Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 210 Just need...

The topic changed, and the military meeting was over. Lao Zhu sent away the other courtiers who had doubts or expectations about what someone said about "the future of Ming Dynasty", leaving only two grandparents and grandchildren, and immediately asked, "Did it work out?"

Zhu Yuan nodded, and added: "It was just what I told my ancestors last month, the model, the distance is practical... Maybe, in the next three years, I will spare no effort to invest in the plan. After three years, there should be a breakthrough."

Lao Zhu recalled all kinds of steam age described by his precious 23rd generation grandson, as well as the picture album he often read, and he couldn't wait: "Let me show it first."

"My ancestor, wait a few more days," Zhu Yuan dissuaded with a smile: "It's just a model, you can read it and look at the album. It won't make much difference. What I want is a comprehensive demonstration. Get ready."

When Zhu Yuan said that, Lao Zhu became impatient: "Then wait until the second day of next month."

So he changed the subject again: "Sun Shouzhen came here every day and told me that you mentioned... the idea of ​​anatomy, which I think is good. You don't have to worry about it and do it boldly. Also, I am sure about the laboratory transformation. That is, Dai Sanchun told me about penicillin extraction, is it really so difficult?"

"Ancestor, the main reason is that I don't understand it, so it is much more difficult than a steam engine," Zhu Yuan said, "I know the principle of a steam engine, and the structure is also simple. In addition, we have many skilled craftsmen, so we can make samples in a short time. This penicillin, it It involves many aspects such as medicine, biology, physics, chemistry, etc., there is no shortcut, we can only take it slowly."

Take it easy……

Can't wait.

Thinking of "Book from Heaven", Lao Zhu muttered something in his heart, but on the surface he could only sink his mind, nodded, and said: "I don't understand these things, I can only promise you, no matter what you need, you can talk to me at any time."

Zhu Yuan quickly thanked him and made a promise.

When Lao Zhu left, Zhu Yuan remained behind, followed by Song Lian.

To discuss the "Daming Monthly".

Speaking of which, because of the "Preface to Sending a Horse to Dongyang", Song Lian's reputation is quite high hundreds of years later, but, compared with the others in "Fourth Mr. Zhedong", at present, the official official position is only a note on the fourth-rank daily life. Song Lian is actually the worst one among the four gentlemen.

The other three, even Ye Chen, who died young, were already fourth-rank magistrates of Hongdu when they were captured and killed by the rebels. Lao Zhu ascended the throne this year and posthumously named Ye Chen Marquis of Nanyang County.

The fundamental reason why Song Lian couldn't get along, in the final analysis, was because of Lao Zhu's strong pragmatic character.

Song Lian's article is well written, but in Lao Zhu's opinion, it is not very useful.Therefore, it can only be a Confucianism promotion, teaching the prince to read, or acting as a living note as it is now.

This time, even if he is in charge of compiling the "Daming Monthly", it is only in name, but in fact he still has to follow Zhu Yuan's idea of ​​Xiaopingzhang from Yipin.

Song Lian is nearly [-] years old this year, and Zhu Yuan thinks that if the other party can retreat bravely, maybe there will be a good result, instead of being sent to Shuzhong almost exiled by Lao Zhu, and died of anger.

Ok.

These are the endgame.

Now that people have come to him, Zhu Yuan has only one way of thinking, use it!
As a boss, employing people is very important.

Don't care about anything else.

If you can work and do your job well, you are a good employee.

The two still sat down at the conference table, exchanged simple greetings, and Zhu Yuan began to review articles that had been basically confirmed.

The first issue of "Da Ming Monthly", according to the magazine's settings, should have happened in October of the first year of Hongwu, but because it is the first issue, it needs to cover a lot of content, so it will cover the entire first year of Hongwu and even earlier. of various major events.

Moreover, the next few issues will also be like this, which can be regarded as a kind of summary.

Let me talk about the specific content.

The opening chapter, of course, is Lao Zhu.

Zhu Yuan set up a column called 'Emperor's Notes'.

Start note, is the meaning of daily note.

Four words, for neatness.

The subject matter of the corresponding article was selected by Zhu Yuan, and the content was Song Lian's catching the knife. It roughly described how Lao Zhu created the Ming Dynasty. It was a biography of His Majesty the Emperor. : "Zhu's Entrepreneurship Chronicle".

Entrepreneurship, at first glance, sounds like a time-traveling word.

It's pretty unorthodox.

However, this is a word that Lao Zhu often uses in many of his own articles, such as telling the younger generation to remember that "starting a business is difficult".

