Chapter 56: Textbooks and Newspapers

However, if you want to establish and develop an industrial system, this is what must be done, and it is definitely better to do it late than early.

This work, like the commissioning of the pick-up machine and the production of movable metal type, took some time, so Xia Lin simply immersed himself in building this set of teaching materials that was crucial to the development of the industrial park.

Towards the end of the framework, Charin received an invitation from the Business Alliance to visit the university scholar Ferran Eide, with whom they were in charge of contact.

Ferran Edder was a well-known scholar throughout the Empire, having served as the editor-in-chief of the Imperial Dictionary, which Xia Lin had studied for half a year before entering the Academy of Magic.

In addition, he is the author of books such as "Poetry and Rhythm" and "The Epic of the Sun King", and has a deep knowledge of literature and history.

If it weren't for the fact that the Ed family was also a member of the business alliance, and that Xia Lin was the inventor of the new style of paper that was currently highly praised by the Imperial Capital scholars' circles, Xia Lin might not have had the opportunity to meet him and ask him to write these textbooks.

After some conversation, Ferran Eder became interested in the new school in Charling, a world where writing was often only learned through two channels: literacy teachers and the Templar Church, and there had never been a case for Charlin to set up a school for hundreds of students to educate them.

In order to see how Xia Lin could build a school and use these materials to educate the so-called hundreds of students, Ferran Ed agreed to Xia Lin's invitation, and at the same time contacted several former colleagues to come over and help.

Xia Lin found a quiet manor in the East District for these university scholars, and asked them to write Chinese textbooks for each grade according to the language framework they gave every day.

"Your Excellency Ferran, the purpose of our school is to cultivate talents suitable for industrial production, so these poems only need to be put one or two poems that are easy to understand, catchy so that everyone can speed up the learning of new words by comparing the poems, and you can't put all these jerky things in the textbook like this!"

"Really? That's a pity, then put this "Spring of the Seine" and "Excerpts from Arnold's Epic", these two poems should be able to meet your requirements! For the rest, we'll write a few folklore stories. ”

Controlling the way these scholars were written in the manor, after some communication, Xia Lin finally made Ferran Ed understand his needs.

Still, the Phelan scholars apparently regretted that their extraordinarily long epics, which were ornate and imposing, could not be included in a textbook that would educate hundreds, if not thousands, of students.

"Remember to promote the love of Xinglan Industrial Park, advocate technological development and progress, and yearn for a better new life, such as these explanatory essays I wrote, please also find a suitable place in the textbook to put down!"

Xia Lin handed Scholar Ferran a few more pieces of manuscript paper, and saw that he looked at the simple and straightforward rhetoric used in these expository essays, and shook his head helplessly.

Although the Phelan scholars understood their requirements quickly and implemented them well, there were always conflicts of ideas between the two in certain places, but fortunately this did not affect the process of compiling the textbook.

After half a month of formal establishment and operation of the textbook compilation team, the metal movable type produced by the machine tool factory was finally completed.

As for the printing ink, Xia Lin has already used rosin, turpentine, paraffin, linseed oil, and black pigment during this period of time.

The first edition of the first grade textbook has also been compiled, Xia Lin recruited five pickers and five printers, and after a few days of training, his small printing workshop soon printed a number of textbooks and books that exude the fragrance of ink.

Turning the title page of the mathematics and nature books, the Arabic numerals, the four arithmetic operations, linear motion, acceleration and other familiar terms in the catalog come into view, making Xia Lin feel like he is in a different world.

However, the school has not yet been built, and these books, which contain a lot of hard work by Xia Lin and the great educators in his previous life, have not yet been used.

They were in the same situation as the printing presses and pick-ups that the dwarven masters had painstakingly built and adjusted.

Xia Lin looked at the dragon slaying knife he had worked so hard to build in his hand, and decided to simply start a newspaper first, relying on his technical advantages to seize the position of public opinion that kills people without seeing blood.

To this end, Charlin found Terry Elton, a literacy teacher that Roy had hired to teach the managers of the industrial park, and who had been working as a literacy teacher for the industrial park for some time, teaching the administrators literacy and arithmetic after six o'clock every night.

This literacy teacher born from the bastard of the baron has a good literary literacy, and is also very good at teaching, Xia Lin is going to let him be the editor-in-chief of the temporary newspaper, as for whether it is suitable or not, try to say.

Given this unexpected opportunity, Terry Elton decisively took the position, although he had no idea about a position that had never existed in the world before.

Xia Lin was a little surprised by this, he was going to take a little trouble to convince this candidate, but it was thought that Her Royal Highness the princess who came to the industrial park on the day of the ribbon-cutting ceremony and those enlightened nobles let Terry Elton, who worked in the industrial park, understand the liberal background behind him.

But this is a good thing, through Terry's channel, a dozen or so children of the aristocratic side branch who are about the same background as him were recruited to serve as editors, reporters, and proofreaders of the newspaper, and the pickers and printers were the original team that used the printing materials, and after spending a few days of cramming training, Xia Lin offered them a salary of 4 to 12 silver mar.

Later, Xia Lin specially asked Her Royal Highness to explain the importance of the new media of newspapers to the enlightened faction, and implored her to inscribe the name of the newspaper "Imperial Capital Xunbao", and then found some well-informed people to collect some news.

As for why it is Xunbao, it is natural that Xia Lin is not familiar with the operation of the newspaper industry, and the people at hand are all raw melons and eggs, so he can only test the water from Xunbao first to see if he can open up sales channels and have a certain influence.

There are many well-informed people in the imperial capital, but Xia Lin definitely has no channels, and he found the members of the business alliance, the Eugene Chamber of Commerce and the Brooke Chamber of Commerce.

As an enlightened viscount family, the Eugene Chamber of Commerce deals in gemstones, magic stones, intermediaries, estates and other industries, and also has an ambiguous connection to the gray organizations of the slums, and is the most well-informed when it comes to information.

The Brooke Chamber of Commerce, on the other hand, deals in industries such as minerals, leather, slaves, land trade, manors, and magical materials, and is a member of the Imperial Capital Carriage Guild, with many coachmen under its command, and can also provide many news sources.

Xia Lin temporarily levied daily news on these groups at a price of 10 copper pes, 50 copper pes, and 1 silver mal.

As long as they find interesting and meaningful news, they can contact the reporters who are usually stationed near the taverns and tea shops to collect news, and the reporters will review and adopt them, and the appropriate news can be arranged for typesetting and proofreading to the printing room after editing and processing by the editors and editors-in-chief.

Naturally, the finished newspaper was given to the children in the slums to be sold on the street on the first morning of the decade, and the price of the newspaper was set at three copper pes, of which the boy who sold the newspaper received one copper pes.

From then on, the world will finally have to shout "Outside!" on the street after a big event! Extra! The newspaper boy who sells freshly baked newspapers has an extra scenery with a unique era charm in Xia Lin's opinion.

As for the guilt of using child labor, Xia Lin has no guilt, most families in the slums do not even have enough to eat, and there are definitely many children who are willing to come out to earn their own food rations with such a job, and the labor intensity of this job is not high.

And the remuneration of the newsboy was also set by Xia Lin considering that the illiteracy rate in the world is somewhat high, and the newspaper may not sell too well.

In terms of cost, with the paper supplied by the paper mill at cost price, the cost of printing a thousand copies of the newspaper in the imperial capital is less than 8 silver mar.