My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 516 The turmoil caused by newspapers
"Vulgar! Vulgar! How can this kind of article be published in the elegant hall?"

In the Imperial College, a young prison student pointed at the news newspaper in his hand and shouted angrily with a face full of righteous indignation.

"That's right, the article written by Luo Jian is nonsense and has no literary talent at all. The news newspaper actually published such an article, which is simply insulting to politeness!"

Another supervisor also echoed loudly.

The other supervisors were also excited at this time, and they all angrily denounced Luo Jian's article in the newspaper.

The maritime adventure novel written by Luo Jian has achieved great success, and many people are reading it. However, it has also caused great controversy. For example, the supervisors of the Imperial College, who felt that Luo Jian's novel was vulgar, published it in the newspaper It will only ruin the folk customs of the Ming Dynasty, so he is so angry.

"Brothers, we, the scholars, should plead for the people. Why don't we go to the news offices now and force them to stop publishing Luo Jian's articles!"

Someone in the crowd shouted, and many people immediately agreed. After all, young people are always the easiest to be incited.

So a group of supervising students didn't even go to class, and all went to the morning news office to demonstrate with a loud "hoo!"

Neither Ma An nor Liang Xin expected that the article published in the newspaper would lead to a siege from the Imperial College students. They surrounded the newspaper and demanded that the newspaper not publish Luo Jian's articles anymore.

Faced with this situation, Ma An could not make up his mind and immediately sent someone to notify Zhu Zhanhe.

Zhu Zhanhe was also a little surprised, but his method of handling the matter was very simple and crude. He sent people directly to the Imperial College and asked them to take care of their students. So soon the Imperial College Jijiu personally came forward and took away all the troubled students. go back.

"Your Majesty, what should we do? Should Luo Jian's novels be stopped for a while?"

Liang Xin asked Zhu Zhanhe who rushed to the newspaper office with some worry.

"No need, just log in as you please, it's just a group of students, there won't be any big trouble!"

Zhu Zhanhe waved his hands very calmly.

Although this incident was a bit surprising, it also reminded Zhu Zhanhe that with the emergence of newspapers, ideological conflicts will inevitably intensify. In the eyes of those Confucian disciples, Luo Jian's novels can be said to be vulgar, even It cannot be called an article.

But it was such a vulgar novel that achieved great success in newspapers. Many people bought newspapers just to read the serialization of the novel. This naturally made these readers who always thought highly of themselves very dissatisfied and came to the newspaper office to protest.

"Your Majesty, these students are nothing to worry about, but are you worried that someone is instigating them behind their backs?"

Ma An suddenly reminded him that in his opinion, this group of students went to the newspaper office to cause trouble for no reason. They were probably instigated by others, such as those from the Confucian Press, but they always regarded the News as their biggest opponent. It's not surprising that something like this happened.

"Probably not. If someone was behind the instigation, those students would never retreat so easily. Besides, I still know the character of Xia Shangshu and Lu Xiu, and they would not do such a thing."

Zhu Zhanhe shook his head and denied Ma An's guess.

"What the prince said makes sense. If there is no one behind the instigation, then this matter will be easier to handle."

Ma An immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. Although the newspaper had the backing of Prince Han's Mansion, one more thing was better than one less thing, and Ma An also didn't want to cause trouble.

Zhu Zhanhe comforted the people at the newspaper office, then ordered everything to continue as usual, and then left the newspaper office.On the way back, he had been thinking about the impact of this incident.

Luo Jian's own cultural level is not high, and he writes all his novels in vernacular, even more vernacular than the Three Kingdoms. After all, the Three Kingdoms often added some poetry.

However, Luo Jian's novels are completely colloquial, and some characters' dialogues are even mixed with a lot of swear words. After all, in a place like a sea ship, most of the people who run the ship are from the bottom and have little education, and swearing is common. .

Therefore, Luo Jian's novels are very close to later novels, and he has a lot of personal experience, which makes his novels more immersive, which is why so many people are attracted to read them.

"Maybe there is really going to be a New Culture Movement?"

Zhu Zhanhe thought for a long time, and finally said to himself suddenly.

Originally, he just wanted to run a newspaper to strengthen overseas publicity, stimulate ordinary people's interest in overseas, and thus strengthen Ming Dynasty's connection with overseas. After all, a change in thinking is the real change.

However, the current development of things is a bit beyond Zhu Zhanhe's own expectations. Just a vernacular novel has already aroused opposition from scholars.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanhe had a hunch that today's opposition from the Imperial College students was just the beginning, and there would probably be even greater protests in the future.

Zhu Zhanhe's premonition was correct. Although the students from the Imperial College were taken back, their anger was not calmed down. Many of them wrote articles and submitted them to Confucian Daily News.

So early the next morning, the front page of the Confucian Daily published an article attacking Luo Jian and the News. The article called Luo Jian a vulgar boatman who was not worthy of writing an article, and even scolded the News for being an insult to elegance. Relying on some vulgar articles to attract readers and so on.

Once this article was published, it immediately aroused a huge response among scholars. Many people had long disliked Luo Jian. After all, they had studied hard for many years and rarely received a word of praise for their articles. As a result, this man was a boatman. It is unreasonable for Luo Jian, a young man, to become so famous by writing articles that are illogical.

So these scholars also responded one after another, gathering at the door of the news newspaper and asking the newspaper to ban Luo Jian. Some even wrote letters to the newspaper, insulting the newspaper and Luo Jian.

For a time, the entire news office was under tremendous pressure. Zhu Zhanhe had to send guards from the royal palace to guard the door of the newspaper office to prevent outsiders from breaking in. At the same time, he also had people protect Luo Jian to prevent him from being found.

"Your Majesty, more and more people are protesting in front of the newspaper office. Why don't we give in and avoid the limelight for the time being before we make plans?"

Liang Xin really couldn't bear the pressure that day, so he approached Zhu Zhanhe for advice.

"No, the more times this happens, the more we cannot give in, otherwise our newspaper will never be able to continue running in the future!"

Zhu Zhanhe shook his head forcefully.

Newspapers must have their own position, and they must not bow their heads easily because of other people's opposition. This is also his consistent view.

"But if we don't give in, the people outside will keep surrounding us. They are not students of the Imperial College. We can't report them directly to the government and let the government drive them away, right?"

Liang Xin still frowned and asked.

(End of this chapter)