Chapter 1073 Editorial
Everyone doesn’t understand what “weekly newspaper” means. There is no time unit like “week” in the Tang Dynasty, but according to the news from inside Jingzhao Mansion, Jingzhao Yin Fangjun publishes this newspaper once every seven days.
If you lose five hundred guan, it will be 2,000 guan a month and 25,000 guan a year...
However, this number seems huge to ordinary people, and the gap between it and Fang Jun's millions of dollars in business is really disproportionate. Everyone can only curse in secret: What a rich and willful girl!
Willful?
Fang Jun doesn't think so.
Because this is far from the scale of Zhenguan Weekly that he expected. As early as 2000, sets of printing type were shipped via inns to all the cities in the Tang Dynasty where Fang's business was stationed, and then a newspaper office would be established in each city. Publish "Zhenguan Weekly" to the world.
The initial estimate was that he would push the circulation of "Zhenguan Weekly" to 100,000 copies nationwide!
According to estimates by people in Chang'an, Fang Jun will lose a huge sum of 200,000 to 300,000 yuan every year...
In fact this is naturally impossible.
The cost of making bamboo paper is far less expensive than the outside world reports, and people have not realized the convenience and low cost of movable type printing. In fact, the cost of "Zhenguan Weekly" is only about five cents. Fang Jun has many ways to make it a powerful tool for manipulating the direction of public opinion, and it has also become a magic weapon for making money...
Of course, compared with Kong Yingda's article, no one cares about money anymore.
This is an era of jealousy and scarcity of knowledge, and it is also an era of extremely slow dissemination of information. Reading basically relies on copying. A book annotated by a great Confucian can easily become a family heirloom, and it cannot be passed down to direct descendants. Read...
Guanzhong Confucian scholars all competed to study it, which actually led to a jaw-dropping phenomenon - Luoyang paper is expensive!
After a morning of questions, confusion, and onlookers, the "Zhenguan Weekly" on the market quickly became popular after people discovered Kong Yingda's article. All the newspapers that could be collected were snapped up by aristocratic families and even poor students.
People who did not get the newspaper would even shamelessly go to the homes of relatives and friends with two kilograms of cooked meat and a jar of old wine to borrow excerpts...
The phrase "the people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is strong and the country is peaceful" comes from "Song of the Five Sons" in Shangshu. This lyrics is an article in which the five grandsons of Dayu recalled the emperor's admonitions and expressed their resentment during their exile. The first sentence of the article says: "The emperor has instructions, the people can approach, but cannot leave. The people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is solid. Bunning.”
It means that my grandfather once taught us: we can get close to people, but we must not be disrespectful and rude. The people are the foundation of the country. When the people are stable, the throne will be stable and the world will be peaceful.
Although this precept is not necessarily the original words of Xia Yu, and is most likely just fabricated by folk scholars and spread through the mouths of sages, it does reflect the earliest people-oriented thinking in ancient China.
In the article, Kong Yingda elaborated on the meaning and influence of "the people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is the foundation of the country."
During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, people-centered thought was shrouded in the theory of "mandate of destiny", which belonged to the type of "mandate of heaven obeys the destiny of the people". Rulers believe that monarchy is given by destiny, but destiny is subject to public opinion. If the ruler does not consider the people's strength and does not practice virtuous governance, destiny will be transferred to the new king according to the will of the people.
For example, the three articles "Song of the Five Sons", "Oath of Tang" and "Oath of Tai" in "Shangshu" represent the people-oriented thinking of the three kings Xia Yu, Shang Tang and Zhou Wu.
Tang Tang of Shang Dynasty said in the "Tang Oath" to attack Xia Jie's crimes: "There are many crimes in Xia, and God has ordered them to be punished. Now you have a large number of people, you say: 'My queen will not show mercy to our people, abandon my affairs, and cut off Zhengxia . 'I have heard that the Xia family is guilty. I fear God and do not dare to be unjust." King Wu of Zhou said in the "Tai Oath" to attack King Zhou of Shang: "Heaven sees me and the people see me, and God listens to me and the people listen. If the people have their faults, I will definitely go there. ”
It is precisely because rulers understand the principle of obeying the destiny of the people that the rulers have the idea of matching heaven with virtue. In particular, the rulers of the "small country Zhou" summed up historical lessons from the demise of the "big country Shang" and further developed the people-oriented thinking of the Xia and Shang periods.
For example, "Shang Shu·Zhou Shu·Cai Zhong's Ming" says: "The emperor and Heaven have no relatives, but virtue is their assistant. The people's hearts are impermanent, but they only have the hope of benefit." The destiny of heaven does not distinguish between relatives and distance, and it only assists virtuous kings. The hearts of the people also have no permanent master, and they only surrender to the king who loves himself.
This also became the source of the "people-oriented" thinking of later Confucianism.
