The secret set up in the palace was that Li Guang, the eunuch in charge of the eunuch's eunuch, Li Guang, was successfully promoted to the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, and became the top eunuch in the inner court. Although the eunuch's eunuch had not yet been in Li Guang's hands, the news had spread out for some reason, and the palace

After learning about it, the ambitious young eunuchs in the house went to give gifts to Li Guang to congratulate him, trying to switch to Li Guang's court.

Of course, these little moves in the palace cannot be hidden from Zhu Youtang. It is normal. When a newcomer comes to power, he will naturally develop his own power, make money for himself, and do some private things that cannot be spoken out or dealt with.

, to consolidate the position for oneself.

This is why Zhu Youtang asked Li Guang to be the Chief of Ceremonies. If he was an honest man without any means or power, how could he be loyal to the royal family? How could he take the blame for himself?

Many times, hiring people cannot just be based on loyalty and integrity.

Royal employees always look at ability. No matter you are honest or treacherous, as long as you have the ability and means and can provide value to the emperor, then you will eventually have your own stage.

Some things can be done by honest people, and some things must be done by corrupt people because these people never care about their reputation and are never afraid of taking the blame!

After returning from hunting in Nanhaizi today, Li Guang spread the word about his appointment as the Priest and Ceremony Supervisor of the Palm Seal. The purpose was to let the people in the palace know that it was not too late to take refuge in him and take up his position from now on.

Sure enough, as he expected, after learning that he had become the eunuch of the Chief of Ceremonies, these wallflowers all waggled their big tails and came over to give gifts to curry favor with him.

Li Guang still enjoys the process of being flattered and flattered by others. After all, since he started wielding a knife in the palace and became a human being, ghost or not, he has been a little eunuch in the palace for eighteen years, and today he finally reached his own destiny.

The pinnacle of my official career. The sadness of the past is still fresh in my mind. From now on, I, Li Guang, can show off my talents!

However, the number of people giving gifts was almost overwhelming the doorstep of his house today, which was beyond his expectation. Among them were many officials from the six departments of the imperial court. It turns out that this is human nature!

Because there were so many people coming, Li Guang began to close the doors and windows, and refused visitors. He knew that the inner court could not be dominated by one family, and he could not let the emperor feel that his feathers were getting richer and uncontrollable.

He understood that his position was given by Zhu Youtang. Since Zhu Youtang could make him a eunuch inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people, he could also throw himself into an eternal hell with a flip of his hand. Thinking of this, Li

Guang Hou couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. He calmed down and murmured: "It's almost time. It's time to go to the emperor to get the seal."

After finishing hunting in Nanhaizi, Zhu Youtang returned to Nuange. After a simple dinner, he ordered the eunuch to place the Go chess on the couch and immersed himself in it.

"Slave, please see your Majesty!"

Zhu Youtang continued to play chess as if he hadn't heard anything. After a while, he picked up a black stone and dropped it. He said "hmm" without raising his head and muttered:

"It's really difficult for me. How should White make this move?"

Li Guang originally came to Nuange to get the seal in the evening in response to Zhu Youtang's promise from Nanhaizi in the morning. But now he saw that Zhu Youtang was only playing chess and not paying attention to himself. Could it be that the emperor would regret it?

The emperor spoke, and he kept his word! The swan meat that reached his mouth should not be able to fly away. Li Guang muttered in his heart while using his excellent eyesight to observe the trend of Othello on the chessboard on the dragon couch.

At this time, if it were anyone else, he would definitely not dare to point fingers, but Li Guang took two steps forward, took the white chess piece, and put it on the chessboard, smiling and saying:

"If this game were played by a slave, this would be the move!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Youtang pushed all the chess pieces on the chessboard to the ground and feigned anger: "Li Guang, you are so brave, you are really not afraid of death!"

Hearing this, Li Guang shivered in fright and quickly fell to his knees.

"Do you think you are qualified to play chess with me?" Zhu Youtang said coldly.

