Chongzhen Undergraduates

The next day, the newspaper continued the topic of the previous day, dug into the heritage of the Confucian Mansion, and exposed the entire history of the Confucian Mansion to the public.

This is a topic of gossip, and it is a gossip that can get on the table, it is by no means low-level fun.But it still takes advantage of people's vulgar psychology.

Only then did people know that the size of the Confucian Mansion was already so huge.Some people think that this should be the case. The descendants of Confucius should enjoy privileges in this age of parentage.

On the third day, newspapers reported that Feicheng was massacred by Jin soldiers.The direction of public opinion is very positive, and it promotes Zheng Wei's heroic journey, and mentions the distance between Feicheng and Confucian Mansion by the way.Confucian scholars are boiling: look, this is the power of sage's enlightenment.

On the fourth day, the style of painting changed, and we only talked about enlightenment, focusing on examples of current famous teachers, such as Qian Qianyi.

On the fifth day, a blockbuster came out: Confucius No. 60, the fourth generation of Yan Shenggong led the Confucian mansion to shave their heads and surrendered to the Tartars.

"Wow" Public opinion was in an uproar, Confucian scholars first began to loudly argue: This is impossible, this must be a mistake.

Of course there is nothing wrong, the newspapers of this day could not be like the officials who heard the news, but introduced in detail when, where, and how Kong Yinzhi led the Confucian government to shave his hair and surrender.

The Confucian scholars quit. They began to attack the daily newspapers, demanded that they stop selling them, and used various reasons.He even wanted to move out of the Confucian Mansion Nanzong to prove his innocence.

Of course, Nanzong of Confucian Mansion is not stupid. The matter of Beizong shaving his head is a fact, and whoever comes out to fight will slap himself in the face.Doesn't this make it clear that you are directly confronting the emperor?

The struggle between Confucianism and imperial power has always focused on moistening things silently, just playing cold violence, and never confronted them openly.

"Your Majesty, do you think this newspaper will continue to be published?" Huang Daozhou was a little scared. Now that he has become the target of the Confucian scholars, he feels like he will be infamous forever.

"Why, are you scared? You are not afraid of slanting shadows, are you wrong?" Zhu Youjian looked at the newly modified printing equipment, and felt that it was not perfect enough, and it was mainly driven by humans.

Of course Huang Daozhou was afraid, he knew how powerful the literati's mouth was.Distorting history and turning black and white are what literati are best at.

"Then continue to praise Confucius. If they have the ability, they will scold the article that praises Confucius to death first. You will send out a chronology of Yan Shenggong's imperial seal, and let the world see who is the most shameless."

Yan Shenggong's imperial titles began in Song Dynasty, but at the end of Song Dynasty, he enjoyed the imperial titles of Song, Jin, and Yuan at the same time.It can be said that it is an out-and-out grassroots, double-sided.

Seeing that there was no way to stop the publication of daily newspapers, Confucian scholars began to justify various reasons for Confucian government: save the country with curves, endure humiliation, go deep into the tiger's den... whatever words can be used as a fig leaf, use whatever words are shameless.

"How much is the daily loss?" Zhu Youjian knew without thinking about it. With the current scale, running a newspaper is definitely a business to accompany grandma's house.

"Losing dozens of taels every day." Huang Daozhou was a little ashamed, because Zhu Youjian said before that this thing can make money, but he made a loss.

"It's only a few dozen taels? You've made a lot of money." Zhu Youjian was overjoyed when he heard that.

"Huh? What does the emperor mean by this? It's less difficult to lose money?" Huang Daozhou was stunned. Is there a business that likes to lose money?

"You will make an announcement tomorrow: Those who are willing to publish an article only need to pay ten taels of silver. After the article passes the review, it can be published in the daily newspaper."

The times are different, so don't use the thinking of later generations to think about the national conditions of Ming Dynasty.In this day and age, it is true that publishing a work costs money.

Zhu Youjian didn't believe it anymore. With the current public opinion, those Confucian scholars would probably hold money to beg the daily to publish their articles.He holds the commanding heights of public opinion.

The core of public opinion warfare is to use events to create public opinion, and ultimately create a situation that is beneficial to one's own goals.

Chapter 2: Finding a Way for Scholars (Special Chapter for Teacher's Day in [-])

The affairs of the Confucian Mansion were exposed to public opinion for a few days, and a war of words broke out in the whole of Jiangnan.

The core battlefield of this battle is the freshly released "Da Ming Daily".

Since the Ming Dynasty did not prohibit the establishment of newspapers other than the official ones, Fushe, the main force of Donglin, also quickly founded their own newspaper, and distributed it internally for free, and took a very characteristic name of this era "Fushe" The newspaper, the host is Fushe boss: Zhang Cai.

Is Fushe short of money?Of course not.Therefore, in addition to the "Fuxing Daily" as the main public opinion position, they also spent a lot of money to publish articles in the "Daming Daily".

The core force of the Ming Dynasty's internal struggle suddenly shifted from being hidden among the people to the surface.

