back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 878

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers! The profiteers show their true colors, and the people who pick up the news secretly investigate, and finally get something!"

"Chang'an merchants are short of catties and short of two incidents!"

"How should the imperial court deal with such corrupt merchants?"

"Duanmu's legacy is ruined, and the Holy One is furious today!"

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With the shouts of the newsboys, the "Dashun Minbao" in their hands was quickly snatched up.This is something I haven't seen for a long time. You must know that the share of "Dashun Minbao" has been reduced repeatedly in recent years, and it has been overtaken by Minbao newspapers.This is also why "Dashun Min Bao" committed suicide, neglected management, and was actually entered by relatives of officials' children. Many things were unclear and vague. How could such a "newspaper" be welcomed by the people?

Fortunately, Lu Chengqi's private visit in secret in time was able to break a big cancer.

Without him, it is because the imperial court no longer publishes residence newspapers, and it is all maintained in a "Dashun Minbao".In the past, the official office "Jinzuoyuan" that published the residence newspaper, its person in charge was initially called Shangdu Diwu Liuhoushi, and later changed its name to Shangduzhi Jinzuoguan, referred to as Jinzuoguan, and was dispatched by the local government.As a bridge between the imperial court and the feudal towns of the previous dynasty, the functions of the Jinzou Yuan were not only to prepare the marshals to enter the court or to serve as residences for officials in Beijing, but also to present chapters to the imperial court on behalf of the local feudal towns, and to accept and transfer them to the imperial court. The issued documents, the written report of the court's political affairs and other news to the local vassals and towns, etc., this kind of written report is called "Jin Zou Yuan Zhi", also known as "Guang Bao", "Reporting Litigation", "Shangdu Liuhou Liao" and so on.

After the establishment of Dashun, according to the old system of the former dynasty, various roads, prefectures, and prefectures set up Jinzhaoyuan in Chang'an, Kyoto, and administered it by themselves, scattered in the squares and alleys of the capital, and the Jinzuo officials collected and compiled imperial court information by themselves. Another leak.Afterwards, the imperial court began to rectify the "Beijing Offices" all over Tokyo, and established the Dujin Zouyuan.Dujin Zouyuan is affiliated to Menxia Province, and is responsible for inheriting imperial edicts, orders from the three provinces, Privy Council and other departmental documents to Zhulu, excerpting the details of state chapters and reporting to Menxia Province, etc.Since then, Jinzuoyuan has ended its history as a local government office stationed in the imperial court, and has become an integral part of the imperial court's administrative system.Under this system, each Jinzhao Academy was responsible for information collection and dissemination of reports, and the official newspaper disseminated was the Di Bao.

Of course, this official office was merged into the Dashun People's Daily in the tenth year of Hongxiang, that is, the "Dashun People's Daily" and Di Bao were combined into one, and the status of "Dashun People's Daily" was established, becoming a more changeable newspaper. , a newspaper with more commercial elements.

Although the merger is good, "Dashun Minbao" has been mixed with official style. In the past two years, it has not dared to reveal the truth about the officialdom, and has been repeatedly criticized by the people.Over time, the market share will naturally shrink again and again.Except for officials who buy two copies, ordinary people seldom buy such newspapers anymore. The management of "Dashun Minbao" was becoming more and more difficult. If Lu Chengqi hadn't given it a shot in the arm, it would have been terminally ill and unable to recover.

When "Dashun Minbao" started to speak for the people, there was no need to worry about the sales of the newspaper.

Within three days, this issue of "Dashun People's Daily" spread throughout the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins through fast horse and ship transportation.In another five or six days, even the border can receive it.

For a time, there was a strong response from the people, and even more radical students wanted to beat the drum and ask the emperor to decide how to deal with these profiteers.In fact, most people know that most of these students are descendants of merchants, and they are just complaining about their own industries.This is because they have just entered the stage of "scholar", and have not yet stepped from "scholar" to "official".If they were of the same class as "officials", they would not be so.

To put it bluntly, this is nothing more than a class conflict.

The position of the butt is different, and the angle of viewing the problem is naturally different.

As soon as this issue of "Dashun People's Daily" came out, the people were happy and profiteers were worried, but the transportation of Jiang, Huai, Jing and Zhejiang made Cai Jing even more worried.

Cai Jing was devastated by the name-calling criticism of Dashun Minbao.Yes, he took advantage of his position to benefit his own interests by pretending to be a delivery envoy, but in fact he secretly carried his own grain and shipped it all the way to Chang'an, saving a lot of shipping costs.Not only that, but his family is a government-owned business and does not have to pay taxes. It is conceivable that the price of rice is much lower than the normal level.

Others have 120 Wen per bucket of rice, and they can only maintain a situation of neither profit nor loss; his family has a small profit of [-] Wen per bucket of rice, this is the gap!
Because it is cheap, even if [-]% of a bucket of rice in his house is empty chaff and sand, some people will pinch their noses and recognize it.Although Chang'an City is prosperous and there are many rich people, not everyone is rich. The common people account for the majority, and there are even poor people.

In order to save money, they will naturally choose cheaper rice.No one's money is blown by strong winds. It is the traditional virtue of the common people to save as much as possible. Frugal housekeeping!
But in this way, other grain merchants will lose a lot of money. Even if they are not making a profit, their sales will shrink again and again. How can they compete with Caijia Mipu?
Seeing that their opponents are unlucky now, why don't they jump out immediately and beat the dog in the water?

Everyone loves to hear and see, except for Cai Jing, the envoy of Jiang, Huai, Jing, and Zhejiang.

Now Cai Jing reads "Dashun People's Daily" and is in a state of panic all day long, for fear that something will happen to him.You must know that his hands and feet are not clean. If the supervisory department wants to investigate, he will definitely be able to find out that he is using public affairs for personal gain.

"How to do how to do?"

Just when he was hesitating, his younger brother Cai Bian came to his house.

"Brother, you can save me!"

Cai Jing seemed to see a life-saving straw, and quickly grabbed Cai Bian.Cai Bian knew Jiangning Mansion as a scholar of Zizheng Palace. His grade was lower than that of Cai Jing, but he was still a good person.Together with Cai Jing, he passed the imperial examination as a Jinshi. In the following year, he was appointed as the chief bookkeeper of Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province. Because of his meritorious service in governing the local area, he was promoted once every three years, and finally became an official in Zhizhou.

It's just that Cai Jing is more powerful than him, and he even managed to control the water transport and sea transport of Jiang, Huai, Jing, Zhejiang, but Cai Bian has always disagreed with his brother's political views and rarely communicated.If there is no brotherhood, he would not come to the door today.

"Brother, I told you a long time ago that the current emperor can't tolerate sand in his eyes, and you just want to sing the opposite show. Now it's all right, for the sake of a few coppers, I've sunk myself into it. I see you, you should go up and play." Please demote yourself, don't wait for the Supervision Department to investigate!" Cai Bian said coldly.

Cai Jing said angrily: "What kind of idea do you have? Did you come up with it while squatting in the latrine? If I play it up, the emissary won't be able to keep it!"

Cai Bian sneered and said, "Brother, don't you want to be delusional and want to keep the dispatcher? You should think about how to save your own life! Have you forgotten how the Holy Majesty dealt with corrupt officials in the second year of Hong Xiang?"

Cai Jing had a ghost in his heart, and said nah-na: "I didn't take money from the official..."

(End of this chapter)