Entering Jiangning City, Lin Fu first sent someone to deliver the child into the palace.
The Queen Mother, the Emperor and the ministers of the political affairs hall certainly knew that Lin Fu was returning to Jiangning today. Even if Lin Fu's itinerary was kept strictly confidential and Lin Xuwen and others went out of the city to meet such a big news, they would have already informed the palace. However, according to the rules, Lin Fu still
You must first bring the child into the palace, inform him of your return, and then make an appointment to summon him.
When he returned to Jiangning for the first time, a cleansing party was unavoidable. After returning to Chen Garden, Lin Fu asked everyone to rest in the front garden while he went back to the inner house to wash up first.
Gu Junxun, Su Mei, Xiao Man, Liu Yue'er, Sun Wenwan and other female family members had already raised their eyebrows in the inner house. When they saw Lin Fu walking in, they swarmed up and said that his face was thin and dark.
, Sun Wenwan's daughter was the youngest, and she had not seen her for more than four months. She was already a toddler. She was held in Lin Fu's arms, with a panic look on her face, not knowing how to deal with this stranger.
Seeing all the girls and children in the house, Lin Fu felt ashamed. After returning to Jiangning for the first time, he couldn't reunite with his family for the first meal in the inner house, and he had to deal with those people lingering in the front yard first.
Of course, as the principal wife, Gu Junxun wanted to accompany Lin Fu to the Nanyuanzi to have a banquet with the ministers to show her closeness to them. However, the daughters of Su and Mei, as concubines, did not appear at such a formal banquet.
Opportunity. Lin Fu was also afraid of neglecting the girls, so he hurried back to the inner house to chat with the girls and relieve the pain of lovesickness.
After Gu Junxun talked for a while, he went back to his room to change into court clothes and put on his makeup. Lin Fu accompanied Su Mei, Xiaoman, Liu Yuer, and Sun Wenwan to talk in the study hall at the west corner of Dongyuanzi. After a while, Song Jia left from
The palace came over.
Lin Fu asked: "Has the zhezi been delivered to the palace?"
Song Jia glanced at Lin Fu and said angrily: "Without the order, I can't come here to see you?" He then bowed to Su Mei, Liu Yuer and other girls, "Song Jia has met all my sisters..."
"Sister Song is so polite." Su Mei smiled, stood up and gave Song Jia the stool next to Lin Fu.
Song Jia took Su Mei's arm and sat down together.
Lin Fu took Song Jia's hand, which was as soft as jade, and gently twisted it. When their hands touched, he felt that the beautiful woman in front of him became more and more real and lovable. He said: "As soon as I entered the city, I asked someone to bring the child into the palace.
Am I just anxious to see you?"
Song Jia and Su Mei laughed and said, "Look, my husband's mouth is becoming more and more slick. I don't believe it if it's said to me. But would you believe it if it were said to you?" They haven't seen each other for several months, and they miss each other in their hearts.
Lin Fu held her hand and twisted her tightly, but his mouth was unforgiving. In front of other girls, he also treated Lin Fu as a husband.
"If you don't believe it, if you don't believe it, it's called a ghost if you believe it!" Xiao Man shouted, hugging Lin Fu's neck from behind.
Liu Yue'er and Sun Wenwan laughed. Among the girls, apart from Liu Miaozhen, Song Jia was the one who was working outside. Although Song Jia had a very fierce temper, she didn't have much of a relationship with the other girls.
After laughing for a while, Song Jia got down to business with Lin Fu: "The Queen Mother summons your husband to the palace the day after tomorrow, and asks you to wash your hands and rest in Chen Garden for two days..."
"How can I rest?" Lin Fu frowned and said, "Two days are not enough to sort out Jiang Ning's situation..."
Lin Fu first had to go to the palace to report on his duties and explain to the Empress Dowager and the Emperor the details of the inspection of the defense area in the past four months. He also went to the political hall to accept inquiries from the prime ministers on military and political matters. A plan for the use of troops after the fall of Jiangxi had also been drawn up.
