"Your Highness, what's wrong with this rice seed?" Looking at the strange expression on Li Su's face, Wang Zihao was also a little apprehensive in his heart, after all, Li Su has always been known for his erudition, and he was able to tell the characteristics of this rice seed just now, so he should know this kind of rice very well. At this time, the people who checked the rice seeds also found Li Su's abnormality, and they all looked at this side with some doubts.

"Uh~, that's not it, it's just ......"

Li Su said this, I really didn't know how to continue, thought about it, and simply asked someone to go to the warehouse to bring a sack, and then opened it in front of everyone, but everyone made a 'ah' sound, because it was also rice seeds, and people with eyesight also found that the two bags of rice seeds were almost identical in appearance, and they looked like they should be the same variety.

Wang Zihao traveled thousands of miles to the south for this rice seed, so he was very familiar with the appearance of the rice seed, and he could see at a glance that the rice seed that Li Su asked people to bring was the same variety as the rice seed he brought.

"Your Highness, it turns out that you also know about this kind of Champa rice!" Wang Zihao saw the rice seeds brought by Li Su, and immediately understood what was going on, it turned out that the rice seeds he had worked so hard to find, but Li Su had already made people ready, that is to say, he had tossed in vain.

Looking at Wang Zihao's depressed look, Li Su also smiled bitterly in his heart, this thing is too coincidental, Zhancheng rice is a killer move that he carefully prepared in order to solve the food problem, before he was in Dengzhou, he had already sent people to Zhancheng to transport a lot of rice seeds, and now they exist in Guangzhou and other places, just wait for Li Shimin to report, this kind of improved rice will be promoted, I believe that in the southern region, it can generally be harvested twice a year, and even further south, and can also be harvested three times a year.

It's just that I didn't expect the hero to see the same thing, Wang Zihao also happened to know about Zhancheng Rice, and he also ran away in person, looking at his face full of dust now, it is estimated that he has suffered a lot along the way. Coupled with the excitement just now and the current frustration, there is a strong contrast, which makes Li Su a little unbearable.

"Zihao, speaking of which, your father and daughter really have a good heart, this Zhancheng rice was found by her from the south. It's just that you're a father. But it's a step too late for my daughter! Li said with a smile.

Well, in fact, Li Su is lying, as a foodie in his previous life, he has long known the name of Zhancheng Rice. So in order to solve the agricultural problem, he first thought of this kind of high-quality rice, but in order not to discourage Wang Zihao's enthusiasm, he pushed this credit to Xijun, after all, the first discoverer was Wang Zihao's biological daughter. Although he will be a little disappointed as a father, I believe that he will feel more gratified, not to mention that he has always doted on his only daughter the most.

Sure enough, when Wang Zihao heard that the rice seed was discovered by his daughter, his face immediately improved a lot, and when the others heard that there was such a coincidence, they felt even more interesting, and learned in detail about the advantages of Zhancheng rice, when they heard that it could be harvested twice or even three times a year. They were also very shocked, although their family is now mainly engaged in industry and commerce, but the importance of food has long been branded into the bones of every Han person, so they also attach great importance to more food.

Since Wang Zihao has brought Zhancheng rice, Li Su no longer hides it. He also told the matter of his preparation to promote Zhancheng rice in the south, and everything had been prepared, and after reporting to Li Shimin, he would officially promote it through the imperial court.

Heard Li Su's trick. Wang An next to him nodded and smiled, compared to the three strategies he offered. It is true that the improvement of rice seeds has achieved quick results, and it is not easy to be rejected by the people. Cheng Huailiang and they are also very impressed, but the promotion of this kind of rice is still indispensable for publicity, after all, if this kind of thing is promoted by coercive means, it is likely to backfire, so the topic quickly turned to the new thing that Li Su thought of before for publicity.

Regarding this matter, Li Su smiled and said nothing, and turned to look at Yanbei. Li Yong stole the limelight just now, and now seeing everyone looking at him, Yan Bei immediately stood up and shouted: "Brothers, I believe you all know a lot of relatives and friends who can play with the pen, everyone can let them come to me to sign up, as long as they can pass the test, they can enter the newly opened newspaper to work, not only the work is easy, but also the salary is good, welcome all brothers to actively recommend!" ”

The rise of Yanbei said, simply put up a recruitment advertisement on the spot, about the matter of running a newspaper, Li Su actually wanted to do it for a long time, the newspaper can not only make the information flow quickly, but also with the help of the newspaper as a public opinion tool, it can also really influence the public opinion orientation of Datang society, which is also a function that Li Su values the most.

