Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 1073 Editorial
People don't understand the meaning of "weekly". Datang does not have the time unit of "week", but the news from the inside of Jingzhao Mansion says that Jingzhao Yin Fangjun publishes this newspaper every seven days.

If you lose five hundred guan, it will be [-] guan in a month, and [-] guan in a year...

But this number seems huge to ordinary people, and the gap with Fang Jun's business of tens of millions is really disproportionate. Everyone can only curse inwardly: You are really rich and willful!
Willful?

Fang Jun didn't think so.

Because this is far from the scale of "Zhenguan Weekly" he expected. As early as years ago, a set of printed movable type was transported to all cities in Datang with Fangjia business stationed in the Tang Dynasty, and then a newspaper office would be established in each city. The "Zhenguan Weekly" will be published nationwide.

It was originally estimated that he would increase the circulation of "Zhenguan Weekly" to [-] copies nationwide!

According to estimates from people in Chang'an, Fang Jun will lose a huge sum of 30 to [-] guan every year...

In fact this is naturally impossible.

The cost of bamboo paper is far less expensive than rumored by the outside world, and people have not realized the convenience and low cost of movable type printing.In fact, the cost of "Zhenguan Weekly" is only about five cents. Fang Jun has a lot of ways to make it a sharp weapon to manipulate the direction of public opinion, and at the same time, it has also become a magic weapon for making money...

Of course, compared with Kong Yingda's article, no one cares about money anymore.

This is an era of jealousy and lack of knowledge, and an era of extremely slow information dissemination. Reading is basically based on copying. A book annotated by a great Confucianist will easily become a family heirloom, unless it is a direct descendant. read...

Confucian scholars in Guanzhong are all competing to study, which has led to a jaw-dropping phenomenon-Luoyang paper is expensive!
The "Zhenguan Weekly" on the market, after a morning of doubts, puzzles, and onlookers, quickly became popular after people discovered Kong Yingda's article. All the newspapers that could be collected were snapped up by aristocratic families and even poor students.

Those who did not get the newspaper would even bring two catties of cooked meat and a jar of old wine to the homes of relatives and friends to borrow excerpts...

The phrase "the people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation of the country is peaceful" comes from "Shangshu·Song of the Five Sons".This lyrics is an article written by Dayu's five grandsons recalling the emperor's admonitions and expressing their resentment during their exile. Bunning."

It means that our grandfather once taught us: people can be close, but not belittle and rude.The people are the foundation of the country, and when the people are stable, the monarchy will be stable, and the world will be peaceful.

Although this training is not necessarily all Xia Yu's original words, it is very likely that it was fabricated by folk scholars and spread through the mouth of sages, but it does reflect the earliest people-oriented thought in ancient China.

In the article, Kong Yingda expounded in detail the meaning and influence of "the people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation of the country is peaceful".

During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, it was the people-centered thought shrouded in the theory of "mandate of heaven", which belonged to the type of "mandate of heaven obeying the destiny of the people".The ruler believes that the monarchy is given by the mandate of heaven, but the mandate of heaven is in accordance with the will of the people. If the ruler does not care about the power of the people and does not practice virtue, the mandate of heaven will be transferred to the new monarch according to the will of the people.

For example, the three articles of "Song of Five Sons", "Tang Oath" and "Tai Oath" in "Shangshu" represent the people-oriented thoughts of Xia Yu, Shang Tang, and Zhou Wu.

Shang Tang said in the "Tang Oath" of the crime of attacking Xia Jie: "There are many crimes in Xia, and the fate kills them. Today, there are many people, and you said: 'I will not sympathize with my people, give up my business, and cut Zhengxia 'I only heard that Ru said that the Xia family was guilty, and I feared God and dared not be wrong." King Wu of Zhou said in the "Oath of Tai" against King Zhou of Shang: "Heaven sees itself and the people see it, and the sky listens to the people and the people listen to it. I have done it before, and I am giving it to one person. Now I will go."

It is precisely because the ruler understands that the destiny of heaven follows the destiny of the people, so the ruler has the idea of ​​matching heaven with virtue.In particular, the rulers of the "Small Country Zhou" summed up historical lessons from the demise of the "Great Country Shang" and further developed the people-oriented thought of the Xia and Shang Dynasties.

For example, "Shangshu Zhoushu Cai Zhongzhi Ming" said: "The emperor has no relatives, but virtue is the assistant. The hearts of the people are impermanent, but the bosom of benefits." The destiny does not distinguish between closeness and estrangement, and it only assists the virtuous king.The hearts of the people are also impermanent, and they only belong to the self-loving king.

