Capital Datang

"Your Highness, what's wrong with this rice seed?" Seeing the weird expression on Li Yin's face, Wang Zihao was also a little uneasy. After all, Li Yin has always been famous for his knowledge, and it should be right for him to be able to tell the characteristics of this rice seed just now. This kind of rice is very familiar.At this time, everyone who checked the rice seeds also noticed Li Yin's abnormality, and they all looked this way with some doubts.

"Uh~, that's not true, it's just..."

When Li Yin said this, he really didn't know how to go on. After thinking about it, he simply asked someone to go to the warehouse to bring a sack, and then opened it in front of everyone. As a result, everyone let out a sound of "Yah", because there was a sack inside. They are also rice seeds, and people with discerning eyes also found that the two bags of rice seeds are almost identical in appearance, and they should be of the same variety.

Wang Zihao traveled thousands of miles to the south for this rice seed, so he was very familiar with the shape of the rice seed, and he could tell at a glance that the rice seed that Li Yin asked someone to bring was the same variety as the rice seed he brought with him.

"Your Highness, it turns out that you also know this kind of Champa rice!" Wang Zihao saw the rice seeds Li Yin brought, and immediately understood what was going on. Let people get ready, that is to say, I have made a trip in vain.Capital Datang 124

Seeing Wang Zihao's dejected expression, Li Yin smiled wryly in his heart. It was such a coincidence that Zhancheng rice was a trump card carefully prepared by him to solve the food problem. When he was in Dengzhou before, he had sent People went to Champa to bring a lot of rice seeds, and now they are stored in Guangzhou and other places. After reporting to Li Shimin, this kind of improved rice is popularized. I believe that in the southern region, it can generally be harvested twice a year. Even further south, it can be grown three times a year.

I just didn't expect that the hero sees the same thing. Wang Zihao also happened to know Champa Rice, and even made a trip there in person. Judging by his dusty face, he probably suffered a lot along the way.Coupled with the strong contrast between the excitement just now and the depression now, Li Yin couldn't bear it.

"Zihao, speaking of it, your father and daughter really have a good understanding. She sent someone to find this Champa rice from the south. It's just that you, the father, are one step behind your daughter!" Li Yin said with a smile.

Well, Li Yin is actually lying. As a foodie in his previous life, he already knew the name of Champa Rice.So in order to solve the agricultural problem, he was the first to think of this kind of improved rice, but in order not to discourage Wang Zihao's enthusiasm, he put the credit on Xijun. After all, the first person who discovered it was Wang Zihao's own daughter.As a father, although he will be a little bit disappointed, but I believe that more people will feel gratified, not to mention that he has always loved his only daughter the most.

Sure enough, when Wang Zihao heard that the rice seeds were discovered by his daughter, his complexion immediately improved a lot, and the others felt even more interesting when they heard that there was such a coincidence, and learned more about the advantages of Champa Rice. Two or even three crops a year.They were also very shocked. Although their family is now mainly engaged in business and industry, the importance of food has long been baked into the bones of every Han Chinese, so they also attach great importance to getting more food.

Now that Wang Zihao has brought Zhancheng rice, Li Yin no longer hides it.He also told about his plan to promote Champa rice in the south, and everything has been prepared, and after reporting to Li Shimin, the imperial court will officially promote it through the imperial decree.

Hearing Li Yin's back move.Wang An next to him nodded and smiled, compared to the three strategies he offered.Improving rice seeds is indeed effective quickly, and it is not easy to be rejected by the people.Cheng Huailiang and the others also admired them very much, but the promotion of this kind of rice is still indispensable. After all, if this kind of thing is promoted by force, it may be counterproductive, so the topic soon turned to the one that Li Yin thought of before. to promote new things,

Regarding this matter, Li Yin smiled without saying a word, and turned to look at Yanbei.Li Yong stole the limelight just now, and now seeing everyone looking at him, Yan Bei immediately stood up and shouted loudly: "Brothers, I believe that you all know many relatives and friends who can play with pens, everyone can let them come to me. Sign up here, as long as you pass the test, you can work in the newly opened newspaper office, not only the work is easy, but also the salary is good, all brothers are welcome to actively recommend it!"

With the rise of Yan Bei’s talk, he simply put up a recruitment advertisement on the spot. Li Min had actually wanted to run a newspaper for a long time. Newspapers can not only allow information to flow quickly, but also use newspapers as a tool of public opinion to truly influence the public. The guidance of public opinion in Tang society is also a function that Li Yin values ​​most.

