After breakfast the next day, Gawain took out the plan he had written the night before and showed it to Hetty.

Speaking of a plan, in fact, it contains far more detailed content than the plan - Gao Wen should not only write in the plan the plan and the manpower and material resources required to prepare the newspaper, but also use a lot of space to explain what a newspaper is, and what is the meaning of the newspaper, and finally there are a lot of things such as the problems and solutions that may be encountered in preparing a newspaper......

There is no way to write the plan in such detail, this is the lesson that Gao Wen has accumulated since he unveiled the coffin - he finds that the biggest problem he has to face when proposing a new concept in this world is often not whether people will accept it, because he has the identity of the founding ancestor, and he has the combat power to blow up the head of any person in the territory, so he never has to consider the implementation of his words by the people around him, and the real trouble is- A lot of times people don't necessarily understand what he's describing.

When he proposes a new conceptual product, he has to propose more new terms to describe it, and these new terms may also need to be explained in more language, and some things that he takes for granted may need two or even three layers of "translation" to understand what they are, and after encountering several such problems, he has to write a detailed information before proposing a new thing each time, and explain the basic concepts and functions of such a new thing in the data.

Of course, this will take a lot of time in the early stage, but it saves him and everyone the effort of explaining the new things again, and having a clear document for people to circulate, can also avoid deviations after these things have been passed on by hand, so that when they are finally realized, they deviate from his expectations.

"Newspapers?" Hetty carefully read the information handed to her by her ancestors, she is now familiar with this kind of information, and knows that every time her ancestors take out such a pile of things, she has to try to understand something that has never been done before, but it is quite effective, but this time the things proposed by the ancestors are more different than usual - this does not seem to be a new magic machine, nor is it a new management concept, but a ...... Extremely cheap ...... Books?

"You can understand that you can print thousands of copies of the things on the bulletin board in the town center, and add some content such as common sense of life, news inside and outside the territory, price changes, and popular science knowledge, and finally form a kind of cheap, time-sensitive reading," Gao Wen explained, and explained by the way what the word timeliness means, "Timeliness means that the content on it is all recent, and only valid in the near future, and it will be useless after a long time." For example, the price of cereals in the last two days, this is time-sensitive information. ”

Hetty thoughtfully understood Gawain's words, and Amber, who had started strolling around the restaurant after eating and drinking, suddenly came over and looked at Gawain with a surprised expression: "Wow - you finally decided to kill the intelligence dealers inside and outside the territory after forcing those pharmacists, alchemists, and miners to death?" ”

Gawain was stunned by this guy's sudden words: "What's the matter with this intelligence dealer?" ”

"Isn't this nonsense, you printed all this information on this thing called a 'newspaper', obviously you want to monopolize the intelligence business—I still learned the word monopoly from you," Amber said, shaking her head, "You really don't leave anyone else a way to live!" ”

"If these things in the newspaper can also be considered intelligence ......" Gawain understood Amber's words and shook his head with a smile, "Well, then I'm going to drive this so-called 'intelligence monger' to death." ”

"The role of the newspaper is to let the people know the new things around them more quickly, and at the same time help to disseminate popular science knowledge, general education, and publicize the new regulations and new systems of the government department, and enhance the power of the territorial ruler's discourse......" Hetty didn't care about Amber's interruption, but looked at what Gawain wrote seriously, she could read every word on it, but she couldn't imagine why the newspaper had such a big role, "Ancestor, don't the bulletin boards in the town have this effect?" ”

"Yes, but the limitations of bulletin boards are too great," Gao Wen shook his head, "Our population is increasing, and the size of the city is getting bigger, and relying only on bulletin boards to spread information is obviously too inefficient." And there is another point - the number of people who can read in the territory is becoming more and more, and being able to read means that they have a stronger ability to accept knowledge and learn skills, and the amount of information that bulletin boards can provide them is far from enough. ”

Hetty suddenly thought of what she had reported to Gawain yesterday, and she asked tentatively, "Is this ...... Is it also related to improving the law and order environment? ”

"That's right," Gawain nodded slightly, "reading can make people discern reason, and the more they understand, the more people will be able to think rationally and break free from ignorance." I know that many nobles in this era thought that commoners were inherently barbaric, so they would fight, fight, drink and gamble, but in fact, no one was born barbaric, they just lacked the correct correction and the right way to consume energy. ”

Amber slid up behind Hetty, poked her head out and looked at the information written down by Gawain, when she suddenly looked up and asked, "But then again...... You're really obsessed with letting civilians 'know more'...... Is it really necessary? ”

