The Spring Festival has passed in the bustling atmosphere. In the traditional Chinese New Year, many foreigners in Baotou have also participated in this strong New Year Festival. To be honest, Baotou's development is changing with each passing day. For foreigners like them, the salary is also quite high. Last year, some people felt that Baotou was inconvenient in all aspects. This year, with a series of measures, especially more and more foreigners, food and goods from all parties can be bought in Baotou, which is not much different from other places. Many foreigners themselves are wandering around, and to a certain extent, they are not.

The Spring Festival has passed, but Yang Yuanzhao has not had much rest. More and more things, including research projects and materials laboratories, have not greatly promoted the emergence of various new machines, but the transformation of the original machines and the application of various materials, over time, when the quantity reaches a certain level, the results will naturally appear. Now, one or two materials will appear almost every other week. Of course, most of them are not suitable for use now. These are retained by Yang Yuanzhao as technical reserves. In the future, with the investment of vehicles and even aircraft cannons, the materials required are almost infinite.

In the past month, in addition to focusing on research, more attention has been focusing on urban operation. The emergence of urban management has, to a certain extent, managed the city from the surface. In a sense, urban management is a complex, almost including later police and urban management, and some sanitation and trivial matters have been handed over to them, with a team of more than 2,000 people. In a megacity of 1 million people, it almost disappeared after being scattered. If the workers had not had factories to help manage, there might have been chaos.

Yang Yuanzhao carefully recalled the cities in later generations. To be honest, he was not an official, and he followed the team all day long and ran around with various competitions. He knew that urban management was still because of the combat effectiveness of urban management. The others were probably public security, procuratorial and judicial, fire protection, industrial and commercial taxation. I really knew not much. What the management of a city requires is a coordinated and precise management, and any omission will cause certain consequences. Health and basic urban management must be done first, which reduces the possibility of infectious diseases to the lowest level, and the rest is to slowly adjust.

A thick book with the things that Yang Yuanzhao thought of related to urban management, and agriculture does not need to be considered. Baoken Company has replaced the agricultural aspects of later generations. As for industry, there is also a Baotou Chamber of Commerce management. Engineering companies coordinate urban construction and planning. Although they should be listed separately, the more important things have not been completely solved, so we can only do this first.

It seemed that there was still some missing something. What was it? After flipping through the thick notebook and reading it bit by bit, Yang Yuanzhao seemed to be unable to find the key to the problem. Suddenly, he turned to a page and finally thought about why the worry in his heart was.

Because Yang Yuanzhao suddenly discovered that the city that had been developing for more than a year had lost one thing, newspapers, or to be precise, propaganda. Although there were some newspapers similar to government documents in some large factories and mines in Baotou, it had little influence and did not play a role in guiding public opinion. Yang Yuanzhao, who had the experience of later generations, knew very well how important newspapers and magazines, including later TV news, were to guide public opinion, and salary and work could only play a certain role, while public opinion, spiritual things like weak power can be integrated into a rope, and at some point, they can exert unparalleled power.

Baotou is now different from other cities in China. To a certain extent, the number of workers has an absolute advantage. In cities with more than one million, workers account for almost 20 to 30%. The workers' families add up together, accounting for 70 to 80% of the entire Baotou population. Even if there are the remaining ones, they are tertiary industries that serve workers, such as hotels, and other service industries.

Yang Yuanzhao started to develop in Baotou, and did not require high shares or more interests. However, the only requirement was to let workers learn to read. Although it was difficult at the beginning, only one of the ones and two hundred people had a foundation, which met the indicators, which made many workers a little discouraged. However, with the emergence of Baotou technician standards and wage quotas, the greater attraction and interests, the workers in Baotou began to grit their teeth and learn to read, and more and more workers were literate.

Baotou has never ignored the education of workers. To a certain extent, the reward of 15 kilograms of white flour per month has never been less. Compared with the overall salary, the reward of 15 kilograms of white flour is not much. Knowledge and literacy have always been the key to improving the level of technicians. The basic qualities of all aspects are also the key to improving the level of technicians. If the technicians are upgraded to a higher level, they will get higher wages. Now, those who have recorded the record of Baotou, with more than 500 words of characters, get 15 kilograms of white flour, and have 210,000 people who have obtained 15 kilograms of white flour. The monthly expenditure is a considerable number. There are 120,000 people who have mastered about 2,000 Chinese characters and are basically separated from the illiteracy standard. This number is definitely the best in China.

