When everyone is in a desperate situation, they always want to grasp any opportunity, which is the instinct of human survival.

When in the prison of the Nanjing Criminal Department, those civil officials who were lucky enough to survive in Xiaoling had different thoughts, or waited for Wang Shi there with great expectations, and constantly cursed De Shizi, or waited with great expectations for new opportunities to come.

Shi Lei came to Wei Guogong, no, it should be in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, entered the study of the prince, saluted first, and then reported.

"Lord Shizi, the minister just came from the prison."

"Oh."

Zhu Guoqiang was looking down at a list of military officers and assistants that had just been sorted out.

In troubled times, the right to seize the army is more important than anything else!

This is a matter of life and fortune, and it is an overriding matter!

At present, there are five sources of officers and soldiers in Zhu Guoqiang's army, one is the soldiers who followed all the way from Jinan, and the other is to incorporate the rest of Liu Liangzuo; The third is the sailors from the Peacock Banner, the fourth is the Ming army brought by Huang Degong, Mu Wenzhuan, and Yang Yufan, and the fifth is the people who are trained in Liaodong and Shandong.

As long as you look at the sources of these officers and soldiers, you will know what Zhu Guoqiang's real lineage is, but if you want to win the world, you must not just rely on what lineage, but all the forces must be twisted into a rope, how to build this army with chaotic sources into your own army!

That's the most important thing!

Since it is to be built, it is necessary to reorganize the troops, and how to adjust the officers in the reorganization is undoubtedly the most important thing. But how to reorganize so as not to arouse the opposition of others, especially Huang Degong, Mou Wenzhuan, and Yang Yufan, is something that Zhu Qiangguo has to consider.

Balancing interests is the most headache, after all, the ultimate goal of balancing is for yourself.

"How's it going there?"

Putting the roster together, Zhu Guoqiang looked at Shi Lei and asked.

"Lord Shizi, many of them still have a lot of grievances against you! In fact, the minister really couldn't understand, why did he spare their lives? How nice it was to kill together yesterday! ”

Facing Shi Lei's sigh, Zhu Guoqiang smiled. ，

"It's easy to kill! But murder is punishable! The reason why I left them behind is because these people are Shilin leaders, and killing them casually will definitely cause a backlash of public opinion, I am relying on the people's hearts to occupy Nanjing, and I want to be like Emperor Gao, take Nanjing as the foundation, and take root here, I can't just rely on temporary credit, if the Shilin people's hearts are not on my side......"

Shaking his head, Zhu Guoqiang said helplessly.

"The reason why Emperor Chengzu moved the capital back then, there is no reason why Jiangnan resisted him, in any case, now in the eyes of the world, the one in the capital is still orthodox, even if I built the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, although I still keep the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, but if someone instigates, the reputation of the minister will still be deducted from my head, the common people, ......"

With a long sigh, Zhu Guoqiang asked rhetorically.

"The people of Nanjing may be on my side, but what about the whole of Nanzhili? If only the whole Shilin had said I was a rebel! Then in the ears of the people, I am a rebel, a rebel, so if I want to gain a foothold in Jiangnan, I have to fight for the hearts of the people with them! Win the hearts of the people! In fact, it is to fight for public opinion! ”

The experience of another world tells Zhu Guoqiang that the importance of striving for public opinion, and those who win public opinion win the world, and the reason why those gentry in the Ming Dynasty were able to incite public opinion at every turn was, in the final analysis, because of their grasp of the right to discuss topics at the grassroots level!

And why did the people want to believe in the gentry?

Because these gentry are the 'big V' around them!

The government has those familiar 'big V' around him to be credible!

And this is also the basis for the 'big V' to incite public opinion, so in Zhu Guoqiang's view, it is even more important to win and control public opinion now than to fight a war.

"The reason why I don't move them now is that I want to wait until the time is right, and these people will come out and fight a war of public opinion."

Public opinion war.

People in this day and age obviously don't think so much. It can even be said that the reason why many emperors and generals have failed in political struggles throughout the ages is precisely because they ignore public opinion.

For Zhu Guoqiang, whether in history or in reality, he has seen too many characters who use it to win public opinion and win political struggles.

"But the prince has a lot of dreams at night, and the longer he stays there, the longer he drags on, the more likely there is a problem."

"It's okay, it's better to have a problem now than to have a problem in the future. Naturally, it's useful to keep them,"

With a smile, Zhu Guoqiang diverted the topic and asked.

"Have you found the person I wanted?"

Shi Lei's inquiry made Shi Lei nod and said.

"Shiziye, that person is in Nanjing, as long as Shiziye wants to see him, you can invite him to the house at any time!"

It seems that history has not changed much, and he is still in Nanjing as in history, so it is better to have him in this matter.

"Then invite him over!"

