Although newspapers are rare in the north, Zhu Youjian and Yang Sichang occasionally read the newspaper, they couldn't put them down and ordered Kuaima to hand over newspapers from the south to the capital as their first-hand information for understanding the dynamics of the south.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian and Yang Sichang's verbal war between the Donglin Party and Jingzhou was as clear as the fire.

When Zhu Youjian saw Jingzhou, a gambling journal published in the Journal of Yushan, he mentioned that Jingzhou's annual income reached 14 million yuan because of opening a casino, and almost vomited blood.

Grandma, as the lord of the nine fives, I have endured countless infamous, taxes, taxes, and taxes. The annual income of the court has barely reached 27 million, while Lin Xiaosan’s income has reached 14 million by opening a casino.

How can you bear the love? How can you bear the love?

If I had known this, I would have opened the casino all over the Ming Dynasty without raising taxes. What about Lin Xiaosan and the bullshit Tartars?

With an impulse, Zhu Youjian wanted to order the opening of a casino immediately to solve the difficulties in financial planning. But Zhu Youjian was the magistrate of the nineteenth century and was calm at least. He knew that educating the people was the responsibility of the court, and following the teachings of Confucius and Mencius was the foundation of the country. If he wanted to openly set up a casino, it would be a matter of shaking the foundation of the country. I am afraid that the money would be even if it was not collected by the time the money would be drowned by the spit of the whole world.

However, Zhu Youjian has always been trapped in money and grain. Once he finds a shortcut to making money, he always thinks about this matter in his heart.

A few days later, Zhu Youjian read the arguments about the pros and cons of centralized gambling management published in the Yangzhou Times, and he felt very convinced and his intention to set up a casino became lively again.

After thinking about it, Zhu Youjian was reluctant to give up this way of making money, and he was unwilling to be criticized. So he secretly ordered Zhang Yixian to secretly set up a casino in Nanjing through a third party to test the depth of the water and put the income into his treasury.

Zhang Yixian stayed in Nanjing for several years, making outstanding contributions to Zhu Youjian's treasury and finding a convenient way to make a fortune. Zhang Yixian deals with Dayuan and copper coins every day, and has extraordinary insight into money and grain. At the same time, relying on the coin workshop in Nanjing, he has also cultivated a considerable force and is one of the best figures in Nanjing.

After receiving the order to prosecute Zhu You, Zhang Yixian was overjoyed. Now, he added another way to make money.

Zhang Yixian has a group of loyal and reliable minions under him, and his efficiency is high. In a short time, he built the casino shelves through the third person Ma Zhi and officially started business.

When Jingzhou and the Donglin Party were in a serious trouble due to the casino incident, Mazhi Casino went against the trend and opened its business. Both the Donglin Party and Jingzhou were shocked and fell into a brief burst of noise.

On the surface, there was a silence, but undercurrents were surging in the mainland. The Donglin Party and Jingzhou both mobilized elite soldiers and generals to investigate Ma Zhi's background.

However, Zhang Yixian has been engaged in secret spy work for many years, and there is obviously a way to counter-reconnaissance. The Donglin Party and Jingzhou have been verified for many days, but they have found nothing. In a short period of time, no one can understand where the horse art came from.

The Donglin Party could no longer help but publish a public article, accusing Jingzhou of blocking people's eyes and setting up a casino in Nanjing through a third party. Jingzhou side turned against it, saying that the Donglin Party was attracted by the casino's profits and did not hesitate to slap itself in the mouth and openly set up a casino.

The battle between the two sides was in a stalemate and there was no chance of a winner. However, Ma Zhi's lower tap and one-stop service in the casino attracted many wealthy businesses and wealthy people to spend a lot of money and their business became more and more prosperous.

The business of underground casinos plummeted, and as a result, the gambling industry in Nanjing saw the light and officially changed from underground to above ground.

This situation is more or less strange.

In the end, even the most dullest general in the Donglin Party realized that the people were tired of continuing to verbally fight, and if they continued to verbally, they would not get any advantage except being disgusting. Jingzhou also had this view, so a verb war gradually came to an end.

What surprised the Donglin Party members was that they had worked hard to prevent the number of casinos from continuing to increase. Not only did Jingzhou set up casinos in the controlled warehouses, but even Ma Zhi became more and more brave and set up branch sites in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Huzhou and other places.

A crushing defeat, a complete crushing defeat! The Donglin Party members were so angry that they were almost vomiting blood. After a war of verbal battle, the casinos bloomed everywhere in Jiangnan. What was it not a crushing defeat?

It was not until a year later that the Donglin Party members had a long investigation that they discovered that behind Ma Zhi was the emperor. Even the emperor was attracted by the casino's heavy profits, let alone the gentry within the Donglin Party. Therefore, the Donglin Party members also began to set up casinos to obtain heavy profits. The casino finally moved from underground to ground and was officially accepted by the entire Ming Dynasty.

This is a later story, so I won't mention it for now.