The camps in Hu, Chizhou, Tanzhou, Huaidong, Zhejiang and the west, and Yijiang Town have already begun to prepare for war and adjust the deployment of troops. However, in name, they still need to obtain the approval of the political affairs ministers and then apply for the decree before it can be considered legal.
"Who asked you to fool around in Xuzhou for so many days?" Xiaoman said with a smile, "The preparations for the war in Shangrao are so intensive, and you still delayed returning to Jiangning until today. You are really busy!"
During this inspection, Lin Fu stayed in Xuzhou for nearly two months, hanging out with Liu Miaozhen. Even if he excused the importance of Xu Si's defense line, he did stay in Xuzhou for a little longer.
Lin Fu said: "The importance of military affairs lies in Xusi and Luyi. If the foundations of these two places are not solid, Jiangning will be uneasy and the stay will inevitably be longer. We will have to go on inspection next year. It will be a hard life.
I don’t want to suffer anymore. You need someone to accompany me out so that you can feel more comfortable..."
"Okay, okay!" Xiaoman was eager to have the opportunity to go out and walk around Jiangning City, so he agreed wholeheartedly.
Su Mei turned around, pinched her gently, and said: "My husband left Jiangning to inspect the military and political affairs in various places. He should set an example of working hard. How can he indulge in luxury and enjoy life all the way?" He then said to Lin Fu, "Mrs. Six.
Regarding helping girls study, someone asked Su Mei to help her in front of her husband..."
"Oh, what's the matter?" Lin Fu asked. Su Mei would not randomly agree to others outside, so it was quite strange to suddenly mention that someone asked her for help.
"Chen Qingqing wanted to donate to a girls' school, but she was afraid that the Privy Council School would not accept it. When I came here a few days ago, I thought you would be coming back, so I asked her to take care of it," Su Mei said.
"Ah!" Lin Fu was slightly startled and said subconsciously, "Gao Zongting met me in Luzhou and didn't say anything?" Then he thought about it again, Chen Qingqing had a rough life in his early years and was married to He Yuejing, the general of the auxiliary country.
Concubine, He Yuejing was killed in the war. Chen Qingqing was expelled from the Chen family by He Yuejing's wife and re-entered the Le family.
Even if she knew Gao Zongting, Chen Qingqing probably wouldn't want to become a concubine.
"Mr. Gao has no objection!" Su Mei said.
Setting up a girls' school was a shocking move, and Chen Qingqing was even more sensitive because she was from a lowly family. Gao Zongting couldn't make up his mind for Chen Qingqing for a while, so Chen Qingqing went to Su Mei to ask if this could be done.
Lin Fu said: "Why not? If Chen Qingqing is willing to donate to a girls' school, it is actually a righteous act, and the court should commend it. These days, we don't have the energy to talk about such things. If Chen Qingqing wants to donate, then she should do it quietly first, don't
It doesn’t matter what the public opinion is! Some opinions should be listened to seriously. But there is also a saying that it will take ten years for a scholar to rebel. Those who can only talk about it, no matter how fierce the opinions are, it is difficult to cause any big trouble.
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"If everyone in the world were as open-minded as you, everything would be easier to handle," Su Mei sighed softly, "I will tell Chen Qingqing about this in two days."
Gu Junxun changed into court clothes and came over, and Lin Fu got up and went to Nanyuanzi to accompany the officials to a banquet, and asked Song Jia to stay in the inner palace to dine with Su Mei and the others.
When they went out of the city to greet him in the afternoon, only Lin Xuwen, Huang Jinnian and others were free; but at night, all the important figures in Jiangning from the Huaidong group who had a banquet in Chenyuan Nanyuan were present.
Lin Fu and Gu Junxun were sitting in the middle, with long tables on the left and right for wine and food. Lin Tingli, Lin Xuwen, Lin Mengde, Qin Chengzu, Cao Ziang, Gao Zongting, Sun Jingxuan, Huang Jinnian, Song Fu, Hao Zongcheng, Liu Shidu, Chen Huazhang, Zhao Hu, Yang Yihang
, Zhou Pu, Sun Zhuang, Chen Enze, Hu Yuer, Ge Siyu, Wu Jiye and nearly forty generals and ministers were present.
