After Ruan Dacheng returned from the conversation, he sent a letter of recommendation to Han Jin the next day. He recommended two candidates, one named Shen Menggeng and the other named Jin Cai.
Both of them are literati from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they are also known as scholars, and they are both about fifty years old. Shen Menggen writes secular and scripts, and his works are quite popular with the people, and they are considered popular in this era.
Writer. Now working in a newspaper, he also does some editing work on the literary section. Jin Cai is very much like a pure and serious newspaperman. From the moment he entered the newspaper, he has been fighting at the forefront of reporting on current affairs, and is especially good at reporting on public affairs.
news. But this person has a characteristic, that is, he likes to comment.
He likes to come up with his own unique point of view on everything. In addition to current affairs and public affairs, he doesn't even let go of literary and artistic works. His comments are also very unique, and very strange and funny. It is said that his one-liners are quite popular among readers!
It can be said that Shen Menggeng and Jin Cai are now the two pillars of Xinmin Times, which is why Ruan Dacheng recommended them.
Running a newspaper is a technical job, and Ruan Dacheng also knew the emperor's definition of the matter, so he recommended candidates based on their professional abilities rather than relying entirely on personal relationships with himself.
Zhu Youjian specially sent someone to find out what Shen Menggeng and Jin Cai had published. He wanted to see which of the two should be used better? Or should neither of them be used?
After reading some of their works, Zhu Youjian felt that Jin Cai gave him a very familiar feeling. Especially his commentary style, it always felt like he had read it somewhere. Could it be that he was in history?
Is he a celebrity? But in my memory, there seems to be no celebrity with the last name Jin, Cai Cai, or Ruocai.
I don’t know if he is a historical celebrity, but Zhu Youjian is interested in him anyway. He has an idea of the candidate he likes. Compared with Shen Menggeng, Jin Cai seems to be more suitable for running a newspaper. Although the literary section
It is an important part of a newspaper, but in the end a newspaper should still be based on current affairs and commentary.
"Let the attendants pass the order and recruit Jin Cai and Shen Menggeng from Xinmin Times to come to the palace to discuss matters." In the end, Zhu Youjian decided to use both of them, one in charge of the newspaper and the other in charge of the drama club, to get the best of both worlds.
After the two people who were recruited entered the palace, Zhu Youjian looked at him carefully. Shen Menggen looked normal. He was wide and fat, and he was very tidy. He looked like the kind of successful literary and artistic person in future generations.
Jin Cai's appearance is a bit strange. He is skinny and skinny, as if he has been starving for a long time. His clothes and appearance seem to have been specially cleaned up for entering the palace, but his messy hair reveals his slovenliness.
Essentially. This must be a person with character.
"What do Ruocai think of running a good newspaper?" After looking at it for a while, Zhu Youjian asked.
"Just being a good mouthpiece for the saint!"
"Oh? From what I've read, your article seems to be more than that, right?"
"The students are just passing on some of the saint's words that I have understood in my heart. The world is too far away from the saint, and my heart is the bridge."
"Who is the saint in your heart?" Zhu Youjian became more and more interested in this conceited and scheming guy, so he asked a heart-breaking question. The emperor is a person who is called a saint, let's see how he responds.
"The saint in my heart is in my heart and before my eyes."
Slippery and bold, he is really a man of character. Zhu Youjian laughed dumbly at his answer. Obviously this guy wanted to keep his own ideas, but also used language to be opportunistic and did not live up to his words. He wanted to make the emperor unable to take it.
Take advantage of him.
"I believe that there is no saint better than me in ancient and modern times! However, I am far from a saint. I am just an ordinary person. I should have the heart to seek saints, and I will punish people who are saints! I don't know what it means to be a saint?"
"Student, I wish the people of Ming Dynasty are blessed to meet the Ming Lord."
"Ruan Jizhi has expressed to me his intention to resign from the newspaper and drama company, and I have approved his intention. The handover work must be completed before the end of the year. I intend for Ruocai to take over the newspaper office and Chenxing to take over the drama company.
The burden of the society.
Xingchen is a master of dramatization, and it is absolutely necessary for him to be in charge of the National Drama Club. If you take this approach, he has character, talent, and courage, so he is suitable to be a newspaper man. However, the newspaper industry has a lot to do with it, and I am a little worried about you taking charge of the affairs of the society.
In the end, it would be too extreme. But I have no doubts about employing people, and I have decided to put the burden on you.
Remember my instructions, you can’t run a newspaper without character, but you can’t have selfish motives. Don’t play the Donglin Party’s trick of using saints to regulate people! If you want to regulate others, you must first regulate yourself, be practical and pragmatic, and use facts as the criterion.
, is the foundation of running a newspaper. What is a fact? It means that it can stand the test of practice and time, and is open to doubts and multiple viewpoints. Do not collect isolated evidence, and do not use clever generalizations.
Finally, I would like to say a few more words. I know better than any of you how to run a newspaper and how to play the tricks of public opinion. You cannot bully me in this matter. Why did I cancel the government? Is it because I cannot listen to honest advice and cannot tolerate criticism?
? If I can't tolerate criticism, I won't let private individuals run newspapers. Loyalty must be true, and criticism must reflect the overall situation. Governance means compromise, the king must compromise, the gentry must compromise, and the people must compromise. I only ask others to compromise,
If you don’t leave a way for others to survive, you won’t have a way to survive for yourself. The mistake Donglin people make is to put self-interest first and only have their own hearts as sacred. Don’t make this mistake!”
I don’t know why, but after meeting Jin Cai, Zhu Youjian couldn’t stop chattering, and unconsciously had to preach more. Maybe this guy’s edges and corners were too sharp, and Zhu Youjian always wanted to beat him.
.Zhu Youjian wanted to use this person, but was afraid that he would run away.
After the interview, Jin Cai was very excited on the way back. He felt happy about being assigned an important job, but also felt an inexplicable sense of humiliation. Before becoming a reporter, his life was not considered successful, and he could even be considered successful.
It is said that he was a failure. He spent half his life studying for academic qualifications, but in the end he was just a scholar. In Jiangnan Shilin, he was not a popular person. Otherwise, he would not have gone to Beijing to work as a newspaperman.
After becoming a newspaperman, he finally found the direction of his life. This profession gave him a sense of fulfillment in life, and he even felt that it might be more suitable for him than being an official. So he turned to Ruan Dacheng and the big boss of the newspaper Zhu Youjian,
I am still grateful. Without the platform they provided, I would have no chance to express myself. But gratitude is gratitude, recognition is recognition, and he instinctively rebels and resists the concept of running a newspaper and the constraints of the newspaper office.
I feel that this is a imprisonment and shackles for myself, which makes my soul no longer free.
His soul is not free, and he has no courage to fully pursue freedom. Because of the treatment, the sense of achievement, and the real life, he can only compromise. Now that the emperor has asked him to be the editor-in-chief of Xinmin Times, he has to make more compromises.
, and those who compromise are very happy. Face the reality, everyone is a compromiser. This is probably the emperor. The governance of the country mentioned in today's talk is the main purpose of compromise!