Suzhou Prefecture, Changshu County.

This is the most prosperous prefecture and county in the Ming Dynasty, since the Song Dynasty, there is a folk proverb of 'Suhu is ripe, the world is full', and in Suzhou Mansion and Huzhou Prefecture, Changshu County is the first county that is indispensable.

Therefore, there are also a lot of famous Shilin students in Changshu County, such as Xiucai and Juren, because the living conditions of every household belong to the well-off level, and they have surplus property every year, so they naturally have the basic conditions for buying books and reading private schools.

And the county order throne of Changshu County is also the most eye-catching position in the south of the Yangtze River, how many Confucians have been produced in Changshu, as long as the county order here maintains the relationship with this Shilin, and the qualifications of two years go up to Suzhou Mansion to perform their duties, it is not a sure thing.

But this airborne new county commander Wang Yusen obviously does not have this high 'political consciousness', this young man who is twenty and six years old is the second and first in the Jiachen Branch in the second year of Jianwen, and he has been examined in the Hanlin Academy for another year, with excellent grades, and he was originally going to transfer to Hanlin Xuezheng and enter the central training echelon, but he was intervened by Zhu Gaochi, the prince of the prison country, and sent to this Changshu County.

Under Zhu Yunwen's vague instruction, the most Confucian scholars in the Hanlin Academy read every day are the central state political transcripts that have been approved and retained by the cabinet, rather than the bells and whistles on the ancient books, and he Wang Yusen can stand out in the examination of the Hanlin Academy, which shows that he has entered the eyes of Yang Shiqi and Zhu Gaochi.

A 'Confucian heretic' who did not participate in the new school but was not pedantic. ’

All the students who can pass the examination of the Hanlin Academy will without exception be deviant in the eyes of the traditional Confucianism, and only these deviant people will be sent from the Hanlin Academy to the local area.

On the second day of the first lunar month, before the rooster spit white, Wang Yusen put on a brand-new official robe and ran to the county government to drink tea and wait, he almost didn't sleep all night last night.

Today, the newspaper office in Changshu County is going to open!

Nanjing to Changshu fast horse less than a day, on New Year's Day Wang Yusen got the two periodicals sent down by the Department of General Affairs, thanks to Changshu's wealth, the county has ready-made printing engravings, the two periodicals arrived yesterday, the same night printed 200 copies.

"The county lord came early."

Between the rooster's high crow, a person came in from outside the county office, and Wang Yusen looked up and saw that it was a colleague: "Oh, the New Year's holiday, the high master book is not resting in the house, how can he come." ”

The main book with the surname Gao has a single name, a rock, thin, tall, thin, forty-something, and a goatee. Hearing this, he first bowed to Wang Yusen, who was in the first place, and then found a seat and sat down.

"Today is a big day for me in Changshu, although the lower officials don't understand how this seeking truth is reported, but these days I have heard a lot of rumors, listening to some old friends say that this seeking truth is reported to the court to publish the world, and it is inevitable that there will be a three-point curiosity."

"A kind of passage and folk, in form, it is similar to the Di Bao."

Wang Yusen has two copies in his hand, both of which were left after they were printed last night, and when he saw Gao Yan mention it, he handed the latter a copy: "Gao Yan is curious, and it just so happens that the official has two copies here, you can take a look." ”

Gao Yan took it, this so-called newspaper is different from the book, the rough hemp paper is printed with dense small characters, a piece of hemp paper is spread out to the size of half a small case, and it is convenient to stretch out your hands to read.

The layout of this newspaper is from right to left, and the first line is three big characters from top to bottom: "Qiushi Bao", and there is a traditional date under it: New Year's Day periodicals on the first day of the first month of the fourth year of Jianwen.

The date is concise and clear at a glance, even if it is a student in a remote area such as Sichuan, you can only see it after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and you can know which day the content of this journal article is from, so as not to speculate as a current event.

