Chapter Forty-Six: A Gift of Daughters to a Gentleman

Wu and Bi are cleaning up the mess of Tianli Newspaper. But I saw a brocade guard come over and said, "Mr. Wu, my family is invited." ”

As soon as these words came out, the disciples around him were emotional.

Wu Yubi waved his hand and said, "I'll go with you." ”

So Wu and Bi, under the leadership of this brocade guard, came to a nearby restaurant.

This restaurant has been blocked by Jinyiwei. In the entire restaurant, there is not a single outsider. Wu and Bi went up to the second floor and found a negative hand standing by the window in the middle.

Wu Youbi walked in and took a look, immediately stepped back and saluted, and said, "The minister greets Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "No courtesy, this is not in the palace, so there is no need to be polite." ”

Wu and Bi cautiously sat down with Zhu Qizhen on a table of eight immortals. Zhu Qizhen said: "I heard that Mr. is going back to his hometown. ”

Wu Youbi said: "Your Majesty, it is not easy to live in the capital. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "I think that although it is not easy to live in the capital, it can also be easy with the talent of Qingqing." ”

Wu Youbi said: "Your Majesty looks down on the ministers. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Tianli is very good, I will read it every day." Zhu Qizhen waved his hand, asked someone to hold a box, opened it in front of Wu Youbi, and said: "There are a thousand taels of gold here, which can be regarded as a retribution for my investment in Tianli." ”

Wu Youbi glanced at it, his face sank, and said, "Your Majesty, what kind of person do you think the minister is?" Is it possible to sell it for money? Even if Your Majesty kills the minister, the minister's thoughts will not change at all. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Why is this so. How dare I use these blockages to mislead Mr. I just want to keep my husband in Kyoshi. ”

Wu and Bi were a little confused about Zhu Qizhen's thoughts.

Zhu Qizhen sighed and said, "I also regret that Mr. Xue is gone, this is not what I want to see." Mr. said to Ram Xin, I don't approve of it, but I don't have anything else to think about. ”

"But what will it look like in the future, I don't understand, but the state has a minister, and I don't lose my society, Mr. is my white-clothed imperial history, and the ideas put forward by Mr. have been carefully figured out. Therefore, it is a great loss for the country for Mr. to return to Jiangxi. Therefore, I would rather lose ten thousand taels of gold, and I don't want to lose Mr. ”

Wu Hebi's heart warmed, and said: "Even if the minister has all kinds of ideas, Your Majesty doesn't listen, what is the difference between the minister in the capital or in Jiangxi?" ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Mr. knows that the national policy cannot be easily shaken, and it is a great harm to the imperial court, so Mr. Jinyu's good words, I can only choose to accept it, please rest assured, the new policy of the imperial court, will never forget the word education." ”

"The Ming Dynasty has reached the point where if you don't advance, you will retreat, but where to go? But I always have to try it. ”

Wu Yubi said: "Chao."

The court is a major event, and thousands of lives are at stake, how can you try it? ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "If you don't do anything now, you will be a disaster for future generations." I will not change this point, but please rest assured, I will definitely work with 100,000 spirit to do this thing, nothing will happen, this is also Mr. to stay in the capital, watch what I do, there is anything wrong below, you can publish it in the world. ”

Wu Youbi heard Zhu Qizhen say this, and knew that if he refused again, he would toast and not eat, and he would be punished for drinking. Wu Youbi stepped back and saluted, and said, "Your Majesty has this heart, and the minister dares to disobey his orders." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Okay, then this point, please accept it." Of course, the gentleman is of high character, and he does not dare to defile the gentleman with this, this is the money for the newspaper. ”

Wu Youbi said: "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate." ”

Zhu Qizhen breathed a sigh of relief.

It's good for Wu and Bi to stay.

The newspaper industry is inherently in need of highly qualified people. It is difficult for high-quality talents in Daming to invest in the emerging industry of newspapers, after all, how to look at it, newspapers still need to operate if they want to make money

In Zhu Qizhen's view, newspapers in Beijing, Nanjing, and Suzhou can make money, but apart from these three places, it is generally impossible for them to have their own independent newspaper industry.