This has also become the source of the "people-oriented" thought of Confucianism in later generations.

In the article, Kong Yingda cites a lot of references and brilliant pens, expounding in detail the concept of people's livelihood, and seeing all the students, Confucian scholars, officials and aristocrats fascinated, and reflect deeply.

Even the people who could read a few words applauded.

Kong Yingda, a great Confucian in the present age, speaks for the people of the world again, how can he not applaud him?

All of a sudden, the influence of "Zhenguan Weekly" was greatly enhanced.

And the aristocratic family members are also vigilant about Fang Jun's movements when they are savoring the inner meaning and off-topic meaning of this "editorial".But what surprised them was that Fang Jun seemed to put all his heart and soul into this "Zhenguan Weekly", and didn't pay any attention to Yuan's case...

What the hell is this kid doing?
Could it be that the forces of the Fear and Yuan Clan have died down?

Or even if you are a prodigal, you still have to show a unique style, and you have to make a bunch of flowers to win a round of applause?
But no matter how everyone guessed, Fang Jun just didn't move at all...

A week later, the second issue of "Zhenguan Weekly" arrived as scheduled.

There is no need to remind the focus this time. People who buy newspapers will first look at the "editorial" on the main page.

This time the lead writer was not Kong Yingda, but his reputation was not bad at all!
Contemporary Great Confucianism, Doctor of Imperial Studies, Jia Gongyan!

This person's ancestral home is Yongnian, Tangzhou.He is not only a scholar of Confucianism, Confucian classics, but also a scholar of "Three Rites".
Jia Gongyan is proficient in "Three Rites". Not only is he responsible for compiling "Zhou Li Yi Shu", but he also selects twelve volumes of Zheng Xuan's annotated edition, compiles and summarizes the classics of various families, and expands it into fifty volumes of "Yi Shu", which is modeled on "Yi Shu" in style. Pentateuch Justice. "Yi Li Yi Shu" was also compiled by this public, using the Shu of Huang Qing in the Northern Qi Dynasty and Li Mengyu in the Sui Dynasty, and determined it as the current version, according to Zheng Xuan's notes.

If it is only about the number of works, it is still above Kong Yingda!
And Jia Gongyan's "editorial" is called "Virtue is good governance, and government is to support the people"...

This sentence comes from "Shangshu-Yushu Dayu Mo".

Its original intention is to say that good politics is good politics, and the ultimate goal of politics is to nurture the people.

However, its purpose is to disseminate the ideas of "the monarch is based on the people" and "the country is based on the people". This is the theme that began with Confucius and Mencius and ran through the entire feudal era.

The article states that in the era of Confucius and Mencius and the era of autocratic monarchy more than 2000 years after the Qin and Han Dynasties, although there was still the influence of the "Mandate of Heaven" theory of "monarch power granted by heaven", the importance of the power of the people was clearly emphasized in the relationship between the monarch and the people and the relationship between the people. effect.

Confucius put forward ideological propositions such as "the benevolent man is human", "the benevolent man loves others", "government depends on people", "government is based on virtue", "the people cannot be established without trust", "cultivate oneself to love the people", and established the Confucian tradition of people-oriented thought .Mencius further put forward the propositions that "the people are the most important, the society is second, and the emperor is the least" and "the one who wins the people is the son of heaven", which formed the benevolent government thought tradition of "the people are more important than the emperor" in later generations.

Mencius praised Tang Wu's revolution, saying that Tang Wu's killing of Jie and Zhou was "killing a man". Dong Zhongshu put forward the proposition that "there is a way to punish the innocence, and this is the law of heaven", which shows the revolutionary nature of the Confucian tradition of people-oriented thought, that is, those who lose their morality are punished by the people. The rationale for overthrowing and changing the dynasty.

The article is colorful, rigorous and clean, and every word is cardinal and penetrating.

Many people figured out the taste...

From "the people are the foundation of the state, and the state is stable" to "virtue is good governance, and the government is to support the people", this seems to be a bit of a blunt transition. The political trend since Meng, but the two have a common subject-people-oriented!
The Tang Dynasty fought in all directions, although the martial arts were invincible, but the old wounds left by the turmoil in the last years of the Sui Dynasty had not healed, and new wounds were added after many years of military conquests, and the population was far behind the speed of development.

The two editorials of "Zhenguan Weekly" just fit the current social situation, and immediately resonated with people of insight from all walks of life.For a time, everyone in Guanzhong preached the idea of ​​"people-oriented", hoping that the emperor would encourage fertility and the empire would prosper...

An unprecedented trend of emphasizing population life was quickly stirred up by these two articles, and gradually became a trend!
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