Newspapers can not only be used for propaganda, but also are an important weapon used to educate the people and guide the direction of public opinion.
Even in this era, when the power of public opinion has not yet been revealed, those officials have already seen the power of public opinion.
Under the thumb of thousands of people, even an upright official can be labeled as a corrupt official.
On the other hand, if a corrupt official tries his best to disguise himself as a good official and fools the people, he will also make others think that he is a good official.
From here we can see how powerful public opinion is, and being able to master public opinion is equivalent to mastering a weapon that can kill people and kill people.
However, Zhao Feng did not intend to use this weapon lightly, but planned to wait until later.
Now newspapers can only be found in Huaigu Fucheng and the capital. Only by spreading newspapers to the whole world can the power of this weapon be maximized.
Before that, the newspaper was like a little sheep. When the scale of the newspaper reaches a certain level, those people will find that the newspaper will suddenly transform into a big bad wolf.
Newspapers have been promoting the New Deal these days. People and officials saw the promulgation of the New Deal, and there were articles in the newspapers praising the New Deal and giving a comprehensive explanation. The implementation of the New Deal was also Everyone is happy to see the results.
The new policy promulgated by Zhao Feng only targets these aspects, but these things are the lowest level of preparation. If these things are not done well, other subsequent reforms will not be successful.
Since Zhao Feng was the one who formulated these new policies, he suddenly became a celebrity in the entire court.
Whether inside the Zhongshu Provincial Yamen or outside, there were many people greeting Zhao Feng with smiles, especially those from the four major families, who went to great lengths to win over Zhao Feng.
But Zhao Feng's reaction to these people was exactly the same, that is, he was friendly on the surface but had no contact with them secretly.
In the process, Zhao Feng obtained a piece of land specially allocated by the imperial court in Qingshui County, not far from the capital.
Returning to Qingshui County again, Zhao Feng still remembered the first time he came here to help the Shen family find the lost fabric.
At that time, the county magistrate here was still obstructing it in every possible way, but that magistrate has since been replaced.
When the new county magistrate saw Zhao Feng bringing people to inspect the site, he was more respectful to Zhao Feng than to his own father.
This is not only because Zhao Feng is a Beijing official, but also because Zhao Feng's official position is very special.
Zhao Feng had already inspected it, directly transferred cement, and started construction here. The construction and structure of the entire college were all designed by Zhao Feng.
The layout of this college must follow a scientific layout structure. Only in this way can students concentrate on learning knowledge in this college.
Zhao Feng's work suddenly became even busier. In addition to supervising the construction progress of the college, he also had to deal with some of his own work and compile teaching materials for the college.
Those people from the four major families only asked where the college was located and what the admission conditions were, but no one ever cared about what knowledge this college would teach these students.
Perhaps in the eyes of people from the four major families, all the academy can teach is nothing more than some Confucian classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics.
But if they really come and take a look at these teaching materials, they will find that they are so wrong.
Zhao Feng is the honorary vice president of this college, and the president of this college is Zhong Shuling.
Zhongshu Ling very much agreed with the reforms proposed by Zhao Feng. Only the minister of Zhongshu dismissed the reforms proposed by Zhao Feng. Every time he saw Zhao Feng, he would make some sarcastic remarks.
Zhao Feng didn't bother to talk to him. After all, he still had many important things to do, so why bother with someone who didn't understand anything?
In addition to these things, Zhao Feng also has a more important thing, which is to prepare for foreign trade.
The Great Zhou Dynasty and the Huns had been at war for many years, and this time, because the armies of the Great Zhou Dynasty used the weapons made by Zhao Feng and with the help of bandit tactics, they directly pushed back the Huns. .
On the contrary, the border has become peaceful, and there will be no more wars for a while.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhao Feng secretly carried out commercial relations between the Zhou Dynasty and the Xiongnu. In addition to the Xiongnu, there were also other countries that were in contact with Zhao Feng.
In addition to selling some fabrics and edible salt to these countries, Zhao Feng also sells paper and books the most.
If it were just the Four Books and Five Classics, these countries would certainly not be interested, but Zhao Feng directly printed the serialized novels he had previously published in newspapers into books, including some poetry collections by literati, etc., all of which were printed into books and sold given to these countries.
In the eyes of people in those countries, these things may be something to kill time, but Zhao Feng knew that this matter was not that simple.
Among all invasions, cultural invasion is a soft knife, the kind that kills people without blood!
Although the speed of cultural invasion is very slow, it can fundamentally transform a country!
The Xiongnu and the countries in the Western Regions actually had their own scripts, and they were not interoperable with the scripts, currencies, etc. of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
They were able to form a country because they had completely different cultural differences from the Zhou Dynasty. These cultural differences allowed them to maintain their independence, but at the same time it made it very difficult for the Zhou Dynasty to conquer them.
Selling these books to these countries is a cultural invasion carried out by Zhao Feng.
Once they understood the culture of the Great Zhou Dynasty and learned the characters of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it would be difficult to ensure their own cultural independence.
These trades are only Zhao Feng's initial attempts. If these trades are successful, Zhao Feng will use more advanced and more useful things to gradually invade the markets of these countries, and at the same time bring a little bit of the Zhou Dynasty to these countries. of shock.
The Great Zhou Dynasty was very powerful for these countries. Even if the Xiongnu wanted to defeat the Great Zhou Dynasty in a short time, it would be impossible.
Since the Zhou Dynasty was powerful and had a large population, it was of course necessary to take advantage of this advantage.
Just now that the New Deal has been promulgated, Zhao Feng plans to open factories in various places to further liberate productivity and produce more products to meet future trade needs.
These are all links within Zhao Feng's plan. The missing of any link will have a great impact on his plan.
In the early stages, even Zhou Zhen couldn't see the benefits of doing this, but by the time they reacted, it would be too late!