Lin Fu was not used to complicated rituals, but rituals were also a way to increase power in this world.
After the banquet, Gu Junxun went back to the inner house first. Lin Fu also asked everyone else to go back and rest first, leaving behind Lin Tingli, Lin Xuwen, Lin Mengde, Qin Chengzu, Cao Ziang, Gao Zongting, Sun Jingxuan, Song Fu, Huang Jinnian, Liu Shidu, Chen Huazhang and others.
Discussion. These people are almost the core figures of the Huaidong group in Jiangning.
"I will meet the Queen Mother in the palace the day after tomorrow. I will recommend Chen Gong and Chen Huazhang to take charge of the Academy. The Ministry of Revenue will also jointly recommend it," Lin Fu and Lin Xuwen said, "It is best to do this before the Shanglai War.
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The Jinzou Yuan has one Jinzou officer in each county, who is responsible for reporting the situation and reports of the county to the court. It is also responsible for notifying the county of the situation of the court and other counties in a timely manner, and conveying the imperial edicts, documents and other matters.
It is an office that communicates from top to bottom. Officials from various counties who come to Beijing to serve as directors are also contacted by Jinzouyuan for many matters.
After entering the official position, a court envoy was appointed to take charge of the affairs. He went to Chengzhengshitang and was under the jurisdiction of the Minister's family.
After Emperor Yongxing ascended the throne in Jiangning, the area under his jurisdiction decreased sharply. In order to strengthen centralization, he abandoned the use of county officials and directly administered the prefectures. The scale of the Jinzou Yuan expanded again, with more than 30 Jinzou officials in each state capital and town.
After Emperor Yongxing returned to Jiangning, the county officials were officially abolished and a new camp was set up to administer military affairs. That is to say, both the camp and the state government had the power to report and were under the direct jurisdiction of the central government.
Before the Yuan Dynasty returned to power, his disciples were appointed as envoys to the imperial court and officials.
Lin Mengde asked: "Master, do you want to formally establish a residence newspaper?"
Lin Fu nodded and said: "Yanhu has shown signs of sending troops in the Qinxi area as early as mid-August. After the first test, Yanhu's use of troops in the Guanshan area this time will be longer than the last time.
, the destruction will be more complete, and obviously the possibility of us ending the war in Jiangxi before next year is very low, so we need more means to consolidate the foundation."
The Jinzouyuan is an institution that is passed down from above, and it only plays a role of inheritance. The rank of the Jinzouyuan envoy is only from the fifth rank, but compared to the secret intelligence system, the Jinzouyuan and the Supervisory Yuan are
Apparently they are the only two places where intelligence from all over the world can be gathered.
Of course, in Lin Fu's eyes, the Di newspaper run by Jinzou Yuan played a more important role.
The Di newspaper, run by Jinzou Yuan, collects the latest information from various places and the central government, distributes it to the capital and the prefectures, and prints and sells it to local officials and gentry. It can be said to be the prototype of government-run newspapers in the world. However, traditionally, Di newspaper
The newspaper merely collects information from the center and local areas and reports it to all parties, and does not play a role in guiding public opinion.
Lin Fu had discussed the issue of the Di newspaper with Lin Xuwen and others earlier, but his previous ideas were not mature enough and his grasp of Jiangning's situation was not solid enough, so he kept suppressing it.
Lin Fu was the first to talk about this when he came back. Lin Xuwen knew that Lin Fu must have considered it maturely, and Song Fu and Gao Zongting had been with Lin Fu for such a long time, and they must have had many discussions, and they agreed: "It's done.
, I will write a recommendation when I get back..."
The Di Bao itself was delivered to the state capital in a timely manner with the help of relays. It was also the only channel through which the gentry and people from all over the country could have fair access to comprehensive news from the imperial court and various places. Lin Fu had the memory of a heavy publicity for later generations. Of course, he knew that the status of the Di Bao was unparalleled in other places.
