Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 209 Red Rider (Sixth update!)
Ordinary training and farming must be boring, and it is difficult to develop rapidly.Luo Cheng is not the kind of person who is willing to be lonely. Although he is willing to live an ordinary life, he never wants to live a lonely life.

Troubled times are approaching, with knives, guns and brothers in hand, that is the power to protect oneself. He knows this better than anyone else. As soon as the curtain opened, he was just the target attacked by the vagrant army, and he was the fat they coveted.

The future is too far away, Luo Cheng won't think about it too much, but the troubled times are just around the corner, and the counties in Henan are still the places that will suffer the most severe and repeated ravages in the troubled times, so he has to prepare early.

Three hundred recruits were recruited, and Luo Cheng asked Siye's eight brigade commanders, Lao Wang and other old coaches to train every day.The summer harvest has just passed, and the autumn seeds have just been planted. Although the weather is hot now, time waits for no one.

Every ten days, Luo Cheng would collect the bandit information sent by the township regiments and camps in each county, then verify and verify it, and finally compile it together, and then send it back to each county after being copied.

Now as many as eighteen counties have joined his alliance, not only counties in Henan, but also counties in Hebei and Huainan.There are more than 100 counties and hundreds of townships in the [-] counties, and a huge network of township alliances has been opened.

With more and more information gathered, Luo Cheng couldn't keep up with it all by himself.

So he recruited a group of people to be responsible for sorting out the information.Someone arranges it, someone checks it, someone analyzes it, and someone else copies it.

Because there is a lot of information, Luo Cheng simply turned this information sharing into a newspaper, called Reference Newspaper.This newspaper is actually a handwritten newspaper, published every ten days, every ten days.The above is basically a collection of information about bandits and thieves in various counties and counties, and later added some news about the latest decrees of the imperial court, or disaster weather in some places.

Later, Luo Cheng deliberately added some local legends and geographical customs of various counties and counties.Later, he even made some advertisements on it, such as what goods are for sale in the hands of merchants in certain counties and counties.

From the initial ten copies, to now this reference news is copied to [-] copies every ten days, the scale is getting bigger and bigger.

For this reason, he also specially built a courtyard in Zhangqiu City, and invited many scholars from poor families to do these things here, and there were more than a dozen newspaper copyers alone.

Now this newspaper is not only sent to the county captains and township lieutenants of the counties and counties, but even the prefects, county magistrates and county lieutenants of the counties are also very interested in this newspaper.

These people usually borrow from the captains of the counties, because there are a lot of practical information on it, not only the news of local bandits and thieves, but also the current political news of the court, and even the people's livelihood and economy of various places, local customs, etc., and sometimes Some advertisements will be published, and sometimes there will be some anecdotes, legendary stories, etc. Although they are a bit vulgar, they can be understood by anyone, and they are more time-sensitive and anecdotal.

Nowadays, many officials want to order a copy directly, instead of waiting for others to read it every time to borrow it.

So now Luo Cheng is thinking that this "Reference News" can be issued to [-] copies. After all, this newspaper has now spread to [-] counties, and even radiated to [-] or [-] counties, mapping to [-] or [-] counties. There are many officials, so many wealthy and powerful households in so many places, all of whom are very interested in this newspaper.

However, if the newspaper has increased to [-] copies, even if it only publishes one issue every ten days, it still cannot be copied by hand.

He decided to try engraving and printing, and asked someone to carve a wood block, and then print it. In this way, only one set of blocks can be carved, and thousands of copies or more can be printed, which greatly saves manpower and material resources.

Luo Cheng found some master sculptors, told them the concept of the engraving, explained it for a long time, and then asked them to try it.The results turned out to be good. For the master craftsmen, engraving and engraving are the same, but they are covered with paper on the board, and then facing the engraving. Although the engraving is reversed, for them, there is no difference whether it is reversed or not. Many The engraving masters can't read at all, so they just treat it as engraving patterns.

What Luo Cheng needed was a board writer, and after finishing writing, hand it over to the master engraver, and then he would be responsible for checking the board, and the rest was printing.

