Chapter 457 National Geography

Tan Weiming was writing an article very seriously, telling the various changes along the canal under the rule of the canal governor's office he visited over the years, especially those changes in folk customs. Tan Weiming found that doing such things was so fun. Of course, as a prince, not a scholar, he still had many convenient conditions. For example, whenever he thought of something and ordered casually, his aides would check the local chronicles for him. Those aides would be busy all day, and they might only become one sentence in the prince's article. Such a text

The degree of solidity and thickness is naturally unquestionable. The photographers around Ye Tao came from afar and took a large number of photos in the places mentioned in Tan Weiming's article. There is no doubt that the cost of taking photos is still quite expensive for the time being, and now, the more expensive are those photographers. Photographers are now a super rare job. It is very complicated to operate the camera. This is one aspect, and more importantly, almost all photographers are now working in the army. There is a sixty in the organizational system of the Northern Xinjiang Economic and Technological Administration.

The multi-person surveying and mapping team has been carrying out various basic surveying and mapping and reconnaissance work under the entourage of the Guards directly under the jurisdiction of the Legal Office, and they will also take a lot of humanistic photos. In Danyang, the Intelligence Bureau, the Inner Government, the Ministry of War and the Blood Qi Army, each has its own surveying and mapping teams, but the focus is different. Apart from these places, almost no other photographers exist. The price of a camera is between 600 and 800 taels of silver, and the general normal maintenance and use consumption is about 100 taels of silver per month. Now whether it is photo paper or washing.

The chemical reagents used are not usually low, and the cost is not usually high. Photography is the same in any era, and they are all working by burning money. In this case, I transferred several photographers to Tan Weiming, which made it more and more strange. What Ye Tao wanted to do? Could what he did this time be compared with increasing the accuracy and coverage area of ​​map surveying? What I don’t understand is that after making such an arrangement, Ye Tao actually went to the workshop in Danyang to study the color matching. What he needed was an extremely bright yellow.

A small editorial team was formed, the most important of which were the students seconded from the Taixue School, mainly those who had traveled around before entering the Taixue School. In addition, there were two officials who had been responsible for the review of books and other books. Before such a small editorial team got the article from Tan Weiming, they had to start familiar with the printing technology of the publication they were responsible for. Everyone knows that behind Baowentang Bookstore is the Ye Family Workshop and the inner palace. Whether in terms of background or technical support, they are definitely invincible. Although Ye Tao has had many things to handle over the years, he may be responsible for the bookstore.

The note was not enough, but the plate making system established by Ye Tao for Baowentang Bookstore and the team that carefully studied printing technology have been stubbornly refreshing the peak of this technology. The books produced by Baowentang Bookstore, thick paper and more reliable hot glue binding technology, have become a symbol. The exquisite classic series printed with watermark cloud-patterned paper back then have been enriched over the years, and have been published over a hundred kinds of them. Although the circulation of this series of books is very low and only distributed to a small number of people in Dongping, this series of books has played the ultimate goal of "knowledge influences society".

In terms of pure printing technology, two-color overprinting technology is not a difficult thing for Baowentang. The two-color overprinting technology has long been widely used after the new printing mechanism was formed. Illustrations made with metal etching are now becoming more and more common in various books. Although in terms of production, metal etching is still troublesome, the cost is still reduced to the scope of licenses, and it is also profitable to let this thing be used for general book publishing. However, what they are going to challenge now is another technology: how to print photos.

Ye Tao has directly developed photography technology to the stage of using photo paper, but at this time, the photo paper is not as good as those silver plates, and the tin plate photography technology is easier to use. Fortunately, many senior members of the workshop, which is very familiar with all aspects of photography technology, are already very clear about the formation mechanism of photography technology. In addition to presenting the contents on the glass negative, the craftsmen also rinsed another copy and washed the photo directly on the tin plate. Then, the images presented on the surface of the tin plate became the most

It is a good thing to make etching printing plates. After repeated attempts, the workshop finally developed a formula that can cause minimal damage to the image when etching the tin plate. In this way, although the process is very repeated and the cost is very high, and no matter how hard it is, it is impossible to eliminate the loss of photo quality, printing the original six-inch square negative to one-eighth of the size of the book is no longer a problem. However, this method is really stupid.

