Chapter 1265, an interview with the Daming Morning Post
In Xincheng, South District of Beijing, there is a seven-story building. This seven-story building is the headquarters of the most popular and authoritative Daming Daily.
In an office on the fifth floor, Lu Yu was carefully arranging his clothes, and his assistant had already made relevant preparations.
This time, he is going to interview Ali Pasha, the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, and Moses, the Finance Minister of the Ottoman Empire. This is a very rare opportunity.
The journalist industry is a new industry, a profession that only appeared with the emergence of newspapers.
Lu Yu was also a scholar before, but he was never able to pass the examination. Later he joined the Ming Morning News and became a reporter. Unexpectedly, he became very successful in the field of journalism, and now he has become the most popular among the Ming Daily News.
One of the most well-known journalists.
This time, the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, Ali Pasha, and his entourage came to the Ming Dynasty. Lu Yu had already paid attention to them and sent them an interview request. Now he finally accepted his interview request.
For this moment, Lu Yu has been preparing for several days, and has been thinking about the questions to ask for several days, striving to make this interview a good news material.
"Wang Hui, how do I feel about my outfit?"
Lu Yu looked at his garrison in the mirror and asked. There are many things that need to be paid attention to when interviewing a big man like Ali Pasha. After all, he is the prime minister of a country, which is equivalent to the status of a cabinet minister.
“Very good~”
Wang Hui looked at it carefully, nodded and said.
"Let's go, let's go there half an hour early. The other party is the prime minister who is equivalent to the cabinet minister."
Lu Yu looked at the watch on his wrist. The time was actually very early. The agreement was at ten o'clock for an hour's interview. It was only nine o'clock now and there was still an hour left. It only took half a day from the newspaper office to the Royal Hotel.
hours are enough.
In the Tianzihao suite in the lower tower of Ali Pasha in the Royal Hotel, Ali Pasha was also in Rustu at this time, and Moses and others were discussing the interview.
"Sir, this Ming Morning Post is the most influential and authoritative newspaper in Ming Dynasty, and it is also the newspaper with the largest sales volume. Each issue of the newspaper can sell millions of copies, even in the most remote territories of Ming Dynasty.
There will also be people who subscribe to the Tomorrow Morning News, and many people in other countries around the world will also buy their newspapers."
Rustu introduced the situation of the Ming Ming Morning News in detail to Ali Pasha.
To be honest, this was the first time they had encountered such a situation and been interviewed. This had never happened before in the Ottoman Empire, but it seemed to be a normal thing in the Ming Dynasty.
Everyone from princes and ministers to ordinary people may be interviewed.
"This interview with Ming Daily is also very helpful in promoting our Ottoman Empire to the people of Ming Dynasty, and can let more people understand our Ottoman Empire."
"Hmm~"
Ali Pasha nodded slightly, thought for a moment and then asked: "What should I pay attention to during this interview?"
"Sir, the reporter of Ming Daily may ask some more pointed questions, which requires attention, especially related to the massacre of Ming towns in the Hezhong area by our Ottoman Empire."
Rustu thought about it and reminded him.
"I understand~"
Ali Pasha nodded slightly.
At this time, some of his subordinates came to report that reporters from Daming Daily had arrived.
In the living room of their suite, Ali Pasha and Moses also accepted interviews from Daming Daily reporter Lu Yu.
"I am very grateful to both adults for accepting my interview. This makes me feel honored."
Lu Yu looked at Ali Pasha and Moses in front of him. Ali Pasha was already relatively old, while Moses was relatively younger, only in his forties.
"It is also an honor for us to be interviewed by the Ming Dynasty Morning Post."
Ali Pasha seemed very easy-going. It was obviously useless to put on airs in front of the Ming Dynasty. What's more, he also hoped that through this interview, he could ease the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Ming Empire and reduce the conflicts between the two countries.
and hatred.
"Master Prime Minister, you must have spent a lot of time traveling from Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to our capital of the Ming Dynasty, right?"
Interview time was precious, and Lu Yu had no intention of wasting time. While he was asking questions, his assistant Wang Hui quickly wrote them down with a pen and notebook.
"Yes, it took a long time. This is the farthest road I have ever walked in my life."
"We first took a boat across the Black Sea and arrived at the westernmost port of Xiji Port in your Ming Empire. Then we took a four-wheeled carriage through Nanyun Province to the west bank of the Caspian Sea. Then we changed to a boat and came to the east coast of the Caspian Sea and entered the Hezhong area.