After the transition of the name and date, it is another line, this time it was replaced with small words: "This registration 'seeking truth', is now taken from the meaning of seeking truth from facts and given the name, all the content published in the newspaper, are the Ming can discuss things, or for politics, economy, culture, war, Fanbang tribute, folk trivial, anecdotal humor, etc.

In order to encourage the active participation of officials, officials, ordinary people, businessmen, and other people of the Ming Dynasty, since the beginning of the fourth year of the establishment of the article, those who publish articles with a signed date will receive a silver reward once their articles are approved by the General Administration of Newspapers of the Department of Communications and Political Affairs, and the amount is between 52 and 300 taels.

Officials who publish five articles in Qiushi Newspaper will be promoted to one level and up to the third grade.

Those who published five articles in the Qiushi newspaper were transferred to the rank of nine-grade officials.

Shang Jiafan who publishes five articles in Qiushi Daily can be exempted from paying commercial tax for one year. ”

Under this swaggering hundreds of words of introduction, Gao Yan looked at it and pouted unnaturally: Yang Yu, an assistant minister of the cabinet and a scholar of Fengtiandian University.

Changshu County is too close to the center, so ordinary people may not know who the head of the cabinet has replaced, but these officials in the grassroots system will still pay attention to inquiring.

In addition to the introduction, this Qiushi newspaper also has the central financial income of Jianwen for three years and the expenditure planned for Jianwen for four years, Yu Xin, who left his name in the money, and Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department.

The last half of the content was left for the introduction of the five members of the cabinet, namely Yang Shiqi, a scholar of Fengtiandian University, Yu Xin, a scholar of Wenhuadian University, Zhu Di, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, and Fang Xiaoru and Xie Jin. The introduction includes a detailed list of the birth years, careers and promotion paths of the five people.

In addition to Yu Xin, who is decent, his promotion is step by step, since the middle jinshi, he has successively served as the head of the household department, the head of the household department, the right waiter, the left waiter, the Shangshu, and the assistant minister of the cabinet.

And the other four, Xie Jin is Hongwu twenty-one years of Jinshi, but Hongwu twenty-four years was beaten as a white body, returned to the hometown to close the door to self-cultivation, until Hongwu thirty-one years Taizu Bintian entered Beijing to mourn, according to Taizu's last order to assist the new emperor, after the establishment of the cabinet, first as an assistant scholar, Jianwen three years into the cabinet.

Fang Xiaoru was the leader of Confucianism, and he directly entered the cabinet after the establishment of the cabinet.

Zhu Di is a clan relative, so there is nothing to introduce.

Only this Yang Shiqi!

Hongwu 29 years into the Hanlin Academy, Hongwu 31 years of cabinet establishment, by the countryman Wang Shuying recommended as the Hanlin Xuezheng, and later promoted to the assistant scholar, Jianwen two years after the Gengchen branch palace examination into the cabinet, Jianwen three years after the resignation, by the emperor in one step to promote the first assistant!

"It's really enviable."

Gao Yan put down the newspaper and smashed it: "Xia Guan is forty and six this year, according to the regulations of the imperial court last year, he will step down in less than ten years, but the county is now in his prime, and he is the leader of the Hanlin examination, and he will definitely be able to enter the cabinet in the future." ”

Wang Yusen has a good relationship with this Gao Yan, he parachuted down, the position of the county master's book, the main grasp of money and grain Dingkou is naturally in his hands, Gao Yan is also a clear-eyed person, and immediately stood in Wang Yusen's team with great loyalty, so the young county order, and the general administration department personally sent someone to send him to take office, indicating that there are people in the center, this kind of golden thigh does not hold it, isn't it a bad brain.

Therefore, when he heard Gao Yan's words, he didn't shy away from it, and immediately shook his head with a smile: "You old Gao don't want to laugh at the official, my generation should be people-oriented as an official, where is just to walk in the clouds, as long as you can set up a life for the people, what is the difference between the county order and the first assistant." ”

"What the county lord said is very reasonable, and it really makes the officials ashamed."

