Many people think that newspapers are a product of modern society, but in fact, they have appeared as early as the Tang Dynasty.

The "Kaiyuan Miscellaneous Newspaper" in the Tang Dynasty was a newspaper issued in the Kaiyuan period, and the newspaper was engraved and printed, and the quality was not very high. There was no registration itself, because the year name when it was issued was in the Kaiyuan period, and later generations called it "Kaiyuan Miscellaneous". "Miscellaneous newspapers" is another name for Di Bao.

In the Song Dynasty, there were many titles for newspapers, including "Di Bao", "Chao Bao", "Di Copy", "Jin Juan Yuan", "Zheng Bao" and so on, generally speaking, "Di Bao" is the most common name.

The contents of the "Di Bao" are mainly the emperor's edicts, orders, daily life words and deeds, the decrees and bulletins of the central government, the news of the names and punishments of officials, and the chapters and documents of ministers. Of course, the publication of the "Di Bao" was strictly controlled by the central government, and most of the "Di Bao" in the Song Dynasty were hand-copied, aimed at officials, and the people never saw it.

For example, from the point of view of the newspaper of the organ of the political party, the function of the newspaper is as the Holy Ancestor said: "The role and strength of the newspaper lies in its ability to bring the program, line, principles, policies, tasks, and working methods of the upper strata to the masses in the quickest and widest way." ”

French journalism scholar Bernard. Vayenne summarized the main function of the newspaper, which is to disseminate opinions from all sides, with some entertainment.

The empire's existing "Di Bao", which was also ordered by the edict, had not yet faced the popular newspapers of the common people, and after Fu Tianqiu's reminder, Li Nan couldn't help but be interested.

"It's possible, you think it's good ......"

Fu Tianqiu also investigated and researched recently, wanting to check and fill in the gaps for Li Nan, the son-in-law emperor, so he found the way to the newspaper, and carefully designed it for a long time before writing this book.

Hearing Li Nan casually talk about the functions of the newspaper, as well as the various methods for the establishment of the newspaper and its radiation to the whole country, Fu Tianqiu was dumbfounded, he never expected that His Majesty the Emperor would be able to perfect it to such a point in such a short period of time just after hearing an idea and suggestion, which is really a genius.

In Fu Tianqiu's admiring gaze, Li Nanda briefly recounted what he had seen and known about newspapers and newspaper offices in later generations, and added: "This matter will be left to you with full authority, and you will directly set up a Ministry of Culture." I'll just talk about the newspaper casually, and as for whether it's okay or not, you can see what to do when the time comes. ”

Previously, because Fu Tianqiu did not have an official position, Li Nan called him Mr. Fu, and Fu Tianqiu also called himself an old man, but now that the emperor has appointed an official position, his identity is different.

Fu Tianqiu immediately knelt down and thanked him: "With the trust of His Majesty, the minister will definitely do his best to handle this matter well!" ”

"We're all a family, and besides, the empire doesn't like these old rituals of kneeling, so get up and speak."

After saying the first suggestion, he also got a ministerial-level official position, Fu Tianqiu was happy in his heart, and hurriedly told the second suggestion.

As a disciple of Confucianism, Fu Tianqiu wanted to do the same thing as every Confucian student, that is, he intended to spread Confucianism to the entire empire and even the whole world.

Hearing Fu Tianqiu's words, Li Nan slowly frowned.

As an emperor, Li Nan did not appreciate the doctrines and ideas of Confucianism, but preferred the teachings of Mohism and Legalism.

The Mo family's "Shang Tong Shang Xian" means to elect the sage as an official and the sage as the king of the Son of Heaven, which can be said to be something that all feudal rulers cannot tolerate, so because of this, the Mo family will gradually decline in the long river of history.

The "non-offensive" of the Mohists is against the predatory wars of "attacking the small if the big is big, insulting the weak if the strong, being a thief and a widow, deceitful and foolish, being arrogant and cheap, and being arrogant and poor if the rich", and for the Chinese Empire, every step of its development was annexed by a small neighboring country.

In addition, Li Nan still agrees with the Mohist ideas of "thrift" and "non-life".

Confucianism is a very vibrant academic school founded by Confucius, developed by Mencius, and collected by Xunzi.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to listen to Dong Zhongshu's advice of "deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" in order to maintain the feudal autocratic rule, everyone's thinking in China has been greatly influenced by Confucianism, and even Li Nan, whose soul comes from later generations, has some Confucianism in his bones.

No doctrine or thought is flawless, especially this ancient doctrine from hundreds of years BC, and its biggest problem is that it does not keep up with the times.

It can be said that Confucianism had a great change during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, because Dong Zhongshu had to make some changes to the Confucian doctrine in order to achieve the goal of exclusive respect for Confucianism, to meet the requirements of the emperor.

Confucianism is basically divided into two categories: "inner sage" and "outer king", that is, personal cultivation and political opinion.

Among them, the main thing related to personal cultivation is to advocate benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, forgiveness, loyalty, filial piety, and other ideas, which are not too big a problem, except for the "etiquette" that needs to be changed, the others are the moral standards that everyone should abide by.

As for the other aspects of governing the country with benevolence and virtue, emphasizing righteousness over profit, and regulating oneself with the image of a humble gentleman to negotiate with enemy countries, they are all seriously out of touch with the times and cannot adapt to the current situation and national conditions.

At present, most of the Confucian classics have been excluded from the rural schools of the empire, and more are to educate students in some modern and practical subjects, such as Chinese, mathematics, physics, chemistry and so on.

This phenomenon was naturally noticed by many Confucian people, and many dissatisfied people also opposed it several times, but Li Nan, the emperor, still had a lot of things to do, so this matter was put in the back of his mind.

Now that Fu Tianqiu once again talked about the spread of Confucianism, Li Nan pondered for a moment and said bluntly: "Only when human nature is evil can there be law, and only when there is extravagance can there be a sound and lust and a thief. Using the rule of law to restrain subordinates and the people is far better than the rule of Confucianism. ”

When Fu Tianqiu heard this, his face couldn't help but change color, because he had already heard that what Li Nan was talking about was the ideology and doctrine of Legalism, and it seemed that the emperor thought that Legalism was more suitable for governing the country.

Governing the country according to law was not a whim of Li Nan, but because his soul came from the afterlife.

Looking at the various countries of later generations, and comparing them with Legalist thought, it is not difficult to conclude that the countries of modern society are actually governed by "law".

Compared with the inherent goodness of human nature, Li Nan believes that human nature is inherently evil, and it is human nature to "benefit from evil" or "avoid harm for profit".

In the society of later generations, everyone pursued profit, coupled with the imperfection and inaction of the legal system, and gradually formed the belief of "mercenary" and "money first" in the society, and changing the law in time and using the legal system to restrain everyone is the correct way for Li Nan to do.

Although Fu Tianqiu was quite dissatisfied with Li Nan's use of Legalist ideology to govern the country, the other party was the emperor of this huge empire, so he could only bury this matter in his heart and said: "Then the minister will ponder this matter again." ”