Chapter 360 What Is a Newspaper

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After breakfast the next day, Gawain took out the plan he had written the night before and let Heidi 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 has to write down the plan for preparing the newspaper and the manpower and material resources required in the plan, but also use a lot of space to explain what It is newspapers, and what is the significance of newspapers, and finally there are a lot of things that may be encountered in preparing newspapers and solutions, etc...

There is no way to write the plan in such detail. This is the experience and lessons that Gawain has accumulated since he opened 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, because he has the identity of the founding ancestor of the country, and has the fighting power to destroy anyone in the territory, so he never has to consider the execution of his words by the people around him. The real trouble is - many times people do not necessarily Can understand what he is describing.

To propose a brand-new conceptual product, he has to propose more new terms to describe it, and these new terms may also need to be explained in more languages, some things that he thinks should be taken for granted, in this It seems that people in this world may need two or even three layers of "translation" to understand what it is. After encountering such a problem several times, he has to write a copy every time he proposes a new thing. Detailed information, and explain the basic concepts and functions of such new things on the information.

Of course, this will take a lot of time in the early stage, but it will save him and everyone the effort to explain new things in the follow-up, and there is a clear document for people to circulate, and it can also avoid these things being passed by hand several times. Then there were deviations, so that the final realization was far from what he expected.

"Newspapers?" Hetty carefully read the materials handed to her by her ancestors. She is now familiar with such materials, and knows that whenever her ancestors take out such a pile of things, she has to work hard to understand them. It's an unprecedented but miraculous thing, but this time the things proposed by the ancestors are more different from the usual - this does not seem to be a new magic machine, nor a new management concept, but a... extreme Cheap... Scrolls?

"You can understand it as printing thousands of copies of the bulletin board 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 formed a cheap, with Time-sensitive reading material," Gao Wen explained, and also explained what the three words "time-sensitive" mean, "Time-sensitive means that the content on it is recent, and it is only valid in the near future, and it will take a long time. It will be useless. For example, the price of grains in the last two days, this is a time-sensitive information.”

Hetty understood Gawain's words thoughtfully, but Amber, who started walking in the restaurant after eating and drinking, suddenly came over and looked at Gawain with surprise: "Wow—you are here After killing those pharmacists, alchemists, and miners, you finally decided to kill the intelligence dealers inside and outside the territory?"

Gawain was stunned by what this guy said suddenly: "What's the matter with the intelligence dealer?"

"Isn't this nonsense,

You printed all this information on this thing called 'newspaper', obviously you want to monopolize the intelligence business - I still learned the word monopoly from you," Amber shook his head and said, "You really don't give it to me. Let others stay alive! "

"If these things in the newspaper can be considered intelligence..." Gawain shook his head dumbfounded when he heard Amber's words, "Okay, then I'm going to kill this so-called 'intelligence dealer'."

"The role of newspapers is to enable people to understand the new things around them more quickly, and at the same time to help spread popular science knowledge and general education, and to publicize the new regulations and new systems of the Government Affairs Office, so as to enhance the discourse power of the territorial rulers..." Hetty didn't care about Amber's interruption, but looked at what Gawain wrote, she could understand every word on it, but she couldn't imagine why newspapers had such a big role." Ancestor, don't the bulletin boards in towns have this function?"

"Yes, but the limitations of the bulletin board are too big," Gao Wen shook his head. "Our population is increasing, and the size of the city is getting bigger and bigger. Relying only on the bulletin board to spread information is obviously too inefficient. And there is one more point— - The number of literate people in the territory is becoming more and more, and being able to read means that they have a stronger ability to receive 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 Gawain yesterday, and she asked tentatively, "Is this... also related to improving the public security environment?"

"That's right," Gawain nodded slightly, "reading can make people understand the truth. The more things they understand, the more rational people can think about problems, so as to break free from ignorance. I know that many nobles in this era think that Civilians are born savage, so they fight, drink, and gamble, but in fact no one is born savage, they just lack the correct way to expend their energy.”

Amber walked behind Hetty, stuck his head out and looked at the materials written down by Gawain, suddenly raised his head and asked, "But then again... you are really obsessed with letting the commoners know more. A lot of things' ah... is it really so necessary to do this?"

Gao Wen smiled: "Of course it is necessary - not only do I want to make the people feel full and warm, but I also want them to understand why they can live a good life and why they starved in the past. Frozen, only in this way can they sincerely support Cecil's new order, identify with this land, and create cohesion."

