Jiang Chuan was standing in front of a huge bookcase, splashing ink.

He was practicing calligraphy.

Liu Ji and Su Qin have both instructed him, and Jiang Chuan seems to be quite talented, and he also pays close attention to practice when he has time, so his handwriting looks pretty good now.

At this time, the four words "the beginning of everything" have been written on the white rice paper, and the last word "difficult" has been left with the last horizontal end.

Jiang Chuan finished the horizontal with great effort, looked at it, nodded, shook his head again, cleaned the brush in the water dish next to him, and hung it on the pen holder after spinning it dry.

"Okay, let's talk about the situation."

As the secretary, Qi Xuan held a stack of documents and reported: "According to the prior arrangement, notices have been posted in conspicuous positions throughout the capital, including all the surrounding counties, among which there are forty-five announcement points in the capital, and there are also twenty announcement points in other counties. Moreover, each point was arranged with corresponding reading and explanation personnel, and soldiers were arranged to maintain order to ensure that the people in the capital and the surrounding areas could know about it. ”

"Okay, let's put up the notice for a few more days, for a month. What about going to the bank to exchange fiat currency on these two days? Jiang Chuan nodded and asked again.

Qi Xuan hesitated for a moment, and then said, "It's not ideal." The official exchange business started yesterday, and the data statistics of yesterday day have come out. Among them, no more than 300 people went to the headquarters of Zhongzhou Bank to exchange fiat currency. The other four branches together have more than 200 people.

And the amount of these people who came to exchange was very small, most of them only had a dozen taels of silver. ”

Although Jiang Chuan had been mentally prepared for this result, he still felt a little uncomfortable after hearing it.

"How many taels of silver have been exchanged the most in these two days?" Jiang Chuan thought about it and asked again.

"It was just the opening of the headquarters of Zhongzhou Bank, and a few people came to exchange it with 10,000 taels of silver. Exchanged 10,000 yuan for fiat currency. Qi Xuan said.

"Oh? How many more? Do you know who this family is? Jiang Chuan asked in surprise.

"It is said to be the family of Shoufu Xia Junze."

Xia Junze? Sure enough, it is a practical action to show support for the New Deal!

Of course, he also knew that it was impossible for the first assistant to have only these ten thousand taels of silver in his family, which was at most an attitude.

Presumably, Xia Junze was also prepared for the worst, and he was ready to let the ten thousand taels of silver go down the drain.

"Pass on the king's order, let the General Administration Department issue a royal order in the Zhongzhou newspaper to reward Xia Ge Lao, and give Xia Ge Lao's son and nephew a chance to directly recommend him to the court as an official, without participating in the scientific examination." Jiang Chuan commanded.

"Yes, Your Highness, I'll inform the Secretary of General Administration in a moment." Qi Xuan wrote it down casually and nodded.

Originally, the General Administration Department was a yamen set up by the imperial court to communicate with the government and the opposition, and was mainly responsible for receiving and transferring official documents from the imperial court officials, which was called the title book. The question book is also a general official document, which is not too urgent and does not need to be kept secret.

There is also a kind of official document called the sonata, which is that the official can directly present the emperor. This kind of official document is usually an urgent document or a very confidential official document can be presented directly.

After the official sends the question book to the General Administration, the General Administration Department will take notes and then submit it to the Cabinet or the relevant government officials as appropriate.

After the cabinet vote is drafted and the celebrant approves the red, he will return to the General Administration Department, which will register and file it and then return it to the official or yamen who wrote the letter.

In addition to this responsibility, the Secretary for Communications also has another responsibility, which is to manage the newspaper.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Di Bao simply published the concerts of some court officials, or the instructions of the emperor and the cabinet on something, or the emperor's edicts and other official documents.

After the newspaper is printed, it will be transported to the yamen of various state capitals across the country through post stations, where it will be read by local officials.

This kind of newspaper can be regarded as a kind of official document of the imperial court to convey government decrees to the locality, whether it is timeliness, extensiveness of content, or flexibility of form, it is very rigid and conservative, and it belongs to official articles.

After the regency of Jiangchuan, the role of the General Administration Department was basically gone, and the newspaper was discontinued.

After planning to establish a banking system, when implementing fiat currency, Jiang Chuan thought of the General Administration Department again, or to be precise, he remembered Di Bao.

Thanks to the experience of later generations and the development of the printing and paper industries in this era, Egawa planned to reissue the newspaper.

At this time, there was no Internet, no radio, and no television station, and the biggest position for disseminating public opinion was naturally newspapers.

Therefore, Jiang Chuan handed over the General Administration Department to Liu Ji for temporary supervision, and asked Liu Ji to quickly reissue a new newspaper, called "Zhongzhou Daily".

Jiang Chuan is very clear about the positioning of Zhongzhou Daily, that is, the official media, the largest mouthpiece of the imperial court, just like the People's Daily in later generations.

In addition, Jiang Chuan also plans to publish another newspaper, called "Beijing Daily", the main target readers are to distribute to the people, current affairs news, lace news, entertainment gossip, and even food sections, advertising sections, all kinds of information are available, purely commercial operation.

However, the "Beijing Daily" has not yet started to be published for the time being due to personnel and experience, and it is only a plan and idea.

We will wait until the circulation of Zhongzhou Daily is stable to start doing this.

After Jiang Chuan exchanged his experience in his previous life with Liu Ji, Liu Ji had a clear idea of how to run the "Zhongzhou Daily" well.

The personnel are all ready-made, and the printing equipment is also ready-made, and it only needs to be integrated to get started.

So far, the first issue of "Zhongzhou Daily" has been issued, and although it is scheduled to be a daily publication, it is still published as a weekly magazine for various reasons.

Despite this, 10,000 copies of the first issue of Zhongzhou Daily were quickly sold out.

The reason for this is not only that people look new, and that the layout, form and content are very different from the previous newspapers, but the most important reason is that the first issue published the details of this currency reform, as well as some general directions and ideas for the future reform of the imperial court.

As far as officials are concerned, in addition to their own abilities and connections, they must also have a high degree of political sensitivity.

Jiang Chuan is now very strong, and there is no sign of collapse.

If you don't want to lose your head, or if you want to continue to be an official, you naturally want to understand the ruling ideas and style of His Royal Highness the Regent, so that you can keep your official position and head in the future.

Therefore, although the layout of "Zhongzhou Daily" is only four pages, and the price is one yuan in legal currency, which is equivalent to one or two pieces of silver, it was still sold out in a short period of time.