"I don't dare, I know I'm wrong." Although Li Guang thought he had figured out Zhu Youtang's temper, he was still frightened when he heard Zhu Youtang's tone.

Zhu Youtang stood up and said calmly: "The palm print of the Supervisor of Ceremonies is over there, take it!"

After hearing Zhu Youtang's words, Li Guang bowed excitedly: "My slave, I thank you for your great kindness!"

"Yes, I heard that Dong Guangyuan will arrive in the capital tomorrow. Let him come to see me after settling down in the post house. I will leave this matter to you."

Dong Guangyuan was naturally the first president of the Ming Dynasty Capital Newspaper, who was elected at the last cabinet meeting. Although Li Guang didn't know what the purpose of the Beijing News was, he vaguely felt that this matter was very important to the emperor and handed it over to the emperor.

If you have it in your own hands, then you have to do the first errand of this new official on taking office tomorrow.

"This slave will obey the emperor's decree!"

"You go down first." Zhu Youtang said lazily.

"My slave obeys the order."

…

Before dawn the next day, Li Guang led a group of young eunuchs to the city gate to greet Dong Guangyuan, who came from Qingzhou, Shandong.

"Grandpa, that Dong Guangyuan is just a local trader. Why don't you go to greet him in person?" A young eunuch moved a chair to Li Guang and said with a smile.

Li Guang sat down on the chair and took a breath. He glanced at the discerning little eunuch who was moving the stool and said with a smile: "You don't understand this. People can't be judged by their appearance, and sea water can't be measured! How do you know what's going on today?

Will the merchants and clerks not be famous all over the world in the future? Moreover, it is something the Emperor personally ordered, how dare our family be careless."

"Grandpa taught me a lesson, you guys understand." The little eunuch who had just moved the chair nodded and praised, and in a moment he knelt down to squeeze Li Guang's legs and beat his back. Li Guang looked at the little eunuch in front of him who knew what was going on, and lightly

smiled and said:

"I see you are quite smart. Follow me from today on!"

The little eunuch seemed to have received great grace. He kowtowed excitedly and shouted: "Thank you, grandpa, thank you, grandpa."

At this moment, the sharp-eyed little eunuch shouted: "Grandpa is here. I saw the Jin Yiwei. They should be here!"

After Li Guang heard this, he immediately cheered up, stood up, straightened his clothes, coughed a few times, cleared the stubborn phlegm in his throat, and looked into the distance. He saw that a carriage escorted by a team of royal guards was slowly approaching.

.

The royal guards saw a group of eunuchs greeting them in front of them. Isn't the leader the eunuch of the palace, Li Guang, a celebrity next to His Majesty?

"Hiss, the man in the carriage is so respectable. Fortunately, I treated him well and never neglected him."

Seeing the Jin Yiwei approaching, Li Guang shouted, "Thank you for your hard work, His Majesty said:

After ordering Dong Guangyuan to enter the capital, he should immediately go to the palace to meet the saint after settling in. There must be no mistake!"

…

Qianqing Palace, inside Xinuang Pavilion.

Zhu Youtang was reviewing the memorial when he suddenly heard a shout from outside Yanhai Gate: "Your Majesty, Dong Guangyuan from Qingzhou, Shandong Province has arrived. When are you going to arrange for him to visit?"

"Let him come in now."

As the great eunuch Li Guang carefully led the way, a man over eight feet tall, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a full forehead entered Zhu Youtang's perspective.

Although this man entered the palace for the first time and met the Holy Spirit for the first time, he did not panic or be afraid. Instead, he knelt down and saluted calmly and said: "The common man Dong Guangyuan has seen your Majesty. May your Majesty be blessed!"

"I'm sorry, please get up. Li Guang, please sit down!"

After Dong Guangyuan sat down, he raised his head and looked carefully at the leader of the Ming Empire. He saw that he was majestic in appearance, extremely intelligent, and had the aura of an emperor dominating the world.

