During the Gaizhou victory, Zhu Cijiong felt that he was light and in a very good mood these days. The so-called "people are very happy when they are happy, defeating foreign enemies and regaining lost territory" is a great joy. From Emperor Wanli of the Ming Shenzong to Emperor Taichang of the Ming Guangzong, and then to Emperor Tianqi of the Ming Xizong, the Ming Dynasty was defeated again and again in Liaodong, and from Kaiyuan in the northeast corner to Ningyuan in the southwest corner, almost all of Liaodong were lost.

This time, Emperor Chongzheng Zhu Cijing finally defeated the Later Jin army in Gaizhou, strangled the throat of Liaodong and north and south, blocked Huang Taiji's control over the southern part of Liaodong. It can be said that the entire southern part of Liaodong is already in sight, and the Ming Dynasty is about to recover most of the lost territory in Liaodong!

How could Zhu Cijiu not be extremely excited? What should I do if this person is excited and cannot sleep? Do you do what you love to do? It seems that his functions are not complete now. There is no TV or Internet in ancient times. Zhu Cijiu found that he really has nothing to do at night, and he is still excited. What should I do? Then read a book.

In fact, when he was in the capital, Zhu Cijiu had to take some time to study every day. Although Xu Guangqi had nothing to teach him, he still asked him to read more books and increase his experience. Zhu Cijiu still attaches great importance to the traditional virtue of respecting teachers and respecting the teacher. If the teacher wants him to read more books, then read it. But he did not read it slowly with the book himself, but others read it to him with books!

If you read too much, you will be tired. In addition, Zhu Cijiu feels dizzy when he sees the classical Chinese, so he simply reads it for him. If others read it, he can explain it if he doesn't understand it, so it will be much easier to read it.

As an emperor, there are still many people who teach and attend, and they are usually the top scholars, the second-tier, Tanhua and Shi Kefa, who are all arranged to be officials. Now the new top scholar Wu Jianye is the new top scholar. If you want to say that Wu Jianye must not know who this guy is, but if it were changed to his other title, there would probably be more people who know it, because his nickname is Meicun!

The great poet and great writer Wu Meicun are quite famous. Although his poem "Yuanyuan Song" is a bit of a praising the great traitor Wu Sangui, it has to be said that his literary talent is the best in the world. "The six armies cry and all the white clothes are mourning, and they are angry and angry to be beautiful." What a vivid image and how majestic!

Wu Jianye was originally a Tanhua in the fourth year of Chongzhen in history, but he was so famous in his later generations, so Zhu Cijing ordered him as the top scorer without hesitation. There is no way, we Emperor Chongzheng have never heard of other people, so if we don’t click him, who will we?

Although the imperial guards came to fight in person, they could not leave this study at any time. Of course, they could not miss the escorts and bachelors. Among them, there was Wu Meicun, the new top scholar.

There was no entertainment in ancient times, and the emperor had to go to bed and rest every day. But today he was very excited and had no sleep at all when he was Xu, so he decided to go to read a book. He coaxed Qin Mingyue, who was yawning, to the bed outside to sleep first, and then took Cao Huachun to the study.

He has now moved into the city of Gaizhou. This city is located on the nine sides. It was a remote place in the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, there were no luxurious residences in Gaizhou City. The only one with a little scale was the mansion of the former commander of the Gaizhou Guard.

Commander of the Guard is a third-rank military general. No matter how shabby the mansion is, it is not much smaller. It is enough to live with the palace maids, eunuchs and other servants who accompany him. Wu Meicun is also a entourage serving the emperor, so he naturally lives in the commander's mansion.

The emperor would go to bed whenever he wanted, but the officials below did not rest so early, so when Zhu Cijiu came to the study, Wu Meicun was already there to sort out the books he brought with him this time.

Zhu Cijiong sat down on the seat behind the desk, and Wu Meicun walked to the desk and saluted respectfully: "What book does the emperor want to read today?"

What book should I read? This is a problem, because he was just trying to kill time. He really never thought about what book to read. After thinking for a while, he really couldn't think of what book to read, so he simply threw the problem to Wu Meicun and said irresponsibly: "I can't remember it for a while. Is there any new book? It's all the classics, history, and literature collections all day long, which is too boring."

This made Wu Meicun stump. What should I read if I don’t read the classics, history, and collections? There is no other classics, history, and collections in the books prepared for the emperor! He stood there stiffly for a long time and finally thought of something fresh, which was definitely fresh, but not a book. I wonder if the emperor was interested. He took out a piece of letter paper from his arms with the idea of ​​being a living horse and tentatively said: "I have a report here, which is about this Battle of Gaizhou. I wonder if the emperor wants to see it?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Cijing asked curiously: "What is the dibao?"

It’s not a big mistake for him not to know, because the mansion was for the officials below to read, and it mainly copied some important information such as the emperor’s decree, ministerial memorials, official appointment and removal, military and national affairs, etc. To put it bluntly, it’s to tell the officials below to what the emperor wants to do, what the emperor is doing, who the emperor promoted, who the emperor demoted, and what major events happened in the court... Of course, there is no need to show him these, because basically he did it, how can he not know!

Wu Meicun patiently explained: "The diary newspaper is also called diary, and there are also other names such as court newspapers, Beijing newspapers, and newspapers. They originated from the Han Dynasty. At that time, each county had a ‘dian’ in the capital Chang’an. It regularly wrote the emperor’s decrees, edicts, memorials of ministers on bamboo slips or silk to inform the officials of each county, so it was called diary."

When Zhu Cijing heard this, he became interested. Isn’t this equivalent to the official newspaper of later generations? He urged him impatiently: “Hurry, read it to me.”

