If you want to talk about who is the busiest among Zhu Cijiu's confidants, it is not the boss among the civil officials such as Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang, Sun Yuanhua, nor the leader among the military generals such as Qin Liangyu, Lu Xiangsheng, and Sun Chuanting, but the unknown Tongzheng General Zuo Tongzheng Wu Meicun.

Since he heard the emperor's ideas and solicited manuscripts in various departments, he has not had a day of leisure. He always has endless articles waiting for him every day. Now he is standing, sitting, walking, eating, and even reading it when he is lying on the bed. He gets up the next day to continue reading it!

There is no way, more and more people submitting the articles. According to the reports below, the manuscripts received more than 5,000 copies every day! Everyone is wondering, the officials in the capital are only more than 2,000, including all the big and small, so how could there be more than 5,000 copies of manuscripts?

One day I wrote a few copies, but there were not many such people. After all, they were all officials in the yamen, and no matter how idle they were, they would not be idle all day long and had nothing to do. So how did so many manuscripts come from? Most people are submitting to relatives and friends!

This cost is a small matter, but it has only made the business of taverns in Beijing a little prosperous recently. The key issue is this reputation. If anyone's article is lucky enough to be selected by Wu Meicun and Lord Wu, then he will become famous. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is famous nationwide, because the Beijing News was originally published nationwide.

I'm afraid no one can imagine how much the sales of the Beijing News are. Indeed, even Zhu Cijiu did not expect that the sales of the Beijing News would reach a terrifying five million copies! And this is not Zhu Cijiu's credit, it was actually the idea that Wu Meicun, an ancient man, made the sales of the Beijing News soar!

In fact, this idea is not complicated at all, but most people don’t think about it in this regard. The key to this idea is to capture the largest readership group of the Beijing News.

Who is the largest readership group of "The Beijing News"? First of all, it is certain that it is not a Jinshi. After all, there are only 300 Jinshis in three years, and the average number is only 1,000 in a year, and only 10,000 in a year. How many people can live to be 100,000 in a hundred years? Therefore, there are not 10,000 Jinshis in the Ming Dynasty. They are not 10,000 in a juren and scholar. These people are also the best among millions of scholars. There are only so many places in a province, and there will not be too many. If Fan Jin does not go crazy because of winning the Juren.

The largest readership of the Beijing News is actually those Tongshengs who have no fame. This Tongsheng is not saying that they are young, but that they have not passed the county, government and college entrance examinations, and have not passed the students, and have not achieved fame. Students are generally called scholars among the people, and Tongshengs also have a popular name, called scholars.

How many scholars were there in the Ming Dynasty? No one has ever counted this, but "everything is inferior, only high school students." In the Ming Dynasty, a dynasty that attaches the most importance to the imperial examination, there should be no fewer scholars. Not to mention that the public's reading is so exaggerated, there should be such a scholar among the dozens of people. Based on the population of hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, then there are almost ten million scholars in the Ming Dynasty!

With such a huge readership, how can they buy newspapers? It’s very simple. Just figure out what their purpose is to study. Don’t say why they studied for the rise of the Ming Dynasty. People at that time were not so enlightened; don’t say why they were so idle in order to cultivate sentiment and increase knowledge. No one in ancient times would be so idle. Since the imperial examination system was established, most scholars have only one purpose, that is, to be the title of the Golden List.

Two major events in life: bridal chamber nights and gold medals. How can we get to the gold medal? This question is probably what most scholars want to know. Wu Meicun grasped this point and opened a column since the fourth issue of the Beijing News. The title of the column is called "On the Gold Med Mark".

If you ask who is most qualified to take the title of the Golden List, you will naturally be the top scorer in the first place in the Golden List. Wu Meicun happened to be the top scorer in the new subject, so he personally wrote down his experiences in writing eight-legged essays, as well as personal experiences from county, government, college, provincial, and palace examinations. Then, he went to find the top scorers of the previous sessions, licked his face and asked them to write their experiences.

Shi Kefa, the top scholar in the previous subject, is easy to say. Everyone is the emperor's confidant. He wrote the article the next day after a sentence. Other top scholars are not easy to talk to. Top scholars are the leader among millions of scholars. Who is not a little arrogant? Moreover, as long as you don't make mistakes after the top scholar in high school, your career will be smoother. There are many officials in Wumei Village. Are you considered that onion? If you ask me to write it, I will write it?

Wu Meicun is quite terrifying when he is serious. In order to make the emperor happy, he made the sales of the Beijing News. He gave his face and refused to use all the coercion and temptation. Do you give me face? Give me face, I will give you money, one hundred taels of money per article, you are good to everyone; if you don’t give me face, I will sue you, and the emperor will not blame me when the emperor starts a swearing!

This guy is a celebrity in front of the emperor. Everyone knows this. He said that he would complain is not a joke. Choose between 100 taels and making the emperor angry. As long as he is not a fool, he will choose 100 taels. Will the one who can be the top scorer in high school be a fool? Therefore, Wu Meicun got what he wanted. All the top scorers in previous sessions obediently wrote some experiences and sent this new top scorer who was a little abnormal. The column "On the Golden List" in the Beijing News was able to publish more than a dozen issues of top scorers in a row.

