Chapter 176: Spread
In fact, Constantinople was not suitable for a paper mill in terms of resources. But who makes home the economic center of all directions? A variety of resources come together here, making it a veritable commercial capital.
And the increasingly strong upward momentum of the port of Sofia has terrified the merchants in the Golden Horn. The port of Sofia was more open, facing the sea, easy to get around, and backed by various resources of the Han Kingdom, so the merchants of the Golden Horn could not squeeze out their trading status.
Especially after the Han people came up with the printing press and the paper mill. The low price, coupled with the fact that Wang Chang didn't care whether it made money or not, and sold it directly at the cost price, made South Constantinople, which was full of Han people, full of books.
After selling the Four Books and Five Classics and a bunch of official histories, Wang Chang began to invite Mr. Teaching, who had always been nervous. Establishment of primary and higher schools in the port of Sofia? This is not a lie. Wang Chang really did.
Humans are communicative creatures. When they saw that the life of the people next door was very good, with meat to eat, school, and books to read, the poor people of Constantinople yearned for the life next door even more.
It's a pity that they always hold something called a status register, and if you don't have it, you can't enjoy these benefits.
The massive spread of books immediately began to spread to the north of Constantinople. The merchants of the Golden Horn, the Venetians and ****** in the colonies, and many more Greek merchants of Constantinople, and most importantly Constantine XI in the palace in the northwest.
"These books are amazing."
People are good at change. Especially the Greeks. The hands-on Greeks hired two teachers to teach during the day and produce a bilingual dictionary in Chinese-Greek at night. And briefly introduce the differences between Chinese and Greek sentence structure.
Immediately, the Greek merchants, who ordered large quantities of the worst paper in the printing houses of Constantinople, and even made dictionaries on straw sandpaper, actually made a fortune from this business!
Books are the carriers of ideas, and thoughts are the manufacture of souls. This is a big problem when the ideas of one people begin to spread to another group.
Because Constantinople had not yet fallen, a large number of scholars within Constantinople did not leave. After setting off a debate between Chinese and Western ideologies, Wang Chang spent a lot of money to bribe a group of thinkers to deliberately create contradictions and propagate his own ideas. As a result of this behavior, many people have either consciously or forcedly begun to write books discussing differences in thought. After the Big Bang, the books began to spread by sea to northern Italy.
After all, in the hundred years since the rise of the Ottomans, countless Greeks have fled to northern Italy.
"Confiscation! All forfeited! What heavenly reincarnation, the unity of heaven and man, is all a fallacy! "Pope Nicholas V had just stopped his rivalry with King Juan II of Aragon, and he did not expect to receive the news of the imminent controversy.
If it were somewhere else, the books would have been burned as if they were the work of the devil. And in open-minded northern Italy, printing houses are constantly printing these books at full capacity and selling them to those who want to read them. So the Pope was furious.
Are you looking down on me Nicholas too much?
The pope wanted to burn books and ban thought, which caused unanimous anger among the city-states of northern Italy. If you don't let me see it, I'll look at it!
At night, a small workshop, a few people, with a typeset version of the book, pamphlets all over the city. Since these are all secondary processed books, and the books of origin are still in the Aegean and Black Seas, more emphasis is placed on debate, so the audience is also very happy to read them.
More and more books were printed, and some people even took chapters from books such as "Thought and Liberty" and "On the Absolute Power and Absoluteness of the Church" and blatantly distributed them to the people in the city of Rome, and Nicholas V almost died of anger in his bed.
After vigorous rectification, it still remains unchanged.
North Italy is so chaotic, and so is Greece and Edirne.
Greece is now mainly the Peloponnese of the Han Kingdom, the Duchy of Athens, and the Thessaly region under the Ottomans. In these places, Li Anshi worked hard to open the printing press. He knew that the more presses, the more obedient they were. The Peloponnese Peninsula was already producing and withering, and if there was no Han Kingdom, I am afraid that it would not be reduced to farming to make a living. Therefore, the loyalty of the people is still very high, coupled with a wave of ideological baptism, Li Anshi is extremely looking forward to the moment when their sons begin to call Han names.
In the Duchy of Athens, it was clear that these books could never be taken out. Because the feudal lords were not happy. Do you want to deprive me of my territory and demolish my castle? Then I'll rebel and show you!
In Thessaly, however, as he was still in the period of the more independent Tima, the books did not attract the attention of the governor of Tima when they were first assembled. He didn't notice until someone preached the idea of overthrowing Tima.
Tima is actually no different from feudal, as soon as the governor reads, he is in a groove, you are doing things for me! The popularity of these books was then banned.
This is more or less the case in the Aegean.
In September, news came from the political hall that he was very appreciative of the actions of Li Anshi and Wang Chang, and this month an additional batch of local supplies was being supplied.
Also in September, another group of immigrants arrived. This batch of immigrants was given priority to the provinces of Chian Ye and Bi Ye.
Jinguancheng has 1,000 households, which makes this large factory appear more comprehensive.
Except for the 500 households in Bai County and 500 households in Anxi County, and the establishment of Qingpu Wei in the city of Anhd in present-day Ukraine to connect Changjin County and Shuangbi County, these immigrants were all distributed to Shuangbi County, Changjin County, and Jincheng County.
The vast black soil of Ukraine is the greatest wealth.
Also in September, Yang Yuting and ****** people had a heated discussion and finally had a preliminary discussion result.
The Han people gave them ten two-pounder cannons, and the ****** opened the trade window and only allowed the Han to trade in ******. The amount of commodities traded may not exceed five thousand tons per year.
And this is the opportunity that Han Chinese businessmen have been waiting for for a long time!
Now there is a surplus of local grain production, a large amount of grain is going into export, and the olive oil, figs and other things produced in the ****** are needed locally. This is a highly complementary trade, so the people of Chuantou Street have been looking for investors everywhere, hoping to turn around in one fell swoop!
It was September again, and new news came from Aragon itself.
Juan II thwarted the aristocratic army and threw all the troublemakers out of their titles and imprisoned. The crisis in Aragon is over for the time being.
In reality, however, this is just the beginning of another crisis.