"Your Highness, what's wrong with this rice seed?" Wang Zihao was also a little nervous when he looked at the strange expression on Li Yan's face. After all, Li Yan has always been famous for his erudition, and he could just tell the characteristics of this rice seed, which is that he is very familiar with this rice. (You can read the novel.) At this time, everyone who checked the rice seed also noticed Li Yan's abnormality and looked at this side with some confusion.

"Uh~, this is not, but..."

Li Yan said this, but he really didn't know how to continue. After thinking about it, he simply asked someone to go to the warehouse to carry a sack, and then opened it in front of everyone. As a result, everyone made a "ah" sound, because there were also rice seeds inside, and those with vision also found that the two bags of rice seeds looked almost the same in appearance, and they should be of the same variety.

For the sake of this rice seed, Wang Zihao traveled thousands of miles to the south, so he was very familiar with the appearance of the rice seeds. It was obvious at a glance that the rice seeds that Li Jing brought with him was the same variety as the rice seeds he brought.

"Your Highness, it turns out that you know this kind of Chameng rice!" When Wang Zihao saw the rice seeds brought by Li Yan, he immediately understood what was going on. It turned out that Li Yan had already prepared the rice seeds he had found after great hardships, which means that he had been in vain.

Seeing Wang Zihao's frustrated look, Li Yan also smiled bitterly. This was a coincidence. Chameng rice was a killer move he carefully prepared to solve the food problem. When he was in Dengzhou, he had already sent people to transport a lot of rice seeds in Chameng. Now they are in Guangzhou and other places. After reporting to Li Shimin, he will promote this kind of good-quality rice. I believe that in the southern regions, it can generally ripen twice a year, or even go south a little further, and ripen three times a year.

But unexpectedly, the hero saw the same thing, and Wang Zihao happened to know Chamengdao, and he also went there in person to see his dusty face now. He probably suffered a lot along the way, and the excitement just now and the frustration now formed a strong contrast, which made Li Yan feel a little unbearable.

"Zihao, you father and daughter are really in tune with each other. She sent someone to find Chameng Dao from the south. But you, a father, are one step late than your daughter!" Li Yan said with a smile.

Well, in fact, Li Yan was lying. As a foodie in his previous life, he had known the name of Chameng rice for a long time, so in order to solve the agricultural problem, he was the first to think of this kind of good-bred rice. However, in order not to dampen Wang Zihao's enthusiasm, he pushed this credit to Xijun. After all, the first discoverer was Wang Zihao's biological daughter. Although he would be a little disappointed as a father, I believe he would feel more relieved, not to mention that he has always loved his only daughter the most.

Sure enough, Wang Zihao's face immediately improved when he heard that the rice seeds were discovered by his daughter. However, other people felt even more interesting when they heard that there were such a coincidence, and they also learned in detail about the advantages of rice champa. When they heard that it could be ripened twice or even three times a year, they were also very shocked. Although their family is now mainly industrial and commercial, the importance of food has long been imprinted into the bones of every Han person, so they also attach great importance to feeding more food.

Since Wang Zihao had brought Chameng rice, Li Yan no longer concealed it and told him about his preparations for promoting Chameng rice in the south. Everything was ready. After reporting it to Li Shimin, he would issue an order to formally promote it through the court.

When Wang An next to him nodded and smiled. Compared with the three strategies he offered, improving rice seeds did take effect quickly and was not easily rejected by the people. Cheng Huailiang and the others were also very impressed, but the promotion of this kind of rice is still indispensable. After all, if such a thing is promoted by compulsory means, it may be counterproductive, so the topic quickly turned to the new thing that Li Yan thought of before.

Li Yan smiled but said nothing and turned to Yan Bei. He was stolen by Li Yong just now. Now seeing everyone looking at him, Yan Bei immediately stood up and shouted loudly: "Brothers, I believe you all know many relatives and friends who are good at writing. Everyone can ask them to sign up for me. As long as they can pass the test, they can work in the newly opened newspaper. Not only does the work be easy, but the treatment is generous. Brothers are welcome to actively recommend it!"

When Yan Bei said that the rise of the news, he simply launched a recruitment advertisement on the spot. Li Yan had actually wanted to do something about running a newspaper. Newspapers can not only allow information to flow quickly, but also use the newspaper as a public opinion tool to truly influence the public opinion orientation of the Tang Dynasty society. This is also a function that Li Yan values ​​the most.

Speaking of the influence of the five surnames and seven hopes, almost every class is controlled by them from the court to the peddlers and pawns. In addition, these aristocratic families have inherited their poetry and books. Nearly half of the scholastic families have the greatest influence on public opinion, are from these aristocratic families. Therefore, if they want to do something, as long as they exert their own influence, they can easily turn public opinion into a favorable side, and then use this public opinion momentum to put pressure on the court to achieve their own goals.

