Volume 1: Birth! Seven time travelers Chapter 131 Jinling Daily's Victory (Part 2)
"It's all for the sake of changing your family!"
The one who shouted this was not Gu Xiancheng, but Qian Yiben, the oldest person in Donglin at that time. Although he was already over 60 years old, he was running very fast with a newspaper in his hand: "Cunzhi, Shushi, come and take a look at today's Jinling Daily."
"Hmm... eh? What? After The Return of the Condor Heroes is finished, is the new novel called The Legend of Chu Liuxiang?"
Speaking of which, after Zhu Youdong plagiarized Jin Yong's The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes, he didn't dare to plagiarize the trilogy of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber: this novel made Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty become Zhang Wuji's younger brother, so how could he dare to plagiarize with his current status?
Among the remaining classics of Mr. Jin, "The Book and the Sword" and "The Deer and the Cauldron" will probably never appear in this dimension again. It is not appropriate to release "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" at this time, and what is shown in "Swordsman" does not conform to the main theme.
So, if you can’t copy Mr. Jin’s classics, then just copy Mr. Gu’s works.
"Hey! Cunzhi, don't habitually look at page 7. Here!" Qian Yiben angrily flipped the newspaper to pages 13, 14, 15, and 16: "Here! Li Sancai's publicly signed article! Four full pages!"
Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong leaned over and looked at it for only a short while before their faces changed.
In this long article, Li Sancai briefly but succinctly commented on the eight-part essays written by dozens of top scorers in the palace examinations during the more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination system.
This is not the main point. Li Sancai has been a Jinshi for more than 30 years. For decades, his main focus has been on being an official. He has long abandoned the eight-part essay. Therefore, his comments can only be concise and to the point. If he really wants to write a long article, he can't write it.
The fatal part is the back.
In his final conclusion, Li Sancai clearly pointed out that if you want to write eight-part essays well, you must first read more books and accumulate knowledge. In this way, you can quote allusions in the article easily and without awkwardness. The subtext of this statement is that it is useless to just look at writing skills. Without a large amount of reading and basic knowledge reserves, skills cannot be fully utilized. Secondly, unless an article is really too bad or too good, whether it can make you pass the imperial examination or become a Jinshi depends more on the examiner's subjective impression of the article. And the examiner's subjective impression is closely related to the current mainstream social atmosphere.
Then Li Sancai changed his tone and said that the recent serialized reviews of contemporary essays in Donglin Daily were excellent and would definitely help the scholars in their studies. However, it has been two months, and it is a bit rigid that Donglin Daily is still publishing the essays of the Jinshi during the Hongwu period. Our Ming Taizu is the founding emperor, so of course the publication of contemporary essays should start from the Hongwu period. However, if we are really responsible to the scholars, we should only symbolically publish a few contemporary essays from the Hongwu and Yongle periods. The focus should be on the contemporary essays from the Wanli period as soon as possible. Only in this way can the reference scholars have some understanding of the current style of writing, so that they can choose the right path and get the approval of the examiners as much as possible...
"Bang!" Gu Xiancheng slammed his hand on the stone table with all his strength. He didn't care about the pain in his palm and roared angrily: "Daofu, how could he do this? How could he do this?!"
"Uncle Shi, do you still have hope for that guy? It's obvious that he saw that we couldn't help him get into the cabinet, so he went to seek refuge with the Crown Prince! This article is his token of surrender!"
Seeing Qian Yiben reveal the essence of the matter , Gu Xiancheng trembled all over, then instantly broke out in sweat and fell down dejectedly.
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When the September 1 issue of Jinling Daily came out, not only did the Donglin gentlemen feel desperate, but it also caused huge ripples throughout Jiangnan and even other provinces of the Ming Dynasty.
"Hey! Donglin Daily! Hey! Donglin! Fortunately, I saved money and bought an annual subscription to Donglin Daily. I didn't expect that it would do such a cruel and misleading thing!"
"Uh... buddy, that's not what you said, right? Lord Li's article is very clear, saying that Donglin Daily has been commenting on and explaining the contemporary literature of the Hongwu Dynasty for more than two months, but it's just a bit rigid. It may have misled the students, but that was an unintentional mistake. How can the words "wolf-hearted and dog-hearted" be related to it?"
