Everyone doesn’t understand what “weekly newspaper” means. There is no time unit like “week” in the Tang Dynasty, but according to the news from inside Jingzhao Mansion, Jingzhao Yin Fangjun publishes this newspaper once every seven days.
If you lose five hundred guan, it will be 2,000 guan a month and 25,000 guan a year...
However, this number seems huge to ordinary people, and the gap between it and Fang Jun's business of millions and millions of dollars is really disproportionate. Everyone can only secretly curse: What a rich and willful girl!
Willful?
Fang Jun doesn't think so.
Because this is far from the scale of Zhenguan Weekly that he expected. As early as 2000, sets of printing type were shipped via inns to all the cities in the Tang Dynasty where Fang's business was stationed, and then a newspaper office would be established in each city.
Distribute "Zhenguan Weekly" to the world.
The initial estimate was that he would push the circulation of "Zhenguan Weekly" to 100,000 copies nationwide!
According to estimates by people in Chang'an, Fang Jun will lose a huge sum of 200,000 to 300,000 yuan every year...
In fact this is naturally impossible.
The cost of making bamboo paper is far less expensive than the outside world spreads, and people have not realized the convenience and low cost of movable type printing. In fact, the cost of "Zhenguan Weekly" is only about five cents, and Fang Jun has many ways to make it a manipulation
While being a powerful tool for public opinion guidance, it has also become a magic weapon for making money...
Of course, compared with Kong Yingda’s article, no one cares about money anymore.
This is an era where knowledge is scarce and information is spread extremely slowly. Reading basically relies on copying. A book and volume annotated by a great Confucian can easily become a family heirloom, and it cannot be passed down to direct descendants.
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Confucian scholars in Guanzhong all competed to study it, which actually led to a jaw-dropping phenomenon: Luoyang paper is expensive!
After a morning of questions, confusion, and onlookers, the "Zhenguan Weekly" on the market quickly became popular after people discovered Kong Yingda's article. All the newspapers that could be collected were snapped up by wealthy families and even poor students.
People who did not get the newspaper would even shamelessly go to the homes of relatives and friends with two pounds of cooked meat and a jar of old wine to borrow excerpts...
The phrase "the people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is strong and the country is in peace" comes from "Song of the Five Sons" in "Shangshu". This lyrics is an article in which the five grandsons of Dayu recalled the emperor's admonitions and expressed their resentment during their exile. The article begins.
The sentence goes like this: "The imperial ancestors have taught that the people can approach but not leave. The people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is solid and the country is peaceful."
It means that our grandfather once taught us: we can get close to the people, but we must not be disrespectful and rude. The people are the foundation of the country. When the people are stable, the throne will be stable and the world will be peaceful.
Although this precept is not necessarily the original words of Xia Yu, and is most likely just fabricated by folk scholars and spread through the mouths of sages, it does reflect the earliest people-oriented thinking in ancient China.
In the article, Kong Yingda elaborated on the meaning and influence of "the people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is the foundation of the country."
During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, people-centered thinking was shrouded in the theory of "mandate of destiny", which belonged to the type of "mandate of heaven obeys the people's mandate". Rulers believed that monarchy was given by heaven, but heaven's mandate was in compliance with public opinion. If the ruler does not show consideration for the people's power,
, if you don’t practice virtuous government, the destiny will be transferred to the new king according to the will of the people.
For example, the three articles "Song of the Five Sons", "Oath of Tang" and "Oath of Tai" in "Shangshu" represent the people-oriented thoughts of the three kings Xia Yu, Shang Tang and Zhou Wu.
Tang Tang of Shang Dynasty said in the "Tang Oath" to attack Xia Jie's crimes: "There are many crimes in Xia, and God has ordered them to be punished. Now you have a large number of people, and you say: 'My queen will not show mercy to our people, and will abandon my affairs and cut off Zhengxia.
.'I have heard that the Xia family is guilty, and I fear God and dare not be unjust." King Wu of Zhou said in the "Tai Oath" to attack King Zhou of Shang: "Heaven sees me and the people see me, God listens to me and the people listen, and the people
If I have ever done it, it’s only for one person. Now I will definitely go there.”
Precisely because rulers understand the principle of obeying the destiny of the people and obeying the destiny of the people, the rulers have the idea of matching heaven with virtue. Especially the rulers of the "small country Zhou" summed up historical lessons from the demise of the "big country Shang" and further developed the Xia and Shang Dynasties.
people-oriented thinking.
For example, "Shang Shu·Zhou Shu·Cai Zhong's Ming" says: "The emperor and heaven have no relatives, only virtue is to assist them. The people's hearts are impermanent, but they are favored." The destiny of heaven does not distinguish between relatives and distances, and it only assists virtuous kings. The people's hearts are not stable.
There is no permanent master, he only surrenders to the one who loves himself.
