Chapter 997: The Power of Propaganda
(Explanation: Some book friends analyzed that all this should be imposed on the little emperor in order to make the little emperor ruined, and the gunman actually considered this at the earliest, but after thinking about it, he still gave up.) Because no matter what, Li Ke is the emperor, if an emperor needs to use this means to assassinate his ministers and seek power, it can be seen how domineering Li Ze usually is, and how unbearable the little emperor is. Doesn't this prove from another direction that Li Ze is indeed preparing to plot the dynasty and usurp the throne, so as to force the little emperor to take risks? This is extremely detrimental to Li Ze's reputation. So I can only plant all these on Xiang Xun and make Xiang Xun stink. And a fake little emperor is also more conducive to Li Ze's control and preparation for the later succession of the throne. )
December of the eighteenth year of Kaiping is destined to go down in history forever. Because in this month, so many thrilling things have happened.
Kaiping is still the name of the deceased Emperor Li Yan, although the little emperor Li Ke ascended the throne as the emperor, but because he was still young, he did not govern in person, so he still used Li Yan's year name.
In December, Li Yanxue.
In December, Li Ze, who returned to Zhenzhou to mourn, was assassinated.
In December, the little emperor Li Ke landed at the port of Guangzhou, and more than ten southern jiezhen led by Xiang Xun, the envoy of Lingnan Jiedu, and Rong Hong, the envoy of Fujian Observation, greeted Li Ke in the port of Guangzhou.
In December, Li Ke announced that he would take power in Guangzhou, and called Li Ze a national thief, calling on people with lofty ideals loyal to the Tang Dynasty to rise up and fight against him.
The world shook.
And also in December, Li Ze, who had just experienced the assassination turmoil, was not shaken by these things at all, and still held a grand and grand memorial ceremony for Emperor Li Yan in Zhenzhou in an orderly manner. To the shock of the world, another little emperor appeared on the memorial ceremony.
This Li Ke announced that he would personally govern in front of Li Yanling and changed his name to Hongwu.
The world is in an uproar!
Who is the real Li Ke?
Before Guangzhou could react further, Datang Weekly published one after another major events that were enough to make everyone's jaws drop.
The first thing is that although the Emperor Taishang has been seriously ill, his health has improved greatly under the careful treatment of many imperial doctors from the Imperial Imperial Medical Bureau. He died suddenly, not because of an old illness, but because he was assassinated.
And the assassin of Emperor Li Yan was actually the prospective queen Xianglan.
And all this is evidenced by the personal eunuchs and the queen mother around the emperor.
Because after Xiang Lan entered the other palace in Zhenzhou, the internal defense of the entire other palace had been handed over to the Xiang family. And a few days before and after the death of the Emperor Taishang, except for Xiang Lan, the Queen Mother and everyone who had seen the Emperor Taishang, the rest of the people had never entered the palace.
The report of the Tang Weekly was extremely detailed, and even announced the medical case of Emperor Taishang Li Yan, and after the incident, the detailed examination of the body of Emperor Taishang by the Taishang Medical Bureau confirmed that the death of Emperor Taishang was due to poisoning and did not die naturally.
And what was Xiang Lan's motive for murdering the Emperor?
Datang Weekly also gave a detailed analysis.
is to lure the prime minister Li Ze, who is on the front line in Luoyang, to come back to mourn.
The purpose is to assassinate Li Ze.
In the midst of the army, it is undoubtedly impossible to kill Li Ze. But as long as Li Ze leaves the army, the chances will increase greatly.
This opportunity is not without ingenuity.
The war against the puppet Liang has reached the most critical moment, and it is impossible for Li Ze to withdraw his troops and return to the DPRK. But the Emperor Taishang died, and as the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, he naturally had to return to Zhenzhou for funeral.
The assassination plan was exquisitely designed, and the cause and effect echoed each other, interlocking, and no one could not believe it.
What's more, in Tongzhou Dayi like Zhenzhou, businessmen from all over the world gathered, and naturally there were many ears and eyes, and on that night, the sound of the explosion in the palace was heard and seen by many people.
At the border of Lingshou County, thousands of rebels were killed, and the corpses were all over the field, and there is still a thick bloody atmosphere there, and I don't know how many wild beasts linger here. And this, naturally, can't be hidden.
And these people are all from the Xiang family.
And the most important is the confession of Xiang Qi, the former general of the Xiang clan and the commander of Xiang Lan's own army.
And after Xiang Qi's confession was made public, the rest of the Xiang clan who were captured in Zhenzhou also confessed one by one, and their confessions were also widely published in the Tang Weekly.
The current Datang Weekly is not only marketed in the area controlled by Li Ze, but also in the territory of the pseudo-Liang and in the southern region, the Datang Weekly is also extremely open.
For those who are hostile to Li Ze, the Tang Weekly often publishes personnel changes, military deployments, and policy implementations in the imperial court, from which they can get a glimpse of the movements of the northern imperial court and estimate what Li Ze will do next.
For those businessmen, Datang Weekly can allow them to find unlimited business opportunities in it, what is popular, what is profitable, what is the emerging industry, what new things have been made in the north, the businessman's sense of smell has always been sensitive, and he only needs to seize the opportunity, that is the source of money.
