Daming: I help my wife be the empress

People from the newspaper office were reading the newspaper all the time, but the surrounding area was too noisy, only a dozen or so people nearby could hear it.

Huang Zongxi is now working as an aide in Xie Xuelong's residence, helping to deal with some paperwork while studying and studying.

He learned some news about "Da Ming Pao" from other sources, so he immediately bought a copy when he saw someone selling it on the road.

After looking around, he couldn't help showing a look of great interest. He simply turned into a nearby teahouse and asked for a seat by the window on the second floor to take a closer look.

Horizontal rows and punctuation are just novelties for him.

When he saw the vernacular article again, he thought about it for a while, and then he couldn't help but think with bright eyes: It seems that this Daming Daily is not only for scholars, but also for ordinary people.

There are only six pages, and the first two pages are all about the government affairs of the court, and they are mainly about the new policies currently being implemented in Yingtian Mansion.

A considerable part of them are instructions, requirements, and emphasis on the New Deal today.

At first glance, Huang Zongxi thought it was all fake and empty words, without any specific content; but when he thought about it carefully, he found that there was a lot of information in it, and the more he thought about it, the more he got.

For example, there is a paragraph in which Tianfu court is commended today, but it is not about the number of cases that Yingtianfu has tried, but that it has held three lawyer examinations in the past two months, and selected 36 lawyers successively.

It also wrote that today's request should be made by the Tianfu Court to continue to regulate the litigator industry, and at the same time encourage private litigators to testify, and emphasize that the professional level requirements for litigators should not be lowered.

This undoubtedly shows that today's society encourages lawyers to appear, and at the same time has higher expectations for lawyers.

That is to say, the lawyer industry, which was not favored by mainstream scholars in the past, is very likely to become a major career change choice for low-end and middle-end scholars in the future.

Who let the litigator have the approval of the court, and even join the official establishment of the court, and even be promoted to an official.

Huang Zongxi was still waiting to continue reading the military page, but suddenly he heard three scholars at the next table arguing loudly.

The tall scholar said: "Liu Ru is really ashamed of the emperor's kindness to write the imperial court's new residence report in plain Chinese!"

Chubby wrote and sighed: "Sigh, not to mention the emperor's grace, such a good paper, such a good printing, but it is written in vernacular, what a waste."

"I think it's ulterior motives that this Xindi newspaper is all in vernacular." The third book was unremarkable, with a weak tone, "We all know Liu Rushi's talent and name, if she wants to write some elegant prose, It shouldn't be difficult."

The chunky scholar said: "Qiu Sheng, I know you love that Liu Rushi, but now she has been married to that old man Qian Muzhai for two or three years, and she may have children, why do you still protect her like this?"

The tall scholar snorted coldly, "Liu Ru really has ulterior motives in running the Xindi Newspaper like this—I think she secretly hates the current official Qian Muzhai, so she deliberately messed up the errand of the Xindi Newspaper! !"

Huang Zongxi couldn't take it anymore, turned around immediately, bowed to several people, and said: "I'm here, Huang Zongxi, my friends are being polite."

At this time, Huang Zongxi was not yet a great Confucian in the country in history, but more famous than ordinary scholars, so both of them responded indifferently.

Only the tall scholar said: "It turns out that Huang Taichong, the filial son of Yaojiang Huang, is here at Kantao, whom I have admired for a long time. Why, do you have any advice?"

Huang Zongxi said: "I don't dare to give advice, but I just have other ideas about the use of vernacular articles in Da Ming Pao."

"Oh? I want to hear what your Excellency has to say." Kan Tao sneered when he heard that Huang Zongxi disapproved of his idea.

Huang Zongxi didn't take it seriously, and said in an unhurried manner: "I privately think that this Ming Pao is not only for scholars like me, but also for ordinary people.

The vast majority of civilians are not as literate as you and me, and can understand all kinds of diction and allusions.If this Da Ming Pao is written as a classic article that we study and study, even if someone reads it out, how can the common people understand it?

Therefore, it is better to write directly into vernacular articles, one can be understood by those who are slightly literate, and the other can be easily understood by illiterate people.