When the smoke of gunpowder in the casino was not over, the Huqiu exchange meeting was near. At the suggestion of Du Yinxi, Qu Shixi and Qian Qianyi contacted Lou Dong in advance to discuss countermeasures.

Both Zhang and Zhang of Loudong, Qu Shisi and Qian Qianyi agreed that, given the increasing influence of the ideology, Tang Wenjie would inevitably take advantage of the situation to promote the ideology, use the ideology to shake the foundation of Confucianism, so as to lay the foundation for Jingzhou to hold on to the idea and prepare for Jingzhou to eventually replace the Ming Dynasty.

All four of them believed that the theory of thinking and dialect took a different approach, with profound principles and could not be refuted in a short period of time. In addition, most Confucian classics use quotation records, so loopholes are inevitable and they are easily targeted for attack.

The more attacks are, the more people will be skeptical. In the end, the dominance of Confucianism will inevitably be shaken. At that time, when Lin Chunhong wanted to replace the Ming Dynasty was just a matter of one sentence.

Once the matter reaches the height of life and death of the country, it suddenly becomes noble. All four of them feel that they are fighting against a person who is trying to conspire toward the usurper and regard themselves as the guardian saint of the Ming Dynasty.

The four immediately organized capable people and studied the theory carefully, hoping to use the way of others to cure others, so that Jingzhou could suffer the consequences and give up the conspiracy to plot against the Ming Dynasty.

At the end of June, the Tiger Hill Exchange Conference officially opened. Both sides were well prepared and were full of confidence. They were looking forward to hitting one blow and killing one blow.

All major newspapers sent specialists to stay in Huqiu to turn the latest news into text immediately. Many scholars were fine, but when they saw that the exchange meetings of Huqiu became more and more turbulent, they also ran to Huqiu to watch the fun.

Therefore, the Huqiu Exchange Conference was different from Gu Shan’s lectures from the beginning, attracting countless attention and being very lively.

Everyone was watching. Just as everyone was looking forward to a fierce confrontation, Tang Wenjie calmly raised an issue: the earth is spherical, not the traditional cognition of the sky and the earth.

The scene was quiet and a brief sound was lost. Then, the scholars were upset and the impatient cursed: "Is the earth round or square? Is it related to my ball? I am here to see the quarrel!"

Indeed, as the Ming Dynasty had more and more contacts with the outside world, some Western knowledge and views gradually spread to the Ming Dynasty. Most of the scholars here were hunting widely and had contacted the view that the earth was spherical from various channels. However, most of these scholars regarded this matter as a strange theory, and after reading it, they threw it aside and never thought deeply.

Now, Tang Wenjie's side proposed such strange and strange theory at such a serious exchange meeting. What was the matter? The scholars were suspicious and were even more curious about the exchange, and almost no one left early.

Even though there was a noisy in the venue, the gentleman from Xingzhishu Hall described some phenomena in an orderly manner, such as looking at the sea boat by the sea, he always first saw the mast top and then slowly saw the entire hull.

In recent years, more and more sea boats have been shipped, and more and more people have gone out to sea. Everyone is familiar with this and recognizes this phenomenon.

Immediately afterwards, the gentleman asked why he stood on a high mountain, even with the help of a telescope, he could only see the horizon, but not see further. This scholar was vague and did not know the authenticity for a while.

The gentleman still kept resting and proposed an observation fact: in Guangzhou, the sun can shine at the bottom of the well every summer solstice, which shows that during the summer solstice, the sun is just above Guangzhou. However, when you pass Guangzhou north, you cannot be reached by the sun at the bottom of the well.

Based on these three phenomena, Mr. made a bold assumption, assuming that the earth is spherical.

After making this assumption, Mr. Draw the earth into a circle and easily found the reason for these phenomena!

Mr. Summary: The earth is spherical, and we can call it the earth in the future!

The gentleman was still dissatisfied and boldly inferred based on the assumption that the earth was a sphere: If a person keeps walking west, no matter how much time he spends, he will definitely be able to return to his original place!

The details of the first day of the Tiger Hill Exchange Conference were immediately published by the Yangzhou Times, and the article written by Song Yingxing himself was also published: General Research Methods for the Study of Things and Knowledge.

Song Yingxing proposed that to study phenomena in nature, we can boldly make assumptions. If the assumptions can explain the causes of some phenomena and the inferences made based on the assumptions can also be proved to be correct, we think that the assumptions are correct.

Song Yingxing combined the hypothesis that the earth is spherical and explained in detail the research methods of natural phenomena. Finally, he proposed that if a person can really return to his original place, then the earth is a sphere, called the earth!

Once the news came out, the public opinion community was in a big uproar, and I wonder what Jingzhou was trying to do.

Such exchange meetings are nothing! Could it be that Fushe and the Donglin Party quoted classics and proved that the sky was round and the place was circulated according to ancient books. Wouldn't that laugh at people's big teeth?

It can be expected that the Huqiu Exchange Conference became a one-man show in Jingzhou, and Loudong and Zhang became a child care in Jingzhou!
Chapter completed!