Zhu Cheng asked the coachman to remove the easy chair and the sweet mattress from the car, Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed when he saw it, and said: "This is the Anton chair and the sweet dream made by the royal craftsmen, I have seen it in the palace, and it is indeed very comfortable to sit on." Zhu Cheng, I'm really happy that you can think of grandpa. ”

Wei Zhongxian thinks he is Zhu Cheng's grandfather, so he never calls himself our family in front of him, but uses "I".

Zhu Cheng said: "The emperor rewarded me with ten carts of things, you know, so I picked a few and sent them." Grandpa Wei is always strong, but I often hear people say that those who can rest will work. You need to use these things from time to time to better serve the emperor. ”

Wei Zhongxian smiled slightly, and immediately retracted it, and the sorrow that could not be concealed was revealed again.

"Did Grandpa Wei encounter any problems?" Zhu Cheng couldn't help but ask.

Wei Zhongxian sighed: "Alas, I said, you can't help......"

Zhu Cheng persuaded: "Let's talk about it, maybe I can come up with a solution." ”

Wei Zhongxian glanced at Zhu Cheng, thinking of his usual appearance, he had a little hope in his heart, and said: "It's not those people in Donglin Academy, they are many people, they control public opinion, and they influence the hearts of the people. They proposed to increase the taxes on the peasants in order to cope with the problem of the imperial court not being able to make ends meet. The emperor and I mean to raise business taxes, anyway, businessmen have money, and plucking a hair can benefit the world. However, Donglin resolutely opposed it, and even talked about it, saying that I had lured the emperor into violating the ancestral system and forced a large number of imperial historians to impeach me. It doesn't matter if I was impeached by the imperial history, the key is that when I returned home, I was thrown rotten eggs and rotten cabbage by the people along the street. I wanted to reduce the burden on the peasants, but I was misunderstood by the public, which really chilled my heart. ”

Most of the Donglin Party were big landlords and wealthy merchants, and the Ming Dynasty had regulations on exempting the gentry from grain tax and labor service, and the overcharging of agricultural taxes had nothing to do with them, and the collection of business taxes violated their interests, and of course they had to bark like mad dogs. The Donglin Party mastered public opinion and portrayed Wei Zhongxian as a blackmail and exploiter, and was naturally hated by the kind and easily deceived people.

Zhu Cheng looked up to the sky and laughed, and said, "Grandpa Wei, you are sad about this little thing, and I still praise you as an iron-blooded prime minister in front of Ah Zhen." ”

Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Zhu Cheng, do you have a way?" ”

Zhu Cheng said: "The Donglin Party has mastered public opinion, so it would be good for us to also grasp public opinion." ”

Wei Zhongxian's face sank, and he said: "Grasp public opinion, do I still want to open a royal academy, even if the royal academy is built, how many people will come in to study, and how many years will it take to see results." Donglin Academy has a long history, and the protégés are all over the world, and I alone say, how can I withstand his scolding. ”

Zhu Cheng said: "There are indeed a lot of protégés of Donglin Academy, but there are only more than 100 core members, and the others are all in the same vein. What's more, there are millions of farmers in the world, and this is the person Grandpa Wei wants to fight for. ”

Wei Zhongxian saw that Zhu Cheng's words were conclusive and seemed to have some basis, so he asked, "What do you think I should do?" ”

Zhu Cheng said: "Grandpa Wei has a good public opinion weapon in his hands, why not use it?" ”

Wei Zhongxian asked, "Oh, let's hear it." ”

Zhu Cheng said: "It's "Di Bao". ”

Wei Zhongxian asked: "Di Bao is just an official document of the central government to distribute information and publish the chapters, what is the purpose?" ”

Zhu Cheng said: "Grandpa Wei, newspapers are an important tool that can influence people's hearts, just imagine, a person says in your ear every day that a certain person is a good person, and over time, what kind of person do you think a certain A is?" ”

Wei Zhongxian nodded and said, "Yes, in this way, Di Bao is a good thing." ”

Zhu Cheng said: "The current "Di Bao" can be said to be useless. First of all, the audience of "Di Bao" is narrow, and only officials of a certain grade can read it; Secondly, the content of "Di Bao" is limited, and it is only the official documents of the imperial court and the recitals of some ministers, which makes people have no interest in reading it at all. ”

Wei Zhongxian said: "How do you think the "Di Bao" should be changed? ”

Zhu Cheng said: "Di Bao can't be changed, otherwise those conservative ministers will be verbose again." However, although the "Di Bao" cannot be changed, we can borrow the chicken to lay eggs and set up the "Di Bao" supplement in addition to the "Di Bao". "Di Bao" is irregular, but "Di Bao" supplement is daily; Di Pao was delivered to officials, but Di Pao Supplement was sold to the public; Di Bao only publishes official documents of the imperial court and ministers' concerts, but the Supplement of Di Bao covers everything, including "Speeches on Current Politics", "Policy Interpretation", "Jokes", "Serial Novels", ......"

