At dinner in the evening, Zhu Houzhao told Queen Zhang the figures from the investigation, Queen Zhang and the little girl's faces turned a little pale after hearing this, and the little girl said directly, "I won't marry in the future, and I won't give birth to a baby." Empress Zhang looked at her 6-year-old daughter and said such a sentence, and she couldn't help but smile on her face that was a little pale just now: "Girl, you say you won't marry now, and when you grow up, you will blame your mother for locking you in the palace and not letting you get married." Hongzhi glared at Zhu Houzhao, and then said to the little girl and Yan Yuese, "If you don't want to marry, you won't marry, are you afraid that your father won't support you?" "Daddy is the best." Saying that, the little girl threw herself into Hongji's arms. Zhu Houzhao smiled curtly.

The next day, Hongzhi said that the imperial court wanted to run the "Ming Pao" in the early dynasty, and most of the civil officials agreed, after all, there had been Di Bao since the Western Han Dynasty, and the current "Ming Pao" just added something more than Di Bao, and everyone appreciated the list of national scholars, but a corrupt official list seemed to have stabbed the chrysanthemums of many civil officials, and they all said, "This is so detrimental to the majesty of our dynasty, Your Majesty thinks twice." "Fortunately, several senior officials such as cabinet elders and the leaders of the six ministries did not express their positions, and several cabinet elders and senior officials of the six ministries of the Hongzhi Dynasty were of high quality, both in terms of governing ability and personal morality. However, this matter has violated the taboo of civil officials, and it is not good for these cabinet elders to deal with so many people, after all, this list of corrupt officials is not impossible to do without it, everyone is in a circle, there is no need to make a fuss about this.

Most of the civil officials were making His Majesty think twice, and the few nobles stood aside to watch the excitement. Since the "Battle of Tumubao" of Yingzong, the power of the nobles and military attaches has greatly declined, and the nobles do not hold any real positions, and they have no name to make money, so the list of corrupt officials cannot be on their heads. The military attache looked more embarrassed. The current status is not as good as that of civilian officials, and military attaches with high official positions have to give salutes first when they encounter civilian officials with low official positions, which shows that military attaches are very unvalued, so they love this list of corrupt officials very much, but there are also disadvantages, that is, they are not clean under their buttocks, and they will be on the list if they don't get it right, and they don't want to do this kind of thing of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, so they simply don't speak if the position is embarrassing.

At this time, Hongzhi spoke: "I once said to Taizu, 'Er, Erlu, the people are fat and the people are anointed, and the people are easy to abuse, Heaven is difficult to deceive' and clearly ordered to stand in the road, and build a pavilion to protect, but since the beginning of the dynasty, corrupt officials have not been cut off, why so, I think those people just feel greedy for some money, even if they are investigated, not many people will know, will not be notorious, now put down this list of corrupt officials is to let the whole world know the filthy deeds of these people, so if you want to be corrupt, you have to have multiple scruples in your heart, you will think about the shame of your ancestors for these money, and the shame of your descendants is not worth it, of course, I believe that those above this court are good ministers with both ability and integrity. ”

The lobby was quiet as if it had just been a wet market. Li Dongyang opened his mouth at this time, "Your Majesty, Shengming, the minister seconded the proposal." Then the other bigwigs expressed their positions, and the other cabinet elders represented by Xie Qian, Liu Daxia, and the six heads of the six departments represented by Tong Zhong arched their hands and said, "Your Majesty, Shengming, the minister seconded the proposal." "It's okay now, the bigwigs have all expressed their positions, don't make trouble with small fish and shrimp, and besides, Hongzhi just said everything like this, and you still don't agree, that is, there is a ghost in your heart. So everyone repeated what they had just said. This is the end of today's morning dynasty.

It's settled, so it's time to start writing. The writing of "Ming Pao" was done by the people of the General Administration. Due to Zhu Houwei's proposal, the newspaper was made like that of later generations, but in this era, everyone used classical Chinese, and even more so as a newspaper run by the imperial court. After it was written, the General Administration Department took the manuscript to Hongzhi to see, and after bringing it, Hongji also asked the two brothers to come over and look at it together. This one is a total of 2 sheets of paper, each stacked for two, a total of 8 sides, the first two sides are "the people's notice", that is, the last investigation was written, the back 2 pages are the emperor, the cabinet and the six heads of the ministry have done something meaningful recently, in the back 2 pages are the poems written by some officials of this dynasty, and the last two pages are the list of national scholars, the first issue of Wang Shu. It mainly writes about Wang Shu's life and merits. This person still needs to be introduced.

