My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 508 Xia Yuanji’s contribution

At the end of the morning, Xia Yuanji dragged his tired body to the household department. On the desk was the official business he had to handle today.

To be honest, being an official in the Ming Dynasty was not an easy task. In the past, the salary was low and the work was very busy. Although the salary has increased now, the work is still life-threatening.

For example, high-ranking officials like Xia Yuanji wake up early in the morning every day, and then rush to attend the morning court. After the court meeting, they have to deal with official business. If they are in the cabinet, they need to be on call almost all year round.

Therefore, there is a saying among officials like Xia Yuanji: If you want to get along in Ming Dynasty's officialdom, you must not only have a good mind, but also a good body, otherwise you will not be able to persist at all.

"Master, let's have breakfast first. This is today's newspaper!"

At this time, the old servant of the Xia family brought breakfast. As usual, next to the porridge bowl was the newspaper I just bought today.

Since Xia Yuanji read the newspaper last time, he has ordered his servants to buy a copy of that day's newspaper every morning.

Xia Yuanji first picked up the newspaper and read through the headlines, then selected a few articles that interested him and ate breakfast while reading them.

By the time breakfast was over, the newspaper was almost finished, but at this moment, Xia Yuanji suddenly found a few lines of text on the first page of the newspaper: This newspaper is looking for manuscripts. Interested parties can send their manuscripts to the morning news newspaper.

Later, I also wrote some requirements for soliciting papers, as well as the address of the newspaper and other information.

This immediately interested Xia Yuanji. As a scholar, who doesn't have the idea of ​​writing a book?Unfortunately, not everyone has such conditions and talents.

Xia Yuanji thinks he is very knowledgeable, and he has read almost every word in the articles in the Wenyan newspaper. In terms of literary talent, these articles have almost no literary talent to speak of. In terms of knowledge, the people who wrote the articles are far from him. .

In addition, during this period of time, he read newspapers every day and developed a huge interest in newspapers. If his articles could be published in newspapers, if nothing else, it would also give him a lot of face.

Thinking of this, Xia Yuanji couldn't help but feel a little restless.

He was a person who did whatever he wanted, so after breakfast, he finished his official duties as quickly as possible, then took out a pen and paper, thought about it for a while, and immediately wrote an article about the Northern Expedition.

Although Zhu Di's previous Northern Expedition achieved quite good results, it failed to change the views of Xia Yuanji and others. Moreover, after Zhu Di destroyed the three guards of Arutai and Duoyan, it broke the balance of the grassland, causing the Oala to come fiercely, and there was a unified The power of the grassland.

And according to Xia Yuanji's knowledge, Zhu Di does not intend to give up here, and is likely to organize another Northern Expedition to continue to attack the forces on the grassland.

In Xia Yuanji's view, this was all in vain. For this reason, he had tried to persuade Zhu Di many times in court, both openly and secretly, but Zhu Di simply refused to listen, which made Xia Yuanji very aggrieved.

Now that there was an opportunity in the newspaper, Xia Yuanji simply spoke out and wrote down all his thoughts about the Northern Expedition.

Of course, Xia Yuanji did not use his real name, but gave himself the pen name of "Tao Zhugong", and then sent someone to send his article to the newspaper. In his opinion, even if the newspaper did not know his identity, he would be It is easy to publish your own articles in newspapers.

Two days later, Xia Yuanji got the latest newspaper and looked for his own article in the newspaper with confidence.

What Xia Yuanji didn't expect was that when he looked at the front and back, he couldn't see his own article, which shocked him greatly.

"Could it be that the time is too short and my article has not been seen by the people at the newspaper, so it has not been published in the newspaper?"

Xia Yuanji guessed in a low voice. After saying that, he clapped his hands and continued: "It must be so, then I will wait for two more days!"

So Xia Yuanji waited patiently for another two days. When the new newspaper came out, he couldn't wait to have someone buy the new newspaper, and then read it from beginning to end, but still couldn't find his article.

"How is this possible? Could it be that the invitation for articles in the newspaper is a lie? Even if we submit the article, they will not send it out?"

Xia Yuanji said to himself again that he believed that his own articles were much better than those in newspapers. Anyone with eyes should choose his own articles. "Brother Xia, are you free tonight? I'll treat you to a drink!"

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Jian Yi suddenly came over with a red face and asked Xia Yuanji.

"Brother Jian, what happy event have you encountered?"

Seeing Jian Yi so happy, Xia Yuanji couldn't help but asked curiously.

"Hey, the article I submitted to the newspaper has been published. Look at the front!"

Jian Yi excitedly pointed at the newspaper in Xia Yuanji's hand and said.

"Have you contributed an article to the newspaper?"

Xia Yuanji was also very surprised when he heard this. Then he followed Jian Yi's instructions and found his article. Sure enough, he found an article at the bottom of the front. What Xia Yuanji didn't expect was that Jian Yi's article turned out to be a ghost story. , about a strange thing that happened during the construction of Beijing.

"Brother Jian, you are also a member of the imperial court after all. Why do you write about such strange things?"

After reading the article written by Jian Yi, Xia Yuanji couldn't help but asked, dumbfounded.

"Haha, it's just a temporary itchiness. Moreover, the newspaper office replied to my letter. Along with the letter, there was actually a writing fee. Although it's not much, it's enough for me to treat you to drinks several times!"

Jian Yi laughed and said, he was a few years younger than Xia Yuanji, and his hobbies were also different. He liked the legends about strange powers and chaotic gods the most, so he wrote such an article.

"Brother Jian, when did you submit your manuscript?"

Xia Yuanji suddenly asked Jian Yi curiously.

"Just the day before yesterday, the newspaper wrote back to me and asked me to write more articles. He said that my writing was very good. If I could keep writing, the newspaper would even open a special column for me."

Jian Yi replied excitedly again.

"The day before yesterday!"

Xia Yuanji couldn't help but feel aggrieved when he heard this. He submitted the manuscript four days ago, but it has not been published yet. It was obviously rejected by the newspaper.

Could it be that my articles on current affairs are not as good as Jian Yi’s novels about ghosts and gods?

The more Xia Yuanji thought about it, the angrier he became. He even felt that the morning news office was really tasteless!
"Brother Xia, do you know who runs that news newspaper?"

Jian Yi suddenly asked Xia Yuanji mysteriously.

"I heard that it is related to the crown prince, but the rumors cannot be true and I have not verified it."

Xia Yuanji replied casually.

"No need to ask for confirmation, I can tell you for sure that the newspaper was created by the prince. I heard that the prince often came in and out of the newspaper during this period. Even the articles we saw in the newspaper were reviewed by the prince himself, and some were revised by him himself. of."

Jian Yi laughed and said, he is the official of the Prince's Mansion and is usually closest to Zhu Gaochi. He also listens to what Zhu Gaochi says about the newspaper office.

(End of this chapter)