Printing began to be widely used in the Song Dynasty. Before that, although there were pictures and texts, they were subject to various conditions, so they could not breed mature comic strips.
At this time, there are quite a few books with illustrations, but they are still very different from comic strips, not to mention the later comics.
Because of the previous movable type printing and the later printing of the "Tokyo Daily", the imperial court even united many private printing workshops, so as to have sufficient productivity.
This has also become one of the conditions for Yun Yanhui to allow Zheng Ling and his colleagues to serialize the comics in the Tokyo Daily.
Yun Yanhui told Zheng Ling about this idea. When Yun Yanhui was a child, various villain books were popular in the market, so he painted the picture very vividly.
"I think this is also a good thing. Quantitative change can lead to qualitative change. If you want quantitative change, you must first provide more demand." Yun Yan replied, "You can work together with your colleagues to paint the Three Kingdoms."
The theme of the Three Kingdoms is particularly popular. Although there is no "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at this time, the folk speaking artists and Mr. Shuhui have created many versions of the Three Kingdoms stories, many of which are wonderfully written and can be adapted.
Zheng Ling was moved. Most of his previous creations were illustrations, and there were occasional murals depicting Buddhist scriptures, but they were somewhat similar, and his experience could be used for reference.
And Yun Yanhui also mentioned that some simple storyboards can be used to better reflect the story. From the insider's ears, Zheng Ling really made him want to try it.
Zheng Ling immediately nodded and agreed. He is now the leader of the young painters in the Hanlin Painting Academy and has a certain appeal.
"That's it." Yun Yanhui also thought of a complete character chain in his mind, "You look for it, which book you want to change, then we will find the author when we go to the book, and we have to pay the copyright fee to adapt it. ."
Zheng Ling immediately began to think about which story to change.
Zhao Yunchu said aside, "Why don't you change the children's story first?"
"Hey, Xiaochu has a lot of ideas." Yun Yan smiled back, "It's definitely possible in the future, but in order to be a blockbuster, I'd better choose a story with a more reader base."
Zheng Lingwu thought to himself about the target of his adaptation.
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At the end of the one-day free clinic, Yunyan went back to help Xiaobao and the others to move the medical records back, and asked how they were doing here.
"I have learned a lot." Xiaobao said happily, "The most valuable thing is that none of the gentlemen hide their secrets. By the way, Brother Yan, do you know? There is something very interesting here, it is for us to practice acupuncture and moxibustion. of."
Xiaobao pointed to the classroom where they were taking classes and said, "Gentlemen invented two bronze figures, filled them with water, and pricked them with needles. If the correct acupoints are punctured, the water will flow, otherwise, the water will not flow."
Yun Yanhui always felt that she had seen similar things in modern TV dramas. I didn't expect it to be invented by the Imperial Medical Bureau. The Imperial Doctor is really someone who wants to do things.
"Then I'll donate some bronze figurines to you. There are only two in total, and it's not enough for class." Yun Yan replied, "I can't use students from other martial arts and law to stab them every day."
"Acupuncture and moxibustion can cause serious trouble," Xiaobao said helplessly, and laughed again, "Brother Yan, you are so kind."
Yun Yanhui always felt like the kind of local tyrant who donated things to the school to open the back door for his children. Unfortunately, this was run by the royal family, otherwise he might have donated a dormitory building.
- There are too few school buildings in the Imperial Medical Bureau. Xiaobao and the others have added another student to the dormitory. Yun Yanhui suspected that if they recruited more people, they should not be able to live there anymore.
Du You also came to see Yun Yanhui, who had been busy with free clinics during the day and didn't have time to say hello to him, so he quickly thanked him.
A reporter from the "Tokyo Daily" interviewed him today, and they also exchanged information on how to advertise softly. It was agreed that the manuscript would be shown to him to see if there was any dissatisfaction.
How can an ordinary unit have such a face? You must know that the reporters of the "Tokyo Daily" are either the imperial censor or the Hanlin. How dare you ask them to review the manuscript for you? Just outrageous.
Many units are very cautious when receiving receptions. Whenever reporters take a few more glances, they will ask, "Is your job as a censor or an imperial official?"
-Who doesn't know that the censors have to participate in this task every month, although the number of reporter tasks in the daily newspaper will be reduced appropriately, but it can't stop these censors when they are interviewing to see if there is anything you can participate in.
What's more, there has been wind noise now. That is, when it was first founded, the daily newspaper mainly praised virtue, and generally did not report it to the outside world.
However, there is news in the palace now that the officials feel that there is a need for a little more form, so they can properly expose it and play their supervisory duties.
This is incredible. If it is really determined that the "Tokyo Daily" can carry out negative exposure, then their status will rise a lot more virtually, and it will also put a lot of pressure on various yamen.
Especially the grass-roots yamen, the important and important matters will undoubtedly not be exposed, and the only ones who can be exposed are the grass-roots yamen and petty officials.
In the past, this book was handed to the official's house. In the future, if all the people can see it, wouldn't it be the rhythm of the stinking street every minute
How could Yun Yanhui know that Du You had thought so much in an instant, so she politely told him that she wanted to donate some teaching props.
Du You was very happy. They didn't have much oil and water, and they all lived in fear, especially when the situation was tense a few years ago. Du You had already thought about it. If the imperial medicine was completed, he would resign from his position as the imperial physician and apply for a special education.
