After Fang Shihong left Qianqing Palace, he still had a smile on his face.
He did not expect that the Black Donglin Party would be given such great power by the emperor because of recruiting a group of civil servants.
Control the distribution and publication rights of all books in the world.
In addition, he also ran the first government-run bookstore for the imperial court and had the exclusive right to issue some imperial documents.
"This has indeed given our Fang family a fortune. Your Majesty will not let our Fang family be infamous all over the world in vain. I, Fang Shihong, will definitely take good care of these scholars for your Majesty!"
Fang Shihong therefore secretly muttered to himself.
"The establishment of Chongwen Temple will definitely make the world's literati dissatisfied. After all, the Ming Dynasty has never restricted literati from compiling and publishing books, so the world's literati will definitely scold the court. I can't be the only one to be scolded. If the news spreads in your Dongchang, just say It was Fang Shihong who suggested that I do this to establish Chongwen Temple to control the world's cultural education, and the emperor has always favored the Fang family, so he approved Fang Shihong's proposal and ordered him to establish Chongwen Temple to control the world's literature and education."
Zhu Youxiao gave Wei Zhongxian instructions after Fang Shihong left.
"Your Majesty Shengming! In this case, Yuan Fu can't say anything. After all, this is his son's fault, not to mention there are many benefits to his Fang family. I will take care of it now."
Wei Zhongxian came back.
Zhu Youxiao just smiled and said nothing.
But Zhu Youxiao admitted that Wei Zhongxian was right.
The Ming Dynasty was riddled with many disadvantages and had to be dealt with. As an emperor, he needed an experienced chief minister like Fang Congzhe, who had many disciples and former officials, to reform the Ming Dynasty, remove the disadvantages, and implement relevant new policies.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao must rely on Fang Congzhe and rely on Fang Congzhe to win over some reliable civil servants to carry out reforms.
But in order for Fang Congzhe to win over a group of civil servants to work with him on reforms, he himself could not do too many things that would disgrace Shilin.
But sometimes, to achieve the New Deal, you have to use some disgraceful means and disgraceful people.
Therefore, in Zhu Youxiao's view, it was most appropriate to let Fang Congzhe's son do these disgraceful things and make friends with disgraceful people.
After all, Fang Congzhe and Fang Shihong are father and son, so the possibility of a direct breakup due to the different forces formed by the people they associate with is very small.
And it is very likely that Fang Shihong consciously protected his father's reforms in order to consolidate his father's power.
Fang Congzhe also refused to kill his son who had done all the bad things because he was a father.
It didn't take long.
It gradually spread in the market that Fang Shihong suggested that Emperor Tianqi set up Chongwen Temple to control the world's cultural education.
Zhu You's decree to establish Chongwen Temple and let Fang Shihong take charge of Chongwen Temple was also sent by the eunuch in charge of rituals when Fang Congzhe was the only one in the cabinet.
Fang Congzhe was stunned for a long time when he looked at the edict.
"Mr. Ge, please hurry up and draft the decree. Our family is still waiting to return home."
The eunuch responsible for delivering the decree even urged Fang Congzhe to come.
"Okay, okay, I'll prepare the decree right now!"
Fang Congzhe put down the edict with trembling hands.
He naturally knew that once he made this plan, his son would become the most hated person among the scholar-bureaucrats in the world.
But Fang Congzhe did not dare to disobey the emperor's will, because he was now regarded as a traitor by many scholar-bureaucrats in the world. He must obey all the emperor's will in order to continue to live under the emperor's protection.
The imperial edict was indeed issued quickly, and it began to be known to officials and scholars in the form of Di Bao and Huang Ming Bao.
As a result, the civil servants had no choice but to believe the rumors in the market. Fang Shihong really suggested that His Majesty establish an yamen to be the mouthpiece of the world's literati.
Sun Ruyou, the Minister of Rites, was the first to come to the cabinet. When he saw Fang Congzhe, he said, "Yuanfu, what on earth is going on! Why did your son come up with such suggestions that control the mouthpiece of the world? Didn't you stop him?"
Not long after, Li Ruhua, the Minister of Civil Affairs, also rushed over: "Yuanfu, how can this Chongwen Temple be established? In the future, any poetry collection or establishment by the scholar-officials will have to be approved by the imperial court. This is simply a bad policy against us scholar-officials. ah!"