However, I encountered some difficulties in the middle. After the printing ink was used with ordinary ink, the printing failed.Finally, he remembered that the word ink must have been mixed with oil, and then he found an ink maker and asked him to find a way to make ink that could print without blurring. It took a few days to get it out. Although the effect is not particularly good, at least it can be printed.

For a reference newspaper bound into a volume of about 150 to [-] pages, Luo Cheng charges [-] yuan, which is almost the price of a catty of beef. Three thousand copies are sold at a time, and [-] pieces are sold, and the cost can account for about a hundred pieces.

Luo Cheng can earn [-] cents in the first phase, which is not high, but he attaches great importance to this matter, because he knows that reference news is not just a profitable commodity, it is a platform, and it is also a position of public opinion.

He who owns this newspaper, as long as the newspaper has enough news, it means that his voice is loud enough to allow more people to hear his words.

Although he doesn't really want to say anything on it now, he has this ability.

The main cost of newspapers is paper and ink, and labor is not expensive, but the cost of paper and ink is too expensive these days.

Qi Guoyuan and Li Rugui didn't participate in this newspaper, they were concentrating on training soldiers and preparing to suppress bandits to make money.

But Shan Binbin, this girl hasn't returned yet, and Shan Xiongxin hasn't sent anyone to pick her up.Luo Cheng wrote several letters, and Shan Xiongxin finally replied, but he said that Luo Cheng would take care of him for a period of time, and then sent a group of servants over with the letter, and sent Luo Cheng three hundred coins.

This made Luo Cheng dumbfounded, no matter how you look at it, it looks like Shan Xiongxin threw away this girl as a burden, or because he has been with Luo Cheng for a long time, he simply gave it to Luo Cheng.

Shan Binbin was heartless all day long, pulling the red thread and the two of them were crazy. When they were tired of wandering around outside, they would come to Luo Cheng to torture him for a while, and sometimes said that they came to learn riding and shooting from Luo Cheng, Let him point.Sometimes I would come to his house to search for something novel, or I would go to the newspaper office to ask for a newly published newspaper, or I would come to Luo Cheng for a meal.

During the recent period, the two became obsessed with the novels and legends in the reference news newspaper. After reading them, they were not satisfied, and then they searched everywhere for various folk rumors and fairy tales. They actually became writers and began to contribute articles to the newspaper.

It was rare for Luo Cheng to be quiet for a while.

Luo Cheng is now the Sima of Yingyang Mansion, but he has used his influence to form a team directly under Sima. This team has 50 people and he personally commands it. Guo Xiaoke, Wang Junkuo, Li Junxian, Zhang Liang and Wang Tiehan are five people. As the chief of the fire, Kan Leng, Ximen Junyi, and Wang Xiongdan's three adopted sons still served as his messengers and attendants.

This direct team of 50 people, each with a horse, each with horizontal knives, spears, strong bows and crossbows, each with a piece of armor and a black iron helmet, can be selected, basically all of them are more than seven and a half feet tall, able to The guy who rides and shoots.

Qi Biao and Li Bao were secretly dissatisfied with Luo Cheng for recruiting the elite from the government to form such a team, but because of Luo Cheng's prestige in the camp, the two of them did not say anything in the end.

Luo Cheng personally trained the team. His training method was simpler and more direct than Li Qi and others. He led the team out for a run.Marching, camping, and then looking for thieves, if you don't have a big stock, you will find a guy, and even some thieves will be caught.

Not only training soldiers, but also earning some foreign money.

Because Luo Cheng's fifty cavalry were all dressed in red, and the fringes of their helmets were also red, so they were called red cavalry by the people of Qi County.

Chiqi often gallops around in Changbai Mountain or in the counties outside the mountain. Wherever they go, they can always pick out some bandits or fugitives.

Now that the red cavalry is haunting, it has the effect of making the thieves frightened.

"The scorching heat of this midsummer is almost over, and it's time for us to send troops!" Luo Cheng brought the red cavalry back that day, entered the military camp, and directly said to Qi Guoyuan and Li Rugui.

"Well, it's almost there. After two months of training, these little brats are already a little bit hot, just pull them out and try!"

(End of this chapter)