In order to effectively control his own territory, Li Lu used a large number of people who were absolutely loyal to himself to govern the locality, and at the same time, the sea sent a lot of secret spies of Jinyiwei and a lot of collectors, and even Li Lu left Broken Leaf more than once to secretly inspect various places, why, not so that he could get first-hand information from all over the place, so as to provide a reference for him to adjust the policy strategy?
A few days ago, he just returned to Broken Leaves from Connecticut, when he was in Connecticut, Li Lu noticed a thing, that is, the favorite place of the people under his rule was actually the propaganda columns on both sides of the official yamen......
Why do people like to look at what's on the billboards?
After Li Lu visited a few people, he came to the conclusion that the things on this propaganda board are closely related to the lives of the people, not only the policies and decrees of the government, but also the weather forecasts made by the Daomen, the introduction of new technologies and improved varieties in the agricultural sector, and even the supply and demand information appeared on the propaganda boards of places with relatively developed commercial economies like Connecticut......
After returning to the broken leaves, Li Lu was thinking about this matter, his subordinates in the system should say that they did it very well, at the beginning, he just mentioned the concept of Di Bao to his subordinates, and they showed their magic across the sea with eight immortals, and made this Di Bao do well, but Li Lu felt that there was still something shortcoming, "Di Bao, Di Bao ....."
Li Lu muttered for a while, "Huh?
Newspapers, newspapers?
That's right, it's a newspaper!
”Li Lu has been implementing the full-name literacy movement through the Daomen, and the people are literate, so naturally they can't implement the policy of fooling the people like the dynasty on the Central Plains, so Li Lu implemented the propaganda board to guide the people under his rule, and from now on, it seems that he is doing a good job.But that's right, it's not very convenient for the people to do this, and it's necessary to upgrade the newspaper on this propaganda board to a newspaper.......
Thinking of the term newspaper, Li Lu called Guo Tu, the director of the Propaganda and Education Department in charge of propaganda and education, "From the new (Guo Tu's character), I have an idea.......
Li Lu told Guo Tu his idea of upgrading the Di Bao to an official newspaper, Guo Tu listened to it for a long time before asking, "Your Majesty, how often do you plan to publish this newspaper?"
And how to calculate the status of this newspaper..........
As soon as this newspaper is opened, what should unscrupulous people do if they use it to incite the people?
And my king, although we have a lot of paper workshops in Jiankun, and the paper is cheaper than in the Central Plains, but the printing you are talking about is really expensive......."
Guo Tubala said a lot, and after he finished speaking, "From the beginning, this first newspaper is naturally government-run, as the mouthpiece of the government, and the funds are financed by the finance.....
As for the wrongdoers you are worried about, this is easy to do, and we can set up a newspaper censorship mechanism........
Release time.It's okay once a week......"
Li Lu thought for a while and said, "But, from the beginning, what did you just say, the printing cost is expensive, what's the matter?"
”"Your Majesty, please go to the printing workshop of our Mission Department with Lao Chen and take a look........
"The Mission Department headed by Guo Tu has the responsibility of copying official documents, so they set up a printing workshop.When Li Lu followed Guo Tu to the printing workshop, several carvers were serious about engraving, they didn't notice the arrival of Li Lu and Guo Tu, "Your Majesty, you see, this is our most advanced engraving printing now, to make an engraving, you must find a skilled carver, and their wages will definitely not be low."
And according to what you said, we're going to have to print several pages, and then we're going to have more and more things to engrave.If you do as you say, then we will invite a lot of carvers to use to engrave engravings, my good highness, our finances can't bear it......"
Lao Guo stayed in Li Lu's financial secretary, and naturally calculated the accounts very carefully.Just when Li Lu and Guo Tu were talking, the carvers heard it, they looked up, it turned out to be their boss and the king (Great Khan) came, they quickly put down the carving knife in their hands, to Li Lu salute, Li Lu hurriedly waved his hand, let them not have to salute, they were busy with their own good, leaving only the carver's foreman Hu Old Man, Li Lu looked at the scene, found that this is really engraving printing, what you want to print, what you carve, but after this carving, this version can only print this thing, If you want to print something else, you have to re-engrave it, no wonder Guo Tu said that the price is expensive.Li Lu now understands, if he doesn't solve the problem of engraving, even if his Jiankun country can produce a lot of cheaper paper, and to solve this problem, it is necessary to let movable type printing be invented in advance, this time he plans to get started in person, and if you want to play on the advanced, what clay type, wooden type, all don't use, if you want to do it, you can make it big, Li Lu decided to go directly to the alloy type, the reason is very simple, when he went to Germany to study medicine, he went to the Gutenberg Printing Museum, He was very familiar with the rudimentary printing press and the ink, and even the formula of the ink and the proportion of the alloy he knew."
