Chapter 332: The Power of Yan Binke
In the government office of Shuntian Prefecture.

I heard Zhang Juzheng do it without hesitation.

Yan Shaoting glanced at the other person and couldn't help but speculate in his heart.

Logically speaking, although Lao Zhang looks calm on the outside, he is actually a ruthless person at heart.

Otherwise, he would not have come up with the idea of ​​eliminating the entire Shunyi County government from top to bottom, and then using the Shuntian Prefecture officials he had cultivated for a long time to temporarily manage Shunyi County.

But once I mentioned it, I wanted to make a bigger fuss about it.

He agreed without thinking too much.

Is it because Li Chunfang entered the cabinet?
Yan Shaoting felt that apart from the factor that Zhang Juzheng wanted to implement reforms, the main reason why he wanted to speed up the process was Li Chunfang's entry into the cabinet.

Zhang Juzheng frowned slightly.

Because until now, Yan Shaoting has not said how he would handle this matter if he were in his position.

"Moisturize things."

Zhang Juzheng called softly.

This sound reminded him of the scene a year ago.

That day, the emperor was discussing matters in front of the emperor in Yuxi Palace in Xiyuan, and decided to increase silk production in the southeast and sell it overseas.

Yan Shaoting was standing on the Yuhe Bridge over Taiye Lake waiting for him.

At that time.

I was a student that the teacher was proud of. At that time, the Yan family was hated by everyone in the court, and everyone wanted to overthrow Yan.

That was the day.

It was Yan Shaoting who took the initiative to speak to her, hoping that she could call him by his courtesy name.

now.

I seem to have gotten used to being called that.

Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but sigh and lament in his heart.

He continued, "Although it has been less than two years, the court is completely different from the past. Runwu's talent has also been revealed to everyone. If Runwu were in my position, how would I handle the current situation and achieve my goal?"

Yan Shaoting changed the subject and said, "Mr. Gangfeng has been away from Beijing for several days. He went down the canal from north to south. I think the boat trip is faster. I wonder if Brother Taiyue can write to Mr. Gangfeng again?"

Yan Shaoting mentioned Hai Rui who had quietly left Beijing.

Zhang Juzheng snorted coldly: "Why mention him?"

There was some dissatisfaction in his tone.

In fact, long after Hai Rui was appointed as the Governor of Yingtian by the Emperor, Zhang Juzheng had been preparing to find an opportunity to host a banquet for Hai Rui as a way of congratulating him on his promotion.

But who would have thought that just because of the busy affairs of the court and the government, he was unable to take care of him for a while, and Hai Rui ran away quietly.

That guy.

It's really not worth making friends with!

Yan Shaoting glanced at Zhang Juzheng with a strange look.

This person probably has mixed feelings about Hai Rui.

If it were between a man and a woman...

Is that what it means to love but not be able to get it?
Hatred out of love?

Yan Shaoting shook his head hurriedly for no reason.

Why did I start to ship such a weird CP?

While Zhang Juzheng was still not paying attention, Yan Shaoting smiled and said, "If you don't plan for a place, how can you plan for the country? Although Brother Taiyue is going to handle various affairs in Beijing to promote the reform, but if the clerks in Shunyi County are corrupt and do illegal things, is it only Shunyi County? This time, Mr. Gangfeng was promoted to the governor of Yingtian, in charge of eleven prefectures and one state in Jiangnan. I'm afraid the clerks are like tigers, even more severe than Shuntian Prefecture!"

In fact, what Yan Shaoting wanted to do was to use the events in Shunyi County under the jurisdiction of Zhang Juzheng's Shuntian Prefecture to promote a clerk reform.

but.

This matter not only requires the use of Zhang Juzheng's Shuntian Prefecture, but also needs to be written about in other places.

Turn an individual event into a group event.

It just so happened that Zhang Juzheng handed him this knife.

What he had to do now was to hand the knife to Hai Rui, and eventually to Gao Gong, who was in charge of rectifying the administration of officials in the cabinet.

And after Yan Shaoting's explanation.

Zhang Juzheng understood his purpose instantly.

This is going to make things worse!

