Fang Nan just took a look and let go of Han Lin's army to repel 200,000 Japanese pirates and the Jianzhou Jurchens. Fang Nan had enough confidence in the strength of the People's Army.

Because of the war between the People's Army and the Ming court, the Ming army was very strong in the middle, and the proportion of firearm troops was almost one of the highest troops in the world at this time. Even if the same number of troops from Western countries were thrown on the battlefield with the army led by Li Chengliang, the chance of Li Chengliang's army winning the battle was even higher.

The Ming army with such strength was defeated by the People's Army. At least in land warfare, no enemy could defeat the People's Army.

At most, it is to charge a cavalry cluster on plain terrain, and the People's Army can also use muskets to repel it. However, it is difficult to defeat the cavalry. The cavalry is highly mobile and the infantry cannot catch up at all. As the People's Army forms more lancer divisions, this defect of the People's Army is being quickly compensated.

The Jianzhou Jurchens are not the opponent of the People's Army, and the Japanese pirates are not the opponent of the People's Army. Since they dare to attack the People's Army, they are the enemies and even enemies of the People's Army. One day the People's Army will take revenge.

In Fang Nan's eyes, the Jianzhou Jurchens and the Japanese pirates were both targets of destruction.

After turning to the war in Liaodong, Fang Nan continued to think about another thing that had always made him hesitate. After thinking about things for several days, Fang Nan was about to make a decision soon, and this matter was related to the newspaper.

Newspapers are printed publications that are regularly distributed to the public by publishing news and current affairs comments, and have the function of reflecting and guiding social public opinion.

Fang Nan had long thought about letting the People's Army publish newspapers so that it would be easier for the people under his rule to understand the latest policies of the People's Military Government. The People's Army could also use newspapers to guide public opinion. However, due to the high illiteracy rate, Fang Nan delayed the issue of newspapers again and again.

Newspapers or things similar to newspapers appeared in this world very early on.

"Dibao" is the earliest newspaper on the land of China. "Di" originally refers to the residence of officials who obeyed the capital in ancient times, and appeared in the Warring States Period.

Yan Shigu said: "The county and state stay in the residence, and those who are in the capital lead their famous residences. The residences are here, and they say they are here."

"Di" later became an office for local officials stationed in Beijing, and was established to convey information. Therefore, it was known as "Dibao". "Dibao" is also known as "Dibao", and is also known as "Dibao", "Tiaobao" and "miscellaneous newspaper". It is an announcement news used for notification, specifically used for documents and political information that the court informs the government affairs, and is a news copy.

The counties and states in the Han Dynasty and the vassal states in the Tang Dynasty all set up "departments" in the capital, with their main function being to convey government affairs. All the emperor's decrees, memorials of ministers, appointments, removals and relocations of relevant officials are all contents that the officials need to collect and copy.

"Dibao" was originally copied by the court, and later posted it at the palace gate and copied by the public, so it is also called "Palace Gate Copy" and "Yuanmen Copy". This is actually the earliest way of publishing news.

The "Kaiyuan Zabao" in the Tang Dynasty was a document published during the Kaiyuan period. The newspaper was printed in woodblocks and was not of high quality. There was no registration in itself. Because the year number was issued during the Kaiyuan period, later generations called it "Kaiyuan Zabao".

There were many newspaper names in the Song Dynasty, including "Dibao", "Dibao", "Dibao", "Jingyuan's Letter", "Chebao" and so on. "Dibao" is the most common name, mainly to refer to the emperor's edicts, daily life, words and deeds, laws of the central government, communiqué, news of officials' titles and rewards, and memorials and documents of ministers.

The release of di newspapers must be strictly controlled by the central government. Most of the di newspapers in the Song Dynasty were hand-written, and the book "Hailing Collection·On the Banned Tabulation" by Zhou Linzhi of the Song Dynasty has a related description.

In the Song Dynasty, profit-making merchants who specially copied diary newspapers for sale appeared. In order to save trouble, officials were happy to spend some money to buy them. Perhaps later, because they could buy them at a cost of money, there was no need to copy them again. The release time of the Song Dynasty's "Dibao" tended to be fixed.

Even the Ming court established a Tongzheng Department, which specializes in publishing "Dibao", to specialize in managing the publication and distribution of "Dibao".

This is in the land of China. Outside the land of China, 1,600 years ago, the ancient Roman politician Caesar wrote events in the city of Rome and the country on a white wooden board and told the citizens that this is probably the oldest newspaper in the West.

More than a hundred years ago, the German Gutenberg invented the metal movable type printing technology, so the printed newspapers began to be distributed. Decades later, the news of Columbus' sailing was published in the newspapers issued in Rome, but the newspapers at that time were only released when a major and eye-catching event occurred.

If history has not changed, it is expected that it will take more than ten years for regular newspapers to appear. However, now, Fang Nan is ready to publish newspapers after the establishment of the Xia Kingdom. If there is no problem, it can start publishing next year.

Fang Nan has been postponing the issuance of newspapers, mainly because the illiteracy rate is too high. Even if the newspaper is distributed, only those who are literate will buy it. There are only so many people who are literate in the Xia Kingdom. Even if newspapers are distributed, the influence of newspapers cannot reach the level that Fang Nan wants.

Secondly, the income of the people is that newspapers cannot be distributed for free. The price of a newspaper will not be too high but not too low. Due to transportation problems, a national newspaper must be issued at least once every ten days, only three times a month. Farmers can afford newspapers, but farmers who are willing to spend money to buy newspapers will not be much.

While thinking, Fang Nan turned his attention to the students who were receiving education in primary schools, and there was still one month to achieve the result. This year is the first year of the Xia Li calendar, and the year after that, in the early January of the third year of the Xia Li calendar (the solar calendar), all students of this class will graduate, and some of the graduates will go to newly established primary schools across the country to serve as teachers.

At this time, the number of primary schools will cover all provinces, cities, counties and a small half of rural areas in Xia State.

Mainly in the countryside, literate teachers are here. Each village only needs to buy a newspaper regularly, and the teacher will explain the contents in the newspaper to the villagers.

In this way, the influence of newspapers will be greatly increased, and it is affordable to buy a newspaper in a village.

Imagine that the army expanded territory for the Xia Kingdom, and the newly occupied land needed to be developed. The Xia Government could publish news about immigration in newspapers and write down the benefits of immigrating to the new land, such as 100 acres of land per household, built houses, cement roads have been repaired, and each household has allocated a plowing ox.

When ordinary people see, they can get so much stuff by immigrating in the past, and their income is several times that of now. Many people must be moved to immigrate.
Chapter completed!