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Chapter 878 A perfect match!

As the capital of the Great Sheng Dynasty, the living standards of the people in Shengjing City are obviously much higher than those in other places.

Because of this, everyone has more spare money to do other things, such as sending their children to school.

As more people read, everyone's cultural level will rise rapidly.

Although universal literacy is not yet possible, more than 80% of the city's population has escaped illiteracy and reading a newspaper is no problem at all.

Each copy of Shengjing Daily only cost eight cents and was sold in every bookstore in the city.

The King of England learned from the experience of previous storytelling competitions and hired more than a hundred people to sell newspapers around the city on the day of publication, making the advertisement known to everyone in the city.

For the wealthy people in Shengjing, eight cents was just the money for a bowl of braised pork noodles.

Many people are curious about newspapers. Moreover, since they heard that it was sponsored by the King of England and there was such a big shot in charge, the quality should be guaranteed, so many people were willing to pay for a newspaper to try it out.

Three thousand copies of Shengjing Daily were sold out on the day of publication.

Luo Yechen was very happy to see that the newspaper was selling so well.

In fact, you can't make much money from running a newspaper, because the cost of paper and printing is too high these days. Three thousand copies may not seem like a large number, but it was produced by more than a hundred workers working overtime, which is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive.

The newspaper, which was made with such great effort, was sold for only eight cents.

The profit is really low, it's just hard-earned money.

Fortunately, Luo Yechen was not short of money. For him, as long as he did not lose money, he was making a profit.

He was very satisfied with the sales of the newspaper on the first day and immediately asked someone to arrange the second issue.

Gradually, more and more people read newspapers in the small streets and alleys of Shengjing City, and there were many more customers in the teahouses. Those people sat in the teahouses with newspapers, drinking tea while reading the newspapers, and from time to time they could chat with people around them about the news in the newspapers, feeling very comfortable.

Most men pay more attention to current political affairs.

Since the front pages of recent newspapers are almost all about tax reform, this matter has naturally become the focus of the people.

They all expressed their support for the tax reform, believing that it would be a good thing for the country and the people.

Some people even went to various bookstores to post notes on their message boards, expressing their support for the tax reform policy.

Women are more concerned about gossip.

There are all kinds of gossip in the newspapers, some of which even involve the royal family and the harem.

Although the author deliberately blurred the specific time and place, any discerning person can guess at a glance that those things may have happened in the royal family or the palace.

For example, there is a report in the newspaper:

"I thought they were a match made in heaven, but I never thought the truth would be so dirty..."

The story is about a woman who misunderstands that a man is having an affair with a married woman, and wants to use this to threaten the man to obey her. She lures the man to a deserted place and intends to do something indecent, but is accidentally discovered and exposed. The two are so ashamed and their reputations are ruined that they have to accept the arranged marriage.

A group of onlookers quickly figured out that the man in the article was the Prince of Jing County, and the woman was naturally Princess Hua'an's daughter Xia Yuran.

It just so happens that these two are getting married tomorrow.

The people in the city were enjoying the melons with great joy.

On the day of Wang's wedding in Jing County, both sides of the street were filled with onlookers.

They pointed and talked about the King of Jing County who was riding on a tall horse.

"I didn't expect that the King of Jing County, who looks like a decent person, is actually so despicable in private."

"That's what they call not judging a person by his appearance!"

"Look at his eyes, he's a playboy. Whoever marries him will be unlucky."

"That Xia Yuran is a perfect match for him. One is pretty and the other is bad. They are a perfect match!"

…

The onlookers at least knew their limits and lowered their voices so as not to be heard by Prince Jing.

The King of Jing County had no idea what the people were talking about. When he saw so many people coming to watch him get married, he thought it was because of his great personal charm, and his mood couldn't help but be very good.

The wedding procession stopped at the gate of the Princess's Mansion.

The King of Jing County saw that all the onlookers had followed him and were looking at him eagerly.

He felt more and more proud.

Even when the King of England got married, there weren't so many onlookers.

He really has a great presence today!

The King of Jing County raised his chin slightly, smiled, strode up the steps and stood in front of the door.

The onlookers not far away continued to discuss in low voices.

"Tsk tsk, look at his smug look."

"I don't know why he's so happy. If I were him, I would be too embarrassed to face anyone right now."

"Look, he's still smiling. He's about to marry a vicious woman, and he can still smile?!"

…

Not long after, the bride was carried out on someone's back.

She had a red veil on her head, so her face couldn't be seen.

Soon the bride got into the sedan chair.

An eight-person sedan carried the bride toward the Prince of Jing County's palace, with the Prince of Jing County riding a tall horse at the front of the procession.

There were people coming to see the bride off in front and behind, and the sounds of suona, gongs and drums mixed with firecrackers made the place extremely lively and bustling.

According to custom, the bride-welcoming party and the bride-sending party cannot take the same route, otherwise it would be considered taboo.

So they changed their route back, which was a little longer.

The number of onlookers did not decrease, but increased instead.

Everybody is here to eat melons.

However, the King of Jing County himself was not aware of this.

Seeing everyone's enthusiasm, he felt very proud.

When people are proud, they tend to be impulsive.

The King of Jing County raised his hand and issued an order to scatter handfuls of wedding money and candies along the way.

His original intention was to take this opportunity to show off his generosity.

However, they did not expect that because there were so many people at the scene, after the wedding money and candies were distributed, it directly caused a riot in the audience.

In order to scramble for the wedding money, everyone pushed and shoved each other, and many people fell down.

Some lucky people stood up quickly, but some unlucky people were stepped on several times before they could even stand up, and they were injured and screamed in pain.

A few guys with bad tempers even rolled up their sleeves and started fighting.

The situation began to get out of control, and even the wedding procession was affected and had to slow down.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the King of Jing County regained some sense and immediately ordered people to stop throwing wedding money and candies, and asked the guards accompanying him to maintain order.

However, there were so many people watching that the dozen or so guards were unable to pull them apart and they were soon drowned in the crowd.

The situation was getting out of control and more and more people were injured.

There were cries and curses everywhere.

The wedding procession was forced to stop.

The good mood of King Jing County was gone. He looked at this group of fools with a gloomy face, wishing he could kill all these fools who were in his way one by one with a knife.

(End of this chapter)