After breakfast the next day, Gawain took out the plan he had written the night before and asked Hetty to read it.
It is said to be a plan, but in fact it contains far more detailed content than the plan—Gao Wen not only had to write in the plan the plan for organizing the newspaper and the manpower and material resources required, but also spent a lot of space explaining what is Newspapers, and what is the significance of newspapers, and finally there are a lot of things that may be encountered in the preparation of newspapers and solutions, etc...
There is no way to write the plan in such detail. This is the experience and lessons that Gao Wen has accumulated since he uncovered the coffin. He found that the biggest problem he has to face when he proposes a new concept in this world is often not whether people will accept it. , because he has the identity of the founder of the country, and he has the fighting power to blow the head of any dog in the territory, so he never has to consider the execution of his words by the people around him. The real trouble is that many times people may not be able to listen. Understand what he is describing.
To propose a brand-new conceptual product, he will propose more new terms to describe it, and these new terms may also need to be explained in more languages. Some things that he takes for granted, in this People in this world seem to need two or even three layers of "translation" to understand what it is. After encountering such problems several times, he has to write a new translation every time he proposes a new thing. Detailed information, and explain the basic concepts and functions of such new things in the information.
Of course, this will take a lot of time in the early stage, but it saves him and everyone the effort to explain new things in the follow-up, and there is a clear document for people to circulate, which can also prevent these things from being handed over several times. Then there was a deviation, so that when it was finally realized, it deviated from what he expected by thousands of miles.
"Newspaper?" Hetty carefully read through the materials that her ancestors handed her. She is now familiar with such materials, and knows that whenever her ancestors take out such a stack of things, she has to work hard to understand them. This is an unprecedented but quite miraculous thing, but this time the ancestors proposed something different from usual—this does not seem to be a new magical machine, nor is it a new management concept, but a... extremely cheap ... scrolls
"You can understand it as printing out thousands of copies of the bulletin boards in the town center, and adding some content such as common sense of life, new things inside and outside the territory, price changes, and popular science knowledge, and finally form a cheap, capable Time-sensitive reading materials," Gao Wen explained, and also explained the meaning of the three words time-sensitive, "Time-sensitive means that the content on it is recent, and it is only valid in the near future. It will be useless. For example, the price of grain in the last two days, this is time-sensitive information.”
Hetty understood Gawain's words thoughtfully, and Amber, who had started wandering around the restaurant after eating and drinking, suddenly came over and looked at Gawain with a surprised face: "Wow—you are forcing After killing those pharmacists, alchemists, and miners, you finally decided to kill the intelligence dealers inside and outside the territory?"
Gao Wen was taken aback by this guy's sudden words: "What's the matter with the intelligence dealer?"
"Isn't this nonsense, you printed all this information on this thing called 'newspaper', obviously you just want to monopolize the intelligence business - I still learned the word monopoly from you," Amber said, shaking her head, " You really don’t leave any room for others to survive!”
"If these things in the newspaper can be regarded as intelligence..." Gao Wen understood Amber's words, and shook his head dumbfoundingly, "Well, then I'm going to kill this so-called 'information dealer'."
"The function of the newspaper is to enable the people to understand the new things around them more quickly, and at the same time help to spread popular science knowledge, general education, and publicize the new regulations and new systems of the Government Affairs Department, so as to enhance the power of the ruler's words..." He Dee didn't care about Amber's interruption, but read what Gao Wen wrote seriously. She could understand every word on it, but she couldn't imagine why the newspaper would have such a great effect, "Ancestor , don’t bulletin boards in towns have this function?”
"Yes, but the limitations of the bulletin board are too great," Gao Wen shook his head, "Our population is increasing, and the city is getting bigger and bigger. It is obviously too inefficient to only rely on the bulletin board to disseminate information. And there is one more point— There are more and more people who can read and write in the territory, which means that they have a stronger ability to accept knowledge and learn skills, and the amount of information that the bulletin board can provide them is far from enough."
Hetty suddenly thought of what she reported to Gao Wen yesterday, and she tentatively asked, "Is this... also related to improving the security environment?"
"That's right," Gao Wen nodded slightly, "it can make people discern reason. The more things they understand, the more people can think rationally and break free from ignorance. I know that many nobles in this era think that common people They are born savage, so they fight, drink and gamble, but in fact no one is born savage, they just lack the acquired correction and the right way to expend their energy."
Amber strolled up behind Hetty, poked her head and looked at the materials written by Gawain, then suddenly raised her head and asked: "But having said that... you are really obsessed with letting commoners know more Something 'ah... is it really necessary to do this?"
Gao Wen smiled: "Of course it is necessary - I not only want to keep the people warm and well-fed, but I also want to let them know why they are able to live a good life and why they were starving in the past. Dong, only in this way can they support Cecil's new order from the bottom of their hearts, identify with this land, and create cohesion."
