My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 513 Zhu Di also reads the newspaper

"Your Majesty, those people from the Confucian Daily News have learned a lesson and started reporting all kinds of news. However, they have too few means to obtain news and cannot compare with us. Sometimes they even copy our news. It's so shameless. !”

In the newspaper office, Ma An complained to Zhu Zhanhe with an indignant look.

"There are a lot of articles in the world. If they copy ours, we can also copy theirs. And even if they have news, won't they still be unable to compare with our newspapers?"

Zhu Zhanhe said with a chuckle.

Xia Yuanji and others were smarter than he expected and knew how to adapt. Seeing that the sales volume of the Confucian Journal was not increasing, they made a revision according to the News Journal.

This kind of revision has good news for Confucian Daily News, that is, sales have indeed begun to increase, but there is also bad news. As a rival, Xinwen Newspaper, the sales volume has grown faster. Now the sales volume of Xinwen Newspaper has exceeded that of Confucian Daily News. Three or four times, firmly occupying the first position in the newspaper industry.

"Your Majesty has a far-sighted view and has long seen that Confucianism and the Confucian Journal are of no use. The villain was just worried!"

Ma An slapped her in the face again, with a flattering smile on his face.

"It's a little early to say this now. Although we have an advantage, Confucian Press also has its own basic base, so you have to continue to work hard in the future. Don't let the late comers of Confucian Press get ahead of you and overtake you!"

Zhu Zhanhe opened his mouth and warned.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I understand that I will definitely urge Liang Xin and the others to work hard in the future and strive to bring the News to a higher level!"

Ma An immediately patted his chest and promised.

Zhu Zhanhe is still very relieved about Ma An. Although this kid's cultural level is not high, he is very careful in doing things and knows how to employ people. This alone is already better than most people.

It was still early, so Zhu Zhanhe left the newspaper office and drove into the palace to meet Zhu Di. During this period, Zhu Di had been planning to send troops to the grassland again, and Zhu Zhanhe would go with him.

Although the Arutai and Duoyan Guards were defeated last time, Oara took advantage of the situation to move eastward and began to annex the Tatar forces. Adai Khan, who had just emerged, did not yet have the strength to confront Oara.

If it were in the past, Zhu Di would definitely send someone to contact Adai Khan and give him some support so that he would have the strength to fight against the Oara people.

But Zhu Di no longer wants to use this method, because even if this method is effective at first, it won't be long before Adai Khan becomes the second Arutai.

For example, the current leader of Wala, Tuohuan, faced the coercion of Arutai when his power was weak. Tuhuan tried his best to get closer to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty also gave him a lot of support.

But now that Arutai died, Tuohuan immediately marched eastward and ignored Ming's orders, because in his opinion, Ming was unable to launch a second attack on the grassland in a short period of time, so he wanted to take advantage of these few days to attack the grassland. In the year, the Tatar forces will be completely annexed, and then the grasslands will be unified, and then they will turn back and compete with the Ming Dynasty.

So Zhu Di has now realized that just relying on balancing on the grassland is of no use at all. In the end, it will only cultivate a powerful enemy for himself.

Instead of doing this, it is better to send troops directly to eliminate the active forces in the grassland as much as possible. Those who dare to resist will be killed, and those who surrender will be sent to Japan and Jiaozhi, and even to Nanyang and other places in the future.

Although this approach also treats the symptoms rather than the root cause, it is at least more effective than before. With the harsh environment of the grassland, it is by no means an easy task to restore the population after the Ming Dynasty's attack.Thinking about the Ming Dynasty's strategy on the grassland, Zhu Zhanhe stepped into Wuying Hall and saw Zhu Di sitting behind the desk with his eyes squinted, looking at something very hard.
Zhu Di is getting older and has severe presbyopia. Now he has difficulty reading the ministers' memorials. Sometimes he simply asks people around him to read them to him.

Zhu Zhanhe thought Zhu Di was reading some official document or memorial, but when he stepped forward, he discovered that there was a newspaper on Zhu Di's table, and it was his family's news newspaper, and there was another folded one next to it. Newspaper, but it was a Confucian newspaper run by Xia Yuanji.

Zhu Zhanhe was also very surprised to see Zhu Di reading the newspaper, but he did not dare to disturb him, but stood aside quietly and waited.

In fact, Zhu Di had already seen Zhu Zhanhe come in, but after reading an article in the newspaper, he raised his head and looked at Zhu Zhanhe and asked: "I heard that you created this news newspaper. ?”

"Yes, my grandson was bored, and he suddenly had a whim and asked someone to start a newspaper. The original intention was to speed up the dissemination of some information, such as letting the people understand the imperial decree."

Zhu Zhanhe nodded honestly and said that this kind of thing would definitely not be hidden from the eyes and ears of Jin Yiwei, so there was no need to hide it.

"Your idea is good, but have you never thought that newspapers may be used by others, or even use newspapers to criticize government affairs?"

Zhu Di nodded first, then looked at Zhu Zhanhe and asked.

"I used to worry about this, but everything has advantages and disadvantages. You can't stop doing things just because of some worries."

Zhu Zhanhe explained. As he spoke, he glanced at the Confucian newspaper on the table.

There is definitely no content criticizing the government in the news newspapers, but that is not necessarily the case in the Confucian newspapers. Xia Yuanji himself is a big mouth and has always opposed Zhu Di's Northern Expedition. Many of the articles in the Confucian newspapers are written against the policies of the Ming Dynasty. These scholars didn't even use curse words when they cursed. Maybe one of their words would anger Zhu Di.

"You are quite cautious, but the Confucian newspaper run by Xia Yuanji and Lu Xiu doesn't sound so nice!"

Zhu Di snorted coldly as he spoke, and at the same time reached out and patted the Confucian newspaper on the table. Apparently Zhu Zhanhe guessed correctly, and the Confucian newspaper was really in trouble.

"Grandpa Huang, please calm down. In fact, Confucian newspapers are just the opinions on paper of some rotten literati. They cannot withstand any scrutiny at all. You don't have to be the same as them."

Zhu Zhanhe immediately spoke to persuade.

Although the Confucian Press was the rival of the News, he did not want Zhu Di to issue an order to ban the Confucian Press. No matter which society, some different voices need to be expressed. The Confucian Press also has the value of existence and must not be dismissed.

"Don't worry, I'm not that narrow-minded. What's more, the articles they wrote are nothing unusual in my opinion. When those people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate curse people, that's called cruelty!"

Unexpectedly, Zhu Di calmly waved his hand and said.

Zhu Zhanhe was surprised at first, but then he felt it was very reasonable.

As a hero of the generation, Zhu Di naturally has a big heart. Although he sometimes has a bad temper, he is actually very tolerant. A mere Confucian newspaper is not enough for him to issue an order to ban him. At this point, he It's much better than some guys who always create literary prisons.

(End of this chapter)