After the combined fleet left the dock and headed south with the 1st Brigade of the Guards Division, the civil and military officials who came to see them off dispersed one after another, but Huang Zunsu, who was now the secretary of the yamen guarding Jiangnan Town, and was affectionately called the "big secretary" by Gonggong Wei, was left alone. The other who was left alone was Tu Yizhen, a native of Changzhou, who is 25 years old, one year younger than Huang Zunsu.

Huang and Tu have one thing in common, that is, they are both the backbone of Donglin who will be listed on the list. Huang Zunsu is one of the eight fat horsemen of the Sky Star Rush Pioneer; Tu is the head of the military and political department who is the commander of the Dinu Star to urge the judge, and reward and punish the merits.

In addition, the two are also activists of the Donglin study class, Huang is the leader of the second group, and Tu is the leader of the fifth group. Song Sibao, who was in charge of the transformation of the study class that day, reported the best student candidates for these two people. In the end, Gonggong Wei ordered Huang Zunsu as the best student, because Huang Zunsu's theoretical foundation is very good.

When Huang Zunsu studied the "Collection of Wei Gongwen" and a series of speeches of Wei Gonggong, he was often able to draw inferences from one case and comprehend what the central idea of Wei Gonggong wanted to express faster than other students. And the ideological report that the students must submit every week, Huang Zunsu is also very well written, so Gonggong Wei ordered him, instead of Tu Yizhen, who has a worse theoretical foundation.

After graduating from the study class, Huang Zun and Tu Yizhen actively responded to the call of Wei Gonggong, and both chose to intern in the town guard yamen, and both of them will take the examination the year after tomorrow.

In this regard, Gonggong Wei supported and encouraged, just as he said to the comrades in the study class, every comrade should be a good official of the people in the future.

And how to be an official and a good official depends on whether they apply the knowledge they have learned in the study class, as well as the experience and life insights they have gained through their own labor, to their lives and to be officials.

Now, Huang Zunsu serves as the secretary of the yamen of Jiangnan Town, and is directly responsible for helping Wei's father-in-law draft various manuscripts. Tu Yizhen is in charge of the propaganda affairs of the town guard yamen, such as the propaganda slogans on the streets and alleys of the Special Economic Zone and the planning of various activities. The performance of both of them is very eye-catching, and like that Sun Bixian, they have been valued and cultivated by Gonggong Wei.

Huang Zunsu and Tu Yizhen naturally knew that Gonggong Wei left him alone, and he must have something to explain, so they stood aside respectfully.

"Hey, why are you so restrained? Our family is not a man-eating tiger. ”

Father-in-law Wei smiled "haha", asked Huang and Tu not to be so nervous, and asked someone to bring a stool for them to sit on, and after the two of them sat down, the father-in-law said: "Tell the two of you to stay, our family really has something to do with the two of you." ”

"I wonder what my father-in-law sent to the two of us?" Huang Zunsu asked.

"Well, since our family went south, we have served the emperor wholeheartedly, worked for the welfare of the people, and really wanted to do this maritime affairs well, so we will definitely offend many vested interests. As for these people, on the surface, they can't do anything about our family, but behind the scenes, they want to harm us. ”

Speaking of this, Gonggong Wei took a sip of the tea bowl and continued: "Our family has some connections with the factory guard, and we also serve as the temporary official school eunuch of the East Factory, so although our family is in the Special Economic Zone, our ears and eyes are smart. Let's hear that there are rumors that are unfavorable to our family in the Jiangnan realm and in Beijing, and those rumors say that our family is a mess, it's just lawless, and our family listens to it! ”

"Father-in-law is not angry, rumors stop at the wise." Tu Yizhen hurriedly comforted.

Huang Zunsu also said that rumors such a thing will be self-defeating after a long time, and Grandpa Wei must not take it to heart. How can this man who does things not offend people?

Father-in-law Wei waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "We all understand what you said, and we also believe that Your Majesty will not listen to those rumors, but our family has not been by Your Majesty's side for a long time, if that person with a heart continues to slander our family by His Majesty's side all day long, after a long time, even if Your Majesty still believes in us, it is terrible that we will not let go in the south... The story of Wang Zhi's father-in-law during the Chenghua period, you two should be clear if you think about it. ”

Hearing this, Huang Zunsu and Tu Yizhen glanced at each other, and they both understood what Gonggong Wei was worried about. It is said that Gonggong Wei and Wang Zhi are also somewhat similar, both of them are favored by the emperor and leap to a high position, so that they can leave Beijing to do big things. But Wang Zhi was defeated by ginseng precisely because he had been away from Beijing for too long, so he ended up growing vegetables in the southern capital. This kind of thing, just don't think about it, if you think about it, Father-in-law Wei will inevitably become the second Wang Zhi.

"If our family ends up like a straight end, then this booming special zone will be the moon in the mirror, and this great maritime cause will inevitably not be able to continue."

Gonggong Wei showed a look of distress, in fact, there are rumors unfavorable to him in Jingli and Nandu now, especially the Zhao Ping'an case sentenced earlier, which made him the focus of public opinion all of a sudden. It's good that this person is low-key, but as soon as he has a high-profile old rotten grain, he will be picked up, and if he can't stop it, it may affect the affairs of the three provinces and the joint forces. This is also the reason why Gonggong Wei did not go south directly with the combined fleet, he has to deal with this matter well. On the emperor's side, it is not enough to just make money, and he must not make his old man feel troublesome.