According to Hai Rui's personality, as long as he was given a sign, especially after he shouted out the promotion, among the three things he had to do, one of them was to rectify the administration of officials.

He would certainly make every effort to investigate the administration of officials under the jurisdiction of the Yingtian Governor.

At that time, the two capitals of the north and the south will respond.

Even if this matter really got out of hand.

Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but blurt out: "The clerks in the capital are like tigers, and the secondary capital Nanjing is also like this. It can be seen that the clerks in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of our Ming Dynasty are intertwined and the harsh policies are as fierce as tigers! This policy of nourishing people is really the best policy!"

Say it.

Zhang Juzheng left Yan Shaoting behind and quickly walked to the table beside him.

He picked up the ink pen and began to write on the paper.

It seems that Zhang Juzheng has already started writing a letter to Hai Rui.

Yan Shaoting smiled slightly.

Just the two capitals?
With a smile on his face, Yan Shaoting paced and walked out of the Shuntian government office under the gaze of a group of Shuntian officials who still wanted to see the show.

After leaving the Shuntian Prefecture Yamen, Yan Shaoting went straight to Yanfu Lane, asked Yan Hu to prepare the carriage, and headed northwest, out of Beijing and rushed to Changping.

To Changping.

It was already evening.

As soon as Yan Shaoting got off the carriage, he heard shouts coming from the town in the distance.

I followed the sound and walked over.

Right next to the town is the Changping Public Security Office.

In front of the Public Security Bureau, there is a large open space.

Now this piece of open space has been trampled and become hard.

There was no fence around the open space, and sticks, knives and forks were moved out of the yamen and placed around it.

Those shouts came from the Changping Public Security Bureau's militia who were currently training in the open space.

At the front of the line.

Opposite the Public Security Bureau Yamen is a high platform.

Yan Hu, the little bird of the Yan family, was holding a wooden pole tightly in both hands and practicing stick exercises with several good fighters from the Public Security Bureau's militia.

Yan Shaoting stood quietly aside, not in a hurry to find Xu Wei.

In sight.

Xiao Que'er's sticks, fists and kicks were very fierce and ruthless.

The members of the militia team on the parade ground no longer look like farmers today; each of them is extremely brave and valiant.

Yan Hu quietly looked at his eldest master from the side.

Then he whispered, "Last time, Admiral Guo from the Beijing Camp brought his men over and compared fists, kicks, clubs, swords and guns with the people from our militia."

And this thing?

Yan Shaoting asked curiously: "What was the result?"

Guo Yuchuang's men were all skilled fighters carefully selected from the Beijing camp by Zhenyuan Hou Gu Huan after the gunshots at the Xiyuan Palace wall.

All of them are brave and powerful.

Yan Hu smiled and said, "Three wins and three losses, it's a tie!"

When saying this, Yan Hu's eyes were full of regret.

Yan Shaoting glanced sideways at the lackey.

Yan Hu smiled and said, "But the second young master said that we should train for a while longer this year, and then we will ask Adjutant General Guo to bring people to compete again. This time, we will definitely defeat all the people in the Beijing camp!"

Hear the words.

Yan Shaoting raised his eyebrows immediately.

His gaze once again turned to the little bird on the platform.

Unexpectedly, this little bird of mine turned out to be so brave.

I didn't even notice it at all in the past.

He couldn't help but think of Zhang Guoxiang, the Taoist master of Tianshi Temple who had come to Beijing from Jiangxi with Xiao Que'er.

No one knows how Zhang Zhenren, the founder of their Taoist sect, who came to the earth and wanted to clean up the sect immediately, has been doing with the old Taoist priest recently.

But I learned it from various channels.

The old Taoist priest was quite satisfied with Zhang Zhenren, who betrayed his master and ancestors.

I don’t know what kind of confusing medicine Zhang Guoxiang fed the old Taoist priest, which made the old Taoist priest think that such a guy who corrupted the Taoist spirit was a real Taoist master.

Yan Shaoting heard it even more.

The old Taoist priest has already intended to bestow the title of Heavenly Master on the Tianshi Mansion once again.