Zhu Yuan thinks, starting a business and becoming an emperor, the probability of failure is much higher than the real "starting a business" later on, the Shura field is not enough to describe it, so it is actually very appropriate.

Next, the second column, 'Current Politics'

The beginning is a big chapter: "Summary of the Northern Expedition".

Zhu Yuan chose the topic again, this time it was Zhan Tong, a direct scholar of the Hanlin Academy, who wrote it, and Zhu Yuan appointed it, because it was not planned and impossible for Song Lian to write all the magazines by himself.

However, the "Instructions to the Central Plains" quoted at the beginning of this "Summary of the Northern Expedition" was written by Song Lian last year.

After the grand finale, there are various short stories about current affairs.

It is roughly divided into three parts: 'Personnel', 'Organization' and 'Local'.

First of all, in the past year, from the canonization of the queen and the prince to the appointment of some important court officials, including Zhu Yuan himself, the current first-rank Zhongshu Provincial Pingzhang political affairs, and also the news that Zhu Yuan recognized his ancestors and adopted him .

Zhu Yuan wanted to keep a low profile, but this kind of thing can't be low key.

Official media talk.

It has been widely advertised, and to some extent, it is equivalent to a legal affirmation.

Legitimacy matters.

Immediately, the other two, some important adjustments about institutional settings or local state capitals.

For example, Yinghai Division... this is not a big deal.

For another example, after taking Henan, Lao Zhu set up a sub-province of Zhongshu with Bianliang as the core.

Although Xu Da moved to Dadu after Zhu Yuan explained the "Five Capital System", and the newly established Zhongshu sub-province is destined to be marginalized, but what should be said still has to be said.

Zhu Yuan initially proposed to involve some military content, but Lao Zhu rejected it, thinking that it was a state secret and could not be published and disclosed at will.

Zhu Yuan didn't insist either.

More in the future.

These "political news" are roughly set according to the later newspapers, with various tofu blocks, horizontal and vertical.

The initial handwritten sample draft made Zhu Yuan feel as if he had been dreaming for hundreds of years and returned to the past.

Of course, if you don't look at the content.

If you watch it, it will play.

Then, there are some larger topics. For example, this imperial examination is actually considered current political news, but it is listed separately.

Also, Zhu Yuan's work report.

Lao Zhu personally selected and excerpted about 7000 words, exactly 10 pages.

In addition, there is also a small chapter dedicated to the achievements of Yinghai Division for nearly a year. This is considered to be Zhu Yuan's selfishness, and Lao Zhu did not object at the beginning.

So until the end, Zhu Yuan was most interested in two sections from the beginning: "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio" and "Long-form Serialization".

Go through the preliminary final draft so quickly, and make sure that it must be overdone.

It was originally planned to be about 100 pages, but now, even though it has been streamlined, it is still more than 130 pages.

That being the case, let's go beyond it.

The whole 150 pages is not bad.

So he signaled to Song Lian: "I think adding some pictures will make it more vivid. Lao Song, for the previous column, you should prepare it as soon as possible, select and draw some materials. I will do the last two articles myself."

Of course not doing it yourself.

There is no shortage of painters in the inner house.

Song Lian is a kind person, so Zhu Yuan certainly wouldn't object when he said that. He just thought about it and asked, "Pingzhang, what kind of style do you want for this illustration?"

Ok.

This is also a problem.

Zhu Yuan thought for a while and said, "It can't be too complicated, and it can't be too abstract. It's probably the type of black and white meticulous brushwork... Heh, it still depends on the effect. Let's think about it and get some samples first."

Song Lian nodded in agreement.

Zhu Yuan flipped through the front again, and ordered: "These three selected imperial examination articles will be posted at Jinling University later, and they will be searched for. The test papers cannot be opened until they are approved. Signatures are still required."

Song Lian thought for a while, but had no objection.

Zhu Yuan thought about it again, and found the article on the attack on Shu that had been temporarily added in before, and it was also in conjunction with this early launch, and Lao Zhu specially ordered it.

Zhu Yuan had a flash of inspiration just now, and felt that there was something wrong.

At the moment, after pondering again, I finally found it. I picked up a pen and circled one of the sections, handed it to Song Lian who was diagonally opposite, and said, "This section can be revised or deleted directly."

Song Lian took over the browsing, probably introducing the history of Shu, and Zhu Yuan circled it, summarizing it.

roughly means...

Ok.

since ancient times.

After thinking over and over again, Song Lian still didn't understand why.

Is there anything wrong with this?

Seeing that Song Lian was puzzled, Zhu Yuan put on a pen and planned to go home for dinner, and said in a flat tone, "We Daming only need 'from now on', not 'since ancient times'!"

(End of this chapter)