Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

The establishment of officials and the change of officials were all decisions made by Zhu Youjian privately, without consultation with officials from the foreign court.

He did not plan to tell foreign officials before the relevant measures were completed. It is planned to launch it in one go after the trial is completed.

Therefore, he asked Wang Chengen and others to pay attention to confidentiality. He also asked Jinyiwei and Wensi Academy to write technical confidentiality regulations and train craftsmen to prevent the technology that Ming Dynasty had worked so hard to develop from being leaked out at will.

The officials and scholars of the Ming Dynasty actually didn't care about these. What they are hotly discussing now is Liu Zongzhou's remake of ritual music.

Especially when it came to taking the exam, no one could have imagined it. After just a few days of taking the exam, I found that the outside world had completely changed.

The reconstruction of rituals and music, and the reconstruction of ritual scriptures, each of these things impacted the nerves of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, letting them know that the world of the Ming Dynasty had undergone earth-shaking changes.

After these decisions are passed, the future of Ming Dynasty will be very different from the present.

Even now there has been a change, that is, the emperor and Liu Zongzhou's interpretation of the Liyun Chapter has been included in the imperial examination.

If the examination had not already been completed, they might have to improvise and learn the new explanation of the Rites and Luck chapter.

There are even those who chose to take the test papers of "Book of Rites" involving rituals and luck. Now they are panicking and asking everywhere whether the grading standards this time are based on the new interpretation.

Until an official from the Ministry of Rites responded clearly, telling them that the examiner had already entered the scene and would not know the new interpretation of the Rites and Luck Chapter. This time, the evaluation would be based on the original interpretation. These people finally feel relieved and know that it has no impact on them. What they should worry about is the people taking the next exam.

This farce made some people criticize Liu Zongzhou, thinking that he wanted to recreate rituals and music just because he had nothing to do.

However, more scholars cheered and believed that Liu Zongzhou presided over the reconstruction of rituals and music, which would definitely change the Ming Dynasty and prevent the collapse of rituals and music.

Two hundred and sixty years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the current situation of the Ming Dynasty is completely different from that of the early Republic of China. Many of the old systems that were used from the early Republic of China are no longer practical.

Social conflicts in the Ming Dynasty also intensified unprecedentedly. Especially after the chaos and frequent natural disasters in Liaodong, the entire Ming Dynasty collapsed rapidly.

Many people feel that the world should not be like this. They gathered to form associations and talk about governance, hoping to use the knowledge of sages to clarify the current climate. The Donglin Party is one of the representatives, and many teachers and students of Donglin Academy fall into this category.

Today, Liu Zongzhou is worshiped as the emperor's teacher and ordered to remake rituals and music. Let them cheer for joy, thinking that their long-term promotion has finally seen results.

Because of this, Liu Zongzhou received support from many people. Even the officials in the court hardly raised any objections——

They also believe that the Ming Dynasty's ritual and music system should be changed. No one dares to say shamelessly that today's ritual and music system is perfect and does not need any changes.

Therefore, the emperor's proposal to remake rituals and music at the Sutra Banquet hardly aroused controversy in the court. Many people have acquiesced in this matter and even actively made suggestions.

Qian Qianyi's "Lun on Constant Property" was also valued and widely discussed.

Some people praised this article and believed that Qian Qianyi's theory was in line with the purpose of Mencius.

Some people gnashed their teeth and angrily denounced the restrictions proposed by Qian Qianyi on the super-proprietary people——

Because their family has many properties, they are what Qian Qianyi calls super property owners. According to the theory of constant property, they should be taxed extra.

How could they accept this? They even scolded Qian Qianyi.

"heresy!"

"This is fallacy!"

"Our ancestors worked hard and accumulated wealth for many lifetimes. How can it prevent others from having permanent property?"

"Mr. Yushan's "Eternal Property Theory" is a heresy, I want to find him to explain it!"

One of the officials gritted his teeth and shouted to the other scholars.

If you want to get a response from everyone, go to Qian Qianyi Theory together.

But not many people responded to him, because most of the candidates were what Qian Qianyi said were permanent property owners.

Even if they do not strongly support the "Essential Theory", they will not idlely oppose it.

Especially those poor scholars were very supportive of Qian Qianyi's "The Theory of Constant Property". They believed that it was because some people had too much property that others had no permanent property. Liu Lishun, who came from a poor family and relied on the support of his fellow villagers to participate in the examination, was a supporter of "The Theory of Constant Property" and believed that the super property owners should be restricted as Qian Qianyi said. Otherwise, why would some scholars be unable to purchase property?
So he stood up and retorted:

“How can you become a super-proprietary by just working hard?”

