As soon as the first day passed, the Empress Dowager Wu decided to change the yuan, which was to give amnesty to the world in the first year of the vertical arch.

The meaning of the vertical arch is very clear, that is, although the emperor is here, the Empress Dowager Wu still has to hang the arch and rule. Empress Dowager Wu pardoned Li Siwen's guilt, believing that Li Siwen was a loyal minister, worshiped Sinong Shaoqing, and gave him the surname Wu Siwen.

Immediately after that, Qian Weibai was the internal history and officially the prime minister. Soon after the Wenchang Zuo Xiang who stayed in Chang'an, and Liu Renliang, the third product of Fengge Luantai, died of illness, and the Empress Dowager Wu sent an envoy to mourn.

Liu Renliang once wrote a secret letter to the Empress Dowager Wu when she was in charge of the dynasty, admonishing the Empress Dowager with the calamity of exterminating the clan with the regents of Empress Lu. With Liu Renliang's prestige in the court, Empress Dowager Wu did not dare to kill him directly like killing other ministers, so she temporarily became the regent on the grounds that Li Dan did not understand government affairs.

Therefore, as soon as Liu Renliang died, the Empress Dowager Wu was greatly relieved, and then she set out to further establish the system and means of checking and informing. So the drums were placed in the west court, and the lung stones were placed in the east court, so that there was no need for soldiers to defend. If the speaker beats the drum and standing stone, the imperial history will be questioned.

Wu Qing watched Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi frequently enter and leave the forbidden palace, and knew that these ghost ideas might be the work of the two of them, and relaxed the system of direct access to heaven, which was tantamount to encouraging civilians to sue.

Sure enough, more than a dozen people were dismissed from office in just half a month.

Wu Qing could only shake his head, it was impossible for Empress Dowager Wu to make a revolution without eradicating dissidents, and he didn't have the ability to care about these things. The restaurant and the shops are not profitable, so he has realized the sense of crisis, and the information that Yan Ruyu secretly investigated has not been received until now, but even if he kills that part of the people, if the workshop does not improve the process. If there are no new tricks such as breakfast shops and tea shops, they will be dragged to death by more and more similar shops, and the imitation ability of the people of Datang is very strong. For example, the breakfast shop. After ten years of development, steamed buns, fritters, soy milk, and so on have been gradually imitated. Moreover, some shops have introduced new products with more refined buns and fritters, which has gradually reduced the profitability of Wuqing's shop pù until today's situation.

Of course, there is likely to be a human factor in this, which Wu Qing has a guess in his heart, after all, eating is not something that can be saved. Business won't be so bleak.

However, new products and process improvements must be made, so Wu Qing said at the opening ceremony of Qingxin Academy that there would be another Spark Award as a grand prize for practical invention research. Tong guò assessed the level of practicality and improvement, rewarded bonuses ranging from 1,000 to 100,000 at a time, and also announced the problems that arose in the Wuqing industry. Of course, these questions are also hidden, and they will not be specific to a certain location.

For the sake of publicity. Wu Qing Shangshu created something called a newspaper. It can publish some court systems, explain some justice to the subjects, etc., this omission made the Empress Dowager Wu very excited, she has been worried that her decree can not be issued to the states and counties, if there is a thing called "newspaper", then why worry that the people can not know their political strategy?

In fact, the imperial court also has related newspapers, called Di Bao, which are mainly various departments of the imperial court. and the staff of the frontier division residence in Beijing to copy the imperial edict so that it could be passed on to the prefecture and county. Not systematic. Now Wuqing systematically conveys the imperial decrees in the form of newspapers, and the political and strategic goals of the Empress Dowager Wu can be regarded as an innovation.

Immediately, the Empress Dowager Wu set up a bureau in the name of the imperial court, and Feng Wuqing inspected the school and the court literary supervisor, two deputy supervisors, four chief bookkeepers, six school characters, and several writers. The Korean Cultural Bureau was directly managed by the Empress Dowager Wu and was named Lintai (Secretary Province).

When the Chaowen Bureau opened, Wu Qing asked the Empress Dowager Wu to title the newspaper, and the Empress Dowager Wu asked: "The newspaper is all mentioned by you, what is the name of the title?" ”

Wu Qing said: "The newspaper is only for propaganda and guidance of public opinion, so it is limited to seven days, it is for one week, it is better to call it 'Shendu Weekly'." Wu Qing originally wanted to say that it was called "Datang Weekly", but he thought of doing so, maybe he would not please the Empress Dowager Wu, so he changed it to Shendu Weekly.

Sure enough, when Empress Dowager Wu heard this, she laughed and said: "Today's Shendu, the report of the week, not bad." ”

So he wrote down the four big characters of "Shendu Weekly", which are quite a bit of Wei and Jin style.

Wu Qing praised it well, then returned to the Chaowen Bureau with the words, and ordered the proofreading and others to immediately engrave, typeset, and print.

The first issue of Shendu Weekly only had the establishment of Dengwen Drum and Lung Stone released by the imperial court, and after Liu Renliang's death, Empress Dowager Wu sent people to mourn, etc., but the most important thing was the matter of the Spark Award. For the first time, Wuqing sent an invitation letter to the world's inventions and innovators. However, it is limited to practical inventions, such as the improvement of crops and waterwheels in agriculture, and the improvement of sugar-making technology, paper-making technology, brewing technology, and so on in industry.

The first issue of Shendu Weekly Newspaper printed 30,000 copies and distributed them to various places, and a newspaper only cost one penny, which was the labor cost of the post station.

Wu Qing walked into the Zhenguan Hall with the first sample report, and happened to meet Wu Chengsi at the door.

"Oh, it's my cousin, my aunt is inside, let's go inside." Then he laughed and walked away.

Shangguan Wan'er walked out and said, "The Queen Mother has invited the general." ”

"Wan'er, how are you doing?" Wu Qing hurriedly approached and asked in a low voice.

Shangguan Wan'er was stunned for a moment, nodded, but didn't say anything, and then Wu Qing stepped into the hall, and after seeing the salute, he handed the sample report to the Empress Dowager Wu, and said: "Mother, this is the first newspaper, the first one that opened the world." ”

Empress Dowager Wu smiled: "Well, yes, this is the second first you gave me." Not bad! Then he looked at it.

When he saw the Spark Award, he couldn't help asking: "Qing'er, once this Spark Award comes out, doesn't it make people in the world pursue profits like that businessman?" ”

Wu Qing pondered for a moment and said, "May I ask if the saint of Grandma thousands of years ago has the gorgeous clothes of Grandma?" ”

Empress Dowager Wu shook her head.

Wu Qing took a deep breath, and then said slowly: "Suiren's invention of drilling wood to make fire, people have eaten cooked food since then, Shennong's taste of herbs to understand that herbs can cure diseases, Cangjie has a record of civilization, to this day human beings can go to sea, can ride horses and hunt, stones have become exquisite jade, flowers and plants have become delicacy on a plate, and even the hairstyles on the heads of beautiful women are thousands of variations and so on, all of which show how important it is to invent and create, and it promotes the development of civilization. It allows us to have better living conditions. Therefore, the Queen Mother, Weichen asked for a reward for the invention of the zào. ”

Hearing Wu Qing's generous words, it made Empress Dowager Wu feel a sense of surprise, but she seemed to have something she didn't grasp, so she said: "Since your Spark Award has been announced, let's announce it, as for the imperial court to reward this invention and creation, Rong Zhen will think about it again." ”

Wu Qing sighed in his heart, then thanked him and left. (To be continued......)