Chapter 257 Mohist School, It All Depends on You
"Everyone."

Before I saw the person, I heard his voice first.

The important figures of various families in the court who were originally sitting and drinking tea hesitated for a moment, then stood up and looked towards the door.

Zhou Tieyi, a tall man with a face between a teenager and a young man, strode in wearing a scarlet official robe and thick-soled black boots. As he walked, he raised his hand to salute, looking free and easy, and the smile on his face seemed to retain the spring sunshine of March.

You are in the prime of your life and full of vigor and vitality.

Many big shots commented in their hearts.

Zhou Tieyi didn't wait for everyone to return the greeting, and walked to the main seat, "Everyone, please take a seat."

He did not wait for the important figures who were two ranks higher than him to take their seats, but sat down first.

Unparalleled power.

The big shots added another sentence in their hearts.

After everyone sat down again, Zhou Tieyi spoke again, "You all came here to buy a steam printing press, right?"

Liu Zhengmao, the Right Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Elephants, was a member of the Yin-Yang School. He was the first to speak, "That's right..."

Zhou Tieyi didn't wait for Liu Zhengmao to speak, and continued, "You can buy this steam printing machine at the Railway Chamber of Commerce at a normal price."

No one smiled easily. They knew Zhou Tieyi's character. To buy a steam printing machine at such a simple price, no one knew how much the hidden cost would be.

Many costs cannot be simply measured in money. For example, in order to publish the Legal Daily, Si Lu Qingkonggui not only agreed with the Legalists to use vernacular Chinese, "betrayed" Confucianism, helped Zhou Tieyi bear the pressure from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Revenue in the court, and implemented luxury taxes, but was also said to be willing to "translate" the Great Xia Tian Constitution...

Many of their schools cannot even afford these costs!
"However, the machine is produced by the Railway Chamber of Commerce, but the Zhou family needs to charge a patent fee, which is not expensive. One third-grade treasure is produced every three years, with no restrictions on the use or type. As long as it is a complete and usable third-grade treasure, it will be fine."

Zhou Tieyi's exorbitant request did not surprise anyone present at all.

You have to know that after three hundred years of accumulation by the Zhou family, excluding consumption, there are only more than twenty third-grade spiritual objects in the treasure house, which shows how rare third-grade spiritual objects are.

As soon as Zhou Tieyi opened his mouth, the Zhou family would receive at least ten third-grade spiritual objects in three years.

Liu Zhengmao pondered for a moment, "Do those merchants need to pay for the patent? Of course, it's not that we don't want to pay for the patent, but the price is a bit expensive. Can we use a fourth-grade spiritual object..."

Zhou Tieyi sneered, "Everyone knows the purpose of your coming here, and I don't want to waste your time. You and I know what the steam printing press means to your schools. For a school, a steam printing press is not just a newspaper. It can also reduce the price of ordinary books, which is beneficial to the spread of your Taoism. And it only cost one third-grade spiritual object in three years. Zhou is already very kind."

"Is there a way to explain the Daotong matter below the third rank?"

Zhou Tieyi looked at the others and continued, "Besides, if you are unwilling to give, I am afraid that some schools are willing to give. By then, your orthodoxy will decline, be suppressed, or even expelled from the court. Don't say I didn't warn you."

The Taoist traditions present now are all prominent schools, but this may not be the case in the future.

There are examples of the diplomats who are among the top nine families being expelled from the court, and the other families are unwilling to lose their power in the court.

In particular, newspapers are obviously meant to be published all over the world, and this also represents the power of the world's discourse.

This is just like an arms race. If you don't increase your investment, your strength will be weakened in disguise, and the weak will have no way to ensure the inheritance of their own tradition.

The Taoists are the richest and most powerful, and are also the most powerful supporters of the Zhou family. Just as Zhou Tieyi finished speaking, Taoist Shan Jing, a third-rank Taoist official in the Ministry of Taoism, smiled and said, "That's indeed the truth. For matters of the Taoist tradition, a third-rank spiritual object every three years is not expensive."

Everyone looked at Taoist Shan Jing with some resentment, but Taoist Shan Jing was wearing purple clothes and looked calm and composed. Zhou Tieyi was destined to join their Taoist sect and become their Taoist successor, so this was certainly not expensive...

Just as Taoist Shan Jing was thinking this, the monk Zhengde said, "It is indeed not expensive. If the Taoists can afford it, we Buddhists can certainly afford it too. If Donor Zhou is willing, we Buddhists can pay more."

Taoist Shan Jing glared at Monk Zhengde, "What do you mean?"

Monk Zhengde and Taoist Shanjing served in the same court, and they had been used to quarreling with each other. "I am just talking about the orthodoxy of Taoism, and I have no other intentions. Why? Taoists are always so overbearing, and only allow themselves to bid, and not allow others to bid?"

Zhou Tieyi was afraid that the two would fight here and affect his business, so he said, "You two, let's talk about the matter at hand."

Taoist Shan Jing snorted coldly and looked at Zhou Tieyi with a slightly resentful look. How could the treasure grown in his own field be coveted by a thief outside, and the treasure was even flirting with the thief.

Zhou Tieyi did not meet Taoist Shan Jing's gaze and continued to look at Liu Zhengmao.

Liu Zhengmao sighed. The Yin-Yang family could afford the price, but there was one thing they had to fight for. "Can we publish a newspaper in classical Chinese?"