In order to reduce the other party's influence and increase his own grasp of public opinion, Li Yan's first thought was the powerful weapon of newspaper. However, if you want to run a newspaper, there are two problems that need to be solved, one is printing technology, and the other is cheap paper.

In fact, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, engraving printing had already appeared, but it was mainly used for printing Buddhist scriptures. Most other books still had to be copied manually. Since Li Yan wanted to run a newspaper, let alone copying it by humans, it would not work even if it was printed with engraving. One reason was the cost was high, and the other was the slow speed, so it had to be printed with movable type. Originally, Li Yan felt that this thing was quite simple, it was just sawing the engraving into individual characters, and then rearranged it when used.

However, after he had someone experimented, he realized that it was not the case at all. Ordinary wood type movable is very easy to deform, and after using it a few times, it could not be used anymore. So Li Yan thought of clay movable type again. As a result, the craftsman told him that clay movable type looks simple, but the technology is more complicated. In desperation, Li Yan had to turn to metal type movable type. Iron easily rust. The first thing was to eliminate it. Lead and copper are good materials, but one is more expensive than the other. In the end, Li Yan was very determined and made a set of movable type with copper. As for lead, because the output is relatively small and the price is too high, it is not applicable at all.

However, not long after his copper movable type was made, the craftsmen in Dengzhou Academy of Sciences improved the wooden movable type, selected wood with dense texture, and then specially treated it, 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 with money.

After the printing technology was solved, only paper was left. Due to the limitations of papermaking, the price of paper in the Tang Dynasty was not low, especially those with better quality paper, which was not affordable for ordinary people. When Li Shimin rewarded the prince, he often rewarded some paper, one for encouraging learning, and the other for indicating the preciousness of paper. However, these papers were used by Li Yan as toilet paper. After all, he really couldn't use the toilet chips used by the Tang people.

Of course, there are also cheaper papers, but the quality of these papers is really poor, and they may fall apart when picked up and break them. They can only be used for daily practice. Although the paper used in newspapers does not require high quality, it must at least be thin and foldable, and the lower the cost, the better.

Originally, Li Yan wanted to find someone to study it himself, but later he was reminded that many people in the Patent Office had registered paper patents, and maybe there were technology needed by Li Yan. Now Li Yan suddenly realized and hurriedly wrote a letter to Li Yifu. Sure enough, there were indeed many papermaking patents in the Patent Office, and the papermaking technology that Li Yan needed was registered by a paper master. However, he had no money and no one, and the price was relatively high, so he had never adopted it. Li Yan didn't care about the price, so he immediately sold the patent through Li Yifu, and then after the improvement of the craftsmen in his hand, he quickly produced good paper paper.

The problems of printing and paper have been solved, and only people are left to run newspapers. This is the best solution. It is difficult to find talents who can do things, but talents who can write articles are everywhere. Of course, this is only compared to Li Yan. After all, with his current appeal, it is really not difficult to find people with good writing skills.

When doing big things like newspapers, you can't hide them from Yanbei and Yan's chief minister. Although Yanbei likes to do business, he always regards himself as a literati and always wants to do something that literati should do. Therefore, when he encounters a literary event like running a newspaper, he naturally takes the initiative. With his own talent and learning, he has taken on the role of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper.

When Cheng Huailiang and the others heard the newspaper that Yanbei mentioned, they were a little confused at first. After Yanbei was quick to speak out the operation of the newspaper and the functions they held, everyone's eyes lit up. Some people with sharp eyes could see the deepest intention of Li Yan in running the newspaper. With the newspaper, they were equivalent to having weapons head-on confrontation with the Five Seven Wangs. In addition to their advantages in the court and other aspects, it was simply a dream to suppress industry and commerce.

Recognizing the role of the newspaper, Cheng Huailiang and Li Jingye immediately became active one by one. After returning, they recommended the people they could think of one by one. In order to select suitable talents from these people, Yan Bei was almost exhausted. Fortunately, Li Ke also showed great interest in this newspaper. He actually put down his figure and went to help pick people, and even wrote and commented on the articles himself.

After a period of intense preparation, Yanbei finally gathered all the people, and the first newspaper in Datang was finally listed and opened. The sign was written by Li Yan and Li Ke and asked Li Shimin to write it by himself. The name was "Da Tang Daily". At the same time as the newspaper opened, Da Tang Daily also began to be sold on the market, and newspapers, the emerging information carrier, finally officially entered the stage of history.

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Chapter completed!