Entertainment in this era is extremely monotonous and rare.

Long before the crossing, Gawain had seen descriptions of the scarcity of ancient entertainment in various film and television dramas, which can be said to be a cliché, but after the crossing, he still had to sigh - this sentence is really not just talking.

In this world, entertainment is not only scarce, but also very limited by social class, for the upper class aristocracy, the biggest entertainment in leisure time should be to enjoy opera, music, hunting, balls, although in the eyes of Gawain is still very boring, but it is also a colorful life, but the lower class people obviously cannot afford this kind of extravagant life, so the lower class of society, the more rare the entertainment items that people can come into contact with.

Drinking and fighting in bars, gambling in a few modest ways (and often eventually turning into fights), listening to the rap of street bards (of course, in this case, they are called legendary poetry) were pretty much the only way for the common people to relax after work, and the only thing they could do was to make children at home - but even then, they still had very little leisure time.

Due to the low productivity, and more importantly, the oppression of the lords and nobles, the vast majority of the commoners have almost no so-called "leisure time", they have to spend eighty or ninety percent of their energy on labor, in order to barely maintain their own food and clothing life, the vast majority of people do not have any extra energy and physical strength to fill their stomachs, and this is exactly the scene that most of the noble lords are happy to see: the untouchables are immersed in work, and in addition to this, do not have any "non-dividing thoughts", no one makes trouble, no one is lazy, and naturally everyone is happy.

But in Cecil's territory, things changed—

The people were filled, not only did they have their stomachs, they also had extra money and time to rest.

This kind of situation, which was taken for granted in Gawain's previous life, was unprecedented in this world, and it caught the managers off guard.

"After a period of construction in the territory, all kinds of infrastructure have been completed, survival is no longer a problem, and the production pressure of the factory has begun to ease, so we have entered the next stage," Gawain slowly packed up the chess pieces on the table, and said to Hetty, "In the past, everyone in the territory had to do their best to survive, and no one had leisure time, so the order was good, but now we don't need this, the people are starting to get a reasonable rest, and the food supply has become abundant, Then the people who are well-fed and have leisure naturally need to do something to consume their energy. According to the general 'rule', they can only go to bars to drink, and then fight with people in the streets and alleys, or run to seek some leather and meat business when they have more spare money, or gather people to gamble...... The law and order got worse and worse in the process, but they were not to blame.

"We can't let people work all the time, because the pressure that accumulates will only make law and order worse, so we have to give the people some entertainment."

Gawain put the chess box away and looked up into Hetty's eyes.

"Chess is a good thing, it kills time, it exercises its intellect, it can divide the winners and losers, and it's fun in the process, but it's unrealistic to expect a chess game to solve the law and order problem, we have to do more.

"It should be a responsibility to 'make the people feel satisfied and happy', and this satisfaction should not only be limited to feeding and cloning them, but also allowing them to enjoy the spiritual life that they take for granted.

"In addition to chess, I've also improved the rules of the King's deck. The original King deck rules were too complicated, and it was a pastime that only the more knowledgeable could understand, and it was not suitable for the general public, so I simplified it so that the common people could also grasp it, and I named it 'Lord Deck'. I also came up with a couple of games that could be played indoors, all of which were not complicated and fun. In addition, we can also remove or limit the gambling elements of the original dice games used for gambling, and promote and publicize them.

"I plan to open such a chess and card room in the territory, which can be integrated with the bar, but only serve drinks such as low-alcohol alcohol and sour grass water, and its main function is to relax and entertain people. In addition, the production cost of these chess cards is also very low, and they can be opened to merchants and craftsmen to make and sell, which can increase some income for the territory and make the life of the lord richer at home.

"In addition to this, for those who do not like to have fun indoors, I have conceived several outdoor sports that will both free up excess energy and make our people stronger and more agile - not polo and hunting, which only the nobility can afford, and I will explain the details to you when I am ready."

Listening to Gawain's thoughts one by one, Hetty became more and more recognized by these plans in her heart, and at the same time, she was deeply aware of the omissions in her previous management of the territory, and finally when the old ancestor finally came to an end, she couldn't help but ask: "Ancestor, do you mean it...... Did you think of these things a long time ago? ”

"It's true that I thought about it a long time ago, but in the early days of the construction of the territory, it was a problem for everyone to eat, and there was naturally no need to think about these at that time," Gao Wen smiled and nodded, "Don't underestimate these things, when it comes to maintaining order in the territory and enhancing the happiness of the people, their role is much better than that of the machines in the factory." ”

Looking at Hetty's repeated nods, Gawain exhaled softly, and continued: "Providing cheap and easily satisfying entertainment is only one part of improving people's happiness and maintaining order, in addition to this, the construction of the security force is still very important, you should not ignore this. ”

"Yes, I understand."

