The steward spoke quickly and pointed out the issues of the newspaper.

The newspapers in the imperial capital at this time, basically with the official background are the Imperial Capital Daily and Shuowen Jiezi, the former is to release various news and announce future policies, while Shuowen Jiezi is the existence of expanding influence in the cultural field.

At the same time, in response to the too lascivious folk thinking in the Ming Dynasty, the Sun Newspaper opened by the elders received an enthusiastic response. What's more, there are many Caucasian women in it, and it is simply a foreign meat.

Anyway, in the imperial capital, when the men drank tea and worked, it was a common thing to have an extra copy of the Sun newspaper in their hands, in fact, this children's newspaper had already created an amazing miracle in the spring of the third year of the Republic: the printing of 100,000 copies was still in short supply!

In Europe, newspapers are basically local newspapers, and the financiers behind them don't know how much money to do.

The threshold for running a newspaper in Europe was low, and the newspapers at that time basically had new newspapers every day, but basically a certain tycoon wanted to attack a certain enemy, so he began to gather a group of lackeys, usually the traditional European tycoon wanted to seize a certain Jewish property, or deal with a certain political enemy, and the news in it was really except for the date, and even the punctuation marks may not be accurate.

Therefore, in the initial stage, without experiencing the initial game fighting, the balance of interests, and the progress of technology, the strength of European newspapers to publish 1,000 copies a day at this time is already incredible.

The reason is very simple, paper ink does not cost money, printing press does not cost money, typesetting workers are very expensive, and there are transportation costs, no telegraph, no train, how to ensure that all places are distributed at the same time?

Therefore, during this period, they were all local newspapers, not to mention that the literacy rate in Europe at this time was also very embarrassing.

But in the imperial capital, it is different, the literacy rate is almost one step a day, not to mention, is it still literate to read the sun?

The sun returns, as long as they are convex and backward.

Of course, the Sun, as a pretending vulgar newspaper, actually has its own political and cultural mission in it.

Steer.

Zhang Dai looked at these unsightly lace news and almost threw away these dirty things, but among those big-breasted red-haired women, there was still some news worth watching.

"What is the night wail of a lonely mature young woman?"

"Tofu Shih Tzu Passion Tofu Workshop, is it the distortion of human nature or the indulgence of desire?"

"How to take care of your skin? Tofu or men? ”

Zhang Dai'an was patient and read it carefully, the daily newspaper reported the news on the fifth page of the small tofu block, after all, compared to someone's history of making a fortune overseas, the history of exchanging a glass ball for a pair of indigenous sisters, the news of a widow in a tofu workshop who was attempted to be raped by a gambling boy and turned murder is really nothing to pay attention to.

In fact, if you have a little insight, you will find that with the appearance of this news, the news of the major teams in the imperial capital cleaning up gambling has also appeared, and at the same time, stories of gambling harming people have also begun to appear.

The grasp of propaganda orientation has been slowly improving, and if someone has the knowledge of communication to study the evolution of the major media under the rule of the elders, they will find that they have become more and more proficient in mastering these pushes.

But Zhang Dai still sketched the general story, the kid who committed the crime is not like a good bird, and the victim woman is also pitiful, of course, the young man who was killed didn't even have children, almost thirty years old, and he didn't get married, his mother originally thought that he would go to the city to make money and marry a daughter-in-law, but this kind of thing happened.

Thinking of this, Zhang Dai was also sad.

If it was those sons and brothers in his original circle who killed people, everyone was full of poetry and books, family history, and their ancestors were all elites of the Ming Dynasty, and the elites should naturally be more noble than the commoners, and they would be disgusted with dirt even if they were touched.

However, the son of a servant and a small businessman actually dares to play a game of rape and murder, do you think your surname is Zhao.

Moreover, the most frightening thing is that such a case is clear, can be sentenced directly, and it is best to parade the streets for everyone to see, but it is remanded for retrial, isn't this just a cover-up.

