Chapter 358 Entertainment and Gao Wen's Dilemma

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Entertainment in this age is extremely monotonous and sparse.

Long before the time-travel, Gao Wen had seen descriptions of the scarcity of entertainment in ancient times in various novels and film and television dramas. This can be said to be an old saying, but after the time-travel, he still had to sigh that this sentence is really not true. I am just joking.

In this world, entertainment is not only scarce, but also very restricted by social class. For the upper-class nobles, the biggest entertainment in their spare time should be enjoying opera, music, hunting, and dancing. Although in Gawain's eyes, it is still very boring, But it is also a colorful life, but it is obviously impossible for the lower class to afford this extravagant life, so the lower the social class, the fewer entertainment items people can access.

Going to the bar to drink and fight, gamble in a few simple ways and eventually turn into fights, listen to the rap of street bards, of course, people here call it legendary poetry, which is almost the work of the common people. The only way to relax is left, and all they can do is probably have kids at home, but even then, they still have very little leisure time.

Due to the low productivity and, more importantly, the oppression of the lords and nobles, most commoners have almost no so-called "leisure time". Living with food and clothing, most people do not have any excess energy and physical strength after filling their stomachs, and this is exactly what most noble lords are happy to see: untouchables work hard, and do not produce any "unreasonable". Dividing thoughts", no one makes trouble, no one is lazy, and naturally everyone is happy.

But in Cecil Land, the situation has changed.

The people are full, and not only are they full, they have extra money and time to rest.

This kind of situation, which was taken for granted in Gawain's previous life, was unprecedented in this world and caught the manager by surprise.

"After a period of construction in the territory, all kinds of infrastructure have been completed, survival is no longer a problem, and the production pressure of the factory has begun to ease, so we have entered the next stage," Gao Wen slowly cleared the chess pieces on the table , said to Hetty, "In the past, everyone in the territory had to do their best to survive, no one had leisure time, so the order was good, but now we don't need this, the people are starting to get reasonable After rest, the food supply has become abundant, so the people who have enough food, drink and leisure will naturally need to do something to consume their energy. According to the general rule, they can only go to the bar to drink, and then fight with people in the streets and alleys, or spare money More went to seek some flesh business, or gathered a crowd to gamble... The law and order became worse and worse in the process, but it was not their fault.

"We can't have people working non-stop, the pressure that builds up will only make the law and order worse, so we have to give the people some entertainment."

Gawain put away the chess box, raised his head and looked into Heidi's eyes.

"Chess is a good thing, it can kill time, exercise intelligence, be able to tell the difference between the winners and losers, and it's fun in the process, but it's unrealistic to rely on a game of chess to solve security problems, we have to do more. .

"It should be regarded as a responsibility to make people feel satisfied and happy, not just to keep them fed and clothed, but also to allow them to enjoy a spiritual life as a matter of course.

"In addition to chess, I also improved the rules of the king's deck. The original rules of the king's deck were too complicated, and it was entertainment for more learned people to understand, and it was not suitable for promotion to the whole people, so I simplified it. , so that ordinary people can also master it, I named it the lord deck. In addition, I also thought of several games that can be played indoors, which are not complicated and are very interesting. In addition, the original games used for gambling This kind of dice game, we can also remove or limit its gambling elements for promotion and publicity.

"I plan to open such a chess and card room in the territory, which can be integrated with the bar, but only provide drinks such as low-alcohol and sour grass water, and its main function is to relax and entertain people. In addition, the production cost of these chess and cards is also very low. , which can be opened to merchants and craftsmen, allowing them to make and sell them, which can increase some income for the territory and enrich the life of the residents at home.

"Besides that, for those who don't like having fun indoors, I've also conceived of several outdoor sports that will release excess energy and make our people stronger and more agile. Not polo and hunting, that's only What the nobles can afford, I will explain the specific situation to you after the preparation is ready."

Listening to Gawain's thoughts one by one, Hetty recognized these plans more and more in her heart. At the same time, she was deeply aware of the omissions in her previous management of the territory. In the end, she waited until the ancestors finally came to an end. He kept asking: "Ancestor, could it be that... have you thought of these things a long time ago?"

"I really thought about it a long time ago, but in the early days of the construction of the territory, it was a problem for everyone to eat, so naturally there was no need to think about it at that time," Gao Wen smiled and nodded, "Don't underestimate these things, in maintaining When it comes to territorial order and enhancing the happiness of the people, they are more useful than the machines in the factory."

