Gao Yuan sat in his imperial tent, intently looking at the Jicheng Evening News, this is the benefit of being an emperor, even if he is far away in Jinyang County, he can also see the latest domestic newspapers for the first time, and the fast horse will keep sending the Dahan Daily and Jicheng Evening News to his hands, and the sample newspaper will be sent to him first.

The rapid development of domestic newspapers has caught Gao Yuan unexpectedly, especially the newly rising Jicheng Evening News, whose expansion speed is a miracle, and the current circulation is about to catch up with the industry's leading Dahan Daily. This is thanks to the strong intervention of Zhou Yu, the big boss of Jicheng Evening News, abundant capital investment, targeted audience groups, and correct strategic planning, so that Jicheng Evening News quickly occupied half of the domestic newspaper industry.

The Dahan Daily is more serious and more about the interpretation of national policies and current affairs news, similar to the mouthpiece of the imperial court, while the Jicheng Evening News is more light-hearted, more anecdotes and interesting conversations, the former is popular among officials and businessmen, while the latter is aimed at the ordinary people of the Han State whose literacy rate is now greatly popularized. The number of the latter is much higher than that of the former, which is the reason for the rapid rise of Jicheng Evening News.

A newspaper for five cents is no longer an expense for today's Han people, and after dinner, reading the newspaper is also becoming a means to spend leisure time, through the newspaper, you can also learn more about what is happening at home and abroad, and increase your knowledge.

Gao Yuan himself likes to read Jicheng Evening News, and the things on the Dahan Daily, he is basically clear, and it will inevitably taste the same as chewing wax when he looks at it again, so he naturally prefers the lighter Jicheng Evening News, Zhou Yu is worthy of being a general, even if he has become a businessman now, his grasp of the market is quite accurate.

Today's Jicheng Evening News has thousands of full-time writers. Distributed in all corners of Dahan, every day there will be a steady stream of fast horses to gather manuscripts to the Jicheng headquarters, and then the headquarters personnel will make trade-offs, edit, and then distribute the sample newspapers to various places to be printed and sold.

Of course, the private industry should be more flexible, for example, the Jicheng Evening News has now started to subscribe annually and monthly, but for users who subscribe for a year, each newspaper will be cheaper by 1.5 cents, and the monthly newspaper will be cheaper by 1 cent, and it will be a year. It is also a large expense, and Dahan Daily is inevitably much sluggish in terms of operation, and it is businessmen and government agencies that really maintain perennial subscriptions, while retail investors do not have corresponding business means, purely how much they sell, how much they count.

However, the rise of Jicheng Evening News obviously made Dahan Daily feel a great threat, and now Dahan Daily will also publish some light things on the sub-page to win over ordinary audiences, and Jicheng Evening News is naturally not to be outdone. They immediately opened a new section on top of their newspaper to publish current affairs news, but unlike Dahan Daily, they only picked some negative political news. He specializes in exposing the wrongdoing of the government, parliamentarians, officials, and businessmen. After the two sides clashed, it was the Jicheng Evening News that won again.

For this result, Huo Xiaolin of the Propaganda Department was extremely annoyed. once sent a special message to Gao Yuan to ask for instructions to clean up the Jicheng Evening News, but was reprimanded by Gao Yuan. Worried that the political hall is not good for the Jicheng Evening News, Gao Yuan also wrote a special letter to the political hall that must not interfere with the normal operation of the Jicheng Evening News, if these things published in the Jicheng Evening News are facts, it can only show that the political affairs hall still has mistakes in governing the government, and needs to be improved, just like the parliamentarians supervise the government, the news media also have the power to supervise the government and openly put forward opinions, of course, if they spread rumors and make trouble, then they can only go through normal channels and go to the court to sue them.

For this reason, Gao Yuan also specially approached Cao Tianci and asked him to protect the reporters and writers of the Jicheng Evening News reporting this kind of news, and if anyone wants to deal with these people, the local sub-bureaus under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Police must not be soft.

Cao Tianci is a loyal lackey of His Majesty the Emperor, of course, he is obedient, and it is a coincidence, Gao Yuan sent a message to Cao Tianci not long after, and there was a case of businessmen colluding with officials to bully the market The fact was exposed by the Jicheng Evening News, the Jicheng Evening News reporter was beaten half to death, and afterwards Cao Tianci actually rushed to the local area in person, and arrested dozens of people in one breath, this time, it frightened everyone, and everyone saw the attitude of His Majesty the Emperor from Cao Tianci's methods, So their attitude also came to a 180-degree turn, from a threat to a lure, since you can't fight, then let you not post it will be over, and for such a thing, Gao Yuan thinks that it is none of his own business, that is, Jicheng Evening News needs to emphasize the professional ethics of employees.

Competition is a good thing, competition will only make each other have to work hard to become better, and there are more people to supervise the government, it is a good thing, the supervisor is only afraid of less, and never afraid of more, in Gao Yuan's view, his ideal system is still in its infancy, a toddler baby, to grow into a strong adult, it takes time to grind, until one day, when he does not need to reach out to help him, he can really play his role.

