"Yes, young master!"

Shortly after the waiting Thursday left in a hurry, he hurried back with Blue Five.

Lan Wu came to Lan Bin and said respectfully, "Young Master, are you looking for me?"

"Lan Wu, my father said that he would give the emperor's birthday gift, are you ready?" Lan Bin asked.

Lan Wu nodded: "Well, I asked someone to find a pair of jade ruyi with fine workmanship and handed it to the master. The master decided to use jade Ruyi as a congratulatory gift!"

Jade Ruyi?!

Lan Bin nodded thoughtfully, jade Ruyi not only symbolizes auspicious Ruyi, but the price is not too expensive, and it is okay to give a gift as a Yongchang Houfu.

Thinking about it, he smiled and said, "Lan Wu, this thing is good, thank you for your hard work!"

"Young master, it's serious, this is what I should do!"

Lan Wu said modestly, and said, "Young Master, you called me over, do you have any orders?"

"I'm going to go to the glass workshop in Zhuangzi outside the city to find craftsmen to make two glass products, you can go with me!" Lan Bin smiled.

"Then I'll have someone arrange for a carriage!"

Lan Wu nodded, said a word hurriedly, and went down to make arrangements.

Lan Bin waited for a while, and then went straight to the parked carriage outside the Lan Mansion.

"President, stay!"

Just as he was about to get into the carriage, a familiar voice suddenly came.

Lan Bin looked over, only to find that Wu Junbo and the others were accompanied by him, trotting over, so he stopped, and waited for them to walk in front of him before he said, "Why are you here? Is the article written?"

"President, the article has been written overnight, please take a look!" Wu Junbo and the others took out a folded piece of paper from their long sleeves.

Lan Bin didn't wait for them to hand it over, frowned and said, "I still have something to do now, I have to go out. You go to the newspaper office in the afternoon and wait. When I'm done, I'll go to the newspaper office to find you!"

"When the article is confirmed, we will directly try to print Daming Daily!"

"Yes, President!"

Even though Wu Junbo and the others wanted to know immediately whether their article could be selected, they didn't dare to have any objections when they heard Lan Bin say this, so they could only suppress their disappointment and accept it.

Lan Bin nodded, got into the carriage and went to Zhuangzi in the Lan Mansion outside the city.

When he arrived in Zhuangzi, Lan Bin did not go to see the craftsmen of the glass workshop for the first time, but accompanied by Lan Wu, he walked around the Zhuangzi, focusing on the school built in the Zhuangzi.

When he finished walking around, he asked Lan Wu to gather the craftsmen of the glass workshop and tell the craftsmen about the expected glass products in the form of drawing pictures while talking.

The glass gift he envisioned was reading glasses.

The reason why he chose reading glasses was that he once heard Zhu Xiongying mention that Queen Ma's eyes were a little difficult to see. Later, when he met Queen Ma in Kunning Palace, he also discovered this.

Sending Zhu Yuanzhang a pair of reading glasses is equivalent to sending Queen Ma.

Second, in the recent period, the sales of clothing mirrors, dressing mirrors and small mirrors in Nanjing have shown a downward trend. The glass business is supported by orders from other places.

For foreign orders, transportation is a big problem, not to mention time-consuming and laborious, and the return of funds is also slow.

He had planned to look for another opportunity to develop new glass products.

It just so happened that Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to prepare a new birthday gift for Zhu Xiongying, so he put his idea on the birthday gift.

Use reading glasses as a birthday gift, not only can you get it, but also play a wave of advertising.

Most importantly, the lion's share of the glass business is royal. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang is unhappy, for the sake of the silver, he will not blame him.

Lan Bin finished talking about the reading glasses, and the craftsmen almost understood it.

The experience of the craftsmen is one thing, but the main thing is reading glasses, which are a kind of convex lens.

The convex lens has already appeared in ancient times, but the ancient convex lens lens is not glass, but crystal and transparent gemstones.

However, it is the first time in history that a convex lens has been made into reading glasses.

When Lan Bin and the craftsmen finished counting the reading glasses, the time was already noon, so after having lunch with the craftsmen in the glass workshop, they took Lan Wu and others and took a carriage to the newspaper station.

At this time, Wu Junbo and others had been waiting at the newspaper office for a long time, when they heard Lan Bin coming, they came out to greet him, surrounded Lan Bin, and came to the room where the newspaper's editorial office was located.

Lan Bin exchanged two sentences with Wu Junbo and others, and then went straight to the topic: "What about the good articles you have written! Show it to me!"

"President, this is what I wrote, please advise!" Wu Junbo reacted the fastest, and immediately took out the prepared and folded paper from his long sleeves, spread it out and handed it forward.

The others took a step slower, and after a trace of chagrin appeared on their faces, they also took out the articles they had written, and after Lan Bin finished reading Wu Junbo's article, he handed them forward.

Lan Bin took the article written by Wu Junbo and read it carefully.

Wu Junbo's article not only discussed the necessity of levying commercial taxes on the comparison of the incomes of ordinary merchants and peasant households, but also reaffirmed the imperial court's national policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce.

Use facts to prove that what Lan Bin said at the beginning, why agricultural taxes are levied instead of commercial taxes, and where is the implementation of heavy agriculture and suppression of business.

After reading Wu Junbo's article, Lan Bin did not comment, but read the articles written by the rest of the people in turn.

The articles written by the rest of the people, like those written by Wu Junbo, revolve around supporting commercial taxation from other perspectives.

The difference is that some people write implicitly, while others write clearly.

After some comparison, Lan Bin finally selected the articles of Wu Junbo, Zheng Fei, Peng Qingquan, Fan Jian, Gong Ren and others.

It's not that other people's articles are poorly written, but that these five people write their own characteristics and clear banners. Unlike the articles written by the other five people, either the intention of supporting commercial taxation is too subtle, or the words used in sentences are used to using rare words.

The user group of Daming Daily is not aimed at readers, but at the general public.

The intent of the article is not obvious, and neither the people who read the newspaper nor those who listen to the newspaper may not be able to understand it. Maybe the meaning of the article will be misinterpreted by someone with a heart.

Not to mention the appearance of rare words, you have to test people's literacy.

When Lan Bin announced the selected list, Wu Junbo and the others all breathed a sigh of relief and showed joy on their faces. And Wang Hua and others, who were unsuccessful, had an indescribable frustration and looked lonely.

Among them, Wang Yang couldn't help but say: "President, I have read their articles, and I think my articles are not badly written, why did I choose their articles and give up my articles."

Lan Bin is not surprised, since ancient times, literati have been contemptuous, and it is normal to have arguments. I couldn't help but smile and said, "I didn't say that your article was poorly written, your article will be shelved at other times and can be published in Daming Daily."

"But you can't make it to the first issue of Daming Daily!"

"Why?" Wang Yang was puzzled.