Han Xu also hurried back to the cabinet. The other party Congzhe said: "Yuanfu was alone in the cabinet at that time. Why didn't he refute your majesty's decree? Why didn't he write a secret to expose it and remonstrate with it?"
Wang Xiangqian also rushed over and said: "Dele, in the future, if the scholar-officials want to publish a book and spread the word to the world, they will have to look at the face of Mr. Fang."
Fang Congzhe sighed: "It is difficult to disobey the sage, and there is nothing I can do about it."
"But you are Yuansuke."
Han Xu almost wanted to scold Fang Congzhe for being cowardly, but he still held back.
For a moment, Han Xu had no choice but to change his words: "Some things should be advised."
"My servant has exposed the secret and persuaded him, but His Majesty did not listen. He only said that the dog's strategy was very good. Now I want to strangle that traitor to death!"
Fang Congzhe gritted his teeth as he spoke, seeming to really hate his rebellious son Fang Shihong.
Wang Yingjiao, the Minister of Household Affairs who also came to the cabinet, saw that blue veins were popping up on Fang Congzhe's forehead, so he thought that Fang Congzhe was really angry with his unfulfilled son, so he had to persuade Fang Congzhe instead of questioning him, and said: " There is no need for Yuan Fu to be so angry. Your young master is ignorant of worldly affairs and pursues progress too much. It is understandable to make such suggestions now. Now I just hope that Yuan Fu will still control your noble son. Even if His Majesty really lets him control the mouthpiece of the world's literati, he will not be so angry. Don’t really take control of it seriously, don’t stop the world from talking about it.”
"Well, don't worry."
Fang Congzhe immediately agreed and said: "If that traitor dares to slander the princes and dares to slander the world's scholar-bureaucrats again, I will not spare him!"
Wang Yingjiao nodded.
Han Xu, Li Ruhua and others looked at Fang Congzhe with complicated expressions.
They always felt that Fang Congzhe was telling lies, and they also secretly felt that the appearance of Chongwen Temple might be caused by Fang Congzhe, an old and cunning man who instigated his son to give advice to the emperor like this. Otherwise, how could a playboy come up with such a vicious plan? To control the mouthpiece of the scholars in the world.
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Soon after, Fang Shihong arranged for Chongwen Store under his name to start publishing a political pamphlet called "On Liao Pay".
The main content is to criticize Li Ruhua, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, for imposing an additional levy of Liao salary when he was the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, which led to greater hardship for the people of the world.
And because Fang Shihong had internal funds allocated by Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao also allowed him to purchase the latest manual printing press manufactured by the imperial court.
Therefore, Chong Bookstore quickly printed a large number of "On Liao Rating" and spread it widely by selling it cheaply and letting some literati read it in gathering places.
Therefore, discussions about Liao's rates and criticism of Li Ruhua soon arose throughout the capital.
Under Fang Shihong's instruction, some literati began to write articles in the "Chongwen Newspaper" of Chongwen Shop to criticize Li Ruhua's behavior of resolving the finances and pursuing the people.
Many of the scholars Fang Shihong attracted had outstanding literary talents, so their writing style was very sharp.
Some people directly accused Li Ruhua of starting the first bad policy in the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty!
Some even called Li Ruhua the most treacherous minister who brought disaster to the country and the people.
Some even conducted investigations and wrote about the tragedies of several refugees who had their families ruined because of Liao's wages, and therefore said that Li Ruhua was the minister who caused people to lose their families.
"Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor has been lax in corvee and low in taxes, and treacherous ministers like Yan Song have not yet given taxes to the people. However, Li Suizhou was the first treacherous official to impose taxes on the people in the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty. It can be seen that he is even more vicious than Yan Song!"
"During the time of Shimiao, troops were deployed in the southeast, and military expenditures increased greatly. However, the treacherous minister Yan Songshang only increased his salary to the salt merchants, while Li Suizhou did not dare to offend the wealthy gentry, and only dared to bully Ai Ai and starve to death! Therefore, he was called a capable minister in vain. , in fact, he is a mediocre minister. If the Ming Dynasty overthrows the country in the future, Li Suizhou will be the number one sinner! Does this person have the nerve to occupy the position of a heavenly official?"
Li Ruhua himself also received a copy of "On Liao Pay" and started reading it with trembling lips while reading it.
"It doesn't make sense! It doesn't make sense!"
After reading it for a while, Li Ruhua was so angry that he shouted "This is unreasonable" and then spit out a mouthful of blood.
