"Extra! Extra! The Imperial Government issued an apology statement and set a deadline to return the overcharged reparations......"

Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, but in the slightly more developed areas, in areas where the media are stationed, early this morning, the streets were full of newsboys' cries. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Recently, as the Imperial Government was ruled against by the Supreme Court, it was like a shocking thunderbolt suddenly exploded, and the news was spread all over the country, some of them could not believe it, some were shocked, and in short, all kinds of ideas were emerging.

The private newspapers also seemed to have found an opportunity to grow and develop, and took the opportunity to invite several former DPRK officials who resigned and stayed at home to publish several articles one after another to judge the impact of the incident.

With the in-depth analysis and explanation, the sales of the newspaper have also risen. Although there are not many literate people in China at present, when the people hear this kind of news, they still can't help but want to know the content of the newspaper.

Some tea shop owners realized that the business opportunity was coming, and for a while, almost all the shops bought the latest newspapers, and then used this to attract customers, and with it, the business of each store was better, and all they paid was the money for a newspaper, plus some time to read the newspaper.

"Three nerds, what's the news in today's newspaper?" A middle-aged man in a green shirt and robe, carrying two catties of rice in his hand, just walked out of the rice shop, he heard the sound of the newsboy, the man in the green shirt and long robe obviously knew the newsboy, and couldn't help but quip.

"Master Song, the imperial government publicly apologizes and returns the arrears within a time limit...... Song Ye, do you want one? The three nerds said the same thing, he was just a newsboy, and who stipulated that the newsboy must be literate?

Selling newspapers is just to subsidize the family, and when they are newspaper boys, the newspaper people will tell them what the headlines are today, and these newspaper boys only need to remember what the newspaper people say, and then come out and copy it, so being illiterate does not affect them to sell newspapers.

As for learning calligraphy, forget it, it takes only one penny to sell two newspapers, and the tuition fee for a year to go to a private school costs a few taels of silver, that is, selling a year's newspaper, selling twenty copies a day, it is only a little more than one or two silver a year, and even the tuition fee is not enough.

"Hehe, you, you guard the newspaper every day, you don't know how to use such a good resource, not to mention more, even if you remember these headlines you said every day, after half a year, you can also know thousands of words." The middle-aged man known as Song Ye pointed at the three nerds, and some hated that iron could not be made of steel.

"Master Song, what I said was taught by the newspaper people, and they didn't give us corrections, who knows which of these words are? I can't learn even if I want to. The three nerds replied with a grin.

Learning to have an egg? Or is it the right thing to make more money, now you can sell newspapers to subsidize your family, and when you grow up, you will be able to work, in this era, unless you have the idea of being an official in your heart, otherwise, who will let your children go to school and study?

Rich families cultivate their self-cultivation and are not short of money, so they won't say much, but ordinary people haven't even solved the problem of food and clothing in the early years, who will send their children to study?

"If someone would teach you, would you be willing to learn?" Song Ye continued to ask.

"If you don't learn, you will be poor, you will be poor, and the more you learn, the poorer you will become, so I won't learn." The three nerds responded with a clear eye.

Song Ye was speechless for a while, pointed at the three nerds and stopped, "Okay, come to a newspaper!" ”

"Thank you, Master Song!" The three nerds happily took a penny, and then handed a newspaper to Song Ye, for the three nerds, Song Ye is his big customer, almost every day will buy a copy of his own newspaper, although the unit price is not high, but over time, this is not a small amount.

"Master Song, what did you say in this newspaper? Did the imperial government really apologize? Are you sure you want to get your money back? After Song Ye took the newspaper, a group of people instantly surrounded him and asked nonsense.

Looking at the people who flocked around, Song Dingzhong shook his head helplessly, this is the sorrow of the country, this is the consequence of the cultural monopoly practiced by the high-level nobles for thousands of years.

Although the current government has been working hard to make changes, the overall strength of the country is limited, and the limited resources must be used where they are really needed at this stage.

Although education is also a big issue that cannot be ignored, even Song Dingzhong, a cultural person, realized that only when the country's industry and military are strong can the country have the heart to concentrate on education.

If a large amount of funds are used for education at this stage, it will inevitably affect the development of industry and the military, so that the country will repeat the mistakes of the previous Qing Dynasty, although he understands it very well, but looking at this scene, Song Dingzhong is still faintly a little lost.

