my magic industry

Chapter 56 Textbooks and Newspapers

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

This work, like the debugging of the typewriter and the production of metal movable type, will take some time. Xia Lin simply settled down to build this set of teaching material framework that is crucial to the development of the industrial park.

When this framework was about to be completed, Xia Lin received an invitation from the Business Alliance to visit Ferran Eide, the university scholar they were in charge of contacting.

Ferran Eide is a well-known scholar throughout the empire. He once served as the editor-in-chief of the Imperial Dictionary. Xia Lin studied characters based on this dictionary for half a year before entering the Magic Academy.

In addition, he is also the author of "Poetry and Temperament", "The Epic of the Sun King" and other books, and has profound attainments in literature and history.

If it weren't for the fact that the Aide family is also a member of the business alliance, and that Xia Lin is the inventor of the new type of paper that is currently praised by scholars in the imperial capital, Xia Lin may not have the opportunity to meet him and ask him to write these textbooks.

After some conversations, Ferran Ed became very interested in Xia Lin's new school. The characters in this world are often only learned through the two channels of literacy teachers and the Holy Church. It has never happened before that hundreds of students are accommodated for relevant knowledge education.

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

Xia Lin found a manor with a quiet environment in the East District for these college students, and asked them to compile Chinese textbooks for each grade every day according to the language framework he gave.

"Your Excellency Ferran, the purpose of our school is to cultivate talents suitable for industrial production, so these poems only need to be one or two easy to understand, catchy so that everyone can compare the poems to speed up the learning of new words. Put all these jerky and awkward things in the textbooks like this!"

"Really? That's really a pity. Let's play this song "The Seine in Spring" and "Excerpts from Arnold's Epic". These two poems should meet your requirements! We can write a few other folk stories. gone."

In the manor, he controlled the writing methods of these great scholars. After several rounds of communication, Xia Lin finally let Ferran Ed understand his needs.

However, Scholars Phelan obviously still regrets that his magnificent and magnificent epic cannot be included in the textbooks that will educate hundreds, or even thousands of students.

"Remember to promote love for Xinglan Industrial Park, advocate technological development and progress, and yearn for a new idea of ​​a better new life. For example, these few explanatory essays I wrote, please find a suitable place in the textbook to put them down!"

Xia Lin handed Scholar Ferran a few more manuscript papers, and seeing his undeniable expression when he saw the simple and straightforward rhetoric used in these explanatory texts, he shook his head helplessly.

Although Scholars Phelan quickly understood his requirements and implemented them well, the two always had conflicts of ideas in some places. Fortunately, this did not affect the process of compiling the teaching materials.

After the textbook writing team was formally established and operated for half a month, 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 pigments to complete the preparation during this period. After the test, the metal movable type has a good adsorption capacity for this simple ink, and the printing effect is not bad. It is clear.

Everything is ready, and Dongfeng is the only one. The first edition of the first-year textbooks for the three subjects has also been compiled. Xia Lin has recruited five typists and five printers. After a few days of training, his small printing workshop quickly Textbooks and books exuding the fragrance of ink were printed.

Opening the title pages of mathematics and nature books, familiar nouns such as Arabic numerals, four arithmetic operations, linear motion, and acceleration in the catalog came into view again, making Xia Lin feel as if he had passed away.

However, the school has not been completed yet, these contain a lot of hard work of Xia Lin and the great educators in the previous life, and the books that have just been published have not yet been used.

In the same situation as them are the printing presses and typewriters that the dwarven masters spent their time building and adjusting.

Xia Lin looked at the dragon-slaying sword that he worked so hard to build, and decided to start a newspaper first, relying on his technical advantages to seize the public opinion position that kills people without blood.

For this reason, Xia Lin found Terry Elton, who was a literacy teacher hired by Roy to the managers of the industrial park before. During this time, he was still working as a literacy teacher in the industrial park, teaching management after six o'clock every night Literacy and numeracy.

This literacy teacher who was born as the illegitimate son of a baron has a good literary quality and is also very good at teaching people. Xia Lin plans to ask him to be the editor-in-chief of the temporary newspaper. As for whether it is suitable or not, we will try it out.

Given this unexpected opportunity, Terry Elton took over the position decisively, even though he had no idea about the position of editor-in-chief of a newspaper that had never appeared in the world.

Xia Lin was a little surprised by this. Originally, he was going to spend a little time to convince this candidate, but it should be Her Royal Highness who came to the industrial park on the day of the ribbon-cutting ceremony and those enlightened nobles. Let Terry, who works in the industrial park, Elton learned about the enlightened background behind him.

But this is a good thing. Through Terry’s channels, more than a dozen aristocratic offshoots who were similar to him were recruited to act as editors, reporters, and proofreaders for the newspaper. After a few days of cramming training, Xia Lin offered them a ten-day salary of 4 to 12 silver Mahrs.

Then Xia Lin went to Her Royal Highness to explain the importance of newspapers as a new type of media to the enlightened sect, and begged her to write another title of the newspaper "Emperor Capital Xunbao", and then found some well-informed people to collect some news.

As for why it is the Xunbao, it is naturally that Xia Lin is not familiar with the operation of the newspaper industry. influence.

There are many well-informed people in the imperial capital, but Xia Lin must have no channels. He found members of the business alliance, the Eugene Chamber of Commerce and the Brook Chamber of Commerce.

As an enlightened Viscount family, the Eugene Chamber of Commerce operates gems, magic stones, intermediaries, manors and other industries, and has unclear connections with gray organizations in the slums, and is the most well-informed in terms of news.

The Brook Chamber of Commerce is engaged in minerals, leather, slaves, land trade, manors, magic materials and other industries. It is a member of the Imperial Capital Carriage Guild. It has many coachmen and can provide many news sources.

Xia Lin temporarily collected daily news from these people at the price of 10 copper pes, 50 copper pes, and 1 silver maar.

As long as they find interesting and meaningful news, they can contact the reporters who are usually stationed near various taverns and tea shops to collect news. After being reviewed and accepted by the reporters, suitable news can be arranged for printing after being polished and processed by the editor and editor-in-chief. Room typesetting, proofreading and printing.

The finished newspapers obtained are naturally handed over to the children in the slums to shout and sell them on the streets on the first morning of every ten days. The price of the newspapers is set at three copper pes, and the newspaper sellers can get One copper bis income.

From now on, this world will finally have a big incident, and shouting "Extraordinary! Extraordinary!" on the street. The newspaper boy who sells freshly baked newspapers has an additional scene with a unique charm of the times in Xia Lin's view.

As for the guilt of using child labor, Xia Lin didn't feel it at all. Most families in the slums couldn't even get enough to eat. With such a job, there would definitely be many children willing to come out to earn their own ration money, and this The labor intensity of this job is not high.

The newspaper boy's remuneration was also determined by Xia Lin considering that the illiteracy rate in this world is a bit high, and that newspaper sales may not be very good.

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 Xunbao is less than 8 silver Maars.

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