The Ministry of Rites maintained a very cautious attitude towards the first Tang Dynasty newspaper, because they knew very well that this was not the previous Di newspaper, it was only circulated within the government, and ordinary people outside could not reach it at all.

Needless to say, the officials within the Tang Dynasty will definitely subscribe to understand the trends in the imperial court, and the elites in society, that is, those who read, landlords, businessmen, etc., will also read it, and they need to learn about the policy trends of the Tang Dynasty from this public court newspaper.

Even ordinary people, even illiterate people, will learn about the contents of the newspapers through those who read them, because the contents of the newspapers are also closely related to them.

Even these newspapers will be circulated in the areas controlled by the puppet Ming.

The fact that the newspaper was so important was also due to the imprudent nature of the Ministry of Etiquette, who was only interested in what should be used in the first issue, who should write the article, and what information should be revealed in it.

In the end, not only the Ministry of Rites, but even the entire cabinet were involved, and even the army and navy wanted to intervene in order to expand the military's propaganda efforts and increase its influence among the people.

In the end, the sponsorship of the newspaper has even become a political game in the court, and all major departments have their own interests and demands, and everyone wants to get a place in this newspaper that is published all over the world and is very likely to cause great repercussions.

Why is there a scramble?

Because what this first newspaper will look like can basically be shaped into what the future newspapers will look like, so what is in the first issue of the newspaper is very important.

Finally, after discussion by all parties, it was unanimously determined that with the theme of Li Xuan's previous inspection of the Zhaoqing Arsenal as the front page, this article will be written by Shen Herong, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

This Shen Herong is not simple, this person is from a poor family in the south of the Yangtze River, he has been talented since he was a child, and he has won a series of battles in the imperial examination, and at the age of only twenty-six, he won the fame of a first-class jinshi, ranking third, which is commonly known as Tanhua.

After seven or eight years of hard work, he saw that he had the opportunity to ascend to the sky in one step, and even promoted to a high-ranking official at the level of Shilang and Shangshu, but he failed to stand in line in the first two years, and offended the cabinet boss of the current dynasty, and the result was that he was kicked out of the Hanlin Academy and demoted to Guangdong to serve as a right politician.

In other words, he was in the Hanlin Academy, a place of prestige, and he failed in the political struggle, so he was degraded!

After arriving in Guangdong with full of resentment, it coincided with the rise of the puppet Tang Dynasty, and it didn't take long for Liangguang to fall, and he was also going to flee with other officials and gentry, but he didn't run away, and was finally captured and captured.

At first, he was still quite backbone, but after being under house arrest for a few months, he was frequently persuaded by a group of fellow degraders, and the Tang Dynasty made a generous move, as long as he was willing to do it anyway, a country prince priest wine would be his.

In the end, he still couldn't resist being a thief, and after being a priest for a few months, he was promoted to the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites and became one of the dozens of high-ranking officials in the Tang Dynasty.

Although there are a total of thirteen before and after the Tang Dynasty, and there are many other directly affiliated institutions, this is not as valuable as the Ming Dynasty, but it is also a waiter, Shen Herong has struggled all his life in the Ming Dynasty, but he has not been able to cross this threshold, but now after the thief, he has realized his long-cherished wish.

And more importantly, this is the squire of the Ministry of Rites, whether it is in the Tang Dynasty or in the Ming Dynasty, it belongs to the position of the Qing noble, so when he first surrendered to the thief, he still had a thorn in his heart, but now, he has already regarded himself as a courtier of the Tang Dynasty.

As for the family or something, as early as after he was captured, the imperial court had already sent people to Jiangnan to prison for all his family members!

On the side of the Ming Dynasty, after the fall of the city, whether the officials surrendered to the thieves or were captured or escaped, in fact, they were almost no good end, but whether they were dealt with seriously or not, for example, the thieves were definitely robbed of the family and exterminated, and the captives, who knows whether you were captured or surrendered, no matter what, the integrity must have been lost, so they will also be dismissed and punished, and the family members with high positions will also be imprisoned and exiled.

It's better to escape, at most it's a beheading plus a raid, but the lives of the family can still be saved.

After the fall of the city, the officials of the Ming Dynasty, especially the high-ranking officials, wanted to save their families, but there were actually only two ways: suicide and death in battle!

There is no third way!

The failure of the government and the imprisonment of his family are also one of the important reasons why Shen Herong finally surrendered to the thief anyway.

As a tanhualang, his writing skills were naturally quite good, and soon, the front-page article he wrote was circulated by the Ministry of Rites and other important ministers in the cabinet.