The so-called party struggle has always existed above the court, and the people really don't know much about it.The Donglin Party and the Fushe are not all bad people. If it is necessary to explain that the dynasty was harmed by Donglin, it is better to say that it was brought down by internal strife.

In the Southern Ming Dynasty in history, most of the Fushe members still insisted on armed struggle when the Qing soldiers went south. Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi raised troops in Songjiang, Huang Chunyao and Hou Qi led the Jiading army and people in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty, and they died unyielding after failure.After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, some famous Fushe members fled to the mountains and forests again. Gu Yanwu and Huang Zongxi summed up the lessons of the fall of the Ming Dynasty and devoted themselves to writing.

Of course, there are some who eventually joined the Tartars, such as Wu Weiye, Hou Fangyu, etc., but they do not represent the majority of people.

Huang Daozhou anxiously took the latest issue of the daily newspaper and handed it to Zhu Youjian. In addition to reporting some necessary government affairs and government orders, the current daily newspaper has been completely crushed by Zhang Cai and the others in terms of public opinion.

Zhu Youjian glanced at it, his expression didn't fluctuate, and first asked: "How is it? Is the newspaper making money now?"

"There is little surplus every day." Huang Daozhou thought that Zhu Youjian would get angry, but nothing happened.

"Keep it going. But don't make too much money. As the main official newspaper of Ming Dynasty, profit cannot be the main purpose. But you can't make a lot of losses." This is the tone set by Zhu Youjian.

"However, if this continues, the daily newspaper will almost run out of content to write." Huang Daozhou was a little entangled. The previous topic was suppressed to death. Although it had some influence, he did not see any favorable situation for the time being.

"Don't be impatient. An article can't bring down a giant tree, but it can loosen the soil. Let's dig some roots out of the soil. Let me help you think of a topic first."

If he wanted to really fight a public opinion war in Jiangnan, Zhu Youjian estimated that he would die at a loss, and he would also get a very bad reputation.That being the case, simply don't post money to find yourself uncomfortable.

In an era of free speech, official newspapers have historically had little to gain.For those people in the imperial court, it is their duty to do well, and it is too much to do well.

Zhu Youjian summed up the difference between Donglin and Fushe.If the purpose of Confucianism is to control the imperial power, to further consolidate its dominance and even directly become the state religion, then Donglin is purely a vanguard of Confucianism;

The difference between Fushe is that Fushe belongs to the typical blind worship of young people.In the final analysis, it was Daming who was too kind to the scholars, and these people were full of food and drink all day long and didn't want to vent, looking for something to do.

The south of the Yangtze River is rich, and these people's family background is generally good. If they win the election, the imperial court will send money every month to support them.There are all kinds of benefits, and they don't have to work, and they don't want to fight crickets and play with birds like the dandies in the capital all day long. Their task is to pick up girls and gossip about current affairs, so as to appear smarter and nobler than others.

"Wang Chengen, go and invite Huang Zongxi here."

Huang Daozhou stood aside and was about to retreat, but was stopped by Zhu Youjian.

Huang Zongxi has been very careful in the past few months, for fear of making a mistake.However, the prince's attitude towards him is getting better and better.At first, he thought he was just an ordinary young man, but later he found out that this man was full of knowledge, especially the two masters, who were all great scholars in the dynasty. The prince immediately understood Zhu Youjian's intentions.

But no matter how good the prince is to Huang Zongxi, he still has some entanglements in his heart, especially his two teachers are gradually alienating him, which makes him a little puzzled.

"Huang Zongxi, I want to establish a batch of schools, do you think this is feasible?" Zhu Youjian looked at Huang Zongxi with a smile.

Huang Zongxi wondered, the emperor wanted to start a school, shouldn't he ask the cabinet?The last time I should ask the Grand Scholars, after all, the so-called Grand Scholars are the emperor's senior aides, why did you ask him here.

"Your Majesty, I...I don't know." Huang Zongxi stammered, but in the end he remained honest and didn't say anything.

Zhu Youjian took a look at Huang Zongxi, with some understanding, thinking: he is still a little younger.

"Well, I got it. You go down first." Huang Zongxi was confused, the emperor called him all the way, and asked this question?

"Huang Daozhou, what do you think?" Zhu Youjian asked Huang Zongxi an ambiguous question in front of Huang Daozhou. Huang Zongxi didn't understand the meaning, but Huang Daozhou, a 50-year-old fox, of course understood.

"Your Majesty, I will go down immediately to prepare tomorrow's newspaper."

"Do you know what to write?"

"I know. The emperor praised Confucius before because he wanted to improve the status of the teacher. Now it is the right time to start a school."

Zhu Youjian put down what he was doing, rubbed his hands and looked at Huang Daozhou, and then said with a smile: "I will reward you with a newly produced four-wheeled carriage, but the newspaper will give you a blow about the carriage."

"Your Majesty, it costs 1000 taels of silver for a car. The coachman alone needs five taels of wages every month. I can't afford it." Huang Daozhou felt happy, and it seemed that he had guessed right.