There were two sentences of hypocrisy in his heart, and Gao Yan still sent a sycophant lightly on his face, and was about to open his mouth to invite Wang Yusen out of the county office to eat some snacks, when the latter handed over a newspaper.

"There are two articles in this issue, so please take a look at them."

And another copy?

Gao Yan was stunned for a moment, but he still took a look, and he was taken aback when he saw it.

There is no change in the form and layout of this journal article, and the name and date are still reported first, but the content of the text is much more shocking.

The content first focused on the pen and ink to tell how sad and confused the subjects of the world were in the thirty-first year of Hongwu, and then the new emperor ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world. How the people of the world are cheering, waiting for the new deal, looking forward to it.

Then there is a large paragraph of 'objective' about the young Jianwen Emperor's various measures after ascending the throne, and the new emperor since his accession to the throne to promote the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, what big victories he fought.

The contents of the table were also published in this issue, including the list of tributes for this surrender. This time, it was Yang Shiqi, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Zhu Di, who was the chief of the general staff.

"Is this true?"

Gao Yan only felt dizzy, and his face was red and his ears were red with a huge sense of pride, and he almost wanted to lack oxygen.

Looking at Gao Yan's expression, Wang Yusen nodded with a smile: "Naturally, it's true, otherwise, why wouldn't this official have been excited all night yesterday." ”

"The Warats and Tatars actually surrendered to me?"

When Gao Yan was born, the Ming Dynasty had not yet established a country, the world was in turmoil, it was a real scene of troubled times, human life was as cheap as ants, how many years has it been in a trance? The tyrannical Mongols were willing to bow down and surrender to the Ming Dynasty?

"Naturally, it's true, yesterday New Year's Day, my Ming Dynasty's Imperial Envoy went out of Nanjing to the grassland with gifts.

Moreover, it is clearly written on the table of surrender of the steppe people, Warat and Tatar respect His Majesty as the saint Khan, and His Majesty is the co-lord of the steppe, and the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty officially declared the death of the country! The prairie will be the land of my Ming Dynasty from now on! ”

Wang Yusen was also excited when he spoke, stroked his palms and laughed: "Long live our emperor today, open up thousands of miles, the prosperity of martial arts, and the history is hard to find." If it weren't for the opening of today's newspaper, this official would have been eager to drink all night last night. ”

Gao Yan also shouted a few words of "yes" again and again, and looked down again, but he was stunned.

The emperor even published an article in this newspaper!

"Long live the Ming Dynasty and long live the people of the Ming Dynasty."

With the last sentence of this New Year's message repeatedly poured out of his mouth, Gao Yan suddenly knelt facing the north, and suddenly shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live." ”

Gao Yan's kneeling frightened Wang Yusen, and he hurriedly hid sideways, Gao Yan knelt in the north, and his county government was sitting in the north and facing south, so where did he dare to stand facing the south.

Gao Yan knocked his head three times in a row, and then stood up, to Wang Yusen's surprise, this Gao Yan actually cried?

"Cry with joy, cry with joy."

Gao Yan wiped his tears, but he still burst into tears: "When Xia Guan was young, he was upright and the world was in turmoil, thinking about the situation of that year, and then looking at the great world today, he was full of emotion for a while, and he couldn't help himself." ”

Wang Yusen is young, where has he suffered at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he is more touched by this second edict and has honor, and he has added a few points of Ming ministers and the pride of the Han people.

"Xia Guan can't wait for this newspaper to open now."

After stabilizing his mood, Gao Yan pinched the newspaper and paced back and forth: "Let the people of Shilin in Changshu see it and know about this great event." Let's celebrate the New Year for Your Majesty! ”

Wang Yusen shook his head when he heard this: "Okay, since this is the case for you and me, we will go to the newspaper office." ”

"I don't dare to ask for ears."

The two looked at each other and laughed, walked out of the county office together, and went straight to the direction of the newspaper office.