Jinyang Academy was opened, and the students recruited were also organized into the juvenile army.

Beiyuan Manor built a paper and printing workshop next to the academy.

The red brick courtyard wall and several rows of tall factories made of red brick cement, coupled with the noise of the operation of hydraulic machinery, are a bit of the atmosphere of later factories.

Papermaking technology and printing technology were already very mature in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and the only extra thing in the Beiyuan workshop was some hydraulic machinery. For example, raw material grinders, beaters, conveying equipment, etc., most of the processes still need to be completed by hand. As for the printing workshop, it is still operated manually, and neither the printing press nor movable type printing has been successfully developed.

Some things can be penetrated with just a little bit.

Movable type printing is not complicated, but the materials of movable type have been experimented with, porcelain movable type, pottery movable type, stone carved movable type and cast copper movable type. On the contrary, the lead type mentioned by Li Qi was the first to be eliminated, and due to the lack of antimony, the hardness of the movable type of lead-tin alloy could not meet the requirements at all.

The best result of the experiment was bronze movable type, which was a bit expensive.

The other is ink, engraving printing is smoke ink, easy to get ink when printing with movable type, and it is still being tested.

Li Qi handed over the improvement of the papermaking and printing process to the students of the academy.

In the Han Dynasty, the Di Bao appeared in the Han Dynasty, and in the Tang Dynasty, the Di Bao was distributed by a special Di official, so it was called the Di Bao. During the Tang Dynasty, the palace was renamed as the Jinjuan after staying, and the publication of the Di newspaper was changed to the unified management and release of the Shangdu Zhijinjuan Academy, which was the earliest newspaper distribution agency in the world.

Di Bao is equivalent to the government newspaper of the feudal dynasty, but it is only circulated among officials and is not popular among the people.

As a traverser, Li Qi certainly understands the importance of controlling public opinion, and this thing is still a brainwashing artifact in the era of information blockage. As the saying goes, a lie told a thousand times is the truth, and that's what it means.

Therefore, after the printing workshop was opened, the first thing he thought of was to improve the newspaper and make it truly a brainwashing artifact for the people and widely advertised.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the person in charge of the affairs of the Di Bao was Cui Chao in the Ministry of Affairs, as well as the two people who lived in the house, Mi Yiting, Qiu Yonghe, and these three people were also responsible for the proofreading and compilation of the Hongwen Pavilion, and they belonged to Lu Bi's subordinates.

In the Wenhua Palace, Li Qi summoned these people.

"Your Majesty!" Cui Chao was the leader, and the three of them bowed down and said after entering the emperor's daily office study.

"No courtesy, I asked you to come over today, I have something for you to do." Li Qi said directly: "Who is responsible for reviewing and distributing the imperial court uniforms?" ”

"It's Wechen." Mi Yiting replied.

"Meet...... In this way, I think that the form of the newspaper is too rigid, and some changes need to be made, not only for the government at all levels, but also for the people. Li Qi held a newspaper in his hand, called the three of them to the bookcase, and circled it with a red pen, "The content of this newspaper should also be increased, not only the court decrees, some current political news, folk celebrations, disasters, as well as the workshop technology, agriculture and animal husbandry, poetry and songs, etc., can also be published on it, mainly to spread current politics and knowledge of a hundred schools, in order to educate the people." ”

Cui Chao opened his mouth in surprise after hearing this: "But...... Your Majesty, with so much content and all-encompassing, isn't it equivalent to more than the entire Hongwen Collection? ”

Cui Shizhong's thoughts are a little complicated, not to print the whole book on it, but to extract a certain paragraph. The newspaper can be divided into several pages, the first page of news and current affairs, only the major events that have happened in recent days or the decrees of the court, the second page of the speeches, poems and articles, etc., the third page of the hundred crafts technology and agriculture, animal husbandry and medicine, etc., the fourth page for folk anecdotes, geographical shape and so on...... Well, let's start by dividing it into these four parts. Li Qi explained as he drew his intentions with a pen. Of course, this newspaper should mainly publish current affairs, and the content of the lectures of Jinyang Academy can also be optionally published, and it will be published once every ten days, and the content must of course be selected, and the language and writing should be easy to understand, mainly in the vernacular. ”

All of them worked as teachers in the college, so they were able to accept new things.

"The ministers seem to understand a little." Cui Chao said.

"There's no need to worry, it's a good thing to leave a name in history and be praised by future generations. Everyone is engaged in book proofreading and compilation, and they are no strangers to this line, and the place has been selected for you, which is in a courtyard adjacent to Jinyang Academy and the book printing workshop. First set up the newspaper printing hall in Jinyang Academy, try to get it first, and hand it out to me to see, and some things can also be done by the students of the academy. ”

"Your Ministers obey!"

Nothing can be done overnight, just get it up first, and then slowly improve it......

Build high walls and accumulate grain......

Of course, Li Qi hopes to stay alive for a few more years, and his strength will naturally become stronger.

This is all the experience gained from playing strategy games in the last life.

It's a pity that the trees want to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop.

Fortunately, the biggest enemy, Yelu Deguang, is focusing on dealing with his elder brother, Yelu Bei, the king of Dongdan, and the Khitan nobles who support the emperor king, and he has no time to care about it for the time being. Although Li Siyuan is on the side of the initiative to attack, he can't attack the territory of the Northern Army, and although the momentum is large, he can't help the Jinyang side for the time being.

The autumn wind is gradually rising, the weather is getting cooler, and as long as a heavy snow falls, everyone has to stop for a while.

Li Qi waited for two years before some caravans from the Western Regions that had made an agreement with him returned to Yunzhou at this time. Li Qi also felt common about the gems and gold and silver products of the Western Regions, but he urgently needed some seeds from crops such as sugar beets, carrots, onions, and long-staple cotton from the Western Regions.

In particular, sugar beets were not successfully cultivated by German scientists until the 19th century, but in fact, in the 8th and 9th centuries, sugary beets were widely cultivated in the Euphrates and Tigris river basins. Although the species are different, after being cultivated in later generations, although the yield per mu of this sugar beet in the two river basins is only half of that of European and American sugar beet, the sugar content is much higher than that of the "water sugar beet" planted with imported European and American sugar beet seeds.

In later generations, the XPCC in Xinjiang planted this kind of sugar beet when the sugar content reached nearly 25 percent at its peak, but due to the low yield per mu, after the reform and opening up, this high-quality sugar beet seed was eliminated by a large number of "high-yield sugar beet seeds" imported from Europe and the United States, and the general sugar content dropped to about 12 percent.

In the early days, the high-quality sugar beet seeds with high sugar content planted by the XPCC were crossed with sugar beet seeds imported from Soviet Russia and "local sugar beet" produced in Xinjiang.

He thinks he might as well try to grow high-sugar sugar beets......

This year, the "Gunna" of the steppe tribe in the trading belt received a total of more than 6,000 horses, cut out the old and weak, and pulled horses and horses, and selected more than 3,000 qualified military horses. Li Qi selected 2,000 soldiers from each garrison and incorporated them into his own Praetorian Cavalry Army, and more than 1,000 were given to the young guards and pro-army.

This horse is humane, the rider and the horse are alienated, and it is difficult to control on the battlefield. Moreover, if this military horse is scattered for too long, its temperament will become wild, and it also needs to be ridden and trained from time to time. Therefore, in addition to helping with the work when the farm is busy, the Praetorian Cavalry usually focuses on training. It is not difficult to be able to ride a horse, but it is not so easy to practice riding.

In addition to the more than 1,000 cavalry under the veteran An Jinquan, this Praetorian Guard cavalry became the only mobile force in the Northern Army.