Chapter 410 What they are worried about is that the newspaper will ruin their affairs!
Three days later.
The sky is just getting bright.
Zhu Biao was awakened.
Zhu Biao squinted his eyes and said in a bad tone: "What's wrong? But what happened in the palace?"
The maid outside the palace whispered: "Back to your highness, Eunuch Pu came to deliver a message just now, saying that your majesty asked your highness to go to Wuying Palace."
Zhu Biao's eyes suddenly opened wide, and his original sleepiness suddenly subsided. .
He asked the maid to change his clothes, and then took Pu Gouer's carriage and drove towards Wuying Palace.
Sitting in the carriage, Zhu Biao frowned, but he didn't know why his father called him so early.
Did something happen in Northern Xinjiang?
Zhu Biao secretly guessed in his heart that what could make His Majesty so anxious was that in his impression, the only border troubles in the north were the border troubles in the north. It was only January, and the branches in Nanjing were still showing signs of sprouting, but the mountains in the north were still blocked by heavy snow. , the roads were blocked, and even if Naha had the intention to go south, he would not be able to carry out a large-scale march.
But if something hadn’t happened in Northern Xinjiang, what else could it have happened?
Zhu Biao thought about other possibilities, but in the end he rejected them one by one.
Think about it.
Zhu Biao was too lazy to think too much. When he went to the palace, he naturally knew it. He also urged the coachman to let the carriage go faster.
A quarter of an hour or so.
Zhu Biao arrived outside Wuying Hall.
Entering the hall, Zhu Yuanzhang was wearing a coat, his hair and beard were slightly scruffy and not trimmed. He was sitting casually on a chair, staring at a memorial in his hand. His eyes were sparse and he bowed respectfully.
Then he asked uneasily: "Father, has something happened in the north?"
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head and said with a smile: "There is nothing in the north, so if you have the guts, we will borrow it again. Even if he has no guts, he won’t even think of taking the initiative to attack us. Besides, it’s freezing cold in the Northeast and we have dangerous terrain, so there’s no way he can go south.”
"Then why did the emperor summon his son in such a hurry?" Zhu Biao breathed a sigh of relief, but also looked puzzled. As he spoke, he took a few steps forward and walked up to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not explain.
I just put down the memorial in my hand, grabbed a piece of paper with lots of writing on it, and handed it to Zhu Biao.
Zhu Biao did not dare to neglect and quickly reached out to take it.
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Look, this Xia Zhibai has given us another trick."
Zhu Biao raised his eyebrows, but kept his eyes on the long piece of paper in his hand. The text on it was not big, three points smaller than the ordinary essay, but even such a long paper was densely packed with words. , and there were no less than five articles at his glance.
Moreover, he didn’t recognize most of the names signed on it, but he felt like he had heard them before.
Zhu Biao fully unfolded the 'long paper', stood on the spot, and looked at it carefully. He looked quickly, stopped at a glance, swallowed the jujube, and put down the 'long paper' , the confusion in his eyes not only did not dissipate, but became even more intense.
He looked at Zhu Yuanzhang blankly and said: "Father, I don't understand."
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, patted Zhu Biao on the shoulder, and said: "Don't say you are the best I didn’t understand it at first, and I didn’t understand it at first. It was only after we looked at Xia Zhibai’s introduction that we understood what he was telling us.”
Zhu Yuanzhang handed over the memorial in his hand. Zhu Biao took it again.
He put the 'long paper' aside and read the memorial carefully. The content of the memorial was very short, with very few words, but in just a few words, Zhu Biao could understand it. The thing Xia Zhibai presented was called 'newspaper'.
Used to report on government decrees issued by the imperial court, as well as official analysis of current affairs.
It's just that Xia Zhibai's idea is obviously not to summarize, but to have greater ambitions. He wants to print and distribute this 'newspaper' and spread it to the people, so that the people can see it. What happened in the imperial court recently.
Let the people have a more intuitive understanding of government policies.
Zhu Biao frowned, pondered for a moment, and said solemnly: "I think this seems to be a way. Judging from Xia Zhibai's memorial, Xia Zhibai believes that when the imperial court issues decrees to local places, After too many 'hands', many government orders were not only distorted but distorted under the explanations of first-level officials."
"In short, China. There are too many links between them.”
“There is an information gap between the upper and lower levels!”
“And this gives many officials with evil intentions the opportunity to deceive the upper and lower levels, and the ‘newspaper’ he created. The purpose is to reduce the intermediate links and publicize the imperial decrees in an official manner, directly by the imperial court without going through local officials.”
"And it is not just an announcement, but also an analysis of the policy by Hanlin scholars, so that the people can better understand the policy direction."
"This is indeed a good idea."
Zhu Biao nodded.
After the initial confusion, he finally understood the true role of these newspapers.
Zhu Biao smiled again and said: "Xia Zhibai has considered it very carefully. Not only did he take into account the manpower, material and financial resources that the court spent on this, he also thought that the main sales targets of these newspapers are literati and some literate people. People, most of these people have a certain amount of money, so they don’t need to pay directly, but need to buy it with money.”
"In this way, the burden on the court has been reduced a lot."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly and said: "That being said, we asked Pu Gou'er to check. Regarding the newspaper, the Hanlin Academy I don’t even agree.”
“Why?”
Zhu Yuanzhang sneered and said, “What else could it be? Because this matter used to be a matter of the Ministry of Rites, how could those bachelors in the Hanlin Academy have the guts to provoke people from the Ministry of Rites? Aren't Confucians the most important people in terms of "etiquette"? Even so, Liu Sanwu and Fang Xiaoru were not convinced."
"This is the scholar of Ming Dynasty."
"When they were asked to do something, they would all resist each other for fear of offending others. But if something good happened, they would be afraid of being left behind. From what we can see, these scholars are not actually afraid, but feel that the imperial decree has passed this kind of If the formality continues, many local officials will be offended. They all only care about themselves and have not considered the court at all."
Zhu Yuanzhang was full of disdain.
He could see through the thoughts of bachelors like Liu Sanwu at a glance.
Why are you afraid of offending the Ministry of Rites? If you were really afraid of offending, you wouldn't have tried so hard to impeach me before.
In the final analysis, they are from the local area, have connections with many local officials, and have even received favors from these people. However, the court's actions will make the local political situation, which was originally dark and unclear, suddenly change. Once it becomes clear, especially if the literate scholars in many places know a lot of 'truths', this will undoubtedly be a bad thing.
This is what these maesters are really worried about!
Zhu Biao sneered and said: "I think that this newspaper must be launched."
(End of this chapter)