In Nanjing, Zhu Zilong left hundreds of brothers to stay in his mountain palace.

They are all good men who have been on the battlefield and killed countless Qing army eastern slaves. Compared with the Beijing soldiers in Nanjing, each can beat ten.

This is equivalent to an army with only a few thousand combat power stationed in their palaces and surrounding areas, and can also ensure the safety of the newspaper and Zhu Zilong's women.

Calculate the time, in this gentle village, Zhu Zilong's original body has been staying for more than half a month.

It was enough to pretend to be a show of acting for some people and spies. On this last day, Zhu Zilong, Wang Wei and Yang Wantong explained that he had military affairs.

I will stay for a few days at the end and invite a banquet for the newspaper staff and a group of people today. Then I may leave temporarily soon!

Soon, twenty or thirty banquets were placed in the big palace.

At the banquet, Zhu Zilong specially brought his relationship with all the staff closer and wanted to talk about friendship with everyone based on their friends or age. For a moment, the atmosphere became very hot!

When Wang Wei and Yang Wantong appeared in person, the down-and-out scholars who are now working in the newspaper office can't sit still and get up and call, "Thank you, sister-in-law."

The wine is a modern 21st century Moutai national wine in glass bottles, several thousand yuan per bottle.

This thing was in the Ming Dynasty, and a single glass bottle was very high-end. The people present also had some vision and experience. When they saw the wine, their eyes were rounded. Some people muttered in their hearts and found that such a bottle of wine might not be able to suppress it. They only cost hundreds or thousands of taels of silver per bottle, right?

The Dragon Marquis of the Four Seas, he took out such precious things and gave them food to people like them who have no fame?

When did the people get treated so well, their eyes turned red and they sang and bowed to Zhu Zilong in various forms.

Some people even took the lead in kneeling all over the floor!

However, the atmosphere of this costume competition halfway through the road destroyed the beauties later. Gu Xi, a tomboy and famous prostitute, ran over: "How partial is my brother-in-law? Why didn't I take out this good wine before?"

After saying that, she took a bottle of unopened 21st Century Moutai National Liquor alone and opened it directly. She had a drink, which was more generous than a man.

Zhu Zilong looked at him with his eyebrows twitching, while others were stunned.

After the banquet, at night!

When Zhu Zilong saw that Yang Wantong was working overtime to deal with the newspaper affairs, she saw that Zhu Zilong came in, and complained with a cute expression: "Master, there are too many manuscripts, hurry up and help me read some, otherwise I will not have time to rest with the master at night."

Zhu Zilong rolled his eyes and slowly called the maid to bring tea, put it on the table with her, and said, "I will always be back to Dengzhou. You and Wei'er, sooner or later, you must get used to this rhythm of life."

Yang Wantong had no choice but to keep reading the manuscript!

Just staying in the room, Gu Xi, who was talking to Wang Wei in the front yard just now, came over again. Entering the back yard of the Wang Mansion was like entering his own home.

Gu Xi said: "Brother-in-law, we are leaving. Is that a book of words, can I read the second half of the book next time?"

Li Shiniang and Wang Yue next to him did not have such a big example and said, "Brother-in-law, can we come to find Sister Wang often?"

Zhu Zilong knew that even if it was a famous prostitute, it would be difficult to think of it as long as he became a good man and entered the high-gate courtyard. Now it may be their happiest and happiest time, so he nodded and said yes.

The three girls looked at each other and smiled, each of them was blessed: "Thank you brother-in-law."

After the second issue of the newspaper was printed, Zhu Zilong established a rule and order and sent it to the Qinhuai River as soon as possible.

Now, girls with a little famous appearance in the pleasure boats on the Qinhuai River are looking forward to someone delivering newspapers to the Ming Weekly newspapers to their pleasure boats. Those who get free newspapers are naturally proud and feel very proud. Those girls who don’t get newspapers are unhappy, how can they favor one or the other?