When Wei Zhongxian heard this Yue era Jianyi, he was a little confused, and frowned and thought.

Zhu Cheng knew that it was difficult for people to understand just by talking about Jianyi, so he whispered a few words in the ear of Wei Zhongxian's entourage, and the entourage understood, and went to the inner room to take a large piece of blank paper.

Zhu Cheng spread out the paper, brushed a little bit, and wrote the first newspaper of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, time was tight, and Zhu Cheng couldn't make up a newspaper on the spot, so he just divided the columns, wrote a few headlines, and replaced the text below with dots.

Zhu Cheng didn't wait for the ink to dry, and brought the newspaper to Wei Zhongxian.

Zhu Cheng pointed to the column under the masthead and said to Wei Zhongxian: "This is "Current Political News", which contains a few news items that I made up randomly: "The Emperor of the Apocalypse secretly visited the people and met with the people cordially", "Father-in-law Wei went to the grassroots level and angrily reprimanded the officials who did not act", "Never increase the burden on the peasants, the Emperor of the Apocalypse set the tone for next year's taxation". This page is the interpretation of the government, "Why do you want to take food from the poor people", "A peasant's self-prosecution", and "The luxurious life of a wealthy businessman in Jiangnan". This section is "Social News", "The Li Family on East Street Appears in Rui, and the Old Man Lives to Be One Hundred and Seven Years Old", "The Wang Family's Puppy Bites the Mouse to Death", "The South Village and the North Village Quarrel Over Water Resources". This page is "Good Literature Appreciation", "The Teacher Says", "The Story of the Small Window", "The Story of the Canglang Pavilion", and "The Story of the Spring Breeze Building". This section is a comic, interpreting current affairs in the form of pictures and texts. This page is "Entertainment World", and "Jokes" and "Novel Serialization" are placed here. This "Novel Serial" is to attract readers to buy our "Di Bao" supplement without pulling a single issue. ”

After all, Wei Zhongxian is a smart politician, and he understood it at a glance, and praised: "If you can come up with this idea, you are worthy of being a member of our old Wei family." ”

Zhu Cheng added: "This "Current Political News" must not be published in the news of Donglin Hall, but can only be published in our people-friendly activities to establish a great, glorious and correct image of the emperor. The newspaper should publish the submission address, and we should write the manuscript for the first few issues, and after the newspaper is sold, someone will naturally submit the manuscript. ”

Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed, but he was an old fox after all, and immediately thought that the Donglin Party might follow suit, and asked, "What should those people in Donglin Academy do if they imitate?" ”

Zhu Cheng sneered: "Then they will be unlucky, except for the imperial court, who dares to publish the "Di Bao"?" Out of one family, one family was sealed, and even the people who printed with the main pen were all arrested. ”

When Wei Zhongxian's entourage heard this, they trembled, this Zhu Cheng is so murderous.

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he said: "Yes, we are a newspaper run by the imperial court, and we publish a supplement to the "Di Bao", which belongs to the scope of the "Di Bao". ”

The more Wei Zhongxian thought about it, the better it became, hum, no matter how powerful the Donglin Party is, can it still control public opinion across the country? As soon as this "Di Bao" supplement came out, what Donglin Party and Xilin Party, the bad water in their stomachs was drying under the sun, and it was not clearly seen by people all over the world that they were pretending to be public and selfish.

However, Wei Zhongxian thought of a technical problem and said: "Zhu Cheng, although the Di Bao has now adopted movable type printing, it takes too long to typeset and print, so it is not available every day. There are so many contents in the "Di Bao" supplement, and the typesetting time is longer, not to mention the daily, I am afraid it is difficult to do it at the same time as the "Di Bao". However, it is also possible to grasp public opinion. ”

Zhu Cheng shook his head and said, "How can the magazine be done, the major and small affairs of the imperial court every day should be announced to the public." ”

Zhu Cheng was pacing back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, and suddenly his eyes noticed the bun on the table. Wei Zhongxian was not in the mood to eat when he returned home, so he asked his entourage to go out and buy a few steamed buns and come back. The buns were wrapped in paper and brought back, and the soup in the buns dripped onto the paper, leaving a large spot of oil on the paper.

Zhu Cheng suddenly remembered the scene in his previous life, when he was a child, watching the dean's grandfather release the test papers. He put the wax paper on the steel plate, wrote on the wax paper with an iron pen, and then put it on the mimeograph machine and rolled it with a large iron, and a test paper was printed, and he couldn't help shouting: "Engraving the steel plate, transcribing and printing." ”

Wei Zhongxian was a little confused and asked, "What are you carving?" ”

Zhu Cheng excitedly said the method of using an iron pen to engrave words on wax paper and then printing with ink, Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed and said, "Let's go, let's report the good news to the emperor." ”

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