After the Lantern Festival and the beginning of spring plowing, "Water Margin", which was too sensitive to both the historical background and the author's background, may have run out of manuscripts. However, the series of incidents that resulted in the court were slowed down.

just began.

Among them, the first person to react in a targeted manner, or rather the first person to jump out, was somewhat beyond everyone's expectations, but it turned out to be Shi Yushi Li Jing.

The point Li Jing addresses is also extremely interesting.

By the way, during the spring plowing period, the Cuju competition was closed as usual. Therefore, the Cuju competition list, which was originally used as a serial carrier for "Water Margin", also changed. The event information disappeared. "Water Margin" came from the back to the front, and the back

It has been restored to serve as advertisements for drinks and takeaways in various stores.

It is widely publicized that it is of course the work of the Zhao Guan family. It has appeared on the back of the Cuju competition list very early. Usually, the main stores brag about their wines being the most authentic and the scenery being the best. The prime minister who took out the food said it was good after eating it...

...On the contrary, the "Water Margin" from an unknown source has vaguely replaced these advertisements.

However, it was these advertising flyers that had appeared early on in conjunction with the Cuju competition list, and at this time completely replaced the Cuju competition list, triggering the first wave of turmoil in the court during the spring plowing period.

In the late first month of the first month, the censor Li Jing suddenly wrote a letter of impeachment, saying that such leaflets, which were half advertising and half, violated national laws.

Li Jing's logic is very simple and direct:

According to him, the previous Cuju competition was a semi-official group activity with the participation of the Kaifeng Prefecture. In this case, issuing leaflets explaining the situation of both sides of the game, marking the date and seats of the competition, etc. was an official announcement. And advertising was also good.

, well, taking the opportunity to use the space on the back of the flyer is a harmless act of dependence.

But now, without the Cuju competition, this kind of leaflet, which itself consists of advertisements and advertisements, is no longer a Cuju flyer. Instead of a Cuju competition flyer, it loses the nature of an official printed matter and is a kind of privately issued banned newspaper.

This kind of thing cannot be allowed to appear just because it is harmless at the moment, otherwise the traitor will definitely take advantage of it and use it to deceive the public in the future.

It has to be said that after many years of being a royal censor, Li Jing finally learned to be wise. The logic of this impeachment was clear and unmistakable, which directly silenced many people, including the Zhao Guan family who had worked hard to update.

By the way, it also forces everyone to face the real crux of the problem - that is, should the ban on reporting be lifted?

After all, as early as before the Chinese New Year, Li Jing's eldest brother Li Gang had publicly petitioned to lift the ban on reporting. But once the ban on reporting was lifted, the biggest beneficiaries would undoubtedly be the Taoist academies in the south and a large number of retired officials from the south.

Because at the moment they are the only ones who can maintain a civilian newspaper with a broad audience and great influence besides Di Bao.

Correspondingly speaking, the scholar-bureaucrats in the Central Plains had the intention. When there was already a Di newspaper, it would be a bit out of their power to start a people's newspaper, and Guanxi and Bashu had never had a good climate.

Therefore, the imperial court has always refused to discuss this topic, and the Zhao family directly left the army? This matter was shelved.

Turning back to the present, what are you talking about? There are still many ways? For example, get another official leaflet or something, or simply print a book in a serious place? These are all feasible, but you can't hide from the first grade of junior high school...

The issue of reporting bans will always be faced.

And this time? The Zhao Guan family did not evade, but generously sent Li Jing's impeachment to the provinces, and there was no need for Li Jing or Li Gang to write a special letter to address this issue? They directly asked the provinces to discuss this memorial.

The matter of reporting a ban.

The debate was fierce, but the result was extremely simple.

By the way, there is no need to question the role of Di Bao. Not only the people of the Song Dynasty read their own Di Bao, but also the Jin people read the Di Bao of the Song Dynasty. Even the Khitan people read it - there are rumors that Yelu Dashi came from Lanzhou

When they set out, they went to Lanzhou City to find the local magistrate and asked for almost all the Di's newspapers. They also specifically asked their officials stationed in the Lanzhou market to copy the Di's newspapers and send them to the west all the way.

It can be said that all literate people in the world are accustomed to obtaining official news about the Song Dynasty from Di Bao.

Not only that, once the poems and songs in Di Bao are published, they will become the object of discussion among literati, and the publisher will immediately become famous all over the world. Is it necessary to say that the poets who have been certified by Di Bao are poets?

The original experiments published in the Di newspaper will be used by Zhao Guan's family for personal demonstration and study, and they will also be copied and performed at sutra banquets. There are even rumors that in the next few years, Taixue and even the imperial examinations will appropriately add some original experiments.

Question, what does this mean?

