The next day, Lan Bin entered the palace, studied in the main hall for about an hour, and estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang was going to the court, so he asked Mr. for leave and went to the Qianqing Palace.

He is ready to pull Zhu Yuanzhang to run a newspaper together.

Newspapers, although they are a weapon to compete for the right to speak with readers, are also a double-edged sword, which can not only hurt the enemy, but also hurt himself.

And Zhu Yuanzhang is the thick thighs he is looking for.

As for why he didn't look for Zhu Xiongying, or Zhu Biao, the former was young, Lan Bin had the intention of protecting Zhu Xiongying, and didn't want to drag Zhu Xiongying into the dispute so early.

The latter is deeply poisoned by Confucianism, if he knows that his newspaper is competing with readers and Confucianism for the right to speak, I am afraid that the newspaper has not yet been run, then I will persuade him first.

It will be difficult to listen to it or not.

Zhu Yuanzhang is different, not mentioning his identity as an emperor, that is, he himself is a proper iron-headed baby, once it is determined, ten cows will not be able to pull it back.

As long as he can explain to him the benefits of the newspaper, as long as he can prove to him that the newspaper is beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, he will definitely support it.

When he arrived at the Qianqing Palace, Lan Bin took a look at the Qianqing Palace, summoned a eunuch, and arched his hand: "Father-in-law, is the emperor in court?"

"Lan Baihu, what a coincidence that you came, Your Royal Highness the Emperor and the Crown Prince, not long after returning to the palace, you came!" The eunuch laughed.

Of course, Lan Bin would not say that he had counted the time, and said with a smile: "Father-in-law, I am tired of reporting to the emperor, and I will say that Lan Bin has something to ask to see!"

"Lan Baihu wait!"

The eunuch nodded, turned around and entered the Qianqing Palace to report.

Soon, the eunuch went and returned, and came to Lan Bin: "Lan Baihu, the emperor let you in."

"There's Father-in-law!" Lan Bin thanked him.

The eunuch bowed slightly: "Lan Baihu, in recent days, the emperor has been working on state affairs, and he hasn't slept well for a long time. The emperor will have to sleep for a while, so don't delay too long."

Lan Bin wondered in his heart, it seems that nothing major has happened in the imperial court recently! The biggest thing is that two days ago, Yingtianfu tried to implement commercial taxes.

Why hasn't Zhu Yuanzhang slept well for a long time?

But doubts are doubts, he didn't ask more, and he didn't dare to ask, and thanked him: "Thank you father-in-law for mentioning something!"

"Lan Baihu, come in! The emperor is waiting!" The eunuch smiled.

"Then I'll go in, and I'll talk to my father-in-law another day when I'm free!"

Lan Bin arched his hand, hurriedly entered the Qianqing Palace, came to the palace, glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang who was sitting behind the imperial case, and Zhu Biao who was standing beside Zhu Yuanzhang, and saluted: "Minister Lan Bin, participate in the emperor, His Royal Highness the Prince!"

"Father, my son is a little sleepy, so let's go back to the palace to rest first!"

Zhu Biao glanced at Lan Bin, yawned, and saluted Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang also yawned and waved his hand: "Go!"

"Son's resignation!"

After Zhu Biao saluted, he walked out from behind the imperial case, and when he passed by Lan Bin, he smiled at Lan Bin before leaving.

"Why don't you go to the main hall to study, what are you looking for us?" Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Zhu Biao's back, and after a touch of distress flashed in his eyes, he yawned again before looking at Lan Bin and said.

"Your Majesty, Minister..."

Lan Bin looked up at Zhu Yuanzhang, just spit out three words, his eyes widened suddenly, just now the eunuch said that Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't slept well for a long time, and he was still a little suspicious.

And now, he found out that Zhu Yuanzhang's mental state is much worse than before, not to mention, he still has a pair, very conspicuous dark circles, like a giant panda.

It's kind of indescribably funny.

Lan Bin couldn't help muttering in his heart, did Zhu Yuanzhang steal cattle at night, this was because he didn't sleep well, he didn't sleep at all!

"What do you see us doing?" Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Lan Bin looked at him like a monkey, very uncomfortable, and said with a calm face.

Lan Bin's expression was pale, and he said seriously: "Your Majesty, the ministers see that you are not in good spirits, please take care of your dragon body!" Don't bother!"

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Lan Bin cared about him so much, and his heart was warm,

Lan Bin, this doll, still knows that he cares about us, and we don't hurt him in vain. But on the face, he yawned for a long time: "If there is anything, tell me quickly, we still have a lot of things to deal with."

"Your Majesty, these days, the minister has thought of a business..."Lan Bin hesitated.

"What business?"

Zhu Yuanzhang came to the spirit all of a sudden, and he knew Lan Bin's ability to do business.

So far, Lan Bin's glass business and soap business are all businesses that are making money every day. The amount of tax paid to the commercial tax in the first two days has reached tens of thousands of taels.

According to the tax rate of thirty taxes and one, Lan Bin's business is at least hundreds of thousands of taels.

Even he, who is the emperor, can't help but be moved.

It's just that Lan Bin is too ignorant, pulling the prince to do business and his good grandson to do business, but he doesn't look for him, which makes him very unhappy, but he doesn't care about it.

Well, now that this kid finally thinks of himself, it's not in vain that he loves him so much.

Lan Bin was stunned, glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang, and then hesitated, "The minister wants to run a newspaper."

"What is a newspaper?" Zhu Yuanzhang said suspiciously.

Lan Bin thought for a while and explained: "The newspaper is similar to the newspaper of the imperial court, but it does not involve political affairs, only copying some poems and songs, Confucian articles, anecdotes from all over the world, and so on."

In fact, there have always been newspapers in ancient times, and their origins can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty.

It's just that in ancient times, newspapers were not called newspapers, but Di newspapers.

It is equivalent to the official media of later generations.

All major events in the imperial court will be selectively copied on the newspaper and sent to officials in various places.

And the imperial court also has a set of special distribution channels for the newspaper.

It will be sent to the yamen in various places in a short period of time, so that it is easy for the yamen to understand the movements of the imperial court.

"Can you make money from this?" Zhu Yuanzhang's interest was greatly reduced, and he yawned to heaven.

He didn't know the newspaper, but he knew the newspaper.

Every certain period of time, the imperial court will transcribe some recent major events in the imperial court, courtiers, etc., and distribute them to the world. And every time the newspaper is issued, it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources. ap.

It's always been a loss-making deal.

"Yes!"

Lan Bin could see that Zhu Yuanzhang was not interested in newspapers, only interested in making money, and after thinking about it, he started from Zhu Yuanzhang's preferences and cut the railway.

As long as Zhu Yuanzhang allows the newspaper to be opened, even if the newspaper loses money, he is willing to spend money to make up for it.

As for why it is not elaborated.

It's very simple, even if he talks about the benefits of the newspaper, Zhu Yuanzhang won't believe it until he sees the real thing and the influence of the newspaper.

Rather than wasting words on the merits of newspapers, it is better to talk directly about money.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows and sat up straight: "Lan family boy, there is no joke in front of you, do you understand?"

"If the newspaper can't make money, the minister is willing to use his family property to make up for it!" Lan Bin said solemnly.

Property subsidy?

Zhu Yuanzhang's interest came again: "It's so decided, let's take eighty percent of this newspaper business, and you keep two percent!"

Lan Bin's heart was relieved, and he took out the draft newspaper he wrote last night from his long sleeves, and submitted: "Your Majesty, the minister wrote a draft newspaper last night, and I also ask the emperor to read it!"