What he immediately thought of was naked bribery and favoritism, and he immediately asked softly: "Could it be that the Li family has gone through what way, has there been a woman in the family who has fallen into the eyes of a certain magnate?" ”

If so, then there is really no need to save it, according to the habits of the Ming Dynasty, it is commonplace to directly destroy the whole family of the bitter master, Zhang Dai does not think that his signboard can fight against such an evil force.

"No one knows, that family originally bought some sundries for the inner government and the major yamen bags to make some hard-earned money, and now the business is not big, this matter was not so big."

Although it is a homicide case, the imperial capital is full of money and money at this time, who cares about such a simple case?

There is no dispute between the two daughters fighting for the husband, there is no grievance involving the wealthy, there is nothing involved, everyone is a noble lady with a big belly and sad watching her husband take the junior home to demonstrate, as for why the two of them can't judge who the child in the woman's belly is, then there is no more.

can't satisfy the public's desire to watch, and although the widow who sells tofu is even more cautious, she still opens the door every day to do business, but it is just a foil to the pork seller, which is even less interesting.

What the spectators like to watch is all kinds of bad things in the wealthy, as for you at the bottom, why don't you jump off the building and hang yourself.

Zhang Dai's vision is different, this case has been very ordinary from the beginning, it is simply a classic, the kind of fart who does not read the books of sages and sages, it is natural for them to do any bad things.

Of course, if someone who has read the books of the sages has done the same bad thing, then there are countless reasons for it.

Zhang Dai sighed, if it was in the past, he could naturally mobilize his colleagues in the Donglin Restoration Society to completely impeach the intent to commit the crime, and even completely destroy his political life.

And now, Zhang Dai found that he couldn't do anything at all.

Just as the county officials are not as good as the current management, the people are in charge.

Similarly, the scholars in the imperial capital have also made trouble, and some people even found out that there is a department called the Welfare Society in the imperial capital, which gives a minimum guaranteed wage to some lonely and widowed elderly people, which can make any down-and-out talent raise their eyebrows in their home.

At that time, the troublemakers were very angry, and there were even things about besieging the old people who went to receive money, in their opinion, the money that these illiterate, old and useless people got belonged to them, if they were well-educated poetry and books who were in charge of the government, these old people naturally could not live, and the excess money should naturally be given to them.

But the elders desperately wanted to destroy the scholar class, and if it weren't for the physical destruction that was too difficult to operate, they might have already begun to slaughter at this time.

But naturally, the delusions of these people were not satisfied, and in fact, they had already collapsed under several rounds of suppression.

Of course, the real reason is the political changes brought about by the economic base.

In the past, under the model of small peasant economy and natural economy, large and small landlords could have an overwhelming advantage, at least in the imperial capital, there was still some strength, but under the model of the new imperial capital, simple farming could not support active political activities.

In fact, it is exactly what the elders have been doing to make the income of the labor in the factories in the city higher than the income of the tenants, and as for the agrarian revolution, whoever likes to do it.

It would be ridiculous to make farming less profitable, and to find ways to give tenants a job that pays better, if such a regime is not as stable as Mount Tai.

How did the Ming Dynasty fall?

The four major strata of the country, the imperial power represented by the emperor is becoming weaker and weaker, and the Confucian scholars represented by merchants and bureaucrats collude to deceive and plunder the lower, and the lower classes of civilians have several mountains on their heads, either starving to death or rebelling, what they will never understand is that although the emperor's own interests are actually tied to them, it is difficult for the emperor to really connect with them.

It is impossible for the emperor to go to the people one by one to explain his policies and explain that his requirements are not high.

Originally, it was enough to charge one tael of silver per person, but in the cabinet bosses, they added two points, one two two, you think about it, the cabinet bosses are all top students in front of the imperial examination, and they have to stay up for I don't know how many years, to the level of the cabinet, I don't know how many years I can live, what about making you a little silver? It doesn't cost anyone money to eat in the restaurant.

Then when it comes to the sixth, plus one, two, or four, it's not much, the bigwigs of the six departments are all real elites, and they are all nobler than the common people, and they also have a lot of sons to support.

