At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The specific situation will be discussed with the publishing department after the book is published, and then the two parties will sign a contract, with black and white characters on the paper.

Could there be such an unheard of wonderful thing?

Not only can you be famous all over the country, but you can also get money, fame and fortune, can there be such a good thing?

The literati were very excited.

Those who had written books rushed to the office of the Publishing Department outside the imperial city with their books, scrambling to deliver their books, hoping to be appreciated.

Those who have no works beat their chests and stamp their feet, hating themselves for why they couldn't write some works earlier and more diligently. If the court takes a fancy to them, wouldn't that be fame and fortune?

After more than a month of urgent reading, the Publishing and Printing Department submitted [-] books that were not bad to the emperor himself, who read them.

The Publishing and Printing Department is not responsible to the Minister of the Ministry of Education, but is directly responsible to the emperor, and it is a department directly under the emperor's jurisdiction.

Guo Peng handed over the work to Guo Jin, and then read the [-] selected books sent by the publishing department. He felt that these books were somewhat famous, and finally selected five of them as the first batch of publicly published and sold books. .

These are all academic works, one on the Five Classics of Confucianism, two on mathematics, and two on agriculture, all of which Guo Peng found reasonable after reading them.

The author of the book was not an official except the one who studied the Confucian classics, and the other four were officials of the current dynasty.

These five people were selected, and the news that the book could be published and sold to the outside world immediately spread throughout the court, Luoyang, and the streets and alleys, even the traffickers knew about it.

This news immediately aroused heated discussions in the whole city. Everyone was talking, saying that these five people not only gained fame, but also earned enviable wealth.

Once you become famous all over the world, you will have both fame and fortune!

Models appeared, and more people worked hard with red eyes, expressing that they would also write a book that could shock the world.

Because the imperial court said that academic, general knowledge, music, and even pure legends, as long as they are well written, they can be appreciated and published nationwide.

Of course, the premise is that there are no prohibited things, such as privately discussing government affairs, discussing the emperor, discussing major events in the world, etc. These are absolutely prohibited, and others can be considered as appropriate.

Of course, even if these things are not said, no one dares to write about them.

Do you want to die if you write it out?

Wouldn't it be good to write something honestly and gain both fame and fortune?

Ever since, not only the literati, but even many serving officials wanted money but did not dare to embezzle, for fear of being killed. Under all kinds of entanglements, they found opportunities to obtain income legally, so they all tried to leave with red eyes. on this road.

Obtain a lot of wealth legally, gain fame and fortune at the same time, maybe even get promoted.

This time, the officials who were selected for the four works not only gained fame and fortune, but were also rewarded by the emperor for their serious study of useful things, which deserves to be rewarded. This is obviously in the emperor's heart.

It is estimated that when there is a position that can be promoted in the future, it will be able to be promoted comfortably, and even the promotion is faster than others.

How can such a good thing not be grasped?

For a while, many officials found that people around them were using their spare time to devote themselves to writing, writing whatever they could, feeling as if not writing was committing a crime.

There are also some who read other people's works in their spare time, trying to understand something they don't understand, accumulate knowledge, and then create.

A new interest group was born, and the interest group that was born based on the combination of papermaking and printing technology took shape, and many people were watching, looking forward to, and even taking action, wanting to join this group Come among them.

They yearn for fame, but at the same time, this legal income can improve their status or allow them to live a life of luxury.

They are eager and extremely support the birth of this new thing.

The emperor did not object to officials creating in their spare time, and even encouraged them to create in their spare time.

Brand new news hit people's minds one after another, good or bad, exciting or frightening.

Some people feel good, some people feel bad, some people feel excited, some people feel scared.

But no matter how you look at these things, these things are unlikely to stop, they will only continue to accelerate.

Guo Peng won't give them much time to react. With his supreme prestige, now is the time to speed up the pace and already established the facts. How can there be time for some people to react?

impossible.

Guo Peng made up his mind, and at the same time that the Department of Publishing and Printing and Qiushi Bookstore established a firm foothold in Luoyang and gradually expanded outward, he issued another decree.

Run a newspaper.