After solving this epoch-making technology, Ye Tao finally officially began to manufacture this publication. Ye Tao claimed that this was a magazine, starting this month, he would try to produce three trial issues, and then publish one every month. The name of the publication is "National Geography". The cover of the first issue of the trial issue is a very representative photo: on the edge of the canal, several ships of varying sizes leaning together, and the people on the ship were chatting happily and conducting basic transactions, while behind them was the city tower of Shufengcheng. The main manuscript of the first issue was written by Tan Weiming himself, "Why the Canal?", which is 40 pages long, "Why the Canal?"

The main content is the various changes brought by the canal. Although it describes the improvements in life, it does not avoid the migration and changes of customs. The originally peaceful villages have become lush and disturbed places that bring inconvenience to people's lives, and does not avoid the things that have awakened with the development of the economy, people's abundance, and some dark side of human nature. Even in later generations, the solidity and strength of this article are enough for people to recall for a long time, not to mention the current ones. The pictures included in the article are those concise and concise but point directly to the core of the problem, as well as illustrations and maps made with four-color overprinting technology.

This publication with a total of 96 pages, and the quality of other manuscripts is quite good. For example, the "Snow Wolf Lake in Summer" describes the life of many biological populations. Among those photos, the most eye-catching one is a photo of a bison giving birth. The little bison who left the ground first, and the second half of his body is still in his mother's body. This photo is the result of a crazy photographer hanging out with the bison all summer long. For example, those articles with relatively short lengths have various situations in several different places in Dongping, some

When it comes to geography, some people talk about humanities, and there are many things. The magazine uses four-color overprinting to print most illustrations and charts. The layout of the entire magazine is not too dense. Many page numbers have a width of about a quarter. There are various annotations materials, and most of these annotations are raised by the editor. With these annotations, Ye Tao is actually cultivating a professional editorial team, a professional editorial team that can provide readers with more content. These red-word annotations, which are not wordy at all, are also fascinating.

As National Geography, it is certain to attach a map. In this issue, it is accompanied by a map of the territory under the jurisdiction of the Canal Governor's Office. Although it simply represents the terrain, this accurate map with an accurate scale is accurate and detailed compared to the military maps of generals from any country outside Dongping. The map is accurate to the county-level unit. The review officer of the Intelligence Bureau reported the matter, and Nie Rui muttered: "It's very accurate, but others can't use it. I want to see who has the ability to fight the canal area." I easily let this map go. This map is very convenient for travelers and merchant groups. It marked all the docks, markets and warehouses in the canal area, and some famous hotels are marked. This map is even more

Du Fengchi invested 100,000 taels of silver to list all the home Inns chain hotels in the canal area. Each location is specially printed with bright yellow and red marks. Speaking of advertising, the first issue of the trial issue actually has twelve pages, including the back cover, all of which are related to travel, such as the pocket watches with temperature measurement function of Tissot Watch House; a leather and thick canvas travel bag operated by a business under Qihai Trading Company; a field tool of Bosch Tool House; a small binocular that will be renamed "Ricoon" will be withdrawn; FedEx's passenger service and a luxury resort built by the inner palace on a scenic mountain near Chunnan... This advertising ratio combination is classic.

Almost on the day of publication, this cover with a bright yellow outer frame conquered the entire Danyang. The first batch of 5,000 copies printed were sold out in a day. The entire Danyang was immersed in the knowledge of various interesting things in the canal area. Some anxious guys even put their luggage directly on their luggage, put the first issue of the National Geographic trial issue in their arms and set off to experience the folk customs of the canal area and see with their own eyes whether what is said in the book is true. And this is something that Ye Tao, Tan Weiming and others had never thought of.
Chapter completed!