Wu Meicun cleared his throat and read aloud: "On the sixth day of the ninth month of the fourth year of Chongzheng, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty personally led an army of 150,000 to visit the Gaizhou Guard. At that time, the Jiannu thief Manguertai led more than 40,000 slave soldiers to seize the city and resisted the power of heaven..."

Afterwards, they were just praising him how wise and powerful Emperor Chongzheng was, how wise and loyal Gongsun Chengzong was, how loyal and brave, how loyal, Sun Yuanhua, the Right Assistant of the Ministry of War, was, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were loyal to the country, etc. Zhu Cijing was so drunk that he had read a newspaper. He couldn't help but applaud and praise: "Well written!"

Good writing? Wu Meicun couldn't help but curl his lips secretly, what a bullshit, flattery, deliberately flattering, vulgar and unliterate, is this written by a person?

Zhu Cijing naturally praised the literary talent of this Dibao. He praised the content of the Dibao. Although the praise is a bit disgusting, there is nothing wrong with promoting the Gaizhou victory. If you can give less praise and more motivation and encouragement, it will be a standard official publicity article.

When Zhu Cijing saw Wu Meicun staying still, he couldn't help but ask: "Who wrote this newspaper and who specifically sent it to?"

Wu Meicun replied embarrassedly: "Well, this was written by a minor official under the Tongzheng Envoy. I don't know who it is. As for this distribution, this distribution..."

Seeing his hesitant look, Zhu Cijing couldn't help but become more curious and continued to ask: "Are there many people who have sent it? You've sent it all."

Wu Meicun suddenly turned red with shame and said loudly: "They only sent it to officials in the court who are above the third rank. Weichen bought this one."

When Zhu Cijing heard this, his eyes glowed green and praised: "Okay, it's even a magazine and issuing it. How many days will it be distributed? Why do you want to buy it? How much does it cost?"

Why does this sound like a matter of trying to clean up the Tongzheng and the envoys? It won’t be a big killing! Wu Meicun secretly glanced at Zhu Cijing. The emperor didn’t seem to be trying to cut people. What does it mean? He replied carefully: “This, Tongzheng and the Envoys seem to be a little lazy. There is no fixed number for a copy for a few days now. I heard that the Wanli Dynasty was available every day. There are usually some important matters in the court, so we often buy it to check it out. One copy is usually 200 yuan, and you can also order it monthly, and you can make three guan a month.”

It's so expensive, just kidding. It costs more than twenty yuan to print something on this broken letter paper, which costs four or five hundred a month! Of course, he also knows why this thing is so expensive: because of the information above! Officials in the court who are above the third rank can go to court to discuss politics, so they are distributed for free. Other officials do not have this treatment. Want to know the trends of the court? Come, buy the latest mansion newspaper, which has detailed records on it!

Zhu Cijiu had no objection to the Tongzheng Envoy's way of making money, but they were too confused and could not bear it. So he looked at Wu Meicun with the lights. This kid is good, he wrote good articles, good poetry, and literary talent. I heard that he also painted well and had artistic cells. It would be a pity not to be an editor-in-chief.

Wu Meicun was so angry that he was staring at by the little emperor that he felt cold sweat. He wouldn't have to drag it out and cut it off! If this is true, then he would be the most unfair new top scorer in history: just because he bought a residence report and threw his head away. Are you wronged?

Zhu Cijing became more and more satisfied as he saw it. He couldn't help but tempt him in the tone of the big bad wolf: "How about the Tongzheng Envoy Department? Why don't you go and check it for me?"

What's going on? What's the check? Wu Meicun was puzzled, and he replied tremblingly: "Tongzheng Envoy Department, this Tongzheng Envoy Department, this is OK."

Zhu Cijing thought about it and made a decision: "Well, Tongzheng is a third-rank official. If you rashly raise you, someone will definitely not accept it. You should be a Zuo Tongzheng first, and wait for a year or two before being promoted to Tongzheng."

Wow! Wu Meicun couldn't believe his ears. The emperor not only did not scold him for deliberately trying to do something, but also promoted him to be Zuo Tongzheng. He was a fourth-rank official! The ups and downs of his life were too violent. He was worried that he would be cracked the previous second, but he was promoted to the fourth level in the next second. Wu Meicun felt so happy that he was about to faint.

When Zhu Cijing saw him standing there stupidly, he couldn't help but say angrily: "Come here, I will teach you how to write the newspaper."

Wu Meicun walked to Zhu Cijing foolishly, holding the newspaper and didn't know what to do.

Zhu Cijiu rolled his eyes, snatched the newspaper from his hand, and placed it on the desk and pointed:

First of all, you need to give a good name. This mansion newspaper is too vulgar. The Beijing News is good. Just call it "The Beijing News" directly;

Also, this paper is too small, and it is a big piece of paper. How many reports can be written?

Also, this dry article is too boring. If you want to add some poems or something, it is best to accompany simple illustrations;

Also, it is too outrageous to buy two hundred documents. Who is so rich to buy every day? Just ten documents per document. Newspapers depend on quantity and the accumulation of customers. Our goal is that every official can afford it. Tongsheng and scholars also need to buy it. Everyone is used to reading it. When the circulation volume increases, then the money will be more;

Also, there are too few contents, and each copy should have at least ten articles. I will introduce them in every aspect. Don’t just stare at me;

besides......

Under Zhu Cijiu's meticulous teaching, the most influential newspaper of the Ming Dynasty, the Beijing News, was born like this. It is the mouthpiece of the Ming Dynasty, a must-read publication for all officials and scholars who are determined to be officials, and a window for countries around the world to understand the Ming Dynasty's dynamic trends. It is... These are all later stories, so I won't go into details here.
Chapter completed!