"The Theory of Taxation" spread to all directions at a rapid speed, shaking the entire Ming Dynasty, most of the gentry and businessmen were greatly panicked by this article, but not everyone in this world is blind, after seeing this article, there are also many far-sighted and worried readers began to ponder.

Of course, there are only a few people who can reflect deeply, but this phenomenon has already aroused the wrath of the gentry. If it were ordinary people who dared to fire the map cannon so indiscriminately, I am afraid that they would have been killed by their Yin Trick a long time ago, but Yang Feng is different, he is the most Emperor Jiang Ning in the dynasty, and he has a heavy army, and it is simply impossible to kill him with Yin Trick.

Yin tricks can't be used, so what about the bright side? Don't think about this, the impeachment of Yang Feng has almost filled a warehouse for more than a year, but people are still living their own small lives, and the emperor's re-evaluation of him has not decreased by half a point.

Just when everyone was worried, Qian Qianyi, who was valued by Gao Panlong, came up with an idea, since Yang Feng can run a newspaper, then there is no reason for these literati who claim to lead the trend of the times to be backward from others? Isn't it just a newspaper? They can run a newspaper, so why can't we do the same?

As soon as Qian Qianyi's suggestion came out, it was immediately praised by everyone. If it is a war, governing the country or investigating corruption, the people of the Donglin Party may not dare to boast, but if they pick up the mouth cannon, when have they been afraid of anyone, where are these people in the past Zhejiang Party, Chu Party, and Qi Party? They can drive all these people back to their hometowns to eat themselves, and they will definitely do it this time.

Once the opinions were unified, the speed of the Donglin Party's actions became extremely fast. They immediately discussed the naming, address, recruitment, and even the source of the manuscript, and in less than two hours they came up with a rough framework.

Three days later, the Donglin Party announced that it would set up a newspaper in the capital, and the name of this newspaper was "Confucian Newspaper". From this name, it can be seen that today's Donglin Party has a posture of claiming to be Confucian authentic.

The address was done, but the opening of the Confucian newspaper encountered difficulties. The first problem is printing.

As we all know, newspapers are not better than printing Buddhist scriptures or printing subsets of scriptures and history, these masterpieces can be printed with engraving, engraving printing has the characteristics of exquisite workmanship, and the printed font is neat and good-looking, but it is too time-consuming and the cost of the phone is huge, and it is often a few months or even years of time-consuming It is not something that ordinary people can afford.

It is not impossible to use movable type printing, but movable type printing is convenient, but at present, its biggest disadvantage is that the font is not good-looking, and the typesetting can not be as neat and beautiful as the engraving, which is the biggest reason for the current restriction of movable type printing.

But when it comes to this, some people ask why Pravda is so neatly printed on it.

Well, this question stumped everyone, and it took a long time for someone to say: "According to the people below, it is said that Yang Feng brought a new printing press from overseas, this machine is not only convenient for typesetting, but also very fast, it can print 2,000 and 3,000 newspapers in an hour, and a large part of the success of Pravda is due to this printing press." ”

"Printing press?"

Li Qiyuan muttered, and then said hatefully: "Last time, we sent people to various bookstores to warn, and there is no bookstore and typesetting master in the capital who dares to cooperate with Pravda, originally thought that he could strangle it in the fetus while Pravda was not yet opened, but he never thought that Yang Feng actually got a printing press and recruited a number of apprentices to train them, so that Pravda opened as scheduled, it seems that this printing press is really a baby, can we think of a way to get that thing?" ”

Everyone gave him a roll of the eyes when they heard this, since this machine is so important, it will definitely be protected, and unless they send someone to grab it, it is impossible for them to get their hands on this machine. But the question came back again, if they could snatch that machine, would they still need to be afraid of Yang Feng?

The question seemed to become a dead knot, and everyone frowned. In the end, Gao Panlong said: "In this way, Hongtai (Li Qiyuan) first urgently dispatched some typesetting masters to try to print and see what the effect is?" Receiving it (Qian Qianyi) is to mobilize some scholars and colleagues to write manuscripts for our Confucian newspaper, and we will publish the newspaper ten days later. Finally ......"

