Daming: I help my wife be the empress

The time came to the fourth day of May in the second year of Zhaowu.

On this day, Liu Rushi went to Wu Ying Temple to report to Zhu Wei about the newspaper's related matters as usual, and sent the ten-day and half issue of "Da Ming Pao" that will be published tomorrow.

Now that "Da Ming Pao" is published every five days, Aimee Zhu is still able to read every issue before it is published.

It can be regarded as another insurance for the content of newspapers and periodicals.

When "Da Ming Pao" becomes a three-day magazine or even a daily newspaper in the future, she probably won't be able to do so, and can only delegate power to the lower levels.If something goes wrong, you can only be held accountable afterwards.

After roughly browsing the contents of the newspapers and periodicals, Auntie Zhu smiled and nodded, expressing her satisfaction—especially Liu Rushi's "autobiography" article and Chen Zilong's "Grassroots Reform" New Deal propaganda article.

Seeing that Liu Rushi had no intention of retreating, he asked, "What else is there?"

Liu Rushi cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty Qizuo, now the Beijing News and other wild newspapers are becoming more and more rampant, not to mention their repeated plagiarism of articles from my "Da Ming Pao", even published an article a few days ago, satirizing the imperial court's "prostitution ban" .

The official thought that it was time to deal with these wild reports. "

After speaking, Liu Rushi submitted the issue of "Beijing News" she mentioned.

The so-called "wild newspaper" refers to other private newspapers that have not been approved by the government except the Imperial Palace Newspaper and the "Daming Daily". In fact, at this time in the Ming Dynasty, none of the private newspapers reported to the court. Without official permission.

Because Daming had no awareness of written publishing management at all.

There were literary inquisitions in the Song Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, and although there were also in the Ming Dynasty (Hongwu and Jiajing were the most), but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the atmosphere became more open, and the imperial court's control weakened, and the binding force on folk publications was basically equal to zero.

After Aimee Zhu ascended the throne, the Ming court's control over all aspects increased rapidly.It stands to reason that public opinion should become cautious at this time.

But the emergence of Da Ming Pao brought about different changes.

Because the "Da Ming Pao" advocates the common people to discuss current affairs - not only its contents are plain-language articles that are easy to understand, but it even invites articles from the people and accepts advertisements from merchants.

Coupled with the fact that the "Beijing News" and a few old-fashioned folk "newspapers" followed suit, the imperial court did not immediately crack down, and let other folk groups learn to run newspapers one after another.

Up to now, "Daming Pao" has appeared for more than half a year, and there are already many other newspapers in Nanjing.

This time, Liu Rushi came prepared, and when Auntie Zhu was flipping through the "Beijing News", she continued: "Nowadays, there are a lot of folk wild newspapers, and some of them are not just copying the contents of "Daming Daily". Generally speaking, there are many people who sing against the imperial government's decree.

What's more, they distorted the facts and even tampered with the contents of articles in "Da Ming Pao" to mislead the people.

According to the statistics of Weichen, there are more than [-] kinds of wild newspapers published in and outside Nanjing alone.

My Ming Dynasty has a prosperous literary style. If this situation is extended to other provinces, I am afraid that there will be more wild newspapers, and there will be many people who mislead the people.

Therefore, I believe that these wild newspapers must be rectified and managed so that they can benefit the people and serve to enlighten the people's wisdom, instead of misleading the people and being used by people with ulterior motives. "

At the beginning of spring, Zhu Yuxi mentioned to Liu Rushi the matter of rectifying other newspapers and periodicals, but at that time, "Da Ming Pao" had only been in operation for four or five months, and the newspaper had not cultivated talents in all aspects, so Liu Rushi could not feel relieved to release the newspaper to the following , things dragged down.

At this time, when Liu Rushi took the initiative to bring up the matter of rectifying the "wild newspapers", Zhu Wei smiled and said: "To rectify the folk newspapers, the imperial court needs to set up a 'News Department', apart from you, I don't have any talents in this field.

If you are transferred from the newspaper office to the Information Department, will the newspaper office have a suitable candidate to take over the job? "

Aimee Zhu originally thought that since Liu Rushi took the initiative to raise this matter, there must be a suitable candidate for the newspaper.

Unexpectedly, Liu Rushi said: "The newspaper has only been in operation for more than seven months, and I still can't rest assured. This time, I want to recommend to His Majesty a person who is suitable to preside over the affairs of the Information Department."

Aunt Zhu was quite surprised when she heard this, and said, "Who do you recommend?"