Ancient Chinese and modern Chinese are concepts that have only recently appeared in Tianjing.

Wang Mingyi and Zhang San used the past to change the present, and proposed the idea of ​​ancient Chinese literature that literature can convey the truth. They published the "New Learning", which had a certain foundation among students. In particular, the reward of a thousand gold coins for one article and the reputation that surpassed Zhou Tieyi made ancient Chinese literature spring up like mushrooms after rain. If it were in the past, the literati in Tianjing would naturally criticize the "New Learning" and ancient Chinese literature, and even kill them.

But compared with Zhou Tieyi's modern text, the ancient text does not seem so difficult to accept. In addition, the minister Dong Xingshu set the tone and let the chief academic Zhang Shizhong supervise it. A third-rank Confucian leader can still ward off many demons and monsters.

Not all traditions are suitable for vernacular writing...

Yin-Yang School is a rare Taoist school that is suitable for classical Chinese but not for vernacular Chinese.

Moreover, Zhou Tieyi had never thought of completely replacing or destroying classical Chinese. Instead, as in his own era, he used vernacular Chinese as the main language, absorbed the essence of classical Chinese, and used classical Chinese as a cultural heritage to enrich the diversity of civilization.

"of course can."

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "It's everyone's own idea to run a newspaper. You can use whatever text you want and write whatever article you want."

Although Zhou Tieyi's words sounded strange, everyone couldn't help but smile as they got the desired result. The medical school, Gongshu school, Mohist school and others naturally followed suit and agreed to Zhou Tieyi's "patent fee".

Zhou Tieyi also smiled and looked at the people in front of him. It was really good to kill two birds with one stone.

There are hundreds of newspapers, you can write whatever you want, but if you do so, there is a high probability that the newspaper will be in trouble. If the time comes, it will not be my fault whether the Emperor of Daxia allows you to write in this way or not.

Although Zhou Tieyi took the initiative to separate the power of the newspaper in order to appease the Emperor of Daxia, this was only a temporary expedient.

He has a complete plan to take back this authority completely.

If the Three Officials or even the Empress only saw their right to speak in the Tianjing News and wanted to compete with me for power in a newspaper, they would be making a big mistake.

Zhou Tieyi thought happily, "My way of taking back the newspaper's right to speak must require His Majesty the Great Xia to take the initiative and willingly hand it over to me, otherwise no one else can do these things well now."

The first step is naturally to let all the newspapers start publishing newspapers. Once there are too many newspapers and there is no supervision, who knows what will be written? If those ignorant newspapers fall into the desk of the Great Xia Emperor, it will be a lively scene.

Zhou Tieyi couldn't help but look at the Minister of Works, Mo Qu.

Mohist School, you have been strengthened, and it all depends on you to take the lead!

Otherwise, newspapers published by other small sects would not allow the Great Xia Saint to make up his mind to supervise them.

Mo Qu had a keen sense. When Zhou Tieyi looked at him, his heart skipped a beat and he looked back.

Since the Zhou family has the support of Gongshujia, they will be relatively alienated from the Mohist school, especially since the steam engine tradition is in the hands of Gongshu Sheng. When he came today, Mo Qu was actually prepared to be troubled alone. Unexpectedly, Zhou Tieyi was just like the rumors. Every move was unexpected, but with hidden meanings.

When they looked at each other, Zhou Tieyi did not look away guiltily, but smiled and said, "Of course, if you have any questions about running a newspaper, feel free to come to me. This is considered after-sales service and is free of charge."

We spent three years and a half to get this authority of speech at the price of a third-grade spiritual item. How can we possibly give it back to you and let you "guide" it?
Everyone thought so in their hearts, but laughed it off, "Thank you, Inspector Zhou, for your concern."

Zhou Tieyi nodded slightly, like an old farmer looking at the vegetable seedlings planted in the field.

A newspaper’s right to speech?

No, I want them all!
As he had to supervise all the newspapers published by various schools of thought, Zhou Tieyi found the power so great that he felt excited just thinking about it.

What's even more exciting is that it's not me, Zhou Tieyi, who has to bear the blame for offending all the schools of thought, but the Emperor of Daxia who has taken the initiative to do so. Such good things don't happen every day.

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On the other hand, when Uncle Qing led the small flags and the general flags to visit Jiao Guoping of the warehouse, Jiao Guoping personally led everyone to start collecting the "subsidy".

Pills, weapons, silver, and even clothes...

As the subsidies were distributed one by one, Uncle Qing was stunned. "Dean Jiao, we just arrived and we can get so many subsidies? We are just continuing our studies..."

Jiao Guoping smiled and said, "Of course there weren't so many subsidies before, but it's different now... This is all what Lord Zhou fought for for everyone."

Jiao Guoping looked at the other small flags and the general flag, "If you have the ability to stay at the headquarters, there will be more benefits, including the opportunity to enter the secret realms such as Bingzhong."

The flag officers breathed slightly faster, this was the main purpose of their coming to Tianjing.

Then Jiao Guoping changed the subject, "Of course, you all have to understand what you should take and what you shouldn't take. Lord Zhou has fought for a lot for everyone, so just eat at home, don't beg for food outside like a stray dog."

Uncle Qing thought about the performance of the clerk today and suddenly realized that the God-Slaying Division had really changed.

(End of this chapter)