Speaking of this, a trace of ruthlessness flashed on Gao Panlong's face, and he turned his gaze to Fang Zhuangli: "Master Fang, the old man heard that you have a group of people who are particularly good at inquiring and doing things, and in recent days, you have immediately sent someone to contact those printing craftsmen in Pravda's printing house to see if you can ask the secret of their machine, if not." The old man thought that he could buy some of them, and it was okay to make a little move on the printing machine. ”

After Gao Panlong finished speaking, everyone was silent for a while before applauding.

"Wonderful...... Wonderful......"

"Mr. Yun Cong's plan is very good...... Students admire! ”

"It is worthy of being the leader of my Donglin Party, this is simply to the point!"

The room was full of voices of admiration, and many people desperately slapped their ass.

In the face of everyone's flattery, Gao Panlong just smiled faintly, and gently twisted his beard with his right hand, but a trace of history flashed in his eyes......

The Donglin Party's counterattack was still very fast, and ten days later, the "Confucian Daily" run by the Donglin Party also officially began to be published in the capital.

On the day of the release of the "Confucian Newspaper", Gao Panlong not only personally came to the newspaper headquarters to stand for the "Confucian Daily", almost half of the officials in the capital came, and its scale was almost comparable to the posture of the emperor Lao Tzu banqueting hundreds of officials, and for a time the entire civil official circle in the capital set off a wave of reading the "Confucian Newspaper".

Because of the example of "Pravda", Gao Panlong had 10,000 copies printed and distributed for free in the capital, he just wanted to suppress "Pravda" in this way, and the people in the capital were also very face-saving, and they naturally did not refuse to give things for free, anyway, even if they couldn't understand it, it was good to take it home and pack things.

However, when some literate people took the "Confucian Newspaper" into their hands and took a look, they found that the entire text on it was written in classical Chinese, and the whole piece was also a scholar. Many of the articles are written in an unusually obscure and difficult way to understand without a deep literary foundation.

Now many people are a little sitting, your sister's. Dude has only been in school for a few days, and almost all of the words on it are known to a single brother, but after combining them like this, they can't understand them all, are you sure you're not fooling us?

In fact, these people also wronged Gao Panlong and the Donglin Party, as a newspaper issued by the Donglin Party itself, how dare they be perfunctory. Rather, those Donglin Party members and officials who were qualified to write for the newspaper racked their brains in order to show their literary skills.

These articles are going to be published all over the world, and if they don't do their best, they will lose their faces. Therefore, these articles have been carefully crafted by them before they are released, and the words are also extremely cautious, lest they be not well written and people will be ridiculed, and some people even rack their brains to try to use rare words, rare allusions and rhetoric, in their opinion, not writing like this is not enough to show their level.

But it is precisely because they are too attentive that ordinary people are dumbfounded. Yours, what are they written on?

After the first copy of the "Confucian Daily" was distributed free of charge, many Donglin Party members with status gathered at Gao Panlong's house, waiting for the news to come, but the news was mixed.

Qian Qianyi smiled and arched his hand: "Mr. Yun Cong, after reading our "Confucian Newspaper", the hundred officials and colleagues of the imperial court all unanimously praised this Confucian newspaper for doing well, especially the article you wrote in person is like Hong Zhong Da Lu shocking, presumably Yang Feng will be so ashamed that he will cry after seeing your article!" ”

Li Qiyuan also complimented: "That's, what kind of person is Mr. Yun Cong, how can he not be a blockbuster when he writes an article himself?" ”

Gao Panlong said modestly: "You have won the award, the old man is just writing what he thinks in his heart, how dare he wait for your praise." However, it is said that there is also some bad news, especially many people claim that the articles in our "Confucian newspaper" are obscure and difficult to understand, and they can't even understand them. ”

Qian Qianyi said disdainfully: "The article is a natural skill, the article we wrote is a gentleman's article, and naturally it should also be seen by a gentleman, how can those peddlers and pawns appreciate it?" ”

