Wang Shanxi originally thought that he would have to wait for many days before being summoned by the Holy Emperor. After all, he also knew that the Holy Emperor was busy with state affairs and had to deal with many affairs and meet with many ministers every day.
You asked him how he knew that the Holy Emperor was so busy since he had never seen him before?
There is a report from the Tang Dynasty!
In every issue of Datang Dynasty, in addition to reporting on major events, a large part of the content is about saying that the Holy Emperor is very busy. Well, by the way, it also mentions that the ministers are also very busy.
Basically, the process is like this. On a certain day, the Holy Emperor went to inspect a certain place. On the same day, the Holy Emperor met with so-and-so and held some kind of meeting.
In short, in the Tang Dynasty newspaper, what you see is a holy emperor who is busy with state affairs from morning to night!
Whenever you see these articles in the court newspapers, you can't help but sigh: It turns out that being an emperor is so busy, it is really hard work for the Holy Emperor!
And such a busy Holy Emperor summoned him the day after he arrived in Jinling City. This made Wang Shanxi feel extremely happy!
He had heard that many civil and military officials who returned to Beijing to report on their duties often had to wait at least five or six days, and at most ten days and a half before they could be interviewed.
He was even prepared to wait in Jinling City for half a month. After all, he was just an army major!
As for those civil and military officials who returned to Beijing to report on their duties, they basically started as civil officials and prefects, and military commanders and colonels. As an army major, according to convention, he was not qualified to be summoned by the Holy Emperor.
However, under this background, he was received by the Holy Emperor the next day.
This made Wang Shanxi feel happy and excited at the same time. When he received a notice that night, saying that when he went to the palace for an audience tomorrow morning, he didn't even sleep well all night, and was in a daze in the second half of the night.
Go to sleep.
But the next day, when it was still dark, Wang Shanxi woke up and started washing and dressing!
After looking at the small, palm-sized mirror for a long time to make sure there was nothing out of the ordinary about what I was wearing, I walked out of the room and prepared to go downstairs for breakfast.
At this time, he was wearing an Army Colonel's winter uniform, which was still based on dark blue. The top was a traditional right-sided top with a long hem. The buttons were pure gold buttons that he purchased personally. He was wearing trousers.
, and then wearing a pair of long leather boots.
The intersection edge of his right corner is a red edge, and this red edge also reflects his status as a school official!
On his shoulders, he wears the rank epaulette of Army Major.
On his chest, there is a medal with two swords hanging. This medal with two swords was when he was just a lieutenant, he led the team to find a group of pirates hidden on the coast of Lianzhou Prefecture, and guided the naval fleet to annihilate them.
This pirate gang only received the Double Sword Medal.
This double-sword medal was awarded later and was only for non-commissioned officers and lieutenants. In principle, this double-sword medal was not awarded to colonels and above. Therefore, after many officers joined the army, if they did not receive this medal during the lieutenant period, etc.
After being promoted to a school officer, there was basically no hope.
Therefore, relatively speaking, for those above the rank of school officer, there are fewer such medals, which makes them more special!
Wearing a medal, he also had a standard school officer's command knife hanging on his waist.
Even though he is an intelligence officer who rarely fights or kills, and has never commanded troops in even one regular battle, he is still an Army major, and according to the relevant regulations of the Army, on formal occasions, he must
Wear a command knife.
Of course, in daily occasions, especially ceremonial occasions, the command swords worn by officers generally do not have a blade, and are used more as a decoration to show the bravery of soldiers. On the battlefield, they will be replaced.
A command knife with an upper edge.
After breakfast, he was ready to go out, but when he asked, he found that the carriage from the Hanlin Academy to pick him up had not arrived yet.
I looked back at the clock in the restaurant lobby and saw that it was just before seven o'clock.
early!
Even if Wang Shanxi wanted to enter the palace early and wait, it was not time yet, so he could only suppress the restlessness in his heart, and then wait in the hall while drinking tea, and reading at the same time.
Here comes the latest issue of Datang Chao Bao.
He is naturally no stranger to the Datang Dynasty Newspaper. Even though he has been active overseas for a long time in the past few years, the ships coming and going will regularly deliver the Datang Dynasty Newspaper.
Of course, don’t count on timeliness, because once you get it, you often get enough for several months!
But you can still read the Tang Dynasty Newspaper and learn about some relevant domestic situations.
Picking up the "Datang Chaobao" that had been ironed so that the ink would not stain your hands, Wang Shanxi looked up and saw that the four characters "Datang Chaobao" at the top were naturally followed by the date.
October 27, the seventh year of Xuanping.
This date does not mean today, but the time when the Datang Dynasty Newspaper was officially published, because the Datang Dynasty published it to the whole country at the same time, but even it relied on the military's post system and adopted Jinling City's printing points to various places.
Samples are sent out, printed at printing factories located in various transportation hubs across the country, and then distributed to surrounding prefectures and counties.
After such a complete process, after the Chao Bao Department determines the sample issue of the latest Datang Chao Bao, and then people in other places see it, there will be a delayed process. On the Zhili Fourth Road, basically three
You can see it within five to five days, but in other areas, the farther away you are, the later it will be. For example, in Guangzhou, you basically have to wait for more than half a month. In case of bad weather and other unexpected circumstances, it may even be longer!
But in Jinling City, it is extremely special. Basically, after the newspaper department confirms the sample of the next issue today, you can basically see it the next day.
