Chapter 640 Peering at the Leopard, It Can Be Seen
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While speaking, I had already arrived at a restaurant called Zuixianju. Several waiters immediately greeted me and greeted me with a smile on my face.
Cui Yunqing and her party were all tall horses, luxurious horse carriages, and many guards, with more than a hundred people in the team. The waiter who was used to seeing the world also knew that this was a big customer coming to the door. At that moment, a young waiter came out to invite the family members in the carriage to the private room upstairs, and invited a group of servants downstairs to have a meal.
Cui Yunqing, Song Wen and other generals went straight to the third floor together, and directly chose the position of the penthouse and sat down by the window.
Sitting by the window, while savoring Dengzhou wine, while watching the people coming and going on the streets, it also had a unique charm. Several people were talking about arriving in Dengzhou to settle their families, and they were going directly to Yingzhou. Cui Yunqing is now the deputy chief of the Andong Protectorate appointed by the court, and is in the third rank.
After Li Jing captured the Liaodong Peninsula and western Liaoning, the Andong Protectorate had become a strong vassal state in a blink of an eye. When Li Jing took over the East Protectorate, he was just a second-rank short position. But now, the Andong Protectorate has the territory of the 11 states. It was suddenly popular. The court began to want to intervene, but Li Jing is now in great fame and dared not intervene rashly for a while. Finally, the court transferred Cui Yunqing, the governor of Zhennan Army, from Jiangxi to Andong. Although Cui Yunqing was Li Jing's teacher, the court also vacated one of the positions of Zhennan Army's commanders. At the same time, it began to send officials to Andong. With the first one, there would be a second one soon.
Under the Great Protector of Andong, there was a Great Protector, and both. Cui Yunqing was transferred from Zhennan Army to Deputy Great Protector of Andong. On the surface, it was considered a level transfer or even promoted, but from the Great Protector of One Zhenzhen to Deputy Great Protector of the Great Protector, he was secretly demoted. However, Cui Yunqing was willing to accept this position and came back to be the deputy for Li Jing.
Song Wen and other generals came this time, and they also had the intention of seeing Li Jing's strength grow stronger and preparing to find a strong backer to make achievements in the Northeast.
While drinking, I heard someone reading something. The two listened to each other, but they were not scholars, but some were reading articles. Lu Huiqing was curious and asked his family to remove the screen. He saw an old man in his fifties holding a piece of paper covered with words in his hand, sitting at a small table, shaking his head and reading: "Xinfu in western Liaoning, the Andong Protectorate decided to recruit immigrants from western Liaoning. Anyone who wishes to immigrate to western Liaoning will be divided into 100 acres of land per 100 acres of land, and women will be reduced by half. Men and women who are not yet in 100 acres of land per 100 acres of land per 100 acres of land per 100 acres of land. "
A group of customers were eating and laughing softly, and they had long been used to it and ignored it. Some people listened to each other and thought carefully, while others whispered to each other and commented softly.
A few foreign merchants were obviously also foreigners and asked loudly: "Hey, what do you mean by what you just said? You can share 100 acres of land by one person when you go to western Liaoning. There is such a good thing. Let us explain it carefully..."
The old man who was studying responded and began to explain in detail, "Not only in western Liaoning, but also in Liaodong now. For those who go, the Protectorate will be divided into places according to people. At the same time, the government will also help build houses, provide seeds, rent cattle and horses. In the first year, all taxes and grains will be exempted, and renting money will be owed for three years and interest-free..."
Cui Yunqing and Song Wen looked at each other, but they didn't expect that Li Jing had already made it so big in Liaodong, western and eastern Liaoning, and had free seeds, renting oxen to save horses, and exempting one year's tax. With such a good thing, many people in the Central Plains would definitely be willing to go to Liaodong and western Liaoning.
However, he was a little surprised by the person who was studying.
Song Wen called a waiter and asked, "Did this old man be hired by the restaurant?"
The waiter smiled and replied, "This person is a journalist. Not only are there in various restaurants, but also in teahouses, brothels, and restaurants."
"A newspaper reader?" Cui Yunqing nodded thoughtfully while stroking his beard. Although he had been away from Dengzhou for several years, he had heard about the recent news about Dengzhou. It is said that the newspaper in Dengzhou contains various important news and even publishes poems, articles, comments, etc., which are very popular.
