Since 1840, the upper echelons of the Qing Dynasty have been carrying out xenophobic propaganda, using various means to scandalize foreigners, saying that foreigners eat people, cooking children to eat during the New Year's Festival, you must drink Chinese tea, otherwise the stool will not be smooth and you will die in a few days, Chinese without scientific knowledge have always believed these rumors, even ministers like Lin Zexu think that foreigners' legs cannot be bent, and they don't want to think about how foreigners can walk if this is the case.

In order to resolve the hatred between China and the West, it is necessary to clear up these misunderstandings in order to make the people of the country recognize the equal status of the country. In order for these statements to be widely circulated, it is necessary to develop the newspaper industry. At present, the Chinese version of the Telegraph is only distributed in Shanghai and other places where there are concessions, otherwise the government will take the goods because of the crime of speech, and now is the time to expand the newspaper industry.

The freedom to run a newspaper is still not yet at the right time, because the judicial system has not yet been established, and freedom of speech is easy to lead to rumors flying all over the sky, and when the time comes, it is still necessary to use strong means to quell it, and it is better to monopolize the newspaper industry and dominate public opinion first. Of course, it is not possible to use the name of "The Telegraph", this is a foreigner's newspaper, and it is impossible to make it impossible for a foreigner's newspaper to dominate public opinion. As a result, Tang Ning planned the first national official newspaper for the Qing Dynasty, which was named "Qing News".

Due to the invention of the Chinese telegraph, "Daqing News" can be distributed simultaneously in major cities across the country, and it was initially printed in the three central cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. And because of the emergence of Chinese typewriters, it is possible to make automatic Chinese typewriters, and the layout can be the same as English, and there are several versions if you want it. The Chinese edition of The Telegraph has long accumulated Chinese printing technology, which can only be connected to the Chinese typewriter, and because the Chinese typewriter is based on Weituma Pinyin, it is easy to learn and can quickly train a large number of publishing talents. The speed and convenience of Chinese typewriters also made it possible to use vernacular script.

Another advantage of the monopoly newspaper industry is that the reading habits of the Chinese people are quickly in line with the world; originally they ran vertically from top to bottom, finished a column and then to the left, but now changed to horizontal from left to right and from top to bottom. Don't you like to watch it? I'm sorry, I don't have anything else to show you!

If the Qing Dynasty is properly governed, it is entirely possible to run into modern civilization, it turns out that Tang Ning in Japan marveled at the world's first literacy rate of Japanese people, but recently paid attention to the situation in the Qing Dynasty and found that the literacy rate of the Qing Dynasty is also quite high in the world, about 20%, 5 to 10 percentage points lower than that of the United Kingdom, but it already has a very good foundation. That's really good news.

The general editorial office of "Daqing News" is actually the editorial office of the Chinese version of "Telegraph", but the scale is different, it turns out that "Telegraph" is in the place of freedom of speech in the concession, and can say whatever it wants, but "Daqing News" is a royal newspaper, and it is necessary to consider the feelings of the people of Daqing, and also to put up the shelf of the royal family.

After receiving the emperor's direct decree to run the newspaper, Prince Gong immediately went to the Daqing News Printing House in the capital to observe and open his eyes.

The governors of various places also received the genuine holy decree of setting up the holy decree of wireless telegraphy, and they were all surprised, Zeng Guofan heard about it well before he received the holy decree, and he slapped the table at that time and shouted: "The emperor has finally opened his mind!" But he immediately realized that there was a speech problem, isn't this slandering the emperor for not being enlightened before? Hurriedly looked around, fortunately, only Li Hongzhang and a few other cronies were around.

The inaugural issue of the "Daqing News" published the full text of the Sino-British and Sino-French Beijing Treaties, and spent a huge amount of space explaining why China and foreign countries were equal, why China and foreign trade were encouraged, why tariffs were agreed, why the Kowloon Peninsula in Xin'an County, Guangdong Province was ceded to the British, why foreigners were allowed to preach, why foreigners were allowed to hire Chinese laborers, and why foreigners who committed crimes in China were handed over to the consul of that country to deal with.

In terms of explaining the equality between China and foreign countries, the "Daqing News" can be described as painstakingly printing a map of the world in full color, so that the people can see at a glance the size of our Qing Dynasty in the world map, our Qing Dynasty is indeed big enough, but it is not the largest, Russia is bigger than us, the British Empire and its colonies are larger than us, and the United States, Brazil, and Australia are about the same size as our Qing Dynasty. The common people are most concerned about the food problem, so it is necessary to tell them that according to the ranking of arable land, my Qing Dynasty should be ranked after the United States and the British Empire's colony India, which is why our Qing Dynasty has the highest population in the world, followed by India, and the Americans are absolutely not worried about having no food, they have the world's largest arable land area, but the population is only 30 million, less than one-tenth of my Qing Dynasty.

The tea that I am proud of in the Qing Dynasty can actually be cultivated in other countries, such as India and Malaya, and the varieties will be a little different, just like the tea in my Daqing Dynasty is also divided into famous tea producing areas such as Hangzhou Longjing, Anxi Tieguanyin, Taihu Biluochun, etc. Chinese tea culture has a long history, Chinese tea is closely associated with countless poems, allusions, celebrities, for Chinese to drink tea is not only taste, but also culture, has a unique charm, but there is no need to be arrogant to bury Europeans that they do not drink Chinese tea will not be smooth and will die. The introduction of Chinese tea to Europe was only during the Kangxi period, and European civilization has lasted for thousands of years, so it can't be that the Europeans at that time couldn't survive, right?

