At the beginning of September, a special kind of people appeared on many streets in Nanjing.

They carried large folded papers in their hands and large backpacks on their backs.

"China Times! China Times! ”

"Central Plains War Report! Central Plains Battle Report! The Qing army attacked Shanxi, and Li Chuang retreated. ”

The men shouted as they offered to hand out newspapers to passers-by.

Guo Wendong specially gave this kind of person a name, called "newspaper delivery person".

China Times? All the people who heard these four words didn't know what it was, and when they heard the Central Plains war report, many people became interested.

The newspaper delivery man took the initiative to distribute newspapers to passers-by.

"This is the China Times, which will be issued for the first time today, and will be issued every five days in the future."

Everyone who receives a newspaper will be told these three sentences by the newspaper delivery person.

After the people received the newspaper, they looked at the eye-catching headlines in the newspaper, which were all major events in the world, and realized that the newspaper was like this.

The front page of the newspaper was full of reports on major events in the world, and the war situation in the Central Plains was one of the biggest events, and it was in the most conspicuous position.

The dismissal of the Donglin Party is also one of the major events.

At the dining table of an inn, three scholars gathered together and read the newspaper with relish.

"The Qing army pointed directly at Datong, and the army lost several battles, and Datong was about to fall. According to the analysis of the past achievements of the Chuang army and the Qing army, it is very likely that the Qing army will capture Taiyuan before the end of October. ”

The newspaper not only reported on the war situation, but also related analytical commentary.

The next news article is about the internal report of the Qing court.

"After Jiannu entered Beijing, Dolgon issued an order to shave his hair, but because the people in the city rebelled fiercely, he was forced to stop, and once he had no strength to compete with it, the Qing court would issue a final order to shave his hair and be obedient, and those who did not obey would be killed."

Subsequently, the three of them discussed.

"The thieves robbed me of the Ming Jingshi, killed the first emperor, and deserved it if I failed!"

"But Jiannu seems to be even worse, if we want to shave our hair and make it easy to obey, if we don't shave our hair, we will cut off our heads, then it will be the most hateful. Would you like to shave your hair? ”

"I don't want to, if that's the case, I'll shave all my hair and become a monk! Don't leave disgusting braids either. ”

Subsequently, I saw reports about the Donglin Party.

In the newspaper news, the charges of the Donglin Party were listed, and their selfish nature was exposed.

The three of them are not Donglin people, and they can't imagine that the Donglin Party is such a person.

In the second page of the newspaper, it reported some small things, such as the happy life of the tenants of the land in Guofu; The third edition is an article written by some celebrities, the name Qian Qianyi, many people have heard of it, and he took the lead in attacking the Donglin Party, and the effect was more obvious and convincing.

On this day, many people in Nanjing City saw the contents of the newspaper.

For restaurants, green buildings and other places, newspaper delivery staff will take the initiative to go in and distribute newspapers.

Now the newspaper is free, and after a certain period of time, when the people are familiar with and like it, they will start to collect money and sell the newspaper.

When they first came into contact with the newspaper, the public had a sense of novelty.

Many people gathered to talk about the contents of the newspaper.

As for those who are close to the Donglin Party, after seeing the report about the Donglin Party, many people scolded and even tore up the newspaper.

Nanjing's literacy rate is certainly the highest in the Ming Dynasty, but there are still more than half of the people who are illiterate, and Guo Wendong has already made corresponding arrangements.

The next day, in many prosperous places in Nanjing, newspapers were pasted on the walls, and in each place where the newspapers were pasted, there was a person who told the content of the newspapers.

This is a special position in the newspaper, which is called a "storyteller", who is responsible for reading the content of the newspaper and explaining the corresponding explanations, and each person is professionally trained.

"The Qing court had already issued a shaving order in Beijing, but it was forced to suspend it because it had not yet taken control of the world and the fierce resistance of the people in the city. Once Li Chuang is defeated, the Qing army will move south, and if the Ming cannot resist, the Qing army will have to shave their hair everywhere they go, otherwise they will all be killed. ”

The onlookers at the scene were all indignant and criticized the evil deeds of the Qing court.

When it comes to the news of the Donglin Party, most of the illiterate people believe it, believing that the Donglin Party is not a good thing.

In Nanjing, there are several inns and green buildings under Guofu, all of which have storytellers stationed to interpret the content of the newspaper, which also attracts many people. When the popularity is booming, the people who come in to listen to the news, there is always a part to consume, which plays a certain role in driving their own business.

In Guo's mansion, Guo Wendong, Ma Lanxin, Mao Lingzhi, and Dongfang were all together and talked about newspaper distribution.

Mao Lingzhi smiled happily and said: "Husband's trick really works, so that the entire Nanjing people know the ugly face of Donglin Dog." ”

Guo Wendong said: "This is called 'public opinion', Donglin Dog controls the public opinion in the group of readers, and I want to control the public opinion of the world." A month after the newspaper was published in Nanjing, branches were gradually set up in each prefecture capital in Nanzhili to promote its distribution. ”

Dongfang Jun said: "The voice of Donglin Dog will soon be drowned out. ”

Ma Lanxin said: "Help take care of the affairs of the newspaper, I won't be bored in the future." I'm going to write an article for the next issue. ”

When talking about the happy place, all four burst into laughter.

Guo Wendong has received a report from Huang Delin that several major figures of the Donglin Party have arrived at the Donglin Academy in Wuxi. If they still dare to gather people to spread rumors, Guo Wendong will go and burn down Donglin Academy in the name of the imperial court.

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Wuxi City, Donglin Academy is almost unknown.

On this day in early September, Lu Daqi, Gao Hongtu, and Jiang Yueguang were discussing and gathering people to give lectures in the academy.

Before the discussion was over, a student ran in, holding a large piece of paper in the book, Jiang Yueguang recognized this person, it was Donglin's student in Nanjing.

I only heard the student say loudly: "Three gentlemen, something is wrong!" On the first day of the Lunar New Year, someone distributed this kind of thing in Nanjing, what was it called "China Times". ”

He handed the paper to Jiang Yueguang.

The three of them came over to take a look, and first saw the news about the Central Plains War Report and the internal news of the Qing court, and the three of them all felt that this newspaper was a good thing, which made people understand the affairs of the world more clearly.

When they saw the report about the Donglin Party, they were immediately surprised, and then looked at the content carefully, the three of them changed color, and the more they watched, the more angry they became.

"Who printed this?"

Jiang said angrily.

The student said: "The student asked the person who distributed the newspaper, and said that it was printed by someone from Guofu, and there was a special newspaper office, not far from the southwest of Guofu. ”

At this time, the three of them were even more angry.

Gao Hongtu said: "Ma Shiying, who has suffered a thousand cuts, instructed his son-in-law to do this kind of thing, which will not give us a way to live." ”

Lv Daqi said: "We can't wait any longer, we must gather the students in Jiangnan as soon as possible, as well as the scholars who have not joined us, and call on them to come to Wuxi together to listen to our lectures." As long as the readers listen to us, sooner or later we will have a day to emerge. ”

The three of them quickly discussed, sent many people to Suzhou, Zhenjiang, Songjiang, Nantong and other places, notified the local Donglin students to rush to Wuxi to meet, and made a special note that each student should invite as many scholars as possible to go together.