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Chapter 480 "Newsweek"

Fujian, Fuzhou Mansion, Li Yan Mansion.

Li Yan rubbed the center of his brows vigorously, and cursed heavily in his heart, as the head of Jinyiwei in Fujian, in the past few years, he was extremely idle every day, and he felt like he was going to fart. It's gloomy.

These years, since I followed Wang Xuan, I have been busy all of a sudden. In fact, the past few years have been good. The direction of information collection is some key figures. There are not many things worth recording, but now it is better...

A few days ago, Wang Xuan ordered some newspapers to be produced in Guangdong... Originally, this matter required a printing factory and some people who wrote articles, anyway, it had nothing to do with Jin Yiwei.

But what's the matter, in order to gain a big enough reputation, and the task of collecting intelligence from various counties has always been in charge of Jin Yiwei, so, without professional reporters for the time being, Wang Xuan threw the task on Jin Yiwei...

The mysterious Jinyiwei, the Jinyiwei who has been talked about all over the world, the dark and violent organization Jinyiwei, the Jinyiwei who persecuted Zhongliang and endangered the people, all of a sudden degenerated into a reporter!

Reasoning here and there!

In fact, if you degenerate, you will degenerate. Anyway, you will be given an extra salary. However, Li Yan also has a new job. He has to select some suitable for declassification from a lot of top-secret information from previous years, and use them to expose them in the newspapers one after another.

People like to explore secrets. Everyone has a heart for gossip, especially many secret events about former big men, which can arouse people's interest. Otherwise, many people would not write memoirs Made a fortune.

Wang Xuan knew this kind of mentality very well. After all, he was also a bigwig in the newspaper industry back then in Heri Island.

People in this era don't know many things, but he has operational experience. In order to promote the newspaper better, Wang Xuan must start it now in Fujian. By the way, let's take a look at the places where newspapers in modern society are cloned to ancient times. is in need of improvement.

Of course, the more reason is that Fujian has a good mass base, and its literacy rate is much higher than that of other provinces in Ming Dynasty. This is thanks to Wang Xuan's investment in elementary school over the years.

When everything was ready, on a day worthy of commemoration for future generations, Ming's first newspaper, "News Weekly", published its first issue.

Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Xinghua, and the entire nine prefectures of Fujian have printing factories operating at full capacity. With the convenient transportation of cement roads, newspapers can be delivered to every county in Fujian within one day, and to every county within two days. a village.

In the morning, not too long after the rush hour for work, all kinds of shops on the street started to open. Thanks to the developed economy, the entire Fuzhou Prefecture and the new city, taverns, teahouses, brothels and other places are everywhere.

Sitting here with three or five friends when you have nothing to do, a pot of wine or a pot of tea, two plates of melons and fruits or small dishes, and chatting is very pleasant.

Storytellers and singers are also very popular. Whenever they come out, they always cause a burst of cheers. After all, this thing is still an indispensable part of the entertainment industry even after hundreds of years.

Shan Ye is a very famous storyteller. Today is different from the past. In the early years, although his books were good, his income was mediocre, that is, it was better than food and clothing. But these years, the economy has improved, and some There are more people with money, and the business of taverns and teahouses is booming. Under the competition, his storytelling wages have also risen again and again. With the money rewarded by customers, he is now a rich man with a three-bedroom concubine.

Yesterday, he received a notice from the people in the government, telling him that starting tomorrow, before the storytelling, he must first talk about the newspaper, select some content to read to the guests, and then start the storytelling.

The government seldom interferes with the lives of these common people, but once an order is issued, it is irreversible, but what is this newspaper?This worried him all night.

Early the next morning, someone delivered the newspaper, and when he took it, he was very curious. The newspaper was very big, four times the size of an ordinary book, but the writing was relatively small, densely packed, and separated into pieces , obviously wrote a lot of things.

Since the government requires that newspapers must be read before storytelling, and it can be screened, then he must read carefully and choose something attractive to read to everyone, so as not to ruin his brand.

When he was having breakfast, he picked up the newspaper and read it. The first news on the front page made him put down his chopsticks and read it carefully under the surprised eyes of his wife and the third concubine.

The headline of the news is "Peace in the South - Records of Wuzhou Mr. Wang Xuan Sweeping Annan, Vega Overseas"

In the beginning, I first talked about the history of Annan, from the beginning of the great Han pioneering here, to the failure of the Yuan Dynasty's conquest, to the unconquered country in the Hongwu Year of the Ming Dynasty, to the 20-year rebellion during the occupation period of Zhu Di, the deep mire of the Ming Dynasty, and the "abandonment of Jiaozhi" in Xuande , Li Li accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, and Annan has been disturbing the border since then, until now.

