"Newspapers are being sold! Newspapers are being sold! The freshly released "Datang Daily"! Each copy only costs five cents! You can't buy a copy of "Datang Daily" for five cents, but you can't buy a large copy of "Datang Daily"! Brother, would you like to buy one?"
After spending a wonderful weekend at home, Li Zexuan took a carriage in the early morning and rushed to the Imperial College for class. In the carriage, he heard the sound of children outside selling newspapers.
Li Zexuan asked Sanbao to stop the carriage first. He looked out through the window and saw four or five children wearing blue clothes with the "Fantastic Culture" logo on them, holding newspapers and riding scooters in Chang'an. In the streets and alleys of the city, newspapers were sold everywhere.
This can be regarded as one of the benefits prepared for the children who sell newspapers in Funny Culture. Scooters are usually used as transportation. If you sell newspapers for three consecutive months, you can also get a scooter for free. This directly led to a long queue in front of the workshop when recruiting newspaper boys yesterday. Later, Ma Zhou chose from thousands of choices. Got forty or fifty clever children.
"Hey, which one is this little doll from? What is this newspaper of yours? What's on it?"
At this time, I heard a person say in a rough voice.
"Uncle, this newspaper contains articles by great Confucian scholars, as well as some new things happening around Chang'an City recently, and it also serializes some story-telling novels. It's really exciting!"
"Oh? I'm not interested in the Confucian article, but I'd like to read the story novel. Baby, bring me a newspaper!"
"Here, here you go, uncle, five cents a share!"
"Hiss~, this newspaper is so big, and the words on it are all printed with engravings, and it only sells for five cents. Baby, did you remember it wrong? But don't go back and fine your shopkeeper just because you remembered the price wrong. Your money!”
This man was quite conscientious and was not willing to take advantage of a child. When he unfolded the newspaper and took a look, he was immediately shocked by the huge size of the newspaper. Such a large newspaper must cost more than five cents!
"Yes, did you remember it wrong, kid? On such a large piece of rice paper, even if there is nothing written on it, it still costs more than five cents!"
At this time, a passerby came over, looked at the newspaper in the big man's hand, and echoed.
The newspaper boy bowed down politely and said, "Thank you uncles for your concern, but this newspaper only costs five cents a piece. It's definitely not wrong. Our steward personally told me this."
"Hey, your manager is stupid, isn't he? This is obviously a loss-making business!"
"Tsk, tsk, give me a copy, baby. Let's not talk about what is written on it. It cost five cents to buy such a big piece of paper. If I go back and put it on the wall, I will look like a cultural person!"
"Pfft, Ergouzi, what you are doing is simply degrading to politeness! Little baby, you can also give a copy to a certain family. My Ergou boy is studying in a school in Chang'an, but he is literate. I will buy it home so that the baby can read it. Great Confucian’s article, by the way, read the novel at the end to me!”
"Go, go, butcher Zhao, you are showing off your son-in-law again!"
"Hahaha!"
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Li Zexuan shook his head. It was the first time for this group of people to buy a newspaper. It was just a cheap newspaper. It was really...
"Sambo, let's go! Go to the Imperial College!"
Li Zexuan said aloud. Nowadays, the people who buy newspapers are just some people who are out of curiosity. The real popularity of newspapers definitely does not depend on these people. But this can be considered a good start. With the active publicity of this first group of people, the subsequent results will surely be even better.
"Yes, Master!"
Sanbao agreed and the carriage continued to drive slowly.
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Imperial College, School of Arithmetic.
"In this weekly exam, there were three perfect scores, namely Li Tai, Ke Shiqing, and Tiedan. There were two people with 99 points, namely Zeng Ziran and Meng Wenhao. These students are the top students in this weekly exam. Five, great, everyone applauds them!”
Li Zexuan stood on the podium, looked at the transcript in his hand, and said.
For Meng Wenhao, he felt a little pity in his heart. In a proof question, one of the steps of this child was slightly ambiguous. After careful consideration, Li Zexuan deducted one point for him. In this way, this unlucky boy would Just missed the top three.
"Bah bang bang!"
The students in the teaching building, no matter what they thought in their hearts, whether they were envious, jealous or resentful, all clapped along with Li Zexuan.
Although Meng Wenhao was a little annoyed, he had just read the test paper that was handed out and found that there were indeed some small problems in that part of his writing. He was convinced by the deduction of points.
"As for the last five in this weekly exam~~"
When the applause gradually stopped, Li Zexuan said loudly again, but he paused deliberately, and then looked towards the back row. Cheng Chumo suddenly felt like he was in a state of confusion, ah, no, his heart tightened, and then he winked to Li Zexuan frequently, telling him not to say it.
"As for the last five, I won't mention them by name today. I should have some idea of who they are. Oh no, I should know who they are!"
Li Zexuan gasped, which almost scared Cheng Chumo half to death, but when he heard that Li Zexuan still didn't call his name, he couldn't help but feel a little happy.
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"Well, these are the steps to solve the last question. Anyone who made a mistake should take a good look at it, sort out their thoughts, and make sure that they will never make a mistake again when they encounter the same question next time."
After briefly talking about the results, Li Zexuan explained the test paper to them. The topic was relatively simple and he spoke relatively quickly. He finished it in less than one class.
"Damn, it's so cool! This novel is so damn cool! This guy is so awesome!"
Suddenly there was a roar in the classroom, which startled all the students. Li Zexuan was also "scared" for a moment, but then he became angry. He quickly found the source of the sound and shouted angrily:
"Wang Meng, stand up!"
Wang Meng shivered immediately. In fact, he woke up just after he roared. At this time, he heard Li Zexuan's angry voice, and he didn't know that he had taken jujube pills.
"First... Sir, I... I was wrong!"
Wang Meng had a bitter look on his face and said with a trembling voice.
Li Zexuan sneered: "Humph, now I know I was wrong. What were you doing just now?"
Wang Meng hesitated and did not dare to say anything.
Li Zexuan shouted sternly: "Hurry up and tell me, do you want to drop out of school?"
Wang Meng did not dare to hesitate any longer, and quickly took out a piece of paper from under his seat and said urgently:
"No, no, no, sir, I said, I said, I was reading a novel just now. This... I bought this from a newsboy on the way to school. It is said... It is said that this thing is called a newspaper!"
Other students cast curious glances over, wanting to see what kind of artifact this newspaper was.
Li Zexuan, on the other hand, had a dark face. He had calculated everything, but he failed to realize that running a newspaper would actually make students addicted to novels and affect their studies. In modern times, bad students often do this in class. He did not expect that they would also encounter it in ancient times. , isn’t this just shooting yourself in the foot
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(End of chapter)