I'll leave this question to me!"
Li Lu said very confidently, "Li Songyi, you go and call Shen Kuo and Song Yingxing to me......
"With the assistance of the two top scientists and the old man Hu and other masters, the movable type printing of this time and space appeared in the Broken Leaf City, after Li Lu provided the total proportion, the two great scientists of Shen and Song made fine-tuning to determine the best alloy ratio, when casting characters, it was the idea of the engraving master Hu Laotou, and the movable type was divided into father type and mother type (convex and concave type) when casting movable type.
Fine sand or clay is used as the mother type, and the parent type is made of wood.The wooden type is carved out first, then printed in the clay, the wooden type is taken out, the molten lead tin water is poured into the clay mold, and the trimming is taken out, which becomes the lead type.According to engraving printing, paper is generally placed on the layout and rolled with a roller from above, but the paper surface that has been crushed in this way will become thicker, and the reverse side of the paper cannot be used; In order to solve this problem, the movable type public relations team led by Li Lu changed to put paper underneath after working together, pressed the layout down from the top to print, and used a crusher to force the metal plate on the paper, so that the text was printed quickly and beautifully.Compared with the ink used in woodblock engraving and printing, the adaptability of metal movable type to water-based ink is very poor, so it is necessary to use a new colorant, they chose the manufacture of oil-based ink, and in Li Lu's meeting, the craftsmen boiled the linseed oil, cooled it to a dark black, and then mixed it with turpentine essence and carbon black obtained by distilling a small amount of pine resin, and left it for a period of time to obtain a suitable ink.The printing press is made by the two scientists of Shen and Song, and the two of them made this wooden printing machine, the operation is not complicated, the movable type plate that has been arranged is fixed on the bottom table, and the embossing plate on the top is controlled by an iron spiral rod, which can be up or down.There is a tie rod under the screw, which is pushed by manpower to obtain the required pressure for printing.Dip the sheepskin cushion wrapped in wool and dip the ink, brush the ink on the movable type, then spread the paper, shake the screw rod, and the handwriting can be printed through the pressure of the embossing plate.With this black technology of alloy movable type printing, Li Lu was finally able to put his idea of running a newspaper into practice, under Li Lu's order, a newspaper called Guangming Weekly was officially established in Broken Leaf City, this Guangming Weekly newspaper issued two newspapers, one is the main lecture on the military and political economy of Jiankun State, the other is the commercial color of the "Minsheng Daily", yes, it is a daily newspaper, originally this "Minsheng" was also intended to be a weekly newspaper, but because of the printing press, the printing speed has been greatly improved, the newspaper simply made a daily newspaper......
The two newspapers soon gained their own fans, such as "Guangming Weekly" is the favorite of those dignitaries, such as the favorite thing of Lao Du, the prime minister of Jiankun State, is to let the old servant take the newspaper in the hand of the postman, and then take the newspaper himself to read carefully in the study, and from time to time he high-fived and admired, because in addition to the news, its supplement also often publishes some articles and poems, as long as he feels that he has some literary masters, he will submit articles to the newspaper, As soon as the newspaper adopted its own manuscript, it was immediately overjoyed, and there were many people dancing."
After the old man returns to Chang'an, he must play in His Majesty, and also open a newspaper in Chang'an to guide the people to ......"
Lao Du's eyes are so poisonous, he has long seen the importance of this newspaper, "There is also the censorship system of the newspaper, and the ...... can also be imitated" and another "Minsheng Daily" because it is close to the lives of the people, it is very popular with the people, and even later, even the herdsmen on the grassland like this newspaper, and the reason why the people like it is very simple, businessmen can put advertisements on it, Farmers and herders can learn the latest production techniques from the agricultural technology section above, as well as serialized their favorite novels, whether they are merchants, farmers and herdsmen, or handicraft workers, all of whom like it, and the first urges were born......The popularity of "Guangming Weekly" and "Minsheng Daily", coupled with Li Lu's promulgation of the "Measures for Matters Related to the Establishment of Newspapers".
After the relevant decrees, powerful organizations or individuals have opened newspapers, such as the "Tai Chi" magazine of Daomen, the "Silver Needle Monthly" for doctors, and the "Wentian" sponsored by the science and technology department......
After Li Lu learned that even Confucianism also learned to run a newspaper, he smiled, "A few rotten Confucians, they also want to compete with the old paper for the dominance of public opinion, you don't want to think about it, there is no old paper to promote Chinese and Chinese characters at any cost, who can understand your little tofu block?"
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