Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 846 Construction of Ancillary Areas ([-])

On December 1650, 12, the temperature in southern Patagonia, which was in midsummer, had climbed to nearly thirty degrees.Li Dayan took out his fan and fanned the hot air around him, and walked into a small three-story building in front of him.The building is tall and spacious, and at the same time it is somewhat shady, which is a good place to go on a hot summer day.Li Dayan turned his head and looked around. At this time, there were a dozen people sitting sparsely in the room. They were sitting behind tables and chairs, reading some books carefully.

Yes, that's right, here is a library - the "South Railway Popular Library" funded by the South Railway Corporation.This library has a vast area and currently has a collection of more than [-] volumes of various types, including many valuable Chinese books and series, as well as prefecture and county annals of Shandong, Beizhili, Jiangbei, and Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty. academic research value.For this reason, even some local enthusiasts will take a boat to the subsidiary of the South Railway from time to time to borrow some professional books from the library.

It is worth mentioning that the Southern Railway Popular Library is a mobile library. As the name suggests, the library has a certain "range of activities", which is currently limited to various stations, schools, and enterprises.Now Nantie has recruited a large group of low-level scholars transported from the Ming Dynasty, and began to transcribe, print, and bind all kinds of books. Every time a transcribed version is bound, it will be placed in the library for outsiders to read or borrow. People only charge some low annual membership fees to pay for the library's book transcription and normal operation costs.In addition, the Southern Railway Company also plans to set up a train library on the direct trains for passengers to relieve their loneliness along the way. However, considering that most of the illiterate people in the Southern Railway affiliated area are currently illiterate, whether these books can be borrowed is also a problem.

In addition to the popular library of the Southern Railway, there is actually a small book library in Xingnan Port——"South Railway Transportation Library".This library is not open to the public, and most of the books in the library are published by the East Bank itself in the past 20 years, such as "The Minutes of the First East-West War", "South Patagonia Investigation Report", "Outline of Exploration Results of the Wild West" , "Seasonal Distribution of Fishing Grounds in the South Atlantic Ocean", "Diary of the Travels of the Southern Chilean Staff in 1649", "Peru Economic Summary", "Geological Survey of Railway Attached Areas" and other informative books.In principle, such books are only available to those who meet the requirements (certificates are required), and they can only be read in class, and must be returned immediately after reading.

The strange thing is that the transportation library not only collects a large number of professional and informative books, but also collects a considerable number of books (transcribed versions) from various countries in Europe, but this requires professionals who understand foreign languages ​​to be able to read them. The graduates of Fort will occasionally come to read it, and usually no one moves it, and the compulsion seems a little higher.

In fact, the Southern Railway Company originally planned to build a museum in a selected location, and has already made a plan. The museum is divided into three parts: the archaeological hall, the memorial hall and the resource hall. It intends to collect some locally discovered animal and plant fossils, specimens, minerals, Works of art, folk customs, in addition to handicrafts brought back from overseas (including goods plundered by privateer fleets, I don’t care whether they are exposed or not, anyway, everyone tacitly...), unique and historically significant cultural relics, Ceramics, and even some non-material "cultural relics" (recorded) such as skills and academics, for later generations to carry out academic research.

It's a pity that this plan was firmly opposed by the local Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education. Finally, under the instruction of the Executive Committee, a large number of cultural relics and artworks (mostly from the Ming Dynasty and via the Pacific Ocean route) that were originally detained by the Southern Railway Company in Xingnan Port were resolutely opposed. transported) was still shipped back to the capital Dongfang Port, and displayed in the People's Museum for the people of the capital to visit.

While recalling the development history of the Southern Railway Library introduced to him by others in his mind, Li Dayan walked to the newspaper section and flipped through some newspapers and periodicals displayed here.There are only three newspapers in total, and they are also the only three publicly issued newspapers on the east coast - the comprehensive newspaper "Pravda", the newspaper "Kommersant" which focuses on economic news, and the "South Railway" issued by the Southern Railway Company alone. weekly".

Li Dayan is a senior person in the newspaper industry, and he is very familiar with these newspapers.Nowadays, with the gradual economic and cultural development of the East Coast Republic and the slow improvement of people's literacy rate, the demand and circulation of newspapers are also increasing day by day, which makes the executive committee pay more and more attention to newspapers, which are useful for strengthening the propaganda Great publication.

"The bullshit newspaper run by the grandsons of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce." Li Dayan, a senior editor from "Pravda", looked at the "Kommersant" in a prominent place, and muttered in a tone mixed with envy and disdain, as if he was right This formidable competitor is rather fearful and annoying.