Speaking of the influence of the five surnames and Qiwang, from the imperial court down to the traffickers and pawns, almost every class is controlled by them. In addition to these aristocratic poetry and book heirs, among the scholars who have the greatest influence on public opinion, there are Nearly half of the people are from these aristocratic families, so if they want to do something, as long as they use their influence, they can easily turn public opinion to their favor, and then use this momentum of public opinion to Put pressure on the court to achieve their own goals.

In order to reduce the opponent's influence and at the same time increase his grasp of public opinion, the first thing Li Yin thought of was the sharp weapon of the newspaper.It's just that if you want to run a newspaper, there are two problems that need to be solved, one is printing, and the other is cheap paper.

In fact, in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, block printing had already appeared, but it was mainly used to print Buddhist scriptures. Most of the other books still had to be copied manually. Printing is also not good, because the cost is high and the speed is slow, so it must be printed with movable type. Originally, Li Yin felt that this thing is quite simple. Just arrange it.

But he didn't know that's the case until he had someone do an experiment. Ordinary wooden movable type is very easy to deform and can't be used after a few times. So Li Yin thought of clay movable type again, and the craftsman told him that clay type The movable type made looks simple, but the technology is more complicated. In desperation, Li Yin had to turn to the movable type made of metal. Iron is easy to rust, so the first rule out, lead and copper are good materials, but each is more expensive than the other. In the end, Li Yin was cruel and made a set of movable type with copper. As for lead, because the output is relatively small, the price is too high, so it is not suitable at all.

However, not long after his copper movable type was made, the craftsmen in the Dengzhou Academy of Sciences improved the wooden movable type, choosing denser wood, and then treated it specially, making the wooden movable type made of this wood very durable. , although the cost is higher, it is many times cheaper than the copper movable type piled up with money.

After printing is solved, only paper is left. Due to the limitation of papermaking, the price of paper in the Tang Dynasty was not low, especially the paper with better quality, which is not affordable by ordinary people. Li Shimin rewarded the prince At that time, he often rewarded some paper, firstly, to persuade students, and secondly, to show the preciousness of paper, but these papers were used by Li Yin as toilet paper, after all, he was really not used to the toilet chips used by the people of Tang Dynasty.

Of course, there are cheaper papers, but the quality of these papers is really bad, and it may fall off when you pick it up, and it will be broken when you rub it. It can only be used for daily calligraphy practice.Although the paper used for newspapers does not have high quality requirements, it must at least be light, thin and foldable, and the lower the cost, the better.

At first, Li Yin wanted to find someone to do research on his own, but he was reminded later that many people in the patent department had registered paper patents, which might contain the technology Li Yin needed.At this moment, Li Yin also suddenly realized, and hurriedly wrote to Li Yifu. Sure enough, there were indeed many patents for papermaking in the Patent Department, and the papermaking technology that Li Yin needed was registered by a master papermaker, but he had no money. people, and the asking price is relatively high, so no paper mills have adopted it.Li Yin didn't care about the price, and immediately sold the patent through Li Yifu, and then through the improvement of the craftsmen in his hands, he quickly produced good newspaper paper.

The problems of printing and paper have been solved, and the newspaper is only short of manpower. This is the best solution. It is hard to find people who can handle affairs, but people who can write articles are everywhere. Of course, this It's only compared to Li Yin, after all, with his current appeal, it's really not difficult to find some people with good writing skills.

Of course, such a major event as running a newspaper cannot be kept from Yan Bei and Yan Changshi. Although Yan Bei likes to do business, he has always regarded himself as a literati and always wants to do what a literati should do. Naturally, he did his part, and took advantage of his talent and learning to provoke the editor-in-chief of the newspaper.Capital Datang 124

Hearing the newspaper office that Yanbei mentioned, Cheng Huailiang and the others were a little confused at first, but after the quick-talking Yanbei explained the operation method of the newspaper office and the functions it held, everyone's eyes lit up immediately, and some even stared. Sharp people have already seen Li Yin's deepest intention of running a newspaper office. With newspapers, they are equivalent to having weapons to confront the five surnames and Qiwang head-on, plus their advantages in the court and other aspects, The five surnames and seven Wangs want to suppress industry and commerce, which is simply a dream.

Realizing the role of the newspaper, people like Cheng Huailiang and Li Jingye immediately became active one by one, and recommended everyone they could think of one by one after returning home.In order to select suitable talents from these people, Yan Bei was almost exhausted. Fortunately, Li Ke also showed great interest in this newspaper. article.

After a period of intense preparations, Yanbei finally gathered the manpower, and the first newspaper office in Datang was finally opened for business. The sign was written by Li Yin and Li Kejin and asked Li Shimin to write it himself, and the name was "Datang Daily".At the same time that the newspaper opened, Datang Daily also began to be sold on the market, and the newspaper, a new information carrier, finally officially entered the stage of history.