Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 564

The imperial court did not prohibit newspapers from publishing important state affairs, and soon, this fierce debate was first published in "Chao Bao", followed by "Taboli" and "Xin Bao".
There are also several new newspapers that have just been established that have also reported this matter at length, such as the "Jingshi Express" run by the Chai family, "Song Jian" jointly run by the Cao family and the Gao family, and "Tianxia Shi", "Wen Bao". ", "Ball Newspaper", "Rice, Rice, Oil and Salt" and so on.

They also use catchy titles: "Blast!Discover the new continent, three times as big as the Song Dynasty", "Colonial Overseas, Xiao Fan Xianggong's Dream of the Great Song Empire", "Family and Country, Overseas Islands Are Home or Country", "Before Westerners", "Send Troops Overseas", "The Great Song Dynasty Needs a Stronger Ship", "Building a Country with Technology".

For several days in a row, many newspapers were discussing this matter, and many veteran ministers also contributed articles one after another, borrowing newspapers to express their thoughts.

The whole city of Tokyo is going through a big debate about overseas development. Almost all the articles mention the name Mr. Fan, and it is from this time that Mr. Fan has become Fan Ning’s public title.

At the entrance of a small alley on West Street, there is a shop covering an area of ​​about four acres. There are two signs hanging on the gate, one with "Song Jian" written on it, and the other "World Affairs" written on it.

This is the newspaper shop of two newspapers. Not long after the new emperor ascended the throne, he let go of public opinion and allowed the people to run newspapers.

Many powerful families who wanted to run newspapers took advantage of this shareholder wind and started their own newspapers one after another. They had concerns before, but after seeing the huge benefits of mastering public opinion, they devoted themselves to it without hesitation.

"Song Sword" is a military newspaper jointly run by the Cao family and the Gao family, which mainly publishes some military news, while "World Affairs" is the Cao family's own newspaper.

Like "Tabolo" and "Letter", they publish entertainment and current affairs news, and like normal newspapers, readers will have influence. They also rack their brains to find news that readers like to hear and see.

The news about the discovery of the New World in the past two days has caused a sensation in the capital, and will soon cause a sensation in the Song Dynasty. All the newspapers are making a fuss about this, trying to pry the news in this regard.

In the morning, a middle-aged deacon hurried into the newspaper shop, and happened to meet Cao Yi, the proprietor of the two newspaper shops, in the courtyard.

The middle-aged deacon hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "See the proprietor!"

Cao Yu came to the newspaper office these two days because of the discovery of the mainland overseas, and he wanted to get more information.

He quickly asked, "Have you got it?"

The middle-aged deacon nodded, "The Journal is still very trustworthy and gave us the exclusive report."

At the beginning of the year, the Cao family's "World Affairs" and "The Letter" reached a news sharing agreement. Yesterday, Cao Yi got the news that "The Letter" was going to publish an exclusive article by Fan Ning, so he sent a deacon to try his luck. Thinking that the "Letter" really gave it.

Cao Yi was overjoyed, and quickly took the manuscript to read carefully. The title was "Interview with Xiao Fan Xianggong - The Territory of the Great Song Dynasty Should Be at the Other End of the Blue"

In the interview, Fan Ning quickly detailed the detailed process of their discovery of the New World, so detailed that they could almost use this interview to find that continent.

Cao Yi frowned and asked again: "Is this just one of the interviews?"

The middle-aged deacon nodded, "It is said that the article written by Fan Ning has more than 1 words, and they plan to distribute it in four parts."

"Then you have to keep an eye on them. We must log out this series of articles at the same time."

"Understandable!"

"Go! Give this article to the chief steward. As an additional issue, it will be printed today."

There are still two hours before the newspaper will be released. The content of today's newspaper was already rigid yesterday, and it is now being printed. It is obviously too late to add this article, so we will use the method of adding another issue, which is equivalent to the extra issue of later generations. Print it out, and add some advertisements to the extra parts.

The middle-aged deacon left in a hurry, Cao Yi thought about it and asked someone to copy a copy of Fan Ning's interview, and went back to the mansion.

Cao Cong, the patriarch of the Cao family, is in his dying years and has few years left to live, but the more he is like this, the more he cares about the future of the Cao family.

Three years ago, the Cao family set their eyes on the overseas land of the Great Song Dynasty, but the court's attitude on this matter has always been unclear, so the Cao family has been waiting.

This time, Fan Ning discovered a large amount of land and a new continent twice the size of the Song Dynasty, which once again sparked a debate about allowing private overseas purchase of islands. Not only the Cao family, but everyone's hearts were touched.

In fact, Han Qi's worries are not unreasonable. The rich and powerful buy the island out of a kind of ambition and desire. Without the ambition to build a country and stand on its own, who would want to buy land tens of thousands of miles away?
In terms of self-reliance and founding of the country, Song Dynasty also concealed a deeper background. The Zhao family's country was not obtained by fighting, but with the addition of a yellow robe. To put it bluntly, it is a kind of usurpation.

The Zhao family can wear a yellow robe, but what about other families?
It’s just that the Great Song Dynasty has blocked the rise of other powerful families through the system of drinking wine to release military power and civil servants in power. However, an alternative upward path has appeared in overseas expansion of territories, and many powerful families have discovered this possibility. sex.

A tribe of more than [-] barbarians can build the Luzon Kingdom, so why can't their family, they have wealth, population and technology, and they can completely build a small country attached to the Song Dynasty.

With the instigation of newspapers and public opinion in the past two days, this idea has already made every powerful family start to move.

Cao Yi returned to the mansion and went directly to the backyard to meet the Patriarch.

