This newspaper is a bit like a notice from the Tang Dynasty, but any government notice from the Tang Dynasty would be very slow to pass to various prefectures and counties in the Tang Dynasty. In fact, many ordinary people do not understand it and will not explain the entire notice.

But things like this will not be explained to ordinary people at all, but the newspaper of the Han Dynasty means that it explains a lot of the behavior of the court to everyone in the Han Dynasty, which means that if the Han Dynasty's court does anything, they will publish it in this newspaper, the people of the world will know it.

This means that the emperor's voice can reach any place in the entire ruling area, and there will be no situation where the emperor is far away. Moreover, there will be many things explained in this newspaper, not only limited to the imperial decrees, but also the court's plans for the future and some things to promote.

For example, the Han Dynasty’s explanation of the marriage law means that these things can be spread to the people of the world in an instant. If Li Shimin had this thing, there were many things that Li Shimin would not have to be afraid of those aristocratic families, because he could directly tell these people his orders.

This thing contains Huo Gang's private seal, which means that this represents what Huo Gang said. The people naturally believe in such words. Then those aristocratic families will never be able to do anything to deceive the local people.

Will there be such a thing? Of course, there will be, Wei Zheng has been in Chang'an all the time, but he is very clear that in some remote areas, the imperial court's decrees cannot be met at all. Even if some local officials have obtained the imperial court's decrees, if these decrees are not good for them, they can pretend to ignore them.

Even if the court pursued the matter in the later period, they had countless reasons to shirk it, but with newspapers, such things would not happen. Of course, the newspapers had to spread to the local area.

However, after the government order was sent, no one could see the local officials, but after the newspaper was sent, it was impossible for no one to see it.

Moreover, Wei Zheng also sensitively captured the real role of this newspaper, which was a huge propaganda force. For example, last year, Li Shimin went to the Western Regions to provide relief to the victims. Such news was like Jiangnan when he learned the news.

But if there is a newspaper that promotes it in advance, such news will be known to the whole world in an instant. And most importantly, it can guide the people's thoughts and not let the people believe some rumors. Wei Zheng is very clear that many peasant uprisings in history are also related to these.

Huo Gang... is really a genius. I don't know where he has so many ways. Of course, there is another reason, that is, the great man has such paper printing technology. After Wei Zheng came here, he had heard that Huo Gang had done a business with the five surnames Qiwang last year and sold a lot of books to the five surnames Qiwang.

Those books can be said to be sold at very terrifying prices, but now, from this selling price, we know that the prices Huo Gang sold must have bargaining prices.

However, it is estimated that the five surnames Qi Wang would not be able to cause trouble. Besides, there is still a difference between books and this newspaper.

This newspaper has a great effect. It can be seen from the newspaper boys running around. It is estimated that the great men have printed at least thousands of copies, and not only in Yumen Pass, but also in other cities.

However, this newspaper is good at everything, but it has one disadvantage, or the shortcomings of the entire man, that is, why do they always like so much nonsense when writing articles? It is obvious that something can be explained clearly with a few words, and they have to make a long and nonsense whole.

According to Wei Zheng's opinion, this entire newspaper only takes about one-third of its space to finish everything.

Of course, after the complaint was over, he understood why Huo Gang wanted to do this, because the reason for writing this way was that everyone could understand it. If he finished writing one-third of the article as he said he wanted, then there would probably not be many people who could understand it.

After all, to see such an article, it requires a certain degree of literary literacy, and not everyone can understand it.

But Wei Zheng didn't know very well what the reason Huo Gang did this. Is it meaningful for these ordinary people to let them know about this? If they don't know, wouldn't it be easier to manage?

But Wei Zheng actually knew about the activities of literacy in the Han Dynasty. To be honest, Wei Zheng thought this was unreliable at first. If it was so simple to read, it would not be so difficult to read from ancient times to the present.

But after one winter, Wei Zheng had thoroughly understood, he was somewhat amazed to find that the literacy of the great man was really successful! Please allow Wei Zheng to swear in this place, because this is really hard to imagine for Wei Zheng!