Seeing the waiter's appearance, Song Wen knew that he wanted the benefits, so he took a silver coin and threw it over. This silver coin was equivalent to one hundred cents, which was exchanged for him when he was in Qizhou. One hundred cents were in Chang'an, Luoyang and other places, which was a pound of rice. However, after entering the town's mother-in-controlled area, the money was much more valuable, and one hundred cents could buy twenty kilograms of rice.
When the waiter saw such a generous reward, his eyes lit up and he smiled and put the silver coins in his pocket. Seeing that the guests were generous and generous and extraordinary, he dared not be disrespectful at the moment, he quickly said in detail: "The great official saw that he had just arrived from other places. The newspaper readers are those who specialize in reading newspapers for customers. There are restaurants, teahouses, and brothels, and usually restaurants pay for the money. Now the guests like this, and if there is no such business, the business will definitely be much worse. These are mostly old men, who specialize in reading newspapers in restaurants and teahouses. If the guests don't understand, they will explain in detail. When the guests are happy, they will also reward a few dollars. If you want to say, these people have a high income, which is more profitable than those who are common people who speak and lyrics." Speaking of this, the waiter looked envious. It was obvious that the income of the newspaper readers was much higher than that of his salary.
Cui Decheng was listening a little confused, "Newspaper? What is it?"
Cui Yunqing shook her head and sighed, "You should pay more attention to the surrounding matters, don't just be alcoholic, wealth and sex all day long." After teaching Cui Decheng a lesson, he asked the waiter: "With this professional journalist, wouldn't there be fewer newspapers to buy?"
The waiter smiled and said, "Where can you do it? Dengzhou has the most scholars and officials. How many people have money? Who doesn't order a newspaper? In Dengzhou, it is a decent performance. There are also various yamen, schools, workshops, hospitals, etc. in Dengzhou, which are all directly subscribed newspapers. I heard that our daily newspaper can be sold for tens of thousands of copies every day. Last time, the prince led his army to defeat the Khitan and recovered western Liaoning. He printed 100,000 newspapers that day, but he also printed them again and again. The newspaper bureau
The printing factory was too busy, and he also hired several other printing factories to help. In the end, it was said that 200,000 newspapers were sold. My god, only one million people in Dengzhou, but they actually sold 200,000 copies. You can imagine how popular it was. That day, my father and neighbors almost bought one. You said they were illiterate and spent five cents to buy a newspaper. They didn’t know each other. They used it from time to time in collectors like treasures to show off."
"In our restaurant, many people who listen to newspapers are actually subscribed to newspapers themselves, but they don't have time to read them, or they can't read them at all, so they have to come here to listen to them. You don't know, reading newspapers and newspapers are all very decent things. I heard that every landlord in the countryside outside Dengzhou City has ordered newspapers and has ordered several copies at a time."
Cui Yunqing nodded. No matter what, just by selling tens of thousands of newspapers every day, Dengzhou is now completely different from the Dengzhou he was in charge. In the current trend of martial artists from all over the country and literati being lightly ruthless, Dengzhou actually has such a literary style, which is indeed a very gratifying thing for him.
Cui Dezheng saw that everyone was saying this newspaper so magical. He opened his wallet and directly took a gold coin and stuffed it to the waiter. He smiled and said, "Please go and buy a few newspapers from recent days, buy a few more, and the rest will be rewarded for you."
One gold coin is ten silver coins, which is one thousand cents. In Dengzhou today, this is a small fortune, and it is almost half a month's salary as a waiter. The waiter nodded repeatedly and retreated with a smile. He went downstairs and headed straight to the post office. He held the gold coin tightly on the road, and thought about meeting another rich man.
After reading newspapers in the restaurant for a long time, Cui Yunqing, Song Wen and others found that although they had just arrived in Dengzhou, they had a relatively detailed understanding of the situation of the sixteen states under the town. There were almost all information in newspapers and weekly magazines. From Li Jing to preparing for war, building roads, building cities, immigration and other major events in Liaodong, to waving in schools, recruiting soldiers in the army, and even advertisements made by merchants, renting houses, etc., there were even things like this in newspapers. Even today's newspapers also wrote about Cui Yunqing's upcoming job in Dengzhou. For this reason, there were several articles about his political achievements when he was in charge of Dengzhou and flattered him a lot.
But if you look carefully, you can't see some things that may reveal the secrets of the town, and the newspaper can't see any of them. This made Cui Yunqing nod. This newspaper can enlighten the people's wisdom and even help business development. However, Li Jing also controlled some of the bad consequences that may be caused by this. Although everyone seemed to speak freely in the newspaper, they could not see the opposite. The tone of the entire newspaper was a harmonious scene.
