Section 141 Office of Truth

Zhang Haogu's work is very complex and complex, and in terms of general principles, the main functions of the Truth Office are: to formulate the history of Australia and the Song Dynasty and the corresponding history of scientific, technological, political, social and cultural development; setting the boundaries of science and technology for each ministry; Screening of books and movies in large libraries; Examine the scope of indigenous education and access to information. A handbook was prepared and distributed to the senators in order to unify the tone of their conversations on all sides - now that indigenous and naturalized people are becoming more and more involved in the work of the senators, the opening of the mouth of one of the senators will be a source of rumors in the future.

Specifically, it is divided into two parts. One is the review of publications, since a series of printing equipment and jishu research projects presided over by Zhou Dòngtian have been roughly completed, the printing and publishing business has been expanding day by day. Each ministry is preparing and publishing a large number of textbooks, popular science books, and jishu pamphlets. How to grasp the proportions has become one of Zhang Haogu's main tasks.

The other part is responsible for the selection and organization of the preparation of "special publicity materials". Due to the limited number of veterans serving in the large library and the fact that things were quite busy, most of the materials had to be written by Zhang Haogu, except for some "major topics" that were "collective creations" -- of course, he had the right to ask other veterans for manuscripts and pay a certain remuneration -- a practice that had long been practiced in the Ministry of Culture and Propaganda. Most of the veterans who write are not for a few circulation coupons, but more to satisfy their own writing**.

The Ministry of Science and Technology is responsible for the specific review of Jishu's affairs; All matters involving black history, literary titles, political views, etc., are under the responsibility of Zhang Haogu.

While compiling "black materials", it is necessary to engage in manuscript review work, and it is conceivable how busy the work is. Moreover, because of the high sensitivity of this work, he was completely unable to use direct naturalization, and most of the things had to be done by himself. In contrast, the historical materials research team of the Grand Library can still use a few naturalized people from Confucian backgrounds to help search and transcribe ancient books.

"nǎinǎi's, use Lao Tzu as a coolie." Zhang Haogu made a dissatisfied voice, stood up and paced in the office, the sun outside the glass window was shining brightly, making people feel hot at first sight.

This is a corner of the compound of the Ministry of Culture and Propaganda in Bairen City, which was originally the location of the Great Library. Since the Great Library was relocated to Gaoshan Ridge, it has been occupied by the Ministry of Culture and Propaganda. The container in which these priceless treasures were stored has been removed, but the traces of the stepping stones left behind are still faintly recognizable.

In order to facilitate the service of the elders nearby, an office was set up in the large library in the compound of the Ministry of Culture and Propaganda. There are a number of veterans on duty on a regular basis to receive various consultations at any time.

In addition to the Department of Culture and Propaganda and the offices of the Great Library, this place is also the legal address of the Lingao Times, Gewu Pictorial, the Publishing Steering Group, and the Truth Office - the reason for this is that there are not so many veterans and naturalized people to fill these turnip pits one by one, and most of them are a team of several signs.

Zhang Haogu's Truth Office occupies three offices in a corner of the compound. One was his reference room, which was dedicated to storing the "black materials" he had collected and the various ministries that had been transferred to him. One is his studio, and the other is a dormitory. He, like many of the patriarchs, was accustomed to lodging in the office and being ready to work at any time. As for the personnel, there were only him and his two servants.

His secretary and servant heard his footsteps, walked out of the dormitory next door, saw that his head was sweating, poured him a cup of herbal tea, and lowered all the blinds in the room, and the room suddenly darkened, but also felt a lot cooler.

On the table were piles of manuscripts -- these were the manuscripts typed out by the typists of the printing office on typewriters, and Zhang Haogu constantly scribbled on the manuscripts with an ink pen every day, and from time to time used a red pen to review and revise the manuscripts. When the naturalized people saw Zhang Haogu's work by chance, most of them thought he was a great chief.

Zhang Haogu picked up the latest issue of the "Special Propaganda" pamphlet to compile a catalog, according to this time and space, this is called "unveiling posts".

In ancient society, it was a kind of leaflet, most of which were unsigned, attacking someone or something, and sometimes pointing the finger directly at the court and the emperor.

In ancient society, because of the lack of sufficient jishu detection methods, it was difficult to be traced to the source of the general headless unveiling post, and the safety was very high, but the disadvantage was that the number of literate people in ancient times was too small, and the ability to speak to the lower classes of society was limited. Therefore, the unveiling can only affect officialdom and the literate class.

Since the Truth Office was working for the masses in the Ming Dynasty, it could not be completely divorced from the historical reality of the time like other ministries. It is necessary to pay attention to some political issues in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

In this regard, some work has been done in the past, including the compilation of the "Atrocity Record" and the pamphlets distributed during the second anti-encirclement campaign, but at that time this was only sporadic work and was not carried out as a primary tool. Now it is necessary to systematically organize and grasp it as a job.

