The first emperor of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 29 The First Newspaper Appears
"Me!" Zhao Huan pointed to the sky and said, "I'm from the official family."

Zhao Huan originally thought that after he said that, the little girl would trust him, but he didn't expect the little girl to be more cautious after hearing his identity.

This kind of cautious, but also with deep vigilance.

"What? What concerns do you have?" Zhao Huan said to the little girl.

"It's nothing." The little girl didn't say much, but asked instead: "Can we leave after we finish eating?"

Zhao Huan frowned, quickly understood, and said to the little girl, "What? Could it be that someone from the imperial court wants to arrest you?"

"It's nothing!" The little girl was obviously worried, and she didn't reveal the truth to Zhao Huan, but repeated: "After dinner, we can leave."

Zhao Huan nodded, and since she didn't want to say it, she let her go.

"Well, after dinner, you can take them away." Zhao Huan said lightly.

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

When the food was served, the children devoured it crazily. It had been too long since they had eaten such a delicious meal.

By the time the children had finished eating, Yue Fei had already rushed back. Things were exactly as Zhao Huan expected. There was a layer of soybean seeds under the statue of Laojun. Li Xiaoyao ordered people to sprinkle some "fairy water" around every day. The water, these seeds germinated, actually raised the statue of the old gentleman.

Now that the matter was resolved, Zhao Huan did not take Li Xiaoyao seriously, but what happened today made him feel a little bit. In this era, information is not developed, and some people with ulterior motives may take advantage of the opportunity to confuse These ignorant people cause social instability.

"It seems that an official media should be established." Zhao Huan said softly.

Yue Fei shook his head and asked, "The media?"

Zhao Huan said: "It's a kind of tabloid, published by our government. After it is published, it will be sent to various places for posting, so that the grassroots people below can know what happened in our government at the first time. It can prevent monsters like Li Xiaoyao from using this to confuse people."

Yue Fei is not a simple general, after hearing what Zhao Huan said, he immediately understood the necessity of this thing, and said happily: "This idea is really great, if it is really implemented according to this method, I believe it will be greatly praised by the people.”

Zhao Huan nodded, and said: "It's almost the end of the transfer today. Let's go back to the palace and become rich. You Xuan Li Gang, Zong Ze and others will go to the Imperial Study Room to discuss matters."

Zhao Huan is a man who handles things neatly. Now that he has thought of this, he must implement it immediately.

At this time, the children had already finished eating. When they saw Zhao Huan standing up, they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhao Huan, shouting, "Thank you uncle!"

Zhao Huan nodded, already getting used to the scene of being kneeled down, glanced at the little girl, saw that she still had no intention of saying anything, and left with Yue Fei and others.

After Zhao Huan and others left, the little girl became even more curious about Zhao Huan's identity, so she asked the shopkeeper, "Boss, who is this person?"

The shopkeeper shook his head and said to the little girl: "I don't know, it must be a big shot, I dare not even look at him."

Big shot?The little girl smiled wryly, how big a person can she be, and what if she is a big person?This group of officials, which one is not the role of officials to protect each other.

Zhao Huan came to the door, turned his head and said to Yue Fei: "Find two smart people and keep an eye on them."

Yue Fei nodded and went to do it right away. Zhao Huan stopped him again and told him: "We must protect their safety. Their fathers are soldiers who died for the empire."

Hearing the last sentence, Yue Fei nodded vigorously. As a general who leads troops in battle, they have an instinctive sense of closeness to the relatives of those soldiers who died in battle.

After returning to the palace, a group of people held a meeting in the imperial study. Now Zhao Huan deeply felt the hard work of being an emperor. Originally, he thought that he could go wherever he wanted, do what he wanted, and get that beautiful woman. That beauty, but now it seems that it is not the same thing at all. Now that there are external troubles and internal troubles, there is the Kingdom of Jin on the outside, and there is corruption in the military and government inside. Huan can't rest for a moment.

Zhao Huan shared his thoughts with several ministers in the court.

"Your Majesty, this idea is good, but the biggest problem now is that our court's funds are seriously insufficient. If we want to set up this kind of thing called newspapers in all states and counties across the country, the cost will be too high." Zhu Shengfei, Minister of the Household Department, was the first to raise objections.

Zhao Huan was a little upset, and asked back, "No money? What about the money copied from Tong Guan's house? Have you spent it all?"

Zhu Shengfei said with some pain: "It's almost the same. The Ordnance Department is a money-sucking monster. It consumes dozens of coins every day. Why don't we control the expenditure of the Ordnance Department?"

"Absolutely not!" Zong Ze hurriedly stood up and said, "Master Zhu, the research and development of our ordnance department costs money, and the money is earmarked for special use. None of the money is put into private pockets, if you stop our funding, what will happen to our research.”

"Your Majesty, I think that there is no need to set up this thing called a newspaper. After all, there are not many people who can read and write in the Song Dynasty. Even if newspapers are sent to the states and counties, few people can understand them." Minister of the Ministry of Rites Li Ruoshui said.

"Hey, what you said is not accurate." Zhao Huan waved his hand and said, "Even if one person can understand it, it can tell the news to others, and the problem you mentioned can be solved easily. After the newspaper is delivered, you can find someone to read it out, so you can understand it."

Everyone saw that Zhao Huan really wanted to promote this thing called newspaper, and everyone thought it was good, but they were more conservative about this new thing.

"Your Majesty, the most urgent issue before us now is the issue of funding. Only when this issue is resolved, the rest will be minor issues." Li Gang said.

Zhao Huan nodded, handed the template of the newspaper in his hand to Li Gang, and let everyone circulate it, saying: "If I can solve this funding problem, can this newspaper be established?"

(End of this chapter)