Today is the 29th, and the time for the sample issue of Datang Chao Bao is fixed. It will be released on Wednesday and August. Generally speaking, it is released every five days, and six issues are released every month!
Being able to read the latest issue of the Tang Dynasty Daily the next day was quite a novel experience for Wang Shanxi!
On the front page, it said yes. Two days ago, Shengtianzi held a cabinet meeting in response to the drought that will occur in some prefectures and counties in Shandong in the second half of this year. At the meeting, Shengtianzi asked all cabinet departments to take all effective measures to ensure a smooth solution to the drought in some prefectures and counties in Shandong.
To solve the problem, we must actively build water conservancy facilities to ensure normal production in the disaster-stricken areas and the stability of people's lives.
Lord Liu, the minister on duty in the imperial study room, and many important officials of the empire expressed that they would actively follow the instructions of the Holy Emperor and carry out disaster relief work.
Of course, the focus of the article is not this. The focus is that the Holy Emperor repeatedly mentioned the concern for the people in the disaster area. Not only did he ask his ministers to carry out disaster relief, but he also said that he would take out a certain amount of money from the inner treasury for use.
Construction of water conservancy facilities in disaster-stricken areas, etc.
After reading this article, you may not even know the specific places affected by the disaster or the extent of the impact, but you will definitely have the impression that the Holy Emperor cares about the people!
While promoting various imperial policies, he constantly emphasized and deepened people's impression of Li Xuan: The Holy Emperor is an eternal sage, greater than the sun!
This is the core concept of most articles in the Tang Dynasty Newspaper!
The contents of the previous few pages are basically the same routine. No matter what happens, it will always be related to the Holy Emperor Li Xuan. All good things and achievements belong to the Holy Emperor. The occasional bad things that happen, that is also
Those ministers deceived the emperor and concealed the truth, but don't worry, the Holy Emperor has already punished them and brought peace to the people.
Putting aside these "enlightenment" things, these are indeed major events happening in the Tang Dynasty. If you analyze them carefully, you can analyze some of the current policy trends of the Tang Dynasty. Of course, it is limited to those policies that can be made public.
And many things in private will not be disclosed in the Tang Dynasty newspaper at all.
The above mentioned are all big things. Although these big things are important, they really have nothing to do with Wang Shanxi, and he doesn't care, so he just browsed briefly, and then found what he felt in the following pages.
Interesting content, popular science articles!
In addition to political propaganda articles, many contents in the Datang Dynasty Daily are also popular science articles. These popular science articles are messy and can easily give people a sense of curiosity. Many ordinary people read Datang
Chaobao, in fact, goes to these popular science articles.
In addition to more formal popular science articles, in order to increase readability and interest, attract more ordinary readers, and prevent ordinary readers from treating the Tang Dynasty Journal as something high-end, and then losing interest in reading it.
Therefore, Datang Chaobao also opened several pages, including a lifestyle page, a business page, and even a literature page.
And publish some commercial advertisements and common sense of life on it!
The Tang Dynasty Daily is a nationally distributed publication, which is a huge attraction for those literati who want to make a name for themselves. However, many of its pages have nothing to do with ordinary literati, and they do not accept outside submissions.
, they are basically written by the editors of the Chaobao Department. Popular science articles and common sense articles are generally written by teachers and students from the Royal Institute of Technology, Imperial College, and Jinling University. Well, officials from the imperial court can also write them.
Contribute.
There is only one literary page where ordinary people can submit articles. The page is only so small. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is stored in the soil. Even if all poems are published, not many can be published. What's more, sometimes small articles are published.
Stories, or simply prose.
If there is an essay in a certain issue, there will not be much space left.
However, there are countless literati who want to publish articles on it. If they are not great writers, let alone publish, they will not be able to pass the primary election!
Therefore, the biggest dream of many literati who consider themselves to be romantic talents is to publish a masterpiece of their own in the Tang Dynasty newspaper. It is best to publish an article with a large number of words such as an essay or a short story, rather than a poem.
!
Why can the editors of the North Korea News Department squeeze out a large part of the precious literary space to publish an essay? The standard of such prose must be at the top level!
Currently, those who can publish essays or other long-form literary articles in the Tang Dynasty Newspaper are all the top literary giants of the contemporary era!
In other words, when you can publish a piece of poetry on the Internet, it can basically prove that you are a first-class literary person. When you can occupy more than half of the page on the Internet and publish a long article, the literary giant is gone.
Well, except Liu Bagou!
In recent years, Liu Bagou has often contributed articles to the Chao Press Department. Sometimes he even came directly to tell them how good his articles were and asked them to publish one or two as appropriate. People from the Chao Bao Department of the Ministry of Rites really didn't dare to refuse.
What's even more outrageous is that you are willing to please Liu Bagou, but you can't agree too often!
After all, the Tang Dynasty Daily had its own style. Those great writers could not publish more than a few articles a year. No matter how stupid Liu Bagou was, he would not dare to say that he was more awesome than those great writers. At most, he was just as awesome as them.
Promising too frequently can easily make Liu Bagou disgusted. A certain literary giant only publishes two or three articles a year. What do you mean by giving me five or six articles a year? Could it be that you are doing this to please me? But why?
Please me? I, Liu Bagou, am so awesome, do I need to be please?
Is it possible that you think my article is not good and you published it just to please me?
This is looking for death!
So, when to say no and when to say yes, this is a big question!