Amber raised her eyelids, and those amber eyes were full of curiosity: "You really think differently from others."
"I know that no lord has ever considered this before, because they feel that the common people are a weak and ignorant group. As long as the sword and the staff are still in their hands, they never worry about the life and death of the common people. and ideas, but I never think so," Gao Wen smiled, "You have all seen the machines controlled by ordinary people in factories, and you have seen new guns and bombs, you should know that when wisdom is used After being in the right place, ordinary people still have the ability to shake extraordinary people—it's just that no one has paid attention to their power for thousands of years."
At this time, Rebecca, who had been listening for a long time in a daze, suddenly came to her senses, and stared at Gao Wen: "Ah! I understand, my lord ancestor, so the printing press you showed me yesterday is for this purpose." — No wonder you keep emphasizing convenience and editability…”
"It is indeed for this purpose," Gao Wen nodded. "Only a new type of printing machine capable of continuous printing and rapid plate making can meet the requirements of mass circulation and strong timeliness of newspapers."
Rebecca scratched her hair: "That's over, I don't know when the printing press will be made..."
"It's okay, don't worry, you can study it slowly," Gao Wen smiled and waved his hands, "Since there is no way to do it in one step, then let's take it slowly. For things like newspapers, let's not insist on one issue every day—you can go first Use woodblock printing, starting with one issue per week. For the territories at this stage and the citizens who have never had cheap reading materials, even a newspaper published every ten days is of great significance."
This world also has the concept of "week", but a week is not seven days, but according to the legend in ancient mythology that the earth rises from the ocean within ten days, a week is set to ten days, so that a month with sixty days is just right. There are six weeks.
In Gao Wen's opinion, things like "daily" are great, but if they can't be realized in the early stage, there is no need to force them. The traditional Ansu engraving printing technology takes at least two days from carving wax boards to making Yangwen clay boards, printing paper, and drying ink. In addition to the lack of experience in starting newspapers in the early stage, it is difficult to guarantee efficiency. It will take more time, so he simply publishes a "weekly report" every ten days according to the calendar of this world, which is completely possible.
In this era, except for the Cecil Territory, the development of most areas is slow and monotonous, and there is hardly much news to speak of outside the Territory. The content of the newspaper is also unnecessary, and in addition to the current size of the territory, the news and changes that have occurred are very limited, so it is very reasonable to publish a weekly newspaper.
If there is really any special news, you can still issue "external numbers".
"Newspaper is a thing that needs to be issued for a long time, so we need to set up a special department to do this." Gao Wen saw that Hetty had realized the significance of the newspaper, and then said, "The department that issues newspapers can be called 'Newspaper office', in theory, if the newspaper office develops in the future, and even private newspaper offices are established among the people, we will also set up a special management department in the government affairs department to deal with cultural propaganda affairs, but at this stage, we will first establish one that is directly managed by The newspaper office controlled by the government affairs department is enough. The newspaper office should have an editor responsible for the content of the newspaper, as well as a 'reporter' who collects news, and... "
Gao Wen explained all kinds of things. In fact, these things were also mentioned in the materials he gave to Hetty, but after he explained them himself, it was easier for Hetty to understand.
"This requires some learned people to do it." Hetty rubbed the center of her brows, and began to think about candidates in this area, "There must be no such talents among the civilians who have just learned to read and write... The one brought back by Santis Criticism of scholars can be considered."
"Those Royal Capital scholars..." Gao Wen pondered for a moment, "What are they doing now?"
"Some of them have gone to teach in the school, and it is said that they are doing well. After all, they were screened by Santis, and they are very comfortable here. There are also a group of people who are learning rune logic from Jenny and Kamel," Rebecca baba said, "There are also some in the Magic Technology Research Institute, they are very interested in the magic engine - I told them that it is the 'lost ancient technology' brought out by my ancestors, and they all learned it. They forget to sleep and eat. There are still a few people who have not been assigned."
The corner of Gao Wen's mouth curled up: "It's not bad, I'm still worried that those people from Wangdu will not get used to it after coming here."
"I'm getting used to it," Rebecca said with a grin. "There are new things here, and everything is enough for them to study, and many of them bear the name of 'lost ancient technology', let alone those gangs. Scholars, even those official mages and mage apprentices, are now honest, for fear that I will not let them enter the laboratory. Of course, I think the main reason is that they saw Kamel all the way with sparks and lightning in the lab. Running around in the territory, they were all stunned..."
Gao Wen saw that the topic was about to go off track, so he quickly pulled it back: "Ahem, okay, let's choose a few people from those Royal Capital scholars to prepare the first issue of Cecil's newspaper. Hetty , I will leave this matter to you."
Hetty put away the thick stack of materials, and lowered her head deeply: "Please rest assured."