Seeing Heidi nodded again and again, Gawain let out a light breath and continued: "Providing cheap and easy-to-satisfy entertainment is only a part of improving people's happiness and maintaining order. In addition, the construction of the security team is still a It's very important that you don't ignore it."

"Yes, I understand."

After Gawain arranged things properly, Heidi left the living room, while Gawain sat on the sofa in the living room by himself and thought quietly.

There will only be more and more people on the territory in the future, and with the continuous development of magic industry, the materials on the territory can only become more and more abundant, so what follows is that the civilians no longer have to worry about the basic livelihood and enrich the people. entertainment is a matter of course It's normal.

However, what Gao Wen has to do is not just to promote several entertainment projects, so that the people can have a place to play after they have enough to eat and drink.

The number of people is increasing, the city is expanding, and the number of people who can read and write in the territory is increasing day by day, and it is time to promote something that has been brewing for a long time.

He got up and went back to the study.

A large mechanical drawing is being spread on his desk.

This drawing has been drawn a few days ago. Since most of the structures are not too complicated, he has already completed seventy-eighty-eighty, but the most critical part of it has not yet been completed.

It's a grotesque machine with a transport mechanism for feeding the paper and a large "roller" in the center of the machine that feeds the sheet under the roller and synchronizes the sheet with the rollers Moving forward, above the cylinder is connected the ink wheel for transferring the pigment and the container for storing the ink. This is a simple and technologically primitive printing press.

A machine that can print continuously and change the world.

Gawain knew that in addition to the satisfaction of the material life of the people, if their spiritual life cannot be satisfied in time, then society will inevitably go into chaos.

So after realizing that the population of the territory was increasing, and that the well-fed residents needed a spiritual life, he quickly came up with entertainment projects such as chess, lord decks, and billiards to relieve people's high intensity. The mental pressure generated by continuous work improves everyone's happiness in life on this land.

But entertainment alone is not enough.

Through the compulsory implementation of general education, more and more people have basic literacy skills in the territory. At the same time, with the increase of population and the expansion of cities, it is obvious that relying on the original downtown bulletin boards and soldiers' preaching to carry out ideological propaganda has Not enough, so Gao Wen thought of the necessity of improving the cultural construction of the territory, increasing publicity efforts and means of publicity.

Now that everyone is literate, give them words. This is Gawain's most direct idea.

It is not that there is no printing technology on the territory. In fact, this world not only has mature papermaking technology, but also has relatively mature woodblock printing technology. The labels on the bottles of the alchemy potions produced in the alchemy factory are also used by students in the General Academy. The textbooks are all produced with this printing technology. For the early stage, and even the current stage of territorial cultural propaganda and construction, these technologies are enough, but for the future that Gao Wen wants to achieve, this kind of technology is not enough. Technology is far from enough.

He needs to replace these two "workshop techniques" with technologies that are more convenient, easier to edit and implement, and more suitable for large-scale industrial production.

So he designed such a continuous cylinder printing press according to what he remembered and conjectured, but now he has to solve a problem how to make plates.

How can the edited content be converted into embossed text on a cylinder in the quickest and most convenient way, and then printed?

The traditional engraving plate making speed is obviously too slow, and it does not meet his requirements of "convenient operation, easy editing and low cost".

Frankly speaking, although Gawain could conceive of most of the structure of the printing press, he had no idea how to realize the key technologies inside. Even if his memory had been strengthened, he could know all the knowledge he had seen in his previous life. In retrospect, he couldn't imagine things that he had never seen before, and he felt that even if he knew those key technologies, it was useless. Whether it could be realized in this world with strange physical rules is still in question...

He has to think about the solution from a magical point of view, but unfortunately, he has not come up with a solution yet.

After thinking hard at the desk for a while, he raised his head and greeted outside the study: "Betty!"

The little maid immediately pushed the door and came in, bowing to the end: "Master!"

"Go and call Rebecca."

After a while, the Lady of the Cecil family came to Gawain's study.

Gawain looked up from the drawings and saw Rebecca looking at him curiously, and the girl had black smudges everywhere on her sleeves, hands, and face, just like she just came out of the workshop. As if it came out, he couldn't help laughing: "Are you smothered by your own big fireball again?"

"No!" Rebecca hurriedly waved her hand to explain, "I just came back from the Institute of Magic Technology, and I haven't had time to wash my face yet. I'm studying the transmission you mentioned earlier..."

"Okay, I didn't blame you, you are doing the right thing," Gao Wen smiled and shook his head, beckoning the other party to approach, "Come here, I will give you a task."

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