"According to Mr. Yu Shan, the wealth owned by the super-proprietary people is something that ordinary people cannot possess after a thousand years of hard work."

"Could it be that your family has been passed down for a thousand years?"

This question immediately stopped the other party, and he had no words to answer.

Because of the troubled times in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, many families were destroyed. Most of the aristocratic families in the Ming Dynasty that have been around for a long time can only be traced back to the pre-Song Dynasty, which is less than a thousand years.

Therefore, the idea of ​​working hard to save a family fortune is naturally debunked at the first glance.

Some people even mocked him and said that he was a descendant of a thousand-year-old family and should not sit with ordinary people like him.

He was so ashamed that he covered his face with his sleeves and left the place in a hurry. Naturally, no one mentioned the matter of going to Qian Qianyi to discuss the theory.

After Liu Lishun left the judge in shame, he wanted to discuss it with Qian Qianyi. But he thought that Qian Qianyi's house would be full of guests at this time, and as an ordinary scholar, he would not be able to be received in the past, so he could only sigh and let go of this idea.

However, he was indeed very supportive of "The Theory of Perpetual Property" and had many ideas. After seeing the advertisement for manuscripts in the newspaper, his eyes suddenly lit up and he thought of a good idea:

"You may not get an audience if you go to visit directly, but if you publish it in the newspaper, Mr. Yushan may see it. 』

"And the newspaper said that after the article is accepted, royalties will be paid. 』

“With this income, my life in the capital will be more comfortable. 』

With this idea in mind, Liu Lishun said goodbye to the others and returned to the room to write.

He has extraordinary talents and profound knowledge of Confucian classics. Based on his own experience, he was very impressed by "The Theory of Constant Production". He finished the article in one stroke and quickly found the nearest newsstand and submitted the manuscript -

This is the submission method mentioned in newspapers, and it is also a helpless choice for the newspaper industry in Beijing.

With newspapers circulating in the tens of thousands, it is no longer possible for each newspaper office to send its own people to deliver newspapers and collect articles.

Therefore, in the planning, dedicated postmen are responsible for newspaper delivery and collection.

However, the postal business was transferred to Taipu Temple by the emperor during the organizational adjustment. The most important responsibility of Taipu Temple is Ma Zhenghe's post stations in various places. During this period, it has been busy integrating the local Taipu Temple and has no time to add postmen in the capital.

Wang Chengen went to Taipu Temple several times but failed to resolve the matter. Jin Yiwei can only be asked to add more people to the newsstand to be responsible for delivering newspapers. The collection of manuscripts was naturally left to the newsstand, which served as a distribution center for newspapers and manuscripts.

After Liu Lishun's manuscript was submitted, it was sent to the Beijing News editorial office that night along with other manuscripts.

Thanks to Qian Qianyi's article being very controversial, many candidates who had finished the examination wanted to make some comments. After seeing the advertisement for papers in the newspaper, they wrote the article and submitted it.

Some of these manuscripts were submitted to other newspapers, but most of them were submitted to the Beijing News——

After all, for the people of the Ming Dynasty, Di Bao and Beijing News were the most famous newspapers, and they were even the names of all previous newspapers.

Since Di Bao did not accept articles from outside, their first choice for submitting articles was naturally the Beijing News.

The editor of the Beijing News who was responsible for reviewing the manuscript was naturally sad and happy about this. With so many manuscripts, they have to review them one by one and cross-check them, so the workload is naturally huge. And because most of the people who wrote the manuscripts quoted scriptures and scriptures, they couldn't understand some of them, so they could only think about it again and again before making a decision.

So after seeing these manuscripts, they knew that they probably wouldn't be able to rest tonight. Maybe I have to light a lantern and work overtime until dawn.

The happy thing is that so many Juren contributed articles, which means that the "Beijing News" published by them is really popular and is very influential among scholars.

Thinking that the articles they wrote under pen names were seen by so many scholars, and even responded to them by writing articles, these people couldn't help but get excited, and truly realized the influence of newspapers——

This industry does have a great influence, no wonder the emperor attaches so much importance to it!
As the first batch of editors selected by the emperor, of course they must do this job well and live up to the emperor's trust. (End of chapter)