Now that he had decided to publish the newspaper, Fang Nan found time to write a simple plan, from preparing to build a newspaper, to setting up a printing house, to selling the printed newspaper.

It is relatively simple to set up a newspaper, and it needs a general director, some editors with good writing, and typesetting personnel.

The newspaper is a direct agency of the Xia State government, and it needs to follow the instructions of Fang Nan and the cabinet, write out important things, and put them in the newspaper.

After a newspaper is finalized, it must be submitted to the cabinet or even Fang Nan for approval, and after approval, the newspaper can enter the printing house for batch printing, and the printing technology can use metal movable type printing, and the technical difficulty is not high.

There cannot be only one printing house responsible for printing newspapers.

At least for a few years after the newspaper was published, the cement road could not connect all the important cities in Xia Kingdom, let alone the railway tracks, and it was impossible to print the newspaper in one printing house and then send it to all parts of the country, which would take too long and too long, and it would be difficult to issue one issue a month.

Fang Nan planned to set up a printing house in each of the 15 provinces currently owned by the Xia State that could print newspapers in large quantities, and the newspaper headquarters was in Wuchang City, so that samples could be sent to the printing houses in various provinces on fast horses day and night before the newspapers began to be printed.

The newspapers printed by the printing houses in each province are then sent to the city and county, and they are sold together in a special place at the same time, and the newspaper can be sold a little later, but it must not be earlier than the agreed time.

As for newspapers ordered by villages outside the city, the village can send a person to the county to pick them up, or the newspaper office can arrange for a special person to deliver the newspapers.

Thinking of sending newspapers to the countryside, Fang Nan had another idea in his mind, the Ming court had a post station, and the Xia Kingdom could set up a postal service, not only for the government and the army, but also to serve the people.

It is very troublesome for ordinary people to send a letter to their relatives in a distant country, and they have to ask for people, and they have to spend money to buy things and favors, and many times they can't find anyone to send a letter.

The Xia government has established a postal system, which can cover all parts of the country, so that it is convenient for the people to send letters and even some lighter items, of course, it costs money for the people to send things through the post, but the cost will not be too high.

After thinking about it for a while, Fang Nan decided to postpone the establishment of the postal service, and the main problem was the lack of horses.

The plan for the distribution of the newspaper was roughly the same, but Fang Nan did not plan to distribute the newspaper nationwide from the beginning, and first conducted a trial distribution in the Wuchang City area, and if there were no problems, the newspaper could be distributed nationwide.

After writing the "newspaper" plan, Fang Nan wrote two more words on the paper, "literacy", and circled them in a circle.

From ancient times to the Ming Dynasty, there was no dynasty where the whole people were literate, and the emperors and ministers thought that it was better for the people at the bottom to be illiterate, and they would farm honestly and there would be no trouble, which was the so-called foolish people.

However, too many foolish people are the real troublesome thing for a country, and the people at the bottom don't understand anything, and it is easy to be induced by others, which will lead to serious consequences such as rebellion.

Let the people at the bottom be literate, it is a good start, literacy does not mean that the people really understand all the big truths, but compared with illiterate, the literate people can more or less understand some simple truths in the process of literacy, and slightly let the people become not blindly obedient.

National literacy began as early as when the People's Army was still in the mountains, Fang Nan personally served as a teacher to teach students to read literacy, arithmetic and other knowledge, Fang Nan assigned a task to the students, after the students went home, they needed to teach their families what they had learned in the school in their free time.

It's also a way of learning, and when students teach their families, they learn it all over again.

At first, the student's parents were reluctant to learn, mainly because their children taught themselves, they were a little ashamed, in order to let the students' families follow the students to learn, Fang Nan told the students a way, and the students said to their families that this is a task arranged by the teacher and must be completed.

Fang Nan already has a certain status in Qingshan Village, Fang Nan's words must be listened to, and gradually, the students' families have begun to know words and learn arithmetic.

This model has been passed down from generation to generation by teachers and students, and when the People's Army walked out of the mountains, not only were the graduates of the three-year education able to read and write, but also the students' families were able to know some commonly used words and simple arithmetic.

It was enough to be able to know common words and simple arithmetic, and they also went out of the mountains, at first they did not have enough knowledge and insight to be a high-ranking official in the people's military government, but they could still be a small official.

With the People's Army coming to this day, some of these people who were already in their thirties when they left the mountains have slowly grown up in their jobs, and the highest-ranking person has become the head of a county.

There are also people who cannot continue to progress, or continue to serve as a petty official, or give up their positions and go home to live a life of almost retirement, their sons are already in the middle and upper echelons of the People's Army, and there is no problem in supporting their families, maybe they will not be idle and continue to work on a few acres of land.

The main thing is the lack of manpower at the beginning, which gives these middle-aged people who are almost finalized in their thinking a chance.

Later, as the People's Army occupied the whole of Guangdong, teachers also gave students homework to teach their families literacy and arithmetic in the newly established schools/primary schools.

It didn't take long for the student's family to accept the fact that the teacher's homework was one of them, and the teacher also gave other explanations, such as learning to read and do arithmetic, and then selling food and buying things, so that they would not be deceived.

The people at the bottom who don't know a big word are often deceived, but they are helpless, who makes them illiterate, they hope that their children can be literate and get rid of the fate of being deceived, but they did not expect that with the arrival of the People's Army, not only their children have the opportunity to read and write, but even they have the opportunity to read and write.

In fact, one of the important reasons why these low-level people are able to read and write is that the People's Army divides the land among the people, and with their own fields, the people can eat enough by farming, and they have more free time in the year and have time to study.

In the past, they could only rent and cultivate the landlord's land, and they were seriously exploited by the landlords and the government, and they were busy from morning to night every day, and they fell asleep directly when they were tired at night, so how could they have the heart to read and write.

From Guangdong, and then to the four provinces adjacent to Guangdong, there are more and more ordinary people who can know common words and can do simple arithmetic, but compared with the hundreds of millions of people in China, the illiteracy rate has not decreased much, but with the efforts of the graduates of the three-year education, sooner or later the illiteracy rate will be reduced to less than 10 percent, and a large part of them are elderly people who are unwilling to learn.