Chapter 158 Donglin is really disappointing now! Have you even forgotten the housekeeping skills?
Holding the newspaper, which was stained with oil, Zhou Yanru was about to give his servant a lesson. But his eyes were attracted by the contents of the newspaper and he couldn't care about anything else.
It took Zhou Yanru a while to read the entire newspaper. After reading the newspaper, the old Zhou people felt bad. What a mess this is! Especially the Nine Weird Stories of the Ming Dynasty written by a thief named Yi Tonghu that appeared on the front.
Asked, the words were shocking, and it was simply a nonsense of discussing government affairs.
This man was afraid that he was crazy. He actually directly denounced the gentry and clan members of the world. He even scolded the military leader and left no room for Dong Lin.
"Where did you get this newspaper?" Zhou Yanru asked the servant sternly.
The servant was so frightened that his mouth trembled, and he said tremblingly: "Master Xiang, I bought it from the beggar boy on the street. They were shouting everywhere, and there were many people buying it!"
"Such words that are harmful to the country are openly sold on the street. Who did this?"
Although Zhou Yanru was asking the servant, he knew that the servant must not know the inside story. He was just asking to vent the shock in his heart.
No longer paying attention to the servants, Lao Zhou went straight to the study room with the newspaper, summoned his staff, and asked them to quickly find out who made this thing.
The person who made this thing is definitely not an ordinary person. Zhou Yanru can tell from the content that it was made by a famous scholar in the world. It is definitely a major political event and cannot be taken lightly.
Not long after the staff went out to inquire about the news, they still hadn't come back, but Zhou Yanru's disciples and some important officials of the court came to the door one after another.
When everyone came, it was no surprise that everything they talked about was about the Xinmin Times. Everyone was asking who was behind this.
In the evening, the staff came back to report the results of the inquiry. The person responsible for the matter had been identified, Ruan Dacheng. This old boy built a big courtyard in the middle of the capital, and also gathered some incompetent disciples from Nanzhi, and then made a
The Xinmin Times also has a sign for the Xinmin Drama Club.
"What is Ji Zhi doing? What does he want to do by causing such a big disturbance in Beijing?" Zhou Yanru couldn't help but question! He felt that Ruan Dacheng was crazy and wanted to completely break with Shilin.
"I'm afraid Ruan Dacheng, an old dog, is just trying to attract attention by using shocking words to attract attention. He is just a clown." Others were not polite to Ruan Dacheng and began to curse this unruly person.
Everyone cursed for a long time and didn't disperse until midnight. There was not much discussion about the specific response method. Anyway, Ruan Dacheng's main focus now is to attack the opposition Donglin Party members. They are the ones in power who are less vulnerable and there is no need to go to the party.
Pole to charge into battle.
When Zhou Yanru went to the cabinet for work the next day, he found that other important ministers were not interested in working and were all discussing the Xinmin Times.
Everyone talked and gossiped. This matter did not seem to be caused by Ruan Dacheng alone. This man had recently been in close contact with Yu Lianchen, the eunuch in the palace, and his consort Gong Yonggu also visited him.
.It seems that he also took a sum of money from the Royal Bank. Various signs indicate that Ruan Dacheng seems to have something to do with the emperor?
Is the emperor involved in Ruan Dacheng's affairs? Could it be that he summoned Ruan Dacheng to the capital to let him do this? What exactly does your majesty want to do? Zhou Yanru suddenly became nervous, and things were developing into an uncontrollable situation.
In just two days, the first issue of Xinmin Times created a huge storm of public opinion. The Donglin officials at the lower levels of the officialdom were unable to sit still. They wanted to deal with this old boy Ruan Dacheng.
How to deal with it? What they thought of was not to use their best means of creating public opinion, but to solve the problem in the simplest and crudest way. They wrote to the emperor and asked him to send someone to shut down Ruan Dacheng's newspaper. If the situation is normal
, they would directly ask the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Punishment to do this, but this old boy Ruan Dacheng seems to have relied on the inner palace and the emperor, so he forced his backstage to lock up this old dog.
Zhou Yanru took Yan Guan's memorial and ran into the middle palace.
"Grand Master, what are these memorials talking about? How come I don't know about it? Isn't it just that someone printed some papers and sold them? It's not a big event, it's like an important matter for the country and the dynasty. Officials
Is there nothing serious to do?"
Don't you know? There are many Xinmin Times ordered in the palace! Zhou Yanru looked at the Ming Emperor who was pretending to be confused and was speechless.
"Your Majesty, this newspaper is not a trivial matter. It is discussing the government's affairs and causing trouble. We can't let such a bastard do anything wrong again."
"Grand Master, I am a little confused. Please clarify my confusion! Back then, the eunuchs said that Donglin was making irresponsible comments on government affairs, so they sealed Donglin Academy. Later, the important officials in the court said that this matter blocked the way of speech and excluded dissidents.
Now that this kind of thing has happened again, if I and the imperial court close down this Xinmin Newspaper office again, wouldn’t we have made the same mistake again? I’m afraid that’s not good?”
"This, Your Majesty! The affairs of the Xinmin Times are different from those of the Donglin Academy. The Xinmin Times is making lies to deceive the public. How can it be compared with the affairs of the Donglin Academy?"
"Grand Master! It seems that the eunuchs used these words when they said about Donglin Academy, right? How can I know that those are lies to deceive the public and those are good ways to govern the country? I can't just believe what some officials say, right? Who can
Guarantee, this group of people is not another eunuch who uses the emperor's hand to eliminate dissidents? It is necessary to be on guard against others."
You have all the words to say! Zhou Yanru was speechless for a moment when the emperor talked about Donglin Academy. After he took a breath, he said: "Your Majesty, how should I reply to the official about this matter? I have to put the public opinion into consideration."
Just need to calm down, right?"
"Isn't this simple? Can't we just use words to resolve matters of communication? No matter what the Xinmin Times said, if some people think it's wrong, why don't they just go back and argue? Do they still have the ability to accuse someone?
Is it true? Have you deceived everyone in the world? I think that using government means to intervene in this matter will be true, and maybe it will be used by some villains! We must learn from the lessons learned from Donglin Academy back then.
But we can’t do it again.”
Zhou Yanru was left speechless and had no choice but to withdraw from the palace and return to the cabinet. After arriving at the cabinet, he summoned some officials and conveyed the emperor's opinions to them.
After hearing this, the officials were naturally unwilling and threatened to continue to submit the letter.
"Confused! If you want to repeat the misfortunes of the past, please continue to petition. The Holy One has already told the old story about the closure of the academy, and you don't even think about who you are telling it to? If you continue to force the Holy One, wouldn't this be a mistake?
Are you going to eunuch the party? Do you want to accuse Donglin of this kind?"
"Assistant Taiwan! If Ruan Laogou's Xinmin Newspaper office is not closed down, will he be allowed to continue to make arrogant remarks about us gentlemen? Are we going to let him continue to utter arrogant words against the gentry of the world?"
"Things involving words should be solved by words! Can't you listen to what others say?" Zhou Yanru was so angry that he almost cursed. The current gang of party members are really disappointing.
Have you even forgotten your housekeeping skills? Ruan Dacheng got a tabloid and messed up the rules. It's really outrageous!