Chapter 155: Controlling Public Opinion

Previously, Ye Mo had told Liu Xie that he wanted to change the law, but Liu Xie thought too much about it, and he didn't have any reply so far. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.] Originally, Ye Mo thought that this matter needed to be done slowly, and he couldn't rush it for a while. However, after experiencing the affairs of the Empress Dowager Dong, Ye Mo understood that this matter had to be started.

Ye Mo also understands that it will be too hasty to start preparing for the change of the law now, but what Ye Mo needs now is not to immediately change to a new legal system, but Liu Xie's attitude.

There are so many families in the world, if Liu Xie doesn't dare to stand on the opposite side of these families, then there is no need for Ye Mo to continue to support Liu Xie on the dragon chair. After all, what is happening now in the Empress Dowager Dong can be ignored by Liu Xie, who can guarantee that another Empress Dowager will happen in the future, and Liu Xie will not ignore it.

"What does the Captain want to do?" Liu Xie sighed, his tone softened, and the whole person seemed to be slumped in a chair. Liu Xie also understood that Ye Mo was premeditated by doing this, in order to force himself to show his attitude. At this time, Liu Xie really had the urge to stop being an emperor, he was still young after all.

Seeing that Liu Xie had finally made up his mind to support the change, Ye Mo also felt very relieved, regardless of his status, although it was a bit cruel to treat a twelve or thirteen-year-old child like this. "Run a newspaper, open up people's wisdom, and control public opinion."

Ye Mo was a liberal arts student in his previous life and deeply knew the importance of controlling public opinion. Nowadays, the people listen to the news, and eighty percent of the news is sent to them from the local family. In order to maintain their dominance, the news given to them by those families was naturally screened, and it was difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and the people were naturally deceived by those families.

Running a newspaper is different, as long as the newspaper is moved, some literate people can learn the truth about some things through the newspaper. Even if the people are illiterate, the church can promote it on their behalf. In Ye Mo's vision, those churches were not just for teaching.

"Newspapers? What is Newspaper? Liu Xie looked at Ye Mo and asked puzzled. This word, for him, is not in the impression of nothing. But it's right not to be impressed, if there is an impression, then Liu Xie is not Liu Xie, but the protagonist of another novel.

Ye Mo saw that Liu Xie didn't know what a newspaper was, so he explained: "The so-called newspaper is to write things or draw pictures on a piece of paper. For example, this time, the Wei family can write down the fact that the Wei family sent someone into the palace to assassinate the Empress Dowager Dong, so that it can explain why His Majesty would destroy the Wei family. ”

Liu Xie almost didn't cry when he heard Ye Mo say that he had destroyed the family. After all, Liu Xie has been the emperor for more than a year, and he still has this ability to restrain himself. "Then isn't the captain afraid that other people will imitate the captain's approach? Moreover, where is there so much paper for a newspaper, and where is there so many people to write a newspaper? ”

I have to say that Liu Xie is really smart, Ye Mo just said it simply, Liu Xie thought of the idea, and the two questions asked by Liu Xie can be said to be the two most difficult technical questions for running a newspaper.

On the basis of Cai Hou, the minister improved the paper-making technology, and the paper made was as white as snow and as flat as a mirror. As for writing newspapers, the minister invented printing, as long as a template is engraved, then it is to print tens of thousands of newspapers, so why is it difficult? Since Liu Xie asked, Ye Mo could only shamelessly attribute the two inventions of papermaking and printing to himself, after all, it can't be said that it was systematically developed.

Hearing Ye Mo say this, Liu Xie suddenly became even more nervous. Now the paper used in Dahanpu is a little yellowish in color, and there is still a lot of friction on the paper, which may wipe the butt and blood. But Ye Mo actually said that he had improved the papermaking technique, and the paper made was as white as snow and as flat as a mirror, which was simply a miracle. But so, there is still that printing technology, which can print things indefinitely. Liu Xie is really in the mood of our modern people when they see the Queen Mother now.

The reason why there are so many great people and great Confucians who are respected now is because they have a large collection of books, and then they also copy those books themselves and pass them on. Now, there is really only one book at a time, and if it weren't for the transcription of those great people and Confucians, some books might have been lost in the long river of history.

Historically, why did Guan Yu read a copy of "The Analects" every day? It is because the Analects is a representative of Confucius and Confucianism. But all Confucian students will transcribe this book, so there will be more books. And Guan Yu is very happy to get this "Analects" in his life. As for the other books, how could Guan Yu not read them, but when he led the troops to fight, he couldn't take a cart of bamboo slips to the battlefield.

Nowadays, many families may not have a single collection of books in their study rooms, and bamboo slips and the words and deeds of their elders are the main sources of their knowledge. It is no exaggeration to say that if Ye Mo is willing, take a book out and sell it at a price of 10,000 gold, there will definitely be many people who will rush to ask for it.

This era is different from the 21st century, and people in this era still think that books are far more important than money, and there are many people who are willing to break the bank for a book. Sadly, later generations only knew that the Jews valued books more than gold, but they did not know that their ancestors had done the same.

A very simple example, "Shinong, industrialist, industrialist", and "shi" are at the top, not because they are all high-ranking officials, but because they are all educated, and the status of "merchants" with the most money is the lowest. Again, like. "Everything is inferior, but reading is high." This shows the love of knowledge of the ancients.

Some people may say that we ancients loved reading just to become officials. But weren't Jews studying just to make money?

"Lord Taiwei, how should this newspaper be sold? How can it be seen by the general public? "Now that he has a plan to run a newspaper, Liu Xie doesn't care about anything else, just how to let the general public see it. Otherwise, it's all empty talk.

"Now that churches have been set up in the Sanfu area and construction is also beginning in the Qingzhou area, we only need to hand over the newspapers to the churches in various places, so that the churches can sell the newspapers to the people everywhere." In Ye Mo's heart, how could the church only teach? It's okay to sell newspapers.

"In that case, what is the price?" Since it's a sale, there must be a price.

It's just that what Liu Xie didn't know was that Ye Mo was taken aback by Liu Xie's question, Liu Xie would actually ask the price of this newspaper, and it seems that Liu Xie is also very business-minded. In fact, Liu Xie was influenced by Liu Hong, who once ran a sales street in the palace, and then asked the palace maids and eunuchs to pretend to be businessmen and passers-by. Then, Liu Xie was fun, so he went to see it.

"I think that the price of 1 copper plate is enough. The newspaper is not run for profit, but it cannot be run without any fees. Moreover, if there are homeless orphans or poor families, then sell these newspapers to them, and they can also earn some living money. Ye Mo thought for a while, then spoke. The main purpose of running a newspaper is to control public opinion, and if the price is too high, it will be in vain.

"In that case, then, according to the Captain's words, the first newspaper published this news." Liu Xie had already made up his mind to change the law, so naturally he would hand over these things to Ye Mo to deal with. Moreover, when the family can't control public opinion, what else do they use to fight with the emperor of the dynasty? xh118