This is amazing. One passes to ten, ten passes to hundreds. Scholars all over the world are starting to rush to buy the Beijing News. Just kidding, who doesn’t want to be the title of the gold list? Even if you know that you are not that material, you have to buy articles for the top scorer. That is the top scorer, the idol of millions of scholars. Do you want to read their articles, ten articles? You don’t even want to see a word!

After the first three issues of the Beijing News are free, the fourth issue will start to collect money. Wu Meicun printed one million copies and tried it. As a result, news came from post offices in various places that the newspapers were snatched up as soon as they arrived. These people did not come for the top scorer’s articles and the list of gold. The main reason is that the first three issues made people excited and everyone was snatched up. Many people wanted to continue to boil, so the newspapers were snatched up.

In the fifth issue, Wu Meicun ordered two million copies to be printed, but it was still robbed. At this time, the Beijing News mentioned articles and taught you how to be ranked on the list of the top scorers in the Beijing News have gradually spread. Some people are excited, and some are looking for the articles and be ranked on the list of the top scorers.

In the sixth issue, Wu Meicun ordered three million copies to be printed, but it was still stolen. At this time, everyone knew about the top scorer articles on it, and most of them came for the top scorer articles and the titles on the gold list.

In the seventh issue, Wu Meicun was sent to print 4 million copies, but it was still robbed. There is no way, the top scorer's article is written just fine. Although most top scorers are for the purpose of sending off Wu Meicun, they also cherish their reputation. This is to be published nationwide. Do they dare to write it randomly? Therefore, they wrote each article carefully and can be the top scorer in high school. The writing style is also said that scholars all over the world are so intoxicated and can't stop.

In the eighth issue, Wu Meicun ordered five million copies to be printed, but it was still robbed. Reading the Beijing News has become a fashion for scholars. In the past few days, scholars chatted together and spoke: Have you read the article written by a top scholar? What kind of sentence... If you don’t read it and can’t answer it, then it’s embarrassing. It’s exaggerating to say that scholars in the Ming Dynasty don’t dare to go out if they don’t read the Beijing News, because when they go out, they will definitely talk to you about the content in the newspaper. If they don’t read it? Can’t answer it? You are embarrassed to say you are a scholar!

In the ninth issue, Wu Meicun ordered six million copies to be printed. Well, it was still five million copies. The owner of the Beijing paper workshop and printing workshop have been going crazy these days. What about one million copies a day that promised to be a million copies a day? Don’t bring such a playful person!

In the first ten days, they worked overtime and printed 30 million copies, and then repaired them for two days. On the third day, they were 1 million copies. Everyone was relaxed and had already prepared. They didn’t have to add more classes. The money was so comfortable. The workshop owners all laughed.

Two million copies were made on the fourth day. Well, who thinks that the money is too much, and it is printed out after working overtime. They are all laughing from ear to ear.

The fifth day is three million, come on, come on, we don’t mind the money being too much, and we work in two shifts, just so their chins are almost laughing.

On the sixth day, the bosses were anxious and found someone to print crazy, and finally got it over.

On the seventh day, these bosses are going crazy, so they all look at the workshop. Don’t be lazy and print them hard. Eat? Wait, I’ll find you guys to take turns to eat, and they don’t stop. When you go out, you’ll be in line, and you’ll go one by one. If you don’t go to work, you’ll be holding them in, and you won’t stop. In short, you just work overtime and don’t stop for a moment, and finally you’ll be printed.

On the eighth day, these bosses are really going crazy. Lord Wu, you can't print it. You really can't print it! Wu Meicun had to give up. As for finding workshops in other places, Zhu Cijiu explicitly prohibited this. What a joke, print it everywhere. Can you control how much they print? At that time, you can't sell a piece of it, and the market will be occupied by pirated goods! He also specifically asked Jinyiwei and Dongchang to keep an eye on it. Whoever dares to pirate the paper will be arrested immediately and all the equipment will be confiscated.

Zhu Cijiu, as a modern person, knows how pirated the price is. Once pirated becomes popular, not to mention making money, you have to pay for the royalties. It is absolutely not possible to pay for the pirated merchants if you lose money. You must not let pirated goods appear in the Ming Dynasty!

Just as Wu Meicun was so busy that he was very happy, the emperor passed an order to let him enter the palace to meet him.

He quickly put down the manuscript in his hand and hurried to the palace.

Zhu Cijiu looked for Wu Meicun mainly to recover Liaodong. The military strategy said: The army must be famous. Although the reason for attacking the invaders and regaining lost land is sufficient, it was so unknown. Most of the people of the Ming Dynasty did not know and did not participate. It seemed that the attack on the invaders was Emperor Chongzheng alone. Others were waiting in the rear to see the result, and there was not even a flag-shaking shout. When you win, the whole country was in full swing. If you lose, the whole country would be full of scolding, how could this be done!
Chapter completed!