Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 71 Luo Guanzhong comes to visit

"Xiao Yunxuan, what did your father say in the end?"

Zhu Song did not leave the palace, but waited in the small courtyard where Zhu Xuan lived.

Regarding today's cooperation, he actually didn't have much confidence in his heart to be able to do it. He wanted to regain his confidence with Zhu Xuan. After all, there were too many things to do after the cooperation.

Zhu Xuan took Uncle Twenty into the house and said: "Grandpa Huang said that he attaches great importance to our Daming Bookstore. If Uncle Twenty does a good job, it will be a great achievement. We can still fight for it in the future, and other official camps s project."

"Really?"

Zhu Song asked.

Zhu Xuan nodded and said: "Grandpa Huang will ask other officials to provide us with the convenience, and I will also give some suggestions to Uncle Twenty. We will do it according to our model, and with Grandpa Huang's support, it won’t be a big problem. ! By the way, if possible, I would also like to bring the second brother in."

Previously, Zhu Xuan did not let Zhu Yunxi participate for the sake of his second brother's reputation.

There is no need to worry about these things now, and you can also earn some private money for your second brother.

"I know how to do it!"

After hearing these words, Zhu Song gained some confidence: "Then let's publish newspapers next?"

Zhu Xuan nodded and said: "That's right, starting from tomorrow, our bookstore, called the Ming Dynasty Bookstore, will launch copyrights and newspapers. Copyrights are protected by our Ming Dynasty laws. There are still many things we have to do."

"Don't worry, little Yunxuan, with your Uncle Twenty here, I guarantee that we can do a good job."

Zhu Song patted his heart and said.

After sending Zhu Song away and exposing the matter to the bookstore, it was finally over.

The bookstore has moved from darkness to light and can operate normally, which is their biggest gain.

"Hou Xian, write a book!"

Zhu Xuan did not forget about writing a book.

The sixth volume of "Dragon Babu" and the second volume of "Four Famous Catchers" also need to be written with enough manuscripts to facilitate serialization.

As for the other contents of the newspaper, it all depends on Jin Yiwei, who will give intelligence clues to some members of the Daming Bookstore. No other secrets are required, just some anecdotes or content that can be revealed.

In addition to these, you can also publish imperial decrees, laws of the Ming Dynasty, etc. to help the emperor publicize and popularize the law.

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the next day.

Zhu Xuan came out of the palace to find Zhu Song again, and they went to the bookstore together.

This store will be the headquarters of Daming Bookstore.

Zhu Song found someone to build a plaque overnight, with the four characters "Daming Bookstore" on it, and hung it on the door.

Due to the crackdown on piracy, pirated books on the market can no longer be circulated and have all been destroyed.

Those who want to buy books can only come back to Daming Bookstore.

The bookstore’s customer flow has not only returned, but is also much greater than before.

Zhu Xuan and Zhu Song called Zhang Wu to the Daming Bookstore and explained the operation of the newspaper to Zhang Wu in detail.

Zhang Wu understood what to do and hurried back to make arrangements.

"Xiao Yunxuan, our bookstore in Yingtian can publish newspapers. If we open the bookstore elsewhere, can we also publish newspapers?" Zhu Song asked.

Zhu Xuan thought this question was a good one, but the result was negative. He shook his head and said, "No!"

The reason is very simple. The news circulation in Ming Dynasty is very poor, and the only channel for news transmission is manpower.

If there was a telegraph that could easily transmit various news to other branches of the bookstore, he would definitely publish newspapers in other branches, but this technology does not exist yet.

Zhu Xuan explained: "We have to send all kinds of news about Jinyiwei to other bookstore branches, and it is impossible to communicate it effectively. The newspaper is published once a day, and we don't have that many people to send it to other branches every day. The news can only be delivered to the counties under Yingtian's rule at most."

Zhu Song thought it made sense and said: "So other branches can only sell books. After one volume of the books serialized in our newspaper is completed, we will sort them out and send them to other branches for printing and sale?"

Zhu Xuan nodded and said: "This is the only way for now."

If we can tinker with radios, telegraphs and other things in the future, we can carry out other developments.

Zhu Song understood and followed this pattern.

"In addition, it would be very monotonous if only Hou Xian wrote the book." Zhu Xuan added.

Zhu Song asked: "Little Yunxuan wants to find other scholars to come back and write books?"

Zhu Xuan said: "Yes, Uncle Twenty can let out the news. Our Daming Bookstore is recruiting authors who can write storybooks. During the serialization period, they will be guaranteed a minimum of fifty taels of silver per month."

"Storybooks that meet our requirements will be printed in newspapers."

"I will let their stories occupy separate pages and sell them separately. Readers can just pay for whichever page of stories they want to buy, and then calculate the profit of the book based on the sales volume."

"If the book sells more than the guaranteed amount of fifty taels in a month, we will give you more than the guaranteed amount. If you can't exceed the guaranteed amount for three consecutive months, you don't need to write this book anymore."

After hearing about the operation of the newspaper, Zhu Song thought for a moment and praised: "This is good, but how to submit articles?"

"Submit it to our bookstore headquarters. First write 10,000 words and submit it for review, along with your contact information."

"We reviewed it once, and if we thought the book was acceptable, we signed a contract with the author."

"But who can review the manuscript? Who can be our editor-in-chief?"

Zhu Xuan couldn't think of anyone who could do this.

He and Zhu Song definitely don't have time to do it.

The person responsible for reviewing manuscripts needs to be able to write novels and know how to judge which novels can become hits. Simply put, this means understanding the market and knowing what readers like to read and what they don’t like to read.

This kind of person is a bit hard to find.

"Your Highnesses!"

Zhang Wu came in and said, "There is an old gentleman outside who wants to see you two."

"Old sir?"

Zhu Xuan and Zhu Song both felt at a loss.

In their interpersonal relationships, there is no such person as the old gentleman.

But out of curiosity, someone still brought the old gentleman in. He was an old man with pale hair, a little stooped, but full of energy. He looked a little elegant and seemed to be familiar with poetry and books.

"Excuse me, who are you?"

Zhu Song looked at each other curiously.

In their impression, they really did not know this person.

"The old man's surname is Luo. His given name is Guanzhong. I have met two of them."

The visitor was none other than Luo Guanzhong, but he didn't know the identities of Zhu Xuan.

"Luo Guanzhong, are you Luo Guanzhong?"

Zhu Song exclaimed.

As a reader of "The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he is definitely no stranger to Luo Guanzhong. He was once his idol. Another idol was Shi Naian who wrote "Water Margin".

But Shi Naian was dead long ago.

Zhu Xuan originally thought that Luo Guanzhong would not survive until now, but he did not expect that he was still alive.

Before time travel, he was still a fan of the Three Kingdoms, and he was actually able to meet the author of the Three Kingdoms.

Luo Guanzhong smiled and said: "It's Lao Chen who came here for "Tian Long Ba Bu"."

Zhu Xuan came to his senses and quickly gave Zhu Song a look.

Zhu Song hesitated for a moment and understood what Zhu Xuan meant.

Just now they were looking for someone who could review manuscripts and come back as their editor-in-chief, and Luo Guanzhong came to them. Although he was old, the old man was still strong and he should have no problem reviewing manuscripts, so he could be roped in.

If reviewing a large number of manuscripts requires more energy, it seems possible to ask him to train a few students who can review manuscripts as editors of their Daming Bookstore.

That’s it!
  "Old sir, please sit down."

Zhu Song said.

(End of this chapter)