Wang Shu was born in 1416 in the 14th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty. A native of Sanyuan (present-day Shaanxi)[1]. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, he was a virtuous minister in the thirteenth year of Yingzong orthodoxy (1448), and he was selected as a Jishi. Later, he was the left commentator of Dali Temple, moved to the deputy of the left temple, and successively served as the prefect of Yangzhou, the political envoy of Jiangxi, the governor of Henan, the left servant of the Nanjing Criminal Department, the left deputy capital of the imperial history, the secretary of the military department and the left deputy capital of the imperial history, the official department of the book and the prince Taibao, the official at least Fu and the prince Taifu, etc., 19 successive officials. He was also the first governor of the river. Wang Shu has been an official for more than 40 years, and has always maintained a righteous and honest character, and Ma Wensheng and Liu Daxia are collectively known as the "Three Gentlemen of Hongzhi", and assisted Zhu Youzhi of Xiaozong to achieve "Hongzhi Zhongxing". Together with his son Wang Chengyu, he is also a representative of the "Sanyuan School". The Geng Yu, Peng Shao, He Qiaoxin, Zhou Jing, Li Min, Zhang Yue, Ni Yue, Liu Daxia, Dai Shan, Zhang Mao, etc. whom he recommended were all famous ministers at that time. He respects those sages who are in the wilderness, for fear that he will be slow to promote. During the reign of Hongzhi, there were many decent officials in the imperial court, each performing his own duties and being very organized, known as "Hongzhi Zhongxing", which had a great credit to Wang Shu.

Because it is the first issue of "Ming Pao", and the list of national scholars can be said to be highly anticipated, so it is necessary to have a great ability to control the field, Wang Shu with many years of political achievements, completely in line with high morality, so choose him, no one will gossip.

As for the list of corrupt officials, it is a county in Huguang, and the newspaper writes how long he has been an official and how much stolen money he has investigated and dealt with, which also occupies a page.

The three of Hongzhi saw that there was no problem, so they took it to the Ministry of Industry for printing. "Ming Pao" is good, and the next thing is "People's Daily". "People's Daily" has more text than "Ming Pao", so it is 4 sheets of paper stacked in two, with a total of 16 pages. Since it was a newspaper for the common people, Zhu chose to use vernacular writing, using both horizontal and punctuation.

The first three pages are the instructions for the people of "Ming Pao", and the last two pages are to invite celebrities to comment. Why do you want to send the head of the brocade guard? The Jin Yiwei of the Ming Dynasty is the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, representing the emperor, for Wang Shu, Hongzhi is very respectful and grateful, and only by sending Mu Bin can he show his sincerity. Mu Bin told the old man about the list of national scholars in "Ming Pao", and when the old man heard that he was on the national list, he suddenly burst into tears, and he trembled and wanted to kneel and kowtow in the direction of the capital, Mu Bin was also a little caught off guard, and immediately asked the old man's family to stop him, and said that Hongzhi told him, the old man is old, don't salute. The old man wiped his tears and said, "Your Majesty has not forgotten the old decay, and he has not forgotten the decay this day, and the old decay has no regrets in this life." Mu Bin, as an upright Jinyi guard, was also moved. I secretly made up my mind that in the future, I must make persistent efforts to be loyal to the country and be the first Jinyi guard to be on the list of national soldiers. Finally, he took out the results of the investigation and handed them to the old man, and asked him to say some comments so that he could go back and hand them over.

