My Daming New Empire

It has two responsibilities, one is to take charge of the compilation of operas all over the world, arrange operas, collect folk songs, and supervise the Jiaofang Division.This responsibility is not a big deal. As the son of the prince of Zhou, he is still somewhat overqualified.

However, Supervising the Jiaofang Division is also a position that is easy to make connections and lucrative.Because those criminal officials who want to be expelled in the future have to go through him.

Moreover, he is also in charge of the world's publications, and the publishing of novels, this power is astonishing, because it is equivalent to controlling the channels for scholars all over the world to publish books and become famous.

When he said which book could be published, it could be published, and he didn't nod, even if the "Yan Sheng Gong" mansion wanted to publish a book, it wouldn't work.

Zhu Zhanji lit a fire and left at the beginning, while Zhu Youdun sat in this position trembling, for fear that the poor work there would implicate the Prince Zhou's mansion.

But precisely because he acted cautiously and didn't need to look at other people's faces, he was only responsible to the royal family, so he made some achievements.

Zhu Di originally arranged for Zhu Youdun to take charge of these two tasks just for Zhu Zhanji's face.But when someone himself sat in this position, he gradually discovered the benefits.

First of all, there were far fewer popular dramas in the Ming Dynasty, and there were many dramas and novels that promoted heroism and chivalry, and there were many more operas and novels for the country and the people, which played a great role in guiding the folk atmosphere.

More importantly, now the Ming Dynasty has established publishing regulations, strictly prohibiting piracy.

In this way, not only do you not need to spend your own money to publish a book, but you can also make money if it sells well, so that those unscrupulous booksellers will not collect money from authors and readers at the same time.

Moreover, the imperial court directly controlled the publishing standards in various places, and those books and operas that encouraged rebellion and even distorted right and wrong could no longer be staged and published.

Although Zhu Di has not yet realized the profound importance of public opinion propaganda, he has seen the benefits of regulating publishing and regulating the performing arts market.

Therefore, Zhu Youdun is now highly valued by Zhu Di, and he asked the internal supervisor to publish four agricultural books, "Baosheng Yulu", "Pocket Prescriptions", "Puji Prescriptions" and "Famine Relief Materia Medica", each of which was written by King Zhou. [-] copies were printed, for a total of [-] copies.

These four books were uniformly distributed by the imperial court to the county governments, and the county schools were required to teach students to identify weeds, food, and know various life-saving herbal medicines.

This action made the king of Zhou famous, and everyone in the world knew about it.In addition, there was actually 600 taels of manuscript fees, and Zhu Di also rewarded another 3000 taels.

Everyone in the clan is envious of being able to leave a name through the ages and receive "authorship fees".

Of course, sitting in this position will naturally face countless accusations and attacks, and be hated by countless people.

It can be said that if it weren't for Zhu Youdun's clan status, he would have been killed by those scholars long ago.

Although Zhu Zhanji doesn't know much, he also knows that in the past two years, there have been several cases of executions of many people, all because of disobeying the imperial publishing regulations and publishing rebellious books.

The famous "Yanshenggong Mansion", thinking that it was protected by scholars all over the world, published a "Meng Yuan Su Zheng Lu" to classify the rule of the Mongol Yuan as orthodox.

This matter was reported to Zhu Di by Zhu Youdun, and Zhu Di directly sent people to surround the Confucian Mansion, cut off the Duke of Yansheng, asked them to change the owner, and took back all the books that had been sold.

There was a lot of noise about this matter, and when Zhu Zhanji returned to Kezhi from his voyage to the west, he received a report on it.

In this regard, Zhu Zhanji only felt very happy.

Thinking of what they did in the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji felt sick.As the saying goes, tiger father dog son, but this family is not as good as one generation after another.

If Confucius saw all this in the sky, he didn't know how he would feel.

There are also those who were asked to modify the content because the meaning was unclear, including "Journey to the West Commentary".

Before this era, Zhu Zhanji always believed that Journey to the West was written by Wu Chengen, but he was at most a compiler, not the original author.

"Water Margin" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" already existed in this era, and the authors were Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong.They died when Zhu Zhanji was born.

And before Zhu Zhanji was born, there was already "Journey to the West Commentary", but the current Journey to the West is quite different from the later generations.