Therefore, when someone wanted to get another 'Xindi Newspaper', they undoubtedly encountered collective opposition from the central officials... not only the Mu Party, which had always had a more radical attitude, but also Zhang Jun, the Prime Minister of Xifu

Over there, the water party, which had always been sympathetic to the group of retired officials in the south, and a large number of serious officials represented by the provincial minister Zhao Ding, all expressed formal and serious objections.

Even Li Guang, the chief of the Yushitai, had a clear disagreement with Li Jing after listening to the advice of other censors and the opinions of several important ministers and friends.

There is no way, this is the instinct of central officials under a centralized system. Although they have various internal differences, and even serious differences on specific issues, they are still instinctively unwilling to give up when they jointly face the outer political structure.

No matter how powerful you are, you don’t want to see any uncontrolled situation.

You can set up a secret pavilion, a public pavilion, and a newspaper under the name of Honglu Temple. That’s no problem. But if you want to decentralize the power of the court to local governments, I’m sorry, but what are you doing with the imperial edict?

Find trouble and ask Zhao Guan's family to withdraw their decree.

This characteristic makes the opinions and power of a few people such as Ma Shen and Li Jing seem so insignificant.

Of course, after all, the province has a good level, and they quickly gave a watertight and tactful opinion on how to deal with it:

First of all, the province re-explained the scope of "newspaper ban". Only leaflets that publish government decrees, economics, current news and other serious issues are strictly prohibited.

Secondly, poems, songs, poems, etc., as well as store advertisements, event arrangements, etc., are not included in the newspaper ban when they are distributed regularly in the form of prints... The premise is that the former does not contain prohibited content and the latter does not contain falsehoods

Information...just treat it as a privately printed book and print it separately.

In the end, the province also left some leeway - the so-called strict prohibition does not mean that it will never occur. As long as it is approved by the officials, reviewed by the province, the Privy Council, and reported by Honglu Temple, a new newspaper can be formulated.

In the first round, Li Jing and Ma Shen, together with the Southern Taoist school, were defeated.

But then, the price of paper in Tokyo, which was originally a bit expensive, really became expensive. As the provincial explanation on the ban on paper printing was not published in the new Tokyo paper in late January, the paper price in Tokyo was originally high.

The main stores, warehouses, and trading companies that had experienced the benefits immediately formed their own tabloids... Although I have to say that this is not a tabloid, the people of Tokyo still habitually call it a tabloid.

Among them, the newspapers of warehouses and trading companies are relatively neat. They are only issued internally and are used to regularly record business information such as where there is a lot of rain and where the roads are difficult to travel. However, the official stores everywhere are a lot more ridiculous. Some of them directly imitate

They printed "Water Margin" like a Cuju competition list, but they only had their own advertisements on the back; some simply edited "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons Miscellaneous Notes", and still had their own advertisements on the back; and some simply printed Tang poems, thousand-character essays, etc.

If you make a raft, the effect will be better.

In addition, there are also some serious things. For example, Lu Benzhong came forward to publish two tabloids... one specializes in discussing poetry, and the other specializes in interesting news about geography, customs, but I don't know if it has anything to do with Zhao Guan's family.

In the end, of course, monks and Taoist priests are indispensable. "Mu Lian Saves His Mother" is paired with Buddhist scriptures, and "The Legend of the White Snake" is paired with Yin and Yang Bagua. They are full of strange tricks.

And it seems that this thing will spread quickly, and even Jiangnan will soon come up with some tricks.

But this situation was definitely beyond the imagination of the instigators such as Li Jing brothers and Ma Shen.

After the Taoist school failed in their attempt to declare a ban, the second round soon began. This time the ones who jumped out were Liu Ji, the deputy prime minister of the capital, and Yan Xiaozhong of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Liu Ji submitted a letter through the provincial government, suggesting that after spring plowing, the technology of raising chickens and mulberry fish ponds built by officials in the harem should be implemented on a large scale in Kaifeng Prefecture.

This time, it finally touched the hearts of Zhao Guanjia. After returning to Beijing, Zhao Guanjia, who had been staying in the harem to write books, specially issued an order for all the ministers to go to the stone pavilion of the harem together with Kaifeng Prefect Yan Xiaozhong to discuss it.

At this time, it is already the end of January, the spring has not yet warmed up, but the flowers have bloomed. Because the series of political tensions triggered by the three major cases last winter are finally showing signs of loosening, the atmosphere of political unity seems to be about to return.

"I object."

Censor Zhongcheng Li Guangyi spoke righteously and defended seriously. "This move wastes people and money and is ultimately useless."

Zhao Guanjia sat still, while everyone from Prime Minister Zhao Ding to the Prime Minister looked at Xian Tai with half frowning and half solemn expressions.