"Huang Chunyao, a native of Jiading, Suzhou." Liu Rushi said, "This man was a 16-year Jinshi in the Chongzhen Dynasty. He hated stereotyped articles when he was studying. He once organized the "Zhiyan Club" with his disciples to advocate articles that are meaningful and practical.

Although he is upright by nature, he has great talent and learning, especially good at poetry and prose.

After Da Ming Pao was established, it used the pseudonym of "Shuijing Jushi" to publish many articles in vernacular, all of which received a good response, and it was extremely supportive of the vernacular promoted by the newspaper. "

Auntie Zhu showed surprise again.

She actually has an impression of Huang Chunyao.

This person was among the many backup officials in the late Ming Dynasty collected by her and Hao Guangming, but when she searched for information on the Internet, she only remembered that this person had followed Houdong in the Jiading uprising against the Qing Dynasty in the history of later generations, and was defeated. Later, he hanged himself with his younger brother Huang Yuanyao.

But I never thought that Huang Chunyao's enlightened and practical views on literature, let alone that he would greatly admire vernacular Chinese in this life.

After thinking about it, Auntie Zhu said, "Even if Huang Chunyao is available, you still have to train capable people to take over the newspaper office as soon as possible.

Once the News Department is established, the imperial court will open the Propaganda Department. In addition to the News Department, there are also the Publicity Department, the Propaganda Department, the Publishing Department, and the Literature and Art Department. There may be more than one or two talents that are lacking. "

When Liu Rushi heard this, her heart trembled slightly, and she wondered if His Majesty didn't want her to be in charge of the newspaper office for a long time.

After all, the influence of Ming Pao is quite large now—its distribution area has reached [-] provinces controlled by Ming Dynasty, and each issue must publish at least a million copies.It is not comparable to "Di Bao", nor is it comparable to the private "Beijing News".

Thinking of this, Liu Rushi immediately said: "I understand."

Although she likes working in a newspaper office, she has no desire for power.What's more, Aimee Zhu wanted to promote her, not to reprimand her.

However, she feels that even if she thinks too much, it is better to follow the holy will and cultivate a successor as soon as possible.

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Suzhou Jiading is not far from Nanjing, but within three days, Huang Chunyao came to Nanjing to see him after receiving the imperial decree.

After playing the match, Zhu Yuxi was quite satisfied with Huang Chunyao, and immediately appointed him as the head of the News Department of the Propaganda Department.

He also ordered him to join forces with Liu Rushi to rectify the Daming Newspaper after the establishment of the Information Department.

In fact, Huang Chunyao and Liu Rushi have known each other for a long time. At the age of 17, he was a learned student of Suzhou Prefecture, known as "Huang Family Qianliju".Because of his outstanding poetry, he was appreciated by Cheng Jiasui, one of the "Four Masters of Jiading" at that time, and recommended to Qian Qianyi's family to take charge of Mengxue.

He himself is considered a celebrity in Suzhou, so Liu Rushi was originally from Suzhou, so he naturally knew him.

In the past, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was dim, the imperial court was capable, and Huang Chunyao had an upright temper, so naturally he didn't want to spend time in the officialdom.

Now that the atmosphere in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has been cleared up, and the vigor is thriving, he is only in his early forties, so he is naturally willing to become an official, make contributions, and boost his ambition.

Appointed to be the head of the News Department of the Propaganda Department (Zheng Liupin), he is actually the highest official in the Propaganda Department. Huang Chunyao was not polite. He asked for backup officials from the court, recruited disciples and colleagues to enrich the News Department, and discussed with Liu Rushi how to rectify the Daming Newspaper. Industry.

Both of them understand that this matter involves a lot and has a lot to do with it, and they must not act hastily.So right now, it's just planning, not taking any action.

Auntie Zhu also knew that this matter needs to be decided before moving, and it is not an urgent matter to rectify the newspaper industry, so she waited patiently, and occasionally called Huang Chunyao and Liu Rushi to inquire about the situation and gave some suggestions, without any urging.

As the king of a country, it is impossible for Auntie Zhu to only focus on this matter. She needs to take care of every aspect, at least to understand.

She handed over unimportant matters to her courtiers, and spent most of her time and energy on dealing with important military and political affairs...
Time soon came to May [-]th in the second year of Zhaowu.

This morning, Aunt Zhu summoned three people in the Hall of Martial Arts, one of them was Xu Zhihu, a thousand householder from Jinyiwei South Town Fusi, who had only been back from Shanxi for three days.