Below, the governors from all over the country added some more, the governors added, the prefects added, the prefects added the magistrates, and the magistrates saw that they were already three times more than the Zhengfu, so don't ask, add four times more, and the magistrates should also raise more little wives.

Those officials who really collect money basically have no salary, and they all live by taking benefits from it.

Several times the floating income almost cost the life of the Ming Dynasty, and with its low tax burden, the court can still make trouble without money, and the real reason is of course known to everyone.

In essence, the Ming Emperor's own food and lodging were not high, at least compared with his later counterparts, it was still much worse, but it was suppressed by the civil officials.

In my Qing Dynasty, the emperors built the Summer Palace of the Old Summer Palace, toured the south of the Yangtze River, raised countless women, and were extremely poor and extravagant, but people were willing to raise butcher knives to attack the scholars, what was the final situation?

It's not that the literati desperately praised me for being the prosperous era of Kangqian in the Qing Dynasty, the first in the world in terms of literary and martial arts, and all kinds of costume dramas are also not listened to.

Therefore, in Chinese history, once the Confucian group and the merchant group controlled the government, it was basically a chaotic government that brought disaster to the country and the people, and once the emperor had great power and distributed more benefits to the common people, it was almost a prosperous era.

But for the bureaucrats, they are first of all Confucian scholars, and the official who does this is actually an iron-clad official of the imperial court.

Many seemingly stupid policies are not stupid, but they are powerful against the officials themselves, and as for what kind of national society, sorry, I don't know.

But once the imperial power began to raise its sword......

Crying temple is a long-standing custom in the south of the Yangtze River, the local economy is developed, the humanities are gathered, the scholars from the solid family, the middle class of scholars have become an important social supervision force, when the government has illegal things and improper acts, the scholars gather in the Temple of Literature every time, make a scroll, cry to the ancestor Confucius Sage, and then convene the people to declare to the higher authorities, in the Ming Dynasty, the "crying temple" declaration of the large number of people can often make the government dare not underestimate and adopt.

However, the later it gets, the more vexatious this crying temple becomes, at first it may be just for the injustice of some kind of affairs, but later it is for the sake of practical interests.

But these scholars really showed the weakness of the petty bourgeoisie.

Let them rebel, they are powerless, they can only incite the masses, but anyway, I am the proletariat, and what does it matter to us about you and the court.

I can't bear the good land and the little wife at home, so I can only pay the money.

You deserve it.

Therefore, in the 3rd year of the Republic, the scholars in the left side of the imperial capital had gradually died out, and they could only hide in the corners and watch this imperial capital prosperous day by day, cursing the demise of this city that did not belong to Confucianism.

There's no way, the emperor doesn't support running a private school, go to the countryside, in the end there are still no resources, and the market has begun to control all kinds of four books and five classics, of course, it's not that you are not allowed to sell, but it's hard to buy, isn't it.

The most critical point is that the content of the selected examination has also changed from the Four Books and Five Classics to various miscellaneous studies in the new era.

Essentially, this change is boiled in warm water, and when you wake up, it is a complete change.

Although Zhang Dai felt that the imperial capital looked down on Confucianism at this time, he still thought that it was a change in the old and new courts.

In fact, in the original history, the literati who took refuge in the Eight Banners in the imperial capital were definitely the vanguard of the southward attack on the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, because only by destroying the Southern Ming could they get a legal identity and not bear the charge of traitors for a lifetime.

The elders did not trust the Confucian scholars who took refuge, and they were temporarily unable to push south to extinguish the Ming.

In the final analysis, the choices and policies that planned to completely remove Confucianism from the stage of history were too sensational, and even Zhang Dai, who had seen more about the struggle of the imperial court during the Chinese New Year, did not dare to imagine it.

Even Hu people like Kublai Khan used Confucianism.

Zhang Dai didn't plan to rely on his own identity to do anything, in his opinion, what Jiangnan people needed in the emperor was prestige and prestige, and a beautiful offensive to wash away grievances for the people could almost make any opponent unable to settle down.

(End of chapter)