This also became the source of the "people-oriented" thinking of later Confucianism.
In the article, Kong Yingda quoted a lot of eloquent references and expounded the concept of people's livelihood in detail. The students, Confucian scholars, officials and nobles were fascinated and reflected deeply.
Even the common people who knew a few words applauded.
Kong Yingda, the great scholar of the time, was once again speaking for the people of the world. How could he not be applauded?
Suddenly, the influence of Zhenguan Weekly was greatly enhanced.
While the family members were savoring the inner meaning and off-topic meaning of this "editorial", they were also wary of Fang Jun's movements. But what surprised them was that Fang Jun seemed to be really investing all his body and soul in this.
"Zhenguan Weekly" paid no attention to Yuan's case...
What the hell is this kid doing?
Is it really because of fear that the Yuan clan’s power has waned?
Or even if you lose everything, you still have to show off a unique style, and you have to create a flower cluster to win applause?
But no matter what everyone guessed, Fang Jun didn't make any movement at all...
A week later, the second issue of "Zhenguan Weekly" arrived as scheduled.
There is no need to remind people of the focus this time. People who buy a newspaper will first look at the "editorial" on the main page.
This time the main writer is not Kong Yingda, but his reputation is not bad at all!
Contemporary great Confucian, doctor of Taixue, Jia Gongyan!
This man's ancestral home is Yongnian, Tangzhou. He is a Confucian scholar, a Confucian scholar, and a scholar of "Three Rites". He has learned from ancient times to the present, and his talents are universal. He has written fifty volumes of "Zhou Li Yi Shu" and forty volumes of "Li Yi Shu"
, the name of the article spreads all over the world!
Jia Gongyan was proficient in "Three Rites". Not only was he responsible for the compilation of "Zhou Li Yi Shu", but he also selected the twelve volumes of Zheng Xuan's annotated version, compiled the scriptures of various schools, and expanded it into fifty volumes of "Yi Shu". The style is modeled on "Yi Shu".
"Five Classics of Justice". "Yi Li Yi Shu" was also compiled by this public, adopting the Shu of Huang Qing in the Northern Qi Dynasty and Li Mengsu in the Sui Dynasty, and made it the current version, based on Zheng Xuan's annotations.
If we just talk about the number of works, they are still higher than Kong Yingda!
And this "editorial" by Jia Gongyan is called "Morality is good governance, and politics is to support the people"...
This sentence comes from "Shangshu - Yushu·Dayu Mo".
Its original meaning is that virtuous government is good politics, and the ultimate goal of politics is to nurture the people.
However, its purpose is to spread the ideas of "the king is based on the people" and "the country is based on the people", which are thematic ideas that began with Confucius and Mencius and continued throughout the entire feudal era.
The article says that in the era of Confucius and Mencius and the two thousand years of autocratic monarchy after the Qin and Han Dynasties, although there was still the influence of the "manifest power" and "manifest destiny" theory, the relationship between the king and the people and the relationship between the people clearly emphasized the power of the people.
important role.
Confucius put forward ideological propositions such as "A benevolent person also loves people and governs in order to be virtuous and unfaithful to the people. He does not cultivate himself and loves the people", which laid the foundation for the people-oriented ideological tradition of Confucianism. Mencius further proposed that "the people are the most important, and the country is second."
In other words, the propositions of "the emperor is valued more than the emperor" and "the emperor is worthy of the people" formed the benevolent political thought tradition of "the people are valued more than the emperor is valued" in later generations.
Mencius appreciated Tang and Wu's revolution, saying that Tang and Wu's killing of Jie and Zhou was "killing one husband". Dong Zhongshu put forward the proposition that "the right should defeat the unjust, this is the law of heaven", which illustrates the revolutionary nature of the traditional Confucian people-centered thought, that is, those who are unethical will be punished by the people.
The rationality of overthrowing and changing dynasties.
The article is rich in flowers, rigorous and neat, and every word is cardinal and penetrating.
Many people have figured out the taste...
From "the people are the foundation of the country, the foundation is the foundation of the country" to "morality is the foundation of good governance, and government is to support the people", this seems to be a bit of a blunt transition. The former is the folk customs and state affairs of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the latter is Confucius
Meng Yijiang's political trend, but the two share the same subject of people-oriented!
The Tang Dynasty conquered all directions, and although it was invincible with its illustrious martial arts, the old wounds left by the turmoil in the late Sui Dynasty had not healed. Years of wars in the south and north had added new wounds, and the population could no longer keep up with the speed of development.
The two editorials of "Zhenguan Weekly" were in line with the current social status quo and immediately resonated with people of insight from all walks of life. For a time, Guanzhong was promoting the idea of "people-oriented" everywhere, hoping that the emperor could encourage fertility and the empire could
reproduce……
An unprecedented trend of attaching importance to population vitality was quickly inspired by these two articles and gradually became a trend!