I clearly wanted to be a tyrant, but how did I become the greatest emperor of all time?

Since Lu Weibin's reforms, Huajiang Prefecture has become a very wealthy area.

Thanks to the excellent location of Huajiang Port, Huajiang Prefecture has now become the richest prefecture in Yuhang.

The special location of Huajiang Prefecture also represents its thirst for talent.

No matter if it is an accountant who can do arithmetic, an engineer who can repair machinery, a translator who can speak foreign languages, or even someone who is good at music, chess, calligraphy and painting, there will be people vying to hire them.

The pragmatic curriculum arrangement of the new official school was welcomed by the middle and lower class people.

Moreover, Huajiang Prefecture had sufficient finances and commercial tax supplements, so Huang Xiao was not worried that the official society of Huajiang Prefecture would run into problems.

But it’s hard to say about other prefectures in Yuhang.

Running a school is very expensive.

Teachers’ salaries and students’ scholarships.

The annual expenditure of a college on pens, ink, paper and inkstone alone is a considerable amount.

Huang Xiao asked Fang Hao:

"Sir, how can we keep the academy going? Do you have any good ideas?"

Fang Hao said: "I have also looked through the information. In the previous dynasty, the academy had public land."

"The common land of the academy can be cultivated by students, and the output will be used to support teachers and students."

“But this method didn’t work for long.”

Huang Xiao thought this method was good, but he didn't expect it to work.

Fang Hao said: "The public land belongs to the academy. Students come to the academy to study, so why would they cultivate it with all their heart?"

"The academy's assessment is based on academic performance, not on farming performance, so those who farm the land don't pay attention. No matter how many fields there are, they can't farm well."

Huang Xiao sighed and said, "That makes sense, but why doesn't the academy rent out the land?"

Fang Hao said: "This is definitely not going to work either."

"After all, a college is a place for studying. If the rent of the land is high, public opinion will make it difficult for the college to operate."

"But if the rent is low, it won't be enough to support the entire academy."

"In the end, we could only rent it out to wealthy families, and after a while, they poached us."

too difficult!

Huang Xiao said: "Mr. Fang, do you have any good suggestions for me?"

Fang Hao said: "Sir, I have an immature idea, but it still needs the support of the court."

"Just tell me!"

Fang Hao said, "Sir, if it's not okay to let students farm, how about letting them publish a newspaper?"

"File a report?"

"Sir, I found that the new official newspaper in Yuhang area is selling very well."

"But it was several days later that the new report was sent to Yuhang, and all I saw was old news from Kyoto."

"Moreover, most of the new official newspapers are about Kyoto, which Yuhang doesn't care about."

"There are many private newspapers in Yuhang now, but none of them are large-scale."

"So I think that if the academy can organize a new newspaper belonging to Yuhang, the income from the newspaper should be enough to support the operation of the academy."

Huang Xiao slapped his thigh, this idea was really brilliant!

Letting educated people work in newspapers is not an insult to talent.

The Hanlin Academy even publishes a newspaper!

Moreover, the new newspaper had considerable profits. It was said that a single dividend from the Hanlin Academy would make the Minister of Revenue jealous.

This shows how profitable it is to run a newspaper.

And the academy also has this resource.

The academy had no shortage of talented people who could write and do math, so by hiring a few printers, they could quickly publish a newspaper.

However, the imperial court has always cracked down very harshly on local newspapers.

Newspapers are the throat of the imperial court.

Therefore, private reporting has always been prohibited by the court.

But official schools are not private schools.

Maybe you can give it a try?

Huang Xiao is also a courageous guy!

Allowing the college to publish a newspaper is indeed a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.

The academy can have a stable income without the need for constant transfusions from the court.

The staff of the academy can be mobilized, and students can also become familiar with the characters.

This is definitely a good thing!

Huang Xiao waved his pen and said, "Let's do it! Let the prefectural government-run schools coordinate and publish a local newspaper to see if it works."

"If we can keep the academy running, it will be a great merit!"

Huang Xiao plans to use the provincial capital of Yuhang as a pilot.

The official school in Yuhang was built on a large estate owned by a salt merchant. Huang Xiao purchased a batch of printing presses and allowed teachers and students to edit newspapers together.

This kind of newspaper is called "Yuhang Daily" and is only distributed in Yuhang area.

The first editor-in-chief was, of course, Huang Xiao.

An editor-in-chief who can barely read, several teachers who have never run a newspaper, and a group of students who have just entered school.

Of course Huang Xiao didn't have time to accompany him, so this matter fell on Fang Hao's head.

So Huang Xiao gave Fang Hao the title of deputy editor-in-chief and asked him to devote himself to the preparation of Yuhang Daily.

Although this idea was proposed by Fang Hao, he had never published a newspaper before!

There is no other way but to copy homework!

The best student of copying is the New Palace News.

Fang Hao looked at the new official newspaper and studied it carefully.

Now the new newspaper has several fixed sections.

The two front pages were the consistent function of the new imperial gazette, publishing the court's policies.

In addition, notices of promotions of senior officials in the court were also added.

Although not many people read these sections, the main function of the new residence newspaper should of course be placed at the top.

This is copied directly!

Fang Hao wrote with a flourish: "From now on, the content of the two front pages will be directly reprinted from the previous day's news in the New Residence Newspaper."

Fang Hao shamelessly coined the term "repost".

However, Yuhang Daily does not have the ability to write these news independently, and reprinting them safely is the safest option.

Next are the following sections.

The next section of the New Reibao is local news in Kyoto.

From street news to elegant conversations among literati, the entire meeting will be published here.

If any adult in Kyoto writes a good poem, it can also be published here.

This cannot be copied directly, so Fang Hao had to ask the students and teachers of the academy to write good manuscripts and support this section as soon as possible.

Further down, it is the favorite of ordinary people.

The serialized novel section.

Now that Liu Wenzhuo's "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" has been completed, the next novel published is "Dream of Red Mansions", a long novel describing the rise and fall of a wealthy family.

This novel is the hottest novel in Kyoto right now, and countless people are concerned about its content.

It’s just that the update of "Dream of Red Mansions" is really too slow.

Therefore, the new newspaper also added several short and medium-length serial novels.

Many people would cut out and paste this piece of paper. This thing, called a sticker, was very popular in Kyoto.

For this part, the academy can only commission articles from outside.

Yuhang had a flourishing literary culture, and vernacular novels were very popular. If they didn't sell well, they would buy a good novel at a high price and serialize it.

The fourth section is the so-called advertising.

The content here introduces the delicious specialties of a restaurant or teahouse in Kyoto, or the panacea of a drugstore.

However, the Hanlin Academy has a bottom line, and these advertisements will only be posted after verification.