Survival of the Chongzhen Emperor Chapter 151 The chief minister of the cabinet also came to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things in person?
Chapter 151 The chief minister of the cabinet also came to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things in person?
"Dong Weng, many adults have accepted the greeting cards I sent today, but they have not replied whether they will come to attend the meeting." Ruan Dacheng's clerk reported the situation of sending greeting cards to those who stayed at the post station to prepare for the meeting.
A gathering of private individuals.
After Ruan Dacheng came out of the palace, he planned to organize a gathering with some close friends and officials to listen to their attitudes and opinions on this matter. Although Lao Ruan had retired from officialdom for a long time, he felt that his influence was still there.
Yes, it’s okay to hold a meeting in the capital.
"Don't worry, the meeting is scheduled for tomorrow night. Many people are probably too busy to reply. As long as they accept my post, the meeting will start!"
After the servant glanced at the owner of the house with complicated eyes, he quietly left Ruan Dacheng's guest room without saying anything. He couldn't tell the owner that many of his disciples were not enthusiastic about him when sending greeting cards today.
A phoenix that lands on the ground is not as good as a chicken, not to mention that Comrade Lao Ruan is not a phoenix. When he was in the officialdom, he had not been a serious official, and he had not been in front of the stage for more than ten years. Who would think that you are a phoenix?
Root? The most important thing is that Lao Ruan is a registered traitor of Donglin, which makes his identity even more embarrassing.
Ruan Dacheng waited all day the next day, but no one from the capital came to the posthouse to attend his rally. In the evening, Comrade Ruan's face was ashen and he drank without saying a word.
The servant took a piece of paper and walked carefully to Ruan Dacheng and said: "Dong Weng, the doorman of Zhou Shoufu's family handed over a note, saying that this is a souvenir specially given to you by Mr. Zhou. Please be sure to see it with your own eyes."
What you read must be burned after reading.”
Zhou Yanru sent a souvenir? Could it be that something important had happened? Ruan Dacheng quickly took the note from the servant, opened it and looked at it.
When he opened it, Lao Ruan's face turned red with anger. No wonder no one came to attend the rally. It turned out that the Donglin Party members had already begun to take action. The Donglin Party members had long known that he received the imperial edict in Nanjing.
and sent a flying letter to the Donglin Party members in the capital, asking them to do their best to prevent Ruan Dacheng from returning to office. The purpose of Zhou Yanru's handwritten letter was to persuade Ruan Dacheng to retreat when he faced difficulties. He really couldn't help with this kind of thing.
Don't make things difficult for everyone.
Did I, Ruan Dacheng, do something that is unacceptable to heaven? When the eunuchs came to power, they said that I was harmed by people from Donglin, which made me unable to be a reliable official. Later, when Donglin came to power, they said that I was an eunuch and still couldn’t do my job in a practical way.
Official. Co-author, I am born to be in conflict with high-ranking officials? Okay, great! I don’t want to be an official anymore! Your Majesty still sees the problem thoroughly, so let’s be the only one who is neither an official nor a civilian, neither Chinese nor foreign.
What happened to the portion?
Ruan Dacheng was so angry that he notified Jin Yiwei to take him into the palace early the next morning. This time he made up his mind. If he didn't cut off the root of the evil that bullied honest people, he would not believe Ruan. Let you bully others, and see how you behave.
How long can you be crazy?
"Mr. Ji Zhi is indeed a man of great responsibility. I really saw the right person. I allocate 100,000 taels of silver dollars to Mr. Ji Zhi every year, of which 50,000 taels are used for the business of Xinmin Times and 50,000 for Xinmin Times."
The business of the drama club. The New Folk Drama Club is also an organization that works for the world. It needs to gather a large number of artists to create a series of dramas, scripts and songs that are easy to understand and popular with the people. It goes deep into the market and rural areas to preach about the country's dynasty.
In the great political affairs, we should expose and criticize the evil deeds of hypocrites and thieves, and create a strong situation of sharing the same hatred with the enemy and rejuvenating the country through hard work."
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid it will cost a lot to support such many artists?"