For ordinary people, those anecdotes in the Tang Weekly, royal anecdotes, quirks and hobbies of dignitaries and nobles, etc., are the talk of their after-dinner conversations.
It is precisely for these reasons that the sales of Datang Weekly have long been all over the world and are loved by everyone.
But except for a few people such as Li Ze, others didn't realize what this meant?
It means the right to speak.
This means that the Tang Dynasty can write down what they want to tell everyone on it when needed, and then let the world know it in a very short time.
This is public opinion.
That's propaganda.
By the time the Guangzhou court saw the contents of the latest issue of the Tang Weekly and realized that it was not good, thousands of copies of this issue had already spread among the people.
Regarding the above series of reasonable and well-founded records about the death of the Emperor Taishang and Li Ze's assassination, they instantly detonated the world.
Xiang Xun was furious.
In various parts of the south, soldiers and horses patrolled and arrested the people in the printing workshops that printed the Tang Weekly Newspapers, and collected and destroyed these newspapers that had spread.
It's too late.
The more you forbid it, the more curiosity is aroused, and everyone wants to know what happens next.
It is no longer possible to print and sell the Datang Weekly Newspaper openly, because it will lose the head. But that doesn't stop those who print and sell privately.
A Datang Weekly Newspaper, which used to cost only five cents, has suddenly risen to one silver dollar, then five silver dollars, or even ten silver dollars. But because there are not many that can be sold, it is still hard to find.
And the follow-up report of Datang Weekly did not make these people who spent a lot of money to buy the newspaper regret it, because the surprise came one after another.
The Xiang clan murdered not only Emperor Taishang, not only Li Ze, but also the current emperor Li Ke.
Because in their hands, there is already another Li Ke.
Kill the real royal family of Zhenzhou and get a Xibeihua to decorate the façade, what the Xiang clan has to do is to plot the usurpation of the throne.
The Datang Weekly even revealed the true face of Li Ke, who is now enthroned as emperor in Guangzhou.
This person's surname is Gumingchuan, and he is a native of Maocaogang Village, Pingtan, Lingnan. Due to an accidental reason, it happened to the Xiang family, this person looked like the emperor Li Ke, so he was brought into the mansion by the Xiang family for the purpose of fishing and mixing pearls.
And when people with good deeds found that Pingtan Maocaogang Village had become a ruin and uninhabited, the matter was almost a certainty.
Because among the people, there are many people who know Maojiagang Village, and there are many people who know the villagers of Maojiagang.
But now, all the people in this village have disappeared without a trace for some reason.
There is no one in life, and no corpse in death.
Where did it go?
Of course, it was extinguished.
Who killed him?
Needless to say?
Could it be that Li Ze could still send people to come all the way to such a small village to kill people?
Everyone had a sense of enlightenment.
It turns out that this emperor in Guangzhou is a fake! This makes sense! Otherwise, how did the little emperor escape from Zhenzhou?
Xiang Dashuai said that Li Ze was a national thief and a careerist who wanted to usurp the throne. If this is the case, then Li Ze should be extremely strict with the little emperor, how could such an important person escape so easily? Didn't you see that even Xiang Dashuai's own granddaughter Xiang Lan was caught in Zhenzhou? Even Xiang Qi, the general of the Xiang clan, was captured alive and surrendered?
There is no reason, the little emperor Li Ke, whose identity is more important than Xiang Lan, escaped from the hinterland area ruled by Li Ze so easily!
In addition to being fake, it is the Xibei goods that Xiang Dashuai had prepared, which makes sense in principle!
The Datang Weekly is still secretly sold and read in the south, and rumors are even more rampant. Xiang Xun, the de facto controller of the small imperial court in Guangzhou, had no choice but to be furious and send a large number of people to arrest these rumor-mongers.
Xiang Xun already knew the news that his own granddaughter had died, and while he was sad, he suddenly found that he seemed to be cocooned and bound himself, and he got Li Ke, but now it has become a big trouble in his hands.
In addition to insisting that Li Ke in Guangzhou is true, what other way is there?
The problem is, he doesn't have a Datang Weekly. He had no way to tell Li Ze that the Li Ke in his hand was a fake, and he had no way to tell the world that the fake was sent to Wuyi by himself.
If you say this, wouldn't it prove that the fact that the Emperor Taishang was actually killed by murder published in the previous Tang Weekly is true, and it was his granddaughter's hand?
"Father, these verbal arguments are meaningless." Xiang Zhen threw away a copy of the Tang Weekly newspaper he had just gotten in his hands and said: "Whether it is us or other towns, there is no other way to go now, only the single-plank bridge of Li Ke is the main one-plank bridge, as for those foolish people, it doesn't matter what they think." What we have to do now is to reorganize our arms for war, and the dispute between us and Li Ze will eventually be implemented on the battlefield. ”
Xiang Xun's gaze was taken back from the Datang Weekly on the ground, and now the Datang Weekly is more and more beautifully printed, not only with words, but also with patterns.
"Are you ready for the gathering of the envoys tonight?" He asked.
"It's ready!" To the truth. "As long as everyone works together, then with the financial resources of the southeast, it is not impossible to fight with Li Ze."
"We must be prepared to make major concessions this time." Xiang Xun took a deep breath.
"The child understands!"