Return to the Three Kingdoms with the Empire System

Chapter 155 Controlling Public Opinion
Earlier, Ye Mo had told Liu Xie that he wanted to reform the law, but Liu Xie had thought too much about it, and he has not given any reply until now.Originally, Ye Mo thought that this matter needs to be done slowly, not in a hurry.However, after experiencing what happened to Empress Dowager Dong, Ye Mo understood that this matter had to be started.

Ye Mo also understands that it would be too hasty to prepare for the legal reform now, but what Ye Mo needs now is not an immediate change to a new legal system, but Liu Xie's attitude.

There are so many aristocratic families in the world, if Liu Xie dare not stand on the opposite side of these aristocratic families, then there is no need for Ye Mo to continue to support Liu Xie on the dragon chair.After all, Liu Xie can ignore what happened to Empress Dowager Dong now, but who can guarantee that Liu Xie will not ignore what happened to another empress dowager in the future.

"What does Master Taiwei want to do?" Liu Xie sighed, his tone softened, and he seemed to be slumped on a chair.Liu Xie also understood that what Ye Mo did was premeditated, in order to force himself to express his attitude.At this time, Liu Xie really had the urge to stop being an emperor, he was still young after all.

Seeing that Liu Xie finally made up his mind to support the reform, Ye Mo also felt very relieved, regardless of his status, although it was cruel to treat a twelve or thirteen-year-old child like this. "Run a newspaper, open up people's wisdom, and control public opinion."

Ye Mo was a liberal arts student in his previous life, and he deeply understands the importance of controlling public opinion.Nowadays, when people listen to news, [-]% of the news is passed on to them from local aristocratic families.In order to maintain their dominance, those aristocratic families naturally screened the news they received, and it was difficult to distinguish the truth from the false, so the people were naturally deceived by those aristocratic families.

Running a newspaper is different. As long as the newspaper is moved, the literate people can learn the truth of some things through the newspaper.Even if the people are illiterate, the church can still publicize it.In Ye Mo's vision, those churches were not just for teaching.

"Newspaper? What is a newspaper?" Liu Xie looked at Ye Mo and asked in confusion.This word, to him, has no impression.But it’s okay if you don’t have an impression. If you have an impression, then Liu Xie is not Liu Xie, but the protagonist of another novel.

Seeing that Liu Xie didn't know what a newspaper was, Ye Mo explained: "The so-called newspaper is a piece of paper full of things or pictures. For example, this time, we can send people from the Wei family into the palace to assassinate them." Write down the matter of Empress Dowager Dong, so that it can explain why His Majesty destroyed the whole family of Wei."

Liu Xie almost didn't cry when he heard Ye Mo say that he had destroyed Wei's family.After all, Liu Xie has been the emperor for more than a year, so he still has the ability to restrain himself. "Then isn't the Taiwei afraid that other people will imitate what the Taiwei did? Besides, how can there be so much paper for newspapers, and where can so many people write newspapers?"

I have to say that Liu Xie is really smart. Ye Mo just said it briefly, and Liu Xie came up with an idea. The two questions Liu Xie asked are the two most difficult technical questions for running a newspaper. .

"Your Majesty, on the basis of Marquis Cai, I have improved the technology of papermaking. The paper produced is as white as snow and as flat as a mirror. As for writing newspapers, I invented printing. As long as you carve a template, it will be printed. What's the problem with tens of millions of newspapers?" Since Liu Xie asked, Ye Mo could only shamelessly attribute the two inventions of papermaking and printing to himself, after all, it cannot be said to be a system development come out.

Hearing what Ye Mo said, Liu Xie became even more nervous.Now the paper used for Dahanpu film is a bit yellowish, and there is a lot of friction on the paper, and it may bleed when you wipe your butt.But Ye Mo actually said that the papermaking technique has been improved, and the paper produced is as white as snow and as flat as a mirror. This is simply a miracle.However, there is still that printing technique, which can print things infinitely.Liu Xie is really in the mood of us modern people seeing the Queen Mother now.

The reason why there are so many masters and great Confucians respected by others is that they have a large collection of books, and then they copy those books by themselves so that they can be passed down.Nowadays, there is basically only one book for each book. If there were no transcriptions by those masters and Confucians, some books might have been lost in the long river of history.

Why did Guan Yu read "The Analects" every day in history?It is because "The Analects" is the representative of Confucius and Confucianism.But all students of Confucianism will transcribe this book, so there will be more books.And Guan Yu was very happy to get this "The Analects of Confucius" all his life.As for other books, how could Guan Yu not read them, but when leading troops to fight, you can't take a cart full of bamboo slips to the battlefield.

Nowadays, many aristocratic families may not have a single book in their study room. Bamboo slips and the words and deeds of their elders are their main sources of knowledge.It is no exaggeration to say that if Ye Mo was willing to take out a book and sell it at a price of ten thousand yuan, many people would definitely rush to get it.

This era is different from the 21st century. People in this era still believe that books are far more important than money, and there are many people who are willing to lose their fortunes for a book.It is a pity that people of later generations only know that the Jews regard books as more valuable than gold, but they don't know that their ancestors used to do the same.

A very simple example, "scholars, farmers, businessmen", "scholars" are ranked first, not because they are all high-ranking officials, but because they are all educated, and the status of "shang" who has the most gold is the lowest.Again. "Everything is low-grade, only reading is high."This shows that the ancients loved knowledge.

Some people may say that we ancients love to read books, just to be an official.However, isn’t it true that Jews study only to make money?
"Lord Taiwei, how to sell this newspaper? How to let the general public see it?" Now that he has plans to run a newspaper, Liu Xie doesn't care about other things, just how to let the general public see it.Otherwise, everything is empty talk.

"Now churches have been established in Sanfu area, and construction has begun in Qingzhou area. We only need to hand over newspapers to churches in various places and let the churches sell newspapers to people everywhere." In Ye Mo's mind, how could a church be possible? What about just teaching?It is also possible to sell newspapers.

"If that's the case, what's the price?" Since it's a sale, there must be a price.

However, what Liu Xie didn't know was that Ye Mo was taken aback by Liu Xie's question. Liu Xie would actually ask the price of this newspaper. It seemed that Liu Xie was also very business-minded.In fact, Liu Xie was influenced by Liu Hong. Liu Hong once ran a sales street in the palace, and then let the palace ladies and eunuchs pretend to be businessmen and passers-by.Then, Liu Xie was having fun, so he went to see it.

"I think that the price of 1 copper plate is enough. The newspaper is not for profit, but it has to charge no fees. Moreover, if there are homeless orphans or poor people, then sell these newspapers to them, They can also earn some living money." Ye Mo said after thinking for a while.The main purpose of running a newspaper is to control public opinion. If the price is too high, it would be a waste of effort.

"In this case, according to what the Taiwei said, the first newspaper will publish this news." Now that Liu Xie has made up his mind to reform, he will naturally leave these things to Ye Mo to deal with.Moreover, when aristocratic families cannot control public opinion, what else can they use to fight against the current emperor?
(End of this chapter)