The current Journey to the West has less than 20 characters. It was originally an opera, but because of its popularity, a vernacular version of the novel was published, specially for those storytellers and ordinary people.

And the plot of the story here is also very simple, only about one-third of the later generations, there are Monkey King apprenticeship, some wreak havoc in the Heavenly Palace, and some go to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, but they are not as detailed as the later generations.

Because it is an opera adaptation, the content in the front is almost the same, but the content in the back is quite different.

In this, there is the difference between whether Sun Wukong is a disciple of Buddhism or a disciple of Taoism.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the power of the temple was huge, with more land than the rulers of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. They were also the largest landlords and rich men in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, under their arrangement, Sun Wukong, who originally worshiped the Taoist Bodhi Patriarch as his teacher, was kicked out of the teacher's school and finally entered Buddhism.

This era is also the era of the integration of the three religions. The common people don't care which religion Sun Wukong belongs to. Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are all three religions. Is it still so clear?

But Zhu Zhanji is very aware of how influential this is. This novel is still not on the table today. After Wu Chengen compiled it in later generations, it became the four ancient classics.

This centuries-old subtle influence directly made everyone accept the influence of this culture and recognized the orthodox status of Buddhism.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji directly assigned a task with Zhu Youdun, requesting to collect all versions of Journey to the West, and then compile them in a unified way. In the future, a novel with only one plot will be formed, and it will still be respected by Taoism.

In the later version of "Journey to the West", before the havoc in the Heavenly Palace, Sun Wukong was unstoppable. After the havoc in the Heavenly Palace, a little monster can make him unable to eat. The key is because of the adaptation of the monks.

Zhu Zhanji has read the novels of Sun Wukong with a Taoist identity. Sun Wukong is a Taoist identity, violated the laws of heaven, and was suppressed on Wuzhishan.

The Jade Emperor is not a Taoist. Although he dare not say that he is the emperor, almost everyone knows it.

Today's era is not full of Qing Dynasty. Before Zhu Youdun took office, there was no condemnation by words, and there was no literary prison.

Today's Ming Dynasty has laws in this area, which is also influenced by Zhu Zhanji, and the public opinion environment is relatively loose, which is incomparable with the literary inquisition of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Sun Wukong violated the law of heaven and was suppressed by the Bodhi Patriarch under the Five Fingers Mountain. He is not a Tathagata Buddha at all.

Later, the Emperor of Heaven realized that there were too many sects in the world, and he wanted to integrate Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism into one for easy management, so he released Monkey King to perform his crimes and meritorious deeds.

Sun Wukong is Taoist, Zhu Bajie is also Taoist, and Zhu Bajie's nine-toothed rake was made by the Supreme Lord.

Like Sun Wukong, he belongs to the crime and meritorious deeds.

Journey to the West in this era has been greatly influenced by the integration of the three religions in reality, and the content is basically the cooperation between Buddhism and Taoism.

So Tang Monk and Monk Sha made mistakes, and it was the Taoist gods who came out to comfort Monkey King and Zhu Bajie.If Zhu Bajie and Sun Wukong make mistakes, it is the god of Buddhism who comes out to wipe his ass.

Seeing such a Journey to the West, which is completely different from the later generations, although it alludes to reality everywhere, it is indeed very interesting.

This is equivalent to two companies cooperating, and then sending four people to form a project team.

The project team is intriguing, and the gods above fight, and they will also suffer.

However, in the compilation by Wu Chengen of the later generation, the first half is the Daoist master, and the second half is the Buddhist master, and the Taoist Monkey King and Zhu Bajie were finally conferred Buddha by Buddhism, which is really funny.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji requested that Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie continue to be written as Taoism, and then compiled to form a complete set of novels, rather than the current abbreviated script.

As for alluding to reality, even Zhu Di doesn't care, let alone Zhu Zhanji.

Sometimes when he gets bored, he thinks, the Journey to the West will change a lot in later generations, don't blame me.

After listening to Zhu Youdun complaining excitedly, and then contacting other clans, the time passed quickly.

A group of children wanted to watch the fireworks, but the management of open fire in the palace was very strict, so Zhu Di had to decide this matter.

I sent someone to tell him, and he was in a good mood, so he agreed immediately, but asked to send more servants to be on guard.