Cao Cong listened to Cao Yi's dictation with squinted eyes, and smiled slightly: "If Japan and Korea also have powerful naval forces, they can rely on this article to occupy the New World first!"

Cao Yu tentatively asked: "Can we preemptively occupy an island, as the location and resources are better."

Cao Cong shook his head, "That's because the name is not right, the words are not right, there is no need, you go to the palace in the next two days, and talk to the Queen Mother about it, it is best if she can push it forward."

"What about Fanning?" Cao Yan asked again.

"Fanning, I'll ask Shi'er to talk to him and listen to his advice."

"I understand. I will go to the palace to see the Queen Mother tomorrow."

Cao Cong smiled again and said, "Today the Gao family came to see me, and asked about it on the sidelines. They were also tempted! And Mr. Pan is coming to visit me tonight. I guess even the Chai family, the Qian family, and the Li family, These descendants of emperors have ideas, and if there is no opportunity for them in the Song Dynasty, then going overseas to establish a country can make the cause of the ancestors last for thousands of years."

"The current attitude of Zhizhengtang is four to two, Wen Yanbo remains neutral, and the two Han Xianggongs oppose fiercely."

Cao Cong sneered and said, "The Zhizheng Hall is never important. The Song Dynasty is ruled by the Zhao family and a group of dignitaries. As long as the dignitaries exert pressure together, Han Qi will be dismissed if he refuses."

"Uncle Six, I found out that Fan Ning has been secretly promoting this matter, and the Fan brothers have arranged the port and fleet many years ago. Could it be that the Fan family also has this intention?"

"Everyone has selfish intentions. It's normal for the Fan family to want a piece of land, but Fan Ning's thinking is not that simple. He is directly promoting the reform of the Song Dynasty. Haven't you noticed? The price of land has continued to decline in the past two years, and land The wind of mergers has died down, and I see many advertisements for the sale of estates in the papers."

"Uncle Six is ​​right. Everyone is obsessed with expanding the industry and has little interest in running farms. Especially now that food prices are low and there is no profit, the wind of land annexation has also been suppressed."

"This Fan Ning is not a simple person. Our Cao family has to win over him well. In the future, the prosperity of the Cao family may depend on him."

Speaking of this, Cao Cong sighed: "I was too hesitant back then, but he became the son-in-law of the Zhu family. Now it's too late to regret it. You go! I'm a little tired."

Cao Yu bowed silently and withdrew.

Cao Cong watched Cao Yi go away, he took out a letter from the drawer, and looked at it quite playfully. It was a letter written by the Empress Dowager Cao, and there were only four words in the whole letter, "Marriage between Cao and Fan".

Fan Ning has been quite busy these two days, mainly because there are too many people visiting him. Although he wanted to stay quietly for a few days, he couldn't refuse the arrival of the guests. First, the scholar Qian Mingyi visited him, followed by the old landlord. Chai Jing came to visit, and then Liu Feng, the grandnephew of Empress Mingsu.

Just after sending Liu Feng away, after dinner, his classmate and old subordinate of Kunzhou, Cao Shi, his concubine, came to visit him again.

Fan Ning knew very well that Cao Shi actually came here on behalf of the Cao family, and the dignitaries who came to visit him all had one purpose, to promote private overseas purchases of islands.

Fan Ning asked Cao Shi to sit in his study. Cao Shi saw the map of overseas islands hanging on the wall of Fan Ning's study at a glance, and he immediately stepped forward to take a closer look.

Fan Ning stood aside and said with a smile, "Which island did the Cao family take a fancy to in the past so many years?"

Cao Shi pointed to Mindanao Island and said: "The Cao family is actually very interested in this island, but it is too large. The imperial court has named it Xinxia Prefecture, and it has no relationship with the Cao family."

Fan Ning smiled slightly: "Do you need me to give the Cao family a suggestion?"

Cao Shi was overjoyed. He came here for this matter. He didn't expect Fan Ning to propose it on his own initiative, but after thinking about it, Fan Ning probably guessed his reason for coming.

"Mr. Fan, please tell me!"

Fan Ning pointed to the discovered southern continent and said, "This continent must belong to the imperial court, so the northern islands should be available for sale. The Cao family would better buy an island that is closest to the mainland."

Fan Ning pointed to Timor Island, "The local natives of this island call it Timor Island. Its area is similar to that of Ryukyu Prefecture. It is densely covered with rainforests and fertile. There are mountains and plains. It faces the southern mainland across the sea. I suggest that Cao People are considering buying the island."

Cao Shi stared at Timor Island for a while and asked, "How many natives are there on the island, and are they cruel?"

"There should not be many natives on the island, about a thousand or so. They are very ferocious and good at hunting heads. When you get this island, you can ask the Song army to go to the island to clean it up."

At this time, the maid served them tea. Fan Ning asked Cao Shi to sit down. Cao Shi said in a deep voice, "I asked the envoy more than two years ago whether the imperial court would sell the island, but there was no conclusion. The sound came up again, what does Fan Shijun think of the final result?"

Fan Ning pondered for a while and said: "The sale of the island is the general trend and it is difficult to stop it, but the imperial court will inevitably introduce a system, such as the qualifications for purchasing the island, such as the status of the island, such as how to purchase the island, etc., and the final improvement should not be so fast. , I have said the same thing to all the people who came to visit me these days, and now I am giving it to the Cao family. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. Owning five oarboats worth more than [-] shi is the prerequisite for you to obtain the island."

Cao Shi nodded, "I understand, thank you for your reminder!"

(End of this chapter)