"I've read the newspaper, I've read the newspaper, there are all kinds of court affairs, folk anecdotes, economic and historical debates, makeup and clothing!"

"The frontier is a great victory, and my Ming border army defeats the Arutai invasion!"

"How to keep your skin hydrated and smooth, here's the secret recipe!"

"Mingxin Jushi put down the ring, and if he can face this lonely pair, he will be awarded a hundred taels of silver!"

"Look at the eighteen monsters in Yunnan, eggs are sold on grass skewers!"

"It's cheap, it's cheap, three copper plates in one piece, three copper plates in one!"

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On the first day of November, when the people of Beijing welcomed the arrival of a new day as usual, a group of children who agreed to dress and carried cloth bags stuffed with Mingxin newspapers suddenly appeared on the streets of Beijing. The update is the fastest and most stable

These children waved the Mingxin newspaper in their hands, walked the streets and alleys to sell them, and their words were full of strong rendering and agitation, and many people were curious to pay for them to see what was going on.

With the consumption power of the people in the capital, three copper plates are equivalent to buying a string of sugar gourds for children, which is not a problem at all.

So, under the shouting of those newspaper sellers, a new business called "Ming Xin Pao" sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and quickly spread throughout the city, and everyone who bought it was attracted by the information published on it.

It is like a person named "Ming Xin Jushi" who offered a reward of one hundred taels in the newspaper, and it suddenly became a topic of conversation after dinner.

The reason why Ming Xinju dared to reward those more money was naturally confident, and his uplink was very simple, only five words - smoke lock pond willow.

Don't underestimate these simple five words, not only the artistic conception is elegant, fresh and natural, but also depicts a beautiful scene of dense fog on the pond in the early morning with anthropomorphic techniques.

More importantly, these five words are based on the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth as the radicals, if you want to come out of the lower link, I am afraid that you can only use the words containing the five radicals to correspond, but in this way there is a great restriction on the lower link, and it is difficult to have the kind of far-reaching artistic conception of the upper link.

As the saying goes, since ancient times, there is no first, no second, Ming Xin Jushi is so ashamed, immediately in the capital of Shilin set off an uproar, everyone wants to extinguish the prestige of Ming Xin Jushi.

Speaking of which, the officials of the major ministries and institutes in the capital can be said to be full of poetry and books, and the Hanlin Academy is a temple in the minds of readers.

But it is precisely because of the talent of the Hanlin that they can see the subtlety of this pair at a glance, and they are secretly amazed in their hearts, and no one has accepted the edict to the next couplet.

On the contrary, it is the scholars in the capital who are strong in blood and strength, racking their brains and making up some lower couplets, although they all have five radicals, but the artistic conception is far from the upper couplet, and in the end they can only laugh and be generous.

As for who the Ming Xin Jushi is, Qi Fu, the shopkeeper of the Ming Xin Newspaper, is tight-lipped, and he still has to rely on the Ming Xin Jushi as a gimmick, how can he easily reveal the mystery.

Ming Xin Bao publishes an issue every day, the content involves four major aspects, namely the imperial court affairs, folk anecdotes, historical polemics and makeup and clothing four aspects, the readers are very clear, officials and businessmen, the common people, Wenlin scholars and young beauties.

Therefore, Qi Fu had four people under him who were in charge of these four aspects of affairs, and they gathered together every day to arrange the plates and hand them over to the warehouse for printing, and they cooperated with each other quite skillfully.

At the beginning, the part of the debate on history was that the Ming Xinju scholars were holding up the façade alone, citing classics to comment on some ancient historical classics, but soon many new pen names appeared to express their respective views, which in turn caused a lot of people to fight with each other, which was very lively.

Just quietly, Mingxin Bao expanded its edition, and some advertisements appeared on it, such as which restaurant opened for rewards, which ** came to the new song and dance girl, which cloth shop has preferential activities, etc., which is not only close to the lives of the people, but also earns a lot of advertising costs.

Otherwise, the few dollars from selling newspapers alone would not be able to support the expenses of Mingxin Pao, and those authors who published articles in Mingxin Pao under pseudonyms were all well-written, after all, they also had to live and support their families.

Unknowingly, after a boiling snowfall, the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve arrived, and the capital was wrapped in silver and became a world of pink makeup and jade.

In the morning, Li Yuntian fell asleep with Zheng Wanrou in his arms, and now that the imperial court is on annual vacation, he can rest at home until after the Lantern Festival.

The Li family had a happy event a few days ago, with Li Yuntian's continuous efforts, the green calyx has been confirmed to be pregnant, which makes Li Yuntian quite excited, since the green calyx last miscarriage, he has always felt guilty about the green calyx, and now it can be regarded as a compensation for her.

"Master, it's time to get up and go to the Guogong Mansion." When Li Yuntian was sleeping in a daze, Zheng Wanrou's voice sounded in his ears.

"Sleepy, sleep a little longer." Li Yuntian stretched out his hand and took Zheng Wanrou in his arms, closed his eyes and said, It is a very pleasant thing to sleep in the warm quilt on a cold day.

Seeing that Li Yuntian didn't like it, Zheng Wanrou smiled helplessly, and got up** to freshen up, the whole family of the Li family was going to Zhongguo Mansion for dinner at noon today, so naturally they had to rush over early.

As Zhou Yuting's delivery date approached, she moved to the Guogong Mansion more than half a month ago to be taken care of by Li Yuntian's mother-in-law, Li Yuntian knew that her mother-in-law felt sorry for Zhou Yuting, so naturally she would not object.

Half an hour later, Li Yuntian was lazily pulled up by Zheng Wanrou from the **, washed under her service, and looked lazy, at this moment, where does it look like the imperial history of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no majesty of half a trace of Jishi.

