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Chapter 96 Movable Type Printing and Newspapers

"Maybe what you did right." King Shangfeng saw the people's faces filled with joy of surviving the disaster. He seemed to have been several years old and said decadently, "You want to kill and cut, and you will listen to the emperor. But I beg you not to kill my family."

"Don't get me wrong with King Shangfeng. We just invite your royal family to live in Jinzhou. Everything will be delicious and delicious. We will also arrange for the descendants of the royal family to receive our education and work will be arranged. Of course, you may not have the power to call the wind and rain like before." Deng Qianlong explained.

"Call the wind and rain? General, you are really joking. Before I ascended the throne, the Japanese ruled our Ryukyu. Until today I have to obey their orders. Since your Ming Dynasty restored the Liao army and did not mean to hurt me, I would say it earlier, which made me worry. Brother Deng, you have to swear that your restore the Liao army really has no intention to hurt me?" King Shangfeng said happily after hearing this, grabbed Deng Qianlong's sleeve and asked hurriedly.

"I swear that as long as you are willing to be a normal noble family safely, we will never do anything to you." Deng Qianlong said helplessly.

After completing the mission, the fleet that was far away to Ryukyu, except for two merchant ships and a frigate stayed, the remaining ships were loading fresh water and food, carrying the exchanged goods and the Ryukyu royal family back to Dalian Port.

King Shangfeng, who lived in the cabin of the Victory, explained the meaning of the Liao army to his family. When the royal family heard that the Liao army had no intention of killing them and others, they cried with joy.

In fact, Deng Qianlong did not regard King Shangfeng as a prisoner and allowed them to move freely on the ship. These royal members came to the deck and felt the power of the Fu Liao army more and more. Especially the cold cannons made them frightened and did not dare to cause trouble on the ship.

At this time, Dalian Port was no longer the Qingniwa that used to be, but a regional port of countless people, merchants and troops. With the construction of infrastructure, Dalian Port has a strong development momentum, and they all have to catch up with Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Gaizhou.

In the past, there were only more than ten broken fishing boats in the small fishing village, but now there are dozens of large merchant ships anchored at the port of Dalian Port every day! These merchant ships may come from the southeast coast, the Bohai Rim, or from Goryeo and Japan!

People living in Dalian Port and merchants traveling to and from Dalian Port may not know the "Shengli", the iconic ship of the Liao army. When the Victory returned from Ryukyu, it once again caused a great sensation in Dalian Port.

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

"In less than a year... Oh my God, this place is more prosperous than our capital..." King Shangfeng watched the dazzling array of houses rising from the ground, and people coming and going were endless, with a scale of tens of thousands of people. He simply did not believe that a port that had been built in less than a year could develop so quickly in a short period of time!

"Our military leader said this is the 'Ming Dynasty speed'. Dalian Port is newly built soon, and some facilities may not be complete. When you arrive at our Jinzhou City, you may be the eye-opener." Deng Qianlong said.

King Shangfeng and others were wearing strange costumes. When the workers and people at the port saw this group of people as strange as foreigners, they looked at each other.

Under Deng Qianlong's escort, King Shangfeng and others got on the carriage and headed to Jinzhou City.

At this time, Chu Yun was too idle in Jinzhou City. He discussed the plan to promote simplified Chinese characters and pinyin with a group of newly appointed officials such as Zhou Xiaode in the museum of the "Language Promotion Office". Another plan derived from this plan was to establish a newspaper. The speed of resuming the Liao army's promotion policies is not fast, and generally notifying the people by posting announcements and distributing leaflets. However, an effective way of public opinion propaganda and encouragement has not yet been developed.

What Chu Yun thought of was the Internet in later generations... It was just that the Internet was too far away, so Chu Yun had to choose the traditional model of newspapers in a second place. At present, newspapers had appeared in the Ming Dynasty, but the scope of use was small, mainly hand-written tabloids, and the functions were not complete. Chu Yun wanted to create a modern newspaper to promote public opinion for himself in industrial reform.

"We not only need to create newspapers that belong to our Restoration Army, but also use simplified Chinese characters and regularly publish them!" Chu Yun said excitedly, "We must cultivate the habit of reading and reading newspapers in the people. On the one hand, we can preach our thoughts to the people, and on the other hand, we can quickly get rid of blindness."

If you remember correctly, there was just a weekly report in the world, and it was in Prussia.

"Mr. Master Jun's idea is very good." Officials from the Language Promotion Office expressed their agreement. There were official newspapers in the Ming Dynasty, and they were not unfamiliar with them. Regular newspapers are just a change in patterns and are not something beyond their understanding.

"The newspapers produced by our newspapers can no longer be copied by hand. They must use movable type printing to be distributed on a large scale. We need to set up a group of workers in this field to develop movable type printing for newspapers." Chu Yun felt deep pride for the first time when talking about the technology behind the newspaper.

This is a very rare technique he used to use the movable type printing technique invented by his ancestors. The first technique Chu Yun planned to be developed and used by the locals of the Ming Dynasty. Although movable type printing technique was first found in the Ming Dynasty, there were too many Chinese characters, and it was a complicated traditional Chinese character. To use movable type printing technique, a large number of characters are required, which makes it very troublesome to use movable type printing technique. This is different from the more than 20 letters in the West, and there are thousands of Chinese characters...

It still takes some effort to develop a set of movable type printing techniques suitable for Chinese characters and newspapers. Because it is very difficult to carve thousands of Chinese characters alone. And unless the more modern laser illumination technology solves the problem of Chinese character printing, in the era of lead type printing, other technologies are unsolvable. So Chu Yun simply asked the locals to use the improved movable type printing technique and barely use it, which is worthy of his ancestors.

"We can issue a newspaper every seven days, and the newspaper promotes our policies, current affairs and comments. The language should be as simple and straightforward as possible in the early stages. As long as farmers who have learned simplified Chinese characters can read it easily." Chu Yun continued to talk about his ideas.

"So sir, what's the name of our newspaper?" asked a civil servant.
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