copper coins on it.

"Here, five cents. I'll give you the extra two cents." The shopkeeper was trying to save himself.

"Thank you." The little girl wiped away her tears and suddenly smiled again. She put three coins into the compartment of a satchel and packed the other two coins separately.

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

A little boy selling newspapers was stopped.

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

"If you sell fifty newspapers, you'll get fifteen dollars and a lunch." The boy handed over the newspaper.

The steward gave the child three Kaiyuan Tongbao and stuffed a bun: "Did Li Jia Zhuangzi give you the clothes?"

"Here, otherwise we won't have anything to wear." The boy smiled sheepishly.

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

People in Chang'an soon discovered that Li Zhuangzi was doing good things again.

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

"Look, it's written in the newspaper that Lijiazhuangzi continues to purchase mugwort in large quantities. Five pounds of mugwort can be exchanged for a piece of incense to smoke mosquitoes and flies, and each piece is ten."

People who read the newspaper once again found an advertisement, which said that mugwort was exchanged for mosquito coils.

"There is another item below. Purchase large quantities of elm skin at a high price. What is the use of this elm skin?"

Another person unfolds his newspaper and locates the advertisement.

There was no newspaper nearby, so a man in his forties who was waiting for others to read and listen spoke up: "Powdered elm bark is used to make incense, otherwise honey must be used, otherwise the incense will not take shape."

"According to this, ordinary people can also use incense."

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

"There's no difference, it's just that the price is different. Five pounds of mugwort can be exchanged for ten plates of incense."

The common people once again discovered something good. When they first heard about the incense for fumigating mosquitoes and flies, they went to cut some mugwort seeds and try another one.

"Print out the instructions for using mosquito repellent incense that I wrote, and put one in each copy." In Zhuangzi, Li Yi went to the printing workshop and gave a piece of paper.

The paper said not to put mosquito coils next to your head. If there is a baby at home, it is best to light the incense and close the doors and windows in the house in the evening.

Go in after two quarters of an hour, open the doors and windows, and put out the incense. Be careful not to have anything easily flammable around the mosquito coils.

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

The incense contains only artemisia seeds and elm bark powder, which looks natural, but as long as it is burned, there will be smoke.

Who has a baby and causes problems for Xun? Li Yi thinks this...

At noon, a businessman came over. His name was Yang Xin, a businessman who specialized in transporting elm bark powder from other places to Chang'an for sale.

He was preparing to contact other incense-making shops, temples and other places to discuss a price, and while waiting at the dock, he got a newspaper.

When I saw that Lijiazhuangzi was charging a high price and that the main bridge was Bashui Pier, I ran over to ask.

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

The two parties negotiated a price that was half a percent less than selling it to temples and other places. It was cheaper and not a high price at all.

However, he collected all 10,000 kilograms of elm bark powder at once, which saved Yang Xin a lot of time.

He could buy the goods in Chang'an and ship them back, freeing up time to transport elm bark powder one more time to sell.

Elm bark powder is powder made from the bark of the elm tree and is used as an adhesive.

When collecting materials, we usually cut off the branches of elm trees, and there are also small elm trees that are specially planted in a large area of ​​mountainous areas.

Peeling the bark off a big tree will kill it once. The elm bark on the branches is enough. If you cut it this year, it will grow back next year.

Both the leaves and flowers of the elm tree are edible and are called elm money. There are rice and cakes made from elm money.

The young steward negotiated the purchase price and quantity with Yang Xin, but Yang Xin made new demands. The young steward couldn't make the decision and ran back to ask Li Yi.

"The proprietor, he said he would come over next time to bring other goods, and he wanted to leave a space in our newspaper to help him."

The steward reports the situation.

Li Yi thought about it: "I can tell him, but it will only be printed in the Jingzhao Mansion newspaper, one word per line, and punctuation marks will not count."

The little steward turned around and ran away to talk to Yang Xin.

Punctuation marks exist now, but some people don’t write them, and everyone writes them in different ways.

The newspaper has horizontal layout, not vertical layout, and reads from left to right.

Li Yi followed his own habits and wrote articles from right to left. He always used his other hand to hold his sleeve and read wwｗ.uukanshu.net unless he was left-handed.

People who read newspapers can easily adapt to it, which is amazing, and they can also understand the standard punctuation marks.

Commas and periods are used by people now, as are quotation marks, dashes, book title marks, and exclamation marks. Others see them, think about them a little, and understand them.

The little steward over there told Yang Xin the price, but Yang Xin didn't say whether it was OK or not. He just said he would take a look when he comes next time.

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

They found that this newspaper was very useful in helping to publicize it, at least the entire Jingzhao Mansion would know about it.

When the steward came back, he seemed very regretful. He wanted to finalize the matter: "Proprietor, I guess the price is too high."

"It's okay. Just wait until I make the color printing here. The advertising area can be more conspicuous and the ink needs to be adjusted properly."

Li Yi comforted the steward that he had a solution.

Nowadays, newspapers only have black characters. If you want to print colorful characters, you need one more color and one more typesetting.

The first page is printed first, leaving the spaces where colored words are needed.

The other page specifically has words in the empty space, and is painted with colored ink. The newspaper that has been printed once is taken over, the mold is aligned, and printed again.

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