"Sir, you have been working hard all the way. I should have let you rest for one night and come back to the palace tomorrow. But I have been looking forward to the Beijing News for a long time. This time, I urgently summoned you to the palace to listen to your comments on the Beijing News.

A view on a matter.”

Dong Guangyuan thought about it for a moment and said: "Your Majesty has great talents and strategies, and is extremely intelligent. I have heard about the restructuring of the Beijing News at home, and I admire your Majesty from the bottom of my heart. Before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, private newspapers were already very developed, but newspapers and periodicals

In addition to the Beijing News, there is also the Tang News. Private newspaper offices often pay large sums of money to purchase His Majesty's edicts and the decrees of the six cabinet ministries from the General Affairs Bureau. However, there is no way to identify the two, so people often mistake the Beijing News for

For Di Bao. After a long time, the news has been false and true, making it difficult to distinguish. This time, His Majesty ordered the imperial court to print a masthead on the front page of the Beijing News to improve the recognition of the Beijing News. This is a pioneering work!"

Zhu Youtang nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "As Mr. Yi said, the quality of the Beijing News in the past was uneven, and most of them were useless things. Now that the rights of the Beijing News of the Ming Dynasty have been returned to the imperial court, the imperial court must properly

Management, publish some new and valuable things! Sir, do you have any other opinions or views on this? I will put them all together today, and I will try my best to solve them for you!"

"I boldly suggest that the imperial court can separate the printing rights and the publishing rights, let the imperial court determine the content of the publication, and then select a good private newspaper to publish the publication. This can greatly promote the development of the private economy.

"

When talking about the following words, Dong Guangyuan's voice has become smaller and smaller. After all, the rulers of all dynasties have regarded the emphasis on agriculture and suppression of commerce as the foundation of the country. If the suggestion he made made Emperor Long Yan furious, then he would

I'm afraid it's just trying to fetch water from a bamboo basket, and it's all in vain.

Although Dong Guangyuan had been calm and composed just now, he couldn't help but sweating in his hands while waiting for the emperor's answer.

Zhu Youtang took a sip of warm tea, showing no sign of anger at all, and said with a smile: "This is a very good proposal, I agree. I don't have to choose the newspaper office for printing and periodicals. I will use your newspaper office all over the country."

Let’s expand more companies and publish the Beijing News of the imperial court!”

When Dong Guangyuan heard this, he was overjoyed and very excited. The emperor gave this order, indicating that his agency will become a "national" brand store and will become the number one agency in the world! How can you do business in today's world?

The squeeze from the local government is definitely indispensable. With the emperor's golden words and affirmation, it is natural to quickly expand the scale of development with the support of the royal family.

"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty. I will do my best to develop the imperial newspaper and treat it as my life's destiny!"

"You should go back and prepare carefully. The quality of the first issue of the Beijing News must be kept up with it, and it must be completely new!" Zhu Youtang said with a big wave of his hand.

“May I ask Your Majesty, what will be published in the first issue of the Beijing News?”

Zhu Youtang thought for a while, looked at the good news sent from the northwest yesterday on the Long Case, slapped his thigh, and said calmly: "The good news just came from the northwest. The governor of the northwest, Wang Yue, defeated the Tatars, so he printed the matter and informed

Let the whole country be inspired! In addition, you can decide the outcome of the battle!"

Dong Guangyuan immediately understood the meaning of Zhu Youtang's words. He should exaggerate the results of the victory as much as possible, so as to show the invincible fighting power of the Ming Dynasty army to the people!"

"Yes, on the fourth day of the first lunar month in the twenty-eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Taizu founded the country, and the country was named the Ming Dynasty. Let's designate this day as the National Day of the Ming Dynasty! This should also be published in the Beijing News, so that Zhili and all provinces

, all prefectures and counties, all my descendants of the Ming Dynasty, will have a day off on this day to celebrate and congratulate the sun together!"

"National Day?"

Dong Guangyuan was a little confused when he heard this. Is this festival fixed every year?
Chapter completed!