Traveling through Great Qin: Father Qin Shihuang!

Looking at all the feudal dynasties in Chinese history, most of the people lived in dire straits and endless wars. Such a stable and lively life was simply unbelievable for the leaders of the Qin Dynasty who had just experienced the chaos of the Warring States Period.

"Sell newspapers! Daqin's first steamship, the Xuanniao, is officially launched. Do you want to know the territory of Daqin across the vast ocean? The latest news from Daqin Daily today!"

After walking a few steps, several newsboys came running along the road with a stack of newspapers in their hands. The thick stack of newspapers in their hands was snapped up in a short time.

In today's Daqin Daily, there is an illustration version with Zhao Che's own stencils. Although it is printed with ink, it is not so real, but for these ancient people, it is the first time they have seen this style of newspaper.

Through the illustrations in the newspaper, they could clearly see the majesty and magnificence of the Daqin Xuanniao, and the scene where Ying Zheng and a group of officials stood on the Daqin Xuanniao, making people feel as if they were there.

"So this is what Daqin's Xuanniao looks like. It's really unexpected. I have never been out of Xianyang in my life, and I can still see the appearance of Xuanniao far away in Yuyang County through newspapers!"

"It would be great if the Daqin Daily could carry this kind of illustrations in the future, so that we can appreciate the scenery of Daqin without leaving home!"

"Hahaha, it's possible that Daqin's changes are getting bigger and bigger, so big that we can't even imagine it!"

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As the head of the Daqin News Department, Chun Yuyue naturally heard the discussion of the illustrations in the Daqin Daily by the leaders of Guizhou.

"Young master, you said that Daqin Daily will have this illustration in the future, is it feasible?"

Chunyu Yue turned to look at Zhao Che and asked.

In his opinion, it is not so easy to add illustrations to Daqin Daily, the most important thing is the printing template.

The template for illustration is different from the font for movable type printing. The template can be recycled and reused, and it is very simple to make.

However, the illustration templates are different. First of all, the requirements for the production process of illustrations are more difficult. To make a good illustration template, you must first find a capable painter to perfectly draw the scenes required for the illustration.

After the drawing is done, it needs to be miniaturized, and the picture that can only be carried by a huge drawing paper is reduced in the same proportion, and finally reduced to a part of a newspaper.

This is an extremely difficult task for those who carve the template. To make such a template, it takes at least ten days and a half a month, and it may not be able to make it for several months.

The most important thing is that the templates for the illustrations are all one-time, and they will be useless after printing once, which is a huge waste of manpower and material resources.

There is also the timeliness of the news. The Daqin Daily basically publishes the latest news every day, but by the time these newspapers are delivered to other relatively remote counties and counties by various means, several days have passed.

Therefore, Zhao Che had made reforms to the News Department long before, launching the Daqin Daily's daily and weekly publications.

There is no need to explain more about the daily journal. The original Daqin Daily was changed to Xianyang Daily, which means that it is only published in an area near Xianyang every day.

On the other hand, the weekly magazine gathers all the things that happened in the whole of Daqin every seven days, and then distributes them to the whole of Daqin in a unified manner, so as to ensure that news from all over the country can have a relatively uniform timeliness.

Illustrations basically appear along with the news. You can’t postpone the news release until after the illustration template is made just for an illustration. In this way, it goes against the original intention of Daqin Daily.

Zhao Che naturally understood this, so he shook his head without hesitation after hearing Chunyu Yue's question.

"Based on Daqin's current technology, it is obviously unrealistic to add illustrations to every news issue, but the emergence of illustration technology can indeed make Daqin's cultural communication more colorful, so we may change it This is a way to utilize the illustration craft.”

"what way?"

Chunyu Yue took out a small notebook out of nowhere, and looked at Zhao Che devoutly.

"The launch of the Daqin Monthly is not in the form of a newspaper, but in the form of a book. It is consolidated and sold once a month. Some of the more exciting news that needs illustrations are reprinted in the monthly magazine, and then accompanied by illustrations. Can it solve the problem of long engraving time for illustration templates?"

"Is it still possible?"

Chun Yuyue suddenly realized that not all the news in Daqin's newspapers needed illustrations, most of the news content was mainly the latest policies issued by Xianyang, anecdotes, and various articles and stories.

Therefore, the news that can be accompanied by pictures may only be a little bit in a month. As long as the time period is extended, the production of illustration templates will naturally not be so rushed.

In fact, this is the most stupid method, but with Daqin's current craftsmanship, being able to do this is considered pretty good.

After all, all templates in Daqin are made by hand, and it doesn't seem like there are computers in later generations.

"Don't worry about printing the monthly magazine, take your time, we still need to train a group of painters and craftsmen first!"

Zhao Che patted Chunyu Yue's shoulder and said.

"Here!"

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In the bustling atmosphere of the whole Daqin, the New Year passed smoothly.

While many people in Daqin were still immersed in the joyous atmosphere of the New Year, people from the Daqin Research Institute had already been arrested by Zhao Che and returned to work.

In fact, there were still a few days left for Zhao Che to give them their annual leave, but things changed, so Zhao Che had to cancel the annual leave of these people in advance, and even brought himself to the scientific research institute to work in person.

"My lord, is this the rubber material you mentioned?"

At this time, at the gate of the Daqin Research Institute, Gongshu Qiu was watching the team move large wooden barrels into the Research Institute.

These barrels contain the raw material of rubber, raw rubber, which is the sap taken from the rubber tree.

In order to get these raw rubbers, Zhao Yun spent a lot of effort. These are the first batches to be sent over, and there will be a steady stream of raw rubbers sent over in the future.

However, according to the letter sent back by Zhao Yun, the rubber production in Nanyue was not as much as Zhao Che imagined.

Because there was no rubber production process in this period, rubber trees were not fully utilized, and they were all rubber trees that grew on their own in the wild.

Moreover, there are not so many rubber trees growing, and many of them were cut down and burned as firewood.