"That is, Brother Mu Zhai is right, our article was not originally for those mud legs, and those mud legs are not worthy of reading our articles. If you want me to say, our newspapers shouldn't have sent them to those mud-legged people who didn't tarnish our articles. ”

A group of people were there in unison, a row of high and low looks. Seeing the disapproving appearance of everyone, Gao Panlong also felt a little uneasy, "Pravda" is very down-to-earth, the whole article is written in vernacular, the above articles can be understood as long as people who are a little literate, but the "Confucian Daily" they run seems to be high and low, arrogant and abnormal, the whole text of the classical Chinese, such an article must not be understood by ordinary people, such words are very unfavorable to the spread of "Confucian Daily", but he can't say such a worry, otherwise it is doing the right thing with most of the Donglin Party people.

"In the past, there was a person named Yang Feng. He claimed to be from overseas, but no one ever proved his identity...... the whole article "Taxation Theory" is a fallacy and heresy, but they don't know that preferential treatment of scholars is a rule set by Emperor Taizu at the beginning of the founding of the country......"

"Xianggong, this Gao Panlong is too annoying, this article is scolding you all over, and many things are all made up, and they can't stand scrutiny at all, what about the leader of the Donglin Party? Bah, it turns out that he is also a sanctimonious hypocrite. ”

In the backyard of Jiang Ningbo's Mansion, Da Yu'er's angry voice resounded in the side hall, and her little hand kept waving a copy of the "Confucian Newspaper" that had just arrived.

Zheng Toniang was also unwilling, she raised her head and asked: "Husband, since this Gao Panlong has slandered you so unscrupulously, why didn't you report to the emperor and seal this newspaper office?" ”

"Yes, such a newspaper should be closed!" Da Yu'er echoed in her incomprehension.

Hai Lanzhu and Zhezhe on the side looked at their husbands with some worry.

"That's not going to work." Yang Feng shook his head and said, "What is the original intention of our newspaper?" ”

Without waiting for the women to answer, Yang Feng said: "Speech...... Free speech, what I want to do is to let the people of Daming know what is happening in Daming and the crisis we are about to face, instead of blocking speech. Of course, absolute freedom of speech is not okay, otherwise it will be a mess if they are all made up?

But now we can't touch those Donglin Party and their "Confucian Newspaper", because if we use the power of the official face to deal with them, then it is equivalent to setting a precedent of evil deeds, and in the future they can also use the power of the official face to deal with our "Pravda", you must know that our strength in Jiangnan is still very weak today, and if the "Pravda" wants to be distributed to the Jiangnan District, we can't tear our faces with them, otherwise if they also turn their hearts and use their power in Jiangnan to deal with us, We really can't do anything about them for a while. ”

"Oh...... I see! ”

After listening to Yang Feng's explanation, the women understood why Yang Feng ignored the "Confucian Daily".

"Besides, I've heard that the Confucian Newspaper is in trouble." Yang Feng said: "According to the following reports, these days, the Donglin Party has spent a lot of money to invite the most famous typesetting masters and craftsmen in the capital to print newspapers for them, and they still use wooden characters to carve live, so the cost is not a small amount, and they are not as advanced as our printing press."

I sent someone to inquire, and the price of their "Confucian Daily" is the same as ours for three cents per copy, but their cost is more than three wen. It can be said that the more they print, the more they lose, and if this goes on for a long time, there will be a good show, and we will not be idle, I have already thought about the front page of the next issue, and I promise that they will enjoy watching it! ”

Just when the Donglin Party members were desperately donating money and materials to the "Confucian Daily" to cheer them up, "Pravda" threw out another bombshell, and the "Friends of the Party Said" written by Yang Feng himself was freshly baked, and the beginning of this article will point the finger at the Donglin Party.

In the past, there was a cloud in "Shangshu Hongfan": "There is no bias and no party, and the royal road is swinging; There is no party and no bias, and the royal road is mediocre; There is no mirror, no side, and the royal road is upright. ”。 A few years ago, I had several parties such as the Chu Party, the Zhejiang Party, the Qi Party and the Donglin Party coexisting with the imperial court, and today except for the Donglin Party, where are the other parties now? ”