Because the Jinyiwei received the instructions from above, he let the behavior of these non-Donglin scholars gathered in front of the Censorate to curse the Donglin Party, and only appeared in the evening.

The Donglin officials in the Censorate were also helpless about this.

In the end, they gradually got used to the insults of the Donglin Scholars outside to their Donglin Party.

As a result, more and more civil servants who had no good feelings for the Donglin Party began to attract Fang Shihong, because anyone with discerning eyes knew that the Jinyiwei was standing on the side of the Fang family's son, so he naturally knew that the power of the Fang family was the largest in the court at present.

Therefore, more and more civil servants began to help Fang Shihong foul the Donglin Party, and then published a book called "The Scandals of the Donglin People", which exposed the scandals done by some scholars and officials of the Donglin Party, such as ash, adultery, prostitutes, etc., and promoted them everywhere.

Many neutral or unwilling to form cliques began to read this book interestingly and read it one after another.

Even the people in the streets, even soldiers and nobles knew about some of the scandals of the Donglin Party, and felt that the Donglin Party was not a gentleman.

For a time, the reputation of the Donglin Party became very bad in the capital.

Finally, the Grand Secretary Han Yu, the Minister of Rites Sun Ruyou, and the Minister of Personnel Li Ruhua and other important officials of the court could not bear it anymore, so they could not help but find Fang Congzhe to talk about this.

"Yuan Fu, now all kinds of demonic books appear in the market, such as "The Disclosure of the National Affairs of the Donglin Party" and "The Criticism of the Scandals of the People in Donglin", it is said that they were all caused by Ling Zi's secret manipulation. Don't you plan to take care of it?"

Han asked because of this.

"If you want to talk about Donglin forming a party for personal gain, I think that those who criticize Donglin like this will be considered as forming a party for personal gain! If this continues, it will not only damage the image of Donglin but the image of my entire stern. How can future generations still view us as stern officials? Master, it is too much to let me do this! We must stop it!"

Sun Ruyou also started to say so.

Fang Congzhe pretended to be angry and said, "You should mention the rebellious son to the servant. Now I want to beat him to death! And the scribes around him are all shameless and try hard to tinker with this. I originally wanted to imprison the rebellious son without seeing outsiders. I guess what those scribes said, secretly saying that I abused my son and said that the tiger poison would not eat the son. But I not only broke my son's legs but also imprisoned my son like a prisoner. Listen, I was not even as good as beasts by them!"

Fang Congzhe sighed and said, "It's hard for me now! I'm not a human inside and outside! Do you think it's a servant who is secretly instigating his son to do this? No! Although I am mediocre and incompetent, I don't want to see the court fall into a party dispute. I saw that my scholars and officials are so uncoherent, but there are some things that I can't do. I broke my son's legs, and someone came to me to find my son!"

Han Du, Sun Ruyou and others complained to Fang Congzhe and didn't know what to say.

For a moment, Han Yu had to propose to him: "But we can't let this matter go. It's better for us to submit a memorial to Your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to snatch this matter."

"Yes, we can't let these evil books and evil words be circulated like this on the market. If they are passed on like this, the image of those people in Donglin will be really ruined, and this will also affect His Majesty's view of all our civil servants."

Sun Ru lobbled.

"Then I will submit a memorial to Your Majesty."

Fang Congzhe nodded and replied.

Therefore, two cabinet assistant ministers, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites jointly submitted a memorial to Zhu Youxiao to report the matter and asked the emperor to personally rule on the matter.

Zhu Youxiao said, "I have approved of this matter and sent an order to Fang Shihong to come to the palace to see me."

"Abide by the order!"

Wei Zhongxian replied.

Next, Zhu Youxiao met Fang Shihong in the Ganqing Palace.

Because of his inconvenience in legs and feet, Zhu Youjian also waived his great gift and asked: "The Revealing of the National Affairs of the Donglin Party and the "Records of the Scandals of the People in Donglin" are all these things that you are secretly fiddling with?"

"I dare not deceive Your Majesty! I have all arranged for my own book shop."

Fang Shihong replied.