As for the title of Tianshi of Tianshi Mansion, it was actually given during the reign of Emperor Taizong, who felt that these Taoists were only practicing Taoism, so how could they be called Tianshi.

Doesn't that mean that these people are more powerful than the emperor?
So the title of Heavenly Master was stripped away and changed to True Man.

However, considering that the old Taoist priest was able to change Taizong to Chengzu, it would not be a big deal to return the title of Heavenly Master to the Heavenly Master Mansion.

Anyway, it is impossible for Old Emperor Taizong to crawl up from under Changling and be taken away by his old Taoist priest.

For the old Taoist priest, doing this kind of thing is a piece of cake.

Yan Hu also asked, "Should we call the second young master over?"

Yan Shaoting raised his hand and bowed: "Let him make a fuss, let's go to the academy."

Say it.

Yan Shaoting turned around and left quietly.

In fact, he still hasn't made any plans for Xiao Que'er.

But now it seems that it is indeed impossible for Xiao Que'er to follow the imperial examination path that Old Yantou and Old Boy hope to take.

Let Xiao Queer join the army?
That might be difficult.

Even if the old Taoist priest allowed it, the imperial court would not allow Yan Jiazhen to be both civil and military.

By then, the Prime Minister will be from the Yan family, and then there will be a great general...

What exactly do you Yan family want to do?
Now all they could do was let Xiao Que'er mess around in the Public Security Bureau's militia team.

Anyway, the Yan family doesn't need him to eat.

Wait until you enter the academy.

Yan Shaoting asked Yan Hu to look for the young lady.

He couldn't go back to the capital tonight and had to stay here.

In addition, after Li Shizhen came to Beijing, although he diagnosed both of their pulses and found nothing wrong, he only prescribed a prescription for nourishing the spirit for himself.

When Li Shizhen came to Changping, he opened a course on medical first aid as Yan Shaoting requested, and then had someone send Yan Shaoting a prescription for regulating his body.

As for the function...

That will only work if I'm with Sister Lu.

After sending Yan Hu away, Yan Shaoting went to find Xu Wei on his own.

When he found Xu Wei, Xu Wei was busy in the printing house at the back of the academy.

I saw Yan Shaoting actually rushed over from the city.

Xu Wei, wearing an apron covered in ink stains, walked over with a smile and said, "You are a guest. It just so happens that today is the day when Master Qian's article is printed. Tomorrow it will be sent to various places in the capital. Then, 30,000 copies will be transported from the Tonghui River wharf southward along the canal and sent along the way. Finally, 15,000 copies will be left for Yingtian Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture."

Hearing Xu Wei's introduction, Yan Shaoting was suddenly shocked.

"Now the Changping newspaper prints 30,000 copies each time?"

The last time I knew the number of newspapers and periodicals printed in Changping, it was only 5,000 copies.

I didn’t expect that it has grown sixfold now.

To know.

The Changping newspaper is not just a single piece of paper, each time it is a full 32 pages in eight-fold format.

In addition to the articles by three old masters from Changping Academy, there are also various annotations and debates on classics.

At present, the debates are mainly participated by scholars from the capital area, and they always submit their papers to Changping Academy in the hope that they can be published in the Changping newspaper.

Xu Wei explained with a smile: "After the early newspapers were sent to the south, many people there also hoped to publish their articles in our Changping newspaper, so with the help of Lu Tongzhi, our academy opened three branches in Nanjing, Suzhou and Yangzhou, responsible for receiving articles from the south and distributing newspapers every time. This time is the first time that an article from the south has been published in our Changping newspaper."

Yan Shaoting's mind wandered, and he asked, "How?"

Xu Wei naturally knew what he was asking.

He nodded and said, "There is no problem at the moment. Both the capital and the south are discussing classics. The Changping newspaper has also followed the guests' instructions and has not yet touched upon the political situation."

Yan Shaoting glanced at the printing house where the floor was covered with ink stains.

He glanced at Xu Wei.

Xu Wei immediately understood, and the two of them walked out of the printing house.

Yan Shaoting and Xu Wei found an empty tea room in the academy and went in.