"Bang!" Master Shan looked at it, and suddenly slammed the table hard, causing the dishes to jump up, and then cursed: "Little country Cuoer, how dare you offend Huaxia! You should be killed, you should be killed!" !"

It turned out that in the paragraph just now, it fully explained Annan's harm, how many villages in Guangxi and Guangdong were slaughtered, how many people were killed, and how much money was lost every year.

Talking about the Three Kingdoms and the Water Margin every day made Mr. Shan full of murderous aura. He hated to hear such things.

"Master." The wife of the house followed him from poverty, the highest status in the family, and asked aloud at this moment: "Master, what's wrong, why are you so angry?"

"Hmph." Master Shan shook the newspaper in his hand, pointed to the headlines on the front page and said, "It is only after reading this news that I know that a small country like Annan's is so contemptuous of my dynasty. However, Mr. Wuzhou has already commanded troops. If we set off, Annan will surely be pacified in one fell swoop."

"The master is holding the Dibao? Annan? Is it the small country in Guangxi?" The woman put down her chopsticks and turned her head to ask.

"No, it's called a newspaper. I ordered my servants to buy another copy later, and asked them to read it to you. Well, I won't eat it. I'm going to take a good look at it. I'm going to talk about it today." After finishing speaking, Master Shan got up and left. In fact, he was the one who was already attracted by this newspaper. It was such a big copy with five pages. He wanted to read it carefully.

It wasn't until the servant came and told him that he should go to the teahouse instead, that he came to his senses and looked at the wall clock, which had been looking at it for an hour.

The teahouse was full of people, and this time of the day was the time for Mr. Shan to comment on the storytelling. These people came here on time to listen to the books almost every day. If they didn't listen for a day, they felt like something was missing.

Lord Shan clasped his fists to everyone before he went up to the stage, but he didn't start his lecture immediately as usual, but said after clasping his hands: "Before we start talking about storytelling today, let's talk about something else first."

The unexpected words immediately attracted everyone's attention, and everyone looked at him curiously, and heard Shan Ye say: "The government publishes a newspaper called "News Weekly". It is published once a week, sold publicly, and the price is cheap, and various news are recorded in it, if you are interested, you can buy it and have a look."

"Today, I will tell you the latest first piece of news."

"By the way, Annan..."

In the first issue of the newspaper, not too much information about Annan was released, and it was basically written that the troops were dispatched to the mouth of the Red River and the matter was over.

The answer to the mystery needs to be revealed in the second issue, so as to maintain enough attractiveness, and also stimulate readers' desire for discussion and a sense of anticipation. Wang Xuan affectionately calls this method "broken chapter".

This newspaper became popular across the province as soon as it was released. Thanks to the literacy rate, everyone can easily find someone who can understand the news in it. What's more, there are people reading the newspaper in places such as taverns and teahouses. Even in rural areas, there are elementary school students. Teacher, so reading the newspaper itself is not a problem.

More importantly, there are all kinds of news recorded in it, about the expedition to Annan, about people's livelihood, and declassification of previous major events, everything that one expects to find can basically meet the needs of all classes of people.

What is particularly important is that all articles are written in the vernacular style, completely abandoning the ambiguous writing style, so that the news will never be misinterpreted, so as to ensure accuracy and authority, and completely break the monopoly of the rich family on information.

At the same time, Wang Xuan also accelerated the deployment of slaves from Annan to open mines in Guangdong, open cement factories, steel factories, rebuild roads, and popularize elementary education. With Fujian as its foundation, it can provide a large number of basic talents. The construction speed far exceeds that of Fujian.

After everything was on the right track, Wang Xuan announced that his goal was to be in Guangxi. During this time, news came one after another. Big households from all over Guangxi have paid out to work in the army. The food and pay are sufficient, and the army is also reuniting little by little. The front line is assembled little by little, and in the process, they are still training troops.

Under the auspices of Li Liangbi, the soldiers in each guard began to be reclassified, and the old, weak, sick, and disabled were separated, and they gathered little by little, but when they arrived at the Siming Mansion on the front line, the 4000 troops were divided into two parts. There are only more than [-] soldiers left at the station, but everyone can see that the combat effectiveness has not diminished.

On the other hand, Li Liangbi also persuaded the representatives of the four major parties to contact various chieftains in Guangxi, hoping to mobilize some troops and join the army together.

The local chieftain forces in Guangxi are still very strong. If they can be gathered together, it will not be a problem to gather more than 1 soldiers. What's more, he knows that there is another force in Guangxi that can play a big role in the war, and that is' The Five Poisons Sect'.

The ability to use poison taught by the five poisons will definitely play a decisive role in the critical moment of the war.

Now in Guangxi, things have reversed. After Li Liangbi used the power of the four parties to integrate his forces, he became more and more anti-customer-oriented, and the people of the four parties had to follow Li Liangbi's appearance in many things.

(End of this chapter)