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Chapter 275 Newspapers
"Newspapers are being sold! Newspapers are being sold! The freshly released "Hua Xia Bao"!"

"The Kaifeng Group Army captured Xining Prefecture, and the west gate has been stable since then."

“Extra-large iron ore and coal mines were discovered in Luanshui South (Tangshan), Dading Prefecture, and Hebei Iron and Steel has since become self-sufficient.”

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The people selling newspapers along the street were not the newspaper boys common in later movies and TV dramas, but some adults.

The Chinese Empire strictly prohibits the employment of child labor during study hours, and only allows teenagers over the age of 14 to participate in some after-school part-time jobs.

In later generations, newspaper boys in Western countries mainly delivered evening newspapers. With the gradual disappearance of evening newspapers, changes in population distribution, labor laws, and social concerns about child labor, this profession eventually gradually disappeared.

Newsboys in Eastern countries are teenagers who are out of school in special periods. As the emperor of the Chinese Empire, Chen Xun will certainly not allow this to happen.

Since the first issue of "Hua Xia Bao" was released on September [-], the founding day of the People's Republic of China, the sales of "Hua Xia Bao" have entered a sharp increase.Hua Xia Bao, which publishes an issue every Monday and Friday, has now published its fourth issue, with sales exceeding [-] copies nationwide.

Although this number is small, considering the current literacy rate among the people, the coverage rate of this sales volume for the literate population is already very high.

Even among illiterate people, the coverage rate is not low.

Chen Xun did not spend money to hire people to read newspapers in the joints, but in teahouses, taverns and other crowded places, in order to attract customers, they would actively hire people to read newspapers to customers.

There are also some senior students who are more literate and will also read newspapers to the people in their neighborhoods and villages.

Nowadays, the people of the Chinese Empire are paying more and more attention to current affairs. After all, the heart of gossip is innate, and curiosity is an instinct engraved deep in the human soul.

The entire imperial society accepted the "Huaxia News" very quickly.

In this ancient civilization, the predecessor of the newspaper, "Di Bao", first appeared in the Han Dynasty.

At that time, the Western Han Dynasty implemented the county system. The country was divided into several counties, and the counties were further divided into several counties.

Each county has an office in Chang'an, the capital. This residence is called a "di" and has permanent representatives. Their task is to liaise between the emperor and the heads of the counties, and regularly communicate the emperor's edicts, edicts, and ministers to the officials. Official documents such as memorials and relevant political information such as palace events were written on bamboo slips or silk, and then sent to the governors of various counties by messengers riding fast horses through the post roads established by the Qin Dynasty.

With the invention and development of papermaking, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, paper was made from plant fibers, and Di Bao began to be copied on paper, which further developed Di Bao and made it easier to issue and deliver.

From the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties to the Song Dynasty, although the name of Di Bao changed frequently, its circulation was never interrupted, and its nature and content did not change much.

And as the post roads improved compared to the Han Dynasty, the transmission speed of Di Bao also became faster.

As the economy became more developed in the Song Dynasty, the coverage of Di Bao became larger and the content became richer.

In the beginning, Di Bao was only used to convey official documents and important information, targeting officials.

In the Song Dynasty, the content of Dibao expanded to include the emperor's edicts and orders, daily words and deeds, court decrees, communiqués, officials' appointments, rewards and punishments, etc. Some gentry and wealthy people also began to purchase Dibao through various channels to understand the court's policies. The change.

Later, a small number of scholars made a living by copying mansion newspapers for others, and finally there appeared businessmen who specialized in copying mansion newspapers and selling them for profit.

The Chinese Empire took the initiative to publish newspapers to convey the country's new policies, news, interesting stories, etc. Although it affected the livelihood of this small number of scholars, it was a great good governance for those who needed newspapers.

And the most important thing is that most of the sections of "Hua Xia Bao" are open to the public. They will accept manuscripts submitted by all walks of life and publish the best ones. This directly poked the dull souls of those readers. For a while, letters like Like snowflakes, there is an endless stream. "There was a little monk who ran into the yard in the middle of the night with a long bamboo pole, waving and beating it at the night sky, making a lot of noise. Finally the old monk was alerted. The old monk shouted and asked: "You don't sleep in the middle of the night, why are you? What the hell are you doing?"The little monk fearfully summoned up the courage to answer: "Master, I want the stars in the sky, but no matter how hard I try, I just can't get them down...".When the old monk heard this, he became furious and yelled: "You are such a big idiot. You don't even know such a simple question. You are so stupid and unforgivable. How can you beat someone standing in a place like that... You can't climb to the roof." ""

This is a joke published in the Easy Moment section, called "Stupid". The person reading the newspaper is the son of a teahouse owner. He attended private school for three years in his early years and dropped out of school for a few years. After the Chen Jiajun captured Guangzhou, he entered the Guangzhou No. [-] He studied in No. [-] elementary school and is now a seventh-grade student in No. [-] Middle School.

Under the orders of his father, he read newspapers to customers in the teahouse every morning, noon and evening to earn his own pocket money.

In fact, he himself also likes to read newspapers in teahouses, not only because of the sense of honor when reading newspapers, but also because he likes to obtain knowledge and information from newspapers.

Just like the joke just now, the bottom of the joke specifically states what the stars in the sky are and how far they are from the ground.

Education is fun.

The joke made the people laugh, and the knowledge noted below has spread the common sense of life for later generations, and is very popular among the people.

This is the third edition in a row to publish knowledge about the starry sky, and now a trend of astronomy hobby has formed among the people.

As everyone laughed, someone said to his friend next to him: "I still can't believe that we actually live on a big round ball. The sky has been round since ancient times. This is really ridiculous."

"Don't talk nonsense. This is the knowledge taught by His Majesty. Have you ever gone to the beach to see it? The top of the mast appears above the water before the hull. This means that the earth we live in is a big sphere."

"But why don't the people under the ball fall?"

"Who knows."

If Chen Xun heard the discussion between these two people, he would definitely say that the road to literacy is still long.

Gravity, which is well known to everyone in later generations, is still the truth in the hands of a very small number of people. However, these people cannot be blamed. Their knowledge determines that they cannot understand this concept at all.

The beautiful country of later generations is so powerful, but some people still firmly believe that the earth is flat.

"I heard that the emperor collected taxes from all monks. I don't know if it's true or not." someone asked.

"It's true, this is what was in the last issue of the newspaper. The new "Tax Law" will stipulate that monks must pay grain taxes when farming, and they must pay taxes on selling talismans and collecting donations." The person next to him replied.

"The emperor is a god from heaven who descended to earth, and he is so cruel to his own people."

"Who knows."

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The information conveyed in newspapers is still too advanced for ordinary people in this era. They cannot understand a lot of knowledge and cannot understand many policies.

Even good governance seems to them to be bad governance.

Fortunately, they have nothing to do, they can only complain: "Who knows."

Chen Xun believes that as long as this kind of popularization of common sense continues, it will eventually open up people's wisdom and accelerate the industrialization process of the entire country and society.

(End of this chapter)