Although it was clear that these comments were to be published in the folk "People's Daily", the old man "figured it out" after thinking about it, saying that it was the people, but it was just another hand of Hongzhi, a court and a people, complementing each other, "Your Majesty has matured a lot in political affairs" The old man sighed secretly. Maintaining an excited mood, he had to write a comment by himself, his family and Mu Bin couldn't stop it, for this investigation, the old man was also shocked, and after reading it for a while, he picked up the pen and wrote. To the effect that a woman should marry at the age of 17 at the earliest, and give birth to a baby at the age of 18, the old Wang family fully accepted the suggestion of the imperial court, and the children of the family would never marry if they were not 17 in the future.

got the comments, and Mu Bin hurried straight to the capital. The commentary has not yet been sent back to the capital, but the rest of the pages of the People's Daily have been almost done. The editor-in-chief is Bai Shizhong, the most popular among students in Zhufu, the editor-in-chief is Zhu Houwei, and the other 3 gentlemen are editors, and the main creators of the first issue of "People's Daily" are such 5 people.

The first three pages are the people's notice, the latter one is the commentary and its translation, the last two pages are the poems of folk poets, and the last three pages are the short interesting stories of the parents in the capital, provided by 21 Jinyiwei who ran errands in the bookstore, the prices of the capital accounted for three pages, and the last four pages were published in the mysterious author Jin Yong's "Shooting the Condor". Due to the haste of the first issue, some places are not very well done, and most of the pages are limited to the capital, but Zhu Houwei said that in the future, it will slowly radiate to other places, and finally everything in the country can be found in the "People's Daily".

Although Zhu Houwei is not very satisfied with the quality of this issue, it is still oral for this Da Ming, who is relatively lacking in entertainment, and there is no need to worry about sales, the only thing to worry about is those readers who see horizontal rows and punctuation marks to find fault.

The two brothers Zhu Houwei mentioned it to Hongzhi, and they got a vacant shop on the street near Donghua Gate in the inner city as the base of the "People's Daily" (confiscated but not assigned). Because it was inconvenient for the two brothers to come forward, they had to launch Bai Shizhong to be the general manager of the "People's Daily".

Zhu Houzhao and the two brothers also deliberately talked with Bai Shizhong for a long time. Bai Shizhong's heart refused at first, because he knew that it would be difficult to be accepted for horizontal rows and punctuation, but Bai Shizhong, who was bombarded by the two young masters of the Zhu Mansion in turn, and Bai Shizhong, who was a little tired and not very concentrated, still fell.

In the past two days, I saw that the two brothers took a detour, but unfortunately the two brothers were still like dog skin plasters, and they couldn't shake them off even if they pasted them. Zhu Houzhao said for the 126th time, "Mr. Yan (the word in Bai Shizhong) is really a humble gentleman, not limited to the form, this article horizontal arrangement and punctuation, Mr. Yan has been well understood, which for the benefits of literacy, Mr. is also known, if you can let everyone in the world can learn, Mr. merit is immeasurable, will be famous in history." Zhu Houwei has a different rhetoric every time: "Now Mr. is only 10 taels of silver a month in the house, if he is the director of this "People's Daily", a monthly salary of 30 taels is not a problem." Bai Shizhong's face turned dark, and as soon as he wanted to speak, he heard Zhu Houzhao say, "Shut up, why is the second brother so filthy and innocent, Mr. is a righteous gentleman, and he treats money like dung, and the second brother is not quick to apologize." As he spoke, he turned his head and looked at Bai Shizhong, "Sir, "The People's Daily" is about the people of the world, if the people can read and write the newspaper, in the future history books, Mr. will be a big book, I can also be a great scholar, the people know the etiquette, social harmony, Mr. as an ideal and ambitious Shilin people, will not be afraid of some difficulties. "Yes, yes, I offended Mr. just now." Zhu Houwei smiled and apologized. Bai Shizhong couldn't cry or laugh at this time, he could see that the two brothers were cooperating to set him up.

However, he also thought about it in his heart, he knew the benefits of horizontal layout and punctuation of articles, and after only half a year of teaching, the progress of these students in reading and literacy was faster than when he was enlightened. One or two can be said to be personal qualifications, but so many students are all like this, the superiority of the current textbook is self-evident, if it can be promoted to the whole country, his name in the white time will definitely be in history, there are difficulties and not afraid, he is just 30, not old, and ambitious.

After some thinking and persuasion, Bai Shizhong agreed, and then went to the store, which is now renamed "People's Newspaper", and then posted a notice to recruit talents, preparing to make "People's Daily" bigger and stronger.