Yan Shaoting said, "The Changping newspaper should be moved out of the academy as soon as possible. If it is placed together with the academy, it will inevitably affect the studies of the students ahead."

Xu Wei smiled and nodded, and replied: "It is already under construction. It will be placed in the factory area. The academy will only be responsible for accepting and proofreading articles in the future. I think it will be completed in two months, and then all the people and things in the publishing house will move there."

Seeing that Xu Wei had already arranged this matter, Yan Shaoting felt less worried.

He changed the subject and got straight to the point: "This time, the newspaper will be released one day later. We will print an extra page and merge them together."

Xu Wei's eyes lit up.

"Does the guest also have an article to be published in the newspaper?"

Since the publication of Changping Daily, it has always been the articles of three old masters, Nie Bao, Wang Ji and Qian Dehong, that have attracted fame and popularity.

Of course, Yan Song was also present during this period. After losing a card game to three old masters, he was asked to write an article.

And as the Prime Minister submitted his article.

This started the trend of officials in the court submitting articles to Changping Daily.

Even officials in the court hoped that their articles discussing Confucian classics could be published in Changping Daily and read and appreciated by scholars all over the world.

Everyone can see now that the Changping Newspaper is a good thing that can spread fame.

only.

Yan Shaoting, who was recognized by the three disciples of the grand master of the School of Mind, has never had an article published in the Changping newspaper.

This makes many people feel very sorry.

Now when Xu Wei heard Yan Shaoting say that he wanted to print another edition, he thought that Yan Shaoting was going to publish an article.

But Yan Shaoting shook his head.

Under Xu Wei's gaze.

Yan Shaoting said, "Using the pseudonym Chang Zhongping, please ask Mr. Xu to write an article discussing the cabinet's deputy minister Xu's recent reprimand of the various departments in the court."

Xu Wei suddenly raised his eyebrows.

The guest was not going to publish the article himself, but to write an article on Xu Jie's previous experience in various ministries and government offices in the imperial court.

I still use a pseudonym.

Chang Zhongping.

Now it is the homonym of the important comments of Changping Academy.

Xu Wei immediately whispered: "The point is..."

This is asking the purpose of writing this article.

What surprised Xu Wei even more was.

Originally, Yan Binke had decided that the Changping newspaper would not discuss the current situation in the court, but now it was obvious that it was going to comment on the events in the court.

After asking the relevant questions.

Xu Wei whispered even more quietly: "After the article is written, do you want to ask the headmaster to review it?"

The headmaster is naturally the one with the surname Zhu.

That is Prince Yu.

After all, Prince Yu is the current president of Changping Academy, and Changping Newspaper is actually under the jurisdiction of the academy.

This is also the reason why Changping Daily makes all the scholars in the world want to contribute articles.

What if my article accidentally catches the eye of Director Zhu?
Maybe it’s a chance to soar to the sky!

Yan Shaoting nodded and said, "Use the clerks and servants of the imperial court as the subject, and praise Lord Xu for his actions and words that have benefited the country! After the article comes out, I will not read it, but will directly submit it to the headmaster for review and then print it for publication."

After finishing speaking.

Yan Shaoting narrowed his eyes.

If you want to make a big deal out of this, then you have to make it big.

Let everyone in the world see it.

Before everyone noticed the true influence of Changping Daily, no one knew how powerful they were now.

But as soon as this article is sent out.

Those people will probably know exactly where their power can radiate.

And Xu Wei obviously thought of this as well.

He immediately understood what he meant and said, "Is the guest going to attack the clerks and servants of the imperial court?"

Yan Shaoting immediately smiled and shook his head.

"It's not me, it's Chang Zhongping."

"It's not like I want to attack the clerks and servants of the imperial court."

"But the people of the world who have long been coerced by clerks and yamen runners will hear the voice and respond..."

"Let's attack together!"

Xu Wei's heart trembled.

He has now begun to worry whether Changping Daily can continue to be published after this article is published.

But he was more looking forward to it.

After Lord Xu took the blame.

wrong!

Lord Xu is a man of great sense of justice!
How will you feel then?
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