After Gawain had arranged things, Hetty left the living room, while Gawain sat alone on the sofa in the living room and thought quietly.

There will only be more and more people in the territory in the future, and with the continuous development of magic industrialization and the development of the magic channel, the materials in the territory can only become more and more abundant, so what will follow is that civilians no longer have to worry about the basic livelihood, and enriching the people's entertainment is a matter of course - after all, entertainment is one of the basic needs of people after satisfying their warmth, and if you can't provide what they want, then they will naturally find a way to satisfy themselves, and it is normal to drink and fight, gather crowds to fight, and gamble.

However, Gawain has to do more than just promote a few entertainment projects, so that the people have a place to have fun after they are full of food and drink.

The number of people is increasing, the city is expanding, and the number of people in the territory who can read and write is increasing day by day, and it is time to push something that has been brewing for a long time.

He got up and went back to his study.

A large mechanical drawing was spread out on his desk.

This drawing has been drawn since a few days ago, and since most of the structure is not too complicated, he has completed it by now, but the most critical part of it has not yet been seen.

It is a strange machine, with a conveyor structure for transporting paper and a large "roller" in the center of the machine, which transports the paper to the bottom of the drum and synchronizes the paper with the movement of the cylinder, and above the drum is connected to the ink wheel for transferring the pigment and the container for storing the ink - this is a simple and original printing press.

A machine that can print continuously and change the world.

Gawain knew that in addition to satisfying the people's material life, if their spiritual life could not be satisfied in time, then the society would inevitably move towards chaos, and the more serious this spiritual and material mismatch was, the greater the chaos.

Therefore, after realizing that the population of the territory was increasing and the well-fed and well-fed people needed a spiritual life, he quickly came up with entertainment projects such as chess, lord decks, and billiards, so as to relieve the mental pressure caused by people's high-intensity continuous work and improve the happiness of everyone's life in this land.

But entertainment alone is not enough.

At the same time, with the increase in population and the expansion of cities, it is obviously no longer enough to rely on the original bulletin boards in the city center and the way of soldiers to carry out ideological propaganda, so Gawain thought of the necessity of improving the cultural construction of the territory and increasing the intensity and means of propaganda.

Since everyone is literate, then give them words, this is Gawain's most direct idea.

It is not that there is no printing technology in the territory, in fact, this world not only has mature papermaking technology, but also has relatively mature engraving printing technology, the labels on the bottles of the alchemy potions produced in the current alchemy factory, as well as the teaching materials used by the students in the general college, are all made with this printing technology, for the early stage, and even the current stage of the territory cultural propaganda and construction, these technologies are enough, but for the future that Gao Wen wants to achieve, this technology is far from enough.

He needed to replace these two "workshop technologies" with technologies that were more accessible, easier to edit and implement, and more suitable for large-scale industrial mass production.

So he designed such a continuous cylinder printing press according to his memory and conjecture, but now he had to solve a problem - how to make plates.

How can you convert the edited content into embossed text on a cylinder in the quickest and most convenient way, and then print it?

The speed of traditional engraving plate making is obviously too slow, and it does not meet his requirements of "easy operation, easy editing, and low cost".

Frankly speaking, although Gawain can conceive most of the structure of this printing press, he has no idea how to realize the key technologies inside, even if his memory has been strengthened, he can recall all the knowledge he has seen in his previous life, but he can't imagine those things that he has never seen at all - and he feels that even if he knows those key technologies, it is useless, and whether it can be realized in this world with strange physical rules is still two words......

He'd have to think about a solution from a magical point of view, but unfortunately he hasn't figured it out yet.

After pondering at his desk for a while, he raised his head and greeted the outside of the study, "Betty! ”

The little maid immediately pushed the door in, and bowed to the end: "Master! ”

"You go get Rebecca."

Moments later, the Cecil lady's mademoiselle arrived at Gawain's study.

Gawain looked up from the drawings and saw that Rebecca was looking at him curiously, and there were black smudges on the girl's sleeves, hands, and face, as if she had just come out of the workshop, and he couldn't help laughing: "Are you being smoked by your own big fireball again?" ”

"Nope!" Rebecca quickly waved her hand and explained, "I just came back from the Magic Technology Research Institute, and I haven't had time to wash my face yet - I'm studying the 'transmission' you mentioned earlier......

"Okay, I don't blame you, you're doing the right thing," Gawain shook his head with a smile and beckoned the other party to get closer, "Come here, I'll give you a task." ”