Amber raised her eyelids, and her amber eyes were filled with curiosity: "Your thinking is really different from others."

"I know that no lord has ever thought about this before, because they think the commoners are a weak and ignorant group, and as long as the sword and staff are still in their hands, they never worry about the life and death of the commoners and ideas, but I never think so,” Gawain smiled, “You have all seen the machines controlled by ordinary people in the factory, as well as new-style 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 the extraordinary - it's just that no one has noticed their power for thousands of years."

At this time, Rebecca, who had been listening for a long time, suddenly reacted and stared at Gawain: "Ah! I understand, Master Ancestor, it turns out that the printing press you showed me yesterday was for this purpose. - No wonder you keep emphasizing convenience and editability..."

"It's really for this purpose," Gao Wen nodded. "Only a new printing press capable of continuous printing and rapid plate making can meet the requirements of newspapers for mass distribution and high timeliness."

Rebecca scratched her hair: "That's it, I don't know when the printing press will be able to make it..."

"It's okay, don't worry, you can study it slowly," Gao Wen smiled and waved his hand, "Since there's no way to do it in one step, let's take it slow. For something like a newspaper, let's not force it to be published once a day—it's okay. Let’s start with the method of engraving and printing, and start with a weekly issue. For the territory at this stage and the territory’s residents who have never owned cheap reading materials, even a newspaper that is 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 of the ancient myth that the earth rises from the ocean in ten days, a week is set to ten days, so that sixty days a month is just right There are six weeks.

In Gao Wen's view, "Daily" is a good thing, but if it can't be realized in the early stage, there is no need to force it. The traditional Ansu engraving and printing technology takes at least two days from carving wax plates to making Yangwen clay plates, then printing paper and drying ink. In addition, the lack of experience in starting a newspaper in the early days and the difficulty in ensuring efficiency, the first issue of the newspaper It will take more time, so he simply launches a ten-day "weekly report" according to the world's calendar, which is completely possible.

In this era, except for Cecil's territory, the development of most areas is slow and monotonous, there is hardly much news outside the territory, and given the relatively elementary literacy level of the current territorial residents, it is too complicated and difficult. The content of the newspaper is not necessary, and since the territory is currently so large, news and changes that occur are very limited, so it is very reasonable to issue a weekly newspaper.

If there is really any special news, you can also issue "outside the number".

"Newspapers are something that needs to be distributed for a long time, so we need to set up a special department to do this," Gawain saw that Hetty had realized the significance of newspapers, and went on to say, "The department that distributes newspapers can be called 'Newspapers', in theory, if newspapers develop in the future, and there are even private newspapers in the private sector, we will also set up a special management department in the Government Affairs Department to handle cultural propaganda affairs. A newspaper office controlled by the Government Affairs Department is enough. There should be editors in charge of the content of the newspaper, 'reporters' who collect news, and..."

Gawain explained all kinds of things. In fact, these things were also mentioned in the materials he gave to Hetty, but after he explained it himself, Hetty understood it easier.

"This needs some learned people to do it," Hetty rubbed his brows and began to think about candidates in this area, "There must be no such talents among the commoners who have just learned to read and write... Santis brought it back. Those scholars can be considered."

"Those royal capital scholars..." Gawain pondered for a moment, "Speaking of what they are doing now?"

"Part of them have gone to teach at the school. It is said that they are doing well. After all, they were filtered by Santis, and they are very comfortable when they came here. There are also a group of people who are learning Rune Logic with Jenny and Carmel." Rebecca Baba said, "There are also some in the Institute of Magic Technology, they are very interested in the magic engine - I told them that it was the 'lost ancient technology' that my ancestors took out, and they learned it one by one They all forget to eat and sleep. In addition, there are a few people who have not been assigned."

The corners of Gawain's mouth curled up: "It's not bad, I'm also worried that those people from Wangdu will not adapt to it after they come here."

"It's good to adapt," Rebecca smiled, "there are new things everywhere, everything is enough for them to study, and many things are also called 'lost ancient technology', not to mention the gang Scholars, even those formal mages and mages apprentices, are honest now, for fear that I won't let them into the laboratory. Of course, I think the main reason is that they have witnessed the sparks and lightning of Kamel all the way. Running around in the territory, I was stunned..."

Seeing that the topic was about to stray, Gawain quickly pulled it back: "Cough, okay, let's pick a few from those scholars in the capital to prepare the first issue of Cecil's newspaper. Hetty. , I'll leave this to you."

Hetty put away the thick stack of documents and lowered her head deeply: "Please don't worry."