Such a large literate crowd, but none of them have a wide influence on newspapers. To a certain extent, it was Yang Yuanzhao's mistake. He forgot this, and forgot that there was no outdated public opinion position in the early 20th century, even a century later.

The field of propaganda is a very virtual field, and this field cannot be ignored. Public opinion orientation is highly valued in later generations. What's more, in this era of ideas and thoughts, if Baotou wants to develop, stability is the overwhelming prerequisite. It cannot control the means of public opinion in its hands. To a certain extent, it may be sitting on the crater.

Unfortunately, although Baotou is large and Baoken Company is one of the controls of Baotou, its affiliation of Baotou still belongs to the Qing Dynasty. This is a difficult problem. The previous urban management team was just an attempt, doing very well, and did not cause huge fluctuations. The newspaper seemed to be OK. In this way, Yang Yuanzhao slapped his head and transferred a large number from the Baotou factory and the more famous pens, and directly responsible to the shareholders' meeting of the Baotou Chamber of Commerce. The Baotou Chamber of Commerce will allocate 200,000 yuan every year to start the newspaper.

200,000, in this era, it is definitely not a small amount of money. The arms of a cooperative, plus artillery, that is, this is the number. This is still imported from the comprador of the foreign company. If 200,000 is replaced with white flour, it will be enough for tens of thousands of people to eat for a year and devote all to the newspaper. Most of the pens transferred from it are not known what the newspaper is.

Yang Yuanzhao had no idea. After thinking about it, they were allowed to play their own way, but one thing must be grasped, and to promote positive forces as much as possible, educate them as much as possible, and finally collectively, and even family thoughts, expose some bad habits and praise some activities of bravery. Of course, more things that citizens like, such as Baotou products, have created several domestic firsts, or even the world firsts, and have introduced some well-known entrepreneurs or enlightened gentlemen and landlords.

In this way, a simple newspaper was finally completed under Yang Yuanzhao's forced implementation, and the most advanced printing machinery that China can buy, as well as newspaper papers from all-in-one machines. Although there is a limit on the quantity, only about 50,000 copies per issue, it is much better than other newspapers that are still budding in this era, and even newspapers that have been published. Various factories are the first batch of subscribers, and then they have certain contacts with Baotou Chambers, landlords and wealthy businessmen, newly established urban management and hospitals, and the first batch of subscribers. All of these have obtained 5,000 orders for each issue, successfully laying a good foundation for the distribution of newspapers.

Next, Baotou Weekly Newspaper began to be published. The weekly weekly newspapers are published in one week, with eight large newspapers, and small words on them record a lot of news, including some important news at home and abroad, as well as things happening around Baotou, such as a factory opening, and a certain road being renovated.

The tentacles of Shanxi merchants are always so keen. The sales volume of tens of thousands of yuan made them see the power of newspapers. The first advertisement appeared in the second issue. This was a local food company, which was advertised for citizens. It was also their new products. Unexpectedly, it was launched in one shot and sold out in just three days. This made other businesses see the trick. The advertisements on the newspaper began to appear. At first, it was just a crack, and then it turned into a supplement. Yang Yuanzhao from later generations knew very well the power of advertisements with newspapers. In this era, he did not intend to make a free newspaper, but with the help of advertisements, it could still be done to reduce the cost of newspapers and maximize the expansion of influence.

It is precisely because of a large number of advertisements that the price of newspapers has changed from 10 copper coins to 7, and then it has been reduced to 5. In the end, it is simply 2 copper coins. Baotou has a higher price, and a sesame cake costs 5 copper coins. It takes a good meal. A large bowl of noodles and sesame cakes costs at least 2 cents. 2 copper coins. For Baotou, it is nothing. Even some savings can buy a newspaper. After dinner, it can be regarded as learning about some interesting things in Baotou and other places.

It was with the support of two parties. After half a month, Baotou Weekly Report changed from once a week to three times a week. After three months, it simply became Baotou Daily. With a huge city of millions, the coverage of Baotou Daily has reached an astonishing 15%, which is 150,000 copies. It has expanded through developed transportation and convenient business roads, becoming another means of Baotou's expansion. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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