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Not bad! You are very good at organizing a group of people to do such things, but this kind of thing cannot be done by the people of the people. It must be done by the court, to build momentum for the court's new policies and to contribute to the court's education of the scholars and the people. I decided to set up a Chongwen Temple, and the officials of the Chongwen Temple Minister and Shaoqing, who are responsible for the distribution of books and newspapers in the world;

If books and articles on disclosure without the registration and authorization of Chongwen Temple shall not be circulated on the market, Chongwen Temple may have the right to search for relevant books on violations and articles on disclosure;

I decided to give Chongwen Temple a quota of 700 people, with Jinyiwei as the chief quota of 500 places, responsible for the search of relevant prohibited book shops. Two hundred places are all the literati who recruited people to work for Chongwen Temple, and all the 7th ranks were established;

You should first serve as the Minister of Chongwen Temple, a third-rank official, and be fully responsible for this matter. You may do it well?"

Fang Shihong was overjoyed after hearing this. He could understand that this meant that he had to control the review of books and articles in the world for the court. There was a lot of power space to operate here, which was undoubtedly more conducive to his control of those literati and doctors who were against him.

Therefore, Fang Shihong hurriedly said, "I thank Your Majesty for your kindness! I will definitely not let Your Majesty down!"

“That’s what it’s decided!

In addition, I will allocate 200,000 taels of treasury to you as most of the funds for setting up Chongwen Stores in major towns in the two capitals and thirteen provinces. Your own family and others can pay more, and the future income of the store is based on the proportion of the investment;

Among them, what I paid will account for. In the future, the Chongwen Bookstore will be an official bookstore, and will take out one to two percent of the profits to expand the business scale of the Chongwen Bookstore;

I will ask some officials to sell some important documents such as excellent articles in the imperial examination, and only allow Chongwen Store to sell them, and have the right to issue and ban them. Therefore, Chongwen Store can make a lot of money in the future. You should understand that this is undoubtedly the wealth I have given to you by the Fang family, but if you do not do it well, I will take back this wealth;

Also, Chongwen Temple belongs to me directly. I will give you a token and you can go directly to the Ganqing Palace to ask me for my experience and report to me the latest situation of Chongwen Temple in controlling the culture and education of the Daming Dynasty. This matter is related to the world's cultural context and cannot be ignored."

Zhu Youxiao continued to talk.

He had long decided to set up a cultural institution to control the distribution and publication of books in the world, and to use Fang Shihong's son as the son of the prime minister to recruit a group of literati as the basis of this institution, namely Chongwen Temple, which was a solution he had long thought of.

After all, as the emperor, Zhu Youxiao himself would definitely not be able to directly surrender his nobles to recruit literati, which would make the literati too proud, think he is very great, be favored by the emperor, and thus become more domineering.

In addition, although the Hanlin Academy of the Ming Dynasty was a gathering place for the emperor's imperial literati, the Hanlin Academy has become a place for cultivating and preserving ministers. Therefore, the civil servants of the Hanlin Academy are very noble and will not easily be willing to control the literati for the emperor.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao did not have the energy to take charge of this matter personally.

Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Zhongxian to send people from the Dongchang to instigate Fang Shihong to secretly make friends with scholars, he decided to use the literati who Fang Shihong made friends with to build an institution that controls the world's literati, and let Fang Shihong do it for him, because he discovered that Fang Shihong's identity and his ability to communicate made it easy for him to attract a group of literati, for example, he did a good job of slandering the Donglin Party this time.

"I obey the order!"

Fang Shihong replied.

"Chongwen Temple not only cares about the publication of books and newspaper articles in the world, but also continues to control public opinion in the world. This time, the scandal of some Donglin officials can make the people of the world know more clearly who is the one who serves 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 be loyal to me! And I decided to reform and eliminate the disadvantages. First, to ensure and increase the treasury income and make up for the deficit. Therefore, you must serve this purpose. Therefore, I ask you to give out the Liao salary first and criticize the former Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Li Ruhua, saying that his suggestion to levy Liao salary was a bad policy of the Ming Dynasty, and used this to force Li Ruhua to agree to the court to implement the examination and the pursuit of the tax and clear the land and land!"
Chapter completed!