"I have a difficult task for you. Are you confident that you can complete it?" Xie Xin said with a smile.
"By the way, I finally got rid of the worldly troubles and devoted myself to practice for more than ten years. Brother, why don't you torture me?" Xie Yi rolled his eyes at the thank you letter.
"Then this will be troublesome. The plan must have a chief executor?" Xie Xin said distressedly.
"Why don't we ask for people from the three parties? Besides, when we made the plan, we used our personal strength to fight against the robbery of the imperial court. But now we are fighting against the regime in the south as the northern imperial court. Under such circumstances, we cannot
Making good use of the resources of the northern court is simply a waste!" Xie Yi immediately suggested.
"Good idea!" After thanking the letter, he disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"This brother is just impatient..." Xie Yi shook his head and continued to deal with the affairs of the academy.
Not long after, Xie Xin came to the cabinet again, but it was already off-duty time and everyone had left.
"This is troublesome..." Xie Xin smiled bitterly.
Although the cabinet members all live in Luoyang, they may not live close to each other. In this case, it is not easy to call them together directly.
"Well, Dean Xie, why are you here?" came a voice.
Xie Xin looked up and saw that it was Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, walking over accompanied by eunuchs.
"Common people see you, Your Majesty!" Xie Xin said politely.
"Dean Xie is not only the dean of Huaxia Academy, but also an outsider. You don't have to pay so much attention to the secular etiquette. I just don't know what you are here for?!" Liu Xie said with a smile.
"It's nothing, I just thought of a little trick. It's disgusting and disgusting over there in the south. It's just that I'm just a miser and a tough guy. I use my own money to help the court. That's not my habit..." Xie Xin replied casually.
"If it can have an impact on the south, it can even make them feel sick... Of course, if it doesn't cost so much, there will definitely be no problems with our cabinet. At least I can guarantee this." Liu Xie smiled.
"Well, it's just a new thing involved in my plan. It's a bit troublesome to explain. I wouldn't bother you to explain it to them one by one. Can you find someone to ask them all to come over?" Xie Xin asked.
"In fact, there is no need for them to come over at all, because tonight at Hailongge Restaurant, they have reserved a private room and plan to have a good meal. I also planned to go to the banquet, but I didn't expect to meet you first.
Liu Xie said with a smile.
"Having a banquet? When did their relationship get so good?!" Xie Xin was a little surprised.
"After all, you are back today." Liu Xie immediately pointed out the key points.
"Oh, this is understandable! By the way, do you want to experience the feeling of riding a flying sword?!" Xie Xin mentioned casually.
"Can I do that?" Liu Xie was actually quite interested in trying the flying sword.
"Come up!" In the blink of an eye, Xie Xin had already taken out the Immortal-Destroying Sword.
"How do I get there?" Liu Xie was a little helpless.
"Give me your hand, and I'll pull you up!" Xie Xin stretched out his hand. When Liu Xie stretched out his hand, Xie Xin directly lifted him onto the flying sword, then activated the protective magic to protect him from the wind, and
Guaranteed that he would not fall off the flying sword, and then directly used the flying sword to fly in the direction of the Hailong Pavilion Restaurant.
Because they were flying at full speed, in less than a moment, the two of them had arrived at the gate of Hailong Pavilion.
"It's fun, even more fun than galloping on the grassland!" Although Liu Xie is already in his prime, he had too little entertainment in his childhood, so now he is a little more playful.
"Why don't you pass the throne to your son quickly and then start cultivating yourself too." Xie Xin suggested.
"Forget it, I haven't enjoyed enough of the beauty of this world. I heard that your teacher also said that the laws of heaven cannot be violated. As the emperor, I will live my life how God arranges it." Liu Xie immediately denied this.
proposal.
Xie Xin sneered at his words.
After all, according to the true arrangement of heaven, this guy's fate is just to wait for someone to oust him from his position. What happened to him now and to him in history are thousands of miles apart, and all of this can be said to be thanks to
The outcome indirectly caused by the letter.
So when talking about fate with Xie Xin, who changed his destiny, how could Xie Xin not despise him?
In the restaurant, the atmosphere of joy was very strong. The reason was actually very simple, it was because Xie Xin was back. At least judging from the several conversations that Xie Xin's consciousness scanned, the topics discussed were all related to him.
When did I become indispensable to China?
Xie Xin muttered a little self-deprecatingly.
Arriving at the box in a blink of an eye, the twelve cabinet ministers inside were quickly surprised by the appearance of Xie Xin, and they immediately cordially invited him to sit down.
As for the food and drinks, fortunately, Liu Xie said he would wait until Liu Xie came up to order them, so he simply thanked Xin and took out the spiritual meat and vegetables and handed them over to the kitchen to help with cooking. In addition, he took out fourteen pots of spiritual wine, each
Everyone shared a pot.
After having a good meal and wine, Liu Xie briefly mentioned to everyone what he had said before thanking you for the letter.
"As long as it can disgust the south, and of course the consumption is not too high, we will naturally support it unconditionally!" Gongsun Sheng, just like Liu Xie said before, once again expressed his support for Xie Xin's actions.