Can you imagine that everyone in a country can read? At least Wei Zheng didn't dare to think about it, but the great man actually did it.

Of course, what they said about literacy means real literacy, unlike what Wei Zheng thought, when they were literate, they could actually read. However, these ordinary people in the Han Dynasty were actually literate, but they could only understand popular words. For example, the articles written by Wei Zheng and others, those ordinary people actually couldn't understand them.

But is this important? This is not important. You should know that the role of popularizing words is really amazing. If Huo Gang was not the leader of the Han Dynasty, but a Tang Dynasty man, it would be no exaggeration to make this contribution. Huo Gang could become a saint.

Really, Wei Zheng carefully studied the reason why the Han Dynasty could remember so many words so quickly. Later, Wei Zheng finally figured out one thing, that is, the pinyin. These weird things called letters simplified the process of literacy. To be precise, there were only twenty-six letters written by Huo Gang in total, and the initials and finals.

Because its number is much lower than the number of Chinese characters, it is difficult to remember thousands of Chinese characters at once, but it is naturally much simpler to remember these dozens of letters. Then relying on these letters, you can say that all the pronunciations of unfamiliar Chinese characters are marked.

This means that even if everyone encounters Chinese characters they don’t know, they can read them if they have pinyin and pronunciation.

Then these people have a certain ability to self-study, and all literacy people are adults. As long as they learn the pronunciation of these Chinese characters and verify them with their daily words, the process of literacy will naturally be accelerated.

Of course, these reasons alone are not enough. Wei Zheng also discovered another reason, that is, it is related to the salary system of the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty provided these people with too many profitable jobs, and these jobs allowed these people to earn enough funds to subsidize their families even in winter.

However, if you want to work, you must learn to read, because many jobs are required to learn to read. In this way, for ordinary people, they will have the motivation to learn to read.

Wei Zheng knew very well what it means to make money for ordinary people. To buy food to support their families. In order to survive, many people dared to kill. What's the point of being able to read?

What's more, how many people can't even do it if they want to do it. Now their leaders let them read and read for free. What are they not satisfied with?

This creates a virtuous cycle. In order to find a job better, these people naturally have to work hard to read, and when they work hard to read, they will have better jobs.

Not only the jobs of these great men, but also the great men they hired after the merchants from other places came to the great men, they were naturally willing to have literate men, because literate men can help many times without having to find people specifically.

Now after seeing this newspaper, Wei Zheng understood that after these newspapers came out, they could understand the articles written in such a nearly vernacular way, even ordinary people could read them as long as they could read them.

As long as they can understand it, they will know what their leader wants to say. This means that Huo Gang has established an effective communication method with the people of the world, so that the people of the world can know what he is saying. This is very important!

If Li Shimin could do this, Li Shimin could inspire the people of the world, then will the aristocratic families still dare to do the same as before? Impossible! If they dared, they would not even need Li Shimin to take action. These people alone could turn these aristocratic families into ruins.

Li Shimin knew what the foundation of the world was, and Wei Zheng naturally knew it.

And do the power of those aristocratic families also come from the people?

However, Wei Zheng also knew that it was too difficult for the Tang Dynasty to do this. Not to mention anything else, it was not an easy thing to just send this newspaper to every prefecture and county in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was much bigger than the Han Dynasty.

I just don’t know if there is any new way for the Han Dynasty to come.

But even if it doesn't exist, the Tang Dynasty can still copy this matter, even if it is transmitted to several places near Chang'an, it means that Li Shimin's control is strengthened.

The people can see, hear and understand the emperor's words. This is a very important thing.

But... the people of the Tang Dynasty did not have so many literate people!

Wizard! Wei Zheng put down the newspaper in his hand with some emotion and thought for a moment. He handed the newspaper in his hand to his entourage: "Please pack this newspaper carefully and then go out to inquire. Does this Dahan Monthly News mean that a new newspaper will be released every month?"

"If so, we will prepare to return to Chang'an after the newspaper is released next month." Wei Zheng said, "It's time for us to go back."

"yes!"
Chapter completed!