After a general understanding, Zhu Cihong told Shi Zhidong: "In the future, we will focus on the development of movable type editions, which will be more efficient." ”

Shi Zhidong was depressed in his heart, faster efficiency? Your Highness, are you teasing me? I have ready-made engravings, what do you want to print, you can print it at once, and you have to sort it slowly with movable type, how can the efficiency be better?

Shi Zhidong naturally didn't dare to refute the crown prince in person, but just asked respectfully: "Dare to ask His Highness what kind of scriptures need to be printed?" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "This palace doesn't need scriptures, it's a newspaper!" ”

Shi Zhidong's head suddenly widened, and he was puzzled: "Dare to ask Your Highness, what is a newspaper?" ”

"Newspaper....... It's an enhanced version of the Di Bao. Zhu Cihong can only explain it like this.

When it comes to Di Bao, Shi Zhidong understands this time, they are all people in the system, so they naturally know what Di Bao is.

Di Bao is also called Di Bao, and there are nicknames such as "Chaobao", "Article Newspaper" and "Miscellaneous Newspaper", which is the earliest newspaper in the world, which is specially used for the news copy of documents and political information of the imperial court to convey the government and politics.

Some people believe that the earliest newspaper was the "Daily Chronicle" created by Julius Caesar in the Roman Empire in 59 B.C., which was actually an official newspaper to convey emergency military information, but this kind of newspaper did not live long and was soon discontinued.

As far as the age of the newspaper is concerned, China's "Di Bao" appeared in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty around the second century BC, about a century earlier than the "Daily Chronicle" of the Roman Empire.

From the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, although the name of Di Bao changed frequently, its circulation was never interrupted, and its nature and content did not change much.

Shi Zhidong was puzzled: "Your Highness, the newspaper is hand-copied, not printed.......

Zhu Cihong felt that this person was not bad, not a rice bucket waiting for death, so he patiently explained: "The newspaper run by the palace is not for the government, but for the people, so it needs large-scale printing. ”

If Shi Zhidong didn't understand, Zhu Cihong wouldn't say a word to him again.

Hearing this, Shi Zhidong suddenly realized, and said: "Your Highness is smart, the lowly position understands, and the lowly position has also calculated, if it is a large-scale printing of such an unfixed text, letterpress is naturally the best choice, and the larger the amount of printing, the cheaper the cost." ”

"The consciousness is very high, and he is a person who does things!" Zhu Cihong nodded secretly in his heart.

After a pause, Shi Zhidong seemed to think of something, and said: "Your Highness, the cost of printing and printing ink will increase greatly in this large amount of printing, but the annual allocation of the Ministry of Household to the Hanjing Factory is very .......small."

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "Naturally, you don't need to think about this funding, this palace will allocate funds on time, and this palace also has other tasks entrusted to you." ”

Hearing that the crown prince was about to send an errand, Shi Zhidong was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "I am willing to serve His Royal Highness!" ”

Zhu Cihong said meaningfully: "I heard that your writing is good, and it is a bit condescending to make a six-grade dictionary, and this palace plans to let you be the editor-in-chief, if you do it well, this palace will personally order you to enter the Hanlin Academy." ”

"Into the Hanlin Academy?" Shi Zhidong opened his mouth, his heart was beating wildly, it was a very glorious thing to be "ordered to Hanlin" to enter the Hanlin Academy.

In all dynasties and generations, regardless of political status, Hanlin scholars were always the highest-ranking scholars in society, concentrating the elite of intellectuals at that time, and their social status was superior.

From the imperial examination to the Hanlin, from the Hanlin to the courtiers is the ideal of life of the scholars and doctors in the imperial examination era, and it is the manifestation of Confucianism that "attainment is both good and helps the world", which can make all literati rush to it.

Hanlin bachelors are not only committed to the inheritance of cultural and academic undertakings, but also actively participate in politics, discuss the government, in the Ming Dynasty, cabinet ministers must be born in Hanlin.

Shi Zhidong immediately came back to his senses after being ecstatic for a while, and said with some hesitation: "Your Highness, I heard that if you want to enter the Hanlin Academy, you must be born as a Jinshi......

Zhu Cihong looked at this six-grade small dictionary with some surprise, he was not fooled by himself, it seems that the qualitative is very strong!

Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "Don't worry, the Hanlin of my dynasty is a place of cultivation and hope, responsible for repairing books and writing history, drafting edicts, and serving members of the royal family. ”

Hearing the crown prince's personal promise, Shi Zhidong was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed down to thank him.

Subsequently, Zhu Cihong arranged a series of tasks for Shi Zhidong, asking him to set up an editorial department, recruit some literati who are good at dancing and writing, and write articles according to his theme requirements on weekdays, and the newspaper that was published was called "Huangming Times".

On the same day, Zhu Cihong allocated 2,000 taels of silver from his small treasury for printing expenses, and 2,000 taels of silver, as long as the Hanjing Factory was not greedy, it was enough for the Hanjing Factory to spend a whole year.

As a royal printing house, the Hanjing Factory has a complete number of copper letterpress molds, and there is no need for another casting, as long as there is a manuscript, the typesetting can be printed.

It only takes one day to arrange the templates of all manuscripts, plus all the time for writing, receiving, printing, and completing the newspaper, and it will take five or six days to publish an issue of the newspaper.

Zhu Cihong asked him to publish the first issue of the newspaper within seven days, and first to publish 5,000 copies.

Before leaving, Shi Zhidong slapped his chest and assured Zhu Cihong that he would only need four days to print the first issue of the newspaper!

After Shi Zhidong heard his promise, he was now like a chicken, and he couldn't wait to complete the task in one day, but he also knew that it would take a lot of time to write the manuscript.

Zhu Cihong nodded, if he wants to show off, let him show off, anyway, if this Shi Zhidong is a parallel import, if he doesn't do it well, Zhu Cihong has a human being.

Now the most important thing in Daming is to show off talents or something, and there are many cultural people in the Guozi Prison, in the Ming Dynasty, there are more than 10,000 students in the North and South Prisons, and they can pick up one hundred and ten cultural people who have nothing to do with a stick in the Guozi Prison.

There are too many cultural people who have not eaten these days, and if there is a profession that matches the major, and he is still the door of the crown prince, then he must have broken through the threshold and squeezed in.

After Zhu Cihong left the Hanjing Factory, Shi Zhidong immediately started to work, gathered all the craftsmen in the Hanjing Factory, and delivered an extremely important and passionate speech.

Before the end of the speech, Shi Zhidong solemnly announced: All craftsmen's monthly money will be increased by one or two silver per month, and for craftsmen who are serious about their work, good printing quality and large quantities, they will be given bonuses and heavy rewards!

I have to say that this Shi Zhidong is a talent, quite capable of management, and he is worthy of being an old cadre who has been working for more than 20 years!

Craftsmen have nothing to do on weekdays, and their salaries are low, so if the workload is still the same after increasing the workload, then who wants to work? Only a salary increase can have passion, and hard work can be rewarded!