In the article, Kong Yingda quoted a lot of eloquent references and elaborated on the concept of people's livelihood first. The students, Confucian scholars, officials and nobles were fascinated and reflected deeply.
Even the common people who knew a few words applauded.
Kong Yingda, the great scholar of the time, was speaking for the people of the world, how could he not be applauded?
Suddenly, the influence of Zhenguan Weekly was greatly enhanced.
While the members of the aristocratic family were savoring the inner meaning and off-topic meaning of this "editorial", they were also wary of Fang Jun's movements. But what surprised them was that Fang Jun seemed to have devoted all his body and soul to this "Zhenguan Weekly" and did not pay any attention to Yuan's case...
What the hell is this kid doing?
Is it really because he is afraid that the Yuan clan's power has waned?
Or even if you lose everything, you still have to show off a unique style, and you have to create a flower cluster to win applause?
But no matter what everyone guessed, there was no movement from Fang Jun...
A week later, the second issue of "Zhenguan Weekly" arrived as scheduled.
There is no need to remind people of the focus this time. People who buy a newspaper will first look at the "editorial" on the main page.
This time the main writer is not Kong Yingda, but his reputation is not bad at all!
Contemporary great Confucian, Doctor of Imperial Studies, Jia Gongyan!
This person's ancestral home is Yongnian, Tangzhou. He is not only a Confucian scholar, a Confucian scholar, but also a scholar of the "Three Rites". His knowledge spans ancient and modern times, and his talents are universal. He has written fifty volumes of Zhou Rites and Yishu and forty volumes of Ritual and Rites Yishu. His literary reputation is spread all over the world!
Jia Gongyan was proficient in "Three Rites". Not only was he responsible for the compilation of "Zhou Rites and Yishu", but he also selected twelve volumes of Zheng Xuan's annotations to compile the scriptures of various schools and expanded them into fifty volumes of "Yi Shu". The style is modeled on "Yi Shu". The Five Classics of Justice. "Yili Yishu" was also compiled by this public, adopting the works of Huang Qing of the Northern Qi Dynasty and Li Mengsu of the Sui Dynasty, and made it the current version, based on Zheng Xuan's annotations.
If we just talk about the number of works, they are still higher than Kong Yingda!
And this "editorial" by Jia Gongyan is called "Morality is good governance, and politics is to support the people"...
This sentence comes from "Shangshu-Yu Shu·Dayu Mo".
Its original meaning is that virtuous government is good politics, and the ultimate purpose of politics is to nurture the people.
However, its purpose is to spread the ideas of "the king is based on the people" and "the country is based on the people", which are thematic ideas that began with Confucius and Mencius and continued throughout the entire feudal era.
The article said that in the era of Confucius and Mencius and the era of autocratic monarchy for more than two thousand years after the Qin and Han Dynasties, although there was still the influence of the "Destiny" theory of "the king's power is given by heaven", the relationship between the king and the people and the relationship between the people clearly emphasized the power of the people. important role.
Confucius put forward ideological propositions such as "people are benevolent", "benevolent people love others", "government depends on people", "government is based on virtue", "the people have no faith", "cultivation of oneself to love the people", etc., which laid the foundation for the Confucian people-oriented ideological tradition. . Mencius further put forward the propositions that "the people are the most valuable, the country is the second most important, and the emperor is the despotic one" and "the emperor is the emperor if he has the people", which formed the benevolent political thought tradition of "the people are the most important and the emperor is despised" in later generations.
Mencius appreciated Tang and Wu's revolution, saying that Tang and Wu's killing of Jie and Zhou was "killing one husband". Dong Zhongshu put forward the proposition that "the right should defeat the unjust, this is the law of heaven", which illustrates the revolutionary nature of the traditional Confucian people-centered thought, that is, those who are unethical will be punished by the people. The rationality of overthrowing and changing dynasties.
The article is rich in flowers, rigorous and neat, and every word is cardinal and penetrating.
Many people have figured out the taste...
From "the people are the foundation of the country, the foundation is the foundation of the country" to "morality is the foundation of good governance, and government is to support the people", this seems to be a bit of a blunt transition. The former is the folk customs and state affairs of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the latter is Confucius Meng Yijiang's political trend, but the two have the same subject - putting the people first!
The Tang Dynasty conquered all directions, and although it was invincible with great martial arts, the old wounds left by the turmoil in the late Sui Dynasty had not healed. Years of wars in the south and north had added new wounds, and the population could no longer keep up with the speed of development.
The two editorials of Zhenguan Weekly are in line with the current social status quo and immediately resonated with people of insight from all walks of life. For a time, the idea of "people-oriented" was promoted everywhere in Guanzhong, hoping that the emperor could encourage fertility and the empire could thrive... An unprecedented trend of attaching importance to population and vitality was quickly instigated by these two articles, and gradually Become a trend!
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