All of them are amazed!

How good is that? It's so good that Liu Bagou, the head of the cabinet, can't understand it, but it's good that it's there!

No way, although Liu Bagou prides himself on being a scholar on weekdays, everyone knows that he is actually a Taoist priest, and the level of this article is at most similar to those old children, let him analyze the pros and cons of a Tanhualang's article, that is really embarrassing for him.

It's not just the articles that Shen Herong said that made a group of people shout, but the other articles that were going to be published in the first issue of the newspaper were also written by everyone, well, all of them were written by officials who were born in the puppet Ming Dynasty.

There is no way, the cultural level of the officials of the Tang Dynasty itself is really not good, Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu, and Wang Wenhua are the three most typical examples, one by one, they are at the level of an old child, and the ministers with a relatively high level of education, especially the important ministers, are mostly pseudo-Ming officials anyway.

Maybe someone wants to say that the articles written by these people are all the same, and this newspaper is going to be published all over the world, can ordinary people understand it?

Well, I'm really right, ordinary people really can't understand it, not because of how profound the article is, but because ordinary people can't read at all.

The literacy rate in these years is quite low, although this newspaper is said to be facing the world, but in fact it is mainly for those who can read and write, ordinary people want to understand the content of the newspaper, they have to listen to those who read the newspaper!

When the content that was to be published in the first issue of the Tang Dynasty Newspaper was sent to Li Xuan for review, Li Xuan found that the Ministry of Rites was still too cautious, and the content of these articles was too official and idealistic.

After reading all the articles, Li Xuan summed up four words: Nothing!

It's not that Li Xuan doesn't like these articles praising merits, on the contrary, he likes them quite a lot, because for himself, the emperor, and the Tang Dynasty, this is the core meaning of the existence of the Tang Dynasty newspaper.

Could it be that Li Xuan's brain burned out and ran a newspaper that scolded himself and scolded Datang?

What he is dissatisfied with is that these articles only say that Li Xuan is good and Datang is good, but they do not say where and how they are good.

If you want to say that Li Xuan is good, you have to come up with evidence, you can't simply say that Li Xuan is diligent in government affairs and cares about the people of the world, you have to say that Li Xuan works at least 20 hours a day, reprimands officials one day, and cordially visits retired and disabled soldiers one day.

Also, you said that the Tang Dynasty is now a country and a prosperous life, how can the country and the people be safe? You can't just use a few adjectives to get away with it!

You have to give examples of sub-column data, for example, in our Datang, even if it is a tenant without land, how many tens of taels of silver can be accumulated in a year, and it was just ruled by Datang at the beginning of last year, and now, it has built a new house and married a daughter-in-law, and has just given birth to a chubby baby, and is preparing to buy his own land.

You see, how good the life of our peasants under the rule of the Tang Dynasty is!

For example, the wages of those workers have surpassed those in the world, with an average of how many taels per month, and when they go home every day, they can bring a few catties of meat, carry a bottle of wine, eat meat and drink wine, and their families can eat white rice every day.

You see, we Datang workers have become a decent city dweller.

In short, if you want to convince the public, you have to come up with detailed data and examples to explain how it is good!

If you make the data a little more artistic, the effect is doubled!

After all, propaganda work does not distinguish between true and false, and bluffing talents is the king!

So in the end, Li Xuan sent almost all the articles back, the Tang Dynasty News didn't need these purely literary articles, what he needed was a report article with detailed data and detailed examples, even if these data and examples were fake!

In the end, he put forward a new opinion to the Ministry of Rites, asking the Tang Dynasty newspaper to add a popular science section, which is specially used to introduce astronomy, geography, physics and chemistry and other scientific knowledge.

It can be regarded as a means of subtly enlightening the people!

After the first draft was returned by Li Xuan, the officials of the Ministry of Rites were not frustrated, after all, there was no such thing as a court newspaper since ancient times, and this was the first time to do it, no one dared to say that it was done well, so it was to continue to revise the draft.

After the second version of the manuscript was delivered, Li Xuan only showed a satisfied look after reading it, this is a newspaper article, whether it is true or not, at least it must be able to bluff people!

So he was very happy to approve a quasi-word!

After Li Xuan's approval, the whole ministry took action, and soon the first newspaper of the Tang Dynasty was officially issued!

The issuance of the Tang Dynasty newspaper is a complex and systematic work, and it is not an easy task to spread the entire three provinces of the Tang Dynasty at the first time, and the most important transportation channel is the post station system managed by the military.

Secondly, the printing scattered in various places is also quite important!