"Xiangong Liu, my original philosophy is to seek truth from facts. I dare to ask, if you think this matter will be beneficial to people's livelihood once it is promoted, have you made a clear calculation?"

In front of the stone pavilion where the south wind was blowing slightly, Li Guang continued to question Liu Ji, regardless of the reactions of the people around him:

"How much manpower does the official family need to grow mulberries, raise fish and feed chickens here on weekdays? Do the food, clothing, and salaries for the hundreds of servants be included in the calculation?"

"The chickens and fish in the harem are affordable, but as soon as they come out, they are rushed to buy by the main stores on Maxing Street outside Donghuamen, so that it is not necessary to bribe the officials. But ordinary people have products like those in the palace.

Are you selling it so easily?"

"There is such a large open space, and the harem can be sorted out. Which family has this open space and doesn't plant crops?"

"Moreover, does it cost time and effort to dig ponds and transplant mulberry trees, and does it require money and materials? How can ordinary people handle it properly?"

"More importantly, there are no taxes in the harem. Do the people want to do this?"

After a series of inquiries, Zhao Guan's family still remained seated, while the remaining officials also remained calm.

Of course, when asked, Liu Ji would naturally turn around and face him calmly: "Li Zhongcheng, do you think we don't know what you said? Don't the officials know this truth? If not, what would the officials do here?

How come the mulberry fish pond, which has been in operation for three years, was only introduced a few times in the newspaper, but was not conveyed directly? And why did we not mention it until today?"

Li Guang finally hesitated, and instinctively looked at Zhao Guan's family, but Zhao Guan's family just smiled at him: "Li Qing, there is another bad thing you haven't said...that is, mulberry farmers are the most important thing in the world, and mulberry trees in the harem are the most important thing in the world.

Although the basic fish pond is derived from the layout of some manors in the narrow fields of the south, whether it can be adapted to the north still needs to be verified. Otherwise, once implemented, the result is not suitable for the acclimatization, which will be a real disaster...

However, in the past few years, as the production here in the harem has stabilized, a few large local families have successfully imitated it. Regardless of other things for the time being, at least it can be concluded here that the method of chickens, mulberry, and fishing running parallel to each other like the Yellow River line,

It can still be done.”

Li Guang looked a little embarrassed, but he still nodded with all his strength, and then quickly turned to look at Liu Ji, who put less pressure on him.

"Li Zhongcheng." Unexpectedly, the next person to confront Li Guang was actually Prime Minister Zhao Ding. "The provincial government mentioned this matter today with a definite strategy, rather than a flattery... First of all, the open space you mentioned is in

It is indeed difficult to find areas around the capital, but near the Yellow River, due to military tensions in the past, except for the military and civilian villages designated by the government, few people are willing to settle there, but there are still a lot of open spaces available. That is

In various parts of the Central Plains and other places that have experienced war disasters, there may not be any open space available within three years."

Hearing this, not only Li Guang, but also Zhao Guan's family were slightly moved, and then remembered the ice-making incident mentioned by Zhang Rong again.

"Secondly, as for the cost and taxation discussed by Li Zhongcheng, it is a bit too much to criticize. Is this design more clever and less troublesome than planting mulberry trees, raising fish, and feeding chickens alone? If so, then it is

It's more economical than many farm places now, rather than comparing it to the harem." Just when Zhao Guan's mind was wandering, Zhao Ding had already continued to follow. "What's more, since it is implemented along the Yellow River,

If there is a surplus of chickens and fish for personal use, they can be sold to the military camp to improve the army's food and strengthen the soldiers. However, there are many retired soldiers in the military camp, and the land granted to the meritorious soldiers is also there, so the military camp should not

It’s only right to take things by force.”

"If you put it this way, it's not impossible if it can be limited to the area along the Yellow River and around military and civilian villages." After being refuted by Zhao Ding one by one, Li Guang chose to give in at the right time. He had already realized that this matter

The matter was probably led by the Zhao Guan family and Zhao Ding, and Liu Ji and Yan Xiaozhong were just the frontmen and executors.

"And whether it's a province or an official, how can anyone be as bold as Zhongcheng? The Yellow River line never dares to directly promote it." Li Guang just thought of Yan Xiaozhong over there, and the short Yan Xiaozhong suddenly sneered and interrupted. "Memorial."

It is clearly stated above that it is to be done from Kaifeng Prefecture. It will be a pilot project first. If Kaifeng Prefecture is established, then go to Zhengzhou and Huazhou. Once Zhengzhou and Huazhou are established, then go to Luoyang and Jingdong...

Moreover, if we start from Kaifeng Prefecture, we can also ask the officials to come forward and imitate selling national debt directly at Xuande Building, directly issue low-interest or even interest-free youth loans, and let the military and civilian settlements along the river follow the settlement points.
To be continued...