Without thinking about it, Tu Yizhen said that people should be sent to investigate the rumors immediately, and those who spread rumors should be suppressed with impeachment, so that it would be effective.

"Rumors are such a thing, how to play the pressure method? The bright side can be suppressed, but the undercurrent cannot be suppressed, and the more you suppress it, the more ruthless this rumor is... Even if there is a temporary effect, it is still a symptom rather than a cure. And this tough pressure is very easy to make the world misunderstand our family even more, and it will have the opposite effect. ”

Gonggong Wei vetoed Tu Yizhen's method of tough suppression, which was effective locally, but ineffective across the board. And it is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and involves too many people. He, Gonggong Wei, really wants to use the factory guards to investigate in Liangjing, and he wants to impeach Kedao even more to impeach him for having no law and taking people indiscriminately.

"It's also to blame us, we offend too many people for doing things. Since ancient times, it's been so hard to do things. Gonggong Wei froze for a moment and looked at Huang and Tu, "Tell me about the two of you, who hates our family the most now?" ”

"This..."

Huang Zunsu and Tu Yizhen hesitated.

"It's okay to say it." Grandpa Wei waved his hand.

"It must be those nobles in Nandu! Especially Wei Guogong! Tu Yizhen said boldly, "The father-in-law's nationalization of the Liyang iron mine has caused a lot of losses to his Xu family's industry, how can the Duke of Wei and the nobles not hate the father-in-law, and the subordinates think that these rumors are made by the nobles, and the purpose is nothing more than to drive the father-in-law back to Beijing." ”

Gonggong Wei first nodded, then shook his head and said, "It has something to do with them, but it's not them who hate us the most." ”

"Who's that?" Tu Yizhen was puzzled.

"It's our former teachers and students." It was Huang Zunsu who spoke.

"Donglin Party?"

Tu Yizhen was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "Yes, the most hated father-in-law is indeed the Donglin Party." ”

"Most of the people in the Donglin Party are mainly officials, these people are good at playing with the pen, dancing and writing, and pretending to be wrong, and they can also set off three waves when they have nothing to do, and the people are ignorant, but they believe it when they listen to what the readers say, so they are very susceptible to demagoguery and incitement. And the rumors spread from mouth to mouth, coupled with the distorted texts deliberately made up by those Donglin literati, people who do not know the truth are more likely to be deceived. Huang Zunsu analyzed that he was originally a member of the Donglin Party, and he was not clear about these tricks of the Donglin Party.

Gonggong Wei cast an appreciative look at Huang Zunsu, in history, this person and Wang Wenyan are known as the two great thinkers of Donglin, and their heads are very smart.

"It's good to play with the pen, dance and ink, and reverse black and white, but the people listen to them, the reason is nothing more than that the people have no other channel to know the truth of the matter."

Father-in-law Wei stood up with his hands in his hands, "Our family thinks about it, if we want to break the rumors spread by the Donglin Party and those who hate our family, we must use their own way to return the favor, so well, our family wants the two of you to run a newspaper for our family, and recruit some scholars or prisoners who are not deceived by Donglin, so as to distinguish our innocence and publish in the newspaper the affairs of our special zone, the affairs of our imperial army, the things that our family says, and the things that we do." The subject matter is not limited, it can be recorded, it can be a short comment, and it can be an essay......

In short, let's use this newspaper to let the world know what kind of person our family is, what things our family has done, whether these things are good or bad, so that the world can take a look and comment on it.... After the Di Bao is set up, we will also distribute the Di Bao to the people for free, and recruit special newspaper readers in various places, so that the people in the countryside can know the truth, instead of listening to rumors, thinking that our family is really a bad eunuch in the mouth of those with ill intentions! ”

"Father-in-law's plan is very good!"

Tu Yizhen felt that the method of this newspaper was really good, the reason why the people listened to the rumors was because they didn't know the truth, and now if there is a special newspaper for them to know the truth, then whether it is the Donglin Party or the Nandu nobles whose interests have been damaged, they can't make a word no matter how much they want to make waves.

Huang Zunsu also thinks that this method is good, this strategy is equivalent to-for-tat, but it is a literary fight rather than a martial fight, which can create an image for Wei's father-in-law, but it is not possible to use the Di Bao directly, because the Di Bao is specially issued by the General Administration Department, and it is impossible to use it here in the Special Administrative Region, but it is better to use other names.

Father-in-law Wei had already dealt with it, he said: "We have already thought of the name of this newspaper, let's see it will be called "Huangming Daily", in the future, we will strive for this "Huangming Daily" to enter thousands of households, so that everyone in our Huangming can be literate and know about national affairs." ”

Speaking of this, Father-in-law Wei said with emotion, "Our family has been poor since childhood, and my father worked hard for me to study social studies, so that we can read and understand the truth." But our family is lucky, but the people of our emperor are not lucky, but there are more, many people are poor and cannot afford their children to study, just our hometown, alas, it is sad to think about it, not only do they not know about national affairs, but they don't even know big characters...... After our family has a little income, we have been supporting the poor children in our hometown, but I hope they can study and be reasonable..."

After speaking, Father-in-law Wei's eyes turned red, and the corners of his mouth were crooked, because in fact, he had not donated a penny to his hometown education until now.