The literacy population is not enough. I can't afford to keep up with the newspapers.

A person like Wu and Bi is a great Confucian in the local area, but in the imperial court, it may not be possible to be a scholar, but it is enough to serve as a scholar.

Let him preside over the Tianli Newspaper, but it couldn't be better.

Of course, this is also to kill Kong Hongxu at the same time, and give some goodwill to the Confucian ministers. After all, they are the main body of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Qizhen still has to do it for them to govern the world.

Of course, Kong Hongxu still has a program, but in Zhu Qizhen's heart, he is already dead.

Between the monarch and the minister, even if there are hundreds of battles in a day, in the end compromise is better than confrontation.

There is such a good story of the monarch and the minister, which can ease the tense atmosphere between.

In addition, it was Zhu Qizhen who found a problem.

Although Beijing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it is not the academic center of the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that there may not be a city that can be the academic center of the Ming Dynasty. But in general, the places where the academic atmosphere of Daming is relatively good, that is, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places.

For Zhu Qizhen, this is not a good thing.

He knew that unless he listened to these Confucian ministers completely, there would always be people who opposed him, but he would rather leave people in the Jingshi, and if there were objections, they could be heard in time.

If Zhu Qizhen wants to build Beijing into the academic center of the Ming Dynasty, it is indispensable to convince people all over the world like Wu and Bi.

After finishing the business, Zhu Qizhen didn't want to leave for a while

。 He looked out into the street from the second floor. In fact, the street in this era was not wide, and it was just an ordinary street in later generations, and it could not even be regarded as the main road of the city.

Beijing is the focus of Zhu Qizhen's operation.

With the improvement of agricultural production in Hebei, Mobei and Northeast have become more and more prosperous. The place where the restaurant is located is not the most prosperous place in Beijing. It can even be said to be a corner of Beijing.

The reason is very simple, Wu and Bi have limited funds, and they can't afford to live in those houses with better geographical locations, and they must remember that in order to increase the funds of Shuntianfu, houses in Beijing had to pay taxes.

Therefore, the houses in Beijing are much taller than the houses in other places, and even the houses outside the city are much cheaper than the houses in the city, even if they are separated by a city wall.

But even so, there was an endless stream of people under the restaurant, carriages came and went, and even some people on horseback, although they did not dare to ride their horses in the city, they also slowed down the reins and walked slowly.

There are also some small stalls on both sides of the road below, and even people carrying burdens to sell, what rock sugar gourds, and sugar people, as well as all kinds of fruits, such as fried chestnuts.

There were also women walking in the streets.

The folk customs in the north were originally open, and there were many Mongolians living in Beijing, so the atmosphere in Beijing was even more contaminated with a lot of Mongolian atmosphere.

Although a woman rarely goes out alone, usually following her husband or in the company of the same woman, there are not many such decorations on the streets

In Zhu Qizhen's view, this is a bit of a Ming version of the Qingming Riverside Map. It's just that although this restaurant is on the second floor, it is not the best place to observe, and the line of sight is still limited.

But even so, Zhu Qizhen has some shortcomings.

Without him, he has been in the deep palace for a long time, and the rarest thing is this kind of fireworks in the world, so he simply talked to Wu Youbi while looking at the street scene.

It's nothing else, it's just a hot topic lately.

Zhu Qizhen asked, "Recently, Qin Tianjian Bei Lin blocked the lunar eclipse time, what do you think?" ”

The controversy over astronomy made Belin deeply aware of what is called high and low, and what is called chicken and duck. Because I can really understand what he says.

There are not many of them in the entire Ming Dynasty.

After all, what Belling has now mastered, even if you look at the world, is the most cutting-edge astronomical knowledge. So Belin changed her expression and directly bet on the time of the next lunar eclipse.

After all, the solar eclipse is much less than the lunar eclipse, and Belin estimates the next solar eclipse. Not this year, only the lunar eclipse is more frequent, so I found a lunar eclipse time, and this lunar eclipse is not in the original calendar.

The act of predicting a lunar eclipse proves that the new calendar is much more accurate and effective than the old calendar, and it also proves the mistakes of the old calendar.