Chapter 277 Weekly Zaju

"Zaju Weekly" suddenly appeared in major teahouses in Yingtianfu, and suddenly became a major topic in the capital. Everyone was talking about this newspaper, including Li Weizheng. He did not expect that there was such a cooperation person. In just four days, the first newspaper of the Ming Dynasty was released.

Today is the holiday, and all officials are resting at home. Li Weizheng also stayed at home and enjoyed a rare leisure time. Early in the morning, Li Weizheng's personal soldiers bought a newly printed "Zaju Weekly" from the city. Li Weizheng took the newspaper and immediately discovered something interesting. This "Zaju Weekly" was exactly the same as the "Gory Miscellaneous News" he founded, with the same layout and pattern. Many columns imitate "Gory Miscellaneous News", but were slightly modified, such as "Famous News", which was changed to "Famous News"; for example, "Tomorrow's Focus", which was changed to "Tomorrow's Viewpoint". In today's words, it is a copycat version of "Gory Miscellaneous News", no wonder it was released so quickly!

"Dad, let me take a look!"

Li Weizheng's eldest daughter Li Zhiqiu came over like a gust of wind. Reading books and newspapers has always been her greatest interest. In Liaodong, she reads the "Goryeo Miscellaneous Newspaper" every day, but when she arrived in the capital, she had no newspapers. Today, she heard the soon-talking soldier say that her father had a newspaper, and she ran away excitedly.

"Dad, I want to read it too!" The youngest daughter Ye Zi chased after her from behind. She was never to be outdone. As long as it was her sister liked it, she would never fall behind, even though she was not interested in reading books and newspapers.

What Li Weizheng loves most is his twin treasures. He held them in his arms with one hand. Zhiqiu ran in front and grabbed the newspaper. The sister was so anxious that she jumped straight to her feet and reached out to grab her newspaper.

"You don't like reading newspapers, what are you robbing?"

"Who said I don't like it, give me half!"

Li Weizheng quickly laughed and said, "Don't rob! Don't rob! There are two pictures in total, one for each person."

Zhiqiu had no choice but to give her sister a picture, "You can take it and see it!"

Ye Zi held the newspaper, but didn't read it at all. Instead, he stretched his neck to look at the one from his sister. Zhiqiu suddenly frowned and said, "Dad, why is this newspaper exactly the same as our Liaodong newspaper."

"Where is the same? Show me."

"Go! Go! Go! What do you know?"

Ye Zi immediately burst into tears and threw herself into her father's arms and started crying, "Dad, sister bullied me!"

Li Wei was hurriedly coaxing his daughter and said, "Be good Ye Zi, don't cry. Although my Ye Zi doesn't read the newspaper, she shoots archery very accurately. My sister can't compare to you."

Speaking of archery, Ye Zi immediately burst into tears and said with a smile: "Dad, I shot an arrow on Mr. Jie's butt yesterday. He looked for people everywhere to ask who did it."

Mr. Jie is Xie Jin. He has resigned from his position as a court official. He is now Li Weizheng's aide and the gentleman of two little girls. Li Weizheng is helpless with his little daughter. He smiled bitterly and said, "Who doesn't know that you shot the little arrow? You can't shoot your own gentleman again in the future, do you know?"

"I understand!" Ye Zi lowered his head and muttered, "Mr. Don't shoot, can you shoot the personal soldiers?"

"No! I'm going to find them."

The sister next to her suddenly shouted in anger, which scared Li Weizheng, "What's wrong?"

"Dad, this newspaper is clearly plagiarized. Except for the program list, the other comments and introductions are exactly the same as the "Goryo Miscellaneous News" on the second day of May last year. I remember very clearly that I wrote this comment from Changsheng Palace."

Li Wei was in a daze. Her daughter could write comments. She was only seven years old!

"Dad, let's go to the newspaper office, they can't copy like this." Li Zhiqiu said seriously like a little adult.

Li Wei was just thinking about it and smiled, "Okay! Daddy is fine today, so I will take you to see this newspaper."

"Dad, I'm going too!" Ye Zi said with a pout.

Li Wei was picking her up and kissing her little face hard, "When will you lose this little monster?"

Li Wei was cleaning up a little, and Li Zhiqiu also found evidence. The father and daughter went out together. As soon as they walked to the door, they saw Jie Jin coming towards him. When Li Yezi saw the husband, he turned his face away in fear.

"Sir, where are you taking them?" Xie Jin came to teach them, and when he saw that they were about to go out, he was stunned.

When Li Wei was seeing Xie Jin, he suddenly remembered that he should have gone with him. In the future, Xie Jin would be his pen and will dominate the public opinion of the entire Ming Dynasty.

"Brother Jie, today I will take my little girl to the newspaper office, let's go together!"

Li Zhiqiu also politely said: "Sir, I found that there is plagiarism in today's "Zhaju Weekly". Mr. often taught his disciples that, 'Learning calligraphy is in the Dharma, but the beauty is in the human beings'. The disciples should tell them that even if they study, they must be integrated and unique. They cannot learn to walk in Handan like this and finally forget themselves."

Seeing that his daughter was about to become a young master, Li Wei couldn't help but smile bitterly and said to Xie Jin: "Brother Xie is indeed a master."

Xie Jin laughed and said, "Zhiqiu is my proud disciple. I was not as good as her when I was seven years old!"

He suddenly saw Ye Zi and couldn't help but glared: "You shot the arrow yesterday!"

Ye Zi was afraid and hid behind his father. Li Wei was protecting his daughter and dragged her daughter out and said with a smile: "Sir, won't be angry with you, just apologize to you."

Ye Zi murmured, "Sir, I know I am wrong."