Song Dingzhong has been in Hangzhou for two years, a lonely person, educated, and generous, and now he has already become a celebrity in Hangzhou City, and is deeply respected by the people.

In recent days, Song Dingzhong has also been thinking about whether he should do something? Although the strength of one person is like a feather, what if there are countless people like him working together?

Nowadays, the place with the highest cultural penetration rate is not the government, but the army, and the place where the culture level is the highest in the country, I am afraid that it is a little hard to believe that this result is said, but the fact is that the government's education level is closely followed by the army.

Song Dingzhongzai carefully looked at the headline report, which was written in an article of nearly 1,000 words, which was mainly divided into two paragraphs, the first paragraph was an apology from the imperial government, and the second paragraph was the disposal plan for the reparations.

After reading the whole article, Song Dingzhong couldn't help but nod his head in appreciation, although the government was suspected of playing Tai Chi, but he had to admit that at this stage, the government's choice was undoubtedly the most appropriate, whether it was the government or the people, they could accept this disposal plan.

"The Imperial Government has indeed publicly apologized, and the indemnity of 31 million taels of silver has been temporarily transferred to these two places by the Imperial Government due to the recent development of domestic industry and the outbreak of the Korean War, and the Imperial Government has made a profound review and promised not to make similar mistakes in the future.

In addition, in order to make up for the loss of the people, the imperial government will add up to the interest of one million taels per year, that is, when the refund is made after seven years, the imperial government needs to return a total of 38 million taels of silver, and the amount will be refunded according to the proportion paid by each person in each locality. Song Dingzhong roughly explained that he didn't read the whole article in one go, and if he really did that, he would go around these people, so he just summarized it and said the key points.

Anyway, there are two points, the first point is an apology and guarantee, and the second point is a total of 38 million taels will be refunded within seven years, of which 7 million taels are the interest for these seven years.

Is this interest high? It's not high at all, at least compared to the humiliating treaties signed by foreigners, this interest is not high at all.

But for ordinary people, these interest rates are not low at all, because now they have no place to eat interest, although the Imperial Bank is more insured than private ticket numbers, but now they can only do not charge any fees, private ticket numbers instead charge some management fees.

But there is such a thing as interest, then it can only be hehe, ordinary people want to eat interest, or wait for decades to talk about it.

"What? If according to this statement, if I pay one tael of silver, will I get more than one tael after seven years? One of the people listened to the puzzle in confusion.

However, he didn't understand the meaning of this, and even most Chinese people didn't understand it, it contains complex mathematical formulas, and ordinary people who don't even know a single big character, where can they calculate this account?

"You definitely won't be able to get one or two pieces of silver, because the empire did pay foreigners several indemnities in the early stage, so the imperial government should make a calculation according to the proportion of each locality, and divide the indemnity paid in the previous installments evenly, and then deduct it from your two taels of silver, and the rest, plus the seven million taels of silver in proportion, is what you get." Song Dingzhong said.

In the era when there were no computers, it would take a year or even more to calculate such a large account.

If this situation is placed in the next generation, the answer can be obtained in an instant, and there is no need to even recalculate, so it is impossible to make a mistake. You only need to enter the amount in the system when you pay it yourself, and then the proportion will be automatically displayed.

After returning to the rented house, Song Dingzhong took out his own set of treasures, and since coming to Hangzhou, Song Dingzhong has never used it again.

This was a gift from Zhang Rang back then, originally Song Dingzhong was Zhang Rang's close comrade-in-arms, but Song Dingzhong resolutely chose to quit after seeing that the country was saved.

In the end, it turned out that Song Dingzhong's choice was correct, but Zhang Rang, those crazy people, could only withdraw from the stage of history in the end, marching on a road that was destined to be impossible to succeed, how could they succeed?

After sighing secretly, Song Dingzhong began to write hard, he wanted to write a letter of request to the Hangzhou government, as for whether the Hangzhou government would agree, Song Dingzhong had no confidence in his heart, but after experiencing today's events, he had already decided that no matter what the result was, he must do something.

ps: Thank you for the support of the two monthly passes of Crazy Wood 8 without medicine, and thank you for the monthly pass support of Harmony Mao! In fact, the monthly pass has already met the requirements of the increase, but I have something to do in the past two days, so if you add a change, put it on Sunday or next Monday, please forgive me. (To be continued.) )