Speaking of the influence of the five surnames and seven hopes, from the court to the peddlers and pawns, almost every class is controlled by them, plus these family poetry and book heirlooms, among the Shilin who have the greatest influence on public opinion, nearly half of them are born in these families, so if they want to do something, as long as they mobilize their own influence, it is easy to pull public opinion to the side that is beneficial to them, and then use this public opinion to put pressure on the court, so as to achieve their own goals.

In order to reduce the influence of the other party and increase his grasp of public opinion, Li Su's first thought was the sharp weapon of newspapers. However, if you want to run a newspaper, there are two problems that need to be solved, one is printing, and the other is cheap paper.

In fact, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, engraving printing has appeared, but it is mainly used for printing Buddhist scriptures, most of the other books still have to rely on manual copying, since Li Su wants to run a newspaper, let alone use people to copy, even if it is printed with carved plates, one is high cost, the other is slow, so it must be printed with movable type, originally Li Su felt that this thing is very simple, nothing more than sawing the carved plate into a single word, and then rearrange it when you use it.

But when he let people do experiments, they knew that it was not like that at all, ordinary wooden movable type is very easy to deform, and it can no longer be used after using it a few times, so Li Su thought of clay movable type again, and the craftsman told him that the movable type made of clay looks simple, but the technology is more complicated, and in desperation, Li Su had to turn to metal movable type, iron is easy to rust, the first to exclude, lead and copper are very good materials, but one is more expensive than the other, and finally Li Su was ruthless, or made a set of movable type with copper, as for lead, because the output is relatively smallThe price is simply too high, so it simply does not apply.

However, not long after his copper movable type was made, the craftsmen in the Dengzhou Academy of Sciences improved the wooden movable type, selected the wood with a relatively dense texture, and then put it with special treatment, so that the wooden movable type made of this wood is very durable, although the cost is higher, but compared with the copper movable type piled up with money, it is not known how many times cheaper.

Printing technology solved, only paper remained, because of the limitations of papermaking, the price of paper in the Tang Dynasty was not low, especially the kind of paper with better quality, it was not at all something that ordinary people could use, when Li Shimin rewarded the prince, he often rewarded some paper, one is to persuade learning, and the other is to show the preciousness of paper, but these papers are used by Li Su as toilet paper, after all, he is really not used to the toilet chips used by the Tang people.

Of course, there are cheaper papers, but the quality of these papers is really poor, and they may fall off the slag when they are picked up, and they will be broken when they are kneaded, and they can only be used for ordinary practice. Although the paper used for newspapers does not have high quality requirements, it must at least be light and thin and foldable, and the lower the cost, the better.

Originally, Li Su wanted to find someone to study by himself, but he was later reminded that in the patent department, many people had registered papermaking patents, and maybe there was technology that Li Su needed. Sure enough, there are indeed a lot of papermaking patents in the patent department, and the kind of papermaking technology that Li Su needs is registered by a papermaking master, but he has no money and no one, and the asking price is relatively high, so it has not been used by a paper mill. Li Su didn't care about the price, and immediately sold the patent through Li Yifu, and then through the improvement of the craftsmen in his hands, he quickly produced good newspaper paper.

The problems of printing and paper have been solved, and there are only enough people to run a newspaper, which is the best way to solve, and it is not easy to find people who can do things, but people who can write articles are everywhere, of course, this is only relative to Li Su, after all, with his current appeal, it is really not difficult to find some people with good writing.

Although Yanbei likes to do business, he has always regarded himself as a literati and always wants to do something that a literati should do.

Hearing the newspaper in Yanbei's mouth, Cheng Huailiang and they were a little inexplicable at first, but after the fast-talking Yanbei talked about the operation of the newspaper and the functions it held, it immediately made everyone's eyes light up, and even some sharp-eyed people have already seen the deepest intention of Li Su to run the newspaper, with the newspaper, they are equivalent to having a head-on confrontation weapon with the five surnames and Qiwang, coupled with their advantages in the court and others, it is simply a fool's dream for the five surnames and seven hopes to suppress industry and commerce.

Recognizing the role of the newspaper, Cheng Huailiang and Li Jingye immediately became active one by one, and recommended the people they could think of one by one after they went back. And in order to select suitable talents from these people, he almost tired Yanbei down, but fortunately, Li Ke also showed great interest in this newspaper, and even put down his body and ran to help pick people, and even wrote and commented on articles himself.

After a period of intense preparation, Yanbei finally got together manpower, and the first newspaper in Datang was finally opened, and the sign was written by Li Su and Li Ke when they entered the palace and begged Li Shimin to write it themselves, and the name was "Datang Daily". At the same time as the opening of the newspaper, Datang Daily also began to sell on the market, and the newspaper, an emerging information carrier, finally officially stepped onto the stage of history.