Because of the instructions from above, Jin Yiwei also let these non-Donglin scholars gather in front of the gate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to scold the Donglin Party, and only appeared in the evening.The Donglin officials in the Metropolitan Procuratorate were also helpless about this.In the end, they gradually got used to the non-Donglin scholars abusing their Donglin Party outside.And because of this, more and more civil officials and scholars who have no good impression of the Donglin Party have begun to attach themselves to Fang Shihong, because anyone with a discerning eye knows that Jinyi Wei is on the side of the Fang family's sons, and naturally knows that the Fang family's power is currently the largest in the court.Therefore, more and more civil officials and scholars began to help Fang Shihong stink the Donglin Party, and then published a book of scandals of the Donglin people, exposing the ugly things done by some scholars and doctors of the Donglin Party, such as climbing ashes, adultery, prostitutes, etc., and publicized them everywhere.As a result, many scholars who were neutral or unwilling to form a party began to read the book with great interest and read it one after another.Even the people in the streets and alleys, as well as the sergeants and nobles, knew some of the ugly things about the Donglin Party, and felt that the Donglin Party was not a decent man.For a time, the reputation of the Donglin Party became very stinky in the capital.In the end, Han Yi, a scholar, Sun Ruyou, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, Li Ruhua, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, and other important ministers of the imperial court couldn't stand it, so they couldn't help but find Fang Congzhe to talk about it."
Yuanfu, now that all kinds of demon books have appeared in the market, what Donglin Peng Party Disaster State Affairs Exposed, Donglin Folk Scandal Chronicles, it is rumored that they are all caused by Lingzi's secret manipulation, don't you plan to take care of it?"
Han Yi asked because of this."
If you want to say that Donglin is a party for personal gain, I think that only those who attack Donglin people like this can be regarded as forming a party for personal gain!
If this continues, it is not only the image of the people of Donglin who will be damaged, but the image of my entire Shilin, how will future generations still look at me and other scholars?
Ge Lao, Lingzi is really too much to do this!
I can't help but stop it!
”Sun Ruyou also said so.Fang Congzhe pretended to be angry and said: "You don't mention that rebel to the servant, the servant can't wait to kill him now!"
And the group of scribes around him, one by one, they are not ashamed, desperately encourage him to do this, I wanted to imprison the rebel, no outsiders, you guess what those scribes say, secretly said that the old man abused the son, said that the tiger poison did not eat the child, but the old man not only broke his son's leg but also imprisoned the son like a prisoner, you listen, the old man is not as good as a beast as they say!
”Fang Congzhe sighed as he spoke, and said, "It's difficult for a servant now!"
Servants are not human insides and outs!
Do you think that the servant is secretly instigating his son to do this?
Definitely!
Although the servant is mediocre and incompetent, he also doesn't want to see the court fall into party strife, and see that there is such a discord within our scholars, but there are some things that the old man can do, and the old man has broken the leg of the rebel, and someone still comes to the door to find my rebel!
”Han Yi, Sun Ruyou and others complained when they saw Fang Congzhe, and they didn't know what to say.For a while, Han Yi had to take the initiative to suggest: "But this matter can't be let go, it's better for us to go to Your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to cut this matter." ”"Yes, we can't let these demon books and gossips continue to circulate like this in the market, and if they continue to be passed on like this, the image of those people in Donglin will really be ruined, which will also affect Your Majesty's opinion of all our civil officials."
Sun Ru lobbied."
Then go up to your majesty."
Fang Congzhe nodded and replied.As a result, the cabinet ministers, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Rites jointly reported the matter to Zhu Youxiao, and asked the emperor to personally adjudicate the matter.Zhu Youxiao therefore said: "Approve them, I already know about this, and I have ordered Fang Shihong to enter the palace to see me." ”"Yes!"
Wei Zhongxian replied.Next, Zhu Youxiao announced that he met Fang Shihong in the Qianqing Palace.Fang Shihong was inconvenient because of his legs and feet, and Zhu Youzhen also exempted him from the big gift, and only asked: "The revelation of the Donglin Peng Party disaster and the scandal of the Donglin people are all what you secretly instigated?"
”"The minister does not dare to deceive His Majesty!
It was all made by the minister in his own bookstore. ”Fang Shihong replied.Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Not bad!"