Pretty much the same in fact. "Pravda" (hosted by the Ministry of Education) is the first—and only—to publish a comprehensive newspaper in China. Its advantages are extremely huge, whether it is the number of employees or the number of copies of the newspaper. The second-ranked "Kommersant" can not be compared.It's just that with the increasing stability of people's lives and the continuous development of the economy, "Pravda", a newspaper with more political news and emphasizing political color, is far less popular than "Kommersant", which focuses on economic news. At present, its advantages have been greatly improved. Shrinking, the newspaper has a strong sense of crisis from the editor-in-chief to the reporters, and at the same time, the hostility towards the "Kommersant" is naturally increasing day by day.As for the "South Railway Weekly", which has only been published for more than two years, it is still a little brother and is not valued by the other two.

With the increasing population of the East Coast Republic, and the new generation with a certain level of education beginning to come of age, the market prospect of newspaper impurities has gradually become optimistic.At the National People's Congress at the beginning of this year, the delegates had just approved the merger of government regulations such as the Guiding Opinions for News Agency, the Regulations on the Establishment of Newspaper Offices, and the Guidelines for Journalists, which were originally somewhat messy, into a new "News Law". It was officially implemented on January 1651, 1.The new "News Law" does not allow private individuals to start newspapers. At the same time, it further confirms the news censorship system implemented by the Executive Committee, and generally strengthens news control, which is convenient for domestic propaganda and brainwashing.

In addition to the three newspapers, there are also several magazines published locally in this column, namely "East Coast Review" which was founded in 1645, "Modern East Coast" which was founded in 1646, and "Modern East Coast" which was founded in 1647. "Supreme Court Judgment", "Xintiandi" which was founded in 1648 (focusing on agricultural technology and market conditions), and "Railway Machinery" which was just launched this year. The "National Geographic", which has been published for more than ten years, is also the "oldest" magazine in the East Coast.

Among these six magazines, except "Modern East Bank", "Supreme Court Judgment" and "Railway Machinery", which are respectively under the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Justice and the State Railway Administration, the remaining three are all run by private publications. The current sales volume is so-so, neither good nor bad.It is definitely not possible to make a lot of money in the short term by relying on this, and it is just for fun. Running a newspaper and magazine on the East Coast is indeed a high-investment and high-risk business, and Gein’s publishing is conditional. If it is approved by the Ministry of Culture and the local government where the newspaper is located; secondly, the founder needs the government to pay a huge amount of deposit (tentatively set at 5000 yuan) to ensure that there is no content explicitly prohibited by the government in the publication, otherwise the deposit will be confiscated , Newspapers and periodicals will also be subject to various penalties; finally, the current tax rate of newspapers and periodicals and other publications is extremely heavy, far exceeding that of general industries.But even so, there is still an endless stream of units or individuals applying to start newspapers and periodicals in the East Coast. It can be seen that the interests may not be in the economy at all, but in other places, such as public opinion advocacy, accusations and smearing of groups with different political views, etc. wait.

Among these three magazines, "East Coast Review", which has the background of "law department" and other civil servants, is considered to have the largest circulation. excellent.The magazine targets at key intellectuals and reviews political and economic hotspots. The language is satirical, pungent, and humorous, and the layout is novel and lively.Chen Tingmei, a former immigrant from Wenzhou Prefecture of Ming Dynasty and now a middle-level official of the Ministry of Education, often writes and publishes articles on it. She is her number one pen. Public opinion builds momentum.

Of course, as one of the main positions for civil servants to speak out, another thing that the "East Shore Review" never tires of doing is smearing, complaining, and satirizing the Army. It almost spares no effort for this, which makes the Army chiefs jump with anger.In order to reverse this unfavorable situation, I heard that the army is also actively preparing to start a journal next year to fight against the civil service system, so as to regain the position of public opinion that is gradually losing ground.Well, they even chose the name of the journal, and called it "Minsheng", implying that those liberals only care about making money for themselves, without any consideration for the basic livelihood of the people and the life and death of ordinary people.

Li Dayan casually flipped through these periodicals, but soon lost interest.Because he had read the above content before, the speed of news transmission on the Southern Railway side was indeed a little slow, because even the newspapers and periodicals were out of date in the local area, which made people feel helpless.After lingering in the South Railway Popular Library for a while, Li Dayan walked out of the small building.The sun outside was still strong, so Li Dayan turned over and got on his mount, ready to go around the nearby countryside to see if there was anything worth recording in the local area. (It’s a great event to drop pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you! Follow up~click/Chinese website official account (add friends on WeChat-add official account-enter qdread), and participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now immediately Pay attention to qdread WeChat official account!)

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