"Of course it won't consume too much. On the contrary, if you do it well, you can earn a lot of money. But before that, I would like to ask, how is China's papermaking technology and printing technology now? Of course, who knows the speed of information transmission and can tell
Mine, then that's the best." Xie Xin first explained proudly, and then asked seriously.
"Various papermaking processes have been gradually improved, and the cost has been reduced to a limit. Printing technology still needs to be improved, but movable type printing has been developed, and the manufacturing of printing presses has also entered the fifth generation of improvements, with one set per day
The printing press can print at least two hundred scriptures." Mao Jie, as the Minister of Industry and Commerce, was naturally somewhat impressed by this matter.
"As for information, if it's a war, you can use the smoke method to know the movement of the army five days in advance, and then respond quickly. If it's private information, although today's roads are much better, you still have to deliver a letter or something.
, it is still possible to achieve the goal by using special messengers to rush to the post stations set up in various places, changing horses without changing people." Xiahou Dun is the current Minister of Defense, so he is still very familiar with the situation of information transmission.
"In this case, reporting once a day is obviously not allowed. It seems that it is better to report once every three days. In addition, depending on the situation, print a monthly magazine every month!" Xie Xin muttered.
"What's a three-day newspaper? What's that monthly magazine?!" Huang Zhong asked curiously.
"Are you familiar with the Di Bao thing?" Xie Xin asked with a smile.
"Nonsense, it has been used for hundreds of years, how can you not be familiar with it?" Huang Zhong said angrily.
"Then if we expand further, from government policies to the implementation of people's livelihood, and even gossip and anecdotes, and then bind it into a newspaper and sell it, do you think this business is good?" Xie Xin asked with a smile.
"That depends on the price!" Gongsun Sheng said sharply.
"One penny! One penny for a newspaper!" Xie Xin said affirmatively.
"You will definitely lose money!" Xiahou Dun replied affirmatively.
"That's how it was in the early days... At the end, as more people read it, this newspaper can make money. But this is not important. The most important thing is that through this newspaper, we can control public opinion. Let the public opinion be beneficial to us.
Even convey it to the south; at the same time, let the people in the south understand the remarks and data that are not conducive to the south." Xie Xin said with a smile.
"This plan is good, but... can it really make money?!" Cao Cao asked tentatively.
"It's guaranteed to make money. Even if it doesn't make money, aren't you going to do this disgusting southern plan?!" He thanked everyone and looked at everyone.
"You won't lose much. On the contrary, you can make the other party feel uncomfortable without using any force, and you can even make the people dissatisfied with the government. So the money is well spent." After Zhang Ming did some calculations, he stood up and stood up.
Thanks for the letter.
"In principle, I agree with running a newspaper, but it's better to make money." Mao Jie thought for a while and replied.
"But since it was him who said it, then the money is naturally earned, why not talk about the monthly magazine." Gongsun Sheng immediately brought the topic to the monthly magazine.
"This monthly magazine is actually a form of binding the most important information of a month into a volume and then selling it. It is actually a newspaper, but the content is relatively rich. It's just that this monthly magazine takes the middle-to-high-level route, rather than
Like newspapers, it follows the popular route, so it is inevitable that the price will be raised to a level where it can be profitable." Xie Xin actually knew little about monthly magazines, so he simply put forward his own opinions and handed them over to these twelve elites to improve them.
.
It has to be said that newspapers and monthly magazines are of great interest to senior management. Especially in terms of controlling public opinion, this is very much in their interests.
Finally, when Hailong Pavilion closed, they immediately came to the cabinet and continued to discuss the matter of running the newspaper. They discussed it for a whole day and night, and then the meeting was dismissed until everything was perfected.
It can be said that if Xie Xin hadn't helped supply elixirs and spiritual tea during this period, a few of the older guys in this group would have fallen ill directly due to overwork.
The matter of running the newspaper was quickly implemented. It should be said that the three parties have shown absolute enthusiasm for running the newspaper.
There was not one kind of newspaper, but four kinds of newspapers. These four kinds of newspapers also became the first four kinds of newspapers to appear in Chinese history.
They are Huaxia Daily, People's Daily, Social Daily, and Dahan Daily.
The first three types can be seen at a glance as the public opinion positions of the three parties. As for how to improve and enrich them and increase their influence, they can only look at their own operations.
As for the fourth type, it was the public opinion position of the Han Empire. Because of its background, the other three newspapers did not dare to treat this newspaper directly as an enemy even if they fought you to death.
At the same time, under the Ministry of National Defense, a News Management Bureau was set up, a department that specializes in censoring newspapers and other information-transmitting publications. The purpose of this establishment is actually to control public opinion.
Newspapers are published every three days, and the ultimate goal is to report them once a day. However, this can only be achieved after finding ways to improve the speed of information transmission. Nowadays, when relying on human power to transmit news, three days is already the limit.
In any case, after discussion, the four newspapers were launched simultaneously one month after Dahan Daily.
Then, it quickly entered the sight of the Chinese people.