If someone robs things, his fame will rise very quickly, not to mention that the famous prostitutes who were comparable to celebrities in the Ming Dynasty.

The famous prostitutes who were a little famous, those few dozen or hundreds of sour literati were fans. After complaining and gentle and meticulous service, these literati were like injected with chicken blood and came to the newspaper to ask for newspapers.

Well, the original shipping newspaper can save more than half of it.

When the third issue of the newspaper was released, the number of prints was increased by 3,000 copies. Now each issue is about 10,000 copies, but it still cannot meet the free needs of Nanjing City. Some anxious literati, famous prostitutes, and tea guests asked them to give them first, and they could pay them.

So soon, the free weekly report of Daming began to charge one after another.

Moreover, it was someone else who asked Zhu Zilong's newspaper to charge, and the early investment was quickly rewarded.

Moreover, the release time of a week has been changed to once every five days, and 6 newspapers can be distributed in a month.

When Zhu Zilong left Nanjing, the wealthy families, literati, scholars, tea lovers, and beauties on Qin Zhunhe had become loyal readers of the Ming Weekly.

There are even many people who hand over the newspaper money for one year at a time.

The Ming Weekly News has truly gained a foothold. Even some surrounding cities have come to Nanjing to buy newspapers!

Behind the crowd, a newspaper worth a few cents a month has been distributed more than tens of thousands of copies in a single month, and it is still showing a rapid increase. Breaking through the 100,000 copies per circulation is just around the corner!

According to this sign, Sihai Poster Club can already be regarded as a stable counterfeit company that is self-protected.

For Wang Wei and Yang Wantong, the errands that might have been just passing the time, but now it has become a reliable industry. And it is an industry that is fully responsible for them!

When the influence of newspapers becomes greater and greater, places in other provinces can also be distributed, and even Zhu Zilong has planned to help some merchants advertise their stores to increase their income.

As for this idea, you can try it out with hundreds of merchants who have cooperated with Shandong and you.

As long as the results are obvious, there is no need to worry about businessmen from other provinces not coming over by themselves and asking for cooperation.

So, this temporary newspaper that Zhu Zilong thought of might really become an institution that collects intelligence and a golden hen that makes money in the future.

But now, it's still a little too early to say this.

At this moment, Zhu Zilong originally wanted to go to Lianyungang to take a look. Later, he found that if he was on the way, he could just take a turn and go to Yangzhou for another round.

Anyway, it was not bad for the past few days, so he took a little detour from the angle and moved towards Yangzhou.

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Yangzhou was originally Hancheng of the Wu Kingdom. Guangling County was established in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. By the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Yangzhou. It was adjacent to the Yangtze River in the south and the Central Plains in the north. The earliest section of the Grand Canal was here. It was built by King Fuchai of Wu and was called Hangou at that time.

Since the opening of the North-South Grand Canal in the Sui Dynasty, Yangzhou has become a large port for the unity of rivers and seas. With its unique advantages, it has become the center of shipping and commerce in the world.

The economic development of the Yangtze River Basin has made Yangzhou's commercial status more stable. It connects Bashu, the two lakes, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang through the Yangtze River Basin, connects the north through the Grand Canal, connects Fujian, Guangdong through the coastal areas, and overseas trade to Japan, Dashi, Persia and India.

During the Tang Dynasty, there was a poem called "Ten miles long streets, 100,000 houses, thousands of lights in the night market, and red sleeves in tall buildings."

In the Ming Dynasty, the Grand Canal was fully connected and there was no land transit. Yangzhou was located in the middle section of the Grand Canal, which converged north and south, and was very prosperous. It had a population of more than one million, far exceeding any European city at this time. It was even more than the total population of some small Western countries!

This is a big urban area with a history of slightly less than Nanjing, but business and culture are as important as Nanjing.

Open the map and you will find that it is not far from Nanjing. It is closer to the beach!

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Chapter completed!