blenderwars Chapter 264 "Magellan's Voyage Diary"
Chapter 264 "Magellan's Voyage Diary"
Chapter 264 "Magellan's Voyage Diary"
"Master Yang, these are houses for sale. If you are not satisfied and want to build it yourself, there is still land for sale here, and the price is not very expensive." A Yalang said to Zhang Qingfeng.
Yalang, in the Song Dynasty, was the name for real estate agencies, followed by other names such as "Ya Ren", "Ya Ji", "Ya Zi", "Ya Shang", "Hu Lang" and "Ya Ji".
Zhang Qingfeng looked at the land book provided by Yalang, which stated the size, location, etc. of the houses to be sold in Lin'an City.
Without providing a detailed map or house model, Zhang Qingfeng gave these dentists a bad review in his heart.
However, no matter what, he still needs to buy a yard as a newspaper office.
In the end, Zhang Qingfeng paid more attention to a street-facing courtyard near Beiwa, with a foundation of [-] square meters, worth [-] guan.
At the same time, Zhang Qingfeng also valued a piece of land. This was due to the Lin'an fire in March this year, which caused heavy losses to many Lin'an people and decided to sell the land and move outside the city.
Therefore, Lin'an City now has a lot of land with good locations.
Zhang Qingfeng sold 15 guan, and bought a piece of land that was connected in four directions. It was a total of [-] square meters, which was as big as three basketball courts.
Zhang Qingfeng plans to use this piece of land to build a grand theater in the future.
But the matter of building the Grand Theater cannot be rushed for a while, because he has no money.
Now he can only occupy the land first, and then slowly plan and design after making a profit.
Zhang Qingfeng's first preparation was the newspaper project.
For this reason, Zhang Qingfeng allocated two printing machines from the printing workshop for the printing of newspapers.
One printing press can print a thousand pages of newspaper an hour, and two printing presses can just print the front and back.
This speed is enough for Zhang Qingfeng to distribute newspapers.
Furthermore, although Lin'an City has a population of one million, there must not be many people who can really read newspapers at first.
Zhang Qingfeng estimated that printing [-] newspapers per day would be enough to digest the entire Lin'an and surrounding counties.
"Brother Lu, that's how things are. Do you think you are interested in joining the newspaper? If you come, I will give you a position as editor-in-chief."
On this day, Zhang Qingfeng visited Lu's house, found Lu You's youngest son, Lu Ziyu, and invited him to join the newspaper.
Zhang Qingfeng definitely couldn't run the newspaper by himself, so he needed to find a capable person to help.
Lu Ziyu is Lu You's son. He is certainly talented and academically talented, and he is considered a suitable candidate by Zhang Qingfeng.
"Sanlang, your newspaper sounds good, but can it make money?" Lu Ziyu asked Zhang Qingfeng.
"Brother Lu, don't worry, even if you don't make any money, I won't cut your salary." Zhang Qingfeng said.
"That's not what I meant, I meant... let's do this. I will discuss it with my father when he comes back, and I will give you an answer tomorrow." Lu Ziyu said to Zhang Qingfeng.
"Okay. Then I'll wait for good news from Brother Lu tomorrow." Zhang Qingfeng said.
In the evening, after Lu You returned home, Lu Ziyu told about Yang Sanlang's visit today.
"What kind of newspaper is this? It's interesting."
After listening to Lu Ziyu's explanation, Lu You thought for a while and said: "You have been in An'an for so long and have nothing to do. I think Yang Sanlang's idea is very good. You can try it. Maybe this thing will be of great benefit to me in the future. help."
"Since daddy said so, my son will agree to Yang Sanlang tomorrow." Lu Ziyu said.
The next day, Lu Ziyu found Zhang Qingfeng and agreed to Zhang Qingfeng's request.
However, if you want to work in a newspaper office, you still need to wait for a while.
In the next period of time, Zhang Qingfeng still needs to do some preparatory work.
Such as decorating the facade, recruiting manpower, collecting news materials, writing articles, and so on.
Zhang Qingfeng attached great importance to the first printed newspaper. He didn't plan to make a lot of money from this newspaper.
In his mind, as long as he doesn't lose money, he is considered a success.
He understands the significance of newspapers better than anyone else, and it was the best tool to guide public opinion before the advent of electronic media.
In the West, whoever controls public opinion will be invincible.
In order to make the newspaper more interesting, Zhang Qingfeng also learned from Mr. Jin's practice of serializing novels in the newspaper.
At that time, Ming Pao in Hong Kong did not go bankrupt, thanks to Mr. Jin’s serial novels in the newspaper, which laid the foundation for the rise of Ming Pao.
The novel Zhang Qingfeng chose to serialize is called Magellan's Voyage Diary.
In the story, Magellan, surnamed Magellan and given name Magellan, was a person from the former Wuyue Kingdom.
Magellan was very interested in geography since he was a child. Once, he saw Zhang Heng's armillary sphere.
Seeing this, he thought the earth was round like an egg yolk.
In fact, he didn't know that this was just Zhang Heng's description of the principle of his armillary sphere.
Moreover, Zhang Heng's Huntian theory only simply described the internal and external relations and the size relationship between the sky and the earth, and did not say that the shape of the earth is round.
This passage made many people in later generations misunderstand this, thinking that the ancients knew that the earth is round.
In fact, China first learned that the earth is round in the Ming Dynasty. This was introduced to the Chinese by the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci after Magellan completed his first circumnavigation around the world.
It was not until later generations that many experts verified all Zhang Heng's works in detail that they realized that Zhang Heng did not realize that the earth is round.
Some people in later generations think that the ancients knew that the earth is round, and they took Zhang Heng's words out of context: the sky is like a chicken, the celestial bodies are round like a bullet, and the earth is like a yellow chicken.
However, many people don't know that there is such a record of the "huntian theory" in Zhang Heng's era in "Book of Jin Tianwen Zhi": "The former Confucianism used to say that the body of heaven and earth is shaped like a bird's egg, surrounded by the sky and the earth, like a shell. Its fruit is yellow; it circles around for no reason, and its shape is undisturbed, so it is called Huntian. The sky is 360 five degrees, 580 nine divisions of one hundred and forty-five, half covering the ground and half underground."
The last sentence means that half of Zhou Tian is on the ground and half is underground.
If they knew the earth was round, they wouldn't talk about above ground and below ground.
Zhang Heng himself said: there is water in the surface of the sky, and the sky envelops the earth like a yellow shell.
It means that the earth floats on the water, and the sky and the earth stand by the air.
In "Magellan's Voyage Diary" written by Zhang Qingfeng, it is described that the young Magellan of Wuyue Kingdom misunderstood Zhang Heng's words. He firmly believed that the earth was round, so he had a dream since childhood, that is, to sail around the sea.
He believes that if the earth is round, he will always be able to return to his hometown one day, but if the earth is not round, then he will never be able to return to his hometown.
Magellan's family was very wealthy, and he inherited his father's property after his parents died.
In order to pursue his dream, Magellan sold all his property and used the money to build a large ship that can sail freely in the sea.
After the big ship was built, he spent money to buy some young and strong slaves to serve as sailors, and embarked on the voyage with these slaves.
(End of this chapter)