Chapter Twenty-Eight: Heavenly Retribution

Wu Youbi and his disciple Chen Xianzhang walked slowly on the streets of the capital.

In fact, now the Ming Jingshi already has a horse-drawn carriage similar to a rental. And most of them are four-wheeled carriages. This is the impact of Chidao.

It's just that Wu and Bi are not rich people.

Wu and Bi farmed at home to study and lecture, and even if someone donated money to him, they actually donated money to the academy. Both Wu and Bi put their minds on the academy and the students.

Even if I was wearing cloth and straw sandals, I didn't think there was anything wrong.

One thousand taels of silver, compared with the ten million taels of silver used by the imperial court, is certainly not a large amount, but for ordinary people, it is not a small amount.

Of course, it's not that Wu and Bi can't get so much before, just like Xue Xuan, he also has no money, and this thousand taels of silver is naturally willing to be offered. This era is not the era of businessmen, the rich can't get the power, and the Confucians don't seem to be officials, but their influence is even greater than that of some big officials.

It's just that Wu Hebi cherishes his feathers, so he naturally doesn't want to fight the autumn wind, he taught Chen Xianzhang and said: "Gongfu is Meng Lang today, where is there so much money for a while?" ”

Chen Xianzhang said: "Please rest assured, Master, I have my own way, I only need to go to the Guangdong Club, not to mention a thousand taels of silver, even three thousand taels of silver, I can get it out." ”

"And father and son, the threshold for Ming Bao is too high. We also need this newspaper, and we can't lose to the Hedong gang, if we don't pay for it, and they do the same thing as Ming Pao, what should we do? ”

"Actually, I have had the idea of running a newspaper for a long time, but I just don't know where to open the door."

In fact, the articles published by Ming Pao have obvious tendencies. None of these Confucians are fools.

If you can't see it once or twice, you can't see it after a long time.

It's just that even if you see it, there is no way. Do you want to theorize with the imperial court?

This is also why two poor bastards have to find a way to start a newspaper.

You know, newspapers almost lose money.

This is true even for Ming Pao. Not to mention anything else, the cost of the set of copper movable type built by Shaofu is something that Ming Pao can't earn back for many years.

That is, this set of copper movable type is not counted in the Ming Pao at all, but is hung in Shaofu, but the Ming Pao is used the most, and most of the time it is just a book.

That is, you don't have to pay directly. When the Shaofu reconciles with the cabinet, it is counted together.

After all, Shaofu now has a lot of financial dealings with the Sixth Ministry, and the small expenses of Ming Bao are not worth mentioning at all. In addition, the stations around the country are almost free of charge.

That's why there is now a circulation of Ming Pao. Only then did Ming Pao seem to not lose money.

If there is no such big system support behind it, Ming

It's strange if you don't pay for your death.

However, Chen Xianzhang didn't care. Without him, Chen Xianzhang's family is not rich, but it is not much worse. Chen Xianzhang's father, who was the Guozijian of Nanjing, has been in officialdom.

Although he is not a big official, he is also noble.

Of course, this does not make the Chen family rich.

What really made the Chen family rich was the opening of the sea in the Ming Dynasty, Baisha, Guangdong was in the Pearl River Delta, and the Chen family was an official eunuch, and it was also one of the best in Baisha.

After the opening of the sea, Xin'an Hong Kong handles millions of taels or even tens of millions of taels of goods every year. The entire Pearl River Delta has been mobilized.

The Chen family also took advantage of the opportunity, so they got up. The family property is also one or two thousand taels.

And it's not just the Chen family that has become rich in Guangdong.

So I don't know how many rich people there are in the Guangdong hall.

But the Cantonese also have their own difficulties, that is, they do not have enough political influence in the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty.

Speaking of the ministers around Zhu Qizhen, there is really only Qiu Jun in Guangdong, and Qiu Jun is from Qiongzhou, which is a little far away from the Pearl River Delta.

Where can it be compared with Fujian, Jiangxi, Jiangnan, Hebei.

This is a natural retribution, even if it is a loss of money, Guangdong has Kaizi, who is willing to spend money for this matter.

It's just this one incident that alarmed many people, and it was directly reported to Zhu Qizhen.

The reason is simple, there is no precedent.

