Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1264, Interview with the Ming Morning Post
There is a seven-storey building in Xincheng, South District of Beijing. This seven-storey building is the headquarters of the most popular and authoritative Daming Daily.

In an office on the fifth floor, Lu Yu is carefully arranging his clothes, and his assistant has already prepared the relevant preparations.

This time, he will interview the Grand Vizier Ali Pasha of the Ottoman Empire and Moses, the Minister of Finance of the Ottoman Empire. This is a very rare opportunity.

Journalism is a new type of industry, a profession that only appeared with the emergence of newspapers.

Lu Yu was also a scholar in the past, but he just couldn't get a good reputation, and then he joined the Daming Morning Post as a reporter. Unexpectedly, in the field of journalism, he was very successful, and now he has become the most famous in the Daming Daily. One of the few well-known journalists.

This time, when Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, and his group came to Daming, Lu Yu had paid attention to them a long time ago, and also sent them an interview request, and now he finally accepted his interview request.

For this time, Lu Yu has also been preparing for several days and thinking about the questions to ask for several days, trying to make this interview into a good news material.

"Wang Hui, how about my attire?"

Lu Yu looked at his garrison in the mirror and asked, there are many things to pay 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 elder.

"Very good~"

Wang Hui looked at it carefully, nodded and said.

"Let's go, let's go there half an hour earlier, the other party is the prime minister who is equivalent to the old cabinet."

Lu Yu looked at the watch on his wrist. The time was actually still very early. The appointment was ten o'clock, and the interview was one hour. It is only nine o'clock now, and there is still an hour left. It only takes half an hour to get to the Royal Hotel from the newspaper office. Hours are enough.

In Ali Pasha's Tianzihao Suite in the lower tower of the Royal Hotel, Ali Pasha was also discussing the interview with Rustu, Moses and others at this time.

"My lord, this Ming Dynasty Morning Post is the most influential and authoritative newspaper in Daming, and it is also the newspaper with the largest sales volume. Each issue of the newspaper can sell millions of copies, even in the farthest borders of Ming Dynasty. There will also be people who subscribe to Mingming Morning Post, and many people in other countries around the world will also buy their newspapers."

Rustu introduced the situation of Daming Morning Post to Ali Pasha in detail.

To be honest, this was the first time they encountered such a situation and were interviewed. This was something that had never happened in the Ottoman Empire, but it seemed to be a very normal thing in Daming's side.

Up to the princes and ministers, down to ordinary people may be interviewed.

"The interview with Da Ming Daily this time is also very helpful for promoting our Ottoman Empire to the Ming people, allowing more people to understand our Ottoman Empire."

"Hmm~"

Ali Pasha nodded slightly, thought for a while and asked, "What should I pay attention to during this interview?"

"My lord, the reporter from Da Ming Daily may ask some sharp questions. This needs to be paid attention to, especially related to the massacre of Da Ming towns by our Ottoman Empire in the river area."

Rustu thought for a while and reminded.

"I understand~"

Ali Pasha nodded slightly.

At this time, some of his subordinates came to report, and the reporter from Da Ming Daily had already arrived.

In the living room of their own suite, Ali Pasha and Moses were also interviewed by Da Ming Daily reporter Lu Yu.

"I am very grateful to the two adults for accepting my interview. It makes me feel very honored."

Lu Yu looked at Ali Pasha and Moses in front of him. Ali Pasha was already relatively old, and Moses was relatively young, only in his forties.

"It is also our honor to be interviewed by the Ming Morning Post."

Ali Pasha seemed very easy-going. It was obviously useless to put on airs in front of the Ming people. What's more, he hoped to ease the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Ming Empire through this interview and reduce the conflicts between the two countries. and hate.

"Master Prime Minister, it must have taken you a lot of time to come from Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to our capital of Ming Dynasty?"

The time of the interview is precious, and Lu Yu didn't mean to waste it. He asked questions, and his assistant Wang Hui quickly took notes with a pen and a notebook.

"Yeah, it took a long time. It's the furthest I've ever walked in my life."

