What Liu Zongzhou said is nonsense, and it is also strange nonsense, if the manuscript is not written by a reader, can it not be written by an illiterate person? Scholars can't be too rich, and it's a little unreasonable, isn't this like Long Huamin and their Taixi missionaries? Taking Sage Kong's proud and vain Yan Hui as an example, he can only study and live a poor life comfortably, and such a scholar is not a fool or a half-fool.

Seeing that Tianqi didn't understand his words, Liu Zongzhou said: "Your Majesty, there are generally four kinds of people in a country, namely scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants, and craftsmen, merchants, and farmers all do their jobs for the sake of profit. If you let the money corrupt your ambitions, such a person can only see the money in the eyes of the official, where can he know loyalty and justice? Even if there are scholars who are not officials, their words and deeds will be imitated, and their heads are full of money, then the Ming Dynasty will be a businessman all over the country! ”

Liu Zongzhou's words were immediately approved by others, in the Ming Dynasty businessmen are synonymous with treacherous people, if the whole country only recognizes money and nothing else in the eyes of the people, the atmosphere and moral level of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably decline sharply, and it will fall into a state of no return. According to the summary at the beginning, the role of money is to drive people to do things, if everyone doesn't like to do things and just want to make money and let others do it for themselves, then in the end, everyone takes money and waits for people who are willing to do things to appear, and there will be a large number of idle people in the country.

Liu Zongzhou saw that everyone agreed with his words, so he continued: "Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms, once said, 'The journey of a husband and a gentleman is to cultivate oneself quietly and to cultivate virtue through frugality. There is no clear ambition if it is not a turbulence, and there is no far-reaching ambition if it is not quiet. This means that a scholar with a clear moral ideal needs to be frugal and have peace of mind. The emperor runs a newspaper to promote the policies of the imperial court and the virtues of the emperor, and the emperor also preaches freedom and equality, but the reader has to get a lot of money for writing a few articles, so how does this make others understand equality? ”

Tianqi said: "It seems that Lord Liu just has an opinion on the high remuneration given, this simple can be given less, many things in this world are not black and white, it is not either not to give or to give a lot, it is suitable is what we said at the beginning is too much and the golden mean that was discussed with the earliest." ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "There is a subtle process in the world, and the ministers are worried that people's hearts will slowly become dissatisfied, and many officials are honest at the beginning, but in the end, many officials who are honest will become greedy for money, and it is better not to give them a chance at the beginning." A few years ago, the emperor instituted an economic inspection system, and the family property of officials should be audited once a year, which has achieved the effect of preventing the slightest problem. Chen was thinking that the people who contributed to the newspaper were basically speaking according to their own hearts, and they didn't look at the money in their eyes, and if they suddenly had to pay the people who wrote the articles, would they speak for the rich people in the future? ”

Liu Zongzhou's words made Tianqi feel a little uncomfortable, to be honest, Tianqi's original intention was indeed to divide the Donglin Party with money. In the various groups inside and outside the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the Jurchens who rebelled in Liaodong or the Mongols outside the Great Wall in the north, including associations like the Canal Gang and the Salt Gang, Tianqi thought that they could be settled with money. The only thing that Apocalypse feels unsure about is the Donglin Party, and from the report of the internal guard, Apocalypse analyzed that these people don't like money very much, and what they think about is how to realize their ideals, and they can give up money, fame and fortune for their ideals, which is really a bit difficult to do.

People in this world have shortcomings, some love money, some have a good name, some are greedy for sex, and each has their own needs, for these people with shortcomings, you can take medicine according to their shortcomings, as long as the medicine is right, there is no person who can't be dealt with. But those who seem to have no shortcomings or whose shortcomings will not be easily exposed will have a lot of trouble to deal with, just like catching chickens and wings, rabbits and ears, and it is not easy to start when encountering a hedgehog covered in thorns. If the hedgehog has no weaknesses, it is just easy to handle it personally, and it is okay to put it aside and stay away, but when you encounter a large group of such people, you can't avoid it anyway, and you have to find a way to solve it.

After careful analysis of the Donglin Party, Tianqi found that most of these people are still very poor, but it is no wonder that the poor people in the world have more ideals than the rich people in the world, after all, the rich are already very satisfied. Of course, it does not mean that the rich do not have things that they are dissatisfied with, but it can be said that the things that the rich are not satisfied with are generally big things, not things that can be solved in a short time, and it is not worth bothering about those things.

Apocalypse means that if you have something to say, you can say it, hide aside and mutter, which makes people suspicious, even if you are really loyal people, I have to guard against you, so that everyone is tired, it is better to give a place for you to open your heart and confide, if you have something to say, you can solve it, if it can't be solved, let it go there, everyone will save trouble. Donglin Monthly is a place for the Donglin Party to pour out its ideas, you can take it out first and let people see it if you are right or not, it is reasonable to do propaganda for the country, and if it is not right, you can temporarily suppress it and not send it, it is better than letting you quietly spread wrong ideas at will.