Thanks to Du You's thanks, Yun Yan returned to leave the Imperial College.
Then I have to go to the Tokyo Daily and discuss with Hu Hanlin to add a section to serialize the pictures.
Hu Hanlin pondered for a long time and said, "You used to say those few words. Later, people told you that after I left, you said that you were bragging. However, I think you are still working hard. Very good."
Yunyan replied: "..."
Alas, this is often the case. If you don't want to make money, you will be labeled as a profiteer, doing a favor to your nephew, but inexplicably becoming a good young man with ideals.
Faced with such a misunderstanding, Yun Yanhui said shyly, "The world doesn't understand me, but I have never changed my mind."
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The page of the "Tokyo Daily" was taken down, and on the other side, Zheng Ling also found the book he wanted to change. There are three people who talk about the Three Kingdoms. He thinks it is good, but not all of them are perfect, so he needs to choose the essence of each.
Yun Yan took Zheng Ling to the book club when he returned. He and the people in the book club were all old acquaintances who had dealt with the book club. He found three book club gentlemen and told them that he wanted to buy the copyright. .
Originally, I made a living by selling characters, but now not only can I get a sum of money, but my name can also be listed in the "Tokyo Daily", and it is widely known. Where in the world can I find such a good thing.
So when it came time to create, Zheng Ling and his colleagues all had their own jobs, so they worked together to paint a book of "Three Kingdoms", teamwork, and the speed was still very fast.
There is Yunyan Hui to provide ideas, and even if there is any difficulty in the creation, it will be solved like a snap.
It took me a month to save the draft, and then I started to serialize it in the "Tokyo Daily", and a full page was specially added to display the "Three Kingdoms" comic strip. The original famous characters are clearly written on it, as well as the names of the painters.
"Tokyo Daily" has never serialized comic strips, even novels. At the current length, they are usually published together, and most of them are poems. This time, they didn't do any propaganda deliberately, just on an ordinary day, they quietly logged out...
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For the people of the Northern Song Dynasty, on an ordinary morning, restaurants, restaurants, large families, and yamen who subscribed to the "Tokyo Daily" each took the newspaper that the monks put at the door - now the monks are not only waking up every household , and one more duty, delivering newspapers.
First of all, those who subscribed to their own newspapers reacted first, "Hey, why did you post so many paintings today?"
The male host is used to reading the "Tokyo Daily" every day when he eats breakfast. On this day, he was first attracted by the pictures on the last page of the newspaper. He took a closer look and the title was "Three Kingdoms". It is also the story of the Three Kingdoms.
Needless to say, the painters are of the Hanlin standard. The battle armor and clothes are all beautifully painted and very vivid. There are simple text descriptions below, and some characters have dialogues next to them.
After reading the whole article, I only felt that the Three Kingdoms story in my mind was clearly presented. In the past, when I heard the book, I only heard about how Lu Bu's armor was, how Liu Bei described it, and how the battlefield was fought, but I really couldn't imagine it so detailed, it was just a vague description.
Occasionally reading book illustrations is only a single scene, where is so refreshing like so many pictures, it is completely using pictures to tell the story, I don’t know how troublesome!
The troubles of the painter are very refreshing to the readers.
The male host quickly finished reading a version of the comic book, and he was still unfinished.
Which character is the same as he thinks, and which character feels a little different...
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In those stores that provide newspaper reading, it is another scene.
After reading the previous news, Doctor Reader looked at the last edition and was a little stunned: How do you read this
Customers shouted: "What else is there, read it quickly."
The doctor opened the newspaper, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "Well, how do you read this!"
When everyone saw it, it turned out to be some little people in the picture, and they all gathered up to take a closer look, only to find that the painting turned out to be the story of the Three Kingdoms.
"I seem to understand! Isn't this painting Dong Zhuo asking for the Yellow Turbans?"
"Yeah, although I don't recognize the characters below, but this should be Dong Zhuo, right? It's the same as I thought! It's really good!"
"Hey, what is this sentence written? Are you scolding?"
"I think you can probably understand without words..."
"Show me, I can't see clearly!"
Because there were a lot of people in the store, there was a fight in the end. Some people simply went out and bought a newspaper for a few coins. Only then did I realize that there are many others who have experienced the same thing as myself.
"Hey, I didn't know how to read when I bought it before, but now it's better. There are such beautiful villain paintings in the back! Although I have listened to the Three Kingdoms so many times, this is the first time I see it!"
"That's right, the doctor who read the newspaper said that he wrote it to be continued later, and he will have to read it every day in the future!"
"What? Then I have to order one, just rush here, it's worth ordering!"
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This is true for adults, and even more so for children. They are clamoring for a comic book version of the "Tokyo Daily". Anyone who has the conditions, even if they can't read, can't grind their children, and they can meet this requirement. What's more, many adults in the family also want to collect them.
It can be said that in one day, the comic strip "Three Kingdoms" became popular in Tokyo. Driven by the "Tokyo Daily", it also sold wildly, and the originally stable order volume suddenly rose a lot.
I don’t know how many officials, either for their own needs or for their family members, went to the editor-in-charge or the author and asked to save the manuscript... Of course, they were undoubtedly rejected.
At this moment, Renzong was in the palace, keeping the manuscript in his hand, smiling at the loser.