With Bi Sheng's joining, the movable type printing workshop also progressed rapidly. Half a month later, the first edition of the newspapers printed with copper movable type finally began to be distributed. To be cautious, the number of newspapers in the first edition was not large, only 10,000 copies were printed, and then they were sent to various districts of the capital for sale.

However, what Li Zhang did not expect was that these 10,000 newspapers were sold out in less than half an hour. For this reason, they had to be printed twice, and finally printed 30,000 copies to meet the needs of the city. In fact, this is normal. After all, the most in Beijing is rich and scholars, and these people are potential customers of newspapers.

The most important thing is that newspapers have done a lot of publicity before they are published, which is also Li Zhang's strengths. After all, although the routine of hype is very old, it is very useful. In addition, newspapers are indeed very useful, especially for readers and businessmen, they can learn a lot of information from the newspapers, but before the newspapers, they can only understand the information through word of mouth. Not only is it inaccurate, but there may also be false news.

In contrast, the Dasong Daily published is an official newspaper. The accuracy of the news on it can be guaranteed, and there are even many outsiders who cannot find out about the news. This is very important to anyone, so it is normal for people to be snatched after the newspaper is published.

In the pavilion in the back garden, Li Zhang was holding a newspaper with a cup of fragrant tea next to it. He was drinking tea while reading the newspaper. Although he had read the contents of the newspaper for a long time, they were all handwritten manuscripts before, but now they were printed on the paper in lead type, which looked very different.

"Zhang Fangping finally got enlightened. This article is written very well for exempting tax accumulation!" Li Zhang looked at the article written by Zhang Fangping in the newspaper and nodded repeatedly.

The so-called tax accumulation means that taxes cannot be collected from all over the country. This situation is very common. After all, in some places, when encountering natural disasters and man-made disasters, taxes may not be collected for several years, and it is unlikely that they will be collected in the future. As a result, many such tax accumulations have been accumulated over the years. Since they cannot be collected, Zhao Zhen simply exempted these taxes, which can reduce the burden on the people and gain a good reputation of kindness.

This practice of exempting tax accumulation was not first created by Zhao Zhen. In fact, he learned it from his father Zhao Heng. Although Zhao Heng had a bad reputation in history and could even be called a foolish monarch, in fact, when Zhao Heng first ascended the throne, he also made many reforms in the country. Unfortunately, Zhao Heng failed to persevere later and lost all the accumulation of the first half of his life.

In addition to Zhang Fangping's articles, there are also articles written by other newspapers, mostly about the interpretation of some newly promulgated laws of the imperial court's reforms, and some interesting stories about the capital were added to the corners of the newspaper.

Speaking of which, although the Dasong Daily is an official institution, there are not many real officials. In addition to Zhang Fangping, the editor-in-chief, there are three other editors who are officials. Most of the remaining personnel are young people hired. Originally, Li Zhang wanted to call them journalists according to the customs of later generations, but these young people felt that "record" and "prostitute" were homophones and were unwilling to do so. So after the discussion, they decided to call themselves "reporting things". Originally, they were people who worked in newspapers.

"There are even articles by Ouyang Xiu. It seems that even senior officials of the Song Dynasty were attracted by the newspaper!" Li Zhang turned to the back and saw an article written by Ouyang Xiu at a glance. This article was no longer straightforward and easy to understand, but an article for real scholars. Although the writing was brilliant, Li Zhang was not interested.

However, although Li Zhang was not interested, many scholars would definitely be very interested. After all, the biggest wish of these scholars in their lives was not only to govern the country and pacify the world, but the most important thing was to spread their talents and reputations throughout the world. Therefore, scholars often took out their articles to share with others. Now with the newspaper channel, there would definitely be opportunities for scholars to see it, not to mention that Ouyang Xiu has set an example for them.

After reading this first issue of the Song Dynasty Daily, Li Zhang also asked someone to keep the newspaper carefully. As the first newspaper in the world, its first issue is also very valuable for collection. Moreover, Li Zhang has ordered newspapers for a year, and people will deliver the newspaper to his doorman every day in the future.

