Chapter 23 Capital Weekly
"The following sons and daughters haven't been edited yet!"

Yun Shu explained with a smile:
“The last one is different from the previous ones. The previous ones are all real events that I witnessed with my own eyes after leaving the palace yesterday.

But the last one is a storybook compiled by me myself."

"How do you make up a story like this?"

Emperor Xuanwu was somewhat dissatisfied. Considering the previous article [The Most Affectionate Man in the Capital! He Loves Young Master Cao So Much], the worried old father could not help but test her implicitly:
"Could it be that Shu'er likes the kind of prince consort in the story?"

"How can it be!"

Yun Shu denied it without even thinking about it.

But before Emperor Xuanwu could breathe a sigh of relief, she continued:
"That prince consort is not a good person!"

Emperor Xuanwu: “!!”

"Why did you let the princess marry him if he wasn't a good man?"

The worry that had just been put at ease was lifted up again, and Emperor Xuanwu was really a little disappointed:

"A princess of a country should be paired with the best husband!"

"But some people just know the appearance but not the heart!"

Yun Shu sat beside the dragon table, holding his face with both hands, and analyzed seriously:

"It's possible for a princess to be deceived!"

The veins on Emperor Xuanwu's forehead jumped twice, and he couldn't help but start to put himself in the story:

"Why would you be deceived? Can't you check the other person's ancestors before marrying him?"

"How can a princess have so much power?"

Yun Shu seemed to be amused. She shook her head and decided to skip this topic:
“Oh, it’s all made up anyway, this question is not important!
The important thing is, father, do you think this capital weekly written by me is interesting?

If a new one came out every few days, would you want to read it?"

"From what you said, you have that idea?"

Emperor Xuanwu's eyebrows moved, somewhat incredulously:

"I think the number of words in this book is not small.

Besides, the new tutor I found for you will start teaching you tomorrow. You can't leave the palace, and you don't have time to write so much. How can you finish one every few days?"

"It is precisely because I have to go to the study room to study and cannot leave the palace that I need this even more!"

Yunshu said with reason:

"If I didn't have this, I would have to go out of the palace myself to see these things.
But if I had the Capital Weekly, even if I stayed in Fengyang Palace and never went out, I would still be able to know what interesting things had happened recently.

I think it’s not just me. There are probably many people who are in a similar situation as me who would like to see this content! "

"You mean, let someone else write the Capital Weekly?"

Emperor Xuanwu understood what she meant.

This was actually not a big deal. Emperor Xuanwu only hesitated for a moment and then readily agreed:
"Have you thought of a suitable candidate, Shuer?"

"I haven't decided on a specific candidate yet, but I already have a complete plan for the specific process!"

The first battle was a success, and Yun Shu actively pushed forward:

"Regarding the question of what content should be written in the Capital Weekly, I think that in addition to sending special people to visit the capital every now and then, we can also receive information from others. That is, we can set up a special information point where anyone can bring real information to report, and then a special person will screen it to see if the information can be written into the Capital Weekly.

Once the information is confirmed to be adopted, the whistleblower can also receive a certain amount of compensation! "

"Ah."

This is also not a difficult task.

Emperor Xuanwu nodded and was about to agree.
Unexpectedly, Yun Shu hadn't finished her words yet. She continued:

"In addition, we need to prepare a small farm to arrange for people to do the printing work..."

"print?"

Emperor Xuanwu was certainly not unfamiliar with these two words. After all, he had recently been urging the Ministry of Works to promote printing technology.

However, there is a huge difference between printing books and printing this kind of Beijing weekly newspaper.

"The content of your Capital Weekly is completely different every time. Do you have to carve a new plate every time?

Do you know how long it takes to carve these things? Or are you going to continue to have people carve them out of carrots?"

"The radish doesn't last long. It will be useless after a few carvings. It's better to use lead blocks."

Yun Shu had obviously already considered this question:

"But just as Father said, the content of the Capital Weekly is different from the Four Books and Five Classics. It is different every time, so the engraving cannot be a whole page of content at once. It still has to be carved word by word.
In this way, each time you just need to find the words and rearrange them according to the content you want to print. "

"Do you know how many Chinese characters there are in the world?"

Emperor Xuanwu wanted to laugh when he heard this, but he just thought she was just a child who was not thoughtful enough, so he pointed out the problem immediately:
"There are so many characters. It takes a lot of time and effort to find them one by one. Unless you can offer a very high price, there is no way that literate people would be willing to do this."

Scholars are precious these days, and scholars from ordinary families are the hope of the whole family.

Even if they occasionally find time to do some work to supplement the family income, they will most likely only find jobs like copying books.

After all, while copying a book, you are actually reading it.

But it was different to find words for the capital weekly. After working so hard, they wasted their time and at best they learned one more interesting thing about the capital, which was of no use to them at all.

It would be strange if there were educated people willing to do this!

Emperor Xuanwu was not optimistic about this.
But what he didn't expect was that Yun Shu had also thought of a solution to this problem -

“In fact, I never thought of letting scholars do this from the beginning.

My idea is to hire ordinary women from the people. It doesn't matter whether they can read or not. We have the samples anyway, and they can just follow the samples and find the identical words and put them in the appropriate positions just like finding a pattern!
As for the problem of too many characters... you can first classify all the characters according to their radicals and put them in different areas.
Then we can make more detailed distinctions based on the number of strokes.

After this division, it should be much easier to find it. "

Radicals and strokes.

According to her classification method, the problem that was originally daunting just by hearing it actually became much easier.

I didn't expect this kid to be so thoughtful!

Emperor Xuanwu was pleased, but he only had one last question left:

“Why only hire women?”

(End of this chapter)