Emperor Chongzhen in the Wuying Palace, to the cabinet and military ministers to show the Ming Dynasty topographic sand table made by the Ministry of Justice, by the way summoned Xu Hongzu who came to Beijing to serve, and in order to facilitate him to continue to carry out his unfinished geographical exploration career, specially set up an Huangming Geographical Society, although this practice attracted the advice and opposition of some ministers, but it firmly grasped the loyalty of Xu Hongzu, a geographer. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

If a person can perfectly integrate his interests with the cause of the country, then he is simply the luckiest person in the world!

That's what Xu Hongzu thinks today.

On the morning of the second day after Emperor Chongzhen met Xu Hongzu in the Wuying Palace, the plaque of the Huangming Geographical Society written by Xu Guangqi was set up in a count's courtyard that was exiled by the lord outside the Bei'an Gate of the imperial city.

And the office address of the Huangming Geographical Society has naturally become the place where Xu Hongzu has settled in Beijing.

After all, in addition to the president of the emperor, there is only one person in the current Huangming Geographical Society, who is the director of the light pole.

The first task assigned by the emperor was to take advantage of his on-the-spot exploration of the famous mountains and rivers in the south of the Shaanxi River to assist Niu Juming and his craftsmen under the command of Shi Lang of the Ministry of War to complete the topographic sand table of the towns on the nine sides of the northern Ming Dynasty and the provinces where they were located.

In addition, it was the second task assigned to him by the emperor, to use the 50,000 silver dollars allocated by the emperor from the internal treasury to the Geographical Society to handle the issuance of a journal of the Imperial Ming Geographical Society, "Geography of the World".

The title of "Geography of the World" was inscribed by Emperor Chongzhen himself.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen is said to be a traveler, but this traveler in later generations has also followed the leadership of the later generations to elegantly copy the Yan Ti Fa Ti for a period of time, the most important thing is that although the soul is a traveler, but the body of Emperor Chongzhen still retains the muscle habits and memories before coloring, and when he writes the words of Yan Ti, it is also a look, and there is a special taste in it.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen knows the power of public opinion, so before he can fully control the right to speak, he will never open the newspaper ban, fortunately, in this era, although there are many journals and other things run by the folk literary society and poetry society, no one has such a mind to start a newspaper.

If there is, then only the General Political Envoy will issue the official residence of the imperial court of each post station and yamen in the world.

Nowadays, due to the establishment of the Military Aircraft Department, and because the emperor attaches great importance to the confidential affairs of the court, the Di Bao will not easily publish the reports and articles of the Military Aircraft Department, let alone the excerpts of the imperial history of the Inspectorate and the officials of the Six Sections.

Everything that needed to be published in the imperial palace newspaper had to be personally approved by Emperor Chongzhen himself.

Therefore, in this time and space, it is absolutely wishful thinking that a thief or a prisoner wants to collect confidential information about the Ming Jingshi court through the official residence of the imperial court.

Because the real confidential situation, even the controversial situation above the imperial court, can no longer appear in the imperial court's newspaper.

Except for the news that the emperor wanted more people to know between the government and the opposition, such as the imperial court's disaster relief, free grain, opening the sea, etc., which could be published in the palace newspaper, everything else was strictly controlled by the emperor himself.

Whoever dares to publish the recital or bullet seal that has been handed to the General Administration Department without the approval of the emperor himself, or post it on the newspaper column at the entrance of the General Administration Department, then what awaits them is to behead their families at worst, and exile them at the least.

There is no other choice.

At this moment, in the past, the court of the Ming Dynasty and the general political envoys who ran away from the wind and leaked, especially the inspectorate and the imperial historians of the Six Science Corridor who ran away because of their big mouths, did not have the opportunity to make a big statement through the imperial court's mansion newspaper.

Of course, there was also something similar to a newspaper in this era, that is, the post, in fact, this so-called poster is similar to the big-character poster of later generations, which is full of political demands.

The appearance of this kind of exposé usually occurs when the opposition officials or scholars do not have a channel to write and speak.

However, this kind of posting is not a newspaper of later generations after all, because most of them are only one-off.