The concept of the so-called newspaper is quite new, but in essence such a situation is not so new.

The Wei Empire inherited the Han system. On the basis of implementing the prefecture and county system, each prefecture and county government set up a special office in Luoyang. Such an office was called a mansion.

There are clerks from various states and counties stationed in the mansion. Their task is to record the important orders issued by the emperor and the important things to be done by the court, and send them to the state and county governments regularly through the post station, so that the prefects and counties can know what happened in the court. What, what did the emperor do.

While inheriting the Han system, Guo Peng also made innovations, such as setting up a public announcement office on the large square in front of the palace.

He sent people to post on the bulletin board what the emperor and his ministers discussed to do, let Luoyang people know, allowed them to discuss freely, and gradually moved outwards with the large number of business travelers.

Later, Guo Peng ordered the expansion of announcement offices like this outside Luoyang City, to the counties and counties in the economic area, and to go deep into the countryside, so that people in the villages would also know what decisions the court had made.

Now, the newspaper that Guo Peng wants to run is to combine these concepts and run a daily newspaper.

What is recorded is what the emperor and courtiers discussed and decided to do the whole day before. These things will be recorded by professionals, and then re-recorded in the evening, published overnight, and announced to the whole city the next morning.

There are dozens of newspaper reading columns in Luoyang City, and every day there will be special personnel to update the latest newspapers, so that all Luoyang people can know.

Of course, if you feel troublesome and don't want to go to the newspaper column to read, then pay for the subscription.

After getting your order, as soon as the door of the workshop opens every morning, someone will deliver newspapers to your house to let you know the latest government news.

The emperor decided to announce the daily news of the government, and printed the decrees that the court decided to issue, the memorials that the emperor felt were meaningful, and some other news that did not hurt to be released to the outside world.

Publish these news to the public, guide public opinion, and let more people know what the court is doing.

As for why the emperor did this, the emperor explained it in this way at the government meeting.

"For many years, whenever there were some disputes and disputes in the imperial court, there would always be rumors spreading in Luoyang City, and all kinds of irrelevant news were flying all over the sky. Everyone has witnessed what happened.

This kind of thing happened repeatedly, which caused the court to be quite passive in these matters. Three people become tigers, people's words are formidable, and the power of public opinion is not as simple as we imagined. Things are announced.

Let the low-level officials and ordinary people outside know what the court is doing, what happened, what are the disputes, and what are the discussions. Don't wait for outsiders to speculate on what happened in the court, but take the initiative to announce it to the outside world. "

Guo Peng believes that taking the initiative to announce what happened in the court will help the court take the initiative when rumors appear, quickly refute the rumors, and maintain the image of the court and the emperor.

The more channels for dissemination of information, and the faster the dissemination of information, the more the court will be able to take the initiative and dissipate some unrealistic rumors from the people.

As the capital of the empire, Luoyang is the distribution center for all news in the country. What happened in Luoyang, any rumors, and any changes will be quickly spread to the surrounding areas to let people in the surrounding areas know.

But in the process of passing on rumors, the truth of the matter has long been blurred, and even what happened will change its appearance in the process of spreading false rumors, which is not the case at all.

Because of this, the imperial court must take the initiative to attack, announce news, and guide public opinion, instead of allowing rumors to fly everywhere, slandering the imperial court, and damaging the majesty of the imperial court.

After Guo Peng explained in this way, the courtiers knew the emperor's plan and did not raise any objections to it, and showed great interest in the appearance of the newspaper.

Of course, he is also full of interest in this newly born publishing department.

According to the speculation of Guo Jia and others, this publishing department is simply the location of the official mouthpiece.

the reason is simple.

Its head is named Chen Minglin.

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The moment the Publishing and Printing Department was born, the officials understood.

The Printing Department is the official mouthpiece, the mouthpiece of the emperor.

The newspaper is the emperor's way of controlling public opinion and news.

In this way, the role of this newspaper may exceed the imagination of many people, and it is definitely not as simple as the emperor described.

The emperor is likely to use this newspaper to do something.

This is what everyone inferred based on the emperor's long-standing behavior.

