With Zhu Youxiao taking the lead, the trading in the exchange began to be lively, and the number of people placing orders was gradually increasing. It is very symbolic for Zhu Youxiao to take the lead, especially to take the lead in personally signing the contract, which shows that the emperor today acts in accordance with the rules of the exchange. Even the emperor is no exception, so everyone else must abide by the rules here, and this rule is what the merchant has always pursued.

The next day, the volume of trading on the exchange began to increase sharply, by more than 50 percent from the previous day, and then increased every day until a month later.

The "Ming Imperial Daily" will also publish a small number of commodity trading information within seven days every seven days. With the development of the exchange, many merchants within the empire will buy a copy of the "Ming Empire Daily" for reference, and the trading information on the exchange is a barometer of the trading prices of commodities in the entire empire.

Since the "Ming Imperial Daily" only reports on bulk commodities, this has also given rise to a professional economic newspaper, which covers a more comprehensive range of professional economic daily newspapers, of course, it is not called "Economic Daily" now, this kind of newspaper is that someone in the exchange will copy the highest and lowest prices of all categories of transactions on the day every day, and then sell them. Every trader who enters the market will surely have a copy of this information in their hands, which is crucial for their quote today.

At the same time, the exchange is also naturally eliminating some categories that are not suitable for the survival of the exchange.

Since "Daming Imperial Daily" received Zhu Youxiao's advertising support, it no longer has to reach out to Zhu Youxiao to ask for money, although the reporter has not been used. But the form of a special draft has already been used.

Wei Guangwei, a cabinet minister, was the first author to publish an article in the "Daming Imperial Daily", and his first article was to praise Zhu Youxiao's commodity exchange. Wei Guangwei's article was not only praised by Zhu Youxiao, but also received a pen fee. Of course, this pen-toning fee is nothing to him.

This also indicates the change of the "Ming Imperial Daily", not only did the newspaper appear as a special article, but also the number of contributors began to increase, as long as it was adopted, they would get a pen fee, which was a good income for many poor scholars.

Under the propaganda of the Ming Imperial Daily, the number of people supporting the reform is gradually increasing, and the conservatives of the empire are also aware of the seriousness of the problem and have begun to plan their own propaganda methods.

In April, the newspaper representing the conservative side of the empire, the Da Ming Confucian Daily, was finally released. Liu Zongzhou wrote the first special article for the "Daming Confucianism". The reformists represented by Zhu Youxiao and the conservatives represented by Liu Zongzhou and others first engaged in a confrontation among the people.

No one expected that just over a year later, this confrontation would heat up and spread to the entire empire.

When a matter becomes a national event, no one can stay out of it. Reformists and conservatives are gradually replacing the old partisanship.

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But from the very beginning, the "Daming Confucianism" was not the opponent of the "Daming Empire".

"Daming Imperial Daily" stands behind the emperor, and "Daming Confucianism" stands behind a group of conservative Confucian representatives, they have a strong appeal, although Zhu Youxiao is temporarily at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, but Zhu Youxiao has the advantage of Zhu Youxiao, he is the emperor This is his biggest advantage, he also has a strong financial backing and strong distribution channels.

Nowadays, reading the newspaper in the teahouse has become a mandatory item, and people who drink tea every day do not listen to the newspaper, and always feel that something is missing. Although "Daming Confucianism" has also entered the teahouse with the support of many readers, relatively speaking, "Daming Imperial Daily" is closer to the people's livelihood, and the common people prefer to listen to "Daming Imperial Daily", which has a lot to do with Zhu Youxiao's pro-people line from the beginning.

In addition, the low-price strategy of "Daming Imperial Daily" invisibly raised the threshold for entering the newspaper industry. If you don't introduce advertising, you will lose money when you publish a newspaper.

Now many non-governmental tabloids have been influenced by the "Ming Imperial Daily" and began to introduce advertising, and the "Ming Confucian Daily" refused to advertise from the beginning, which is contrary to the theory they adhere to, which means that the more the "Ming Confucian Daily" is circulated, the greater the loss.

Of course, all this is an afterthought.

Students from the Army Academy and the Artillery Academy had completed their studies at the beginning of March and had been sent to various positions in the Forces nouvelles. In this training, a group of people have indeed emerged, but what will happen in the future will still need to be practiced, after all, there are too many people talking on paper.

The examination of the Army Academy took the form of a written test and an interview, and the content of the written test was to examine the literacy rate; at this time, the illiteracy rate was too high, and more than ninety percent of the officers sent for training this time were illiterate or the number of literate officers was very small. The content of the interview was to inspect the marching formation, and Zhu Youxiao specially asked people to make dozens of sand tables, and the content of the sand tables covered most of the places in the empire where war might occur.

And the artillery academy exam has two more contents, one is arithmetic, and the other is on-site test artillery shooting.

Of course, only the top ten students in each college can enjoy the certificate issued by Zhu Youxiao himself, which is a symbol of honor after all.

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The matter of Zhu Youxiao's western tour was also officially put on the table, and it is conceivable that it attracted unanimous opposition from the whole court. This time, no one in the cabinet supported Zhu Youxiao's decision. Even Wang Liqian repeatedly persuaded Zhu Youxiao not to tour the west. But Zhu Youxiao's "I have made up my mind" rejected everyone's recital.

Since the Tumubao Incident, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have been trapped in the capital division. And Zhu Youxiao has had a dream since he crossed over, and he has a dream to patrol the Quartet. Although the emperor's tour is a laborious and expensive thing, Zhu Youxiao still maintains this dream. Before Zhu Youxiao went on patrol, he had already issued several orders to the locality, asking for everything to be simple. Zhu Youxiao also decided not to stay in the place, but planned to rush to Datong as soon as possible.

Of course, this incident also made Zhu Youxiao extremely bored, and he could not read the chapter, but every time he went to the court, the civil and military officials would definitely mention this matter, and they would kneel down at every turn, and they would also kneel and admonish the civil and military officials together. It is conceivable that Zhu Youxiao broke up unhappily every time he went to court.

And since Zhu Youxiao decided to tour the west, the people outside the palace have not stopped, many of these civil and military ministers are in the grade, Zhu Youxiao is really afraid of kneeling out, so Zhu Youxiao sent people from the hospital to guard there every day.