What replaces it is that the publicity role of Di Bao has not yet been discovered by the world.
No matter how stubborn people are today, if they are brainwashed ten times, hundreds or thousands of times, most people will find it difficult to stick to their own opinions. The key point is that there are very few channels for people to receive external information.
Apart from notices and hearsay from traffickers, merchants, and tourists, most people have almost no access to the outside world.
Lin Fu asked Chen Huazhang to run Di Bao as a newspaper. In addition to publishing to the public in real time the public information and government decrees from the central and local areas, more importantly, he wanted to make Di Bao a forum for discussing new policies, new learning, disseminating new policies, and new learning. core tools.
From the time they met in Chongzhou in early May, Lin Fu asked Chen Huazhang to accompany him for most of the trip around the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. For almost four months, Chen Huazhang never left Lin Fu's side. After returning to Jiangning, Lin Fu officially recommended Chen Huazhang to take over. Entering the Memorial Academy actually allowed him to have a systematic and profound ideological understanding of the New Deal implemented by Huaidong and the new learning advocated by Huaidong.
Only in this way could Chen Huazhang understand Lin Fu's intentions and convey the ideas of the New Deal and the New Learning through the tool of Di Bao, instead of simply taking charge of the Imperial Academy and keeping abreast of the latest developments in various states for Huaidong.
When it comes to the understanding of the new learning and the old and new political systems, Zhao Shuhan was not content to be left behind. The "Jiang Dian" compiled by Zhao Shuhan was about to be completed, and the first six volumes were also started to be printed. Lin Fu originally wanted Zhao Shuhan to serve as the envoy to the Imperial Academy. However, Zhao Shuhan was the pioneer of miscellaneous studies in the early days, but at this time, like Zhang Yubo, he became increasingly conservative.
The matter of running the residence newspaper is very idealistic. If the pen is crooked, it may become the public opinion position of Baohuangtang. Lin Fu would rather ask Zhao Shuhan to join the Ministry of Industry to do practical things than ask him to take charge of the affairs of the residence newspaper.
Lin Fu added: "Jinzouyuan only has a small-scale engraving workshop under its jurisdiction. After all, the number of dibao printed before was small. It only needs to be distributed to the state capitals and the central six departments and supervisory temples, and then the states will copy and sell them privately. , it will not be under the jurisdiction of Jinzouyuan; in the future, the printing volume of Dibao will increase greatly, and the scale of the previous engraving workshop will be too small..."
"Maybe you can give the impression to the Ye family." Lin Mengde said.
The Ye family that Lin Mengde refers to is the Ye family in Dongyang, not the Ye family in Mingzhou.
Ye Kai and his father and son have been printing books in Jiangning for two generations. Today, Zhengye Hall is the largest calligraphy shop in Jiangning. The prison book jointly written by Lin Fu and Zhao Shuhan in his early years was also printed by Zhengye Hall.
Lin Fu said: "The specific printing is still prepared by Chen Gong, so we won't discuss it in detail here..."
The issue of the Di newspaper was discussed in detail with Chen Huazhang and others on the way.
Jinzouyuan should take over all the matters of publishing the Di newspaper. One half-month period is divided into prefectures and counties by Chuanyi. All officials, gentlemen and citizens must buy from Chuanyi. Local private printing is strictly prohibited; Jiangning, Chongzhou, Weiyang, Pingjiang, Hangzhou, Mingzhou and other large cities with a large number of households have also entrusted Chuanyi to set up multiple sales points in the city.
Huaidong's movable type printing technology is relatively mature. In terms of large-scale printing, it has great advantages in cost and printing speed compared with traditional engraving printing. However, the new-style Di newspaper, which has been initially ordered to be an eight-page booklet, is printed in one volume. The production cost is about 20 yuan.
The initial price is 100 yuan, and there are 24 issues a year. The total price is 2,400 yuan. It is not affordable by ordinary families. It can only be like this at the beginning. The conditions for cheap newspapers to be realized at present are not yet available - —