"Why are there so many businessmen shouting in this newspaper?" Cui Dezheng saw that many places on it were about recruiting workers, purchasing, transfer, and opening and other information, so he couldn't help but feel very strange. He always thought that newspapers were sacred, after all, there were articles on it. But now he saw that merchants regarded newspapers as square-like shouting business, and couldn't help but feel very strange.
“This is an advertisement.”
"advertise?"
The waiter smiled and explained, "It's said it's a publicity! No matter which businessman you are, just pay the advertising fee to the newspaper bureau, and then after the audited advertisements are not false or bad information, you can enter the newspaper."
Cui Yunqing heard some good news, "Is this advertisement effective?"
"The effect of publishing advertisements in newspapers is very good, but they are very expensive. Most people can't afford it. Even the cheapest mid-slit advertisements are calculated by words. One day, each word costs 50 cents, and each advertisement costs at least 5,000 cents. For example, the full page advertisement is 100 cents a day. When our restaurant opened, the owner published three full page advertisements in the daily newspaper, which cost 300 cents a day. However, the effect was quite popular. The day of opening was extremely prosperous, and our boss kept calling it worthy of it."
Cui Yunqing calculated that a small middle-slit advertisement costs 5,000 texts, and a full page costs 100,000 yuan. This issue of newspaper has a total of four papers and sixteen pages, and there are advertisements everywhere. After all, this newspaper seems inconspicuous, but in fact it makes a lot of money.
A newspaper costs five cents, and a 60,000 copies a day is only 300,000. The advertisements sold in one issue are more than this, and how much does this newspaper cost?
Besides, this business is done every day, making money every day, and making money 365 days a year. When it rolls, the profits of this newspaper are very considerable. Now, Cui Yunqing has a deep impression of why Li Jing made Dengzhou so prosperous.
I have drunk alcohol, read the newspaper, and Cui Yunqing and others have settled the bill.
"Chenghui 27,354 cents. Our boss said that we would erase the 354 cents and only charge 27,000 cents. Gold, silver coins and banknotes are fine, but there is no copper coins for more than 10,000 yuan." The lobby account room pulled the abacus and said politely.
Cui Decheng was stunned for a moment, "Where do you open a black shop? It costs nearly 30,000 yuan for a meal? Dengzhou rice is only 50,000 yuan per pound. Don't think we are from outsiders and you're easy to cheat."
"Customer, please listen to the old man." The owner of the restaurant wearing silk hurried over and said with a smile, "Customer comes from another place, and may have some misunderstandings. The rice price in Dengzhou is indeed 50 cents per kilogram, which is the good rule of the prince. In addition to grain, oil, cloth, salt, etc., many daily necessities in Dengzhou are very low. However, wine is high. In the town, wine is not a must-have for daily necessities, so it is a specialty and sells very high. Moreover, our restaurant belongs to the service industry and has to be levied with high taxes in the service industry. There are more than 100 high-ranking officials, and the food costs are not much, mainly because the wine they drink is not cheap. 27,354 cents are not deceived by the small shop, and they will never dare to deceive customers. If the official does not believe it, he can immediately invite the people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau inspected on this street to be fair."
When Cui Yunqing heard this, she believed in the owner of this restaurant. For such a big restaurant, they would not dare to do anything randomly. She smiled and asked Cui Decheng to pay thirty gold coins directly.
"The host's hospitality was good, and we were very satisfied. Here is the wine money, and the rest is a reward for the waiters."
The restaurant owner saw that Cui Yunqing and his group were crowded and powerful, and they were all tall and tall, and they were either rich or noble. Seeing that the person in charge was so polite and easy to speak, he was relieved and quickly sent the person to the door respectfully.
As soon as Cui Yunqing left the restaurant, she saw a sudden sound of horse hooves on the long street, and then a dazzling golden armored cavalry slowly arrived.
When the people on the street saw the team coming, they stopped and bowed their heads and bowed.
"It's Prince Andong!" Cui Dezheng saw a familiar face appear among the guards of the knights, and couldn't help but shout.
Li Jing rode a golden sweat-blooded horse, and was still more than ten steps away. He had already rolled his saddle and fell off his horse. He laughed and saluted Cui Yunqing: "The students were late to welcome the teacher's car. Please forgive me!"
Chapter completed!