The Journey of Two Worlds
chapter 13
Chapter 13 – Anticipation Of Conventions And Newspapers
After a week of preparation, Chang'an's First Apricot Flower Cup Poetry Conference was held on the shores of Lake Qujiang in anticipation.
The small Qujiang River was filled with writers and ink stylists who came here in awe. Li Min's goal was to promote her apricot flower wine. On the prepared stage, a banner about five meters long and one meter wide caught the attention of people. Said—Single Sponsor for Apricot Blossom Wine.
On the other side of the stage, Cheng Huailiang came early. He arranged for people to prepare over a dozen tables here, and there was a beautifully shaped white porcelain bowl on the table., staring warily at the passing people from time to time, he said, and behind him was the five altar apricot flower wine, which Li Yin released for free tasting today.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, I. can't do it anymore, I. need to take a nap!" Lu Boyan walked with outstretched steps, his reddened face turned into a large tongue, and this man quietly drank a single catty of white wine in Liang Wangfu, the, he thought This white wine was no different from ordinary rice wine, it could be drunk like cold water !
"God!" Li Yin kicked him to Cheng Huailiang's side, and this person fell to the ground and fell asleep.
Looking at the sun and the sea of humans on the scene, Li Yin felt it was time to start, and winked at Xiao Rui, Xiao Rui understood, and brought the script discussed with Li Yin onto the stage.
“First of all, I would like to warmly welcome the talent and beauty of Chang'an to our Xinghua Wine Cup Poetry Conference. We are very honored to have you here. Contestants, regardless of gender, can sing poetry on stage and sit in the audience. All four are figures of the world of poetry that we invite, namely the jury today.. ”.
The four white-bearded old men in the audience stood up and raised their hands towards the players and spectators behind them. This was what Li Yin had asked them to train before the meeting.
“Oh, which on the right is old Mr Liu, I have the honor to appreciate his poems!” the poet A.
Poet B: “It looks like this competition is rather interesting, and I'm afraid this is just a joke!”
"His Highness Liang Wang is also a prince, will he mess up?" A noble's son jumped out to maintain his class image.
Xiao Rui on the stage continued to spit, and explained the rules of the poetry singing conference, and finally said an important part of the speech, “This event is sponsored exclusively by Xinghuabei Baijiu, and has since been delivered, and free liquor is prepared on site for everyone Tasting, one person is limited to one cup, free wine tasting is on the right side of the venue, then please enjoy the singing and dancing performed by Lichunyuan... ”.
"well!"
Xiao Rui's last sentence completely dyed the atmosphere of the scene, everyone poked their heads to look up at the stage, and the few people who did not care about their image even went up into the tree, like a monkey looking at the moon.
Classical music was heard, and the Lichunyuan dancer, wearing a low-cut dress, walked onto the stage with the waist of a twisted water snake. She smiled charmingly, and her veil fluttered like a butterfly.
The meeting had officially started, and now the atmosphere was very lively. Cheng Huailiang was also busy here. Sima Tu stood in front of the table like a steel tower, staring at everyone who tasted wine. The man threw it away, and after going down several times, the people who tasted wine calmed down, and some people who were not addicted to alcohol could only see others drinking happily.
“I have lived most of my life. I have lived in vain. I really tasted such delicious wine today!”
"Hey, after drinking this wine, I'm afraid I won't be able to drink any other wine in the future!" Someone else breathed.
“Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...”
Li Yin walked amidst the crowd, only to hear Baijiu's current evaluation, and she was very satisfied with the results.
On the other hand, after singing and dancing performances, poetry reading conferences also take place. To save time, Li Yin made four wooden boards for the four judges. The front is circular, and the back is x. The circle represents the consent, and x represents the veto. According to the rules of the competition, the competition is divided into three stages: preliminary round, semi-final, and final. Only when the jury turns on three operands can they go forward, which is simple and quick.
At Lake Qujiang, a painting boat sailed across the lake and rippled. On the painting ship, a twenty or eight year old girl wearing green gauze and a narrow-sleeved pink dress sat quietly in front of the window. Next to him stood a woman in green. The little waiter, right now, the little waiter was looking at the bustling scenery on the beach with his round eyes open.
"Miss, it is said that His Majesty King Liang is also here!" The little girl's eyes swirled, as if she was thinking of something.
The girl glanced at the little waitress reproachfully, "What does this have to do with me!"
“Hee hee, said his master, the emperor has proposed to our Cui family, it seems like His Majesty King Liang!”
The girl blushed and said angrily: “My father has not agreed yet! Moreover, not even the emperor can force the marriage of our five surnames. Besides, this Liang Wang Li Yin is said to be very stubborn, so I will not marry her. People like that.”
Poking her tongue out, the little servant girl said again: "But it is said that the temperament of His Majesty King Liang has changed a lot now, and she is already very different from before!"
“The country is easy to change and the nature is hard to change. Who can guarantee that he accidentally pretended after hearing that the emperor proposed to my Cui family. The girl had a very bad impression of the rumored Li Yin.
Despite having done enough preparation, Li Yin still underestimated the enthusiasm of the people in Chang'an. He had completely forgotten how small this entertainment was. A little feng shui will attract a lot of people to watch. The morning is not over. The wine that had come was up, Li Yin had no choice but to let Jin Daqian return to Prince Liang's house and bring some more jars.
But in general, the marketing strategy is very successful. Many restaurants come here to discuss the purchase of apricot flower wine, and the following are very simple.
At sunset, the first Apricot Flower Cup Poetry Competition in Chang'an ended successfully. Xiao Rui spoke on stage on behalf of Li Yin, and gave bonuses to the top three in the competition, which envy the audience. Go home and study poetry and books aloud, and fight again in the future.
The busy day made the reputation of Xinghua wine spread throughout Chang'an, and there were countless merchants who came to buy Xinghua wine. Currently, the best wine in Chang'an city could sell for 250 yuan per bottle. Li Yin weighed it After that, the bottle contained at most one catty of wine. On second thought, Li Yin set the price of apricot flower wine at five hundred Wen per catty, and a bottle of wine at around a hundred catties, that is, a bottle of Huajiu apricot flower wine could be sold for around fifty. guans.
“This is a big profit!” Li Yin sighed after calculating the price and the result. With the proficiency of the palace servants, he was now able to produce 30 liquor altars daily, which was a daily income of 1,500 guan. Forty-five thousand guan, plus retail income from shampoo, now Prince Liang's house can produce 50,000 guan in a month, and live directly to a life of adequacy.
After the price was set, Li Min gave the rest to Jin Daqian, and told him that he would stay behind closed doors for the past two days, not meeting anyone, not meeting anyone, and not let anyone bother him.
This meeting made Li Yin realize how clogged the information flow was during the Tang Dynasty, and she could only rely on word of mouth information to convey information, so a bold idea came to her mind, he wanted to run the world's first newspaper. Tang Dynasty, Sticking to public opinion about Tang Dynasty.
Running a newspaper requires a printing press. Printing types moving backwards in the Tang Dynasty were not reliable at all. The other point is paper. Currently, the price of slightly better paper was very expensive, and Li Yin newspapers to the public, which was obviously not very good. Yes, the newspaper industry can only run if it is produced cheap paper.
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