Thinking of the fact that there will be newspapers to read every day in the future, Li Zhang also feels that there will be more expectations in his future life. Of course, when the newspaper is first published, he will definitely encounter many problems. He also needs to help Zhang Fangping check it out. However, with Zhang Fangping's talent, it is estimated that it won't take long to worry about it.

"Master, I just sent it from the palace here!" At this moment, a maid suddenly walked up to Li Zhang quickly, then put a document in front of him and said.

Li Zhang took the document and his maid stepped down very carefully. When Li Zhang opened the document and saw the content on it, he couldn't help but feel happy, because it was actually a piece of information about the Liao Kingdom, to be precise, it was the information of Yelu Renxian's expedition to the west.

As early as a few months ago, Yelu Zongzhen was crazy and insisted on expeditioning Dangxiang. In the end, Yelu Ren first led his troops to the expedition and recruited many Jurchens to accompany him. However, Li Zhang was not very optimistic about this Western Expedition because Li Yuanhao could completely delay the Liao army. Due to the situation of the Liao Kingdom, it would not last long. Then it was time for Li Yuanhao to counterattack.

In fact, Li Yuanhao's strategy was almost exactly the same as Li Zhang's guess. Li Yuanhao probably knew that Yelu Renxian was not easy to deal with, so when facing Yelu Renxian's army, he did not confront him head-on, but sent a small group of troops to harass him. At the same time, he firmly blocked the walls and cleared the field and did not give the Liao army a chance to supply.

If it were an ordinary general, he would probably not be able to hold on to Li Yuanhao's fighting style for a month. After all, the supply line of the Liao Kingdom was too far away, and even if the nearby grain was collected, it still couldn't keep up.

However, Yelu Renxian was prepared for a long time. Most of the cavalry he led this time were mares. When the food could not keep up, he would let the horses milk and fill their stomachs. Moreover, Yelu Renxian found Li Yuanhao's must-have rescue place many times, forcing Li Yuanhao to appear and fight him.

However, Li Yuanhao was also very cunning. Even though he was trying to lose some of his manpower, he tried his best to avoid head-on battles with the Liao army, which made Yelu Renxian's previous calculations fail many times. As time went by, the situation of the Liao army became worse and worse. Even if the food was barely supported, other supplies had been exhausted, and the army was even more struggling and their morale was extremely low.

Faced with this situation, Yelu Renxian also wrote letters to ask for withdrawal of the army many times, but Yelu Zongzhen suffered another old problem and refused to withdraw his army no matter what. It is estimated that in Yelu Zongzhen's view, it is understandable that it was defeated by the Song army last time, but if he was defeated by the little Dangxiang this time, his face would be completely lost.

Yelu Zong was really unwilling to withdraw his troops. Although Yelu Renxian was the commander, if he forced his troops to retreat, it would be a death sentence. Therefore, Yelu Renxian had no choice but to bite the bullet and deal with Li Yuanhao. However, the Liao army had already no intention of fighting at this time, and the Jurchens had caused trouble several times.

Li Yuanhao was extremely smart and quickly noticed the situation of the Liao army, which made him quickly seize the opportunity and finally launched a decisive battle against the Liao army on the banks of the Uguru River. As a result, Yelu Renxian was defeated. In the end, the Liao army suffered tens of thousands of casualties and retreated to Zhenzhou in the east before he could stabilize his footing.

"Yelu Ren was finally defeated. Now Li Yuanhao's power is greatly boosted, and his strength will expand faster in the future!" After reading the information in his hand, Li Zhang also frowned and said to himself.

Li Yuanhao had already become a dog of a stray family, but he did not expect that he would take advantage of the opportunity of the battle between Song and Liao. This time he was able to defeat the Liao army completely, and even ruled the Uguru River with the Liao Kingdom. Although this weakened the strength of the Liao Kingdom, it made the Song Dynasty once again have a powerful enemy.
Chapter completed!