You are very good at organizing a group of people to do this kind of thing, but this kind of thing cannot be done by the people, it has to be done by the imperial court, to build momentum for the new policy of the imperial court, and to contribute to the education of the people of the imperial court.
Books and newspaper articles that have not been authorized by Chongwen Temple shall not be circulated in the market, and Chongwen Temple may have the right to confiscate relevant illegal books and newspaper articles; I decided to give Chongwen Temple a quota of 700 supervisors, with Jinyiwei serving as 500 places and responsible for raiding the relevant prohibited bookstores, and 200 places as recruiting literati to work for Chongwen Temple, all of whom have seven products; You first served as Chongwen Siqing, Zheng Sanpin, and was fully responsible for this matter, you may do a good job?
”Fang Shihong was overjoyed when he heard this, he could understand that this meant that he had to control the review of books and articles in the world for the imperial court, and there was a lot of power space to operate in this, which was undoubtedly more conducive to him controlling those literati and doctors who opposed him.Therefore, Fang Shihong hurriedly said: "Thank you, Your Majesty Longen!"
The minister will definitely live up to His Majesty's trust!
”"Then it's decided!
In addition, I will allocate another 200,000 taels of domestic funds to you as most of the funds for the establishment of Chongshu shops in the main towns of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and your own family and others can contribute some more, and the income of the bookstore will be divided according to the proportion of capital contribution.
Among them, I will account for the majority, and in the future, this Chongshu shop will be a government-run bookstore, and one to two percent of the profit will be taken out to expand the business scale of Chongshu bookstore; I will ask you to only allow some important documents, such as excellent articles in the imperial examination, to be sold by Chongshu shops, plus they have the right to issue and ban them, so in the future, Chongshu shops can earn a lot of silver, you should understand that this is undoubtedly the wealth that I have given you to the Fang family, but if you don't do it well, I will take back this wealth; Also, Chongwen Temple belongs directly to me, I give you a token You can directly enter the Qianqing Palace to ask to see me, and directly report to me the latest situation of Chongwen Temple in the control of Daming Culture and Religion, this matter is related to the context of the world, and cannot be taken lightly. ”Zhu Youxiao continued.He had already decided to set up a cultural institution to control the distribution and publication of books in the world, and he had already thought of a way to use Fang Shihong's position as the son of the first assistant to recruit a group of literati as the foundation of this institution, that is, Chongwen Temple.After all, Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor, would definitely not be able to directly recruit literati with dignity, which would also make the literati too proud, feel that they are amazing, and be favored by the Son of Heaven, so as to be more domineering.In addition, although the Hanlin Academy of the Ming Dynasty is the concentration of the emperor's royal literati, the current Hanlin Academy has become a place for cultivating the prince, so the civil officials of the Hanlin Academy are very high, and they will not be easily willing to control the heavenly literati for the emperor.In addition, Zhu Youxiao did not have the energy to personally take charge of this matter.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao decided to use Fang Shihong and the group of literati he befriended to set up an organization to control the people in the heavens as early as when he asked Wei Zhongxian to send people from Dongchang to instigate Fang Shihong to secretly make friends with scholars, and let Fang Shihong do it for himself, because he found that Fang Shihong's identity and his sociable ability made it easy for him to pull in a group of literati, for example, he did a good job of stinking the Donglin Party this time."
Obey the order!"
Fang Shihong replied."
Chongwen Temple is not only in charge of the distribution of books and newspaper articles in the world, but also to continue to control the world's public opinion, this time some Donglin officials' scandalous revelations can make the people of the world more aware of who is the person who is for the country and the people, but this is not enough, Chongwen Temple controls public opinion to serve the overall interests of the Ming Dynasty, and has to be loyal to me!
And I decided to reform and eliminate the evils, first of all, to ensure and increase the revenue of the treasury and make up for the shortfall, so you have to serve this purpose, and for this reason, I ask you to take out the Liao salary first, and you can properly criticize Li Ruhua, the former head of the household department, saying that his suggestion to levy the Liao salary was a bad government of the Ming Dynasty, and to force Li Ruhua to agree to the imperial court's implementation of the examination law and the pursuit of the Fu and Qing Zhangtian Mu affairs!
”Zhu Youxiao said.