"Hey! Kid, you are still too young! Let me tell you. Lord Li used to be friends with those bastards from Donglin Academy, so he was kind when he spoke in the newspaper. Think about it, Lord Li, an outsider, can figure out the intricacies of this matter, so how could those newspaper editors from Donglin Academy not think of it? These bastards didn't want to help us improve our writing skills at all, but they had evil intentions from the beginning and wanted to lead us into a trap!"
"No way? Why would Donglin do this? We didn't provoke them."
"Humph, how come we didn't provoke them? The students of Donglin Academy are all children of officials and wealthy businessmen. How many commoners like us would study in Donglin for a long time? If they lure us into the trap, wouldn't their students have a greater chance of passing the imperial examinations and becoming Jinshi?"
"Ah? I see! This group of so-called gentlemen in Donglin Academy actually have such vicious intentions!"
"Yes! I didn't see it before, and I even paid 300 coins to subscribe to Donglin's newspaper for the whole year! Well, it's Sancai who has a conscience. He endured it for more than two months, and finally couldn't stand it anymore, so he resolutely stood up and exposed this conspiracy! Although this move may be suspected of betraying a friend, it is justified in the interests of justice!"
"This brother said it well! In my opinion, Mr. Sancai did not betray his friends at all. At most, he made the wrong friends. After discovering that these so-called gentlemen were all villains with wicked hearts and ruthless hearts, he quickly severed his friendship with them! Not only that, Mr. Sancai also adhered to the principle of 'a gentleman should not speak ill of others after breaking off a friendship'. He is still trying his best to exonerate Donglin in the newspapers! Mr. Sancai is really a modest gentleman with a righteous spirit!"
"Yes, yes, I have to thank Mr. Sancai and Jinling Daily for this."
"Yes, it is said that before the Donglin Daily was founded, it mobilized the Nanjing censors to impeach the editor-in-chief Zhang of the Jinling Daily, which almost destroyed the Jinling Daily. But after the Donglin Daily was founded, its distribution, fees, subscriptions, manuscript collection, and payment of royalties were all done through the Jinling Daily's channels. Hehehe! Donglin Daily and Donglin Academy are simply shameless!"
Starting from September 1st, it started in Nanjing, and then slowly spread to the surrounding prefectures and counties and even the nearby provincial governments. Similar remarks appeared in restaurants, teahouses, and other places where people gathered. At the beginning, there were indeed teachers from the Jinyiwei and Fangshan School who led such remarks. But later, public opinion in various places has spontaneously unified: Donglin Academy did this, firstly to compete for sales and make money. Second, it was to divert all the scholars in Jiangnan into a trap, so that students from Donglin Academy can pass the imperial examination!
Once the trend of public opinion was formed, no matter how Donglin struggled, it could not be reversed.
"Xizhi, are you going to abandon me as your master too?"
"Once a teacher, always a teacher. I have received so much from you, how dare I give up? But, but... Teacher, listen to what people are saying outside. They say that all the students of our Donglin Academy are trash, and they can't pass the imperial examination without some dirty tricks. This, this... Think about me, Zhang Wei, who started learning at the age of four and passed the boy's exam at the age of twelve. I am preparing to win the title of Jieyuan next year. How can I accept such slander? I am only leaving temporarily now. As long as the academy is still there, I will definitely return to it in the future."
"Hey, go ahead. I don't know how long this academy can last."
Since October, students have been dropping out of Donglin Academy one after another. The reasons they gave were all kinds of strange , but the real reason was just one: I can't afford to lose this person!
At the same time, requests to cancel the subscription to Donglin Daily also flooded into Donglin Academy through Fangshan grocery stores in various places. The sales of the entire Donglin Daily plummeted. By December 3 of that year, the sales of the entire newspaper fell below 300!
On December 5, Donglin Daily officially announced: Because the editor-in-chief, responsible editors and others are all ill, the newspaper will be temporarily suspended!
At this point, Zhu Youdong won a complete victory for the Jinling Daily and thereby gained the right to guide public opinion among the broad urban class and a small number of farmers!
