I am engaged in construction in ancient times

Chapter 97 Rumors

The newspaper spread widely in Xinyang City with the wind of the New Year. It can be said that Duan Shubai chose the right time to publish the newspaper on the first day of the New Year. There is no such a good start in the whole year. Because during the New Year, everyone is idle and has nothing to do. If there is a little fresh news, they want to spread it everywhere. If it is chosen during the busy farming season in March and April, it will definitely not have such an influence.

The first issue of the newspaper was free. Although it was free, people who received it still took it seriously. For people at this time, words and books were still unattainable. In the past, it was too difficult to support a child to study. Even now Duan Shubai has built schools everywhere in Yangzhou, he still cannot change this traditional concept.

Readers have a special status.

Those families with limited literacy, when they got such a newspaper, all regarded it as a treasure. These people had almost no books in their homes, but they had attended a few literacy classes. They could not read those things before, but they could understand this newspaper!

The context of the story is continuous, and you can understand the meaning of the text even by guessing. Some old men and women who don't know a few words sit by the stove and read newspapers when they have nothing to do. If they don't know something, they ask their grandchildren who are studying in the school, and read the newspaper leisurely.

They were laymen in the first half of their lives, and they didn't expect that they could become "readers" in their old age.

The content of this newspaper is still the news that happened around them. The content is not stiff and obscure, but lively and interesting.

Some people exclaimed: "For the first time in my life, I found that reading is also an interesting thing!"

The enthusiasm of ordinary people in Xinyang City for reading newspapers continued to rise.

What surprised them even more was that there were vernacular novels written by Yan Li and others at the back. The people in Xinyang City were too familiar with these things! When the school was just built, they followed and listened to the storytelling, and the contents of the vernacular novels were almost familiar to them. There were always many similar words and sentences in the content written by the same author. They looked at the unfamiliar words, but they could recite them out of their minds.

The words and sentences heard in their ears were finally connected with the words on the paper this time!

"It's really strange. I don't recognize at least half of the words in this sentence, but when they are put together, I can read them out and know their meanings, as if someone has read them to me thousands of times before."

"Of course I have read them thousands of times. Don't you carry a small stool every day and listen to half an hour of storytelling to feel at ease?"

On the first day of the new year, Duan Shubai distributed 2,000 copies of the Four States Joint Newspaper and the Yang Newspaper for free in Xinyang City. These two newspapers were issued together, and the subsequent issues would be separated. The Four States Joint Newspaper is a newspaper issued in the four states of Yun, Yang, Xuan, and Yuan, while the Yang Newspaper is only a newspaper in Yangzhou for the entertainment of the people.

Of the two newspapers, the people of Yangzhou like Yangbao the most because the content is really familiar to them. The Yangbao introduces and records the famous things in Yangzhou.

After the free newspapers were distributed, the rest were sold at newsstands. There are places to sell newspapers in several major counties in Yangzhou. The most important place to sell newspapers in Yangzhou is at the dock of Yangzhou. This geographical location is excellent for travelers to buy newspapers and read newspapers.