"We first crossed the Black Sea by boat and arrived at Xiji Port, the westernmost port of your Ming Empire, then took a four-wheeled carriage through Nanyun Province to the west bank of the Caspian Sea, and then changed to a boat to the east coast of the Caspian Sea, entering the middle of the river, and then Arrived in the Western Regions, took the Hexi Corridor to Xi’an, then arrived in Taiyuan, took the train to the capital of Ming Dynasty.”

"It took us almost four months to arrive at such a long distance. I have to sigh at the vastness and vastness of the Ming Empire. In this world, only the Ming Empire can have such a vast territory. There are few differences between the east and the west. Miles."

"It is said that your Ming Empire has the Golden Continent to the east and Australia to the south. This is really enviable. Your country is really too big."

Ali Pasha nodded, and then sighed again and again.

This is a sigh from the heart!
"The Ottoman Empire is also a great empire spanning three continents, not much worse than our Ming Dynasty."

Lu Yu said with a smile.

"Haha, much worse, much worse."

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, you have experienced many places in our Daming along the way. I wonder what kind of impression these places in our Daming left on you?"

“Every place in Daming has left a deep impression on me~”

"When I was in Nanyun Province, I met many original local Caucasians and Georgians in Nanyun Province. These two tribes are actually very warlike and difficult to manage."

"But under the management and rule of the Ming Empire, they are all very peaceful, and they are living a better life than before. They say that all this is thanks to the Emperor Ming, because the Emperor Da Ming truly regards them as his own. children of the

"Providing them with safe protection, no longer being plundered by the surrounding nomadic tribes, the tax collection is very low, much lower than the previous taxation, and there are a lot of job opportunities, so that they can live a prosperous life. Life."

"Now they are all proud of being Daming people. Many of them are even willing to marry their daughters to Daming Han people, because Daming people are responsible, responsible, and trustworthy. This has left a deep impact on me. .”

"In the past, I have been to these places. At that time, the people here were very poor. They couldn't even eat enough to eat, and they were oppressed, exploited, robbed, etc. by the powerful countries and tribes around them."

"Everything there is still very backward, and even a decent city can't be found, but now, concrete roads are being built through the east and west, and the cities and villages are becoming more and more beautiful."

"All of this stems from the effective rule and policies of the Ming Empire on these places, so I often reflect on our Ottoman Empire's rule and policies on various places, and feel that we should learn more from the Ming Empire. Only one Only when the local people sincerely treat them as their own can they truly gain their support."

Ali Pasha is very talkative, talking about what he saw and thought along the way, and he talked endlessly.

"In the Hezhong area, what impressed me the most is the richness and developed agriculture in the Hezhong area."

"If you drive through the middle of the river, you can definitely see the endless great plains, above which is a golden ocean, and the scene of the combined harvesting of dozens of steam harvesters, just pass by, a large area The wheat fields will be harvested."

"You can also see farms and livestock farms here and there, a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, and the smell of meat from the dried meat drying in the sun."

"This is a real granary and meat warehouse!"

"In the Western Regions, the scenery of the Western Regions is very beautiful, especially in the areas north and south of Yili and Tianshan Mountains. What impressed me the most was the education of Ming Dynasty."

"The Ming Empire set up schools in every town and promoted unified education. I heard that you spend tens of millions of taels on education every year."

"This is a very effective policy, because it can allow the various tribes in the Ming Dynasty to gradually integrate with the main Han people in the Ming Dynasty, increase exchanges, deepen understanding, and eliminate barriers and contradictions caused by language and culture. Domination is extremely useful."

"This point is very worth learning from the Ottoman Empire, because we also span three continents and live in many tribes."

"After entering the Central Plains of Daming, what left a deep impression on me was Daming's well-connected roads, incredible trains, and a large number of factories, high-rise buildings, etc."

"It made me truly appreciate the wealth of the Ming people. Just like what Marco Polo wrote in his travel notes, gold flows everywhere, and they are extremely rich."

"At the same time, I was deeply shocked by Daming's technology, especially the train, which is a very efficient and useful means of transportation, and Daming's factory, the efficiency of machinery is extremely amazing, far more efficient and faster than manpower .”

"In comparison, our Ottoman Empire seems to be far behind, and there is still a big gap compared with the Ming Empire in all aspects."

"The Ming Empire has many things, many policies and systems that are worth learning and learning from the Ottoman Empire. There are too many, too many places that I will never forget!"

(End of this chapter)