Liu Rushi recommends talents to the News Department

The time came on the fourth day of May in the second year of Zhaowu.

On this day, Liu Rushi went to Wuying Hall as usual to report to Zhu Yuyao about the newspaper office, and delivered the ten-and-a-half-month issue of "Da Ming Bao" that would be published tomorrow.

Nowadays, "Da Ming Bao" is published every five days, but Zhu Yuyao can still read every issue before it is released.

It can be regarded as another insurance for the content of newspapers and periodicals.

When "Da Ming Pao" becomes a three-day publication or even a daily newspaper in the future, she probably won't be able to do this and will have to delegate power. If something goes wrong, she can only be held accountable afterwards.

After roughly browsing the contents of each page of the newspaper, Zhu Yurao smiled and nodded, expressing that she was quite satisfied - especially Liu Rushi's "autobiography" article and Chen Zilong's "grassroots restructuring" New Deal propaganda article.

Seeing that Liu Rushi had no intention of retreating, he asked, "What else can I do?"

Liu Rushi cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, today the Beijing News and other wild newspapers are becoming more and more rampant. They have repeatedly plagiarized articles from my "Da Ming News". The newspapers published a few days ago even published articles satirizing the imperial court's "prostitution ban".

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Wei Chen believes that it is time to deal with these wild reports."

After speaking, Liu Rushi presented the issue of the Beijing News she mentioned.

The so-called "wild newspapers" refer to other private newspapers that are not authorized by the government except the imperial newspaper and the Ming Dynasty newspaper. In fact, during the Ming Dynasty, no private newspapers reported to the imperial court. Naturally,

There is no official permission.

Because the Ming Dynasty had no awareness of literary publishing management.

There were literary prisons in the Song Dynasty, there were literary prisons in the Qing Dynasty, and there were also literary prisons in the Ming Dynasty (most notably during the Hongwu and Jiajing periods). However, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the atmosphere was open, the court's control was weakened, and the binding force on privately published texts was basically zero.

After Zhu Yuyao ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty's control over all aspects rapidly increased. Logically speaking, at this time, public opinion should become cautious.

But the emergence of "Da Ming Pao" brought different changes.

Because the "Da Ming Pao" encourages people to discuss current affairs - not only does its content consist of easy-to-understand vernacular articles, it even invites articles from the public and accepts advertisements from merchants.

Coupled with the subsequent imitation of a few established private "newspapers" such as "The Beijing News", the imperial court did not immediately crack down on it and allowed other private groups to follow suit.

It has been more than half a year since "Da Ming Bao" appeared, and there are already many other newspapers and periodicals in Nanjing.

This time, Liu Rushi came prepared. When Zhu Yurao was reading the "Beijing News", she continued: "Nowadays, there are many folk newspapers, some of which not only copy the contents of the "Da Ming News", but also copy the contents of the "Beijing News".

There are also many people who go against the imperial government's decrees.

What's more, they distort the facts and even tamper with the contents of articles in the "Da Ming Pao" to mislead the people.

Wei Chen has made statistics that there are more than twenty kinds of wild newspapers published in and around Nanjing alone.

Our Ming Dynasty has a prosperous literary style. If this situation is extended to all provinces, I am afraid that there will be more public reports, and those who mislead the people will become more popular.

Therefore, I believe that these many wild reports must be rectified and managed so that they can benefit the people and enlighten the people's wisdom, rather than misleading the people and being used by people with ulterior motives."

At the beginning of the spring, Zhu Yuluo mentioned to Liu Rushi the matter of rectifying other newspapers and periodicals. However, at that time, "Da Ming Pao" had only been opened for four or five months, and the newspaper had not cultivated talents in all aspects. Liu Rushi could not safely hand over the newspaper to his subordinates.

, the matter dragged on.

At this time, hearing Liu Rushi take the initiative to mention the matter of rectifying "wild newspapers", Zhu Yusao smiled and said: "To rectify private newspapers and periodicals, the imperial court needs to establish an 'Information Department'. Apart from you, I have no talents in this field.

If you are transferred from the newspaper office and moved into the News Department, will the newspaper office have a suitable candidate to take over the job?"

Zhu Yuyao originally thought that since Liu Rushi took the initiative to raise this matter, there must be a suitable candidate for promotion by the newspaper.

Unexpectedly, Liu Rushi said: "The newspaper has only been in business for more than seven months, and Wei Chen still can't feel relieved. This time, Wei Chen wants to recommend to His Majesty a talent suitable for presiding over the affairs of the Information Department."

Zhu Aao was quite surprised when she heard this and asked: "Who can you recommend?"