Gawain smiled: "Of course it is necessary - I not only want to make the people live well, but I also want them to live and understand, let them know why they can live a good life, and why they have been hungry and cold in the past, only in this way can they sincerely support Cecil's new order, and identify with this land, and produce cohesion." ”

Amber raised her eyelids, and there was curiosity in her amber eyes: "You really think differently from others." ”

"I know that no lord has ever considered this before, because they think that the commoners are a weak and ignorant people, and as long as the sword and staff are in their hands, they never worry about the lives and thoughts of the civilians, but I never think so," Gawain smiled, "You have all seen the machines controlled by ordinary people in the factory, and you have seen the new guns and bombs, you should know that when wisdom is used in the right place, ordinary people still have the ability to shake the transcendental- It's just that for thousands of years, no one has ever paid attention to their power. ”

At this time, Rebecca, who had been listening to it for a long time, suddenly reacted and looked at Gawain with her eyes: "Ah! I see, my lord, that the printing press you showed me yesterday was for this purpose—no wonder you kept emphasizing convenience and editability......"

"That's really what it does," Gao Wen nodded, "and only a new printing press that can print continuously and make plates quickly can meet the requirements of a large number of newspapers and strong timeliness." ”

Rebecca scratched her hair: "That's it, I don't know when the printing press will be made......"

"It's okay, don't worry, you can study slowly," Gao Wen smiled and waved his hand, "Since there is no way to do it in one step, then let's take our time." For newspapers, let's not insist that they be published once a day - we can use the method of engraving printing first, starting with one issue a week. For the current realm and for the people who have never owned cheap reading materials, even a newspaper that is published every ten days is of great significance. ”

This world also has the concept of "week", but the week is not seven days, but according to the legend of the ancient mythology that the earth rises from the ocean in ten days, the week is set as ten days, so that a month of sixty days is exactly six weeks.

In Gao Wen's view, things like "daily newspapers" are good, but if they can't be realized in the early stage, there is no need to force them. The traditional Ansu engraving printing technology takes at least two days from engraving wax plates to making Yangwen clay tablets, and then printing paper and drying inks.

In this era, the development of most of the territory except for Cecil's territory is slow and monotonous, there is little news to speak of outside the territory, and given the relatively basic literacy level of the current people, there is no need for overly complex and difficult newspaper content, and in addition to the fact that the territory is currently such a large place, the news and changes that have occurred are very limited, and it is very reasonable to issue a weekly newspaper.

If there is really any special news, you can also issue an "extra".

"Newspapers are something that needs to be circulated for a long time, so we need to set up a special department to do this," Gawain saw that Hetty had realized the significance of newspapers, so he continued, "The department that publishes newspapers can be called 'newspapers', theoretically, if newspapers develop in the future, and even private newspapers are private, we also need to set up a special management department in the government department to deal with cultural propaganda affairs, but at this stage, it is enough to set up a newspaper office directly controlled by the government affairs department." There should be an editor in charge of the content of the newspaper, a 'reporter' who gathers news, and a ......."

Gawain explained all sorts of things, in fact, these things were also mentioned in the information he gave to Hetty, but after he explained it himself, Hetty understood it a little easier.

"It's going to take some learned people to do it," Hetty said, rubbing her eyebrows, and began to think about the candidates, "There must be no such talents among the civilians who have just learned to read and write...... The group of scholars that Santis brought back could be considered. ”

"Those royal scholars...... Gao Wen pondered for a moment, "what are they doing now?" ”

"Some of them have already gone to the school to teach, and they are said to be doing well, after all, they were screened and filtered by Santis, and they are very comfortable here, and there are also some who are studying rune logic with Jenny and Carmel," Rebecca Balabala said, "and some of them are at the Magic Technology Research Institute, and they are very interested in the magic energy engine - I told them that it was the 'Lost Ancient Technology' that my ancestors brought out, and they all forgot to eat and sleep." In addition to this, there are a few people who are not assigned. ”

The corners of Gao Wen's mouth curled: "It's not bad, I'm still worried that those royal people will not be comfortable after coming here." ”

"It's good to get used to," Rebecca grinned, "it's full of new things, everything is enough for them to study, and many of them have the name of 'Lost Ancient Technology', not to mention the scholars, even the official mages and mage apprentices, who are now honest, for fear that I won't let them into the lab." Of course, I think the main reason is that they saw Kamel running around the territory with sparks and lightning all the way, and they were all suppressed......"

Gao Wen saw that the topic was about to deviate, so he hurriedly pulled it back: "Ahem, okay, then select a few people from those royal capital scholars to prepare the first issue of the newspaper that Cecil received." Hetty, I'll leave this matter to you. ”

Hetty put away the thick pile of materials and bowed his head deeply: "Please rest assured. ”

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