Moreover, Ming Pao has been running for so many years, and everyone can see the benefits of Ming Pao. Not to mention anything else, the previous imperial court decrees were all sent to the counties, and after the counties copied them, they were posted on the notice boards, which was even a notice to the world.

Now it's in the newspaper, and the place only needs to put a chapter of the newspaper on the notice board.

For example, the court said that it was tax-exempt, and the local government also collected taxes, and then divided the tax into two and one.

Today, however, the imperial decrees were published directly in the newspapers, which were sold casually in Beijing, and some of them were also distributed to all parts of the country through post stations.

Of course, there is no special way to order newspapers through the post station system, but the general post guards are accustomed to selling a few newspapers in Beijing and then selling them in their hometowns, which can not make a profit, and there are even businessmen who specialize in this matter.

The status symbol of having a head and a face on the ground is to be able to read the newspaper.

And the closer the date of reading the newspaper, the more powerful it is.

If it is said that the newspaper was delivered by a post station, needless to say, it is known that it is the minister of the imperial court, and Zhishi is in the township. Just like Li Xian, he has this treatment.

Even the newspapers are a battlefield of political disputes, and there are too many benefits.

It is precisely because of this that newspapers have so many benefits that someone wants to meddle in them at the moment. Many people don't have a reason, and the last thing they want is to talk.

When Zhu Qizhen set up a newspaper in the Department of General Affairs, there was a gap, and he did not say that the people were not allowed to run the newspaper, but this gap is really not something that ordinary people can touch.

That is, Xue Xuan, a folk person like Xue Xuan, who has mixed up to the point of six servants in the center, and is also a scholar, can seize this gap.

Zhu Qizhen summoned Yu Qian and asked, "What does Mr. think about this matter?" ”

Yu Qian coughed twice, he didn't want to open this opening, it wasn't that Yu Qian was not open-minded or anything, it was simply that Yu Qian felt that he couldn't control the situation.

In his senses, the city of Beijing is almost like boiling water in a pot, and countless people are gurgling their own voices. There are all kinds of situations.

It seems that the world is peaceful, but in Yu Qian's opinion, this is even more dangerous than a war.

Is there a problem with science?

Naturally, Yu Qian is not a devout believer in science, but from the Song and Yuan dynasties to the present, science has consolidated the status of officials and scholars and unified the values of scholars.

This is the credit of science.

You must know that in the early Ming Dynasty, Taizu and Taizong were both promoting science. Successively determined the official status of science, is it that Taizu and Taizong are believers in science?

If it were, Taizu would not have deleted some of Mencius's writings, and Taizong would not have made any appeasements, nor would he have killed Fang Xiaoru.

Nothing more than a help to rule.

The most important thing in the Ming Dynasty is stability, China, a big country, there is nothing more important than stability, what kind of bad order, it is better than no order.

It's just that Yu Qian understands the emperor's mind better, although the emperor asked so. Looking at the expression, he already has the answer.

Yu Qian said: "The minister has been in the place for a long time, and he doesn't know much about the affairs of Ming Bao, and he still asks His Majesty to judge this matter." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "The mouth of the people is worse than the release of Sichuan, since someone wants to run a newspaper, I will not stop it, it will be handled by the General Administration Department, but it is not good to put the Ming Bao in the General Administration Department, and put it in the Hanlin Academy." ”

"Add a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy to Shang and preside over Ming Pao."

The General Administration Department is the organ that Zhu Qizhen envisioned to be responsible for managing newspaper affairs, and it is not very appropriate for them to run another newspaper. Moreover, in Zhu Qizhen's heart, even if it is an official newspaper, it may not have only one point in the future, and it is just the case that Ming Pao will be converted into the Hanlin Academy.

Let those pens of the Hanlin Academy do this thing, in fact, it is more suitable than the general secretary.

also gave Shang Chen a promotion.

Counting the qualifications of the businessman, it's almost the same, and it's time to use it greatly.

Yu Qian said: "Shengming has no past Your Majesty. Then he coughed twice and said: "It's just that the old minister is stupid, and he doesn't know how far His Majesty wants to go now, and I ask Your Majesty to give the old minister a little hint, so that the old minister knows how to do things and how to clean up this situation?" ”