Only in this way can we achieve the effect of "communicating the holy will, opening up the wisdom of the people, and guiding the atmosphere" as stated in the Da Ming Pao. "

"Speaking well!" The plain-looking scholar couldn't help applauding.

Kan Tao frowned, thought for a while, and asked: "As your Excellency said, can't you write a good article like the previous government announcements, and let the people who read it explain the meaning to the illiterate people? "

Huang Zongxi smiled, "Doesn't your Excellency feel that it is troublesome to ask people to explain it? Besides, there are many differences in the annotations of the sages and scriptures by the former sages, and it is inevitable for ordinary scholars to misinterpret the government's announcements. In this case, it is better to write it directly in the simple and clear vernacular of the Da Ming Pao." article."

Kan Tao was silent for a while, but still insisted: "How can scholars be too troublesome? As for someone misinterpreting it, it is a personal fault. Or, is it wrong for me to wait for Qianxian to learn and write good articles?"

Huang Zongxi shook his head with a smile and asked "" "Have you forgotten the usefulness of this Ming Pao?"

After speaking, he stopped arguing with this person and sat down to continue reading the newspaper.

Although the military page behind this only takes up one page, but he just glanced through it in a hurry, and it seems that he mentioned several important military news...

"In late July, Admiral Li Dingguo led our new Ming army to conquer Shangzhou in southern Shaanxi.

The remnants of the Puppet Shun Army led by Li Guo and Gao Yigong in Ningxia Town also wanted to submit to the imperial court and were dispatched by the Military Affairs Council.

Therefore, in terms of Shaanxi, the Ministry of Lu Daqi, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu in the Ming Dynasty, the department of Li Dingguo, the admiral, and the Li Gao department of the Puppet Shun remnant army have formed a semi-encirclement on the Qing captives who are entrenched in Xi'an, Yan'an, and Yulin. ! "

"Okay, it's really good!"

In Yan Yingyuan's residence, Chen Bangyan, who was invited to be a guest, read a report on the military section of the ten-day issue of "Da Ming Pao", and couldn't help but slapped the table excitedly.

Yan Yingyuan is on vacation today, so he invited a new friend, Chen Bangyan, over for a drink and a chat.

He bought the newspaper specially. Seeing how excited Chen Bangyan was, he smiled and said, "There's still a lot of military news to be revealed later, Brother Lingbin, let's continue to look back."

Because they are all vernacular articles, which are straightforward and easy to understand, Chen Bangyan read them quickly.

I saw that in the back it was written that tens of thousands of land and water officers and troops in Zhejiang accepted the reorganization; Du Yinxi was appointed as the governor of Huguang, Henan, and Jiangbei military affairs, and will recover the provinces of Henan; .

After reading it, Chen Bangyan put away his smile, frowned and said, "The military news in the Ming Daily is certainly a pleasure for those interested in state affairs like me, but wouldn't it be a bad thing if the Qing spies had to go?"

"Hahaha, Brother Bin, don't worry." Yan Yingyuan said with a smile, "Your Majesty has considered this matter a long time ago, so any military news written in the newspaper is not afraid of the Qing prisoner knowing, and some even deliberately let the Qing prison know. .

As for the real military secrets, irrelevant personnel will not know a word, let alone publish it in the Ming Daily. "

Chen Bangyan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "Wan Heng said that His Majesty might use the newspaper to release false news to induce the Qing captives to make a wrong deployment of troops?"

Yan Yingyuan shook his head and said, "Daming Daily is the mouthpiece of the imperial court, and generally there will be no false news."

"Then what did Bao Heng just say?"

"Brother Ling Bin loves military affairs very much. Didn't you hear that there is a saying in the art of war: What is empty is real, and what is real is empty. The change of the empty and the real is impossible."

After saying this, Yan Yingyuan smiled and said nothing more.

Chen Bangyan showed a pensive look, and casually flipped to the back of the ten-day issue of "Da Ming Pao".

Here, there is a map of Ming Dynasty impressively printed!