The more powerful thing in my Qing Dynasty should be porcelain, and the word "China" in English actually means "porcelain country". Chinese porcelain has been the highest and most mysterious technique in the world for thousands of years. 150 years ago, the overjoyed Saxon king Augustus II forced the young alchemist Bettge to develop a method of firing porcelain, and after three years of captivity, Bettge finally succeeded in firing small white transparent clay tablets in a filthy and hot dungeon.

There are three main secrets: first, the use of Jingdezhen kaolin, only this kind of porcelain clay has a good adhesion, I China is worthy of a lot of resources, kaolin, the most suitable natural material for making porcelain, was first discovered by our ancestors thousands of years ago, and kaolin is so much that it can be inexhaustible. However, similar porcelain clay was discovered in Korea and Japan, and the European alchemists' research on the composition of the soil finally allowed them to crack the secret of kaolin, and after thousands of attempts, the best composition ratio was obtained, and the artificial porcelain clay obtained was no less than the kaolin of the Qing Dynasty. Continuous improvement in this way can even lead to better raw materials than kaolin in the future.

Second, when the kaolin is burned to 1200 degrees Celsius, it will be "vitrified", and at this time, the water resistance will be greatly improved from pottery to porcelain. For a long time, Europeans could only imitate a few hundred degrees of pottery.

Third, the mystery of color. During the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols had a vast territory, and there was an Arab nation in the far west who were good at surviving in deserts and wasteland areas, and they regarded the blue representing the water as a sacred color, and generally used cobalt blue on the glass, which is a material that can withstand high temperatures of 1200 degrees, after the exchange between the East and the West, Chinese porcelain workers used cobalt blue on porcelain, which is the famous Yuan blue and white in the history of porcelain. European porcelain masters or latecomers, invented two color tricks, the first time the porcelain is vitrified and then colored, the second color no longer needs high temperature, at this time the color of porcelain is suddenly enriched, so now is the era of "pastel".

Here I would like to introduce the advantages and skills that I am proud of in the Qing Dynasty gradually fading and disappearing, not to increase the morale of others and destroy my own prestige, but to warn my subjects of the Qing Dynasty that the prestige of the Celestial Empire is not eternal, and that a country and nation that is unwilling to face up to its own backwardness and unwilling to join the industrial era will inevitably be reduced to a second-rate or third-rate.

Our Qing Dynasty has been backward, this backwardness is not only that our ancestors invented the Sinan needle was used to guide foreigners to travel across the ocean to the land of our Qing Dynasty, with the gunpowder invented by our ancestors to teach us a lesson, and then use the printing and papermaking technology first invented by our ancestors to tell the world about our shame and the glory of the British and French armies, but also reflected in all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation.

Silk was also the pride of Chinese civilization, and it mainly had two problems: first, it was vulnerable to water after encountering it; Second, it is necessary to breed silkworms, which is time-consuming and laborious, because it is expensive. The method of silk weaving has been learned by France and other countries, but Western countries have cheaper and stronger weaving raw materials - cotton. Westerners use large machines to spin and weave fabrics, and the production capacity of a worker is equivalent to a hundred skilled weavers in my Qing Dynasty, and the woven fabrics are full of colors and colors.

The population of our Qing Dynasty is the highest among all countries, because we are an ancient agricultural civilization that has been inherited for thousands of years, and we are also lagging behind in this regard, and the average output of British farmers is 5 times higher than that of our Qing Dynasty farmers, because they use advanced farming equipment, and the Americans who have a lot of arable land are even more skilled.

Westerners used the concrete method to build roads and bridges, which were easy to mold like clay, and were as solid as a rock after solidifying and drying. I'm better than a clear day.

Westerners use iron rails to transport materials weighing more than 100,000 catties, and travel at high speed for hundreds of miles in half an hour. （http：/／)。

You have already seen that our Qing Dynasty should not only get along with the foreign powers on an equal footing, but we should also learn from the Western countries and catch up. My Qing Dynasty was defeated by foreigners, it is reasonable, the Qing Dynasty's domestic and foreign troubles may not be able to avoid this catastrophe, but the blood of the Chinese people will not be broken, even if the Qing Dynasty is destroyed, the monarchs still need to work hard not ****.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty implored all the subjects of the Great Qing Dynasty to forgive the imperial court for awakening too late, and the tired monarchs were insulted by foreigners and troubled by Cantonese bandits.

Admitting that the Qing Dynasty is not as comprehensive as the Western countries is already groundbreaking, and not making it secret that the Qing Dynasty is even more numb to the reader's scalp. When Prince Gong read the newspaper, he was even more sure that his royal brother must have holes in his head. Zeng Guofan, the commander of the Xiang army, who was born in the Jin Dynasty and benefited from the Qing Dynasty's great affection for the Qing Dynasty, burst into tears, while Li Hongzhang praised "this Xiongwen also." It was not easy for the Daqing Shimbun to receive such an evaluation of this "editorial" that did not conform to the reading habits of the Chinese at this time. Of course, there are also Confucian scholars who scoff at it and can't stand it. This article is written in the vernacular, some places are a little white, some places are deliberately written a little bit, and even the front and back words, many words are relatively rare, because Tang Ning rarely writes Chinese things, so it is more difficult to grasp the reading habits of the subjects of the Qing Dynasty.

Many Chinese can't bear to look directly when they see this, and there is still a lot of material behind. Next is to elaborate on why Sino-foreign trade should be encouraged.