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Chapter 96 Movable Type Printing and Newspaper Offices

"Perhaps you are doing the right thing." King Shangfeng saw the people's faces filled with joy after the catastrophe, the whole person seemed to be several years old, and said decadently, "You want to kill and cut, listen It's yours. I'm just begging you not to kill my family."

"Prince Shangfeng, don't get me wrong. Our Liao army just invites your royal family to live in Jinzhou. Everything will be entertained with delicious food and drinks. We will also arrange for the descendants of the royal family to receive our education and work arrangements. Of course, you may not be able to It has the power to call the wind and rain as before." Deng Qianlong explained.

"Making the wind and calling the rain? General, you are really joking. Before I was on the throne, the Dongying people ruled our Ryukyu. To this day, I have to obediently obey their orders. Since you Ming Fu Liao Army didn't mean to hurt me, Then tell me earlier, so I won’t worry about it. Brother Deng, you have to swear that you Liao army really didn’t mean to hurt me?” King Shangfeng was overjoyed after hearing this, grabbed Deng Qianlong’s sleeve and asked hurriedly .

"I swear, as long as you are willing to be an ordinary noble family, we will never do anything to you." Deng Qianlong said helplessly.

After the fleet to Ryukyu completed its mission this time, except for two merchant ships and one frigate, the rest of the ships were loaded with fresh water and food, and returned to Dalian Port with exchanged goods and the Ryukyu royal family. .

King Shangfeng, who lived in the cabin of the Victory, explained to his family the meaning of the Liao Army's recovery. The people in the royal family cried with joy when they heard that the Liao Army had no intention of killing themselves and others.

In fact, Deng Qianlong did not regard King Shangfeng as a prisoner, allowing them to move freely on the ship.When these members of the royal family came to the deck, they felt more and more the strength of the Fuliao army, especially the cold cannons made them tremble with fear, and they dared not cause trouble on the ship.

At this time, Dalian Port is no longer the Qingniwa in the past, but a large regional port where countless people, businessmen, and troops are stationed. With the establishment of infrastructure, the development momentum of Dalian Port is extremely strong, and it is going to catch up with Jinzhou , Fuzhou and Gaizhou.

In Qingniwa before, there were only a dozen broken fishing boats in a small fishing village, but now there are dozens of large merchant ships moored in Dalian Port every day on average!These merchant ships may come from the southeast coast, the Bohai Rim, or from Korea and Dongying!
People living in Dalian Port and businessmen traveling to and from Dalian Port may not know the "Victory", the iconic ship of the Liao Army.When the Victory returned from Ryukyu, it once again caused quite a stir in Dalian Port.

"King Shangfeng, this is our Dalian Port. It has been built for less than a year, so King Shangfeng laughed." Deng Qianlong led the Ryukyu royal family off the ship.

"In less than a year... Oh my God, this place is even more prosperous than our capital..." King Shangfeng watched the dazzling array of houses rising from the ground, and there was an endless stream of people coming and going. With a scale of [-] people, it is impossible to believe that a port that has been built for less than a year can develop so fast in a short period of time!

"Our military leader said that this is the 'Daming speed'. Dalian Port has not been newly built, and some facilities may not be complete. When you come to our Jinzhou City, maybe you will be an eye-opener." Deng Qianlong said.

King Shangfeng and others were dressed in strange clothes. The workers and common people in the port looked sideways when they saw this group of people dressed in strange clothes that were comparable to foreigners.

Under the protection of Deng Qianlong, King Shangfeng and others boarded a large carriage and headed for Jinzhou City.

At this time in Jinzhou City, Chu Yun couldn’t stay idle anymore. He discussed with Zhou Xiaode and other newly appointed officials in the building of the “Language Promotion Department” the plan to promote simplified Chinese characters and pinyin. One plan was to create a newspaper.At present, the Liao army is not promoting the policy fast enough. Generally, the people are notified by posting announcements and distributing leaflets.However, an effective way of promoting and encouraging public opinion has not yet been developed.

What Chu Yun thought of was naturally the Internet of later generations... It's just that the Internet is too far away, so Chu Yun had no choice but to choose the traditional mode of newspaper as a last resort.At present, such things as newspapers have appeared in Ming Dynasty, but the scope of use is small, mainly hand-copied tabloids, and the functions are not complete.Chu Yun wanted to create a modern newspaper to promote public opinion for his industrial reform.

"We not only need to create a newspaper belonging to our Liao army, but also use simplified characters and publish it regularly!" Chu Yun said excitedly, "We need to cultivate the habit of reading and reading newspapers among the people. On the other hand, it can make the common people lose their blindness quickly."

If I remember correctly, there was just such a thing as a weekly newspaper in the world at this time, and it was in Prussia.

"My lord, this is a very good idea." Officials from the Language Promotion Office all agreed.Daming has an official newspaper, and they are no strangers to it.Regular newspapers are just a change of paradigm, not something beyond their comprehension.

"The newspapers produced by our newspaper office can no longer be handwritten tabloids. We must use movable type printing to distribute them on a large scale. We need to set up a group of workers in this area to carry out research and development of movable type printing for newspapers." When Chu Yun talked about the technology behind the newspaper, he felt deeply proud for the first time.

This is also his very rare use of movable type printing invented by his ancestors, the first technology that Chu Yun intends to be developed and used by the natives of Ming Dynasty.Although movable type printing was first used in the Ming Dynasty, there are too many Chinese characters, and they are still cumbersome traditional characters. To use movable type printing, a large number of fonts are required, which makes the use of movable type printing very troublesome.This is different from the more than 20 letters in the West. There are thousands of Chinese characters...

How to develop a set of movable type printing suitable for Chinese newspapers still needs some effort.Because it is very difficult to carve thousands of Chinese characters.And unless the more modern laser phototypesetting technology solves the problem of Chinese character printing, in the era of lead printing, other technologies have no solution.So Chu Yun simply asked the locals to use the improved movable type printing method, barely using it, and he was worthy of his ancestors.

"We can publish a newspaper every seven days. The newspaper will promote our policies, current events and comments. The language should be as plain and straightforward as possible at the beginning. Farmers who have learned simplified characters can easily read it." Chu Yun continued. own ideas.

"Then my lord, what is the name of our newspaper?" A civil servant asked.

"Let's call it 'Ming Pao'. The first issue will be published simultaneously in Jinzhou, Fuzhou, Gaizhou, and Dalian Port in a month's time!"

(End of this chapter)