Zhang Haogu thought twice and decided to adopt a three-pronged approach to carry out special propaganda. The so-called three-pronged approach is to create promotional materials suitable for their respective characteristics according to the different audiences.

The first is the way of creating headless revelations and forged Di Bao, which starts with commenting on the three major cases and the three major levies, involving major political events in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, including the "reverse case" against the Donglin Party during the Apocalypse, Zhang Juzheng's reforms, and the reaction after his death. Emphasizing the "re-investigation" and "rational analysis" of previous political events, providing views and materials that are different from those of the past, and ostensibly emphasizing opposition to the mediocre government and support for the emperor, in fact, the connotation is to guide the "reflection" of the entire Ming political system -- this is aimed at the scholar class.

Secondly, use the discourse novel as a model to make some popular text pamphlets with quite pictures. It was distributed to storytellers in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang generations, and it can also be circulated as a popular novel, criticizing the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty and promoting the Lingao group, and the form of expression is relatively obscure. And it can be supplemented by some court jokes with a smile, and even some new scientific knowledge can be promoted. This is mainly aimed at the burghers.

Zuihou compiles some folk songs and nursery rhymes for the southern provinces. Don't look at the jishu content is not high, and the grade is low, but these things have great lethality since ancient times. Before every major political change, all kinds of nursery rhymes and ballads with sand shè shadows will be scattered everywhere, which shows its power. This is for farmers.

Zhang Haogu's main focus now is on fabricating and making novels. Both of these have certain jishuxìng requirements, the first of which is that they must not be made by Australians whose true origin is Australian, so they cannot be typeset using their lithographs or lead type, and must use stereotyped or traditional movable type, such as clay movable type or wooden movable type, which has a poor printing effect. Zhou Dòngtian deliberately set up a traditional printing workshop in the printing office, which was dedicated to serving this purpose.

As for the content, part of it was that he asked the senators for a manuscript. Ordinary patriarchs did not have the ability to write articles directly in classical Chinese or Ming vernacular Chinese, so most manuscripts could only be written in "Xinhua" by the patriarchs, and then "translated" by the elders who had such ability.

Most of these special pamphlets were compiled according to the three principles of xìng, politics and secrets. The content is filled with the smell of street stall literature. However, the content of each issue of the booklet is also specific to the xìng, and it is adjusted to a certain extent according to the current situation and the target of the attack.

What Zhang Haogu has in his hand is the list of booklets that have recently passed the review and will be printed, which lists twenty kinds:

What three wishes did Emperor Wanli leave before he died?

Wei Zhongxian won the emperor's favor, but he didn't know why

The mastermind of the murder of the Donglin Party, the eunuch party was expelled from the Beijing Division

Crazy robbery by 6 emperors for 60 years: the most sought-after NV person in the Ming Dynasty

A speech by Cheng Zu before entering Nanjing

The truth of the Tumubao Incident: What was the sacrifice of the Ming army for?

Conflict in Reform: Zhang Juzheng reprimands scholars as "luàn demons"

Li Chengliang lived and fierce style in the yinluàn of the north

"Red-faced Killer" Ren Daidai: Qinglou Dance NV is actually a pardoned killer

Witnesses recalled: How the eunuch party and the Donglin party tossed blindly

The truth of the palace removal case

"Former Dynasty" Forbidden City absurdity, the top ten most famous in the history of the Ming Dynasty

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The number of words in these pamphlets is generally between 120,000 and 50,000 words. No more than a few hundred to one or two thousand copies were printed at a time, and after they were printed, they were smuggled to the mainland for distribution. Due to the novelty of the subject matter, the story is fascinating, and the language is plain. Therefore, it is quite popular with the natives. In Guangdong, the special propaganda pamphlets distributed by the Foreign Intelligence Agency through the Black Dragon Society system have created a fairly strong demand for underground reading materials. Pamphlets that were originally distributed for free were hoarded, and pirated versions printed with movable clay type and ink actually appeared. So much so that Zhou Dòngtian seriously considered whether to officially dump these special propaganda pamphlets as popular reading materials to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Haogu believes that this phenomenon obviously reflects the serious lack of popular books in the Ming Dynasty. So the Publication Steering Group could do more in this regard – he recently presided over the revision of Jin Yong's work. In addition to "The Legend of the Deer and Ding" and "The Sword of Blue Blood", the other eleven have all been revised and are ready to be published one after another. There are other publishing projects to revise......

"Lao Tzu is tired and tired, I don't know what the effect is?" With this in mind, he put the pamphlet table of contents in his hand on the table, took out the audit seal of the Office of Truth from the box, and stamped it on top of the catalog. Seeing the bright red stamps falling on the paper, he exhaled with satisfaction.