"In summary, we have to have a strategy. If we support the artists directly, the cost will be too high, and the influence will be too small. The theater company needs to form a cooperative relationship with the majority of artists, and pay them not a salary, but one tael of silver a month.
Subsidy is enough. The drama club does not hinder the artists from performing other performances, nor does it divide their performance income. As long as you can regularly participate in some of the drama club's performances of current dramas, you can receive subsidies in your name in the club. You must communicate with other artist groups
We cooperate extensively, and our interests do not conflict with theirs. As long as we cooperate with the team and artists, we are their public backers, and I am their secret backers. If there are ignorant people who bully them, we have to come forward to provide them with justice.
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"It's good to cooperate! In this way, we can spend a small amount of money to do big things. And the troupes and artists can also find supporters and avoid bullying. It's the best of both worlds." Ruan Dacheng, who has changed his mind, is very interested in doing big things.
Seriously, just kidding, he has no way out. If he doesn't do this, his reputation will be ruined and he will never recover.
"Cooperating with artists is one aspect. We also need to rely on the platform of newspapers to win over the world's knowledgeable scholars. How to win over them? All articles published in newspapers must give them a remuneration of 2 to 50 taels depending on the length. At the same time, the newspaper will pay them 2 to 50 taels per article.
In two months, a serious collection of essays will be published. There will be no charge for printing the collection, and the author of the article will be paid according to the printed volume. The newspaper should be designed to appeal to both refined and popular tastes. It should not be all about highbrow and low-key. It can serialize some popular market stories and novels.
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Remuneration? A newspaper can publish more than ten articles, large and small, and can publish six issues of the newspaper in a month. This means that fifty or sixty people will receive remuneration every month. Over the course of a year, hundreds of literati will be affected by this.
Benefited. Thinking of this, Ruan Dacheng couldn't help but admire the emperor. This method of winning over scholars is much better than that of Donglin's group, and at least the threshold for entry is much lower. If he had thought of this method earlier, he would have won Zhongjiang.
Two to five taels of silver is not a small sum in this era. With this money, an ordinary scholar can feed his family for more than a month. Even he, Ruan Dacheng, will not regard three to five taels of silver as nothing.
Through the drama club, artists can solve the problems of social status and stable income, and through royalties, they can provide financial subsidies to ordinary scholars. The more Ruan Dacheng thought about this combo, the more he thought it was high. This time he said it from the bottom of his heart: "High,
It’s really high” comments.
Soldier Ruan Dacheng walked out of the palace gate again. Different from the previous few days, this time his footsteps were solid and powerful, and his eyes were clear and proud.
After returning to the inn, Ruan Dacheng asked his old servant to prepare paper and ink, and began to write quickly. This time he was not writing a letter of greetings and invitations to some bullshit officials in the capital. He was writing a letter to his own people in Zhongjiang Society. The content of the letter
It's very simple. Brother, I made a big investment, and my brothers rushed to the capital to help me start a business. The business was successful, with both fame and fortune, a bright future, and strong backing.
Old Ruan, who had been writing letters all night, did not rest the next day. Instead, he took his disciples to a high-end supply and marketing cooperative in Beijing to purchase things. I heard that there were a lot of new things in Beijing these days. As a rich man, Ruan Dacheng did not want to start a business.
I suffered in the early days, so I had to create a good office environment for myself. I heard that the new alcohol lamp in Jingli is very good. It has no smoke and no unpleasant oil smell. It is most suitable for people like him who need to work on world affairs.
Used by great talents who write furiously late at night.
I took my servant to the supply and marketing cooperative in Beicheng and took a look. I found that Guaiguai had a lot of good things in this place. Fine porcelain, various stationary utensils, refined sugar, thick winter clothes, exquisite lamps, and stoves. It was really interesting to see.
Comrade Ruan was dazzled! This place is a place specially set up by the supply and marketing cooperative for high-end people. Ordinary people dare not enter. It was here that Ruan Dacheng met Zhou Yanru, who also came to sell things. Hey! You are the chief minister of the cabinet.