Paying for manuscripts is the second meaning of the apocalypse, and when you take my money and talk, you will have to think about it, and then you don't see anyone specifically opposing the person who keeps giving him money unless this person is crazy. Even if you are a person with a strong sense of justice, and you take my money and oppose me, then you will definitely speak tactfully without so many thorns. As the saying goes, it is the nature of literati to be light, and when they are not doing anything, they have to invite a group of people to write poems and fight for words, and after a long time, everyone will not get the same amount of money, and it will naturally be uncomfortable, and then the internal will definitely not be as united as before, and it is not impossible to divide and disintegrate them.

Tianqi has always been suspicious of the dominance of the Donglin Party in the DPRK, which is why non-Donglin Party members such as Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru are allowed to enter the Government Council. Tianqi knew that Gao Panlong, Liu Zongzhou and others were unquestionable in their loyalty to the imperial court, but they were not too relieved about those who came later, even Qian Qianyi was not so at ease. Some people have long suspected that Qian Qianyi has cheated during the scientific expedition, although there is not enough evidence to do it, but a person who dares to take the risk of killing the head is not trustworthy in any case.

Using the name bait to make it less harmonious internally, using profit as a tool to make its will less resolute, but also relying on them to use them to rally them around him, this is the method that Apocalypse has been thinking of for a long time. In the past, Wei Zhongxian also knew the danger of the Donglin Party, and the way to deal with it was to ruthlessly crack down and fight harshly, which was a way to deal with weeds for the sake of crops, and Tianqi thought that this method was not advisable. For the Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party is not a weed, but a group of experts in governing the country who are not very controlled, and turning these experts into helpers should not eradicate all the experts, which is not good for the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, this is a wonderful way, to give you a place to display your talents and increase your income, how to say that the Donglin Party people should be grateful and should not be dissatisfied, but everything has unexpected places, Liu Zongzhou and Huang Zunsu These irons actually saw the harm at once, which really made people feel that their sense of smell and vigilance were amazing. Gao Panlong also objected from his heart at first, but after the persuasion of the Apocalypse, he became less insistent, in addition to the advice of the Apocalypse, I am afraid that there are also reasons why he often deals with outsiders, and a nerd like Liu Zongzhou who is only obsessed with academic research must know to be easy-going and flexible.

The Apocalypse knows that everything can't be done too straight, and if people who go east want to turn back and go west, it is best to turn south or north first, so that it will seem more natural. He thought for a while and said to Liu Zongzhou: "Lord Liu's worries are very reasonable, but it is useless to worry about it, it is better for us to try slowly, Lord Liu is only worried that the more remuneration will make people change their minds, it is better for us to give a small part first, and when everyone feels that it is necessary to increase the standard of manuscript fees." How about this, how much to give at the beginning and whether it should be increased in the future, these things are decided by Lord Liu and Lord Huang? ”

Seeing that Tianqi had regressed, and did not threaten to cooperate with others as he had at the beginning, Liu Zongzhou and Huang Zunsu smiled at each other and agreed to Tianqi's request. Gao Panlong and Xu Guangqi next to him also showed a satisfied look when they saw this, only King Xin disagreed, although his face was calm, but he thought in his heart that Tianqi would never stop there, and he would not be like this if he was replaced.

Sure enough, as King Xin expected, the apocalypse said: "At the beginning, I said that the fifty-fifty split will not change, and you can let King Xin collect windfall taxes and leave, and in the future, you will need money and add some unexpected charges." ”

The meaning of the apocalypse is that I gave you money, and if you don't want so much, then hand it over to the household, and every time the money is distributed through your hands once and then flows away, I don't believe that after a long time, no one has unwilling thoughts in their hearts. Even if there is a dispute within your Donglin Party in the future, the blame is definitely not me but yourself, no matter what, I have done the practice of using money to make a gap within you, mainly depends on how long you can hold on. Persist for a long time is that you have a kind of admiration in my heart, do more things and take less money is what you want and it has nothing to do with me, and in the end if you can't hold on, someone will naturally come to me, and we will talk about it when the time comes.

Before everyone could react, King Xin said with a smile: "Brother Huang can collect more taxes by doing this, and in the future, all provinces will run newspapers as Brother Huang said, as long as the business is still so good, it will really be a lot of income." ”

Apocalypse said: "In the future, we will talk about the future, since the rules have been set, we will do it according to the rules, you first go and do a good job of the experiment of the elected officials, and record every step you take, and finally show it to me." ”