In the historical time and space of the late Ming Dynasty, the issue of public opinion control between the government and the opposition was not too strict, but too indulgent, and it was in a state of complete unmanagement.

Anyone who can afford to pay for it can publish any books, magazines, and periodicals, and there is no special yamen above the imperial court to approve and manage such things.

So throughout Jiangnan, public opinion was completely controlled by the Donglin Party, and the voice of the imperial court, or more precisely the voice of the emperor, was often unknown to anyone.

You can imagine what kind of image the Ming Emperor would have in the eyes of the Jiangnan scholars at the end of the Ming Dynasty in this situation.

However, Emperor Chongzhen did not intend to restrain or suppress such matters as the printing and publication of books, and at most appropriately restricted them when he legislated for the private publishing industry one day in the future.

Books are not newspapers, they are more personal and professional, but their dissemination and influence in the short term are much weaker.

Therefore, as long as there are no public newspapers among the people, Emperor Chongzhen does not plan to take the initiative to manage them.

"Geography of the World" is a professional geographical knowledge magazine, does not ask about politics, does not demonstrate, does not discuss politics, of course, can be published and distributed, and within the scope of the Ming Dynasty, the wider the dissemination, the better.

Of course, such a publication may not have a market as well as the imperial court's newspaper, and at the beginning of its publication, it must be like other industries funded and sponsored by the emperor, and it is definitely a money-losing product.

But such a thing, for the current Chongzhen Emperor, even if he loses money and loses a hundred years, he has to do it.

As for the content of the geography of the world, there are ready-made good things.

After Emperor Chongzhen met Xu Hongzu that day, when he left the palace, Xu Hongzu presented the three volumes of "Travelogue" that he had just begun to summarize and write in the past two years.

These three volumes of "Travelogue", written in small block letters, are more than 300,000 words, although there are many literati feelings when they travel in the mountains and rivers, but they also contain a lot of geographical insights.

Emperor Chongzhen was naturally overjoyed after getting it, this is a handwritten copy of the first three volumes of Xu Xiake's travelogue!

However, in order to spread these valuable geographical records as soon as possible and influence more people to make geographical discoveries, Emperor Chongzhen ordered Shi Kefa and Wu Weiye, who were in the Hanlin Academy, to copy, review, and save a copy of the manuscript as soon as possible, and also ordered Xu Hongzu to serialize these geographical notes after the establishment of "Geography of the World".

In addition, the emperor also asked Xu Hongzu to serialize, verify and annotate Chinese geography masterpieces such as Li Daoyuan's "Notes on the Water Classic", Master Xuanzang's "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" and the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" of the old ancestor in stages and batches.

In order to do a good job in the work assigned by the emperor himself, Xu Hongzu soon had to write letters to invite some of his like-minded friends in geographical research, such as Chen Hanhui, Ji Mengliang, Monk Lianzhou and others, as well as to write to his eldest son Xu Qi, to come to Beijing to help him, while taking care of the Huangming Geographical Society, while editing and publishing the "Geography of the World", a magazine that was approved.

After all, Xu Hongzu himself still needs to participate in the task of making the Ming topographic sand table for the Wuying Palace, and before the topographic sand table of the two capitals and thirteen provinces outside the nine sides is completed, there is actually not much special time to deal with the specific affairs of the Huangming Geographical Society and the "Geography of the World".

For this kind of specific affairs, of course, Emperor Chongzhen will not interfere, and there is no need to care so much, give you tasks, then give you the name, and then give you funds, and the rest of the things have to be done by yourself.

This is also the routine that Emperor Chongzhen has always used people to do things.

However, such a routine requires a premise, that is, this person has the full trust of the emperor.

Today's Xu Hongzu is one of such figures, dealing with all kinds of treacherous and cunning Beijing officials and courtiers, and dealing with cumbersome government affairs, it is certainly not his forte, nor is it his interest, but for the affairs of the Geographical Society, as well as the affairs assigned to him by the emperor to publish the "Geography of the World" magazine, he will definitely take the initiative to do his best to do it well.

For this is both within the reach of his power and his interest.