When he received the invitation from the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Yu Yingjia only felt that his legs were weak, after all, he was ...... for the killing of the Metropolitan Governor and the prince of the world Heard and witnessed.

What is this master doing with himself now?

Yu Yingjia couldn't figure it out, he was just a businessman, and he was also a bookseller, and he didn't have much silver in his hand. Even if the master wants money, he doesn't have to come to himself. After all, there are many rich merchants in this city. I can't take his turn.

But what if he asked for money?

1000 taels.

5000？

Or is it more?

Damn!

However, despite the panic in his heart, Yu Yingjia still came to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and came to the front of the Metropolitan Governor.

"The grass people have seen the Grand Duke!"

Yu Yingjia, who was standing there after seeing the ceremony, saw that the Metropolitan Governor was holding a book in his hand.

The Metropolitan Governor is reading?

What book?

As a bookseller, Yu Yingjia instinctively came up with such an idea. At this moment, I saw the Governor put down the book in his hand.

It's actually "Journey to the North"!

"Ling Zun's "Journey to the North" is not bad, the book is good, but this popularity is even more admirable! Being able to take advantage of the situation to launch and talk about the idea of publishing a book, Ling Zun can be called the first person in the past! ”

Looking at Yu Yingjia, a smile appeared on Zhu Guoqiang's face.

Because the literacy rate of the Ming Dynasty was extremely high, which greatly enriched the market culture, especially the prosperity of the market, the prosperity of the market, and the publishing industry was naturally extremely developed. The booksellers of the Ming Dynasty know the "people-oriented" business strategy, and know that seeking profits is the foundation of doing business, and they can put down the shelves of "cultural people" and take the actual needs of the small people in the market as the starting point for them to print books.

What is medicine, agriculture, industry and commerce, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, poetry and essays of the times, Huanggang dense scrolls, and selected essays for the college entrance examination...... Of course, the favorite books of the people in the market are always in the vernacular, so what fairies and ghosts, talented and beautiful women, monks and nuns, officials and prostitutes have been published. In short, the booksellers of Daming will do their best to solve the cultural needs of the small people in the market!

In the face of this huge blue ocean market, the lucrative returns are driving booksellers to find a way. In the midst of the big waves, there is finally a group of booksellers, who are at the forefront of the times with amazing but undisciplined operation methods. And Yu Yingjia's father, Yu Xiangdou, is one of the leaders! He will not only publish books, but also rub hot spots, "Journey to the West" was born, and it is an empty alley with thousands of people and expensive paper in Luoyang. He immediately organized the southeast and north travel places, plus the pirated version of "Journey to the West", and let him live in the southeast, northwest, and northwest. Not only that, but he will also plagiarize, pirate, and ...... It is definitely a qualified publisher who has no discipline and no bottom limits, and has an accurate grasp of the needs of the masses, but ...... He's dead!

It doesn't matter if he's dead, his son is still alive, and he's still in the publishing business, driving the cultural boom, and he's doing business just as well as his father, if not better. And a publisher like him with no discipline and no bottom limit is exactly what Zhu Guoqiang needs.

Although he didn't know what "rubbing the heat" meant, Yu Yingjia still heard that the governor was praising his father, so he naturally laughed.

"My father published hundreds of books in his life, all of which were not popular with the people, but it is a pity that the grass people failed to learn how much the father did, and now they can only barely maintain the library, which is really ashamed of the father!"

Yu Yingjia is modest, his father is a standard marketing genius, but he is not bad, when Yu Xiangdou was alive, he was mainly active in Jianyang, which was the center of the piracy industry in the Ming Dynasty. If it weren't for the change of dynasties, coupled with the massacre of the Qing army after entering the customs and the ban on the destruction of academies, the ban on private family learning, the prohibition of ordinary people gathering and other foolish policies, coupled with the comprehensive decline of the publishing industry due to the literary prison and other reasons, I am afraid his achievements will not be worse than his father.

"You are different from Ling Zun, he is a publisher, he is better at writing, this point, you are not as good as it, but you are better at engaging in the publishing industry, you can do the business of the book building over the years, you can see one or two, this time I asked you to come, just to borrow your talent for my use!"

Some talents are of no use to the higher-ups of this era. But in Zhu Guoqiang's opinion, not to mention that other people are the one in front of him, if they make good use of it. He is even equivalent to an army of 100,000.

"Lend my talents?"

Widening his eyes in surprise, Yu Yingjia was puzzled.

"Governor, the grass people are just booksellers! What talents can be had? ”

"Lend your talent for selling books!"

Smiling at Yu Yingjia, Zhu Guoqiang directly clarified his thoughts to him.

"I'm going to start a newspaper, well, to be precise, I want to borrow the newspaper you sell books to start a newspaper."