Chapter 124 The Influence of Vernacular Periodicals
The first issue of the Jiangdong Military Journal, the printing workshop was printed day and night, and it was soon completed with thousands of volumes. Then the martial arts lecture hall and the training hall. Everyone in Wujun's civil servants and military generals handed over a book and soon distributed it. The others could only be printed slowly. The far-reaching ones may take half a year to see this journal. Moreover, Sun Quan felt that the cost of publishing one issue per month would be very high, but the output of his gold ore is good now, so he can still afford it.
After the civil officials received this journal, they exploded collectively: "The military man actually published a book?" "It was written in vernacular language?" "This is a rough man who can understand it!" "It's degenerate!" "I can't even understand this world, heaven, Saint Kong, do you just ignore it?" "This is simply a blasphemy to the saint!" "What article is just a bunch of shit!"...
Of course, no one has conducted demonstrations in this era, but petitions are still possible, so many people ran to the Wuhou Mansion to petition. Li Sheng immediately discovered this and came to Sun Quan to report. After hearing this, Sun Quan also said it was difficult to deal with it. Many of the people here are from major families, and some are scholars from the little gentry. Sun Quan explained to his talented ministers before the issuance, and now many ministers continue to study and will not cause trouble.
However, there are still some scholars among the people. Usually they don’t come to do anything for the country and the people. At this time, they emerged. After a morning, these people did not disperse and gathered hundreds of people. Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu, the two representatives, came to find Sun Quan. Of course, Pang Tong, as the editor-in-chief, must be here, let’s discuss how to deal with these people together.
Sun Quan looked at Pang Tong and said, "Little Phoenix, you can talk first, you have always reacted faster!"
Pang Tong thought for a while and said, "Lord, Prime Minister, Prime Minister, Prime Minister, I suggest that the Prime Minister and Chen Lin come forward together to convince them and let them understand the purpose of this move."
Sun Quan asked: "Is there any problem with Mr. Kong Zhang? Have you talked to him?"
Pang Tong scratched his head and said, "Please accept it!"
"Then how do you know he can stand out at this time? Teacher, tell me."
"Lord, I suggest that you arrange someone to convince them first, and then if you don't work, drive them away."
Zhou Yu felt it was too troublesome after hearing this and said, "Lord, I think it's better to send someone to catch them in the martial arts lecture hall and let our staff in the staff department have a good exchange with them, and then they will naturally understand."
Zhang Zhao disagreed with this and said, "Lord, although Gongjin's method is quick, it will make people feel that the lord despise literati and is not conducive to the lord recruiting talents. The world is so big, the lord still needs more talents."
"Is the teacher confident that he can convince them to disperse?"
"I have already told them before coming in, but only a few people left, and many of the remaining scholars were old scholars, and I couldn't speak." Zhang Zhao had no choice but to say the truth.
"Then let's do what Gongjin said." Sun Quan was also annoyed by the quarrel and surrounded his house. Then he arranged for: "Li Sheng, arrange for people to catch them all in the martial arts hall, and let the staff in the staff department teach you and them well. Then arrange some food for them so that no one can cause death." "Nian Nujiao, you send a message to Yang Ping, and ask his arrange for people to keep an eye on those who are causing trouble, cooperate with the guards and the police, and send them to the martial arts hall if they come to petition."
Sun Quan thought that this should be seen by more ordinary people. Now his Jiangdong military journal was originally a mid-military journal. If his ministers saw it, they would pass it on to others. Now there is no confidentiality, and this is not a technical thing. It only promotes the achievements and deeds of some soldiers, which can be made public to the whole society.
He said to everyone again: "Now our Jiangdong Army journal is full of wind and rain. Many ministers must have made it difficult to directly express anything to others. Since that's the case, let's make it public. If you build a reading library in the city and put our journal in it, everyone can read it, of course you can't take it back. What do you think?"
After hearing this, Zhang Zhao retorted: "I think it's not good. In this way, ordinary businessmen can go to study with scholars? Then scholars are completely mixed with mud legs. Lord, this will make scholars in the world free from their abilities."
Zhou Yu basically agreed with this and said, "Lord, I think this is unnecessary. Now all the people who cause trouble have been arrested. If this happens, one wave of the wave has not yet been settled and another wave of the wave has started, we will build a new capital and reorganize it. At this time, we should try our best to maintain stability, which will help us carry out two major events."
"But showing this Jiangdong Army journal to the people can increase their understanding of our army and provide a good foundation for our future expansion. The people will naturally support us even more when they know the power of our army." Sun Quan said.
When Pang Tong saw Sun Quan's words, he said, "I suggest that you can make some changes. We just need to ask our staff and the Propaganda Department to arrange some people to promote it. We don't have to give our Jiangdong Army journals to everyone for reading."
Seeing that Pang Tong's opinion was a compromise, Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu expressed no objection, so they had no objection. Sun Quan had to adopt Pang Tong's method first. However, when he thought of the storytellers in later generations, he had an idea. He called Yang Ping over and asked him to find some people to train them as storytellers, and then told the stories in Jiangdong Army journals in restaurants and teahouses. These people also had part of the responsibilities of the Jinyiwei, which was also a propaganda method. In addition, they could also set up a platform to tell stories in some places with large crowds or some residential areas.
Soon, the profession of Wujun's storytelling became popular. At first, it was people arranged by the Jinyiwei to talk about it. But gradually, many people found that everyone was happy to listen to it and would give a lot of money, at least they had no worries about food and clothing. So some poor scholars began to learn to do this business. They were more willing to tell the story than farming, so they copied all the stories of the Jiangdong Army journals told by these storytellers, and then found a place to tell the storytelling themselves. Some people went to places outside Jiangdong to tell the storytelling. In this way, even if the storytelling industry emerged, it was something Sun Quan did not expect.
At the same time, the establishment of the Propaganda Department was also completed. Chen Lin was the minister, but many of the following propaganda work was done by those in the staff system who were transferred from the military. The main thing left for Chen Lin was to do journals and write articles. Of course, Sun Quan decided to give the journals to Jiangdong journals, which were no longer just military, but were targeted at the national level, and there would be more articles and content. However, due to the font size and paper issues, the content of this journal will be very limited, but it is already very rare. If there is too much content, it will be too late to print.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!