"I am going to set up a newspaper, which is different from Di Bao, which is read by the government, and this newspaper is for the people of the empire, and the name is "Ming Imperial Daily", and I need you to be responsible for this matter." Zhu Youxiao said.

In fact, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the government had already acquiesced in the establishment of private newspaper offices, at this time all private newspapers were collectively called "Beijing Daily", and the content was mainly selected and printed from the cabinet of decrees, notes and official appointments and dismissal news, of course, there were occasional social news written by the newspaper operators themselves. These newspapers were open to sale, open for sale or for reservations, giving rise to the prototype of the modern newspaper. The readers were mainly officials, gentry and merchants, but the common people did not read it.

"Please also ask Your Majesty to show me, the grass people really don't know how to handle this "Ming Imperial Daily"?" Feng Menglong said honestly. He knew that since the newspaper that the emperor wanted to run, it would not be as simple as the previous Di Bao or Beijing News, and there would definitely be a difference between the two, but as for the difference, he really couldn't figure it out for a while.

"The Ming Imperial Newspaper is my mouth, part of the content of the newspaper is that the government can make public news, some is folk news that you procure, and some newspapers can serialize novels such as "Journey to the West", and other stories can be serialized to attract the people. In order for you to run this newspaper well, I will give you an official title of Zhengqipin, and you can also recruit a group of people, this group of people will be called reporters for the time being, they are equivalent to the civil imperial history without official positions, although they cannot be heard, but they can interview anyone and anything in the people, and report truthfully, and the government must not interfere without reason. In this respect, the newspaper also supervised the officials of the imperial court. Zhu Youxiao said.

"I understand. The minister will definitely run this newspaper well. Feng Menglong said excitedly. He realized that once the "Daming Imperial Daily" was completed, its influence could reach the center of the imperial court.

"Don't worry, I will let Wang Liqian arrange the location of the newspaper, this newspaper will be published every seven days, and I will also issue an order that all storytellers in the empire must say every newspaper once a day in the place where they work, otherwise, I will not cure the storyteller's sin, and I will also close the place where they work. Therefore, the newspaper must be run well, the content must be rich, and I will bear it for you, but I must not let the people of the empire laugh at it. Zhu Youxiao advised.

In this feudal society, there is no need to consider human rights or anything at all, and those who do not obey will be directly closed and detained.

Zhu Youxiao continued: "I hope to see the first newspaper in half a month, can I do it?" ”

"The minister will definitely be able to do it." Feng Menglong assured.

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After meeting Feng Menglong, Zhu Youxiao met Bi Maokang again, a famous weapons expert in the Ming Dynasty.

"Bi Yushi, Tu Wenfu is now making flintlock pistols, I want you to make them with him, I decided to merge the War Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau to form the Imperial Weapons Manufacturing Bureau, which is responsible for the production of gunpowder weapons. You serve as the director of the manufacturing bureau and the third product, while Tu Wenfu serves as the deputy director of the bureau and the fourth product. Zhu Youxiao said.

"Commandment." Bi Maokang and Tu Wenfu said together.

"Your Majesty, I wonder what is the difference between the flintlock pistol and the previous bird gun?" The current Bi Maokang has not seen a flintlock pistol.

But Zhu Youxiao believed that according to Bi Maokang's talent, as long as the original flintlock pistol was given to him, he should be able to imitate it soon. Historically, Bi Maokang made it independently in 1635, and it can be speculated that Bi Maokang did not make the flintlock pistol for too long, not to mention that he still completed the work at that time. Now, with Zhu Youxiao's full cooperation, he believes that Bi Maokang should be able to complete it within a month.

"Tu Wenfu has a flintlock pistol there, but it has been damaged, you can take it to study, I hope you can make it as soon as possible, my new army will need to be equipped with 10,000 flintlock pistols in three months. As for the money, I can give it to you from Nenu first. Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty, you can't even make 10,000 copper guns in three months." When Bi Maokang heard Zhu Youxiao's request, his heart was cold.

"I know it's hard, but I can tell you a way to split the whole flintlock pistol into many parts, and then subcontract the different parts to merchants in the empire and let them make it for you, and you can only assemble it together. In this way, the speed will be increased by a hundred times, and the tens of thousands of people in the empire will help you do it, isn't it much faster? Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, the minister understands what to do. It's just that in this case, it may cost one to two percent more than before. Bi Maokang nodded and said. If Bi Maokang handed over some of the parts to the merchant to process, the cost would definitely increase, and the merchant would make money.

"As long as the quality can pass, it doesn't matter if you spend a little more money, but the money must be spent in the right place." Zhu Youxiao emphasized.

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he said to Tu Wenfu: "In the future, the deputy Tu Bureau will no longer be a person in the palace, and the people of the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau must obey Bi Juzheng's arrangement. I am not to blame for what you have done in the past, but if you dare to take bribes when you go to the Manufacturing Bureau, I will be punished for several crimes. ”

"Commandment." Tu Wenfu originally wanted to fight for it to see if he could stay in the palace, but Zhu Youxiao had already said this, and he also put out this thought.

"The end of the game is correct, and the people who are most afraid of China are also firearms." The original words of this sentence were said by Bi Maokang, but now Bi Maokang has not said this sentence, and Zhu Youxiao gave him this sentence to himself.

Zhu Youxiao's words made him empathize, and he kowtowed and said, "The minister understands that the minister will not disappoint His Majesty." ”

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With so many people and so many things arranged, and each of them costs a lot of silver, how to put every penny of silver on the knife edge is related to finance and auditing. Zhu Youxiao's first thought was to establish a sound financial system.

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the single-entry accounting method began to transition to the double-entry accounting method, but the Ming Dynasty government still used the single-entry accounting method, but it also absorbed a lot of some better practices of the people, and the people began to appear a simple re-examination accounting method called "three-legged account".

Zhu Youxiao had never studied accounting in his previous life, but his father was an old accountant with decades of experience, and he also knew that the most widely used double-entry accounting method for loans in modern society had appeared at this time, and it was recorded in the Italian mathematician Lucca? In Pacioli's "Compendium of Arithmetic, Geometry, Ratios and Proportions", because of this, Luca? Pacioli is known as the "father of modern accounting".

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