Looking at the Pravda that fell to the ground, several cabinet elders just glanced at it, and no one picked it up to check it, not because they were disrespectful to Zhu Youxiao, but because they had already read the content on it. Pravda is now the most influential newspaper in the whole Beijing Division and even the entire Ming Dynasty, how could they not read it.

With the publication of the two articles on taxation and friends, Pravda has become synonymous with daring to speak the truth in people's hearts in a very short period of time, especially the sentence "I love my knowledge, but I love the truth even more" printed on the front page of Pravda every day, which quickly became the most popular sentence among readers.

This sentence was also printed under Pravda by order of Yang Feng, and at the beginning, this sentence was despised by many readers. After all, for so many years, Chinese scholars have paid attention to the "heaven and earth prince and teacher", and the teacher's status for the reader is second only to his parents.

But truth is truth, and as time went on, this phrase became more and more accepted, and now Pravda has become a must-read publication for many readers.

At the same time, the "Confucian Daily", which was pushed out by the Donglin Party to fight with the "Pravda", still adheres to the so-called elite line, and the content on it is still those obscure classical Chinese, and such articles are naturally difficult to popularize among the people, so it is still a half-dead appearance, if it were not for the blood transfusion of the Donglin Party and those rich businessmen, I am afraid that it would have been lost to the point that there would be no pants left.

Gu Bingqian glanced at the Pravda on the ground, squinted his eyes and took a step forward to bow to Zhu Youxiao and said: "Your Majesty, Zheng Zhilong and his gang of pirates are extremely vicious, and it is not surprising that they did the slaughter of my famous people, but fortunately, Zheng Zhilong's sneak attack on Fujian was discovered by Jiang Ningbo and severely injured them. As for what His Majesty said about our Ming officers and soldiers can only watch the thieves escape, it is because my Ming Navy Division has now existed in name only, but now that Jiang Ningbo has begun to rebuild the Fujian Navy Division, it may not be long before I can re-inspect my Daming Sea Frontier. ”

Gu Bingqian is worthy of being the first assistant of the cabinet known as the old fritter, obviously talking nonsense, but he was stunned to make people sound quite reasonable, which also has to make me admire this guy and the ability of the mud.

It's just that Gu Bingqian's words of harmony made Zhu Youxiao feel more and more helpless and bored, Gu Bingqian's talent is quite mediocre, but it is because he is good at and thin mud and his qualifications are old enough, so he became the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't find a person who could replace him, Zhu Youxiao would have let him go back to his hometown to eat himself.

Huang Liji, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion University, also stepped forward and bowed down and said: "Your Majesty is angry, what Gu Ge Lao said is Lao Cheng's serious words, Zheng Zhilong is certainly his crime and deserves punishment, but the top priority at present is to order Jiang Ningbo to recover Fuzhou as soon as possible, and will kill this fang to correct the law of the country." However, the old minister thought that Jiang Ningbo Bo was the pillar of my Ming Dynasty, and even the invincible Jiannu was defeated by him and fled, not to mention this Zheng Zhilong. ”

"Ministers seconded the ......"

Several pavilion elders nodded in agreement, and some people sang praises to Yang Feng, saying that as long as Jiang Ningbo came out, he would definitely succeed, and Zheng Zhilong would definitely be able to capture it.

Zhu Youxiao frowned more and more tightly the more he listened, although these pavilion elders were not as eager to eat Yang Feng's flesh and drink his blood as the Donglin Party members, but as a vested interest group, they also had no good impression of Yang Feng. The two articles "The Theory of Taxation" and "The Theory of the Friends Party" thrown out by Yang Feng a few days ago not only stung the nerves of the Donglin Party, the rich gentry and the landlord class in Jiangnan, but also made the readers all over the world feel unhappy.

In Yang Feng's article, those scholars who do not pay taxes and are exempt from land taxes are called moths of the Ming Dynasty, and it is precisely because these scholars, landlords and wealthy gentry have seized most of the land in the Ming Dynasty, which has led to fewer and fewer people who are talented and tax-paying in the Ming Dynasty today.

Yang Feng not only strongly criticized these people in the article, but also called on the imperial court to exempt the privileges of scholars, suggesting that the imperial court re-measure the land and implement the policy of returning the fire consumption to the public and sharing the acres into the mu, which will undoubtedly offend all the scholars, and how can these elders, who are the representatives of the scholars, have a good impression of Yang Feng?

Zhu Youxiao looked at these pavilion elders who sang praises, his face sank like water and he was silent.

The reason why these people are singing praises to Yang Feng now is that they want to set Yang Feng up, and what the Chinese people say about killing is this kind of thing. The higher they hold Yang Feng now, the heavier they will fall once Yang Feng goes wrong.

What's more, Zhu Youxiao's heart is like a mirror, don't look at Zheng Zhilong who has lost a lot of people, but as long as you have food these days, how many people do you want to recruit? Moreover, Zheng Zhilong still has hundreds of warships under his command, as long as he wants to run, no one can stop him, if Yang Feng can't completely annihilate Zheng Zhilong by then, these people will not be the face they are today.

"This is my important minister!"

Zhu Youxiao glanced at the pavilion elders standing in front of him, and he missed Yang Feng more and more in his heart. Looking at the entire government and the opposition, I am afraid that only Yang Fengfeng has helped himself so selflessly.

In fact, in Zhu Youxiao's view, although Yang Feng is nominally his courtier, his attitude towards him has always been very different. He was neither afraid of him like the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, nor fooling him like the ministers in the court, in general, Yang Feng was more like a kind brother.

He will immediately point out what he has done wrong, and express his opinions and suggestions, and he will also tell him many strange things in this world, so that he can broaden his horizons and cultivate his own abilities.

In life, Yang Feng would leave him a copy of whatever delicious and fun he had, and even half of the silver he earned from his business, and he just gave him a brand of the Ming Royal Commercial House.

This friendship is the most precious to Zhu Youxiao, who grew up in a place where there is a lack of family affection since he was a child, and it is precisely because of this that Zhu Youxiao is full of disgust and hatred for those Donglin Party who regard Yang Feng as an enemy of life and death and the elders in front of him who are thinking about how to calculate Yang Feng all day long.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Gu Bingqian lightly, and said in an indifferent tone: "Elder Gu Ge, you are all important ministers of the imperial court, and you are also an example for the Ming officials to learn. Jiang Ningbo is certainly brave, but you can't let him take a group of landlubbers to fight hard with the pirates who have been begging for a living at sea all year round, before the Fujian Navy Division is built, I don't want anyone to say something like a quick battle, otherwise I will doubt his motives. ”

Hearing this, the faces of Gu Bingqian, Huang Liji and the other elders immediately became very exciting.