The battle during the day was not smooth, there were a lot of casualties, in this regard, Gao Yuan was not surprised, Hangu Pass has always been Xiongguan, and Lu Chao has been entrenched in these years, it has been constantly reinforced, especially after the popularization of the building structure of reinforced concrete structure, the entire Hangu Pass is a new gun, the entire wall, Lu Chao did not hesitate to build a whole with reinforced concrete, with the power of the current artillery, it is impossible to destroy it at all, in the end, it is still necessary infantry to fight hard.

Moreover, the military and civilians of Hangu Pass are quite loyal to Lu Chao, and the location, people, and Lu Chao have all in Hangu Pass, so this battle will still shed a lot of blood after all. Although Gao Yuan was a little saddened by these sacrifices, he also knew that sometimes, some sacrifices had to be made.

The big curtain was lifted, and Xu Yuan, Ye Zhen, Luo Weiran and other senior generals rushed in, and everyone had a big sad word written on their faces. The artillery bombardment during the day was not effective, but when the infantry attacked, it was hit by the opponent's artillery, a large number of siege equipment was destroyed, and the casualties were worth the previous battle.

"What's the matter, all of them have sad faces." Gao Yuan put down the newspaper in his hand and smiled. "Winning the battle is easy, haven't you tasted the loss?"

There was silence in the big tent, and Luo Weiran, who was in charge of the main attack, was even more ashamed, he was a general ordered by Gao Yuan's relatives, but in the first battle, the emperor greatly lost face, at this time, he only felt that he had no face to see people, and buried his head and said nothing.

"Your Majesty, we underestimated the enemy's determination to resist and the defensive capability of Hangu Pass." Xu Yuan shook his head and sighed: "Now it seems that there is only a hard attack, at the cost of blood and lives to capture Hangu Pass." ”

"Or not." Cao Tianti suddenly stood up, "Your Majesty, generals, today, our personnel have caught more than a dozen special people, guess who they are?" ”

"Minister Cao, if you have something to say, just say it, don't sell it." Ye Zhen was also in a bad mood, and he didn't give Cao Tian face.

Cao Tianci's rare face turned red, Ye Zhen is a capable leader of the descendant family, and his background is no worse than him. "These people are the family of Qian Zhongyi, the current Hangu guard, his younger brother's family, his own youngest son and daughter, etc., if we take these people to the front of the battle and threaten Qian Zhongyi, do you think he will surrender?"

As soon as these words came out, some people in the big tent were suddenly excited, and some people were disapproving.

Gao Yuan shook his head gently: "Godci, let's not talk about your method, even if you escort them to the front of the battle, Qian Zhongyi will never be moved." Have you interrogated them? ”

"Yes, it has been tried, and it was Qian Zhongyi's eldest son who secretly released them."

"That's right, Qian Zhongyi is a good voice, and he also has the ability to let his family evacuate to Xianyang, but he didn't do it, what does this mean, this shows that he himself is ready to go to the trouble with his family, such a person, even if you kill his family in front of him, he will never waver, but will intensify his determination to resist." Gao Yuan said: "If you really do this, not only will it not shake the morale of the army, but it will make Hangu Pass more united." I don't know if Qian Zhongyi will come to kill his relatives with righteousness, you take them up, and he will bombard them a few times, and there will be nothing. ”

Everyone nodded, and the emperor made a point.

"And doing this will make our army dirty, believe it or not, if you do this, then there will be overwhelming criticism in our domestic newspapers, why did Qian Ming secretly send these people out from his father, which shows that he has a certain understanding of the policy of our Han State, and thinks that we will not embarrass his family, Qian Ming is also a senior general of Qin State, although he will not surrender to us, but his cognition will not be in the minority among the generals of Qin State, this is a typical, a note, Qian Zhongyi's non-surrender does not mean that the generals of the Guancheng after Hangu Pass will not surrender, so now we have to give them a good explanation. Gao Yuan stood up, "Qian Zhongyi's family defected to my Han, they will enjoy the national treatment of the Han, Qian Zhongyi refuses to surrender, then let him die without a place to be buried." ”

"If that's the case, we'll have nothing but blood and lives to pave our way forward." Xu Yuan stood up, "Tomorrow, I will increase the offensive force." ”

"Not necessarily." Gao Yuan took out a thin piece of paper from the desk and handed it to Xu Yuan: "The Ordnance Research Institute has developed a new kind of artillery shell, this kind of artillery shell has little explosive power, the main thing is to burn, no matter what it is stained with, it will not be extinguished for a long time. I named it the White Phosphorus Bomb, and now it is on its way, and since they are resisting to the death, I will let him burn the city with flames, and there will be nothing left. Gao Yuan said coldly: "There are 20,000 defenders in the city, so let's kill 20,000 of them!" Let the generals of the Guancheng of the Qin State in the back see clearly what the current war is like! ”

(Recommend the new book "Iron-blooded Qin Song", please take a look when the book is short, it is definitely worth collecting.) (To be continued.) )