Regarding the matter of Han Lin leading the army to repel the 200,000 Japanese pirates and the Jianzhou Jurchens, Fang Nan just took a look and put it down, Fang Nan had enough confidence in the strength of the People's Army.

Because of the war between the People's Army and the Ming court, the strength of the Ming army was very strong in the middle period, and the proportion of firearms troops was almost one of the highest armies in the world at this time.

The Ming army of such strength was defeated by the People's Army, and at least in land warfare, no enemy could defeat the People's Army.

At most, in the face of cavalry group charges on the plain terrain, the KPA can also use muskets to repel them, but it is a little difficult to defeat the cavalry troops, the cavalry is highly mobile, the infantry simply cannot catch up, and as the KPA forms more lancer divisions, this shortcoming of the KPA is being quickly remedied.

The Jianzhou Jurchens are not the opponents of the People's Army, and the Japanese are also not opponents of the People's Army, since they dare to attack the People's Army, then they are the enemies and even enemies of the People's Army, and one day the People's Army will retaliate back.

In Fang Nan's eyes, both the Jianzhou Jurchens and the Japanese Kou were the targets of destruction.

After turning over the battle in Liaodong, Fang Nan continued to think about another thing that had been making him hesitate, thinking about things for several days, Fang Nan was almost about to make a decision, this matter was related to the newspaper.

Newspapers are print publications that are regularly distributed to the public, mainly news and commentary on current affairs, and have the function of reflecting and guiding public opinion.

Fang Nan had long thought about letting the People's Army publish newspapers, so that it would be easier for the people under his rule to understand the latest policies of the People's Army Government, and the People's Army could also use newspapers to guide public opinion, but due to the high illiteracy rate, Fang Nan put off the matter of publishing newspapers again and again.

Newspapers, or something similar to newspapers, have been around the world for a long time.

"Di Bao" is the earliest newspaper in the land of China, and "Di" originally referred to the residence of the officials of the ancient pilgrimage to Beijing in Beijing, which appeared as early as the Warring States period.

Yan Shigu said: "The house of the county and the country, the famous residence of the master in Beijing. Di, to also, to the words to also. ”

"Di" later as the office of local high-ranking officials in Beijing, set up for the transmission of communication news, so it has the name of "Di Bao", "Di Bao" is also known as "Di Bao", and also "Chao Bao", "Article Newspaper", "Miscellaneous Newspaper" is a kind of annunciative news used for notification, specially used for the imperial court to transmit documents and political information about the government and government, belongs to the news copy.

The counties of the Han Dynasty and the feudal towns of the Tang Dynasty all set up "residences" in Beijing, and their main role was to convey the news of the government.

"Di Bao" was originally copied by the imperial court, and then posted at the palace gate, and copied publicly, so it is also called "palace gate copy", "Yuanmen copy", which is actually the earliest way of news release.

Tang Dynasty "Kaiyuan Miscellaneous Newspaper" is the Kaiyuan period of the Di newspaper, the newspaper is engraving printing, the quality is not very high, itself did not register, because its issue time of the year is in the Kaiyuan period, later generations called it "Kaiyuan Miscellaneous".

There are many newspaper titles in the Song Dynasty, including "Di Bao", "Chao Bao", "Di Copy", "Jin Juan Yuan", "Complaint Bao", etc., "Di Bao" is the most common name, mainly the emperor's edict orders, daily words and deeds, the decrees of the central government, the gazette, the news of the official name reward and punishment, and the minister's chapter and paper.

The publication of Di Bao was strictly controlled by the central government, and most of the Di Bao in the Song Dynasty were hand-copied, which is described in Zhou Linzhi's Hailing Collection on the Ban Tabloid in the Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, there were profit-making merchants who specialized in copying Di Bao for sale, and officials were willing to spend some money to buy it in order to save trouble.

Even the Ming court set up a general administration department dedicated to the publication of the "Di Bao" to manage the publication and distribution of the "Di Bao".

This is in the land of China, outside the land of China, 1,600 years ago, the ancient Roman statesman Caesar wrote the events of the city and country of Rome on white wooden boards, informing the citizens, this is probably the oldest newspaper in the West.

More than 100 years ago, the German Gutenberg invented the metal movable type printing technology, so the printed newspaper began to be published, and a few decades later, the news of Columbus's voyage was published in the newspaper issued in Rome, although the newspaper at that time was only published when a high-profile event occurred.

If history had not changed, it was expected that it would be more than ten years before a regular newspaper appeared, but now, Fang Nan was ready to publish the newspaper after the establishment of the Xia Kingdom, and if there were no problems, it could start publishing it next year.

Fang Nan has been postponing the publication of newspapers, mainly because the illiteracy rate is too high, even if the newspaper is released, only literate people will buy it, and there are only so many literate people in the entire Xia Kingdom, even if the newspaper is issued, the influence of the newspaper will not reach the level that Fang Nan wants.

The second is the income of the people, newspapers cannot be distributed for free, the price of a newspaper will not be too high but not too low, limited by traffic problems, a national newspaper, the minimum must be issued every ten years, only three issues a month, peasant families can also afford to buy newspapers, but willing to spend money to buy newspapers, Fang Nan believes that there will not be many.

In thinking, Fang Nan set his sights on the students who are receiving education in the primary school, and there is still a month to get results, this year is the first year of the summer calendar, and the year after tomorrow, that is, at the beginning of January of the third year of the summer calendar (solar calendar), this class of students will graduate, and some of them will go to the newly established primary schools across the country to serve as teachers.

At this time, the number of primary schools will cover all provinces, cities and counties and a small and semi-rural area in Xia Kingdom.

Mainly in rural areas, where literate teachers are located, each village only needs to buy a newspaper on a regular basis, and the teacher explains the contents of the newspaper to the villagers.

In this way, the influence of the newspaper will be greatly increased, and a village can afford to buy a newspaper.

Imagine that the army expanded the territory for the Xia Kingdom, and the newly occupied land needed to be developed by immigrants, and the Xia government could publish the news of the immigrants in the newspaper, and write down the benefits of immigrating to the new land, such as 100 acres of land per household, built houses, cement roads that have been repaired, and a ploughing ox for each family.

When the common people saw that immigrants were able to get so many things in the past, and their income was several times that of now, many people must be tempted to emigrate.

Of course, the teacher who explains the content of the newspaper is also very important, not to fool the people, but to cooperate with the government to propagandize.