"A few gentlemen, why did you say that this is so good, why did you start the army to see the battle? Enke is about to open, and the New Year will be more than a month away, if this is a knife soldier, it will be unlucky..."

"That's right, it's strange and pitiful if you look at what is said in the people's newspapers, a foreign company that is a maritime businessman, tens of millions of silver taels a year, and it is not too much to raise a few hundred bodyguards and guards?

"Hi...... I can't understand it, the imperial court sent someone to assassinate Xiao Letian before, and poisoned other people's concubines...... No, no, no, I said it wrong, I poisoned someone's daughter-in-law and poisoned the concubine by mistake...... Anyway, no matter what, the court is really not authentic in this matter. ”

"That's right, no matter how great the sin is, it can't be stopped... Tell me about Sun Sanhu's collusion with the Green Battalion soldiers to prepare to loot the entire Tanggu merchants, is this true?"

The copper hot pot in the tavern was about to burn dry, and the old and young masters all gathered their heads together to discuss the matter of the imperial court's dispatch of troops this time. Here you can see the benefits of public opinion warfare, the newspaper is a large amount of black and white, and the words in it are all emotionally expressed vernacular, and they are naturally close to the people. This is much better than looking at the dry, crepe literary bulletin board.

It can be said that the newspaper has been close to the people's feelings since the beginning of its appearance, and it has a natural advantage in the battle of public opinion.

The exchange of words between the idle men of the Eight Banners annoyed the scholars next to them, and they dropped their chopsticks and were furious: "Confused, you are also the children of the Qing Dynasty? Do you also believe Xiao Letian's fallacies and heresies?"

"It doesn't matter if what he said is true or not, even if it is true? The king calls the ministers to die, the ministers have to die, the father tells the son to die, and the son has to die, this is loyalty and filial piety, this is the principle of righteousness......

Speaking of this, the red-faced scholar rushed over and snatched the Minzhi Bao from the idlers, and tore it to pieces. While tearing it up, he scolded, "I'll show you...... I'll let you look at it again, and tear it apart...... It's all torn apart......"

"Ouch, you're looking for death, dare to snatch things from grandpa and me, you're bold enough, I'll reward you with two crisp ......" The children of Baqi are not afraid of causing trouble, especially not afraid of these scholars who have drunk too much, and they raised their hands to open the bow left and right and rewarded two slaps.

"Stinky boy, give you a longer memory, don't reason with me, I am a flag man, and our flag man's words are reasonable......"

"Insult Sven, you insult Sven..." The other few people stopped doing it, and rushed up to grab the flagmen who were doing it, and the kung fu mutton restaurant was smashed in a short time.

The same scene is playing out in different parts of the Qing Dynasty, which is a clash of two kinds of thinking, on the one hand, the scholars are defending the traditional public opinion position for thousands of years, and on the other hand, the people are beginning to have a sense of self-judgment.

These are two natural antagonistic feelings, and the reader will never allow the people to have independent thinking, and in their eyes, the people can make it happen, but they can't make it know. That is to say, the common people just obediently do what we say to work, less brains, I say go to the left, you will honestly go to the left, as for the reason to go to the left, you will bother less, we will consider it for you.

But the people are not stupid, there will always be a group of seers who will try to analyze the problem by themselves, and these people are the forerunners that Xiao Letian wants to strive for.

Of course, in the current Qing Dynasty, the power of the Awakened is still very weak, and it can't even reach one thousandth of the traditional power, but Xiao Lotian is never impatient, because he knows that he has a power that these rotten Confucians can't even imagine, that is, the power of industry.

When the most advanced printing press arrives in the Qing Dynasty, Xiao Letian's propaganda ability will skyrocket exponentially, not to mention covering a small Zhili, he can even cover the entire Central Plains and even the entire Qing Dynasty.

The situation in Jingshi can be said to change three times a day, Xiao Letian's propaganda attacks are constantly expanding, and in the end, even the hot news that Wang Mian, a beast, killed his father and forced his aunt to death.

Wang Shizheng's home was originally the focus of Chun Thirteen Niang, and there were as many as fifteen people who were bought, and from the inner house to the outer house, it was the eyes and ears of Thirteen Niang. Wang Mian suffocated his father to death and tried to insult his aunt, and they all saw it clearly. This kind of blockbuster news is not used at this time, but also when do you want to use it.

When the third issue of Minzhi Bao threw this shocking news in front of the people of the capital early the next morning, Qingliu could no longer bear it, and another large-scale demonstration began.

Wang Mian, who was dressed in heavy filial piety, actually walked at the front of the team with the coffin, crying bitterly to refute the slander and insult of the Minzhi Daily, and he even led the team to try to storm the Daqing Gate.

During the Qing Dynasty, the Daqing Gate was probably located in the memorial hall of the later president, and it was the closed Tiananmen Square that rushed in from here. The soldiers guarding this place had already been severely reprimanded once before, and now that they saw that this group of scholars had come again and carried out the coffin, how dare they slack off and quickly stop the team.

Wang Mian put his head in front of the team and roared hoarsely, "Your Majesty, the minister is wronged...... The emperor gives justice to the ministers, and asks the emperor to make the ministers the masters......"