After arriving in the Western Regions, we took the Hexi Corridor to Xi'an, then arrived in Taiyuan, and took a train to the capital of the Ming Dynasty."
"It took us almost four months to arrive at such a long distance. This made me sigh at the vastness and vastness of the Ming Empire. In this world, only the Ming Empire could have such a vast territory.
Thousands of miles.”
"It is said that from what I know, your Ming Empire also has the Golden Continent to the east and Australia to the south. This is really enviable. Your land is really too big."
Ali Pasha nodded, and then sighed again and again.
This is a sigh from the heart!
"The Ottoman Empire was also a large empire spanning three continents, not much worse than our Ming Dynasty."
Lu Yu said with a smile.
"Haha, it's much worse, much worse."
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, you have experienced many places in our Ming Dynasty along the way. I wonder what kind of impression these places in our Ming Dynasty have left on you?"
“Every place in Daming left a deep impression on me~”
"When I was in Nanyun Province, I met many Caucasians and Georgians who were originally native to Nanyun Province. The people of these two tribes are actually very warlike and difficult to manage tribes."
"But under the management and rule of the Ming Empire, they were very peaceful and lived a better life than before. They said that all this was thanks to the Ming Emperor, because the Ming Emperor truly regarded them as his own.
people."
"It provides them with safe protection and is no longer robbed by the surrounding nomadic tribes. The taxes collected are very low, much lower than the previous taxes. There are also a lot of job opportunities, allowing them to live a prosperous life.
Life."
"They are now all proud of being Ming people. Many of them are even willing to marry their daughters to Ming Han people because Ming people are responsible, responsible and trustworthy. This left a deep impact on me.
.”
"I have been to these places in the past. At that time, the people here were very poor. They did not even have enough to eat, and they had to suffer oppression, exploitation, robbery, etc. from the surrounding powerful countries and tribes."
"Everything there is still very backward, and you can't even find a decent city. But now, cement roads are being built that connect the east and west, and the cities and villages are becoming more and more beautiful."
"All this stems from the effective rule and policies of the Ming Empire in these places, so I often reflect on the rule and policies of our Ottoman Empire in various places, and feel that we should learn more from the Ming Empire. Only by incorporating one
Only when local people truly treat us as one of our own can we truly gain their support."
Ali Pasha was a very talkative person, and he talked endlessly about what he saw and thought about along the way.
“The biggest feeling and impression I have in the Hezhong area is the richness and developed agriculture in the Hezhong area.”
"If you drive through the Hezhong area, you will definitely be able to see the endless plains, with a golden ocean on top, and the scene of dozens of steam harvesters harvesting together. Just passing through it, a large area
The wheat fields will be harvested."
"You can also see breeding farms and livestock farms everywhere, a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, as well as the aroma of meat from the dried meat drying in the sun."
"This is a real granary and meat warehouse!"
"In the Western Regions, the scenery in the Western Regions is very beautiful, especially in Ili and the areas north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. What impressed me the most was the education of the Ming Dynasty."
"The Ming Empire established schools in every town and promoted unified education. I heard that you spend tens of millions of taels of silver on education every year."
"This is a very effective policy because it allows the various tribes within the Ming Dynasty to gradually integrate with the Han people, the main body of the Ming Dynasty, increase exchanges, deepen understanding, and eliminate the barriers and conflicts caused by language and culture. It is also important for consolidating the Ming Dynasty.
Rule is extremely useful."
"This is something we in the Ottoman Empire can learn from, because we also span three continents and have many tribes living within our borders."
"After entering the Central Plains region of the Ming Dynasty, what impressed me deeply was the Ming Dynasty's roads extending in all directions, its incredible trains, and its large number of factories, high-rise buildings, etc."
"It really made me realize how wealthy the people of the Ming Dynasty were. Just like what Marco Polo wrote in his travel notes, there was gold flowing everywhere and they were extremely wealthy."
"At the same time, I am also deeply shocked by Ming Dynasty's technology, especially the train, which is a very efficient and useful means of transportation, and the Ming Dynasty's factories. The efficiency of machinery is extremely amazing, far more efficient and faster than human power.
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"In comparison, our Ottoman Empire seems to be far behind, and there is still a big gap between it and the Ming Empire in all aspects."
"The Ming Empire has many things, many policies and systems that our Ottoman Empire can learn from and learn from. There are so many places that I will never forget!"