Many courtiers, many courtiers who had no chance to see the emperor and knew the latest news from the court, had a premonition of the significance of this newspaper, so they went to the publishing department to order.

The first batch of people who ordered newspapers were basically officials and officials below the middle level of the dynasty.

They have a certain degree of political sensitivity, but because of their low status, they have no way to quickly and accurately learn the real news, and they are often a step behind in many things.

The emergence of newspapers can make up for the shortcomings of these officials below the middle level in information, help them increase political sensitivity, and understand the political direction of the court.

When the news came out, the court officials must be the most sensitive ones. There was no objection to this.

Next came the students from Taixue.

The students also wanted to know what happened in the imperial court very quickly. They were determined to become officials and felt that they would be the first to learn about the imperial court news through newspapers, which would help their official career.

As a result, many Taixue students with surplus money went to the office of the Publishing and Printing Department to write their names, pay the fee, and subscribe to newspapers for one month, one quarter or even half a year.

Most are a month.

Because this is the starting subscription condition.

Although the price of the newspaper is not expensive, it can even be said to be cheap, but no one's money is blown by the wind. They need to judge whether the newspaper has sufficient political value.

The political value is enough, and they don't mind long-term subscriptions to help them understand the court's movements when their ranks are not enough.

It is very important for Tai students who intend to become officials to understand the court's movements and political trends from newspapers.

If the value is not enough to let them have enough political information, then forget it. Although it is slow to ask around, it is not impossible to know everything.

The newspaper has made a good start. As for whether the newspaper can get more orders in the future, it depends on its dissemination efforts and the effect of improving the literacy rate of Luoyang people.

The more words I know, the more I pay attention to politics, the more I want to get the latest and most effective political news.

Then the effect of guiding public opinion will be better.

One by one, with the announcement of movable type printing and the revolutionary reduction in the cost of information dissemination, many things were proposed by the emperor and appeared quickly.

The speed is so fast that people have to sigh that this must be another news that the emperor has prepared long ago but has not announced it to the public.

The emperor did not know when he successfully mastered movable type printing, which greatly increased the printing speed and greatly reduced the printing cost.

Printing combined with papermaking, assembly line production scale, skilled technical workers, and a series of supporting facilities make the existence of books no surprise.

The cost of creating books, a cultural treasure, has been reduced to an unimaginable level.

[Zuo Bo Paper], which was once regarded as a treasure by everyone, has now become a commodity under the invasion of papermaking technology.

Then it is very normal, the [handwritten book] that everyone once regarded as a treasure will also become a commodity and worthless.

Everyone can buy books, read books, study, and master cultural knowledge.

Rare things are valuable, and only rare things are expensive.

Now the streets are full of traffickers and pawns who can hold a book and pretend to be a cultural person, so what is the value of a book?

Many people feel overwhelmed, uncomfortable, and even terrified by this.

The cultural superiority they had maintained for a long time seemed to be suppressed overnight by the emperor.

It seems that overnight, traffickers and pawns can have books and [symbols of culture].

Is this the world of their dreams?

They don't know.

But they must not know that what Guo Peng needs is a world without their dreams.

What Guo Peng wants is a world where everyone is Yao and Shun, and there is no need for celebrities to guide their thinking and values.

And education is the best and only way.

Making education cheap and fair is the ultimate direction of this approach.

This is a world they will never know, understand, or wish to exist.

The combination of printing and papermaking has become a dragon-slaying sword, handed over to a person with a strong will.

So with one knife, the golden age that the scholars dreamed of came to an end, but the golden age that belonged to everyone came.

Scholars do not want to see this scene, but have to accept the birth of this event, accept the existence of this event.

The emperor used the fastest speed to support the existence of this matter with interest groups, and advertised widely, in order to make this matter known.

I don't know how many officials in Manchaotang are eager to gain fame and fortune by publishing their own works. If this matter ends inexplicably, many people will probably go crazy.

When you see benefits, you have people's hearts. As long as you have people's hearts, you can't disobey them casually, otherwise you will inevitably be backlashed by people's hearts.

At that time, it will be really dangerous.

The human heart is the most difficult thing to deal with.