"Master, is there a lower link of yours?" When she was tidying up Li Yuntai's clothes, Zheng Wanrou remembered something and couldn't help asking.

The Shanglian in Zheng Wanrou's mouth refers to the "smoke lock pond willow", since the Mingxin Pavilion is Li Yuntian's industry, then the Mingxin monk who is shouting for the Mingxin newspaper is of course Li Yuntian.

In the past two or three months, Li Yuntian has been busy with the affairs of Ming Xinbao, and his appearance in the imperial court is very low-key, almost making people feel that there is no sense of survival, and gradually downplaying the impact of the edict.

"To be honest, the husband didn't think of the next link, a good pair appeared between the moments, but it was hard to find." Li Yuntian laughed, a little smug in his smile.

A "smoke lock pond willow" led countless scholars in the capital to compete for life, which not only enhanced the popularity of Mingxin Bao, but also invisibly raised the style of Mingxin Bao, which can be described as his genius.

Generally speaking, the "smoke lock pond willow" implies the five elements, so the lower link must be able to be opposite to the five elements, which is the best choice.

However, it is so difficult to be opposed to the five elements, so the next link can only retreat to the second, and also use the five elements to oppose it, so that the style is weaker first.

Moreover, it is not easy to use the five elements in the lower link, in addition to the five elements, you also need to have that wonderful and elegant artistic conception, not just to pile up the words in the lower link, which is undoubtedly more difficult.

In addition, the five elements have the saying of mutual restraint, strictly speaking, the five elements of the lower link must be born or restrain each other with the five elements of the upper link, if you want to do this, it is difficult to go to the sky.

Therefore, since the reward of Ming Xinbao, no one has ever been able to come up with a link that everyone agrees with, and it has been praised by the scholars in the capital as "absolute through the ages".

"Master, this pair turned out to be you, so you must have a link, tell the concubine to listen." Zheng Wanrou's watery eyes flickered twice, and she said with a smile.

"Fengran Jinjiang embankment." Li Yuntian laughed when he heard this, and reached out and gently scraped the tip of Zheng Wanrou's nose.

"Fengran Jinjiang Embankment!" Zheng Wanrou's eyes suddenly lit up, and she couldn't help but praise, "Wonderful, really wonderful!" ”

Li Yuntian's lower couplet not only implies the five elements, but also the artistic conception is also very exquisite, the embankment of a river is planted with maple trees, and the maple leaves turn red after autumn, as if burning on the embankment.

On the whole, the "Fengran Jinjiang Embankment" to the "Smoke Lock Pond Willow", whether it is style or artistic conception, has almost reached ninety, which is a rare downlink.

"Shouldn't you reward your husband?" Li Yuntian leaned down with a hippie smile and pouted to Zheng Wanrou.

The maids in the room couldn't help laughing when they saw this, Zheng Wanrou's cheeks couldn't help but redden, and she stood on tiptoe to give Li Yuntian a hot kiss, she actually liked Li Yuntian's somewhat skinny coquettishness, which just showed the harmony of the relationship between the two husband and wife.

When Li Yuntian and his entourage came to the Guogong Mansion, his brother-in-law Zhou Yang personally went out to greet him, and the two entered the courtyard chatting and laughing.

This time, Lu Cao, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou all came to the Guogong Mansion, although the three daughters were concubines, they were sealed by the imperial court, so they were naturally qualified to attend the family banquet of the Guogong Mansion.

Zhou Zheng, the Duke of Zhongguo, is now deeply respected and trusted by Emperor Hongxi, and is in charge of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, holding more than 300,000 Jingwei, and his status among those nobles in the capital is second only to the British Duke Zhang Fu.

It is rumored that after learning of the death of Emperor Yongle, the British Duke Zhang Fu secretly sent someone to report to the Han King Zhu Gaoxu, but unfortunately there is no evidence to prove this rumor.

However, like Emperor Yongle, Emperor Hong Xi did not pay attention to the rumors from the outside world, and also trusted Zhang Fu, after all, Zhang Fu is not only the leader of the capital, but also the father and son are the heroes of Jingnan, and his father Zhang Yu is the first hero of Jingnan, he believes that Zhang Fu will recognize the shape of the shì, and will definitely be loyal to him, and will never do anything dangerous to the Ming Dynasty, and it is also a kind of appeasement for the merits of the capital.

Therefore, Emperor Hongxi not only let Zhang Fu take charge of the affairs of the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army, but also made him a prince of the first grade, with a noble status that is beyond the reach of hundreds of officials.

It is worth mentioning that after the 27th day of the Yongle Emperor's national funeral, Lu Zhen, the secretary of the ministry, once had a fierce quarrel with Yang Shiqi because of Emperor Hongxi's change from filial piety to auspicious clothes.

In fact, the matter is not over, in the second subsequent court meeting, Emperor Hong Xi is still wearing filial piety clothes, he thinks that the coffin of Emperor Yongle is still in the palace and has not been buried, how can he wear auspicious clothes to the court?

In the Manchu Dynasty, except for Yang Shiqi and Zhang Fu, who still wore filial piety clothes, the rest of the people wore court clothes.

Emperor Hongxi sighed: "Zhang Fu is a military minister, and he knows the etiquette more than Liuqing", and since then he has respected and trusted Zhang Fu more, and ordered him to take charge of the affairs of the banquet and supervise the actual record.

Zhang Fu was reused, which played a decisive role in pacifying the nobles in the capital, while Zhou Zheng, Zhang Hao and Niu Shihao and other nobles were entrusted with important tasks, which made Emperor Hongxi gradually strengthen his control over the Ming army, and little by little eroded the influence of the Han King in the nobles and the army.

The breadth of Emperor Hongxi's heart and the depth of the city government can be seen from this. One