Xie Jin shook his head and said helplessly: "The two daughters of the adults are one in the south and one in the north, two extremes. It would be great if they merged."

His daughter knew it himself, and Li Weizheng laughed and said, "I have nothing to do, Brother Jie, let's go! Let's go together."

Several people rode towards the city, and the two little guys got on the carriage. They squeezed in front of the car window and whispered at the scenery in the capital. Now they became good friends again.

The address of the newspaper "Zaju Weekly" Li Wei was already found by Fang Lan. Just near the bridge of Liu Jun's old house, a group of people came to an alley. More than a dozen teahouses in the alley were waiting to get newspapers. "Zaju Weekly" is mainly sold in various teahouses in the capital, and the sales are very hot. This is also because the Ming people love Zaju. When the crowd saw a large group of sword soldiers coming, they all flashed aside in fear. A personal soldier went in to report. After a moment, two men in their thirties came out with their personal soldiers. They knelt in front of Li Wei and said, "Caughter-in-law, see General!"

It was obvious that both of them were very scared. When Li Wei heard them calling him the general, he smiled and asked, "Do you come from Liaodong?"

The two looked at each other and did not dare to hide it. The older man said the truth: "Sir, we are two brothers. My name is Liu Xing and my younger brother is Liu Rong. They were originally from Shandong and were both scholars. They recruited people in Shandong to teach in Goryeo. We also went there. They just came to the capital in October last year."

"So that's how it is!"

Li Wei understood, no wonder they could have the ready-made "Goryeo Miscellaneous Newspaper". It turned out that they came from Goryeo, but the two brothers had a good business mind. Thinking of this, he said gently: "Since they came from Goryeo, it can be regarded as my old family. Take me to see your newspaper."

The two of them quickly invited Li Weizheng into the yard, and couldn't help but look at the two girls who looked exactly the same. However, Li Zhiqiu glared at them hatefully, and dared to copy his comments.

Li Wei was pointing at his eldest daughter and laughing: "This is my daughter, and the youngest contributor of the Goryeo Zaobao. He has written a lot of comments on zaju. Your newspaper has been hidden from me, but she can't hide it from her."

The Liu brothers blushed. He knew what his problem was? He thought that no one in the capital would find out, but he was discovered by a little girl. They were going to kneel down and apologize again. Xie Jin helped them and smiled and said, "Sir, aren't here to cause trouble for you, because you are the first newspaper of the Ming Dynasty, so I am very interested to take a look. I guess many officials will come to visit your newspaper in the past two days."

The Liu brothers were so scared that their faces were pale. Their newspaper was scissors and paste. They dared not come to visit, but they dared not say so, so they had to bite the bullet and lead Li Weizheng into the editing and editing room. Their newspaper was very small, with only three rooms, one of which was full of newspapers brought back by the Liu brothers from Goryeo, and another room was the editing and editing room. The editing and editing room, plus their brothers, had four people in total. The other two were old scholars, who were making a living here. As for the field recruiters who went to interview various places, there were not one of them. What they did every day was to cut and copy the content of the newspaper and then arrange the program.

Although the newspaper was extremely simple, Li Weizheng was still visiting with great enthusiasm. Liu Xing blushed and introduced: "Sir, we came to Beijing from Goryeo because we discovered this opportunity to make money. Since October last year, we have uniformly printed program schedules for each teahouse, and then printed and sold them to the theater audience. A few days ago, I heard that the court allowed private newspapers to be run, so we made public the original underground newspapers, so we were the first one, and we actually had them."

"Then where do you print? How many copies are printed every day? To whom do you sell it?" Li Weizheng asked again.

"Reporting to the master, we originally printed ourselves, but the day before yesterday, we found a printing workshop, printing 8,000 copies a day, basically sold to major teahouses, and then to the opera watchers."

Li Wei was nodding, and he suddenly asked again: "The people who look like guys outside were sent to buy newspapers by the teahouse?"

"Not exactly, some people provide program lists, and all teahouses want to be on our front page. We have a column called 'One Teahouse every day', which is to recommend the conditions for watching the show in each teahouse."

"This is the idea my grandfather came up with for the Goryeo Miscellaneous Newspaper."

Li Zhiqiu could no longer help saying, "We call it 'a good place to watch movies every day', and you have tampered with it."

The Liu brothers were so scared that they trembled and said to Li Wei: "Sir, we never dare to do it again!"

Li Weizheng smiled and turned around and asked Xie Jin, "Brother Xie, what do you think?"

The two discussed together, and Li Weizheng decided to run a current affairs commentary newspaper, which was controlled by Xie Jin behind the scenes. In this way, they needed a newspaper operator who came out at the front desk. The Liu brothers were smart and capable, good at business, and had great experience in newspaper operation. Li Weizheng had already taken a fancy to them, but he also wanted to ask Xie Jin for his opinion.

Xie Jin nodded and said, "Yes!"

Li Weizheng smiled at the two of them and said, "You can't make a big deal if you copy and cut like this. I plan to run the largest newspaper in the Ming Dynasty, but because no one manages it, I see that you two are quite clever, so I want to hand over the newspaper to your brothers to manage it, and give you 40% of your zaju weekly newspaper. You can continue to do it and make a formal zaju newspaper, and I will pay all the capital. Are you willing?"

With a backstage like Li Weizheng, he could make the largest newspaper in the Ming Dynasty. This was something their brothers could never dream of. They were so excited that they couldn't even say anything, just knelt down and kowtowed.

Li Weizheng pointed at Xie Jin again and said, "This Mr. Xie is my representative. He will not interfere in your business, nor will he care about your zany dramas and newspapers. He only cares about current affairs and politics, and articles related to current affairs must be read by him one by one."

"Don't worry, sir, we will definitely follow the wishes of sir."
Chapter completed!