Wang Mian was really scared, although he could flatly deny all the reports of the Minzhi Daily, but he knew very well how enthusiastic the people of the Qing Dynasty were about these lace news, regardless of whether it was true or false, his anger could not be washed away.

The only way is to ask the imperial court to correct the name, and perhaps rely on the prestige of the royal family to restore the reputation of some families. It was not only Wang Mian's family who were afraid, all the moves in the capital were all frightened silly by Xiao Letian's shameless and lifeless play.

Aren't there a lot of people who read books? Xiao Lotian has more newspaper leaflets. Aren't you protégés of the Manchu Qing Dynasty? Xiao Letian's newspaper can not only cover the Qing Dynasty, but even cover the territory of foreigners.

Not to mention anything else, during this period of time, there were many newspapers and posters in Dongjiaomin Lane, and who dared to come to the door to collect them from the masters of Shuntianfu?

Scoundrel, Xiao Letian is simply a scoundrel, if the literati in the world are all playing like this, what order is there, just find someone and splash dirty water, anyway, the people love to listen to this kind of lace and peach news, isn't that what it means for the three of them to become tigers.

No one would have thought that Xiao Letian's counterattack would be so shameless and ruthless, this is not a way to live at all, this punch is really on the lifeblood of the reader.

At this time, the Forbidden City was also dumbfounded, they didn't expect that Xiao Letian didn't care about the threat of war at all, and the means of counterattacking became more and more intense, not only exposing all the plans of the imperial court to transfer troops, but even using the disgusting trick of discrediting people.

The political arena of the late Qing Dynasty is actually a stinky pond, don't talk about the eldest brother, the second brother, anyone wants to be clean, and if you carefully pick up and pull a lot of smelly things inside the royal family. Didn't Prince Gong be exposed in the first issue, thousands of silver were spent on a meal, just wait for the people to scold.

Yi was now looking like a dead man, he suddenly jumped up from his chair and said hysterically, "No... It can't go on like this...... Since he Xiao Lotian can expose the old bottom of Hanchen Qingliu, he can also expose the old bottom of our Manchurians, if he makes a desperate effort to make public all the agreements signed by the imperial court and foreigners over the years?"

"Ah..."The hall exclaimed, this kind of thing can't happen, once it happens, it will be a big event that shakes the country's foundation.

In the First Opium War, China paid 21 million taels of silver to Britain, and in the Second Opium War, it paid 6 million taels of silver to Britain and France. Even the Sino-Russian Aihui Treaty, more than a million square kilometers of land north of Heilongjiang were ceded to Russia.

These things are not secrets, they are still circulated among officialdom and scholars, but nine out of ten people in the world don't know about it. They couldn't figure out the difference between Britain and France, or what the treaties were.

Even what the land outside the Guanwai was like? Is it that the land of the Great Qing Dynasty does not have a clear idea. A great help for the late Qing Dynasty to maintain power was to bully the common people and the people's wisdom was not opened, as long as the country was still ostensibly controlled by the imperial court, they believed that the Zhengshuo of the country was still in the Manchu Qing.

Now Xiao Letian, the evil demon, actually uses such a desperate poisonous trick, and actually uses this kind of vernacular that ordinary people can understand, to instill this kind of dangerous thinking to all the people in the world, which makes the imperial court still rule the hearts of the people in the future.

After all, Prince Gong is the prime minister, he is a prince who knows a lot about foreigners in the Eight Banners, and he felt a little bad after the first issue of the Minzhi Daily was posted in Beijing City, but at first he only thought that this was Xiao Letian's last resort in order to protect himself, but after the third issue exposed Wang Mian's old background, he suddenly woke up.

"The Queen Mother, Your Majesty... Xiao Letian's trick is not to threaten these Hanchens, he is a naked threat to the imperial court, if he continues to do this, the people of the world will be separated from us..."

Without a heavy hammer to sound the drum, Ci'an and Cixi completely woke up, and the two shouted almost at the same time: "Quickly release Ermao from the Internal Affairs Office...... Let him send a letter to Xiao Letian, the court wants to negotiate with him, this battle must not be ......"

Since the imperial court made up its mind to quell the rebellion against Xiao Letian, Ermao has been locked up in the dungeon of the Internal Affairs Office, if it weren't for the little emperor's intercession, it is estimated that he would have to cut off his head that night. Now everyone is glad that they didn't commit the poison, otherwise they would really not be able to negotiate with Xiao Letian.

At this moment, suddenly there was an urgent footstep sound outside the hall, and the great eunuch Zhou Daoying ran in from outside, and knelt on the ground as soon as he entered the hall, "Your Majesty... The Queen Mother, the big thing is not good, Zeng Guofan has entered Beijing......" After speaking, he took out the 800-mile urgent official document that had just been delivered from his arms.

"What's the panic? Didn't the marshal say that he would go to Beijing this year? Look at your lost soul, it's a shame to ......" Emperor Tongzhi opened his mouth angrily and scolded.

Zhou Daoying's forehead slammed to the ground, and tears flowed down, "No, Your Majesty, Zeng Guofan brought 20,000 cavalry to the north, he directly brought 20,000 iron cavalry from Shandong and went straight to the capital, and he led the troops into Beijing...... Zeng Guofan has led his troops into Beijing..."

There was a crisp snap, and the tea bowl in Ci'an's hand fell to pieces.

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