"Huang Chunyao is from Jiading, Suzhou." Liu Rushi said, "This man was a Jinshi in the 16th year of Chongzhen's reign. When he was studying, he hated eight-part essays the most. He once organized the 'Zhiyan Society' with his disciples to advocate articles that are meaningful and practical.

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Although he was upright by nature, he was extremely talented and learned, especially good at poetry.

After the establishment of "Da Ming Pao", he used the pen name of "Shui Jing Jushi" and published many vernacular articles, all of which received good response, and he was extremely supportive of the vernacular article promoted by the newspaper."

Zhu Aelao showed surprise again.

She actually had an impression of Huang Chunyao.

This person was among the many backup officials she and Hao Guangming collected in the late Ming Dynasty. However, when searching for information on the Internet, she only remembered that this person had accompanied Hou Dong in the Jiading uprising against the Qing Dynasty in later history, but the incident failed.

Later, he and his younger brother Huang Yuanyao hanged themselves.

However, I never thought that Huang Chunyao would be enlightened and practical in literature, nor would I have thought that he would greatly admire vernacular literature in this life.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Yuyao said: "Even if Huang Chunyao is available, you still have to train capable people to take over the newspaper as soon as possible.

Once the Information Department is established, the imperial court will open a Propaganda Department, which, in addition to the Information Department, also includes the Propaganda Department, the Propaganda Department, the Publishing Department, and the Literature and Art Department, and there may be more than one or two talents missing."

After Liu Rushi heard this, she felt a little cold in her heart, wondering if His Majesty didn't want her to be in charge of the newspaper for a long time.

After all, the influence of the Ming Newspaper is now quite large - its distribution area has reached 19 provinces actually controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and each issue must publish at least one million copies. It is neither comparable to the "Di Bao" nor the private "Beijing News"

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Thinking of this, Liu Rushi immediately said: "I understand."

Although she liked working in the newspaper office, she had no desire for power. Moreover, Zhu Yuyao wanted to promote her, not to demote her.

However, she felt that even if she thought too much, it would be better to follow the Holy Will and train a successor as soon as possible.

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Jiading in Suzhou is not far from Nanjing, but Huang Chunyao came to Nanjing to have an audience only three days after receiving the imperial edict.

After the report, Zhu Yuyao was quite satisfied with Huang Chunyao and immediately appointed him as the head of the Information Department of the Propaganda Department.

He also ordered him to join forces with Liu Rushi to rectify the Ming Dynasty newspaper industry after establishing the Information Department.

In fact, Huang Chunyao and Liu Rushi had known each other for a long time. Huang Chunyao was a learned disciple of Suzhou Prefecture when he was seventeen years old, and he was known as the "Huang Family Thousand Miles Horse". Because of his outstanding poetry and prose, he was appreciated by Cheng Jiasui, one of the "Four Gentlemen of Jiading" at that time, and recommended him to Qian Qian.

Yijia is in charge of Mengxue.

He himself was considered a famous figure in Suzhou, and Liu Rushi was originally from Suzhou, so he naturally knew him.

In the past, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was dim and the imperial court was powerful. Huang Chunyao was upright and straightforward, so he naturally did not want to be a coward in the officialdom.

Nowadays, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has been cleared up and vitality is flourishing. He is only in his early forties, so he is naturally willing to serve as an official and make achievements in order to expand his ambition.

Huang Chunyao was appointed as the head of the Information Department of the Propaganda Department (sixth grade), which was actually the highest official in the Propaganda Department at present. Huang Chunyao was not polite. He asked for the transfer of reserve officials from the Central Government and recruited disciples and colleagues to enrich the Information Department. At the same time, he discussed with Liu Rushi how to rectify the Ming Dynasty Newspaper.

Industry.

Both of them understand that this matter involves a wide range of things and is of great importance, and they must not act hastily. Therefore, they are only planning and not taking any action at the moment.

Zhu Yuluo also knew that this matter needed to be decided before taking action, not to mention that rectifying the newspaper industry was not an urgent matter, so she waited patiently and occasionally summoned Huang Chunyao. Liu Rushi asked about the situation and gave some suggestions without any urging.

As the king of a country, Zhu Yuluo cannot only focus on this matter. She needs to take care of all aspects, at least to have some understanding.

She would leave some unimportant matters to her ministers, and most of the time, she would focus on handling important military and political matters...

Time soon came to May 20, the second year of Zhaowu.

On this morning, Zhu Yu'ao Wuying Palace summoned three people, one of whom was Xu Zhihu, a Qianhu of Fusi, Jinyiweinan Town, who had only returned from Shanxi three days ago.

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